John Chow Says:

[..] Your about page is the foundation on which your credibility hangs [..]
To read more of this wonderful post, just click on How To Build Your Blog Credibilty by John Chow

After reading that article, I felt it was high time for me to update my My First about Me Page for Wakish Wonderz, to my new About Me Page!
I tried my best to make it unique and to the point with enough infos to share with you on who I am and why this blog..etc
If you have any advice or suggestion concerning my new about me page, feel free to drop me a message either by “commenting” or via my Contact Page

Now, if you want some advice on how to proceed to write an about me page, I would recommend you to read this nice article - How to Write Your “About Me” Page – by Darren Rowse.

Yet another Edition of Blog Carnival featuring another 2 of my posts:

1) Website, a Subset of a Blog?

2)  Is a blog the platform you need?

To read and see other nice bloggers across the blogosphere in this edition, just click here!

Best Wishes,

- Wakish -

You have surely heard of a volcano eruption.. Now you must surely be wondering what is this “blogging eruption” that I’m talking about
Ok. let’s try to explain what I want to say and convey..

Wakish Surprised Himself

Yeah, I surprised myself today.. just after I posted my 4 articles today I took some time to think about my blogging trend. I just realized that this week I have been blogging with a constant rising inspiration, something which has never been possible for me. Infact I realised that some days before, I blogged 2 articles in a day, yesterday I did 4 articles and today I have posted 5 articles (including this one). Wonderful!!!
I never ever imagined that I would have done this much.. I have really surprised myself!

If you examine my archives:

Archives
November 2007 (29)
October 2007 (4)
September 2007 (3)
August 2007 (10)
June 2007 (2)
March 2007 (2)
February 2007 (2)

November has been a burst! Can you imagine what I’m trying to say? The recent months, I hardly blogged. But november saw an explosion and today with 5 posts, it’s a blogging eruption from me
My emotions today are really high and deep, I’m really happy of being able to blog at this pace!

But my happiness would be even great if I get more readers and more subscribers, something which frustrates me on the other end.. But I trust myself and I’m motivated to rise whether or not I get readers.. Please if you are reading this article consider subscribing to my blog and do let others know about my blog – Thanks!

I feel really motivated to give the best of myself in blogging and day by day I feel a sincere love and will to blog! I’m seeing a new aim in my blogging and I want to achieve a good level as the pros are doing, namely John Chow, Darren Rowse..etc Please help me to achieve my aim by supporting my blog and spreading it over the net, because a blog without readers is like a stadium without spectators. On my part I will do my best to blog

Well I have my exams soon in 2 weeks’ time and I’m spending too much time with my blog..lol So obviously my frequency of blogging will decrease until my exams are over (but who knows I might even surprise you by blogging and dealing with my exams too..heheh).
So please don’t go away, stay right here with my blog I will definetly try to catch up, perhaps with another eruption

For now, I wish you all a nice day at your respective places, love you all and God Bless!
- Wakish -

One of the best advertising and marketing is done by submitting your site/blog to a search engine. No amount of press release, newspaper or radio ad, banner ad, spam email or newsletter will achieve the same results in the long run, especially if your site cultivates good informative content.

The best way to submit your website for search engine ranking and inclusion is to do it yourself by contacting the search engine services and directories.

Examples

1) Add your URL to Google
2) Yahoo! Search Submission

Before you begin to submit your website to search engines ensure your websites are thoroughly designed with the necessary contents like the right key words, good graphics and pictures and the relevant informative content. Don’t submit websites that are incomplete.

While submitting to a search engine, make sure to provide information about your website, keywords and any other information that may be pertinent, including your name and contact information.

Submission to search engine tools does not guarantee that your site would be immediately listed and the ranking will be high. Because there are thousands of new websites coming up every day and it may take quite some time before they take up your site for review by human editors. So, you have to be patient and concentrate on making your site better, the rest will come in due time.

One important factor to remember while submitting a site , if you are running a website (instead of a blog), is to include a site map of your website which makes the crawling easy for the web robots.

What’s Next?
=> Search Engine Friendly Pages
=> How Do Search Engines Work – Web Crawlers / Web Spiders
=> The Importance of Search Engines
=> What Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

The Crawler or The Spider acts as a Slave to the Master Search Engine.
Search Engines use spiders (also called crawlers) to index websites.
When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site.

Is The Spider, A spider?

A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. It follows the following steps:

Step1
Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects.
Step 2
The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed.
Step 3
It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well.
Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t get excited and create a site with 500 pages!
Step 4
The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed.
The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.

Spider analogous to a book?

A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.

Example

Google, Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, Lycos.. etc

Did you ever think what a Search Engines does when you use it?

When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indices.

Be careful not to fool the spider, it will bite you!

One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. (so be careful to get hurt by the spider)

The spider is spiderman?

Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.

What’s Next?

=> The Importance of Search Engines
=> Search Engine Friendly Pages
=> Submitting Your Website to Search Engines
=> What Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO)