Blog Optimisation – Saturation of the fittest

Successful blogging is as much down to organic optimisation as it is to the writing of the articles.  Writing prolific articles is one thing getting them noticed across the web is something else entirely.  There are a wealth of books, websites and articles written advising about getting your blog noticed.   The thrill of watching your web awareness rise is addictive.  Blog aggregators help with submitting your blog to directories to give you further presence.  Examples of blog aggregators can be found at www.technorati.com or www.blogexplosion.com .  Other ways to optimise your blog is to aim for blogger referrals; readers that subscribe to a regular blog will normally take the recommendations of that blogger to heart.  Message here aim for recommendations from your peers. Trackback is a mechanism of communication between blogs that allows permanent links between articles published on different blogs much like the idea of reciprocal inking within websites.  Once a trackback has been set up you are notified through your blog administration with a brief description of the article your work has been linked to.  This is a good tool to use to further your conversations and encourage comment and feedback.  Often your viewpoint can become stale; the injection from another interested party can continue a healthy debate.

Blogging can easily become a full time occupation, what may start as the dream to write can grow into a need to populate an array of topics which propagates into an aim for ‘web domination’ or simply organic saturation of your market.   You need to be fit in mind, body and soul to help bring your venture to fruition.  You become an author of your own destiny, using the power of persuasive prose to populate your given subject area.    For further information on this subject you good look at the book shown below:

Net linguistics or the explanation of language

How topical!  Following on from my post ‘Power to the Pen;’ BBC News ran an article discussing much the same topic where LJ Rich Blogger discussed the idea of net linguistics (21/04/09). It was a pleasure to hear Laura-Jane extol the virtues of the well written word.  The news article began with the horror statistics that very few teenagers know how to address or even write a typical letter these days.  With the introduction of email, text and blogs, the art of written language has been dissected to such an extent that it is unrecognisable as the same linguistic process. Derrida and his plea for La Différance would feel his work had been futile when viewed within the aesthetics of linguistics as considered today. 

Once again the need for speed and the accessibility of space leads to the condensing of letters to their confining parameters.  Twitter offers only just 140 characters each post, the need for language condensability becomes obligatory to get your point across. Mobile text message programmes offer up to a maximum of 6 message blocks that can be sent at any one time, again the need for abbreviations to be introduced into common language has arisen from the dexterity of use of a keypad coupled with the constant clamour of speed to reply as soon as possible. Linguistic rules need to be implemented to ensure that the art of language is not lost on the younger generation. Abbreviated net speak or net linguistics need to be kept within the confines of that arena perhaps a glossary of net etiquette for net linguistics should be circulated within blogging domains. Please accept my ignorance if such an article already exists.    we are left wondering if the art of grammatically correct language will go the way of the forgotten applications our fore fathers used to pass down to us such as crafting techniques. 

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