12 Ways To Encourage Your Visitors to Stay

We all want more traffic, more loyal readers, and more sales. I know I do. For most of us our blog is the jewel we chisel our artwork into. We slave over making our website as good as we possibly can and dont want our work to go unnoticed and unappreciated. I know exactly how you feel and thats why Ive put together 12 ways to compel your visitors to stay.

Whether youre looking to increase your readers loyalty, improve your websites accessibility and friendliness, or build a community these tips will help you achieve your goals.

Blogging Tips You Want to Know

If you have not noticed yet, there are lots of haphazardly done blogs online. This is because the writers lack some good blogging tips. These blogging tips can spell the difference between a so so blog and a superiority one.

For starters, you will have to polish your writing skills. When it comes to blogging tips, this is usually the first consideration. If you can not write in a good way, nobody will want to read your stuff. Part of the directory of blogging tips also includes the reason why you should blog. You can blog about anything and everything in the world. However, the second consideration spells out blogging with a purpose. In blogging tips, you must be aware that you need a market. This market will determine your audience.

Determining Audiences and Then Some.

Some blogging tips include finding out your niche. If you like to write about beauty, you could blog about your latest beauty finds. Or you can do reviews about products and services. In blogging tips, you need to remember that you want to please your audience. You want them to listen up and pay attention. You can easily do this by some marketing research about the current trends in whatever you are interested in.

Want to blog about music? Some blogging tips for music writers include being tuned in to the latest sounds. Additionally, and make sure you stay exposed to the many genres of music. This is so you can capture a bigger share of the market. People will want to read your blogs because you have extensive topics to cover. Are you interested in blogging tips to help you earn money? You should know that link exchange in blogging is one of the blogging tips you must utilize. Doing this will definitely bring in the dough.

It will also let your blog be on top of search results. If this happens, your blog will be visited by more thousands of people. If you follow these great blogging tips, you will surely be on your way to blogging success. All it takes is the first step, some dedication and focus, and the rest will follow eventually.

Live Writing Again

It’s been a while since I used Window Live Writer since most of the time there’s an internet connect, Yet as of this writing, the internet connection here at home is still intermittent for the past three days now. I don’t know why that everytime there’s a rain, the out ISP connection bugs out. *sigh*.

I would that by the time this blog post gets posted online, that our ISP (which I will is called “PLDT”) would finally stabilize their internet connection. 

New Blogging Project: iTouch Blogger

I recently acquired an iPod Touch 3G (32 GB) and I use it to listening to my favorite music, to watch some TV series and movies on the go, listening to podcasts and to catch on my social networks (Facebook and Twitter) and of course blogging thru that very device.

As a result, I decided to create a new blogging project called "iTouch Blogger" which will talk about the iPod Touch and the iPhone, the applications and the concept of mobile blogging.

I will updating that blog mostly from the iTouch itself and will only do designs updates thru my laptop.

Davao Bloggers Election and X'mas Party

Last night I attended the Davao Bloggers X'mas party which was sponsored by Avatar Media, Lachi's Sans Rival and Cignal HD TV. The during the event, we also elected the very first set of officers for the "DAVAO BLOGGERS" community and here is list:

President: Ria Jose(Life with Ria)

Vice President: Dulce Lada (Padd Solutions)

Finance Officer: Dr. Charles Ortiz (Ortiz Dental Clinic)

Auditor: Brendel Balaga (BloggingFrenzy)

IT Officer: Andrew dela Serna (Alleba.com)

Logistics Officer: Lyle Santos (Thinking Out Loud)

After the election of the officers, we had some raffles with prices included stickers and shirts from Mozilla Firefox, Wordpress pharapernalias, CableYoyos, and the grand prize which is a free 3 month subscription of Cignal HD TV kit on which Andrew dela Serna won (lucky you).

the Avatar media people also unveiled two news sites and an upcoming ad networking service for us Davao bloggers. Blogdavao.com is the most comprehensive aggregator site of Davao-based blogs. There you will find updates on blogs about Davao as well as the latest from blogs that are authored by Davaoeños and My Davao Jobs is another site from the Avatar media which is a jobs directory dedicated to job openings in Davao City and the Davao Regions: Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, and Davao Oriental.

I will be uploading some pictures later today so watch for those

Photos courtesy of Avatar Media and Meiyah Laborte

10 Excellent and Free Desktop Blog Editors

SixRevisions has been one of my favorite destination for web development and blogging resources. Since blogging is one of my passion, I would like to share the 10 Excellent and Free Blog Editors to all my fellow bloggers out there who might wanna try these awesome tools.

