Empowerment

For almost two years, I subscribed to Hugh MacLeod's GapingVoid mailing list. Everyday, I am receiving emails from him. Today, I got this email and this explains why every people living on the 21st century should write their thoughts down. Every struggles, every hardships, and every painful events that happened should be written down. Of course, success stories should be written too. 

Who knows, perhaps there will be one person who will be empowered with the stories that you have shared. Who knows, his life might change because of that piece of literature published online or offline. We'll never know. 

I can talk about this topic all day long but I guess that's for my future post. For now, enjoy Hugh McLeod's post.

“Empowerment” doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Empowerment is part of a story... your story. You feel empowered depending on the context. 

I believe that every person needs to know, at least once before they die, that their life- with all its mess and suffering- was worth it, somehow. 

And how do they know that? by telling stories. By telling THEIR story... 

And making it great. 

When someone is using your product, don't ask what stories are they telling about you; ask what stories they're telling about themselves, and how you product fits into it. You'll get a far more interesting answer.

Until my next post,

Elvin Peria

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How to Optimize Search Engines

The ultimate goal for a blogger or an internet marketer is to be noticed on the internet. They want their website or blog to reach more readers as much as possible with little or no effort. Little effort means even if you don’t promote (your website or blog in social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, multiply etc.) you’ll still be able to attract readers to view your blog or website.

The best way to do this is by doing search engine optimization.

There are a lot of ebooks out there that teaches us ways on how to increase traffic on our sites. Honestly, most of them are telling you that you need to promote your blog or website hard enough just to get more traffic.

The good news is that my online buddy and trusted friend Janmck Hilado shares his experiences through his ebook entitled Search Engine Traffic Secrets. He made his sites obtain that 1st rank in Google search with over millions of competitors.

Janmck's ebook Search Engine Traffic Secrets will teach you how to

• Optimize your Blogger blogs to actually overtake Wordpress blogs in ranking the Search Engines.
• Increase your Back Links to improve your site's popularity.
• Where to submit your blogs (every site you need your blog to be submitted to)

So if you want to create more money online I suggest you to take time and grab a soft copy of Janmck’s book by visiting this link : http://www.searchenginetrafficsecrets.info.

This ebook helped me to produce high ranking websites such as my blog (www.elvinperia.com), Edel’s blog (www.bit.ly/edelramilo), Laguna Feast website (www.lagunafeast.info) and a lot more.

Hope this information can help you earn online.

Until my next post.

eLviN

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New Feature in Blogger : Blogger Template Designer

Every day I’m opening my inbox for new messages.

And today, there’s nothing quite new. Nothing unusual. I got an email from Seth Godin, from Kerygma Family (Didache, Sabbath and the Readings for today), from Truly Rich Club (which includes Godwhispers and Wealth Strategies Newsletters), from Facebook and Twitter updates.
As I checked on my spam messages, I notice something very, very interesting. This message is not really a spam but very, very useful indeed. The email? You might ask. It’s from Blogger Team.

They have announced a new feature in blogger. I know most of you would really, really love this new feature. It will help you design your own blogger templates without the hassle of understanding the complex HTML codes. This is good news right?

Here are the new features available in Blogger Template Designer.

• Beautiful new templates to start from
• Custom layouts with one, two or three columns
• Hundreds of background images
• Customizable colors, fonts, widths, background, and more.

Did I mention that this feature is in draft.blogger.com?

This means that you can customize your blog without affecting the live version. Isn’t that great?

Oh well. Just try it out yourself.

Happy Blogging!

PS. If you own a blog, you can partner with me by exchanging your links with mine. Just put your comment on this post with your name and your blog link/s. Who knows, www.elvinperia.com might be your link to have a high Page Rank rating.

PS1. Please try to visit some sites I made using this feature. Sleep Aids and Cosmetic Plastic Surgery.

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New Feature in Blogger

I noticed something new in blogger. They added a new feature called Pages. This feature is somewhat like the category links in Wordpress. This would automatically create a page list that would help viewers to navigate thru your blog.

You can now add About Me Page, Contact Me Page, and any other pages you want. This could make your blogs attractive to readers. Now you will not worry about the template to use because Blogger now has the page link list easily available.

Maximum of 10 pages can be added.

Here are the steps to create your own pages.

1. Go to blogger dashboard
2. Go to posting tab
3. Click on Edit Pages
4. Click on New Page Button (It will prompt you to a new post layout.)
5. Enter the page name
6. Enter the page post
7. Once done, click on Publish Page
8. Select the desired location of the Page list Link (I’d prefer the blog tabs for these links)

Hope this helps.

