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Pune Blogcamp 2 Liveblog

Pune Blogcamp 2 Liveblog

Collective liveblog from Pune Blogcamp 2 on June 27th 2009
Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - use wordze.com. At $39 per month, it's expensive, but worth it.
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: 99.9% of people who claim to be good at SEO have no clue about SEO.
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - You've to make your own marketing strategy! Can't rely on "service providers"
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - focus on the people/searchers on the net who want to buy something
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: Two kinds of people on the net - those who are looking for info, and those who want to buy
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - Specific niche sites are much better than general sites
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - No need to be a good/creative writer. Write plain simple English. Thats enough
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - in adwords keywords search tool find "expensive" keywords. And blog on that.
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: to make money - target US audience (India audience gives significantly less money)
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: To make money - don't blog on a topic you like. Blog on a topic that will sell
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#blogcamppune @jimkarter: On "Can a blog make money? How?"
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Be prepared the for long haul. Success will not come overnight.
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam:Don't be shy. Jump in and start a conversation. You will be accepted.
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Read a lot, think a lot, write a little. In that order!
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Don't just publish excerpts on your blog. Add value. Write something original
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam says - stop worrying about SEO/SEM and ad. revenue. Convert your blog to a book!
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Science-2.0 - will have academic journals with blog style comments and discussions
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam recommends NERS (http://scienceblogs.com/notrock...) is a great blog (and now a book)
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Science-2.0: 1. use of twitter. 2. Convert blogs into books. 3. Online experimentation
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Choices in niche blogging: are other bloggers competitors or collaborators?
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Challenge of niche blogging: trade off between too narrow niche vs. dilution of focus
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Challenges of niche blogging: shd content be populist/controversial or sidelined & important
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Niche blogging challenge: need to decide, whether to target laymen or on experts
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: His blog (http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/) covers topics like autism, psychosis, stage theories.
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: His blog (http://the-mouse-trap.blogspot.com/) is about psychology, neuroscience, and cognition
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Forget SEO, SEM. Focus on content. If content is good, the traffic will come.
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam Often comments force you to go in new directions & out of your comfort zone. Result=education
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Blog writing is even more educative than blog reading. Need to read a lot before each article
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#blogcamppune @sandygautam: Blogs have newbie articles, and in-depth analysis, and interactivity and online experiments
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