Pengertian Link Dofollow Dan Nofollow

Apa itu link dofollow? Dan apa itu link nofollow? Mungkin itulah pertanyaan yang ada di pikiran sobat ketika mendengar kata dofollow dan nofollow ini. Maka dari itu saya akan membahasnya di artikel kali ini. Simak ulasanya!

1. Pengertian Link Dofollow

Apa itu link dofollow? Kata 'dofollow' berasal dari bahasa Inggris yang artinya mengikuti. Jadi pengertian dari link dofollow itu sendiri adalah sebuah link yang akan di ikuti (crawl) oleh Google bot. Misalnya kamu mengunjungi sebuah blog dofollow dan lalu kamu berkomentar menggunakan Name/Url ataupun menyisipkan link hidup di komentar yang menuju ke blog kamu. Maka saat Google bot melakukan crawling (merayapi) atau melakukan index page, Google bot akan mengikuti kemana arah link yang kamu buat di komentar tadi di karenakan blog tersebut yang bersifat dofollow, dan lalu Google bot juga akan merayapi dan mengindex blog kamu.

2. Pengertian Link Nofollow

Apa yang di maksud dengan link nofollow? Kata 'nofollow' juga berasal dari bahasa Inggris yang artinya tidak mengikuti. Jadi pengertian dari link nofollow adalah sebuah link yang tidak akan di ikuti atau tidak akan di rayapi (no crawl) oleh Google bot. Misalnya kamu mengunjungi sebuah blog nofollow dan lalu kamu berkomentar menggunakan Name/Url ataupun menyisipkan link hidup di komentar yg menuju blog kamu. Maka saat Google bot melakukan crawling (merayapi) atau melakukan index page, Google bot tidak akan mengikuti kemana arah link yang kamu buat di komentar tadi dan akan melewatkan link tersebut, dikarenakan blog tersebut yang bersifat nofollow.

3. Perbedaan Link Dofollow Dan Nofollow

Apa perbedaan link dofollow dan nofollow? Perbedaanya adalah jika link tersebut bersifat dofollow maka Google bot akan ikut mengikuti kemana arah link tersebut dan merayapinya (crawl), sedangkan jika link tersebut bersifat nofollow maka Google bot tidak akan mengikuti kemana arah link tersebut, mengabaikanya dan tidak akan merayapinya.

4. Cara Membuat Link Dofollow Dan Nofollow

Bagaimana cara membuat sebuah link dofollow dan nofollow? Caranya adalah sebagai berikut;

• Cara Membuat Link Dofollow
  Untuk membuat link dofollow caranya sangatlah mudah, yaitu hanya dengan menambahkan atribut rel="dofollow" kedalam link untuk membuat sebuah link dofollow. Contoh;
  <a href="http://m-seo.heck.in" rel="dofollow">Madoenz SEO</a>
• Cara Membuat Link Nofollow
  Untuk membuat link dofollow caranya juga sangatlah mudah, yaitu hanya dengan menambahkan atribut rel="nofollow" kedalam link untuk membuat sebuah link nofollow. Contoh;
  <a href="http://m-seo.heck.in" rel="nofollow">Madoenz SEO</a>

Jika berbicara tentang link dofollow dan nofollow, pasti berkaitan dengan backlink. Ya, karena backlink itu terbagi menjadi dua berdasarkan sifatnya, yaitu backlink dofollow dan nofollow.

Sebenarnya link dofollow dan nofollow itu sama - sama terindex dan terhitung sebagai backlink. Namun tidak semua backlink nofollow dapat terindex dan terhitung sebagai backlink, dikarenakan sifatnya yang nofollow tersebut.

Dari segi kualitas, backlink yang bersifat dofollow lebih unggul dibandingkan dengan backlink yang bersifat nofollow. Itu karena backlink yang sifatnya dofollow akan ikut dirayapi oleh Google bot ketika melakukan perayapan (index page).

Manfaat yang di dapatkan dari mendapatkan backlink dofollow adalah blog kita akan lebih sering dirayapi oleh Google bot, dikarenakan banyaknya backlink - backlink dofollow yang mengarah ke blog kita di blog lain, sehingga menjadikan backlink tersebut menjadi sebuah jembatan (penghubung) yang akan dilalui Google bot untuk menuju blog kita.

Dengan begitu blog kita akan lebih cepat proses index pagenya dikarenakan sering dirayapi oleh Google bot melalui backlink - backlink dofollow dan blog kita juga akan mendapatkan pagerank dari Google dari backlink - backlink dofollow tersebut.

Nah itulah penjelasan tentang pengertian link dofollow dan nofollow yang dapat saya sampaikan. Terimakasih telah berkunjung, semoga bermanfaat dan sampai jumpa di post selanjutnya. 

(kopas dari  Achmadt Wsuc on Belajar SEO)

SEO cara simpel orang goblok

Cara ini paling mudah untuk mempopulerkan blog.

Semua hal tentu pernah anda coba, atau setidaknya saya yang pernah mencoba he he..Otak-atik blog, berusaha membuatnya "terlihat" di dunia maya. 

Hingga puluhan blog dengan berbagai cara SEO saya coba bahkan saya pun sudah lupa sudah pernah memakai cara yang mana.

Ijinkan saya menyederhanakan cara yang dapat membuat blog "ada" dan hadir di mesin pencari.

Begini caranya :

Cara Membuat Kotak Script di Posting Blog

Cara Membuat Kotak Script di Posting Blog

Cara membuat kotak script di posting blog. Kotak script, biasanya digunakan untuk memasukan kode2 script ke dalam posting. Agar terlihat rapi dan tidak memakan banyak tempat. Ada yang berbentuk kotak sederhana, ada juga yang berbentuk kotak dengan tambahan scroll, dan lain-lainnya. Kotak script juga bisa diberi warna dibagian backgroundnya, dan juga border yang berbentuk kotak, bisa diatur bentuknya. Cara membuatnya, Ikuti langkah-langkah dibawah ini.

