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How to Promote Your Blog?

Monday, October 20th, 2008

Here are the simple steps to promote your blog:

  1. Leave your comment on other blogs.
    Leave comment on other blogs is one way to get backlink, backlink is one method to raise your pagerank, and thus your rank in search engine will be better.
    When you always leave comment on other blogs especially on popular blogs which have tons of visitors, then half of those blog’s visitors will be converted as your visitors. Make sure you always leave good quality comments, not just simple comments which only promote your blog. If you do this I believe that your blog will have traffic bump.
  2. Get listed on search engine.
    Search engine is potential place to promote your blog, because tons of people use this to search information. Make a posts regularly, one or two posts each day, and make good title of it. Once you done this, reader will subscribe to your blog because they like your posts and gradually your feed count will containing large number of subscribers, it means that your blog become popular. Besides post regularly, as I explained above you have to leave a comment regularly to popular blogs which has tons of visitors and have high pagerank. Make schedule, and be discipline. If you do all of this, you have make many doors that entice people to come in.
  3. Advertise your blog.
    Alternative way is to advertise your blog on advertisement services. Use news ads line network like growurl.com.
  4. Join on many forums and promote your blog through email signatureBy leave your email with signature, you have promote your blog indirectly. And do the same thing in forums that you have registered with.
  5. Make link to your site/blog from your other site/blog.
    This is one effective ways to promote your blog, besides you will get them backlink on each.

If you do those tips above consistently and discipline with your schedule, you will achieve your goal in the future.

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Search Area Codes in United States

Friday, October 17th, 2008


United States have many states, so that it is difficult to search area code manually. But now, there is one useful service that will help you to find right area code from any specified states you want to call. You will get area code information in easy way just for few seconds. Area Code Finder will give you area code that you are looking for, just choose the states and click on specific area code to get further information on that specified area. From now on, use this service to find right area code for your convenience.

10 Simple Steps to Increase Blog’s Comment

Friday, October 17th, 2008

Everyone knows that commenting on other blogs is effective way to:

  1. Increasing blog popularity;
  2. Increasing Technorati rank;
  3. Increasing unique visitors;
  4. Increasing blog’s comments.

Here are 10 simple tips to increase the number of comments on your blog:

  1. Start to commentsIf you have not started, start from now and always make sure to comment on others blog, then your blog will be known. If you want to get quality blog traffic, and then help others to do the same thing, every blogger has the same goal with you!
  2. Regularly and continuously increase the number of your comments on other blogs.If you participate now in 5 new blog per day, try to increase to 10 per day. Make a schedule for this action regularly.
  3. Please leave useful comment.If you only praise other blog without considering the topic of the article that discussed then you will get low traffic. Try to read their article and learn it, then you can leave a comment that relates to the topic. This could make your blog traffic increase.
  4. Be the first commentatorif you are the first commentator on other blogs, then you will have 20+ new visitors.
  5. Leave a Comment on Threaded Comments blog.If you often be preceded by other people in the first comment, you can check whether the blog using threaded comments or not. Try to see the JohnChow.com, you can leave a comment on others comment up to 3 levels.

    threaded comments

    Thus, it means you will be the second commentator though there are 10 comments before you.

  6. The benefits of Top Commenter PluginsOne way to know who the latest blogger that leave a comment by seeing the most frequent comment on the blog that you visited.Many blogs use this plugins, so get the opportunity from here and start to become loyal commentator on a blog not only to get a link but also to increase the amount of your blog traffic.
  7. Find blogs that using no follow tagThis could give you some benefits; those are will increase blog traffic, increasing SERP, increasing Technorati rank.
  8. Leave comment on blogs that using The Comment Luv PluginThis plugin rapidly becomes popular Wordpress plugin, this plugin will show ours blog latest post on others blog where get commented.
  9. Be a loyal bloggerThe point is, we’ll often get links from other bloggers because we often visit and comment regularly on a certain blog where there are other bloggers who comment as we are. We are not realizing this make each other become familiar, so our blog is often visited by other bloggers and could be their reference on their posts.So do not ever think that blogging is a simple job, where you leave a comment and go, but you have to think this is a mutually beneficial relationship.
  10. Consider to build image through your commentsWhen you leave a comment with your blog name like this: blogname.com or name – blogname.comThere is lot of debate about this; people like to discuss with human not a blog.

The Trick to Increase Google Pagerank

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

In the early of PageRank (PR) birth, PR is one of the indicators of success or not a website. Website which has a high PageRank got special value to Google, PR can also be said of 3 months achievement report of certain website that scored by other website. This time the situation is changing, gradually PR is not so attractive anymore and be an indicator, because of not every site that has high PR will has tons of traffic al at once. As example is my blog with PR2 and JohnChow’s blog with PR3 has big different in visitor’s number, besides Google kick PR of a blog that participate in the program like Text Link Ads (TLA) and Paid to Review (PTR) is a factor people don’t like PR as indicator of blog success. People are more like to use Alexa rank as measurement of blog success.

