Bloggers Promote Your Blogs

Now you have done it already: you have customized your blogger blog sites, you've joined several online communities, you observed proper ethics and attitudes in blogging and you have already chosen a specific topic to discuss on your Blogger blogs. What now? What's the next step after this? Well, I think you are ready for the next level and that is how you will make your sites and articles be visible on a lot of readers. Nah, I will not discuss about how to spend wisely in television or radio advertisements just to get a traffic and exposure that you want. Think about this, if you are a reader and you want something to know about anything, what's the first thing you will do? Of course, you will open your browser, go to Google, Yahoo or Live then type a keyword relevant to what you like then search. Right? That's what other readers are doing. They are using search engines to find things that they want. It is the trend right now, if you want a maximum exposure and visibility for your blogs online, you should make sure that you can be found on major search engines whenever a reader search for a topic that you are discussing.

In this way, your "master piece" can be discovered easily by your readers that will eventually become an avid Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 reader. Now, how it will be done? Here's some basic and practical things that you can do for starter:

1. First try to create quality contents for your posts on your blogs. For example, tips or advices which one topic that people love to read should be written clearly but concise. Make sure it will really helps. In this way other people who first discovered your article will recommend the link of your blog to any places they've been like forums or their own blogs. Thus creating a very nice referral from other sites at the same time building enough links for your site. Remember the higher the number of site linking to your site the popular your blog will be.
   
2. Make a catchy title. In this way readers will be lured to read the whole content of your posts specially if the title tickles their mind or intrigued them. :)
3. Use multimedia in your articles. Add graphics or images in your posts or even audio/videos. This makes the site more interesting and increases the users experience which will make them return for more.

These are just practical steps that you can start applying to your blogs. If you are a serious Capiznon blogger of 2009, you should consider these tips.

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Bloggers Join an Online Community

Capiznon bloggers, there are a lot of things that you can do to increase your visibility on the net. One thing is by joining different social networking websites and forums that allows you to build or join an online community. Some of you have already done this by joining to some popular social networking websites in the country. I am referring to your Friendster account. That's right, you are uploading your pictures, showcasing it, adding and seeking new friends, sending your private messages to them and many other social activities that you are doing offline. A real community where you could interact and exchange ideas. Forums on the other hand allows you to discuss something publicly allowing other people to read your thoughts. A good place to seek for ideas and new things about online activities which is vital in blogging and other stuff on the net.

There are more than things than blogging and you should try to join those. This will give you a loyal follower, a time to time visitor of your blog and even commenter of your posts. Blogging becomes more meaningful and exciting if you know someone reads it and really appreciate what you are doing. By joining online communities, you have given opportunities to learn from other people and to share what you know to others. Remember this Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 members, don't forget your netiquette lessons when you join a community. It is either you gain a lot of friends or you build a lot of foes whic is sometimes unavoidable and you just need to live with it. Make yourself exists in an online community.

Making your Blogs to Load Fast

Do you know why is it important to make your blog to loads fast? It is because it enhances the user experience. Blog that immediately shows the content of the site makes your visitors to stay on the blog and not losing their patient waiting for something to come up in the blog. In this post, I will discuss several practical things a blogger should do with their blogs to make it much faster to load. This tweaks and tips that I will include on this are applicable to any blogging platform on the web today such as Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, Calliope and others.

1. Use smaller size graphics. I am not referring to the dimension of the image but the file size of the image to use on every posts. Larger pictures loads slower compared to smaller size images. That is why it is recommended to use image types that uses the higher file compression but not losing its picture quality. JPEG files possesses such quality, that is why I am using it instead of other types but if I need graphics that does not lose its transparency and image quality, I use PNG instead. Wise choice of images will increase the load rate of the blog of almost 70% from unoptimized images.
2. Avoid Javascript rich widgets/gadgets. Some widgets (wordpress.com) or gadgets (blogger.com) that uses Javascripts makes the load of the pages of the site slower compared to non-javascript widgets. If it is not necessary try to avoid it.
3. Don't populate your blogs with too much 3rd-party ads. 3rd-party advertisers are good way of earning online, however if your pages contains too much advertisers, it will slow down the site. It is because the site needs to fetch information from other websites before loading the actual page. Aside from that some readers are annoyed with too much ads on the site making them to leave immediately when they see this swarming ads.

These minor tweaks on your blogs can really make a difference on how long your visitors will stay and it will also increase the frequency the guests of going back that will eventually become a regular readers of your site.

