August 19th, 2008 — Blogging, Launched, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool, web2.0
Yahoo Buzz is now open for bloggers!
If you haven’t about the buzz, you will have to check it out as Yahoo Buzz just went public, meaning any blogger can have their blog posts up at Yahoo Buzz for millions of people to vote on.
If you make it to the first page, expect a LOT of traffic to your site, similar to Digg.
Yahoo! Buzz™gets your content on the Yahoo! network.
* Buzz pulls in content from publisher partners across the Web.
* Users vote for that content on Buzz and on publisher sites, which helps surface the most remarkable stories to the top of Buzz.
* The best content may be featured on the Yahoo! homepage, potentially driving millions of clicks to your site.
Who should partner with Buzz?
* Yahoo! Buzz welcomes ALL publishers, from large websites to niche bloggers.
* We feature all types of content, from entertainment to business.
* Yahoo! Buzz is currently focused on the U.S. audience.
via zedomax.biz
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June 24th, 2008 — Blogging, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool
Well, today I will explain to you a little details on how search engines work and how knowing about this “secret” can help your blog grow 2-3 times.
When I first started blogging, my blog was on a shared server with about 10 other sites. After my blog got “digged” several times, I had more visitors than my server could handle. So I did upgrade it to a dedicated server.
Now, what’s so special about upgrading to a dedicated server?
Well, let me first tell you the “secret” behind search engines.
You see, search engines “crawl” your site and index your pages based on the different words, keywords, etc…etc…
Now if the search engine can “crawl” your site within 1-3 seconds, you are probably okay. But if you are on a shared server and it takes more than 3 seconds to “crawl” your site, the search engine will not come back to your site as often and your pages won’t get indexed as fast and some pages will come up missing.
What you need to do is make sure your site is always at 25% of full capacity on the server.
So if your daily traffic is like 500 uniques, it should be able to handle at least 2,000 uniques.
Search engines WILL crawl your site much more efficiently and send you more traffic only if your server can handle it.
If you are on a shared server and it take the search engines 10 seconds to “crawl” your site, they are not going to want to send you traffic because your site will be very very slow and cannot handle more traffic.
You see, Google’s branding is about bringing the “fastest” information to you. Now if someone searched for something and the site loads very very slow, that’s going to look bad on Google.
Of course, you need the content first and foremost, but after that, it’s all about SPEED.
That’s the worst kept secret that no book will teach you and you won’t understand unless you’ve experienced it.
It’s logical and common sense. Now, go apply it on your blog and start receiving 2-3 times more traffic simply because your server can handle more traffic.
What do you need to do?
You need to forsee how much traffic you will be getting over the next 1-3 months. If your server slows down a lot, it’s time for hardware upgrade. If you don’t upgrade, you will lose valuable visitors.
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May 25th, 2008 — Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool
In an effort to test how stupid social networking can be, Money.co.uk has posted a fake story where a 13 year old steals his dad’s credit card to buy hookers.
Although the original story has been updated as, “This story is a parody and is not intended to be taken seriously,” we can take a lesson on how to drive traffic to your website through an innovative marketing. (or is it scam?)
Regardless whether the story is true of not, this concept has proven to bring about 6,000 backlinks and made front page of digg.
Interesting fact is that the story was intended to target the keyword, “credit card” on search engines and I bet whoever is behind this did profit a little just couples days of this stint.
What can you learn from this?
Well, do not go out there and write a fake story but use something “viral” that everyone will find “unbelievable” or “looks too fake”.
When money.co.uk posted a story titled 13 Year Old Steals Dad’s Credit Card to Buy Hookers, the idea was that it could be read as a humorous parody piece that could get attention from social media sites, yield quality backlinks, and draw in hundreds of thousands of visitors. The backlinks would help the site achieve higher rankings on search engines, especially for the target keyword phrases that would include the words “Credit Card”.
via nowpublic
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May 20th, 2008 — Facebook, google
Well, I’ve never been a real fan of Facebook since I get so much spam with facebook apps my friends send me and I don’t want to spend 5 minutes doing any of that. But my friends are really into facebook and it’s like drugs for them.
The news that Facebook traffic declines 10% in April isn’t something that’s going to affect them much other than their private share holders. I think Facebook will continue to grow but they will definitely have to open up to Google at some point and stop being so anal about their API platform.
As for me? I will stick to going to the beach for the time most people spend on Facebook.
via Mashable
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May 15th, 2008 — Blogging, Niche, Web Traffic, Webmaster's Tool, Zedomax Network News, google, web2.0
(click to enlarge)
To prove that quantity rules in the blogging world, I averaged about 5-10 blog posts per day on this site, Zedomax.net over the last week or so.
Before that, I rarely updated the site and wasn’t trying to bring any traffic.
As you can see, with lots of hard work blogging, you can easily go from 20-30 visitors to 200-300 visitors within a week or two as seen in the above statcounter graph.
