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Apa itu RSS

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:06:00 +0000

RSS atau "Really Simple Syndication" adalah suatu teknologi web berbasiskan XML yang memungkinkan seseorang untuk mengambil berita atau artikel dari website pilihannya secara aktual. Dengan RSS, isi berita dari suatu website akan secara otomatis terupdate dan dihadirkan kepada Anda. Sejumlah kecil isi artikel yang dinamakan "Feeds" secara otomatis akan dikirimkan ke suatu aplikasi pembaca RSS atau RSS Reader. Feeds pada umumnya berupa headline, ringkasan, maupun preview dari suatu berita. Feeds juga menyediakan link dari halaman berita lengkap.

Bagaimana cara menggunakan RSS pada RSS Reader?

Untuk mengakses suatu content RSS, Anda harus memiliki suatu RSS Reader. RSS Reader adalah suatu aplikasi yang digunakan untuk membaca isi dari suatu RSS. Ada beberapa jenis RSS Reader, ada yang gratis dan ada pula yang bebentuk produk komersial. Bahkan beberapa browser telah mempunyai RSS Reader terintegrasi pada aplikasinya. Cara penggunaan dan konfigurasi dari suatu RSS Reader dapat anda lihat pada manual masing-masing aplikasi RSS Reader tersebut.

Dynamic Feed Control Wizard - Google AJAX Feed API

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:28:00 +0000

Dynamic Feed Control Wizard merupakan cara mudah yang memanfaatkan Google AJAX Feed API untuk menyisipkan cuplikan berita, entry blog, atau isi web lainnya yang tersedia RSS atau Atom feed-nya pada halaman blog atau website.

Kita dapat memilih style atau bentuk tampilan apakah Vertical, Vertical Stacked, atau Horizontal. Sayangnya wizard yang disediakan Google ini tidak memungkinkan memasukkan langsung feed URL-nya, tetapi dengan memasukkan feed expression, seperti kata kunci yang nantinya Google sendiri yang akan menghubungkannya dengan suatu alamat feed yang ditemukan.

Jika dengan memasukkan Feeds Expression tidak menghasilkan Direct Feed URL yang diinginkan, mungkin dapat memasukkan sembarang ekspresi yang menghasilkan feed URL, kemudian klik Generate Code, dan pada kode yang dihasilkan coba ubah baris yang menyatakan title dan url seperti pada gambar di samping.

Dan apabila ingin menampilkan tulisan terakhir dalam halaman blog atau website Anda, maka Anda dapat copy-paste kode dan tempatkan pada bagian dimana akan ditampilkan.
Dynamic Feed Control Wizard

7 Langkah terindexed Google dalam 24 jam

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 02:10:00 +0000

Kebanyakan SEO akan menyarankan Anda untuk membeli situs yang ada / domain, tetapi ada kalanya Anda harus mulai dari nol dengan domain segar.

Kadang-kadang butuh beberapa minggu domain diindeks oleh Google (bahkan lebih lama untuk memulai peringkat!). Dalam rangka mempercepat proses mendapatkan situs Anda diindeks dengan cepat, bahkan dalam 24 jam, ikuti langkah-langkah yang dijelaskan di bawah ini:

1) Buat 5 halaman isi

Lewati "dalam penyelesaian" halaman dan menulis beberapa halaman isi yang sebenarnya, setidaknya beberapa paragraf.

2) Membuat Internal Link ke Halaman

Masukkan konten dalam sebuah template dengan struktur menu untuk membuat langkah ini lebih mudah. Anda dapat menemukan template gratis di zoontemplates dan tempat-tempat lain, setidaknya untuk memulai. Link ke konten melalui menu, dan jika Anda memiliki halaman arahan utama, link dari isi suatu halaman atau dua.

3) Tag pada Situs Social Bookmarking

Setelah hanya beberapa menit untuk membuat account situs ini Anda bisa mengirimkan link ke situs Anda. Ini memberi Anda cara instan untuk Google dan mesin pencari lain untuk menemukan situs Anda karena situs-situs bookmark sosial bisa dikunjungi oleh bot search engine (seperti Googlebot) cukup teratur. Sebuah situs bookmark untuk merekomendasikan beberapa: Del.icio.us, BlinkList, StumbleUpon.com, dan Furl. Pastikan Anda menandai mereka dengan kata-kata umum, seperti yang Anda temukan di awan tag mereka (BlinkList bagus, hanya gulir ke bawah pada halaman untuk melihatnya).

4) Komentar pada blog populer dan terbaru (dengan link anda)

Temukan 5 blog yang cukup populer, relevan dengan situs Anda, dan memiliki posting blog baru-baru ini (hari terakhir atau dua). Membaca posting dan menambahkan komentar yang memberikan kontribusi dalam diskusi, termasuk link ke situs Anda dalam bidang URL.

5) Buat, Kirim, dan Ping Anda XML Sitemap

Anda dapat membuat sitemap XML gratis di sini lalu upload file ke situs Anda (simpan saja sebagai sitemap.xml). Kemudian ping Google dengan sitemap Anda dengan mengetikkan URL berikut pada browser Anda, menggantikan nama domain dengan sendiri Anda:

http://google.com/webmasters/sitemap...om/sitemap.xml

Selanjutnya, ciptakan sebuah account dengan Google Webmaster Central, menambahkan situs Anda, dan masukkan Anda sitemap XML.

6) Instal Google Analytics

Tambahkan Google Analytics (gratis) ke situs Anda. Jangan lupa untuk memverifikasi situs Anda dengan mereka untuk mendapatkan pengumpulan data dimulai.

7) Jalankan beberapa Iklan Google

Buat account dengan Google AdWords dan mulai menjalankan beberapa iklan, bahkan jika perusahaan hanya untuk nama domain, nama perusahaan, atau beberapa kata kunci ekor panjang. Google telah pergi ke situs Anda karena skor kualitas mereka, yang mencakup "kualitas halaman arahan Anda". Hanya menghabiskan beberapa dolar dan dapat membantu jumpstart pengindeksan.