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Blogger Tips : How to add google adsense to your newly created blogger blog

Just sharing a video from my online buddy (JanMck Hilado) entitled How to Add Google Adsense To Your Newly Created Blogger Blog.

This is a great tutorial for blog starters. Hope this helps. Enjoy!



Keep blogging...

Blogger Tips : Fixing Undefined Dates

I noticed there are a lot of Pinoy Bloggers out there in the blogging universe. A lot of us are using blogger.com as the hosting site for our blogs. From my previous post, I've discussed some blogging ideas like the difference between adsense-optimized blog and passion blog, adding photo slider widgets, shortening URLs, etc. On this post, I'll be discussing some minor fixes regarding the downloadable blogger templates.

Most of us are experimenting with different blogger templates that can be easily downloaded in the world wide web. Why are we doing this? One reason, because the predefined blogger templates are very common, very limited and very simple (no special design whatsoever). We want our blogs to stand out from the rest. We want our blog/s to attract more readers/clickers (just to clarify, I'm not saying that if we use the predefined blogger templates we'll not be able to attract more readers okay?). Creating a nice looking blog a good SEO will do the trick of having a semi-passive cash machine. Please take note, that if you're a newbie in blogging and you want to earn fast, don't change the template right away. Kindly prioritize posting articles.

Okay. Let's say you're not a newbie in blogging and you want to design the layout of your own blog. However, you don't know how to create HTML scripts. Don't be sad. There's still hope. Google is the key. Just google free blogger layout in the search bar and this will do the trick. You'll select from thousands of free blogger layouts available.

However, I noticed that some of the free blogger layouts available when copied and pasted in the layout>>Edit HTML, something unexpected will happen particularly in viewing the blog. An undefined portion appears. Click here to view an example.

Did you notice the undefined portion? It's an eye sore right? Supposedly that portion should be the date part.

So how do we fix it?

Simple. Follow these easy steps.

1. Go to Dashboard>>Blogger Layout>>Page Elements.
2. On the blog post portion, click on Edit.
3. A pop-up window will appear. On that pop up window you'll see a lot of check boxes. On the third check box change the time format into long date (e.g. Tuesday, December 15, 2009). The long date is the fourth option in the drop down list.
4. Click on Save and then view your blog.

The fix blog should look like this. Click this link to view the example.

Hope this trick helps. If you have questions or clarifications, please place your questions in the comment section below or on the shout out located in the right most part of the Home screen. Until my next post.

Happy Blogging!

Photo Slider Widget

I found a new widget in the world wide web. It's cool and I know it'll be nice to have this on some of my blogs. I'm looking an automatic image slider thing like the one on this blog (carousel) for the past couple of months with less codes. I discovered slide.com one a month ago but I only need the slide function not too much animation.

Here's what I want.

1. Instant photo upload
2. Adjustable image size
3. Loads quickly
4. Free

I found these characteristics in goodwidgets.com.

I tried it out on my newly created blog and I'm happy with the results. Click here to check it out.

If you think there's a better image slider out there that you could recommend other than goodwidgets.com and slide.com please do so.

Thanks! Until my next post.

We're on a Roll

Amazing things happen this week. Wow. We're on a roll!

We've been learning a lot for the past couple of days. God is really generous. The things just happen in a snap. We have a mentor, we have a lot of reading materials, and soon we will have the resources all the things we need. They came to us and more of them to follow.

You might ask. Why are you telling me that? What happened?

A lot of things happened.

From my previous post : The Universe of Blog and Financial Literacy, I've shared that we have a new mentor that will teach us the ups and downs in the world of stock market. This awaken our senses that anyone can make money in the stock market, we just need to have the right person that'll teach us.

You might ask? Who will teach us?

Good thing citiseconline have a seminar about investing in stock market every Tuesday from 2PM-6PM. They are prioritizing online registration so register online. Check out this site for more details. We're planning to be there on the 24th of this month. Also, they're offering a trading game online for us to simulate the actual trading which takes place in stock market.

Another thing, remember the CashInAFlash book I ordered? I already got my own copy for free. I just paid the shipping cost and waited for less than a month then viola it appeared at our doorstep. Aside from this, they (the authors) have given us a lot of free stuffs. Upon ordering the book online, I already got 21 ebooks+, podcasts, and a lot of interview materials discussing how to generate money. And now I got the book, they're still giving me a lot of freebies. Imagine that. So if you want the copy of the book, just check out this site. Believe me, you'll not regret it.

