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Over the World Wide Web, there is a continual influx of information over the internet highway, including, most recently, a trend in fashion blogging. Currently, there are hundreds of new fashion blogs being created everyday, and over millions of already created websites. With these massive amounts of people posting their opinions on style, how can you stop wasting your time reading useless fashion blogs? Is there anyway to separate the quality blogs from the irrelevant ones? This review of five top rated fashion blogs gives insight into what standards should be used in deciding which blogs are worth your time.

Fashion blogs are ranked on a 10 point scale in four areas: (1) clarity of thought, (2) timeliness, (3) relevance, and (4) degree of opinion.

Style File blog:

Total Score: 28

Style.com is a primary source and destination for where people receive their fashion news, trends, and photos of seasonal runway shows. In addition, the renown website has a chief blog site, Style File, where writers can post opinions on various aspects of fashion in a more informal setting and approach. Even though there are several writers for Style File, the writing style of this blog site is distinct and individual to Style.com’s website.

1.) Clarity of thought: 6.5. It is decent. You are able to read through it, although some postings may be a bit long-winded. Also, some entries may be difficult to understand if you don’t have a lot of knowledge of people in the fashion industry, such as Sophia Hesketh and Byrdie Bell.

2.) Timeliness: 8.5. This blog seems to lack consistency. It will have 5-6 entries in one day, and then skip three days entirely without any new posts and then continue on with 5-6 entries. This is probably because people are not working on the weekends. On the upside, it does post slightly more than the average blog, but for a blog that is on a website of considerable size and prominence, you would expect that it would.

3.) Relevance: 7. I don’t think this blog really provides any new information that is of importance or is really interesting. It attempts to draw on styles outside of the US, which can be informative, but it doesn’t focus enough fashion in the homeland. Focus of articles tends to stray away from American fashion, and stick more with foreign matters. In the past several days, there have been over five postings purely on Moscow fashion alone. This is completely unnecessary. Information can also be quite dry at times.

4.) Degree of Opinion: 6. While it does provide news, writers do not write to form their own opinions really, but just blog to create a place for viewers to post their own insights and opinions. The writers tend to say something that they feel is true, such as the “Prep School Blazer style is very trendy,” yet it still opens the discussion for debate, by asking viewers whether they agree or what their thoughts are. This makes the writer’s opinions seems inconsistent and weak. The blog would be better if the writers had a stronger point of view in their critique. It is unnecessary to ask the reader whether they agree with them or not, because the reader will post his or her opinions anyway.

Hint Magazine blog:

Hint Magazine is an online fashion magazine, where you can read fashion columns and story features with a wide ranging selection of topics including music, art, dance and, of course, fashion. It has a separate blog to informally discuss various areas of interests that cater to more independent styles and are usually humorous and entertaining to read.

Total Score: 30

1.) Clarity of thought: 8. The blog is clear to read and understand. It is written in a contemporary manner that appeals to a younger audience. There are not copious amounts of text in each entry compared to the Style File blog, and instead they include many photos and videos that go along with the postings. This makes it look less daunting to get through, which is important in today’s fast paced world of Twittering.

2.) Timeliness: 6. In an era where bloggers are uploading new entries a dozen times per day, this blog only has, on average, 1-2 posts per day. In order to maintain a blog with readers constantly tuning in, it is imperative that there are multiple entries in a short span for readers to regularly come back to.

3.) Relevance: 7. Where Style File’s subject content was entirely about the New York fashion world, this blog seems to veer slightly to the left of that direction. The information posted seems to target a more indie audience by showcasing unheard of designers, writers and artists. I found also that it seems to post a lot on Brazilian artists and designers. I am not sure if there is a correlation between the writers and Brazil for them to do so, but either way, it is a little inconsistent with balancing foreign matters. Some posts are completely irrelevant and hold no interest for me, but for those that enjoy reading about marble urinals in art exhibits and gay porn awards, this is your destination. And if you are one of those readers who enjoy this blog, good luck with letting them know your thoughts, since they have disabled the commenting feature on this blog.

