PANIC on BLOGGING

Can't survive on the web this days without the tool like Google translate

2010-02-22T08:00:00.001-08:00

Yes, it is true, it is impossible to survive on the web this days without a google translate as you never know what page you gonna run into - can be chinese, english, turkish, japanies, hindi, serbian, french, spanish, italian, etc...

Translations are far from perfect, but still, a free tool online tool, which gives you a good feeling of the text is about...

in reference to: http://translate.google.com/#auto|en| (view on Google Sidewiki)

Should we listen to Google when it comes to SEO? I am not 100% sure

2009-09-21T06:48:00.000-07:00

Just got an interesting email from a friend.
She advised to try next simple experiment:

1. Go to Google.com
2. Type in ”Search”
3. Click ”I feel lucky”

See what you get. ;)

And voila. The biggest open source company - as they call them selves - doesn't now how to optimize their own search website in order to get first place in search results.
Small reminder: "I feel lucky" returns you the first search result!

If you go for the full search, you will find that Google.com is only at the 7th place.

Unexpected?
What does it mean?

Are other search engines better at Google SEO, or more suitable products, or something else?

Welcome to the SEO twilight zone

Google accounts on Twitter

2009-07-13T05:55:00.000-07:00

Google accounts on Twitter

twitter.com/Google - central account

twitter.com/Blogger - for Blogger fans
twitter.com/GoogleCalendar - user tips & updates
twitter.com/GoogleImages - news, tips, tricks on our visual image search
twitter.com/GoogleNews - latest headlines via Google News
twitter.com/GoogleReader - feed reader team
twitter.com/iGoogle - news & notes from Google's personalized homepage
twitter.com/GoogleStudents - news of interest to students using Google
twitter.com/YouTube - for YouTube fans
twitter.com/YouTubeES - en Espanol
twitter.com/GoogleAtWork - solutions for IT and workplace productivity

Geo-related
twitter.com/SketchUp - Google SketchUp news
twitter.com/3DWH - SketchUp's 3D Warehouse
twitter.com/Modelyourtown - 3D modeling to build your favorite places
twitter.com/EarthOutreach - Earth & Maps tools for nonprofits & orgs
twitter.com/GoogleMaps - uses, tips, mashups
twitter.com/GoogleSkyMap -Android app for the night sky

Ads-related
twitter.com/AdSense - for online publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsHelper - looking out for AdWords questions and tech issues
twitter.com/AdWordsProSarah - Google Guide for AdWords Help Forum
twitter.com/GoogleAnalytics - insights for website effectiveness
twitter.com/GoogleAdBuilder - re building display ads
twitter.com/GoogleRetail - for retail advertisers
twitter.com/TechnologyUK - for U.K. tech advertisers
twitter.com/InsideAdWordsDE - for German AdWords customers
twitter.com/GoogleAgencyDE - for German ad agencies
twitter.com/AdSensePT - info for Portuguese-language publishers
twitter.com/AdWordsRussia - AdWords news & tips in Russian
twitter.com/DentroDeAdWords - Spanish updates from the Inside AdWords blog
twitter.com/AdWordsAPI - AdWords API tips

Developer & technical
twitter.com/GoogleResearch - from research scientists
twitter.com/GoogleWMC - Google Webmaster Central
twitter.com/GoogleCode - latest updates for Google developer products
twitter.com/GoogleData - Data APIs provide a standard protocol for reading and writing web data
twitter.com/app_engine - web apps run on Google infrastructure
twitter.com/DataLiberation - initiative for complete import/export of all data
twitter.com/GoogleMapsAPI - about using Google Maps embedded in websites
twitter.com/GoogleIO - Google's largest annual developer event

Culture, People
twitter.com/googletalks - notes from our @Google speaker series
twitter.com/googlejobs - the voice of Google recruiters

Country or Region
twitter.com/googlearabia - news from the Google Arabia Blog*

twitter.com/googledownunder - Google activities in Australia & New Zealand
twitter.com/GoogleDE - Google in Germany
twitter.com/GoogleKorea - News & notes in Korean*

twitter.com/GoogleLatAm - Latin America (en Espanol)
twitter.com/GooglePolicyIt - Notes on Google policy issues in Italy

Original source:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/google-accounts-on-twitter.html

Effective Twitter techniques revealed

2009-03-26T02:58:00.000-07:00

1.What is twitter and few facts on popularity and usefulness?

