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Ten Blog Tips

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

My Muffie Shannen had just turned one month last July 20, 2009. And I couldn’t be happier with the result of my effort in promoting my site.

Here are the steps of promoting my website that I personally used for my first month. Now I want to share these SEO tips for you to get more traffic.

Exchange Link/Blogroll

To get traffic on your site ask co-bloggers to exchange links. The owners of those blogs will find your blog and will add a reciprocal link in their blog rolls. It is an easy way to get the link of your blog in front of many other blogs. And hope that some of their readers will click on your link.

Back Link

Aside from your own article, help promote other article by back linking. These will help your article to gain SEO because it will be noticed by search engine and will also help other blogs to promote their site. As the saying goes, it is better to give than to receive.

Search Engine Optimization

When doing an article optimize your content for search engines to find them.

Social Networking Sites

Submit your article on Friendster, Multiply, Twitter, Plurk, Digg, Facebook and see the increase of your traffic. Also, plug in your blog when chatting, I have an account on Yahoo, Skype, Windows Messenger and Chikka Messenger.

Submit to Search Engines

Submitting your blog to search engines is like submitting your sites to directories on the popular search engines such as Google, Yahoo and MSN! Most likely your link will be pick up by someone who are searching that is related on your blog. Post frequently to increase the number of chances you have for your blog’s content to be noticed by search engines.

Signature

Add a blog URL in your email signature and business card. Or add a link to your blog in your signature line or profile, so each time you post on a forum or participate in another online network, you’re indirectly promoting your blog. Chances are many people will click on that link to learn more about you. Promoting your blog shouldn’t stop when you step outside the blogosphere. Talk about it in offline conversations. It’s important to get your name and your blog’s URL noticed offline, too.

Comments

It is nice to see that your article made comments so make sure that your website design includes the visibility of comments. Sometimes, visitor judge the popularity of a website by the number of comments. Commenting is a simple and essential tool to increase your blog’s traffic. Make sure to reply on comments to show your readers that you value their opinions and draw them into a two-way conversation. This will increase reader’s loyalty. Second, leave comments on other blogs to drive new traffic. Again, give and receive.

Tag

Tags help your search engine optimization work so if you use it wisely, there is more likely an increase traffic on your site. Tags are like keywords for reader and searcher that might help them find your website. So don’t snub tags when making an article, it’s just a few second to add them.

Article

Make sure that your articles are the things you are interested to write so that you can share it to your reader. Meaningful and interesting topics to your point of view will appear on your written works. And the next thing you know is that readers really enjoyed and became your loyal fan because they can relate on your post.

Be happy

It shows on your blog!

So that’s what I did for my first month, happy monthsary! He he..

How To Increase Blog Traffic

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

It pays to have a brother who is RAN Player Addict and a MyChat Chatter! This article will help you increase your blog traffic to almost 55%, on my case.

Since my Friendster account has few friends to connect, I got this help from my brother (thanks kuya!) to give me his username and password to two huge accounts! Huge because he got 720 friends from RAN Master and 555 friends from MyChat. So here goes the step:

  1. Obtain a networking account which got huge quantity of networking friends like Friendster
  2. Post a Shout out of your link
  3. Post a Bulletin of your link
  4. Eat and sleep
  5. After one day check your statistics
Increased Traffic

Increased Traffic

As you can see the Number of Visits increased by 55%, my Pages increased by more than a double and my Hits increased to almost a 100%!

So invest on your Friendster, Multiply, Plurk, Twitter or Facebook it might be useful someday. Muffie Shannen signing off..

SEO Backlink

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Few weeks ago, any of my post were no near from the first 100 of Google’s search engine asides from searching ‘muffie shannen’. So I tried to research more on search engine optimization. The best place to go, no other than Jehzlau Concepts.

Then I read from one of his post regarding backlinks (this is as to how I applied Jehzlau tips but on specific phrase).

The last time i checked the ‘Mouse and Keyboard Maintenance‘ on Google, Yahoo, MSN – I didn’t saw any result.  I was in 20+ pages and still no mouse and keyboard maintenance from Muffie Shannen!

But after few hours of applying the SEO backlinks, viola!

Scanner and Monitor Maintenance Result

Scanner and Monitor Maintenance Result

Mouse and Keyboard Maintenance Result

Mouse and Keyboard Maintenance Result

Yey, I’m Top Two! You can find it on the first page and second article! I can’t believe that it worked all I did this morning was the following:

  1. Open my Wordpress, Friendster, Blogger Blog Account
  2. Made an article/blog about the topics on my site
  3. Put a backlinks on my site
  4. Eat and sleep
  5. Then after nine hours, check!

So that’s it for now.. Im getting excited about SEO but I need to sleep, Muffie Shannen signing off..

Bing Search Engine Optimization

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

bing

It has been how many days since I started the Muffie Shannen, fifteen or seventeen days? And yet, it still does not make it to Bing search engine, how frustrating! I am not a SEO Guru but I least hope that there is at least one link that appear on Bing. So with my frustration, I researched regarding Bing SEO and found this article for reference..

Microsoft’s new search engine “Bing” will transform the way we all approach to the SEO.

After the release of Bing, those days are history when you must submit your sites to search engines or links from variable sources only to be indexed by search engines.

