Showing posts with label blogging tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging tips. Show all posts

Choose the Right Web Hosting

Domain names and web hosting are 2 fundamental technical part of a website. Domain names reflect the identity of the website just like name reflect the identity of a person; while web hosting control the whole process of data transferring and band with of the blog or website activity. But in the reality, choosing the right web hosting is way more difficult than choosing the right domain names. Besides buy an annual domain names is way cheaper than buy web hosting service, picking the right domain name is rather easy. We need to decide which extension of domain we want to use. Is it .com .net .org. or other region top level domain such as .us .uk and many more?

After it, we just have to decide what name appropriate for our website. Once we are ready, we just have to register it to one domain registration service website. But the same thing doesn’t go with choosing the right web hosting. We need to compare the price because they price is very vary from one service to another. We have to look into the quality they offer. For this area, you can use alreadyhosting.com as your media to know deeper about some web hosting services. Visit their site and you will instantly find what is the right web hosting for your website. Good Luck!

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Go Daddy Web Hosting

Two pivotal points we need when we want to build a website. The first thing is the domain name, and the second thing is the website hosting. Although there are other technical things we also need to consider like the website layout and also the content of the website, domain name and website hosting are the first two things we need to prepare before building a website.

When choosing a domain name, there are some points we need to think and research. First thing is about our domain extension. What domain extension does a website need? It depends on many factors such as the type of your website. If your website is about an organization you should choose .org website extension rather than .info or other domain extension. Choosing the right website hosting is also tricky. Since there are many types of website hosting such as dedicated server, virtual private hosting, and also shared hosting, we need to know deeper what the meaning for them are. After you can decide what type of hosting you want to use, you have to decide the website hosting service provider. Hosting GODaddy is the best choice. They are affordable yet high quality website hosting. You can read the full review about Go Daddy Hosting at webhostingchoice.com.

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Get a free blog and a free domain

According to Google trends, in the last 1 year, blogging activity has been increasing nearly 250%. Wow, that is a huge number isn’t it? Actually, at the beginning blogging activity was only popular in US and UK area, and not in other Europe, Asia, or even Africa countries. But what is behind the scene that makes blogging activity become more and more popular? Well, I believe that the most affecting factor is the ability to make money from blogging. Yes, I’m sure that you are very familiar with this terms “make money blogging”, or maybe this one “make money online with blog”. Those are the concrete example of how blog can give you decent income. However, not everyone doing the blogging activity to earn money online, sometimes they do love their job (blogging), love to share what is on her or his mind at the moment. But the bottom-line is blogging has become hobby and a business field at the same time

And the first thing we have to consider when make a blog is to choose the blogging service we would like to use. There is Wordpress blog service that is considered as the best blogging service. But the main problem is, we usually don’t want to spend any dime to buy domain and pay the hosting. Domain nearly costs 15 dollars, and hosting nearly costs 5 dollars per month, and it is very annoying for us. And recently I have good news for you. I just found this great websites: blogdive.com. You can Get A Free Blog plus free domain. Very nice huh? Yes, I was surprised too! Blogdive.com really gives the best service, they offer free blog with free domain for you. I encourage you to visit their site right now, forget about spend some bux just for register a domain. Blogdive is your answer.

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Alexa Rank : Underrated or Overrated?

alexa rank Many blogger have known Alexa Rankings. Alexa Ranking is well-known among people because it is considered as a website which offers pretty accurate data about traffic of a website. If you are ads publishers, you must know that most advertisement networks use Alexa Ranks as a scoring system for your websites/blog, it means if your website has high alexa rank, perhaps your website gets high stars from the admin. But, in the other side, many people underrated alexa rank, they said that alexa rank system has many weakness, and very easy to cheat on it.

Why you should pay attention to your alexa rank?

  1. Alexa Ranking system is too outstanding in internet world. Both newbie and professional internet marketer know this term: Alexa Rank. Absolutely, we can't fight against this stream, just follow the trends because it won't harms you neither your websites.
  2. Most advertisement networks use Alexa Rank as one of their judgment to your blog. It's pretty hard for your blog to be approved if your alexa ranks above 500K.
  3. High Alexa ranking gives a good branding to your site. If you have high alexa ranking (let's say above 20K), people will naturally think that your site is very popular, good, and also profitable. This gives such a good domino effect for your websites (more direct advertisers for your sites, more visitors).

