Have you ever walked in the snow on a cold day?
What you see when you look behind you is a pattern of where you have been and what you have done.
In many ways, the way that modern metrics and website analytic’s, work can make or break your website.
The internet is much the same way, when you update a website, when you add a post, when you link to an image, everything you do leaves a trail to what you have been doing and it is this that can help or hurt your website development efforts.
The DNA of the internet is a fine grained thing, that is layered from within and without.
First you might want to know what the pattern is, well that is anything that leaves a foot print, or a pattern, that can be analyzed, by a computer.
Did you know that just about anything that you do can be attributed to a pattern, including what time of day you post to your blog.
We dont like spiders and snakes, ok sure we get that, but spiders can be your blogs best friend, more so when that spiders name is google, so just in case your not a super geek, here is the word on spiders.
Spiders are little robots, that search the web, and they go up and down and all around, looking for cool webpages, well like this one. So when they find a nice website, they report back and they go all around the website, like strands on a web, and then it reports back all the pages and links, like a web and what do spiders like best, lots of webpages.
So now you can see a little bit about how spiders work, to find your website and report back to the mother spider, in this case google about what it found when it views your website.
It checks all kinds of things, when the last post was made, what the content was it found, the time of day, the last post was made, yep it gets all kinds of information and it starts developing a pattern after a while it knows just when to check back to your website to see when it expects to find new content.
Yes that are that smart.
So now you know what developing a pattern may be a good and a bad thing, because what if you dont update your website as often as you should well then the spider will not visit your website as often.
That is bad, because if the spider does not come very often to see if your website has new content then your search results will not get into the search engines as often.
The more your website gets updated the more visitors the nice and friendly spider will send you.
You want more and more visitors to your website since without visitors things get old and dusty and well its just not as fun then.
Perhaps you can see how important it is to keep your website updated on a regular basis and why you want to keep the spiders happy.
So what about the pattern, well there are two patterns, one is good the other is bad.
We already discussed the good pattern, you know keeping the spider happy so they send you lots of visitors to your frequently updated webpages.
So lets talk about the bad patterns, that would be patterns that the spiders identify that tells them that your website is not really spider friendly.
here is a list, that we found seems to be good to avoid.
1. not enough updates, webpages are never updated and just sit there.
2. auto blog content, auto posters that develop patterns, over and over, (spiders hate auto posters)
3. No new content, just the same old content from all over the web, (spiders hate “duplicate” content)
Some people think that auto posters are lazy and in fact they really are lazy, but worse than that, if the spiders figure out that your website is an auto posting website, they will stop coming to your site, or worse they will decide that your website is not worth the trouble of visiting.
Then your in real trouble, because no matter how hard you work on your website, no matter how much money you spend on it, no matter how many ebook you buy and no matter how many Gurus tell you to do this or that it will not matter.
Because you developed the wrong pattern.
See how this works, the problem is that developing the right patterns can be work, you have to actually type words onto your computer to get it on the website.
That is work, We figure that it should be that way, because really there is no free lunch, (someone has to pay) either you pay now or you pay later, we figure its best to develop the good pattern.
What do you think?



New bloggers Guide to Blogging
So you want to blog and blog some more…
You have spent time learning how to use wordpress or develop a website, you have taken the time to do the research, and create unique and value oriented content.
You want to earn an income, revenue stream…
Did you know that your business can provide information about your services and products 24 hours a day, and all without having to pay any employment, taxes, sure why not, in fact, only about 17 percent of business companies have a website at all.
so…
What is a blog and how can you make it work for your business?
There are a lot of different things that go into a good blog and design is just one aspect of many.
A blog is basically an online journal where you can digitally put down your thoughts, ideas, opinions and just about anything that you want people to read, however you should keep in mind that never write anything you dont want you mother or close family members to read…
Blogs come in different styles, formats, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures etc. Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3′s on your blogs.
Instead of writing text, some blogger’s choose to make their blogs more audio friendly, by using audio.
This is called audio blogging or pod casting.
Most blogs have these features:
title- which allows you to label your post
body- this is the content of your post
trackback- other sites can be linked back to your blog
permanent link- every article that you write has a URL
comments- this allow readers to post comments on your blog.
One of the advantages of blogging, is that it is made of only a few templates. Unlike, other websites that is made up of numerous individual pages. This make it easier for blog users to create new pages, because it already has a fix setting that include: slots for title, body of the post, category, etc.
This is especially useful for first time users, since they can start blogging right away. They can chose from a number of templates that blogging websites provide.
Anyone who wants to start a blog can do so by becoming a member of a blogging website of their choice.
Once they’ve become members, they automatically become a part of that particular blogging community.
They can browse through other bloggers pages, and link them back to their own blogs. They can also make comments on other members’ blogs.
Blogging is not just limited to personal usage. There are a lot of blogs that follow a theme such as: sports, politics, philosophy, social commentary, etc. These blogs espouse on their specific themes. This way blogging becomes a medium in which people can share their knowledge and opinions about a variety of themes and topics.
Some bloggers even use their blogs as a means to advertise. Some authors advertise their books on their blogs. While other bloggers, use their blogs to shed light to currents issues, events, news and catastrophes.
Nowadays in education, blogs also play an important part. Professors use blogging to document the lessons that they have discussed and taught. This way, students who who have missed classes, can easily catch up with their assignments.
A lot of entrepreneurs benefit from blogging by promoting their businesses on their blogs, with millions and millions of people logging onto the net everyday, blogging has become a lucrative move. Some bloggers who run online businesses promote their merchandise online. While others profit through advertisement.
But by far, the most popular blog type is the one that takes the form of a personal journal. This is the kind that is usually used by first time bloggers. Individuals who want to document the daily struggle of their everyday lives, poems, rants, opinions, find that blogging offers them a medium in which to express themselves.
Bloggers usually communicate within themselves. This is one of the appeals of blogging. It creates a community of people sharing their ideas, thoughts, and comments with each other.
Blogs varying in topics, themes, and set-ups, can be found in blog directories. First time users who want to get an idea of what the blogging world is all about can browse through a number of blogs using these directories. This way they’d get an idea of what these blogging communities are like.
Blogging is popular all over the world. Blog is short for the term weblog. There are no rules when it comes to blogging. Bloggers have the freedom to express themselves how ever way they want, and the best thing about blogging, is that most blogging sites are free.
There are numerous blogging websites to choose from in the net. This give first time users the option of joining a blogging community that appeals to their interests.
Just search any blogging directory and you can get a listing of a lot of blogging sites that are available on the net.
It is realy easy to search a blogging directory, because it is organized according to category.
So in this way you would get exactly what you need.
Blogging is really for everyone.
It is fun, simple and easy.
However, if you want to get serious then you need to get yourself a webhost, a domain name, so you can have your own website, why make someone elses website popular when you can make your own website popular.