Tips to write a successful blog

Writing one’s ideas and views through blogs is increasing as a hobby for many people all round the globe. Many of us write blogs just for fun. But did you know that you can make a lot of money through writing blogs pertaining to some specific subjects such as movie reviews, product information etc. But this requires skillful writing in order to ensure greater returns. I would like to give you some criteria’s that can make up a good blog.

URL Consistency

Your blog is recognized on the net through the URL (i.e. blog address) that you have. It is necessary to maintain a specific URL for your blog because people interested in reading your blogs find it very difficult to relocate your new blog address in case you change the previous one. Also it takes a lot of time to make your new blog recognized in search engines and attain the same reader count as the old one. Therefore I suggest that you choose your blog URL very carefully and then do not change it.

Blog Subject

The subject that you choose for your blog needs to be thoroughly understood and researched upon. You should be able to write continuously about the subject. This is because in the earlier stages of writing content there is a lot to write about. But then as you start writing, the content decreases and you have to think seriously about what to write. Hence researching earlier about the topic is very fruitful in the long run.

Content of the Blog

The content of the blog should be high in quality throughout. This is to ensure that the readers get back to your blog very often. Initially the quality of the content is high due to large amount of ideas. But then maintain the quality becomes tougher as days pass by. Thus in order to maintain the same quality throughout you require to be highly innovative.

Blog Marketing

Writing a blog is only the first phase of blogging. The second and the most important phase is marketing of the blog. By marketing I mean that you need to make the interested readers aware of your blog and its content. This can be done in a lot of ways. First and foremost would be the usage of social networking sites such as orkut, facebook and a lot many like these. You need to put in a lot of efforts to make people aware of your blog in the initial stages. This requires a lot of patience and perseverance. But once your blog reaches out to the masses then you will reap the benefits of your hard work in leaps and bounds.

Technical Knowledge

Since blogging deals with internet websites, u need to present your blog to readers in a very readable format or I would say a very user friendly format. The reader should not get bored after reading a few lines. This will only hamper the number of readers that read your posts. Making your blog presentable needs you to have basic knowledge about HTML, JavaScript, Search Engines etc. etc. Hence if you are not comfortable with these technical know-how’s then I would advise you to learn these web technologies as soon as possible.

Patience

You need to have a lot of patience in this world of blogging in order to succeed. This is because sometimes you may have researched a lot in writing the post. This may also have taken up a lot of time. But in the end after posting you do not get as many readers as you would have liked to have. But don’t lose heart in such conditions as sooner or later your hard work will pay off.

Be prepared to work hard

It’s not that all of us can write good articles. But then it is a quality that can be developed through hard work, continuous reading & research. So be prepared to work hard and surely your blogs will turn out to be more readable and enjoyable day by day.

Do post in your comments as to whether you have liked these few tips of mine for better blogging. It would boost me and help in posting better articles for you all readers in future.

Sex Ratio : A Spark Of Hope (Kerala)

The female-male ratio in the State has gone up considerably between 1991 and 2001, according to the final figures of Census 2001. There were 1,059 females for 1,000 males in the State in 2001. In 1991, it was 1,036 females for every 1,000 males.

According to the latest census report (which is yet to be published), females outnumber males by 9,04,146 in a total population of 3,18,41,374. The female population is 1,63,72,760 and that of male is 1,54,68,614. Similarly, the population is more in rural areas than in urban centres, the rural figure being 2,35,74,449 and the urban 82,66,925 (the difference being 1,53,07,524). The number of people belonging to the Scheduled Castes is 31,23,941 and the Scheduled Tribes 3,64,189.

Malappuram, with 36,25,471 persons, is the most populated district in the State. It has 18,70,895 females and 17,54,576 males. Thiruvananthapuram comes up second, with a total population of 32,34,356. The female population is 16,64,439 and that of male is 15,69,917 in the district. Ernakulam occupies the third position, where the total population is 31,05,798 with a break-up of 15,67,401 females and 15,38,397 males, the report says.

The new census report presages a remarkable change in the development process of the State. Currently, the Central funds are allocated on the basis of the Census 1991 figures. The new data would help raise the level of allocation. Delimitation of Assembly constituencies, held up owing to non-availability of the final census figures, could now be completed. The latest figures are expected to change the status of many panchayats and municipalities, with many of them standing a better chance to be upgraded as municipalities and Corporations respectively.

Departing from the earlier census tradition, the `census moment' was taken as 00.00 hours of March 1, 2001, the referral time at which the snapshot of the country's population was taken. Until the 1991 census, except in 1971, the sunrise of March 1 of the relevant year was the `census moment.' The enumeration of houseless population was carried out on the night of February 28, 2001.

The provisional population totals were brought out on March 26, 2001, within three weeks after completing the enumeration. The final results of the house-listing operations were released in April 2003. The use of the latest technology in data processing has helped to produce the house-listing as well as population enumeration tables on a full count basis for the first time. As many as 202 million schedules comprising 1,028 million records had been scanned and processed within 10 months since October 2002.

A Task Force on Quality Assurance headed by the Registrar-General and Census Commissioner of India was constituted to edit and examine the data. Unlike in earlier years, a novel method, called Computer-Assisted Coding, was employed to compile the details of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe population.

(Source : http://www.hindu.com/2004/02/19/stories/2004021902120500.htm)

Tool for sex selection : Sperm Washing

Prosperous families in general and NRIs in particular desirous of having male children are preferring sperm washing technique to female foeticide. Developed for treating infertility problems, the technique is reportedly being used for separating Y chromosomes from the sperm of desiring husbands and then begetting a male child by intra uterine insemination or similar methods.

While, a few Punjabi NRIs settled in countries like Canada, England, America and Denmark were known to have 'benefited' from services of some 'Fertility Clinics' and 'Birth Planning Centers' established in their respective areas; natives have started seeking expertise though online programmes. choosethesexofyourbaby.com and abygenderselectionprogram.com are most frequently visited sites, directors of which claim to advocate natural methods to have baby of desired sex.

Dr K. C. Goel, district health officer, Sangrur, terming the technique as unethical practice, said the procedure if conducted in Punjab would come under the purview of the PCPNDT (Pre Conception Pre- Natal Diagnostic Techniques) Act. "Though we can proceed against the couple if they get the sex of foetus checked here, we can not question availing services of Birth Planning Centre or using segregated sperms," said Goel.

Referring to information received from international medical journals, Goel told the sperm washing was being done in western countries, to treat male infertility problems.

While simple sperm wash technique and swim up techniques are being used normally to treat infertility problems, density gradient sperm wash is preferred for segregating Y chromosome bearing sperms from the semen. Expenses of most sophisticated procedure, accompanied with fertility treatment normally do not exceed Rs 4 lakh. Having heard success stories of NRI couples, some locals have started seeking advice of physicians from centres in Delhi and Bombay. Though various techniques relating to sperm washing and freezing are available at selected semen banks in metropolises, it is yet to be ascertained whether these had succeeded in segregating gender-specific sperms or not. However these centres place advertisements to invite gynecologists to procure washed or prepared sperms for performing IUI at their own clinics.

(Source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2008/20080307/main6.htm)