Dengan langkah ini, Anda harus melihat situs Anda diindeks cukup cepat. Saya tidak bisa menjamin 24 jam, tetapi mungkin. Setidaknya itu akan mempercepat pengindeksan secara signifikan (dari minggu ke hari). Cari Googlebot "" untuk mengunjungi situs Anda dalam analisis. Kemudian mencari situs Anda muncul dengan Google dengan melakukan pencarian dengan situs: operator (misalnya, situs: sphinn.com). Nikmati!

Finding the Keywords (Keyword Research)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 01:53:00 +0000

Apa pentingnya keywords? keywords bisa terdiri dari 1,2,3,4 atau 5 kata--semakin panjang traffic nya biasanya semakin sedikit, tp hasil nya juga semakin spesipik atau targeted viewer.

kombinasi yang biasa di pake untuk keyword adalah 2 atau 3 keyword sebagai keyword utama, trus di ikuti dengan long tail keywords 4 atau 5 kata.

ok let's digg lebih dalam lagi soal keywords and tehnik research nya..

pertama, review jenis bisnis anda, trus pikirkan apa kira-kira kata kunci yang akan anda ketik jika anda sebagai costumer untuk menemukan produk/service yang anda tawarkan..

setelah itu anda tanya pacar, teman, teman,bos,rekan kerja anda, tetangga anda apa kira-kira yang bakalan mereka ketik di kotak search untuk mencari produk/service yang anda tawarkan tadi. jagan malu bertanya kepada orang lain. sebab mereka ini adalah contoh real apa yg bakalan ada di pikiran para pengguna SE buat nyari produk/servis yang anda jual..

buat list di ms excel untuk semua keywords yang anda dapat dari hasil pemikiran anda dan dari pendapat orang lain.

setelah anda melakukan secara manual, tiba saatnya melakukan dengan bantuan tools di internet atau di pc anda. ada banyak tools yang bisa anda gunakan seperti Wordtracker, Google's Keyword Tool, Keyword Discovery etc etc, dari yang gratis sampai yang bayar..(hehe gw sih pecinta semua yg free )

*Jamesboond in (Spy-hehehe AKA intip kompetitor)
contoh nya anda jualan tas online, trus anda ke google and ketik tas online. website di urutan pertama (lebih spesipik nya website yang JUGA jualan tas online di urutan paling atas) anda copy url nya trus bisa buka hxxps://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and selanjut nya pilih opsi generate keyword ideas "using the website's content", dan masukkan url (alamat website) kompetitor yang tadi anda pilih. seteah itu anda klik "get keywords ideas", akan keluar keywords yang di pakai oleh kompetitor anda. save hasil keyword nya di excel, trus ulangi lagi untuk kompetitor yang lain nya (yang nomer 2,3 atau 4 di SERPs untuk kata kunci tas online tadi)

Ada baiknya anda juga memperhatikan misspelled keyword--well untuk yang ini kadang search volume nya malah lebih gede dari yang gak salah ketik hihih.

tips berikutnya dalam keywords research adalah "local", biasanya anda dapat targeted viewers dari kota atau negara usaha anda. contohnya seperti "tas online jakarta", "tas online medan", "tas parapat" -- hehe parapat adalah kota di pinggir danau toba oi..ada yg penah ke sono ngga?

ps: tools yang saya sebut kan diatas adalah hanya contoh dari banyak tools/software yang bisa anda gunakan dalam riset keyword yang akan anda pakai, jadi be creative and digg some more brother. baik manual atau dengan tools, tujuan nya sama. untuk mendapatkan keyword yang akan anda pakai nantinya. (pls note tadi semua keyword yg udah di harvest anda save di dalam excel--usahain ngumpulin 50-100 keywords dulu-filter juga sesuai relevansi dengan produk/servis yang anda jual).

Ok setelah anda dapat list nya di excel, kini kita persempit/ buang keywords yang ga bagus :P..let's talk about KEI.

KEI (Keyword Efficiency Index)

ok..sekarang apanih KEI..hmm simple explanation nya adalah tingkat efisiensi suatu keywords..semakin tinggi semakin baik..KEI adalah suatu formula/hitungan matematika.rumus KEI = Search Volume(kuadrat) / # of competitors (sesuai file attach di paling bawah)

untuk lebih jelas apa yg d maksud dengan Search engine volume dan number of competitors mari kita tilik lebih dalam.

SV(search volume)=adalah perkiraan jumlah search kata kunci tersebut dalam 1 bulan, jadi anda contohnya hendak mencari SV dari keyword "free money". Langkah pertama adalah pergi ke hxxp://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ trus ketik in "free money" maka anda akan mendapat hasil kira2-kira adalah 1741 untuk "free money" keywords, nah jadi ada 1741 search tiap hari nya untuk keywords "free money" yang arti nya 1741X30.5=53100 per bulan (kira2 hitungan perbulan), jadi angka 53100 ini lah angka SV buat keyword "free money"

# of competitors=jumlah web yang mengantung keyword yang hendak kita cari KEI nya..caranya gampang, anda buka google, trus ketik "free money". setelah itu anda lihat di bagian "Urutan 1 - 10 dari sekitar 187,000,000 hasil telusur untuk free money. (0.24 detik)"..jadi angka 187.000.000 itu adalah # of competitors untuk keywords "free money"

nah jadi semua resep untuk menghitung KEI udah kita dapat, tinggal masukin ke formulanya yakni KEI=SV kuadrat di bagi jumlah competitors, hasil nya adalah 156.6

nah sekarang anda sudah tau cara menghitung KEI, aplikasikan ke semua daftar keyword yang tadi ada di file excel anda (yang ngerti make excel ini pasti lebih mudah dengan buat rumusnya di excel), ambil 4-7 KEI tertinggi sebagai keyword utama, ambil 20-30 berikut nya sebagai variasi atau cadangan..now u got ur self a list of keywords yang mau anda optimasi di website anda.
fiuh selesai juga, good luck.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:53:00 +0000

