Blog Tips

Attend Blogger Meets and Seminars

2008-10-21T08:44:00.000-07:00

One of the best ways to keep in touch with the current trends in promoting your blogs is by attending blog meetings. Today, we were given the opportunity to attend the blogger's meeting organized by DigitalFilipino.com.

The event was held in Davao, October 21, 2008 at the Grand Regal Hotel (previously the Mercure Hotel). It was sponsored by PAGCOR, the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation, one of the largest corporations in the Philippines. PAGCOR is responsible for legalized gambling such as casinos in various places of the country, and it is one of the ways that our government generates funds for use in education, support to the poor, and other worthwhile endeavors.

Honestly, the food was great. It was the first time I've eaten so much meat in a single meal. I've also tried different drinks. The ambience of the place was quite good.

The people were very interesting. We met and talked with the authors of many celebrated blogs. The speaker was the writer of the book Blogging from Home. We had the chance to share our ideas, and how we monetized our blogs. I wish I had more time to speak with those people, as after the program there was the band music that made the words hard to make out.

Later, we went down to the Casino, and since we were given P300 coupons that we could play with, we tried betting. And to our luck, we won! So we ended the night a-belly-full-of-meat -and-wine and P300 richer. We went home inspired to improve our blogs and compete with the top Filipino bloggers.

After this event, I added my blog to www.ratified.org to be listed in the Filipino directory. Hopefully in the next bloggers meet, one of my blogs will be in the top 100.

Promoting Your Blog Through BlogRush

2008-06-05T11:25:00.000-07:00

Another way of driving targeted traffic to your site is by installing a widget from Blogrush.

The idea is that your blog is displayed on other people's related blogs, and links to their blogs are displayed through your blog. That way, your blog is advertised to thousands of other bloggers, and the other way around.

This is something that's worth the try.

Promoting Your Blog Through Blog Directories

2008-06-05T00:25:00.000-07:00

Here's a list of blog directories that you can submit to to promote your blog. More links means better search engine rankings for your blog, which means more visitors a day! Make sure you use your keywords on the title of your submissions, as this will serve as the anchor text or link text. The text on the links pointing to your site is one of the greatest factors that will make you rank higher in search engine results.

Blog Directories
Boing Boing | A Directory of Wonderful Things
Delightful Blogs
Blogger Now
Blog Hints
Finding Blog
Blogs N Blogs
Blogs for Small Business
Blog Rankings
Blog Bunch
Blog Bib
Surreal Blog
i Blog Business
Blogz Directory
Blogger HQ
Blog Lookup | Blog Directory
Blog Listing | The Fastest Growing Blog Directory on the Net
Blog Intro | Bringing Readers and Bloggers Together
All Blogs | Web Directory
Blogz BZ | The Official Blog Directory
The Blog Directory
Aviva Directory (paid)
Blogs Collection
Blog Universe (paid)
Blog Dust
Blogsip
Best Blogs

Feel free to suggest any other good blog directories that you know of. For more tips on how to promote your blog, click here. For more tips on Search Engine Optimization, click here.

Feedburner | Let Your Visitors Subscribe through Email!

2008-06-02T01:34:00.000-07:00

Give your visitors the opportunity to be updated with your blog posts through email! Feedburner simplifies the process by sending your blog posts to the emails of those who have subscribed to your blog!

I just signed up for this and will be putting up Feedburner subscription forms on each of my blogs, so visitors can have the option of subscribing to specific areas of my blog.

Bloggers in an Uproar Over PR decrease!

2008-05-13T05:46:00.000-07:00

Bloggers are in an uproar over PR decrease!

What seems to have happened? Some of the possible explanations are: Google changing their algorithm, a penalty for "Paid to Blog" entries, and losing inlinks.

I firmly believe its due to losing inbound links, what with most blog comments now having "nofollow" links!

Buy Hits Cheap.com | Buying Traffic

2008-05-13T01:14:00.000-07:00

You can buy traffic at BuyHitsCheap.com. 10,000 unique visits to your site costs $12.50 right now, as they're on 50% off.