1. Login ke blogger. Dan pilih entri baru.
2. Selanjutnya buatlah tulisan seperti dibawah ini.

3. Selanjutnya Klik HTML dan masukan kode berikut, dibawah tulisan cara membuat kotak script. 
<div style="border: 3px #1780dd Double; padding: 10px;background-color:#ffffff;
text-align: left;">
.Klik Disini.</div>
4. Untuk lebih jelasnya, lihat gambar dibawah ini.

Cara Mudah Menulis Script pada Posting Blog

Cara Mudah Menulis Script pada Posting Blog

Kami yakin Anda pernah mengalami kesulitan dalam menulis script pada postingan blog, terkadang script yang kita paste pada postingan tidak sesuai yang kita tulis di word atau notepad. Bagaimana cara menulis script agar terlihat ketika kita publikasikan posting?

Kita bisa menggunakan fasilitas yang disediakan oleh blogger. Berikut simak langkah-langkahnya:

1. Login akun blogger Anda.
2. Masuk pada halaman posting/entri.

Cara Menghapus Komentar Spam Secara Otomatis di Blog

Tips : 2 Cara Menghapus Komentar Spam Secara Otomatis di Blog

Komentar Spam [ Link Aktif ]

Bagaiamana sih cara untuk menghapus link hidup [ spammer ] di blog kita ? Tidak ada salahnya jika saya share cara menghapus spam otomatis pada komentar blog anda.

Dalam menghapus komentar spam secara otomatis pada blog anda , dapat anda lakukan dengan 2 cara , yaitu dengan menghapus spam dengan css dan menghapus komentar link aktif dengan javascript , tetapi dianjurkan untuk menghapus komentar spam menggunaka java script . mengapa demikian ? karena kalau kita menghapus komentar spam dengan css , link aktif tersebut masih bisa terbaca oleh browser , maka altenatifnya menggunakan javascript 


Cara Menghapus Komentar Spam Otomatis menggunakan Css

• Pertama masuk terlebih dahulu ke editor template [ edit html ] 
• Kemudian Pasang Css berikut tepat diatas kode ]]>

atau

.comment-content a {

display: none;

}

• Klik Save Template [ dengan memasang css tersebut kini link aktif / spammer otomatis akan terhapus dengan sendirinya ]

Menghapus Komentar Link Aktif secara Otomatis dengan Javascript

Cara Mudah Install BBM Di PC Atau Laptop

Install BBM di komputer atau laptop

Cara Install BBM Di Komputer (PC) Atau Laptop

Setelah browsing mencari cara untuk bbm-an di komputer jangkrik saya, dan setelah membaca beberapa blog yang mengulas cara memakai aplikasi android di PC akhirnya saya mencoba Bluestack sebagai emulator. Dan hasilnya, BBM pun terinstall dengan sempurna dan berjalan dengan lancar. 

Untuk merayakannya berikut saya share Cara Install BBM Di Komputer (PC) Atau Laptop dengan BlueStacks.

Spesifikasi minimum untuk bisa nginstall Bluestacks ini :

• Windows XP : XP Service Pack 3 (SP3), OS diatasnya semakin baik.
• Windows installer 4.5. (khusus XP)
• .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 (khusus XP)
• RAM minimal 2 GB atau lebih.
• File instalasinya default di drive C:\ dan gak bisa memilih di drive selain C:\
• Kalau dirasa driver VGA udah gak up to date, silahkan update dulu;)

Setelah dirasa tidak ada yang kurang dengan spesifikasi minimum, barulah kita install BlueStacks nya, check this out step by step nya :

Mengatasi Gambar Thumbnails Tidak Muncul Di Windows 7

Mengatasi Gambar Thumbnails Tidak Muncul Di Windows 7

Mengatasi gambar yang tidak muncul dalam mode thumbnail sebenarnya tidak terlalu sulit. Namun memang terkadang kita dibuat bingung, padahal file gambar sama sekali tidak rusak. Kejadian ini banyak ditemui di sistem operasi windows 7. Seperti beberapa waktu yang lalu teman saya mengalami hal seperti ini dan kebingungan bagaimana cara mengembalikannya seperti semula.

Adapun penyebab kenapa tiba-tiba gambar tidak dapat dimunculkan dalam mode thumbnails adalah perubahan pengaturannya. Untuk detailnya mungkin saja karena virus atau sejenisnya yang dapat mengubah pengaturan tampilan di windows 7. Hal kecil terkadang memang kita lupakan, namun itu akan sangat berbahaya jika kita tidak tahu bagaimana cara mengatasinya.

Dikarenakan hal tersebut, kita dapat saja mengira bahwa file gambar tersebut rusak dan kemudian menghapusnya. Cukup riskan padahal untuk masalah yang tidak terlalu serius. Atau dapat saja kita beranggapan komputer kita dihinggapi virus dan kemudian perlu diinstal ulang. Sedikit berlebihan memang, tapi mungkin saja ada yang seperti itu.

Langkah-Langkah Mengatasi Gambar Thumbnails Tidak Muncul Di Windows 7

Adapun langkah sederhana untuk bagaimana mengatasi gambar thumbnail tidak muncul di windows 7 adalah sebagai berikut :

1. Buka Windows Explorer. Kemudian klik menu Organize yang biasanya ada di sebelah kiri atas.
2. Pilih menu Folder and search options.

