Short Articles

I have a limited time to spend in the internet. There is a lot of information in competition for my attention. Sometimes I do not need so deep information about one specific topic. The most of the articles in Trion are short in this way I can read many articles in less time. I can read more than five articles in an hour. These articles have very good information using few words.

Easy Reading

The writers use a language easy to understand. I could understand easy technical topics. It is easy to make a commentary about articles.

Good Titles

Titles attract my attention and invite me to read the articles. There are interesting topics for all kinds of people. In addition, there are good writers.

Links

The most of the articles have links on the information they deal with and can immediately seek more information. If in the article are some "strange words," they link to a dictionary and you can look the meaning and other information about the word. Related articles are too useful too.

Presentation

Articles have a good font sized letters that facilitate reading and good illustrations

Thanks to good writers who enjoy sharing their knowledge. Good job, guys!

Start visiting blogs who write over similar topics. Read the articles, comment on them. Offer intelligent feedback, not just "good work" but detailed criticisms. Tell them why it was good, or what could have been improved upon. Make sure and leave a link to your blog at the end of every post, don't push them to view it, because if they enjoyed your post, they will check out your blog.

Writing a weekly newsletter to your subscribers will encourage them to visit often and tell friends. In the newsletter, don't include full articles, but samples that will beckon your audience to want more, thus going to your blog. I would advise Zookoda, they offer a hosting service for newsletters, best of all, its free! Zookoda allows people to subscribe to your newsletter and you get detailed information about click counts and subscriber demographics.

Cross promote other blogs. Talk about blogs you enjoy reading. Have those bloggers write an article for your blog, then write an article for theirs. This will keep fresh viewers coming in and plugging your blog.

Submit your blog to search engines. Also keep linking to your blog every time you post, on myspace, facebook, other blogs and on social bookmarking sites. Search engines work in a way that not only do they find relevance to keywords from the actual search, but also the number of pages linking to the blog. So the more your link to it, the higher up on the list it will appear. Don't annoy people though, because if you put your link up everywhere, some search engines might see this as spam and ignore your site!

Use Facebook, MySpace, Furl, Twitter, and Flickr to your advantage. Link into your blog from these social sites. Tell people when you have a new post. Keep the traffic visiting each one and they will frequent your blog. Email your friends and family, have them email some people.

Most importantly, keep your advertisements tasteful. Don't put flashing banners up all over your page. Let your viewers know what is a paid advertisement and what isn't, this will show them that you care about them reading your article and not just clicking your links.

Summary

• Link to other blogs.
• Post on other blogs.
• Write for other blogs.
• Include your link after every post.
• Submit to search engines.
• Use social networking sites to your advantage.
• Keep your advertisements tasteful.

Follow these tips to drive traffic to your blog through advertisement and make sure to view my other 3 articles on keeping your blog looking good and easy to navigate. Happy Blogging!

let your readers know who you are. Have an about page where they can read about you. Many times readers get attached not only to your writing or photos, but to you. Let your readers know how to contact you, via email, phone, post or whatever. Give them what they want. Include photos, education, where you live, and what you do. Don't be afraid to share your life with them, thats why your have a blog in the first place.

Update Frequently

By constantly updating your blog people will constantly check it, simple as that. If your viewers start seeing that you are putting up new post daily, they will check daily. If they see you only post every week or so, they will eventually just stop coming back. Give a time and date to every update, even if your just writing a simple blurb, do it frequently enough so that you embed that frequency in your readers mind.

Include Photos

This will keep your site visually dynamic and your viewers frequenting. Put pictures of you up with every post. Add photos you took or maps of where you are. Change your main page image weekly so that your readers know that you just updated your page, even if you haven't!

Write in Segments

Make a long story a two part story. Leave a cliff hanger at the end. Be controversial and opinionated. What these do is beckon your viewers to want more, learn more about you or even become frustrated. Don't be afraid to be on the edge, you'll anger some but they will usually come back to read more and begin to know you better and start checking your blog often.

