Link Your Articles and Check Your Links

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After 19 months of writing and posting an article a day I have close to 600 articles on my blog. I have found that it is necessary to link certain articles to allow readers a better reading experience.

Linking articles

• A longer article is written on a similar subject over a previous shorter one. In this case, it is necessary to link the old article to the latest one so that the readers will enjoy a better perspective.

• Linking articles of related subjects: I have a few articles about parenting. The topics are about child physiological needs, emotions, and helping children to do well at school, so from an article, I link to other articles.

• Development in a subject: I have written three articles on getting followers at Twitter. One article leads the next one from the oldest article to the latest article. By linking the articles readers will follow the sequence of events

• Linking a point to an article: When a point is mentioned in an article that has reference to an article that I have written before, I will link the point to the full article so that readers will have a better understanding of the point in question.

Checking links

It is very good to link articles that are related but if the links are broken they serve no purpose or worse still the broken links frustrate the readers. It is prudent that you check the links immediately to make sure that they are all working.

As I write and post an article every day, linking and checking articles are parts of my daily routines in blogging. You must be doing the same if not start right away to allow your readers a better reading pleasure of your articles.

12 Cures for Worries

No Worries

Worry is a darkroom where negatives develop.

Most of the time, the things that we worry about do not happen. However, if there is a genuine concern for a particular issue there is always a way to deal with it:

1. Always find out the cause of the things that worries you: Write it down and find out it is really the concern of your anxiety. Get the help of others to list down a few alternatives and pick one and take action on it. Focus on solutions and not on worry

2. Organize your day well: One of the reasons that you worry about is that you don’t have a to-do list ready for the day and you are worried that one or two tasks may skip your mind. The best thing is to get ready for the to-do list in the evening the previous day. Organizing your day not only ends your worry but you are more efficient, effective, and productive. According to Charles H. Spurgeon,” It is said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.”

3. Exercise: I find out that every time after a jog, I am relaxed and I am able to think and concentrate better. It is one of the best ways to deal with your worry.

4. Proper perspective: Do not paint a picture of gloom and doom when the news of retrenchment has spread around in the office. Get the facts and see what really the matter is. Don’t allow your negative feeling to get the better of you. Do not worry about things that are beyond your control.

5. Deep breathing: Doing deep breathing exercises daily gives you inner peace and you’re not disturbed emotionally by external events.

6. Be connected: Don’t worry alone. Talk to your friends and relatives and before you know you don’t have as much worry as before. You feel better when you let it out. Do not keep the worry to yourself.

7. Avoid the news: Bad news is good news for newspapers. They are fond of sensationalizing the issues and playing up your negative emotions in the morning. Don’t read the paper and don't watch the TV. The news is disturbing you.

8. Avoid excessive drinking: Too much drinking will not solve all your worry. When you are sober you will have even more problems than before because you have not taken decisive action to arrest your problems.

9. Spend time on your interests and passion: Doing things that you enjoy very much is another good way to tackle worry. .As an example, Playing a musical instrument is a good idea to get rid of tension and frustration and restore your balance and logical thinking.

10. Avoid boredom: Keep the day fully occupied. Boredom will brew worrisome thoughts in your mind.

11. Be happy: Just make up your mind to be happy to replace all your feelings and thoughts of anxiety and fear.

12. Positive mental attitude: Looking at things on the bright side will inadvertently reduce or get rid of your worry.

Live life fully every day. Don’t worry about the past and the future, the past is gone and the future is not here yet. When you have lived well for today, tomorrow will be a better day for you and you will have a sweet memory for yesterday.

8 Quick and Easy Ways to be Obese

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Do you know that your eating habits and your sedentary lifestyle are contributing factors to your body’s growth- sideways? Here are your bad habits when you are overweight:

1. Skip breakfast: You only have time, perhaps, for a cup of coffee in the morning before you rush to work. You slept late the previous night and you got up late today. It is more or less a daily happening.

2. Eat fast food for lunch: You have too much work to be completed in the office and you don’t have time to knock off for lunch. You usually order for a quick meal at KFC. The package is usually fried chicken and a big cup of Coke.

3. Snack: In between work when hunger pangs strike you go for French fried or surgery foods to fill your stomach.

4. Eat a lavish dinner: As you have skipped your breakfast and your lunch is not a proper lunch, in the evening you have a large and leisurely dinner at home. This is your largest meal of the day before you hit the bed.

5. Be a couch potato: You loathe exercise. After work, you enjoy your favorite TV program with more junk food with perhaps a can of beer to reward yourself for a hard day’s work.

6. Use your vehicle and take the lift more often than walking: Whatever the distance you prefer to go by car or take the elevator instead of walking around.