Our blogging business is back on track. For the past couple of days, our blogs are updated. Cash are coming in. I'm expecting to receive more. The Law of Attraction really works.

Let me share you a story. For the past couple of days I'm receiving small earnings coming from our blogs. I'm having my doubts. I even lose hope but thankfully the Law of Attraction book came to the rescue. I've re-read the passages and planted some positive things in my mind. After a couple of days, our blogs are back on track. Tomorrow and for the next couple of days for sure our blogs are on a roll as well.

I'm just happy for the things that happened for the past couple of days. I'm really happy that things are really coming our way. I'll be staying very positive that all of this will continue to happen within the next couple of days. I know that the universe is doing all the things they can to bring me all the things I need to do, all the people I need to have and all the resources I need to obtain the things I desire.

Things are really coming our way. We're really on a roll! I'm hungry for more!

PS. The free ebook is still up for grabs! Who knows this might help you understand how Google Adsense works.

The Universe of Blog and Financial Literacy

I am doing an unusual thing today. Usually, when I write articles here on my blog I directly encode them in blogger. This time, I’m using Microsoft Word. Why? I don’t know.

Haha…

Kidding aside, Honestly, I’m just looking for a synonym of the word “excited” that’s why I opened MS Word and then I decided to write the article here instead. Microsoft Word is handy with its thesaurus function.

So why in the world I searched for a synonym of the word “excited” because I want to have the right word to describe what I’m feeling right now.

What’s the magic word? I can’t find any. But I do have lot of words that eventually could sum up to the feeling I’m having right now and hopefully at the end of this post, I can figure it out.

A lot of things happened that makes me feel excited. First, the discussion with our financial mentor went well yesterday. We had a nice time. A lot of questions have been answered. I am now in the process of making an investment in stock market with the help of my mentor. She also introduces us to Trading Game in the Philippines Stocks Exchange website.

Also, in relation to this, I got a copy of Cashflow 202 eGame. This version takes the stock market to the next level that’s why I love it. J

I have a vision that I will be able to invest in stock market early next year before my 25^th birthday.  I will be learning a lot of information about my own financial status and growth before year end.

It’s true that when you focus on something the universe is aligning all the things needed in order to fulfill our desires.

Speaking of focus, there’s another thing I’m focusing my attention to. Well, you see I’ve been a blogger for almost seven months now. I’m focused and determined to obtain that target Adsense earning. Honestly, sometimes I feel frustrated because seven months is quite long to earn my target earning in Adsense but hey that’s okay. A lot of bloggers out there took more than a year just to earn their first $100. I believe that this month I will be happy to see that I'm hitting my target earning in Adsense. Thanks to my blogs and more importantly to the upcoming Pacquiao-Cotto Fight (watch the Pacquiao-Cotto Fight online here).

By the way, I’m happy to say that my first blog reaches the PR2 mark. This is good news (to know more about that blog click here). I’ll be sharing my success story on how do I reach that PR2 status soon. So stay tuned.

I’m very positive that all of this will happen within the next couple of days. I know that the universe is doing all the things they can to bring me all the things I need to do, all the people I need to have and all the resources I need to obtain the things I desire.

I guess this is enough for now. Until my next post.

PS. Please feel free to provide the correct word that best describes my feeling right now. A free ebook about Adsense awaits the lucky winner.

Shortening URLs

Are you blogging and sharing your blog posts in social media like Facebook and twitter? If yes, this post is for you.

For this post, I'll be talking about shortening URLs. I'll be sharing the two shortening URLs sites I know, bit.ly and tinyurl.com.

First let's define some terms.

URL - basically URL or Uniform Resource Locator is an unique address which identifies a resource on the internet or webpage. For example, on this site the URL of the homepage is http://elvinperia.blogspot.com. If you're reading this post alone (meaning there's no moving pictures on the header) the URL is http://elvinperia.blogspot.com/2009/10/shortening-urls.html. I hope you got my point.

Shortening URLs are very useful if you have a blog or a website which are promoted in social media sites more particularly in twitter. Twitter as you may know contains 140 characters per tweet. This means that if I paste this post's URL on my tweet (http://elvinperia.blogspot.com/2009/10/shortening-urls.html, which contains 59 characters), I only have 81 characters left for my post description. Description is important in encouraging others to view your link.

