From France to Spain / Best blogging tips

For those that have been following my travels and adventures from the start, you'll know that my time in the beautiful city of Strasbourg is only limited. I've been here since mid September, and in two weeks time I am off to the much warmer, just as beautiful city of Valencia.

And I can't wait! I'm going be studying at the university, and when I'm not, I can walk a few hundred metres or so down to the beautiful beach:

Photo of Valencia beach

I've managed to sort out a flat with an English girl who goes to my university back home, and she's been incredibly helpful with trying to find me a place. I'm off in about 2 weeks time, so in the mean time, I'm going to relax, and enjoy the rest of the stay in Strasbourg.

On a side note, those that follow BlogWave, we recorded again yesterday. Yes that's right! Episode 4 of BlogWave is on the way. This one is huge! We had our first guest come on the show and he answered the question (would like to make it plural but it was just the one, Cheers Rorschach!) that was sent in.

We've got some HUGE news on that show that as a blogger, you honestly can't afford to miss. So yeah, head on over to BlogWave! Our comedy podcast full of blogging tips and SEO optimisation:  http://blogwave.net

Rats Out!

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Justin Bieber pictures with no shirt? On my blog?

As many of you may or may not be aware, since I set up my blog I have had been doing fairly successful with search engines. I often receive about 50-60 hits a day now from Google images.

Google seems to favour my blog content (This are my all time stats so far)

For example, if you Google 'Your Demise Justin Bieber t shirt' you will see my photo, not just on page 1 of Google images, but the very first picture!

My Your Demise Justin Bieber t shirt ranked one on Google images

If you wanted to know why I own that awesome tee shirt, then feel free to read my post on when I visited Paris for the Never Say Die 2010 gig and bought and insane amount of merch. That post can be read here: http://studentaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/11/never-say-die-2010-paris-review.html

Due to my tag words in that post including the little rat that is Justin Bieber, and his huge 13 year old fan base, I often get people stumbling onto my site when search for Justin Bieber merchandise. However, sometimes, I get traffic to my site for weird reasons. Twice this week, I have hits of people looking for...well...you guessed it:

Justin Bieber with no shirt... WAT. (Stats for this week)

So it's for the wrong reasons, but hey! Traffic is traffic right?! For those interested in trying to your blog onto Google and trying to improve SEO optimisation in general, then why not check out my how to increase traffic to your blog with Google here: http://studentaroundtheworld.blogspot.com/2010/10/how-to-increase-traffic-to-your-blog.html

That's all for me for now! Remember guys, take photos, use key words, and hopefully Google will love your site like it seems to love mine! For more tips, remember to check out BlogWave! Our comedy podcast full of blogging tips and SEO optimisation:  http://blogwave.net
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Podcast number 3 is up! / What happened last night?

First thing's first guys, Blogwavenet has it's third podcast up! It's full of great tips for SEO optimisation, where we stand on white knights and loads of drunken tips for your blogs. It took us a great deal of effort to make, but we had a great laugh and we think it's one of our best uploads yet. It's available for both streaming and a download to listen to whilst you blog. So head on over to  http://blogwave.net/ and PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE drop us a comment! We also have our blogwave highlight of the week, which could be you! We're also looking for guests to appear on our drunken blog tip extravaganza! So go check it out guys! We've had some good feedback so far.

And remember, it's a stream that buffers instantly so just have it on in the back ground whilst you blog!


Part 2 of this post is I went to a French rowing club party yesterday. I'm not a rower myself, but a few of my friends are. All alcohol was on the house, and alas I got very very drunk. They had a bottle of '93' which was a spirit MADE in 1993. So yeah, 17 year old spirits are a write off. I also met 2 world champion rowers and got very drunk with them, who are built like brick shit houses. So yea, I kind of lost that drinking game.

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New Podcast up soon!

Well guys, we're going to be recording another BlogWave podcast tonight full of tips and guides on how to get the best for your blog. It's our secrets of SEO optimisation, and other great tips for your blogs. Bought to you by bloggers, for bloggers.

Remember to stay tuned and check out the podcast, which will include our blog highlight! A blog we have stumbled across and will review. It could even be YOURS!

So hopefully guys it will be up and edited in a few days for your listening pleasure. It's light hearted and full of good tips amongst the banter. You can check out our other 2 podcasts here:

Follow it and drop us a comment if you liked it!

 http://blogwave.net

Rats out!


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New BlogWave podcast is up

Popping back onto Blogger to let my followers know that BlogWave has a new podcast up.

I strongly suggest you FOLLOW that blog as we've put a lot of effort into recording it. The topic deals with blogs we like, the 'Read More' hack for blogspot and other great tips about using proxies and getting the best views from Social Networking sites, such as Twitter etc.

The Podcast is now available to STREAM so you guys don't even have to download it. It's be great if you could head over to  http://blogwave.net/ to stream the podcastin the background and pick up these tips. We're looking for GENUINE feed back so please, if you listened to it then give us some feed back or your favourite parts from the podcast. A big thank you to my 2 favourite internet bloggers Snickel Sox and Frosty.

Go check follow and view them and please, go check out Blogwave! We've put A LOT of effort into this podcast to share OUR tips with YOU to improve your blog and bring more traffic to your blog!
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BlogWave - A huge new blogging project

What is BlogWave?

BlogWave is a project set up by myself and three other dedicated bloggers who regularly get together to share out blogging experiences. Using Skype, and other media, we share and swap our experiences, our daily adventures, but more importantly, simple guides and tips on how to make your blogs more professional. With topics such as SEO Optimisation, great gadgets and widgets for your blog, or generally how to spruce up your blog in order to make it more appealing to search engines like Google or Yahoo.


Who is BlogWave?

BlogWave is set up my four founding bloggers. As all of us work extremely hard to bring our own guides, tips and information and content that we specialise in. I strongly suggest you add and follow these three people if you want your blog to benefit from what we're doing.

The four members are:

Snickel Sox: http://averagejogaming.blogspot.com/
Frosted Heretic: http://frostedheretic.blogspot.com/
Wild Bill: http://traderspectacle.blogspot.com/


and myself.

All of these guys are active and dedicated bloggers who bring brilliant content and guides that YOU guys will benefit from, so FOLLOW them now!

How?

We have trust finished recording and editing our first Podcast! The podcast comes to an hour and a half long, full of not only brilliant tips you guys NEED to hear, but also the light hearted banter and jokes that will keep you guys not only informed, but also entertained! Although the podcast has been fully edited to bring you an equal balance of knowledge and amusement, we are currently waiting to finish building our server before we can host it.

Can I be a part of BlogWave?<


Although we are currently not looking for any more founding members, we will be soon asking for guest speakers to come onto our show and take part in the podcast. All we ask is that you are a legitimate blogger who is willing to put in the effort to come onto our show and share some laughs and also some knowledge with us. Where can we be found?

With other projects in the works, we can currently be found either on Facebook (The box on the left hand side of my site) or here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BlogWave/163481183673557

Or on Twitter here: https://twitter.com/#!/BlogWavenet

It'd be great if you could 'Like' the FB page or 'Follow' the twitter.

If you guys have any more questions feel free to contact either myself, Snickel, Frosty or Wild Bill, or simple message the two pages above.

So remember guys, if YOU want some brilliant tips for blogging, then Follow the people listed above, and get in contact with our pages. I've provided links so there's no excuse for not making the effort!


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