4.) Degree of Opinion: 9. Writers on this blog seem to enjoy writing about what they write about. While news information can be lackluster and tedious at times, this blog tries to send out their messages in a humorous and enjoyable way. While not all of the content on this blog is PG, I did enjoy reading it, even if I wasn’t too interested in what they were actually saying.

Fashion Tribes:

Fashion Tribes tends to appeal to the average fashionista who is well versed in various areas of fashion, such as new trends, beauty and accessories. The reader is usually familiar with popular styles and substantial fashion news occurring on in the fashion world. Taking elements from various aspects of fashion, such as advertisements, magazines and events, this website is pretty solid and well rounded.

Total Score: 30

1.) Clarity of thought: 9. The blog is portioned into smaller paragraphs, which makes it really reader friendly. Also, if you find yourself done with the reading, but are still interested in the topic, it allows you to read more after the jump, which gets rid of extra writing clutter, and opens up space for more easy on the eyes photos and videos. A lot of good pictures and examples, which make the posts look lively and not overwhelming to read.

2.) Timeliness: 6. For a website that is well known across the nation as one of the top rated fashion blogs, you would think that there would be much more blog entries, but instead I was disappointed to find that it only updates only 3-4 days per week. Even though there are a good amount of entries per day, the blog does not allow readers to view older posts, since there is no backlog feature. This makes it really disappointing for those that want to continue reading the rest of the blog, but are unable to.

3.) Relevance: 9. I really enjoyed the content on this blog and thought that it had a lot of good, useful information. It draws in various news about upcoming websites in fashion, as well as information about fresh spring beauty regimes and free giveaways, which everyone loves. Considering the wide-range of topics featured on this blog, I think that it is very good for an everyday shopaholic.

4.) Degree of Opinion: 6. There is hardly, if any, critique in any of the entries posted. However, when creating a blog site, you usually write about what you like, so with that in mind, you definitely know what the writers for this blog like to write about, which explains why I gave it a more generous score, since it posts things assuming that you know that these are things that they enjoy or find pleasing, without really having an opinion about them.

Go Fug Yourself:

Combine Hollywood celebrity style with a Perez Hilton sense of humor, and you have the love child of Go Fug Yourself. Known for its uncanny humor, it leaves no celebrity unharmed or unnoticed. This blog is probably one of the most hilarious fashion criticism blogs out there in a sea of fashion blogs on the internet, but then again, I am being completely biased, since these writers’ humor is right up my alley. Warning, this blog is not for everyone.

Total Score: 38

1.) Clarity of thought: 9. This blog uses the adverb, “A picture speaks a thousand words” and makes it its central point. Uploading a photo of a celebrity in a ridiculous outfit pretty much speaks for itself, since that is mainly how it shows the reader the ridiculousness of the celebrity’s outfit choices. Using the photo as the butt of its jokes, the writers then unapologetically bash the outfit.

2.) Timeliness: 10. Finally! A blog with a little consistency! It updates well over the course of the day. You can expect around 5 entries in a day, expect on weekends, which is understandable.

3.) Relevance: 9. Depending on your sense of humor, this site may or may not be right for you. For those who enjoy reading about bashing celebrities based on their clothing choices, then you have pretty much found gold, but for the fainthearted, you may cringe a bit more when you realize how harsh some of the critiques may be. No worries though, this website is all in good fun! Luckily, for this website, I fall in the former category, and enjoyed this blog thoroughly.

4.) Degree of Opinion: 10. Go Fug Yourself has made a career by casting its opinion on what others are wearing, so if it would be difficult for me to give it anything but a full score rating.

Fashionista

Fashionista is the product of two staff writers from Nylon and Elle Magazine, and joining to give you news in the fashion world faster than most other blogs. With a combo of gossip, rumors, sale tip-offs, internship suggestions, free giveaways, editorial photos and every other relevant news in the fashion world, Fashionista is a comprehensive and delightful read. Perhaps I am just being completely subjective, because this is one of the few blogs that I actually read everyday, alongside Perez Hilton, but Fashionista combines all the New York style straight out of the city’s oven.

