10 Tips to Make Your Article Nice-To-Read

Some days ago, i have posted about how to create seo friendly articles.  The SEO friendly articles are just a way to bring visitors to our blog. But, it doesn't mean will make your visitors enjoy and stay read your blog and make them go back tomorrow to your blog. By other word, That is just introduce your blog to the world. However, that is still very important.
Therefore, there should the ways which make your visitors enjoy and stay read your blog so the next day they go back again. Well, one of the most important ways is by make your contents nice and easy to read. The readers will be enjoy and comfortable to read your blog if your articles nice-to-read.
So I will share some tips and ways to make your blog contents nice to read. The nice-to-read contents can you create by the following ways:

1. Structured and step by step
An article must structured and step by step to explain the content.The content must explained from a simple point to the advanced point. This is will ease the readers to understand it.

2. To the point and don't long-winded
Most of readers prefer the article which to the point and not long-winded. just remember! The readers maybe busy and have no much time to read your article. This is also effective and efficient. Explain your content by short, concise and clear.

3. Not escape from the topics discussed
Don't escape from the content you discussed. This is will make your article be ambiguous. The readers will feel uncomfort and stop to read.

4. Explain by points and sub titles
The meaning is you must make your articles structured by points or sub titles. The example is this article which structured by 10 points. you are prefer to read the kind of this articles than the article without points or sub titles, aren't you?.
The kind of this articles also make the readers can save time because just by see the points or sub titles, the readers will know the purpose of the contents.

5. Use interactive and interesting image
However, The articles without visual object will be less interesting. Use at least one image in the article. An interactive and interesting image also make your readers more enjoy and make their mind keep fresh.

6. Use polite, simply, friendly and modest language
talk by good (polite, simply, friendly and modest) language will make the readers feel comfort. they will feel respected. This is also will increase your authority and multiply your fans.

7. Don't use too many slang word
Use too many slang word is bad. Just use the regular and daily language because it better.

8. Don't use rigid language too
Though your language polite and friendly, you don't use rigid language too. it is will make the readers uncomfort. they are prefer the relax language.

9. Write on your tone and style
Well, Just write on your writing tone and style. Indirectly, this is introduce your self and characters to the readers. in addition, you will never burdened and more enjoy to write.

10. Give link to other articles which relevant and very useful
If there are other articles which relevant and important, just link it. This is will make your visitors read other articles which complete the lack of that article. So, they will feel the benefits a lot by read your blog.

The ten points above is related each other. Just apply that to your blog articles. insyaallah, your contents will better to read. happy to try. I waiting for your response here. Hopefully this post useful. Keep Happy Blogging :)

Muhammad Syakirurohman with his young spirit.
image took from jonloomer.com

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7 Tips and Strategies to Never Lost Ideas to Blog

During we blogging, we can't always find fresh and original ideas. Especially if your blog have specific niche. At a certain moment, you found fresh, original and good ideas. But, at other moments, you can't found ideas though you thinking out loud. So, the thing you found is just disappointment and frustration. Fresh ideas will make good contents. But this is not easy to found. So this is a valuable thing to blogging. Because of that, is the important thing to you for have strategies in order to always find good ideas to blog.
Well, I have some tips and tricks to always find good ideas to write posts in blog.

1. Diligently read other blogs which same niche with you
Blogwalking  and read other blogs which same niche is a way to find good ideas. By this, your knowledge in your niche will increase. This is make you will find the good ideas because the more knowledge you known, the easier to find fresh and original ideas.

2. Associate and communicate with blogger who same specialist with you
Make a relationship, communicate, and  associate with other blogger who same specialist with you also will make you easier to find ideas. Because, By this you will exchanging and sharing ideas that surely different each others. But, It doesn't mean you will make a duplicate content because same ideas. However, the style of writing will make different content.

3. Always bring a little note everywhere
Sometime an idea found when you hanging out or when you didn't blogging. Well, emergence of an idea is difficult to predict. Even i often find ideas when i defecate in the toilet, hahahah (but, this is true :D). So, therefore you must bring a little book everywhere to write the ideas that comes. This is because that ideas will forgotten immediately if you don't write that.

4. Make agenda or list to post
Well, This is an advanced for the number 3. when you have written the ideas in the little note book, quickly to make a list or agenda to post. it also as reminder collection of ideas that ever you found. It is will very useful. it up to you to make agenda in any form. if my own, i make it in notepad with the list of title would i post later.

5. Keep your mood always good
The good mood is so important to find ideas. It is the key to find ideas accidentally. The good mood will make you find the fresh ideas. So, Keep your mood always good.

