Yes, I just joined my girlfriend to the freelance world, and it is somehow tough for me at the moment, to change my lifestyle and all. However, I find it difficult to change a few thing though… And of course there are fun in the freelance world

The wearing

Normally I wear only a short pant at home, without top. And now, I’m working without my top. Strange but comfortable of course, at least I don’t need to listen to my boss nagging about I put off my shoes when I’m on my seat. It’s annoying…

More free time

Although I can’t say that my earning has been good, but it is enough for me to survive a month or two already. But I have all the free time on my hand. I don’t need to report anyone if I want to go outside and shop for my Logo usb drive in the afternoon, I can have my lunch for hours and etc

More stress

Normally happen only if we did not receive any job for a day or two. Well, it’s going to be over As long as motivation is there…. Erm…

Keep motivating myself for long run

I admit I hate to motivate myself, I rather keep myself on a situation where I am productive, which is not easy, especially now I’m at home working…

Anyway, will get more update once I have the time. It’s working hour for me now, and it is also about time for me to get off my desk and have a tea break

There are a lot of talk about designer blog should have a great design in it. I am however, still wondering about this, that is why my blog isn’t graphicly designed As a simple person with a blog, I think a blog should represent my personality instead of my knowledge… Erm… Let’s not talk about myself. What I wanna point out here is, it is good for a designer to have a blog.

1, Your (Designer) blog actually helpng you to promote your services. A lot of designer nowadays have a personal blog, some even have a good portfolio front page. My girl friend, who is fancy about web design, had her blog designed nicely and submitted to some web design directory, which eventually earned her some freelance work

2, Through designer blog, you get expose with other designer and upgrade your own eye level. There are lots of web trend around the internet this days. This is how web design consistently upgrading this few years. Anyway, just a little observation here, don’t you think lots of sites are getting their inspiration from Apple.com? Hmmm…

3, Write more about design and you get a better expose than any other ways. Since I just started to work from a student life, there are a few things I noticed that totally different. 1, No mistake allowed, which mostly impossible for a freshie. 2, Learning from senior require a lot more time, because they are all busy.

All I wanna say is, blogging actually promote a services, either your service is designing or weight loss product, they will be sold by just simply – BLOG

There are many techniques to increasing traffic to your blog. Among them are search engine optimization (SEO) techniques. Many SEO strategies that you will find on the internet are severely outdated and by using them, you will actually be hurting your search engine ranking instead of helping it. There are only a few left which is still working well for most websites and blogs. Keywords and Link popularity. Believe it or not, social bookmarking sites were created and getting famous one by one is all because of both of them. Think it’s not working? Think again.

Things about Keyword Content. When the concept of keyword content first came out, most web owners stuffed their web pages with keywords and it worked. It was long ago though, unlike bloggers today that write so many paid post with keyword like moth traps or whatsoever. These keywords will only help the site that linked to the keyword, but for your blog, it’s not helping at all. However, due to the spamming keywords used, search engines started to filter out the spamming keyword, so over using keyword on your blog/site will not help.
Keywords are important, but it is also important to use them correctly.

Incoming Links. Trading links with other blog/site (reciprocal links) used to be a successful SEO for link popularity. However, it doesn’t do so much good anymore. The search engines actually looking for quality links that aren’t reciprocal. Now thinking why online advertising is such a success nowadays? Either you do a good advertisement or write a good content to attract people to link you themselves without reciprocal link.

I myself having problem about SEO too, because I’m using too much keyword and writing too much paid post. A year ago, Google started to filter out all the blogs that write paid post and sell link space. So there’s no PR on many blogs nowadays, but hey, advertisers look for traffic as well

So, you wanted to blog? Be it blogging for your own, blogging for a niche topic or blogging for business. To make it look and sound professional, there’s always steps to go for. Let me see what I can dig out from my previous experiences.

Point 1 – Choose your blogging platform
There are so many blogging script out there. But only 2 are widely used, which are WordPress and Blogger. Don’t worry, both of them are free

Point 2 – What you want to write about?
This is the hardest point when you wanted to start on writing about anything, even if you know your niche content. However, to make sure the blog would run like professional for search engine (Forget about visitors for a while), look for the top 100 keywords of the day/month/year whichever you can find. After all, visitors are the one who type in the keywords aren’t them?

Point 3 – What your reader what
You can just write whatever you want. That is easy. But blogging as a professional blogging is not fun as you thought. The key here is to compete with other bloggers to get as many readers as possible. Unique content is a gold mine.

After all these steps, I’m starting to blog right away I haven’t touch how to advertise your blogs and make money etc just yet. When I compile every information in my mind and I’ll post it up, soon there won’t be any need of mortgage lenders since people are all starting to blog

Once before my friend who has a business asked me about new idea to implement on his business. So I told him about blogging, he as a blogger who thought that it was wasting his time (Obviously he thought he is wasting time blogging. Tell you more later). However, my understanding of blogging is different though, as internet users keep growing day by day, this is how blogging could help on his (Or maybe, your) business.

1. Easy Publishing Tool
Type your post for the day. Add some hyperlinks or images with the click of your mouse. Hit the “publish” button. You’ve just updated your blog with new information, and it’s live on the Internet. It’s that easy. New stock, latest sales etc, everything can be an entry.

2. Search Engine Visibility
Once you started a blog, it will automatically ranked in search engine, although it’s not in a click of eyes, but it does happen at one point. And if you’re using some famous blogging platform like WordPress, ranking in searching engine is much faster than any other.

3. Potential for Conversation
Most blogging platform come with a comment feature. At the bottom of each post, readers can leave comments. So instead of the one-way communication of a traditional website (Where I talk and you listen), you now have a two-way conversation taking place. You can probably see the business-building potential of this.

4. Return Visits
Blogging programs make it easy for people to stay in touch. For example, your visitors / readers can simply subscribe to your blog’s syndication feed to receive future updates automatically. There are also programs available that can convert your posts into an email newsletter format. That way, people can sign up to receive future posts just like signing up for any other e-newsletter. It’s a handy tool that can keep people coming back over and over again.

Anyway, you don’t need any term insurance just to start a business blog, these are my points though. However, at the end of the day, business blogging still depend on your preferences and your mindset about blogging.