One of the greatest struggles that I had in blogging is gaining traffic from a less targeted niche. My blog is a religious blog and I really do not know if how many people are interested in discussing such things.

When my blog is already 3 months old, the traffic still ranges from 10 to 15 visitors a day, and most of those visitors came from my own clicks.

I thought my blog will never make it to top, and it will continue to have a small size audience especially that its niche is all about Christian living and religion to which I believe is not a popular niche.

But after a year of blogging in this niche, my blog is slowly coping up where most of my visitors came from raw searches over Google and Yahoo. And now, my blog is one of the top most Christian blogs in the Philippines (based on Topblogs.com).

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Oh, Yeah! I said it!

Your eyes are not deceiving you because I do believe that Comment Spammers are directly encouraged by bloggers driven by a desperation to get activity on their blogs.

I have no plans to lay the blame here but instead encourage those just starting with the wonderful form of online publishing that blogging has become to stay strong and resist the urge to approve those few first comments on your new, shiny blog.

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It’s funny how we perceive ourselves sometimes and how it can be quite different from how your family does and the differences is quite drastic!

Case to the point….

Over last 4 weeks or so I have worked on getting my current house ready for sale. Contractors going in and out and checks that I sign following alone brought my wife into following line of thinking - we can “save some money” by doing small things such as painting, etc ourselves.

Or Can We?

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While it might not be interesting to most – I think information shared in following posts or articles can be not only entertaining but also extremely educational. My weekly round up:

• Technorati’s State Of Blogosphere 2009 is one of the most detailed reports on what is moving bloggers and statistical data available for free.
• Stephen Pierce unleashed informational bomb sharing some superb strategies to get highly targeted buyers, not just visitors to your site.
• How to use WordPress Conditional Statements is more of personal geeky interest on how theme can be customized and provide more targeted experience to reader.
• Twitter Lists Are Live is an introduction on how to make this tool more useful to you! Great new feature I already started implementing on my own account.

There are more but I don’t want to overload you

I don’t get too excited over technology too easy but sometimes, when something comes out so revolutionary, as Google Wave – I just got to have it!

So here I was reading blog post by Jack Humphrey when I decided to watch the video included:

All I can say right now – MUST HAVE.

WANTED: Google Wave Invite!

Bounty: Lifetime Membership To Expert WordPress

Contact me if you can send me invite using form on blog please!

UPDATE: I got my invite already! Thank you Rangoo!