6. Make your body and mind keep fresh
This point apply if you want to find ideas by think a lot, not by accidentally. You must on fresh body and mind. This is will make you to think clearly. The result, the good ideas will found easily and quickly.

7. Ask to professionals in your niche
Don't hesitate to ask your seniors or professionals in your niche. Don't forget to read their blog too. Approach and respect them. They will be happy if you think they are professionals. Then, ask them and take their knowledge. Because, once again, the more knowledge you known, the easier to find fresh and original ideas.

Okay. Maybe only that can i shared. If you have other ideas for this post, don't hesitate to share in comment box below. I waiting for your response. Hope this useful and Happy Blogging :)

Muhammad Syakirurohman with his young spirit.
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SEO Onpage Tips and Tricks #2 : Optimize the Contents/Articles

4 days ago, I posted about SEO onpage tips part 1. Well, now I will post the part 2. This is different with the previous part that talk about optimize blog pages.This post is about how to optimize your blog contents/articles become Search engines friendly. This is for make your articles can be indexed and get good SERP by search engines. But, it is not means make SEO friendly content by the excessive ways to cheat search engines and make the articles is not readers friendly. Well, There are 2 type good post, that is Search engines friendly and Readers friendly. Surely, if your post include with the both of types above, that is a perfect post. But, Here I just talk about SEO friendly contents. Just wait my post about Readers friendly contents.
Create a SEO friendly post is not a difficult thing now, because there are many plugins, features and other facilities provided by blog platform to help user to make good contents. The example is Blogger which have complete SEO-contents like search description, and other.
Okay, Let to the point. The following is tricks to make your content SEO friendly :

1. Use a long and good title
Well, You must use good title for your post. title is most important thing to make SEO friendly posts. This is because the search engines is display title as search result. So, How a good title ? Good title is long and have main keywords of your post. Not only main keyword, but the unique keyword that still low competitors but frequently used by search engines user when they browsing. Just use keyword research tools (recommended : Google adword)  to find the good title keyword.

2. Custom your permalink URL
Now, blogspot user can custom the url of the post which will published. It is the good opportunity to improve SEO of content because url displayed on by search engines result too(below title). before, our post url is automatic based the post title and can't custom. So, How to optimize it ?. Just Custom your URL use other main keywords that different with title. the example is the automatic this article is ;
http://syakirurahman.blogspot.com/2012/11/seo-onpage-tips-and-tricks.html. But after costumed, it become : http://syakirurahman.blogspot.com/2012/11/how-to-make-post-seo-friendly.html. So, make it as different as possible but it means is same.

3. Use good post search description
The post search description is displayed more details in search engines result. So we must optimize it too. Now, Blogger was had search description feature that work for displaying post description in search result. This is Meta description for posts. Just optimize it by fill it by detail desricption of post and fill main keywords there.

4. Main keyword at beginning or end of articles
Well. your main keyword must located at beginning or end of the post. Why ? it is because search engines will take it as priority than middle of post. Try to use much different words in the sentences that have related or same purpose. This is will enrich keywords.

5. Use Img alt and title
If you use image in post body, just complete it by use image alt and title of image. For blogspot user, the ways is by click image and choose properties. Why we must do it ? it is because search engines can't read and index images, but by use img alt and title the images will read and indexed by search engines. make different img alt and img title too to enrich keywords.

6. No keywords stuffing
though the post with rich keywords is good, but all that excessive is always bad. Keyword stuffing is make your post have too many keywords and too many repeated main words in a paragraph. This is very hated by google search engines and you likely will banned if google detect your blog perform keyword stuffing.

7. Use heading or sub title
Heading or sub title in post body can optimize your contents too. your post will structured by this. In addition, Search engines also like a content that made structured. Usually sub title will considered as main keywords too by search engines. just use header tags like H3, H4 in your post body.

8. Bold, italic and underline font for main keywords
Unique style font set for main keywords is important too. This is for more emphasis to search engines in order consider it is main keywords. Search engines have more attention to the words or sentences that use font style.

9. Linking your article to relevant articles
Well, If you want to linking your article to other articles in your blog or other blog, be careful. You must linking to relevant article. relevant article is the article which have same keywords with your post. Google hate the articles that linking to non-relevant articles. It will consider spam link by google.

10. Linked your article from relevant articles
It same with 9th tips, if you want to linked your article from your other articles, it must linked from relevant articles.

