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Today we’ll interview a secret Pro-Blogger. Why secret? I tried to search for his photo online but failed. It was surprise I can even find one photo of such famous Pro-Blogger, Raymond.cc!

I’ve email to the author of Raymond.cc and ask for a photo. He insist to remain anonymous and known as only Raymond. He prefer to be low profile. He didn’t tell the reason behind. I guess he want to avoid from being fire?

Interview Raymond.cc

We seldom see blog has more than 35,000 RSS subscribers in Malaysia. Raymond.cc is one of them. Let’s learn from his blogging experience. (more…)

Comments in a post can tell you know the post popularity and how
active is your readers. Recently, I have posted an article about design your own logo on
LiewCF.com and it brought about 10 comments within hours. This means
LiewCF really made well relation with his readers, also the readers
are active in this blogsphere.

How to get more comments?

There are 7 ways I would like to share with you:

1. Ask for their opinion
When you post an article, do not close the article with only your own conclusion. Give some space for your reader to post their comment. As for me, I always use the question like ” How about you? What is your opinion? What do you think?”. These question really make your readers start to think rather than feed them, and they might reply their opinion to you by comment in your post.

2. Put in interesting topic
Put in some content that can use for discussion, which do not have absolute answer. For example, my previous post about HD DVD vs Blu-ray , this is an interesting topic for discussion that do not have an absolute answer at this moment. It is more to readers’ need and usage. There are more interesting topics that you can write about, for example: digital or analogue, comparison between softwares and etc.

3. Respond to their comment
Once your readers comment in your post, you must respond to their comment in positive way. This way make your readers like to comment their opinion, their question and definitely build a relation between readers and author. When your post are lively, more people will start to comment.

4. Reward them
Some blog did launch for contest for their top commentators. Frankly speaking I myself did launched a contest after my 1st month blogging. There are more ways to reward them , such as install a top commentators widget on your blog’s sidebar like mine. The top commentators with link back to reader’s blog is a big encouragement for them to comment. (more…)

What is happening on AhTim.com ?

Time flies, it is already 4 months of blogging life in this blogsphere. If you followed my blog post, it was 2 months ago since my last SEO report on November 2007. Why I never update my SEO report on last month? This is because I am too busy with upgrade my wordpress theme and wordpress version.

Also there are too many holidays on last month, including my Shanghai vacation trip that took me about 1 week off. Not only that, since I won an iPod Touch on last month, I have spend more time on this new gadget – iPod Touch 16GB rather than blogging.

After all, now I am waking up myself and start to blog again here So how is my SEO result after 2 months efforts ?

My Monthly SEO report

1. Alexa

If you still remember, my alexa ranking on November SEO report was 342,972 and now cllimbed up to 224,090. It was 34.66% improvement on Alexa ranking this month Although this is not a very huge jump compare to previous months report, I’m still quite satisfied with the progress. I found that when our ranking get higher, the harder we could move in.

According to my previous target, I want to achieve at least 200,000 in Alexa ranking. But seems like still a gap in between my target and achievement. I will try harder to achive the target in my next SEO report! Hopefully by carry out a 20 days post challenge could help me on this, its time to do preparation.

2. Google Webmaster

This is my latest top search queries result that extracted from Google Webmaster. 8 Out of these top 10 results are related to iPod touch. 1 keyword related to linux and 1 keyword related to yahoo. I noticed that since I post iPod Touch articles, there are not much people comment on my blog, maybe this gadget still not famous in Malaysia? Anyway, iPod Touch articles did bring me more raw traffics from search engine! (more…)

What’s happening on AhTim.com ?

Time flies when you are busy! Yes, time really flies and now it’s time for me to reveal my 2nd monthly SEO report here. I thought I was just blog for a month here, but it’s NOT true. Because I’ve posted my 1st monthly SEO report some time on 13 October, so now I am so exciting to compare the improvement and hard work that I’ve done for the pass 1 month!

My Monthly SEO report

1. Alexa

If you still remember, my alexa ranking in 1st monthly SEO report was 820,734 and now cllimbed up to 342,972. What a huge leap! This means AhTim.com has jump ahead 477,762 websites or blogs within the last 1 month. It was 58% improvement on Alexa ranking this month I’m quite satisfied with the progress. My next target would be hitting rank 200,000 on my next month SEO report.

As for the rank within my country Malaysia, it’s harder to compete compare to overall Alexa ranking (Maybe Malaysia too many serious bloggers?)

But anyhow, my ranking within Malaysia has been increased from 5,555 to 4,632! It’s about 16% improvement, jump ahead 923 blogs within the last month.

2. Google Webmaster (more…)