tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18894337872338370902024-03-11T16:27:17.336+08:00John Henry Gaspay - Technical SEO SpecialistProfessional freelance SEO specialist in Cebu for eCommerce sites running WordPress or Shopify & can cater both On-page or Off-page services for international clients.rhodzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14017171349840173059noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889433787233837090.post-72219144168969013132017-06-21T00:30:00.001+08:002021-05-12T16:59:17.515+08:00Tips to Start Your Own Personal Blog for College Student<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Having a hard time on <b>how to start a blog</b>? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Taking more time to research what topic to write and search for any guidelines to follow? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">And still end up on where would you start, what topic to begin and how to do it? </div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">These are the common problems encounter by every newbie writer. You sometimes get intimidated to write because you failed at a certain point. No matter how many times you failed just <b>don’t quit </b>because the only way of failing is when you stop trying.<br />
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What is a blog or blogging?</h3>
A blog is like your <b>online personal diary</b> which has the ability to be available privately for you or publicly for everybody. It is also widely useful nowadays because of its features to <b>post </b>and <b>add comments</b>. Every blog may vary in different topic discussions to express the idea of the author.<br />
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If you are a college student, you probably want to know how to create a blog even though you don’t have experience in writing (just like I am now). Having a hard time writing your first <span class="GoogleGenius-SEO">personal blog</span>, you don’t have to worry. Every newbie experiences that too and according to my friend, every writer has also felt that way. Do you believe that constant practice makes perfect? Same as in writing, the more you challenge yourself to it, the more you become professional and adapt different styles, techniques, tips and master the grammar usage in the long run.<br />
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Here are 10 Tips or Guidelines on Starting a Blog of Your Own:</h4>
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<li><b>Be original </b> </li>
Avoid copy and paste the ideas or work from other authors. This act is called plagiarism. You may have issues with <a href="http://www.dmca.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">DMCA</a> or (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) on your blog. The worst thing to happen is that your blog or website might be penalized or banned later on.<br /><br />
<li><b>Be sharable</b> </li>
Let’s say that you are the reader, why would you read this blog? What is the difference between your blog from other blogs? In business terms, this is called a value proposition. Are you giving something for free? This is to make sure that your content will be loved and enjoyed by your readers.<br /><br />
<li><b>Must be at least 400-600 words or more</b> </li>The blog should be ranging more than 400 and must be relevant to the topic.<br /><br />
<li><b>Define your target keyword</b> </li>
A keyword or a query is used when searching on the web using a search engine like Google. So before writing your blog you should first do basic keyword research using these three search engines; Google, Bing, and Yahoo. For example, if you search for a term, you have to make sure that it has enough results or a minimum of 500k.</ol>
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There are a lot of free keyword tools but we will just use the basic which is the Google search tool. Here are some Google tricks for tips on searching a term using characters.<br /><br />
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<li> First is the <b>exact match</b>, try to search this keyword: “college blog” with the double quote and compare it with no double quote. There is a huge difference in the result.</li>
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<li> The second is the <b>negative match</b>, using (~) tilde before a keyword. This technique excludes a term. For example, try to search in Google; college project ~college. This will search the term college project without a term college on the search result.</li>
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<li>The third is the <b>add match</b>, using (+) plus sign before the term. For example, try to search; college tips +news. This will search result pages including news articles or news websites.</li>
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<li><b>Take time to research your topic</b> </li>
The more time you spend on your research, the higher the quality of your content and this is good for the readers. Every newbie writer should spend time to provide more quality not just good content. If you are in doubt of what certain topic to write, you just have to start with what you are good at because once you are done with your first article and keep posting quality and relevant articles for your blog, then you are good to go.<br />
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<li><b>Start writing your first draft </b> </li>
When writing your first draft, as much as possible don’t hit backspace just continue writing and don’t mind with the grammar. You just have to focus on what is your idea. Anyway, you can have much more time to check your grammar than to organize your idea. You can ask somebody from your family or from your friends to proofread or to review your work if it’s readable or easy to understand. Applies some formatting to emphasize words and always make sure to use contrasting font color and Verdana as font type for your paragraph.<br />
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<li><b>Make use of Images, videos or other type of content</b> </li>
Did you know that Facebook users tend to like more content posts in images than in text? People spend more time reading blogs with images than those articles that don’t have. You have to support your content using good quality images to attract readers. But, limit the file size as it will affect your website performance. File size more than 100Mb is definitely a no-no. Users get frustrated or hate a website that loads very slowly so limit your file size not just on images but to another type of content to be uploaded.<br />
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<li><b>Be sociable</b> </li>
After posting your content, it is now time to share it using your social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and many more. You can reach friends who have a passion for writing and start following them. You might add your childhood friends and you may also ask them anything about writing using their expertise on it.<br />
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<li><b>Never stop learning</b> </li>
If you really want to be a good writer, you should also be a reader. Read more books about <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">blogging tips</a> to becoming a better writer. You may follow those expert writers by subscribing to their website to keep you updated on their latest posts.<br />
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<li><b>Eat and get a good sleep</b> </li>
Have enough good sleep it will help your brain to function well than having a few hours of sleep. Think of it as a battery, the lesser you charge the quicker to discharge. Also, study shows people who refrain from food and sleep shorten their life twice as those people who get enough good sleep and eat healthy food.
