I am not really comfortable to share my achievements because I feel my readers would think that I am a conceited person. However, I think it is my responsibility to let others know that sometimes, the almost impossible can be possible and who knows? I can help somehow.
Anyway, some of you may be familiar with the Help Save Serena movement started by his father so that his child will be brought from UK to US for the treatment of Neuroblastoma. In fact, he even made a blog out of it and many has been touched and made their own post. I also did my share on my other blog and even donated some Entrecard points.
But to my surprise, my post landed on the top spot of Google Search after 10 days which you can see the photo above. A certain stranger found my blog post by searching through Google. So what are the most possible reasons?
Maximizing the title
If you will notice, all of my title posts are composed of many words which I think very important to invite readers. This is because the title must catch the attention of the visitors and will eventually read them. It must also contain the summary of the post. So instead of making the title Help Save Serena, I made it Help Save Serena and her Fight against Neuroblastoma. As you can see, the stranger searched for the words Serena and Neuroblastoma. It is therefore not advisable to make your title post a single word or a very small phrase.
Content keywords
I usually spend long hours for a single post before I submit it. This is because I do not only check for errors and make it interesting to read, I also consider the quantity and position of the keywords and the related ones. This is for the search engines to easily trace them. In short, keyword density is very important. According to wikipedia, it is the number of times a keyword or phrase appears compared to the total number of words in a page. Therefore, a good post must be friendly to both humans and software.
There may be other factors like inbound links but since I am not a SEO guru, I am still searching for the right information so I can explain it better.
Incidentally, the stranger was a certain Yvonne Brown who sent me a mail and asking for the e-mail address of Serena’s father because she was willing to help. I immediately visited the blog and posted a comment together with the message of Yvonne. I also replied to Yvonne together with the e-mail address of Serena’s father.
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How to make your Blog post land on the top spot of Google Search
Are you doing the Right Blogging frequency?
How many times do bloggers should make a post? Should it be everyday, twice a day, or once a week? This question has been asked and debated many times but until now, I haven’t read a post telling the exact numbers of posts that will truly help increase traffic to our blogs. While it is true that we should think that content is king, doing the right blogging frequency also matters. Here are some of my thoughts and what I learned from top bloggers.
More than once a day
The main advantage of doing this is your readers may stay longer in you blog. Visitors may also be more interested in you because they will think that you are a very smart and consistent blogger. However, I can assume that you will not always think of good topics to share. In addition, your subscribers might get annoyed when they check their inbox especially if they do not read mails everyday.
Once a day
Many will agree with me if I say that this is the ideal posting frequency. This can be good for both of you and your subscribers. You may also have enough time to promote your post and prepare for the next post. This can also be just enough for your post to be indexed by search engines. But it can also hurt you if you are busy with other things such as office work. There are times that you will not be consistent in maintaining a daily post, unless you choose to sacrifice other things such as time to rest.
Average of thrice a week
I must admit that I belong to this group because of time constraint. Sometimes I feel guilty to my readers, but I am glad I have not yet heard of a negative feedback from them. For someone like me who have an 8-hour office work and a family to attend to, I will be lucky enough if I can post every other day. Although I can assume that I can have more readers than I have now if post more frequently, I try to balance my time in posting and promoting.
Once a week
You may conclude this is a disadvantage for you, and I will not disagree with you. However it does not really mean you cannot attract readers to your blog. If you know how to promote your blogs properly, you may even have more readers than the ones who post daily. How do they do that? Try joining forums, attached your best post as a link and provide valuable information to threads. If you are good in it, you will not need to post daily. However, this is risky to beginners and weak in socializing.
Whatever your choice will be, I think that the next important thing to quality is consistency.
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How to know if you can be a Professional Blogger someday
I am reading around 20 blogs a day and I notice that some of them are just passers by while some are really dead serious in blogging. I also realize that there are some bloggers who are doing it on a part time basis and some are really professionals. Although I really want to quit my office job and be a professional blogger someday, the big question is can I do it? Am I really on the right path? I found some answers and if we have the same dream, you can check your self using my ideas.