I hope you agree with the good effect you will get, if you have a site with high alexa ranking. So, many people chase for that thing: High Alexa Ranking. And this produce a black-technique to increase alexa ranking (i won't tell you the black-hat secrets to increase alexa, you should search it by yourself). And this becomes the main weak point of Alexa Ranking system. Their system is easy-to-cheat, people can easily boost their ranks up to 10K, make it not reliable anymore.

We come to the conclusion now. My conclusion is: don't give too much attention to your alexa ranks, don't be afraid if your alexa ranks is too low, I believe that if you have a good content inside your blog, the traffic will come to you and at the same time your alexa ranking starts to climb up.

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Make your Blogger Template more SEO friendly (Part I)

Starting from today on All Blogging Tips, I will share some tips on how to make our blogger templates more SEO friendly. As you know, unlike Wordpress, basically, Blogger Template/layout is not seo friendly enough. We have to do some tweaks so we can rank well in search engine using blogger template or using blogspot platform. Because there are more than one tweak we need to do, i decided to make series of post (Part I, Part II, and so on). In this first part I will cover the important aspect of Page Title.

What is a Page Title

Page Title is Page Title. Frankly, I can't describe it in longer words. The best way to describe it is by showing you the snapshot of Page Title itself.

Page Title bloggerpage title blogger

I hope images above give you clearer information about what is a Page Title.

Make Page Title More SEO friendly

Let's cut to the chase. Basically, standard page title for a single blogger post is The blog title : Blog post title. As you can see, this page title is too long, and it's not search engine friendly, thus we have to change the page title for a single blogger post become like this Blog Post Title | The Blog Title.

For you don't know how to access HTML code in your blog template, to access HTML code of your template is very easy: First, log in to your blogger account, on your dashboard click Layout, and click 'Edit HTML' tabs menu, and don't forget to give a check sign to the 'Expand Widget Templates'. Now you can modify your HTML code.

After you can access your HTML code, find this code line:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

All you need to do is just replace the code above with this code:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

Finally, don't forget to Save your Template. Well done, if you have done this tutorial you just make your blog more SEO friendly. Keep in mind that you have to keep reading my next part of Make your Blogger Template more SEO friendly. Good Luck!

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Pingler - Ping your blog immediately

Pinging is very important on blogging. After you updated your blog with new content, you should ping your blog with any ping service so search engine is aware about any update in your blog. There are so many ping services out there with different quality and capability. If you looking for the good one, maybe you should try Pingler

Before i get more deeper into Pingler, i will give a basic idea about Ping. What is ping? According to wikipedia, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. So to ping your blog is a must, and you should not forget this step. Keep in mind that each ping service has different quality. They quality based on the speed, and the number of ping services they provide. I used to use pingomatic as my blog ping service, but recently i turn to Pingler because of the incredible speed, and offer so many ping services. If you are interested, you can visit Pingler and give it a try.

But keep in mind that there are certain things you need to be aware with ping your blog:

  1. Only ping your blog if you have added new content on your blog,
  2. Don't try to ping your blog more than 1 time in a day (24 hours)

You won't need to do two things above, unless you want your blog to be considered as a spam blog. Thus, keep updating your blog everyday, so you can ping as often as possible (once per day), and it will give good impact for your ranking on search engine as well. Happy blogging!

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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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Picture credited to : http://www.sxc.hu/profile/Mattox

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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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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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Where to find Free images for your blog

free,images,for,blog One way to make our blogs look interesting is by adding some images to our blog posts. Besides it will make our blogs layout look interesting and impressive, adding pictures will also make our readers feel comfort when reading our post, laugh when they see funny pictures, or attracted to read more when they see weird pictures. And as a blogger, we also have to know where is the rightest place to search appropriate images for our blog posts. And i know a fact that so many bloggers use google image search for the sake of searching images for their blogs. I also know that google image search is the largest images gallery on web, but i would like to tell you that google image search is the worst place to find images for your blog.

Images on Google image search is not necessarily legal!

That's the answer of the question : "why google image search is the worst place to find image for your blog?" You should stay away from google image search if you want to use it for the sake of finding images for your blog. So, where's the rightest place for finding free images for our blogs?

