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The “About Me” page is a specific section on your website that establishes who you are, why you are there, and why your readers should be there. Unfortunately, even though it is one of the most important pages on a website, an About Me page can be a bit difficult to write sometimes. The following tips should help you come up with an exceptional page about yourself.

1. Who You Are and Why You’re There: For a more personal feel, write in the first person. Establish who you are, what you do, and who your site is aimed at. Outline your experience and passion. Let your readers know what sets you apart from everyone else, and keep this information relevant to the topic of your website.
2. What You Can Do For Your Readers: This is the part where you get to sell yourself. Outline what your readers can gain from your site. Perhaps you are selling a product that they need or can improve their lives. If you’re an expert on a certain topic, let them know. List any achievements and accomplishments that are relevant to the topic of your site.
3. Don’t Be a Bore: This section of your website should be interesting and a little creative. Don’t make it dry and boring. Keep it entertaining, and engage your readers. Make them want to know more and read more.
4. Keep a Positive Attitude: No one wants to read depressing things, so keep it positive. Most importantly, never sound like you doubt yourself. If you sound as though you doubt yourself, that will make your readers doubt you.
5. Give Yourself an Edge: Be a little competitive, and scope out some other About Me pages written by similar websites. You don’t have to prove, beyond a doubt, that you are better. Instead, your goal should be to make yourself seem more unique, and to stand out of the crowd in the readers mind.
6. Honesty is the Best Policy: Keep your information accurate, and stay honest. Never lie, as this can come back and bite you where you don’t want to be bitten. If you provide less than true information, people WILL find out. After people start finding out that you’re being dishonest, you can kiss your credibility goodbye.
7. Show a Great Photo: A great photo is the icing on an otherwise great About Me page. It puts a face behind your words, and it shows that you’re not just hiding behind a website. While it doesn’t have to be a professional shot, it should be a good one, which shows you doing something related to your topic.
8. Link to Yourself: The About Me page is a great place to include links to your other pages or great posts. Add links for your readers to follow you on sites like Facebook or Twitter. Insert links to your best posts or products, or, if you have one, your mailing list.
9. Stay in Touch: Provide an easy and convenient way for your readers to contact you. Email links are nice, but contact forms are better. You can get these for free from a number of sites, and they can be embedded right into your site.
10. Keep it Current: The About Me section on your site should be kept as up to date as possible, and it should always be considered a work in progress. Make it a habit check it every few months. Rewrite or add any new information or accomplishments if needed.

Even though the About Me page can be hard to write, it should never be overlooked. It is essential. This section can make or break your site. Write it wisely.

This is a guest article by James Adams from Cartridge Save, an online supplier of HP 350 ink cartridge and other office supplies.

So, if you read my first Blog Profitz review you’re probably waiting patiently to see if and how it works, and whether or not I find ways around some of the small issues I found with it.

First of all, if you’re here from a search engine for the first time – welcome, and be sure bookmark the Blog Profitz Review series page.

Click to see what BlogProfitz is. Yes, that’s an affiliate link (that’s how we pay the bills around here). However, this is an honest review of how I’m using BlogProfitz and how it’s working for me.

Now then, normally in a series like this I don’t post just a day later – but I thought that (if you were following this series) you would find this interesting. I like things that tell me what I’m doing is working, and also things that don’t work (so I can figure out how to fix them).

I want you to take a look at the image above – those are one first day’s stats for AutoPartsUsedCars.com (click on the image for full view). It’s not much, but I did get some traffic the first day – and as you can see, normally I don’t get much on this site. It has no pagerank, and normally gets almost no visitors. We’ll see throughout this week if that keeps up. But here’s what interesting…

The image above is my incoming search traffic for this first day using BlogProfitz. I’m getting targeted, longtail search traffic ON THE FIRST DAY! This may not seem like much – but remember, I’ve done no promotion at all, no linkbuilding -NOTHING! I’m also very happy that the very first entry with a couple pageviews is one of the original content articles I got from the content club! This is very promising.

In the first post, if you remember – I edited most of the first day post titles, and I made two of the original content articles “sticky” so they appeared first on the page. Also – on this autopartsusedcsars.com site, I added in a lot of rules, and it’s supposed to post more than a 100 posts about cars per day. I added tags to all the scheduled posts (by hand – ouch) as well. Did it work (did all the scheduled posts post?)? Well, I have 278 published posts and 171 scheduled, so I’d say that they didn’t all post like they were supposed to.

In case you were wondering about the gift site – let’s take a look at what happened:

In the image above you’ll see I didn’t fare nearly as good with the BestGiftFor.com web site, but I didn’t post as many things (only 9), I didn’t tag anything, I didn’t rewrite any of the post titles, some of the posts were ebay auctions with no description (or content other than the image thumbnail), and I don’t think any original content got posted at all. Take a look at the site for yourself, it kinda looks like a spamblog right now. This is purposeful, I wanted to create a total garbage site and see exactly how it fared against the other site that I’m trying to do well with (the auto site).

So those are my first day stats – nothing impressive, but we’re making progress. Now a little bit about how I’m attacking some of the little issues I found. BlogProfitz doesn’t tag posts, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t install a plugin to do that for you. There’s a plugin called Simple Tags that works well if you want to assign tags from a written list of ones you designate. There are plenty of other autotag plugins for WordPress, such as Strictly Autotag, which generates lots of quality tags from the existing keyword in your posts using regular expressions.

I’m going to search for a decent plugin for forcing the cron to – to get these posts published in a more timely manner (where I don’t have to push them all out). I was also told that you can change the BlogProfitz settings where you can post ‘x times per week’ instead of every day – I might just try that on a few of my established existing blogs, and see how that goes!

Keep reading for future posts and updates to the Blog Profitz Review series to see how my sites do, and also to see my strategy for getting them indexed and online authority to get more traffic (and make more money!).

Click to Try BlogProfitz for yourself!