7. Drink more alcoholic and sugary beverage than water: You daily consumption of beverage consists more of sugary drink and alcoholic drink instead of more plain water.
8.  Eat quickly: The faster you eat means the more you will eat. It takes 20 minutes for the brain to notify you that you are full. You will not know you have overeaten when you eat quickly.

As time goes by your weight goes up and your energy goes down. You find it lazy to move around physically anymore and you are not as alert as before. Worse still you smoke to relax. Your performance goes downhill.

Blogging - Survival of the Fittest

Blogging

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Blogging is interesting, exciting, and very competitive. It is a level playing field. All things being equal accept your content and it is up to you to drive traffic to your blog. There is no chance for you to play politics and you can't depend on your friends and relatives. Your success depends on a worldwide audience. 

 According to Blogpulse, there are more than 107 million blogs out there. How do you fight for a place in the blogosphere with your name and your brand? Blogging is like riding a bicycle, the moment you stop paddling you fall. The most important thing to do is to keep your momentum by maintaining and managing your brand:

 • Keep on writing articles regularly and continuously about your niche to solve readers’ problems. Search engines will love your blog when your site is updated frequently.

 • Keep on bookmaking your articles to social bookmarking and social networking sites. Market your articles to a wider readership.

 • Keep on networking on the Internet to get more people to visit your blog. Network at Twitter, Facebook, Plaxo, and LinkedIn with like-minded people

 • Keep networking offline as well: One of the ways is to distribute your business cards to everyone you meet. Secure write-ups about you and your blog in the newspapers and magazines. Help new bloggers to create and establish their brand.

 • Monitoring feedback from readers. Check your Google Alerts and do a Twitter search to find out with others are saying about you and your blog. Take constructive criticism seriously and improve upon it. 

When your blog is good you will get noticed but when it is not, your blog will be ignored. .It is a cruel and realistic world.

17 Tips to be Pretty and Healthy

A healthy lifestyle and habits will prolong your youthful appearance much longer. Here are the things that you can do to promote and sustain your beautiful complexion.

1. Eat breakfast: As the word means to break the fast. After eight hours of fasting, your body and your brain need nourishment and fuel to start a new day with energy. Do not skip breakfast. Research shows that breakfast eaters generally are thinner than breakfast skippers. Taking breakfast also improves memory and learning.

2. Consume more fruit and vegetables: According to a study of 2,900 young adults by Boston’s Children Hospital, those who ate the most fiber gain 5% less weight than those who ate the least.

3. Drink green tea: It is one of the easiest, quickest ways to infuse the body and brain with antioxidant and with virtually no calories

4. Avoid sun’s rays: Try not to go under the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. Too much exposure to the sun's rays means dryness, wrinkles, fine lines, liver spots, and perhaps skin cancer.

5. Remove your cosmetic thoroughly: Cosmetics are made of chemicals too. Anything that is not natural is harmful to your body and skin. When you go to sleep your want to allow your skin to breathe freely and normally with the cosmetics removed completely

6. Avoid smoking and excessive drinking: Smoking will accelerate the aging process and too many alcoholic drinks will dehydrate the skin. It can also cause weight gain and interrupt your beauty sleep

7. Prevent repeated facial expression: Frowning is a good example. When you do it repeatedly horizontal lines will form across the forehead over time

8. Be happy: Sadness will show on your face in the form of wrinkles. When you are cheerful your face will be brightened up with a glow.

9. Avoid late night: You need 8 hours of sleep every night to rejuvenate your skin. When you have insufficient sleep eye bags will show under your eyes

10. Drink water: Drink 6 to 8 glass of water to hydrate your skin

11. Exercise: Physical exercise promote sweating and it removes toxins from the body

12. Avoid fried foods: Too much fast food is not only bad for your health but it can also cause acne.

13. Manage stress: There are three ways to manage stress. First, you try to avoid the stressful situation,s and then when you are in stressful situations you employ a positive mental attitude and lastly learn to apply stress-releasing techniques.

14. Take frequent breaks to avoid fatigue: Do not work long stretch. Do take regular short breaks to clear the clutter in your mind and allow your brain to regain its productivity and alertness.

15. Look things at the bright side: Your appearance will be affected negatively if you are gloomy and lacking in energy. A positive outlook will generate a healthy image and it will be shown on your face- bright, cheerful, and full of energy. When you are down you look haggard, listless, and without life.

16. Taking supplements: Taking a multivitamin-multimineral supplement is beneficial to your health especially vitamins A, B complex, C, D, and E are good for the skin.