Find Free images

  1. Stock.xchng
    Stock.xchng is the best place to find images for your blog. It is better if you read the FAQ before try to find images and use it on your blog, because some of the images need author notification to use. After all, stock.xchng has large collection of images.
  2. EveryStockphoto.com
    Another great site to find free images to your blog. Once again some of the images need author notification to use, while some don't.

I think those two websites is the great place to find images for your blog. Right now you should stay away from google images and turn to those 2 websites. :p

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Adding Alternate text to your Blog images

add alternate text First off, allow me to send my gratitude to one of my fellow blogger: soswitcher, for his kindness to teach me about how to add alternate text to blog images. Actually i have known for a long time that adding alternate text to blog is very heplful to improve our ranking on search engine especially when people are searching certain image. But i doubted that it is possible to add alternate text to blog images, so i gave up on it (i was a fool at that time). Now, i have no doubt that it is possible to add alternate text to blog images, moreover it is easy to practice, and you can do it in less than 5 seconds!

adding alternate text to blog images

Basically, the "alt" attribute allows you to specify alternative text for the image if it cannot be displayed for some reaason.I know that adding alternate text to your blog images is very basic. But i'm surprised when i see a lot of bloggers forget or maybe don't know how to add alternate text to images. And i will show you how to see alternate text of an image:

  1. First, right click on a picture you want to see.
  2. Then click on Properties
  3. You will see all description contained on that image including the alternate text.
    add alternate text

As you can see, the alternate text of the example is "adsense cpm pay less". Otherwise, if a picture doesn't have any alternate text, the alternate text properties will show "blank" instead of the proper alternate text.

This is very basic but very vital for your ranking on search engine. If you have read google SEO starter guide, you could see that alternate text is the best way  to tell the search engine what is your page telling about besides keywords and meta tags description.

how to add alternate text

Let's see how easy is adding alt-text to your blog image. I suggest you to use 'Windows Live Writer' so you can follow below procedure easily.

  1. Click on a image you want to add alternate text.
  2. On 'Image Properties' panes (you can see it on the right side of your editor), click on 'Advanced' Tabs.
  3. Look at the bottom section: "alternate text:" is where you have to add your alternative text. Fill in the text box with appropriate alternate text that specify what your image is.
    add alternate text

That's all! now you have alternate text on your image.

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Setting Target to your Blog is necessary

What is your purpose of blogging? Making money? Sharing your personal thought about something that happening in this world? Or become a Mr Nice Guy who spend his time only to share information to others? Whatever your purpose of blogging is, it is very necessary to set up a target to your blog. Of course what the target is depending on what your purpose on blogging. But I'm sure the first and main target that you should make is getting certain amount of Traffic.

why traffic must become the main target

I can answer this question with one simple sentence: "No Traffic No Money". Well, even if you don't monetize your blog, Traffic is still important. Without Traffic your blog seems dead, few people read your post, and you can not dig out the potency of your blog. The worst thing of getting few traffic to your blog is sooner or later you become bored with your blogging stuff. Seems you just talk to yourself, with no one hear you, and it will drives you crazy! (no i'm just overact)

::. Getting Traffic is easy, but make' em back is difficult

There are lot of ways to produce traffic (i mean REAL traffic) to your blog. For rookie blogger, i suggest to optimize the power of referral system to gain traffic to your blog, it could be Entrecard Drop Exchange, Advertise your blog to other blog which is more popular, or use LinkReferral.com to gain traffic + review from some expert bloggers. Those are the easiest way to gain traffic for your blog. Most of them have something in common: "If you want to recieve you have to give first". Give them traffic first: it can be done in many ways, besides entrecard or linkreferral system, you can be active on popular blogs, keep reading their posts every day and post relevant comment on those. And with little luck you will get noticed by the blog owners and that's a good news for your blog.

::. SEO your blog, should it done?

This is the most tricky part : SEO. It's like a two-edged-swords . On the one side it can really boost your traffic, but on the other side it is harmful if you make a bad move on it (usually bad technique they read from awful SEO blog, or excessive link building). So how we deal with SEO? Well, if you are new with SEO stuff, you should try to pratice the fundamental things, such as adding meta tags to your blog, choosing the right domain name to your blog, and learn the concept of keywords.