PageRank is calculated with Google algorithm that seems so complicated, but the core is the number of backlink, either incoming link or outgoing link. The comparison is incoming link have to be more higher than outgoing link, when this is reached will causing PR going higher.

By observing those facts above, we can make a trick with this PR matter, that is creating so many incoming links as we can into our blog. there are various ways can be done, but the effective ones is by leave a comment on other blogs, and the comment’s blog using do follow rules. Do follow will make commentator’s blog address be indexed by Google.

To get to know the blog using do follow or not can be done by seeing the blog’s source code like this for do follow blog, or using search status by activate Highlight No follow Links to see no follow links automatically.

When you leave a comment on others blog you have to remember to leave your blog URL address (like http://www.albachtimi.com) and try to comment naturally and relates to the content. Don’t leave comment more than 3 times on one article because this will assume as spam. You have to read my other tips and trick to maximize your blog ability. Just wait and see.

Technorati: Blog Directory, Tags and Bookmarks

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

As I have explained before, blog campaign is needed to get known by others. For this purpose at least you should submit your blog to two popular blog directories: technorati.com and feedburner.com. Technorati blog directory is currently the largest followed by blogsearch.com owned by Google. Technorati not only function as a blog directory, but also as a blogsearch, tags aggregator, a tool to know linkback blog and online bookmarks. What is the tag and online bookmarks and how to maximize the functions of Technorati?

Tag is similar with subject or category. This serves to help search engines find your writing. Currently, there are search engines work to find ’tag’. So, for example in your blog give the tag “server”, then when someone search “server” as search keyword in search engines, your blog will be listed. Technorati allows their members to put 20 tags for each blog.

Social bookmarks: if you open Internet Explorer (IE), then there is the FAVORITE menu. Favorite menu is used to save the various links that you like, including your own blog address so other times you simply open the link page from your favorite menu.

Example above is offline bookmark, this time there are many sites provide online bookmark services such as Technorati. This online bookmark can be used wherever you are get connected with internet. Unlike the offline bookmarks, you can only access your favorite blogs on your own computer.

Below is step by step guidance to maximize Technorati (this guide assume that you have sign-up/register in Technorati. If not please register first).

1. Submit to blog directory and Technorati tag.

The steps are:

  • Sign in, click account menu.
  • Claim a blog, and fill in your blog’ URL.
  • Click Begin Claim.
  • Choose quick claim, fill in your id and blog’s password.
  • Click quick claim.
  • Fill in your blog’s description.
  • Mark “include this blog in Technorati’s Blog Finder” check box.
  • Fill in 20 tags in the provided box.
  • If you do not want to install Technorati feature in your blog, click save changes.
  • But if you want to install Technorati widget in your blog, you have to give mark sign on “Show Technorati embed on my site”, and choose your desired features, then you have to copy the code and paste this code onto your blog template, click save changes.

2. Technorati Bookmarks/Favorites

The steps are:

  • Click Favorites menu.
  • Fill in your favorite blog’s address into “Add a blog to your favorites” box.
  • Click add.

Noteworthy:

  • Technorati only give 50 blog’s address to bookmarks.
  • Whatever blogs can be bookmark, including your own blog.

How to Install Backlinks Code

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

This time I will give tutorials on how to include Backlinks PHP code on the blog machine. For information, Backlinks are only accepted paid blog hosting by PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Perl format and CMS like Wordpress Blog (Blogspot and free paid Wordpress are not). For those who do not know what Backlinks is, you can see the information here and here.

Here are the steps to install Backlinks php code with the image. Hopefully the image could give you more clues to implement on yours.

1. Register at Backlinks.com if you do not yet have an account there.

2. Log in to your Backlinks account, and then click the Add Page link “as the image below”.

backlinks
3. Click “Add Single Page”
backlinks

4. Next, fill in the details of your blog that you want to be registered. Choose ‘advertising” as your category, leave the Country “United States” as your default, and select “Homepage” link for the page type. Finally, check all categories that provides so that your link could be sold as soon as possible.

backlinks

5. The next step after entering your blog, go to the page “My Links Pages” menu and then click “installation code.” You will be taken on the page as below. Choose “Wordpress blog” menu and click “installation guide” to take Backlinks key and download Backlinks plugins.

backlinks

6. Next, download the plugin that they provided, extract to your Wordpress plugin directory. If you have done it, you must activate the plugins through the dashboard of your blog. Finally, enter your “Backlinks key”.

backlinks

7. This is the last step. Log in to the dashboard blog, and then open the “design” and “theme editor”, in the right, choose sidebar.php, then click it. On sidebar.php page find code like this: (See picture below). Now, exactly under the code, enter the Backlinks code as follows:

<?php if(get_option(’backlinks_key’)) : ?>
<li><h2>Partner links</h2>
<?php backlinks_links()?>
</li>
<?php endif; ?>

backlinks

Then press “update files” button and try open your blog page, if you can see “link partners”, then you have successfully enter the Backlinks code.

