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The Art Of Being Different

September 30th, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

In the latest years, there has been an impressive increment of blogs on the web. Every day a new blog is born besides many others of the same niche, using free or self-hosted domains. This make me think about the overpopulation, we can see it around the World and nowadays on Internet, wherever we look it seems to be already taken or developed by someone else, no matter the niche you look for. So if every niche is supposedly supersaturated, how is it possible that every day more and more blogs emerge on the Internet? All those blogs are providing different information or perhaps duplicated content? how can they be different when there are hundred of blogs of the same nature?

 

be different

 

To be different in a Sea of blogs could be a difficult task. Many people out there think that it’s easy to create a blog, to get traffic and to earn profits when in reality it’s not, normally this task requires a lot of effort and dedication, and even more when you have hundred of blogs of the same niche around yours competing to be the best.

 


How to be distinguished?

 

So what do you need to do, to be recognized among all the other blogs? Well, first of all, you need to be yourself. Trying to copy another blogger’s style could be one of the biggest mistakes ever, is very stupid to want to be another person! Express yourself with your own style and everything should go well. Remember that people like to read different personalities, what sense would have to read 3 copies of Tyler Cruz when you could read the original one?

 

Many people often confuse the act of copying. Many bloggers share their experiences or techniques to be a better blogger, and “copying” those tips is not bad. Nevertheless when you apply those read tips, you are not copying, you are following an idea. This is very interesting because in the world of blogging, there are many things that “simply work” and probably if you don’t apply them you could get lost. Don’t be afraid to follow those successful ideas that you can find on Internet, but because it has worked for someone else does not mean that it will work for you too.

 

Try to keep away from the cattle and try different things. You can personalize the other blogger’s tendencies in order to get different results, sometimes it’s good to try different and original things in the blogging world. In the end, that original idea can be a success or a total failure, and unless you are not investing money on that idea you will have nothing to lose. There is not a magic equation which you can determinate the level of success of something, it’s all about trial and error!.

 

The only thing you need to know is to express your thoughts in each article you write, no matter how do you write it, the important thing is the message and the idea behind it. If the message that you are transmitting is sufficiently good, you won’t need to care about traffic, seo or social networking because the readers will care about it, doing everything for you. So be sure to prepare all your ideas before writing an article in order to start being unique and different among other bloggers.

 

Which Is The Best Place To Display Advertising?

September 29th, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

Many people think that creating a website and placing ads on it is an easy way to make money online. The only thing they are right with is that certainly, displaying advertising on your website or blog is a good way to make money online, but it’s deeper than they think.

 

Placing banner ads is like an art, depending of your website you will have more success in certain positions than in others, so you need to try and see what works for you. For our luck, the act of displaying advertising is not a new thing and there are some strategies which you can follow in order to have a start mark.

 

Before start displaying ads in your website you need to ask yourself some questions:

  • What is the user trying to accomplish by visiting my site?
  • What do they do when viewing a particular page?
  • Where is their attention likely to be focused?
  • How can I integrate ads into this area without getting in the users’ way?
  • How can I keep the page looking clean, uncluttered and inviting?

Remember that is very important make the visitors feel comfortable in your site. If you place banners everywhere, they will not find content to read and they will automatically leave. So where should you place your ads? Let’s analyze the following heat map:

 

 

In this heat map you can see that some locations tend to be more efficient than others. The colors fade from dark orange (strongest performance) to light yellow (weakest performance), which normally are those  placed bellow the fold – banners, i.e. when you need to scroll down to see the banners.

 

A banner near from rich content tends to be clicked because the reader has its eyes focused in that area. Also those banners which are in the bottom of the content are clicked for the same reason. At the end of the content many websites have bookmark buttons, which make that area a good point to display a horizontal banner.

 

Talking  about the sidebars, you can see that people tend to watch the left sidebar more than the right one. The reason of this is simple, the most of the languages are read from left to right and unconsciously, the eyes catch better the banners of the left more than the banners of the right.

 

Remember that is really important to try different positions and banner sizes in order to know what works for your website. Depending of the structure and layout this heat map may not be applicable. In the case of blogs, in almost all of them you can see a sidebar on the right, but in absence of a left bar and due to the blog’s nature the people tend to watch the right sidebar.

