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I have to admit that I have been making off topic posts here in my blog in attempts to increase my traffic and learn seo. However, I said to myself that I will not show these posts in my feeds and so far I have been successful in doing them but it has been like a double edge sword to this blog.

What is this blog about?

First, before I talk about the off-topic stuffs in my blog, let me first explain what this blog’s purpose is all about. I mainly talk about blogging and I know it sounds too general so let me break it down. Here in this blog, you can read about

  • Blogging Tips (example tips such as, how to write your posts, post frequencies, good and bad blogging examples)
  • my personal blogging experiences where I tried something and shared my results (examples would be Valentine’s day blogging experiences, Manny Pacquiao blogging experiences, Ragnarok blogging) experiences)
  • News about Wordpress and Blogger - Whenever a new wordpress version is released, I try my best to upgrade then blog about it. The same goes for new updates and features in blogger.
  • Blogging events in the Philippines - Once in a while, we get lucky and get invited to blogger meet-ups. When I see a news, I help spread it by posting it here.
  • Current Events in the Philippines - Although this has nothing to do with blogging, as a Filipino, I’d like to create social awareness on the events that are happening in our country.
  • and lastly, how to make money online through blogging. Well so far, adsense has been my consistent money maker here but I’ve yet to tap into other resources. See a sample of my adsense income here.

What are the offtopic posts?

Well, off topic posts are any of my posts that are not related to the topics I have mentioned above. That would include my post on PSP OFW 4.01, NBA Finals 2008 and other topics. The purpose of these posts is to gain more visitors via search engine and search keywords. So far the results have been good. I make sure that they don’t show up in my feeds so it’s a win-win solution for me and for my regular readers. However, I have noticed a problem here.

The posts take longer to get indexed and harder to rank

I noticed that when these posts don’t get included in the feeds, the search engines tend to be late in indexing them (similar effect to posting immediately and scheduled posting as discovered by fellow blogger Dexter). This is very bad in terms on ranking especially when you are trying to rank for a current news item because by the time they have been indexed, the traffic would have died by then. So my proposal would be, I’d add these off topic posts in my feeds but I’m concerned on what my readers would feel if they saw these off topic posts.

So I’d like to ask, would you mind if you saw off topic posts in my feeds?

Personally, when I see these type of posts in the feeds I read, I just skip them and move on to the next. However, some may get pissed off and unsubscribe. So I’d like to ask for your opinion first.

Thank you very much for reading and understanding.

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