::. Now, start to set up realistic target

Now it comes to the phase of set up realistic target. How many Unique visitors you can achieve in the next month? is it 100,200,500 or 1000 per day? It depends on how long have you been on blogging. Few months old blog seems hard to achieve 1000 Unique Visitors per day, set up more realistic target like 100 readers per day, or even 50 readers per day. Keep in mind that our target builds up our dream, if you dream to have a blog with 5000 Visitors per day, start your target little by little with 100,200,500 and so on. With more realistic target, it is easier for you to catch your dream in a proper time.

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How to Decrease your blog's Bounce Rate

reduce,decrease,bounce rate Maybe some of you don't know what is Bounce Rate. In short, bounce rate is Total number of visitor who only viewing one page divided by total number of whole visitors. The higher bounce rate  of your blog it can be interpreted that your blog doesn't have something that attract your visitors to stay long on your blog to read your other post. They only visit to read one of your page, and then Go. This is bad, really bad if you have high percentage of bounce rate. Generally, bounce rate above 35% is normal, but above 60% is some kind of problem. Don't let your visitor come to only read one page, make them explore your blog deeper!

Reduce your blog's bounce rate

The first thing you have to do is to set up your analytics account to see your exact bounce rate. Then if you get more than 60% of bounce rate percentage, you should reduce or decrease your blog's bounce rate. And maybe you wonder why we should reduce or decrease our blog's bounce rate? Some SEO experts think that blogs which have high bounce rate is outranked by those websites with lower bounce rate. The logic is simple, search engine like Google want to provide the user with reliable content, and informative article. And blog which have these kind of content is just blog which has low bounce rate: people will not only visit to read one post, but explore the other page because they satisfied with what that blog provide. Make sense huh? In other words, bounce rate can affect your SERP too! Watch out guys! so you can fix this by following my instruction:

  1. Make your layout as clean as possible and also easy navigation.
    This is very fundamental in the blogging world. Clean template is important, people will leave blog which has untidy template (ads everywhere, widgets all over the space). And also, make your blog easy to navigate, provide search function, previous/older post link.
  2. Interlinking within post and install related article plug-in
    Interlinking within post is great too!  once they clicked it, it counted as double page views and it will decrease your bounce rate. The other thing you have consider is related article/post plug-in, for you WP users, you can easily search reliable related post plug-in out there. But for blogspot users, you have to smart on select which plug in is the most suitable, because not all working fine (i have experienced this).
  3. Quality Content
    Once again Content is a king! provide your visitor with your original idea, not something crappy from other blog/websites. Make them satisfied with what they are looking for.

Those are 3 basic steps to decrease your blog's bounce rate. Bounce rate is a very important aspect of web-traffic analysis, that's why google consider it as a gauge to measure your blog's relevant. Make your visitors explore what you really have!

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Link Building with Dofollow Social Bookmarking

dofollow social bookmarking Again and again i have to say that link building campaign is an important thing that we have to do to improve our search engine ranking. Therefore, we have to play smart on building link to our blog. Smart in here means balance and natural. You might work very hard on building your link everyday, but if you don't play smart you won't rank well on search engine. This topic will tell you how to build link with dofollow social bookmarking. As you know social bookmarking let people submit article/post/upcoming news so other people can stay up-to-date with those things. And search engines loves updated content like social bookmarking have. It means that we can use social bookmarking to build quality link.

Dofollow social bookmarking

Who doesn't know digg, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, or reddit? They are social bookmarking sites. Social bookmarking sites is a big improvement of internet technology. Those sites let people to share upcoming news, post, article, or even public opinion. Since we are blogger, we often use it to submit our recent blog post. Besides we can promote our blog, we can gather backlink from it. But most SEOer don't know that most of popular social bookmarking give nofollow relation to every link submitted by their members. Of course that's a bad news, we don't get any link juice huh? This is what i call smart: observe before acting. These are some of dofollow social boomarking:

Social Bookmarking site PR
Slashdot 9
Digg 8
Furl 7
backflip.com 7
hugg 7
mixx 7
reddit 7
multiply 7
del.irio.us 6
indianpad.com 6

So if you want to balance your link building campaign, take your time to submit on dofollow social bookmarking, if you always build link by blog commenting, google will know what you are up to, if you always build link by link exchanging, google also know what you are up to, but if you randomize them all, success is on your hand.

