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funny photos and things June 23, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in funny, life, others.
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so I thought to post some new funny photos and here’s the story:
apparently some scientists realised that we have so many cows in the world right now that they are actually have a whole 2% of the world’s pollution (their farts anyway) so they thought we already have enough pollution and came up with two solutions. either kill the cows either capture the gas they release in the atmosphere and use it as bio-gas or fertilizer.

obviously 2nd solution was better so they came up with this:

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I found this next photo while I was surfing the forums for some information about the iPhone and the Android OS from google, I have no ideea how it the world I could find this instead but anyway, this has to be one of the most funniest shit on the web so far, here it is:

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and the last photo isn’t so funny but it’s a thing that I saw on a website and thought I can share it here, some people just amaze me with their conversations… I mean… can one be so bored to talk randomly about any given thing ? can he ?
anyway here’s the screenshot:

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10 tips to improve blog traffic in 30 minutes or less June 22, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, blog, others.
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1. Create link clusters within your blog

A link cluster is a group of links that you can point at a post or page to improve its search engine ranking. Let’s say you have a post that’s ranked for ’stupid business ideas’. Edit 10 of your other posts to create links (using ’stupid business ideas’ as the anchor text) to the ’stupid business ideas’ post and you will surely move up in Google for that keyword. This process can be implemented in about 10 minutes and can be used for any keyword your site ranks for or is trying to rank for.

2. Rework HTML title tags of trafficked posts

By watching your stats, you can often identify posts that get search traffic from a keyword, even though the keyword isn’t listed in the HTML title of the post. By editing your posts’ HTML titles to add the keywords they cover, you can strengthen the rankings and therefore the traffic that the post generates. You can easily make a difference with this method in less than 20 minutes. This method combines very well with #1.

3. Invite your readers to connect with you on StumbleUpon and Facebook

You can never ever have too many friends on SU and Facebook. Inviting existing readers to find you on these services with a post should take less than 20 minutes.

4. Save your best posts for the best times of the week

Writing a home-run post on a Saturday afternoon will probably happen from time to time. However, does your blog have good traffic on Saturdays? Analyzing your blog’s stats to determine when it naturally has the most traffic can get more eyes on a great post, which will translate to more social votes and more links. If you have created the post of your life, wait for a good day to publish – it will cost you about 1 minute on a later date to put it up.

5. Edit your post one more time

How can you improve your title? How can you improve your first paragraph? Small details in your post, especially in the beginning of your post, can make an enormous difference in its ability to draw social traffic and links. You can definitely improve your title, first paragraph, formatting, and grammar within 30 minutes.

6. Stop writing about yourself. Start solving problems

Surfers become readers when a blog provides something that is wanted. A casual visitor may read your blog because they find training, answers to problems, entertainment, or something else they want. This more than likely will mean that they won’t want to read about you, your girlfriend, your cats, your kids, or your catastrophes (unless you have a personal blog that your friends read). Discontinuing the off-topic posts will help you to develop more repeat traffic and takes exactly 0 minutes to implement.

7. Subscribe to the feeds of your industry’s major players

That way, you won’t miss important news releases. When news breaks in your industry, there will be a lot of extra traffic searching for information on the event. Adding your thoughts will almost always generate extra traffic. Subscribing to the feeds of your industry’s top sites should take no more than 15 minutes.

8. Give a great post to a prominent blog

Let’s say that you took the time to write something great. Donating your post to a great blogger can help you to create a win-win. The great blogger gets a great piece of content that will bring him social traffic and links and you can create exposure for your name and brand. Emailing your post to a great blogger or blog takes less than 10 minutes.

9. Go to the store

Look at magazines. Pay special attention to the types of titles that are used on the covers. Write down the most interesting titles and think about what makes them interesting. In order to generate buzz around a post, a great title is an absolute necessity. More on this topic here: The Cosmo Headline Technique for Blogging Inspiration. You should be able to find some good title ideas in about 30 minutes.

10. Answer your email and comment questions

Nothing will show a reader that you care more than answering an question (even if you have already answered that question 100 times on your site). Why do people read your blog? Because you solve their problems. Why will they come back again and again to your blog? Because you solve their problems. Answering a person’s email or comment question should take less than 5 minutes.

10 tips to increase the number of subscribers to your blog June 21, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, blog, others.
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so surfing the web for something useful about my blog I stumbled upon this post and I hope nobody will mind if I share and link the original source corectly.

