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If you have followed my contents since I started blogging or you have read About Wayne Liew, you should know that I started blogging on Blogger, the free blogging platform owned by Google.
I am lucky because my aim is to start a brand new blog without having any transfer fuss. Of course, losing all the backlinks that my old PR5 Blogger blog is a huge sacrifice but life goes on and this blog is actually on a Google PR4 now. However, things might be easier if the value of the links from my old Blogger blog can be passed on to Wayne Liew Dot Com.
When a blogger is more devoted to a blog, there is a high chance that he/she will consider to host his/her blog on self-hosted Wordpress. Transferring your blog posts and comments are taught to you in the Wordpress codex but what if you want to redirect every permalinks of your blog posts on your old Blogger blog to this the posts on your new blog which are just transferred?
Continue reading Blogger To Wordpress: Keep Your Link Juice
If you scroll down a bit after the fold of Wayne Liew Dot Com, you should see a small Entrecard widget which I have made available due to some motivation I get from Victor of The Neotrepreneur and Deimos of AhKong.net.
I am still a bit skeptic about this banner exchange traffic generation widget but I thought I would give it a try since the whole blogosphere is hot about it.
Entrecard Testimonials By Other Bloggers
The following few will be a few quotes that I have collected previously from a few blogs on their thought about this traffic generating and money making tool.
First up, the quote by David Peralty of eXtra For Every Publisher on Why I Won’t Be Using EntreCard is what makes me doubtful on whether to sign up to Entrecard before this.
EntreCard is kinda dumb, and people that are using it, are just increasing the money that flows into the pockets of the guy that created it.
Once the buzz wears out, he will sell the site, pocket a decent deal of money, and leave most people with another useless widget on their blogs.
Continue reading Ongoing Blogging Experiment: Operation Entrecard
The time is moving so fast and another blogosphere summary is up again. Before you share with me how your blogging week has been, let me summarize the happenings in the blogosphere for the week here. I am sure you will be more than interested since I will be quoting more juicy blogging tips that will definitely help you to blog better.
Happenings On Wayne Liew Dot Com
Social media celebrations
The week has been mesmerizing for me as there are a few traffic spikes and I should really thank the users of social media, notably my friends on StumbleUpon and Sphinn. Why this deserved a celebration is because the first time in my blogging career? Well, I got featured on the front page of a social media site. Yes, Ask Your Blogging Questions At The Right Place went popular on Sphinn with 31 Sphinns. Thank you to all Sphinners.
Continue reading Blogosphere Summary Week #3
Guides and how-to articles are some types of social media pulling articles, perfect linkbaiting contents and they are the articles that get a lot of attention and participation from readers. Many bloggers are starting to write these articles as the results that they can bring are proven.
What should a good guide and how-to article looks like? What elements that it should consists of and how should it be written? Yes, this is another blogging tips on contents. If you are on your way to produce yet another how-to article, wait till you finish reading this blogging tips from me.
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Gathering Ideas For The Next How-To Article
Helpfulness for you, your readers and your blog
If you have trouble figuring out a how-to article idea, try to think what your blog needs. If you want to boost the number of RSS feed subscribers for example, you can try to write on how your readers can subscribe to them as a what is RSS post can increase the number of RSS subscribers.
Continue reading Blogging Tips For Guides and How-To Articles
Wayne Liew Dot Com was not meant to be a blogging tips blog. What I really want to do with this blog right from the start is to fill it up with daily rants, pull it through the first 3 months and start earning money with it via paid posts.
I slowly changed my style, in fact the whole direction of the blog is changed. I became interested in blogging and got fascinated by just replying e-mails to assimilate some simple blogging tips.
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A blogging style change can be of a minor change or a major one which I classify as below:
- Major blogging style change. This change can be a total change of niche. Wayne Liew Dot Com can be an example for this as I switched the blog from a personal blog to a blogging tips blog that you see now.
- Minor blogging style change. This can be a change of your writing style. You might be writing on a commanding tone before this and changing to a more interacting tone is thought by you as the better choice.
Today, I will be providing blogging tips on how you can properly complete the whole transition. Follow my tips below and you will manage to get a successful change of style for your blog without being disappointed. If you think I am disappointed with my decision to change the blog into a blogging tips blog in October 2007, are you of sound mind? 
