Finally I’m ready to post this article. It took me a few days to complete this post. Step by step, day by day I spent time to type it, since the ideas does not flow like a ‘flash flood’ in KL or comes in the speed of light.

I first attempted to gather more blogging ideas during holiday 2 weeks ago. But the ideas kept on growing and I decided to compile it and put it on separate articles. Looking at those ideas, I can smell one type of pattern. They can be categorized into 2 major categories, recurring and random.

But first of all, this idea serves as an add-on to your main topics. It’s wonderful if you can post articles related to your blog’s main topic ideas on daily basis, but I know that sometimes we’re lack of ideas, and then there comes the ‘writer block‘. Do you want to leave your blog not updated? If you’re serious in blogging, this is the last thing you would want to do.

I believe there’s a lot more ideas that can be added in that I can’t think of just yet. To gather more ideas, I got another idea. This is the deal, you post your ideas in the comment section and I’ll give you credit (name and URL) on this post. Why should you do that? Blogjer not a well known blog, wasting my time only!! For the past 30 days, I have kept on posting in this blog, and the stats is keeping better from day to day. I belief this blog will get a high PR on a later stage since I’ll keep updating it whenever I got any ideas.

Your idea can be a simple one, 1 or 2 sentence is enough as long as the meaning is clear. No racial, porn, illegal, or copyrighted items are allowed. With these tips and ideas, I hope blogging will be easier for everyone especially to newbies.

Recurring/seasonal posts
1. Festive seasons – This topic is obviously a top choice for most bloggers. Depending on your location and region, you have different festivals that you can blog for. In Malaysia for example we have many public holidays, but not all can be blogged.- Total : 8 posts
Some of them that I can think of.

New year -1 posts
Labour day -1 posts
National day -1 posts
Eid ul-Fitr – 1 post
Eid al-Adha – 1 post
Chinese New Year -1 posts
Depavali -1 posts
Christmas -1 posts

2. Your birthday, birthday present, birthday party – 1 posts
3. Monthly wrap up, your top post – 12 months, means 12 posts
4. Appreciation for your sponsor’s post- 12 months, means 12 posts
5. Your blog anniversary, your achievements, blog statistics -1 post
6. Your blog income, your Internet earning – 12 months, means 12 posts
7. Your wedding anniversary (if you’re married) – 1 post
8. Your newborn baby or your kid’s birthday(assuming you’re married, and you get 1 kid in 1 year) – 1 post
9. Your blogging station (assuming you change your blogging system, rearrange your room and etc once in a year) – 1 post
10. Elections – once in 4 year
11. Weekly column – such as best articles of the week, quote of the week and etc – 52 posts

Total recurring posts (and counting) – 101 posts

Non recurring posts/random
1. Your blog statistics, Alexa, page rank, Technorati
2. Your earnings, your first earning, biggest earning, downside and upside
3. Food, F&B
4. Your holidays, favorite tourist spot
5. Attending to any events – Wedding, bloggers or webmasters gathering
6. Your wordpress (and other blog platform) template
7. About Google/Yahoo/Live/Ask.com
8. WordPress plugin
9. Latest wordpress development such as a new release, bug fix
10. Sex scandal – Latest hot topic

Total non recurring posts (and counting) – 8 posts

Look, out of 365 days per year, you’re guaranteed to have 102 recurring posts, plus additional non recurring post and the main topics of your blog. See, who said blogging is difficult? Erm, to make your life easier, create a template for each recurring post, so you can use it repeatedly by changing the variables such as dates, facts, numbers and etc (don’t take my last sentence seriously!!) Happy blogging!!

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update 19-Jan-2008
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I’m currently looking for some query or keyword to count how many comments I’ve made so far since I started blogging. If you happen to know exactly how it works, please let me know on the comment section. I feel that I’m lagging behind some bloggers who started almost the same time with me or later than me me such as Raymond and Mr.Rajawang . They are more successful than me in terms of pagerank, alexa, and RSS reader. Comparing to bloggers such as John Cow who started that blog last July, I’m lagging behind him even further. But he has Bob Meet World which he put on sale before setting up John Cow.

But why Zaki Blogjer?
Previously, I keep on changing my name and URL accordingly based on my websites/blogs name so that all of them can get the ‘exposure’ and outbound link from the comments that I make. This technique looks ok to me initially, you will sometime get a few traffics back from the websites that you’ve commented.

But 1 day I think it would be difficult for me to have a better relationship with the blog owner when I keep on changing my name and URL from time to time. And then I started commenting using the same name but with different URLs. This is better. But, it’ll be misleading to someone who knows you by your commenting name, that is when they click on my name it’ll bring them to the other websites which I own(which pointed to URL), so I conclude that this is not good as well.

Finally I end up using ‘Zaki Blogjer’ which I think sounds more friendly and closer to me. It can also differentiate me from fellow bloggers such as Zaki of zakiyamani, or Fahmi (also part of my name) to avoid confusion with FahmiShah of tebaboom.org . Just kidding bro.

Search condition

Ok, back on how to count your comments , I’m not sure if it is possible to count based on the conditions below.

1. I use ‘zaki blogjer’ when I leave comment
2. The URL is ‘www.blogjer.com’
3. Exists on URL only, where ‘zaki blogjer’ is the anchor text

Keyword and syntax I use

In pursuit for this search, it leads me to googleguide.com which provides a bunch of useful resources to do search in Google better, and to understand how it works. This should be useful too, especially if you’re doing keyword research or to get a better search result from your search. Ok, this is the Google Cheat Sheet for your quick reference of what I’ll be talking below. I’m not good too in doing search, so I used ‘try and fail’ method in my research

• “zaki blogjer” – Returned 4010 results. But there are actually only 14 pages of records which totaled 136 results. Not all results showed my comment, some of them brought me to splog or warez websites
• allinurl: zaki blogjer- No result returned. Probably no one has mentioned anything about me before
• inurl: zaki blogjer – No result returned
• allinanchor: zaki blogjer – No result returned
• nanchor: zaki blogjer – No result returned
• inlink: zaki blogjer – returned 1 result

Summary

Nothing came close to what I’m looking for, except “zaki blogjer”. inlink: zaki blogjer looks the right syntax and keyword, but unfortunately it only returns 1 result. Gotta study this further. Btw, do you have any better ideas?