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Wordpress Application in Beta for Blackberry

Jul 9

Posted by Steven Sentosa in Blogging, Wordpress | Comments

This is my first post using Wordpress Blackberry application. To be honest with you, my main reason why I rarely blog again lately is because I rarely use my actual laptop again to do my daily routine (checking email, browsing, Facebook, etc.) Now with this apps, I can blog anytime I want using my phone. It’s really convenient, isn’t it?

So far, I’m quite pleased with the apps. It ran smoothly and didn’t give me any problem yet. If you are a blackberry user and has a WP blog, either wordpress.com or self-hosted WP, you should try this apps and let me know how it goes for you.

For more information about this beta version of Wordpress Blackberry Apps, go to http://blackberry.wordpress.org/2009/07/07/wordpress-for-blackberry-beta/ or if you want to give it a try right a way, the download link is http://blackberry.wordpress.org/install

Enjoy it :)

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Semi-finalist in the Blogger Appreciation Awards

Mar 4

Posted by Steven Sentosa in Blogging | Comments

I submitted my website to CellPhones.org Blogging Appreciation Awards few weeks ago, and  I just got this email in my inbox:

Dear Steven,

I wanted to let you know that your blog made it to the semi-finalist round of the Blogger Appreciation Awards. Our judges looked over thousands of nominations and yours was only one of 200 (less than 10% of the submissions) that has been recognized for blogging excellence. While you did not make the final round of voting, you should feel proud of this accomplishment, knowing that we determined your blog to be in the top 10% of all submissions.

We encourage you to let your readers know about your accomplishment by featuring this badge on your blog:

free cell phone contest

The requirements are pretty straight forward. I have to be an active blogger for at least 2 months. No spam and automated blog. So, I submitted my blog, and surprisingly I was choosen as the semi-finalist.

Thank you CellPhones.org! I’m grateful, and it is an honour for me to be a part of your contest. Let this be an encouragement for me to be a better blogger in the future.

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Page #1 in Google Search. Really?

Feb 15

Posted by Steven Sentosa in Blogging | Comments

Wow…unbelievable! One of my blog post is actually on the first page of Google, under certain keywords obviously. Those keywords are “western digital element 1tb” and “WD elements 1tb”. It’s pretty cool actually, because my post was there along with wdc.com, amazon.com, and newegg.com.

I don’t know how it happened, but it just happened. May be you can tell me why. My analysis tells me that I was because of the title of the post itself, “HOT DEAL for Western Digital Elements 1TB”, and the several times I mentioned about “ Western Digital Elements 1 TB” and “WD Elements 1TB” in the post itself. I think Google evaluate my post based on its relevancy with the keyword  ”Western Digital Element 1TB”. Since Google found several variations of that keyword in my post, it must think that my post is highly related, therefore getting high rank for it.

Based on my observation, here are several tips on how to be on Google #1 page:

  1. Before you create a post, think about the keyword (or keywords) that you want your post to score high rank on.
  2. Find a good blog post title that incorporate that keyword as much as possible, without harming your reader. I mean, you can always use this big long keyword as your title, like “very hot super deal western digital hard drive 1 terra byte (1TB) the best deal in the planet,” but this keyword will not too appealing for readers and rather annoying.
  3. When you write your blog post, keep the keywords in your mind, and taylor your writings to use those keywords through out the place in your post. Repetitive use is fine, as long as it doesn’t hurt the quality of the content.
  4. Learn from past success. Track…Track…and Track.

What do you think? have you ever been on page #1 Google? how did you do that?

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