Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Goenawan Mohamad Notes To Be Read By Blogger Who Write Poems

A poem written by a variety of reasons, mainly because of the poem then a person can express something that is in the heart and head, while also holding something inside it. The poem is something that is ambiguous, full of symbols, which in themselves have the will to say something at once to hide something.

Writing poetry is an uphill battle, as well as fun for the writer because there will be upheaval, conflict, intellectual hard work, and certainly not a pretended thing. Conrad Aiken said that the poem is a portrait of man with sweat on his forehead, blood on his hands, torment of hell inside his heart, with his style, his absurdity, his wildness, his beliefs and his doubts.

If indeed as written by Conrad Aiken, in a poem will be found gloom, the constant tension, anxiety is incessant, and the struggle that really hard. Thus, writing poetry is not a haphazard job, not a job without a work because writing poetry is to create a world, as has been said by Chairil Anwar, "A Poem that Becoming, is a World". That is, a poem is a world unto itself that is the result of creativity of the poet with all the strength and hard work that is not half-hearted.

a Poem that Becoming, is a World
Writing is a world with full of struggle, as well as farmers who bathe in sweat when swinging hoes, like a fisherman who fought vigorously in the vastness of the sea against the storm, merchant with full of load on his back who goes along on foot offering merchandise, as well as a prophet who peddle light into every dark space of the human heart.

Writing has a different characterization. Writing a novel is different from writing poetry, writing essays is different from writing plays, writing literature is different from writing scientific papers, etc.. It's rare that can do two things at once with the same quality as full-maintained, for example, write poetry as good as writing a novel. There are two different shades of a similarity, and this is complex which is also full of temptation.

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Monday, October 25, 2010

Best And Safest Meta Description For Blogger's Blog*spot

Indexed quickly by Google is the desire of all bloggers who blog professionally or even semi-professionally. They seek and explore different SEO techniques to realize their dreams in terms of fast Google indexing. Various SEO techniques have been applied by them into their HTML codes of blog template. One way is to use a blog meta description. And this is actually legitimate as long as they have original content and not using SEO techniques excessively.

However, and of course, there are some matters that should be considered carefully by a blogger who uses Blogger's blog*spot before using meta description. Where, the use of meta description can lead to problems and issues for their blog. Some of matters that should be considered carefully by a blogger are:
  1. When you use meta description for your blog, this will cause duplicate meta tags which will be reported in your Google webmaster tools.

  2. Although there are ways to avoid or eliminate duplicate meta tags after using blog meta description so it does not appear in Google webmaster tools - HTML suggestions report, you can not guarantee to yourself that such way is the right and safe way.

  3. Blogger is a free blogging platform where its blog design and structure, is already created and customized appropriately for Blogger user and Google search engine. Keep in mind that Blogger is a Google service.

  4. Inside the Blogger's blog*spot page structure, already available a feature that actually functions as a meta description and subtitle, i.e in blog header precisely right below blog title. On the blog header - blog description, you can even add up to a maximum of 500 characters to describe your blog.

  5. In essence, the power of a blog is the content especially text-based content. The more you often and regularly make posts and focus on a topic, then googlebot will more often visit your blog for indexing.
In the end, the blog description on the blog header is functioning as the default meta description for the Blogger's blog*spot. And this is the best and safest way.

Natural Link And Blogger Moral Situation For Being Patient

One of five important written descriptions in Google-friendly sites page is about how other sites on the web link to other sites or blogs. This description stated that Google algorithms can distinguish natural links from unnatural links. This statement is perfectly adequate as a warning to bloggers and webmasters to avoid, or not to make unnatural links to their website or blog.

In essence, natural links happen because users assume that a page is very useful for them, so they link out to those useful and helpful pages. Conversely, unnatural links are links that were deliberately or accidentally created by blogger or webmaster who can increase the popularity of a page through search engines, particularly through Google.

Then, What is the fundamental attitude that should be done by you?. You must be patient in getting those natural links.

Given that search engine bots, particularly Googlebot, have to crawl billions of pages on the web, it will require a very long time. With situation like this, a new website or blog, will take up to one month or more to be indexed by well-established in search results page. In such this situation, appearing a situation referred to as a moral situation.

Moral situation can be interpreted simply as a situation where a blogger should take ethical or unethical action. In a situation such as mentioned in third paragraph, a blogger who have ethics will not put his blog URL on other websites. He would prefer to be patient because he knows that if he put his blog URL on other sites, may cause his blog to be considered as a blog with unnatural links built. Of course, unethical blogger will do the opposite.

Natural Link or Not?
If you're not so sure that your putted link as above is a natural link, it's better to not put your blog or website link. Just be patient and let the web dynamic makes links to your blog naturally. This is a moral situation for a blogger in terms of being patient.
Temptations to a blogger patience in maintaining his blog's natural links are very high. This can be found and felt on the web in various occasions, and hardly, only Google algorithms that can distinguish, while bloggers or webmasters themselves can not distinguish with certainty.

Suppose, we have a blog with topic of A, then we get another blog that also stubs A. After that, we give relevant comments in which available a box to fill our blog URL as commentator link, usually it is at the bottom of post. This becomes a moment where we really do not know and we can not ascertain whether our blog URL in that comments is a natural link or an unnatural link.

Likely, you are very confident because you've left a relevant comment, but if you re-read the written statement that Google algorithms can distinguish natural links from unnatural links and also may lead to link schemes and doorway pages, you better act anticipatory. It would be better for you to prefer a patience, and let the web dynamics that build links to your blog or website.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Duplicate Content On Google Search Results Page And Its Effect To AdSense

When Google first appeared on the web about 14 years ago, its function is as a search engine. Although at this time Google has developed various products as a service to internet users, basically, all based on Google search, including Google AdSense.

Google AdSense itself requires strictly to the webmasters and bloggers, that they must have original content on their website. If a website contains duplicate content, then they will be rejected or disapproved. Even if a website that contains duplicate content can get away and become an AdSense publisher next, sooner or later, it will be detected by Google and account will be disabled.

Facts on how Google AdSense is actually an innovation of and based on Google search, and how a duplicate content very easily detected by Google's technology, which makes it not approved by Google AdSense, it can be seen in two images of Google search results page below. The example of duplicate content on the following two images also will confuse users.

Duplicate Content On Google Search Result Page1
Duplicate contents on Google search results page. If your blog or website content appeared like this, it will be disapproved by Google AdSense.
Duplicate Content On Google Search Result Page2
Duplicate contents still appeared on Google search results page 2 and these confusing users.