The Personal Development Blog

Increase your Technorati-rank

August 15th, 2007

I just stumbled upon this opportunity to increase my blogs technorati rankings. It is reported from several other blogers that it works very well. If you want to try it on our own blog just copy the text below and follow the instructions.

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Instructions:

1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “ViralTags” below courtesy of Founders Cafe.

2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Viral Tags” in the matrix with your anchor text of choice with your blog’s URL. Please keep anchor text to a max of 3 words to keep the matrix size manageable.

3.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Viral Tags”, practice good karma by copying his/her Host Tag’s anchor text (automatically the associated link will also be copied) and paste it over one of your “Viral Tags” below.

4.) Encourage and invite your readers to do the same and soon this can grow virally.

Host Tag: The Personal Development Blog

Important: Once I get a ping back from you, I will add your anchor text and the associated link you designate as “Host Tag” here, replacing one of the “ViralTags” from the matrix above. As more and more bloggers copy and paste this matrix, the more backlinks you will have with your anchor text. If everybody who copy and paste from your blog does the same, pretty soon this will spread and go viral. So, the sooner you participate, the more links with anchor text you will receive.

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How to get your articles to show up on the first page of Google

June 24th, 2007

I’ve been having a lot of fun researching keywords lately. This is something that have really paid of for me. There is no reason what so ever why you can’t produce the exact same results as me. You could write an article that shows up at the #1 spot on Google in 2-14 days.

Here is a link to a tool you can use for keyword research:
http://www.inspiredhost.com//keysearch/research.php

What you need to do is to find low competition keywords. When you have located some keywords with a high search volume, but with few hits on google (less than 5000), you’re ready to go. Now, write an article and put some of the low competition keywords in the article text. Submit the article to www.ezinearticles.com and voila… A few days later your article should show up on the first page of google.

I would really appreciate it if you would post your results in the comment field of this article.

Here is a list of some of the search strings that currently make my articles show up on the first page of Google:

live like die tomorrow (#1)
how millionaires go broke (#1)
live like tomorrow I will die (#1)
free personal development books (#2)
Great Authors of the past (#1)
great writers of the past (#1)
personal development free ebooks (#9)
free personal development ebooks (#6)
Don’t leave for tomorrow what you can do today (#10)

Feel free to try ou these searches and verify the rankings for yourself.

Below are some of the search strings I plan to use in upcoming articles. I will submit these articles at Ezinearticles.com. This will produce more first page rankings for my articles on Google. I will post the results as they are produced.

“ebook resale right” has 1694 monthly searches and produces 554 hits in google.

“free book review” has 2612 monthly searches and produces 883 hits in google.

“free child book” has 1079 monthly searches and produces 5370 hits in google.

“free wedding planner book” has 9587 monthly searches and produces 5250 hits in google.

“personal development seminar” has 261 monthly searches and produces 931 hits in google.

“self improvement seminar” has 141 monthly searches and produces 918 hits in google.

“how to start your own computer business” has 1196 monthly searches and produces 610 hits in google.

“web site traffic generator” has 1217 monthly searches and produces 818 hits in google.

“web site traffic ranking” has 419monthly searches and produces 658 hits in google.

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Keyword Research: “Personal Development”

June 21st, 2007

I have done some research on the keywords “personal development”. This time I have chosen to only display the search strings that are worth trying to compete with.

Use the search strings below in articles and post it on Ezinearticles.com to get a first page display on Google.

The search strings are sorted by amount of searches per month, followed by number of hits in Google.

blog development personal
487 searches
175 hits

personal development dallas
367 searches
410 hits

action development personal plan sample
337 searches
361 hits

development marketing personal quality
310 searches
7 hits

personal development chicago
282 searches
479 hits

development personal program ultimate
275 searches
8 hits

personal development houston
272 searches
572 hits

development living personal start stop worrying
257 searches
81 hits

personal development phoenix
246 searches
343 hits

barrier to personal growth and development
244 searches
933 hits

personal development new york
233 searches
768 hits

personal development for life and work
232 searches
5,790 hits

personal development miami
231 searches
287 hits

life personal development coach
221 searches
566

reaching your potential personal and professional development
221 searches
572 hits

