Top 10 Tips For Generating Big Traffic To Your Blog Today

Let’s face it, blogs (or weblogs) are getting incredibly popular amongst people with an internet connection due to the ease and practicality of setting one up.

Despite this however, there is no value in having a blog if no one is visiting and reading it!

Therefore, it is important to know exactly how to drive traffic to your blog if you desire to increase your readership or monetize it.

To do that, here are 10 quick tips to generating more traffic to your blogs:

Tip 1: Reciprocal Linking

One of the most proven ways to gain targeted traffic is to exchange links with other bloggers or site owners. This is a task which requires a little work – by sending an email request for a link exchange with a few follow ups but the results are worth it.

Another linking method is to simply write a testimonial for a product you have purchased. If your testimonial is good, product owners will usually publish it on their sales page with your blog URL included.

If you want to skip the traditional way of exchanging links and go for the easier way, you can automate the process with various software and services found on the net. Just do a search at Google.com and you will have a list of these.

Tip 2: Blog Commentaries

Do you know that your comments also have high potential in generating targeted traffic to your blog and is an effective linking strategy?

All you have to do is find a blog related to your niche and post your comments. At the end of your comments you can include a link back to your blog, this way people who are interested will be able to visit your blog as well. However you should never misuse this to spam other blogs.

Tip 3: Blog Directories

Blog directories are similar to search engines just that they cater only to searches for blogs. It is advisable to submit your blog to the major directories, some of which include feedster.com, technorati.com and blogstreet.com.

Similarly, there are many blog services like pingomatic.com which you can use to ping your blog. Pinging your blog notifies the service that you’ve updated your blog. These services will then publish your new posts and you get traffic from interested readers and search engines.

Tip 4: Writing Articles

This is one of the best ways of pulling targeted, steady and long-term traffic to your blog. By writing your own articles and submitting them to article directories, you can invite a lot of targeted visitors to your blog.

In order to generate traffic by writing articles, you need to include your resource box at the end of every article you have written. The resource box is where you promote and introduce your website or blog.

To truly maximize your results, you need a system to create, submit and leverage off your articles easily. One of the best available is seen at http://EzineArticle.com/aa.htm

Tip 5: Writing Press Releases

Press release is a very effective way of generating instant traffic to your blog. Although press releases only pull in short-term traffic, they can work very well if you continuously write and submit press releases regularly while monetizing the traffic received.

PRWeb.com is one of the oldest and most trusted sources for news distribution on the web. Or you can use an automated press release service like http://www.SubmitYourPressRelease.com to do the work for you quickly.

Tip 6: Start A Blog Mailing List

The phrase “the money is in the list” is true in all businesses. If you want to succeed online, you must start building your own list of targeted subscribers. You can send your subscribers to your blog anytime you have new posts.

By the same token, you can also get your blog readers to subscribe to a ‘blog update’ list which can be used to notify them when you have updated your blog. REPEAT traffic through returning visitors is a key traffic strategy and you can control that with this method.

Tip 7: Publishing Your Own Ezine

You can also provide your subscribers with useful information in several series with an autoresponder. An ezine is often called an online magazine. By publishing your own ezine, you are able to attract readership to your blog when you advertise it in your ezine.

Tip 8: Pay For Traffic

If you have a good monetization strategy for your blog through affiliate programs, Google Adsense and a mailing list, you should consider using paid advertising to drive traffic to your blog.

Recommended options include pay-per-click advertising, ezine advertising and huge banner exposures.

Tip 9: Giving Out Free Reports

Give out free viral reports to promote your blog. Providing useful information in your free reports can trigger your readers’ interest to know more about you and your websites. More information on this tactic can be found at http://www.MiniEbook.com.

Tip 10: Niche Discussion Boards

Discussions boards or forums can deliver targeted traffic to your blog. If you have a blog about gardening, try searching for a related niche forum with huge traffic to participate in.

Most forums will usually allow you to include a signature file where you can write a few sentences of words. You can invite people to visit your blog through the signature file by posting more regularly.

In conclusion, realize that getting traffic to your blog should not be viewed as a one time effort. Commit and focus on a long-term strategy in order to succeed. It is all about gaining momentum.

Once you get a decent amount of traffic to your blog, you will attract more visitors to it everyday as you work on it. As time goes by, you will have an amazing amount of traffic to your blog which you never thought was possible!

7 Ways To Convert Your Traffic Into Cash

7 Ways To Convert Your Traffic Into Cash

If you have a website, you can profit from even the tiniest number of visitors it receives simply by not wasting that traffic.

The KEY is in leveraging on each visitor and making sure you have a monetization strategy in place. Once you get this, you can make any website profitable with a little effort.

