Archive for November, 2009
Attracting Readers to Read a Post
What is the second most important part of your post besides the title? Most visitors decide whether they will read the whole post after reading the first sentence. That is why it is important what your opening sentence is. Here are some ways to attract your readers to read the whole post:
Asking for Link Exchange
Every once in a while, especially if you own a new blog, you will have to ask other bloggers to exchange links with you. Very often you will need to send emails to other bloggers that have higher Google Page Rank than you. This is part of the life of every blogger who wants to achieve success with his blog. Starting a new blog might not be easy, as your blog has either Page Rank 0 or is even unranked. To make things easier, I would like to share with you a few tips on writing emails asking for a link exchange. You will need to know how to compose a message that will be well received by its recipient. Here you go:
1. Always try to be nice. Do not threaten anybody using expressions like “You would better link to me or I will…” Emails like this will probably get ignored.
2. In the beginning of your email introduce yourself in a few words. Tell the blogger who you are, and what is the reason you write to him.
3. Only ask blogs for link exchange that have a similar topic to yours. Otherwise, you might just waste your time and the time of other bloggers.
4. Suggest that it will be you who will first put a link on your site. Show the person you are corresponding with how seriously you treat other bloggers and link exchanges in general.
5. In a few words explain why you want to exchange links with that particular blog. Was it something that read on his blog, or you generally liked his posts?
6. Encourage the other blogger to link back to you. Mention a few benefits that this person will gain after linking to your blog. This might include traffic or SEO benefits.
7. Thank the blogger in advance.
8. Include the URL of your blog, and encourage your fellow blogger to visit your site.
The Effectiveness of Your Internal Link Structure
Posted by Kent in Blogs, Internet, Technology on November 16th, 2009
If you are really determined to focus on search engine optimization, then you may want to put some effort into determining the effectiveness of your internal link structure. This would answer the question whether you are utilizing your PageRank the most effective way by passing it from your home page to other pages on your site. Internal link structure depends on how you link to your own pages. Take into account the following points:
Overall, it is important for every webmaster to have a well-organized link structure. Only this way will your website have many pages with high Page Rank.
Easy-To-Use Website Builder
Starting a business requires the right tools such as Bandpass Filter for example. Different businesses need different services such as RF Design Services.What they all have in common is that they all need a website thanks to which they will be able to sell their products or services. If a company wants to market DO-178B / DO-254, it needs a website builder that will make it possible. The best website builder is a builder that does not require any downloads and the one that is easy to learn. Let us look at the offer of edirecthost.com. Their offer is perfect for small business owners, but also for large corporations. This is a simple do it yourself program that enables each person to design his website from scratch in a very easy way. If this was not enough, edirecthost.com offers a logo maker together with flash builder completely free of charge. When you want to design a website, you do not want to spend plenty of money on it. You want it to be as affordable as possible and as easy to do as it can be. There is a 10 day trial available on the website, which means that you can try it any time you want.
Setting Goals for Your Website
One of the ways to keep yourself accountable is to set some goals for your website. This is an excellent way to measure your achievements, but remember that your goals should be time-sensitive and specific. Here are some examples, which should help you get started:
As you see in the examples above those are quite specific goals, and you will be easily able to say if you indeed achieved your goal or not, which is very important. You can also measure to what degree you accomplished some goal in percentages. Some people even set goals for themselves every month and say that it keeps them motivated. My personal advice is not to set goals to high, so that you will not get disappointed. Of course, realizing hard to achieve goals can be a very rewarding experience so it might be worth a try.
Bloggers Stop Blogging
Did you ever wonder sometimes what happened to some of the blogs you were visiting? Maybe you tried to pay them a visit, but had no success? Maybe the blog seemed to be offline, or there were no updates for a few months? To tell you the truth, from time to time some of my friends from the blogosphere give up and abandon their blog for many different reasons. Often they have valuable content on their site, so it is sad that they will not add anything new. However, it is important to understand that blogging is not always easy. I am sure that many abandoned blogs still receive traffic to their blog even though they are not blogging anymore. Anyway, I think the reason many blogs are abandoned is that blogging requires a lot of time, and you cannot really force anyone to do it. You need passion for blogging, and if there is a lack of passion or time, usually blogs fail. Blogging is quite demanding, so I have respect for those bloggers who keep blogging even though there are often many obstacles in the way. However, I do not want to discourage you from blogging, because even though it is often not as easy as it sounds, it is a very rewarding experience.