Makna momen yang "menggemparkan" dalam blogging

Menunggu momen yang "menggemparkan" Posting Blog

     Timing adalah hal yang menentukan dalam mendongkrak popularitas blog kita. Pemilihan waktu dan tema yang tepat dapat secara mengejutkan mendongkrak traffic. Pilihan niche yang sesuai dengan rasa penasaran netizen pada suatu waktu tertentu akan sangat menentukan jumlah kunjungan yang diakomodir oleh search engine.

Saran untuk blogger :

Buka pikiran, baca berita. Jangan cuma nongkrong di depan layar, dan maaf, buka konten porno. Bergaul-lah dan simak isu (bukan gosip lho) nasional, bahkan internasional. Baru masuk kamar lagi, jual informasi yang lagi hangat di blogmu yang gersang. Dijamin blogmu yang layu akan bersemi kembali.

Eh, sori saya tidak jamin, tergantung tulisanmu juga sih. Garing atau seger.

Does your blog created by a friend?

By : Deny E.Y.

Some of my friends asked me to make blog for them, instead they create a blog, what I do is lend them a guide book that I bought in a bookstore whose contents about how to create a blog. Maybe not the best book but complete enough about the tehknik-engineering blog from the beginning to popularize ways, and even get money from her blog.

This does not mean I'm stingy or unwilling to help a friend, but the prism of his own experience when I bothered to create my first blog. From the recognition process, the use of the facilities provided Blogspot, writing articles, promoting, in collaboration with third parties, exchange links, etc.. There is one main thing I've learned during the process. Namely, for a blog or blogs ownner master the most important thing is not the shape or the presence of blogs that they have, but it is the science that they conquered after a long process of building a blog to become popular.
As I experienced, it took hundreds of hours of anxious to make my first blog. Now, before spending a single cup of coffee I can make a single blog, and popularized it in 2 days. This is the result of a science that can not be obtained by instantaneously.

My personal suggestion for you:
1st. Learn how to create blogs in general very seriously, after it got up the blog with your own way.
2nd. Learn from the experiences of others. Not that you humble yourself, but let's say you stole their science but instead benefit them (for sure, because the seniors are getting "Follower"). In this case everybody is happy.
3. Please note that the strongest foundation known blogs that would not physical appearance, but of ideas.
4. Dirty tricks in the popularization of blogs may be very tempting but it is not the appropriate means to getting good results. Example: pornographic content, the content of mock (fake miracle, celebrity gossip, etc.), defamatory content, etc..
5. Do not be easily discouraged, if within 1 year your blog has not disambangi visitors still not a reason to quit. Many of the more interesting ideas waiting to be used.

So, create your own blog rather than buying. Many will you get more than just a time.

Use your old post to reach the Goal

By : Deny E.Y.

Our old posts have been turned into a fossil? Do you not Realize that the old posts You have already started to rot because of forgotten even by your own?
This is a terrible thing that happened to all bloggers who are negligent, too busy new posts to write but forgot the old post.

Wake up fellas!

You have a treasure hidden invaluable, which is an old post of yours.
Do something soon! What?
Refresh back to your old posts with new links to your latest posts, for example: related page, relate post, etc. ..
Or create a channel link on your blog, for example: Page's most popular, most favorite posts, etc. ..
Refresh again Dusty pages, so that more useful for you and your blog readers. This would be great.

7 Tips for Profitable Niche Blogging

Source : Problogger Guest post by Deb Ng from Freelance Writing Gigs.

While going over my stats last summer, I learned something important: If I stopped blogging each day, I would still earn enough each month from my content to draw a salary and pay the bloggers who write for my network. I’m no longer breaking even and I can tell you, after almost five years of trying to make this blog work out, the rewards go far beyond that of money. Success is a great motivator.

I would like to tell those who don’t feel niche bloggers can’t earn decent advertising revenue, they couldn’t be more wrong.

“Make money online” bloggers are always pimping affiliate links. Niche bloggers can’t necessarily do this. Our readers don’t want to receive pitches every day. Moreover, not all niche blog readers are buyers. For example, selling high end products via a frugal living blog probably isn’t the best idea. The same with my freelance writing blog; one thing I learned over the years is that writers don’t open their wallets for the next big thing. If they’re buying products through an affiliate link, it has to provide tremendous value. When I have sold it’s with conferences, books, ebooks, courses and other teaching products. The bulk of my income doesn’t come from affiliate links, however. They come from private ad sales and Adsense.

So, niche bloggers, here is my advice to you:

1. Traffic and community come first: To truly earn money through advertising revenue on a niche blog, you have to build trust within your community. Sure, you can place ads on your blog from the very beginning, but they probably won’t earn. Don’t focus on monetization right off the bat. Take the time to build traffic and community. Establish trust among your readers. Once you have an active community and regular traffic with a pattern you can rely on, then you can deal with traffic.
2. Know your readers: Before you sell anything, you have to know your market. Tech blogs and “make money online” blogs can enjoy a more diverse income stream because their readers will respond to a variety of products and services. Not so much with nichier topics. Knowing your community’s habits is essential to monetizing narrow niches. For example, my community is made up of clickers, not buyers. As mentioned above, when they do buy, they choose items that teach. They don’t invest in gadgets but they will invest in materials to help them further their careers. I learned what they like by playing with the various revenue streams and also by conducting polls and reading every single one of their comments and emails.
3. It won’t happen overnight: Don’t be frustrated if you don’t begin earning as soon as you place ads. It doesn’t happen overnight. Your community wants to trust you – and your advertisers. Give each ad some time to earn, but if you don’t see any response at all after a month or two, explore other advertising possibilities.
4. Good content continues to earn over time: Timeless or “evergreen” content has the ability to earn for a lifetime. Try posting advice that will be relevant five years from now. In addition to current news and events, discuss topics that will always appeal to web searchers.
5. Find other forms of passive income: Advertising isn’t the only way you can earn through your blog. As Darren has proved here, you can also sell ebooks, courses, work books, webinars and even a membership forum.
6. Don’t wait for advertisers to find you: For me, private ad sales are the most lucrative. Other than Adsense, my highest payers are advertisers who didn’t come from a particular advertising agency. I found many of them on my own. Advertisers won’t reach out to you if they don’t know about you. If you have enough traffic coming in, create a press kit. List stats such as bounce rate, pageviews, traffic and more. Market your blog much in the same way traditional media market to their advertisers. See if you can convince potential advertisers to come on board.
7. Don’t rest on your laurels: OK, so you have a few ads. I can tell you now, it won’t last. You can’t expect every advertiser to stick with you for years. They come, advertise for a while, and go on their merry way after sales start to lag a bit. Always be on the lookout for new sponsors and advertising opportunities to ensure there are no dry periods.

