Blogger came up a very simple hack and you can follow this easily. I found this hack from Amanda’s and i would like to share it here.

Before This Hack:
Blog Title: Post Title

After this simple hack:
Post Title (Direct hit to your keywords)

Blogger Buzz posted their Updates and Bug Fixes for May 9th and this includes the simple fix of title tag.

Layouts now has a blog.pageName datum that gives the name of the current page without the b[Blog Name]: b prefix that blog.pageTitle adds.

Most of us bloggers are no longer use the default template instead we use the third party template. I am using Amanda’s Blue Steel Template from blogbuster.com and i am an avid fan of her, she works very hard of her blog and every blogger user can appreciate every post she made.

Anyways, just follow this very simple hack and your done.

Go to your blogger Dashboard, click Layout, then Edit HTML
Find this tag
Replace the whole tag with the following

Save your template

Important: Make sure you replace the whole Title tag with the code given or else the word Title will show like i do when i first try this hack.

Once you’ve done this hack you can start seeing Only your Post Title, blog name removed.

This will increase the chance of capturing the search engine’s attention, of course with proper use of keyword and you will benefit the extra traffic it brings to your site.

If hope your find this simple hack helpful and Enjoy!

In the other hand, Entrecard provides us a very effective system that brings traffic to our blog through dropping. I can say effective, because our Alexa really is gone down fast (Not sure now, that they have new algorithm though) especially, when you drop 300 a day and very active with entrecard. Your post get comments, you get subscribers and you can also discover sites that have the same interest as you and create some great relationship.

You work hard, you get rewarded — we all knows that! but my question is does dropping 300 a day, eating too much of your time? Do you find it hard to manage to drop back or reciprocate to your droppers and also, you don’t have time anymore researching and reading the post of your favorite blog.

I was thinking how hard would it be for those that are working and at the same time have passion blogging and dropping. If you find it hard to drop, post and read try this ways to get the balance and you will become an effective blogger.

• Drop: Multi-task – During night while watching tv, reciprocate everyone in your inbox. then next use powerdropping, is effective because system of dropping saves you so much time blog entrecard is placed above the fold no scrolling needed, you will definitely make it to 300.
• Read: Subscribe to your favorite blog using email – Sometimes we religiously reads our favorite bloggers blog for whatever reason it would be (it gives you an idea of what to blog or you take them as your mentor and helps you grow and become an effective blogger) it’s all up to you. Subscribing via Email is really handy because you will get the time to read even if your at work (During coffee break) it’s your chance to read the new post or your favorite bloggers.
• Post: It is advisable to post everyday – When you just started blogging it is, but when you have been blogging a little while there is an exception, i am not sure if you agree with me but i think it’s good to leave it a for at least one to two days not posting for other bloggers to catch up and that way it gives you time to research and prepare for the next post.

I would like to add about the post as well that, It is good for your regular dropper because that means it saves them time dropping, they don’t need to stop and read your post i know you think that it bets the purpose of blogging but for me it’s balancing between your post and blog and your readers and your droppers too! For me i really don’t mind visiting a blog that have not updated their post for at least 1 to 2 days but more than that, i start thinking of what’s going on especially when the blog owner didn’t reciprocate my drop, sometimes i conclude that this blog is dead lol!

I have posted about “your post don’t get comments, should we blame droppers?” last week and the response are incredible. I have read a lot of reasons why our fellow blogger not leave a comment, i supposedly will post all the great comment but i have a little problem at the moment with my comment system and i cannot locate the rest of the comments; I am hopeful that it will be fixed soon, i am glad i have one comment from Rachel of bakedblog.com which i would like to share — this is what she say:

Rachel: I don’t drop and comment on every blog I visit. Either one because their latest post doesn’t offer me a good chance to post a comment. On some topics I have nothing to say, or because I just don’t have the time.

However if I find a blog to be useful and have good content I usually stop and say something such as yours. I even made a post about this on the entrecard forums called drop and comment.

