Entrecard, the new generation of Business Cards has been used by many of the professional bloggers, but I kind of stayed away for a bit. You can call it my lazyness and lack of interest. I was talking to one of my close friend on instant messenger, and the topic came up. I decided that I should just sign up. After signing up, I started dropping my card on all of my favorite blogs that are using the feature. I also put the codes on Balkhis. Today is the first day, I have had over 100 cards dropped at my site, and 5 ad purchases. Pretty darn sweet.

Well here is the deal, you drop cards on mine, and I will follow (will try to keep up with everyone). The button is located on the sidebar, right above the alexa button, and one more reason you should leave a card for me is I am surfing with an Alexa Toolbar on. So it will effect your alexa.

Why should bloggers use this feature? It increases your traffic enormously. Another thing it does, is brand your logo. I see so many people using the default style cards. People come on. Brand your logo so you can your brand out there on your business cards. Not your business card companies brand.

Unexpectedly, The price for Balkhis ad is at 32 ecredit. Which means your ad will show on my page for one day. There is a 4 day wait right now. Get in the line before you have to wait for more than that !

http://entrecard.com/details/32551

Above is my entrecard profile link. Get entrecard now for those who are interested in increasing your traffic.

Yesterday I posted about 5 things that can hurt your Search Engine Ranking Positions of your Website, and in there I advised bloggers to use All in one SEO Pack for Wordpress. But then I decided that it would help my users more if I post what I am doing with Balkhis.

Before you begin reading you should download the All in one SEO Plugin if you haven’t done already.

For those who don’t know what All in one SEO Plugin does for your wordpress this is for you. This plugin optimizes your blog for search engine. It allows you to select how the page titles of your blog will be generated, it gives you an option to have unique meta description, meta keywords, and title for all your posts and pages.

Now once you install this plugin, you will have to go to your admin panel > settings > and you will see a separate tab for all in one seo pack.

Settings for Balkhis looks some thing like this

I am not using archives so if you are using the archive make sure that in your settings option, you go down and deindex archive pages. I put the title for my blog in tags and search keywords other than that I don’t abuse my title keyword, and neither should you.

The above settings are not set in stone. This is just my way of doing it, and it has been working for me. Therefore if you are starting your blog and get this plugin (which you should) don’t leave the settings as default. Use this one instead.

Alright everyone, I have decided to make a decision about which player I will be using on my website. So far I have been using default youtube’s player in all my past posts to post my videos, but I didn’t really liked it because of the ugly look of the player.

I have decided to move to Revver. Its not that I won’t keep my youtube channels updated. Ofcourse I will keep them updated for my youtube audience, but the player you will be seeing on my website would be Revver.

Revver is an ad sharing player, so they will pay you via paypal. Why I particularly like Revver is that it lets me brand the player. So now the player will say Balkhis rather than anything else. Player looks cool as it is very simple. Another good part is that the player comes in a script code which doesn’t make the site xhtml invalid whereas youtube used to make the site xhtml invalid. The only downside about this is that your video have to be approved so you can’t just post your video and put it live asap. It needs to be approved by their management. I can live with that.

Check out the new cool video in a new cool branded player:

And don’t forget to follow me at Revver

I have always been telling you guys what to do with SEO of your website. I finally decided to go on and explain the things that can actually hurt your website’s Search Engine Ranking Positions (SERPs). And how you can avoid those to make your ranking stable. I will be targetting the solutions toward most of the bloggers, but other website owners can benefit from it also.

Duplicate Content

Duplicate content is like a infection on your site that starts out slowly, but it can literally kill the search engine ranking position of the entire site. What is duplicate content. Basically when you have the same content on two or more pages of your website. The common example, I gave with blogs was the Archive Pages. Most people fall in the habit of keeping archive pages on the site, but they don’t deindex those pages through your robot.txt. Alot of people like to keep the archive pages for the resource of their users, if you are one of those people you should do the following:

Open your Robot.txt and add Disallow: /archives/, and that should fix your problem.

Another suggestion I gave away a few weeks back was to use summaries instead of posting your entire posts on the main page, and write custom summaries. I do that often, but not always. Read the 3 common ways to avoid duplicate content with Blogs here.

Non-Search Engine Friendly URLs

Dynamic URLs while work [Read the full Post]

I love the Dot Com life style. I work when I want to. I don’t have to go to a certain place to work. Just work from my apartment on my bed. Many people are like dude how do you make money. How do you get enough fun.

Well check what Balkhis as a site got me.

I bought an electric guitar and an amp from a part of my blog income. Isn’t that sweet. The only problem is I don’t know any cords except for 3 . But I will learn no worries. This helps me in two ways. When I have nothing to write about, and I am running out of ideas, I play the guitar. And when I am frustrated, I just put the volume on high and start doing a really angry solo (which means I just hit random strings) lol.

I got this a couple days ago, and finally since I have decided that I am not going to return it because I like it. Therefore I am posting it here. Maybe one day when I get good enough, I will put one of my videos on youtube

Don’t just do business with all your income. You need to give yourself some self-encouragement also.