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Google Friend Connect

What is that thing on the top of the sidebar? Well its a new app that Google recently released called Google Friend Connect. Its a great tool to use to stay in contact with the readers of your site. Find the content pleasing? Wanna stay in contact with the author and the other readers? Click “Join This Site” and you can add yourself to the members list. Members can do a number of things including chat with each other, add links to their own blogs and more. Tie in all your social network sites like Myspace and Facebook.

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Search Engine Crawlers

Is your site designed to make money? Or to gain traffic? Or maybe both? What if I told you there is one thing that you MUST do in the design phase of your blog/website to ensure that you have a decent shot at both?!?! Do you know what Search Engine Crawlers are? Let me explain!

In order to increase income earned, you must increase traffic, right? Well, in order to do that, you either must know a lot of people or you need to get into the search engines. Preferably on the first page. I am no expert but this was pointed out by someone whom I consider an expert at this

First: Google’s crawlers crawl your blog searching for updated material that can be submitted to their search engine, just like Yahoo and MSN and others. There is a way to format your site in order for the crawlers to crawl the content first. That is, by the way, what you want and the key to this whole trick. It makes no sense to have the menu, or anything else read by the crawlers first. As for your readers, well fortunately, they are given the ability to make decisions, we hope. Therefore, your menu can be listed in your sidebar just as easily. Actually on a lot of blogs I have been to, the menu is both on the side and top, which makes no sense.

So then you ask, well, “your blog has the menu at the top?” Yes it does, and currently I am working to change themes for both, TheYoungGuy.com and HardwareBlogPortal.com to improve my blog traffic.

Second: How do you test this. Well, being in this wonderful world we live in, there is a way do just about everything and this is no exception. Google recommends you use a program called LYNX TEXT BROWSER to visually see your blog in text only format. It is a wonderful tool to use. Lynx will display your blog in the exact order the crawlers will read it.
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Official Forum Launched

Are forums a dying breed? I don’t know, if so, I clearly have not received that memo. I have run many forums in the last few years and for one reason or another, I have either shut the site down or decided to give it away to others. But once again, I am lured back into the forum game. Why? Well I run multiple blogs, spanning multiple topics. Most of which all come back to PC related activities. So I decided, why not run a forum that bases its content around my blog topics. From actual blogging, to PC hardware and software based topics to PC and console gaming. These topics are all covered at my new forum, TheYoungGuyForum.com.

Be the first to register today and take part in a growing community.