Good Blog Titles Gone to Waste

Earlier, I came up with an idea for another blog that I was gonna title, "Music and Movies". Simple title, just bloggin about movies and stuff (name says it all). I went and checked it out to see if it was available, and... ta da! It's not. >:-(

That's fine if the blog title is already taken, but this site I went to is garbage! It's just two UK dudes conversing with each other via this blog! There's nothing in it that relates to music and/or movies! The last post was made in 2002! I should stop there...

There was another blog that already beat me to the blog name. BodyArmor.blogspot.com was going to be my original blog title for what is now Musclearmor.blogspot.com. Same deal here. Although this photo blog is a little more personal, I really wish the guy would've changed the name. Maybe something like "Roy and Friends!" or "Wright Makes Right!", or something other than "Body Armor". I had like this dream that if I ever made it big, I was gonna start a supplement company called "Body Armor Supplements (BAS)" -- and that's where I got the idea for the title. Well, I can fuggetaboutit now. >:-O

So yeah, that's my rant for today. I wish Blogger would like check these sites out and if they're incomplete for a certain number of YEARS, then they should just delete the blog (like the musicandmovies.blogspot.com one), because the authors are not going to update it anytime soon. I don't even think they remember that blog existed.

Hmm... maybe I can just change it up and call it musicnmovies.blogspot.com... ARRGH THAT ONE'S TAKEN TOO! >:-(

Thaiger the Twitter!

Just made a Twitter account today. I have no idea why, probably because everyone online has one, so I'm just jumpin on the bandwagon.

If you notice that little Twitter Updates thing below my profile on the sidebar, that's it (for those who don't know what Twitter is). It's this website you sign up to where you just type in little tidbits of information, like what you're doing or what your plans are or whatnot. Basically it's a stalker friendly micro-blogging service o_O.

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Some Ideas to Gain Traffic

Everyone I know in the real world right now don't know about blogging. They go on the internet to check out Youtube vids and update their Myspace, or they might shop online occasionally. I like to surf around the internet, because it gives me something to do, and because there's a ton of info out there for me.

I also like to play online games, mostly because I don't have the available funds to buy a PS3 or an Xbox 360 (just yet). Two of the games I play online are Endless Online and Luminary: Rise of the Goonzu. Luminary is pretty fun, but the file is big (about 500+MB to download. You can check out Ijji.com for more info). Endless Online is a smaller download, and it has less lag.

I've been playing Endless Online (EO for short) for about seven months before I started blogging about it. I saw a couple other EO blogs out there, and I just said, "Hey, I wanna make my own!", so I did, without any prior knowledge on blogging. Well, not much you need to know about it. But the more you know, the better your blog will turn out.

Now, I get about 50 hits a day from my EO blog, which to me is good for a blog that's about three months old. At the end of the month, I might end up with about 1,000 hits. This is because I became known in the game a little bit before I started blogging (I think o_O).

So this is my idea for gaining traffic: if people know about you before you make a blog, then people would be more interested in what you blog about. If you have like thousands of friends on Myspace, and you make your blog, chances are alot of your friends will check it out. Like I said earlier, I played Endless Online for about seven months before I made my blog, and now I have alot of hits and unique visitors. On the other hand, this blog doesn't have many hits, because people don't know me, so they might not care what kind of content is found here. But it'll grow, eventually (I hope!)

If you have friends like mine, who don't really pay attention to blogs and online stuff, you might wanna find online friends. There are alot of ways to do this. Myspace, Youtube, and online games are a great place to start. And when it comes to online gaming, there are alot of them to choose from! Anything you want, from that popular card game you see on t.v (that I'm not allowed to mention), to multiplayer strategy war games. There's even an online game where you just create an avatar and you socialize with other people's avatars. A great way to gain traffic to your blog if you depend on traffic to earn you some extra gas money.

Of course, if you use this strategy to gain traffic, you have to be friendly!