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		<title>How To Choose A Topic For Your Blog Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Tan</dc:creator>
		
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Everytime when we sit down and blog, the most challenging issues will be what topic shall we blog about to make the best out of it.
Choosing a good topic is like having a good headstart in race. Once you have a good headstart, there will be no stopping and most likely [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Everytime when we sit down and blog, the most challenging issues will be what topic shall we blog about to make the best out of it.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Choosing a good topic is like having a good headstart in race. Once you have a good headstart, there will be no stopping and most likely to win the race. Thus having a good topic to start with, it will establish your main niche/branding in your blog and attract targetted readers easily.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span id="more-223"></span>I&#8217;ve come up with some ideas on how you can choose a topic for your blog posts:</p>
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<li>Get ideas from hot selling magazines</li>
<li>Think of problems you are facing and write a &#8220;how-to&#8221; post to help your readers</li>
<li>Be creative - Your readers not only want to read about your successes but they also want to read about how you did it and the ups &amp; downs in it</li>
<li>Ask your readers - Setup a poll asking them what they wish to read</li>
<li>Read up your old posts and derive ideas from them</li>
<li>Check out other blogs and see what popular posts topics are</li>
<li>Pictures - Sometimes you can find a nice picture and related a good topic with it</li>
<li>Don&#8217;t post just for the sake of posting - A killer</li>
<li>Be unique - Don&#8217;t fully copy other blogs ideas and go with it, add some twists with your unique style</li>
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<p>A blog post with no good topic is as good as not having good content with a good topic.</p>
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		<title>G=Giant Information Provider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Tan</dc:creator>
		
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Ever since Google was founded, they became so popular and many internet users have since switched from their usual search engines to Google.

But today I&#8217;m not gonna talk about how popular Google is or how they became so big but to reveal how I solve most of my problems. You will be surprised by the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><img class="aligncenter" title="I Love Google!" src="http://www.google.com/intl/en/logos/tanja_gompf.jpg" alt="I Love Google!" width="287" height="134" /><br />
Ever since Google was founded, they became so popular and many internet users have since switched from their usual search engines to Google.
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<p style="text-align: left;">But today I&#8217;m not gonna talk about how popular Google is or how they became so big but to reveal how I solve most of my problems. You will be surprised by the results if you haven&#8217;t been using Google to search informations on.. You must be living in the ancient times.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Everytime when I came upon so issues no matter big or small, I will consult my lovely Google search bar. Without fail, Google always present me great informations in split seconds(Unless you are still using dial-up connections).</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">So how do I do it?</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">I just merely type it these key phrases everytime, as if I&#8217;m asking a question.</p>
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<li>How can I change XXX</li>
<li>Way to make XXXX XXXX</li>
<li>The best way to XXX X XXXXX</li>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Just play around with the words, you could actually dig out great stuffs and informations out from the net. And it&#8217;s FREE! I know you like freebies! Me too!  <img src='http://www.erwintan.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=':wink:' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Example:</strong> I searched &#8220;How to make money online&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Result: </strong><span>271,000,000 pages<strong> </strong>for that!</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Hope you found your answers today! Have fun!</p>
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		<title>Google Analytics Or StatCounter</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 02:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Tan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[After upgrading my Wordpress, I remember about Google Analytics.
All these while, I have been using StatCounter instead but end of the day, both of them are free.








So I decided to sign-up for Google Analytics and try it out. 2 tracking systems on my blog, hopefully it won&#8217;t affect my blog&#8217;s loading time.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>After upgrading my Wordpress, I remember about <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank"><strong>Google Analytics</strong>.</a></p>
<p>All these while, I have been using <a target="_blank" href="http://www.statcounter.com" target="_blank">StatCounter</a> instead but end of the day, both of them are free.</p>
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<p>So I decided to sign-up for <a target="_blank" href="http://http://www.google.com/analytics/" target="_blank">Google Analytics</a> and try it out. 2 tracking systems on my blog, hopefully it won&#8217;t affect my blog&#8217;s loading time.</p>
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		<title>Recovery Sale! You Don&#8217;t Wanna Miss It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 18:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Tan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check this out!
My Buddy Ross Goldberg is having a firesale with lots of products thrown in. These products not only increases your web traffic and brings in income for you overnight, they actually cost a couple hundreds of dollars if you buy them separately.
But Ross&#8217;s adorable son Shawn, is giving everything away at an incredible [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Check this out!</p>
<p>My Buddy Ross Goldberg is having a firesale with lots of products thrown in. These products not only increases your web traffic and brings in income for you overnight, they <strong>actually cost a couple hundreds of dollars</strong> if you buy them separately.</p>
<p>But Ross&#8217;s adorable son Shawn, is giving everything away at <strong>an incredible price</strong> so you really have to check them out and invest in them before this sale ended.</p>
<p>The sale will be on for the next 2 weeks but there are <strong>3 stages of discounts</strong> that you don&#8217;t wanna miss out! Grab them at the best price now or you will miss out on this forever!</p>
<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.recoverysale.com" target="_blank">Click Here Now To Get The Best Price Before It Goes Up</a></p>
<p>P.S.</p>
<p>Buzz me if you need more enquires.</p>
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		<title>What Is Search Engine Optimization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erwin Tan</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is actually a process of placing keywords  or keyword phrases in a website that result in high rankings on an Internet search engine. It&#8217;s  important to understand that properly managed Search Engine Optimization won&#8217;t just increase web traffic volume on your  site. Instead, it will drive highly qualified [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Search Engine Optimization (SEO)</strong> is actually a process of placing keywords  or keyword phrases in a website that result in high rankings on an Internet search engine. It&#8217;s  important to understand that properly managed <strong>Search Engine Optimization</strong> won&#8217;t just increase web traffic volume on your  site. Instead, it will drive highly qualified visitors who are most likely to convert into  sales.</p>
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<p>A  properly designed and executed <strong>Search Engine Optimization</strong> pay-per-click campaign can provide the foundation for a lifetime customer  relationship. Many of you may not know what is pay-per-click. In my easy way of expressing this term is that.</p>
<p>1.I pay search engines to advertise my ads</p>
<p>2.You click on my ads</p>
<p>3.Visit my website/ blog</p>
<p>4.Buy products/ read my blog/ sign up as a member</p>
<p>5.I get paid from the sales/ I get traffic and readers into my blog</p>
<p>6.The money earned will be invested in new campaigns of advertising. Which means it falls back to step 1 and continue like a cycle or chain.</p>
<p>P.S.</p>
<p>Hope I&#8217;m not writing too much on PPC-advertising instead of <strong>Search Engine Optimization</strong>.</p>
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