Panasonik, Pawasonic and similar tweaks are used by manufacturers producing cheap Panasonic counterfeits. Other brands are being faked as well. You can buy Addidas (Adidas) and Nolia (Nokia) and bunch of other fake stuff. I am not quite sure why people do it, perhaps hoping that a lot of consumers do not know how the brand name is spelled.

Same tweaks are used by some web-site optimizers to attract extra visitors from search engines. Just for curiosity I’ve looked at the Google’s results for the word Panasonik. I was surprised  to see quite a number of sites using the word Panasonik instead of Panasonic, even in the titles. And those sites are selling not Panasonik counterfeits, but the real stuff.

Please note that this research was done on Russian sites only and may not be true for the English ones.

I believe this kind of tweak is pretty effective for search engine optimization, at least for some words. For example for the word Panasonik about 8000 searches are done monthly in the most popular Russian search engine, Yandex. However, their use will almost certainly make your web-site a bad reputation. There one is an exception, though. You can write posts just like this one.

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I am terribly behind my schedule for blog reviews. Today I would like to take a look at The Repeal of Gravity Blog, a blog of a guy running for president of the United States of America next year, Louis J. Cassorla. Not sure how serious he is about the presidency, but he surely is serious about blogging.

Louis wrote me a note asking for a review. I believe it will be good to post it here.

I would be thrilled to have you review my blog. I’m not getting nearly as much traffic as I would like. I’ve been trying to post more often recently. All content is original. Sometimes I worry my posts are too long. Sometimes I wonder whether my interests just aren’t appealing to other people.

Please do make your review of my blog available for public viewing. Thanks. And good luck with your own blogging!

First of all I would like to say that The Repeal of Gravity Blog looks great. It is one of the very few Google Blogger blogs I actually like. Very clean. Pictures fit in very nicely. Read the rest of this entry »

How do you start your mornings? Perhaps, just like me, you check your email, read RSS, Google Alerts and so on… Guess what, by doing this we are missing the most productive part of the day for bloggers, early morning.

Go ahead and check Create a Morning Writing Ritual post from my favourite FreelanceSwitch to see why morning are important and what can you do to use the morning time most effectively.

When it comes to blogging John Chow is the man. How do I know? Just look around. Almost every blog about blogging mentions his name. Moreover, John Chow has fans, who imitate him, at least his blog. Jason Neuman is one of them.

His blog indeed looks very much like John Chow’s, and not just because they use the same theme an both of them have cars in the header image. Structure and content wise Jason’s blog is very similar to John’s too. Just like John, Jason blogs about cars. He also has make money online bait. The copy is pretty much straight forward, without any tweaks.

One thing that impressed me the most is that they both have same PageRank of 5. Coincidence? Maybe.

Why would anyone want to imitate John’s blog? I have no idea. Maybe Jason himself can shed some light on this.

I browsed the Web quite a bit lately and came across some really great posts. Felt like it will be good to share them with others and give some link-love to their authors.

• Interview with Darren Rowse — He is the man I am hunting for few weeks already. Darren was interviewed by Susannah Gardner for her Buzz Marketing with Blogs for Dummies blog.

Several posts from Modern Life:

• How To Get A Six Figure Blogging Income. The most concise quide to blogging for money I have ever seen so far, and its simply great.
• What’s Wrong With Your Blog? Read the article to find out. Very good reading for new bloggers.
• Understanding Traffic Statistics. Another great article from the same source. Must read for all Google Analytics users.
• 16 Must Read Articles For Bloggers. The name speaks for itself.

Have a great time reading!

Following the advice from Shane Pike I am dropping the idea of earning anything from AdSense in the first months of blogging. I removed most of the AdSense units on Blogs’n'Bloggers and on both of my Apple Blogs (English and Russian). Try to find the ones I left ). I believe they blend well and do not affect user’s experience at all. Please let me know if it is not so.

I believe Shane’s comment that pushed me to make the decision will be helpful to others too, so here it is:

Michael, you’ll have lots of people offer you “great ways” to increase your revenue, but ignore them. Take off the AdSense ads and blog heads-down for 3 months–creating at least one great post a day on each of your blogs. Spend some time each day, too, doing some free things to get more traffic. If you do both those things, you’ll easily pass the $1,000 threshold in just the remaining three months–if not in Month 4 alone. Resist the temptation to monetize too early, though, You’ll sabotage yourself before you ever get started…

Oh, and switch to full posts for your feed. Until you prove that your content is worth clicking through to every single time, people are not going to stay subscribed to a partial feed. Heck, I even unsubscribed from ProBlogger when he switched to partial feeds for awhile.

See this post for more details.

Comment comes from my 1000 Dollars Milestone post.

BTW, Shane’s comment is a great example of long term blog promotion. His advice was very useful to me, and I believe to others as well. He gave a link to his 2 blogs, which I certainly checked and really enjoyed. And he got a link love from me in this post ).

Thanks, Shane!