Official Google Blog: Search gets personal

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Official Google Blog: Search gets personal
This is an Interesting Feature Now Available. But I have been using this Function for Months Now with the Google ToolBar.I think History search is Good because you can Stop Irrelevant Search Results from Showing up Again.

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Your Template and Your Content

I had been trying to make A Sticky page to Increase Page views on my Blog.This was Because if I had one Good landing Page I could get more page-views so I thought.But there could be a problem for returning Visitors that are not Subscribers to my feed as they might Not notice the Difference.

Also from now on when you visit here you will land on what I call the Blog Homepage. This was much needed as most new visitors have a very short attention span and you have only a few seconds to impress them enough to view another page let alone subscribe to your feed.



As many new visitors come from Referring sites due to comments that somehow interested them in my blog. But they expect something else and they don't use site Search very much and are gone without looking any deeper into your Blog. The landing page now will increase page-views a little but you can't make  everyone happy, like I have seen people coming to one of my pages for a Tutorial on How to Put a Slideshow on your Blog. I have seen that they did not stay long enough and so I rewrote it and I can't explain this any better than it is written.If they Email me with their Username and Password then I could put it on the Page but I can't Do anymore with the Post.

We may all have posts like this, No matter how well you Explain it could be Because they are not impressed with your Template. This is Where Desing comes in using Free Templates is Easy but not Original and they Don't help Brand your Blog.

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10 Tips for More Visitors with Sarcastic Comments

There are Many Ways to get traffic to your Blog these are some of the Most Used Methods and The Affect they can have in Getting Visitors to your Blog.


1*Submit To Search engines (How many times have you seen that in Traffic Posts)


2*Write Good Content (Yes that will Help but I knew that already)


3*Write something Original ( Millions of Pages on the Internet How can I know I am being Original)


4*Pay for Traffic ( Doing so will get your Adsense Account Banned)


5*Use high Traffic Keywords ( So you can Compete with Giants)


6*Submit to Article Directories ( So People can Steal your Original content by Removing the Links)

7* Pay for Backlinks ( Gets your site blacklisted in Search Engines)


8* Use Google Trends ( Doing so might work until the Trend Goes out of Fashion one hour later)


9* Tweet your Latest posts (Twitter Users are only Interested in Ways to Get more twitter followers Not in your Posts)





10* Write a Post about Getting traffic as Everyone needs Traffic to their Blog

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Keeping Visitors longer than One Second

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I have been using Zemanta now quite allot as I find it not only helpful from a graphic point of view but also as thinking tool when trying to find Related posts this has to be the best blogging software. People will claim that it does by default link to wiki but that's  where you do not let it take over your post. But it Design and networking features which are a Very important part of a Blog. Because Search Traffic will not hang around like people that you may already know from social networking sites.


Search Traffic especially from high speed connections are just going to go back to Google I do this myself many times unless the site looks well laid out then I will not search again in someone's site search. People using Adsense for Search just leave the Custom widget on the Page and hope that it will magically earn something without drawing Attention to It this is why I use lijit because it tends to draw more attention than custom search. But as I see it that if people came from a search engine they are not going to search your blog again unless you have many posts and they see a large Archive there may be something in there. But I would not Really utilise it until your blog is a few months old even a year old would be a better time to start thinking about it.


We must all learn on how to not just get traffic from Search but how to keep it. I have seen a little more traffic from the spiders in the last few days but they are landing on older posts and gone as quick as they come. So how do you keep this traffic on your site a little longer is the next step that must be learnt.

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Image and Sketch Search Engine

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Being bored looking for something I came across a Question on yahoo answers asking is there a search engine that instead of Searching with words you could use an Image. Well my first impression of this Question was go look yourself.

But I decided to look for it anyway as If I found something it would be Good to Blog about. now retriver about is a search engine in beta you can search by image or making a simple sketch the Database is mainly Flickr. Now don't get excited it does not do Face recognition so you can't play james bond with it the same goes for objects. The site owners say that it is quite accurete. So if you want give retriver a try it's part of some projects made by a company called systemone and looks quite exciting for the future of search engines.

You could also use it to test your artistic abilities if you wish to try them out also.It's not a new site but maybe it went un noticed before like many sites do and Remain almost unheard of. I never heard of it but I was never searching for a site that search not for words but images. What about you did you know of such search engines ?

Loosing traffic with Bad Advertising

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What do people think when they come to your blog. I have seen many blogs where is says at the top Firefox has blocked 3 maybe even 5 popups on this page. Popups worked about 10 years ago and what turns me off is when I see them. It gives the impression that they are trying to tell me something that I do not care about. Also that the owner is a cheat.

If your page does not interest people then that is your problem and there is no point in putting up popups on your page as people are just not interested in them and most have some kind of software that stops them so before anyone reads one line of your page they are gone because you are seen as a cheater and most popups lead to Gambling sites which are against the Google  Adsense TOS so you also get your Adsense account banned.

Now I think it would be better to stick with the prooved paying networks because these sites that you promote are making your blog blacklist worthy and you won't make any money. Plus they will almost surley not pay you or give false reports. This old method of Advertising simply does not work anymore and if people see these they will close them anyway.

So if you are promoting these you could be loosing out on programs that do pay as they are putting out a message that you are trying to cheat them and you are only cheating yourself by using them so be Carefull what you are Advertising on your Blog.


