I found blogging so much more fun after I started using MyBlogLog. Now, whenever I’m online, I’ll login to find out who’d been to my blogs!

Initially, the motivating factor for me to trade my name and email address is the free tracking service offered by MyBlogLog. And I have no idea how powerful MyBlogLog can help me to grow my readership and traffic with its social networking model.

The traffic to my blog exploded and I have many more readers. I call this phenomenon, viral blogging.

Exponential Growth in Traffic with Viral Blogging

I started my membership on 3rd January, 2007. The traffic to my blog has since grown exponentially – from Alexa ranking 5,000,000 to 228,228(as of Jan 26, 2007). My blog communities have 16 Contacts and 7 Admirers!

Social Networking with MyBlogLog

In less than a month, I am already addicted to MyBlogLog – not for it’s free tracking and statistics services but for it powerful social networking features. I’ve found many blogs in my area of interest: SEO and Search Marketing. I am connecting to people interested in SEO and search marketing, and many bloggers from Singapore.

I think Singapore is becoming the Blogging Nation. My unofficial statistics rank Singapore first in the world for the number of active bloggers per capita.

Visit The MyBlogLog Blog and get to know the great people behind this fantastic service and find out loads of new MyBlogLog features.

[UPDATE Feb 2, 2007] Just discovered that Lee Oden of TopRankBlog.com got an interview with MyBlogLog CEO Scott Rafer.

I am going to work on Wordpress as my preferred blogging platform. There are just too many benefits with Wordpress for me to adopt this fantastic blog engine despite the hassle of installing and constant upgrading my website so very often.

And here’s just 2 of The Most Important Benefits…

Search Engine Friendly

Wordpress is definitely more flexible for me to to SEO optimization. One of the biggest advantages is that you can use search engine friendly URLs e.g.
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/2007/01/predictions-for-2007/
which is preferred by the search engine rather than
http://shihengcheong.com/blog/?p=49

Trackback

One of the main reasons why this blog did so well, in terms of Alexa ranking, is because of the trackback feature. You see, when I quoted others’ blog posts, Wordpress can automatically create a comment at the post I quoted. And I am getting a lot more visitors to my blog because of these comments.

This is one of the most powerful way to promote your blog. I guess this is also part of social media marketing.

• Promote Your Training Business Online in 60 Minutes
• Exploit the Internet to Kick-Start Your Training Business

Basically, I have to provide enough information during the 1 hour so that all the Certified Professional Trainers course participants will have some good knowledge to start creating an online presence to describe their own expertise and the training or workshop they are offering.

I will show them how I have done it with my SEO Web Design Course and also how other reputable trainers and speakers, such as Ron Kaufman and Seth Godin use the Internet to promote their training business.

There are many free tools and resources available online for professional trainers to a promote and market their courses, workshops and seminars.

Social Media Marketing

One of the most powerful way to market online is through the social networking websites. MySpace.com and LinkedIn.com are just two of the many social networking websites that your can use. Other form of social networking includes forum, which is also a good place to get attention and potential clients for your training business.

Update December 22, 2006
In less than one week, this post is now ranked 13th for the keywords certified professional trainers and 8th for certified professional trainers course in Google. It will be nice if it can be ranked for professional trainer certification course too.