If you have read my article about Build Community Blog Using Wordpress must be know with this plugin, What Would Seth Godin Do. This plugin actually purposed to give few notes to visitors, like this example below.

We could make a message to newly visitor and return visitor, in its default, it contains a message that ask reader to subscribe to RSS feed. This message box could be set before and after post, I prefer to put after post.
We can set the message, it could be used to many purposes besides asking to subscribe to our RSS feed, like:

1. Offers to several affiliate products, bloggers who have bunch of traffic should exploits this chance and your advantage to monetize your blog. Promote your affiliation link with this plugin, put the link after your post, make it open in new window, so the readers are not leave your blog so fast.
2. Announcement maybe? If you have important notification or make a quiz, you can use it as your notification media.

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There are 1.000 ways to go to Rome, and there are 1.000 ways to attract visitors to your blog. One of this ways is EntreCard. What is this? Is it kind of food? Is it kind of vehicles? Is it kind of software application? The answer is nop.

Okay, in this time I will give a little bit explanation about EntreCard. EntreCard is newest online media networking that was created by Graham Langdon. He is the owner of The Million Dollar Wiki. Graham is known as man with original ideas of using web 2.0 media, he is the innovator. EntreCard is one of his original ideas. Graham called EntreCard as “online business card 2.0”.

How it works? It is very simple. You just have to join as member to get EntreCard widget. Then copy and install EntreCard widget on your blog. Next step is the interesting one, after the widget installed, automatically your blog is enrolled in EntreCard Dashboard Campaign. If there is someone who interested to advertise their EntreCard on your blog, you will get EntreCard credit. You can use this credit to advertise on other blogs, in other words you can freely promote your blog on other blog by shows your EntreCard. Is it amazing, isn’t it? What a smart guy.

Your EntreCard will appear fully one day on other blog which accept your EntreCard. Much more your EntreCard appear in EntreCard blog member network, much more your blog chance to be visited by other EntreCard member. One more advantage is you can sell your credit to other member, it means EntreCard could be your one cash machine.

The main core is, you will get natural traffic with EntreCard. This will make chance for you to get new link from your visitors. It is easy to join EntreCard, if you have blog using English as your blog content you can join EntreCard. In this time, EntreCard only accept blog using English as their content.

Me myself just not long time ago have installed EntreCard widget on this blog, and I have had its benefit, because I have chunk of bump Traffic significantly. Several amount of renown blogger like Darren Rowse, Jeremy Schoemaker, John Chow, and Joel Comm has joined EntreCard. You know what is it mean? It means you would have big chance to promote your blog on those outstanding blogger.

Google Still The Big Star

Google is still assumed the amazing search engine in this time to all search engine user in internet, because they have the very big database, and they ability to search at so many types like PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoints, etc.

Besides there are many advertisement appear on many blogs, newsgroup that so mess up, Google popularity often arrange and produce the valuable search page to all their users, especially with the search result sequence near the top result, closing their user need, only on first page, instead just on one page result often have found the information that user expect.

In principle, if you can master the strategy that Google applied, then to other search engine it is absolutely can be told that you could master the strategy too. This matter have been studied by Overlap which indicate that half of page on the database are in their database. To get next opinion, can be exploited other search engine, like Yahoo search and other popular search engine.

Search Engine

Search Engine General Principle

To know further concerning this search engine performance, there are some things need to talk first, especially related to architecture problem and mechanism of the search engine.

Spider

Is the program that downloads the pages they find, spider looks like browser. Its difference is at browser directly presents the information (picture, text, etc) for the people need at that moment. While spider isn’t do that to present in the form which is seen like that, because its interest is for machine not for human, even spider is run by machine automatically. Its interest is to take the visited pages to be kept into the database owned by search engine.

Crawler

Is the program owned by search engine to trace and find link which is from each pages met. Its duty is to determine spider have to go where and evaluate link according to the early determined address. Crawler follows link and try to find the unheard document by search engine.

Indexer

This component do activity to elaborate each pages and check various element, such as text, headers, structure or write style feature, special HTML tag, etc.

Database

Is the standard place to saves data from pages which have been visited, downloaded and have been analyzed, once in a while referred with index from search engine.

Result Engine

The machine does the classification and rank determination from search result at search engine. This machine determines which page met best criteria from search result by user request, and how the appearance will be presented.

This process is done based on ranking algorithm owned by search engine. According to the page ranking method used by them are their rights, researchers has been studying the nature which they use, especially to improve the search result by that search engine.

Web Server

Is computer serving request and give reply from that request. These web servers usually produce the information or document in HTML form. On the page is available service to fill in the search keyword wanted by user. This web server also responsible to sent over search result which is asked to the computer that ask for the information.

Way The Search Engine Work

Search engine such as many we are known, not really do search to the entire World Wide Web directly. Search is done through databases which save text from each page outside there. Text from each pages are kept into their database server.

When you do the web search by using search engine, actually it searches the copy page which is kept in their database that contains the copy page at the last time they are visited. When you click provided link in the search result page done by search engine, the fact is the address given from server search engine through actual version in their database.

Database on the search engine selected and classify by robot program which is called spider. Though they analyze the page will be taken and kept into their database, in reality can be said that they take it from one place.

Then to find the other potential page, they relate to links on their pages which have been kept in their database. This machine cannot write down URL and think the pages will them to try to visit. Computer truly sophisticated more and more, but they just cannot think creative as like as human in general.

If a web page have never been linked from other page, then search engine spider will not find the page, they are only watch from their database.

To sites that are really new, and there is no other site which make their link to the newly site, it’s absolutely sure the spider will not know it. Way to make the newly site can be enlist at search engine, specially to site which is not linked yet by another site, is by giving the direct notification to the search engine that there is new site, this is done by human. Most of all search engines give the facility or offer for this matter.

After spider finds a page, they will send the invention result to other computer to be indexed. This program identify the text, link and other content on the page, then save it into their database file, so that through the database can be done the keyword search or anything in advanced which they offer, till you find one site which match with your desire.

Some types of page and link are not packed into most search engine because some reasons. Some the others nor entered because spider cannot access the page. The page which is not packed into the index referred with “invisible web”, where you cannot directly see the page. There are large numbers of this kind of page, it reaches bigger than the page may be presented.

Hidden Page

Page may be peeped out from search result at search engine referred with “visible web”, while the page may not be peeped out or cannot be seen, because some rules, either on the site owner request, or because something else, then referred to “invisible web”. First version of this invisible webpage begin to be hot topic since 2000, when at that moment there are many pages was not presented by search result, so that technically arranged and created special procedure that capable to handle that problems.

In this time there are some page types use this facility, the page cannot be seen but creates in such a manner to be in webpage so that can available. The types are:

1. Page with non HTML form, such as PDF, Word, Excel, Corell Suite, etc, these documents are translated into HTML form, so that in this time most of popular search engine can present the translation result.
2. Page base on script that is link with special symbols in language program form, this matter have been handled and almost all search engine have this ability.
3. Dynamic form page through program that create database (like Active Server Pages, Cold Fusion, PHP, etc) could be indexed when it has stable/fix URL that could be found by search engine.

Why be Hidden?

There still some restriction for search engine to search for invisible file, so that search engine cannot give the search result.

1. Search engine still not thought this solution yet. If one page want to go to another page need type process, then it is restriction for the search engine, because machine cannot do it. They cannot do searching to catalog, they cannot fill login or password, etc.
2. Page that asked not to be indexed by search engine. For this matter, search engine do this pursuant to rules which have been specified. There no technical reason for this matter, every sites owner or search engine owner have ability for not to index their pages if they wish that way.