Repeat these steps to your other blogs. You will see what I see every month, more or less like the image below:

backlinkst

Selling Links is Easy Part II

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Have you already joined in selling links as I suggest in the first part of this post? If you had, you should now able to see the result. For you who have not yet read the first part of the post, please read it here first.

Until now, my income from selling links are going higher and higher. Previously, I didn’t believe this business model when I tried with TLA (textlinkads) or TNX. But, Backlinks make me 100% believe that selling links is easy :)

We only need to sign up, enter the blog; enter the code and a little while….. money comes in. Without the need to tired of writing review in getting paid, without the need to be weary to promote such as in AdSense. Here, I think, there are not difficulties.

Based on my experience, selling links from PR 4 is more easily while also are more expensive. However, selling links from blog PR 3 even PR 2 is also easy. The trick is, please change the category of blogs with Advertising. If you do not yet have a blog / domain PR 3, you can buy them and then join paid review programs, plus selling links Backlinks. The result? I am sure you will be able to see quickly.

Selling Links is Easy Part I

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

In my daily activities as a blogger, I try to earn extra money from sell links. I was quite surprised with the results of several links sell on my blog, in fact I just register in few days. Well, we are not discussing TLA (textlinkads) which is a little difficult because their requirements are strict. We also do not discuss about the TNX or linkworth. So what are we talking about? I suggest you to keep read .. :)

This article gives information to maximize your blog income from selling links without any specified requirement. The name of this program is Backlinks.com. May be some of you have already known, but reluctant or not try yet. For you who have no interest in this business, I need to announce that sell links through backlinks.com is VERY EASY. In additional, in backlinks.com, you do not need to enter the link manually or search advertiser by yourself, all done automatically. What you need to do is install the plugins (for CMS wordpress) or insert php code only. Next, let addvertiser find us to buy link.

Currently, almost all blog with various niche are accepted by Backlinks.com. You just need to have blog with PR, at least PR 1. This is an easy condition. The more you enter blogs to your account, then the more opportunities your links are sold, which means the more income you will receive.

If interested, please register your blog in Backlinks through this link. Remember, do not forget to enter the code / plugins to verify the blog shortly after you register. Hopefully in a short time the link in your blog you will be sold soon.

Interested to try it? Hopefully, this information is useful.

Sponsoredreviews - Other Alternative To Get Dollar

Monday, October 13th, 2008

After success with Blogsvertise, now I’m trying to build blog and get dollars (additional revenue) at the same time by using other programs, it is Sponsoredreviews. Actually I have registered as their clients at long time ago, but because more eager to carry-cool and deepen knowledge about Blogsvertise causing me to forget Sponsoredreviews.

This, because there are few problems with Blogsvertise so cut off the flow of dollars to my PayPal account. After I search on Google relates to my problem is, I found fact that Blogsvertise is very bad PTR Program, they always late in payment and banned their member without any explanation and their TOS are unclear. Immediately I return to Sponsoredreviews, because of lack of experience with this broker, then I try to find the reference that can provide such guidance, and little tips and trick about them to be successful with Sponsoredreviews.

Based on my experience with Blogsvertise, I am sure that online earning is tangible or real, in other words, the online earning is a make sense matter that is not totally clear Fake as many other people said, that looking for money in the Internet is deceptive. So I’m sure with Sponsoredreviews that they are one of the brokers who seriously managed their business in well condition. If you want to investigate a certain online business based on web site, you can check it using whois services to find out their business details. Usually if a person or corporate want to do business with honest and serious, they will registered their sites, blogs in a long time period.

Sponsoredreviews is a company that can be said serious to manage their business, this can be seen from the Creation Date: 18-sep-2006 and Expiration Date: 18-sep-2016. It is long enough now, isn’t it? 10 years is the time that can be said so long and can be concluded that Sponsoredreviews is dependable and reliable.

If you have registered as Sponsoredreviews member, come back to this blog to get the tutorial … so that you can work smoothly and earn money into your PayPal… The words “safe” means that in cooperation with Sponsoredreviews you don’t make any mistakes (TOS violation), because if you do only one violation, will cause your account been banned.

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Find Out Who is Calling You

Friday, October 10th, 2008

Technology like telephone is one great thing human ever made, since this was invented until now, phone has became the important thing in life. People who live far away each other can get in touch and talk like they are in the same place face to face. Business world get the most benefits of this phone technology, but how if your business partner call you and you are not at home, and you do not have any idea about the incoming call about and who has called you. don’t be afraid, technology has grown so fast and people always think new and invent something interesting and useful for ease of life. You can get your Phone Number Report in addition with the submitted comments all in a time. this can be used to avoid someone who always call you and you can get the Harassing Caller Report and end this inconvenient time.