What is the most buzz word in Blogging world today?

Most definitively it is TWITTER

I've be using twitter for couple of weeks now, and I've found tones of things about it. There are many stories, articles, tools, websites, videos, strategies, etc.

But is really behind it and how it really works?

2. How smart guys use Twitter effectively?

I've notices that 2 of most powerful professional bloggers

[problogger] and [daren edwards]

created new websites www.twitip.com and www.twitterati.com

I was shortly analyzing this websites, when I got the idea why they did it:

Now that the hype is on, and everybody are blogging about twitter, they come, there are billions of same posts, repeating the same things.

And this 2 smart bloggers, came with originality again:

they use their current popularity and authority in the blogosphere to tell all this about:twitter blogger, what to do and what not to do.

So, they are not saying anything new, and any out of the box explanation!

And yes, I call that a fraud!

2. Must do TWITTER things and websites

- Number one robot sites to AUTOMATIZE your twitter activities and handle huge number of twitter messages, followers and actions

www.tweetlater.com

- Second useful website is

Twitter Counter.

Good things about this one is that you can see the most popular twitters, number of their followers, etc. You can also find statistics for individual user.

Here is Twitter counter statistics for me:

Top popular are:

And for some interesting bots:

dowjones200 AccuWx az_dbacks SemanticBot

thebuddha dewaldp

- An Indian guy working hard for MindValley Labs, made interesting videos on how to earn 10k USD via twitter in one day. He had his holly mission, and as video advices, he reached his goal. Check out:

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 1 of 2)

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 2 of 2)

NOTE: Mindvalley is working a lot on marketing and propaganda, and this videos are also part of it. Interesting can be noticed and learned from this resource, starting with the way they've chosen title for this videos, creating the story, and the way they used twitter to create traffic and earn money!

4. Best practices

Due to excessive usage of Twitter, at one point my account got locked. And I had to send some email to support before getting it back. Until today I don't understand why my account was blocked, but I found very weird place to get my account back - getsatisfaction.com

Interesting thing was that this whole story lead me to nice article about auto thanks messages for new twitter followers.

http://getsatisfaction.com/tweetlater/topics/best_practice_for_twitter_auto_thank_you_notes_to_new_followers

best practices on twitter auto reply message

Also, very smart strategy for getting more followers, at least in the beggining, is to locate new twitter users who are very proactive (increasing number of followings and updates and favorites) and then following couple of them.

And hey, don't forget to follow twitter itself

www.twitter.com/twitter

Be-a-magpie

Some more resources of TWITTER Tools, that I will analyze later on, can be found at:

Top 100 twitters in Copenhagen

www.twellow.com/user/marjanpanic

twitterless.com/marjanpanic/locations

twitterholic.com/marjanpanic

(just twit message like this:

marjanpanic @marjanpanic is ranked 6 in Copenhagen, Denmark! http://twitterholic.com/mar... less than 5 seconds ago from web in reply to marjanpanic

)

twitter.grader.com
http://www.onlinebestcolleges.com/blog/2009/100-twitter-tools-to-help-you-achieve-all-your-goals/

Marjan Panic twitter stats on twitter grader

How to quiet the twitter noise

search.twitter.com/search?q=marjanpanic

search.twitter.com/search?q=seo

search.twitter.com/search?q=little+known+fact+palin

Hacked famous twitter's accounts

tweepler

http://tweetree.com/marjanpanic/friends

http://www.tweetag.com/

http://www.benmarsh.co.uk/snow/#

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/feb/02/paris-twitter-trip-twitrip

http://dorkmuffin.com/?p=709

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/02/24/members-of-congress-twitter-through-obamas-big-speech/#more-41526

http://www.twitscoop.com/

http://startbigthinksmall.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/ads-on-twitter-good-or-bad/
http://blog.crowinfodesign.com/2009/03/09/conference-tweeting/
http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/03/12/the-countries-buzzing-the-most-about-twitter-in-2009/