With the release of Bing, the first thing that would nudge the minds of online marketers is the way to get their sites at the top of search engine results. To get listed on the Bing, the following list is some SEO tips for the internet marketers who want to be crawled by Bing Search Robots:

  1. To make it to the top of Bing, utilization of a title that links to the topic at hand is helpful. It must be unique rather than the titles generally used for the terms. You must also link out. Many marketers don’t like to disconnect, because they fear that their rank will be reduced, especially with Google.
  2. Try to add text to the greatest possible extent. In most search engines, the measure of text on the page is generally not a big factor. But Bing genuinely responds quickly to pages with at least 350 words in the text.
  3. Bing appears to have a lot of interest in how lasting a domain is registered. For marketers, this means that you will be able to purchase more domains if you prefer to get into a secure and genuine positioning in the Bing.
  4. Attempt to only well-formed and grammatical HTML code in your pages. You better be sure to close down every last paired tag, and had better ensure that each link leads to the correct webpage. For more information about the validation of HTML code you may either see HTTP Conditional Get test tool or HTTP compression tool.  The W3C Markup Validation Service is also a choice for users. If your site comprises of broken links then MSNBot won’t be able to index your site effectively, and thereby will prevent net surfers from visiting all of your pages. You’ll be able to find additional details on how to find broken links on your site which may mislead users and thus force them to report broken links about your sites. You can also see the help section of Webmaster Centers Crawl Issues tool.
  5. If you’ve moved a website due to new URL structure or new Domain name, you must reset the page’s original URL to redirect people to the new page. You must also acknowledge the users whether the move is permanent or temporary.
  6. You must make sure that MSNBot is admitted to crawl your site and not on the list of those crawlers who are banned from indexing your site. For further information about these issues, you may check the control of pages of your site if they are indexed or not.
  7. You better utilize a robots.txt file or tags to make sure how MSNBot and other web crawlers index your site. You can utilize the robots.txt file to prevent robots from crawling specific files and folders of your site to keep them hidden.
  8. Make sure all your URLs simple and static. URLs that are complex and mind tangling may also mislead users. In addition, a URL that doesn’t change is easy and comfortable for people to remember and bookmarked. This is what makes your website different, reliable and a more likely linked by other sites or blogs interested on your content.
  9. You had better a look at malware. Beware of links to pages active on your site that may lead the user to malware on third-party websites that contains damaging content which might even cause a problem in the user’s computer.
  10. These include a malicious damaged document or an image file or a malicious JavaScript or ActiveX control. These will be disabled and highlighted as Malware in Bing results pages and will prevent users form visiting form your site by alerting them in different ways.

Mouse and Keyboard Maintenance

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Maintenance of computer peripherals is a must to prolong its life and also to avoid accidents due to negligence of your equipment.

Mouse

If you are still using an old-style mouse with a ball, clean it once a month. Unscrew the retaining ring on the bottom, remove the mouse ball, and use a cotton-tipped swab dipped in tape-cleaning alcohol to clean the rollers inside. Also, make sure that your mouse pad is clean and dust-free and you will prolong its life.

An optical mouse or trackball mouse does not need to be cleaned anywhere near as often. Just dust off the bottom of your mouse and you are ready to use it. Same with mouse ball, make sure that your mouse pad is dust-free.

Keyboard

Do the Keyboard Shake! No, it’s not a new dance craze, but it is the best method of cleaning accumulated gunk from your keyboard. At least once a month, turn your keyboard upside down and shake it vigorously back and forth; prepare to be amazed (or grossed out, especially if the whole family uses your PC).

Find yet another use for your compressed air. Your keyboard can collect debris that can’t be shaken free. If so, using compressed air will likely blow it free. It can also be use on your laptop keyboard, less dangerous than keyboard shake!

For cable management, you can use a spiral wrap on your power cable, monitor cable, keyboard cable and mouse cable. It will minimize the eyesore of cables lying around behind and under your table.

Monitors and Scanners Maintenance

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

Here are the tips on properly maintain and clean  your monitor and scanner:

Do not use abrasives on your monitors and scanners. Even some household glass cleaners which you might think could be trusted can scratch the glass in your monitor or flatbed scanner when used with a rag or paper towel. With a scanner, small scratches can mean real trouble because a scratch can easily show up in your images at higher resolutions. You should use only a dry, soft photographer’s lens cloth with alcohol that are made specifically for monitors and scanners. Any scratch on your monitor can distract if you are viewing of pictures or video.

Monitors

Monitors should never be opened. Never take the cover off any type of monitor, even if it needs cleaning. Why? Well, your monitor is one of the two components of your system that carry enough voltage to seriously hurt you. If your monitor needs to be serviced or cleaned on the inside, take it to your local computer shop.

Scanners

Never spray liquids onto a flatbed scanner. If liquid gets under the glass and into the body of the scanner, you could end up with condensation on the inside of the scanner when you use it and might be the cause of major trouble or defect on your scanners. A dry, photographer’s lens cloth is a good choice.

Use a cover for your scanner. Scanners are somewhat different from most external peripherals. They don’t generate any heat while they’re on, and most of us only use a scanner once or twice a week. Therefore, your scanner is a perfect candidate for a cover that will keep it clean.

Adobe Photoshop – Sepia Tone

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Step by step way of getting your picture a Sepia Tone for an old look and effect.

Sepia Tone

First,  Shift + Ctrl + U for desaturation. Then Duplicate the photo layer and set the layer effect to overlay.

Sepia Tone One

Now, follow this direction to lighten or darken the picture

Image

Adjustments

Brightness/Contrast

and adjust to the setting you most like.

Sepia Tone Two

Then we now are going to apply the following to enhance the color

Image

Adjustments

Color Balance

Sepia Tone Three

Finally, we are also going add Noise for a more texture on the picture

Filter

Noise

Sepia Tone Four

 

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