Importance of Blogs in Website Development, Link Building and Search Engine Optimization

The biggest reason for having a blog is that the Internet absolutely loves blogs. If you have a blog you can submit it to thousands of blog directories and RSS newsfeed directories. This means that a good quality blog can get you over a thousand backlinks to your website. This tremendously helps your website rank well in the search engines. Because of this it would be silly not to have a blog. Having a blog makes a lot of sense!

There are several other common reasons for having a blog as part of your website. A blog is a great way of…

  • Publishing your latest news
  • Keeping in contact with the world
  • Sharing professional knowledge and expertise
  • Talking about stuff you like or find interesting

Love = sharing. It is good share what you have, such as any knowledge or expertise including but not limited to your professional knowledge.

There is also a great need on the Internet for tips on search engine optimization and website development- for serious people with quality websites or those who want to bring something of value to the world. Think how many websites there are on the Internet that want to improve and do well? As my website becomes successful I will share my professional knowledge. Whatever you learn in life and whatever you are an expert in- you can share this with the world to help other people become successful.

If your website has quality content then people will naturally want to link to your site and it will become successful over time.

How to avoid duplicate content with syndicate article submission sites such as Ezinearticles and Digg

Recently I have been submitting pages from my website as syndicate articles, to article submission websites such as Ezinearticles and Digg. I thought that this would be a great way of marketing and promoting my content and a great way of building backlinks for my website and improving pagerank. I thought that as long there is a link back to my website in these articles then Google would be fine with this type of duplicate content. I was wrong.

This was the worst idea and I will never do it again. When Google finds multiple pages of the same content it will put all pages into dispute, which means Google may temporarily remove all of the duplicate content (including your original) from the search engine results pages until they decide who the original site/author is, or which site Google feels would be the best to display this content. If Google finds multiple pages/sites of the same content it will only index one of those pages/sites. After a day of high traffic you may find that all content disappears for a few hours, a few days or a few weeks whilst Google has a dance and makes a decision. So this can threaten the entire existence of your pages in the Google index.

Some say that if your syndicated articles have a link back to your own site- then you will be fine and it will help maintain and improve your page rank. But then any website that shows your article may loose their site/pages in the index. Also the article submission websites may not like this and end up deleting your articles, and all your content may be seen as spam by search engines.

Google is quite good at determining who the original site/author is, however at the end of the day having syndicated articles duplicated from your website content is not benefiting anybody at all. When lots of different publishers start using your duplicate content articles then this will severely threaten your pages existence in the Google index and undermine the exclusiveness and integrity of your content and website.

So far today I have been deleting all duplicate content from all article submission sites and emailing these sites asking them to remove the duplicate content. The lesson here is that although we like to look for the most efficient path in life, there are never any short cuts. If you want something in life you have to pay the bill in terms of hard work and energy.

The scary thing is that because some of my content is interesting and well written a lot of companies would like to publish this on their website. I am now in the process of telling webmasters that it would be detrimental for them as well as my own site to post this content on their website.

It is more safer and easier just to write unique articles for these sites, which don’t duplicate any website content. With a link back to your website, web publisher’s can then do what they like with your articles and this will help your page rank. If you follow this method it will save you a lot of anxiety. The best syndication is RSS news feeds, which I will be spending a lot of time on over the next few months or so.

How to develop a five year career development plan- mistakes to avoid

How to avoid career and job mistakes in life choices? Develope a five year career development goal plan. Learn how to avoid making the wrong choices and develop skills and qualifications for anxiety free and happy job and family life. Anxiety is caused when we make the wrong choices in life. Wrong choices= wrong job, wrong partner or wrong living environment. Lets look at some of the mistakes I have made in my own life and how to avoid them.

Recently I have been fully engrossed in my spiritual mediation process and I have been treating life as just an illusion. Most of my free time is dedicated to austerities. This is good because it means I want enlightenment and oneness with God.

However this does not mean I have to neglect my life and choose one or other. One of the goals is to make my whole life a part of my spirituality. There is no reason that I can not live my life happy and to the full. So far I have been ignoring my life and not taking it as serious as I should. I envy people who have the freedom to live in India and dedicate their time and life to spirituality. But now I have got to wake up from that illusion.

Wake up call

In real physical life your job= your love. Your work is strongly related to your love life. If your love is not flowing in your work then it is impossible to truly fall in love. I believe a man should not put his weakness into a womans heart. A woman can not be truly happy in a relationship with a man who does office work/ administration/ management or boring government jobs. A man has to do a real job that creates real useful products or services that meet true and basic needs- to become a man of Love.

A man should be a strong foundation for supporting a family. When a man has a strong job and foundation with skills and qualifications to find work anywhere at anytime- then a woman can easily fall in Love. Subconsciously a woman likes to feel secure that this person can father her babies and take care of her-to provide food, love and shelter to make happy.

I feel I do not have permission to fall in Love, until I develop a strong foundation in life. Jesus has thrown some energy at me. His message is, “you can not put your weakness into a womans heart”. It is my duty to change my work. I am looking to change my career /job.

But where do I start? I am currently looking at my past experience and qualifications. My education, qualifications and skills are in psychology, publishing, design; and radio and video production.

My Goals

  • My goal is to become a symbol of HIs Love.
  • Ultimately to become one with God.
  • My career goal is do something I love in total freedom.
  • Become a spiritual healer, councilor or teacher.
  • To be strong and free in life.
  • Have a happy life and family.
  • Live in excellent vastu.
  • Bring spirituality to the world through media, such as publishing and radio.

A person does not have permission to take spirituality to Radio or TV until at least Nirvikalpa Samadhi is achieved- a breathless state of God union.

What should I have done? What mistakes can you avoid?

I feel that I should have avoided mistakes such as going for short cuts in life, easy money schemes, looking for easy work or avoiding real life work. I should have avoided laziness and created or offered real value in my life in terms of my job, skills and qualifications.

I feel I have wasted 7 years of my professional life. Instead of going to college or university I could have saved the money together and worked and traveled around the world before settling down to do an apprenticeship or scholarships to gain real experience and qualifications in a chosen field. When I left school I should have gone straight into a real life job, like construction worker, engineer or mechanic for instance. True happiness in life is a result of being strong and independent doing a job that is useful. Your job is your Love. When a man is happy and strong he is then qualified to enter a proper relationship and have a family.

If I had been more wise and avoided mistakes… if I had planed for a happy spiritual working life in my five year development plan… if I had worked to be qualified and gained useful skills and qualifications for an anxiety free life, then I would certainly be married with children by now.

My five year career development plan

My five year plan is to have a family and to be strong in life- in terms of the work that I do. In the next few months I will be researching job areas to find real work to do that will enable me to be all that I can be and provide for a family. I might take night classes to become a plumber for instance.

I shall be growing my website to reach people who are suffering, and really work for the people. But the bottom line is, when I go to work it has to be a real job, like counseling, healing, farmer or construction worker etc. If necessary it will have to be a lower salary and I will have to reduce any spending costs. This is a price I am considering for happiness. Hopefully I will get a good monetary return for the quality and usefulness of my work.

I hope that you can learn form my mistakes when it comes to developing your 5 year career development plan and aim for a real life happy job and career for the spiritual happiness of your family. Maybe you can avoid wasting years of your life by going to university. Or maybe make a headstart in life when you finish school or college and get into some useful work.