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I have Now Started Posting From my Gmail Account and I love it. Many People Complain about Ads in Gmail But I like them because I can use them to help increase Blog Earnings. This is Because like on your Blog they are Contextual so what I am Doing is Composing a mail then Sending It to myself and When I read it I will See what Kind of Ads are Going to Run on my Blog with this Mixture of Text. Because as some of us know there are Certain Thing we don't Want Advertised on our blogs and even though we filter them there are many of these which most of the time can only be filtered out by turning off Image ads.

The Other Benefits Seem to be that it is much easier to read and the spell check because many bloggers have to deal with comments on spelling and sometimes when you maybe made a Typo and get Many Emails about their mistake I also find that in the blogger posting panel that often my cursor will jump back a few lines and my whole post will be ruined as I am trying to rewrite it. I am not really a touch Typist but as i write more posts my typing speed Improves also my writing but this is a slow Improvement as you may know by Reading this Post. But writing good Blog Posts will take time and with every post it you are learning.

Just like Yesterday I got One of my Hub pages Flagged now this was Upsetting as it was unpublished and I have to Rewrite it again Because It was not a Very Good hub but it was my first hub page and Someone maybe Disagreed with what I was saying in it as I seen from His Comment where he claimed he made money from a program but if he said he did he was lying.The Program in question was Revtweet how many of you have made money from that ?. Maybe his was the Owner of the Program as when I searched for Revtweet it did not appear in a Google search Result only the twitter Profile and my hub page was third on that list where I had made Referance to this thread to see how difficult it is. Now he Did get Paid but look how many followers he has as most of us Normal tweeters have only one account because we are one person not 5 Robots.

Now About Hub pages in general they Request that you write to their Standards but i think their Standards are a little to high for 60 % sharing also the Fact that it is So easy to get unpublished as it's is only a Page. I only made a hubpage to Get a backlink for my blog and I am not really interested in them, But this Hub was not Getting Tons of Traffic but I was getting very little but It was Ranked High in Google so Now I have to Rewrite it but Do I want to because it only had 5 visitors on that day and even if 3 of them Flagged it as Over Promotional I still believe that it is not a large amount of people and I should at least get a warning before It is Unpublished.

Now this Was My First Attempt at a Hub page and I have written Other Hubs but after I seen how easy it is to get Unpublished I think I will not be Making any more Hubs and just sticking to this Blog where I get 100 %

Problem with Custom Domain after Mistake in Google Apps

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I made a mistake in Google Aps Today and I had to Publish to my Blogspot Address. But when I tried to Republish to my Custom Domain It Said that that Address is Already taken of Course it is Taken it's My Domain.

Well to Fix it was Deleting the Domain alias that I had set and then Republish to the Custom Domain. Finding Help on this was Very hard as I had Gone to maybe 20 Different Blogger help sites And Also Google Aps should have some-kind of Reset to Default in on the display and make it a little easier to navigate as it is quite easy to make a very big mistake in there. Maybe the Next time the Google Bot Visits here it might pick up on this Because I am not Going to Try to E-Mail Google and wait forever for an Answer as they way to busy to Reply to People like me.

Now a Question for you is How did you find your domain name transfer was and have you got all you old links from your Blogspot Domain ? I

Large Pages No Traffic

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This is Normal when you put all your posts on the main page.To change this Go to your DashBoard click on Layout then on the box that says Page Elements where it Says Posts per Page change it to a Reasonable number Like 3 or less.This will Decrease the Size of the Page and Improve your Chance of Traffic because
Search Engines Hate large Pages
Why should they not hate them, Because they slow Peoples Browsers and Make them CrashSo they Do not Want to send people to these kind of Pages. This Alone May not be Enough you will also have to think about Taking some Gadgets off your page because as pretty as the may look they cause problems for most visitors and they will not return to you site because your Blog makes their browser slow down or crash. Such things as Flag counter and Picture Cubes snow on the Screen these all cause your visitors to have to close the Page because their CPU is Burning out. If you want to know where you Visitors are Coming from use Google Analytics or Sitemeter to find out where your Visitors Come from.All you have to do now Is make the Page a little Smaller By Hosting pictures on Picassa and just puting something like this On the Page

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My Blog needs Links

What kind of Links do you need ?.
Many people link with Reciporcal Links these can be uncounted by Search engines as Irrelevant and will not Boost your page rank.Another mistake is Linking to site that have noting in common with yours.

So who Do you Link To?.
If you choose to link to anyone Instead of hunting try some things like Zementa or Sphere this is Related content and if your content is good enough then the site you are linking out to will link back and you will start to build a small network to you Blog.There is Also not much point linking to wiki as Google does not follow these links.Now I am not a Total Expert in this But it's a Kind of Chalk and Cheese and you have to Know what you are Linking to Tech Blog to Tech Blog.Not Micheal Jackson tribute Blog to A Do it yourself Gardening weblog.If you would like to know more about links and how they work try Reading "Stoney deGeyter".He explains in much more Detail about linking,How it Affects your Page Rank and Anchor Text.Here is a Great post showing you Advice on How to Create your link intelligently

Also read this Article on A few things you Need to know about Links just "Click here" to Find out More.

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