Long blog post vs short blog post

This is a frequent question always asked by Blogger. Should I write long or short blog posts? My answer is recommended to write a short blog post because people who can read long blog post shouldn’t be any problem to read short blog post but those who like short blog post won’t tolerate reading long blog post.

Above is just visitor perspective. If your blog post traffic is depend on search engine page rank, and then you must consider search engine perspective too. For example, Google prefer long or short blog post to rate the page ranking?

Actually search engine doesn’t bother whether long or short blog post. The key thing is the keyword phase in your blog post. As long as your blog post is optimized with appropriate keyword phase, then search engine bot should be able to recognize it.

For myself, I personally write both long and short blog post depending on the article I am writing. When the idea I am trying to deliver can be quickly understood then I write a short post. Agree?

How to start online business

Online business is getting hot in recent year. Many people are thinking to maximize their income thru online business. Actually there are many available trading platforms, free tools, online tutorials to assist people to start online business. I would say even if you are non IT background, you still able to create an online business successfully.
Online business does not limit to product selling only, which can also be teaching courses or a variety of services too. Here I wish to share the idea on how to start online business.

Web trading Platform
EBAY (http://www.ebay.com.my)
Lelong.com (http://www.lelong.com.my)
Mudah (http://www.mudah.my)
All these platforms have huge customer base. They offer relatively secure platform and higher visibility of your product to end user.

Free Blog Platform
Blogger (http://www.blogger.com)
WordPress (http://www.wordpress.com)
Xanga (http://www.xanga.com)
In fact, blogs can also be used to start online business. I am highly recommended Blogger, because Blogger in Google’s search engine always has higher page rank, definitely it will bring more traffic to you blog page. Blogger offer more flexible way to customize your blog page, easier to use and support external plugin.
The benefits of using blog are you can have your own way to promoting your products. You can start from the scratch until the whole blog design. But, you need to devote more time to operate, update and increase popularity.

Forum
Chinese Cari (http://chinese.cari.com.my)
LowYat.net (http://forum.lowyat.net)
The advantage of above forums is always having high-traffic. Usually forum will have a channel allow commercial transactions. From those trading channel in forum, probably you can introduce your product then sell it to your customer. Keep in mind that different forums will have different trading rules and regulation, you must first understand and follow accordingly. Any violation may cause warning or account disabled.

How Google detect invalid Adsense click

IP Address
It is the easiest way for Google to recognized your computer. If those clicks on your ads are come from the same IP Address, your account is flagged.

Cookies
Most home users use dynamic IP Address for Internet. IP address will change during disconnect and reconnect. But Google has set cookies on your computer, cookies can trace whether it is the same computer.

Physical Location
Google can trace traffics origin from which town (even small town arround the world). Therefore, using different computers with different IP address does not secure anymore. Don’t try to click your ads in various internet cafes. Google will ban your account too.

Click Through Rate (CTR)
Click through Rate too high. Google will flag your account. For your information, normal CTR should ranges from 0.5% – 8%

Suspicious Click Pattern
It is also suspicious when people click on the ads then run away immediately (hit-and-run). Why this computer / IP address always click on the ads in this particular website but never click on the ads on other websites?

Search Engine Ranking
If your website is not indexed on any search engine, low search engine ranking, not linked by any prominent website, but get consistently high traffic? How come people can access your website and always click your ads? That will make Google eye on you. Good luck.

DIY Search Engine Optimization Tutorial (Free Download)

This DIY Search Engine Optimization Tutorial is to share the ideas for improving page rank in search engines that you can DIY.

As refer to Wikipedia, Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process to improve your website page rank in search engine results. Search engine like MSN, Yahoo! and Google hold a huge market share of search performed on internet. Google is having the largest market share among others, therefore most SEO tutorials are geared toward Google.

2 types of search engine results – natural and paid
Natural Search Results are where your website ranks on its own by search engine without any payments. In order to achieve higher ranks result for your targeted keywords, you must optimize your website content so that search engine can determine and making decisions on which keywords to show in page results. That why this tutorial were come to give you the ideas to SEO your website.

Paid Search results are for such high placement campaigns as Google AdWords or Yahoo Sponsored Search. If you outbid your competitors, your website should get higher rank on the search results.

Download for FREE - DIY Search Engine Optimization Tutorial.pdf

How To Get Good Traffic To Your Website

Base on market research and statistic show almost 80% of internet users are depend on search engines (main search engine Google & Yahoo!) to locate those information they need. Therefore, if you optimize your website properly and make it show up with higher ranking at search engine, definitely it will get good traffic to your website.