The biggest problem most of the bloggers have is that, they don’t know how to convert their first blog visitors into loyal readers and how to motivate them to subscribe to their blog feeds. When any of your blog reader has subscribed to your blog feed in his/her feed reader, then he/she will most likely visit your blog on regular basis to check your latest posts. Every blogger wants high number of RSS subscribers to their blogs. So here are some tips bloggers can follow to increase the number of subscribers to their blogs:

  1. Quality content – Update your blog with quality content on regular basis. Provide your blog readers valuable and meaningful content. When you are able to update your blog with quality content, then the loyal readers to your blog will surely increases.
  2. Easy Subscription - Subscribe to RSSOnce you have good content on your blog, now you need to place your RSS Feed Icon or link on the prominent position on your blog. The best places to show your RSS feed link are header, Sidebar header and in between posts. Subscribe to my SFM blog RSS by copying the link given in your RSS readers.
  3. Show your RSS feed count – When you start getting some decent traffic and respectable RSS subscribers to your blog, share your RSS feed subscribers count with your blog readers. Suppose your blog have around 100 RSS subscribers, share this count with blog visitors to increase this count further. Feedburner is a service where you can create the feed for your blog and use their ‘feed count’ code on your blogs to show the exact number of subscribers your blog have right now.
  4. Guest Blogging – Guest blogging is also a great way to get more exposure for your blog. This way you will be able to get more valuable visitors and subscribers to your blog. When you contribute content on someone else’s blog, post original content with a link to your blog in byline.
  5. Forums contribution – Spend some time on the forums related to your niche and offer helpful information to the participants there. When the people find your advice helpful, they will surly visit your blog and subscribe to your blog RSS to know the latest posts on your blog.
  6. Stay focused – With regular content addition, one need to add content related to their blog topic. If a blogger jump from one topic to another, then the readers on that blog will not be interested in subscribing to that blog RSS.
  7. Full RSS Feed – Offer full RSS feed to your blog readers instead of partial RSS feed. People are more interested in subscribing to a blog RSS feed that is full and not partial.
  8. E-mail Subscription – There are very few people who use RSS readers but e-mails are used by everyone these days. So to get these people to subscribe to your RSS, ask them to subscribe to your E-mail RSS feed where they will get your latest posts via e-mail.
  9. Submit to RSS directories – Submitting your blog RSS to RSS directories will help more people to find your blog RSS and subscribe to it. One can get a list of best RSS submission websites here.
  10. E-mail signature – Use your blog RSS along with your blog Address in all of your outgoing e-mails.

you can find the original post here.

56 ways to increase your blog traffic June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in articles, others.
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  1. Use lists.
  2. Be topical… write posts that need to be read right now.
  3. Learn enough to become the expert in your field.
  4. Break news.
  5. Be timeless… write posts that will be readable in a year.
  6. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic.
  7. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you.
  8. Announce news.
  9. Write short, pithy posts.
  10. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list.
  11. Don’t write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids.
  12. Write long, definitive posts.
  13. Write about your kids.
  14. Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog.
  15. Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back.
  16. Include polls, meters and other eye candy.
  17. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us.
  18. Coin a term or two.
  19. Do email interviews with the well-known.
  20. Answer your email.
  21. Use photos. Salacious ones are best.
  22. Be anonymous.
  23. Encourage your readers to digg your posts. (and to use furl and reddit).Do it with every post.
  24. Post your photos on flickr.
  25. Encourage your readers to subscribe by RSS.
  26. Start at the beginning and take your readers through a months-long education.
  27. Include comments so your blog becomes a virtual water cooler that feeds itself.
  28. Assume that every day is the beginning, because you always have new readers.
  29. Highlight your best posts on your Squidoo lens.
  30. Point to useful but little-known resources.
  31. Write about stuff that appeals to the majority of current blog readers–like gadgets and web 2.0.
  32. Write about Google.
  33. Have relevant ads that are even better than your content.
  34. Don’t include comments, people will cross post their responses.
  35. Write posts that each include dozens of trackbacks to dozens of blog posts so that people will notice you.
  36. Run no ads.
  37. Keep tweaking your template to make it include every conceivable bell or whistle.
  38. Write about blogging.
  39. Digest the good ideas of other people, all day, every day.
  40. Invent a whole new kind of art or interaction.
  41. Post on weekdays, because there are more readers.
  42. Write about a never-ending parade of different topics so you don’t bore your readers.
  43. Post on weekends, because there are fewer new posts.
  44. Don’t interrupt your writing with a lot of links.
  45. Dress your blog (fonts and design) as well as you would dress yourself for a meeting with a stranger.
  46. Edit yourself. Ruthlessly.
  47. Don’t promote yourself and your business or your books or your projects at the expense of the reader’s attention.
  48. Be patient.
  49. Give credit to those that inspired, it makes your writing more useful.
  50. Ping technorati. Or have someone smarter than me tell you how to do it automatically.
  51. Write about only one thing, in ever-deepening detail, so you become definitive.
  52. Write in English.
  53. Better, write in Chinese.
  54. Write about obscure stuff that appeals to an obsessed minority.
  55. Don’t be boring.
  56. Write stuff that people want to read and share.

just something funny June 20, 2009

Posted by Petras I. Florin in funny.
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so, i’ve been searching the net about vampires and such just for my curiosity and look what i’ve come across.
now, I know this is hard to believe, but girls are evil !
why ? well… take a look at the following mathematical proof, it’s indisputable !

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