Alasan Jatuh Cinta Sama Blogger

Apa sebenarnya yang menarik dari aktivitas nge-blogging? Hmm.. kok banyak ya yang suka menghabiskan waktunya dengan benda ini. Tidak hanya itu, bahkan benda ini bisa membuat kecanduan orang dan sulit untuk menghentikannya. Ataukah jangan-jangan memang benda ini (blogger) ini mengandung zat adduted seperti zat nikotin, alkonol, atau jenis narkoba. Hehe.. jangan salah. Asumsi diatas cuma buat bahan candaan aja..  hahah :)  Blogger itu adalah benda yang baik, berikut ini saya mau jelaskan alasan – alasan yang kuat yang membuat saya jatuh cinta sama blogger.

Tapi sebelum itu, saya mau jelaskan dulu apa sebenarnya blog itu? blog berasal dari kata weblog. untuk menyebut kelompok website pribadi yang selalu update. blog itu sejenis website, namun terbatas tidak seperti website yang berbayar.

Blog itu diibaratkan komputer yang sedang onlone, memang sebenarnya internet itu merupakan gabukan komputer yang di online-kan sehingga dapat diakses oleh orang banyak. sedangkan blog maupun blogspot itu adalah komputer(server) milik blogger yang sudah di online-kan. Dan juga memberi fasilitas kepada kita untuk memiliki 'sebagian' dari komputer itu. jadi kita memakai server komputer milik blogger yg kini sudah dibeli oleh Google.. mungkin seperti itu penjalasan saya tentang apa itu blog, haram maklum. Heheh

Selanjutnya inilah alasan kuat saya kenapa blog membuat saya jatuh cinta. tapi sebelumnya saya mau bilang bahwa point dibawa ini merupakan rangkuman poin yang ambil dari artikel bung Herdiansyah Hamzah di personal blognya  namun saya tulis ulang. nah.. berikut ini alasannya knp mahluk blogger ini dapat membuat saya jatuh cinta:

• Blog adalah tempat curhat disaat orang-orang terdekat kita pada sibuk;

• Blog adalah media untuk menuangkan ide dan gagasan yang tepat karena tidak dikenai biaya sama sekali, alias gratis;

• Blog dapat melatih diri anda untuk cakap dalam menulis, termasuk dalam hal melatih pikirananda untuk lebih tajam dan variatif. Banyak jurnalis besar dunia yang memulai karir dan kemampuannya melalui blog;

• Blog sebagai ajang promosi online. Dengan memiliki blog, berarti anda telah menjadi members dunia maya. Paling tidak dengan rajin mengisi blog anda, maka akan mudah bagi anda untuk mendapat ruang publikasi bagi pribadi anda serta gagasan-gagasan anda;

• Dengan memiliki sebuah blog, maka anda akan mudah membangun jaringan pertemanan dengan jutaan bloggers diseluruh dunia;

• Dengan memiliki blog, maka anda dapat melakukan penghematan dalam hal publikasi ide dan gagasan anda melalui dunia maya. Bandingkan jika anda harus membangun website sendiri, dimana domain, desain dan lain sebagainya akan memakan biaya hinggga jutaan pertahunnya;

• Blog adalah personal site yang lebih akrab dengan panca indra alias relative mudah untuk digunakan dan dipelajari sendiri (easy to use) tanpa bimbingan private dari jago-jago programming. Ini dengan catatan, bahwa anda harus serius mempelajarinya

• Perkembanga fitur-fitur baru blogger yang disediakan oleh mbah “Google”, membuat kita sulit untuk tidak menjamah dan mencobanya sampai tuntas…tas….tas….

• Kian banyaknya tutorial yang diciptakan sendiri (by self created) oleh para bloggers, membuat kita kian lebih sering untuk mencobanya demi keindahan dan kecantikan blog kita (duh….ile, kae kata-kata sinetron aja!he…3x);

• Alasan terakhir bagi saya adalah, blog mengajarkan kita untuk mencari jati diri dalam interaksi social. Banyak orang yang memiliki prilaku tertutup, untuk itu, blog adalah tempat yang paling cocok untuk mengungkap, “seperti apa anda sebenarnya?”

