By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 30th, 2009 Please welcome our newest guest blogger:
If you are looking to promote your own website in your niche market, then one of the most important steps to take is beginning your own blog, which I am sure that you have figured out by now. It is still incredibly important to take some time and effort to add personal touches to your blog and website to really make yourself stand out from the rest. After all, doesn’t everyone have a blog these days, including the entire cast of the Real Housewives of Orange County?
(c) thecoffeebump.com
I myself have taken on the pseudonym Chuggin McCoffee for my website The Coffee Bump, which took a lot less brainstorming than you would imagine. Basically, I was just referring to myself chugging my own coffee one morning to get ready for work, when it stuck out to me as a . . . → Read More: Add Your Own Personal Touch to Your Blog
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 26th, 2009 Social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook have become extremely popular with today’s computer savvy culture. And, while these sites provide great entertainment for people and offer a simple way to stay connected with friends near and far, there are also social networking sites that are targeted to certain professions. On these sites, users can keep in touch with friends in the same field, but they can also market their work, share successes and failures and keep abreast on new techniques and technologies.
Social Networking, Photography-Style
Some of the best targeted social networking sites are aimed at photographers. Following are seven that seem to have had great success at providing social networking along with useful tools of the trade.
American Photo – This site has a great blog that allows registered users to comment and post their own ideas. It also has plenty of information on topics of interest . . . → Read More: 7 Useful Social Networking Sites for Photographers
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 26th, 2009 Would you like to be a guest blogger here and to get valuable backlinks for your own site? Check out the guest blogger information.
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By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 23rd, 2009 Did you ever wanted to know how blog spammers work? Ok, if you can call that work at all… I tell you what I found today whilst nosing around the www and how I came across a double scam, called backlinkedge.com. This guy is not only spamming bloggers with his comments, he also scams ‘subscribers’ for their money that they pay him. This kind of person, the one that built the web site like the one who bought it and runs it now are …. [harsh words removed to keep the site safe for all eyeballs] in my opinion. So here the story, and yes, I know that this is only the tip of an iceberg and that there are thousands of other spammers like backlinkedge around that make the life of a blogger difficult.
What I found out about the Backlinkedge Scam: I was checking the recent web site . . . → Read More: Backlinkedge Scam
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 19th, 2009 What is an adsense niche and how to find a good one? Over the last posts one word kept creeping up again and again, the word “niche”. It was either mentioned in comments / questions or nonchalantly thrown in by yours truly. So I find it only fair, before continuing to write about Google Analytics, to tell you what internet marketers, us guys and gals want to make money on the internet, mean when we say “niche”.
In a nutshell (yeah, again) a niche is a “narrow topic” that gets monetized. So a blog like this one is not a “niche”, a web site about travel in general is not a niche, a web site for people that want to backpack in Prague IS niche. Lets look at same aspects of “niche”, perhaps it becomes then clearer:
Content / Topic: The topic is defined and narrow and the . . . → Read More: Adsense Niche
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 18th, 2009 Now you have installed Google Analytics, what does it actually do for you? How can Google Analytics help you to get more, targeted, traffic visitors to your site? Admitted, it is great fun to see how your visitor numbers are climbing (hopefully!) but the data provided about your web site can also help you to cater better for your visitors. Google has an extensive help section that explains very well how the data is collected and what everything means. For an introduction from Google itself, see the video below. I will concentrate in showing you how to use this data to create a better web site for your visitors. And hopefully a more profitable web site for you! First lets have a look at the main dashboard:
Visits: Shows you the overall development of people looking at your site. You obviously want this graph to climb
Page Views: Is . . . → Read More: Google Analytics Help 2
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 17th, 2009 I wrote previously about How to add google analytics to your wordpress blog and How to add google analytics to your blogger/ blogspot blog, describing how to add the analytics code to your templates directly. There are actually easier ways to achieve this, sorry, for coming up with this so late. This post describes only how to insert the google analytics code, for the rest, how to get it, etc, please refer to the two posts mentioned above. So here you go, some other, easier ways to insert the google urchin code into your blogs.
For Google Blogger / Blogspot Blogs This refers only to the ‘new’ blogger templates, not to the classic ones. Are there still some of those around?
OK, go to your Blogger Dashboard, click Layout > Page elements and add a new html / javascript gadget to your footer area. Copy and . . . → Read More: Google Analytics Help 1
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 16th, 2009 If you follow my blog since a bit longer, you will have noticed some changes. Together with the layout change (only one sidebar now, to make more space for content) I took also the Entrecard and Adgitize widgets down. Don’t get me wrong, Entrecard and Adgitize are not per se bad for a blog, but they were both bad for this blog. Why?
