MyBlogLog Widget = Lower Ad Click Thru Rate?

I've installed MyBlogLog widget on some of my blogs for quite some time now. I've noticed that some of my visitors are getting curious about the faces appearing on the widget and they would click them.

I wonder if anyone is experiencing a lower click thru rate on their ad campaign because of this.

How to Tell If a Blogger has just Learned SEO

Q: How can you tell if a blogger has just Learned SEO (Search Engine Optimization)?

A: If you are reading his post and he is writing in plain english but you can't understand what he is trying to say. :)

Web Publisher's Goal

Search Engine's goal is to know what customers need and help them find it.

Our goal as web publisher is to find out what customers are looking for and give it to them.

The Fact about Google’s Sandbox

I’ve researching about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) thoroughly these past days. Eventually I stumbled upon an article published by seo-gold.com.

“In our experience what we are seeing here is a delay in ranking from links and a kind of trusted status when a domain reaches a certain stage, it’s like a PRX link to a non-trusted site isn’t resulting in a quick benefit like you would have seen a couple of years ago. Now it takes 6 or more months for a new link to transfer significant benefit and longer for full benefit. We’ve speculated this is to thwart the text link sellers, a webmaster purchases a bunch of links and sees their home page PR jump, but three months in no significant traffic increase to warrant the cost. Hold on 6 months and see some benefit from the links and the longer you keep the links better it gets. The problem is how many webmasters are going to hold on those 6+ months with no guarantied ROI!”

They are saying that it make take atleast six months before we see actual benefit from the efforts we put into our blogs.

Yaiks! And I have been flickering from one blog to another like there was no tomorrow.

So what do we do while our new blog is in the sandbox.

“So what can a webmaster do about a sandboxed web site? Quite a bit, they can treat the site as though it’s not sandboxed working on link campaigns, optimizing content, adding new content etc… since eventually if you add enough stable links and are patient your site will leave the sandbox.”

It means we have to give a blog atleast six months before we can judge whether it is successful or not. Or we could aim for Yahoo or MSN for the meantime since their search engines seem to have a looser aging requirement.

You can check SEO Golds SEO Tutorial for more information.

How to Write Long Posts

We all have friends who If you ask them one question you will get a very long answers. These friends of ours never seem to run out of things to say. I myself enjoy being with these type of people because even if I just stay quiet, the conversation would go on. I don’t even have to provide my input. All I need to do is just show them that I’m listening attentively and everything will be okay.

I believe these people would make wonderful bloggers. They would have no problem writing long posts. After all, writing is just another form of talking.

But what if you are the quiet type who is used to answering everything in one sentence? How do you write long posts?

Fortunately, there is one technique we can steal from journalists.

Just remember one H and four Ws.

What – Tell your readers what your post is all about.

Where – If you are writing about an event or an incident you can write its location or the venue.

When – Write when it happened or when it would be happening.

Why – Explain the reason for your subject. Why are they conducting seminar? Why they think about starting this business? Why did they take this course of action?

How – Write how your chosen subject is done or how the action was done. How did they go about the crime? How do you cook beef stew? How do you make candles? How do you define an array?

Using this technique we would be able to expand our posts.