Founder of twitter speech on TED:
http://www.ted.com/talks/evan_williams_on_listening_to_twitter_users.html

Latest from twitter mania:

http://twittervision.com/maps/show_3d
http://tweetergetter.com/marjanpanic
http://tweetergetter.com/promote.php?id=marjanpanic
http://www.atebits.com/software/tweetie/
http://wefollow.com/tag/serbia
http://twitter.com/twitchhiker and http://twitchhiker.wordpress.com/
http://accessibletwitter.com/

How somebody found my blog on the net?

2009-03-03T04:59:00.000-08:00

This is a small collection of links which describes how somebody found my website on the net.
I collected this links using Live Traffic Feed created by feedjit.com

Google.com
twitter techniques
adsense defined
twitter automated reply best practices
semorie moveis
list topics
'www.twitterati.com'+stats

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=z2Y&q=effective+twitter&start=10&sa=N
http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=marjan+panic&sourceid=opera&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
http://www.google.com.tr/search?hl=tr&safe=off&q=revolver+"what's+in+it+for+me"&btnG=Ara&meta=
http://www.google.com.vn/search?q=recently+searched&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

http://www.google.co.za/search?hl=en&q=http://www.wayn.com/waynsplash.html&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
http://www.google.com.vn/search?q=recently+searched&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
http://www.google.de/search?q=Http-netlog.com-marjan&btnG=Suche&hl=de&sa=2
http://www.google.com/search?q=twitter+techniques&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&ie=utf8&oe=utf8&rlz=1I7DBCA_en-GB
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&q=facebook+phishing+relationship+status&aq=f
http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHMI_enIN295IN303&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=twitter+techniques

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ieas&p=www.adword.google.com

http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=ieas&p=www.adword.google.com

http://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=ieas-dns-tb&p=adword.google.com

Facebook - fraud, phishing, and online info safety?

2008-12-03T11:41:00.000-08:00

Today my Facebook account got phished!
Someone figure my ultra safe password, logged in into my account, made some damage!
Luckily, this was noticed early on, so I was able to login quickly and change my password!

Unfortunatelly, some infos were changed on my profile (interested in, relationship status, status message, ...) And that caused me some headache :(

Anyway, this was HUGE alert for me!

I asked my self:
What personal info should I put online?
Why I put that info online - what good will it make for me?
How safe is putting info online (even if it is basic info, and if it is on facebook)?

Few days back, I realized I had so much important and unique info that I keep on my gmail! Loosing that info would be a very painful for me!
So I started backing it up using Outlook express. That way, I at least have copy of all messages localy on my hdd.

Anyway, this post is just a warning for everyone out there:

Be aware, there are many bad people out there! Handle your data with high caution!
Even professionals like myself can get frauded!

Interesting fact is - that similar thing happened with some twitter accounts.
Some famous twitter's accounts have been reported as hacke!

In near future I will be writing an extended article about Facebook, and business and marketing advantages that it brings. So, stay tuned, and until next reading - think of backing up your online confidential data!

Google adsense - defined and proven steps: How to become master of Google AdSense?

2008-11-25T14:42:00.000-08:00

Step 1.
Open adsense account:
Google AdSense

Step 2.
Subscribe to RSS of
Official Google AdSense blog

Step 3.
Read basic AdSense beginners guidelines:

Google AdSense reports

Official Google AdSense Webinars

Google AdSense Help

Official Google AdSense Demos and Guides

Google AdSense Success Stories

Officially Google recommended Publisher tools

Google Webmasters Tools - starter page

Official Google Webmasters guidelines

Google AdSense Help Forum

Google Analytics

Google AdWords

Google AdSense Calendar

Optimizing Instablogs

AdSense ads formats overview

Videos
http://webmarketingdesign.blogspot.com/2008/11/adsense-secrets-live-with-joel-comm.html

Best ways to bring more traffic to your blog

2008-11-23T15:28:00.001-08:00

This are several different techniques that many bloggers use to drive more traffic and to make higher page rank.