 

So be creative and remember to not disturb your visitors with plenty of banners.

 

Spreading Love – September 08 Week 04

September 27th, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

Hello readers, this week I found some excellent posts that I want to share with you. Some of them are not so related with blogging but anyways they are part of the Internet buzz and worth the read.

 

When I started designing the new theme, I talked about some new changes on this blog. One of them was the reward of the top commentators, and analyzing the widget in the sidebar I think Dennis is the winner of this month (unless you start spamming my posts :grin: ). Dennis, I will give you a 125×125 for the next month, so send me your banner and I will upload it…

 

Now let’s check the interesting articles I found this week:

I hope you like this round of links, may be in the next days I will be posting about the importance of this kind of posts (also known as linkluv or something like) in order to let you know the advantages and disadvantages of them.

 

About the eBook, I want to tell you that I have written 2 chapters and I think that I could launch it in 1 or 2 weeks :cool: .

 

RSS Channels and Directories Where You Can Submit Your RSS On

September 26th, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

Some days ago I wrote about how you can use your RSS to “boost” your blog. In other words, I talked about different ways that you can use your RSS feed in order to increase the traffic of your blog. Besides some other methods, in that post I mentioned the use of rss directories in order to expand and spread the word of your blog.

 

One of my loyal readers asked me the following question in one of his comments:

Could you do a follow-up and list some of the rss directories and search engines?

Of course I can Dennis! I never thought about doing a list of directories, but thanks for the excellent idea. So then, I collected some RSS directories and search engines where you can submit your Blog’s feed and this way your blog will be exposed to a bigger audience so surely you will capture new readers :wink: .

That big list has rss channels, aggregators and directories where you can submit your rss feeds. Some of them are good, some of them are better but remember to submit your feed in the right category! That’s a really important thing because then you could be slapped by those search engines.

 

Enjoy submitting!

 

Win This Month With The AdSpace Contest!

September 24th, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

Once again, it’s time for The AdSpace Contest and I’m proud to announce that I am one of 10 co-hosts.

 

The idea is simple: Get as many entries as you can (very easy to do) before October 15th. The more entries you get, the better chance you have of winning! Shortly after the 15th, we’ll announce the winner.

 

The prize?

 

A 125×125 pixel ad spot (above the fold) on at least TEN DIFFERENT BLOGS that will run for one month. That’s at least a $100 value! Last month’s prize grew to be ad spots on 45 blogs!

 

Who else is co-hosting?

How do you enter to win?

  • 1 Entry – Subscribe to any one of the blogs above via email (if you subscribed last month, you’re already entered again!).
  • 5 Entries – Twitter about the contest with a link to this post (new!)
  • 10 Entries – Write a post about the contest (must include links to all 10 hosts OR use our suggested text)
  • 25 Entries – Offer up an ad spot on your own blog for one month as part of the prize package (links will be listed above)

Simply put, you could subscribe to all 10 blogs, write a post, twitter about it and offer up your own ad spot for a grand total of 50 entries! Fill out the form below once you’ve got your entries done.

 

Fill out the form below to ensure that your entries are counted! Email subscriptions to RSS feeds are automatically entered.

 

Name

 

Website

 

Email

 

I wrote a post about the contest (Post URL:

)

 

I’m offering an ad spot on my own blog for one month

 

I posted to Twitter about the contest with a link (permalink of tweet:

)

 

 

AdSpace Contest

 

Contest ends October 15th. Good Luck!!

 

What Should I Know To Write An Ebook?

September 21st, 2008

Written by Mr Javo

Hello reader, this will be a short but direct post, this entry is a direct question for you, as you could noticed it with the title. With the launching of Mr Javo dot Com 2.0, I want to launch (with a newsletter) a free ebook. I already have the topic and everything I want to write there, but the problem is that I have never written an ebook or something similar, and I want to do this good.

 

Should I know something special to write an ebook? I know there are some rules to write a book, but I don’t know if I need to apply that on an electronic book (that’s because I want to do this good, just for that). What do you recommend me? Do you have written or read articles which I could find information of this nature?

 

I would like to include your tips and resources :cool: .

 

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