You are investing
Making a blog post does not mean you are investing. You may just want to share your ideas and you have a free time to do it. Investing is not only about money, it is also about time and effort. If you are interested to learn more about blogging and you start to sacrifice sleep and your time to relax, then welcome to the club. You have now a great syndrome of being a professional blogger. This is because some bloggers are contented in what they know and they have achieved. So if you are among them, then stay put as a part time blogger.
You are not getting tired
Blogging is very tiring to the mind and resting after a whole day of office work can be much better instead of thinking of your next post. But if you seem to be more relax when you blog rather than watching your favorite television show, you are now hooked by the spell of blogging. You keep on finding ways to improve your style and you seem not to be running out of ideas. In fact, your succeeding posts are getting better than your previous ones. You are not also afraid of doing some experiments to your blog.
You can attract readers to your blog
Blogging is a two-way street between you and your readers. No matter how much money, time and effort that you spend, they will all be wasted if you do not have the capability to attract readers to your blog. Unless you have the ability to invite visitors and convert them into regular readers, do not quit your job yet and practice more. There are more than a million competitors around you and it takes a lot of socializing before you can win some of their customers. Professional blogging is not just a career, it is a talent.
You are willing to spend
Blogging is a business and you cannot get everything for free. You must also spend somehow in your promotion and even purchasing your own domain. Although you can still earn through free hosting, opportunities are better if you are not using a subdomain. I am not saying that using free hosting is bad because if it is, then I would not be using blogspot anyway. However, search engines and some paid-to-write advertisers prefer bloggers with their own domain. In terms of promotion, the ones who spend will have a wider scope and will be prioritized by services.
Incidentally, I just bought a domain for me and hopefully I can launch it soon. All of you are invited.
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How to convince your Visitors to read your Blog Posts
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Visitors are the life of our blogs and without them, we are nothing. All of us are trying our best to have visitors especially the unique ones. Some are even spending money to invite them. But what good is a visitor if he is just passing by? If you are an Entrecard member, you do not want to have plain droppers, do you? I must admit, there are blogs I drop on then leave immediately. So if you think you are not convincing them, here are some of my ideas that may help.
Inspire them
It is not enough that you give them what they need. Unlike portals, blogs should contain more than just useful information. Note that most blogs are made by simple individuals and visitors are expecting to learn from other’s point of view. This is not an easy task because each visitor has different taste. You must find their weak points. Sharing your success stories on your blog with humility is a good example. It is easy to remember someone who can inspire us.
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How to avoid your Subscribers to Unsubscribe to your Blog
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It is a fact that subscribers will help your blog to stay alive. This is because they are your regular readers and it takes a lot of hard work to gain them. Needless to say, it is also hard to increase them. The worst thing that can happen is that they are getting few and you cannot force them to stay. But I am very sure that you are doing some things that your subscribers do not like. As a blog subscriber myself, here are some of the main factors that stops me from subscribing.
Long and boring posts
While it is alright to write long posts, they should not be boring. On the contrary, they must be more interesting as they are being read. This is where creative writing can help. If you want to write long posts, learn how to minimize grammatical errors and avoid useless words like too many helping words. If you can write many things about an interesting topic, make a series part and inform your readers about it.
Inconsistent posting frequency
If you choose a particular blogging frequency say every other day, be sure you can maintain of at least close to it. Remember that subscribers are followers and if you make them impatient for your next blog post, then they will leave without saying goodbye. Sudden increase of blog frequency can also be annoying especially if they do not open their mails everyday. Consistency is one thing readers like from us.
Repetitive post topics
Making blog posts are not like submitting articles to different article directories. It is not like a good movie that people want to see again and again. If you want to talk about an old topic, be sure to make it more interesting to read than the first and provide a reasonable time gap. Adding some new ideas about it or updating your readers about the topic can be very interesting to follow. Fragrant flowers can also cause allergy.
Sudden change of blog topic
Remember that blogging is sharing quality information, and abrupt change of blog topic may offend your loyal readers. If you want to make an experiment on an off-topic post, inform your readers beforehand and how frequent you will do this. Readers subscribe to a blog because you have common interest in topics to read. If you suddenly change your interest, they may also change their minds.
Successive product reviews
Engaging into paid-to-write sites can provide you additional income but can also harm your subscribers. They are after what you can share to them, not what they can buy through your advice. If they are interested in buying something, they will go to a more appropriate site. If you want to earn more while saving your subscribers, balance your paid posts and find other sources of income. There are a lot of them just waiting to be discovered.
