The Argument for Blogs
August 7, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Search Engine Optimization
I’m sure that if you watch cable TV enough you learn to put the news on screen in “background mode” because beside making stories bigger than they are, they have to fill 24 hours a day of it. But even so, it’s funny to see the networks doing everything possible to say that they are honest, transparent, fair, balanced etc. Now Fox is identified as having received information from the White House scripting for them what they should say and do.
You as any other viewer of cable news should exercise caution when viewing because these cable news outlets are not at all what they are sold to you as. Do you remember when news were about telling you and not about blatantly opinioning you? I see them do this over and over again on every single segment they broadcast. “Here is the news pitch, and here is X commentator from Y and A commentator from B to tell us more…” And before long you find yourself watching hours of opinions being bludgeoned into your head as if they were facts. I remember that around 9/11, I watched the news almost religiously but ever since then I have become less and less content with their delivery and annoyed at their assumptions about where we are and what we feel about things in the country.
Which is why I support and continue to prefer the blog as the ultimate source of communication with the real people in the country and throughout the world for that matter. Even though some blogs are used for professional propaganda like any other communication median, its easy to separate those that do with those that don’t if you just read into the comments area far enough. The fact that media is cheaper to produce is a blessing for all of us, the individuals, and a handicap for the complex-media outlets.
Support your blogs by subscribing to their feeds regularly and placing your opinion on the comments area to continue the communication and to strengthen these tools for us. This blog in particular is about living, entertainment, technology and work at home opportunities and it is running on a bilingual English Spanish platform, but you can find many more blogs to read and get information from by visiting places like Technorati or Digg. You can even take it a step further by signing up with services like Google Reader and hand picking which blogs, subjects and categories you like and have those feeds sent directly to you either by email or to your browser for direct viewing.
You don’t have to sit and watch puppet cable news that doesn’t let you interact and provide your individual opinion or manipulate their perspective and opinion on their “predetermined” subjects.
Say “no” to their delivery system by hitting the OFF button.
Linking all bilingual blogs
August 4, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Learn Search Engine Optimization
I wanted to let everyone know that I will be uploading my new blog theme in the next few days and I hope to receive feedback from you as to its layout and design. I will soon tell you who designed it for me but I am leaving that as a surprise for now.
In the meantime know that I will be including a free copy of my eBook for you to download and enjoy at your convenience! I thought about marketing at first as a pay per download product, but in the end I thought it was more important to keep showing the bilingual community what works on the internet and what doesn’t. I have a lot of friends and colleagues that are regular bloggers but there is a scarcity in the latino community of bloggers that do this for a living. If you are out there, write to me, let me know where you are.
With technology and marketing techniques changing almost every week, it is important to know what is going on at all times when it deals with the internet and work at home opportunities. We have all seen hypes like Pop-up Ads and Banner Ads go the way of the dinosaur and its ironic how many people still use those tried and failed techniques.
The bottom line is that if you are trying to find information here for the purposes of improving your life, finding avenues of entertainment, trends in technology or work at home opportunities –then Laberinto Social is the right place for you! And for that reason I will be giving away free downloads of my book which is over 50 pages of information on all things like where to go to sign up and start blogging for FREE to where to go for information on advertisers and marketing strategies. The idea is to let you decide: do I want to subscribe to Laberinto Social for regular information feeds only, OR do I want to join forces with Ari and make our bilingual efforts even stronger.
I post regularly and usually in both languages (english and spanish) so it shouldn’t be a problem communicating with me through this blog. You decide and then let me know. While you are at it, let me know what ideas are running through your head too. As I said, I see a shortage of latino blogs so I was thinking about setting up a blogroll of just bilingual blogs so that we can continue to spread the information train. Linking ideas?
I found trazos-web.com today and I am linking to them so that we can strengthen the communication accord. Diego wrote an article on how to increase subscriptions to his blog and ironically he talks about providing a book or information too. He wrote:
"El método más utilizado que yo he visto, es regalarles un ebook o curso al suscribirse. Me he dado cuenta que normalmente los ebooks que regalan las páginas al suscribirnos son de dominio público o ebooks de otro autor que no es el webmaster que lo regala. Estoy convencido que es mejor regalar algo de nuestra propia autoría. Yo he utilizado ese método en mi blog y me ha dado buenos resultados. Con esa estrategia ganamos todos. Los suscritos ganan su regalo y nuestro blog gana un lector más.”
http://www.trazos-web.com/2008/08/01/un-metodo-para-aumentar-las-suscripciones-a-tu-blog/
The mother of website tracking
July 23, 2008 by Ari
Filed under Altas de Buscadores, Search Engine Optimization
I am sure that many of you have some form or another of web tracking on your website for statistical purposes, but I don’t know if any of you use Visistat. Visistat is by far one of the most powerful website statistics companies for web analytics and visitor tracking. Visistat is rich in real time visitor statistics, site statistics, ad tracking, touch mapping and overall page popularity data.
I know that WordPress has a few plugins that will give you Statistics like ShortStats but I have found that it is limited to the same general data provided by most free statistical data providers. In reality, what I need to do is find a tool that does web traffic analysis beyond a simple site counter. Internet traffic on your site may be coming from many different sources throughout the world, and it helps to know where people are visiting from so that you can tailor your information to suit the audience. Laberinto Social is about living, entertainment, technology and work at home opportunities but I find that because it is a bilingual blog that it receives visits from all over latin america. User stats and internet traffic management tools like Geo Map help tremendously in mapping out what part of the world the visitors are arriving from. Going beyond a simple IP address tracker is what Visistat has accomplished.
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They have a program where you can register and try out their entire suite of features and tools for seven days for free. If you like it, you can sign up afterwards, if not, you just saw the best in the market. Let me know if you find other tools that can do the same. I was originally looking for web analysis software or something that would tell me via cell phone when my website was down and how many visitors I get, Visistat does that and a whole lot more. I am very impressed with this site.
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