personal development philadelphia
210 searches
209 hits

personal development portland
204 searches
316 hits

personal development pittsburgh
202 searches
330 hits

sample personal development plan
199 searches
785 hits

personal development denver
198 searches
831 hits

human relations personal and professional development
197 searches
671 hits

color comprehensive development guide personal planning style wardrobe
195 searches
4 hits

personal development indianapolis
194 searches
128 hits

book personal development
193 searches
4,310 hits

personal development columbus
189 searches
139 hits

personal development washington
189 searches
347 hits

personal development boston
186 searches
149 hits

personal development louisville
181 searches
165 hits

personal development new orleans
181 searches
202 hits

personal development nashville
177 searches
144 hits

personal development jacksonville
176 searches
154 hits

personal development san diego
175 searches
350 hits

personal development tempe
175 searches
74 hits

personal development los angeles
168 searches
200 hits

personal leadership development plan
167 searches
636 hits

personal development birmingham
166 searches
95 hits

example personal development plan
165 searches
684 hits

personal development atlanta
163 searches
381 hits

personal development las vegas
161 searches
292 hits

personal development goal
159 searches
894 hits

confidence develop development personal self
149 searches
112 hits

article development personal
142 searches
174 hits

personal development orlando
140 searches
67 hits

personal development cincinnati
139 searches
66 hits

personal development seattle
136 searches
643 hits

personal development baltimore
130 searches
147 hits

career development leadership personal success
130 searches
103 hits

personal development memphis
129 searches
272 hits

development hr personal trend
125 searches
3 hits

personal development plan template
125 searches
779 hits

business development entrepreneur personal
123 searches
76 hits

personal development baton rouge
121 searches
57 hits

personal development san francisco
121 searches
407 hits

development growth personal system
116 searches
89 hits

personal development honolulu
116 searches
69 hits

child development emotional personal social young
105 searches
298 hits

personal growth and development self
99 searches
1,020 hits

personal mission development
97 searches
1,570 hits

personal development tucson
97 searches
103 hits

personal development objective
96 searches
1,190 hits

coach development guide personal u workbook
95 searches
89 hits

excel personal development
85 searches
1,910 hits

computer development personal
81 searches
942 hits

development personal site web
81 searches
521 hits

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Keyword research - “Blog”

June 20th, 2007

I have done some keyword research lately. My goal was to locate search strings that are heavily searched for, but don’t get a lot of hits in Google.

Here is the reason I want to do this:
If you are lucky (clever) enough to write an article that contains a search string that is widely searched for, and also generate few hits, you could easily be on the first page on Google. A lot of the search strings I found surprised me a lot.

Scroll down to the end of this article to read my conclusion.

Here is what I found when I researched the word “blog” (Sorted by Search string, number of searches each month, and hits on Google):

blog
370171 searches
1,260,000,000 hits

news blog
161308 searches
12,600,000 hits

radio blog
85905 searches
1,170,000 hits

archive blog myspace.com
50229 searches
1,280 hits

pink is the new blog
36834 searches
1,220,000 hits

blog offer store top
26579 searches
4,730 hits

bad girl blog
24044 searches
23,000 hits

celebrity baby blog
20425 searches
710,000 hits

radio blog club
19735 searches
411,000 hits

blog debonair
19584 searches
771 hits

blog blog.myspace.com blog.myspace.com search site site
18837 searches
1,150 hits

create blog
17413 searches
531,000 hits

sex blog
17215 searches
1,280,000 hits

band blog blogging cl finding forum friend friend group join journal journaling music networking photo pic rate sharing
15788 searches
110 hits

blog money thebillivard.com
15201 searches
3,730 hits

marketing blog
14194 searches
1,150,000 hits

business blog
14155 searches
1,210,000 hits

free blog
13345 searches
12,400,000 hits

amateur blog
13188 searches
462,000 hits

myspace blog
11036 searches
1,140,000 hits

blog video
8183 searches
1,260,000 hits

blog odonnell rosie
7976 searches
2,290 hits

blog gadget google.com
7771 searches
404 hits

blog business changing conversation customer naked talk way
7625 searches
1,700 hits