Frequent feed errors
Make sure that you are using a reliable feed source. Most used feed sources do not mean it is always effective. They encounter technical problems too. Monitor their performance very closely and a good way of doing it is to subscribe to your blog. In this way, you can also experience the same feelings your subscribers feel. At any rate, full RSS feed is better than partial feed or just title feeds. If multiple errors are happening, report them at once.
Loyalty pays off only when you know how to handle it.
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Why you should leave Entrecard
This post might be radical in nature and intriguing, but before you raise some eyebrows I suggest you read this from beginning to end. This is not anti-Entrecard post and on the contrary, this is about some members who do not realize the real purpose of Entrecard. Graham is repeatedly saying that Entrecard was created so that bloggers can visit each other’s blog while earning some points and making money out of them somehow. Being a very serious dropper, here are some of my suggestions and if you cannot follow them I will be happy not to see you at Entrecard.
You do not drop back
I have a long list of My Serious Droppers in which now have reached almost three hundred. Although I may not be dropping everyday, I try to catch up and none of them can say that my drop is less than 15 times a month. It is such frustrating that some of them did not bother to drop a card, not even once. I do not know their style of dropping but for sure they do not check their inbox. All I can do is to delete them and replace with potential ones.
Rejecting ads unreasonably
I have been seeing some post complaining that their ads has been rejected due to unreasonable causes. It also happened to me before when I was trying to place ads to newbies. I cannot believe that I have been rejected by the ones falling on the same category and the reason given was not clear. I strongly suggest that if you have some restrictions in accepting ads; specify the details so that advertisers will not waste their precious time.
You are not visible
I do not mind if your widget is not above the fold but for human’s sake, do not put it on the lowest part. What annoys me more is that the blog is very slow due to videos and images posted on the blog. I also noticed some widgets are getting me blind due to the same color of the template background. I therefore suggest that these members pause for a while and put themselves in the shoes of their droppers so they can understand what I am saying.
You are over criticizing
I noticed some bloggers who are over reacting with the changes Graham had made at Entrecard. Although I must admit that there are some things I do not agree, I try to be broad minded enough to understand that these changes are for the betterment of all the members and the admin as well. Entrecard is not perfect and will never be, but it still very useful because if it is not, then it would be that popular. So if you cannot say anything kind, you are free to leave us alone.
Again, these are only suggestions and not made to create any harm. But one thing is for sure, I love Entrecard and I am here to stay.
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How to Motivate your self in Blogging
Maintaining a blog is very difficult. You have to balance your time between making good posts and promoting them. There are also a lot of obstacles that will get into your way such as having low traffic in spite of your hard work, low income from advertisers and problems about your personal life. Now, you are thinking of giving up your blog.
Although you really love blogging, nothing seems to motivate you to continue from doing so. But before you quit, the following tips may help you.
Be inspired
Thinking of a good post requires a great inspiration. Family, friends and loved ones are not only sources of inspiration. By simply looking at things around you can also inspire you. While we think that only good things can inspire us, the bad things around us can also serve as our inspiration. We can do that by posting realistic suggestions on how to convert these bad things into good ones. Money can also be a good source of inspiration, as long as you do not abuse it.
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Top 15 Major Social Networking Websites according to Number of Registered Users
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While I was searching for something at Wikipedia, I found an alphabetical list of major social networking sites. But what strikes me is the number of their registered users. So I decided to re-arrange the list and share it with you, but this time according to the number of registered users.