Now, my next goal is to hit around 500-1000 visitors within the next 2 weeks. I probably won’t achieve it but it’s a good goal. On the other hand, there is also good chance I just might get there if I push to 24 blog posts per day.
Another secret I can tell you about why “quantity” works is that Google search engine is “all” about finding new information fast and giving that to the consumers.
The reason why the top 100 bloggers have minimum of 24 posts per day is because our world is full of information. Think of how many new things that happen daily. Do you think you can cover all the new information in just 24 blog posts? No, the answer is that who ever is providing new information quicker to the search engines will get a boost in traffic from the people who search for that information.
Now, the secret is, “you gotta blog about something new”.
If you look carefully, almost every blog post on this blog was about some new company that launched something. Next time someone wants to find out about that new company, guess who’s getting that traffic?
Well, enough about blogging secrets, you will have to wait till next time for more. Make sure to subscribe to the blog!
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May 13th, 2008 — Launched, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Web3.0, digg, web2.0, yahoo
I did a post about Yahoo Buzz when it came out couple months ago over at our Dot Com site, it looks like Yahoo’s (YHOO) Yahoo Buzz might be way bigger than Digg after all.
Digg will still hold its traffic as it has been steady with a large number of bloggers using the service.
For Yahoo Buzz to get even more popular, they need to open it up to all the bloggers, not just via invites.
I am sure this will happen soon and Yahoo Buzz might take a big share of the social networking market.
Furthermore, Yahoo Buzz has a more diverse audience than Digg. While Digg’s young, male, techy audience has been the stuff of legend since the site’s beginnings, 51% of Yahoo Buzz’s visitors are women. This doesn’t matter much to the users but it does matter a great deal to the advertisers; another legend has it that diggers never click on ads, and this might not hold true for Yahoo Buzz.
via mashable
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May 10th, 2008 — Zedomax Network News
Well, not that this is something we should be proud of but we are “rebuilding” this site itself.
Within 1 week, we went from 12 uniques to 132 uniques! Thanks everybody for supporting our small Web2.0 information operation.
Our goal is to become bigger than TechCrunch or Mashable. Why?
Why not, it’s all about covering the latest Web2.0+ news, and it’s fun for us! As long as we can stay passionate enough about what we are doing, we will keep growing at the 10X pace at we are at.
So subscribe, and make sure to send your latest launches to zedomax [at] gmail.com
Peace Out!
Max
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May 8th, 2008 — Webmaster's Tool, google, web2.0
Here’s an interesting read. Daniel Meredith of Google News explains the importance behind sitemaps, quality content, and some other factors that comes into play of how your site could be included into Google News.
Although not a big fan of sitemaps, I might actually give it a go on my other site Zedomax.com this week to see if there’s any changes in traffic or SEO.
“What do we look for?” asked Meredith. Four things, he replied:
Original content
Multiple authors
Proper attribution
Response time
Once a site in in Google News, what can it do to help move its pages to the top of news search results?
Meredith’s reply? Use a sitemap. Sitemaps are XML files that describe to a search engine robot all of the content available for indexing on a website. Think of it as a giant RSS-style feed that describes everything on your website.
via ojr
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May 5th, 2008 — Blogging, Zedomax Network News
Remember my last post about Quality vs. Quantity?
Well, after doing some testing with most of my blogs, it’s clear now that content isn’t everything. Quantity can bring you stability of a blog’s growth while Quality can bring you a high number of niche readers.
Why do you ask?
Because content is great, only if you can couple that with great internet marketing.
You can compare to real life business.
For example, you have the greatest product in the world but no one knows about you and you end up selling very few.
It’s the same thing in the blogging world. I know many great bloggers with the highest quality content, yet their traffic, PageRank, and readership never grows over time because they don’t market themselves.
The best way for someone who is not already famous is to blog a LOT. I don’t mean to create splogs but do create original content but you must blog a LOT.
How much is blogging a lot?
Well, if you want to be serious about making money blogging or getting ahead of competition, you have to at least blog as much as your competition. You look at the Top 100 blogs in the world, they all blog no less than 24 posts per day, 1 per hour. I personally do find 1 per hour is most optimal.
If you are not John Chow and you do not already have 20K RSS readership nor 6K unique visitors per day, there is no way you will ever grow in traffic and SEO unless you start blogging like crazy.
Of course, there are always exceptions. If you are already famous, you are a total expert on your topic, or you simply know “internet marketing”. If that’s the case, that’s fine but if not, I highly suggest you start blogging at least 3 to 5 posts per day minimum.
Those big bloggers will beat you down and no one will hear your voice unless you can keep up with their blogging pace.
Now, if you ignore my advice and you do 1 or 2 posts per day, you will probably be okay too. (It might take you longer to reach the same goals)
24 posts per day is definitely recommended for all you bloggers serious about going “pro”. If your topic is hard to write so many posts per day, then do focus on “fun” content. No one likes to read a Master’s Thesis, but everyone likes a joke, humor, or something to take their mind off the long day.
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