If you carefully tailor your blog and make it useful and contextual, then you could boost your adsense income.

One of these days, I might try to do an experiment on this.

Adwords is okay, however, as of now they don't accept paypal. BuyHitsCheap does.

SocialMarker.com for Blog Promotion | Free Social Book Marking Tool

2008-05-12T23:08:00.000-07:00

Submit your blog entries to 120+ Social Bookmarking sites easily!

There's a free tool at SocialMarker.com that will do this for you. This is a quick way to gain relevant backlinks and increase your PR, as most of these blogs are DOFOLLOW (as opposed to NOFOLLOW).

Try Social Marker now for free!

Blog Tips

2008-05-08T20:09:00.000-07:00

Hi, here's some tips to earn money, increase traffic to your blogs

To increase traffic to your blog:
1. try SEOor Search Engine Optimization. For a start, download Brad Callen's SEO Made Easy, it's a free eBook and should take you less than a day or two to read.

Research on your target keywords using Google Adwords Research Tools. For a start, select the keywords that have lower search volumes, you can target more competitive keywords later. Remember that very competitive keywords take months, maybe years to rank first page for. Use Google Trends to compare search volumes between different keywords.
Submit your blogs to the proper categories in Directories. For a start, submit to DMOZ.org. Download a free copy of Directory Submitter.
Sign-up at SitePoint.com Forums and participate in their SEO Forums.

QUALITY content is KING! Write content that people would want to link to.

try Social Bookmarking (Digg, TechNorati etc)Post in other people's blogs, especially DO FOLLOW blogs (as opposed to NO FOLLOW blogs). The more related those blogs are to your theme, the better. Try CommentKahuna for finding blogs related to your keywords that are DO FOLLOW.

Watch some videos on YouTube about SEO. That will give you an overview about what you need to do.

Monitoring Traffic

Sign up for Google Analytics.
Sign up for Google Webmasters Tools.

To start earning money:
set-up PayPerPost
set-up Blogsvertise
set-up Adsense , use color schemes that will make the adsense blend with your blog. Avoid making them look so different from your blog's layout that your users will have "Banner Blindness". It's a good idea to put Adsense Units in blogs with consistent themes, if you're creating Hodge Podge(like my home blog) blogs where you rant about anything and everything, then consider separating that blog into several blogs each with different themes. This way, the Ads will match your themes and will be related to . Creating themes for your blogs also helps you to rank better in Search Engines.

www.topnichewords.info | Top Paying Adsense Keywords Info

2008-04-17T20:05:00.000-07:00

You can find out more about the current top paying Adsense keywords on Top Niche Words.

In 2007, it was the word Mesothelioma Claims, or Asbestos Claims.

There's a lot of good information on it also, like how to maximize profit for your blogs, how to turn your content into a profit-earner, and etc.

Mesothelioma Claims | And High Paying Adsense Keywords

2008-04-17T19:46:00.000-07:00

Okay, so one of the key things to look at in earning for Adsense in your blog is the price of your keywords.

In May of 2007, the most priced keyword was mesothelioma claims, or asbestos claims, reaching up to $75.30 for one click!

# $75.30 - mesothelioma claims
# $73.66 - mesothelioma treatment options
# $71.39 - types of mesothelioma
# $71.03 - epithelial mesothelioma
# $70.22 - mesothelioma exposure

So what's mesothelioma all about? It's basically about cancer caused by asbestos. It was priced so high because you could sue some companies for it, and have your claims. Click one of those sites on the Google Ads on this page to find more about it.

Right now, I'm not yet so sure if it's still priced this high, but I'm hoping to find out once someone decides to click on one of my ads.

Other keywords that have high price per click, and that would let you earn more, are about money, sex, insurance, free credit, and shopping. It might be a great idea to start a blog about these topics, and promoting the blog. It may take awhile to get good results though, as you'll have lots of competition for traffic.