Link exchange

When I started learning SEO, I found out that one of the common activity that a blogger do that makes SEO easy is link exchanging. It was already my habit exchanging links with my fellow blogger. Most bloggers I know do the same. Link exchanging as soon as their sidebar goes longer and longer. My personal blog got a long list of blogs on the sidebar that I decided to use a dropdown menu to save some space.

My goal when I link exchange is just to have a list of bloggers on my sidebar and to have my blog listed on them. I just want to make my blog popular. The more links out there, the higher the probability that readers of their blog will click on it and visit my blog. I never thought that the link exchanges I made can boost my search engine ranking. Only now that I studied SEO I understand the value of link exchanging. Aside from the fact that my blog became popular, the search engines saw it as a credible source of information, putting my blog on the first few pages of their results page. With a higher ranking on the results page, I got search-engine-reffered visitors. Visitors that came looking for something. Visitors that click on my Google Adsense advertisements when they are not satisfied with the content of my blog, which in turn gave me some blog money on my Adsense account. Cool!

Let's exchange links to optimize our blogs. The more links to our blog, the more search engine-reffered visitors we have, the more blog money we can have!

Just an update, I'm already on my $60 mark. $40 to go and Google will send my first Adsense paycheck. I'm hoping to receive it by October.

That's all folks!

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Blogger beta launched

If you are using Blogger in your blog, you probably noticed the change on the sign-on screen. It says, "Sign in with your Blogger or Google account." Hhmmm, when I first saw this, I thought, they are doing some major changes on Blogger. And yes, they are! They launched Blogger beta yesterday! A new range of features are waiting for us. I just hope I can switch to Blogger beta soon. Read more about this development here.