But on the other hand If I see a good custom web design, I will normally stop and check some features of it. Check on what some factors I can also apply to my blog. I know that not all can manipulate their themes but at least it is worth to try.

So how can you do it ? Normally you will go to a design blog and ask an opinion or help from those experts in that fields. A web design blog will normally answers your query thru a blog post, You may also check their archives to get other tips that might help you to have a better site.

You can also have a new sub domain and title it with ” Test ” in this way you can upload your new theme and you can play with it without risking of ruin your main page. By doing this I am able to understand on how WordPress Templates work. Although I cannot start from scratch in making WordPress Theme, But at least I can manipulate.

By having a good design, you can have a better impact to your readers.

When did you last try to update you Theme? Have you ? Or you are those type of Lazy Bloggers that just install and forget.

Karlo wrote a great article on his blog about ”

Do you spend time in marketing your blog? If yes, how did your efforts affect the status of your blog? Share your thoughts on the topic by leaving a comment below!

I prefer to make a post regarding Karlo’s question because his post made me think on how I market my blog to others. Marketing your blog is something you should focus if you really want to be an authority in your niche. Well How do I really make Tech At Hand Dot Net Marketing ?

1) Commenting

I have seen good feedback in commenting to other blogs as what I have wrote before. But it is not just comment in a blog that should be given emphasize try not to forget putting your links and the URL Address in the commenting section. This is where fellow blogger can track you.

2) Joining Forum

Well I have joined different forums ( here and here ) but to tell you the truth I am very lazy with this one. Although I can see some visitors at my site referred buy forum site. Don’t forget to put your signature links targeting your website with proper anchor text.

3) Social Media Sites

Techathand.net is having a good social media site exposure specially in Stumble Upon. I even site the experience I get when my site has been stumbled. Thanks guys whoever is stumbling my site. I also gain some visitor thru Mybloglog. and other social media site.

4) Yahoo Groups

When I join yahoo groups I met a lot of interesting people whom in turn become my regular reader and RSS Subscriber. They also become my so called network bloggers. Why? They link to me and I link to them also.

5) Joining SEO Contest

To tell you the truth I know that I have less chance in winning this SEO Contest. But I can proudly say that most of the time I am at 1st page of Google for those SEO Contest. If the participants could see you at the SERP definitely they could have an interest in your site. And if they found out that you have good content. You will gain another good Visitors or feed subscribers

6) Making Post at Group Blogs

Pinoyblogosphere is of great help to this site and my former site. Since the said site is being indexed by Google fast most of the time I can see some referral coming from those site.

7) The Traditional SEO

Just imagine how many people is searching in a day. If you could just get a percentage of those search that you could let them visit your site. There will always be a possible money on it. Check my SEO Category and I know you will have lot’s of helpful information to gather.

Directory

The last few days I have been submitting my blog in some Directories . I am dreaming that those directory can also be a source of my visitors to this site. It would be great if you could get a Directory that does not require reciprocal links.

9) Entrecard

Entrecard has been a good site of visitors for this site but unfortunately is just giving a high bounce rate. based on stats I am having a 90% bounce rate. Which is too high. So now I seldom dropped cards and just wait for advertiser to have their site here. But when somebody advertise on this site for sure I am checking his post and if I like it he will be included in my Reader

10) Offline Marketing

Although I am also lazy about this I believe that joining a get together, or any gatherings specifically for blogger’s and other netrepreneur could give an additional exposure for your site.

Wheeewww.. That was a big list. So you may not wonder why I choose to make post on Karlo’s question. So what about you, What are you techniques in advertising.

Do you want to know some interesting facts about your browser ( protocol Links ) ? Well I think mozillaZine could help you with regards to this things. You can see their post here,

And for ease of reading I have copied their post below :

There are a few special URLs, which begin with about:, that you can type into the Location Bar.