1. Go to Forums and talk with other people. That way, you find out what they are interested in, you direct them to your blog so they can find solutions, and eventually their word of mouth increases the process of people that can hear about your blog.
Don't forget to create forum profile and signature, and include a link to your blog! That will automatically create tones of backlinks to your blog, and that counts a lot for your Google page rank!

The same rule goes for:
Google groups
Yahoo groups
Any kind of groups...

2. Write long comments on some very popular blog (i.e. some of the Google's blogs, or problogger, or www.draganvaragic.com , etc.)
Some times (at the very begging of your blogging career) this can and should and will bring some traffic to your blog, especially if you offer good quality and fresh content.
Don't forget, you should write on blogs within same topic as your blog propagates!

3. Use blog networks! Put your blog there, and keep track on your progress!

4. Facebook - friends, groups, and most important: blog networks!
Check out some of the most populars:
Also, don't forget to check out my blog network:

5. Twitter! Nowadays it is a starting point for most professional bloggers!
I already wrote in details how to use twitter effectively!

6. Once you decide to go totally professional into blogging, then a must do is:
Google AdWords!
For cheap money, you can get yourself a great traffic!
I can't claim the same story about Facebook add program, so you will have to try it your self and make your own impression!

7. Friend feed, Digg, Stumble upon, Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Redit, ...

8. Panoramio
If you are writing a blog which relates to some city, or tourism, you can get a lot of traffic just by uploading your pics on Panoramio and/or Google earth.
Especially for the popular places - like I am doing it for Copenhagen, but also for the places where I am traveling to!
With that said, one more add: a must use tool is: www.mapmysite.com
This small peace of javascript code give really powerful effect to your blog!

9. NEWEST

Google search wiki is now live!

I was playing with searching my full name, and for personal use, I got pretty good results. It might be good idea to open several Google accounts and favorite your url.
Eventually, it will make difference on your total page rank!

My theory behind this is that big web companies (facebook, linkedin, yahoo, ms, etc) they have huge number of users, resources, servers, ip addresses, etc. so it makes it a little bit easier for them to create tones of back links and increase page rank for their pages about you. That's one of the main reasons, why I use to find my Facebook of Linked in profile before my home page (which I find more relevant about me then My Facebook profile)
Unfortunately, that is one of the mistakes Google won't be able to fix, as their search will always be as blind as machine is!
But this wiki live search is a fair chance to solve this!
Good luck G!

UPDATE COMING SOON!!!

How to post directly from your gmail?

2008-07-24T13:00:00.001-07:00

While playing with my blogspot settings, I've just discovered one cool feature:
You are able to create posts directly from your gmail!

Under settings of your blog, in the email section, you can setup specific email address to which you will send your post emails.

And you can also specify whether you want to immediately publish your posts, or save as drafts for later use!

This is so cool and wanted feature for gmail-aniacs (like me), and can save a lot of time, and wasted ideas!

So, keep on email-posting!

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80/20 rule(s)

2008-07-24T05:47:00.001-07:00

What is 80-20 rule?
Well, it depends on context. So far I found 3 different meanings, each of which is correctly referred as 80-20 rule.

Usage No. 1

Today, I ran into interesting post about agile methodology see agile-principle-8-enoughs-enough. It is about Pareto's law which they call 80/20 rule. The theory is about the law of distribution and how many things have a similar distribution curve. This means that *typically* 80% of your results may actually come from only 20% of your efforts!

Usage No. 2

I guess every person is familiar by now with Google's 80-20 politics.In case you never heard of that before:

Google allows its employees to spend 80% of their time working on everyday Google tasks and the remaining 20% Google employees are encouraged to experiment with their own ideas. It is believed that some of the most popular Google products (i.e. Gmail, GoogleReader, Orkut, ...) were developed through 80-20 approach.

Usage No. 3

When you are about to become professional, you put a lot of effort reading, and practicing skills that will make your professional. It is believed that most of the average professionals reach the level of 80% of quality that best professionals hold.
Remaining 20% is what differentiate super stars from average professionals.