Total Score: 38.5

1.) Clarity of thought: 10. The blog is written in small paragraphs, making it easier for the reader to get through it, without feeling overwhelmed. If the reader is still interested in a certain blog entry, she can click on a separate link taking them to “read after the jump.” It uses a combination of lively photos, videos and own photo-shopped writing, making the blog more personal and distinct to Fashionista. Also, as a helpful measure, if you don’t understand some fashion terminology, they have a dictionary specifically just for that!

2.) Timeliness: 10. Fashionista updates several times a day, throughout the day, to give you the most recent and important news. This blog is an archetype to how other fashion blogs should operate.

3.) Relevance: 10. The news featured on this blog involves news occurring in the New York fashion scene. While this may not include everyone, it does deal with high fashion in a very real way, something that can be understood no matter where you are. It also includes subjects from other fashion websites to give you the most relevant information, such as its “Mid-Day Snack” section. This blog also includes various areas of fashion, such as models, beauty, and editorial spreads, so the viewer can be well read in all aspects of fashion.

4.) Degree of Opinion: 8.5. While some blog entries are created just to provide readers non-biased information, other entries are made to showcase models or photo shoots that the writers really like. Either way, you will read this blog learning what is important to the creators of Fashionista. In most news, however, the writers write the entries in a critical way, with a strong point of view.

Written by Catherine Jang, fashion intern at San Diego Model Management http://

There is one hard and fast rule in generating income for your blog: A steady flow of blog traffic. If  no one goes to your sites, it hardly bares a chance of generating an income. Many sites have tried and failed in doing so, and these results to the sites demise. It takes money to maintain an income generating site; it also takes money to make money. The issue of  traffic can be complicated. There are a variety of factors at play, and every strategy can be dissected and the details debated ad infinitum.

Here I present to you the 6 Easy Tactics To Increase Your Blog Traffic And Search Engine Rankings that could help your site a whole lot.

1st-Content and Links

You have to offer something that makes your site worth visiting. Content creates repeat visitors, increases their stay, encourages word-of-mouth type promotion and assists in improving a blog’s standing with the search engines.

Every link can conceivably serve a traffic producer. You can leave the URL of your blog in the post comments, making it easy for all of that blog’s readers to find you too. If someone finds a link to your blog on another site, they are only one mouse-click away from being part of your traffic. Search engines also assess the number and quality of links to your blog. They regard sites that are linked to frequently as authoritative and reward them with higher placement in search engine results.Where to find free content?Type Free Article in your favourite search engine,you can find  it all for free but with term and condition.

2nd-Meta tag

If there are meta tags, they usually appear near the top of the window. For example, a meta tag would read: meta content=. If you do not find code that reads like this, ask your webmaster to put them in or you can greate a free meta tag here . This may not do much for your search engine rankings, but any little boost helps.Last but no least remember to choose a good blog topics and description for your blog.

3rd-Exchange Links

Never underestimate the power of link exchange. This is a low cost advanced website traffic tactic that people tend to overlook. How to find out where to do the link exchange? Easy: type your sites keywords in a major search engine, visit each and every of the top results and ask for the link exchange.

4th-Submit Your Blog

Keep submitting your blog to directories like there’s no tomorrow ! You can find lists of blog directories in many places, or you can simply search for blog directories using your Google search engine.

5th-Ping Your Blog

The ping is another unique tool for blogs that enables you to notify blog directories that your site has been updated. A ping is nothing more than a quick transmission to the blog directory, notifying them that there is new content.

Pinging should be done every time new content is added to your blog. However, if you are adding several posts in rapid succession, you may want to either ping only once or spread out your posts over a longer period of time. Many directories and blog services do not look at over-pinging favourably.

Offer additional value on your blog.For Affiliate Marketing Partners you can place links to their sites and products and ask them to do the same for you. You can also advertise their books or videos, if these products relate to your industry and are not in competition with your own product.

