Category Archives: Blogging

I’m In a Blog Carnival, Yay!!!!

June 25, 2007 The Artist Leave a comment

A few days ago, when I wrote my post, I Participated In A Blog Carnival BUT â€¦â€¦ , I thought that I would be excluded from participating in my very first blog carnival with my entry, My New Blogging Efforts. I was rather disappointed because I thought I wrote a pretty good piece but I was unfortunately late in my submission.

However, there is good news! The new round of carnival of struggling bumbling newbies was just published on June 23, 2007 on SuccessPart2.com and my entry was first in line to be introduced Yay!! Jon, the organizer, did tip me off so I was looking out for it! Thank you, Jon!

Now that I have participated in a blog carnival, what is next? Do I continue to search for more blog carnivals to participate? There aren’t that many topics that I am passionate about. Moreover, I am so lazy to keep tabs on new carnivals.

I think what I am going to do it to continue with building backlinks. I heard that the next Google Page Rank update is just around the corner! Oh, boy, can I do with a little more Page Rank!

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Viral Tag

June 25, 2007 The Artist 16 Comments

I am not sure if I am even doing this right. My blogging buddy, AnitoKid, urged me to try this out to aid my quest in improving backlinks, hence my Google Page Rank. I hope it works!

If you are also looking for a Page Rank boost, there is no harm in giving this a try as well! Good luck!

Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of â€œViralTagsâ€ below.

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the â€œViral Tagsâ€ in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blogâ€™s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their â€œViral Tagsâ€, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tagâ€™s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your â€œViral Tagsâ€ below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

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Host Tag: Blank Canvas

Important: Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as â€œHost Tagâ€ here, replacing one of the â€œViralTagsâ€ from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

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And I Thought I Was Bad

June 24, 2007 The Artist Leave a comment

I spent the past couple of weeks blog hopping and commenting on various interesting blog posts. Most of these blogs are by bloggers who are writing sponsored posts.

Unfortunately, there was one particular blog, although I do not recall its name but only remember that it is a Blogspot blog with its default pink layout, which had the whole front page of sponsored posts. While I am not begrudging anyone for making a buck, I feel that by having a sponsored post one after another with sponsored posts as interims, which should be original, is excessive.

Previously, I thought I was bad with about 50% sponsored posts but hey, I am no where near her level. Even when I used to write a lot of sponsored posts, I did have lengthy interims where it matters and I have recently slowed down considerably to give more value to my growing readership.

Blogs like that run the risk of being labeled splogs and may be kicked out of the system if the blogger is not careful and get tracked for multiple violations.

I have recently tipped another blogger off regarding double posting out of my kind heart, in case she was caught, but my friend told me not to go around making enemies. They may not like it. Well, I know, but sometimes I can’t go away without letting the blogger know of his/her mistakes because I don’t wish anyone to be disqualified from making some money blogging. Sigh, what a tough decision!

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Chris Merriman’s Kazakhstan Blog

June 24, 2007 The Artist Leave a comment

Although I have come across the postings of Chris Merriman who goes by the user ID SilentlyScreaming on a popular forum, today is the first time that I checked out his Kazakhstan blog.

I think that it is interesting that a British is now in Kazakhstan. To be honest, I know nothing about the country except that it was formerly part of Russia CIS. However, Chris has made it very easy for us to learn of the country as he himself discovers it by placing all the relevant posts onto a static page. It is one thing to read about a country in a travel brochure but another to read of some one’s first hand experience and I certainly managed to get a better picture of the country from reading all the links on Kazakhstan 101.

The thing I like most of this unique Kazakhstan blog is the page of Games. Boy, did I have a wonderful time playing those games! I nearly forgot about my time! I remember the old days playing these games way before we had PSP and what not. If anything, these games of Pac Man, Donkey Kong and Space Invaders will surely make me return to Kazakhstan blog to play because I am quite lazy to embed them on my on page!!

Thanks for maintaining such an enjoyable blog, Chris!