I would rather have a comment from someone who has something to say instead of someone who just feels obligated. I don’t really care too much what entrecard does to my bounce rate, although it hasn’t been good. I just like the fact that my blog is getting out there more.

I totally agree with Rachel. This is just an introduction because i want to share how i get people commented in my site and i hope that this will work with you aswell, i don’t see why this can’t. Aside from posting a post that are worth reading, we also need to go out and promote our blog.

Why is it important to leave comment?
This is important, in this world give and take still exist and still very useful tool. I am not saying to be oblige of leaving a comment because that contradict with what i just agreed from Rachel’s comment “On some topics I have nothing to say”, but be sure you leave comment everyday. When you comment even just one blog everyday this leaves a trail of you. Most of the time i noticed when i leave a comment, the blog owner visit my blog as well and leave a comment not a crappy one but genuine comment (They return the favor sort of thing) although we all know it does not work that way but it’s a good gesture and good start of good relationship with your readers and vice versa.

Although, there are times some blogger where you leave a comment in there site and have not returned the favor that is because of some reasons, they might have nothing to say (Been this situation too!).

U comment, I follow
Many blogger have now removed their no follow code, you can read my post about “Now that no follow has been removed, Sip that link Juice” this explains that when you leave a comment you get a little bit of that juice which is a big help for your PR and Technorati Authority. Most blogger laterally follow their readers to their site and do the same, they leave their comments.

It’s a Blog Promotion
When you leave a comment, you are leaving a trail. Most of the comment system now will automatically grab your latest post, and that is another exposure of your post. Usually, when i leave a comment i read the comment of others, i learned from other comments too! and sometimes i click their names to know who is behind the great comment, i am sure i am not the only one doing this because i have read some discussions and that shows that other commenter’s are reading someone Else’s comments too, and this is another

exposure.
One important reason why we leave a comment to other blog is the same reason why we drop our Entrecards to get traffic, to get known and to get readers. This is just a simple way of promotion. We even read almost every bloggers tips to do this and that! and yet we still under estimate and did not take advantage the power of leaving comments.

You Benefits, I Benefits
My practice is this, Since i drop card and open blog site’s why not read there blogs and leave a comment (This is to the blogs that i find interesting), i benefited and the blog site where i read the post and commented gets the benefits as well — It’s a win, win situation.

I can say that the comments we get in our site depends on the comments we left in the other sites. I don’t know if you agree with me, but if not please say your mind and start the discussion.

I have asked myself this kind of questions too! honestly what’s wrong with using the sub-domain? Does it change the way i blog? Does it make me a better blogger? Does it attract more readers and subscriber?

Still using sub domain but recognized and Popular?
Yes! you heard me right, there are bloggers that are still using Dot blogspot, Dot Wordpress, Dot Typepad etc… and become one of the world’s 50 most popular blogs. I will give some example below, this are the sites that are “Powerful” and yet still using dot blogspot sub domain.

thesartorialist.blogspot.com – Hey! look blogspot user, number 20 form the list.
girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com – Girl with a one track mind, interesting and yet another blogspot user. Number 24 from the list, even made it above mashable.com
bean-sprouts.blogspot.com – Happy Meal, Happy blogger. Sitting in the 34 from the list.
angryblackbitch.blogspot.com – Bitchitude!? number 47 from the list.

This are blogspot users still and manage to pull their name and become one of the worlds most popular blog. Blogging is all about how you make yourself towards success, not by domain, or hosting.

If your main reason for blogging though is to make money then the subject is going to be really different because their are advertisers who hired bloggers to promote their sites where they want a site with much higher PR, they don’t care if you are using sub domain from free hosting, but some are very strict and want their site to be seen only from sites or blogs that have their own domain, with PR, lower Alexa ranking including technorati and most of all subscribers.

I understand that when you buy your own domain and have your own hosting, you get the full control over your blog, you get much more credibility (does it?) your site looks more professional and more but….you still can, with free hosting and sub domain.

