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Blogging Lessons Learned During Vacation

June 24, 2008 · 3 Comments 

I was planning to make a post at my blog about my recent vacation in the Philippines but now I have decided to post it here.

When I went on a vacation, I thought it will depreciate my visitors and AdSense Earnings because of the following concerns:

  1. Lack of daily updates
  2. Short time for Research
  3. Short time for Comments Response
  4. Delayed E-mail Response
  5. Busy days in IRL ( In Real Life )

So what happened during my vacation? BTW, I asked my readers to have a guest post but nobody did :(

This information might be very useful to those bloggers that will be going on a vacation.

So here are my suggestions:

Relax and Enjoy your vacation.

I was not able to prepare advance post before my vacation. So what I learn visitors come at your site since they want to learn more from you. They also like the real things that are happening in your life like what you are doing during your vacation, great things that you see during your vacation and other stuff that might give more information on who you are.

Visitors visit your blog because they want your opinion and how you will increase your online reputation is just to be yourself. You don’t have to pretend to be someone else when in fact you are not.

Attend Real Life Bloggers’ Gatherings

I was fortunate to have attended 2 bloggers’ events: The Trinoma Food Tour and Iblog4. It was indeed a nice gathering since I got a chance to network with other bloggers whom I interact only in online Community.

Research

It is useless to research whole day and end up on researching nothing. Better subscribe immediately to those blogs that you encountered and always check your reader once or twice a day. Know the proper tools that will be suitable for your needs in order to have the fresh information. I suggest you to be connected in Twitter, where most of the known bloggers are now using to promote their latest posts. I also believe in the saying that “it is not how many follow you but it is how many you follow”. By following other bloggers, you get a chance to get updates from them which can give a better idea on how to prosper more at your niche. Of course you need to know who are the people within your niche.

You can write more when your browser is closed. Finish your article and find keywords which you can link to your previous post and check what keywords or anchor text that you can link to your friends or newly found friends.

Busy days in IRL ( In Real Life )

What makes you busy? Blog about it. Hey you are not running a NEWS site , you are running a blog site. Why don’t you blog a little “real you” while on vacation and let’s forget about your niche or connect the reality in your niche. I cab say it is effective and promotes interaction within your blog.

Short Time for Comments Response

You can respond to your blog’s comments just once a day. And give your response as brief as possible but it should have an answer for the question thrown at you. If you need to make a long response, why not just make it a new topic for your next post instead. Commenters know that you are in a vacation so I know that they can wait for your response.

Make a Search Engine Optimized Post and then enjoy passive income. So the next time I will have my vacation, I will still enjoy it and share my experience.

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Written by Dexter Panganiban · Dexter writes his Tech, Blogging and SEO views at Tech At Hand Dot Net. He is blogging in Saudi Arabia. A Mechanical Egineer looking his way to be an "A" Lister Blogger someday. He also maintains a Philippine News Site.

Sony Ercisson C905 Cyber-shot 8.1 megapixel phone

June 24, 2008 · Comments 

While most people are still stuck with the news about Apple’s release of the iPhone, here comes a competitor which is the new “talk of the town”.

Just two weeks ago, it was a rumor. Came June 17, the Sony Ericsson C905 Cyber-Shot phone became real.

The rumors shocked the mobile world, more so when the actual specifications of this high mega pixel mobile phone was released.

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Written by Migs Hipolito · Migs is a self proclaimed techie guy who likes everything about mobile gadgets - more specifically mobile phones. For his views, reviews and the latest in mobile phones, visit MigsMobile.net.

Do you use an Amazon Web Service? Then CloudStatus may be useful for your monitoring efforts

June 24, 2008 · Comments 

CloudStatus recently launched Amazon Web Services Health Summary. The charts displayed on CloudStatus are real-time health status of Amazon Web Service (AWS). The site also shows the last twenty four hours of health history for key Amazon Web Services.

Why is this such a big deal? Amazon Web Services is being used by a lot of startups and more than 60,000 customers who rely on scalability, reliability and on-demand usage. And when this service goes down, it’s surely going to be a breaking news all over the Internet.

Some of popular and noteworthy sites that are using AWS are Twitter, Smugmug, Justin.tv, ShareThis, Alexa, 37signals, AdBrite and a lot more. Our very own Eskwela.com also uses AWS.

Using CloudStatus as an additional monitoring service should help you quickly react to future outages.

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Written by AJ Batac · AJ Batac has 13+ years of experience in IT/Web Development. He blogs at http://allanjosephbatac.com/blog