1.0 Windows Lives Spaces –formerly MSN Spaces (120,000,000)
2.0 My Space – since 2003 and the 100 millionth account was created on August 6, 2006; headquarters at California, USA (110,000,000)
3.0 Habbo – features chatrooms with over 31 communities worldwide (82,000,000)
4.0 Facebook – since 2004, founded by Mark Zuckerberg while he was studying at Harvard University (70,000,000)
5.0 Orkut - Owned by Google popular in Brazil, Paraguay and India. (67,000,000)
6.0 Friendster – launched in 2002 popular in Southeast Asia. (65,000,000)
7.0 Flixster – started in 2006, free database of information about films and actors. Members can review and rate films. (56,355,599 as of May 7 2008)
8.0 Classmates.com – created in 1995 by Randy Conrads, who founded Classmates Online, Inc. (50,000,000)
9.0 Bebo – founded in January 2005 but bought by AOL on March 13, 2008 (40,000,000)
10.0 Netlog – formerly Facebox, a Belgian site usually used by Germans (28,000,000)
11.0 Xanga - – based in New York City, largely used by teenagers (27,000,000)
12.0 Adult FriendFinder - strictly for adults only (22,300,000)
13.0 Blackplanet - targeted especially for the African American community (20,000,000)
14.0 Friends Reunited - UK based, launched in 2000 and reunites people who have in common a school, university, workplace, and others. (19,000,000)
15.0 Badoo – purely user content site, no advertising, since 2006 (13,000,000)
Socializing is fun. It adds colors to our life.
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Problogger left Entrecard but giving away 36,723 credits
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Yesterday, Darren Rowse the humble but one of the most influential blogger of all time announced that he left Entrecard. However, being also known as a generous internet business icon he is giving away all his present credits amounting to 36,723!
According to his recent post at Problogger, he is dividing them into three prizes of 12,241 credits for three winners who will post a comment on his post. The comment must include the URL of your favorite quality but undiscovered blog. You can make your descriptive comment up to 250 words, but you cannot choose his blog as well as yours.
As I mentioned in my last post, I am frequently posting comments on his posts because I find them very interesting and informative and I am proud to say that I am one of his thousands of subscribers. How I wish I could get a copy of his newly launched book that contains tons of tips on how to get a six-figure income through blogging.
With this, I joined his giveaway by sharing one of my admired blogs – Delve into the Mind of a Budding Blogger, a simple but adorable blog by Meghna who is a 12 year old Indian girl. This is because I know that this young student will grow into a respected writer and poet someday.
So if you are an Entrecard user, I hope you will not blow this once in a lifetime easy chance to gain credits and learn from the man who made a successful career out of blogging.
But you have to hurry because you have only around two (2) more days to go.
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How did you promote your Blog when Entrecard was down?
Entrecard has just been up since yesterday after 2 days of temporary stoppage due to its database server being taken offline by an explosion on ThePlanet’s H1 datacenter, as explained by Phirate’s latest post at Entrecard blog. Whatever it was, all of us has been affected especially the very serious droppers. We all know that Entrecard is not the only way to promote our blogs, and here is what I did.
Posted comments on blogs
I posted comments on blogs especially the ones I admired. For me one blog that is worth to post comments is Problogger by Darren Rowse. I am one of his thousands of subscribers and I join his numerous commenters even when Entrecard is at its normal operation. This is because his posts are very interesting and posting comments is like posting on forums. I gained some regular readers by consistently doing this. However, I make sure that my comments are valuable and worthy enough.
Visit Social Bookmaring sites
Being a constant member of BlogCatalog and Mybloglog, I took time to add my contacts and communities. Although I frequently return the favor when someone adds me, I had enough time now to choose blogs to be added by checking if they have the same point of interest as mine. I also submitted some of my posts at Blogsvine. It is a social site where you can also vote for others. If you will check their homepage now, you will see my Entrecard widget on the leftmost side. That is free promotion, my friends.
Forum posting
I have been a member of Sitepoint since last year, but I did not find time to post regularly. But this time, I also started some threads where I ask some questions related to blogging and SEO. Forum posting is a very effective way of promoting blogs. This is because there are some forums where you can show links to your blogs in your signature. However, extra caution should be observed. Read the rules and regulations to avoid from being banned. For Filipino bloggers, I strongly recommend Pinoy Exchange.
Improved blog looks
If you will visit my other blog, you will notice that it has a new look. I changed its template with more professional attire. I also arranged the sidebars through the help of my favorite Blogger Buster. It is a blog created by Amanda Fazani to help blogger user to improve blog designs. I also included a traffic tracker where I can see where my visitors are coming from. Now, I can analyze my traffic resources and choose the ones I benefit the most. Thanks to my friend-mentor Raden for sharing this technique to me.
Now that you know what I did, I hope you also had other alternative ways of promoting your blog.
Finally, I am happy to know that Entrecard is live now and still kicking.
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