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8 Ways To Use A Blog To Develop Content For Your Book

1. Participate in the blogosphere: Read and comment on other blogs in your field. This is a prime way to build readership of your weblog . It is also a way of getting fresh content for both your weblog and for your book.

To check out other blogs in your niche: use www.blogsearch.google.com, www.technorati.com, or www.google.com.

This is also a good way to get ideas. What are other people in your field writing about? What are the major challenges of the people in your field? If you have competitors, check them out. They may be a great help in inspiring you for content ideas, different slants and perspectives. The old song, "Anything you can do, I can do better," comes to mind.

2. Ask readers to comment on your weblog . In fact, each time you post something, ask them a question. Then spell it out to them on how to post a comment because your readers will probably need to be educated or at least encouraged to comment. ("Click on the comment link in the footer of this post, and leave your responses.")

Sometimes readers will need assurances of privacy, in which case, you can ask them to email you their questions or comments in private. Others are not worried about privacy because after all, a weblog isn't meant to be private. However, readers can be shy about commenting, and need encouragement.

You may also encourage them to respond by telling them that you would like to use their replies in your book, but will only do so with their permission.

3. Survey your readers, do a mini-study on their preferences, their experiences, etc. The Internet is the fastest way to acquire some statistics of readers' preferences. Far from being a scientifically validated study that would pass muster in universities with academicians, an informal survey can give you ideas and material to write about. It can also confirm that you are addressing the concerns of your readers.

4. Run a contest for the best idea, funniest experience, most influential or heart-grabbing situation. If you want to use these readers' responses for content in your book, you should tell them. Many people jump at the chance to be included in a book. Others may prefer to participate anonymously. You can give them both options.

Here's an example of how one writer asked his readers for input:

Do You Have A Broken WIndows Story? Michael Levine's new book, Broken WIndows, Broken Business is being released later this month. Many people feel this is going to be a mega best-seller.

We have set up a web site, where you can rant about broken windows in your everyday experience... Check it out at BrokenWindows.com.

People love to share their experiences, and they love to rant, or rave. Just ask.

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5. Ask your readers to attend a teleseminar based on the needs, challenges, concepts and ideas of your weblog readers. This is a great way to go deeper into the problems and solutions you are writing about. You can record the sessions, transcribe the dialogue, convert the teleseminar to audio and PDF files. These can be sold, or given away as marketing materials for your book.

6. Use your weblog site meter stats to examine what are the most popular articles posted. This information will guide you to expand on the topics and subtopics that capture the interests of readers.

7. Consistently reconnect with your passion, and ignite and inspire others with similar interests. After you've been blogging for awhile, you will probably develop good blogging habits:

a. Write something on your weblog daily, or at least 2-3 times a week.

b. Read other blogs 2-3 times a week. Be sure to use the My Yahoo or other RSS feed buttons to subscribe to your favorite blogs, or sign up to get email updates through a FeedBlitz service on each weblog .

c. Write with your readers in mind. And if you're not sure where their interests lie, ask them. If they've found your weblog , and have subscribed, chances are you share a lot in common.

d. If you ever fall into weblog -block, reconnect with your core purpose for the weblog (remember, the one you wrote out before starting your weblog ?). When this happens there is usually a reason, although it may not be clear to you at the time. This will pass. You can help it along by asking questions - of your readers, yourself, your closest allies.

8. Podcasting - Create audio files easily by scheduling teleclasses and recording them. Some people like to get their information auditorily and at their convenience by downloading mp3 files to their iPods.

Use a free teleconferencing bridge line like http://www.freeconference.com to host a call. Record your call, upload the audio file and then post to your weblog or podcast using a service like http://www.audioblog.com.

As an added benefit, you can get these calls transcribed; then convert the word doc to a PDF file which you can either give away, or sell, in exchange for people's email address; http://www.CastingWords.com is a fast, affordable transcription service.