Many niche blogs are difficult to monetize, but they don’t have to be. If you study your community and traffic patterns, you can find some profitable solutions. You might have to think outside the box or sell your own stuff, but once your blog hits, the sales will soar.

Are you monetizing your blog now? What methods are using and how is it working out for you?

When boredom began to attack

by : Deny E.Y.

I'm still a beginner in the world of blogging, it makes my mind open, and as befits a beginner, I do not deserve to brag.
Many things I have learned, and there are always new things to do
I admit, maintain blogs are draining the energy and mind. But the potential and strength is very tempting, too dear to be left.
Like I always do, every time bored:

1. Do the break, a full day without thinking about blogs
2. Go to the bookstore and buy a new book about the Internet, new insights will provide a new curiosity again for you
3. Think about the potential of your blog

4. Do not be too serious

6 WordPress Plugins for Better Comments

Source : DailyBlogTips, Guest Post by Srikanth AD

Bloggers love to have comments on their blogs. It builds social proof, enriches the content, fosters community and so on. Here are six plugins that you can use to boost the number of comments on your blog and make the commenting process more efficient.

1. Better Comments Manager

Replying to comments from your readers will make them come back in the future, because they will know that your care for them.

The “Better Comments Manager” plugin allows you to reply to the comments right from the Admin panel. In the absence of this plug-in, you have to visit the post individually and reply to the comment which is time consuming and tedious if you have tons of comments to reply.

2. Subscribe to Comments

By installing this plug-in in your WordPress blog your readers can get email notifications about the further comments on the post. When a reader comments in a post and checks the box to get E-mail notifications, it helps him to stay in touch with the comments and encourages him to come back to your blog and stay engaged in the discussion.

This helps to add more value to your post as more and more commenter’s exchange their ideas and views on the post.

3. WordPress Thread Comment

This plugin for WordPress allows the readers to reply to a specific comment, making it easier to follow the discussion. The plugin should also be compatible with most WordPress themes around, and installation is not that difficult.

4. IntenseDebate

This is one another cool WordPress plugin to consider if you are looking to get more comments and visits to your WordPress blog. This plug-in encourages your readers to actively participate in the discussion and it allows them to rate a comment posted with simple thumbs up or down buttons.

They can also leave active replies to the comments or start a new comment. Commenters can also subscribe to the replies and new comments such that they get email notification when a reply to their comment is received or any new comment is added to the post.

5. Absolute Comments

This plugin for WordPress also allows you to instantly reply to comments right from the admin panel.

The interesting feature of this plug-in is that it supports threaded comments, and if you have set to receive email notification, when a new comment is posted you can see a direct reply link to the comment in the email.

6. Contact Commenters

This is a great tool to interact with the commenters of your blog posts. By using this plugin you can send email to selected commenters, perhaps thanking their for their comments or asking their opinions on a related issue.

3 Principles of Effective Communication

Source : ProBlogger

Do you want to learn to blog in a way that goes beyond just conveying information and helps people to take action on what you’ve written?

Last night as I was watching the new Australian version of The Apprentice I saw a very short segment featuring public speaker Brett Rutledge. The winners of a task were rewarded with a session with Brett to talk about communication and public speaking. The show only showed 30 seconds of Brett but in that very short snippet he said something that resonated with me.

He was talking about principles of communication in leadership - but I think it applies pretty well to bloggers. I’m paraphrasing here but what he said boiled down to this:

To communicate to me clearly you need to do three things:

1. Give me a Message
2. Make me Care
3. Give me a Way to Remember it

I suspect there’s a lot of truth in that for leaders communicating in the business setting - but it rings true for me as a blogger wanting communicate effectively each day through my blog.

Lets explore each in turn briefly (this is of course my interpretation for bloggers on what Brett was getting at with his points).

Give them a Message

I suspect many bloggers work pretty hard on principle #1 - we craft our posts carefully and work hard on communicating clearly - but perhaps the other two elements are things that could lift posts to the next level in terms of getting people to actually take action on the things we write about.

Giving a message of course means we ourselves need to know what we’re trying to convey and what action we want readers to take at the end of posts. If we don’t know what we want people to do it’s pretty hard to get action.

It’s also about communicating clearly and giving people a call to the action we want them to take.

Make them Care

• When someone cares about what you’re writing - they have much more motivation to take action on it.
• When someone cares they’re more likely to tell someone else about it.
• When someone cares they’re more likely to respond to you with a comment.

Communicate something to someone who doesn’t care and you might as well not be communicating!

How do you make them care? I think it partly comes down to showing people how what you are sharing with people applies to them, how it will make some aspect of their life better, inspiring them with a picture of how things will be once they’ve done something - it’s about getting people in touch with their feelings, fears, motivations, values and desires and tying them to what you’re communicating to them.

