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I’m not sure how useful this is to most bloggers, or how to monotize on it, but Pew is reporting “More than half of online teens have created content for the internet; and most teen downloaders think that getting free music files is easy to do”

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Darren and others discuss different ideas for the number of posts to have per day on your blog. I like all of the ideas, especially about being consistent and developing some kind of regular schedule.

One thing that I wanted to discuss was the idea of oversaturation, meaning not posting more than a certain number of posts per day or people will feel overloaded and might not want to or have the time to follow your blog.

On one of my blogs I am testing oversaturation. What I mean is why not overload the blog in the first stage, for like a month or so and then slowly decrease the frequency until getting to a normal pace of three to five posts per day.

The benefit to this is that it will have a bigger impact from the search engines, which is the most important source of traffic, while minimizing the amount of bad karma you get from readers because you probably won’t have too many rss subscribers at such an early stage.

I’ll expand on this later and keep up the updates and would like your comments.

Linking is one of the cheapest and fastest way to produce content. There are many successful sites and blogs. But isn’t that’s what successful sites do already? It is, many of them run a simple sentence or two and a link, and that’s all it takes. Providing too many links in one post would lead to confusion.

How to produce linking content?

• The best way is to subscribe to many different feeds, and to some search feeds, and just get a feel for what your audience would be interested in, write a simple two or three sentence opinion or description and post it with the link.
• Another successful idea is to constantly search out the net for the newest/hottest/bleeding edge ideas and constantly link to the new, to the hot, to something that nobody else is covering. This tends to build a more cult like following in blogs

Benefits of Linking

• Trackbacks - the biggest benefit is when you link to other blogs is that many of them will have links back to you in the trackbacks at the bottom of the post, thus bringing traffic back to your blog
• Build a loyal readership - there are many information addicts out there, and if you constantly feed them with something new, exciting, stimulating, they’ll be coming back again and again.

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Using summarization as a way to generate content has two different forms and many benefits. First, summarization basically means summarizing some other content that is much longer, more technical or other reasons.

Two Ways to Summarization:

• Summarizing your own content - if you have any content that you have previously written, produced, made or developed, you can go in and produce small summaries of that content which you can use again on your blog.

  This can also mean going in and breaking down “how-to” material into checklists, breaking down a very long article into many smaller ones, etc.

• Summarizing Content Others Produced - This is what Engadget and many of the other popular sites do. The basic idea is to read other sites and write a paragraph that summarizes what is says and write it in such a way as to target your readers.

Benefits Of Summarization:

• Fast way to produce content - you can go through a dozen or so article and write summaries in an hour.
• Less use of creative mind - you don’t have to “think” much about where to start and what you write about, you just have to read and regurgitate what was written already, either your content or somebody elses.
• Anybody can do it - easy to get help of others to cover for you.

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I’d like to discuss the area of generating content for blogs. Since this is something that I’m am currently establishing my own strategies and tactics in, I’m going to explore it in detail.

Please leave any comments/suggestions on how you go about producing content for your blogs.

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