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Buzz On Julie’s Blog Promotion Contest

June 23, 2007 The Artist Leave a comment

Here’s some good news I would like to share. Julie, a fellow postie who blogs at Reviews and More is currently running a blog promotion contest where anyone who blogs about her contest and provide two links to her two blogs, including the new shopping blog, The Chronic Consumer, will be eligible to participate.

Quite often people ask me why I let others know of a contest when I am only diluting my own chances. Well, I say the more the merrier. This is a game of luck, anyway. And as I always say, “Good things MUST share!”

If you have a blog, why not participate? Julie is giving away cash prizes not for the best blog post but for the names that she draws out from the bucket from all the entries that she has received. I am not one for details so if you would like to know more about this exciting contest that is closing on 30th June, 2007, head over to Julie’s blog now and read her simple rules for the contest.

If you are also running a contest on your blog, do let me know and I would be more than happy to give you a friendly buzz!

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Interesting Post On The Blog Revolution

June 18, 2007 The Artist Leave a comment

For the past couple of days, I have been actively visiting blogs and leaving comments on interesting posts. One of the blogs that caught my eye is The Blog Revolution.

One of the posts on The Blog Revolution, Government Run Gas Stations and Refineries, caught my eye. Mike, the author, suggested that Government set up their own refineries and gas stations to compete with oil and gas corporations in a bid to bring down rising gas prices while channeling profits back to the community.

I totally have to support this excellent idea. As you know, Malaysia is an oil producing country as well. Once our national oil company was corporatized, gas prices were left unchecked but of course, it is still semi-government and we were made to believe that our gas prices are still subsidized, which I believe is untrue based on the millions of Ringgit profit annually.

My sister, who lives in Tennessee, has complained once too often of rising gas prices. According to her, even when world market price dipped, there was no change in the retail gas that she buys from the station, or at least it was not significant enough to be noticed.

If there were Government run gas stations, I believe that these will receive public support if prices are comparable to what we are buying now or even a little higher, knowing that in the end, the community will be benefiting from the profit. It is way better than buying from oil and gas corporations at sky high prices and filling out the pockets of the bosses.

What do you think? Do you agree with Mike?

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My New Blogging Efforts

June 16, 2007 The Artist 6 Comments

I began blogging in December 2005 and since then grew from one lonely blog to one suite of blogs now touching on various niche topics. When I first started, I only write for myself for the love of writing. I don’t care if I do not have readers, let alone comments. I wrote, I published and that was all.

Recently, I decided that I have to raise the popularity of my blogs. Perhaps I am tired of seeing it stuck at a Google Page Rank of 3 each update. Perhaps I would like to give better value to all my sponsors and advertisers. Perhaps I realized that a good blog post is not enough.

Since two weeks ago, I began to come out of my blogging shell and participated in a handful of blogrolls, more significantly the DoFollow and MyList. I then made the rounds of all the blogs in my blogrolls and leaving appropriate comments as often as I could.

Just today, I signed up with DeWitt’s Media’s free online SEO tutorial which is aimed at helping us to bring traffic to our blogs and raise our Page Rank. Last night, I read an article by DeWitt’s Media on The Secrets of Driving Blog Traffic and feel that I really could learn something new from them so I decided to sign up even though I hardly have any free time anymore but this is something very important to all webmasters so I am going to MAKE time for it.

And with this post, I am going to participate in a blog Carnival upon the encouragement of David from OnTheWebEd. I have previously come across a couple of Carnivals but the topics were not something I was interested in or I was late to know about it. Anyway, this time, David was the one who found the Carnival host for me. The least I could do is to write up a post and submit it!

My next course of action would be to submit my blogs to as many Directories as possible. The list has been sitting on my desk for ages already. I better find the time to do it before I miss the Google update. I also have to submit my blog feeds to as many feed Directories as possible. To be honest, I just knew about the existence of feed directories yesterday so this is another piece of homework for me.

Well, I gotta end now. This piece was written on my spanking new smart phone. Blehhh

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