8 Habits of Blogger who is highly Effective

 A lot of people think that is easy to be a blogger but there is nothing easy writing is taking times which we need to be with our family and our friends,
there are some people start blogging but after a few months are given up so fast why because they didn't want to be successfuls or  don't have the habits and the techniques.
so enjoy this article and have a nice time in this blog.

Do you want to be a successful blogger?
I do. I might be getting a bit obsessed with it, actually.
Post ideas pop into my head unexpectedly. I keep a long running list of ideas for improving my blog.
I also study how the most successful bloggers got where they are, and I pore over every word that they write.
If you want to be a great blogger, you should, too.
A lot of the top bloggers like Brian Clark, Darren Rowse, and Leo
Babauta have shared hundreds of tips about how they made their blogs so successful. But each blogger’s tips are just a little different.

There’s too much advice to follow

So I would read one special report with a great idea and put that into place on my blog. But the next day I’d find a podcast from another top blogger with contradictory advice, so I’d change my blog again. Then I’d come across a third idea from an equally successful blogger, which sent me down a totally new path.
Finally I realized I needed to stop focusing on little things like what plug-ins to use, how to write my About Page, or where to position my ads.
I needed to focus on a bigger picture. I wanted to find out what all these top bloggers had in common. Their mindset, their mental habits.
I spent a lot of time observing, which led to this list of the eight success traits shared by all top bloggers I’ve found. I’m happy to share it with you.
The good news is that even if you don’t have all these personality traits already, most of them can be developed over time. Best of all, if you can cultivate these traits, you’ll become more effective in the rest of your life as well.

1. Effective bloggers are prolific

The first key to being a successful blogger is to write. A lot.
The more you write, the better your writing gets. The more posts you add to your blog, the more juice you’ll get from search engines. And more content means more reader visits to see what’s new.
There’s no way around it; it takes work to be prolific. Effective bloggers work hard. Putting a successful blog together requires a lot of time in front of your computer, and not surfing LOLCats or Twittering about what you had for lunch. Great bloggers put serious time into researching, writing, editing, and planning posts for their blogs.

2. Effective bloggers are concise

It is a truth universally acknowledged by top bloggers; people come to your blog for a reason. Usually because they want to learn something from you.
No one wants to read fluff or blather, especially online.
Top bloggers know how to quickly get people’s attention, how to keep it, and how to make their posts easy to digest.
Most effective bloggers tend toward short posts. They also divide their copy into short paragraphs, and use bullet points or numbered lists to keep the reader scanning. They use compelling subheads so readers can scan for the information they need.
Brevity comes in handy in other areas of life, too. Keep your phone calls short. Pare your email messages down to the essentials. You’ll have more time for creative work, and people will be much more interested in what you have to say.

3. Effective bloggers are analytical

Successful bloggers don’t work or live in a bubble.
They always look to their readers, observing carefully to see what readers care about and respond to.
They study their statistics, so they know where readers come from — what sites, what search engines, what search terms, and even what countries.
They know when they tend to get the most traffic, what kinds of posts are best suited for their audience, and what kinds of headlines get tweeted most often.
Then they tailor the timing, content, layout, and images of their posts to suit their audience.

4. Effective bloggers are lifelong learners

If you’re new to blogging, you’re probably on a steep learning curve at the moment.
Maybe you tell yourself that things will get better when you’ve been doing it longer. There won’t be so much to learn. You’ll have systems in place soon and everything will run smoothly.
Sadly, I think this is a myth. I’ve been using and designing for the Internet for about 15 years, and it keeps changing. Just when you’ve got one element sorted out, something new gets released. Or becomes obsolete. Or mutates in 20 different directions.
If you want to stay ahead in blogging, you have to keep learning.
Fortunately, being curious and wanting to learn keeps you young and your brain active. A love of learning doesn’t just set you up for a successful blog, but for a successful and happy life.

5. Effective bloggers are focused and consistent

Successful bloggers choose a topic and stick to it.
They write consistently about their chosen subject, and with a consistent voice and approach. Even when they write about something that seems to be off-topic, they relate it back to the niche they know their readers are interested in.
Top bloggers are also consistent about timing. Most stick to regular posting schedules. Whether they post three posts a day or two posts a week, their readers know what to expect.

