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Have you aware the important of sitemap in a blogging journey? For me, I created the xml sitemap for my blog just a week after my blog launch, because i known that, the later i create the sitemap, the later i will succes in my blogging journey. That why, in the post, i will share with you the important of sitemap for a blogger.

A sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the importance of having a well constructed sitemap, you will be able to tailor your own sitemap to suit your own needs.

1. Navigation purposes
A sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your sitemap to see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the utmost ease.

2. Conveying your site’s theme
When your visitors load up your sitemap, they will get the gist of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no need to get the “big picture” of your site by reading through each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors’ time.
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A lot of successful websites depend on returning visitors to account for a major part of their traffic. Returning visitors are easier to convert into paying customers because the more often they return to a site, the more trust they have in that site. The credibility issue just melts away. Hence, keep your visitors coming back to your site with the following methods:

1. Start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox
When you start a forum, chatroom or shoutbox, you are providing your visitors a place to voice their opinions and interact with their peers — all of them are visitors of your site. As conversations build up, a sense of community will also follow and your visitors will come back to your site almost religiously every day.

2. Start a web log (blog)
Keep an online journal, or more commonly known as a blog, on your site and keep it updated with latest news about yourself. Human beings are curious creatures and they will keep their eyes glued to the monitor if you post fresh news frequently. You will also build up your credibility as you are proving to them that there is also a real life person behind the website.

3. Carry out polls or surveys
Polls and surveys are other forms of interaction that you should definitely consider adding to your site. They provide a quick way for visitors to voice their opinions and to get involved in your website. Be sure to publish polls or surveys that are strongly relevant to the target market of your website to keep them interested to find out about the results.

4. Hold puzzles, quizzes and games
Just imagine how many office workers procrastinate at work every day, and you will be able to gauge how many people will keep visiting your site if you provide a very interesting or addicting way of entertainment. You can also hold competitions to award the high score winner to keep people trying continuously to earn the prize.

5. Update frequently with fresh content
Update your site frequently with fresh content so that every time your visitors come back, they will have something to read on your site. This is the most widely known and most effective method of attracting returning visitors, but this is also the least carried out one because of the laziness of webmasters. No one will want to browse a site that looks the same over ten years, so keep your site updated with fresh bites!

Flash-based sites have been a craze since the past few years, and as Macromedia compiles more and more great features into Flash, we can only predict there will be more and more flash sites around the Internet. However, Flash based sites have been disputed to be bloated and unnecessary. Where exactly do we draw the line? Here’s a simple breakdown.

The good:
1. Interactivity
Flash’s Actionscript opens up a vast field of possibilities. Programmers and designers have used Flash to create interactve features ranging from very lively feedback forms to attractive Flash-based games. This whole new level of interactivity will always leave visitors coming back for more.

2. A standardized site
With Flash, you do not have to worry about cross-browser compatibility. No more woes over how a certain css code displays differently in Internet Explorer, Firefox and Opera. When you position your site elements in Flash, they will always appear as they are as long as the user has Flash Player installed.

3. Better expression through animation
In Flash, one can make use of its animating features to convey a message in a much more efficient and effective way. Flash is a lightweight option for animation because it is vector based (and hence smaller file sizes) as opposed to real “movie files” that are raster based and hence much larger in size.

The bad and the ugly:
1. The Flash player
First of all, people have to download the Flash player in advance before they can view Flash movies, so by using Flash your visitor range will decrease considerably because not everyone will be willing to download the Flash player just to view your site. You’ll also have to put in additional work in redirecting the user to the Flash download page if he or she doesn’t have the player installed.
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What is BlogClicker.com?
BlogClicker is a blog traffic exchange dedicated to blog sites and focused on bringing blog traffic to your blogs! You’ve taken the time and effort to put your blog online and we’re here to help you get people to read it!

How does BlogClicker.com work?
It’s simple. You view other member blogs and in return, those members will view your blog. For every 2 blogs you view, someone will see yours! We also offer upgraded memberships and credit packages which give you up to a 1:1.5 view ratio or 1 view per purchased credit!

Is it really FREE?
Yes! Standard membership with a 2:1 view ratio is absolutely FREE. In addition, you’ll also have chances to earn bonus views while viewing blogs which means your ratio gets even better!!

What does downline or referral mean?
When you refer other members to BlogClicker they are your “referrals” and are placed in your downline. All members in your downline earn you more traffic for as long as they are BlogClicker members as you receive a percentage of every credit they earn up to 5 levels deep! If you are an upgraded member, you’ll also receive commissions on every upgrade or credit purchase they make!

How to earn credit?

After you sing up, you can start surf member blogs via the link provided by BlogClicker.com, just like the picture show above, after the 20 second countdown, you need the click on the number showing at the right hand site, just a simple click, you will earn a credit.

This Max Banner Ads allow you to put your affiliate banner in your Wordpress blog. Usually for newbie, adding banner is a hard thing, because it need to edit the wordpress theme. If editing the theme is not your speciality, it will end up make with uglier and worst wordpress theme. This plugin let you control your advertisements from the WordPress dashboard, that cool.

Introduction:
In this post, i would like to share with you a new free WordPress plugin by MaxBlogPress called Max Banner Ads. With this plugin, it’s allows you to easily add and rotate banners without editing any themes or codes. Plus, Max Banner Ads Plugin will display data and statistic like impressions and click through, so you can track how well your banner performed.

The tool allows you to do the following:-
No coding required
You can place the banner ads in any position you like
No need to edit your Wordpress Theme
Statistics Impressions / Clicks per ad
Rotate your banners / Ads
Banner images from your computer, web or direct link
Insert banners in any or all posts
Control ad alignment
And much more
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