11. Linking or linked with good and high rank blog
aside from your article you must link with relevant articles. the blog which linking or linked must have a good pagerank. It will make google consider your post is good because linked with good blog.

12. Match and relevant anchor link.
If you linking to other articles or blog from your post, just use the anchor word which represents the articles you linked. Don't use the word "blog" as anchor, while you linking it to other article that is not related with that word.

13. Long of articles
Long of your articles also affect your SEO. The standard of article long is about 200 - 1000 words per article.

14. Not too many links
Too many links in your articles is bad. Especially if the links is dofollow. The search engines will be troubled becuase it forced to follow and crawl all links you linked. It also can tired (hehe).

15. Macth category
The post which much category will be good and easy to index and understanded by search engines because usually the name a category is a main keyword of the post included.

The 15 Tips above is ordered by how important and the priority of points. So, the first tips point is most important and the 15th is not too important. So, you surely know what you must do first.
Okay, That's tips and tricks to optimize your contents/articles for SEO. If you have any questions, Don't hesitate to ask me.
Happy Blogging :)

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How to add Youtube Videos to Your Posts

Youtube is a video sharing site that currently very liked by netizens, especially by teenagers. therefore, reasonable if bloggers want to add videos from youtube to their blog posts. unfortunately, there still bloggers that not know yet how to add it. so, in this article, i will explain how to put youtube videos to Blog posts. okay, let's see the tutorial below :

1. create new post.

2. look and click the video icon like on picture below.

3. then, the display will like this :

4. Go to youtube.

5. select the video you like.

6. example you want cristiano ronaldo video to add.

7. copy the url such as showed on picture

8. however, sometimes the url seen like this :

9. but, just copy the url like showed on picture.

10. then, paste and search it. see the picture below.

11. then, there will appear the video list. click the video you selected.

12. finish. the youtube video was added.

That's all. if you have any question, just ask me on the comment box below . Hopefully useful and Happy Blogging :)

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The Category Of good and SEO Friendly Content/Article

 

in previous articles on this blog that talk about seo, i always mention this keyword : Good Content. indeed, anywhere you found the article about SEO, you are never escape from this keyword. many blogger Masters encourage you to create good content for your blogs. Good and SEO friendly content is most important thing to improve your SEO. However, maybe some of you still less understand how a good and SEO friendly articles.

well, on this article i will tell you the category of good and friendly content in order you can understand and make many good contents  on your blog. but, it is not about how to make good content. for that article i will post later.

so how a good and SEO friendly contents?, please see the points below :

1. needed and useful.

well, needed and useful content is main key whether good or not a content. this is determine quality a content. needed content usually    have a basic topics and important.

2. structured.

the good content is structured. it mean composed from basic topic to advanced. it aslo will make your visitors easy to understand.

3. the language is simple, easy to understand, and standard.

this is to make you visitors enjoy and happy to read your article. visitors will feel pleasant to read your content because the language easy to understand. don't use too many slang in your post. this is also for translate accuracy if your visitors are not mean your blog language and use auto translator.

4. topic and keyword relevant with blog keyword and niche.

it is mandatory. your content don't may to have topic and keyword that is not comply with your blog niche. the people will feel wonder. and surely, The search engines are not friendly with your blog.

5. not too short and not too long.

the post is not too short and not too long. if your post is too long, visitors will consider your post less complete and not qualified. likewise, if your content too long, visitors will lazy to read it. The normal size article is about 200 words until 1000 words / article

6. not escape from topic.

don't too much strings attached. remember the topic that will you explain. explain it as clear and brief as possible. it is better.

7. main keyword placed at beginning and end of content.

you must place main keyword at beginning and end of content. because search engines usually detect keyword in this position. so your articles have good and many keyword in eyes of search engines.

8. long tail title keyword.

this is for SEO. long tail keyword have possibility to quick indexed on good position by search engines. long tail title keyword also avoid the stray visitors. by long tail keyword, you will get visitors who indeed need that you post.

9. linked or linking to relevant article.

if you feel your post is have related with others, linking it. it is for complement your article, it is not possible if you make a post exhausted the topic. you may linking or linked your post to other post on same blog(internal link) or to other post on other blog that have same nice(external link). but, just advice from me, strive to have more internal link than external. moreover if your blog is new.

10. not contained too much link.

though you linking or linked to relevant article, too much link also is not good. just linking and linked your post duly.

11. use relevant anchor link

if you will linking your post to other post, use relevant anchor link. don't use the word "blog" as anchor, while you linking it to other article that is not related with that word.

