Michelle Strait

I started a video game review Blogger blog. I wanted to see how much traffic the topic would generate before getting paid hosting. Most of the posts are game reviews. There are also a few opinion posts.

I signed in today and discovered my blog was gone. The message said it had been marked as spam. I don't know why because I only review games that I own, and I invite feedback from readers. The site will be disabled until a Blogger person reviews it and says it's not spam.
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I made a bad mistake with Ezine Articles. I found a good long-tail keyword and created a free blog to promote my product. I submitted an article to Ezine Articles directing traffic to my blog, and got some good traffic. I wanted to see how well the keyword phrase would work.

Since the keyword phrase got good traffic, I decided to get a domain using the phrase. I then wrote a bunch of articles using the keyword phrase in the title. So I had the phrase in my domain AND in the tile...

The inverted pyramid style of writing works great for the web. You get to the point of your article right away. The questions who, what, when, where, and why are answered in the first paragraph. This is good because it pulls readers into your article and keeps them there.

Newspapers have used the inverted pyramid for years. Why? Because they have to get the facts in before readers turn to the comics. People who write for online markets deal with a similar situation. Except they have...