Give them a Way to Remember It

Have you ever read or heard something that inspired you to go away and take some course of action…. only to promptly forget to do it? I do it all the time. Sometimes I don’t take action because I change my mind, sometimes it is because I get busy and sometimes I just forget to do it (I’m thinking to myself ‘I’m sure there was something else I had to do today).

It’s one thing to communicate clearly what you want and to get someone to care about it - but a whole other thing to get them to actually take the action. A big part of closing the deal is to give them a way to remember what it is you want them to do.

I’d love to hear Brett (or others) talk more about how he helps people to remember what you say - but I find that I have most success in ‘closing the deal with people when I give them something simple, achievable and immediate to do.

5 Things to Know When Starting Your Blog

Source : DailyBlogTips

This is a guest post by Adrienne Carlson. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

It’s a bandwagon that took off with startling speed, one that all and sundry wanted to get on. Most did get on the blogging train, but there were very few who tasted the kind of financial success that they dreamed of. Others fell by the wayside while the determined still plough on, making what little money they can and yet sticking to the path because they are passionate about what they do.

There’s no doubt that blogs are here to stay, but if you are thinking of hitching a ride only now, you need to be aware of a few ground rules. So, before you start your blog, it’s best to:

1. Be realistic: Yes, there are many people who blog for a living; they don’t have regular jobs, and they make all the money doing what comes best to them, writing for an audience and making money off it. But, you must be realistic when you start to write and know that you cannot expect such stupendous success, at least not for a few years. If you’re hoping to make huge amounts of money right from the word go, then you’re in for disappointment.

2. Don’t quit your regular job: Because blogs make money randomly or not at all, especially when they’re new, it’s not wise to quit your regular job and sit at home in front of your computer hoping to strike the mother lode instantly. Instead, set aside some time every day to work on your blog and popularize it.

3. Enjoy what you do: Only if you truly enjoy blogging will you be able to stick to it and make it work. If you’re in it just to make money, you’re not going to be able to keep your enthusiasm going when you don’t see the dollars pouring in like you’d envisioned. So write on something you’re passionate about, something that you can sustain on a daily basis over a long term period.

4. Focus on a niche: Blogs that focus on a niche tend to do better than those that just prattle on about any random topic under the sun or those that are more personal in nature. So choose a niche that you enjoy and one which you can portray creatively so that other people will be interested in reading what you have to say.

5. Know that patience pays: One thing you must remember when beginning a blog is that you must be patient in order to see even a modicum of success. It takes a long time to popularize a blog, and even when that happens, it may be some more time before you start to see monetary results. You must focus on quality rather than trickery to market your blog, because that’s what will sustain it in the long run.

8 Tips for Building Community on Your Blog

What I noticed in the growth of my photography site was that in the first 6 months most of my readers seemed to be in ‘consumption’ mode (there just to consume and not really interact or participate) and that in the next 6 to 12 months a community began to emerge with readers interacting more with me and one another. In the next 6 months readers have begun to really take more ownership of the site and are more regularly contributing not just in comments but in writing content, volunteering in the forum etc.

This seems to naturally happen over time to some extent – but was also something that I have been quite intentional about fostering within the readership.

Here are a few tips on how to do it.

1. Start with Comments

Perhaps the most natural place to start to build ‘community’ on a blog is within its comments section. This is a good place because in our day and age it is a place that most web users are ‘wired’ to look for interactivity in. The keys in building community within your comments section include:

• Ask Questions in posts (this will draw comments out of readers)
• Interact with Readers (if you’re not willing to comment why would others – this gets the ball rolling)
• Model the type of comments and tone you want (if you want people to feel safe and at home you need to police and moderate the trolls and spammers)
• Followup Questions (answer questions whether they be in comments or via email)

Further Reading: How to Get More Comments on Your Blog and 7 Ways to Turn a Blog Post Upside Down and Get More Comments

2. Reader Centered Posts

Show readers that you value them by regularly publishing posts that are ALL about them. There are lots of ways of doing this including:

• Answering Reader Questions
• Inviting Questions from Readers
• Posting a Question for discussion
• Highlighting a reader and their blog, comment, site

The key is to regularly build into the rhythm of your blog moments where your readers take centre stage and have an opportunity to contribute and be valued.

Further Reading: The Power of Making Readers Famous

3. Interactive Tools and Projects

Whether it be running weekly polls, using quizzes, running a competition in your comments section or some other interactive tool or project – the more you get your readers to ‘do’ something the more ownership that they’ll feel over your site. I find that even the anonymous voting in a poll has the power to make a reader feel connected.

4. Invite Reader Generated Content

I’ve talked about reader generated content in an earlier post in this series with regards to how it can help you keep fresh content on your site – but the other benefit of it is that it can help readers grow in their connection to your blog.

The way I grew reader generated content on my photography site was simply to start a photography tutorials area of the forum there. In that area I invited readers to submit their tips. The idea was that the area would help identify readers from within the community who had a talent and passion for teaching others. I’ve since used some of the best tutorials on the main blog and one or two of the authors have become regular writers.

5. Become a Cheer Leader

Look for any opportunity that you can to cheer your community along. I regularly attempt to give feedback to DPS readers on how well ‘we’ are doing as a community. When ‘we’ hit a new milestone in terms of forum members or traffic numbers I talk about it in our newsletter, when ‘we’ get mentioned in a mainstream publication I make note of that….

My approach with this feedback to readers isn’t to highlight how good ‘I’ am as a blogger – but to show the community what ‘we’ have achieved. I find that each time I do this that the feedback has been excellent and that it spurs readers on to help us grow and become even better.