Let Friends Write Articles for Your Website

Make sure that they are on similar topics. This will drive traffic from another blog over to yours and hopefully expose each others fan base and make it larger. Find a good writer who contrast your style or dynamic. This way you will have content and styles that relate to a variety of audiences.

Summary

• Make it personal
• Update Frequently
• Include Photos
• Have a bio page
• Write in Segments
• Use guest writers

By following these tips on content you can hopefully drive more traffic to your blog and keep that traffic coming back for more. If you haven't read my other perts in this series on making your blog aesthetically pleasing, navigation and advertising, I would advise you too, as they are geared towards keeping that traffic flow heavy. Happy Blogging!

When you first visit a blog, you usually see a banner, photo, logo, or name. Make sure that when your guests visit your site they are immediately hooked. Use a photo you took or a graphic you designed.

Many times the photo or graphic doesn't even have to do with what your blog is about. You could have a blog written about your new puppy and your love for animals but a picture of a green pasture or the ocean. Make it visually pleasing. You just want to make sure that your visitors are immediately hooked, and the image on top is what will keep them interested enough to not click away to the next blog.

Web browsers usually spend under a second before they decide to either stay on the page, or leave. Use a color scheme that relates to your content. If your writing dark poetry and prose, don't use light greens and yellows, but deep magentas and dark blues. This leaves a good sense of visual dynamic in the mind of the viewer as they navigate through your blog.

When choosing colors for your web page, pick complimentary colors and complimentary hues. Below is a color wheel demonstrating complimentary colors. Colors directly opposite are complimentary, and look good together.

After choosing a color theme, keep it simple. Don't use more than three colors or your viewers start to get confused and will leave. Remember, you've seen the site hundreds of times, but this is their first visit.

When it comes to the aesthetics of your blog, make sure and always keep it pleasing. Don't have flashing banners or scrolling text, these make the viewer uneasy and they tend to click away. Avoid hard edges, keep corners rounded and use fades to lead in and out of your images and to match your sites background.

Having a solid photo atop your page with a smooth gradient fade into your background will lead your viewers eye from the top banner down into your content. Always be aware of your focal point and secondary focal points. Human brains are attracted to lighter colors, especially reds and oranges. Use this knowledge to guide your viewer through the website.

Have a strong set of colors where you want your viewer to look first, then lead them away with similar hues of varying brightness, so they naturally want to stay on your page longer and keep reading.

Think of your blog or web page as a piece of art. Step back and look at it as a whole and consider what will pop out and what won't, and use this knowledge to reshape your blog and guide your viewers attention.

Summary:

• Use a strong photograph or graphic to immediately hook your viewers.
  
• Keep it visually pleasing.
• Use complimentary colors.
  
• Pick a theme.
• Guide your viewers attention through your page to keep them reading.

Make sure and view the other parts of this article on blog navigation, content and advertising to continue to drive traffic. Happy Blogging!

Navigation placement is possibly the most important part of running a blog or website.

De-clutter your navigation. Instead of having 12 links to all the pages on your website, use 3 or 4 links with sub navigation on those pages. Not only will this help your viewer find what he or she is looking for, but it will drive up the page counts and clicks!

Example. You have a blog on your travels. You also include travel writing and photography from your adventures. Instead of having a navigation that has every place you've been too and links to your photography and writing from those places, put up just three links, Travel, Photography and Writing. Under your writing link, put a page with links to the different cities, countries and places you've been and the writing from those place. Do the same for photography.

By doing this it will help your viewers navigate around what they are not interested in and find what they do want to read. Those interested in your writing can directly find it, instead of having to click through the different places you've been, same for those interested in your photography.

When working on content pages and post, make sure and include links outside of your navigation bar to other pages on your site. If we take our travel blog as an example, at the end of one article leave a link to the next article or a link to view photos from the place that you wrote about. By doing this you will keep your viewers on your page longer and exploring more and more of your website.