yahoo blog
7554 searches
425,000 hits

blog search
7513 searches
33,100,000 hits

blog music music myspace people video
7493 searches
2,300 hits

auto blog info
7176 searches
1,930 hits

blog com myspace
7169 searches
79,500 hits

music blog
6051 searches
1,300,000 hits

adult blog
5972 searches
1,090,000 hits

personal blog
5904 searches
1,220,000 hits

afghanistan blog dispatch from front in iraq line soldier war
5777 searches
233 hits

diabetes blog
5702 searches
5,470,000 hits

real estate blog
5211 searches
9,080,000 hits

blog site
4659 searches
1,380,000 hits

blog rosie
4598 searches
10,800 hits

blog rosies
4556 searches
2,220 hits

answer blog question yahoo
4419 searches
3,260 hits

100 blog care had idea lunch no one
4211 searches
1,530 hits

myspace blog survey
4191 searches
538 hits

baby blog
4173 searches
1,210,000 hits

blog clip com youtube
3937 searches
4,370 hits

nude blog
3867 searches
81,200 hits

real world road rule blog
3828 searches
2,370 hits

broadway blog
3630 searches
9,830 hits

360 blog profile yahoo
3607 searches
1,770 hits

blog r
3466 searches
134,000 hits

blog 360
3391 searches
1,480,000 hits

blog spot
3313 searches
399,000 hits

celebrity blog
3294 searches
449,000 hits

blog post tagged
3266 searches
1,100 hits

boobie blog
3144 searches
10,700 hits

blog hilton perez
3046 searches
2,500 hits

photo blog
3044 searches
1,520,000 hits

blog craigslist
3039 searches
2,490 hits

blog community creating drupal forum portal site web
2996 searches
467 hits

sexy blog
2839 searches
271,000 hits

blog design solution
2812 searches
4,330 hits

blog cash click content free into money podcasts site turning web
2702 searches
221 hits

blog web site
2667 searches
284,000 hits

360 blog yahoo
2612 searches
6,280 hits

radio blog club.com
2597 searches
601 hits

amateur sex blog
2512 searches
79,300 hits

housing bubble blog
2443 searches
116,000 hits

blog template
2433 searches
819,000 hits

google blog
2415 searches
1,500,000 hits

the weblog handbook practical advice on creating and maintaining your blog
2378 searches
83,000 hits

attendant blog diary dysfunctional flight queen sky
2378 searches
6,780 hits

travel blog
2367 searches
1,090,000 hits

corporate blog
2342 searches
1,040,000 hits

blog directory
2313 searches
5,930,000 hits

blog nella
2259 searches
70,600 hits

cuckold blog
2230 searches
17,900 hits

blog hide myspace
2194 searches
41,100 hits

blog weblog
2102 searches
1,170,000 hits

27 blog
2054 searches
295,000 hits

nfl cheerleader blog
2023 searches
15,400 hits

radio blog music
2022 searches
510 hits

blog forum
2011 searches
23,600,000 hits

babe blog
2006 searches
213,000 hits

blog definition
1968 searches
77,300 hits

photobucket blog
1968 searches
10,200 hits

blog google search video
1895 searches
2,860 hits

adorn blog
1887 searches
10,400 hits

web blog
1863 searches
1,600,000 hits

blog myspace.com
1857 searches
1,280,000 hits

blog layout
1852 searches
319,000 hits

blog youtube
1849 searches
163,000 hits

blog game
1842 searches
197,000 hits

blog crime true
1778 searches
554 hits

blog crissy moran
1759 searches
826 hits

omg blog
1751 searches
146,000 hits

blog cfnm
1748 searches
10,900 hits

blog free hot layout myspace
1739 searches
6,700 hits

blog things
1736 searches
186,000 hits

My conclusion

Some of the searches above are displayed with bold text. Those are the ones you need to pay attention to. Write an article that contains any of those search strings and post it on Ezinearticles.com. If you do, that article will show up on the first page on Google. Just use your imagination, and you will see how easy it can be to write articles that contains weird search strings.

As you can see from the amount of searches you could get a great deal of traffic by consentrating on weird search strings. Obviously not all the searches listed here are manually typed by humans every month. A lot of them are auto searches created when people click on links.

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Traffic Building Experiment

June 17th, 2007

This post is for all you bloggers out there.

If you follow the instructions below, the traffic to your blog should start to pick up very quickly. If you think you can handle thousands of fresh visitors to your blog every day, please keep on reading.