Navigasi Halaman adalah fitur ditunggu dan benar-benar mengagumkan. Anda mungkin telah melihat pada banyak blog wordpress nomor navigasi halaman (wp-pagenavi oleh Lester Chan). Muhammad RIAs Techie blogger sudah memiliki sistem navigasi dirancang untuk blogger. Ini benar-benar sebuah trik yang mengagumkan yang dibentuk pada waktu tidak ada dalam pelaksanaannya, ia bahkan bisa memikirkan Blogger. Hal ini memiliki beberapa bug kecil dan sekarang Abu Farhan telah disempurnakan itu, dan dia telah memberi kita solusi navigasi sempurna sekarang. Di sini adalah screenshot sedikit dari apa yang ini adalah semua tentang. Blogger Page Navigasi Jika Anda menggunakan hack ini, Anda melihat jenis navigasi untuk Home Page dari blog Anda dan halaman label (membutuhkan kustomisasi sedikit).

Jika Anda menginstal widget Anda tidak seharusnya ada di sini .. Gulir ke bawah ke memperbaiki label.

1.Login ke Blogger Dashboard dan arahkan ke Layout> Edit Html

2.Jangan klik kotak centang yang mengatakan' Expand Template Widget '

3.Sekarang temukan

READMORE DITAMBAH JUDUL POSTINGAN

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:06:00 +0000

Readmore.... tentunya tidak asing lagi untuk pra blogger,adanya tips menambahka readmore dengan judul postingan merupakan salah satu aksesoris blog yang akan membantu tampilan blog kita menjadi sempurna dan tidak terkesan kaku dengan tulisan readmore aja>>>>

Langkah yang perlu dilakukan cukup simpel aja:

Baca Selanjutnya

Optimalkan Judul Blog untuk Meningkatkan Pengunjung

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:20:00 +0000

judul halaman default Blogger Posting adalah bentuk Judul Blog + Post Title.
Tetapi jangan Anda merasa bahwa Judul Post harus diberi sedikit lebih penting pada Halaman Posting? Hasil pencarian termasuk pada mesin pencari seperti google dan yahoo menggunakan titles.So itu selalu lebih baik untuk menjaga buku Anda yang berkaitan dengan isi posting Anda.

Jadi di sini kita akan tweak tag judul Blog di halaman posting .. Berikut ini adalah hack yang akan mengubah judul ke format yang menarik Post berikut Judul + Judul Blog Trik ini akan membantu Anda untuk mengoptimalkan judul blog untuk Search Engines seperti google yahoo, bing dan lain-lain.

Saya sangat yakin bahwa trik ini akan meningkatkan jumlah pengunjung situs anda .. Ini akan memakan waktu cukup lama untuk judul Terformat untuk muncul dalam hasil pencarian (akan muncul jika reindexed oleh mesin pencari yang sesuai).

1.Login ke account blogger Anda
2.Dari Dashboard Anda memilih Layout
3.Setelah itu pilih Edit Html
4.Anda akan melihat kode template Anda di sana.
5.Kemudian temukan kode di bawah ini

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

dan menggantinya dengan :

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>

<title><data:blog.pageName/> ~ <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

6.Lalu Save Template.
7.Setelah menyimpan template, lihat halaman posting blog Anda dan Anda akan melihat perubahan dalam judul di bar judul browser Anda.

Blogger Luncurkan Template Designer Baru

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:13:00 +0000

Blogger kini telah meluncurkan Designer Template baru bersama 15 default Template baru. Semua template yang sangat disesuaikan Masing-masing dilengkapi dengan tata letak yang berbeda dan Anda dapat memodifikasi dan mendesain ulang template tanpa banyak pengetahuan CSS dan HTML.

Cara beralih ke Template baru dan menggunakan Perancang Template

1.Login ke http://draft.blogger.com/

2. Klik Tab Layout dan Anda akan menemukan Designer Templat baru

3. Klik itu dan Anda akan dibawa ke Template baru Designer.

4. Di sana Anda akan menemukan 15 baru template dan Anda dapat melihat Gambar Live sana.

5. Banyak gambar untuk dipilih. Anda dapat mengubah tata letak (1 kolom, 2 kolom dll) dan Anda dapat mengubah hampir semua yang ada di template.

Anda dapat menyesuaikan Lebar Kolom dengan menggunakan slider sederhana dan menyesuaikan warna font dll.

Silahkan mencoba dan berkreasilah.

Gus Dur Wafat

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:59:00 +0000

Ucapan duka dan belasungkawa mengalir bagi Gus Dur. Peran Gus Dur dalam kehidupan berbangsa dan bernegara diakui semua komponen. Gus Dur simbol perdamaian.

"Kita kehilangan Gus Dur, seorang maha guru bangsa yang dihormati dunia. Ia simbol perdamaian antar suku dan agama. Ia juga berjasa besar dalam penegakkan HAM dan perjuangan keadilan," jelas Koordinator Kontras Usman Hamid dalam siaran pers yang diterima, Rabu (30/12/2009).

Gus Dur secara terbuka memberikan dukungan bagi korban-korban yang diteror atau berhadapan korban pelanggaran HAM, termasuk dalam kasus Munir.

"Gus Dur figur yang amat berjasa dalam gerakan sosial sejak era Orde Baru. Ia memberi oase bagi peradaban Islam di dunia," terang Usman.

Optimizing Adsense for Higher Money Returns

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:45:00 +0000

Having Adsense setup in your blog doesn't guarantee great success generating money with it. It needs to be optimized and tweaked accordingly to ensure that you get the best outcomes from it. There are many factors determining Adsense success, or its failure. In this post, you'll learn what all these factors are and what to focus on when optimizing Adsense. All the materials are presented in a very compact form to help you learn the most important points fast, quickly, and easily found if you want to come have a look at it again.

