Site Update: I have decided to change the look and feel of the site and hope you like it! I have also been working in the background on setting up the membership areas as previously announced | The free membership section will be launching soon, hopefully by mid March. With the VIP Premium section going live in April 2010 - Watch this space for further announcements!

9th
FEB

10 Time-tested, Battle-Hardened Blog Traffic Techniques

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging tips, Traffic Generation

In my previous post http://bloginstallationservice.com/analyzing-blog-activities-january-2010/ Reza Winandar from Blogger Make Money commented asking me to share some of the ways I generate traffic to this blog, so I’ve put together 10 of the techniques I use and plan to use in the hope you too will benefit from them. Follow these 10 blog traffic strategies and your blog just might be the next Engadget, TechCrunch, JohnChow.com, StevePavlina.com or BoingBoing.net. – The key here is consistency, which am still working on :)

Disclaimer: none of the links this article  are affiliate or sponsored by their respective owners!

31st
JAN

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.

14th
JAN

My Predictions For 2010 Part I – Blogging Explosion

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

The movie Julie and Julia took blogging mainstream for many who had no idea that an everyday, average individual could command attention and pursue their passion using an online technology available to the masses for free.

And it’s not just movies and rare blog success stories that make people want to blog. In 2009, the job market resulted in a ton of layoffs for journalists and print newspapers and magazines went out of business. These writers will take their skills to the Internet.

7th
DEC

Google Caffeine And The New Ranking Factors

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

By Titus Hoskins (c) 2009

Google Caffeine is the name given to Google’s “Next Generation” search engine, which it will use to rank and index all the pages on the wonderful world wide web. According to all indications, this is not just another one of Google’s infamous Updates, but a major “Overhaul” of its index and algorithm, the complex formula and calculations Google uses to rank all web pages, including yours.

If that doesn’t sound ominous enough, according to Matt Cutts (Google Spokesperson) one database is already showing Google Caffeine, and the full blown version will be released after the holidays. The reasoning behind this, Google doesn’t want to upset webmasters and site owners during the lucrative holiday buying season. In the past, other major Google Updates have come around this time of the year, most notably the “Florida Update” which severely affected many web sites and webmasters.

17th
NOV

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.

27th
OCT

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.

15th
OCT

From Keyword To Comment Luv

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging tips, Traffic Generation

If you loved and took advantage of the KeywordLuv plugin then you are going to love my next install or should I say installs.

KeywordLuv allowed you to enter a keyword/keyphrase in place of your name as a linkback to your site. Granted there was a period of “No Follow” policy in place fora time, but this was lifted giving you more benefits.

I have received over 40+ comments since installing the plugin and they are all very much appreciated. And what a better way to show my appreciation than to give you a little bit more Luv :)

27th
SEP

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.

17th
SEP

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.

2nd
SEP

Creating and Writing Your Blog – Free E-Book

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging tips, Business blogging, General, Income generation tips

Creating and writing your blog

Many a pro-bloggers and us normal bloggers have written countless blog posts, reports and e-books on “How to create and write a blog” and yet there’s still a whole lot more to learn on the subject. I spend a lot of time searching and learning from those in the know how and am always on the look out for great content that I can benefit from as a reader.

29th
AUG

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.

  • 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.

24th
AUG

How To Change Your Password Via PhpMyAdmin

Posted by Zulfikar under Blogging tips, General, Security

From time to time the little gremlins hiding deep in the blog box tend to play little tricks and you find yourself unable to login. You then hit the lost password button but they in turn chew up the notification email – Now you are left with no access to your admin area, admin has a new password of which you have no idea what it is.

So what do you do? – 2 things I should think!

  1. is – Paniccccc!!!!! :P   or
  2. follow the simple guide bellow and take back what is yours from those little nasty gremlins :D
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