Continue reading Action Plan For A Successful Blogging Style Change
Last week, I pitched a few bloggers which are in a position where every blogger will dream of with the question below:
Which blog post of yours that you think lifted your blog off the runway and become successful as it is now? Also, what will you recommend bloggers out there to do or to have so that their blog can take off as soon as possible?
Some of them which had inspired me in some way and I hope they can do the same to your blogging "career" as well.
Read on and tell me which one of them is your blogging idol and what you have learned from the quotes below.
Continue reading Voice Up: One Post To Fame Or Long Term Effort?
When we face problems in blogging, the first thing we know is to ask for help. We go to everywhere that we can think of to seek for the solutions which may or may not help us.
The downside about asking the whole world for blogging solutions are:
- Time wasting. Instead of knowing for sure where to ask, we spend our time typing, or copying and pasting our questions here and there!
- Inadequate follow up. If everyone is providing you with an answer, you will need to reply and once the solutions are in your hands, you often forget to thank or to follow up on the solutions provided.
- Degrading professionalism. Have you ever seen a great leader or someone in authority panicked about something and seek solution from everyone? No! This is because their credibility and reputation will be at tarnished.
Blogging Q&A Stations and Usage Guidelines
Search engines
This is the place I turn to first for troubles that I came across in blogging. The problems that we faced in blogging or in every aspects of life are mostly gone through by others and it is very likely that they will be documented on the Internet.
Search engines nowadays is capable of providing answers to nearly everything. The best of finding answers with this method is that no one will know you are facing problems and if you are patient enough to go through page after page of search results, you will gain a lot of related knowledge along the way.
Downside: An urgent problem such as inability to load your blog or a spoilt modification to your blog theme will require a faster method as going through page after page of irrelevant search results will only delay your seek for the crucial solution.
Continue reading Ask Your Blogging Questions At The Right Place
The whole week has been really crazy for this blogging tips blog. It is the first time in one week that my posts got StumbledUpon three times and two of it brought me high spikes of traffic.
The blogosphere has been filled with juicy blogging tips and red hot buzz as always to fill up your week. Let me start quoting and giving out some link loves with this post.
Google AdSense Referral Income Shrinking For Publishers
First up, the big news of the week is of course money-related. The biggest Internet or blog monetization platform, Google AdSense is making the headlines again by becoming stingier to their publishers.
New changes have been made to the Google Adsense Referral Program. You can read the summary of the changes over at Summary of New Changes to AdSense Referrals Programs. People living outside US, Canada and Japan will have their Google AdSense earnings greatly affected by these changes but not me since I have been banned by them ages ago.
Continue reading Blogosphere Summary Week #2
Google, the superior search engine sees an outgoing link from a page as a vote to the landing page of the link. We can give our votes to every page we want but we are having our blogs on the Internet close to being owned by Google. This means, even if we wanted to link to others, we have Google’s rule to follow.
Google, in their webmaster guidelines, under the heading Design and content guidelines, point 7, states that bloggers and webmasters must check out and prune broken links from our sites.
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As a blogger, we always focus on our new contents like what I have mentioned in Vital Sections for a Blog Clean Up, it is important to revisit our old posts to keep them updated and of course, to remove or update broken links!
Dig Out Broken Links With Just A Click
Sites that we link to might have been removed, deleted or taken offline. Scanning through a huge pile of old posts to find for broken links is a tiring chore but it will be as easy as surfing the Net if you know the right plugin for this problem!
Continue reading Search and Destroy Broken Links With A Plugin
Do you know why your blog readers turn up and what they are up to? Many look at their stats frequently, knowing where the traffic comes from but not quite sure with why people visit their blog.
Advantages of Knowing Why Readers Come to Your Blog
People do not come to your blog without a reason. Understanding why your readers come to you will reap in the following benefits:
- Knowing where to optimize for better results
- Keep existing readers
- Acquire new readers
- Build up authority and credibility with personal style
- Be clear of where your blog is heading
The 10 Reasons Blog Readers Visit Your Blog
Baited
On some blogs like pelf-ism is contagious, whenever you leave a comment, the headline of your most recent post will be published along with your comments. This is done via the Commentluv plugin.
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Catchy title is one way of baiting traffic. Some people can be so good in writing catchy titles so that they can get the attention of others with just the title. However, one should be careful that catchy titles must match the contents because when it does not, the visitors that were baited will only become passing traffic.
Continue reading Why Your Readers Read Your Blog?
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