Use Blog Portals for Easy blog promotion

If your a blogger and maintain several blogs and websites then blog portals are the best solution to that problem. Blog Portals are websites in which all your blog feeds are being aggregated in one single URL for easy promotion and sharing.

Currently, I'm using Feedcluster.com as my blog portal aggregator of choice. You can create any number of aggregators based on blogs' niche. It also has a widget option f your new aggregator to your blog post for more extensive internet traffic.

Please do follow my blogs thru my blog portal (http://cnsq.feedcluster.com/ ) I will be adding more of my blogs as I go along.

I'm encouraging bloggers who maintain more than one blog to use blog portals, it really helps in terms of sharing and promotion.

Five Tools for Better Blogging

Found this nice article called "Five Tools for Better Blogging" which is worth re-blogging because its very useful to use bloggers.

Read more about the article here

A Collection of Blogger Templates

Blogger is one of the most popular hosted blogging platforms out there, but many people are still surprised when they learn you can customize the look of your blog well beyond the pre-built options the site offers.

Finding these other templates can be a bit of a task, so I would like to share this article about 30+ Great Resources for Blogger Templates

Exploring New Technologies

Exploring new technologies is one of the jobs of a TDO (Training and Development Officer) and I decided to satisfy my curiosity on Movable Type.

Movable Type is a weblog publishing system developed by the company Six Apart. It was publicly announced on 3 September 2001, and version 1.0 was publicly released on 8 October 2001. On 12 December 2007, Movable Type was relicensed as free software under the GNU General Public License.

To continue with my exploration, I decided to install Movable Type under the subfolder of my CNSQWEB.com site. All my findings and reviews about the blogging platform will be chronicled on that very blog.

Sunday Afternoon Blog: Managing RSS feeds and blog commenting

Last Night was our company's 1st year anniversary and because I was excited to blog about it, I made a last minute blog about it before I went to sleep.

Managing RSS Feeds:
As of late, I have been revisiting blogs and websites that I'm very interested in to like some of my friends's blog and some of the blogs/websites relating to web developing, SEO and graphic designing.


My iGoogle was my first RSS aggregator that I use but since more blog/websites that I like to follow, my iGoogle now has become crowded so I resorted on install Feed Demon on my laptop to manage the RSS feeds. Though I will still use iGoogle for my sports news and blogger friends' blog update, new RSS feeds will now go through my Feed Demon client application.

Blog Commenting
I haven't been doing some blog commenting as of late because of my busy schedule at work so I took this opportunities to do some blog commenting on some my friends' blogs as well as on some of the blogs which have web development niches.

A Virus That Everybody Wants to Catch

If you wanna avoid catching a virus, here's one that I think that would change your mind. This one is called The Indie Virus.

This virus is a viral linking campaign experiment started byChris Pearson in which his goals are:

• To bring exposure to lesser known blogs (especially those outside of Technorati’s top 100)


• To explore the metrics behind a viral linking campaign launched by the “little guys” (less popular blogs)

Here are the Rules if you wanna join this experiment.

Participating in The Indie Virus is easy. All you’ve got to do is link to lesser known blogs from within a post (or two, or eleventeen), but you have to make sure that the anchor text of your link is The Indie Virus. This is critical, because in order to track the experiment, I’ll be searching for the phrase “The indie Virus” on common engines like Technorati, Google, and Yahoo! Oh, and also, make sure that you link directly to a post WITH A TRACKBACK and not to the site itself - it speaks louder!

So, a sample link would be coded up like this: The Indie Virus. Got it?

Some Blogging Tips That Worth Trying

I was reading some of PinoyBlogero's post when one of his post caught my attention. He posted about tips on how to get a lot of topics your blogs depending on the niche you are into. Personally this really helps because my niches are usually about "web development", "graphic design", "search engine optimization" , "blogging" and of course "heavy metal music".

Here are list down his tips:

• Feeds - Subscribing to blogs that you find interesting or within your niche


• Blog Aggregator - MindanaoBlogger.com is an example of a blog aggregator


• Google Alerts - Google Alerts is a nifty feature from Google that alerts the user if there are newly indexed posts under a specific keyword


• Twitter- Some bloggers make use of Twitter to twit about their new posts or interesting articles that they have discovered


• Mailing Lists - you find any interesting groups or community on yahoo or google, you can susbcribe to their mailing list.


• Forums - forums are one of the best possible sources that every blogger should hunt down, people like to disc

Sunday Evening Blog: Updates, updates and more update...

I've been so busy at work for the past week that I wasn't able to update some of my blogs. So I made it a point that I could update some of the blogs. I just recently migrated/converted my website CNSQ Online from PHP/CSS template based site into a Wordpress powered site. I also updated my Web Developer Squidoo Lens so that I can receive some $$ by the end of the month (hopefully the new content would help ;D).

