Why you should not blog?

On the contrary, there are also some reasons you should not blog as well. It is pretty bad to jump in the blogging bandwagon without knowing what to do. Of course, if you don’t care about who is reading and write whenever you like, that is not the case. But if you want to make some money online and do not have the determination, passion and time to do, it will be just like many millions of dead end blogs that people will come once and will not pay a visit anytime soon.

First thing to ask whether you should blog or not is very simple, are you a blogger or a bloggie, there are millions of people who love to read but never attempt to write for themselves and sometimes they also felt like, “oh, I can also write this and that”, sadly it doesn’t work that way especially in the long run. Then, they become neither blogger nor bloggie.

I love to read blogs as well as writing my own and I think it is actually critical to read other blogs as well. I actually enjoy reading a lot of great blogs just not for blogging or making money. I would read many sort of blogs for many types of interests. And it’s amazing how many good blogs you can actually find across the internet.

Okay, back to the topic, I have stumbled across this blog about why people should not blog, and it triggers me to write this post. So, without further ado, take a look at this fantastic post from blogussion, “Seven Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Blog”, and credits go to Blogussion.

I actually agree with all the points there because it’s sad but true. What do you think?

Some people have been using web 2.0, Yes, that’s what we have been calling nowadays and many people never noticed for a couple of years.  Yet we have been using for quite sometimes and we did not realize what the buzz is all about.

This fantastic e-book will explain what are the basic web 2.0 technology and what you can do with your online business or personal interest to grow. After 2001, there are some major changes to our WWW world wide web, dotcom fall, dotcom boom, it is always been a cycle since mid 90s. Okay, why we call web 2.0? Let’s say it’s the boom time after first ever dotcom crash in late 90s.

So, read more about web 2.0 such as blogs, wiki, CMS (Content Management Systems), social bookmarking, social networking and podcasting including video and audio.

Download free e-book WEB 2.0 Wave. Enjoy.

Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.

So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?

1. quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
2. cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
3. niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)

Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?

viral marketing

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
3. Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
4. Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
5. Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
6. Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
7. Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)

Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.

So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.

Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site

Google has introduced KNOL for sometimes, now they are promoting it. I definitely think KNOL will help all the information seekers better than ever. This is probably another technique of Google’s collection of knowledge base search engine, we could presume.

What is KNOL?

It’s basically units of knowledge written about various subjects. However, as like many google applications, knol is current at a beta stage.

Why should we participate at KNOL?

Many advantages, make yourself exposed to the knowledge based world, information sharing site. You can take credit for writing, provide credentials, reviews and comments. Users can provide comments, review and related information.

What subjects we can write on KNOL?

Well, pretty much everything. LOL

What are common advantages using KNOL?

You can get good back links to your website, that’s pretty good for SEO, but it’s very important you don’t spam the links. You can get credited and for me, the best thing is collaboration mode that many people can work together on a same project/subject which is pretty awesome. I think that idea is derived from online project collaboration sites as Google has capabilities for doing it so such as Google Docs.

What do I think about this?

KNOL for me is basically a combination of blog/search engine/multimedia gateway to all the information retrievers. Being a active participant on google’s main site, you will not only create traffic for your website on your niche, but also will create exposure to your materials. All you need to do is to be original, informative and unique with your content.

So, happy KNOLing.

Have a great weekend.

Today, I just joined a forum which is called BRL (Build Reciprocal Links). That site is pretty cool to participate and I think I will stick there for a while, If the payment is pretty good to learn new things and help other people, I am thinking I will stick there for very long.

First off, you can use your AdSense publish ID for revenue sharing, normally revenue sharing is not really high.  But the more you participate in the forum the more money you will earn, which is fantastic. I will summarize a bit about the site that I am now currently very active. So, I hope to see you all soon. All you need is either AdSense account or Paypal. If you have both, it’s better than EVER.

I have just found this forum and I would like to invite you to be a part of link-exchange and web-master community.

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum

This is a paid-to-post forum and have excellent resources available online.

BRL Forum is Webmaster oriented forum which allows you to earn money for posting and be active on their forum board. They have own good and advanced point rewarding system where you can easily earn money.

This forum have many users and you can easily find many interesting webmaster related stuffs and more. Their points are called BRL$. 100 BRL$ equals 1.11 USD $. Once you get 200 BRL$ you can request payment via PayPal.
List of BRL$:
Birthday Credit – BRL $25 (Your birthday.)
Positive Reputation Credit – BRL $3 (Awarded when you receive positive reputation.)
New Thread Credit – BRL $3 (May varies forum by forum)
Rate Thread Credit – BRL $1
Posting Credit BRL – $1 (May varies forum by forum)
Post Size Credit – 100 Words x BRL $0.001
Poll Create Credit – BRL $1

Additionally, if your answer is informative and chosen as best answer in Q&A knowledge section, you will get $50 BRL points as well.
….and many more with more details.

Daily BRL Forum admins and community posts many useful awarded contests and promotions where you can earn even more money. Once you get minimum required amount for payment request PM admin with your PayPal details and payment will be processed to you. Peoples who uses this forum says that payment is fast – usually in maximum 42 hours from your request! Register now and start making money the way you want it – it’s free of course!