Before reading through them, it's best if you have already understood what Adsense is and what its policies are. Also, be sure that your blog is acceptable by Adsense.

Factors for Success
There are 4 major factors to make Adsense more successful to bring money in:

Traffic Levels - As the number of visitors increases, so does the total number of clicks.
High Paying Ads - Ads that cost the advertisers $3 per click will add more to your revenue than ads that cost $0.01 per click. Finding the right keywords to be the niche of your blog that targets these high (or at least moderate) paying ads are very crucial before you start a blog. Targeting niche keywords that pay very little is not worth your effort.
Relevant Ads - Ads that are more closely related to your blog are more likely to interest your visitors to click upon. 'Public Service Announcement' or ads that are not related to your content are less likely to be clicked upon because generally, they don't spark any interest in your visitors.
Optimal Ads Position and Design - Ads position, colors, sizes, number of units, and borders do affect visitors' behavior in looking or clicking at them. Finding the optimal design and position is crucial to maximize your Adsense income.

Each one of these factors are as important as the other. Do not only focus on one or two of them and leaving the other parts weak. Your Adsense success is as good as the weakest part. This is a fact adviced by many probloggers. For example, having high paying ads served on your blog but with only a small number of visitors won't result in good amount of conversion. More details on these factors are explained below.

How to Increase Traffic
These are some practical tips to increase traffic levels that have worked well for many experienced bloggers.

Build useful, quality, interesting and original content - Reflect on the blogs that you read often and think again why you read them.
Good blog design - Do you tend to think that a blog has quality content if the design is terrible?
Link to others - You'll only have others linking to you if you have shown your generosity in linking to others first. Linking helps in two ways: (1) Bring more visitors. (2) Increase your ranking.
Comment on other blogs - Interact with others genuinely (not spamming) by giving thoughtful comments in other blogs. People will grow their interest in your blog as you interact more with them.
Update frequently - a significant part of large traffic comes from frequent readers, who wants to see fresh contents all the time.
Interact with readers - Interact with your readers actively. Answer comments, questions, create memes, games, etc.
Optimize for search engines - Visitors that tend to click on the ads the most come from search engines. Doing SEO will increase your revenues and your rank as well.
Add your blog add in your email signature - This can help increase visitor numbers to your blog too.
Create RSS feed - Let your readers have the option to subscribe easily to your blog's content. Visit Feedburner.com for more details. This method eases their connectivity to your blog.
List your URL in directories - This increases the chance for people of relevant interest finding your blog easier through many mediums and portals.
Submit to search engines - Send your blog URL to search engines too and similar sites such as Technorati. Use the right and relevant keywords to describe your blog as this is the most crucial information that connects your blog to your visitors.
Create a newsletter - This is another option to update your readers of new postings.
Get involve in other blog projects - Make yourself visible in the blogosphere by actively participating in other projects or memes. The more visibility you have the better.
Participate in forums - This are the places to find other with similar interest. You can draw visitors to your blog by making yourself visible through helping others in the forums.
Promote your posts - Send your great posts to others or submit them in social media if you think they have a chance to get votted up. Be selective of which posts to promote to avoid being too annoying.
Add an 'Email a Friend' button - Add this button below each of your posts to let your readers have the option to email their friends.

High Paying Ads
It's pretty obvious that you should target high paying keywords to get a higher money return from Adsense. There are some sites on the internet listing out a limited number of keywords that are high paying ones. The downside of targeting these keywords are that they are highly competitive too: others are doing it as well. It's now becoming more difficult to rank well in search engines on these keywords. But that this does not mean that you shouldn't do it if you're confident to write excellent and quality content on those keywords.

A more common high paying keywords are the ones related to technology products as those are expensive products and businesses are willing to pay more to get advertised. Examples of successful blogs running these types of contents are Engadget, Gizmodo, and PVRblog just to name a few.

Targeting these high paying keywords alone doesn't guarantee success. The rules of getting high traffic still applies - and you have to be able to build high quality content for that. If you're more comfortable writing on moderately paying content and get more traffic on these niches, then this is a better strategy to do.

There are some strategies and tools to use to find and research more on these high paying keywords:

Do these keywords serve ads? - The first thing you want to check is whether the keywords you want to target serve ads. Simply type those keywords in Google and see if ads are served. If not, then your content related to those keywords are unlikely to serve ads too. By searching this way, you can also see other sites and blogs focusing on those keywords.
Buy them - There are many professional tools available at a cost that gives you hundreds of thousands of these keywords.
Use WordTracker - They have the best tool available related to finding and researching on keywords. They also tell you the number of other competing sites/blogs on any specific keywords.
Use Adwords - If you are ready to invest some cash, try becoming the advertisers yourself and see how much people are bidding for any keywords and get a better feel how to optimize the keywords you use.

Remember again that you have to focus on building high traffic levels too. If you're not able to do this using the extremely high paying keywords, then they're not worth it. Try the more moderate paying ones, as long as you can build quality content on it. But at the other extreme, targeting those low paying ads is not worthwhile.

Relevant Ads
Imagine a blog that wants to target 'making money online' as keywords but have the word 'blog' or 'blogging' too many times throughout the content, even the title and URL. The keyword 'money' or its related keywords are not frequently used. As a result, the ads served are more related to 'creating blogs' and not entirely relevant to the whole content of making money online. This is one example scenario of irrelevant ads.

