Currently, there are 6.72 billion people on earth. Imagine if every single one of them had a blog – that would be serious information overload! According to Technorati, there are over 112.8 million blogs (not including China’s 72.82 million blogs) and it’s growing at an incredible rate. I remember just a few years ago, there were only 70 million blogs and experts were saying the bubble was about to burst and that blogging would become less popular. They were wrong.
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Many people believe a catchy blog post title is the way to go, some think a search engine friendly article title is – which is best? I think it’s a combination of both. (note that I repeated the blog title in the previous sentence – you should do the same and use it naturally in a sentence at the start of the post). For sake of this discussion, let’s hypothesize there are two types of bloggers: Those who know how search engines work and those who do not.
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Being niche free means absolute freedom to write about whatever I want. I am truly thankful that I chose to not take this blog in that direction; however, I may one day start something like that. Being niche free means:
- I don’t worry about stats or how much traffic I have
- I link to an extremely wide variety of blogs
- I receive links from many different types of blogs
- I am here for friendship above all other ideals
I have built a strong blog with many readers, and a fair amount of traffic. That’s why I have made one of my most important goals to share with others, especially those who are just starting out or struggling for a link. Sure, any blogger can take a viral approach like link trains and such, but these links really don’t mean anything. I personally don’t want 5000 links from people who don’t actually read my blog – that’s why I no longer participate in anything viral. I am extremely proud of my diminishing Technorati authority – down from 900 to a little over 300. If I wanted, I could easily pump it back up but see no reason.
I see people linking to these prominent blogs and I cannot understand it. They don’t link to you, so why waste your time helping people who already have all they need? It’s like giving Donald Trump a Christmas present.
If you adjust content to improve stats you destroy your own validity. I remember when I first got into SEO, it really changed my content in a not-so-good way. Later on, after I gave SEO less attention, all my blogging stress went away. Then again, I am more of a writer than a tech freak. I have friends from nearly every niche and every country, which is a fantastic goal.
Being niche free means I don’t discriminate against any blogger because they write completely unrelated content. People who write highly focused niche sites rarely visit me because of that very reason. I really notice that since I started using Entrecard. Sure it’s brought me a lot of traffic, but most of it is a one second visit, just to drop a card. Overall, it’s not bringing in people who really read. Most folks are only out to gain for themselves, which is at the root of many world problems. I will reject no Entrecard ads unless the site promotes pornography, racism or something similar.
I give out 80% more links than I receive, and will not stop any time soon.
My goals in blogging have changed somewhat and I’ve gone through many phases. I’ve tried everything in blogging in someway or another but I am really happy with where I’m at – just being a writer who loves to learn. Here’s this weeks batch:
Bloodstone Chapter 1 – A fifteen chapter tale by Floog, one of the best writers I’ve ever seen in blogging. The story is long for a blog but is worth reading (though I haven’t yet finished yet…haha!). He definitely has the skill to become a famous author and I hope he does. Floog, Please put this in an e-book!
Flipping Blog Scams MMO Niche is Full of Jerks – Garry Conn comes unglued at the seams in an explosive fulguration of brutal honesty with this much needed post. I completely understand his angst and agree with him 100%. I hold Garry’s integrity in high regard, and am very glad he wrote this. I became somewhat disgusted by the way many MMO (make money online) sites operate. Many of them have pathetic content, write on a third grade level, are filled with disgusting greed, will use you, rip you off and then say nasty things about you. All the sites Garry mentioned deserve being told and put in their place.
You People Make Me Sick – Ed Philly wrote a scathing article where he explodes like a nuclear inferno. Because his site is written from scratch, I couldn’t figure out how to link to a post, but is no problem – the article is on the front page. Ed, if you give me the correct url, I will fix this. WARNING: This article does contain volatile profanity, but I completely understand why he wrote it. I like to see people let it all out and he does it like no other!
Avoiding Copyright Infringement in Your Underwear (or Swimsuit) – DCR Blogs wrote this informative and entertaining piece. He has an uncanny ability to add humor into many of his posts, even when getting serious, something we should all learn to do! I love that weird picture Dan!
Greencard Soldiers – Menopauseprincess wrote this disturbing post about how the Bush administration is trading citizenship for fighting in the war. I had no idea they were doing this and think it’s wrong. Be sure to check it out.
The Yiddish Handbook: 40 Words You Should Know – an invaluable resource for fiction writers.
The Best Gross, Unpleasant, and Otherwise Strange Dating Sites from Vat19 is one freaky post. I was shocked to see how bizarre these dating sites are. It is hilarious!