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Dofollow Article Directories

dofollow article directories Besides blog commenting and forum posting, submit article to article directories is another great way to get quality backlink. Most of SEO expert are sure that link from article directory is more valuable than link from blog commenting or else. But we have to wait a quite long time to our article get listed in article directory (my last attempt of submitting article, i have to wait nearly 1 month to get listed). Well, that's a long period for a link building campaign, one month, we only get a few links from them. The problem gets harder when not all article directories is dofollow, some of them is nofollow. The big question is "do you want to waste your time to get those crappy links from nofollow directory?" Big NO! So pay attention to this below list : Dofollow Article Directories.

dofollow article directories

  1. Ezine Articles
    Yes.. this is the most famous article directory on web. And the good news, it is dofollow! But there are also the bad news, since ezine articles is the largest article directories on net, it require pretty long time to our article to get listed in there. Unless you upgrade your member and you have big authority from them.
  2. Isnare.com
    Created in 2004 and has alexa ranking: 8021, the second biggest article directory on web. They have strict rule for their member. For further info you can read their Terms of Service or Submission Guidelines
  3. Amazines.com
    Created in 2001, and now its alexa ranking is 5871. Submission Guidelines is simple and links is allowed in the body of article
  4. Goarticles.com
    Another outstanding article directories besides Ezine Articles. has alexa ranking 1944. You can read their submission guidelines for further info.
  5. ArticleDashboard.com
    Created in 2005, has alexa ranking 3843. The submission Guidelines is pretty simple. But as you know, you have to follow all the rules.
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Reject Comment Spam Now!

comment spam It is great for us as blogger to receive comments from our readers. We feel like we get an appreciation, feedback from our readers. Moreover if the comment we get is a positive feedback, we feel like we have done a good job in making a post, or share information to them. But be careful of those positive feedback/comments, it might be comment spam that will hurt our content originality in Google's sight.

comment spam

If you are new with blog, maybe you haven't have any idea about what is comment spam. In a short definition, comment spam is random comment which either promoting commercial services, blog or containing short sentences like "cool website", "nice article" in purpose to get links point to the spammer's websites/blog. At the first time, comment spam is done automatically by engine, but as the war against spam increasing, and it's hard for engine to break captcha verification code, therefore comment spam is now done manually by the spammer.

Like i mentioned before, there is a common path of comment spam, such as comment like these:

"Nice info! keep up the good work"

"Cool Websites, enjoy reading"

"Thanks for your information"

Those are the most common comment spam in blogging world, i'm sure that you have experienced that.

comment spam will hurt your page

comment spam

It's true! comment spam will hurt your page. There are several reasons why this thing can happen:

  1. First, by having comment spam, your page will be considered as a copycat page by Google.
    How come?? Because most of comment spam have the same keywords inside it, like : Great info! Great Websites! And there are lot of web page containing all those crappy keywords on their comment section. And if you have many crappy keywords on your comment section like that, your page will be known as a copycat page.
  2. Comment spammer = Bad Neighborhood
    Always and always, spammer always leave a URL/link point to their websites/blog. Because Google is the cleverest search engine in the world, google is able to detect which URL/link is spamming, or not. And all those websites/blog which do spamdexing to other blogs will be blacklisted by google and it's commonly called "Bad Neighborhood" And it's obviously not a good idea for having "bad neighborhood" link on your page.

So what should we do about this? Obviously you have to reject all spam comments either manually or automatically. If you have many readers, and many comments you should install spam comments filter plug in to your blog, but if you just have a few numbers of comments it's better to do it manually.

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5 Top Factors affecting Search Engine Ranking in 2009

factors affecting search engine ranking SEOmoz is a leading SEO service on the net. And every two years, they make a survey about what factors affecting major search engine ranking. The result of survey is based on top SEO experts opinion about main factors that affect search engine ranking. And we believe that ranking factors is dinamic, year by year it changes slowly but sure. But how about this 2009? What the top 5 factors affecting search engine ranking?