About the Writer of this Article

Blogging experts Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman are The Blog Squad. They help professionals harness the power of blogs, newsletters, and ecommerce systems to make marketing tasks easier and more effective. They have 16 years of Internet know-how and write on 10 blogs. Get their free weekly ezine Savvy eBiz Tips at http://www.SavvyeBizTips.com.

Nutritional Content Of Commercial Dog Foods

Did you know that most food that is fed to dogs today has extremely low nutritional content? If you feed your dog commercial dog food, you may be slowly killing your dog. Perhaps you think this is a little dramatic? Think again. If humans are fed a diet of unhealthy foods, they probably won't show any adverse signs for quite some time. But fed over many years, people will become sluggish, sick, and eventually die from degenerative diseases much earlier than they would otherwise pass from this life.

The same goes for dogs.

All commercial dog food which is extruded (cooked) at very high temperatures cannot be anything but bad for our dogs, whose natural diet in the wild is mainly fresh, raw meat. Even after dogs became domesticated, and then kept as pets, for decades they were fed home cooked food and table scraps, before anyone thought of commercialising dog food and selling cans of mush, or pieces of highly questionable biscuit-looking food called "kibble".

Dogs used to live longer than they do now.

Examine baked and kibbled foods for the presence of burned spots on the biscuits. The presence of large numbers of burned biscuits indicates that the food has been cooked at such high temperatures that the nutritients are likely to be almost non-existent.

On the other hand, if dry products are damp, soft or stale, it means that they have been improperly processed, become damp in transit, become damp during storage, or that they are old.

Dry products that become damp quickly deteriorate from the action of mold and eventually bacteria. Sometimes the only indication that mold is beginning to attack a dry food is the musty odor smelled when a bag is opened. At other times it may be seen as a white, hairy beard or a bluish-green or black velvety coating over the food. Any food found to be moldy should be destroyed immediately and never fed to dogs.

Does any of this sound like food you would eat yourself???

If not, then even though it's labelled as "dog food" and could possibly have some form of nutritional content (if you're lucky), why feed such substandard rubbish to your dog? It really can be harmful over the long term. Why else do you think so many dogs suffer from degenerative diseases like heart disease, cancer, kidney failure, and more? These diseases were previously unknown in companion animals. Now they're commonplace. And the increase in incidence of these degenerative diseases in dogs and other animals has occurred in direct proportion to the practise of giving pets raw food or table scraps, to giving them commercial pet food.

The answer?

Feed your dog a raw, or primarily raw, fresh food diet. The large part of the food should, of course, be meat. If you're not a fan of raw food, then by all means give your dog home cooked food, made from premium ingredients which you would use for your own food. Of course, you can give your dog all the fat and offcuts from the meat that you don't want. Dogs need some fat (unlike us!)

And if you really need the convenience of a pre-prepared dog food, then go for a top quality dog food - NOT one of the commercial brands found on your supermarket, or even pet store shelves. Even many vets have no idea about correct animal nutrition, believe it or not, and promote commercial dog foods that are peddled to them as "premium" food, when they're nothing of the kind.

How do you know what a superior quality dog food is? Check for both the ingredients and the method of cooking. The ingredients should be primarily meat - not meat byproducts, a small proportion only of grains of all types, and preferably some fresh vegetables, fruit or herbs. As for the cooking method - the lower the heat, the better. Don't go for anything that has been extruded (which is most kibble), or canned at high temperatures. If the method of cooking is not stated, then make further enquiries of the manufacturer, or go for one that does state the cooking method - freeze dried or baked are acceptable.

Five Fantastic Solutions That Will Guarantee Fresh Content All The Time

Constantly updating your content is a must in search engine optimization, or SEO. Search engine spiders love regularly updated content. Every time new content is added to your web pages, the search engine spiders are informed, and they will prioritize your web site come the next relevant query.

And since 80% of the traffic that you will ever get to generate for your web site would come from the search engines, it is essential that you strive to always add new content to your web pages.