Invisible Executive Order Deserves a Closer Look: This is a great post from Rational Outrage about the new Bush executive order. They can legally freeze assets of anyone who “threatens the stabilization effort in Iraq”. However, the order could easily be abused. Definitely take the time to read this. I believe Bush has destroyed our civil liberties and the middle class – I cannot wait to see him gone. Just look at how horrible the American economy and value of the dollar is now. I strongly suggest you do not vote for McCain.
24eyes – The Premium RSS Dashboard on the Internet – This cool and powerful web 2.0 application allows you to read all the news from every source on one page. If you’re a news junkie like me, this is very useful.
I usually have more links than this but I am tired – so I’m exercising my right to be lazy 
Blogging scares news corporations and the entertainment industry, and it keeps getting better. Now, with the Internet, people like to entertain themselves, and become their own stars. YouTube and social networking sites are having a powerful effect on how money is made – it’s becoming more about the people and less about the huge corporations. We live in a world of shallow, self-serving people festering in lustful greed – isn’t that just wonderful?
Why should I watch only TV when I can watch free stuff? Wouldn’t it be cool, if the big corporations paid us, rather than the other way around? Corporations are paying people to have their logo tattooed on their bodies! That is insane. I will only wear generic clothes and shoes from now on. It’s funny how we pay for name brands. All we’re really doing is paying some corporation so we have the privilege to advertise for them! What? They should pay us for that. I’m going to start wearing blank t-shirts like this:
Advertise on my Body
The T-shirts are $25.00 each, use the contact form above and drop me an e-mail to order.
I think of my blog as my home. What about you? Many blogs are businesses, others are personal and so forth. When you put your Technorati authority, Alexa ranking and Google page rank on the face of your blog, what exactly are you trying to say? Would you put such information on your clothes, car or even your home? I see a page rank widget on a blog and I’m thinking, this person probably wears clothes with price tags hanging off of them. It’s a little tacky when you think about it.
Would you hang an offensively tasteless sign like this in front of your house?:
Blogger Home Advertising
Think about how easy it is to pump up your Technorati authority with meme’s and link chains. This would be like a person wearing a fake Rolex watch. Look…I’m wearing a Rolex! Why not have a fake price sticker of $27,000.00 on it too? That way people know how valuable you are. It’s all pretty silly when you think about it. I don’t display any of these rankings on my blog. I uninstalled my pagerank toolbar too because I don’t like the idea of immediately judging every site I see. Do you do that? Do you immediately check ranking when you go to a new site? If not, than why bother with even looking or having stats pasted all over your blog? It’s just something to think about. The truth is, I could care less how much money you make or how popular your blog is; it has nothing to do with me reading or coming back. I actually look for people who are friendly, that can write cool stuff, are fun or having something other to offer than just making money or gaining something for themselves. Here’s a cool way to make money after you die:
Gravestone Advertising
Blogging is changing the web and the way things work in nearly every part of society – or I should say the Internet itself is changing everything. So I ask you, would you have a Pepsi tattoo inked on your forehead for the right price? I would. The price is 10 million in gold bullion.
SEO Keywords For Beginners
Sep 19
We have all heard about keywords. We have all heard about seo. So what about these seo keywords? Many bloggers may see this article and say, “Another article about keywords?”
The truth is, most bloggers don’t know anything about keywords, they’ve just heard about them. Today, we will learn a little about them by looking at how this post is written. The way I chose the seo keywords for this post was by using Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
This tool is for adwords but it is great for choosing keywords too! Keywords can be a single word or a phrase. I typed in the word “keyword” and found the phrase “seo keywords”. Check the advertiser competition for the phrase before you choose it! If the competition is too high, the word or phrase you choose will not benefit you. The phrase “seo keywords” was middle of the road for both competition and popularity, so it was a pretty good choice for this post.
I chose the phrase, seo keywords, and actually used it as the central motif from which to build this post. Look at the title of my post. It contains the keyword phrase, seo keywords. This is important to do. I could have named it something else and used the phrase, seo keywords, in my title tags. If you use blogger with an xml template (new blogger), you will simply need to make sure you title your post so it contains the keyword phrase.
Notice how many times I use the phrase, seo keywords, in this post! A lot huh? You want the chosen word or phrase in the title, and you want it mentioned in the post itself at least once! This is good seo practice. If you are a self-hosted wordpress blog, you have the wonderful plug in, The all-in-one SEO Pack to use. You can use it to tweak your title tags! In other words, your posts can have 2 titles. The post can have a different title tag than the name of the post itself if you like.
Another powerful technique is to make sure any links to this post (from within this blog or external) use the anchor text, seo keywords. I recently wrote a post entitled “Optimizing Your Site By Decreasing It’s Size”. The keyword phrase for that post is: search engine optimization tips. The keyword phrase is the anchor text which is linked to that post! I linked to my own post using the keyword phrase. Click the link, look at the post and you’ll see all these concepts at work.
