Comments on: Your Blog’s First Week of Content

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 23:44:23 +0000

A few months back I set up my room with the tv next to my desk so I could watch football without straining my next too much and blog about it at the same time – so yes, good advice

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 08:21:31 +0000

This is brilliant advice, and TV blogging can generate huge traffic, but not always great CTR on ads.

My otherwise dead cooking blog gains an extra 100-200 visitors for a few days after I blog about the latest Hell’s Kitchen episode. Same sort of thing for “Rockstar” (now officially cancelled). Reality shows still draw.

The easiest way to tv blog (for me anyway) is as follows:

(1) Have a 19″ or larger monitor

(2) Install an internal or external TV capture card

(3) Watch TV on your computer, and at the same time have a blog editor program such as ScribeFire open. Type as you watch.

(4) Post immediately after, with very little editing, to keep the immediacy in your writing. Make sure you ask questions in the post, and you’re likely to have other fans of a show offer answers and start a dialog. [Just don’t give away the season’s ending without a warning of “** Spoiler Ahead **” at the beginning of the post.

If for some reason, you cannot use a TV capture card, then position the TV screen immediately to the left or right of your monitor, but back a few feet. This will allow your eyes to move between TV and monitor without straining your neck.

By: debng

debng — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:52:04 +0000

They do have great potential, and I believe they’re one of the fastest growing niches. Plus the people who visit the gossip blogs are likely to visit more than one, so there’s room for everyone.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:32:05 +0000

ryan will attest that celebrity blogs (and pop culture blogs in general) do really well

By: debng

debng — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:18:03 +0000

I know someone who writes a Hayden Paniettiere blog and the numbers are really big. She has several thousand visitors each day. A heros blog has great potential, but as you outlined, it’s a monumental task.

By: Ahmed Bilal

Ahmed Bilal — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 11:18:41 +0000

if anyone wants to take up the project I’ve outlined above, PM me