Blogging Good Behaviours

Blogging good behaviours, what a title that is! Its not a title actually, its a rule, an unwritten rule to be a successful blogger. We have our ethic codes, not only in the real world, but also in the virtual world.
Just like in our real world, cause and effect law works in the blogger world. You get wet, because you play with water. And you'll get burn, when you play with fire.
Behave good in the real world, you'll get many friends of yours. Behave good in the blogger world, you'll get good traffic of your blog, strong link and networking that will support and improve your blog to a higher level.
What are those good behaviours you need to get used to ?

1. Join the forums

• get socialize inside it. Share your knowledges and experiences to help others
• never used harsh words, be polite
• big headed is a big no, be a down to earth blogger

2. Be a good host for your blog

• Give immediate response to your blog visitors
• Say thanks for every good comments
• No need to be angry for the critics you got
• Provide your blog with something that your visitors can freely get from you, remember, everybody likes freebies

3. Visit your neighbours

• Do a blog walking and say hi to the neighbours
  
• give a positive comments about their blogs. Remember, what you give, you'll get it back.

Search Engine

A web searh engine is designed to search for information in a world wide web, you must have been know this. Anyway, this post will not dig it deeper about what search engine is, but how to make your blog a search engine friendly blog.

There're a lot of search engines, but the top three of them are Google, Yahoo and MSN. If your blog well indexed on them, it means you have a popular blog. Unfortunately, its not an easy thing to make your blog gets a high rank on them, especially for a new blogs. What does the search engine see to determine the rank of the blog or site ?

Page content
Make a unique page content. The more unique your content, the faster Google indexing your page. To make your page unique, create your own article for post, do not copy paste. Your page won't indexed fast, or maybe not at all if you copy and paste your post from other sites.

The age of the blog
The older the better. Not always, but Google usualy places the new blogs under the old ones.

Keyword
This is very important. I've talked about this on my preavious posts. Your keyword will listed your blog in the proper category. Use keyword in your page title, post title and several times in your article. But becareful, to many keywords then Google will see it as a spam. The ideal number is 6-7 times/100 words, which means the keyword density is 6-7%.

Content quantity or volume
Another thing that search engines see is the volume of your site. More pages are better. Thats why you need to regularly and continualy update your blog. The more pages on your blog, the more contents you give to the search engine, the more traffic it brings to you, the more clicks on your ads, the more you get the money.

Pagerank
Pagerank is commonly associated with backlinks. Actually, a thousand backlinks to your site will not make high pagerank, if the backlinks is not relevan to your site. Moreover, Google will decrease your rank if you had to many unrelevan backlinks. So, be careful when you try to increase your link through link exchange or link trade programs.
You will get high pagerank if you exchange link with a relevan and other high pagerank sites. But the problem is, the high pagerank sites only do link exchange with other high class sites. They will not do the link exchange if there's no advantage for them.

So in my closing paragraph, I give you an easy way to create your own link. First, create an article then post it in your blog. Then submit that similar article to GoArticles.com or other ezine sites, with a slight of modification of course. Do not change the keywords, replace other words besides your keyword with different word with similar meaning, for example associated with related. So now you have two article with same keyword and title but with different words used, one for your blog post and another one for submission to the ezine site. Then create hyperlink from one of the keyword of your article that you submitted and link it into your blog. Now you have created one backlink for your site. Do the same everytime you post articles.
Hoping your blog get higher pagerank and more search engine friendly after you read this post.


Additional information : How to make a hyperlink

1. Copy this script : <*a href="http://elearnerz.blogspot.com/">search engine <*/a>
2. Paste it on your article for submission
3. Delete the * marks
4. Replace http://elearnerz.blogspot.com/ with your URL
5. Replace search engine with your keyword

Preview first before you submit your article

Fatal Mistakes In Blogging

In order to make a good blog, you need to know the fatal mistakes in blogging. What were in your mind when you decided to start blogging and become a blogger ? A lot of visitors, good traffic, high page rank. Thats our hope. Unfortunately, simple mistakes in the beginning of your blog creation could be the fatal errors that destroy your hope.

First mistake, your blog name. Let me put this way, you create a blog of making money online. But you name your blog "myfirstblog", for example. The problem with this is that there is no way the search engines can categorize your site for your niche/topic. Search engine used your blog title to decide what your blog is about. Well maybe with that name you still can get relevan traffic to your blog, eventually google will find out what you are about. But it won't get you at the top of the search result if your blog title doesn't macth with your niche. Another disadvantage, you'll harder to get relevan backlink to your site. As we all know, baclink is one of the important tool to increase your traffic. This rule works the same for your blog description, header title and post title. Mention your primary keyword on them. Please check mine on this blog. Money, blog, bogging, blogger, I mention them once or twice.

Next thing is about adsense. Google ads on your blog depends on your texts near the ads. Your page title and your post title are what Google uses to place relevan adsense ads on your site. The more you optimize your page, post title and contents , the more google optimizes their ads for you. If your site is about Orchid, avoid to use "Roses are not as beautiful as Orchids" as your post title. You will get ads about roses instead of Orchids if you do so. It will be better if your title is "The Media Selection Guide for Your Orchid". One more think about post title and content. Try to be more generalin your title, and get more specific in your content. By doing this you will draw a targeted audience and moreover you will get better targeted ads... ads that pay more and are more likely to be clicked on. Most marketers don't realize that Google rewards good quality sites with the best ads and sends low paying ads to poor content sites. The more optimized your posts are the more optimized your ads will be.

7 Steps to Increased Blog Traffic

One important topic for blog owners is how to increase traffic, which is easier than it seems, once you know how. In this article, we cover 7 specific methods of increasing traffic to your blog.

