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6 Tips To Encourage Readers For Your Articles or Blog Posts
Probloggers say that to attract visitors and build readership, you have to start with your content. As they’ve said, “CONTENT IS KING.” Articles and blog posts are written to be read.
Writing articles or posting entries to your blog can be a tedious task. Reading good feedbacks from your readers and seeing good stats for those articles are already fulfilling compensation.
To make sure that your articles get read and enjoyed, here are six red hot tips to get your articles read. These tips will make your articles readable and interesting.
1) Use short paragraphs. Admit it, you, yourself, sometimes hate reading very long articles, especially if it is not so engaging. It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!
2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As each point is stressed out, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, readers will know that this is where the tips start and getting stressed. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of square paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to your articles shape.
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Smart Broadband Plug It Plan 999
I’ve been a subscriber of Smart Broadband since first release of their Smart Bro Prepaid internet modems. Also, I have used their Plan 999 (Canopy) for 1 year. In fact I am still using their black ZTE modem. But because they charge through 30-minute block metering and they only offer prepaid plans, I had to apply for a SUN Broadband subscription to satisfy my unlimited internet needs. At first, SUN Broadband had a satisfactory speed, however, lately, during the last 2 months, I’ve been experiencing crappy connection, especially during nighttime. Good thing, I didn’t discard my Smart Bro modem so I am using it as an alternative, especially that they offered the P200 unlimited surfing for 5 days. Comparing the two, I am much satisfied with Smart Broadband because it’s faster at anytime of the day, well depending maybe on your location. But at my place, Smart Broadband is way faster than SUN Broadband. The only thing I wanted for Smart Broadband to do is to offer unlimited plans with their USB modems.
Well, I thought it was really good news when I knew about their latest offer (or maybe I didn’t know about it until 2 days ago). They are currently offering Smart Broadband Unlimited Plan 999 using their USB modem. The SIM card used is a Smart Gold SIM.
A. ANYWHERE BROADBAND! PLUG IT Plan 999
Unlimited Surfing, Kahit saan may PC. Just Plug it!
Speed : Up to 2 Mbps
No. of Hours use : Unlimited
Connection : Wireless Connection (Via USB Modem)
Requirements : Subscriber Application Form, Proof of Address, Proof of Identification
Total Initial Payment : Php 999 (as 1 months advance service fee)
Lock-in Period : 24 months
Wi-Fi Access : Now FREE unlimited @ Airborne Wi-Fi Zone
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How to Completely Block Comment Spam in Your WordPress Blog?
The more you blog, the more spam comments come into your posts. As you blog more and your site gets popular and widely visited, spam comments become your primary enemy. This is where an anti-spam plugins proves to be useful. But it appears that no particular spam filter or spam killer that can be used especially in your blogs. I am currently using 3 spam-blocking plugins for this blog.
The latest versions of WordPress installations come with Akismet, a spam-filtering plugin for WordPress. Akismet can be very useful especially in filtering spam comments containing numerous links, which are always a feature of spam messages. Unfortunately, it fails to do its job sometimes for flagging proper comments as spam. So it would be necessary to check the filtered spam for this error. Problems arise when you got a lot of spam, say hundreds or thousands, to review. It would take you a lot of time, or it maybe impossible for the blogger to finish checking all those spam. You cannot just delete these comments because you might disappoint your readers. Some comments may also contain important things such as a link exchange request, a relevant link to your post, etc.
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How To Get Massive Traffic To Your Blog Daily Part 1
This is the first part of the 3 part series consisting of 24 simple tips of getting massive traffic to your blog daily.
Blogging For Traffic Tip #1 – Create Original Content Of Significant Value
Content is king. If you have been in the Internet marketing scene for any period of time you would have heard this saying day in and day out. Every Internet marketing manual has this as it’s mantra and rightly so.
One of the biggest problems people have when blogging has nothing to do with the lack of traffic coming to their site. It’s a symptom of something more sinister. Bad content. Even worse then poorly written original content is content that is not original at all. This is the death bell for all blogs that want to be taken seriously.
You HAVE to have unique content. It is the lifeblood of blogging. Every other blog is lacking in original content, you have to be different.
Pay someone to write it if you have to.
Blogging For Traffic Tip #2 – Create Content That Gives People A Plan Of Action
Want to get people to not only read your blog but follow your word blindly and do your bidding for you? I kid you not, people will fall over themselves to do what you say if you do this. You just have to tell them what to do.
This is the greatest idea, especially if you are preselling an affiliate program via your blog.
Every one of your posts you write should give people an action that could be taken by the reader.
IE, every idea you give the reader, they should be able to go and implement in their business right away.
I’m not sure who I read this from but I remember reading that the best way to sell a product or an affiliate product, especially in the Internet marketing arena is to give them a plan that they can follow and implement straight away and then give them the resources to do that with.
A lot of people write ebooks or articles or blogs that are very informative but don’t really presell what they are trying to promote.
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A List of Free Blogging Directories
Previously, I’ve talked about the importance of submitting your site to directories. Aside from being a free source of traffic, it is also categorized, hence, you are building quality inbound links for your site, which are loved by search engines. I’ve listed below the most popular directories that you can submit your new blog to.