Time versus Benefit in blogging and blog promotion
How much time does it cost you to drop your Entrecards every day and to click your Adgitize ads? And what do you get in exchange? Even if you are fast and don’t spend any time actually reading the blogs you visit (Yikes!) it will take you an hour a day, minimum. And what do you get in exchange? Yelps, visitors that do the same what you just did. Hit and miss traffic. Bounce rate in Google Analytics steep . . . → Read More: Why Entrecard and Adgitize had to go
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 15th, 2009 How many words should I write to get my blog post indexed, to get my hub or Squidoo lens ranked? How much is too much for the reader and / or too less content for Google and Yahoo? If I would get each time 1$ when this question ‘How many words for ‘ pops up in a forum or online conversation, I would be rich by now Look at this google search result for ‘anchored keywords‘, last time I looked, my blog post ranked on No1 amongst 447,000 results, not bad for SERP Now it comes better, if you click on the result then you see that the post in question is only 28 words !!! Ooops, ok, the comments also add content / value to it. But still… So what is now the answer to the evergreen question? Perhaps it is like this, . . . → Read More: How many words?
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 14th, 2009 Yesterday was World Blog Surf Day and I spend a lot of time surfing the participating blogs and leaving comments on most of them. Why only on most, and not on all, I will explain soon. As I surfed around the blogosphere I noticed how differently blog commenting is handled by different blogging software and/ or by different bloggers. ‘How do I get more comments on my blog? is a problem a lot of bloggers face, often not being aware of the fact that sometimes they make it damm’ difficult for others to leave a comment on their very blogs! So here my tips and tricks and ABC and 123 or what-you-call-it guide to blog comments plus my usual rants and musings:
1. Make it dead easy to find where to leave / post a blog comment. Blogspot or Google blogs seem to be the worst . . . → Read More: Blog Comment
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 12th, 2009 An Expat Cats journey to healthy eating
Disclaimer: The post below was written by a guest blogger, a feline guest blogger, so some food related details might not be appropriate for human consumption.
*Enters Oscar the Expat Cat*
Hi everybody, welcome to World Blog Surf Day! In case you wonder what on earth that is, it is a series of blog posts that got published all on the same day and that all have a common theme. Most of them are written by humans, this one is written by me – Oscar the Expat Cat! Mommy has taken all the photos, so please respect her copyright also! This time the organizer for World Blog Surf Day was Sher from Czech Off the Beaten Path, please give her a roaring round of applause for all her hard work! Thank you
As I heard that the theme . . . → Read More: Expat Cat Food
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 12th, 2009 June Blog Updates
World Blog Surf Day Tomorrow is World Blog Surf! My post is written and scheduled to be published at 00:01 my time here in Prague My blog post is actually not the right description, it is a blog post written by … a surprise guest blogger! So check back tomorrow and be -surprised! In case you don’t know what World Blog Surf Day, WBSD for short, is, have a look at Sher’s Blog Czech of the beaten Path for more information. You will be too late to sign up for this event, but perhaps you like to follow us as we ‘blog around the globe’ And I am pretty sure that there will be a third WBSD in autumn/ fall. If you want to see who is all participating this time round, have a look at the list of . . . → Read More: World Blog Surf Day and feedback please
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 4th, 2009 Google Wave Logo (c)Google, fair use assumed
I remember when I tested Google Chrome for the first time, there was this tiny, unobtrusive checkbox saying something on the lines of “I agree that my usage data is transmitted to Google”. It was already checked, just for my convenience… I didn’t test Chrome for very long, you may imagine and I sure like anything unchecked that little box! Whilst Chrome is “only” monitoring your browsing habits, Google Wave will convert you into an open book that Google can read, copy and distribute freely…
So what is Google Wave? In a nutshell (ya,ya, ya, I know that this is one of my favourite expressions, and? So, in a nutshell, Google Wave is a shared, real time, collaborative, web based application that aims to replace email, chat, social networking, wikis, documents, photo and video exchange, instant messaging and the like by combining . . . → Read More: Google Wave Concerns
By SY (aka Hospitalera), on June 3rd, 2009 Below the first glimpse, published by Google, about their new, OPEN SOURCE, product – Google Wave. Have a look and tell me, great or scary?, the new Google Wave…
Meanwhile Microsoft entered, at a cost of approximiadetely, $80 Million the search engine market. Silverrose over at hubpages has written a great hub about optimizing your web site for Bing. Do we really need a new search engine? Can Microsoft break the Google, nearly, monopoly? Wht do you think? I will write my own thoughts later, first I am curious about yours! SY
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