• about: — The same page as “Help -> About”.
• about:about — Lists all these about: URLs (Mozilla Suite only).
• about:blank — A blank page. Useful for setting as your homepage.
• about:bloat — Displays BloatView output (disabled in release builds).
  • about:bloat?new
  • about:bloat?clear
• about:buildconfig — Reveals details about your Mozilla build options.
• about:cache — Displays cache statistics and disk cache directory location.
  • about:cache?device=memory — Lists memory cache entries.
  • about:cache?device=disk — Lists disk cache entries.
• about:cache-entry — Shows information about a cache entry. Used in about:cache links. Requires parameters.
• about:config — GUI for modifying user preferences (prefs.js).
• about:credits — The list of contributors to the Mozilla projects.
• about:logo — Displays the Mozilla logo (Mozilla Suite only).
• about:kitchensink — Was never included in Mozilla for the reasons listed in Bug 122411 (“Mozilla does not have a kitchen sink”). You can install an extension that adds it though
• about:license — shows the Mozilla Public License and the Netscape Public License for the piece of software. ( Only in products based on Gecko 1.8 )
• about:mozilla — The famous Book of Mozilla.
• about:plugins — Lists all your plugins as well as other useful information.

Today I am using “about:blank” as my default page. It is cool to see, only white screen when I open my browser.

1. Secure the /wp-admin/ directory

2. Hide your plugins

3. Keep up with patches and updates

Go Ahead and check your blog.

Update : I just found out that lots of Filipino bloggers are susceptible to Item # 2. So you better check your blog and hid your plugins.

Make Blank index.html at your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. You know who you are. Better check it or be sorry

BTW this is not an sponsored post. I just want to share this site to you guys as your reference.

I have some list of question that I have tried to answer as follows :

What can I find from GO2WEB20

What I like from this site is it has almost all the site that I would like to visit and use with some application that I am looking. From Budgeting, Social Media, Photography, Pictures etc.. name it and you could find it here.

Does GO2WEB20 Is user friendly ?

Yes it is. You can just press the site you would like to visit and it will give you a brief description of that site.

How to access the site ?

The site is free to access and there is no password or user id needed. This is another plus factor to them.

Can I suggest A site which is not in their list

I am not so sure , Since I cannot see any site submission link at their site. I would be better to contact the Site Administrator. For sure there is a Contact details on their site.

Conclusion

I really love the site. Some of the site that I shared before at my other site comes from this site.This is what I say as a Golden Treasure in the Net. Hope you like it. Do you have any other site like this that you would like to share to our readers. Just put it our comments.

Search engine optimization (AKA SEO) is already a world-renowned phenomenon and it doesn’t require additional explanation to web savvy people. To those who are new to this – this is a set of methods and tactics geared towards increasing your positions in the search engines by making your site search engine friendlier. Major Internet marketing companies don’t limit themselves to SEO only but offer their clients a wide range of services additionally: SEO copy writing, directory submission, pay-per-click campaigns management, press-releases writing and distribution, link baiting, banner marketing, email marketing and a few more.

If you revise Canadian market you can be amazed by the multitude of companies alike! Dozens of professionals offering SEO in Toronto are always at your service. Mind that almost all of them provide the complete set of online promotion services, have outstanding portfolio and most importantly – they guarantee you outstanding results!

Some of the post which will be of your interest as follows:

• Link exchange review
• RSS Feeds submission directories
• Submit your Blog to PageRank 4 and below Directories
• Submit your Blog to PageRank 5 Directories
• Submit your Blog to PageRank 6 Directories
• Submit your Blog to PageRank 7 and above Directories

By the way this is not a paid post. This is just a link share for my reader.

Technology at Hand This is my Personal / Technology Blog which deals with my personal Opinions and Reviews.

Pinoy Tech Blog a group blog which deals mainly in technology which is also own by Abe Olandares owner of yugatech.com I even Guest Blog here before. ( How do you blog? with 2286 visit as of this time )

YugaTech.com a prominent PRo Blogger in Philippines which deal with Philippine Technology News and Reviews

Pinoy techie deals with pinoy techie / technology and society news and reviews for the filipino masses

An Expression of Myself a personal blog of a Pinoy OFW

An Agricultural Blog ( This one I don’t know how it comes from the list )

Pinoy Seminars deals with trainings seminars negosyo philippines

Pinoy Top Blogs it ranks the Filipino Blogging Community

Alleba is a Worlwide Web Directory which is own by a Filipino.

A bugged life own by jayvee Fernandez and deals with different Technology and Photography

Selaplana Directory is a pinoy Directory which is own by selapana a blogger from Leyte

asia.cnet.com/reviews/blog/babelmachine the site is where a prominent writer Mr Joey Arilla is writing.