Blogarama
Link: http://www.blogarama.com
Blogdigger
Link: http://www.blogdigger.com
Blog Catalog
Link: http://www.blogcatalog.com
Blog Hub
Link: http://www.bloghub.com
Blog Rankings
Link: http://www.blogrankings.com
Blog Street
Link: http://www.blogstreet.com
Blog Search Engine
Link: http://www.blogsearchengine.com
Blog Wise
Link: http://www.blogwise.com
Blogz
Link: http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/
Blog Lines
Link: http://www.bloglines.com
Bloogz
Link: http://www.bloogz.com
Blog Pulse
Link: http://www.blogpulse.com
Blog Universe
Link: http://www.bloguniverse.com
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Easily submit your sites to web directories using free softwares!
Why is it important to list your website in web directories? Web directories were hot before the advent of search engines. Previously, people go to these directories to find quality websites, a potential referring traffic for web masters. However, these days, search engines made it easier for internet users to find what they’re looking for; directories were forgotten since then, sadly, even by webmasters.
SEO giants have long been stressing about the importance of building inbound links through web directories. Submitting your site to good and high-PR directories is one way of getting quality links that are highly valued by the search engines. Web directories are mainly human edited, thus a website must pass a strict criteria to get listed, hence quality links are only listed. These links are search engine friendly. Since they are organized in highly focused categories making them an invaluable resource for search engines to measure the quality and the relevance of a website.
Web directories are, thus, important not because they give direct referral traffic, but because they are given importance by the search engines to qualify and rank web pages and determine their relevance.
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Googlebot Stopped Crawling My Sites
This has happened to me several times before. Even this blog has experienced this one of the worst nightmare a blogger could have. Good thing, Google has started indexing some pages of this blog again.
What happens when Googlebot stopped crawling sites? (This is based on my own observation.)
1. Of course, it would affect the indexing of your sites in Google search results.
2. Your new contents will not be indexed. (This post for example is not assured of getting it to Google index).
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How to Spot a Fake Paypal E-mail?
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Paypal had been particular in securing their merchants’ accounts. They provided tips on how to protect your account.
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Top 5 Rules to Fight Spam
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Studies show unsolicited or “junk” e-mail, known as spam, accounts for roughly half of all e-mail messages received. Although once regarded as little more than a nuisance, the prevalence of spam has increased to the point where many users have begun to express a general lack of confidence in the effectiveness of e-mail transmissions, and increased concern over the spread of computer viruses via unsolicited messages.
Here are the top 5 Rules to do to protect from spam:
Number 1: Do what you can to avoid having your email address out on the net.
There are products called “spam spiders” that search the Internet for email addresses to send email to. If you are interested, do a search on “spam spider” and you will be amazed at what you get back. Interestingly, there is a site, WebPoison.org, which is an open source project geared to fight Internet “spambots” and “spam spiders”, by giving them bogus HTML web pages, which contain bogus email addresses
A couple suggestions for you:
a) use form emails, which can hide addresses or also
b) use addresses like sales@company.com instead of your full address to help battle the problem.
c) There are also programs that encode your email, like jsGuard, which encodes your email address on web pages so that while spam spiders find it difficult or impossible to read your email address.
Number 2: Get spam blocking software. There are many programs out there for this. (go to www.cloudmark.com or www.mailwasher.net for example). You may also buy a professional version. Whatever you do, get the software. It will save you time. The software is not foolproof, but they really do help. You usually have to do some manual set up to block certain types of email.
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Enhance your blog posts with Zemanta
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The way your write and the way your post looks like adds attraction to your readers to stick to your blog. There are many ways that you can enhance your blog posts.
1. Pictures. Adding pictures relevant to or descriptive of your blog post is one of the proven ways to attract readers, make them stay and read your posts further.
There are several options you have to add images to your posts. You can either manually search for photos then post the image to your blog (what you call hot linking) or upload it directly to your website; add your hosted images from image-hosting websites like Photobucket, ImagesHack, and the like; and use an amazing plugin for WordPress users called Photodropper.
2. Relevant links. Adding relevant links will serve as reference or source of your posts. This adds credibility to you as a writer. Furthermore, you build camaraderie among your fellow bloggers for giving them link love.
3. Articles. Similar with giving relevant links, citing articles serve as a reference for your post.
4. Tags. A tag is a keyword used to describe the topic of a blog post. This serves importance in search engine optimization, categorization of posts, and on pinging Technorati, Google Search, Pingshot, and similar sites.
For you to integrate these “enhancers” to your posts, you have to be resourceful. Good thing that a new web 2.0 startup was created to make it easier for bloggers to add relevant links, articles, pictures and tags to their posts.
About Zemanta:
Zemanta is building a platform for assisted on-line content production for any web user. Our solution is best demonstrated by taking a text (a blog, an article or a web page) and feeding it into our system. The system recognizes the content and returns suggested images, smart links, keywords and relevant related stories from the Internet. It can be referenced from a user’s preferred content publishing platform through a simple plug-in.
You can try a demo from their page on how the service works. Basically you only have to download a browser plugin (currently available for Firefox browser only).
Zemanta works on WordPress.com, Blogger, Typepad and on self-hosted WordPress blogs. It seamlessly work on the new WordPress 2.5 version.
So get your blogs Zemified now!
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