ElderDarionBevan Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) Hey everyone. I hope this is allowed, if not I am sorry. I am a blogging missionary and it is very new for me to be a blogger. One thing I really need is views on my blog and I am seeing how many I can get. come and support this cause and view my blog. the blog address is www.elderbevan.blogspot.com if you want to help further you can even become a follower Edited January 26, 2011 by ElderDarionBevan
Doctrine 612 Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) OO<> Edited January 26, 2011 by Doctrine 612
MorningStar Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 I'm really curious about this. When did the church start training missionaries to blog? Does your family read it?
MorningStar Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Looked at your blog. You can Facebook too? On your mission? What kind of rules are you supposed to follow?
Doctrine 612 Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 (edited) [ Edited January 26, 2011 by Doctrine 612
nicolasconnault Posted January 26, 2011 Posted January 26, 2011 Hey everyone. I hope this is allowed, if not I am sorry. I am a blogging missionary and it is very new for me to be a blogger. One thing I really need is views on my blog and I am seeing how many I can get. come and support this cause and view my blog. the blog address is www.elderbevan.blogspot.com if you want to help further you can even become a followerElder, getting visits to your blog by members is useless, unless they put a link to your blog from theirs. You don't need views, you need links!
ElderDarionBevan Posted January 27, 2011 Author Posted January 27, 2011 actually it is very very helpful, the more views I have the more my blog will appear in search engines and the more public it will be. so it is very not useless. plus aren't there non-members on here too?
nicolasconnault Posted January 27, 2011 Posted January 27, 2011 actually it is very very helpful, the more views I have the more my blog will appear in search engines and the more public it will be. so it is very not useless. plus aren't there non-members on here too?Elder, I suggest you do some research in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). I am a web developer and I know what I am talking about: the number of views you get has absolutely no influence on your search engine placement. And you will not get many views from non-members coming from this forum. There are some very useful methods for boosting your blog's placement in search engines, so I suggest you read up on them, and begin monitoring week by week how high you blog appears in Google when you search for related keywords.
seashell Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 Elder, I suggest you do some research in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation). I am a web developer and I know what I am talking about: the number of views you get has absolutely no influence on your search engine placement. And you will not get many views from non-members coming from this forum. There are some very useful methods for boosting your blog's placement in search engines, so I suggest you read up on them, and begin monitoring week by week how high you blog appears in Google when you search for related keywords.He's a missionary. He's got no time to read up on blog placement. Got some easy pointers to give him here?
Mudcat Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 (edited) actually it is very very helpful, the more views I have the more my blog will appear in search engines and the more public it will be. so it is very not useless. plus aren't there non-members on here too?Yes the non-members are on here, too.I just gave you a hit and looked at the blog. Could you provide some sort of conclusive fact that states hits = more search engine status.My wife has a web page for her ballet studio, and though the page doesn't have the hits that a lot of really good blogs do. She is always on the Google's front page of picks of relevant search data. Reason being, a high repetition of this relevant search information on her website. Count that as free advice.As to your blog. The whole thing is a bit Mormoncentric and I don't think it will do much for "A man on a mission" if that mission is to truly convert people to Christ as you believe him to be. You literally loose your audience before you get them.Your opener is Living prophet or dead prophet. Maybe this means something to an LDS, but it doesn't really register on anyone's Richter scale. You could insert Emperor, Dictator, Pharaoh, King and so forth into the same statement and it would have about the same meaning to a non-LDS. If you wanted a really stinging opener that would grab people to read, a better opener might be. "This is why I believe Mormonism to be true." Likely you don't self identify with a term like Mormonism, but rather see yourself as LDS. But the world sees you that way, and your audience isn't LDS, I don't think. Some more free advice.Lastly, I'd loose the picture of yourself flashing your "Elder Badge". It gives people an impression that you see yourself as bit of a rap star who wants to impress their posse and it doesn't come off well for the message I think you are trying to send. edit add - thought about it for a grip.You are a younger guy, likely trying to appeal to a group that identifies with you. IF you wanna go a bit gangsta, you outta get someone to snap a pic of you sitting on the concrete steps of building sitting alone... elbows on your thighs and hands between your knees. Looking up with a straight face ( a semi-serious "You messing with me?" face) and perhaps a BoM laying to the side..same outfit of course.This would be the look of a prideless gangsta-MO who is about to step up and lay it all out for you. IMO, you would reach the same audience in a better way.I would imagine all that sounded a bit harsh. All criticism does, even the good stuff.Regards,Mudcat Edited January 28, 2011 by Mudcat 1
nicolasconnault Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 He's a missionary. He's got no time to read up on blog placement. Got some easy pointers to give him here?If he has time to post and read on this board, he has time to read up on how to do his work efficiently and intelligently. If I post information here for him to read, what's the difference to him reading it elsewhere?
