Start To Make your To-Do List Now

image Do you know that to-do list is a powerful stuff for a blogger? To-Do List will help you focus with your daily blogging activity. Most blogger underrated to-do list since they have already known what things to do when it comes to blogging activity. When they (blogger) start to sit down in front of laptop or computer they actually know what they have to do, is it making a post for their blog, link building campaign, or else.

But in the middle of their tasks, sometimes they get bored with what they did, and so they turn to another activity. Maybee sometimes you feel the same way and surely it's not good if it happens too often. Thus you need to make your to-do list. Make to-do list is easier than to practice it, but I'm sure it will be getting easier to practice if you obey your to-do list from now. If you haven't had any idea about what is to-do list, i give you my simple to-do list which always keeps me on my right track in blogging :)

To - Do

Priority

Make a post for my blog 100% (Everyday)
Check comment, layout, and other plug in on my blog. 100%
Explore other blog in my niche 100%
Link Building 70% (once per 2 day)
Participating on Forums 60%

Keep in mind that the example i give you above is my daily to-do list, it means that i do all those tasks everyday (sometimes i don't have enough time because of my school time and works). You can create your to-do list with different style of different activity to do. But i suggest you not to remove the first important task which is Make a Post for your blog. It is very important because blog always needs updated content everyday.

In the end, I would restate that make a to-do list is very important if you want to focus with your blogging activity. Keep consistent if you want to succeed.

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2 Simple Things to do to increase your Blog Comments

image Last night, when i sat down and checked my email, i noticed that someone sent me an email asked me how can i increase my blog comments significantly. He's one of my loyal readers so he knows exactly what happen on my blog since the start of this blog when i get 0 comments each post, until i get about 5-10 comments each post. These 2 simple things which i will explain here don't include something's like: "Make a good post" or "Held a comment contest". I believe that good posts do attract people to comment, so do the comment contests. But i didn't do one of them or even both of them. What i did was...

:: Active on commenting other blog similar to my topic

If you are a blogger, besides making a post to your blog, another must-to-do task for you is exploring other blog which are similar to your topic. Once you found those blog, be active to comment on those blog. What i mean is buzzing the owners of those blog about your existence in this world of blogging by active commenting on those blog. Keep leaving comment(s) everyday on his/her posts. Usually, the blog owner will notice you as the one who keep reading his/her blog, and probably they will come to your blog, and leave comment(s) on your blog post.

If they don't leave comment(s) on your blog, that's fine. It could be their readers who will leave comment on your blog. But still you will see an improvement on the number of your blog comments. I add one thing, to make sure that your task you have done give good input to your blog, i recommend you to only leave comment(s) on dofollow blog (read how to find dofollow blog).

:: Install Dofollow Top Commentators Widget

This is very important! If your blog hasn't had a good number of readerships, to attract more people leaving comment on your blog is by installing dofollow Top Commentators Widget. The reason why Dofollow Top Commentators can attract more people to leave comment(s) on your blog is all about 'Link Juice'. Link Juice mean a good amount of quality backlink point to their blog, so they can improve their Page Rank. Go get dofollow top commentators widget, and install it on your blog.

Those two steps above is making me have a good number of comments each post. How about your opinion? Do you hav another way to increase blog comments?

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Huzzer Comment Contest - $600 Prizes

Do you love commenting to other blog? Or do you love join a contest? If you do, then this is the right contest for you! Huzzer Comment Contest. A kind-hearted blogger Helmi Asyraf Abdullah (founder of Huzzer.com) held this contest on 22 Oct and will be end on 19 November. Check out the rules and the list of prizes you can win.

:: Rules

The rules is pretty simple. You just need to leave comments on www.huzzer.com. Your comment must be in good quality and genuine. There are no limit of how long your comment should be. Just leave comments as many as you can on huzzer.com and The top 3 commentators will get the prizes.

:: Prizes

There are many prizes for the winners, such as StudioPress premium WordPress theme, 1 year free freedom Hosting Plan, a copy of Ultimate traffic eBook, and more (see the complete list). If you total those prizes, you will see that all those stuffs cost nearly $600. Great huh?

:: Bonus Prizes

The great thing is, even if you don't win the contest you still have a chance to win bonus prizes. To get the bonus prizes, you have to active on promoting this contest by Retweeting, Reviewing, or answering comments on the Huzzer blog. The most active person will get a special gift from Helmi Asyraf Abdullah.

Plus, each participant will also get mystery gifts from Obox Design and WP Web Host, if you also sign up for the contest mailing list (subscribe now)

:: Why I make a post about this

This is an important thing for you. I make this review post about the Huzzer Comment Contest not only for the sake of winning the contest. But i want to show you that comment to other blog is very easy and fun. If you don't win the contest it's okay, the most important thing is that you have built a good relationship with the blog owner, which is good for the growth and development of your blog readership. So, if you are still lazy to comment on other blog, sit down and start action now. Comment on other blog will not harm  your blog, believe me :)

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Last PR Update : From N/A to 3

Did you notice that yesterday Google updated Page Rank? Well, after a long wait, finally the day came! PR Update is something that many webmasters waiting for. Honestly, i don't hope too much with this time PR update, since i'm slightly lazy to do link building of my site. But what a surprise that my PR jump from Not Available (N/A) to 3? What a good move huh? I never expect this before. This could be a good thing to my whole blogging things. As you can see, this blog's top commentators will also get more link juice. Okay, enough about me, how's about your PR update? Did you see some improvement on your PR? I would like to hear your experience about this :)

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Writing for people not for Google

writing tips for blogger "What should I do if I want my blog post to rank high on Google?" If you throw this question to some people, then you perhaps get answers like this: "Spread your keywords and keyphrases all over your posts, try to bold them up, and increase their density." In theory this is a good idea to improve your ranking on search engine (read top5 factors affecting your ranking on search engine) but in the reality, people may hate and feel bored when reading your article. It just makes no sense, and finally, you lose your visitors.

Writing for Google instead of people is a common mistake for newbie bloggers. I often read that kind of post. They usually underlined certain key phrases, and bold them up too, which makes me feel bored to read through his post. Do they rank high on Google? Not exactly! they just hit the first page on google for few days and disappear for the next days (commonly called google honeymoon). Don't think that they dissapear only because google algorithm has to do so, but i believe that google follows people's satisfaction when reading a post. If the post offer good quality, for sure the readers will stay for quite long time, or maybe read the other posts, otherwise the readers just hop out from it.

In this post i don't suggest you to stay away from SEO techniques such as spread keywords and key phrases through the post, but what i want to suggest you is that you have to write for people too not only for google. Think about the keywords density later when you have finished your writing. Try as best as possible so both google and readers can rank you high. Here are some tips for you:

  1. Blend naturally your keywords within your post. For example: avoid underlining your keywords. Don't ever think to bold certain words if those words don't really need any emphasis.
  2. Basically, keywords and key phrases are necessary so google can know what your post is telling about. But try to reduce your keywords and key phares density below 8% per post. (How to count keywords density manually)
  3. Optimize your meta description and meta keywords. Yes, meta tags is a great way to tell search engine what your page/post mainly telling about. While your physical post is all about information you want to share with your readers not for Search Engine. In this case, Wordpress users can easily add different meta description and keywords to different posts, but for Blogspot users, you have to do some tweaking to do this (read how to add different meta tags in different blogger posts).

So, right now, try as best as you can to write for human, not for google.

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