If you read my article - "What Should You Blog About?", and I surely hope you did, you should have a blog filled with content you have passionately written. It should be a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, as opposed to a lifeless factsheet. So, how do you get your words where others can read them?
No matter how delicious your content is, if nobody knows it exists you can't generate profit from it. Traffic is the lifeblood of your blog. In order to attract readers, you must offer exciting and unique information. Simple enough, right? Common sense? Not exactly.
You see, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people look when they need information? Yes, they search using search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, to name the more popular ones.
So, to get these people to visit your blog, your blog needs to rank high on results pages of these search engines. When people search for information through the search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog!
The art of getting your blog or website high rankings on search results pages is called Search Engine Optimization or SEO. It is a complex and technical subject to master, but that will not stop you from learning some simple, yet effective techniques, to conquer the search engines for certain keywords. The more complex techniques are usually needed to fight for very competitive and general keywords such as "fat loss". I'll teach you how to overcome that later.
For now, let's determine the best keywords to optimize your site for.
For example, your blog talks about tech gadgets. Now, you'd want to check in Google whether it is a very competetive keyword. At this time of writing, there are 29, 000 ,000 (twenty-nine-million!) search results. Think you can beat 29,000,000 sites at your first attempt? I don't think so. In fact, I know absolutely that you cannot.
Let's try to narrow our scope to keywords you can successfully optimize for. Let's look for the keywords - ?technological gadgets?. At this time of writing, Google lists 792,000 results. That's more manageable but still not narrow enough. You would still need to search for more focused keywords. An example is - "technological lap top gadgets", however, let's optimize your blog for "technological gadgets" just for the sake of learning.
First, you have to pay attention to the title of your blog. Since you're optimizing for technological gadgets, you need to have that exact phrase in your blog title.
For example, a line like ?Your Best Technological Gadget Blog!? would work great.
You can change the title of your blog in the Blogger control panel or the Wordpress blog when you're creating it. If you're proficient with HTML, you can even do that on other blog engines like Moveable Type. Bottom line? Learn a little HTML! Note: You will find some resources in the sidebar of this site for optimizing your blog.
Other than that, your page heading should also contain the term you're optimizing for. The page heading is the bit of text in your template code that is enclosed within the tags. This is important as it tells the search engines what your page is about (in this case, ?technological gadgets?). Since we're posting a blog, the tags are usually the post titles, so remember to include the term there whenever relevant. For example, write an article/post titled - "Cheap Technological Gadgets for Everyone!". It has your keywords in the headline.
You should also sprinkle the words ?technological gadgets? in your posts whenever possible. The frequent occurrence of that phrase in your blog will hint to the search engines that your blog is really relevant to that topic. But, don't overdo it. Use of the term "technological gadgets" just a couple of times in your posts is quite enough. More than that and it may appear as spam to the search engines and, more important, your readers will feel the same way. The real downside to over use of the same keywords in a single article is that the search engines may de-list your blog and you will be cast out into the internet darkness.
So, keep this in mind: Write for humans, not for search engines, using your targeted keywords!
Yours for success in life.
Jim DeSantis
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I would like to clear up the myth that you can gain muscle tissue by training alone. It is only possible if you eat enough and then you will gain weight and consequently bigger muscles. Otherwise the weight you lift is irrelevant, but if you are gaining weight then you are both performing and eating in the correct manner.
Intensity Intensity: Bodybuilders like to train "hard". They boast of training to "failure", doing "triple drop sets", "forced reps" and all kinds of other extremely fatiguing techniques. The problem with this is that although their musculature may recover from this onslaught in a few days their central nervous systems are absolutely fried. The CNS can take a week or more to recover from these kind of repeated efforts to failure training, which makes repeating the workouts with a similar or greater (stimulating) load impossible for quite some time.
Why anyone would want to do this, I just don't know. Although normal muscle recovery takes around 72 hours; at which point you can really progress with your training, if your CNS has been over stressed, you will be put in a position of under training until the CNS has recovered. So when you can start training at pace you would have lost any previous muscle gains...so think about it.
This works out fine at the start, but this type of training will soon catch up with your body if you don't reduce those loads or you could be forced to start back at those initial load levels. Frequency and total load are the two main factors in successful training for both size and strength! so why should anybody minimise either of them on purpose?
Single factor training: Probably 99% of ordinary people in gyms are currently training according to single factor training theory, or the principle of super compensation. Probably 5% of elite strength athletes are training this way and they are all bodybuilders. Now I know most people are not even aware of what dual factor theory is so here is a brief explanation. Single factor theory treats fitness and fatigue as existing to the exclusion of each other.
For example if you are tired and have sore muscles following a training session you should wait until you feel better and have fully recovered before training again. This fits in with supercompensation theory, which dictates that after training your fitness decreases slightly (because you are tired) and then rises back up again to a point just above where it was prior to the workout. At this point you train again with a slightly greater load and push up your fitness a little further and so on.
Dual factor theory considers fitness, fatigue and preparedness as being factors apart but not exclusive to one another. Your long-term ability is considered to be fitness and it changes gradually and is not related to fatigue. Your immediate ability is considered to be preparedness which is what you can do NOW but is not influenced by fatigue.
According to dual factor theory you can train to the point of extreme fatigue, and have a terrible state of preparedness but still be making improvements in long-term fitness. In other words you DO NOT have to fully recover between workouts all the time and nor should you.
Macronutrient fascism: "Carbs suck", "Eating fats will make you fat" and "Just eat protein if you want to build muscle". No, no, no...We require all three in some form or other. Each person may differ in the needs of each one and depending on personal objectives, but to completely cut out one of the macronutrients from our diet is just madness.
Certain macronutrient combinations have certain effects and to completely remove one from the equation (e.g. no carbs or no fats) just isn't going to cut it. Personally I would take an isocaloric diet as being a good starting point for health and strength.
Lifestyle what lifestyle?: Now then, if you're the sort of bodybuilder who just does biceps on a Friday night in order get that pumped up sort of look so you can go out clubbing and pull, then you really do need a good kicking. If your goal is to achieve a bigger and stronger physique then you will have to make some difficult decisions in your like, otherwise all that good hard training of yours will just go right out of the window.
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