6. Give Readers Jobs

I wrote about this a couple of years ago now but one of the best ways to build a sense of engagement and ownership within your readership is to give readers jobs. You can’t do this with everyone of your readers but it is amazing how many people don’t want to just read and consume – they want to be a part of building something that matters. ‘Jobs’ can be anything from getting them to help you moderate comments, to being a forum moderator, to coming up with poll topics, to judging competitions, to writing guest posts etc

7. Set Reader Homework

Another great way to get a little more interactivity and buy in from readers is to set them homework in your posts. This is particularly effective when you have a ‘tips’ or ‘how to’ type blog where you’re teaching people and it is a natural way to finish a post to say ‘go and do this’.

Again at DPS we have a photography assignment area in our forum where we have a weekly assignment for readers to go away and complete before reporting back with an image that they’ve taken. Heaven forbid if we miss a weekly assignment – our readers would be up in arms!

You don’t need a forum area dedicated to this to set homework. Just end a post with an invitation to go and do something and to report back on how they did and you’ll find a percentage of your readers will complete the task and in doing so will feel more loyalty to you and your blog.

Further Reading: Building Blog Community by Setting Homework for Readers

8. Give multiple avenues to ‘join’ or be a ‘member’

I’ve mentioned a few times above the forum at DPS. I can’t express to you just how powerful that area of the site has become. While it doesn’t have as many unique visitors each month as the blog segment of the site – it is visited by a growing number of hardcore DPS fans who are visiting on a daily basis and really creating an amazing community there.

Similarly – adding a weekly newsletter to the site has created another ‘connecting point’ with readers and a gentle reminder each week to stop by the blog and or forum to interact. I’ve found that having a blog, forum and newsletter to be a lot of work but a fantastic way to engage with different readers in ways that appeal to their learning style. Many readers have connected in 2 and even 3 of these ways – each time they access a new part of the site they ‘buy in’ just a little more.

One last tip

Above all, the best way of building a community on your blog is to lead the way and start to BE the community that you want to form. This is something that will bring the 8 tips above to life…. or…. if you don’t do it is likely to ensure that you fail in building community on your blog. Readers will take your lead but are unlikely to want to join a community if you as the leader of it seems ambivalent about the whole thing.

How do You Build Community on Your Blog?

That’s enough of me talking – what have you found to be useful in building a sense of community on your blogs?

Cara Membuat Read More...

Sumber : Tip-Tips Blogging by Kendhin

Biasanya postingan terbaru akan ditampilkan dihalaman utama blog. Namun jika postingan kamu terlalu panjang maka hal tersebut akan membuat penuh halaman utama. Jika kamu ingin supaya postingan kamu yang ditampilkan dihalaman utama cuma abstraksinya saja kemudian ada sebuah link Read More / Baca Selengkapnya untuk melihat selengkapnya maka ikutilah langkah-langkah berikut :

1. Buka menu Layout kemudian pilih Edit HTML.
2. Kasih tanda cek (centang) pada cekbox "expand widget template"
3. Cari kode berikut di Template blog kamu (tempatnya kira-kira pada 1/4 bagian bawah kode hmtl) :

4. Kalau sudah ketemu, Ganti kode kode tersebut sehingga menjadi seperti ini:

Read More......

Tulisan "Read More....." itu bisa kamu rubah, misalnya jadi "Baca Selengkapnya".

5. Simpan hasil pengeditan.
6. Kemudian pilih menu Setting lalu pilih Formatting
7. Pada kotak Post Template isikan kode berikut:

8. Kemudian Simpan.
9. Ketika memposting, kan disana ada 2 tab pilihan tuh, yang "Compose" dan "Edit Html", Nha km pilih Yang "Edit HTML", Maka secara otomatis akan tampak kode seperti berikut :

10. Letakkan abstraksi posting atau artikel yang akan ditampilkan dihalama utama (sebelum tulisan "Redmore") diatas kode ini : sementara sisanya yaitu keseluruhan posting letakkan di antara kode dan
11. Ini yang paling penting diantara semua proses diatas yaitu ..... Selesai..... he..he..he.. :D
Selamat Mencoba...

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Blogging tips ് : 20 Tips for Coming Up with Fresh Ideas

20 Tips for Coming Up with Fresh Ideas

This is a guest post by Dan Harrison. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.

It doesn’t matter if you run a blog or run a business, there will come a moment in time when you’re really stuck for fresh ideas. Fresh ideas can lead to new business opportunities, so brainstorming should be a process you adopt frequently if you want to stay ahead of your competition. I’ve compiled a list of tips and tricks that I use when I’m innovating, and each apply if you’re trying to come up with new products, services or blog posts. Spotting solutions and opportunities is just a form of mental exercise. The more you do it, the better you’ll get!

1. Be really grumpy! Keep track of the things that annoy you. This is a great place to start, as you know the problem intimately as well as being the first customer for any solution.

2. Listen to your clients, customers and readers. Complaints are a great source of insight as it’s a very quick way to find something that needs a solution. So identify the common problems that your customers are experiencing and consider possible solutions to their troubles.

3. Think like a child. Children have a fantastically simplistic and candid view of the world, something we lose as we become adults. Employ a strong sense of curiosity and simplicity when looking for solutions. So many things in this world happen due to convention or habit, so thinking like a child helps to break this pattern.

4. Talk to friends and family. Find out what annoys your friends and family. What do they moan about? What problems do they encounter? Do they say stuff like “if only there was a service/product that did XYZ”?

5. Watch and listen to the news. Keeping up with current affairs will help you to keep up-to-date with new legislation and new regulations. Any new constraint usually means that some kind of process needs to change. Where there’s change, there’s usually an opportunity.