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Moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting is undeniably a clever decision of time, but before that you might be looking for the right Web Hosting Plans that will fulfill your current and future needs. If you are seeking for an option that can let you bring all your Blogspot entries, comments and of course your blog traffic to your own hosted blog then, WordPress is the right choice for you.

WordPress as it’s the most famous blogging software on Paid hosting. Well, here’s the step by step guideline for moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting using WordPress. There may be two situations for this:

1. You’ve yourblog.blogspot.com
2. You’ve yourblog.com hosted by WordPress

In first situation you’ll be moving like:

* Prepare for the migration by uploading few .php and .html test pages
* Install WordPress on your server
* Go to WordPress Dashboard

Nowadays, everyone from celebrities to regular people are blogging like there’s no tomorrow. But if you have no idea what I’m talking about, I’d be glad to explain blogging to you! Fear not. You don’t need any special skills on computers or social media to understand blogging.

To explain blogging, I would first have to tell you what a blog is. Putting it simply, a blog is an online journal where you can post your thoughts on whatever whenever. Unlike a Web site, a blog can be updated daily and your old entries can still be accessed.

To further explain the relevance of blogging in today’s world, here are some of the most common purposes of blogging.

1) To Air Out Personal Thoughts

The most basic purpose of blogging is to express thoughts and emotions. This is perhaps the beauty of blogging. You can be a total nobody, or a famous rock star, and still blog!

A lot of people use blogs to keep track of their thoughts. Celebrities often use blogs to clear up false rumors spread by the tabloids.

2) To Share Information

Blogging also helps people share information with the rest of the web. If you’re a computer expert, you can blog about this technology and attract people with the same interests. Believe it or not, there are even bloggers out there whose main purpose is to explain blogging itself!

3) To Earn Extra Income

Another reason why blogging is so popular is because of the money you can earn from starting one. Advertisers have already realized the wide reach of new media.

Blogs which have a lot of visitors and have a good amount of traffic are gold for advertisers. The more successful and popular your blog is, the more advertisers are willing to pay. You could also promote your own products or other people’s products on your blog for a share of the profits!

Blogging is actually quite simple. I hope that this article has managed to explain why blogging is such a hit with people all over the Internet. Perhaps you can now take this opportunity to begin one yourself!

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Welcome to the blogging world! Before you jump in, familiarize yourself with these 15 common blogging terminology.

1. Blog – Short for weblog. It’s similar to an online journal. You may use it for personal or business. The blog entries are in chronological order.

2. Blogosphere – A blogging community

3. Blog Carnival – A blog article containing links of other articles on a specific topic

4. Blog Roll – A list of blogs you recommend to visit. Also called link exchange

5. Captcha – Squiggly random letters, words or numbers used to block bots.

6. Categories – Organizing blog topics by grouping related topics together to make it easier to find

7. Comment Moderation – Allows the blog owner to pre-approve or reject comments made by visitors

8. Comment Spam – Comment spam is the act of posting random comments on blogs, which are unrelated to the topic or promoting URL links leading to sites containing adult content, pharmaceutical drugs etc.

9. Link Love – Posting a link on your blog or other blogs you think may be of interest to others

10. No Follow – Is found on blog platforms to prevent search engines from following a link in a comment reply. This was used to deter spammers. To remove “no follow” visit blog/i-follow/ for instructions

11. Ping – Letting blog search engines know you have updated your blog. You can use a ping service such as Autopinger.com to ping multiple search engines at once

12. RSS Feed – Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication is a format for delivering regularly changing web content

13. Splog – Blogs that are just spam. Usually splogs contain scraped (stolen) content from other blogs

14. Trackback – Is a notification from blogger A to blogger B by sending a ping to say I have written something related to your blog post on my blog. The first person receives the trackback in form of an excerpt with a link to the post of blogger B

15. Vlog – A video blog

Now you can dive in and enjoy your blogging experience!