Disamping alasn di atas, masih ada satu alasan ngeblog yang sekarang lagi ngetrend dikalangan bloggers, yaitu ; blog adalah cara mudah untuk mencari duit. Disamping fasilitas ‘Google adsense” dengan metode pay for click, sekarang juga telah banyak bermunculan situs-situs layanan jasa online yang memberikan fasilitas affiliate, dimana anda akan dibayar jika iklan mereka yang anda pasang di blog anda, dibuka oleh pengguna blog lain.

Demikian alasan utama, mengapa saya jadi gila blogger. Lantas bagaimana dengan anda?

·  Somoga artikel ini bermanfaat dan jadilah blogger yang baik!

How To Do Natural SEO On Blogger

Although many insist that blogs hosted on free servers, such as blogger, are not ideal for performing a corrert positioning  of your web site, the true is that a blog hosted by Blogger can be really well positioned and quickly on the internet if you are using the right SEO tools

Now, given the latest updates from Google, the best would be hiring a specialized person, however, if we don't have the resources or we want to learn doing this job alone, we can choose to begin with the natural positioning. Here are some tips to start a SEO work (Search Engine Optimization).

The first thing is to pick a correct domain

We must try having our keyword included in our domain name, of course, this may sacrifice our branding but we can use the redirection.

Create Value Added Content

Not only rewrite articles, or write like it would be something for us. We should write thinking about our targetaudience, i.e., giving advices, tips, suggestions, guidance on specific topics and, aside, put links, use anchortext and keyfrases.

The topic of the links is important

They should be of quality and is no longer needed to place five or ten links within the text of your website, now, what matters is that the link is in context and is relevant.

Finally, the domain, in value-added content and a right use of the internal and external links, will not be useful if we don't try to update our blog constantly

How often should you update your blog?

This is not necessary to be done on daily basis, although this may be ideal as in this way we could achieve a greater relevance in search engines, but has to be a constant work. Let's say, two or three times a week would be enough, what should not happen is updating only three times a week and doing nothing next week.

Keep in mind that search engines happen to pass daily on our blog in order to index our content.

I hope that you find these SEO tips useful and if you would like to receive more tutorials by email, subscribe for free to this blog, check out the facebook page or add the RSS feed.

How to write SEO Optimized Blog Posts

I'm posting back a article about how to uptomize our blog with CEO. for blogging users, studying CEO is a something important that we have to know.  this article i took from helpblogger.blogspot.com.  i do hope this article it can helps you. studying and never stop studying.

I'm not a SEO Expert, nor what we will read further is a top secret, but this is something about basic positioning that everyone should apply in order to optimize the blog posts. So with these techniques, effort, and lots of patience, we can occupy the best places in the search results of different search engines.

Of course, not all the cases are alike, nor all blogs are positioned similarly, some may have greater competition than others depending on how popular is the topic they handle, so when it comes to positioning there's no specific time that applies for all. Having said this, let's begin.

Focus on a topic

Whatever the theme of your blog is, when writing a post, try focusing on a definite subject that has a clear objective and has no distractions, for example, if you write about Digital Cameras, then the beginning and the end of the post should be only about it. Don't start talking about digital cameras and end up telling about what you have done last weekend. A reader goes to a page because is looking for a specific information, so unless it is not a personal blog (where you write about your daily life) do not digress.

Define the post title

The post title should be precise, so that you can briefly summarize the content of the post, but you must not abuse this either and although it should be concise, do not save words that might be keys to the search.

Examples:

Collection of all the cameras that have been released last year on the market The best digital cameras of 2012 Clearly, the first one hasn't been defined so much and the second is not only more accurate but it is more appropriate for what people are searching on the internet.