There are a few things that you can do to get more relevant ads served on your blog:

Are there ads available? - Make sure the keywords you're targeting have ads available to be served on your blog. If not, look for other keywords or different keywords with similar meaning that serve more ads.
Increase keyword density - Words that are used more frequently bound to be recognized as the main keywords of your blog. Try to increase the number of keywords in your content, title, header, URL, sidebars, footer, menus, outward links, bold text, etc. But don't repeat too much to the point that it becomes to obvious and annoying to the readers. Keyword Density at SEOChat.com is a good tool to use for this purpose.
Reduce irrelevant keywords - Check for words that are not your keywords but have quite a high density in your URL, header, menus, content, sidebars, footer, etc. They may be recognized as important keywords by Adsense bots. Make sure that the ads served are not related to them. Otherwise, you have to change them a bit to reduce their density.
One topic per page - Do not focus on too many keywords per page. This confuses Adsense bots to decide which keywords are the most relevant. If this happen to you, it's better to split the text into a few series in different pages.
Block irrelevant ads - Adsense gives you the option to block ads unrelated to your blog content that may appear without you wanting it to be there.

Optimal Ads Position and Design
Adsense allows a number of different ads design and position to choose from. Depending on your blog design and content, some of these ads position and design work better than the others. Which ones the best for you?

One thing for sure, it work differently for different people and different blog. The best way is to test them all. But there are some pointers to follow to cut your work short:

Blend content and ads - Most Adsense users found success when ads and content are blended together as if the ad blocks are not advertisements at all. A few tricks to do this is making the ads background and borders the same color as the content background, ads titles and links to be just like the content links. Many guides mention that blue is the best color for ads titles because they are the most common link color.
Place ads in content - Ads will blend better with content if they are placed together with the content. For example, see this page where you have the ads wrapped with the content just below the Post Title. But too much ads wrapped with the contents can annoy your reader. So try to do this moderately. You can look for examples in well-established blogs and see how the pros do it and adapt those strategies into your own blog.
Above the fold - Above the fold means that you put the ads where readers can see it without needing to scroll down the page. A substantial amount of visitors just check out sites for a few seconds only. Any ads that need scrolling would have missed their eyes.
Follow the heat map - The heat map below has been produced by Google based on the statistics of visits to Adsense ads. Clearly, based on this map, the best place to put ads is just at the beginning of the post, blended with the content itself. The other good section is on the left and above/below the post.
Not too much ads - The main purpose of a blog or site is to serve information to its readers. Crowding it with too much ads defeat the purpose, and people are not blind to see what you're trying to do. Avoid over-crowding yours with ads. Find a balance. There are other types of sites that are more commercial in nature - serving quick infos with lots of outward links. This maybe a place for you to place more ads to provide your visitors the option of finding the best products (i.e. ads) to go to.
Keep changing ads position and design - Regular visitors and frequent readers to your blog are more 'blind' to your ads, meaning that they've seen it too often that they know where NOT to look at. Avoid this 'Ad-blindness' by frequently moving around the ads position and changing their designs. Many bloggers found that this technique improved their click-through-rates after the changes, until the next ads-blindness kicks in again.

Bringing All Together
The key to Adsense success is to work on all these 4 different areas. Working on only 3 and leaving 1 factor behind will mean that your return is as good as the weakest one that you leave behind.

There are other small things that you'll want to consider in addition to the core tips above:

Not too much outgoing links - The less outgoing links you have, the less 'exit doors' your visitors have to leave. But not having any links at all would mean that you're not focusing on building quality informative site which is suppose to provide options for additional details. So, provide your readers with these outbound links but don't have them too excessively.
Using frames - if you're using frames, place your ads and contents within the same frame. Otherwise, Adsense bots will not recognize the connection between the two.
Don’t click your own ads - This is obvious. Google knows well. They'll even know if somebody else is doing this dirty 'deeds' for you. It's all in the IPs and correlating the click patterns. Don't even encourage your readers to do it by giving some incentives as this violates the rule and will get you banned from the program. Basic rule - don't do it.
Monitor your statistics - One good tool to use is Adsense Tracker. This isn't a freeware. But, it does provide many options for you track your Adsense performance. It logs the performance of individual ad units, every pages, and basically answers the where, when and what ads are clicked. With this information, you'll be able to develop strategies to optimize your blog content and ads design and position.
Use alternative ads - There may comes a time when Public Service Announcement (PSA) ads, that doesn't add to your revenue, are served on your blog. Get something more profitable to appear instead. In Adsense page, you can select alternative ads to be served, such as Amazon or other affiliate ads program.

Free SEO Guide to Improve Your Search Engine Ranking

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:41:00 +0000

Traffic volume is the most important parameter when it comes to monetizing your blog (more visitors = more money). A large portion of traffic volume comes from search engines. To monetize efficiently, it's crucial to get your blog contents in the top list of any search engine result pages (SERP). Search Engine Optimization (SEO) helps you to achieve this goal.

There are two types of search results:

Natural (a.k.a organic).
Paid (e.g. sponsored links in Google SERP).

We'll focus on improving your ranking for the natural search results. Getting in the first few pages of the SERP will ensure that most people will find your content.

Search engines basically need one thing to know where to put your blog on their list - your rank on the keyword(s) used to search. For example, if your blog title is Tiki Guide to Making Money, you might be ranked high if people search for the keywords 'tiki tiki guide'. But you might be far beneath the thousands of other pages on the keywords 'making money online'. The question is, which of these two keyword phrases people will most likely search for. The answer is obvious.

The key to performing SEO lies in knowing what keywords to use and how to optimize their use. Be warned that heavily searched keywords are usually targeted by millions of sites and blogs, whom you have to compete against to move up the SERP. Finding a balance between highly competitive and highly searched keywords is a challenge.

Keyword and SEO research takes time. Even professional bloggers take a few months to move up the SERP right into the first few pages. Above all, content is the heart of a blog. If the content isn't good, no SEO research will do you any good.

Target the Right Keywords
Deciding what to blog is the most critical part. You must do research on keywords prior to deciding your niche. Here are some list of what to check on:

Search volumes on those keywords.
Number of competitors writing in the same niche.
Ads served based on those keywords, so that you don't blog on the ones serving very low cost-per-click(CPC).
Variations of these keywords: their synonyms and related words or phrases (see which get searched more with less competitor).