Navigation placement is key. Many blogs have links, and archived articles all on the same page. The human brain naturally lends itself to the left and to the top of a web page. Place your most important links on the top of your web page, and keep them simple. Place your ancillary links, such as an archive or outside websites on the left. Stay away from the right side of your page when it comes to important links or information, most viewers tend to skim over those parts.

Summary

• Keep it simple!
• Use as few links as possible.
• Use sub navigation pages.
• De-Clutter your navigation.
• Link to the next article at the bottom of every page.
• Keep important links on top and ancillary links on the left side of the page.

Hopefully these tips will help your viewer navigate your page easier and keep them on your blog longer! Check out my other articles in this series, on Blog Aesthetics, advertising and content! Happy Blogging!

Other than that, Wikipedia is most likely very accurate, based on what I have seen. I have used Wikipedia ever since I started to research information. It has been a very valuable research tool, and has been very accurate. My teachers always told me to be cautious around Wikipedia and always check the facts with facts from other sources, and they were never wrong. Not only does Wikipedia help me with research, it helps me to understand almost anything in school that I am having trouble with. For example, last semester in Biology, Mrs. Reilly taught us about the process of protein synthesis, and I didn't understand anything that she just taught us. So I decided to do some extra surfing on the internet to try and understand protein synthesis. Not only did Wikipedia give me an overview of it, it also gave me an in depth summary on each step of protein synthesis. After reading that, I understood everything about protein synthesis perfectly.

In conclusion, my opinion on Wikipedia is that it is a very accurate online encyclopedia that is useful to everyone. It not only helps with research, it can help enlighten the people on anything they want to know about. Wikipedia has greatly helped me.

1. Walmart

   They have some awesome free samples and new ones are posted just about every day of the week.

2. Clever Clickster

   This site gives you promotion codes for sales and free shipping. They have a huge database of stores and offers.

3. My Total Beauty

   All the ladies will love this site. It contains loads of good deals on the net, free samples and even some reviews on beauty products.

4. Beauty

   There are always good specials here and you get free shipping with any $25 order.

5. Yahoo Groups

   I have gotten some amazing freebies from these yahoo groups: FreebiesUnlimited, Freebebear1 and GimmeFreebies.

6. E.L.F.

   Good brand, with cosmetics starting at only a buck each! The quality will surprise you!

7. Beauty Boutique

   Save up to 90% on cosmetics! This site has awesome specials on popular brands.

I really recommend the yahoo groups. You can find some great freebies posted here including full size products and gift sets. If you don’t want all the mail coming to your inbox, you can set the mail to read it online at yahoogroups.com. I hope these sites and links are helpful to you and you enjoy them as much as I do. Happy shopping and get ready to find some freebies in your mailbox soon!

1. Custom Skins
2. Members
3. A good community

You can get a private forum server, or one of the many free forum services out there.

Free services

1. IPB Free
2. Forumer
3. Free Forum
4. PHBB Web

You can set up games, contests and more with HTML coding, etc. To get more members, advertise on sites. You would want a helpful a patient support team. The friendlier your forum, the more users you will have. You can base your site on current big topics, like games, vidoes, and more.

Keep your forum up to date with news and informations. Keep users coming back for more with things like prizes, etc.

1. Go to Systemrequirementslab.com.
2. Press "CAN YOU RUN IT?".
3. Select a product from the drop-down list. I have chosen Gothic 3. Now press "CAN YOU RUN IT?".
4. You will be asked to install ActiveX/Java. Install it.
5. Now wait. “System Requirements Lab” is analyzing your PC.
6. Now you will see the results. If minimum requirements have passed - you can play the game, if recommended requirements have passed - your PC is perfect for the game you have chosen. If requirements have failed, don't worry, “System Requirements Lab” will tell what's wrong and what can you do about it.