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The Facts About Pagerank

July 9th, 2008 | 2 Comments | Posted in Blogging, seo

What we know and might be wrong about Google Pagerank:

  • Tool Pagerank Prediction always correct => False
    No one except Mr. G’s staffs knows for sure about the algorithm of Pagerank calculation
  • The more frequent we update our blog, the more Pagerank our blog will have => False
    The frequency of blog update is not related with Pagerank
  • Pagerank applies for overall pages from one domain name => False
    Every page of our website has its own pagerank
  • Pagerank affect Google’s SERP => False
    Pagerank does not affect our blog’s position in any search engines
  • Pagerank affect CPC Adsense => False
    Pagerank iss not connected with AdSense at all

We hope this information will make you know better about Google’s very own Pagerank

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Tips Optimasi Blog Dalam Menaikkan Pagerank dan Trafic

May 17th, 2008 | 5 Comments | Posted in Blogging, seo

Beberapa cara yang bisa ditempuh untuk menaikkan Pagerank blog kita dan menarik minat orang untuk mengunjungi blog kita:

  • Tuliskan komentar pada blog yang menerapkan Do-Follow
  • Submit blog anda ke web directory
  • Submit blog anda ke blog directory
  • Buatlah sebuah diskusi di forum dimana anda bisa menaruh link dari blog anda
  • Reply comment
  • Submit sebuah artikel di blog carnival
  • Ucapkan terima kasih untuk anggota baru dari MyBlogLog komunitasmu
  • Tulis semua ide dari apa yang mau ditaruh di blog
  • Download free template untuk dicoba di blog kita
  • Cari warna yang benar2 sesuai dengan template yang anda pakai
  • Kunjungi blog2 yang punya kategori sama dengan blog anda

Tunggu apa lagi, segera lakukan langkah2 di atas biar blogmu menjadi terkenal. Good Luck :)

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Your Online Business Obstacles

May 14th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

You maybe thinking like this, “I’ve done all the tricks, but none of my online business is making progress. What did I done wrong?

Calm down a bit. Don’t blame yourself and then give it all up in your starting steps to success. Here I will expose three common obstacles that drag you away from your online business success.

1. Short Oriented.
Online business often promises to offer lots of money in fast time. Because of that, lots of people tempted to  be having short orientation. They think that they can have all the money from the internet within one or three weeks time. The consequence is people that have short orientation in online business can get frustrated when the success is not coming, and makes them giving up trying.

Starting an online business is like having a baby. It has to be nurtured and cared patiently, until it has the strength to stand up and run. That is why, it is important to have a long-term orientation on running online business. If you are patient, the success will come

2. Fail to Optimize
Online business always stands over continuously process. Some parts of the process are run by human, and others by technology. As the time going, technology is running faster and faster. This is when we need our consciousness to open our eyes and ears of what happen around us, new technology that can be used for our online business.

The easiest way is by using search engine for new information. By typing the right keyword in search engine, we can get useful information for our site. Example, if you join Adsense, you can search with keyword “adsense optimization”, I’m sure that if will get you many results that you can pick and apply it for your site.

The point is, never stop maintaining your online business, and try every single way that you think it can maximize your business.

3. Failed to Do Marketing Effectively
Jump to online business means that you are willing to learn about marketing. Because, your business successs or not depends on how huge you can sale your product.

The learning process of marketing does not have to be in formal education, but you can read books about marketing or learn from successful marketers. You can also join marketing forums, or attend marketing seminars. Learning about marketing makes you understand of how to market your product or service to the right people, on the right way, and at the right time.

Marketing is not just about ad. The point of marketing is how you make people know and aware about your product. Never hesitate to tell people about your product. Be sure that your product is priceless and needed by others

How To Get Yourself Free Domain

May 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Blogging, wordpress

Nowadays, it is very common for everyone to create their own blogs. The users are not from a particular group, but almost all kinds of people have it, whether they are students, employees, old, young, professionals, newbies, etc. Their blog topics are also varies, such as politics, music, communities, hobbies, also gossip about artists.

It is easy to make a blog. You don’t even have to pay to make one. There are several sites that offer free blogs, such as blogger.com, or wordpress.com. Or, if you have some pennies to spare, you can buy your own domain.

Now, there are several sites that also offer free domain, such as co.cc and unonic, they support forwarding domain, so you can forward your blog from wordpress or blogger to your own domain at co.cc or unonic.