This tip is intended for the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 community. Subscribe to my RSS feeds to have a fresh web feeds every time I make post. Later, I will try to provide a means of allowing you my readers to an email subscription scheme so that my posts on this blog will be delivered directly to your inboxes.

Capiznon Blogger on Playing Chess

Today, I participated a local chess competition here in Capiz called Ret. General Roberto T. Lastimoso "General Strategy" Chess Tournament and successfully got 4 points out of 5 games making me to get the 4th place. I did not attend our MSCS seminar in Iloilo City and preferred to play instead to this Capiz Chess Association, Inc. organized tournament. CCA is a chess organization in the province of Capiz which is the only organization to be affiliated with the national chess organization, NCFP (National Chess Federation of the Philippines).

I really missed playing and actually did not participate our last chess tournament last February 14 because I have my report on our MSCS in Iloilo that day so I am obliged to attend. Actually feel bad that I wasn't able to participate this test of wit and strong nerves. That's why today, I make sure that I will not miss this game despite the fact that I am not practicing and playing much chess lately because of my several hectic activities and as a blogger, I have several blogs to maintain. For your information, this chess tournament is a in exclusive tourney for Capiznon players who will be representing the province on regional chess tournaments. The competition aimed to find top 10 best players of Capiz and luckily got the 4th place.

I really like this tournament not because I won a place but because it given me a certain feeling of relaxation. I know it causes some sort of stress but as I said to a Capiznon friend, the game of chess seems to massage my brain cells making it to work much better. It's like oiling the different cells to move on its maximum capacity. Allowing me to formulate a lot of ideas. I will discuss in detail about this Capiznon chess event on my chess blog later. I am quite tired right now and my head really aches. Maybe because I have less sleep for several days already and I overuse my brain juices today with the said tournament. Needs to rest guys! :)

- Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009

Burn Your Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 Feeds

What? Am I asking you to get a match then put your Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blogs into fire? Nah, what I am trying to say is you try to publicize your blog posts all through out the net via burning its RSS feed to Feedburner. RSS or Really Simple Syndication refers to a standardized format of web feeds (info) from frequently updated works such as this blogs. When publicized, optimized and make it available to subscribers online, it adds to the exposure of your blog, from cellphone who can retrieve and read your blog feeds to their news reader programs on their PC. In this, you have given your readers a convenient way to read.

Now, how will you do this with your Blogger or Wordpress blogs? It is simple, just sign-up for an account in Feedburner (thru feedburner.google.com) then submit your feeds. What is the URL or the address of your feeds? Here's an example: this Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 blog's URL or address is http://digitalfrenzied.blogspot.com. Its feed URL can be found at the bottom of the page right after the Subscribe to with an anchor / link text of Posts (Atom). Atom refers to one format of feeds which is the common format of Blogger blogs. Other blogging platforms uses RSS (Rich Site Summary), RSS 2.0 (Really Simple Syndication 2.0) and RDF (RDF Site Summary). This web feed formats are all in standardized XML file format. For Wordpress blogs, the feed address is usually in this format: http://yourblog.wordpress.com/feed/. Once your feeds are submitted to Feedburner, you can then monitor how many people subscribe or reads your feeds. At the same time, you can setup it to allow users to receive recently posted article through their emails which is proven to provide great traffics for the site.

What are you waiting for? Burn those feeds so that your words will be scattered all through out the different corners of the world, from PCs to cellphones. By the way the official logo of RSS 2.0 feeds is the icon that shown on this post (without the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 text of course.)

Blogging Tips Video Tutorials

I'm really busy with my projects but I still want to find time to share some ideas to the blogging community in the province of Capiz. I just want to spread the good words of blogging and internet opportunities to every single Capiznon speaking native of Capiz. That's why I am planning to prepare several blogging video tutorials during my free time containing some of the tips I have gathered from the cyberspace and how to apply it with their current blogs on Blogger.com. An example of this video is as shown below:

Here's the Dailymotion version of the said video:

or you could try to view it on Youtube version instead:


As you can see from the tutorial, it doesn't have any voice nor text remarks on it yet since I've just made it a while ago and upload it to Dailymotion/Youtube so that I could provide sample of my video tutorial plans. Aside from that, I am still looking for a video editing tool so that I could embed text instruction and / or voice over to the video. If you have any suggestion about the tutorials here or you want to share something the Hectic Capiznon Bloggers 2009 community, just drop your comments and I will try to consider them.