Yahoo Buzz if finally open to every blogger who wants extra exposure.  It is pretty much Yahoo’s version of Digg but we expect that there’s more potential for Yahoo Buzz as there’s already a big audience for Yahoo.

Here’s how to put Yahoo Buzz in your Wordpress blog:

1. Open up single.php in your Wordpress theme directory.

2. Add the following:

 <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”small” showbranding=”1″>
<?php the_permalink();?>
</script>

3. That’s it.  There’s more ways to add headlines and summary but it seems like that’s actually broken right now as I get the following errors:

Notice: Memcache::get(): marked server ‘localhost:11211′ as failed in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php on line 41 [/apiws/Hype.php] Warning: session_start(): Cannot send session cache limiter - headers already sent (output started at /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php:41) in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/core/sessions.inc on line 68 [/apiws/Hype.php] Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/cache/MemcacheDataAccess.class.php:41) in /home/y/share/pear/Yahoo/Orion/core/WSHandler.class.php on line 41 [/apiws/Hype.php]

The code I used for that:

 <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://d.yimg.com/ds/badge2.js” badgetype=”small” showbranding=”1″>
yahooBuzzArticleId=”<?php the_permalink();?>”;
yahooBuzzArticleHeadline=”<?php the_title(); ?>”;
yahooBuzzArticleSummary=”<?php  the_excerpt_rss(10); ?>”;
</script>

Well, use the first method until Yahoo gets their headline and summary thingee sorted out.  From the error message, I can already tell Yahoo is using Memcache to do most of their caching, smart.

Writing great blog post that captures your audience probably has everything to do with your success to make money online.

Why?

Great content will always attract humans, search engines, and anyone who is interested in that information.

How do I write a blog post and capture my audience?

Well, there are numerous ways to do it but I can share you my strategy to this.

For me, I focus on satirical, humorous writing that will make the reader laugh.

Why?

The world is full of great information.  Especially the internet, you can go to 10 different blogs for the same information.

To have a competitive edge, you need to differ from your fellow bloggers.

Let me ask you a question.  Would you rather read a boring, monotonous blog post or a funny, interesting blog post?

Of course, most people would favor the latter.

Now, you need to write each blog post with a topic in your mind that is so worth reading and worth the reader’s time.

Let’s take an example.

I write a tech blog over at Zedomax.com.  Now, there’s so many thousand tech blogs out there, and most of the sites cover what everyone else covers.

To differentiate, I only pick the most interesting gadgets, DIYs, and tech news with emphasis on anything that I can make a joke out of.

The big blogs like Engadget and Gizmodo both cover every inch of tech news including which Sony execs had for breakfast.

Basically, I am the human, humorous, interesting comedian-filter for those big blogs while inputting some of my own niche topics.

Again, the world doesn’t need more MBA graduates to write long and boring blog posts that might be very accurate but still very boring.

What the world needs is simply writers who can describe an event in couple sentences with ability to make someone laugh.

Well, this blog post might have been very long and boring, perhaps I am a hypocrite.  Fuc*.

There’s couple simple rules I go by when blogging for money.

It’s pretty simple but it can help you to become a better blogger while increasing your monthly income.

1. Concentrate on extraordinary results of extraordinary ideas.

What do I mean?

Well, you need to find a great niche before you even start blogging.  That’s the extraordinary idea.

After you do find it, you need to focus on blogging, whether that’s 1 post per day or 10 posts per day, you need to stick with your plan for at least one year before you can expect any extraordinary results.

2. Build on your strengths, forget about your weaknesses.

What do I mean?

You need to make your strengths better and better and better.

This could be your writing style.  As for me, I have always strive to become a humor blogger on every blog I write.  Basically, I try to twist the English language as much as possible to get a laugh from the audience on every blog post.

To do this, I have even bought myself 2-3 books on creative, humor writing.

Forget about your weaknesses because if your strengths are great enough, your weaknesses will disappear eventually.

My weakness is that I don’t have the talent of an English Masters degree but I feel that my writing has been getting better simply from writing a LOT.

This may apply to your life too.  Sometimes people like to point out how bad you are at something but I tend to ignore all that bullshit and prove them otherwise with my strengths.  No matter what you do in life, your strengths will feed you food everyday and gain recognition among your peers.  Forget the haters, they focus too much on others to achieve anything for themselves anyways.

Now, if you have been blogging for awhile now, you probably understand that majority of your readers are people who use simple English.

What do I mean?

Well, on all my blogs, more than 30-50% of my traffic comes from international countries other than English speaking countries.

Why is this?

Well, people from those international countries who can speak/read English, are very interested in English written blogs.  But do not assume that those audience can understand your perfect, complex English.

How do I write a blog post?

You need to simply 5 sentences to 1 sentence.  You need to use words that even a 4th grader can understand.

In other words, write short and simple, while taking the trouble not to use big words such as “eponymous”, “advocate”, or any words that might usually be used on an SAT exam but not in real life.

Sure, you are a professor and you need to use big words but do understand if people in the world can’t understand you, you won’t be very popular.

If you are trying to make money online, keep it simpler.  If you are simply blogging for fun, ignore anything I say in this blog.

A lot of the bigger blogs out there “are” targetting English users only but you can differ and get more readership through using simple words and sentences.

Even for me, English is second language, and I can understand that it’s frustrating to look up the dictionary when I don’t understand a word.  (Of course, I SHOULD look up the dictionary but we are not blogging to educate people, we are blogging to provide good information, FAST!)

Do you know why there are so many 13 year olds who blog nowdays and are more successful than most 20 year olds?

Answer is simple.  People in general (as in the Internet population), cannot understand college-level English as they come from all over the world.

Heck, next time you read some of the comments in your blog and you will see that a lot of your readers cannot even write correct English.

Do not worry as this is great if you can get your message across.  Just stay away from becoming an English teacher and do use simpler words.

If you don’t believe me, take a look at icanhascheezburger.com, even their domain name is spelled wrong.  (Btw, the blog grew from nothing to like top 100 within less than a year!)