Saturday Evening Blog: My HolyWeeked Recap

Holy Monday to Wednesday: Working my butts off.

Maundy Thursday: Just at home taking care of the baby with my wife. Some blogging on the side, doing research on ASP.NET 2.0 tutorials. Uploading and installing new theme for Eversun Graphics site.

Good Friday: More baby bonding time and cleaning and arranging our room. Still doing some blogging and research on ASP.NET 2.0 and Actionscript.

Black Saturday: Doing my regular Saturday chores (laundrying baby's lampin and clothes). Blogging and DVD Marathon [Alvin and the Chipmonks, Garfield 2, The Unit[Season 2] and Band Of Brothers (for the nth time....I can help it I really love the movie)] and watching Naruto: Shippuden episode 51-52 video.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator Seminar At Fwendz Diner

The last monday I got a message from my good friend Christopher Cubos that he will be conducting a free seminar on Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator along with some of his friends in the IT business RangingMon and Timothy Te. Unfortunately Timothy didn't make it so Chris was able to get Ted Padova to demonstrate to us Adobe Illustrator. Some of my offciemates where able to make it and was awed by the number of attendees (and the beautiful ladies :D).

Ted Padova demonstrates Adobe Illustrator

Sir Ted was able to show us the flexibility of Adobe Illustrator unlike its counterpart, Corel Draw. It now supports 3D designing and .ai designs can now be exported into flash by animating each layers of the design into frames.

Chris Cubos inserting a PSD file into Dreamweaver CS3

Up Next was Chris Cubos. He demonstrates to us how to use Photoshop CS3 for web designing together with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3. Since being bought by Adobe, the Dreamweaver software has come a long way as the industry standard in web designing and web developing.


RagingMon demonstrates the new features on Photoshop CS3

Up Next was RagingMon, who was tasked by Chris Cubos to demonstrate Adobe Photoshop's new features as well as the wonders of desingning in Photoshop using layers.



My Officemates: Ricky, Ronald and Cliff Ivan

How to Increase Your Blog Traffic by JehzLau

Here's a post from one of my blog friends which talks about how to increase your blog traffic. I did try some of his tips and it really works. For details you can follow this link.

Increase Traffic

I'm not talking about the metropolis traffic here but traffic in your blog and websites. when i started blogging, my main purpose was just to write anything and everything. I thought of it as a perfect outlet of my thoughts. It was a place where I could share a 2 cents of myself to the world wide web.



Things have pretty much changed over the years and increasing traffic to one's site has become an important task. I have recently signed up with Buzzfuse which would help me increase the traffic to my site for free. Yes, it's free as in free water. The sign up was really easy and if you are dissatisfied with the service you can, at any time, unsubscribe. This will really help me in a lot of ways. I get the chance to "market" my site without really doing much work as they will do it for me.

My Tips and insights on blogging ,web researching and social networking

As of late I've been so active in blogging (maintaining over 10 blogs (8 here in blogger.com, 3 in wordpress.com and a self hosted tech blog) that I would like to share some tips on blogging, web researching and social networking.

Here are the tools I can recommend:

Firefox add ons:

Scribefire
a blog editor directly from your Firefox browser. No need to log in to each blogs just to posts.

del.icio.us and Stumble upon
Its better to bookmark all the sites you like using these tools for easy retrival. StumbleUpon is also a social network site, so you could meet some new friends while "stumbling" on new sites.

Squidoo toolbar
here's an add-on for those having a Squidoo lens account.

TwitterFox
a third party - Firefox addon that you can use to post your twits for Twitter. You can also see your friends' latest using its pop-up alert.

To increase your traffic and some SEO tips

Express Submit your Blog
Submitting your blog to all search engines and directory is a very tedious task. To lessen the load, you can submit your site using Express Submit . They have a free service that would submit your site to over 40 search engine site in just one submission.

Blog Hopping
Blog hopping is method on which you jump from one blog to another using the blog site's link list or blog rolls. If the blog site has has a shout box installed leave a message requesting for exchanging of links.

that's it for now, more tips on later posts...

Sunday Afternoon Blog: Updating My Squidoo Lens and Other Blogs; New Blog

I just recently updated my Squidoo Lenses (Web Developer Lens and The Make Money Online Lens) . also I have a new blog titled "Social Network Watch" which is a blog about social networking in general which includes news and tips about social network sites like Facebook, Myspace, Friendster, etc. and social bookmarking and news sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Technorati, and StumbleUpon.