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.

May | 17 | 2008

Post-dated Entries in Blogger

Posted by Guru as Blogging Tools, Tips Post dating blog posts is nothing new to Wordpress users but bloggers who use Blogger will be happy to know that they can now post date their blog entries. The ability to post date entries (or rather lack of ability) has been one of my frustrations about Blogger. I have always used Blogger for my personal blog and one of my pet peeves has always been this and also the fact that I can not put a password to some posts (which means I end up just deleting the draft or simply not publishing it). Anyway here's how you can ...

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May | 13 | 2008

Tags for Traffic

Posted by Guru as Promotion, Syndication, Tips Want to increase traffic to your blog? I suggest you start tagging your entries. So what are tags exactly? In the blogging sense tags are simply word(s) you use to help classify/categorize your blog entry. For example since this post is about blogs promotion I can tag this as "blog promotion." Since I'll also mention a Technorati tags later I can also tag this as "Technorati." Since in the end this is all a blogging tip I can also include the tag "blog tips." So how can tags increase traffic to your blog? Tags can help increase your blog traffic by ...

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May | 09 | 2008

Comments or No Comments?

Posted by Guru as Blog Tutorial, Community Building, Tips Having a comment section on your blog is a good idea because it becomes a venue for interaction between you and your readers as well as between the readers themselves. However, if you remember having your very first blogs with no more than a handful of readers then you probably know how lonely a blog without any comment looks. When it comes to building up your blog traffic the bad news is that a lonely looking blog does not only feel somewhat disappointing to the blogger but also lessens the readers enthusiasm for the blog. Because of this a comment ...

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Apr | 18 | 2008

Books Every Online Marketer Should Read

Posted by Guru as Marketing and Search Optimization Plan on profiting from your blog? If you do you first need to realise that what you are doing is actually a form of online marketing. No matter what kind of blog marketing strategy you employ you will actually be marketing something through your blog in order to make a substantial revenue. That being said make sure you arm yourself with the knowledge needed in order to thrive as an online marketer and one of the best resource, though we love everything digital nowadays are still books. According to a 'micro survey' conducted by Joost de Valk (it's actually just ...

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Apr | 14 | 2008

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 ...

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Apr | 11 | 2008

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 ...

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