6. Effective bloggers plan ahead

Successful bloggers know where they’re going. They have a master plan and they stick to it. Yes, they adapt based on feedback, but always in service of a vision.
To paraphrase Seth Godin’s recent book Linchpin, “Effective bloggers ship.” Top bloggers don’t waffle for months about the typeface on their upcoming ebook. They may tailor the angle, price, or format to better suit their market. But they don’t let themselves get derailed. They follow the plan.

7. Effective bloggers are persistent

Top bloggers understand that success doesn’t happen overnight. Real success rarely happens quickly.
Time is on your side. To get to the top takes consistency, hard work, serious study, and lots of persistence. Successful bloggers don’t give up.

8. Effective bloggers are self-starters

I’ve been self-employed for years.
I’ve noticed a lot of people like the idea of working from home, working for themselves, being their own boss. But if you want these things, you need to be able to manage yourself.
No one is going to sack you if you’re late. No one reminds you of important deadlines or nags you to get your sales numbers up.
If you want to be a successful blogger, you need to be a self-starter. It’s not enough to have good ideas. You have to act on them.

What trait do you think is most valuable?

What do you think the most important trait of a top blogger is? It might be one of these eight, or something completely different. Let us know in the comments!
About the Author: Annabel Candy is a travel fiend who currently calls Australia home. She has travelled widely and writes a personal improvement blog called Get in the Hot Spot. It’s stuffed with inspiration and tips to help people live their dreams.

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Is Facebook growth stalling in North America?

facebook

is the second site in the world after google it has the largest people  in the social networks and always we listen new topic about this site and seriously it is a succes story of the net.

Data from blog Inside Facebook says the social-networking site is losing active users in the United States.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Inside Facebook says the site keeps growing, but is losing active users in U.S., Canada
  
• Data says Facebook lost 6 million active users in the United States in May
  
• Site keeps growing thanks to adoption in big countries like Brazil, Mexico, India

(CNN) -- Facebook, the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of the social-media world, continues to grow, steaming toward 700 million registered users. But has the site tapped out its potential in America?
The site lost more than 7 million active users in the United States and Canada last month, according to data from Inside Facebook, a blog that tracks the site and its development platform.
Mexico, where Facebook use started later than in the other two, added about 1 million users, according to Inside Facebook's data service. But Facebook's slowing growth in North America raises the question of whether the site has finally found all the users it can in places where it's been around for a while.
Last month was the first time the United States had lost active users in a year, Inside Facebook said, while ups and downs have been more volatile in Canada.
Facebook is questioning the accuracy of the data.
"From time to time, we see stories about Facebook losing users in some regions," said a statement Monday from a Facebook spokesperson. "Some of these reports use data extracted from our advertising tool, which provides broad estimates on the reach of Facebook ads and isn't designed to be a source for tracking the overall growth of Facebook.
"We are very pleased with our growth and with the way people are engaged with Facebook. More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook on any given day."
Facebook reached 687 million users at the beginning of June, according to the stats. But its growth rates appear to be slowing. Facebook gained 11.8 million active montly users in May, compared to 13.9 million in April. More than 20 million users were added during every month last year.
The United Kingdom, Norway and Russia, other countries where Facebook was adapted relatively early in its existence, each dropped by about 100,000 active users in May.
Still, expansion continues as Facebook focuses globally. Major population centers like Brazil, India and Argentina all saw growth of more than 5 percent in May, with Brazil leading the way, jumping from about 17 million users to about 19 million.
Inside Facebook acknowledged that seasonal changes such as college graduation, bugs in the Facebook advertising software or other one-time anomalies can affect data.
But the report does raise questions, they said.
"[B]y the time Facebook reaches around 50% of the total population in a given country (plus or minus, depending on internet access rates in that country), growth generally slows to a halt, as we've noted before," read the post, by Eric Eldon.
"So far, Facebook has been able to make up stalls and losses with big gains in heavily-populated developing countries like Mexico, Brazil, India and Indonesia."

Moving into China would be one way to insure its goal of reaching 1 billion active users, Eldon wrote. But agreeing to the terms that likely would come from the country's Communist regime might also hurt Facebook's popularity back home.

