10 Reasons Why I Forget Your Blog

Written by Mr. Javo

Hello readers, this morning I was looking for a blog about making money online to make a couple of consults about some affiliate programs, but I couldn’t find the blog through my bookmarks, I must missed it when I formated my pc the last year. Although I tried to remember the title/url of the blog, I couldn’t and finally I ended searching on Google and finding the information I wanted but not in the respective blog. This fact inspired me to write this post about the commons which makes you forget a blog.

 

The following is a list of ten things that make you forget a blog. Because although I searched on Google for that blog, even the keywords of making money online could not help me to find it with million of results. Try to avoid the ones listed bellow:

 

  1. The URL too long or too hard to remember: this is the principally because people forget about blogs. When I was thinking on a domain name for this blog, I discarded a list of about 20 URLs, leaving about 8 of them. If your blog has a *hard to remember* URL, your readers could start to leave it. The best is to choose a short URL or if it is long, it should be easy to remember.
  2. A Bad title: this point relates to the first. The normal is to set the title according to your blog’s URL but it may not strictly be the same. If the title of your blog is too long, you can have in the URL an abbreviation. However, the title is something important, you may select it relating to your brand or something that anyone read it on Internet and recognize it easily.
  3. A Bad logo: this is part of your brand. When you are going to create a blog, you should have plus the url and title, a logo for your blog. You may have a logo related to your title or niche. Many people uses as logo a picture or animated caricature of themselves, others use the initials of their blog’s name. It is up to you, but you should have something that anyone recognize it on social networks or ads.
  4. Poor or repeated content: if your blog has poor quality posts with many grammar errors of simply bad content, your blog will be forbidden. It is important to read your post several and adjust anything which you consider neccesary. Also, if you steal or copy the content of other blogs, your readers will start to leave because they could read the same content in other blogs, may be best than yours. I don’t want to say with this that you must post 1000% original content, if you search on google “Reasons Why I Forget Your Blog” may be you will find several results, thousand or probably millions. I mean that you need to write your own content to your way.
  5. You neglect to post: with this I want to say that if you don’t update your blog’s content often, the people who follows you regularly will start to leave your blog. Besides of keeping your blog updated, It is important to pay attention to your readers and reply to their mails or comments. It is better to have few faithful readers to have many occasional readers.
  6. 1000 bloggers or more use your theme: it is better to have an own theme that one which everybody has over the web. With this you will not lose all your readers, but it’s something that helps to lose a handful of them. Your theme is like your personality, your presentation. If thousand of bloggers has your theme, it will be bored to your visitors if they’ve look that theme before.
  7. A Bad navigation: may be you have paid for your theme, but if it has a bad navigation it will be hard to surf. A simple design with everything easy to find is the best way to avoid this cause. An archive or sitemap it is perfect to help to your readers to find the content on your blog.
  8. Longtime to load: try to not overload your blog with many content. I have seen blogs, which shows like 10 posts a page, and this is bad, if your blog has many content, scripts or banners it could take many time to load, more than usual. Try to control that.
  9. Your blog is boring: I once wrote a post about this point, about which makes your blog boring. Avoiding scrolling on your blog and having your posts clear of banner’s tons will help to make your blog more fun for reading.
  10. Nothing special, your web isn’t unique: there is a possibility that your blog is not bad, but neither is surprising. You should try to have something different to other bloggers: attitude, humor, style… Something particular that distinguishes you from the masses. This is up to you, you may find the way to be the unique possible.

And cut! there are your 10 reasons why I could forget your blog. Try to not make these mistakes or if you did use one of them then try in the most possible way to correct it. Remember, never is not too late to correct the mistakes made on the past :wink: .

 

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Building An 404 Error Page

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Today someone send me an email asking me for a page which he added to him bookmarks and today he tried to visit it and it was impossible to him. The page was not deleted, I just changed something in the permalink but he got an 404 Error Page. The 404 or Not Found error message is a HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server but either the server could not find what was requested, or it was configured not to fulfill the request and not reveal the reason why. 404 errors should not be confused with “server not found” or similar errors, in which a connection to the destination server cannot be made at all.

 

However this issue was good because it makes me notice that my 404 error page really sucks and I start to think how could I improve it…So I was thinking, in which circumstances someone get an 404 Error Page:404 error

 

  • When the url is written bad.
  • When the url is deleted from the site.
  • When the permalink is changed.

So I thought that is annoying when someone get a 404 message, the person is waiting to see the content and instead the person need to go back in the browser or verify the url. However that’s boring, so I will give you some tips to improve your 404 error page as I improved mine and give to the user a more pleasant sailing.

 

  1. Be friendly with the user: ok may be this could be considered stupid but not everybody knows what a 404 error is. Normally this kind of pages only show a single message: “404 Error - Not Found” or something like that. The experimented user know what it means, but if you are not an Internet lover, you surely won’t know what to do. In this case, you need to tell them what’s happening, a little message explaining it is sufficient for this.
  2. Include a search bar: if the user couldn’t find something, you need to help him to find it! how? if he is interested in something specific, he’ll want to find it, so what’s better than a search bar? a good and simply search bar could solve the problem, adding it to your 404 error page could help the users to find their wants.
  3. Offer personal assistance: exist the case that the user simply can’t find what he is looking for. In this case you should offer personal assistance, let them know that you are willing to help them finding what they want. Placing a link to the contact form will be enough in addition of a little note.
  4. Offer other posts: may be they can’t find what they want because simply the content does not exist on your blog. What should you do in this cases? offering other posts could be a nice way to attract them to your blog. I used a wordpress plugin called Customizable Post Listings for this, it let you to set random posts where you want with a simple php function: you can set the number of posts, the format of them, the author of them…inclusively you can set categories, so the plugin will only show random posts under these categories.