Top 5 Ranking Factors

  1. Keyword Focused Anchor Text from External Links (73%)
    Well, the most important thing that will affect ranking is anchor text keyword. All major search engine algorithm depends on Keywords focused anchor text from links. So you should put this thing on the top of your list of link building campaign. Target what your keywords, and make it as your anchor text.
  2. External Link Popularity (71%)
    This is about both quality and quantity of external links which link to your web page. The quality include: High Page Rank, total number of outbound link on the page, and where the link is placed. And the quantity is all about the total amount of the links.
  3. Diversify of Link Source (67%)
    Yes, don't put all of your eggs in one basket. You have to get quality backlinks from many different sites, not from 1 or 2 different domains only.
  4. Keyword Use anywhere in Title Tag (66%)
    This is old-school on page SEO theory, but it still rocks. Try to optimize your title tags of your blog/website. Use your keywords wisely on your title tags to help search engine know what is your blog/website talking about.
  5. Trustworthiness of the Domain (66%)
    Trustworthiness of the Domain Based on Link Distance from Trusted Domains (e.g. TrustRank, Domain mozTrust, etc.)

Now you have known what is the top 5 search engine ranking factors. This is very vital for you to achieve the first page on Google. I agree if you do these 5 things well on your site, you will gain many visitors from search engine.

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Do Adsense Image ads pay less than Text Ads?

adsense image ads pay less Back again with adsense-related post right here. Today i'm talking about image ads on adsense. The phenomenon that have been spreading out there is that image ads pay less than the text ads do. But no one really knows about it, they just follow the mainstream which can be true or definitely wrong. I will give a little facts and opinion about Do Adsense Image ads pay less than Text Ads?

First we have to hear what Google team respon about this problem:

While we can’t make any guarantees about the earnings potential of image or text ads, we believe that image ads will prove to be a high-performing option for publishers looking to monetize their pages. In fact, we show image ads when they have a higher value to you than the corresponding set of text ads that might otherwise run in the same slot.

So basically, Image ads should be works better than text ads, even in certain circumtances image ads will show more related ads to the topic rather than text ads. This is not wrong (especially when Google Team confirm like this), but it's better for us to observe why image ads will perform better. First, good image will attract more people to click (such as a good girl image ;p ), this is what make image ads perform better than text ads which only show boring text.

But also keep in mind that google don't say that image ads pay more than text ads, do they? They just plainly say that image ads performs better than text ads. For me, in many cases image ads do pay damn less than the text ads, in many cases! forget about which one is performing better or worse, usually text ads will pay more than image ads i think.

That's my personal conclusion folk, you can take it or you just can stand on your ground. It's up to you. Because it can be like this way: for me image ads pay less than the text ads, but it might be the opposite for you. So it is best to always use channel for every single ads you put on your blogs, and observe carefully their performance and earnings.

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How to build natural links to your blog

natural link building Link Building play important role on Search Engine Optimization. Thus, link building campaign is a must-to-do task for webmaster to obtain maximum search engine ranking for particular keywords. But, as the time goes by, some major search engine such as Google have been improving their system to be able to determine which links is really natural, or just artificial links. So, there are some things you need to consider about how to make your link building campaign look as natural as possible.

  1. Diversify Anchor Text
    If you have too many backlinks pointing to your page and it has only 1 anchor text such as "All Blogging Tips" it will attract Google attention and your websites/ blog will get penalized by Google. The best method to avoid this, is to vary your anchor text. Try to diversify your anchor text when you leave backlinks on other sites, like what i do : All Blogging Tips, mytheory, Blogging Strategies, SEO and Adsense
  2. Deep linking is necessary
    It's a bad idea to have all your backlinks point only to your homepage. It's obviously strange for search engine, try to not only focus on your homepage, try to leave backlinks that point to your inner page.
  3. Continually and Gradually
    Basically google update your backlinks data daily, but only update the actual Page Rank of your blog every x months (only google knows it :) ). So it will be great if you keep on building backlink everyday. Your backlink data will added gradually, and that's what google loves.

Those 3 steps is my thought that i have known from many great webmasters out there. I just summarize it for you so you can make your link building look natural. Besides those 3 steps above, it is always best to make great, useful, interesting content that will naturally attracts backlinks from other.

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