Author Archive for Guru
Guru is the SEO persona of mother, blogger and freelance writer, Hannah Grace Gamis. She spends her spare time shuffling back and forth to doctors' offices, managing the household, watching movies, and developing her latest project the "Special Child", which she just doesn't seem to have any time for.
Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 3
Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips To sum everything up I've written so far about avoiding being a spammy blog I would say that the key thing is making sure that you still provide quality content more often than sponsored posts. Quality control is the key. Now for the last instalment here are some tips on making sure of your blog doesn't turn spammy. 8. Have a criteria for products/services - Advertisers have a criteria for bloggers who can post about their product. In the same way you should also have a criteria so that you don't end up posting about products/services that are substandard. This criteria as ...Comments (0)
Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 2
Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips, Writing 5. If you wish to simply dedicate a section of your regular entries to the product/service review/plug you can: put the sponsored section at the very end of the blog post. use a nice separator and clearly to delineate the sponsored part of the post from the regular content. You may even use a heading to indicate the start of the ad like "Money making time", "Products/Service I like", or "Useful stuff on the net". 6. Make sure that you only post ads/reviews about products and services that are actually relevant to you or your readers. You can urge them to try ...Comment (1)
Avoiding Becoming an Ad Spam Blog Part 1
Posted by Guru as Monetization, Tips Time and again I've seen perfectly good blogs turn into nothing more than ad generators as the blogger gets hooked on the profit they make from sponsored posts. Like most people I couldn't help but be turned off by these blogs. However, having friends that make a healthy profit from consumer-generated ads I couldn't turn a blind eye on the benefit it brings to the many bloggers that participate in these programs. So instead of shooting them down I will be outlining some suggestions on how to make sure that your blog doesn't turn spammy. Here's my advice. 1. Resolve to ...Comment (1)
Making Money Through Consumer Generated Ads
Posted by Guru as Monetization Features As I mentioned in my previous post today I will be suggesting some ways you can still profit by joining programs such as Pay Per Post and yet ensure that your readers don't get turned off. In my opinion the only way to really do this is by making sure that your blog entries stay the same quality (or improve in quality). This wouldn't be possible if you start spamming your own blog by churning out consumer-generated ads post after post. So the first thing to remember is to post ads in moderation. The truth is that while many bloggers ...Comments (3)
Introduction to User-Generated Ads
Posted by Guru as Monetization Features One of the surest ways to earn money through your blog is by joining a program that allows you to blog about a products and/or services and be paid for doing so. This kind of blog advertising is called user-generated ads or consumer generated ads. They were popularized by Pay Per Post but now there are lots of other programs out there that you can join. The good thing about consumer generated ads is that is many programs you will be paid simply for writing a review about the product or for merely mentioning the product and linking to the ...Comments (0)
Domain Name Game
Posted by Guru as Hosting, Tips I was reading Jimmy's post on having your own domain. I agree that having your own domain is a sign that you take your blog seriously or at least value your blog enough to spend a little money on it so you won't have a .blogspot or .wordpress domain. In the post Jimmy said that choosing your own blog domain could be a tool for SEO because you can opt to have your primary keywords in your domain name. Aside from the keyword factor though having your own domain also has other long term benefits including: reputation - While having ...Comments (2)
SEO for Blogs: Content, Content, Content
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization SEO is commonly done for websites but what if a client approaches you to optimise their blogs? Is there a difference? Will your knowledge for optimising websites come in handy? SEO for blogs uses the same concepts as ordinary SEO. This means that you should apply all that you know about SEO for the client. However, there are some key differences that you should be aware of so that you can do the best job possible. Blogs are of a different nature to websites. Blogs are different because they primarily exist not just to give information but also to solicit the attention ...Comment (1)
The Blogger’s Guide to SEO
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features One of the best holistic guide to optimising a blog is Aaron Wall's Blogger's Guide to SEO. It is not the most in-depth guide but it covers all the basics (and a bit more) and is written in a such a way that even newbies in SEO will definitely understand. The guide also links out to lots and lots of tools and references that will be are very useful and helpful. Not convinced that you should read it in full? Here's the outline just so you'll see how much you can learn from it. Background What Google Knows About Your Blog Why ...Comments (3)
Blog SEO: Keyword Tools (WordTracker)
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features, Software and Widgets One of my all time favourite keyword tool to use is WordTracker. I used it before I even discovered Google Keyword Tool and continue to use it whenever I need a good analysis of keywords. Note though that when I talk about Wordtracker I am not referring to their Free Keyword Suggestion Toolbecause quite frankly that one sucks. It is good for giving you a list of alternative keywords but beyond that you will almost get nothing from it. Here's an example of what you'll get from the free keyword suggestion tool....Comments (3)
Blog SEO: Keyword Tools (Google Keyword Tool)
Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization, SEO Features On my last post I discussed the importance of choosing the keywords with which you want to optimise your blog for. It IS however, pretty hard to choose which keywords you should use without any help. Thankfully there's plenty of keyword tools available on the internet. When using keyword tools though remember that you should use one that not only allows you to come up with a good list of relevant keywords and phrases but that would also help you determine which of those relevant keywords are likely to bring you more traffic. Here are a few of the best ...Comments (0)
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Design and Themes
Is Your Blog W3C Compliant?
Last night I checked my personal blog’s code hoping I can proudly display the W3C Validated Button. Since I use Blogger and do not really do anything to clean up the code (beyond adding Alt-tags to the images I embed) I wasn’t surprised at all to find that my blog contained lots of errors - [...]
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Wordpress Plug-ins
If you blog using Wordpress and can’t do something that you want done like adding Sphere-related content at the end of your blog posts you might be surprised to find out that there are already plug-ins available that make it happen.
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To find good Wordpress plug-ins all you need to do is search for “wordpress [...]
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A Friend In Need
I’m helping out my friends from the UA&P - IShareHappiness Blog Team.
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Whenever you feel pessimistic, angry, troubled, frustrated, and depressed – what have you – you need someone to talk to. Someone who could help you be more optimistic and help make you feel that there is hope. Sometimes it’s hard to talk to someone [...]
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Making Money Through Consumer Generated Ads
As I mentioned in my previous post today I will be suggesting some ways you can still profit by joining programs such as Pay Per Post and yet ensure that your readers don’t get turned off.
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In my opinion the only way to really do this is by making sure that your blog entries stay [...]
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Marketing and Search Optimization
Building your blog brand step by step
Building your blog’s brand does not need to be difficult. However, when it comes to branding you should always remember to exert effort to be consistent with the image you wish to portray or you’ll end up with confused, turned-off, and/or skeptical readers. Branding inconsistencies will make it obvious that the image you’re putting up [...]
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