Making your pages appear on higher ranking in search engine is won’t happen immediately because search engine like Google are hardly trust a brand new website. As long as you keep adding optimized articles and your website is getting older, then you page will become recognized by search engines.

In short, time and consistency adding optimized articles are the key factors to make your website appear with higher rank in search engines. See also DIY Search Engine Optimization

Blog Bounce Rate

Bounce rate is refer to the percentage of visitor who leave your blog before reading a second page. If you bounce rate is 1 percent, therefore 1 out of 100 visitors is leave your blog without reading second page. To create a successful blog, you need to maintain the bounce rate as low as possible.

In this article I will share the reasons that result in high bounce rates so that you can avoid them.

Irritated Blog
Some blog have lots of distracting ads, animations and offers that popup out of nowhere. Such blog has been designed to increase the unconscious levels of irritation to the extent that visitor feel bad while visiting them and so they leave before reading more pages. This is similar like if one of your colleague is interrupting while you talking with your boss. But your boss is asking you questions and your phone is ringing then surely you will feel irritated and you won’t be able to work properly.

How to decrease the bounce rate in your blog
You must make the right balance between distracting ads and blog content. Even though you have a really powerful content that prevents irritated visitors from leaving you, but it is advisable to keep your blog clean, clear and having as little distractions as possible, even if you have great content why risk have unsatisfied readers?

How to Build Branding for Website

Is online brand really important for website?

Why someone prefer buy coke instead of any other drink?
Why do people pay higher price for Apple’s Iphone?

The answer is branding effect. All these companies have successfully built brands in such a way that they have something different than other competitors. Let’s take another example, you can easily establish a restaurant that looks like McDonalds but will it be McDonalds in the consumer’s eye? Of course not, because McDonalds has built a strong brand in consumer’s mind.

How to build online brand for your website
Using a logo, slogan and the site’s design aren’t the way to build a brand but they are just helpful tools that you can use along the way. The key point to build brand is having a website that different than other websites. You must build a remarkable website, have different content and a strong competitive advantage and your brand will become well known. (See also “How To Make Your Website Popular“)

Traffic is King, Content is Queen

Most of you managed to create great content for your websites yet failed to get a respectable number of visitors to view your content. Basically, great content is only effective to retain visitor who have already visited your website but it never help you to bring new visitors to your website.

This is mean your website traffic is the “king”, and content is just the “queen”. Of course you need both to survive and continue growth your website. Yeah, the real King is marketing your website. See my previous post under “internet category” to get more info for how to get traffic to your website, how to tell the right people about your great content.

In most time, your website was rejected by lots of people is not because your content is bad, but is actually you didn’t targeted the right visitors to your website. In short, learn marketing, become persistence (never give up) and you will succeed in creating a famous website.

Easily Download YouTube Video

YouTube.com is a popular website that allows you to share video and to view videos on their servers online. Unfortunately YouTube is doesn’t allow you to download those videos from their website. Due to that, many friend is asking me is there any idea to download YouTube video for offline viewing.

Actually, there is a way to download YouTube video then save into your computer. In internet, you may found many third party applications that allow you to download YouTube video. But today I will share an alternative way to download YouTube video without install any third party application into your computer.

Step 1
View any video you wish to download at Youtube.com. At Internet Explorer, right click the URL address then copy

Step 2
Go to “http://www.videodownloadx.com/” and paste the URL address under the Download bar and click “Download Video” button.

Step 3
Here you go…. You can download the YouTube video immediately. Please keep in mind that, sometime you may need to rename the downloaded file extension to file_name.flv

Step 4
You will need a “free FLV player” to watch the downloaded file on your PC. You can also convert YouTube video to other formats like .MPEG with “FLV Converter”.

Make Money Blog

Now a day, many people started to write blog. They writing blog not just merely a hobby, but also allow them to earn extra money. This is the reason why so many people convert themselves become a “Full-time blogger” You may wondering how they can survive in the network without a proper job? The answer is advertisement. By putting ads in their blog website, blogger will earn extra money if visitor click on those ads. In fact, some people used to reach over thousand USD in daily profit.

“Make Money Blog” is started by the Americans Steve Pavlina (http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog) since 2005. In the beginning, he created the blog is meanly for life experience sharing only. He really can’t expect his blog are become so popular and even spread to the entire network. Due to his blog are having huge traffic, Steve had tried to register on Google Adsense. 1 year later, the daily advertising revenue was as high as thousand USD! Steve definitely becomes blog legendary.

As you can see that making money in the internet is not too difficult, as long as you never give up, learn from your mistake, remain persistent and you will be able to do it. You will success one day.