27 Jan 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 1

It does not matter what Shake-spear or William Shakespeare has to say about name; a rose with any other name would not have sounded so sweet because names create perception, and believe it or not, so does face. I am talking about your blog’s name and face. Your blog needs to appear friendly to the visitors in order to succeed.

Does it sound scary?

Well, it shouldn’t. It may sound a lot of work, but it isn’t, at least not in one go; it is a process. My goal with this series is to help your blog get a friendliest of faces for you blog that will invite every viewer, and maybe, ask for a cup of steaming cup of tea or coffee, or even beer, if you need it to be that way.

Why does it matter?

In a nutshell, it matters because you want to succeed. I mean, you want to be famous, and earn make money along the way as well. And maybe because you want to help people solve their problem.

What I mean to say is that you may have many different reasons behind blogging and different measures for success, but if you want to achieve it then you will need to make your blog friendly to your visitors.

How you can do it?

This is what this series is about. I will share some tips and show you the way to make your blog friendly for your users. This post was a mere introduction for the series written with an aim to emphasize the importance of “blog friendliness”. In the posts to come, we will see how this goal can be achieved.

I will suggest you to subscribe to RSS feed to remain on top of the updates about this series. See you tomorrow.

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Tags: Aim, blog, Coffee, Cup Of Tea, Face, Faces, Friendliness, Lot, Many Different Reasons, Measures, Money, Nutshell, Perception, Shake Spear, Shakespeare, William Shakespeare

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08 Jan 10 3 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid in 2010

Six eventful days of 2010 have already passed, and now this realization of being in the new year has already taken hold of us. The frenzy of party is long over (well not for all), and most of us have returned back to our regular routine. Midst all these things, did you think about blogging mistakes to avoid in 2010? I did, and I am going to talk about 3 blogging mistakes I think we should avoid in 2010.

Mistakes 1: Adding up to the content clutter

Web is already full of me-too, me-too-toos, and me-too-too-toos. Most of us are just stealing the concept and rewriting it to make our blog post. The rewrites of other blog posts are nothing but bullshits that kills both the blogger’s time as well as reader’s time. It adds no value to anyone around, therefore, I have decided to stay away from adding to the content clutter and only write things that add value.

Mistake 2: Same old boring writing

Blogging is for human, by human, about human, and because we are human. We like fun. We like laughter. We hate boring data that has no relevance to our selves, and despite all these, we are still bombarded by irrelevant rattling. In 2010, we should strive to stay away from chocking our readers from constant data bombardment. This will deplete your reader base.

Mistake 3: not committing any blogging mistakes

This blogging mistake should have appeared at the top of the list. This year I am committed to making fool of myself, and sounding jackass. It has been enough of sitting on the sidewalk just to protect myself from committing any mistake. In 2010, I am going to commit a lot of blogging mistakes, and will grow from one mistake to another. I am not going to avoid committing new blogging mistakes, but yes, I will not repeat old ones.

Tags: blog, Blogger, Bombardment, Clutter, Fool, Frenzy, Jackass, Laughter, Lot, Midst, Mistake, new year, Reader Base, Realization, Relevance, Sidewalk

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26 Nov 09 SEO Tips – Optimize Your E-Commerce Website – IV

In the first part of SEO for e-commerce website, I talked about how to use keywords in your e-commerce website, in the second part, I dealt about the nuances of writing proper tags, and the third part talked about how to avoid duplicate content. This is the fourth part of the series, and in this part, I will talk about internal linking. I hope, you are applying these practical tips in your e-commerce website, if you are not then today is the day to start doing it.

Contextual linking

Navigation links do not tell any story to sooth the search engine crawlers’ pain caused by constantly crawling through the pages. It just says: here is page A and here is page B and road to both places goes from here. How can you expect to derive any value from this? You need to inject links to different pages in your website within the content to get link juice. This will build contextual link which will tell the search engine crawlers a story they will love.

Link in product description

Interlinking two products by placing links within the product descriptions of the product is a nice little way to make all the pages visible to search bots and it provides an opportunity to squeeze juices out of long tail keywords.

Avoid using “View” or “More” words as anchor text

This is most common mistake committed by most of the e-commerce websites. Many webmasters put a brief description on the product category page about various products and use “View”, “more”, “click here to read more”, etc., beneath every brief description to direct the users to the product pages.

Avoid using such generic terms, instead, use a proper keyword (or even a long tail keyword) to link every product pages with the product category page. This will inform your prospects as well as search bots about the content on the next page. This strategy will help you a lot in improving your website ranking.

Tags: Anchor Text, Brief Description, E Commerce Website, Generic Terms, Juices, Keywords, Lot, Mistake, Nuances, Product Category, Product Description, Product Descriptions, Proper Tags, Prospects, search engine, SEO, Webmasters, Website Content

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27 Jan 10 Blog with a Friendly Face – Part 1

08 Jan 10 3 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid in 2010

Mistakes 1: Adding up to the content clutter

Mistake 2: Same old boring writing

Mistake 3: not committing any blogging mistakes

26 Nov 09 SEO Tips – Optimize Your E-Commerce Website – IV

Contextual linking

Link in product description

Avoid using “View” or “More” words as anchor text

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