Next time I will write how to get a free host with a free domain. The best things in life come free… :)

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Getting More Traffic From Social Bookmarking

May 4th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

For new blogger like me, there is nothing curious us more than how to get more traffic to our blog. Sometimes I wonder how can other blog owners can have hundreds of visitors per day, and become so popular. We all want to be like them, aren’t we? Having a lot of traffic means that our blog will have higher rank, that also means easier for us to earn money from advertising programs, such as google adsense, and paid-to-review programs.

After doing some research on some popular and interesting blogs, I have found a common thing between them. That common thing is that most of the popular blogs always have links to Social Bookmarking sites, such as StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, Technorati, digg, and others.

Being listed on social bookmarking sites makes your blog easier to be found by people, and will give you valuable backlinks as well. Try to implement this social bookmarking, and your blog traffic will slowly increase. So, what are you waiting for??? Get signed up now…

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Review: Paid To Write Programs

May 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

Monetizing your blog is not only via Google Adsense. If you are considering to build an online business from your blog, it is better to know things about what other monetizing programs you can join. One of the programs is Paid-to- Write.

If you like and good at writings (in English), one of the alternatives to do online business is paid-to-write program. As it’s called, you will be paid to write reviews, opinions or just by giving a link to a product on your posting or articles.

Here is some review of the paid-to-write programs that you can join. If you are interested, you can join them. Don’t worry, there are no referral links from me in this review.

Blogvertise
This company will pay you to create BUZZ. Your job is to mention about a product, a service, or a particular site in your blog so that your reader will know about that product or service. If you don’t have a Paypal account yet, you should sign up first, because Blogvertise pays each post that you make via Paypal account.

BloggerWave
Bloggerwave is one of the popular choice to earn money by creating your free blog and write your opinion about particular topic.

Blogitive
Blogitive gives you chance to write your own opinion about new products released by some company. You will be paid via Paypal on weekly basis for each article you made.

BlogToProfit
BlogtoProfit connects you and the advertisers who want to use your blog. In BlogToProfit, your job is to show off the ads in your articles. Because it blends with your writings, there are no limit for profit with this program

PayPerPost
PayPerPost will pay you everytime you write a review or opinion about a product.

Smorty
This program will pay you to write about a product, service, or particular site in your blog. Smorty pays its member weekly. You are free to write about the topic that you like. You can also post in some of your own blogs.

SponsoredReviews
SponsoredReviews is the advertising review service that gives you chance to become publisher and earn money by writing site reviews or SponsoredReviews client’s product. The advantage of SponsoredReviews from others is that you can choose your own bidding of you review commission. Moreover, SponsoredReviews also gives affiliate program so the more referral you get the more commission you earn.

These are the ones that I know, maybe you have other good programs that makes money please tell me so we can share.

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Still In Love With Google

April 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, seo

Have you read Steve Johnston’s book; 50 Ways to Make Google Love Your Web Site? Only creates headache. Why Google being such a favourite thing that materialistic and get so many action? The reason is natural, Google has so many fans around the world. Steve Johnston wrote tips about how we can make Google loves our website. There are 50 ways? Are you sure that Google will not have an affair?

Guess what, Google is not as faithful as you imagine! Tammy Dickinson, a woman who had her love betrayed by Google, wrote her experience and her scandal in her book; 50 Ways To Lose Your Lover
And now, I would like to share tips on how to keep your relationship with Google so you can intimate one without potions, spells or other magic tricks

Don’t be such an annoying people
Google does not like cheap website that annoying, irritating, and act too much. Yes, the secret is you can’t have too many relationship with other sites that is not content-related with our site. Link-exchange with no quality sites will make Google lose interest in making love with your site. Try to be something different and Be yourself

Don’t just stand still when Google starts to touch you, and then stop in the middle because of broken links. This will make Google hurts so bad. Google will just go away and will never coming back (so sad).

Too Dressed up in your title, description, and keyword is also dislikes by Google. Seeing you makes me sick, don’t even think of making love. Well dressed, matched perfectly from top to bottom. Nice looking will give you love from Google.

Your attitude is also important. You have to do according to SEO ethical and correct norms that is written (in webmaster guidelines) as well as unwritten (valid CSS, xhtml, etc)

Make sure everything is ready when Google visit you and ask you dating. Google never want to reschedule and your site uptime should have 99%. Don’t let yourself not at home when Google comes.

