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A little discussion on blogging and niches to write about

Burak Ozdemir — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:20:21 +0000

If you are new to blogging , probably you don’t know that every niche’s earning is different. So the quest in your mind is to start with which topic ? You should remember that you would better write about topics that you know very well. But again this depends on what you are aiming. If you are good at your area, it will take time before you draw some serious attention. Be patient.

1 )Earn money from best earning niches. (MoneyComes First)

2) Write about something that you know about. (Real blogging)

As you can realize, I don’t aim at earning, I write about things that I enjoy. But you may want to target at earnings.
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Vacation is a nice way to boost your blogging

Burak Ozdemir — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 07:20:15 +0000

If you have a laptop or hand-held device with internet connection, then you are lucky that you are able to blog in peace. Human brain thinks in a different way on resting. This means that when you are on a holiday, you may be more creative and think different. This is like a natural brain storming. You can use this as a nice way to boost your blogging. Just carry your laptop or hand-held with you whenever possible. Put your ideas into your favourite text editor. Collecting and organizing ideas is a beginning of an article.When you have enough ideas then you can start expand each idea to cover the topic. You may come across with different ideas when you are on a holiday. So it is a better way if you carry at least a paper and a pen with you, because you don’t know when lighting strikes in your head. So if you have time to sit and drink something, then you can think about your ideas and expand them to form the story.

List:

Carry your laptop/hand-held with you
Collect ideas
Write down the ideas you collected
Organize them
Drink something, complete the story

Technorati Tags: Vacation, Blogging, Holiday, Boost

Golden Rule ‘Content’

Burak Ozdemir — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:29:02 +0000

Many bloggers are hopeless, they just work hard and run their blogs for months, but they still don’t get any valuable amount of visitors. This is just because something is wrong with your content. Maybe the most anticipated subject by bloggers.Catching a good content and idea must not be so easy, because among those millions of bloggers only some of them earn much.Problogger,John Chow,etc..

So have you ever think that what if you spend your time on your content rather than your design? Probably you will start to get some loyal readers, and your feed chicklet will show a number greater than 10. If you still lack of ideas what may your content be, you have to ask for yourself, you know the things that you are better on.

Searching other sites, browsing many blogs in your niche can be very helpful, to do so, get a feedreader, add your favorite blog feeds and it will be much more easier to follow many blogs.This week Problogger touched an interesting point Go Shopping and Improve Your Blog , this was really an interesting experiment for me. He asked for his readers go shopping, observe the people and note their ideas about what is going on around. Problogger himself did the same thing, he went the nearest shopping center and catched some ideas. The most important point is that he related the ideas with blogging.

An example is :

3. Lines and Waiting in Queues Kill Customer Loyalty

(He related this with slow load times of sites.)

To catch some ideas, the only thing is to look around something, go away from your computer.Think about your content, how to improve it, or maybe you have to change your niche.You have to know your professions and skills, and choose your niche accordingly.People who are successful are the people who aware of their environment, having a good reasoning, and relating every experience with their jobs by catching common points.
Sitting and waiting will not inspire you, do different things and read a lot.

Tags: Content

Wordpress Tip : Quick Rollback

Burak Ozdemir — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:39:18 +0000

Most of us did something wrong when editing our Themes, so you can probably kill the whole theme, for example you did something wrong with the sidebar.php, and suppose you don’t have a backup, so that will be hard to restore it. To prevent these kinds of situations, there is something which can save life. Suppose that you are editing sidebar.php file, then open 2 distinct sidebar.php in two distinct window, you work with one, if something goes wrong directly switch to another sidebar.php, then save it! Done your code is saved, there is also another thing you can do, just before editing copy your whole code to somewhere, maybe a text file on your desktop, then just go for editing, if you need to restore, use the file that you saved.

Tags: Restore, Rollback, Tip, Wordpress

A nice blogging Tip ! Offline Editor !

Burak Ozdemir — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 21:04:46 +0000

If you are running out a blog, then you faced difficulties when there are connection problems to load your blogs control panel, so that blocks you to write posts. There is an easy way, you can use an offline editor.

Here are the advantages:

No slow downs caused by browser
You do not need to open your control panel
Easy to use, so you don’t waste your time.
Comfort of sending posts from your desktop

Search for “BlogDesk”, the best offline software.

Tags: BlogDesk , Offline , Editor , Wordpress

10 Useful Free Services for Bloggers, Optimize Your Content, Drive Traffic

Burak Ozdemir — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:53:15 +0000

Most blogs are established without some certain optimizations and organized content. There are dozens of free tools that are offering bloggers & webmasters to observe their sites, get an idea about what is attracting traffic, what is not. Without knowing your mistakes, your site will not be going in a right way.Below you can find many services (completely free) to track your traffic sources, contents, keywords, backlinks, alexa rankings, pagerank etc.