The best tool to help you with this is Wordtracker, available at a price. The site offers free trial and limited functions available for free. There are other keyword tools available with different functionalities.

Choose Suitable Domain Name
SEO keywords begin from the URL. The best domain name is the one with keyword(s) in it. It's great to have a URL like www.yourownname.com, but you'll loose out on getting better SERP rank if it doesn't contain any keywords. Isn't it obvious that www.iwanttomakemoneyonline.com helps SEO better than www.johnjohnnyjonathan.com. Unless of course, you've built some high reputation and your name gets searched a lot.

The other perspective on domain naming is that building a brand name is better in the long run, with something easy and catchy to remember. So there's two side of the coin: you might want to flip on it. But once you've built your blog to a certain level, it's not good to change the domain name. Having a URL that's both catchy and keyword-friendly is ultimately the best. Problogger.net is both catchy and keyword-friendly. Use whois lookup to check if a domain is available.

Use Keywords in Other Sections
The idea is to maximize the use of keywords wherever you can (don't overdo it though). These are the places that you must put keywords in them:

Blog Title - Search engines weigh your blog title heavily. Again, it's best to find a name that is both catchy and keyword-rich.
Blog Description - This is where you want to write phrases that catches attention, but rich with keywords too. If you're ranked even at No.1, but your description is as dull as a bull, nobody is going to click to your blog.
File Names - Use keywords to name files, pictures, photos, graphs, videos, etc that you're using in your blog.
Internal Links - Some sites use image maps with hotspot hyperlinks, images, or buttons to navigate within the sites. This works against SEO. It's better to use text links instead of images as text links carry more weight when getting ranked in search engines.
Tags or Labels - Each posts should be tagged or labelled with keywords to help strengthen SEO. Some prominent blog directories, like Technorati, uses these tags to identify your blog for others to search.

Blog titles, descriptions, and keywords can be enhanced by using META tags. Here's an article on how to use META tags efficiently.

Use Keywords Often in Content
How do search engine algorithms decide what each post is about? They'll scan for the the most-used keywords in the post, with different weights given to different elements. To make your posts 'acknowledged' as being related to any particular keywords, use and repeat them often in the posts. But don't do this too excessively to the point of being straight-out blunt and annoying. Having the right keyword-density in your posts have two benefits:

Draws in more related ads to the post pages. Related ads have better click-through-rates (CTR).
Contributes more towards getting higher rank on those keywords.

Build Links from External Sites
One way to get linked to is by exchanging links, commonly done in Blogrolls. Higher-ranking external sites helps your blog more in terms of SEO. Another way to do this is to submit your blog to directories (here's a tool for an automatic submission for multiple directories). Another highly trusted free directory is DMOZ. Posts can also be submitted to social media directories (e.g. Digg, StumbleUpon) that get voted up/down. Two benefits of submitting to directories:

You're building links on external sites to your blog/posts.
Others may stumble on your blog/posts in these directories and visit your blog from there.

Use Keywords to Anchor Hyperlinks
Don't use the term 'click here' to anchor hyperlinks - use keywords instead. Hyperlinks are valued more by ranking algorithms than the normal content text. Keyword anchors contribute better to SEO compared to the clickhere anchors.

Create Efficient Site Navigation Map
How to influence your readers to stay longer in your blog? Make it easy for them to see what's in your blog. To do this is to build efficient site map, something like an Archives or Categories lists. Even better is to list Related Posts items at the end of each post. Use keywords to anchor all links. This practice helps SEO as it build links to your own blog using keywords, albeit internally, and helps spiders to crawl up your pages easily.

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This article has been adapted from an article by Randy DuerMyer at About.com (Alexa rank: 144). The main key points was summarized to shorten the text and expanded to include new and valuable information not available in the original article. The new article (1134 words) is much shorter by 40% compared to the original article (1880 words).

Useful Blog Add-Ons & Tools That Improve Visitor Experience

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:06:00 +0000

Here’s a collection of most useful blog add-ons or extras that can be easily integrated with any website and will help in enhancing your visitors’ experience.

All these 15 add-ons are free and you don’t have to be a geek to use them on your site.

1. Google Talk Badge – This badge will enable site visitors to get in touch with you quickly. They won’t need a Google account and the badge is enabled only when you are online. Alternative is meebo me.

2. Web2PDF Online – Love this. People can download your articles as PDF files with a click. The PDFs are free of any advertising and you also get full access to stats so you know what articles downloaded most, etc. (example)

3. Zoho Creator – If you ever need to create web forms for your blog, use Zoho Creator. It lets you customize the form layouts, there are no data limits and best of all, readers can upload file attachments while submitting the form.

4. HP Blog Printing – This makes your blog printer friendly. Visitors can pick blog posts that they want to print and only the text + images get printed. Everything else including banners, sidebars, etc. are cut off from the printed version.

5. Outbrain Ratings – The is the best way to add ratings to your blog posts. Outbrain offers two extra advantages as well – your readers can find more stories related to the one they are currently reading and two, they can rate stories even from feed readers.

6. ShareThis or AddThis – They help reduce clutter on your blog by neatly arranging icons in a CSS drop-down that appears only on mouse hover. Both are similar though I prefer AddThis as it is loads faster and allows branding.

7. Google Feed Wizard – This is useful if you have to embed RSS feeds in your blog – you can create blocks in either horizontal or vertical format. If your need options other than AJAX, try these RSS widgets or the static Google Gadgets.

8. Skribit – This is again a great tool to get feedback and opinions from your site visitors.

For instance, you can put up a question like "What should I write about" or "How Can I improve" in the sidebar and readers can add opinions anonymously. They can even vote on suggestions left by other visitors. See example.