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if you catch a hacker what you will do?

the united states catch hackers

For starters, if you work with the FBI,  don't expect to get any credit or a public thank you. This case involved a man who hacked into his neighbor's Wi-Fi and attempted to frame his neighbor, a lawyer, by e-mailing child porn to the neighbor's co-workers as well as sending threats to elected officials.
Johnson, a private IT contractor with over 30 years experience, recounts:  "In the beginning of the case I was hired by the neighbor's law firm to find out if he [the innocent neighbor] was the one to blame. There had been a couple of emails sent out at this point and if he had flipped out, the law firm wanted to cut ties with him as fast as possible. I was able to quickly prove that it was not likely the partner in the law firm sending the emails.  I also saw that whomever was doing this was also making some fairly big mistakes. If they continued down this path I would have a good chance to catch them. We also had a great honey pot at this time since the hacker felt comfortable using this connection to send the emails."
Because the hacker seemed to want to get the neighbor into trouble, Johnson didn't stop the activity immediately. "If we had locked things down at this point the hacker probably would have tried other ways to get at him and the chances of nailing him would be greatly minimized so I proposed watching the traffic for a while." Johnson says that the FBI agents weren't happy at that thought and let Johnson know, he says. After an unpleasant exchange with the agents, Johnson began to realize that they didn't understand networking technology well enough to understand how Johnson was proposing to catch the hacker. "What I did wasn't rocket science, anyone that understands how information travels from point A to B could have done what I did."
The honeypot method was successful, and the hacker was arrested and later, indicted. Johnson offered to help the FBI with more cases. He didn't get the open-armed response he had hoped for and a conversation with the agents lead him to believe that the FBI was rejecting his offer to become a contractor because he was older than 40.
Johnson said, "You don't, and can't, get my level of knowledge in college or classes. You get it over a long period of time working with the systems."
The experience left him feeling that the FBI Department of Cyberterrorism isn't prepared to do its part to prevent a sophisticated cyber attack. "When I hear about our power plants, the military, and NASA getting hacked I'm not surprised whatsoever," he says. "They can write up success after success because these people are typically not that sophisticated and the data is easily gathered with the pre-canned utilities that they have been provided and trained on."
Johnson also notes that he wasn't mentioned in the FBI press release and felt the lack of public acknowledgement for the part he played was a "slap in the face." He now feels that he should speak out and express his concerns that the Cyberterrorism unit isn't staffed with a high enough level of expertise in the hope that the situation will improve. "We need seasoned IT pros to protect us and the really good people work in the private sector. They need to find a way to tap into the experts that have the knowledge to protect us."
After conversing with Johnson, I came to believe that working with the FBI to catch a hacker is not all sunshine and chocolate roses. When we contacted the public affairs officer listed on one of the press releases involving this case, Jeanne Cooney from the U.S. Attorney's Office responded, "The FBI is a federal investigative agency. When they find evidence of federal criminal wrongdoing, they refer the case to us for prosecution. Even though we are not the investigative agency, I can tell you that federal law enforcement (the FBI and our office among them) are prohibited from talking about the details of any investigation, including who made or might of made statements."

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8 People Who Are Seriously Obsessed

Mad Max

Adrian Bennett may not own as much movie memorabilia as other obsessive fans, but he makes up for it by his dedication to the film. Where most fans will simply collect merchandise associated with whatever their topic of interest happens to be, Adrian took things a step further. He not only built his own custom Mad Max mobile that is exactly like the one featured in the film, but he even moved his family out of the UK and into a tiny Australian town so he could feel closer to the character he loves. Now that's dedication.
Since moving, he's built a few more Mad Max vehicles and opened his own museum dedicated to the film.

(Link | Photo)

Harry Potter

What does it take to become the World's Biggest Harry Potter Fan? Just ask the boy who has dubbed himself with said title. His house is filled with Harry Potter junk, he's read the books over 100 times, he speaks and looks like Harry Potter -he even got a tattoo of J.K. Rowling's signature.
(Link)

Shoes

My Strange Addiction guest Rebecca might not have the world's largest collection of shoes (that honor goes to Former First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda Marcos), but her obsession is certainly enough to get her in this list. Unlike Mrs. Marcos, Rebecca has deep feelings for each of her 200 pairs of shoes, going so far to worry about them while she's away from home and calling them her “babies.” Her shoes even got in the way of her upcoming wedding when she couldn't afford to save for the big day because she couldn't stop buying more shoes. (Link)