Happy Dating!

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4 Common Mistakes In Optimizing and Blog Submission

April 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Blogging, seo

When we blog, we often do mistakes while optimizing our seo blog, especially new bloggers (like me) entering blog and internet world. SEO is like two-eyed knife, if we use it correctly can have excellent effect for our blog. But if we do it wrongly, the result will be horrid for our blog’s page rank, blog’s rank in search engine, or may even be considered as spam blog. So, to avoid these mistakes, I will tell you about these 4 common mistakes in submission techniques and blog optimization.

1. Using wrong keywords
The worst result if we use wrong keywords is that search engine and visitor will not find our blog. I believe that no one wants to have this situation ever happen on his blog, don’t you too? To avoid this mistke, we should do some keyword research about our blog first. When looking for keyword density, we can use several tools on the internet, which are:

- SEO Tools (Freeware)
Not only showing keyword comparison, SEO Tools also shows the combination of keywords phrases that are relating to find “Niche Market”

- Wordtracker
An excellent tool, however, the free version only shows MSN search result

- Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Of course, there are a lot more of free tools that we can use by googling

2. Too many Keyword in Meta Tag Keyword
Many of us bloggers have wrong a wrong idea about Meta Tag Keyword. They tend to put hundreds of keyword in meta tag keyword, by hoping of getting high pagerank for that keyword in search engines.

The fact, search engine will assume our blog a spam if the keywords are too many in meta tag keyword. Once we are hoping that it will go as top ten search result on google, can become our site not even showed in search engine.
Tips: make only adequate and relevant keywords with our blog, like 25 keyword

3. Too Many of Same Keyword Being Repeated
Search engines can detect a blog with too many repeated same keywords and they will not indexed that blog in their database.
So, we should avoid using too many keywords in each page, even if we have to, that keyword should have a meaning in the sentence.

Tips: don’t put a particular keyword more than once in meta tag keyword.

4. Using Text Color that Similar With Background Color
This technique often used by webmasters to trick search engines and make their pages rich of keywords. It is hard to repeat the same keywords in the same page without making them sounds odd for our visitors. That is why, this technique is used so repeated keywords can’t be seen by visitors.

However, now search engines can sniff this technique, resulting they will not do indexing our blog. Search engines consider these blogs as fraud. Therefore, never use this trick again because it will never work

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5 Metode Ampuh Menaikkan Site Traffic

April 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, seo

Berikut adalah lima cara untuk menaikkan site traffic blog anda.

1. Buat Laporan atau Panduan yang baik dan terstruktur
Seringkali blogger-blogger pemula (seperti saya ini…:)) menulis laporan atau tips-tips di blog masing2 hanya asal2an. Hal ini mungkin dikarenakan masih belum terbiasanya menulis di blog, ataupun dikejar waktu, atau alasan2 lainnya. Ketika menulis suatu laporan atau post, selalu usahakan agar laporan tersebut terlihat simple dan informative. Dengan demikian, pembaca blog kita akan bisa menyimak maksud yang ingin kita sampaikan dengan cepat. Hal ini bisa menimbulkan kunjungan kedua dan seterusnya dari pembaca tersebut ke blog kita.

2. Beri komentar di blog orang lain secara bijak
Yang ini adalah cara yang sangat penting, dan jangan beri komentar yang tidak berarti, seperti “thanks” atau “pertamaxx”. Beri komentar yang setidaknya dapat memberi nilai lebih pada post itu. Seperti contohnya, kita dapat menulis begini “terima kasih atas tipsnya, untuk tips menaikkan traffic ke website lainnya anda bisa kunjungi ke mybloglog atau blogcatalog. Pengunjung blog tersebut yang melihat komentar anda akan lebih condong untuk mampir atau melihat blog anda.

3. Pakailah Social Media sites yang ada dengan efektif.
Semua orang bisa pakai Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Mixx, dll, tetapi jarang yang bisa menggunakannya dengan efektif. Menggunakan social media sites bukanlah hanya berarti mendaftar artikel2 anda dan berharap pengunjung datang. Mentalitas online jaman sekarang sudah berubah, orientasi internet telah menjadi lebih ke komunitas dan bila kita meminta orang untuk membookmark article kita, kadang mereka memberi respon juga.