Click here to Visit BRL Discussion Forum
For evidence, you can check the discussion sub-forum where all the members confirmed the minimum payout at $200 BRL points, which you will get about $150 BRL points just after joining, uploading photo, entering all the required data for your public profile. Basically, you earn money within 2 days if you make about 20-50 posts depending on the points. What is the catch for them? The BRL guys will receive advertisement generations and they will also receive valuable members who will be participating everyday.

Thanks for reading and happy making money.

Presently, over 100 million blogs are available online. Why you are reading here? That’s because you have searched the correct keywords (organic traffic), visited high page rank site (PR techniques) or you visited the relevant sites (SEO techniques).

What makes you stand out from over 100 million blogs is not easy, but it is not tough as well. If you follow these 10 processes over a certain period of time, you will definitely achieve what you expected. That being said, it’s not an easy task to follow and usually you would have to satisfy yourself in every single phase.

1. Develop a valuable information, product or service.
2. Develop your own website in the niche that you know and love to do in the long run.
3. Develop your content with valuable resources and unique materials
4. Develop a real traffic to your website/blog.
5. Utilize your content to attract your traffic.
6. Build Trust and Credibility with your visitors.
7. Use your site to pre-sell your visitors.
8. Convert your target visitors to create sales.
9. Expand your revenue by effectively monetization of your site.
10. Continuously improve step 1 through 9.

There, you have it all. If you fulfill your website one by one, you can start having ads and affiliations at step 6. Step 7-9 will involve you to sign up with effective advertisers such as AdSense and Bidvertiser.

Happy making money. Thanks for reading.

Viral marketing

Many people would have seen the keywords “viral marketing” around the internet. To most of you, this may not be so new, but techniques are pretty amazing. I will just start from the part “what is viral marketing?”.  It’s marketing for advertising like the way virus does. That would be my simplest explanation. In order to know what the IT world’s current buzz is all about, you have to keep an eye on the current developments and technologies. Consequently, you need to create a virus for your marketing plan so that you can sell successfully.  Fundamentally “Viral Marketing” and “viral advertising” particularly online, is a way marketers can take advantage of pre-existing social networks to get a message out there using self-replicating viral processes, which are comparable to the way a physical virus or computer virus would spread (Mike Filsaime 2007).

How Viral Marketing Works

The Techniques

You have to ask yourself what makes you so special or what makes you unique from the crowd. That is an important question. Many people turn to creative ideas or new innovations in the first place, I do not mean that’s typical but that’s old. There are more than that you can actually do. Of course, innovations bring a lot of attention whereas there are many innovations every month, you might as well get drown into old ones after a while. Or use Apple’s iPod method; just create a buzz with variable sizes and designs where the basic functions are basically the same since its first product. Another technique is to create a controversial situation to get an attention. It is however likely to have both positive or negative effects, for example, whether the Hitler is still alive or not. That kind of blog or article might intrigue majority of people. In addition, another fantastic viral marketing we have to accept today is, funny comedy video shared online. Funny stuff is fast spreading type via internet. Last month, Obama vs McCain’s dance showdown on the internet has been so famous because of election period. Let me remind you not to discount the effect of funny stuff because they are unbelievably easy to be contagious. Another controversial technique is to provide emotions, some people use emotion and heart-warming techniques as their viral marketing. You may probably have seen somewhere on the website or a web link or an email that explains how poor the kid is, contribute to feed the children or how dangerous drunk driving is. However, this one would mostly become scam or NGOs asking for donations. On the other hand, E-cards and celebrities speaking for good cause are precisely the kind of viral marketing that provides emotions. Last but not least, create a curiosity by building anticipations to your audience is one of the most effective methods I have ever experienced. For example, Sony Play Station IV will be launched by this or that date. That will create a serious curiosity to Play Station players around the world. It actually did stir the audience in previous releases as well. Or Harry Potter series, you let audience to anticipate and expect what is going to happen next about 4 years prior to JK Rowling’s final release.

Did it work? 

Of course it did. Back in mid 90s, hotmail and yahoo put their sponsored link on every bottom of the sent mail. “get your free-email at yahoo.com”. Just after a couple of years, they are the two biggest web-based email providers for next 10 years. The built-in signature spread like a virus every time a recipient reads an email sent from Yahoo! and Hotmail. Today, more of less, everyone has Yahoo!, Hotmail or Gmail nowadays.

My Opinion

Well, I use it indirectly and sometimes directly, it is not a one time hit, once you start it, then you have to keep it going. For websites and blogs, you constantly need to have regular readers and audience, so that you may monetize your traffic. But that’s not just that, sharing valuable information is one of my main objectives as I would try to monetize in other sites. Tell a friend script or social bookmarking or forum signature posts are part of the viral marketing as well. So, if you have perfect examples of the techniques I have mentioned above. Then, go for it. It could never go wrong because viral marketing is one of the most effective methods available on online marketing.

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 Reference: Mike Filsaime, 2007, “Virology: The Secret Science of Viral Marketing”