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Analyzing Blog Activities – January 2010

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips, General, Statistics

I’ve decided to do various experiments to see the true affect of certain actions on a live blog. Having read a number of guides, reports and pro-blogger’s advice I felt it was time to put it all into practice and see the outcome first hand.

Point I

One of the main advice given in many a guides/reports is to blog consistently on a regular basis – as this is what drives traffic to a website/blog. So for this month (January) I decided to experiment on this by posting very little in way of blog posts.  Read more... (590 words, estimated 2:22 mins reading time)

10 Ways To Increase Your Blog’s Pageviews

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips, Contest, Traffic Generation

With Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher, having people click onto more pages helps your revenue immensely, but how do you get them to read more than one page when they visit your website? Here are a few tips.

1. Create pages within the blog that contain reference material you refer to often in your posts. These static pages will also get crawled and indexed by the search engines and as you write posts about your topics you can refer people to these static pages as references to what you are posting about.  Read more... (795 words, estimated 3:11 mins reading time)

Blogging Your Way To Success – A Better Way To Do Business Online

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips, Business blogging, Marketing

It is now widely accepted that the way forward in doing business, or more correctly making a business site successful is to setup and use a blog. The reason being, blogs are more dynamic, constantly updated which in turn draws in the search engines to crawl and index the new content. This then drives masses of traffic to your blog and if set up and done correctly this traffic can be channeled to your main site, giving your business a boost as most of the new visitors will turn in to customers.  Read more... (1029 words, estimated 4:07 mins reading time)

FTC Publishes Final Guides Governing Endorsements, Testimonials And Paid Review Posts

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Business blogging, General, announcement

Changes Affect Testimonial Advertisements, Bloggers, Celebrity Endorsements.

This post should have preceded my previous post – but here goes anyways!

On Monday 5th Oct 2009 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced its approval on the guidance to advertisers on keeping their endorsements and testimonials in line with the FTC Act.

In the guidelines the FTC states that: (*This is an extract from the FTC website.*)

The notice incorporates several changes to the FTC’s Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising, which address endorsements by consumers, experts, organizations, and celebrities, as well as the disclosure of important connections between advertisers and endorsers. The Guides were last updated in 1980.  Read more... (699 words, estimated 2:48 mins reading time)

Should A Blog Post Be Used To Pitch A Sale?

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging Q&A

This is one of those questions that has a true “two faces to the coin” so to speak. And I ask the question with a good reason with full awareness that both sides will and do have valid arguments. I’ll just present my opinion and would love to hear yours in return.

Have I used blogs to pitch sales? Yes I must admit I have and I must also admit that I now believe I was wrong. In my opinion, a blog is and should be used to deliver highly valuable free content to the readers. Reason being the vast majority of people who frequently visit blogs are looking for nothing more than a good article full of valuable information.  Read more... (407 words, estimated 1:38 mins reading time)

Five Ways To Make Your Blog Writing Clear

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips

Writing for your blog can be difficult in many ways, mind numbing at times too. Your readers want the information quickly, and they want it, by and large, in bite-sized morsels rather than long, buffet type spreads. This can make the art of being clear even more difficult than it might be in other mediums.

If you have struggled with clarity when writing for your blog, here are five tips to keep you on the right track, and make sure you don’t lose your audience in between the lines.  Read more... (611 words, estimated 2:27 mins reading time)

Commenting On Blogs For Back Links – Revisited With KeywordLuv

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips, Search Engine Optimisation, Traffic Generation

On the 17th April I did a post on building backlink by commenting on blogs which I have revisited as well as take a look at what others are saying about the topic.

What I have noticed around the blogosphere is that every one is talking about the importance of using anchor keywords/text for the link. Unfortunately with a standard wordpress installation, comments are anchored on the commenter’s name – Which doesn’t really give much in the way of benefit other than just being a backlink.  Read more... (284 words, estimated 1:08 mins reading time)

10 Steps To Creating A Killer Blog

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips, Search Engine Optimisation, Uncategorized

1.) – Niche oriented domain name – supper keyword – one word.  Read more... (1109 words, estimated 4:26 mins reading time)

• This one is a toughie as you will find that most of the good domain names have been taken. But don’t let that stop you, chose a similar word or opt for a different tld like .net or .info if .com is taken. Avoid geographical tlds like .co.uk, .co.in, .asia, .ca or the likes unless your niche is specifically targeting those marketplaces. And if a one word domain is not available then use  2 to 3 words joined together, i.e mykillerblog.com – avoid my-killer-blog.com if you can.

The Myths About Social Media And Backlinks

Posted by admin under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips

Everywhere you turn these days you cant help but hear the talk of Social Networking and Social Media or as the Internet Savvies would put it “Web 2.0″

With the popularity of these socialising networks where millions upon millions of people from all walks of life and every corner of the globe converge to chit chat and have a banter, some marketers have jumped on the bandwagon of selling “shovels?” to the newbies or unsuspecting “Traffic Gold” diggers with the promise of receiving not only traffic but back-links too.  Read more... (654 words, estimated 2:37 mins reading time)

Digital Thieves And How To Stop Them

Posted by admin under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging Q&A

If by any chance you sell digital media on your blog you may relate to this. Ever wondered why the download counter of your products keeps going up even though the number of sales does not tally up with it?

I guess we all learn through our mistakes or negligence and once bitten we are twice shy, so we take precautions to safeguard our rights and products. In order to do so one must first of all understand how things work, especially with blogs. As we all know blogs are content driven and Google love such sites and thus index them quickly and rank them high in the search results.  Read more... (774 words, estimated 3:06 mins reading time)

How Much Spam Should A Blogger Have To Put Up With?

Posted by admin under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips

As a blogger you spend hours researching, formulating and composing your post with the aim to bring quality information to your readers. And hope that once they have read it all some will take the time to comment either endorsing, condemning or simply to add their weight to the article – it’s all well and good, all bloggers encourage it and it’s what motivates us to further research and continue plodding away right?  Read more... (365 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)

Good House Keeping To Shape Up Your Blog!

Posted by admin under Blogging Etiquettes, Blogging tips

Its back to the basics once again for today’s house keeping exercise to ship shape and get your blog in order. Blogging is not just about posting your content and social book marking. Not only is your blog supposed to be visually pleasing, content engaging and sticky – it also has a lot of behind the scene work to make it easy to find.  Read more... (557 words, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)