nicolasconnault Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 Yes the non-members are on here, too.I just gave you a hit and looked at the blog. Could you provide some sort of conclusive fact that states hits = more search engine status.My wife has a web page for her ballet studio, and though the page doesn't have the hits that a lot of really good blogs do. She is always on the Google's front page of picks of relevant search data. Reason being, a high repetition of this information on her website. Count that as free advice.As to your blog. The whole thing is a bit Mormoncentric and I don't think it will do much for "A man on a mission" if that mission is to truly convert people to Christ as you believe him to be. You literally loose your audience before you get them.Your opener is Living prophet or dead prophet. Maybe this means something to an LDS, but it doesn't really register on anyone's Richter scale. You could insert Emperor, Dictator, Pharaoh, King and so forth into the same statement and it would have about the same meaning to a non-LDS. If you wanted a really stinging opener that would grab people to read, a better opener might be. "This is why I believe Mormonism to be true." Likely you don't self identify with a term like Mormonism, but rather see yourself as LDS. But the world sees you that way, and your audience isn't LDS, I don't think. Some more free advice.Lastly, I'd loose the picture of yourself flashing your "Elder Badge". It gives people an impression that you see yourself as bit of a rap star who wants to impress their posse and it doesn't come off well for the message I think you are trying to send. I would imagine all that sounded a bit harsh. All criticism does, even the good stuff.Regards,MudcatIMO these are all valid points, Mudcat.
MorningStar Posted January 28, 2011 Posted January 28, 2011 Elder Bevan, the more interesting you are and the more connections you make with people, the more likely they are to click on your blog without you having to drop comments about it. Not that you have loads of time to invest, but share you personality a bit if you can.
ElderDarionBevan Posted January 29, 2011 Author Posted January 29, 2011 I am up to only 102 from the site, just click the link and view. lets see if we can get to 500. www.elderbevan.blogspot.com
volgadon Posted January 30, 2011 Posted January 30, 2011 Elder, you have been given good advice. Apply it. Granted, the Lord can work miracles with anything, but why not make your blog the best you can, and do all you can do to improve it?