The idea of this experiment is to make this blogpost go viral. As you can see, the name and web-address of this blog is at the number one spot on the list below. What you need to do is to copy this post and bounce every blog one line down. Then you must put your own blog on the number one spot. The blog on the number five spot will be bounced of the list.

When you have done this you’ll have to display this post on your own blog. If you have done this right you will have an exact copy of this post, with your blog at the number one spot. When others read the post on your site they will do the same, and your blog will go one line down. By the time your blog is displayed at the number five spot, your link will be displayed on thousands of blogs.

Are you ready to go viral?

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How to get traffic - Part 2

June 11th, 2007

The world

In part 1 of this article I mentioned two traffic generating methods I am currently using:

- Create original content (I think this is the most important method to use long term).
- Linkreferral

In part 2 I will show let you know a few other steps you could take to attract traffic to your website or blog.

In the “how to get traffic” article series I will mainly focus on free methods.

Write lots of articles

Writing articles is one of the most powerful methods you can use to attract visitors. Sadly, I neglected writing articles for a long time. After I discovered how easy it is to attract visitors this way I now write at least one article every single day. Don’t worry if you think your writing sucks. You’ll come around with a little practice. If you don’t write articles you are literally waving goodbye to thousands of visitors every month.

Lets just say that each article you write attract 10 visitors a month. Some articles will atract less visitors and some will atract more. But the average might be around 10 visitors a month. If you commit your self to write one article every day, that adds up to 365 articles in one year. 365 X 10 = 3650. This means that writing just one article a day for a year will give you 3650 fresh visitors every single month for years to come. What if you could write two articles a day? Or three??

The three most important article-directories you should post your articles to are:

- Ezinearticles

- GoArticles

- SearchWarp

Google just love these directories. If you do this right (I know you will) your articles will show up on the first page of google in no time.
Tip: Try to target low competition keywords.

If you post one or more articles a day to one of those article-directories you should be seeing results very fast. I have not written articles for a very long time yet but it is my main method of attracting visitors to my website.

That’s it for today. I will be back with more advice on how to generate traffic, so be sure to check back often (or subscribe to the feed).

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How to get traffic - Part 1

June 7th, 2007

The world

This blog is still new so naturally there is no real traffic to it yet. But it is a fact that if you want your blog or website to survive among the billions of others you’ll have to be able to attract traffic. Lots and lots of it. I have gained some experience through trial and error in the past. It would be a pleasure for me to share it with you all.

I only have experience with generating traffic to a website, so it will be an interesting experiment to see if the same methods can be transferred to this blog.

The main thing you’ll need to have, if you are going to attract traffic to your blog or website, is content. It is not enough to just use articles from all the article directories out there. You will need to create real and original content. It is of course a good idea if the content you create also have some sort of a value to the readers. I have decided that the main purpose of this blog will be to create original content within all the areas of personal development. But I will also, occasionally, write articles in other categories. Like this one. When you create good and original content, people will want to subscribe to, or link to your blog.

When you first start to research how you can get more traffic, you will discover that there are a lot of information you really can’t trust. I have tried it all. You have the viral sites that claim to be able to give you a million visitors a month. You will also stumble upon tons of banner/ad exchange networks that make the same claims. This just is not true. No one can attract millions of visitors to a low/non traffic website over night. You will also be offered to buy traffic. I have done this and I can’t tell you how disapointed I was. It was a total waste of my hard earned money. Do not buy traffic unless you are 100% sure of what you are doing. I have also tried some of the traffic exchange networks (the ones where you have to surf others websites in exchange for credits). This is a method that actually can create a great deal of traffic for you. But the problem with this is that the visitors are not interested in your website. They are only interested in getting their credits. With that said, there is one traffic exchange network I know of that actually works pretty good.

Linkreferral is a traffic exchange network with a different approach. They have some interesting features that you should take a look at. If you do it right you will end up getting a lot of reviews on your blog or website. If you log in every day and review a few websites your self, you will get 20-30 visitors every day. I have gained quite a few subscribers for my free ebook service through linkrefferal.

I don’t want to make this article to long, so I’ll just stop for today. Check back later for more traffic generating methods that actually works.

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Increase your Technorati-rank

How to get your articles to show up on the first page of Google

Keyword Research: “Personal Development”

Keyword research - “Blog”

Traffic Building Experiment

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