Friday

Little Known Ways to increase traffic on your blog


Word traffic is so complicated in the bloggers world. You sometimes asked yourself what make some bloggers different with your blog? you struggles to get even one visitor while their are other bloggers so successful feasted every day because they have thousands and thousands of readers but it's not the end of your blog life because there are few factors that plays a role, strategy to be placed and even use it as your primary weapon to increase traffic. without further delay, two keys that plays an important role to your blog success are:

Content - This is the most essential to traffic flow. You have to offer something that makes your site worth visiting. Content creates repeat visitors, increases their stay, encourages word-of-mouth type promotion and assists in improving a blog’s standing with the search engines.

Links - Every link can conceivably serve a traffic producer. If someone finds a link to your blog on another site, they are only one mouse-click away from being part of your traffic. Search engines also assess the number and quality of links to your blog. They regard sites that are linked to frequently as authoritative and reward them with higher placement in search engine results.

I am sure you are kind of disappointed because i know you are already aware of this two but have you learn and already have taken advantage of using this strategy? i hope so -- Traffic can come from a few different places. Direct links to your site may produce a stream of visitors if those links are in the right places. Search engines, however, offer the real key to high volume traffic numbers. Surfers rely on Google, Yahoo and MSN to help them find the sites that will provide them with the kind of information they are seeking. If your blog comes up early in those search engine results, you can expect a significant stream of traffic.
Tips: Be an active participant in the blogging community! Find some blogs on your topic that you enjoy and read them regularly. Comment when you feel you have something valuable to add to the conversation. This can inspire others to find you--and they are the kind of targeted traffic you really crave.

So therefore -- to increase traffic, you need to do two things -- Provide some unique, quality content and acquire links then you will get to the level at the top.

Sunday

Get your dream career - what stopping you?

Are you happy with your job right now, do you have great and big salary? if so then, you don't need some guides on how to land your dream job anymore -- but, if you are still looking for something where you can say that "this is me, this is what i want or this is my dream job" you are not totally happy with your recent job and maybe wondering how to get the job you ever wanted and dreaming for so long... there are so many people like this and even wonder why!? -- They have the skills, the ability but cannot fully transform that into success.

... Do you know that for you to able to get the job that you ever dream about is that you have to work hard (Of course we all know this duhh! silly me) But we should know what's the tricks and on how to play the game? right! talking about game everything in this world are consist of players, you must be a player because your life depends on your strategy -- I am sure your aware of that too :)
Fact: "The law of compensation seems utterly unfair. But fair it is. The higher the joy, play, and satisfaction a worker gets from his job the more the worker is compensated for the job. The lower the joy, play and satisfaction a worker gets from his job the less the worker is compensated for the job." - Mark Twain

There are many ways for you to get the job that you like and make you a happy worker. It all depends on your effort, hard work and dedication -- If you really want really want to have a successful career you have to be very prudent and risk taker.

I have here some steps on how to create a resume that is not limited and make more easier for your job hunting.
  1. Identify and know your job objectives and make a list of them - Be organized that's the best start.
  2. Know what is your top priority. Choose which one is your most important and put it at the top of the list.
  3. Make a resume that focus on your top job objective - Once you identify and organise this should be easy.
  4. Once done, leave a copy to your computer.
  5. Go to your resume -- make another copy that targets to your next job objective.
You should know what you want, what's your objective, goal start planning and work your plan. Richard Adams ebook is very great to read, this is going to give you the complete guideline on how to make a resume This will help you identify your objective, you are going to be guided from start of the process until you are ready to face the wall of your success isn't it great! i think it is :) -- this ebook is going to reveal you a lot, something that you think you already know, What to put in your resume, what is not you also be able to learn how to communicate with your interviewer, what they want to hear, when to speak, when to use their name and when to shut up. One of them "The 7 must-do steps to getting your dream job (how many are you missing out?)".

Fully loaded with knowledge is a lot more easier because you have boosted your brain, confident and you are actually ready to face the challenges, hardship and makes it more special is that you are now able to race, compete even play the risky game most successful are playing.

There is so much to say about this ebook but i am not going to tell you everything about this instead experience it yourself and be amaze. Get your dream career now -- what else stopping you?

Thursday

Monetizing your blog using 5 proven ways to improve your earnings

If you want to monetize your blog, one of best way to do it is through google Adsense. Reality though, lots of bloggers/site owners struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense revenue.

Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.

1. Experimenting the format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the 336X280 Large Rectangle , the 300x250 medium rectangle, and the 160x600 Wide skyscraper. This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.
2. Blend it with your template - Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.

3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.

4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.

5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.

These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.

Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every click through that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.

Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.

If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.

Tuesday

Dealing the Unwanted e-mail or spam

Unwanted Emails, unsolicited emails, scammer's emails, commercial emails...whatelse it just keep on coming no matter what...there is no perfect answer for this, it's getting bigger and bigger problem on the internet.

If you want to keep your inbox clean, you have to use a super filter or anti-spam that's going to filter all the unwanted email to keep on getting on your inbox but their still have some that makes through, there is no solution for this spammers but you can always alleviate this by just following some tips.

