Blogger Tips & Tricks

Tips To Creating a Successful Article

Blogger Man — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:28:43 +0000

Creating a Successful Article

If you have writing ability, that’s great and you are well ahead in the game of article marketing. The next thing you will have to learn is how to format the article in the correct way to get the results you want. Every good article will start with an attention grabbing statement as a headline. Make sure that the headline is not all hype. Following the headline will be the sub-headline which can’t be hype either. Headlines are very important especially in the Internet world.

Remember, there is no cover page to your article so it is important to compel the reader with the headline to read the article. The subheadings should serve the same purpose and should explain what the article is about. A good article should be at least three hundred words in length with no less than three paragraphs. You should avoid paragraphs with only one sentence that is just a few words long. This technique can be used to give that sentence a different effect but should only be used for that purpose.

The opening paragraph should explain what the article is about to the reader and what they will be informed on throughout the article. You can treat articles like a thesis from high school or college. Ask a question or make a statement and then prove it with the text. It is imperative that each paragraph lead the reader to the next. You want them to reach the bottom.

The final paragraph should close up your article by summarizing the subjects touched on by the article. Make sure to provide your resource box after the last paragraph. As a reminder to the reader, it will link them directly to your site There they can learn even more about the reader and the topic.

Finally, you should make your article free to reprint for the readers. This can be a great way to get some extra advertisement for no cost to you. They may send it to a friend or family member that may also be interested in your website. Make it clear that is only available for reprint if the resource box stays intact. This way your article will become viral.

When you finish writing your article, put it aside and read it again the next day. Many times, writers become fixated on their own writing and the information may need a more objective point of view. Ask a friend to read it over for you. Make sure they know you want to them to criticize your writing constructively. This is a great way to get some feedback before you send the article out.

How Many Words Should I Use?

This is an age old question. It may be a controversial subject if the article will be used for marketing purposes. Some may say six hundred words while others will say seven hundred and fifty. Some may even believe they should be longer than that. How do you know which expert is right?

First off, you should take a look at the ezine publishers. Keep in mind that their publications are usually delivered via email to a mass amount of people. This means that they usually try to keep the size of newsletters down. In most cases, ezine publishers will not accept newsletters containing more then seven hundred and fifty words.

You want your articles to be viral so you also want ezine publishers to pick them up, publish and distribute them. In result, you will want to keep all articles fewer than seven hundred and fifty, as well as the ones you submit to article sites. So now you know the maximum length, but what is the minimum?

In most cases, there are no minimum requirements but most articles fewer than three hundred words are not even worth reading. Most ezine publishers refuse to publish them because they do not have enough valuable information for the reader. So, you articles should have more than three hundred words but less than seven hundred and fifty.

Typically, articles range between three hundred and five hundred words. This is just the right amount of information to get your point across without giving everything away. Then, of course, direct the reader to your website for more information on the topic.

While these sized articles are on the shorter end, they are good sized articles because the readers do not want to read all day long. They want to get in, get the information they need, and move on with their day. Because of this, you must make sure to use your words wisely and get your point across while capturing the attention of the readers. It sounds like a lot to do but it will come much easier to you after some practice.

Do not forget the idea you are trying to establish with every article. Establish yourself as an expert in the field, inform the reader, and then direct them to your web page. Do the selling on your website and not in your article. At the website, you should provide them with more content and a sales letter that sells your product or service. Busby SEO Test

Adorn 404 Page In Wordpress To Retains Visitor From Leaving Our Blog

Blogger Man — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 13:33:32 +0000

Having 404 pages in our Wordpress blog is a pain in the back, this usually happens in Wordpress blog and the cause is vary probably because of the visitor write a wrong url address while trying to access our page or we accidentally or deliberately remove the page, thus the page no longer exist and 404 page appears to replace the removed pages.

And in this post, I will share the information to adorns your 404 pages to be visitor friendly by adding features. This feature will change the default look of 404 pages, actually you can put anything in your 404 pages even ads, but I’d rather to add something which have related to my blog like category, popular posts, most commented post and so on.