4. Buat blog yang menyenangkan dan bisa membuat orang santai
Sebagai anggota komunitas blog, kita bertanggung jawab untuk membuat blog lebih baik, bukan lebih buruk. Maka dalam membuat suatu blog, perlu dipertimbangkan baik2 dalam memilih warna, form navigasi, theme, dan content yang akan dipilih. Dengan membuat blog yang menyenangkan orang untuk datang dan membaca artikel anda, percayalah mereka pasti kembali lagi.

5. Yang terakhir, jangan lupa tentang Search Engine Optimization.
Search Engin Optimization (SEO) bisa berupa internal linking dan external linking, pemakaian META tags, dan memastikan bahwa Google dapat menemukan site-map dari post2 anda dan mengindexnya.

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10 Wordpress Plugins Yang Wajib Dipakai

April 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in wordpress

Seperti yang kita ketahui bersama, Wordpress adalah platform yang hebat untuk mempublikasikan high quality content, Wordpress membuat seseorang bisa dengan mudah membuat sebuah blog dan mengatur blognya sedemikian rupa menurut kehendaknya. Hal yang penting dari Wordpress adalah elemen yang disebut plug-ins. Plugins membuat kita bisa lebih leluasa dalam melakukan apa saja dengan blog kita. Berikut adalah 10 plugins yang menurut saya paling berguna untuk blog kita. Cuman yang harus diingat, menginstal plugins terlalu banyak pada wordpress kita dapat mempengaruhi loading time dan performance dari blog kita.

1. Akismet

Akismet adalah sebuah plugin yang berguna untuk mengatasi comment2 berupa spam pada blog anda. Kenapa saya bilang setiap blog wajib menginstal Akismet? Karena jaman sekarang banyak sekali spammer liar yang tiap hari mengunjungi comment box anda. That’s why we all need one.

2. Broken Link Checker

Sebuah plugin yang tak kalah hebat, berguna untuk mengecek blog kita kalau2 ada broken links, dan bila ada akan diperlihatkan di dashboard kita.

3. Feedburner Feedsmith
Plugin yang satu ini dapat membuat kita melacak semua pendaftar feed pada blog kita yang dulu2 dan mengembalikan mereka ke feed dari FeedBurner kita yang sekarang. Plugin ini bagus untuk blogger2 yang mencari pendaftar2 feed mereka yang hilang.

4. Wordpress.com Statistics
Wordpress.com Statistics plugin berguna untuk melacak pengunjung2 blog kita, disana diinformasikan tentang pageviews, jumlah post yang diklik, referrers yang menunjuk ke blog kita dan masih banyak lagi. Berguna sekali untuk mengidentifikasi apa yang orang2 sukai dari blog kita.

5 Subscribe To Comments
Plugin ini dapat membuat pembaca blog kita untuk mendaftar ke komentar (subscribe to comments) di blog kita pada post tertentu yang mereka telah komentari. Hal ini penting karena mereka bisa mengetahui kalau seseorang merespon komentar atau menanyakan sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan post tersebut.

6. Top Commentators Widget
Plugin kecil untuk menampilkan komentator terbanyak pada  blog kita.

7. Share This
Plugin ini juga sangat recommended buat semua, karena terbukti dapat mengurangi load time dari homepage blog kita, tidak seperti Sociable plugin yang punya terlalu banyak gambar untuk diload.

8. Get Recent Comments
Apabila anda mencari sesuatu untuk memenuhi sidebar anda, plugin ini dapat digunakan.

9. Google Analytics
Plugin sederhana yang satu ini bertugas untuk menambahkan Google Analytics tracking script pada blog kita supaya kita tidak perlu repot2 membetulkan atau mencampuri file2 pada theme blog kita. Benar2 berguna bila anda adalah seseorang yang senang semua serba otomatis.

10. Peter’s Custom Anti Spam
Plugin buatan si Peter ini gunanya hampir sama dengan Akismet, yakni untuk menangkal spam comments yang masuk. Bedanya, kalau pakai plugin ini, pengunjung blog kita yang ingin meninggalkan commentnya harus terlebih dulu mengetik huruf2 yang ada di anti spam image display, semacam rapidshare gitu lah.

So, plugins wordpress apa yang anda pakai untuk blog anda? Bisa anda share disini

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