I believe the same comparison can be made with professional athletes and super stars.
At the end of the day, they all train together and go through the same procedure, but but not all of them are Michael Jordans, Kobe Bryants, Shakil O' Neals, Roger Federers, Rafael Nadals, Novak Djokovic, Marija Sarapova, Serena Williams, Ana Ivanovic, Justin Henin, etc.

I will keep my eye on more similar usages of 80-20 rule name and will keep you updated.

In a meantime, I am preparing new post explaining "Rule of thumb" and similar popular expressions! It will come shortly!

Agile principles

2008-07-24T05:46:00.001-07:00

Manifesto for Agile Software Development

We are uncovering better ways of developing
software by doing it and helping others do it.
Through this work we have come to value:

Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
Working software over comprehensive documentation
Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
Responding to change over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on
the right, we value the items on the left more.

Organize blog

2008-07-05T03:16:00.000-07:00

1. Make your keywords lead to good information!
2. Make nice wide layout
3. Select colors - design design design
4. Define categories - what you are writing about
5. Have a list of references - websites, docs, principles, SEO
6. SEO - drive traffic to your blog
7. Analyze - every month, and on need basis
8. Ask peoples for opinion - friends, strangers, etc.
9. Send mass emails with links to your blog
10. Are you writing/doing right things? Are you achieving good results?
11. How much time you spend on blogging? How much on writing the post?
12. AGILE - Continuous improvement + craftsmanship + sprints
13. New Topic list
14. ToDo list

Choice

2008-07-05T03:13:00.000-07:00

The paradigm of choice video

I have to make for a living with blogging - wrong
I must write 1000 posts in order other people to read my blog - you should but why?
I must add to 1000 search engines to drive traffic - you should think how to increase traffic - not just subscribing and not just writing posts

Have vision
Remember goals
Be inspired-build enthusiasm
Think of solutions of your problems before they arise

How to write "THE POST"

2008-06-11T01:12:00.001-07:00

Let's assume that you have a list of planned blog posts. And today/tomorrow is your writing day. What to do?
-brainstorm what you know about this topic?(min:10min-max:30min)
-think of people you know that are experts on this topic. Pick 3 of them and try to find out their opinion!(min:10min/person-max:2hours)
-search other blogs
(hints: blogsearch.google.com
news.google.com
www.Cnn.Com
www.Bbc.Co.Uk
www.Euronews.Com
-collect links for references
-assuming that you have collected enough material, try to prioritize.
Perfect scenario is to do some survey, but there is no enough time and
therefor it will lead us to extremelly low ROI
-now as you have priority list it is time for first draft. Try to write one sentence for each of first 5-7 priorities.Try only to explain point. Spend max 10min on this. Now read them! First impression is: they are not looking like good post. Good news is, this is only a phase in planning, and it is not yet expected to have good looking post. So relax and keep doing great job. One thing that is obvious is that your sentences are not connected.
- time for making a story. try now to rewrite your post using the points from your sentences, but as one story, so you can read it in one breath. At the beginning this will be challenging and hard. it might take you 1 or 2 hours or even days. But this is essential part of your success. This will make people really read your blog!
So all the time invested in improving this part will later on be the crucial difference between your blog and all other similar blogs out there in The Cloud!
I am brainstorming and explaining this in the blog readability post

-Once you have your 5-7 sentences - you are able to title your post. try with 3-5 suggestions. then Google them for 3 minutes. see what comes out as the best title. you might also get some insight full ideas while seeing other posts titles.

-
To be continued and re factored ...