Here’s the trick, login to your WP dashboard and go to Theme editor and click 404 page (404.php). Let’s say you want to put “popular post”, “recent post” and “category” in your 404.php page, then add the following code to it:

Incredible SEO Wordpress Plugins I Use

Blogger Man — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:34:49 +0000

Here is a list of SEO plugins I use to this blog which helping me to have good position in Google SERP, I don’t use tons of SEO plugin to my blog, thus you won’t find a lengthy list that will make you feel bored. Here’s the list:

1. All In One SEO Pack Plugin, it will optimize Wordpress title automatically for search engines, builds META tags automatically, avoiding duplicate content that frequently occurs in Wordpress blog by default. This plugin very powerful to lifts up our blog position in search engines especially Google.

2. Google XML Sitemaps plugin, this SEO plugin will generate a Google sitemaps compliant with Wordpress blog’s XML-Sitemap, thus each time you make any update or edit a post the plugin will immediately update the sitemap automatically and notify quicker to any search engines that support sitemap protocol such are Google, Yahoo, MSN and ASK.com.

3. No Ping Wait Wordpress Plugin, as I have previously promoted it in: No Ping Wait Wordpress Plugin. The benefit of having this plugin installed to your blog is, to speed up pinging process for newly published articles of your blog. This because because there will be delay about few minutes for a new article you just published. And this plugin fix the problem and the pinging process will be faster.

4. Yet Another Related Posts Plugin, this SEO plugin displays related post to the post you read with short quote of each post.

5. Sociable, will automatically add social bookmarks link beneath each of your post or rss feed, in total there are 99 social bookmark, but you are allowed to chose only social bookmarks you want to add.

6. Robots Meta plugin, this plugins avoid the page or part of your side that you want them not to get indexed by Google and other search engines, this is useful to avoid duplicate content that will injure your blog’s position in SERP.

7. FeedBurner FeedSmith plugin, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.

I love the above SEO plugins and they have been helping me to optimize my blog, thus having them installed to wordpress blog is highly recommended not just by me but all of them who have deep intention to better their blog position in Google SERP.

See you in the post, good day!

Taken from: Incredible SEO Plugins in Busby SEO Test

List Of Articles

Blogger Man — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:24:56 +0000

The following is a list of articles that I good to share, and here they are:

5 Easy Tips to Increase your PageRank

Blogger Man — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 16:32:12 +0000

Everyone knows that Google Page Rank (PR) is based on back links. While Back links itself are the links that are pointing or lead to your website. Where do this link come from? From other website you just posted. So if you have good math theory, you can possibly know that the more back links you got the higher your PR will be.

1. Join forums, post your thought, views, share it, do that kind of thing will automatically create backlink but make sure if the forum has DoFollow Tag. I myself, recommend you to join Forums, because Forums are a great way to achieve these backlinks. Here are the several reason why i choose Forum
1. Most Forum allow user to promote their site through Signature, but some of them don, so make sure you read their rules before you act
2. You can put your site URL through User Profile
3. People asking help in some thread, you can lead them to your site only IF your site has that info
4. You can advertise your site in their subforum, well not all have this subforum
5. Creating Good post/thread which inside of it has link to your site like either it can be image (your image has link to your website) or direct link
6. And always remember once people fall in love with your post, they will share it to another forum and another one and another one, and once your post become popular, you know what that means to you. Trust me i have done this before so i can tell you this
2. Submit to search engine directories. Search engine directories are a good way to get a free link to your website and it doesn’t cost your time so much. You just submit it, giving description, determine which categories and thats it. The more you submit your site URL the more chances your site being listed higher on popular search engines and the more PR you got!
3. Commenting. Get involved in other people blog, do some comment and post your site URL in Site URL form. This, however require blog that have DoFollow tagged. For Firefox user, you can determine if the site has DoFollow Tag or not by installing SearchStatus addons
4. Submitting your article either in ezine or Social Media site. Articles are the ‘resource and image’ to your site. If people enjoy reading your article they will interesting to see your website and linking back to you from their blog/website
5. Exchange Link. This probably the most easy way but cost you some time to have a deal with the person you want to trade link. And it can also be the most frustrating thing you could attempt because you have to make sure that they are really serious in dealing with you and see how trusted they are.