S McIntyre owns work at home companies, daily telecommute job leads, articles, business resources and other work at home related topics. You can also visit her blog Healthy Perspectives, featuring an array of health topics, nutrition, recipes and fitness for maintaining an overall healthy and well-balanced lifestyle.

What would you say if I told you could spend less time, make more money and double, triple or quadruple your traffic with your blog? Would you think there was a catch? Perhaps there is, but I’m happy to tell you there isn’t.

You may have heard of these interchangeable terms shared, group and joint or team blogs. It simply means having more than one author blogging on a single blog. This is different from guest blogging. Guest bloggers don’t have administrative control over the blog.

Like anything there are advantages and disadvantages of owning a shared blog, but I would like to share with you why it’s beneficial and why you should consider shared blogging.

1. More Ideas – You’ve heard the phrase, “Two heads are better than one.” You can get twice (or more) the ideas, twice (or more) the content and you only do half of the work or less; freeing up your time to work on other projects.

You won’t get writer’s block because you will constantly have fresh updated content from the other contributors and you won’t get burnt out. Since the work is shared you will get more exposure, more traffic and you’ll be doing less work. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

2. Different Perspective – I like this one. People think differently and have different ideas, concepts and beliefs and so on. So even if you and your blog partners share similar interests, you’re still individuals with separate thoughts and styles. You will either have a different or have the same opinion.

The nice part is you don’t have to wait for someone to comment on your shared blog as you can carry on natural discussions or conversations within your group giving your readers another perspective or food for thought.

3. Increase Traffic – You will get a wide variety of traffic from different sources when you and your partners promote your shared blog. Another advantage for this is if each author belongs in a different niche; you can reach a bigger and more diverse audience. At first it may seem like a disadvantage if they aren’t your target market, but I’ve learnt you should never underestimate the interests of other people who are not in the same genre as you.

You can have a shared blog in any niche. It can be just for fun between friends or used as a business joint venture. However you intend to use it if everyone collaborates, work well together and have an understanding of what’s expected from each author, you can have a successful blog that will benefit everyone.

S McIntyre has a fun, shared blog with friends about pet peeves at work at home forum and a work at home resource focusing on work at home companies, daily telecommute jobs, home businesses, articles, blogging, writing and much more.

Twitter is the fastest growing site and still it only has little, boring snippets of writing about what boring people are doing. Urban Dictionary’s definition of it is Social NOTworking and a picture of millions of people at their desks, wasting time and their company’s money comes to mind. It was founded in 2006 but didn’t really get a lot of members until 2008. It took until March 2009 to get to 4-5 million members.

 I’m doing research into Social networking so if you want to help me go to: online-survey.php?surveyID=HCMHI_68e231ec . There’s a function on Facebook that does the same as Twitter so why do we need both. Personally I prefer Facebook, which amongst many other features, does the same thing as Twitter only better.  According to Compete.com, Facebook is the largest of Social Networking sites, followed by MySpace and Twitter coming behind.

I’ve been using search engines looking at matters to do with Twitter and some people are calling the users of Twitter the twitter generation – I prefer to call them Twits.  Having a proper blog gives you more to read and not just one sentence. On the other hand in a recent episode of the Gadget Show they concluded that Twitter is better for organizing events than Facebook.  If it stuck to what it’s good at, then perhaps I’d be more interested in using it; however, I am not yet sad enough to need to follow the likes of Stephen Fry and know what he is up to hour by hour.  Although I admire Stephen’s intellect and Barrack Obama is a modern-day hero, the use of Twitter for political purposes has inherent dangers. Twitter will hopefully become one of those things that doesn’t stay popular for long.

Caught the blogging bug? Before signing up with any old and popular free blogging service, you may want to determine what you’d like the purpose of your blog to be. How many people would you like to reach? Would you eventually like it to make money? If you answered ‘yes’ to either of these questions, you may want to consider investing some money to maximize your blog’s chances at attaining the reach and ability you’re looking for.

