Blogging Tips from the Big Guys

Blogging, apart from being an online form of self expression has transformed into many things over the years, Today, people utilize blogs to promote travel destinations, promote restaurants, provide product reviews, to market their own goods and services and even to help build a community of tech lovers, food lovers, business minded people, and travelling folk who share their experiences.

Among the big shot bloggers are Ms. Janette Toral of digitalfilipino.com, Mr. Abe Olandres of yugatech.com, and Mr. Vince Golangco of wheninmanila.com. These bloggers started out with a vision of giving the internet a dose of quality content that people need or would want to read and eventually became at the top of their game.

So what do these big time bloggers have to say for people who want to start their online writing career?

Abe Olandres of Yugatech.com shares...


Not being a writer did not hinder Abe to provide tech news and gadget reviews to those who need it beginning 2005. Today, yugatech.com is one of the most widely read sites globally especially when it all things technology. A visit to this site will definitely grant anyone a chance to get to know the latest in consumer electronics.

If you're a newbie writer, don't be afraid to start writing. You'll learn new things along the way that would make your blog even better than when you first started. In turn, if you're an experienced writer, never stop learning because there's always room for improvement.

Vince Golangco of Wheninmanila.com says...


Learning the ropes of online writing starting with SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.  SEO, simply put, is a series of steps undertaken to increase the online presence of a site. It primarily relies on using keywords users often type in and incorporating them in your content. This way, your blog will receive more visitors as it appears on top of search results.

As for writing everyday, there's really no other way to learn how to write but to do it everyday. Apart from reading a lot of material, practicing how to write effectively for the readers is a blogger's best route to providing quality content for readers.


Janette Toral of Digitalfilipino.com says...

There are a handful of things Janette has learned since she started digitalfilipino.com 12 years ago and she lists them as such:

1. Help others succeed by building a community
2. Build relationships
3. Be responsible netizens.
4. Remember that the future is what we make of it.
5. Face things beyond your control.
6. Set new standards.
7. Give alternatives to people who are just starting out.
8. Establish mutual trust.

More than a decade of putting together a community of SME on the basis of e-commerce made Janette a visionary when it come to creating a bond between businesses and transforming it into a family. She wrote a blog about the above list here.