9. who.amung.us – This helps you and your readers know how many people are currently on the site and what pages are they reading. No sign-up required and amung.us will even tell you the exact location of different visitors on a map.

10. Eco Safe Badge – This badge allows website visitors to send a full copy of your web page to any email address in HTML or PDF format. Alternatively, they can download a PDF version of the page in a click. The whole idea is to discourage visitors from printing web pages.

11. Meebo Rooms – This allows visitors on your website to interact with each other inside a chat room. Other options worth exploring include Google Lively but again, Lively requires installation at the client’s end.

12. Scribd iPaper – If you frequently link to PDF files and Microsoft Office documents like doc or xls, the Scribd iPaper add-on will make sure that your content remains accessible even to readers who don’t have Microsoft Office or Adobe Reader.

You simply copy-and-paste a small block of code into your webpage, and QuickSwitch converts all the documents in your blog into Flash Paper format hosted on Scribd. If you only link to PDF files, try PDFMeNote script.

13. Yahoo! Media Player – If you have an audio blog or frequently link to MP3 files, integrate the Yahoo! media players in your blog template – this auto-detects any MP3 links and creates an embedded player so you are saved from all the hard work.

14. Translate Gadget – This lets your non-English speaking visitors translate articles from your website in their native language using Google Translation.

Alternatively, you can create your own translation box with language flags or through a different translation service.

15. Digg Your Blog – A good Digg widget that doesn’t get much attention.

Unlike the regular "Digg This" buttons, this widget creates a list of posts from your own blog that are currently getting votes on Digg. Put it in your sidebar to highlight "recently popular" content.

Import and Export in Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:01:00 +0000

All export/import and embedded below-post-comment are now out of beta. So, you can directly login to blogger.com, instead of draft.blogger.com, and do export /import or setting below-post comment.

Google’s Blogger / blogspot doesn’t want to be lagged far behind its competitor. It seems willing and trying hard to improve its performance as per the end-users feedback. The embedded-below-post comment inbox is now on the trial–not officially released yet, though you’re encouraged to try it.

Another project in the pipeline is export import facility. For now you can export files from blogger/blogspot blog and import them to another blogger / blogspot. Well, it cannot be imported to another blogging platform such as wordpress yet. But it’s a big step nevertheless.

How to Do it

1. Login to your blogger.com admin through http://draft.blogger.com
2. Click Setting
3. Click Export -> export blog to your computer.

Once it’s done the file is ready to be imported. You just need to repeat the same process:

1. Click Setting

2. Click Import

3. Click Browse to exported file in your computer

4. Click Import Blog (don’t forget to check the “Publish all entries automatically)

5. Done.

Make Racent Comment in Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:55:00 +0000

Add a “Recent Comments” in your blogger.com / blogspot powered blog is easy. Follow this simple tutorial on how to install it:

1. After login, click “Layout” -> Add Gadget -> Feed;

2. Fill the blank box with your blog comment feed. The comments feed structure is of two kinds as follows (pick one):

(a) Atom 1.0: i.e. http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default.

Example: http://semarangcyber.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default

(b) RSS 2.0: i.e. http://blogname.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

Example: http://semarangcyber.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?alt=rss

3. Click “Continue”

4. In the “Title” write “Recent Comments”

5. Click “Save”. Done.

Now you have the “Recent Comments” in your sidebar displaying the latest five comments. You may put the “Recent Comments” up or down by drag & drop the gadget / widget

Top Domain With Blogger, How to Use ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:45:00 +0000

How do I use a custom domain name on my blog?

Buy your own domain, and create a CNAME record for it to point to ghs.google.com (unless you buy the domain through Blogger).
Enter your domain in the ‘Custom Domain’ option on the Settings | Publishing tab.

SEO Tittle for Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:36:00 +0000

Make a SEO title in our self-hosted wordpress blog and along with it a price. Since we cannot make it until we have our own domain, which is not free. For those blogger / blogspot users, however, you can do it just by a little tweak in the edit-html admin panel.

There are two types of the so-called SEO title, one is a link post that stands before a blog title / name if it’s seen through the browser window. Second, a link post that stands alone. When you open a link post, the blog title is not there. Blog title or blog name is shown when one opens up the main homepage.

The more important thing for blogger / blogspot users is that you can make both types of SEO titles easily using this following simple tips (after login to your admin blog, click Layouts -> Edit HTML -> check “Expand Template widget”):

A. Post title first, blog name second:

1. Find this tag:

 <title><data:blog.title/></title>

2. Delete and replace with this code:

 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

</b:if>

3. Don’t forget to click SAVE.

Credit for this code goes to Jackbook

B. Post title only (blog title not shown)

1. Find this tag:

 <title><data:blog.title/></title>

2. Delete and replace it with the following code:

 <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

3. Click SAVE.

Credit for this code goes to Blogbuster

P.S. The tips works for new blogger / blogspot (xml); not for old blogger (classic template)

SEO stands for search engine optimization a term used among webmasters and bloggers on how to get higher SERP (search engine result page). Some believe that there are ways to ‘tweak’ your websites / blogs, to get satisfactory SERP the most important of which including, but not limited to, high PR (Page Rank), getting a backlink from a good site (meaning, a higher PR website which is equal or higher than your own), and “posting title management” as discussed here in this post.

Adsense in Posting for Blogger

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:06:00 +0000

How to put AdSense embedded inside (within) a blog post or article at the top left or right ? Or at the bottom left or right of a blog post/article?

Here’s a brief tutorial:

1. After login to your blogger.com account -> layout -> edit HTML -> click Expand Widget Template

2. Find the following code inside the template (shortcut tips: press CTRL+F and search “post-body” in the search box).

3. a. Put the following embedded code ABOVE the <div class='post-body'> if you want to place the Adsense code at the beginning of your post (at the left side).

3.b. Put the following embedded code BELOW <div style='clear: both;'/>  </div> if you want to place it at the end of your blog post (at the left side).