My Conclusion:
This is my point of view and my bottom line: You don’t need to listen to what other blogger have said like “If your serious or not” it’s all up to you, domain name cannot change anything, the way you blog or anything at all. Just look at the site above, they are happy with what they got and recognized as one of the most popular blog, some have written there own books and even spent much time on bestseller lists; Listen to your self instead, make some effort of creating a great content.

What’s wrong with sub-domain?
For me here is nothing wrong at all, i don’t see the difference. But to those that can pin point why not share it. I am an open minded blogger.

So what do you think?
You might have other view about sub domain…why not share that, it helps a lot for those who don’t understand, start the discussion.

I really love using blogger as my blog hosting — it’s easy, user friendly (click and drop) no HTML expertise needed, and most of all Free, there team keep on developing new stuff and when it’s ready we can all benefit for free unlike the other blog hosting….anyway, If your like me who appreciate the love and care of blogger to all of us bloggers then it is out chance to show blogger.com our support on them too!

How?
2008 Webware 100 – Is a yearly awards program where Webware users like US (You and me) can vote our favorite Web 2.0 apps. Voting will run until March 31.

There are ten category and every category consist of ten products. You are only allowed to vote at least 3 product on each category then you can move on to other category this is to change the last years issue where Google got half of all the votes and the rest are scrambling for attention, not much of a challenge. This time they do something and hoping that there will be a tighter or close competition.

So go and Cast your vote now! and don’t forget to vote for blogger.com and your other favorite sites.

Winners will be announced on the 21 of April 2008, The day before the Web 2.0 Expo (April 22-25,2008) in San Francisco opens

Now, i here for those have problems with comments (Comment spam) or wans to increase page rank using “no follow” attribute — This is basic HTML bloggers should learn, This helps you get more inbound links because search engine gives priority to those sites that have more inbound links.

There are many times to us bloggers we make some links, site links in particular — either it’s part of our article or giving an opinion on someone else’s article and by just doing this we create an outbound link and that lowering the value of our article. We need more web link to our article not the other way around, We need to establish the importance of our page so that the search engine will consider our page then place our site to a better search result using keywords.

Here’s the example of how to change the link:

From this:
KEYWORD TEXT

To this:
KEYWORD TEXT

When Google see’s the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on the hyperlink, Those links won’t get any credit when google rank the websites in the search result, this is also great if you received some comment spams — And Also, will help you gain more exposure and better placement to the search engine

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The past months, Google Drops everyone’s PageRank…Reason: Selling links.

Their are blogger that blogging to convert their product into money, selling e-books, affiliates and more, But their are blogger that blogging for money using blog advertising this is decent way of making money online instead of spamming, or scamming. Unfortunately there is good and bad result of selling links that raise question like should blogger be worried if Google drop their page rank to zero?

The obvious reason why it is good selling link is that blogger can make money and if you blogger is really talented and can create very good content advertiser is willing to pay much money — But then again, the negative/bad result is that blogger get penalize by Google.

So my question is — Should the blogger that already making money selling link should be worried if Google drop the ranking to zero? Keep on mind that their are time’s that advertisers only wanted to buy an ad placement to the blogger that have at least PR3 to higher, or bloggers that have own domain name or in some cases advertisers doesn’t really care as long as they get links and get decent, unique ads then they will give their part.

So if you want to make money ask the question first do you really care with the rank of your blog site or you just basically wanted to make money and at the same time provide your readers a unique good content.

It all depend with your preference — but keep on remembering though that there is always a balance of everything.

When you’re blogging, should you mention your house address, home phone number or other personal detail? Do you feel uncomfortable sharing information with that creepy stranger you just met at the grocery store? if yes then i suggest not to mention names, even your child’s name or anything that is so personal on your blog. It is okay to say “my husband or my kids” because remember, that if you post that information on your blog, you just expose your self into trouble.


“You have to remember that your blog has a global audience whether you know it or not”

Setting up boundaries with your personal life and your blog is very important not just protecting yourself and your life and besides it is not really that necessary to publish your personal detail so that people reads you blog — we all know that readers want the content of your blog. I all we do we sometimes set boundaries why not this one too! you’re going to thank yourself if you do.