17. Pitera: According to Takashi Yoshii, one of the scientists responsible for the discovery of Pitera, a yeast derivative that makes up more than 90 percent of SK-II Facial Treatment Essence. It does not erase wrinkles. It does not brighten and doesn’t make you appear younger but it helps make your skin stronger and healthier so that it is less affected by environmental aggressors.

Your beauty radiate from within your healthy body and from your feeling of happiness and well-being. This is your true and lasting youthfulness that make-up cannot do the job for you.

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Related article: Stress – 3 Effective Ways to Manage It

Traffic Rank from 8 Digits to 6 Digits in 19 Months – Secrets Revealed

Web Traffic

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In the last few days, my Traffic Rank has just gone up to 6 digits (985,682) for the first time since I started blogging 19 months ago. I am happy, excited and my self-confidence is boosted. It’s a birthday present for me from Alexa because my birthday is today. Blogpulse has searched more than 107 million blogs in the blogosphere; it means my blog is among the top 1% in the world.

My articles are read by readers in over 40 countries. I am happy my articles enjoy international readership and this is what I have aimed for when I started blogging in October 2007. I have readers especially from North America, England, and India and most of the English-speaking countries. There are also readers who have translated my articles into their own languages to read my articles. Around one-third of my readers are from Malaysia.

The secret of my improvement can be summed up in 8 words:


Write, post, and market an article a day.


Writing articles: As you write an article a day you will soon develop into a good habit. Not only that, quantity develops into quality. You can look at my earlier articles they are all short ones and now I can write very much longer and better articles. :-)

Posting articles: Posting articles regularly will build the trust of the readers in you. Do it consistently to build a lasting relationship with your readers.

Marketing articles: As soon as an article is posted I will bookmark it at social bookmarking and social networking sites.


What is the significance when you do these three things consistently and persistently every day?

• Search engines: I have accumulated a collection of close to 600 articles over 19 months. More will be added every day. It means more and more readers will be reading my articles because search engines love sites that add new articles frequently. The other advantage is that my articles are, very often, on the first page of search results. About 65% of the traffic to my site is from search engines.

• Traffic Rank: The popularity of my site can only go up because more articles will be added to my site. It means more readers from all traffic sources (referrals, direct, and search engines) will be reading my articles. In another 19 months, I will have more than 1000 articles.

• Feeds: There are also readers who have subscribed to my feeds directly or indirectly through blog directories, social bookmarking sites, and feed directories such as Google Reader.

The key to success in blogging is consistency and persistence and you should aim for the long term.

Insya Allah (God willing), I will be writing another article next year today: Traffic Rank from 6 digits to 5 digits in 12 months.

13 Daily Efficiency Tips

Simplicity is the Soul of efficiency

Getting organized to get things done efficiently every day means more time at your disposal to do the planning and creative thinking or to indulge in your interest and passion. Here are the tips to get things done efficiently and in less time:

1. Take advantage of the daily to-do list to carry out your work: Organize your work in such a way that you can get most of the jobs done in one place before moving to the next location and other tasks.

2. Do the important things in the morning: This is the time in which your energy level and the freshness of your mind are at your peak.

3. Set a deadline: Always set a time limit for yourself so that things get done within a time frame, otherwise the task will expand to occupy your precious time.

4. Do the difficult tasks first: Once the tough jobs are done you lift off a heavy burden and the rest of the jobs and the rest of the day will be easier for you.

5. Paper and pen ready: You are ready to record creative thoughts whenever an idea flashes through your mind. If it is not captured immediately it will be gone.

6. Stop work at the right place: When your work is interrupted stop at an appropriate place so that you don't have to redo the work again.

7. Take breaks at regular intervals: It is a good habit to take regular breaks. A short break allows you to clear the clutter in your mind and help solve your earlier problems with ease.

8. Delegate more: It is one of the effective ways to get things done and get you more time for other important work.

9. Get rid of time wasters: Avoid people that steal your time for no useful purposes. Avoid unnecessary meetings.

10. Complete today’s task today: The to-do list in a way is to help you get the things done on the same day. Do not allow your work to spill over to the following day. There will be more things to do the next day. You will feel a sense of achievement when the day's work is done with the to-do list all checked.

11. Don’t look for perfection: Getting things done is more important than getting a job done perfectly. How do you measure perfection in any way? Just complete a task to the best of your ability.

12. Planning before doing it: When you are given a new assignment do not rush to do it without proper planning. Doing things in haste means spending more time doing it all over again.

13. One thing at a time: Focus on the job at hand with your full concentration. Do not allow your mind to think of other jobs to be done. Things can go wrong when you are not paying attention 100%. More time is wasted to rectify errors.

Being efficient means you are motivated to make yourself even more productive.