Have you install the Google new blog widget - Friend Connect??

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other. It’s kind of like a combination between a mybloglog/blogcatalog widget that shows recent viewers.

Benefit :

Enrich your site
Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

Attract more visitors
Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.

The interesting thing about friendconnect is that it is not just for blogs, its for any type of site at all, so who knows where you’ll start seeing these pop up. And you don’t have to register for the service to interact with it, as long as you already have a gmail account (and everyone in the world already has a gmail account, of course).


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What triggers popularity with a search engine has always been elusive. You have to change how you market your website and even build it to make search engines rank it on their top page. For someone new on the scene, it can appear to be a daunting task. Here in this article we will look at the latest in SEO and SEM by starting with the site itself.

First thing is what not to do. Remember back when websites would have massive keyword lists at the bottom or top of the pages? These words were paragraphs long and didn't make any sense at all! The human eye knew that it didn't mean anything, but this text was designed for SEO and to trick the search engines. Sure, it worked for awhile, but now search engines are wise to our tricks. They know these paragraphs are designed only for SEO, which now will get you penalized.

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Here we show you how mastering Google can help get visitors motoring in the direction of your website.

1. Getting Started : One of the most common ways to find links is to simply ask Google. Open up www.google.com. Do a search for your desired keywords, for example ‘web designer’. Navigate to the naturally listed top sites to see whether they allow you to summit a link.
2. An alternative route : You can be a bit specific about links. Open up www.google.com. Type in your niche, for example ‘custom web designers scotland’, and include either ‘+links’ or ‘+links or + sites’ at the end of your keywords. Google will look for sites that contain references to each.

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How good is your Web site? Is your Blog up to par?

There are actually websites that will measure the ranking of your website. For those of you that don't know what page rank is, it's a tool put together by Google that determines the effectiveness or efficiency of your Web site.

The higher your page rank, the higher your Web site is listed in the various search engines, and that means more traffic to your site. This, in essence, means more people are looking at your site, your products, your services, thus putting more money in your pocket in the form of paying customers.

If more people are going to your Web site then less traffic is going to your competitors' Web site. Unfortunately most people don't even know what page rank is but those visitors that do will place your website in a higher esteem than your competitors and feel that your content is much more valuable and insightful.

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Page rank is one of the most talked about topic in SEO industry. Every few months Google will update the PageRank data that show in the toolbar. Over the past few days, Google has updated their Toolbar Page Ranking. I was noticing that a lot of sites gone up and some got hammered on this newest update.

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Search engine marketing involves keeping your content fresh, using keywords that put you at the top of the first page and obtaining as many links to your site from other websites as possible.

Pleasing the Search Engines

1. Search engines love updated content. Pay attention to which sites show on the first page and you will notice that among the sites in keyword competition, it is the sites with the most updated content that win out. Either write your own articles and upload your own graphics and photos or outsource the job to freelancers.

There are many freelancers who write for reasonable rates. With one good writer or writing team, you can improve your site's rankings dramatically. Make sure the writer you choose understands SEO.

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Entrecard is often at the top of every new bloggers list of things to try. The service is both criticized and praised by the blogosphere. Once you run Entrecard, you will have a good feel of what sort of traffic the widget can bring.

I agree that Entrecard has done quite a lot for the blogosphere, especially for new blogs like me. Blogs with less than 10 visitors per day are now having over a hundred visitors. That’s great!! But what happens when the widget is taken off?

The amount of traffic your site will receive will ultimately go down. Entrecarders will no longer see your card within their EC inbox. They will also not have the benefit of receiving a credit when visiting your site. This is because they believe members are visiting their website and not bothering to read any posts or leave comment and visiting only to drop. The spirit of blogging is rapidly diminishing. Most Bloggers in Entrecard only care about dropping and gaining credits for advertisement.


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If you expect to achieve sustained growth for your Web business and you don't have a plan in place to get you there, you might as well forget it. Growing a profitable Web Business is a strategic process that requires long range vision, careful planning, precise execution and patience. It's vital that you know exactly what you want to accomplish and that you have a detailed blueprint to follow.

Of course you need to have a website that is optimized and tested to convert traffic, and then you need to devote time to developing and executing short-term and long-term promotional strategies. These strategies must stand on their own as well as work together to get you the best results.

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About Bonoriau (@bonoriau)

Thanks for clicking the URL in my Twitter profile - let me give you a little background on who I am and what I do.

I’m a 38 year old Indonesian living in Riau. I am married and have 5 kids. I am a businessmen and part time blogger.Love traveling, reading and blogging.

My Blog

I’ve been blogging since July 2007 on a number of sites. I started out with just one at Spirit Of Blogging - a site about miscellaneous topics that take my fancy from time to time. That site spawned a number of others including few that I edit today:

1. Bonoriau
2. Myblogriau
3. Make Money Online
4. Bonoriau Mall
5. World Dream Cars
6. Digital Internet Marketing

Bonoriau Twitter

You obviously have an interest in Twitter because you’ve clicked through on my Twitter Profile link. I’d love to connect with you there via my @bonoriau twitter account. If you follow @bonoriau you’ll get a variety of things.

Thanks for visiting my about page - if you’ve not already don’t forget to follow me on Twitter so we can interact there.

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