In the future, if I reference this post (the one you’re reading) I will use the anchor text “seo keywords”. It’s important to link to your own posts using carefully selected keywords if you are interested in building your site to grow.
WHY THIS POST IS VALUABLE: This post is for the rest of us. I have provided you with easy to understand information woven into the post itself. Most other posts like this are hard to understand and don’t explain things for normal bloggers like you and I. If I show you something, I explain it and show you how to use it. Let’s summarize:
- Select a keyword or keyword phrase with the adwords tool.
- Use the word or phrase in the post title or title tags.
- Use the word or phrase in the post text.
- Link to the post from other sites and your posts using the word or phrase.
We all want a successful blog or website, but we may not be experts in the area. Decisions on what will make a site more search engine friendly never come if we don’t know the basics. Here are some search engine optimization tips that are easy to implement. Perhaps for some of you, your first seo lesson!
Many of us love to display tons of awards, pretty widgets and all kinds of fun things in our sidebars. The problem is, they are terrible for optimization and can make search-engines not like your site. The answer is, reducing the clutter on your site! Now don’t get mad at me for calling your beautiful set of awards “clutter”!
In wordpress, you can move them to a page in the tabs at the top of your site. On blogspot, you can do something similar if you are familiar with template modification and know html fairly well. If you aren’t confident in html, perhaps just moving some of them to a post will do quite well.
To find out if your site needs some cleaning up, go to Sitening.com and open an account. It’s free, and it’s a nice tool to use providing some easy to understand information. Once you’ve signed in, go to tools, seo analyzer. Simply enter the url of your site and see what score you get. I got a 75 my first go around which is not good. I moved several awards to a page and that almost fixed it.
You want your main page to be under 100 KB. Next, I removed the alt text from several widgets in my side bar. You don’t really need alt text and it’s fine to remove some. In the old days when lots of people used text only browsers (no images), the alt text is what they would see instead of images. I could care less if someone doesn’t see the alt text, they need to get a modern browser! I use text only browsers for certain things, but am not worried if the alt text isn’t there.
I ran the test again and scored a 90. Much, much better! I know it can be hard not displaying every award and best buddies site widgets in your side bar, but it will be good for your site.
For Blogger blogs: Here’s a nice little code you can put in your side-bar on blogger or any where else you want a link to your awards post to be:
<a href="http://yourposturl.com/">My Awards</a>
Just change the url to the post url of your awards post. This way, your awards will be easy to get to, especially if you are proud of them like me. If your site is 280 KB, I recommend you clean some of it up. Search engines are picky and they will love you for it!
After reviewing the site Article Marketer.com I have come to the conclusion this is one of the best overall ways to get your work noticed and to build a massive chain of incoming links. One of the most important ways to get ahead, no matter what you blog about is to have tons of links pouring in on each of your posts. Sounds nice huh? You can join and use it free! That’s the best part, though you can get the paid service which gets you an astonishing amount of links.
Most of my readers are either newbies or people who are not tech oriented so I am bringing this to you guys. The idea is that you write a post. Make sure it’s actually about something too! Then you rewrite the article changing it up so it becomes a new article. They both are about the same thing but you want it different enough so it’s not just a copy. They may reject it. The article you submit can contain an html link which is very cool. When I wrote my first they had two text boxes, one for your html link and one plain text. What they are doing is submitting it for you, and it’s set up to be accepted everywhere. A lot of folks have heard of or used Ezine before, and it is no comparison at all. Article Marketer is the biggest and most popular site of it’s kind on the web. They are the best. There is no doubt in my mind this program will get you results. I am going all out for this but I will remain patient and not get too over excited. This is something you work steadily and continually. I will be publishing all of my results even if articles are rejected. That’s how you learn, by making mistakes. The html below is basically what you will use as your link (or something very similar).
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If any of you have any problems whatsoever, I will gladly help you get it right. There is no such thing as a stupid question, so please don’t hesitate to ask. There are two links built in: one to your site, and one directly to your post. Simply replace my url with yours. You could rewrite some of your best older posts and raise them from the dead. With the free account your article will reach 14,488 people at 32 sites – that is a lot of links. The reason I’m writing this is so many of my readers don’t read tech blogs and they would like to succeed with what they write about. This is the best answer for you. It will boost your page rank and get your work out there. A lot of you aren’t interested in money necessarily but the tactics of money bloggers will work for anyone no matter what you blog about. Click the banner below and get started now! They will help you get it right. Their tutorials and guides are amazing and will help any writer!
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