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Personal Blogging Success Story

Personal Blogging Success Story. Noemi Lardizabal-Dado Aboutmyrecovery.com Touched By An Angel. Blog Facts. Aboutmyrecovery.com launched on February 24, 2006

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Personal Blogging Success Story

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  1. Personal Blogging Success Story Noemi Lardizabal-Dado Aboutmyrecovery.com Touched By An Angel

  2. Blog Facts • Aboutmyrecovery.com launched on February 24, 2006 • Mission of my blog is to promote grief support group, The Compassionate Friends. It is my blog’s advocacy though I have other advocacies :family, parenting, marriage and Children • A glimpse on my Grief Recovery

  3. What does Blog Success Mean?Is it any of these factors? • Traffic (1000 unique visitors a day) • Ranking in PinoytopBlogs.com (number 23) • RSS Subscribers (Less than 10) • Number of Comments per Post Per Week (average of 10 comments per post) • Number of Pages Viewed by each Visitor (1.5 page views per day)

  4. What does Blog Success Mean? • Alexa Rank (259,795) • Technorati Rank (8,221 with 1073 links from 388 blogs, No. 8 in Philippines’ Technorati) • Revenues Generated (Listed as no 9 in top 10 Pinoy Probloggers) • Search Engine Rank Position (Google Page Rank 5) • Popularity in Social Bookmarking sites ( not been on Digg) • Popularity in Online Communities (Myblog 65 community members)

  5. What does Blog Success Mean? • Blog Juice (4.6) • Press Mentions (Inquirer, Health Magazine, Marie Claire Magazine) • TV Interviews (Channel 2, 7, 10) • Blog Awards (Best Website (blogs category), 9th Philippine Web Awards; Globe Broadband Family Blog Award) • Number 1 in Keyword searches (grief support in the Philippines) • Achieving Blog’s Advocacy or Goal (Yes)

  6. Aboutmyrecovery.comA Moderate Blog Success Top 10 ways I Did to Achieve Write/show (not just tell) my unique experience and topics close to my heart.
. Use senses (smell, taste, touch, sight, ) to show an entry. Without sounding sappy or appearing like a victim, I illustrated my grief journey with a few emotional insights. Be personal. Your readers can relate to you as feelings are universal. My About me section motivates readers to read more of your entries. As a reader of other blogs, I am interested in the person behind the blog. What are their interests? What did they used to do before blogging? Why did they blog? What do they look like? Because of that need, I made sure I also had my own ABOUT ME page

  7. Aboutmyrecovery.comTop 10 ways I did to AchieveA Moderate Blog Success 3. Tell me about you. This will give you an idea what your readers are interested. I didn’t know what topics to write about. I didn’t want to keep writing emotional entries. Through this section, personal experiences is what interested my readers. I drew in on my parenting, health recovery, recovery principles and my other experiences for additional categories. Knowing your readers through the comments or other means will give you ideas on how to promote your blog. 4. Promote my blog by commenting and being interested in other popular blogs. I started out with Abe and Connie because they were the only two blogs I knew of. I didn’t spam comments or anything of that sort. I just contributed intelligentlyto her discussion. One day, maybe out of curiousity, she surfed towards my blog. To our pleasant surprise, Connie discovered that my husband and she were schoolmates at UP Law school. One day, she blogged about my site which paved the way to being recognized in the blogosphere.

  8. Aboutmyrecovery.comTop 10 ways I did to AchieveModerate Blog Success 5. Interact with comments of readers. The first time I commented on Connie’s blog, I felt really important when she replied back to my comments. I thought I’d do the same for my readers. YOU are important. 6. Search engine optimized titles and entries drive in web traffic. Think search engined optimized keywords, example: SM mall of Asia, Philippine Idol.Keywords are what drives new visitors to your site. How else do you visit a site? You type in NOUN keywords on that search box. You narrow down your search to specific keywords. Remember, accidental visitors can convert to your regular visitors. Also, be the first to blog about local events. My Typhoon Milenyo entry got me into the Daily Inquirer news update.

  9. Aboutmyrecovery.comTop 10 ways I did to AchieveA Moderate Blog Success 7. Link exchanges makes it easier for Google to index your entries. I had a distinct advantage of my daughter’s old sites for these link exchanges. Later on, my blog got linked by other bloggers. I remember Toe as the first blogger to link me. Wow, that felt so good. I got recognized. In less than two months, my blog’s google page rank is 5 (out of a possible 10) 8.Participation in blogosphere events (like the Philippine Blog summit and meetups (like the Christmas meetup and Blog Parteeh. How did that help me? These bloggers write that you were there. That means they also get to link your blog. We all know how these link exchanges increases your search engine ranking. ( see no. 7)

  10. Aboutmyrecovery.comTop 10 ways I did to AchieveA Moderate Blog Success 9. Eye candy presentation. Use of photos, youtube videos, graphics to draw attention. 10. Short or brief entries for short attention span visitors. Since I’m not a creative writier, I make my entries short and sweet. Use one topic or theme per entry.

  11. Personal Blogging Success • Based on meeting your goals • There are many goals but which has the biggest weight of all? • Mine was that others found solace in my blog entries • Bereaved families discovered grief support • Everything else is icing on the cake

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