Big Macs

Unlike most people on this list, Don Gorske doesn't express his love for something through a giant collection. He obsesses through consumption. You might recognize Don from the movie Super Size Me, but since then, Don has continued his routine of eating two Big Macs every day for 39 years, keeping a receipt for every one. In fact, he recently enjoyed his 25,000th Big Mac.
If you're wondering why Don isn't obese, it largely comes down to the fact that he doesn't order anything with his sandwiches. Without fries and cola, two Big Macs provide only 1,080 calories and since that's 90% of what Don eats, it's easy to see how he stays so thin. (Link | Photo)

Star Wars Toys

There are so many criteria for being the World's Biggest Star Wars fan that include number of conventions visited, number of times seeing the movie, etc. While it's hard to definitively claim that Rob Foster is the biggest Star Wars fan in the world, as the owner of the largest Star Wars toy collection, he's certainly a serious contender. Foster owns almost every single Star Wars toy released since 1977 and while he doesn't say how many toys he owns in total, he estimates that he has over 2,800 3 3/4 inch action figures alone. (Link | Photo)

Mario Toys

Brett Martin loves Nintendo, and not just their games. He loves the characters from video games so much that he owns over 10,000 toys depicting Link, Mario, Donkey Kong and other classic characters. In order to help share his obsession with the world (and to help thin out his collection by selling a few pieces), he even set up his own website, The Videogame Memorabilia Website, where he shares all new additions to his collection and offers users the opportunity to buy some of his rare memorabilia. (Link | Via)

Snow Globes

Josef Kardinal owns more snow globes than anyone on Earth. In fact, he has over 8,000 now and has no intention to stop collecting any time soon. You can find a small sampling of his collection on his website, but be warned, the text is all in German. (Link | Via)

Santa Dolls

It's pretty easy to guess what Sharon Badgley's favorite holiday is. With her collection of more than 6,000 Santa Claus dolls, Sharon takes over 3 weeks to put all of her toys out on display before Christmas. (Link)

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7 Unbelievable Lottery Winners' Stories

He escaped from a derailed train, a door-less plane, a bus crash, a car into flames, another 2 car accidents... then won a million dollar lottery

Here's the story of how the world's unluckiest man turned his fate upside down. Frane Selak, born in 1929, is a Croatian music teacher who used to be famous for his numerous escapes from fatal accidents:

• In January, 1962, Selak was traveling via train from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik. However, the train had suddenly derailed and plunged into an icy river, killing 17 passengers. Selak managed to escape, and only suffered a broken arm and minor scrapes and bruises.
• The following year, while traveling from Zagreb to Rijeka when the door blew away from the cockpit, forcing him out of the plane. Although 19 others were killed, he suffered only minor injuries and had miraculously landed in a haystack.
• In 1966, he was riding on a bus that crashed and plunged into a river. Four others were killed, but Selak managed to escape unharmed.
• In 1970, he managed to escape before a faulty fuel pump engulfed his car into flames.
• In 1973, another of Selak's cars caught fire, forcing fire through the air vents. He suffered no injuries save the loss of most of his hair.
• In 1995, he was hit by a city bus, but once again suffered minor injuries.
• In 1996 he escaped when he drove off a cliff to escape an oncoming truck. He managed to land in a tree, and watched as his car exploded 300 feet below him.

But then, in 2003, the heavens seemed to review his case: he won $1,000,000 dollars in the Croatian lottery!

"I know God was watching me over all these years." he said, and has reputedly refused to fly to Australia to air on a Doritos commercial, saying he "didn't want to test his luck." Frane also said that he can either be looked as "the world's unluckiest man, or the world's luckiest man," and prefers the latter.

Woman googles husband, finds he won the lottery but never told her

On 2007, Donna Campbell became suspicious of her husband, Arnim Ramdass, when he started to keep the television turned off and disconnected the phone line. Her suspicions rose when she found a postcard about a new home purchase.

But Campbell was unaware that her husband was hiding a $10.2 million secret from her until she Googled her husband's name and lottery number. She found a Florida lottery press release that named 17 airline mechanics who won the jackpot, her husband was one of them.

