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Why an Elevator Speech is Vital for Your Blog

Posted on 30. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Do you have an elevator speech for your blog yet?

“Elevator speech (also known as elevator pitch) is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch can be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride (for example, thirty seconds and 100-150 words).” Said Mr. Wikipedia.

So, what is elevator speech doing on blogosphere? For professional bloggers, a decent elevator pitch / speech can serve as a multi-function tool to support their blog. It is helpful in making introductions, promoting contents, keeping their progress on track, improves credibility, etc.

But I don’t say it is vital because of those functions. Then why? [...]

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6 Post Formattings that Make People Read

Posted on 28. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Good day!

Value your posts deliver is the key to blogging success. It is in coherence with content-is-king blogging approach: the better the value, the more success you will reap.

However, none can extract your value if poor article formatting bury it. Perhaps you have met articles that you could not stand reading through. I am sure poor article formattings caused some of them. You are not fond with them, and your visitors aren’t either.

Good post formatting is the scan-able one. Most visitors do not actually read article before scanning first. They are simply too busy or not genuinely interested. If they like what they scan, they will likely read it in more details. [...]

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9 Affordable Ways to (or not to) Write Annoying Posts

Posted on 26. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi there!

The success of a blog as a business lies in the readers’ visits. More traffic usually means more success. However, if you don’t want to receive many visits and succeed, there are many ways to accomplish it. One of them is by annoying your audience using your posts.

If you are looking for the best and affordable tips to annoy your readers, you are in the right post. Some people out there have tested all these tips, and all of them work well, no fiction. Here they are: [...]

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How to Attract Visitors to Your Shiny Content

Posted on 24. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi there!

When your blog is new, having merely good content does not guarantee that you will be “found”. Not many people out there have heard about you or your content, so you need to actively market it. Distribution is a vital step after crafting your shiny content.

Luckily, there many things that can help you to succeed in this second step of content-is-king strategy. Here they are: [...]

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How to Install WordPress in 1 Minute

Posted on 23. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Do you want to start using WordPress but you don’t know exactly how you are going to do it?

Here is the easy way to start WordPress-ing, no techie skills required.

When I was about to start using WordPress for this site, I felt afraid because I had never used it before. I thought it would be difficult to install and manage. May be you are feeling it too. But I was wrong, it was very easy and simple. Well, actually it depends on your hosting service. [...]

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How to Build Ass-Kicking Content, a Foolproof Guide

Posted on 22. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi fellas!

If you are a fan of the famous content-is-king blogging strategy, building good content is the first and the most important thing you should + must do. Good content is helpful and delivering value to your visitors. Bad content is the contrary, plus the duplicate and the stolen.

Some people say that building valuable content is hard, some other think it is easy. Both are right, depending on the point of views used. In my opinion, building great content is easy and very possible for those who really want it, but takes time and continuous process. [...]

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Make Money Blogging: Content-is-King Approach

Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Looking for a good strategy to earn money from your blog?

Content-is-king approach is your answer, the most effective blogging strategy out there. Many successful bloggers use it as their primary guide to blogging success, such as Steve Pavlina (stevepavlina.com), Darren Rowse (problogger.net), Brian Clark (copyblogger.com), etc.  The well-proven strategy consists of 3 steps to obtain shiny blogging success, which consist of: [...]

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What to Do when Your Footer Is Abused

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hello mate!

Is your footer abused and ‘wet’ because your pagerank juice leaks?

See, a free or shared website theme / template usually has this footer where the designer’s credit link is located. Unfortunately, some nasty designers misuse their credit links. They put not only their links, but also irrelevant links as keyword attempts / abuses. It has a good chance that the abusive links are paid ones. And Google and friends are against it.

A credit link on footer is proper and respectful, but illegal keyword attempts are influential abuses. It can lead to pagerank leaking and penalty / ban by Google because of linking to abusers. Google define you by not only where you are linked from, but also where you are linking to, because webmasters always have control on where they link to. Now you don’t want to get banned by Google, do you? [...]

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How to add an Automatic Sitemap to WordPress

Posted on 19. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Have you got an XML sitemap for your WordPress powered website / blog (own domain)?

The existence of a decent sitemap is critical in order to be indexed by search engine well. You can’t just expect spider bots to index all of your URLs (Universal Resource Locator) on your site well. They won’t do it right, trust me.

From my sitemap-less experience, bots often miss index my posts’ URLs because there are so many URLs on the main page of my site. And sites / blogs usually has more than 100 URLs in their main page, including pages, posts, read more buttons, comments links, feed links, ads, and everything click-able on your sidebar (especially cloud tags). Bots have problems dealing with more than 100 URLs in a page, you know. [...]

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How to Edit Robots.txt on WordPress

Posted on 18. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Are you looking for a way to edit the robots.txt of your WordPress powered blog (own domain publishing), the easy way?

You see, robots.txt is important part of your site because it handles how search engine bots work in their indexing process. Such as what to and not to index, who can and cannot index, etc. When a crawler bot comes to your domain, it will look for your robots.txt first. Afterward it will do its job based on your rules on the text file, which location is on your root domain (like www.your-website.com/robots.txt).

By default, WordPress automatically generate a robots.txt in case a bot needs it. However, the text file is actually non-existent. It is only a result of an internal WordPress script. If you look into your domain storage, you won’t find any file namely robots.txt there. Trust me, I’ve tried it. [...]

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