410 days after my first ever blog post, here I am making my 500th. This is a report on what has transpired over the past 410 days it has taken me to write this many.

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Recently, as I was just browsing and reading stuff on-line, I came across this blog post by Seth Godin.

In case you are from the other side of the world like me, you may not be that familiar with him. [read more]

November 2, 2008- The Cebu Bloggers Society members were invited as guests by Jun Tariman of DYAB-Cebu in his tech segment program to discuss the basics of BLOGGING and how it evolved! It is a 30-minute segment given to the bloggers (3:00-3:30 pm). Yay! Thanks for this publicity! Other topics mentioned out of the blue are tips on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), how to start Blogging for interested folks, earning money thru it (adsense) and promoting Cebu Bloggers Society in the airwaves! BTW, we are also on Live Webcast that time! Our spokeperson heading the group is Kevin and the supporting actors are Clarence, Empress, Sinjin, Zenia and definitely, the gorgeous X!

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In Naruto, ninjas were able to perform amazing feats that are beyond human because of their chakra. It’s something like a chi, or spiritual energy which ninjas can tap into to do special techniques. According to the story, a chakra is the resulting form of energy produced when Physical and Spiritual energies are mixed together within the body. Then to use it, Hand Seals are performed. This allows the user to expel it out the body in the form of an attack, and requires different Hand Seals for different attacks. Everyone is born with their chakra; but no body is born with the knowledge to use it to perform special attacks; except for a select few who can wield it through instinct or sheer will alone. To be able to use it, one should undergo rigorous and intensive ninja training.

Not all ninjas share the same type of chakra. There are five different types of chakra: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Lighting. It’s like an affinity to the elements sort of thing. When you have the Fire type, you’ll be able to manipulate the fire element and everything associated with it with ease. The same goes with water type and the water element; and so on and so forth. Here comes the interesting part. Although subject to one’s ideas about blogging, I’d like to believe that your blogging energies share the same type of affinities as the chakras used in Naruto. Your blogging chakra separates you from the others and at the same time helps you execute blogging techniques that keep your blog alive. It’s very much debatable or discreditable depending on your discretion; but let’s just assume. What if it’s so?

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Being a Naruto fan myself, I believe one can pick-up a lot of lessons from him which you could apply in life, as well as blogging. To begin with, Naruto is a simple character, very predictable, but true to his intentions and goals. You could see through him because of his transparent character. Did I strike any chord about blogging? As homage to Naruto’s immense nine-tailed chakra, I came up with a list of 9 lessons from the anime series which could seriously help you in your path to being a better blogger. I’ll call it the “nine jutsus of blogging”. Here it goes:

1) Simplicity and humility

According to his creator, Masashi Kishimoto, Uzumaki Naruto was purposely created as a simple and straight forward character because he is not very much interested in smarter and sophisticated heroes. Being that, it’s easier for fans to understand and, perhaps, relate to him. Besides being simple, Naruto is also humble in his ways. He might be boisterous, but he never boasted about what he has achieved or looked down on his fellow ninjas based on their shortcomings because he understood that he has greater shortcomings himself.

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Basically, keywords can do a lot of magic to your blog in terms of traffic through search engines. It is because search engines understand your blog through keywords. When someone tries to search for a certain keyword through Google, Yahoo, or MSN, it will show results of the sites they have indexed containing the word that someone is looking for. Depending on the keyword consistency of the page and the site as a whole, the search engines display their results according to the authority of the site on that particular keyword from the strongest to the weakest; where traffic, most of the time, is exclusive only to those who are displayed on the first to the tenth results page. By using keywords effectively in your posts, theoretically, you’ll increase your traffic from search engines because you’ll get your site displayed on the first five or ten search result pages of your keywords. At the same time, you’ll have audience who are interested in what you have to say or offer because you appeared in their searches.

The concept might be simple to look at from this point but, frankly, it is a lot of work. SEO practitioners call it “keyword research” which was first used on traditional websites. Bloggers adopted the idea because, basically, blogs are websites too but with a much different purpose compared to the traditional ones. The strategy behind the practice is basically building your site/blog or article around keywords to optimize it for search engine indexing. The question now is how to boost your traffic using keyword optimization? Here’s how…

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If you didn’t know already, I’m part of an inexperienced SEO (search engine optimization) team that has entered a local SEO contest. Because I’m quite a newbie in the field, I’m thankful that I’ve got two more guys in the team with which I can share my budding opinions and ‘tricks’ on SEO.

As the contest is about to close in about a month’s time, I’ve written an entry about the three of us — the webmistress extraordinaire, the blogger-who’s-always-interviewed-on-ANC, and the literary boy lost in the SEO jungle — before it’s too late.