The keywords 

Keywords are those terms that the most people search for on the internet and you should try focusing on them when writing an article; these keywords have to be included throughout the entire article but you should be careful not repeating them too many times.

Example: 

During the fourth week of the technology, there were many products that are consumed today, and the most famous experts gave a speech on them.

At the opening of the fourth Technology Week, the experts talked about various topics, including how to choose a digital camera, frequent discussions about the pros and cons of the iPad, and what are the best smartphones.

In the first example we have written without giving importance to any terms, however in the second one, we used phrases that are searched on the internet by the users.

So, the most frequent search terms should be included wisely but without cluttering your posts with these words, or it can be counterproductive. These keywords should be added in the title of the posts, as well.

Rely on synonyms

While it is good using keywords, we should not limit ourselves to a single word. It is recommended using synonyms because users do not name things in same way and using less keywords, you'll avoid leaving the reader under the impression that you are being repetitive and insistent.

Examples:

Nikon D7000s Digital Camera is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes great pictures, for those who like good quality pictures.

Nikon D7000s is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes excellent pictures, for those who like good quality images.

In the first example we have repeated the word digital camera and pictures twice meanwhile in the second one, we used the digital camera keyword once and changed the word pictures with images.

This way, the reader will find a greater diversity of words and could enjoy the article more. 

Using bold and italics

The main keywords should be highlighted, so that they will stand out from the rest; this is taken into account by the search engine robots being like some kind of lures for them, so the words with which you want to position yourself have to be highlighted with bold, but be careful, this shouldn't be done with CSS, but with HTML, i.e. they should not be tagged with font-weight: bold; but rather with <b> or even better, with <strong>.

Examples:

Nikon D7000s is a 16.2 megapixel digital camera that takes excellent pictures, for those who like good quality images

The result seems to be the same, but it is not. Although the three sentences are in bold, only one is more attractive to robots, which is the first.

<strong>Nikon D7000s</strong> is a 16.2 megapixel <b>digital camera</b> that takes excellent pictures, for those who like <span style="font-weight: bold;">good quality images</span>.

The same goes for the italics, use them for highlighting important words, but do not put them between font-style: italic; but rather between <i> or even better <em>.

<em>Nikon D7000s</em> is a 16.2 megapixel <i>digital camera</i> that takes excellent pictures, for those who like <span style="font-style: italic;">good quality images</span>.

Again, the first has a better chance of positioning than the others. So, it is recommended to highlight the keywords in bold and italics, or put them between <strong> and </strong>, or between <em> and </em>.

Using links

Some believe that we shouldn't use links in the posts because this way we are giving away our Page Rank. This is not quite true, using referral links to sites that have already shaped their credibility, will also help us to shape our own. Certainly, we should not flood our posts with links, but do it when is necessary, and especially with sites that address the same topics as you.

Also, avoid putting the typical "click here" or similar texts. When you put a link, the anchor text should be fairly descriptive.

Examples:

<a href="Link URL">Click here</a> to know more More information about <a href="Link URL">digital cameras</a> In the first example, the anchor text is not relevant and descriptive, in the second it is.

Illustrating with images

Articles with images are not only visually appealing, but might help the reader to understand what you are talking about, thus, whenever you can, use an image in your post to illustrate the publishing, but do not overdo it, because many images or very large images can slow the loading time of the blog. 

New and relevant content

You should focus not only on writing many posts, but also making them relevant to your readers. New and original content is more attractive to the search engines than a copy & paste, and actually the last gets penalized. So try to write new stuff, even if you think that all has been said, it isn't so, each person has a different way of saying things.

Also, always try to get informed before writing an article; do a research and see if the information is valid, based on that you will gain the trust of your readers.

With these few techniques you can increase the chances of positioning your posts on the internet. As I said earlier, these aren't things that no one heard about, but I know that many start and do not know how to optimize the blog posts.

It does not hurt repeating that the positioning is not given overnight, but with some effort and patience, you should see the desired results over time.