The first suggestion would be to purchase a personal domain name. This would separate it from the millions of common blogs out there by giving it its’ own official name and home on the internet. Best of all, it can be attained for only a few dollars a year. If you’re interested, there are many options on how to do so for as little as a couple of dollars to $20 a month. You can purchase a domain name from your web host, and many offer one for free when you signup. Just make sure you will actually own the domain name so in the case that you want to leave their service, you won’t have to leave it behind.

The second suggestion is to get a paid host for your blog. Though you may be tempted to go with the free host, the features and ability to expand your site in the future will be limited. You’ll want to leave room for development, especially if your blog has its own domain name, which promises more – just by it’s name – than a free blog would. There are other valuable benefits that come along with a hosting plan. Many hosts offer one-click installations and other features such as shopping carts, web forums, and email lists; as well as the plugins common to free blogging systems. If you ever want to sell anything on your blog, this is definitely the way to go.

So are you serious about your blog? If so, don’t waste any more time. Make a small investment. Upgrade your blog by getting a personal domain name and you never know – it may turn into the job you’ve always wanted.

Sonia Day is a writer for Best Web Hosts Online http:// – news, hosting review, and resources for webmasters.

We have previously talked about the importance of regular and relevant blogging to your company’s website SEO campaign.   We mentioned how effective blogs can enable you to develop the breadth and depth of your site content and become a valuable industry information source.  We also talked about how good blogs can bring in more inbound links, achieve higher engine rankings, and attract more eyes to your site.  Strong, industry-relevant blogs can do all this for and more.

Blogs, of course, do not always have to be about business.  Establishing and cultivating personal relationships with fellow industry folk should also be a blog priority.  I do emphasize personal relationships, since it is common knowledge that business (and sales) can flow more easily if you are also acquainted with that business associate on a more personal level.   Sometimes effective blogging does not have to involve business or industry talk; it could simply be informal chit-chat that allows you to connect with industry people on a personal level.

It might be helpful to once in awhile view blogging in the same light as an industry chat-room, where you can get together with a couple of associates who happen to work in the same industry as you.  Then your associates and you can better connect on a personal level, sharing information about individual interests, including hobbies, favourite sports or t.v. shows, or even the weather.

The type of relationships which emanate from this “personal blogging” can be compared to   dynamics created when you invite a business associate out to lunch or for a game of golf in the afternoon, and then you end up talking about everything but work!  Talking shop should certainly remain the main focus on your company blog, of course, since the industry information shared there is valuable and users and spiders will always be attracted to that.  Not talking shop can also be a valuable business-development tool, however, since the conversation will then turn to other areas.  As your business associate and you discover more about each other on a personal level, it helps to solidify the personal relationship, thereby enhancing the prospects of a business connection.

Small talk can be a very valuable business development tool, whether you are on the golf course or blogging.  There are times for promoting your company and yourself to that business associate you are looking to develop a professional relationship with, but there are also times when idle chit-chat is called for.  Either way, personal blogging can be good for business!

Brad Lombardo received his B.Ed. from the University of Toronto and his M.A. from McGill University. He has worked as a business manager, marketing consultant, account executive, admissions counselor, high school teacher and sportswriter. He has written a still to be published hockey book, and is currently penning a movie script based on his experiences as a Canadian teenager living in Spain.

Imagine – you’re sitting in your room and watching TV and then..suddenly you have an idea – i want to make it ..i want to make something creative ..music, movie, painting..whatever ..music – can i make a song ? hmm no ,, can I make Movie? hmm ..NO way. i cannot paint as well

So lets stick with the most easy method to be creative – Blog!

What is Blog??

Wikipedia says:

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website where entries are written in chronological order and commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

There are many ways to do Your own blogging. You can do it through blogger.com, wordpress.com etc

But in this situation we are looking forward to make Your own website- Blog.

So there are some steps what I’ve done to create this blog

1)Buy Your Own domain ..there are plenty of domain selling websites and i chose one of those

My domain name is ..

Author is the newbie of the blogging – started his own co -blog IvoLand
where You can find many interesting articles