Social networking websites

2008-06-05T10:35:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
http://www.advogato.org/
http://badoo.com/
http://www.bebo.com/
http://www.blackplanet.com/
http://www.buzznet.com/
http://classmates.com/
http://www.cyworld.com/main2/index.asp
http://www.flixster.com/
http://www.fotolog.com/
http://www.friendsreunited.co.uk/
http://www.friendster.com/
http://www.geni.com/
http://www.habbo.com/
http://www.hi5.com/
http://www.imeem.com/
http://www.iwiw.hu/pages/user/login.jsp
http://www.linkedin.com/
http://www.livejournal.com/
http://mixi.jp/
http://multiply.com/
http://www.myspace.com/
http://www.netlog.com/
http://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx
http://www.plaxo.com/
http://www.reunion.com/
http://www.skyrock.com/
http://www.tagged.com/
http://vkontakte.ru/
http://www.wayn.com/waynsplash.html
http://home.services.spaces.live.com/
http://www.xanga.com/

Improvements: Tools, Tips, Procedures, Steps, Guides, Best practice, Advices, references

2008-06-05T08:41:00.001-07:00

1. Ask other for opinion(friends network,google group network,forum
network,other blogs, other sites)
-make survey using google docs
-send emails
-
2. Analytics
3. Trends
4. Technocrati
5. Keywords
6. Add url
7. Number of posts
8. No of Blinks
9. Digg
10. Del.icio.us
11. Facebook
12. Panic keyword
13. Feed burner
14. Newspaper websites
15. Popular websites
16. Associations/post related with website content
18. What are people thinking or searching when in mood for
buying/research/clicking ads
19. Adword when the traffic increases
20. My space/to much spam
21. Don't just spam people.Forcing them will make yous website enemy.
But making them to want you/ that will drive them to your website
22. SocialRank.Com
23. Links from other blogs
24. Other social network websites
25. Cool gui feature(s)
26. Constant gui/ content /traffic improvement/
27. Continius news/updates/ improvements
28. Links on ajaxian
29. Othes ads networks
30. What part of your site can be auto updated or content created?

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Visit http://marjanpanic.googlepages.com

Use time in gym for blogging inspiration

2008-06-04T15:17:00.001-07:00

Doing regular workouts in gym means at least 5 hours a week spent in a
gym. But one thing is for sure:this time is not wasted time in tearms
of blogging.
On the contrary. It opens a great land of opportunities to your
inspiration, ideas, informations,etc.
First, working out makes our blood pumps faster, which enables our
brain to get more of so needed oxigen and introduce amazing ideas.
Second, all those awesome bodies around us! Simply inspiring!
Perfection around us and strong associations with it, together with
are astonishing imagination, can't do anything less then manufactoring
Ideas Ideas Ideas!
Third - many people around are talking. Listen theis words carefully!
You will find many of the keywords for your post in their
conversations!

Already feeling like Rambo? Way to go to the top bloggers level!
And good luck with exercising! Keep me updated with progress!

Visit
Marjan Panic Website

Google products

2008-06-03T13:39:00.000-07:00

gmail.com | gmail.google.com | www.gmail.com
reader.google.com
pages.google.com
www.blogger.com | marjanpaniconblogging.blogspot.com
picasaweb.google.com | photos.google.com
maps.googe.com
earth.google.com
docs.google.com
www.google.com/calendar/render
www.google.com/alerts
www.google.com/ig
www.google.com/notebook
www.google.com | classic search
personalized search
groups.google.com
blogsearch.google.com
images.google.com/
video.google.com/
www.youtube.com
convertor | www.google.com -> type" 25000dkk to csd | type: 100meters to foot
www.google.com/talk/
mozilla plugins
translate.google.com/

news.google.com
adsense.google.com
adword.google.com
analytics.google.com
gwt.google.com
gear.google.com
www.panoramio.com
stocks.google.com
purchase.google.com
sets.google.com
health.google.com
webaccelerator.google.com
www.google.com/codesearch

trends.google.com (alexa | google keywords) www.google.com/onlinechallenge/index.html
code.google.com (/events/io)
www.google.com/a
website optimizer
sketchup.google.com
selling cars at google
GOOG
www.google.com/mars/
www.google.com/moon/
www.google.com/trends
labs.google.com/ridefinder
www.google.com/tools/firefox/index.html
www.google.com/prdhp?hl=en&tab=wf
sites.google.com/site/sites/

to be continued...

will be upated

Google trends

2008-05-31T13:23:00.000-07:00

What are users around the world Googlin for?