Tip #1: Sign up for pinging services
It seems pretty obvious, but many bloggers, even those who are more experienced, don’t sign up for pinging services. If you’re new to blogging, pinging means that when your blog is updated, a “ping” is sent out by the service to let pinging sites know that your blog has been updated. People who are visiting sites with pinging services will then see your blog flash across the side of the screen as “newly updated.” Pinging services include Yahoo’s blogs, weblogs.com, Google Blog search and ZingFast.

Tip #2: Sign up for Technorati
If you go to technorati.com, you’ll see an option on the left side of the screen to “Claim Your Blog.” Doing so allows you to get updated link counts, add your photo or branding to Technorati and see your Technorati link. Having your blog claimed on Technorati helps to increase traffic because the millions of people who go to that site will have a chance to see your blog listed there.

Tip #3: Sign up for FeedBurner, an RSS service
FeedBurner basically helps you to promote your blog’s content, and to build and measure your audience.

Tip #4: Bookmark your blogs at places like del.icio.us
You can set up an account and profile at del.icio.us. From there, you can add links to your blog, as well as excerpts. When a user visits your profile on del.icio.us, they will see a link to your blog and excerpts. There are other social bookmarking sites that you can use in much the same way. All of these social bookmarking sites can help you increase traffic.

Tip #5: Post comments at other blogs
Here, you should visit similar blogs to your own, post legitimate comments and then sign your name(along with a link to your blog). This way, people know you aren’t there just to promote your site—you’re there to post a good piece of feedback and also say where you’re from.

Tip #6: Ask owners of other blogs to post a link to yours
Find other blogs that are similar to yours. If they seem to be decently popular (if they have a good amount of comments for each post), contact the owner of the blog and ask if they will add a link to your blog. Offering to link back to their blog is a way to sweeten the offer. Reciprocal linking helps to increase traffic.

Tip #7: Use keywords in your blog
Like regular Web pages, having a good keyword density on a blog is a terrific way of getting search engine spiders to notice your page. (FYI: Search engine spiders are programs from search engines that browse sites and report back their findings to the search engine database, which then lists that site. The more keywords on your site, the more likely it is for a search engine spider to pay a visit)

If your average blog posting is around 200 words, use 2-6 keywords per blog post. This creates a keyword density of between 1 and 3 percent, a respectable number. Remember that you don’t want to use too many keywords, as that will make your blog look bad. Also be sure that the keywords used are relevant to your blog. Before even making a blog posting, decide what the post will be about and then select a keyword or two to use in your post. This will help to increase your traffic.

(Author :Terry Detty-http://itmanagement.earthweb.com)

Arrange Your Site

You have had your own site, you have posted for your site, arrange your site, make it interesting for visitors to keep coming to you. Thats why the template chosing does matter. Chose the template that is match with your site main idea. Its not suitable to chose flowery type of template when your main idea of your posting is about body building. One more thing to remember, not all templates are friendly to advertising, specially blog templates. To monetize your site, profesional look and advertising friendly templates is a must. Many sites offer their free templates to download. Try these sites :

Free blog templates :
http://templates.web.id
http://themes.blogflux.com
http://blogger-themes.blogspot.com
http://www.free-themes.org

Free web templates :
http://www.freewebtemplates.com
http://www.freewebsitetemplates.com
http://myfreetemplatehome.com

Step 1 - Starting Point - Create Your Own Blog/Web Site

What do we need to start an online bussiness ? Yes of course, a computer, which fully connected to the network. If you're here now, then you've definitely had it. Next, we need to have our own site. Not all money making program urge us to have a site, paid to click and paid to socialize can be done without us having a site. But it will be very much better if we have our own site. Currently there're a lot of ways to create and own a site, and a free way is available too.
To create your own website for free, simply registered to a free domain/web hosting. You may try to sign up to free-webhost.com or 000webhost.com for creating your free website. Want a simpler one ? No problem, create a blog. A blog is more simple and easier to manage for the beginners. Two most popular blog hosting are wordpress and blogger. Just a suggestion : it is better to sign up to blogger than to wordpress, if you plan to join google adsense program. Try to manage your blog as good as possible. Post whatever you feel like to post, and the most important is to post regularly. A neat blog or site which regularly updated by the owner, are some of the important keys to increase the number of visitors to your site and increase your page rank. The other keys to increase your site visitors will be explained on the next post. Now, go create your blog and start posting !

Introduction

Making money online. I believe that those words are the most frequent words entered to search engine. Many people try to make money this way. Internet world was proven to be one of the easiest money maker, for those who know the technics and rules, of course. Well I'm not one of them, not yet. My knowledge is still far from enough to be like them. But at least I keep learning. If they can, then there's no reason we won't. Ok, for the beginners (including me), lets start our lessons. First We have to know where those people get e-money from. Below are the lists :

1. Paid to advertise. You'll get paid for let them put advertising on your site. The example for this is Google Adsense , Clicksor, Bidvertiser
2. Paid to click (PTC). You'll get paid for clicking the certain ads or links. ClixSense is the sample of PTC. For more information regarding PTC program, click here
3. Paid to review. You'd known it from the name. Make a review for links or products, you'll get your payment. Interested ? Try these : PayPerPost, ReviewMe, Blogsvertise
4. Paid to affiliate. Also known as associates program. You'll get commisions if you sell your affiliate's products from your site. The most popular for this affiliate program is Amazon associates
5. Paid To socialize. Post your articles, videos, photos, musics or anything else. Your payment depend on how many times your posting downloaded by others. Sign in to MetaCafe or Associated content if you interested

Actually there're still a lot of ways for making e-money. We'll continue our lessons in the next post.