12. use image and image alt.

image will make your content more interesting. without image, visitors sometimes feel saturated to read it, though that post actually is interesting and useful. this is usually happen on visitors being in bad mood. And if you use image, don't forget to insert alternative text in image. search engines can not read an image, but with alt text, it will read your image. by this, you have enrich your content keywords.

okay, that's all from me. after read, just practice it. if you still less understand, you can ask me on comment box below. Hope useful for you. Happy Blogging :)

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How to create the high quality article and much sought-after

Maybe, you are often heard the phrase “content is the king” in blogsphere. Well, that is right. After you found that phrase, maybe you motivated to write the high quality article. unfortunately, when you will write a high quality article, you precisely confused what the article will you write. For solve that problem, i have some tips to create a high quality article.

The below is tips for create the high quality article :

1.  Change your hobbies, interest, talent, skillfulness and knowledge become the needed information. Well, just make the thing you like and mastered become a post. the post will be the high quality article if wrote by it specialist. You will can to answer if your blog visitors ask you about their problem because you are it specialist.

2.  Create the trending topic article, but useful to future too. When you create the trending topic articles, many netizens will visit your blog flocked. moreover the article is very useful. just effort to be first who write the trending topic article, because the search engine will index your post first too.

3.  take the time to write one article. Minimal 2 hours/article. For make a high quality thing is need a lot of time. The longest thing on writing is thinking about what the thing will you write. So, be patient.

4.  Find the mood. Mood is not waited. You will found your mood by many ways. Example by Read the inspiration and motivation books, write at the fresh place, ask your girlfriend/boyfriend to support you, etc.

5.  Write the article gladly and write in your tongue style. It is in order to make you enjoy. In addition, your article readers are feel enjoy too if they read your article in your tongue style. But, don’t write your article with too many slang. Keep politely to your blog readers. It will make your blog interactive and will make a relationship among you and them.

6.  Search more knowledge about the topic you write. Read the articles in other blogs that related with your blog niche. the more you have a lot of knowledge about your blog topics, then more the articles you wrote have high quality. Remember ! you are the specialist of your blog niche.

7.  Insert the link of other articles in your blog (not article in other blogs) that have the same category with the article you are writing. It is in order to your blog visitors read the linked article too and satisfied with information in your blog. The result the visitors will comeback to your blog again or maybe even bookmarking your blog.

8.  Don’t insert a adsense banner in your post, it is will make the visitors feel uncomfort to read your article. moreover, the adsense is not related with the topics. Writing the review product article is better than insert adsense in your post.

If you comply the tips above, i guarantee your article is have the high quality and many peoples search it. more high quality article, more sought after, more backlinks you get from that article.

Just it can i share, if you need to ask your problem , please  ask in comment box. :)

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tips to rewriting the articles from other blogs (no copy-paste)

 

rewriting is not mean make a duplicate post. rewriting is reveal again the mean from the writings of others in our blog. we can writing it with our style of own language. it is different with copy-paste. copy-paste or make a duplicate post is shameless thing. especially if it is not to include the source. some thing cause copy-paste is a bad thing is :

- copy-paste is not respecting the writings of others. another person tired to wrote, while we simply by dragging mouse, then press ctrl + c, after that Ctrl + v
- copy-paste can make the original post that duplicated is no value in the eyes of search engine (especially google) because there are duplicate it.
- the blog have a lot of duplicated article  is google penguins at risk because many of the articles considered "duplicate" by google.

that is some thing that make copy-paste is the bad thing. because of that, if you lost any idea, you may just rewriting an article that we read on the other blog. but, remember! don't duplicate other people's post. in rewriting a post, there are some tips from me maybe useful for you. okay, read the tips below:

1. you must so understand the article that you will rewrite. by this, you will get two profits, you get a new knowledge and you have an idea to posting in your blog. And is also in preparation for when you're asked by readers about something related to writing it. You should be able to answer some questions they asked.

2. search other information about the post you will rewrite in other blogs. this is will increase your knowledge and will complete your post. After that take the essential importance of each source .. and combine it. Your post will be more complete than the other kind post. Your writing will be a reference to the readers because of its completeness.

3. distinguished title of your post with the post that be your source although a little different. Create a unique title as unique but easy to remember the readers.. Likewise with the keyword that you enter in the content of post. Contrast with the targeted keyword in the post that became the source of your post. This is to make your post have a little competition with similar posts in other blogs.

4. finally, include a reference source in a footer your post.  With this, you have to appreciate the writings of others as the reference your post.

Maybe just it can i share. May be useful for you :).. if you still confused, just ask your problem by comment.

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