Is "Microsoft Job Interview" more popular then "Google Job Interview"?
Are people in India searching more for Google or for MS?
Is "Role based access" more buzz word then "Identity management"
Is this changes from year 2002 towards 2008 or January till June

Visit http://www.google.com/trends and find your answers!

A must have tool for every website traffic improver, for all SEO optimizers!
Don't miss, and use it creatively!

How to continue on blogging after a small time out

2008-04-28T14:08:00.000-07:00

Few things first
You have to review your objectives!
1. Check is your topic still buzz word on google
2. Check how many blogs can you find before yours on gooogle
3. See how many topic ideas you have
4. Review your blogging available time
5. Put your experience and review conclusions to work for you
6. Set our goals - be realistic but optimistic
7. Give it a try - try to write one extra post in next 60 minutes!
8. Ask friends for their impressions on your blog (tell them hey have max 3 comments)
9. Make your 10 best and 10 worst critiques to your blog
10. Just do it - but this time with consistency

And yes, you are good to go

And so am I

So - here we go again!

How to earn 1.000.000 $ by blogging!

Remember - you can achieve it if you everyday earn ..... $

Top 100 search terms in 2007 by Google

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As I already wrote about - what should you include in your blog to make it more visible on the internet?

Well, include as much of the buzz words as possible, because there is big probability your blog will be found during this searches!

Fastest Rising (global)

1. iphone
2. badoo
3. facebook
4. dailymotion
5. webkinz
6. youtube
7. ebuddy
8. second life
9. hi5
10. club penguin

Fastest Rising (U.S.)

1. iphone
2. webkinz
3. tmz
4. transformers
5. youtube
6. club penguin
7. myspace
8. heroes
9. facebook
10. anna nicole smith

Completely list of the results with appropriate analysis you can find at

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/zeitgeist2007/index.html

And remember,
Keep following the trends! Keep your eye on the stats and standings!

Motivation! Motivation! Motivation!

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Answer your self:

What thing I have to give up in order to get something that is better for me?

Can you go every day to gym and run 5km?

Can you write a great post every day?

Can you make a plan what will you eat next 3 months and stick to your plan?

Can you make agenda every night for your next day, and make a weekly/monthly agenda which will take you to your goals?

Can you make a room to write your friends regularly?

What good thing can I do today?

Ask your self:

what? why? how? when? with?

When you wake up every morning tell to yourself:

Create a vision!
Make a decision!
Define goal!
Follow the passion!
Put maximum effort!
Be realistic!
Create your own experience!
See it before you do it!
Think creatively - look into right instead looking left and recalling your memories and experiences!
Ask your self right questions!

At the end of the day be sure that you put 110% effort and your attitude was:

I did more then expected!

Don't doubt! Just believe!

Motivation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Motivation is the reason or reasons for engaging in a particular behavior, especially human behavior as studied in economics, psychology and neuropsychology. These reasons may include basic needs such as food or a desired object, hobbies, goal, state of being, or ideal. The motivation for a behavior may also be attributed to less-apparent reasons such as altruism or morality. According to Geen,[1] motivation refers to the initiation, direction, intensity and persistence of human behavior.

So, here we are. What is the motivation behind this blog?
Honestly, first thing that came as motivation was:
How to reach a goal and make this blog 1.000.000 $ blog?

And at the very begging, one thing is for sure.
If I want to make it within an year, I have to make it 2740$ per day

Is this to much? Is it realistic? Can one achieve that?

Some very popular blogs are claiming that their incomes are counted with seven zeros.

Well, it is and it goes that way.

More complex math will be conducted in future, but it will just show the goals, but not the paths.

So, in the future, we'll focus on the paths. And it is good to know at the very beggining, directions and goals.

So, the ultimate goal is:

to make at least 2740$ per day

Cool
Really looking forward to achieve that

Ongoing process

2007-11-10T15:23:00.000-08:00

As everything in life, blogging is also an ongoing process.
While we develop our blog, we are growing, becoming more adult, and more experienced.
During this process, we develop out emotions, our reactions, the way we analyze things and make conclusions, take actions.
All this affects your blog and posts. If we are angry or unsatisfied, we'll write more criticizing posts, or more pessimistic.
If we are happy or satisfied, our post we'll be inspiring and motivating.
But, the ultimate goal is to make as much good posts as possible. There is always a way of seeing things through positive aspects, with ideas, with vision, with passion to succeed.
There are many reasons for this: emotions, anger, big expectations, luck, reflex reactions, subconscious reactions, concentration, focus, relaxations, pressure, stress, bad or not enough of motivation (internal or external), etc.

