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• Date: May 19,2008
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Niche blogging - Creating a celebrity/gossip blog - second part

Tutorial browse: First part, Second part

In the first part of this tutorial - “How to create a celebrity blog” I’ve told you a few things about this niche and in today’s lesson, I’ll talk about information, how to stay informed all the time, a list of celebrity/gossip blogs and forums which you should read and a few more things!

Information, where are you?

Getting information is one of the key parts in any blogger’s internet journey. Without it you are quite “dead” in this business and we don’t want that! So, specifically in the celebrity/gossip niche you have three ways to stay informed all the time:

1. The normal way – reading online magazines, blogs and eventually subscribe to their rss feed, to make things easier. Below you can see a list of top notch blogs and websites which I read,

Blogs:

Perez Hilton you should take him example as a blogger :), but not as he is in real life
TMZ
JustJared
The Superficial
Egotastic
Hollywoodtuna
Idontlikeyouinthatway
Yeeeah!

etc. Jump to their blogroll to see more

Websites:
People.com
Yahoo OMG
The Sun etc

You should subscribe to their rss feed with a feed reader like Google Reader. Also take in consideration to use Google News and technorat. You can see a little tutorial how to subscribe and how to use Google News here.

2. In my opinion pictures represent more than words, because if you decide to blog in this niche you’ll see that photos and videos are essential. Why? Because based on a single picture you can write an all article, with your personal opinion on how stars look, how they are dressed up, what they did and so on; it will help you give a personal touch to the article and of course your readership will appreciate that. On the other hand you’ll see that there are a few forums, which I listed bellow , that gather almost all the new celebrity related pictures and videos (some HQ)on the internet and they should represent your main source of inspiration (and traffic I’ll explain this too):

CelebUtopia
Phun.org
Use my computer and the forum

3. The third method is combining the two above in an efficient way. Let’s say you have a set of pictures from the forums, with Britney Spears in Hawaii, smoking weed with Paris Hilton. It is your time to be sarcastic (as GMZ said in his comment), write an article about it; by the way don’t wary, you won’t be arrested for this, so talk a bit dirty! Also search on other blogs for related posts or infoarmation about the photos or past actions, here is an example of extended information/gossip: “yes Britney smoked weed with Paris Hilton but last year she was in Honolulu, smoking weed with Lindsay Lohan”. Combine all the information you gathered and you have a great post!

More to come in part three!

Tutorial browse: First part, Second part

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