Quantity versus quality in the blogosphere

After a long contradictory discussion that I had with some of my fellow bloggers, I have decided to research thoroughly this matter, in order to settle the everlasting dispute.
Quantity or quality, which is the most important feature of an outstanding blog? Is it better to bombard the visitor with thousand of meaningless articles every day, or write just twice a week, but care about reader’s opinion and even try to make them interact with you, by stimulate them to comment the things that you have wrote?

This two concepts can be bond to two different characters, the powerful S.E.O. that is trying to maximize his profit by flooding the search engine with pointless articles filled with keywords and, on the other side, the blogger that cares about his readers, trying to get their attention and even admiration.

It is up to your decision, if you want to get traffic fast, you can flood your blog with useless articles, but this is a short term solution and you may regret it later. If the visitor will guess your intention, then he may treat your articles disinterestedly, even if you write something very interesting. In my opinion this is a desperate measure and I’d rather choose another option.
By the other hand, the first step to rise your traffic is to build your credibility, and if you are a novice blogger like me, the best way to obtain credibility is to provide good content. You must realize that you are not the only blogger on the network and you must admit that people don’t know you. Before you will stand out from the crowd, you will need a continuous flow of original article. Once people notice you care about what they think, you may see some encouraging results.

In conclusion, my personal advice is to keep things simple, because often simple is the best option, and try to impress your visitors. You will be surprised by the results. And as an experiment, you may try to combine quality with quantity, but I consider that is exhausting to write a lot and well, especially if you have a day job or classes to attend to, or both, even though this combination can offer far more superior results.
I consider this subject far from closed, and if someone disagrees with me, I will be delighted to hear their opinion. This is my way to keep things interactive.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan

How to lose weight while making money online

Many of you people may think that I’ve climbed a tree and fallen from it, but more important than making money online is to live long enough to spend it. And very rarely an obese person is a healthy one. Here I can give an unfortunate example from my family, my father weights 300 pounds and got two different diseases in two consecutive months. Therefore, I will give you 5 tips which I thought that could be useful in the battle with the extra pounds gained in front of the computer.

1. Roll your neck.When you sit in front of the computer, you accumulate a considerable amount of stress from your body in your neck, and that stress influences negatively your body fat. This exercise will help you lose weight and as a bonus, it will get you relaxed.

2. Drink cold waterYou can burn 100 calories if you choose as refreshment an ice cold beverage, and you drink approximately eight glasses. Note that it should be a beverage without calories.

3. Eat foods that burn calories Spinach, celery, lettuce and cucumbers can help your body consume more calories that you ingest, even if they have an awkward taste, no offense for the vegetarians.

4. Eat spicy foodYou can raise the metabolic rate of your organism by eating spicy food, and you should also encounter the “sweat factor”.

5. Drink strong coffeeThe coffee also increases your metabolic rate, and you also became more active and burn more calories, but you should always remember that it worth drinking coffee only if it is without sugar.
Bonus tip: Stop making money online for an hour or two and take a long and liberating walk outside, you may even get some good ideas while taking a breath of fresh air, and maybe you will realize that it wasn’t such a bad idea after all.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan

How to use Heat Map to improve your income

Have you ever asked yourself what are your visitors doing after they arrived on your blog ? Where do they click at ? What do they read ? Where , and how fast they are scrolling and reading ? What internal navigation do they use ? What ads do they click ?

If you ever asked yourself these questions, it means that you are on the way to earn money fast. To find the answers to the questions above, you need to use a heatmap generation tool for your blog.
A heatmap generation tool helps you see where visitors have clicked after arriving on your blog. What ads did they choose to click on. And what articles did they find interesting, and what links did they choose to click from the articles you have written.

One of the best tools on the internet is offered by CrazyEgg. Some of you may know the service provided by CrazyEgg, and you may know that it generates some of the best heatmaps, because this tool tracks with high precision where visitors click on your blog, creating heatmap of the results.

There are also free tools for tracking click on your website, that generate heat maps:

Click Heat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones. The latest stable version is 1.7 , but you can also test the latest beta, with some improvements: 1.8-beta. You can download them here.

