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| Google Launches Tool to Let You Block Links Posted: 17 Oct 2012 05:05 AM PDT
A while ago I talked about the Penguin update, and about how many webmasters and site owners were now doing something we would never have imagined a couple of years ago: they are contacting other sites to stop linking to them and to remove previously placed links. Well, it looks like Google notice all the buzz and decided to go along. Yesterday it announced a Disavow Links tool inside the Webmasters Central. If you have low quality or spammy sites linking to you and would like to remove those links you can now use that tool and Google will take care of it. Who should do it, though? Here’s quote from a Search Engine Article:
Luckily most of my websites weren’t hit by Panda or Penguin, so I guess I won’t be using the tool. What about you? If you want to read the official announcement, here it is.
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| How to Become the Best Blogger/Writer in Your Niche Posted: 16 Oct 2012 09:05 AM PDT
Wanting to bring your blog to a higher standard, writing forms as good a place to start as any. And just as with anything else, be that in your line of work, career, even hobby, getting specific usually translates into getting better at it. Niche writing, thus, becomes the thing you are to try and be good at. Narrowing your focus, you build the writing skills that are to bring you authority in the niche. And make no mistake, limiting your sphere into writing within niche beats other types of writing by a huge margin for the most part when difficulty is concerned. Understanding your audience, their needs, developing your voice, your tone in which you address readers – this is difficult at a number of levels when compared to what other writers commonly care about. Therefore, here are some hints that may just transform you into the best writer in your niche: Follow the leading blogs only As a blogger, you are probably aware by now that you must make those connections. In short, this means that you are to follow many blogs whether you like it or not. However, the blogs that you thoroughly read, be that the ones into your mail, or RSS list, should be hand-picked and chosen very carefully. Hence your RSS list should be indeed very thin, so you can really squeeze the most out of any blog that has found its place in it. Following even two or three blogs that are highly authoritative, buys you a lot of reading either way. What this does, is assuring that you feed yourself only with what already worked in terms of reach, popularity, creating appealing material. And this is a jewel all by itself. It gives you directions, for the most part that is, given the need to still come up with something original. And since niche writing is more than just the ability to find new material for you to work on, you will also get a grip on things like length of paragraphs, formatting, even things as narrow as sentence construction and using phrases that are very likely to be found in a certain niche. In a way, you get to shape the tone you are to develop in the future. Commenting The best way to have a peak into how niche followers feel about certain subjects is to go and spend some time around the comment sections of the same blogs we just mentioned. You see, getting your arguments confronted, allows you to transcend your current knowledge niche wise, and to an extent it makes your writing skills more polished, your writing far more convincing, captivating to say the least. Alas, commenting does know how to get you drained out pretty quick, but it will also make you aware of the loops you would have had in your writing. Guest posting In your niche Being accepted to guest post within your niche is a good enough sign that things are going for the better. However, being exposed to other audience than ours, you can find out more about the niche as a whole. You see, your audience is, in a way, used to your writing. And having the chance to woo an entirely different audience, you will see what works and what doesn't. What leaves a better impression, what worse, or if any. You see, guest posting has a lot more going on than just the link building side that has now became so apparent. I for example get the most subscribers after a guest post going life on a niche related site, than anything else for that matter. Hence it gives me directions, the result that is, in which my writing is to develop further on. But it wasn't always like this though. There were times when I would write a guest post, and the response was less than vague, subscribers hardly if any. And realizing that only by tweaking things bit by bit makes a huge difference, I found the solution which lied on the periphery, in the sense of constantly exploring and searching for refinement in your tone. Guest posting out of your niche This, in a way, fills the gap left when you try to improve your writing only by writing within niche. What happens is quite simple; Writing outside of your niche gives you a perspective on your skills, your voice, your tone. Albeit in a new setting, you become aware of what is your distinctive mark when composing niche related content, what it is that makes you apart from others. Writing within the healthy lifestyle niche (the place where I come from) I have a distinctly different tone than when compared with writing in the Internet Marketing niche (I hang there too from time to time). And realizing what makes the difference, in a way, enhances your skill, your quality. Therefore, try to explore other writing styles as to get a tighter grip on your own, or better yet, improve it. Bring a breeze into your niche that is, all in all anew. It may even make a shift into your style of writing that will make you even more distinguishable. Blogs are not enough You probably noticed that blogs can bring you only so far. In order to continue to improve your style, your ability to tell a story, to make an analogy, and so on, you need another source of reading material. This means that you already developed a lot, so kudos. The next step would be reading books that have material which overlaps with what you are writing about, and in a way, hold up to better linguistic standards than what the average blog commonly cares about. Try reading sites like TechCrunch, The Guardian, NRN, and you will see the difference in writing when compared with the average niche blog. It's more than apparent, you see. Reading and forming your style only within the blogosphere makes decline in progress only a matter of time. Many bloggers unaware of this, or simply biased enough or simply just lazy, never climb that one additional bar in terms of quality in their writing. Developing into one of the best niche writer is not a given. You have to work hard for it. But knowing what brings you closer or what makes you retain status quo, will for sure launch you into the right direction of movement. Slavko Desik is writer and editor at Lifestyle Updated, a site about personal
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