6. Learn from your mistakes. When you do something wrong, do you work out how and why you made that mistake? What could have limited the impact of your mistakes? Is there something, that if it existed, would have stopped you from making that mistake?

7. Do volunteer work. Mixing with people from an entirely different background will help you to think from a different perspective. You can make new friends and get ideas for things you don’t usually think about. As a bonus, you help someone too!

8. Bounce ideas with a friend or business partner. If there’s someone who you work well with, spend time brainstorming ideas together. Two different minds can often lead to great ideas, since you’ll find you feed off each others thoughts.

9. Analyse your products/services. Look at your current offerings and identify the best and worst features. See if you can add any features to your existing offerings. Also consider different markets who would be interested in what you offer. You can do the same for a competitors products and services too.

10. Focus on the problem, not existing solutions. Rather than thinking about existing solutions, go back to the original problem. Given a blank canvas, how would you solve the problem? e.g. rather than re-invent the toilet, come up with alternative ways to dispose of human waste cheaply, conveniently and hygienically.

11. Go people-watching. Unleash your inner spy! Spend time watching people go about their everyday lives. What are they doing? How do they do it? Can you spot any obvious problems?

12. Distract yourself. Have a change of scene. Do something that you love doing that has nothing to do with your business or blog. Get lost in what you’re doing. Often we come up with solutions when we’re not even thinking about the problem in the first place.

13. Get feedback. Make the effort to find out what your colleagues, customers and readers think about what you do. Ask what you could do to improve. Listen to their feedback, good or bad. You’ll gain a great deal of insight when you ask people to tell you what they think your strengths are.

14. Refactor, reorganise and rethink. Consider services, products or concepts that are too basic or too complex. Sometimes just adjusting an existing solution will yield more ideas.

15. Critique everything. Question everything, and ask yourself “why?”! Intelligently analyse your environment and think of improvements. See what lessons you can learn about the good and bad things in your environment.

16. Read lots. Any kind of reading material can give you ideas. Find a range of materials that you enjoy reading (there’s no point reading something you hate!). Ideas can come from fiction, magazine articles, scientific journals, anything really!

17. Network, in real life and online. Listen to people who have similar interests to you and find out what they love or hate. What are the common or repetitive problems they would love solved? This is also a great way to find someone to brainstorm with.

18. Regularly read forums related to your interests. Forums often have threads dedicated to frequently asked questions (FAQs). You can borrow ideas from these FAQs as well as be on the look out for questions that pop up on the forums on a regular basis.

19. Look for gaps. Identify gaps in products, services or articles that exist between you and your competitors. Then consider what you can offer to address that gap.

20. Keep a notebook handy at all times. Inspiration can hit you at any time, and you can forget it just as quickly. Keeping a record of this inspiration is vital. Make sure you revisit entries in your notebook on a regular basis too! You might be able to elaborate on ideas you had in the past.

So there you go, 20 tips to help you identify opportunities. There’s a common theme among these tips, namely to analyse problems in as much detail as you can. When you get ideas, consider all ideas, regardless of how stupid they might seem. Then weigh up the pros and cons of those ideas as solutions.

Dan Harrison is a Web Consultant and Brainstormer. Dan frequently exercises his mind to come up with fresh ideas and opportunities for himself and others through his consulting business. You can read more of Dan’s thoughts and ideas at http://www.danharrison.co.uk, as well as follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/DanJagoHarrison.

Blogging Tips : 9 First Step Goals for New Bloggers

My youngest boy will take his first steps any day now. He’s been watching his older brother (and his mum and dad) run around the house for 12 months now and you can just see in his eyes the desire to be up and doing it too. This week he’s started pushing around the block trolley (right) and is practicing his standing up without the aide of anything to pull him up.

It’s not been a fast process and by no means do I expect to see him running around the house soon but he’s almost ready for his first steps.

Many bloggers start blogs these days with the dream of millions of readers and making large amounts of money.

While it is possible to build blogs that are widely read and profitable and there’s nothing wrong with dreaming big - the reality is that it takes time and a lot of work to build these kinds of blogs.

New bloggers would do well to spend more time thinking about their ‘first steps’ than just the big picture dreams and goals that they have..

Yesterday while chatting with a brand new bloggers who had some very lofty goals for this blogging I reflected back to him that I felt that in addition to the big dreams he had that I wondered if he might also benefit from having some realistic goals for the short term.

Here’s a list of 9 first step type goals that I suggested to him that might be a good place to start:

1. Publish 10 Posts
2. Getting your first comment from someone you don’t know
3. Get your first link from another blog
4. Build your readership up to more than 20 readers a day
5. Hit a level of 20 RSS subscribers
6. Getting your blog indexed in Google
7. Get your blog earning $1 a week (update: only if making money from your blog is one of your goals - it’s not for everyone
8. First guest post on another blog
9. Having someone (not you or your mum) tweet about your blog

Note: Others goals might include goals more to do with setting up your blog including those related to design, platforms, setting up metrics/stats etc.

To someone who has been blogging for a while these kinds of goals might seem rather small and insignificant - but for a new blogger they’d be where I would start.

For new bloggers these goals might also seem a little insignificant also (in fact the blogger I was talking to told me I was thinking too small and dismissed my idea) - however I’d argue that to get to your big dreams there is a lot of steps in between - many of which might not be glamorous or as fun to think about. However sometimes it’s helpful to visualize the very next steps that you need to take in order to move towards your goals.