mmmcounts Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 Google search results are generated, in large part, by the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. This has changed a little bit, though, and relatively recently.It wasn't so long ago that the setup was more simplistic, easier to figure out, and easier to take advantage of. Some people have had a bit of fun with something called Googlebombing, which is a practice that allows a relatively small number of pranksters to succeed in producing unusual results. Among the most famous of these Googlebombings is the search term "miserable failure," or just "failure." For several years, a few hundred people had worked together and succeeded in producing a situation where these words were most commonly linked to George W. Bush's biographical webpage. It even led to a bit of a competition among Internet webmasters, and for awhile, Michael Moore and a few other people were in competition for this dubious honor. Other popular Googlebombings have led to things like the number one result for the terms "French Military Victories." (For the best effect, hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button that takes you directly to the first result). Other Googlebombings have more pure motives- for example, some people were upset at how a search for "Jew" took you to a hate site. They took necessary action in order to make sure the word "Jew" linked to the appropriate Wikipedia page more often than to anything else, so now that's the first thing that comes up.In the more recent history of Google, however, some minor changes have been made. A lot of it still works the same, but some of the Googlebombing efforts have been undone. For example, "miserable failure" no longer takes you to George W. Bush as the first result. That google bomb has been defused, and it wasn't done manually. Google isn't sharing all the specifics about their changes- all we know is that their new algorithm is made in such a way that these kinds of pranks are much harder to pull. Google still refuses to go through and alter their results by hand, but they have come up with an algorithm that minimizes the impact of such pranks.The basic idea is still the same- if you want to show up on the first page of Google results, you need to make sure lots of other sites link to your page. That's still the basic idea of how it's done. If I were you, though, I'd make the quality of your blog a higher priority for the time being.One other thing you might want to consider is a Google ad- that might be more reliable now that some things have changed with search algorithms. My sister is a harpist, and she managed to use this to her advantage. If you look up harpists in the appropriate area, her site isn't exactly the first result, but the first link that comes up right ahead of the first result is an ad for her site. So when the time comes, you might find that it's a lot easier for you to get a Google ad to your blog that puts you ahead of everyone instead of working the system in order to get a lot of links to it. At this time, a Google search for "mormon blog" turns up no ads whatsoever, so I think that's what you should go ahead and do.The only drawback is that it might cost you a little bit of money. Aside from that, however, it's the quickest and easiest way for you to get from point A to point B.
mmmcounts Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 One more useless bit of information- googlebombing has a lot to do with how the President of the Internet was chosen as well. The competition was pretty simple- at the end of a set period of time, the person indicated by the top Google result for the search term "president of the Internet" would, by this method, be elected as the President of the Internet. The winner was Leo Laporte, btw.
cinepro Posted February 8, 2011 Posted February 8, 2011 If he has time to post and read on this board, he has time to read up on how to do his work efficiently and intelligently. If I post information here for him to read, what's the difference to him reading it elsewhere?Based on the "finding" methods I used on my pre-internet mission, I'm not so sure efficiency and intelligence are used in formulating missionary work strategies. Looking back, I only heard about the importance of obedience and hard work, with no mention of "efficiency" or "intelligence".
mmmcounts Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Based on the "finding" methods I used on my pre-internet mission, I'm not so sure efficiency and intelligence are used in formulating missionary work strategies. Looking back, I only heard about the importance of obedience and hard work, with no mention of "efficiency" or "intelligence".Surely you're allowed to take charge of those things and bring them to the table on your own, right? I mean, if you do you're good at what you do and if you don't you're not. Correct?
Libs Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I became interested in the church through some LDS friends I had meant on the internet. This was back in 2000, and whenever people in the church asked me how I found the church, and I told them "through the internet", they were always amazed. The common belief back then was that the internet was mostly bad (porn and stuff like that). Most had not even remotely thought of it as a missionary tool.
mmmcounts Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 I became interested in the church through some LDS friends I had meant on the internet. This was back in 2000, and whenever people in the church asked me how I found the church, and I told them "through the internet", they were always amazed. The common belief back then was that the internet was mostly bad (porn and stuff like that). Most had not even remotely thought of it as a missionary tool.I guess they hadn't seen Tron? 1
cinepro Posted February 9, 2011 Posted February 9, 2011 Surely you're allowed to take charge of those things and bring them to the table on your own, right? I mean, if you do you're good at what you do and if you don't you're not. Correct?Not really. We were required to put in a certain number of hours "tracting" (going door-to-door) and "street contacting" (approaching people in public spaces). While we had some latitude in what, exactly, we would say to try and generate interest, we were required to use those two methods.
Blossom Posted February 10, 2011 Posted February 10, 2011 Did I miss something? I guess if all missionaries could blog they wouldn't have to deal face-to-face with dummies like me.A blogging missionary? Woooo. sorry, how is there time for it?Ehhhhh....just another clueless post from a newbie.Blessings,Blossom
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