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While blogging on your past time is one of the most favorable things for you to do, you must not forget that while you are blogging, writing posts isn’t the only thing to do.

You need to visit other websites to get your blog name out there.

While some people simply create a blog and get attuned traffic to it without any help from anyone, some others of us have to work on getting our blog out there and present to blog readers.

Its almost like studying for a test; some people will do good on a test even if they don’t study, but others will have to study harder and constantly to do just as good as the other person.

If you don’t understand that analogy, think of yourself being in school. (Unless you are clearly the top in your grade at everything and the top in recreational things too) When you are in school, there are always people smarter than you, but for you to have to be as smart as them, you just need to work harder.

Its not your fault you’re not as smart as the other guy, its just natural.

Anyways, back to the point that comment on other sites could be good for your blog.

But, one thing you want to remember is not to spam their comment boxes.

You really want to read their posts and actually comment on them. I know it will take time to do all of this, but you need to spend that kind of time to promote your blog and also your name.

One thing to keep in mind is that if you make a good impression on your comment, they blogger of the site will most likely visit your site out of sheer impression.

I know this for a fact because I do it often. Once I get a comment regarding any posting or tips here, I see what site they are writing and try to comment on their posts.

Of course, it is a exchange of exchange. You make a comment on their site, and then they make a comment on your site. Both of you benefit, and also, your link to their site will also help them link back to you.

Anyways, thats the tip of the day today, and I hope you enjoyed it

Asus is starting to be a big company. Along with its first set of laptops being the smallest screen laptops that I have ever heard of, it is now making some respectable laptops that will start comparing to Apple and Microsoft.

Personally, I just want them to beat the Apple products because they are way cheaper than the Apple products. Not to say that Microsoft’s products aren’t cheap, because there are not, I just know that Apple has the potential to cost more than anything that Microsoft has made thus far.

Endgadget has done a good deal with this Asus U6 not to mention the fact that they get the actual computers to play with before than can post on it.

As a professional blogging site such as that, I don’t think they are wrong in what they post or do, but depending on the type of machine that it is, it will be in my bests interests to either stay away or love to death.

As you can tell, this machine looks pretty slick. Almost as sleek as the HP Pavilion dv2700 series. It has in it a 3GB RAM, 2.6 Processor, and also 250 GB Hard drive. I am unsure as to what other features lay upon the model, but it looks like a decent model to invest upon.

I know it shouldn’t matter what it looks like, but right now it does. The type of material used to make the complete oustide of the laptop looks really shiny, but is definitely in the wrong color. Its a type of coal color that makes you think that you are living in Colorado, or some coal mining state.

No offense to Colorado, they probably don’t even coal mine there.

View the USA Review of the Macbook Air here.

In my blog consulting work with Blawg In A Box and Inspired Consulting, I frequently hear three major complaints from bloggers:

1. I don’t know what to write about!
2. Nobody’s visiting my blog!

   but far and away the most often heard complaint:

3. I don’t have time to blog!

So, today’s post is for the #3-ers in the world - which, at one point or another means all of us bloggers, I can promise you!

Pinpointing the Problem

Before you can solve a problem, you have to first identify it. Seems simple enough in the context of this topic. After all, how many permutations can there be on the theme of “not enough time”?

Plenty, as it turns out. Consider whether you don’t have time …

• because you’re unorganized?
• because writing is a chore for you on par with building the Eiffel Tower out of toothpicks and Elmer’s Glue ™?
• because you’ve got too much on your plate?
• because you’re working against type?

That’s not an exhaustive list, of course, merely a representative one. But those four factors seem to be the ones I run into over and over again.  Take a moment to identify which one’s most likely the problem for you. To do this, simply adopt the logical “fix” in your imagination and see what the result is. Imagine you get more organized with a schedule that’s detailed and all your files and relevant information available at your fingertips. Do you “feel” better now? Can you see yourself blogging more effectively?  If so, you should definitely start by looking at organization as your main dragon to slay.  Likewise with writing - if you can see yourself hiring a ghostwriter, say, and having that immediately solve your blogging problems - well, even if hiring a ghostwriter is out of your budget (and you might be surprised), at least you now know what you need to focus your efforts on.

