This is an example of a way NOT to attract any visitors. But unfortunately its a must for me at this time. Don’t expect any posts in a couple of days, but everything should be wrapped up by the end of this week. (Hopefully tomorrow).

Bloggers…Use these kinds of posts sparingly.

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This post is coming a little late due to lack of time and also because I believe it will be more relevant to our course this week rather than last weeks introductory lessons on blogging.

While other parts of your blog are vital to its success as I have mentioned many times before, but posts are what make your blog stand out. It’s where we show who we are and what we’re trying to convey. Here, I’ve compiled a list of several key elements that make up a good post.

The Title

Post titles are extremely important for several reasons. One, they can attract visitors, and two, they can attract search engines. Post titles carry more weight when it comes to search engine rankings meaning a search engine such as Google finds titles more important than normal text. Therefore, if you create a title that has specific keywords that you want to target, search engines will pick them up quickly and help your rankings.

There has been some debate lately over whether to write post titles for search engines or for humans. In plain English this means should I make my post title attractive for my readers or should I style my title and keyword it heavily so that search engines will pick it up? More and more bloggers are writing for search engines and leaving their readers to titles that may not hook the readers as they should. So the question is what do I do?

Do I write for search engines or humans?

In my opinion, as well as in the opinion of many other bloggers, it is best to have an even distribution of posts targeting these two different areas. In my own blog I apply this technique and you will notice that some of my posts are keyworded very heavily such as Choosing a Niche and Choosing a Blogging Platform. You can see in that post I am targeting the keywords “blogging platform”, “niche”, and “choosing”. In my other posts such as the Extreme Designs of the Week series,  search engines will not send me many hits from these keywords as they are very general and irrelevant which is why I’m appealing these posts completely to users and disregarding search engines completely.

Date, Author, and Category

Dates: One of my favorite and well known bloggers, Darren Rowse from Problogger, and he’s always had this thing for dates saying how they down-tune your posts and force them into a position where they are considered outdated and irrelevant by users while in fact the posts contain very exquisite and knowledgeable information. He has considered removing dates from his posts and from my perspective, for him it is a good idea. For me, it is not.

Let me explain why.

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I have briefly outlined in a post a little while ago that I will be giving in depth tips on the Seven Deadly Ways of Making Money Online and basically this post will clarify things up. Each month, starting in July, I will go through the list of the seven deadly ways of making money online and explain my methods of earning a successful income. So For the month of August, I will do a blogging crash course; in September – internet marketing; in October – freelancing, and so forth. I don’t even know if I will have enough days in the month to even finish each of these topics, but I’ll do my best and to keep this going.

The other part of “What’s the point of this blog” is to gain user feedback and answer your questions. This is similar to a one-on-one tutoring deal except in some cases, I may post your answer for everyone to see. So ask away and I’ll be more than welcome to answer your questions.

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I’ve submitted this blog on Technorati so now you can visit us there and help us rise in the ranks. Just click on the image below to add it to your Technorati Favorites:

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As some of you know, I’m finishing up college and due to this last quarter being my final one, I will hardly be active on the blog until I get my diploma. I hate to say this because the majority of my advertising will go down the drain, but when I’m ready to resume blogging on a daily basis and fully encompass the goal of this blog, I will most certainly love for you guys to visit me, so please subscibe to my feed below and stay updated.

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Readers, visitors, friends.

As you may see our blog is a little sloppy right now. We’re redesigning it and adding more features than before, so please do not rant on us for no reason. We’re doing this for you! really.

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