Here are 7 basic ways in which you can profit from your traffic today:

1. Sell a product/service

First you can sell a product or service to your visitors. This is the best way to cash in from your own product. Usually an e-book or software works the best – they can be downloaded right away without hassle and shipping charges.

2. Opt-In list

It is crucial you try to convert every visitor of yours to a subscriber of your mailing list. The most important asset that an Internet marketer has is his or her list of subscribers. They define whether you will go far in the online business venture.

With an opt-in list, there are tons of ways you can profit further into the future. You can build repeat customers and turn your list members into partners for your products. For an example of a good opt-in page, visit http://www.InstantMarketingSecrets.com

3. Viral marketing

You can provide a free product or bonus on your site to be downloaded by your visitors. Usually it’ll be an e-book where people can read from and learn useful information. In this bonus, you include give away rights and urge readers to give it away to anyone they want to. This way, you increase your own traffic, publicity and branding without needing to spend a cent.

4. 'Pay-per-click'

In this case, you get paid when your visitors click on ads you place on your site. There are many advertising programs that give you a percentage of the profits based on click through, including Google Adsense, Chitika, Yahoo Publisher Network and Kontera.

When people click on the ads shown from either of these advertising programs, you will earn money. And if your site receives good traffic, these programs alone can bring in huge paychecks to you.

5. Offer an advertising space

Targeted niche websites with high traffic can 'rent' a portion of space on their web page to advertisers. For example you can charge $300 per month in advertising fee if your web page is pulling more than 2000 visitors a day. I use this strategy at my Online Marketing Secrets blog at http://www.EwenChia.com

Other than that, you can also generate advertising revenue using exit pop-ups. By doing this, you won't clutter your website with too many ads and spoil the visitor's experience.

6. Affiliate marketing

If you don’t have your own products for sale yet, you can sell other people’s products instead and receive a commission on every sale. With affiliate marketing, you have an unlimited source of products to sell and you don’t need to go through any fulfillment issues after your sales.

One of the best affiliate marketing training resources can be found at http://www.SecretAffiliateWeapon.com where I provide continual education on affiliate marketing to members.

7. Pay-per-lead

Instead of earning money from click through, you are paid if your visitors subscribe into other people’s mailing list. Alternatively there are a lot of big companies like Coca-Cola who need surveys to be done, and by referring your visitors to complete surveys, you can also earn good profits from your website.

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SCOGOSTOLOGY: Whatever Problems That You Have In Life, Cheer Up, Because There Is Solution To Them
by: IKEY G-KHAN GALACTICCA

What Are Your Problems In Life?

There are more than 6 billion human beings on Earth now.

Some are rich. Some are not.

Almost all have something in common: they all have problems.

Human problems vary according to the gender, age, ethnicity, race, country, city and state.

Some problems are existential.

Others are created by human beings.

SCOGOSTOLOGY Lifology provides realistic solutions to human problems.

What are your problems?

Do you have a financial problem? Family problem? Love problem?

Problem at your job? Problem with your friends?

Problems at your business?

Do you have problem with your in-laws?

Do you have a racial problem?

Personality problems?

Anger problem?

Medical problem?

Are you depressed?

Do you suffer from anxiety disorder?

Are you lonely?

Do you hate your parents?

Do you hate your spouse?

What exactly is a problem?

A problem can be defined in many ways.

When we encounter a situation, which is opposed to our ambition and desire, we can say we have a problem.

When we are in a situation, which causes us to experience pain, or loss we can say we have a problem.

Sometimes what is a problem to one person is not a problem to another person.

A problem can be relative.

When we have a problem we feel sad and frustrated and attempt to do anything we can to solve it.


Understanding Problems

What many people have in common is that when they have a problem, they are too sad and frustrated and anxious to solve it that they are unable to think and understand it.

A problem understood is half solved.

If you do not understand how a problem originated, it may be impossible to solve it.

By understanding the origin of a problem and its nature, we can gain insight into it and that insight will bear the solution.

Some problems may originate from the mistakes we have made or the mistake others close to us have made.

Some problems may originate from our past actions, either in this life or the past ones, which we had forgotten about.

Whatever we do in life, we create energy because life is energy. Even solid matter is energy.

So whatever we do. We create energy and that energy is polarized either positively or negatively.

Once created it continues to exist and move until it comes back to us.

Energy cannot be destroyed.

But it can be transformed from one form to another.

So, in reality what we call “problems” is energy that does not favor us.

This energy might have been created by us or by others but because it is opposed to our goals, ambitions, desires and wishes, it becomes an obstacle, and therefore a problem.

When we transform this energy into a form to favor us, we say we have solved the problem.

But in reality, no problem can be solved.

Problems can only be transformed from a negative and unfavorable energy to a positive and favorable energy.

For this reason, it is important that when we have a “problem” that we pause to study it to know its origin, its nature and gain insight about it.