Link to this post: http://tendou86.blogspot.com/2008/12/5-easy-tips-to-increase-your-pagerank.html

And: Busby SEO Test

The Best SEO Tips

3 Steps to monitor your SEO progress

Blogger Man — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:08:55 +0000

Once you have started working on increasing your back links using SEO methods you studied to increase your site visibility, then it is important to check your progress regularly. I am not just talking about checking the first page of Google to see if your site is ranked in the number one position! If you don’t check your progress regularly it will be easy to become disheartened as it can take a long time for your site to work its way up to the first page of the search engine results! To learn more visit the How to Monitor Your SEO Progress By Busby SEO Test by Busby SEO Test.

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SEO Wordpress Blog With Description

Blogger Man — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 16:00:32 +0000

This is going to be a short post, because I don’t have any reason to make it long. Well, let the title says that it’s about how to SEO Wordpress categories to make them SEO friendly, the technique is pretty simple. Write a short description within your category. If you don’t know where to start.

Inside your dashboard, Go to “manage” and click “Categories” and the list of categories will be displayed, all of them. And then click one of them, you will be directed to the new page about the detail of the category, you can edit it here. And scroll down, look at the “Description” and write a description inside the blank form related to your category. This is going to be more seo friendly category.

By this each of your category own a description, you can find it by click a category of your posts. Then right click to open view source, afterward your written description will be shown in view source.

And have a nice try.
See you in the next post.

Taken from: SEO Your Wordpress Category With Description and Busby SEO Test.

Wordpress Plugin Names No Ping Wait

Blogger Man — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:13:51 +0000

I stumbled upon to this Busby SEO Test blog and found a good article names No Ping Wait Wordpress Plugin, the post informs about a plugin that removes the delay period for newly published article while pinging process occurs.

This could make our new post quickly pinged without it has to wait for a minute or more. Thus, if you feel like installing the plugin to your Wordpress blog, I suggest you to visit No Ping Wait Wordpress Plugin to read a further information.

See you in the next post

How Does Google Index A Site

Blogger Man — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:42:39 +0000

As a starting point to elaborate this issue is to firstly understand on program used by Google in spidering and crawling a site/blog which is generally called Bot, it is the crawler or spider program that indexes pages for Google daily or frequently depends on popularity of a blog/site.

Google Bot is divided into three bots:

1. Adsense bot
2. Freshbot
3. DeepCrawl

Adsense bot, the name speaks for it self, yes it’s used by Google to recognizes what is publisher’s pages is all about, by receiving message from JavaScript of Adsense code we added in our template, so it can deliver relevant ads with the page content.

Freshbot is the most active bot among other bots, it regularly visits a blog to crawls the most popular pages. It doesn’t matter if that is one page or thousands. But the frequency of its visit measured on popularity of a site/blog, certainly the more popular a site the more frequent Freshbot will visit it. News site like BBC, CNN or online marketplace site like Ebay.com crawled in a matter of minutes a day.

Each site/blog must be having deeper links, thus what happen to them if Freshbot finds them during its visit? Freshbot will place the links within a database, and put them in queue till the time of DeepCrawl to take actions.

DeepCrawl bot is arranged to visit a blog monthly, before its visit, it firstly checks deeper links placed in queue of database, then grab them all to use as references when crawling a blog. Because it’s set to visit a blog monthly, thus it will take a month to get your entire content fully indexed in Google.

Therefore as a blogger/webmaster, our task to get the top position is doing a regular or may be a frequent update to a blog with fresh, informative or entertaining contents and build a valuable link building campaign, certainly the last yet the most important IS PATIENT.

That’s the general explanation on how Google indexes A Site Or Blog. Taken from: Busby SEO Test

How to get Traffic from Social Bookmarking sites

Blogger Man — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 11:41:39 +0000

Sites like digg.com, reddit.com, stumbleupon.com etc can bring you a LOT of traffic. How about getting 20,000 and more visitors a day when your listing hits the front page?
Getting to the front page of these sites is not as difficult as it seems. I have been successful with digg and del.icio.us (and not so much with Reddit though the same steps should apply to it as well) multiple times and have thus compiled a list of steps that have helped me succeed:

1Pay attention to your Headlines

Many great articles go unnoticed on social bookmarking sites because their headline is not catchy enough. Your headline is the first (and very often the only) thing users will see from your article, so if you don’t make the effort to provide a catchy headline, your chances of getting to the front page are small.
Here are some examples to start with :-

Original headline : The Two Types of Cognition
Modified Headline : Learn to Understand Your Own Intelligence

Original headline: Neat way to organize and find anything in your purse instantly!
Modified Headline : How to Instantly Find Anything in Your Purse

Here is a good blog post that should help you with your headlines.