The group of mechanics opted for the lump-sum payment of $10.2 million, meaning each of the 17 winners would receive about $600,000 before taxes. Since the winning, Ramdass took a leave of absence from work, according to his co-workers. He hasn't shown up at the couple's home and servers can't find him to hand him the lawsuit papers: she wants half the money and out of the marriage.

Doubled his share of the jackpot... by mistake!

When Derek Ladner next suffers from absent mindedness, he may think twice before cursing his poor memory. For the 57-year-old's forgetfulness has landed him an amazing double lottery win.

He and his wife Dawn were elated when their six regular numbers came up on the midweek draw on 2007. They were quick to claim their £479,142 share of the £2,395,710 jackpot split between five winners. But, incredibly, a week later Mr Ladner remembered he had bought another ticket with the same numbers for the same draw.

That gave him two of the five shares of the jackpot on July 11, doubling his winnings to £958,284. A spokesman for lottery operator Camelot said it was the first time a player had won twice in the same draw! Mr Ladner's forgetfulness cost the other three winners almost £120,000 each. Had he not bought the extra ticket, they would have split the jackpot four ways instead of five and won £598,927 a person.

Run over by a truck, hours after his win

On 22 January 2004, 73-year-old Carl Atwood of Elwood, Indiana, who won $73,450 in an Indiana lottery game taped for television, died scant hours later. He was knocked down by a truck and expired shortly thereafter in an Indianapolis hospital.

That evening he had been walking to the grocery store that had sold him a winning ticket when a pickup truck rounded a corner and struck him. (The store was located one block from his home.) "It was at an unlighted intersection, and Mr. Atwood had dark clothing on, so the driver did not see him before he hit him," Elwood Police Chief Toby R. Barker said.

Won $16.2 million... got sued by everyone, went broke and died

William "Bud" Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery in 1988 but now lives on his Social Security. "I wish it never happened. It was totally a nightmare," says Post.

A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a share of his winnings. It wasn't his only lawsuit. A brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him, hoping to inherit a share of the winnings. Other siblings pestered him until he agreed to invest in a car business and a restaurant in Sarasota, Fla., - two ventures that brought no money back and further strained his relationship with his siblings. Post even spent time in jail for firing a gun over the head of a bill collector. Within a year, he was $1 million in debt.

Post admitted he was both careless and foolish, trying to please his family. He eventually declared bankruptcy. Now he lives quietly on $450 a month and food stamps. "I'm tired, I'm over 65 years old, and I just had a serious operation for a heart aneurysm. Lotteries don't mean (anything) to me," said Post. He died on Jan 15 of respiratory failure.

Won the lottery twice after a dream

Many successful lottery entrants have said their winning combinations came to them in dreams; that they awoke with five or six numbers dancing in their heads, jotted the combinations down, played them, and won. Sometimes the dreamed-of numbers paid off right away, and sometimes the dreamers played those combinations for years before hitting the jackpot. So, that 86-year-old Mary Wollens of Toronto won the Ontario Lottery on 30 September 2006 after seeing "a lotto ticket and a large cheque" in a dream a couple of days before the drawing wasn't all that

unusual — the remarkable part was that her prophetic dream enabled her to win the same lottery twice.

You see, Mary had already purchased a lottery ticket with the combination she later dreamed about, but her vision instilled her with such confidence that she went out and bought a second ticket with those same numbers. Now, some people would consider purchasing a duplicate ticket be a foolish waste of money (because if your numbers lose, you're needlessly out an extra dollar, and even if you hit the big jackpot, you don't necessarily get any extra credit for winning twice), but not Mary — and good thing, too, because she happened onto one of those occasions when having a second ticket paid off big.

As things turned out, someone else had also correctly picked all six numbers for that week's draw, so instead of having to split the $24 million jackpot evenly with another winner, Mary was able to claim a two-thirds share and take home $16 million!

Committed suicide because he mistakenly believed his lotto numbers had come up the one week he didn't play them

In April 1995 Timothy O'Brien committed suicide by shooting himself in the head because his half-share of a five-week ticket on Britain's (then) new National Lottery had expired just before the draw he thought would have made him a multi-millionaire.

The truth is, even if he'd held a valid ticket for his usual numbers, O'Brien wouldn't have won. The numbers that came up would have entitled the ticketholders to a prize of 47 pounds, not the 3.2 million he thought he and his partner had missed out on. And why? Because only four of the six numbers matched those drawn.

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