This is one of the email scammer sent:
DEAR FRIEND,
HOW ARE YOU DOING? I WRITE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I HAVE REGISTERED YOUR CHEQUE DRAFT, BUT THE MANAGER OF FINANCIAL TRUST BANK BENIN TOLD ME THAT BEFORE THE CHEQUE WILL GET TO YOU THAT IT WILL EXPIRE.
SO I TOLD HIM TO CASH THE $1.5 MILLION USDOLLARS AND ALL THE NECESSARY ARRANGEMENT OF DELIVERING THE $1.5 MILLION USD IN CASH WAS MADE WITH UPS COURIER SERVICE BENIN REPUBLIC.
FURTHERMORE, WRITE A LETTER OF APPLICATION TO THE GIVEN ADDRESS BELOW.
DIRECTOR NAME: DR.MR, ABRAHAM MARTINS.
COMPANY PHONE NUMBER: +229-930-002-85.
COMPANY E-MAIL: (upscourierservice22@hotmail.com).
HOWEVER, SEND THEM YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION TO ENABLE THEM LOCATE YOU IMMEDIATELY THEY ARRIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY WITH YOUR BOX.
BELOW IS WHAT THEY NEED FROM YOU.
1.YOUR FULL NAME______________________________________
2.YOUR HOME ADDRESS___________________________________
3.YOUR CURRENT HOME TELEPHONE NUMBER__________________
4.YOUR CURRENT OFFICE TELEPHONE_______________________
5.A COPY OF YOUR ID___________________________________
6.YOUR AGE__________________________________________
7.COUNTRY__________________________________________
(NOTE). THE COURIER COMPANY DOES NOT KNOW THE CONTENTS OF THE BOX. I REGISTERED IT AS A BOX OF AN AFRICA CLOTHS, THEY DON'T KNOW IT CONTAINED MONEY. THIS IS TO AVOID THEM DELAYING WITH THE BOX SO DON'T LET THEM KNOW THAT IS MONEY THAT IS IN THE BOX.
YOURS,
MR KOFOR MOMO.

I don't know what they are thinking this is so obvious, only fool can fall for this...but this keep on coming everyday...so what are you going to do?

Try this Advice:
  • Do not give out your primary email, use disposable email try mailinator.com this way you protect yourself and your inbox -- Some programs that you've joined say's "they respect your privacy but actually sold it.
  • Ignore and Do not Click the link because if you do this confirms that your email is not dead account, Delete the spam email and forget.
  • Do not post your email address in plain form mask it use an alias so that their harvester cannot read your email...example: tanya77 AT hotmail DOT com.
  • Do not believe what they say on the email they are "dangerous con man"
The best you can do is to prevent them from coming to your inbox, if possible or at least reduce the amount of spams. Help our Authority, report the spammer using the spam reporting services Spamcop.net

Building Traffic Made Easy

I am sure you have hear Stumble Upon, digg, technorati or already using them to get traffic to your website. This are one of the effective way to get traffic to your website for free and there are some cases where you get links specially when you have good, informative content and that help you increase your page rank when the link is relevant to your site.

Let us start talking about StumbleUpon. You can integrate SU with your blog so when your reader likes your article they can easily "Stumble it" (If they have SU Account) and it will help spreading your post more faster to the StumbleUpon Community. One that can help you is to StumbleUpon Exchange - - this is where you can get connections with fellow bloggers that wanted to build traffic faster, easy. And now they have search review where you can see the rating of site that shows how important and great your site is...so far they get good feedbacks.

Digg - if you really know how to write great article, know what your reader wants or if you have great content you don't need to worry it is so easy to get popular...this is where you get discover, you even get your content to be discussed that if you make it to "Top 10". But if you have off-topic content, bad links or duplicate content then you get "bury" aswell ;(

Technorati - This is the one that i really love because it's not just bring you traffic but most of the advertising site looks at your technorati rank, it's going to show how important is your site using" fave me" button where readers will like your site will fave you and if you get link to there site you get your authority increase meaning more links more authority.

Before, i don't know where to start but after i joined blogcatalog i learned a lot...i was surprised and increase my technorati authority and decrease my technorati rank (This is good if rank decrease) and i got digg and SU and so much to learn. Here is what you 're going to do to help you with your technorati rank, digg and SU.
  1. If you don't have an account with blogcatalog you can join here.
  2. Submit your blog - Make sure you're Blog Title not to sound's like spamming or else you get decline...i do for many times and i keep on trying until i change my "blog title" and get approved. So happy for that and i' m glad i didn't quit because i learned a lot here.
  3. After you get approved join groups...now for this particular topic we have, join crimsonl's group, crkian's group.
This are just the groups that going to help you building connections, traffics and the rest is up to you. You can join discussion, make discussions, get connected with people with the same interest and you will see how addicted this is...i have been and my day is not complete without visiting blogcatalog in a day because i always on track with what's going on the blogosphere's world. Sometimes if you get blank and don't know what topic to start with you can find it at blogcatalog too.

Have fun and learn from our fellow bloggers, they are not our competition instead they are the one's that help us grow.

Sunday

Never Ending Email Spam

Yes, true i am so annoyed all the time i opened my email, i always get email from someon ei never heard asking my personal information or saying i have won the yahoo mail, or they need assistance because they have to get certain amount from my country blah..blah...blah.

In the escalating spam email war over the internet it's no longer funny, People need some sort of super spam filter...i need to find how to do mine because i have at least 30 spam letter a day and i can't even read the Post of those i subscribed because i have to delete them all at once.

Today i have read from Slashdot that there is spammer from New Jersey that been caught and sentence in Jail for two years or more for sending over million spam messages to AOL User's imagine that! -- He Was making a deal to the government informant to send junk email to advertise he's computer security program and will basically split the earning by 50/50. Todd Moeller got Busted -- Send an IM to the informant saying that he can outsource emails throught he's access to 40 different servers. I am glad he was caught, even though it doesn't change the situation, still we receive spam emails and it's never ending but at least one man down.