Give Yourself a Blogging Checkup

Once you’ve identified the problem and put a plan in motion to address it, consider taking an objective look at your blogging with an eye towards “tweaks” - small adjustments with minimal effort required that might yield larger than anticipated dividends.  Can you find a better way to collect and process “blog fodder”? (See this post for one super-easy and completely free method I designed.) Are you working against type? In other words, are you most suited for short bursts of writing, and instead you’re trying to force yourself into the mold of the dedicated all-day-long blogger? Are you writing in the PM when you’re really a morning person? Do you need a refresher course on social media?

Identify your weak spots, and then explore the web for some targeted solutions. Don’t get lost in browsing archives here - we’re aiming for greater productivity, remember?  Use Technorati tags and the search function of A-list blogs-about-blogging to get to the meet. (Another tip: use our weekly roundups for a one-stop searching shop.)

Delegate Your Life

Take a cue from 4HWW and outsource or delegate your delegable tasks. This requires a brief period of objective observation. The best method I’ve found is simply taking a blank 24-hour agenda page (print one off of iCal or Google Calendar or whatever app you prefer) and make 7 copies, one for each day of the week. Label the day (if it’s not already pre-printed) on each and then jot down your actual activities in the spaces provided. Break it down as far as you’re able, though I don’t know that it’s necessary to write down every 5 minute bathroom break. Simply add them all up and total them somewhere. You’re looking for patterns and timesucks - those tasks, whether large or small, that add up to a considerable drain on your energy and time.

Once you’ve identified a timesuck that might be subject to some sort of tweaking, ask yourself whether you can (A) kill it, (B) pare it down, (C) do it less often or more quickly, or (D) outsource it to someone else.  Don’t fall into the egotistical CEO trap of thinking you have to do everything yourself. If someone else can do it, but needs training, find time to train. Spending too much time at the grocery store but you have an able-bodied teenaged son or daughter with a driver’s license? Well, then.  I smell a tradeoff coming! Car time for grocery shopping. Seems fair to me! Wouldn’t trust your kid with the household shopping? Then take him or her on a couple of outings, run down the basics, and work out an arrangement whereby you monitor the results and the continued use of the car depends on adherence to the rules you set down.

Be Realistic

Don’t over- or under-estimate how much time blogging really takes. To do it correctly, you want to allow time for proofing, for revising, for “quality assurance” review (making sure links are correct, for instance), and for publicizing (tags, pinging - if not done automatically, social media, etc.).  But don’t fall into the trap of thinking every post must be a Hemingway-esque masterpiece of prose. Sometimes, good enough is good enough.

CYA!

Cover your absences, in this case - by making sure you have a steady backup supply of non-time-critical blog post drafts from which to select during those times when you really don’t have time to blog (and we all have them). Also consider assembling a “blog group” - a few bloggers who write about similar (if not competitive) themes who are willing to cover each other via “guest posts” from time to time.  Sometimes we all need a little help from our friends, right?

Time To Let Go …

Don’t be afraid to ask the question, “Do I really have time for this?” If you’ve tried the above tips, and you’re still wrestling with your time commitments … if you’re getting it all done but just barely and are miserable to boot … maybe - just maybe - it’s time to consider giving something up. That’s the conclusion I was forced to draw earlier this month when I realized that I was at a critical crossroads with respect to one of my practice blogs, the SC Bankruptcy & Consumer Law Blog. Not only had my time seriously decreased as a result of the launch of my BIAB service, but my interest was waning as well. I realized it was an important blog, and a very important subject - and it therefore deserved better treatment than I was able to give it. So I made the difficult decision to sell the site. (I hope to write more about how that was accomplished as a “how-to” post a bit later on, after the sale’s been wrapped up.)

This leaves me time to focus on my Employment Law blog (which is about the practice area I spend most of my law practice time in), and two new blogs I’m developing: Goddesses in Progress (currently under wraps for a formal launch later this year) and The Fibro Follies (which will launch on Friday - more on that in a later post, too). Was it a difficult decision? Absolutely. But once it was made, I felt a relief that sank down to my bones. (I even noticed a marked improvement in my writing and critical thinking skills - it’s amazing, really, how much time and energy is sucked up by our concerns over time management and productivity.)

Conclusion

Follow these suggestions and you will, I promise, find time to blog. You might even lead a happier, more productive life overall - and, dare we hope, have more time for the really important stuff in life? 

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Have you ever found out that you needed more statistics for your site, but wordpress never gave them to you because the only supplied you the number of unique visits you get?

Well, an elite company has a good offer that you can not resist. How would you like to claim your site and maybe get all the possible statistics of your website, blog, myspace page, (whatever you want) for FREE. Yes, thats right, for FREE.

