On behalf of Salwa, I am writing to inform all the blog readers of blogriffic.com that Salwa is experiencing some personal health problems and the blog maybe out of the action for a few more days.  While we await the return of Salwa, I’ve selected some great posts from the archives of blogriffic.com. I hope you find this selective posts useful and enjoyable.

• How to Find Winning Ideas for your Blog Topics: A Blogger’s Online Manual
• 5 Reasons to Use Wordpress as Your Blog System
• Search Engine Optimization Techniques
• Traffic Monday: Why You Should Use (NOT Abuse) Forums to Increase Traffic
• Making Yourself Identifiable In The Blogging Community

Thank you for understanding. James King of atmmultimedia.com

A blog isn’t going to do much good if it just exists without anyone ever reading it. You may have the best looking and well put together blog ever created but you still have to do a little work to get traffic. Traffic has a way of snowballing once you get it started so put the work in now and then it will only take occasional efforts to keep the traffic coming. There are 5 tactics to increase blog traffic;

Twitter: If you don’t already have an account you should get one. Once you start using twitter, don’t jump right in with the “read my blog” tweets. Retweet other people and seek out people who may be interested in your blog. Post other websites that offer good information. Then, after you have been on twitter for a while, direct people to your blog. Interaction between the advertisements is critical for survival on twitter but it can bring you tons of traffic.

Forums: Join some forums related to your blog. Do nothing at first (except add a link to your blog on your forum “signature”, but occasionally join in some threads and topics. Again, once you have made your presence known, slip a link to your blog in one of the posts you make. Add the post casually such as “…and here is a blog where you might find more information”..Once they get to know your name and become interested in your niche, they will be more apt to follow a link you put up. Continue to read this article »

Just in case you have never heard of twitter; it is a social media site that instantaneously took off and gained popularity from the first “tweet”. You can choose to follow people (and hope that they follow you back) by searching by keywords. For instance, an internet marketer would probably search for friends by finding those who have tweeted about internet marketing or working at home, or something similar. It’s very addictive and many people have more than one account. One account is usually used for business and the other for friends and family.

With the many twitter applications available you can basically zoom in on your target customers or readers just by getting to know your way around. Remember that others are searching based on keywords as well so the more you tweet your “keywords” the more interested people you will likely get who want to follow you. However, being a social site there are some spoken and unspoken rules in the community. If you want the number of followers (hence, more traffic) then you must interact within the community. Here are some ways twitter can help you drive targeted traffic to your website. Continue to read this article »

Heck. Who’s denying that when you write a blog review about a certain product, you are not doing it for the money? Only financial cynics will deter you from generating income by turning your blog into a sales page. Nonetheless, it’s no reason why you shouldn’t hear them out. Some of them just wanted to bring back the good all days of blogging when information is still reliable. So even if you are blogging to sell out, don’t try to do so. Write a blog, not a sales letter.

So What’s the Big Difference?

When you come to think about it, a blog that sells a product is essentially a sales letter. But why make a blog to sell if you already have a sales page with your own domain name? That’s because blogging is a whole different strategy in all aspects compared to selling with a sales letter.

For one, sales letter is a long content with tons of highlighted text and exaggerated wordings. It is published in a single webpage with no page break, tabs or links whatsoever. I know you have already seen one of these badly written contents that online entrepreneurs are expecting to sell. In fact, they actually sell sometimes, but more often than not, readers are easily turned off by such a sloppy way of presenting a product. Continue to read this article »

Demo | Download Obitor Wordpress Theme

I am very happy to release Obitor Wordpress theme which was my old custom Wordpress theme used here at blogriffic before this current design. Since I won’t be using it anymore I have decided to release it for the public

Obitor Wordpress Theme is 2 column layout with these great features;

• Widgetized Sidebars,
• Navigation Dropdown Menu
• Search Engine Optimized,
• Built-in Gravatars,
• Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict,
• Valid CSS Level 2.1
• Perfect Cross Browser Compatibility In IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, and Opera 9,
• Clean, Organized & Tagged Code For Easy Modification and Script Integration (If Desired),
• Fully Compatible with Wordpress 2.7

When browsing the internet for information, you will often find yourself drowning in a sea of articles discussing on the same topics. Sometimes you just don’t know which to click and yet you don’t want to waste your time opening a link that will not give you what you need.

As a researcher, I have experienced being bombarded with the same dilemma. To resolve this, what I usually do is choose the titles that seem to be well thought out and completely ignore the ones that fail to get my attention. God knows I made the right decision! The better titles are indeed the ones that lead me to the contents that I wanted. When I tried to check the dull ones, I did found the articles lacking in substance. Continue to read this article »