Jammed: Full into Capacity

Blogging has become a mainstream activity, with everyone from teenagers to grandparents now blogging regularly.  With that in mind, here are 5 tips to help you become a better bloggger.

Blog Regularly

Many bloggers do not blog often enough. If you want to keep an audience, as well as keeping search engines happy, you need to make sure to have new content on your blog. The best way is to keep a schedule – blogging at least three times a week on different topics can make or break your blog.

Interact with Your Audience

Blogging is very much a social activity. Make sure to reply to comments, trackbacks, and other ideas that are circulating around your blog and your interests.

Interact with other Bloggers

Interacting with other bloggers in your niche is an excellent way to get more links and more readers. Find other blogs in your area – respond via comments, trackbacks. Ask to guest post on those blogs and create content that those bloggers want to link to and tell their audiences about.

Schedule Your Content

If you are using Wordpress (as many bloggers do) probably the best way to create more content is to pick one time during the week and write all of your major content then.  Once you’ve finished writing your content, you can schedule it to post at a later point. You’ve created a lot of content, and at the same time created regular postings and content for your blogs.

Get an Editor

Either a friend or a fellow blogger should be able to look over your content, give you tips and ideas for your content. If you’re a full time blogger, you might want to even consider hiring  a full time editor who can help you improve your writing style. The better your blogging and writing, the more contributors, readers and traffic you will get.

Maya Richard currently writes about high speed internet for Cable Modem Help. She can be reached at mayarichard @ gmail.com

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I have not written any personal entry for this blog for long time now as I have been busy with my internship and maintaining my other personal blog on my spare time.

Jammed: Full into Capacity has been online for over three years now, have gone through changes similar to what happens to a usual blog – topic and layout changes, no-post-for-weeks stages, traffic drops (as reflected on my dropping Alexa rank) and the worst thing is disappearing from the top spots of Google SERPs.  I am still figuring out until now which of the Google’s guidelines have I violated.

Since the drop in traffic, my Adsense earnings have dropped to over 50%.  This was expected because most of my traffic comes from Google searches, with about 40% or more from Yahoo! searches.

During these past days, these visits from Yahoo! searches are still giving me Adsense income.  So after over a month of blog vacation (the previous posts have been powered by Syndicate Kahuna, an auto-syndicator), I have decided to increase pageviews through Yahoo! searches.  To do it, I have to regularly post interesting topics or potentially searched topics that could drive traffic to this blog.

So I am on a mission now:

- increase my visitors coming from Yahoo!

- target potential visitors from other search engines like MSN, AskJeeves, and Altavista.

- increase my Alexa rank.

- keep my loyal visitors and subscribers.

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If you know anything about search engine optimization (SEO), you know that building links to your site (more commonly referred to as backlinks) is probably the most import piece of the puzzle. The question then for most newcomers to SEO is: “How to I get other sites to link to my site?”

In this article, I’m going to show you 10 of the most powerful techniques of getting links back to your site. Some of these techniques will cost you money. Others are totally free. Let’s get into it!

1. Submit Your Site to Web Directories – There are literally thousands of web directories online that will allow you to submit your site. Some will charge a fee, but most are free. The two most powerful
web directories are DMOZ.org and Yahoo. DMOZ is free and Yahoo charges $299 per year.

2. Participate in Forums – Many forums will allow you to put your website’s URL in a signature file. Find forums in your niche and join the discussions. Do not just spam the forum with your link or you will get flagged. Add good quality to the discussion and your link will be left alone.

3. Comment on Blogs – Just like posting to forums, you should make sure you always add good quality and post real comments. Find blogs related to your website’s theme and post comments. I personally use a powerful software tool to help me find high quality blogs to comment on. The tools is called Comment Hut. All you do is input your keywords and it finds blogs. Check out the free video about it at
http://www.contentfortunes.com/commenthut

4. Article Marketing – Write articles and submit them to article directories. You will be allowed to leave a link to your site in your author’s resource box.