The problem is, updating your content means changing your source code, and unless you're running a weblog -type web site, such requirement would be very tedious to undertake.

Thankfully, there are some proven methods that would make the task of updating content a lot easier. Some of these tactics can even run on auto-pilot, meaning, you could leave your web site behind and it will continue to replicate content via the users who will get to visit your web pages.

Let's take a look at these amazing strategies.

1. Encourage your visitors to share a piece of their mind. You could do this through simple HTML coding that would allow you to leave a comment box beneath each article you will publish. Your visitors can react of the articles by filling up the comment box and publishing the same instantaneously. You'd have new content all the time, without need for changing your source code!

2. Integrate a forum in your web site. A forum is a great place for new content. Notice how online communities figure prominently well in search engine results? It's because of the new content they are capable of perpetually generating through their members. Your visitors are, by nature, social beings. They will love the opportunity to interact with other people. And a forum will give them such an opportunity, as it would give you the chance to gain new content without even asking.

3. Seek out contributions from your visitors. Make them honorary correspondents of your web site. Better yet, dangle a prize for the best submission for the month. If you're generating enough traffic, surely, giving them the chance to win an Apple iPod would result in a mad flood of submissions. You'll be surprised at the sheer number of works that will be sent to your inbox! Each and every one of these submissions would make great content for your web site.

4. Consumer reviews. Whatever niche you're focusing on, there will be products targeting the members of the same. On your web site, you could devote a products review corner, where your visitors can leave their comments, stories, and experiences with some of these products. They may have some good words to share, or some bad tales to discuss. But everything will be great for your online business, since what they'll share would be fresh content that would provide as fodder for the search engine spiders.

5. Display RSS feeds on your web pages. RSS stands for Real Simple Syndication. This technology allows you to subscribe to some feeds, and display the same on a remote platform such as your desktop, or your web pages. All you need is an RSS aggregator and you're all set to go. Just make sure that the RSS source you'll be subscribing to is dedicated to the niche you are servicing, otherwise, your pages would just lose their focus. Also, make sure that your RSS aggregator will convert the RSS feeds into HTML files. Some RSS aggregators merely display RSS feeds as java scripts. Search engine spiders won't be able to read java scripts, and including them in your web pages would be useless.

Create Quality Automated Content Sites for Adsense Copyright 2006 By Myles Agnew

Content is the MOST important part of your web site when building and designing your webpage.

So many people just visit article site cut and paste articles back into their own site or weblog . Or even worse buy content made sites on ebay or membership sites and cut and paste them.

Every wonder why it's not working?

Simply because 100's of other people are doing the same thing. The search engines are sick and tired of cloging up there systems with duplicate information.

Find a site that publishes information either daily or weekly via email (Make sure it's revelevant)

Now I give the publisher a special email address which whatever is send to the email address it's then published to a weblog .

What's so special about the email address?

Well first I've ask if I could use the content in emails on my weblog . Secondly I've applied filters to prevent the misuse of the email 2 weblog posting.

Would you like to see an example?

Checkout http://www.aussieitjobs.com

This site gets daily updates (I do nothing!) from a job site and post them onto my weblog .

What's the difference between my site and the job search site?

These three simple things 1. Only Australian IT jobs (Niche) 2. No sign up or registration required 3. Google Adsense is added to Every post

And Yes I've used one or two articles in my pages section that a very revelevant on finding a job.

I've also pulled in RSS feeds from numerous IT jobs sites in Australian so never a day goes by without my site being updated automatically.

How can you do it?

1. Setup a wordpress weblog (own hosting) not myblog.wordpress.com I've tried blogger and it requires manual intervention for each post to confirmed from email (You need to request to turn this feature off)

2. Install relevant Adsense Plugins or Widgets

3. Setup an email address with a filters and a very unique name.

4. Use the email to subscribe to relevant email publications (make sure you check with authors)

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