Click Density is another visual heatmap of clicks that allows you to analyse the user experience and identify usability and information architecture issues that would have been impossible to identify without it. Click Density heat map, shows imediately the relative popularity of components on your pages.

Click Tale is another way to visually understand your website`s visitors behaviour. With Click Tale, website owners can see where their website visitors look, what parts of the page they skip and how far down they scroll. To determine where visitors are looking, the ClickTale Heatmaps combine the browser window scrolling positions of hundreds of visitors. The resulting data is displayed in four meaningful heatmaps: Attention, Total Time, Visitors and Pageviews.

Feng-GUI is another way to find where your visitors look, where are their eyes attracted, and where will they look most of the time when they surf your blog, and in what way will they surf and look at your blog’s content, picture, ads. Feng-GUI creates a heatmap of your website of an image and delineates which areas get the maximum attention from your visitors.

It is very important to make use of such a tool if you plan to make money fast, because this way you’ll know where to place your ads, and not only that but also where to put the ads that are more expensive, so they will bring better income. Ads use the pay per click system, and because of that it is important to know where is the best spot to place them. A heatmap will help you know the best spots where to put ads on your blog.

Many bloggers that started to write for money, hoping to make quick money, don’t know the importance of using this tool, and they get to the point where they ask themselves: “What did I do wrong ? Why don’t I earn more money ?” I guess you can figure out the answer yourselves.
You can improve your pay per click income from ads in just days, by using heatmap generating tools, by tracking clicks on your site.

A few tips about the keywords

In order to make your posts easier to find for the search engines, you must think about trying new techniques in the writing process of your posts, beside the good old figures of speech.
The most important of this techniques should be the managing of the keywords. On the web, keywords aren’t the words used to reveal the internal structure of the author’s reasoning, they are the tools used to be noticed by the search engines.
With the help of keywords, you may control how people will find the post in search engines or what they will have to type to find your information, but you also should ask yourself what keywords others are using, because if your keywords are very common, your information will be lost between thousands of posts with similar ones.
For a better result, you may use keywords in titles, tags and links, but you should use them in the content of the post too. You must be careful though and try not to overreact and ruin the post’s content and the reader’s pleasure. The overfilling of the text with keywords is also called keyword stuffing and everyone agrees that loading your page in attempt to manipulate is more often causing a negative effect. SEO experts suggests that the density of the keywords should be somewhere between 5 % and 20%, but I prefer the lower limit for the content’s sake.
Some people like to find keywords, then write an article that could contain those words, but you can try to reverse the approach, by writing a good article, then figure out how to integrate the keywords, you can find it sometimes easier and it usually works for me. This way, your text won’t seem artificial and it won’t offend your reader’s intelligence.
You can check at all time your progress of the post’s optimizing process with a keyword density analyzer.
With all this been said, just remember that most of the times, it’s best to have quality rather than quantity.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan

How to write catchy posts that will draw people’s interest

As easy at it seems, people developed a real science around this topic with tones of rules and suggestions, but they usually forget that the readers are human beings and they just want something interesting, not a 10000 words post about the sound of the growing grass.
Before writing an article, you must pay attention to some elements that will interfere, such as:
-you must identify your reader’s comprehension level
-you must make short and on the topic posts
-you can “spice up” the text with a bit of humor
-you must teach users how to trust and keep that trust trough good content
Also the rules of common sense should be applied and you should not write prejudicial posts to others.
A very important feature of a post is the headline, this is a great tool and it can be used to make the visitor curious and eager to read more. After you catch his attention, you must deliver the content, which should be useful and related to the headline. You can’t write a headline about visa credit cards and then talk about what your pet iguana had for breakfast, because you might even get the “performance” to get the reader angry.
You must also remember that good posts will make people happy and happy people will make you happy, by paying regular visits to your blog. But if you want to be visited more often you should write more often.
At least but not last, try to be original, it is a very appreciated quality and it can excuse sometimes the clumsiness of the article, like this one’s for example.

Written by: Liviu Moldovan