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EntreCard & SeyzWho

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I am sure everyone who uses EntreCard would have read about the collaboration with SeyzWho and credits will be awarded to members who comment on blogs that are in the EC community.

I think that it is a good effort to drive real traffic to blogs, instead of just doing stuff in our dashboard which does not bring traffic. I even think that advertising spots on out EC widgets should be purchased from members’ blogs.

However, I refrained from singing up with SeyzWho and waited for other members to implement it. Boy, I am glad that I did not do it. Like I passionately hate pop ups as I said in my previous post, I have things that pop up on my screen, small windows, bubbles, whatever, as I move my mouse across the page.

And SeyzWho will do exactly that. I don’t know if we need to implement special code or whatever, but the link to blog comments would not pop up a window detailing the comments that he/she has left recently and the comment rating.

And then there’s a widget that I noticed on some blogs that have been placed on the sidebar which POPS UP as well. I wonder if this is part of the EC collaboration as well. Whatever the case, this is not something for me. What about you?

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I Hate Pop Ups

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I noticed that more and more bloggers have implemented pop up advertising on their blogs. I absolutely hate them. More than I have those in line advertising that pops up a bubble if we so much as hover our cursor over a link in post, accidentally.

I don’t know about you I find that these pop ups jams up my browser for a couple of minutes when I access blogs that have pop ups, especially for the first time when I do not know that they have pop ups.

And I would think that somehow the browser was jammed and I was forced to close it, losing all my other windows since I use tabbed browsing. I HATE IT!

Maybe my internet connection is slow, maybe my computer is old and could not handle the strain but I think that I am not suing equipment that shabby or my line is that crappy so if I face this problem then so would have the internet browsers.

Maybe I am naive and I do not know the earning potential of these pop up or pop under windows to the bloggers but I think that they are totally not worth it!

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How Blogs Have Evolved

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Blogs used to be a platform for people to share their daily life with friends and family or a platform for people to share information on a particular subject. Now, there are people who set up blogs, they are so easy to set up and free, particularly to market a single affiliate program.

Well, obviously, these are NOT blogs, yet there are people using the free blog platforms to do so. Like I said, they are free and could be launched in a minute.

I think that if people have the sole intention of promoting an affiliate programme exclusively they should just set up a real one page website instead of using and abusing free blog networks. What do you think?

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How To Manage 100 Blogs!

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A couple of my blogger friends have gone crazy about blogging and they just started and started blogs until they have more than a hundred blogs! A lot of these are domain blogs while some are hosted for free from Blogger.com or WordPress.com

They told me to do the same as well, as blogs are our virtual property but I can’t. I salute them for their dedication but I think I need a balance in life and not spend the better part of my 24 hours on blogging and other issues that concern my blogs.

However, I still do have twenty blogs and there’s one thing I learned. If you have multiple blogs, you are not obligated to update them. You do not owe it to yourself or your readers to update them daily. If there is a stretch of time that your blogs are left idle, don’t worry, your blog will still be available when you have the time, the mood, or the blog idea to write and publish a post.

So, there’s really no need for special time management skills to manage multiple blogs. Just do it at your own pace!

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Losing the Essence As A Blogger

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There’s a blog in the local blogosphere which compensates people for posting comments on the blog. If you have read this blog a couple of months ago, I am sure you will know which blog I am referring to.

The thing is, I believe this blogger uses Public Label Rights (PLR) articles to fill up his blog to add content and gain traffic. Well, that is not wrong but I have been following this particular blog since his first post, I know how this blogger writes and his grasp of the English language. When he subsequently added in PLR posts, one could easily read the difference in presentation and even the better command of the English language.

I personally feel that to garner popularity for his blog, this blogger has lost his essence as a blogger and killed his blog in the process. Of course, he could revive it if he continues to write blog posts in his own style.

Frankly, I do not enjoy reading those PLR posts even though they were written in excellent English. If I wanted to read those posts, I could always go to article sites and read from there, and not go to a blog. When we read a blog, we want to get to know the blogger and read his personality from his posts and we cannot do tat with PLR articles, could we?

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Blogging For Your Readers

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One of the hardest things about keeping a blog is gaining traffic. For people like me who hardly network and do not have a core of friends or family members to support any of my blog, since I do not provide them with the URL of any of my blogs.

So I depend a lot on organic traffic instead of direct traffic. Gaining organic traffic is not difficult if your blog is not being penalized by the search engines for a kind of violation or another.

Anyway, my point is, as a blogger, I blog each and every post as if I have readers. I don’t care if readers only come a month or two later, after being crawled by search engine bots.

The point is, I put my thoughts in each post no matter if anyone reads or not. I know most people just write filler posts when they start a blog. That’s not for me. What about you? If you have very low traffic levels, does that influence the way your present your posts?

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Are You Obsessed With Your Blog Statistics?

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I have to admit that I am, checking my traffic almost every hour and when the server of my traffic tracker is down, I actually experience withdrawal symptoms and wonder if there’s anyone coming to my blog!

Of course, there are posts that I write for love and do not care if anyone reads them but there are also posts that I would want as many people to read as possible! Call me fickle, heh!

This morning, I could not access the website of my traffic tracker, I think it’s because of my Streamyx that is unable to connect to some websites lately and not so much because of the website is down or their server has a problem.

Anyway, I could not check my traffic. At first, I was agitated but after trying for hours, it actually is pretty liberating not caring if there are people coming to read or not. I think I will try not to check my traffic so often from now onwards. TRY is the keyword here!