You blogged last week but nobody came to read. You blogged yesterday but nobody left any comment. You blogged today but still nobody came to read and left comment.

So what do you do to let people know that you exist?

Here’s some tips that I can share with you:

• Submit your blog’s URL to free search engine. Main search engines include Google, Yahoo, etc. This will increase the visibility and optimise your blog for Google search, and distributing your content across the search engines at large.
• Social networkings. Join social networking like EntreCard, Technorati, Twitters, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, LinkedIn etc. The more the better.
• Exchange links. Link your blogger friends’ URL on your sidebar and let them know about it. Most of them will reciprocate. But some don’t. If they don’t, please do not get upset. This is normal, it’ll take time.
• Provide RSS Feed by e-mail. This is to let your blog readers subscribe to your blog and receive updates by e-mail.
• Be interactive. Make friends with other bloggers and leave friendly comments in their blogs. You’ll be surprise to receive replies from them!
• Make your blog post more interesting. Accompany your blog post with pictures. It is advisable that your post your own pictures. If you want to post other people’s pictures, make sure you get a consent first. You can use royalty-free pictures from iStockphoto but make sure you read the rules. They are basically free for personal and non-commercial use only. The watermark must be kept intact.
• Share your post. Let people share your blog post by providing social sharing buttons (Facebook, Twitters, etc). You can also share by linking Facebook NetworkedBlogs to your blog. New updates will appear both in NetworkedBlogs page and your Facebook wall.
• Comments. Encourage readers to comment and please respond back. Readers love it when their comments have respond. You can add subscribe by e-mail button to let readers be informed when they have a reply from you.
• Update quality content. Search engines are always looking out for new content and when you add quality content on your blog regularly it becomes easy for them to crawl it. Your blog thus shows in the Google search results and pulls traffic automatically.
• Throw away a giveaway. Do this once in a while, people love free gifts!! But make sure that the rules are not too hard for people to join!

These tips are not comprehensive and I can bet you can more great tips from the experts. Try and google this keyword: How to get More Traffic to Your Blog, and you will likely to get millions of results. You can try as many tips as you like! All you need is to make time!

Do you have your own tips? Leave me a comment or two. Or three. I don’t mind replying to all your comments. 😀

Have you created a blogger blog but have never logged in since 2007? Are the contents important to you? If they are, then you should consider logging in now and migrate from the old blogger system to the new one (well not so new since they upgraded the system in 2007.) If the contents are not that important, you just need to sit down, relax and kiss your old dormant blog goodbye.

According to Brett Wiltshire, Product Operations of Blogger, for a number of technical and operational reasons, they’ve decided to finally end their support for migrating legacy accounts and blogs after June 25th, 2011. But worry not, it only applies to a tiny fraction of users who haven’t logged in to Blogger since 2007. If you’ve logged in to Blogger at least one time since 2007, you won’t be affected at all.

So how do you update your old system to the new one?

1. Head over to the Legacy migration page and update your account.
2. Confirm your old login, use your Blogger username and password. They’ll take all the blogs under this account and switch them to your Google Account.
3. Next, choose a Google Account. After you sign in, they’ll have you choose which Google Account you’ll use to sign in with from now on. You can create a new Google Account or link to your existing one. If you prefer to stick with the Yahoo sign-in, there is no reason not to. Google would not delete non-Gmail accounts without notification but they encourage you to use any Google Account login (i.e. (youtube, orkut, picasa or other Google products).

Followed Tanita since the 80s. Amongst my favourites are Twist in My Sobriety, Something New, Amore Si and I Think of You. To date, she has recorded 7 albums (8 plus the sentimental promo, if that counts). She was born to a Malay mother in Germany, August 1969 (2 months older than me ;P). Check out her website and blog. Do you remember my post about website process, the PSD to HTML? Her website best describes the process.

Here’s I Think of You by Tanita:

Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. Rules are simple. Leave ONLY the ACTUAL LINK POST here and grab the code below and place it at your blog entry. You can grab this code at LadyJava’s Lounge Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted without prejudice.

PS: Because of spamming purposes, the linky will be closed on Thursday of each week at midnight, Malaysian Time. Thank you!

Have you ever heard of Rumah Solehah? OK, here are some information about Rumah Solehah. Got these from a flyer job I did for them.

Rumah Solehah is a shelter for women and children living with HIV/AIDS. This project is under the patronage of the Ministry of Health and the Islamic Medical Association of Malaysia (affiliated with the Malaysian AIDS Council).

Rumah Solehah provides:
– after care assistance and temporary accommodation.
– counseling, moral and spiritual support.
– monitoring children’s upbringing and education with loving care and understanding of their plight as the innocent victims.
– follow-up health care and medical treatment
– programs for career rehabilitation towards self-reliance.
– a core group of HIV-positive women as care-givers to outreach and educate awareness to society.

Your support and kind deeds are needed for long-term donation in cash and kind to make this home an ongoing shelter for women and children living with HIV/AIDS.

For more information about Rumah Solehah or to make contributions, please call:

Cik Fathiiah Hamzah
Project Coordinator
012 3110 185

or

mail your cheque to:

PPIM RUMAH SOLEHAH
LOT 27, JALAN THAVER,
KAMPUNG PANDAN,
55100, KUALA LUMPUR.
TEL/FAKS: 03- 9282 1533
Cheque payable to MALAYSIAN PAEDIATRIC FOUNDATION

For tax exemption purposes, please write Account PPIM Rumah Solehah behind the cheque.