Well, thanks to google, it can be free, they have so many unique things that no other company will ever be able to produce as fast as google.

Google Analytics is a site where you can go to register your blog.

Now, here may or may not be a chance to increase your Google Page Rank. I have heard stories that if you claim your blog on Google Analytics, it allows for google to up the Page Rank on it. So, whether I want to believe it or not, there have been times where people’s Google Page Rank has gone up just by when the claimed their blog.

Its not hard to do, all you have to do is copy and paste a tracking code to your blog, and as soon as Google Analytics finds the tracking code on your blog, it takes about 24 hours to load up all your statistics.

In a very short amount of time, you have found yourself the very statistical information you have been searching for, and for FREE too. We have to keep in mind that sometimes the things that have no price on them are the best of them all.

That is it for now, please feel free to comment on any issues regarding this or any post.

Today is going to be a very confusing discussion about the system that everyone depends on called the Google Page Rank. There have been a lot of problems with the page rank, or not problems, per se, but frustrations that we have been experiencing.

One day you see that your Google pagerank is at a 5, and the next day you see that its at a 3. On depressing days like this, one must think: “How did my Google Page Rank drop in merely one day?”

Well, the answer to the question is that google completely revising how it calculates page rank, and unfortunately for those of us that depend on the google search engine for our page views and traffic, seeing a page rank of 3 does not please us at all.

Well, I must inform you of one thing before you go all haywire on the google page rank, and want to *&%& google from the rear.

The number on your page rank (or your decreased number) does not mean that you will definitely get lower traffic to your site.

For example, WatchingFamilyGuy.com used to have a page rank of 5 a couple months ago, and then come the new year, and its sitting at a lame duck 3.

Fortunately, however, the traffic on the website has been increasing ever since the beginning of this year. Last year, the average visits per day was 200, and now its nearly 300 and increasing.

So, there is some good news for you here, just because your page rank went down does not mean that your website will get less traffic.

Regardless of what you do, do not stop posting or lose motivation for post just because you drop in google Page rank. And most of all, HAPPY BLOGGING

This is a similar to the post I did not too long ago, the one that talks about a tie that has a spy cam.

Well, just like that, this is a lighter that has a digital camera.

Now, most people would think: Why in the world would you need a digital camera on your lighter?

Well, you have to keep in my that people are people. Its that simple; we are amazed by things, and as psychology demands it, we are just attuned to keeping stuff that we like.

For example, we see a girl that looks good, or exhibit unique features, and on the spot, our mind makes a decision to be attracted to the girl, and want her as a possession, more than anything else.

If you think I am wrong, please let me know. I could just be biased because I am a typical guy, but not so typical because on the way, I am going to order the lighter that captures images.

But keep in mind, that the lighter is not for me, I cannot disclose who it is for, but it is for someone.

And NO its not me because I don’t smoke. And you shouldn’t either

Anyways, the lighter is the size of any regular zippo lighter. Some of the specs on the digital camera installed within are that it captures images at 640 pixels by 480 pixels. Its not too bad at all, for a lighter camera.

Installed with a 64MB internal memory, the lighter is labeled with “Digital Camera” on the front cover.

That is a bad place to put the logo “Digital Camera.” The whole purpose of the digital camera is to astound people that there is a camera in the lighter, no have them read it, and then show them that what the logo says is true.

Anyways, if you are on a stealthy mission to take pictures of a top secret bunker located in the middle of nowhere in Arizona :P, then this is the perfect piece to your collection of spyware.

You can find the link to the article here.

Thats right folks! Finally, the concurrent issue of spam comments have been fixed. I bet the last time you posted a comment on any of the 451Press sites, all of your comments went into the spam box.

Well, not anymore, you dont have to deal with that. I’m just here to notify you that, with a lot of updates to 451Press blogging, one improvement is the spamming issue.

So, now, I don’t have to take a look at the spam box and weed through all of the comments to pick out the ones that actually belong on the comment box.

While the news is here, I must inform you that our giveaway of the Cartel cd is still in play and anyone can will, all you have to do is comment on watchingfamilyguy, or MobilityWatch, or Blognewswatch.

Remember that the giveaway ends on the last day of January.

Some other posting rules are that you can post as many comments as you want to assure your victory of the Cartel Cd.