2Write a meaningful & short description

The headline is very important to draw attention but if you want to keep that attention, a meaningful description is vital. The description must be slightly provocative because this draws more attention but still, never use lies and false facts to provoke interest. For instance, if your write “This article will reveal to you the 10 sure ways to deal with stress once and forever and live like a king from now on.” visitors will hardly think that your story is true and facts-based.

You also might be tempted to use a long tell-it-all paragraph to describe your great masterpiece but have in mind that many users will not bother to read anything over 100-150 characters. Additionally, some of the social bookmarking sites limit descriptions, so you’d better think in advance how to describe your article as briefly as possible.

3Have a great first paragraph

This is a rule that is always true but for successful social bookmarking it is even more important. If you have successfully passed Level 1 (headlines) and Level 2 (description) in the Catch the User’s Attraction game, don’t let a bad first paragraph make them leave your site.

4Content is king

However, the first paragraph is not everything. Going further along the chain of drawing (and retaining) users’ attention, we reach the Content is King Level. If your articles are just trash, bookmarking them is useless. You might cheat users once but don’t count on repetitive visits. What is more, you can get your site banned from social bookmarking sites, when you persistently post junk.

5Make it easy for others to vote / bookmark your site

It is best when other people, not you, bookmark your site. Therefore, you must make your best to make it easier for them to do it. You can put a bookmarking button at the end of the article, so if users like your content, they can easily post it. If you are using a CMS, check if there is an extension that allows to add Digg, Del.icio.us, and other buttons but if you are using static HTML, you can always go to the social bookmarking site and copy the code that will add their button to your pages.
Here is a link that should help you add Links for Del.icio.us, Digg, and More to your pages.

6Know when to submit

The time when you submit can be crucial for your attempts to get to the front page. On most social bookmarking sites you have only 24 hours to get to the front page and stay there. So, if you post when most users (and especially your supporters) are still sleeping, you are wasting valuable time. By the time they get up, you might have gone to the tenth page. You’d better try it for yourself and see if it works for you but generally posting earlier than 10 a.m. US Central Time is not good. Many people say that they get more traffic around 3 p.m. US Central Time. Also, workdays are generally better in terms of traffic but the downside is that you have more competitors for the front page than on weekends.

7Submit to the right category

Sometimes a site might not work for you because there is no right category for you. Or because you don’t submit to the right category – technology, health, whatever – but to categories like General, Miscellaneous, etc. where all unclassified stuff goes. And since these categories fill very fast, your chance to get noticed decreases.

8Build a top-profile

Not all users are equal on social bookmarking sites. If you are an old and respected user who has posted tons of interesting stuff, this increases the probability that what you submit will get noticed. Posting links to interesting articles on other sites is vital for building a top-profile. Additionally, it is suspicious, when your profile has links to only one site. Many social bookmarking sites frown when users submit their own content because this feels like self-promotion.

9Cooperate with other social bookmarkers

The Lonely Wolf is a suicidal strategy on sites like StubleUpon, Digg, Netscape. Many stories make it to the front page not only because they are great but because they are backed up by your network of friends. If in the first hours after your submittal you get at least 15 votes from your friends and supporters, it is more likely that other users will vote for you. 50 votes can get you to the top page of Digg.

10Submit in English

Linguistic diversity is great but the majority of users are from English-speaking countries and they don’t understand exotic languages. So, for most of the social bookmarking sites submitting anything in a language different from English is not recommendable. The languages that are at an especial disadvantage are Chinese, Arabic, Slavic languages and all the other that use non-latin alphabet. German, Spanish, French are more understandable but still they are not English. If you really must submit your story (i.e. because you need the backlink), include an English translation at least of the title. But the best way to proceed with non-English stories is to post them on where they belong.