<div style='float:left;'> --- AdSense Code here --- </div>

4. If you want to put the embedded AdSense on the right side, just change the ‘float:left’ into ‘float:right’

5. Click SAVE. Done. See the LIVE DEMO here.

Important Note:

In case you fail to put the AdSense code within the blogger / blogspot template, don’t panic!

Just follow these simple steps:

1. Change any code like this < into <

2. Change any code like this > into >

Is it ok with AdSense TOS? Yes, it’s.

Domain Problems in Blogger Custom

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:58:00 +0000

If you see this message “Another blog is already hosted at this address” while you made custom domain at blogger.com ad you wonder how to fix it, here is how:

Clear the setting by visiting this URL and fill out your URL address you want to fix:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/

Marked as Spam in Your Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:52:00 +0000

It drives me crazy whenever I create a blog in blogger.com just to find out another day that that blog has been marked as spam with this warning message:

This blog has been locked due to possible Blogger Terms of Service violations. You may not publish new posts until your blog is reviewed and unlocked.
This blog will be deleted within 20 days unless you request a review.
Request Unlock Review

When you follow the “Request Unlock Review” link, you’ll be redirected to fill out a secret code and send it to who-knows-where. It promises to send you a email response which usually never comes. Blogger.com notoriously famous with its deft-ear support team which never comes back to you.
That’s why when you got such warning, you as though talk to robot which is the case:

Your blog is marked as spam
Blogger’s spam-prevention robots have detected that your blog has characteristics of a spam blog. (What is a spam blog?) Since you are an actual person reading this, your blog is probably not a spam blog. Automated spam detection is inherently fuzzy and we sincerely apologise for this false positive.
On behalf of the robots, we apologise for locking your non-spam blog. Please be patient while we take a look at your blog and verify that it is not spam.

It’s in this area–user support team– where wordpress.com has far outperformed blogger.com and that’s why many people ready to volunteer for it.

Site Map Plugins Google XML

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:43:00 +0000

Description and functionality: This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

Version: 3.1.2 (the latest, compatible with Wordpress 2.7)

Download: Download the plugins here.

How to Install:

1. Upload the folder into plugins directory i.e. ../public_html/wp-content/plugins/–puthere–

2. Create two blank files in notepad. First save it as: sitemap.xml. The second save it as: sitemap.xml.gz.

3. Upload the two blank files into wordpress directory where index.php is. For example, in this blog, I put both files in ../public_html/-puthere-

4. Using FTP (preferably Filezilla), righ-click the two files one by one –> File Attributes –> make it 666 -> Click OK.

5. Activate the plugin at the wordpress plugin administration page (you need to login to your wordpress admin) Plugins -> Sitemap XML -> Activate ->click.

6. Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Settings (for WP 2.7) -> XML-Sitemap and build the sitemap the first time. The quickest way is just click the “Click here” links at the top of sitemap admin setting (see picture #1) and let all default settings. Do the changes later if you are not satisfied with the default ones.

If activation goes well, there’ll be a message like

“Result of the last build process, started on (example) September 7, 2009 7:18 pm.

Google was successfully notified about the changes…” (see screenshot #2)

7. Done.

Notes: your sitemap is successfully built if you can see the file in websiteurl.com/sitemap.xml. Fatih Syuhud

Baguskah Posisi Blog Anda di Search Engine !!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:22:00 +0000

Kalimat diatas itutuh yang membuat saya tertarik mencoba tools SEO dari InstantRankMeter, ya terang saja, tau sendirikan tools SEO yang berkualitas harganya pasti menguras kocek. Nah dengan Instant Rank meter sepertinya membuat tugas analisa blog/situs anda jadi semakin mudah saja, dimana layanan ini akan memberikan gambaran umum mengenai data statistik yang lengkap dan bagaimana kinerja blog anda pada 3 search engine besar Google, Bing dan Yahoo!. Sebagai contoh, anda bisa melihat hasil analisa tool SEO ini disini.

Cara Cek Link Nofollow atau Dofollow

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 04:10:00 +0000

Bagaimana cara termudah memeriksa link pada halaman yang menggunakan atribut dofollow atau nofollow. Mungkin rekan yang tergolong baru agak bingung ya dengan fungsi atribut ini? Atribut NoFollow biasanya digunakan untuk memerintahkan Spider Search Engine untuk tidak menelusuri suatu link, namun bagi rekan yang mengijinkan spider menelusuri suatu link bisa menghapus atribut NoFollow ini, mengubahnya ke status Dofollow atau tidak menggunakan perintah atribut rel= ini sama sekali.

<a href="http://belajarblog-yuk.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://belajarblog-yuk.blogspot.com/</a>

Yah..paling tidak cara yang saya jelaskan nanti bisa mempermudah rekan untuk ngecek apakah usaha bertukar link dengan teman anda sudah benar2 sesuai harapan, rugi bandar dong bila rekan memberi status dofollow sedang teman barter link rekan menggunakan atribut nofollow hehehe.

Salah satu cara yang biasa saya gunakan untuk ngecek atribut nofollow, yang pertama bisa dengan cara manual menggunakan Mozilla CSS for spotting nofollow links . Perlu rekan ketahui penggunaan kode Css dibawah ini tentu tidak langsung dipasang pada deretan kode CSS dihalaman blog anda, sebaiknya saya sarankan rekan menginstall add-ons firefox ini terlebih dahulu disini Web Developer Extension.

a[rel~="nofollow"] { border: thin dashed firebrick ! important; background-color: rgb(255, 200, 200) ! important; }

Atau

a[rel~="nofollow"]:after { content: "!"; background-color: white !important; color: red !important; font-weight: bold !important;text-decoration: blink !important; }
Gak suka dengan cara diatas? ok..coba saja pake cara instant menggunakan add-ons firefox Nofollow, silahkan download disini.