I think since the name of my blog have Technology it become easier for me to be on top for the keyword in addition my blog relates to Philippines also helps to put it on the top. I just don’t know until when this will last. I hope it will last long .

Incoming search terms:

• pinoy tech blog
• review of samsung galaxy ace by jayvee fernandez
• tech blogs philippines
• tech news blogs in philippines
• techie blogs in philippines
• technology blogger

intitle:

This syntax restricts a search to titles of Web sites; it can be effectively combined with other syntaxes to customize a search. An alternative syntax, allintitle: looks for all the words in the title of a Web site; allintitle: does not mix well with other syntaxes.

Example: intitle:”bob marley” “popular music”

inurl:

This syntax restricts a search to the URLs of Web sites. It can be an effective way to find sites from within a domain, directory or path; it can also be effectively combined with other syntaxes to customize a search. See site: below.

Example: intitle:”civil liberties” terrorism inurl:cnn
Example: intitle:turkey intitle:carve inurl:help
Example: inurl:butterflygardening

site:

This syntax allows you to limit a search to a site or a top level domain. It is similar to inurl: but will not search for a site within a subdirectory (i.e., anything beyond the /). Some advantages to using inurl: over site: are:
You can use inurl: by itself without using any other search terms or
syntaxes.
You can use inurl: to search subdirectories.

Example: intitle:”hate crimes” site:gov
Example: intitle:”hate crimes” OR “gay bashing” site:org
Example: intitle:”binge drinking” site:edu

intext:

This syntax searches for words in only the text of a Web site. It ignores link text, URLs and titles which makes it a useful syntax for finding search words that are commonly used in URLs or links. It can be effectively combined with other syntaxes to customize a search.

Example: intext:html site:edu
Example: intext:google.com inurl:help

inanchor:

This syntax searches for text in a Web site’s link anchors (i.e., the text you click on get to a Web site). Since the anchor text for a link is usually descriptive of the page it links to, the inanchor: syntax can be a useful way to limit a search to relevant sites. It can be effectively combined with other syntaxes to customize a search.

Example: inanchor:”Google Help”
Example: inanchor:AIDS inanchor:grants site:gov

For a fun experiment, try typing your name as a phrase with the inanchor: syntax!

link:

This syntax returns a list of Web sites linking to a specific URL. The link: syntax can not be combined with another syntax.

Example: link:www.linccweb.org

daterange:

This syntax allows you to limit a search to a specific date or range of dates that a site was indexed by Google (this is not the same as the date the site was created.) The only drawback to this syntax is that it works with the Julian Calendar, not the Gregorian Calendar (the one we use). To use daterange: first go to the Julian Date Converter at the U.S. Naval Observatory (http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.html).

Example: intitle:”george bush” daterange:2452389-2452389 (this would search for April 24, 2002)

filetype:

This syntax searches for specific filename extensions. Google searches for PowerPoint (.ppt), Excel (.xls), and Word (.doc) documents as well as Adobe Acrobat (.pdf), Adobe Postscript (.ps) and Rich Text Format (.rtf).

Example: intitle:”hate crimes” filetype:pdf
Example: intitle:google filetype:doc
Example: intitle:”date rape” site:edu filetype:ppt

related:

This syntax searches for Web sites related or similar to a specified URL. This is a good way to retrieve categories or types of Web sites.

Example: related:google.com
Example: related:www.linccweb.org

info:

This syntax provides a page of links to more information about a specified URL including a link to the page’s cache, a list of Web sites that link to the specified URL, a list of Web sites related to the specified URL and Web sites that contain the specified URL.

Example: info:cnn.com

I do believe that this techniques will ease your life in finding what you want in google and not just putting the “words+words” and then pressing Search Button.

Incoming search terms:

• inanchor:new topic powered by ip board increasing student success through instruction for self determination
• nokia inurl:/others

• Whether to Disclose Paid Posts
• Is Deep Linking Legal
• The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails
• Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content
• Domain Name Trademark Issues
• Handling Private Data About Your Readers
• Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It
• The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability
• Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging
• Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating
• Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal
• Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws

With this law in mind I think most of the blogger will now be very careful on their post.

Hat Tip from Yuga