The level of classifying probloggers from bloggers on the rise may sometimes be hard to distinguish. Practically anyone who has the knack for writing or blogging for that matter can assume the role of a certified problogger who has made such a practice part of their everyday lives.

The only difference though may be in the area of quality and what problogging is all about such as focusing on the most sougt after topics and producing the necessary information and content to adhere towards such demands. Payment for such expertise are secondary for them since it is more about getting the job done as often as possible.

But taking it in this aspect brings out the social talents that bloggers have. Blog entries are actually conversation igniters wherein a topic is being opened for discussion through the primary insights of a blogger. Such can be compared to actual life conversations where people who are not interested would simply ignore the topic at hand.

On the other hand, people who always make it a point to stress their own opinion and views will most likely be the starting point for a good exchange of ideas and opinion.

It is not easy to produce quality blog entries by using a keyword over and over again. Some may classify the entry as a spam blog thus losing interest in checking out the other related posts that may be of interest to them.

Being exposed to the web, a blogger would know the word or words that would normally be searched for and used. A broad used word such as business, technology and real estate may not necessarily catapult a site to the top of the rankings hence the need to be more specific in the use of keywords related to the actual search query entry.

Information consistency and relevance is what is expected from probloggers. Jumbling words to form paragraphs and blog entries is not their immediate tag. Probloggers are expected to deliver authentic and reliable content and this is something that the experts have been doing. Half-baked bloggers are existent in the world and most of them fail to flourish. This is because people have become wiser in easily spotting spoiled content over relevant ones.

Just an added warning: Don’t post comments in the heat of the moment. If you will be commenting on something controversial or simply disagree with a blogger or another commenter pause first and process things before you reply. First of all you don’t want to sound idiotic. Secondly you don’t want to sound unprofessional. Remember you can disagree without being argumentative. And third, you want to be persuasive and witty so that your comment will catch people’s attention (in a positive way) and hopefully end up in more traffic for you.

As a blogger, yesterday’s tale serves as a reminder for us to be more vigilant in moderating comments. If your blog is hosted by Blogger comment deletion is that big a problem since commenters can delete their own comments on their own (except for anonymous comments). If you are using Wordpress and don’t moderate comments (require author approval before publishing of comments) make sure you check in on your comment section regularly. You want to not only keep track of the discussion in your comment section but also clean it up. You should delete comments not only when asked by commenters but also when you see spam, and accidentally repeatedly published comments.

Google Wave team announced the preview to thousands of users yesterday morning. Here’s what they said…

“ Starting Wednesday, September 30 we’ll be sending out more than 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave to:

We’ll ask some of these early users to nominate people they know also to receive early invitations — Google Wave is a lot more useful if your friends, family and colleagues have it too. This, of course, will just be the beginning. If all goes well we will soon be inviting many more to try out Google Wave.”

They also said that Google Wave is (of course) not fully ready yet and has lots of features that they still haven’t rolled out. I don’t know if it will already be possible to comment on blog posts via Google Wave but am pretty certain that collaboration on a post and posting via Google Wave is already possible since as they said “we [Google Wave team] collaborated on this very blog post with several colleagues in Google Wave.”

Now I just need to get an invite and start playing around.

First of all, what you need to do is go through an evaluation process wherein you should answer the following questions:

Is your blog doing well in terms of traffic and/or revenue generation?

If not ask why but be more specific.

Do you need to do SEO?
Is it the GUI?
Is it the content?
Or is it the entire concept?

After you have pinpointed the areas that should be focused on it is time to get even more detailed. When it comes to SEO and GUI it is a good a idea to call in the experts. Hire an experienced firm to evaluate your site according to their metrics and then ask for a proposal. You need not go with the first firm but see what different service providers have to say.

If it is the content or the entire concept that is lacking it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Rethink your goals and map out a plan to achieve it step by step. Probably one of the mistakes committed was going pro-blogger blindly. You might want to keep your domain name though, unless it already has a stigma attached to it, because you don’t want to waste the readership you’ve already got as well as the domain age (unless you can get an older more reputable domain).

The 80 page guidebook, which is available for viewing and downloading (free of charge!), may have been written in 2005 but the content is still really relevant to today’s blogger, both aspiring to go pro and otherwise. According to Bergman the book “addresses about 100 individual “how to” blogging topics and lessons, all geared to the content-focused and not occasional blogger. More than 140 citations, 80 of which are unique, are provided to other experts with guidance for all of us.” Topics he singles out to in his introduction for its usefulness include:

*How to choose blogging software and add-on tools
*Taking control of the blogging process by hosting your own site
*Getting your blog to display and perform right
*Effective techniques for converting existing documents to your blog site HTML
*Being efficient in posting, organizing and work-flowing to allow your diarist activities to flow naturally and productively
*Keeping the blog site pump primed with fresh and relevant content.

Note though that because of the length and the depth of the discussions do not expect to be able to absorb everything all in one sitting. And remember, though reading will help you learn a lot, experience is still the best teacher. So make sure you apply what you learn on your blog.

This year’s BlogWorld Expo isn’t happening until October so there’s still time to pre-register. The BlogWorld Expo will be held at the Las Vegas Convention Center from October 15 to 17. Early bird discounts are still available (although the cheapest tickets for those registering before July 1 is obviously no longer available) for those that will register on or before September 14. You can get a full-access, weekend pass, exhibit and parties only pass and exhibits only pass, depending on your availability (not everyone has 2 days to spare) or budget.

This year’s speaker line up hasn’t been confirmed yet but judging from last year’s speaker line up there’ll be lots of them with some real people you would do well to listen to. The expo is a great opportunity to not only hear what these speakers have to say and pick up a thing or two but also a really great chance for expanding your network. Make sure you have lots of name cards printed out.

Will be posting more about the BlogWorld Expo we hear more about topics and speakers.

Big bloggers come from big media – Most big bloggers today have a strong background writing for print.

Blogging to support yourself is a complete full-time job (If you think that quitting your day job to blog means easy money then you’re in for a surprise. It’s very time consuming!)

You can make more money flipping burgers (Errr. That depends on where you flip burgers?)

Blog for better reasons than money – There are a lot of reasons to blog, but for the most part, money is not one of them… Bloggers defined success as things that mattered in their life: influence, connections, friendships, the ability to lead a conversation that matters to people. Some talked about a blog leading to other business opportunities.

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