If we use shortening URLs then we will be able to increase the remaining characters of our tweet. More characters would mean longer description.

tinyurl.com is a web service that provides short URLs in replacement with long URLs. It was launched last 2002. The TinyURL homepage includes a a form that's used to submit a long URL for shortening. For each URL entered, the server adds a new alias in its hashed database and returns a short URL such as http://tinyurl.com/eperia in the following page.

bit.ly, like tinyurl.com, also provides short URLs in replacement of the original long URLs. It has lesser characters and provides some good statistics about the links.

Comparing this two shortening URL service, I prefer bit.ly because it contains lesser characters and because of it's additional functions.

Hope this helps.

Applying Law of Attraction in Blogging

Just read Michael Losier's Law of Attraction. This post is made based on his suggestions on how to attract what we desire easily... I applied it to blogger and I know today, I will be attracting all of this things. How? I will allow Google to make these things happen.

I am in the process of attracting all that I need to do, know or have to attract my ideal earnings from Google Adsense.

I love knowing that my ideal earnings from Google is at least $5 a day.
I also love how it feels that this will increase on a day to day basis (Google will surprise me).
It excites me when every month me and my team are receiving a check from Google.
I love seeing myself receiving that check from Google.
I'm so excited at the thought of a constant flow of money coming to me from the Google Adsense Program.
More and more, our blogs are on the first page of search engines, get a lot of traffic, gain higher page ranks and make a lot of clicks from unknown sources in the world wide web.
I've decided to create blog posts that would attract and help more people searching from their search engines.
I'm going to allow Google to figure out how they will drive traffic to our blog sites and make them click some relevant ads.

The Law of Attraction is unfolding and orchestrating all that needs to happen to bring me my desire.

PS. Hope you can check out my site by going to http://bloglinksportal.blogspot.com

Blog Update

No posts for a past couple of days, okay weeks. I've been planning to create a series of posts entitled Aim for Greatness however I'm still in the process of becoming a great blogger so I focused my attention on blog creation and blog promotion. Don't worry I'll be posting them here once I'm done with my masterpiece. So stay tuned.

By the way, Edel and I created a business blog. It is a blog requested by our client (yes we had a client) for their business. I think we made a good one. You can visit this business blog by clicking on this link.  Comments and feedback are highly recommended. You may post them at the comment section of this post.

Another thing, I've made a portal where in all of our blogs are showcased. I really like the template used in that blog. I'm happy because promoting all of our blogs are easy because I'm just sharing one link and not a dozen. To date we already created at around forty blogs. Forty blogs are not easy to maintain but thanks to draft.blogger.com it became possible. We're currently in the process of creating another forty before the year ends. Click here to view the one link blog portal...Again comments are highly appreciated.

Lastly, I'm happy that I receive my google adsense personal identification number yesterday. Woohoo.. Now I am certified google adsense publisher. I've been waiting for it since July 31, 2009. Luckily, I got it yesterday.

That's it for this post. Thanks for the time. Until next post.

Again feel free to post your comments... :) God Bless.

Passion or Adsense-Optimized/SEO Blog?

Passion blog or Adsense-Optimized/SEO blog? If it's both then good. But what if it's not? This question keeps my mind busy yesterday as i replied to one forum question in PinoyNetWizards.

So in today's post, I'll be discussing the pros and cons of passion and Adsense-Optimized/SEO blog based on my experience.

Passion blog. I had created a lot of blogs about them. The most famous of them is my Heroes Blog. It contains spoilers, news and everything about my favorite TV show Heroes. I love writing and searching about the latest Heroes news, gossips and spoilers in the world wide web.

Creating a passion blog requires lesser time as compared to Adsense-Optimized/SEO blogs. Promoting it with Social Networks like Facebook, Twitter and Multiply is not a problem as well. The fun factor in doing this is very, very high. However, based on my experience, most of passion blog does not earn much or takes some time to earn a lot. To tell you the truth, my Heroes site has the highest number of clicks, page impressions and traffic but it is not the blog site with the highest revenue.

Of course, Adsense-Optimized/SEO blogs have the highest revenue. It can generate adsense income with lower clicks and page impressions. Minimal promotion is needed because visitors will be coming from search engines. However, creating an Adsense-Optimized/SEO blog requires a lot of time doing research in the world wide web. Searching for the topic/niche. Finding the keywords with high cost per click (CPC) and low competition. But after setting it up, just wait for around two weeks and expect the fruits of your labor. Click here for Adsense-Optimized/SEO Blog examples.

So what is it? Passion or Adsense-Optimized/SEO Blog?

Answer : It all depends on your blogging purpose. If you want to tell the world your story, then create a passion blog. Otherwise, if you want to earn online Adsense-Optimized/SEO Blog is for you.

Now ask yourself, what's your purpose?