Building a 404 error page could be simple, but it’s very important for any website because depending of how is it configured, the users can leave or stay in the site when they can’t find what they want. :evil:

 

Happy blogging!

 

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Extreme Make Over ~ My Blog

Written by Mr. Javo

Hello, as you know (and if you don’t check my sidebar), I’m doing a poll about my blog apparency. The most of people likes this template, but I personally think (a couple of people had told me in Linkreferral reviews) that it can be improved. Also with a best look I could attract more readers =P.

So, independently that the poll is saying “the people likes this template and don’t want to see a new look” I think that I can improve it so much, and I’m pretty sure the people who likes this template will love the new one.

So I’m working in the new template, I have it almost done but still need somethings more. Probably for the next week you’ll see the new template load and kicking ass!!

Suggestions about colors? I’m doing this new template with gray and green with a white background and it looks very nice.

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Freelance Jobs

Written by Mr. Javo

Hi, I was thinking about my earnings yesterday, and I noticed that all my earnings comes through freelance jobs…so that make me a freelancer?? Yes I guess…But to understand completely this post let me give you a little explanation about what freelancer is:
A freelancer or freelance worker is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer. Freelancers generally enjoy a greater variety of assignments than in regular employment, and (subject to the need to earn a regular income) usually have more freedom to choose their work schedule. The experience can also lead to a broad portfolio of work and the establishment of a network of clients ultimately leading to a permanent position.

 

There are a lot kind of freelance jobs. People like designers, programmers, bloggers, etc….are freelancers! and they don’t need to fill anything to get a job, and the most of those jobs are gotten via internet, googling or something, but also you could find announcements on the news.

So in my case I’m designer, blogger and programmer, and I’ve earned a good mount with this way. Are you a freelancer? what kind of ? feel free to comment in this post your experiences like freelancer!.

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Blog’s Evolution

Written by Mr. Javo

Hello my friends, yesterday I was thinking about the Blog’s Evolution in general, and I’d can categorize that evolution in seven (7) phases: Planning, Birth, Syndication, Expanding, Monetizing, LevelUP, and Established.The Planning consists on the thinking and planning of your blog. In this step you choose your blog’s name, blog’s niche, your meta tags, keywords and may be logos/template for your blog. Is very important to blog about something you love/like, if you don’t, eventually you’ll lose the interest and then, finally you will leave it.

 

The Birth consists in the materialization of all those ideas you got on the preview phase. The creation and hosting of your blog and the creation of the first posts. Usually the people creates the first blog on a free hosting.

 

Once you created your blog and you’ve wrote some posts, the Syndication phase is coming. To attract more readers you may syndicate your blog to feeds, this way your readers will can subscribe to your blog and you will get followers on the net.

 

The syndication phase is tied with The Expanding phase. Once you syndicate your blog, you may start to register your blog on directories, communities and associated. You’ll start to worry for your blog stats, and you will subscribe your blog in some service to measure your traffic and somethings like that. All these with the finality of expand your network and get more and more readers!.

 

You will be busy in this phase several weeks (or may be forever, expanding is something constant in good blogs). Then you start to think about monetize your blog. Here is where The Monetizing phase comes, you will look for every program that help you to earn money with your blog. This phase will be every time in your blogging career, you will be looking for new alternatives eventually.

 

Then when you earned a good money with your blog, you’ll want to have your own domain. The LevelUp phase is present and it won’t go until you meet its necessities.

 

Then once you’d pass the LevelUp phase, you get Established and you’ll start to chill out. You’ll continue blogging but you won’t worry about syndication, or improvements or ranking.

 

 

You could find all that you need up to the monetizing phase in my blog checking surfing through my categories  :wink: .

 

Good luck!

 

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Do You Need A Shopping Cart Software ? Try Ashop!

Written by Mr. Javo

Hello people, are you thinking about start to sell your own stuff or products online? Are you looking for a ecommerce software to get credit card support? Well I recommend to you Ashop!.

 

Ashop provides shopping cart software over the world, which is a really great product. With their software you can sell your products with the most professional look, with the shopping cart theme editor you can adjust the layout over 50 editable themes.

 

The best part is that you don’t need to have any plug-in, neither you need to program something, with Ashop you will only adjust your shopping cart to your web, with not needed knowledge about html code or graphic design because provides a WYSIWYG editor (what you see is what you get), which facilitates all the work.In the panel you will find features like product reports, inventory control, quantity discounts and a lot of tools that will help you to have the best control of youre commerce shop on internet.

 

I recommend to you to check all the great features, and also the panel and website demo to get some idea about what you can do with this software.

 

Take full control of your own Ashop Commerce shopping cart with a completely FREE 10 day trial!

 

 

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