Google Webmaster Tools : Learn your pagerank distribution, get an idea of query keywords, know your incoming and outgoing links, manage your sitemap. Sitemaps are very useful and helps Google to index it.
Google Analytics : You should definitely get an account for this service, not any other free services offering such a service with quality and useful details. You will be aware of your visitors that where are they coming , what are they looking for.
iWebTool : Get your site’s rankings and you can make a future PR prediction. This service does not require any registration, tens of tools.
Google Adsense : Even the creatures out of this galaxy is aware of what Google Adsense is. Get an account to make money from you site. I will not explain this service, there are dozens of sites, forums for this, just google it.
Social Bookmarking : This is service is provided by many popular communities like Digg, StumbleUpon, Delicious etc. An awesome way to publicize your content and make people aware of your existence. Start with Digg.com and you will explore others.
Technorati : Blogger community, people search about anything in blogs. Get a Technorati account and use technorati tags to get your blog indexed with Technorati.
FeedBurner : Help your readers to get news from your site with their favorite feed reader.
Extreme Tracking : Get realtime statistics about your site, really useful. You will get a detailed knowledge about your referers.
MyBlogLog : Community of Bloggers, you can discover who visits your sites.
Digital Point Forums : To get an answer to any question, discover new ways to promote your site, #1 forum of digital world.

Technorati Tags: Blogging, Tips, Services, Content, Traffic, Optimize

A Recent Blogger Disease : “Digg”

Burak Ozdemir — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 21:30:59 +0000

Maybe the most important traffic source for most of the bloggers. Bloggers are just slowly turning into “Digg-Zombies”. They write for to get on the front page of Digg. So why is this all about? Simply desire to getting more traffic so to increase earnings Of course no one can deny useful sides of Digg or any other social communities. They deliver fresh news in a fast way. So called Digg-Zombies builds clicking communities such as “gangclick” to get on the frontpage. Some of the most popular Digg users give some secret of getting to the front page. The most important point is just collecting at least 15 Digg friends for fast clicks and getting all your friends to digg your stories.In addition subscribing to popular 50 feeds to catch the fresh news is a key point. As a result as long as such communities like Digg exist, there will be a competition between Digg-Zombies and conscious bloggers.

How a kid can make $900 monthly from Adsense ?

Burak Ozdemir — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 03:13:58 +0000

Yes, that is true! A teenager kid is making nearly a thousand dollar monthly from Adsense.In addition to this the kid has 3827 comments on a single post, and the kid has many posts and has knowledge about on her subject. The interesting part is the blog is just about Neopets (I guess it is a game), I actually don’t know what it is and I have never heard about it. Check this link, this is what I am talking about “http://www.neopetsfanatic.com/neopets-game-cheats/“. The girl has some knowledge of wordpress and blending Adsense or maybe she took some help, who cares. She just did the right thing and now she is earning.

Tips For Getting Traffic To Your Site

Burak Ozdemir — Sat, 26 May 2007 23:22:55 +0000

First of all, every web site needs some traffic to survive and to make its goals done. Think about it, with out traffic, a web site is dead like a ghost town. So first, you have to make people know about your site, and your services. There are many ways to do this.

Becoming a webmaster is a tough job and it does not mean that you sit and design something then you publish it. No, absolutely not, you have to use forums, web directories, make link-exchanges; simply you have to get your web site promoted. But do not forget that original content is always much easier to promote. Once you have really nice services, people will quickly be aware of you web site and will use your services. So firstly build your own original content then start promoting you website on different places. Firstly begin with registering yourself on the webmaster forums, and then take advices from experienced users of forum, then you may make link exchange with other people in the forum. But do not forget that high PR (page rank) the more quality links you can get. High PR is another problem for beginners. Most web site owners suffer from low PR. If you want high PR, then you must buy some links from higher PR web sites. Then only you can make quality link exchanges. These are the first steps to get your site known. Besides link exchange, you should submit your web address to many web directories; they are quite helpful in the beginning. Also do not forget to submit your website to search engines and before submitting you should make SEO analysis on your site, you may search what is SEO? And how to make a SEO analysis, then you reveal the points and then you can optimize your site for search engines. Another good way of promoting your web site is get you site reviewed on related sites or blogs. Again you have to pay a bit for this. But believe me you will get much more than your money when you started to get some traffic. You may use AdSense and other advertisements to get money from your website, and in my opinion AdSense is the best. I know many people make thousands of dollars per month. The key point is good content. Once you created your own original content and you have to update your web site frequently to keep visitors coming and visiting. Updating a website is a crucial point on getting loyal visitors. One of the most important point is that do not ever pay for traffic to your site. Most of them are fake traffic or robots, you can not make money and also they are prohibited by many advertisement systems such as AdSense. Also do not pay for useless softwares that promise thousands of visitors starting from tomorrow. They are all fake softwares! Do not believe them; do not waste your money. Such softwares are mostly URL submitters. They just submit your web site to worthless web directories and to search engines. This means nothing; there is no way that you can get thousands of people just submitting your site into web directories and to search engines. If it was real, why would they try to sell you that product, they will probably building hundreds of websites everyday and billions of visitors to those sites. No way! The only thing to get many visitors is having an original and useful content. When you have the nice content then you promote your site. You have to wait at least 6 months to get a high traffic; if still you are not able to get remarkable traffic then you have done something wrong. Even you have a very original content; people may not be interested in. So having a original content plus meaningful and relevant content is the golden rule. Then you just promote your web site and wait people to come. Do not forget that you have to pay a bit while promoting, and if you use an advertisement system, later you may earn what you spent. The only way to earn from a web site is selling products, offering services or advertisement systems.

Technorati Tags: Tips, Traffic, Blogging