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John Gaspayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02970945097527767604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889433787233837090.post-52847126742311781702017-06-14T18:02:00.001+08:002021-05-12T17:00:56.530+08:00Some Basic SEO You Need to Know<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b>Do you want to rank your page or site in Google? </b></div>
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There are rules that need be follow to avoid your site from banning from Google. Learn how to rank your website on list on SERPs (search engine result pages). The three major search engine are Google, Yahoo and Bing they help user return or get more relevant topic from his search term or query. </div>
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What are these activities needed to drive more traffic to your site?</h3>
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One of the most effective techniques is by choosing the right keyword for your site. Before you build a website you must know the keyword effectiveness, popularity and competitiveness for your content to be written. Google Adwords is one of the tools that can help. There are many activities to work on and to get more links both internal and external of your site. You will also learn basic HTML (hypertext markup language), different tools or checker for free and to know hidden issue so that you can make a solution out of it. One of the activities will be on how to rank your site using certain keyword competing with others.</div>
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Connecting People to Your Website</h3>
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Social media optimization is of one the most effective ways of getting more traffic to your site. The most famous social networks recommended by people to join are Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. After you join these sites, it will be better if you invite as many friends or followers as you want by viewing their friends of friend’s profile. When you get many followers or friends, it will then be the best chance to participate and share your status. You will receive email notification of every activity within every social network site you have joined. So, this will be the perfect opportunity to post interesting topics about your website or blog to increase traffic.</div>
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John Gaspayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02970945097527767604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1889433787233837090.post-26903235409271663032012-01-03T17:50:00.001+08:002021-05-12T17:04:36.381+08:00My Personal Blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Blogs have been popular nowadays because there are many ways in which you can earn from them. Having a blog is really cool especially if you are a writer and you have a passion for that. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;">A lot of people ask what is Blog? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How they help you make money online? </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-weight: normal;">How much time you will need to become a professional blogger. On this blog, you will discover how to make money online with the help of some articles that will teach you how to earn passive and active income online.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">A blog serves as an online journal about how individual think and feel about certain things or ideas which can be shared to the public. Everyone can be a blogger, someone who is willing to share his/her ideas or have it in private mode. One of the challenges in blogging is, that you need more time to be professional with your writings. If you want to become a writer someday then, try to start blogging. Every blogger experienced these challenges at first but as soon as you continue writing and meeting people online with a common interest in blogging/writing you will become a good writer. But if you're not that good enough in grammar then try to visit the forum and blog site by leaving comments and keep posting. You can also try to Google how to write your own blog and many other sites to help you improve your grammar or writing structure skills. But if you already created your own blog then start post don’t worry you will become a good blogger after some time.</span><br />
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What to post with your blog?</h4>
<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">The first rule before posting your blog is that try to make it easy to understand or readable by people who visit your website. There are many hot topics you can select from like food, health, cars, finance, music, travel, shopping and etc. If you have chosen one, try to find keywords and from that create a question that might help you broaden your topic using that keyword/keyphrase. Try to post 2-3 articles in a week to keep your blog update.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">For a personal blog, it would be better if you post for happy topics and avoid posting sad experiences. Your blog can also make you happy if you post moments about your experiences from different places, people, and events.</span> <br />
<br /><span style="font-weight: normal;">A blog for businesses keeps their post every day to keep their visitors updated. It is also one of the effective techniques for business owners to reach thousand of prospective customers around the world to announce new products about services they offered online.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Always check your article from time to time, reread if necessary for correction before posting. One of the tips I've learned in writing an effective article is divided into two which is writing or write your original ideas and the second is editing or applying your style, grammar, and identifying errors for your content. </span></div>
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