As poor as this thing is going, There will be another comment mania prize given out next month, and prize will be determined as the days go by. Right now, I am thinking of giving away a few mp3 players, as for the commenters who comment the most.

So, if you want to win a couple of mp3 players, here is your chance, all you have to do is comment on the first week of February, about anything regarding the specific site that you are on.

Well, that is enough of the update for you guys, I will let you be on your ways, and make sure to always keep in mind that free stuff being given out here is not always free because essentially someone is paying for it. But worry not, that someone is not you because its me.

And in order for me to continue on doing this, I sometimes need motivation, and comments motivate me to talk about a specific subject. (A little FYI for you guys )

Ciao:!:

A tiring day today was. All of the updates to our servers, and what not, but worry not, posting today was be just like posting on any other day.

The topic in discussion today is the timing to blog, and how much time to exactly put into your blog. While some professional bloggers are constantly putting all of their time into their blogs, one wants to know how much time to put into your personal blog.

Well, while the answer is not definite, I can tell you that if you are posting 5 posts a day, each of them being more than 250 words in length, then you are definitely spending too much time blogging.

On the other hand, if you post once a week on your personal blog, then some will say that you are posting too little.

When measuring how much to spend on your blog, you must keep in mind that you have to post about things that will give your reader something to actually care about, something that they can relate to you, as a person, or a blogger.

There are some blogs who mostly talk about how the bloggers day went, and if you are into those kinds of personal diaries, then its your business to read about them, but if you are a blogger (or even a normal internet user) looking for some information, a personal diary is not the place to look.

While personal diaries require the least amount of information to look up and write about, it is also the only one that the reader will find the least interesting.

So, an average, a blogger should post 1-3 posts every 2 days. There will be times where you won’t be able to post, due to natural occurrences, but those will have to be looked past.

Well, thats it for now, I hope I can interest you in a read about how to capture your readers to read your blog.

Well, here is just another post as a reminder that Watching Family Guy is giving away a free copy of Cartel - Cartel (2007).

Such a band should be promoted as it being all over youtube. Unfortunately, I can’t find a good youtube video to put on here because all of the companies have put a request form on finding the youtube on this site.

Anyways, all you have to do is comment on any of the posts here at Blog News Watch, Watching Family Guy, or Mobility Watch. Its that simple. As soon you have put in your comment, it will be sent to me, and I will record a marking for each comment that you submit.

The final day of the Cartel giveway is on the last day of this month, which is January 31st. Coming up very shortly, you only have 3 days to comment to win you free copy of Cartel - Cartel 2007.

Personally, I think that its worth it, but I guess the fault is mine for putting this up because most people these days just go use Limewire or Torrents to download their files, whereas I only just http servers, because I don’t want to violate the copyright laws.

Being as careful as I am, it only happens a few times that I catch myself using Limewire or Torrents to download any programs, music, or any other files.

I know downloading files using torrents a college is severly watched upon because the college doesn’t want to get sued for illegal copyright violations either.

Well, thats it for now, but perhaps the next time I do this, I will choose something else to giveaway.

Maybe a digital camera, or a 2GB Flash Drive or something. Maybe something really cool like a laser light or something.

If there is something that you want, I will be more than happy to buy it and give it away here for free. Please let me know what you want by commenting. Thank you and have a great day

So, you may have heard that Google changed their whole deal on the issue of pagerank. Well, although I would like to blame them, especially for taking down my watchingfamilyguy.comblog down from a pagerank of 5 to a pagerank of 3. I was sad to see it happen.

But, I guess, in all honesty, you can’t really blame google for doing this. I mean, when there are so many new blogs emerging every day, of course there are going to have to be changes to the Google Pagerank system.

I wish I could pay google to make my pagerank a 10, but unfortunately, I dont think I have that kind of money, nor do I wish to pay google anymore money to google than they make per year.

Want some blogging links?

Although I strictly encourage you as a blogger to earn your readers through the web simply by attracting them to your posts, here is another way to “earn” your links.

I would really look down on somebody, though, if I saw them buying this product to increase their blog traffic or google Pagerank.

Actually, come to think of it, it would be insane to buy this only to increase your google Pagerank. Unless it is for a blog that you are trying to make money with via PayPerPost, its a complete waste of money.

What I say: Don’t worry, you will get your readers, just post your usual posts, and post them everyday. Now, this may not happen every day, but you should make an attempt to do so.

Besides, the more content you produce, the more google indexes that content, and the more of a change there is for a reader to come to your blog.