5. Social Bookmarking – Make it easy for your website visitors to submit your site to social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, Digg and other top social bookmarking sites. Some website owners even submit their own sites (although this is sometimes considered grey hat).

6. Submit Press Releases – There are many sites where you can submit press releases online and link back to your website. Most will charge a minimal fee to include a link, but there are a few good quality free press release sites as well.

7. Answer Questions – There are a handful of sites out there that allow people to ask questions and others to provide the answers. An example is Yahoo Answers. Join this site, find questions related to the topic of your site and answer them (along with a link back to your site).

8. Classified Ads – Place links to your sites in classified ads. This could include paid newspaper classified ads as well as free classified sites like USFreeAds.com and Craig’s List.

9. Social Networking Sites – Place links back to your sites from your profile pages on any social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Squidoo and others.

10. Paid Links – Buy links from other websites and point them back to your site. This is a controversial technique so use with caution.

Well there you have it! That’s 10 solid tips for generating links back to your site which will help your site grow in the search engines.

These tips are from the newsletter of Jason Waganer of FreeMonthlyContent.com.

Additional blog tips: 10 Best Ways to Promote Your Blog

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Guest blogging has recently became one of the techniques to gain exposure and organic links to both blogs (of the guest blogger’s and the blog owner’s).  So I am joining the bandwagon and invite you to blog for Jammed: Full Into Capacity.

I am currently looking for guest bloggers for this site for topics about technology, blogging, and internet. Interested bloggers can contact me at jaddedcant(at)yahoo.com or through my contact form. Or you can register on this blog as a contributor and start posting.

Some Rules:

You can include up to 2 links in your resource box.  The links should only be directed to your own website.  Sorry affiliate links are not allowed.  Links to drug products, warez, porn, and other illegal websites are not allowed.

Be sure to include tags on your posts and put them in the proper category.

Quick stats for this website:

Pageviews: 51,286 monthly
Unique Visits: 29,278 (944.45 Visits/Day)
Absolute Unique Visitors: 26,985
Top Traffic Sources:

• Search Engines 23,979 (81.90%)
• Referring Sites 3,715 (12.69%)
• Direct Traffic 1,584 (5.41%)

Subscribers: 282 active e-mail subscribers

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The recent launch of Yahoo! Buzz is creating quite a buzz in the blogosphere. Yahoo! Buzz is the world’s most visited site’s own version of Digg.

Previously, Yahoo! Buzz beta was only open to selected sites who can take a high surge in traffic. Being owned by the world’s most visited site, Yahoo! Buzz is expected to bring high traffic to websites and stories being “buzzed up.”

As a high surge of traffic is expected, you should also expect a high demand on the server. Server overloads and crashes can happen especially on featured sites hosted on shared hosting.

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The basics of blogging cover all the basic essentials, including your writing style, blog category and the content of your blog. Planning your blog can be difficult if you do not know what you want to talk about. It could be extra hard if you do not have the necessary background in blogging. However, knowing what you want to blog about can easily come to you once you start browsing and poking around other blogs. You can pick ideas from those blogs, expound and make them the basis of your blog.

The Blogging Categories

Generally, there are several types of blogs. Nevertheless, there are three popular categories of blogs, such as: the organizational, business and personal blogs.

The first category, the organization, uses the power of blogs to communicate either externally with the public or internally within their organizations. This kind of blog has the purpose of facilitation internal communications amongst employees, colleagues and other organizational personnel. In addition, organizational blogs normally publish information that is of interest by the public. In a certain instance, there are organizational blogs that publish seminar schedules, meetings, and announcements for their clients, customers or members.

The business blogs, on the other hand, are for promoting services or products offered by businesses in order to help increase profits, revenue and interest of potential consumers. These kinds of blogs can look for ways to increase their reputation and authority with vendors, customers and partners. They do this by publishing contents that express expertise and knowledge within a specific market portion, niche or industry.
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