The point is that as we are more adult, we know better and better to deal with this. And this automatically makes us better professionals.
Some of us are naturally gifted with right approach, and this is called "emotional intelligence" - knowing how to react in the right way in appropriate situations!
This tends to be the most important thing needed to succeed in life and career!

There are many books on Emotional Intelligence - just amazon for this words and you'll get all the good ones!

Once you get enough theoretical knowledge, feel free to practice it - both everyday in your life and while blogging and creating content for your posts!
I guarantee that within 1 week or 1 month, if you put enough effort and wright approach, you will achieve big big progress!

And after that, everything will be much much easier!

Time to succeed in some business is long - usually it takes 3-4 years before achieving big results. But it is worth of it - and I trust in that so much!

I will end this post with:

Focus to important things!

and

Always introduce something new, something interesting, something innovative!

Good organization

2007-09-13T14:26:00.000-07:00

As your career as a bloger advances, you will have more na more information that you will be deallin with. This is the main reason to pay attention to some particular skills. Let's see what is important:

Excellent memory skills

Since you will be reading a lot of blogs, you mightbe able to sort them at one place and to use powerfull search engines to find it. But, at the same time, you have google and you can find all the information that you need using Google search. So, what is more important is to remember things that you need. And in that case, the most important is to have an perfect memory!
It is very easy. And everyone is capable to do it it.
What you need is to develope your perfect memory.
Here, I can recommend you ultimate resource - the best book to achieve that:

Art M. Semorie - "Super memory"

There you will find a whole bunch of good techniques to improve your memory skills!
Remember that memory is a consewquence of our lifestyle, a matter of training!

For me personaly, it is so easy to remember something if I want it to happen. It is amazing how sometimes I remember all the smallest details just beacuse it was so interesting to me.

And I speak with many people every day who claims that the same things happens to them.

So, increase you interests to the right things and start remembering everything :)

Focus

2007-09-06T12:18:00.000-07:00

While there are billions and billions of web pages around us, and while there are millions of pages being created every day, can we really allow ourselves a luxury to go for every idea and information that we can get?

No, of course not. We have to choose one area and to go for it!

So, if we gonna do blogging, we have to focus on blogging.

So, each time you find some good info or hear some good stuff, try to answer this question:

How can I use it for my blog? Will it help me? What will I really get using that thing?
And all other questions of this type.

If you feel unsafe asking the right questions, you guess?

LIST, of course, list of questions.

It the begging you will need to go through list thoroughly, but with time, you will be able to do it more naturally and with great ease.

So, it is not yet another list, but it is yet again:

WHAT IN IT FOR ME?

It is extremely difficult to track results of this it the very beginning, but they will be more then obvious as time goes...

As a conclusion here is small example:

At the beginning of the week you read 5 articles about

blogs registration on search engine
blogs APIs to add your blog to different sites
blogs that write about celebrities
blogs that write about technology
super tactics that help you to promote your blog

And, all of this tasks have great ideas and then it simply makes you to do topic research on Google and then you find out new way of search even more deeper and comprehensive, and all of the sudden you realize that you spent whole weekend searching so many things, that you don't know which one should you blog about first.

Idea is, choose one topic, do research, but limit in that area and try to make it as good as you know!

With a time, you will be able to make a good quality article in a remarkable shorter time.
And if you keep being consistent and think about what you write, in a time you will notice that you have mastered enormous number of topics and that you made hell of a good progress!

As an additional result your blog will be more popular since it contains great things, and people would like to use it!

So, keep high quality and it will keep you at the top!

Big philosophy of IT today is
Keep working on same topic for 3-4 years and you will reach world top in that area, which is all you need to be successful and to enjoy in your life ;)