Tangent: I once had opportunity to meet a guy who had travelled the world climbing some of the highest mountains. When I said to him that it must be an exciting thing to do he told me that there are moments of exhilaration and excitement but that the reality is that much of what he does when climbing a mountain is pretty boring. It’s one foot in front of another type activity through foothills, carrying a heavy pack and not feeling like you’re making much progress. Of course once you make it to the top or conquer challenges along the path you have moments of excitement but it all starts with setting out from base camp and with the goal of getting to a point where the climb starts in earnest.

Once you’ve achieved these first goals start to increase them. You might want to double the numbers for the next step (although for different bloggers the numbers will no doubt be different) - then double them again and so forth.

What other ‘first step’ goals would you suggest to a new blogger just starting out? If you’re a new blogger what are your first goals?

Blogging Tips : 8 First Step SEO Tips for Bloggers

“What are the first steps to optimizing my blog for searches?” - question submitted by @monedays using the #pbquestions hashtag on Twitter.

Much has been written on the topic of search engine optimization for bloggers - but let me give you a few basic first steps:

1. Content is King

The quality of the posts you write is the single most important factor when it comes to Search Optimization on a Blog. I suspect others will argue differently but as I look at my own blogs success in the search engines I’d say that this has been the number one factor.

Quality content that helps people will quite often draw a reader to want to share what they’ve written - of course they do this by passing on the link to your post and often they’ll do it in a way that helps your search rankings (on their own blog for example).

2. Anticipate What People Will be Searching For

Every time you write a post you should be automatically be considering what words people might be putting into search engines to find that type of information. Once you know what kinds of words they’re using you’re in a great position to position yourself for that search.

3. Titles Titles Titles

There are a number of things to keep in mind when it comes to titles. Google pays particular attention to titles - so make sure you get them right:

• first make sure that the way you set your blog up puts the title of your post in the ‘title tags’ on the back end of your blog. This is really important.
• if you’re just looking from an SEO perspective don’t include your blog name in the title tags of single posts. This dilutes your keywords. Of course if you’re looking more at branding including your blog’s name in the title tags might be worth doing.
• next - include the keywords that you identified in point #2 in your post title
• also, keep in mind that the words you use at the start of a title tend to carry more weight than words you use later in your title

4. Keywords in other parts of your post

Use the keywords you identified in point #2 within your post also. If you want Google to rank you for a term or phrase you need to use that term or phrase. Use it in sub headings in your post (use h tags where you can), use it in the content itself, use the words in the alt tags of images etc. Don’t go over the topic but do use the words where you can naturally in the post.

5. Link to Your Own Posts

Don’t over do this one but while links from other sites are a great way to increase your blog’s rankings so are links from your blog. Interlink your posts to share where readers can find more information on your topic (where relevant) but also consider linking to key posts on your blog from other places on the blog (sidebar, front page etc).

6. Links from Outside Your Blog

Links from other sites to yours are key in SEO but they can be hard to get. Start to linking to your blog from other sites that you have or are active on. Some (like on Twitter) won’t count for anything much as they have no-follow tags but they are all potential ways for people to access your site and some will help with SEO.

Don’t become obsessed with getting links - rather become obsessed about writing great content and the links will generally come in time. However if you’ve written a great post that you think will be relevant to another blog don’t be afraid to let that blogger or website owner know about it - they could just link up.

Also - take note of the type of posts that you write that do well at getting other sites to link to you. You can learn a lot about generating linkable content by doing so and might just develop a technique that will work again and again.

7. Plugins

I don’t tend to do much to the back end of my blog to alter things like meta tags - but there are some good plugins around if you’re using WordPress that can help with some of this and that may give you a small edge. Check out 9 SEO plugins that every WordPress Blog Should have for some suggestions on this.

8. Readers Begat Readers

This isn’t an SEO technique as such but it plays a part. The more readers you have the more likely your blog is to be found by other readers. There’s a certain ’snowballing’ thing that happens on a site over time - as you get readers quite often momentum grows as those readers pass on your site to others in their network. They link to you, they bookmark you, they tweet about you, they email friends about you, they blog about you, they suggest your site in recommendation engines….

Not all of this counts with SEO but some does and the accumulation of it over time all certainly helps to grow both organic and search traffic. I guess what I’m saying is to get readers any way you can - don’t just focus upon ‘SEO’ as such. It all counts.

My Hunch with SEO

Before I share my hunch…. let me say that I’m not an SEO and this could be completely wrong…. but it’s a hunch that I’ve had for a while now.

I’ve been doing this blogging thing for almost 7 years now and from what I can see the tweaks that many bloggers do on their blogs to optimize it seem to be having less and less impact on the rankings of blogs. Don’t get me wrong - I stand by the above tips completely and would do them as a common sense bare minimum - but from where I sit Google seem to be in the business of finding the best information that they can for their users. They don’t always get it right but I think they do a pretty good job.

As a blogger your job should be to provide the best information that you can.

It strikes me that Google have an ever increasing way of working out if your information is good. It’s not just about what keywords you have or how many links that you get - but these days they own Feedburner (know how many people subscribe to your blog and what links people are clicking on), they own Google Reader (again giving them all kinds of great data), they own Gmail, Google Analytics, YouTube etc…..

Now they may or may not use all the data in their ranking of sites but they certainly could know a lot about your blog and the posts you write. There’s also been increasing talk over the last 6 months or so about how easy it’d be for search engines to start generating data on what content is being shared in social networks and bookmarking sites.

My hunch is that many traditional SEO methods are less important (NOT irrelevant though) and that other factors are increasingly going to come into play. I’m sure that some will work out ways to manipulate this (SEO 2.0?) but increasingly the way to get ranked high in Google will be that you just need to keep producing great content and making sure that it’s sneezed out to your network.

Help this process along by giving your readers way to share your content (and seed it to social networks) as well as to become subscribers.