11Never submit old news

Submitting old news will not help you in becoming a respected user. Yesterday’s news is history. But if you still need to submit old stuff, consider feature articles, howtos and similar pieces that are up-to-date for a long time.

12Check your facts

You must be flattered that users read your postings but you will hardly be flattered when users prove that you haven’t got the facts right. In addition to sarcastic comments, you might also receive negative votes for your story, so if you want to avoid this, check you facts - or your readers will do it.

13Check you spelling

Some sites do not allow to edit your posts later, so if you misspell the title, the URL, or a keyword, it will stay this way forever.

14Not all topics do well

But sometimes even great content and submitting to the right category do not push you to the top. One possible reason could be that your stories are about unpopular topics. Many sites have topics that their users love and topics that don’t sell that well. For instance, Apple sells well on Digg and The War in Iraq on Netscape. Negative stories - about George Bush, Microsoft, evil multinational companies, corruption and crime also have a chance to make it to the front page. You can’t know these things in advance but some research on how many stories tagged with keywords like yours have made the front page in the last year or so can give you a clue.

15Have Related Articles / Popular Articles

Traffic gurus joke that traffic from social bookmarking sites is like an invasion – the crowds pour in and in a day or two they are gone. Unfortunately this is true – after your listing rolls from the front page (provided that you reached the front page), the drop in traffic is considerable. Besides, many users come just following the link to your article, have a look at it and then they are gone. One of the ways to keep them longer on your site is to have links to Related Articles / Popular Articles or something similar that can draw their attention to other stuff on the site and make them read more than one article.

16RSS feeds, newsletter subscriptions, affiliate marketing

RSS feeds, newsletter subscriptions, affiliate marketing are all areas in which the traffic from social bookmarking sites can help you a lot. Many people who come to your site and like it, will subscribe to RSS feeds and/or your newsletter. So, you need to put these in visible places and then you will be astonished at the number of new subscriptions you got on the day when you were on the front page of a major social bookmarking site.

17Do not use automated submitters

After some time of active social bookmarking, you will discover that you are spending hours on end posting links. Yes, this is a lot of time and using automated submitters might look like the solution but it isn’t. Automated submitters often have malware in them or are used for stealing passwords, so unless you don’t care about the fate of your profile and don’t mind being banned, automated submitters are not the way to go.

18Respond to comments on your stories

Social bookmarking sites are not a newsgroup but interesting articles can trigger a pretty heated discussion with hundreds of comments. If your article gets comments, you must be proud. Always respond to commends on your stories and even better – post comments on other stories you find interesting. This is a way to make friends and to create a top-profile.

19Prepare your server for the expected traffic

This is hardly a point of minor importance but we take for granted that you are hosting your site on a reliable server that does not crash twice a day. But have in mind that your presence on the front page of a major social bookmarking site can drive you a lot traffic, which can cause your server to crash – literally!
I remember one of the times I was on the front page on Digg, I kept restarting Apache on my dedicated server because it was unable to cope with the massive traffic. I have many tools on my site and when the visitors tried them, this loaded the server additionally.
Well, for an articles site getting so much traffic is not so devastating but if you are hosting on a so-so server, you’d better migrate your site to a machine that can handle a lot of simultaneous hits. Also, check if your monthly traffic allowance is enough to handle 200-500,000 or even more visitors. It is very amateurish to attract a lot of visitors and not be able to serve them because your server crashed or you have exceeded your bandwidth!

20The snowball effect

But despite the differences in the likes of the different social bookmarking communities, there are striking similarities. You will soon discover that if a post is popular on one of the major sites, this usually drives it up on the other big and smaller sites. Usually it is Digg posts that become popular on StumbleUpon and Reddit but there are many other examples. To use this fact to your best advantage, you may want to concentrate your efforts on getting to the front page of the major players only and bet on the snowball effect to drive you to the top on other sites.

An additional benefit of the snowball effect is that if your posting is interesting and people start blogging about it, you can get tons of backlinks from their blogs. This happened to me and the result was that my PR jumped to 6 on the next update.

Taken from:

Busby SEO Test

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