It is this insight, which will automatically help us to transform the “problem” into a “solution” (that is from one form of energy to another form)

Good and bad, problem and solution, God and the devil are polar opposites because they are opposite aspects of one Reality.

Each problem contains a seed for its solution.

And each solution contains a seed for a problem.

If you can understand this wisdom, you have understood Existence or Reality or SCOGOSTOLOGY-SCOGOSTOLOGISM-GALAHUMANISM and what the ancient Taoist Spiritually Enlightened masters called the Yin and Yang of life or the Ida and Pingala in Yoga system, or Male and Female, Man and Woman, Anima and Animus ( in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology) , or God and Devil of organized religions or electron and proton of Physics or positive and negative poles of magnetism or positive and negative charges of electricity. They all mean the same thing.

Origin of Human Problems

In reality, positive and negative energy are one form of energy that are polar opposites of each other and compliment each other.

So, in reality, there is no problem in Existence.

What we call problems are "energy constructs" which do not favor us.

Therefore problems can be solutions and solutions can become problems.

When anything is taken to its extreme, it is transformed to its polar opposite.

Therefore when you go to the extreme of a problem, it will automatically be transformed into a solution.

And if you go to the extreme of any solution, you will create a problem.

Every problem has its solution as a seed embedded inside it.

In addition, every solution has a problem in form of a seed embedded into it.

A problem is a continuum of a solution and vice versa and there is no end in this continuum.

That is why no problem can be solved.

This is the irony of Existence.

Extremities are the points at which energy transform from one form to another.

In life, we have been improperly conditioned regarding our attitude to life.

We are born with a mind and a body.

We grow up in a family and then we are sent to a school to obtain education and to be socialized.

Throughout our education and socialization, we are not educated about REALITY or EXISTENCE and our relationship to it.

We do not know where we come from, why we are here, and where we are going and what will happen after we leave Earth.

We have a mind and senses but nobody explains to us what is mind or senses and how to use them.

We are like somebody who buys a car and try to drive it without learning how to drive and without having a map of the city.

We have a body, which is our car and a mind, which is like our driver and the senses that are like a computer.

In addition, we are inside the car and we do not know the driver or the car and we just sit inside and let the mind and the senses take us wherever they want.

This is one of the reasons why we have problems in life.

We do not know where we came from, why we are here and where we are going.

We are not in charge of our lives.

We are being driven about in life and have no choices and control of what we get or what we do or what happens to us.

This is why we suffer and are sad and frustrated.

Self-Motivation:

I have read that:

“Motivation changes perspective and moves people to act. It is never logical and is always personal.

Motivation is why people climb mountains. It is the flame of revolution.

Motivation conquers most obstacles and is the only way to overcome your fears.

Motivation is the spark of innovation. It can be contagious.

It is why people achieve the impossible. It is the oxygen of success.

Motivation can be the carrot or the stick – they both work in the short run.

With enough motivation and enough time you can do anything.

A motivated person wins in the long run.”

From now on, human beings must embrace SCOGOSTOLOGY/GALAHUMANISM or be destroyed through nuclear annihilation. Time is running out.

SCOGOSTOLOGY is the modern Messiah and the True Savior for humanity.

During the past 25 yrs, I have studied, learned a lot and have been inspired by the best professionals in the human potential movement and motivational speakers and the best prosperity authors and writers in Achievement/Success, Adventures/Overcoming Adversity, Athletics/Sports/Olympians, Astronauts, Business, Career/Entrepreneur, Change, Communications, Creativity/Innovation, Customer Service, Economics/Finance, Entertainment, Future Trends/Technology, Health/Fitness/Wellness, High Performance People, Humor, Inspiration/Motivation, Leadership/Management, Marketing/Sales, Negotiation, Organizational Skills, Parenting/Family/Spouses, Psychology/Relationships/Self-Esteem, Social Issues/Diversity/Human Rights, Stress/Time Management, Team Building/Workforce, Women Speakers/Athletics/Sports.

Below are some of them whose books, ideas and teachings that I highly recommend to help you achieve all your ambitions, secret dreams and desires in life and be happy- Osho Rajneesh (all of his over 500 books are extremely and highly recommended) ,(Priority: buy and read today: "The Magic of Thinking Big" by David Schwartz), (How to win and influence people" By Dale Carnegie), Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Tony Robbins, Oprah Winfrey, Danielle Kennedy, Harvey Mackay, Dan Poynter, Tom Peters, Les Brown, Dr. Stephen Covey, Brian Tracy, Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D., Dr. Joyce Brothers, Neil Armstrong, Tom Hopkins, Mike Ditka, Reverend Jesse Jackson, Bernie Siegel, Al Franken, Tom DeLuca, Arianna Huffington, Catherine Ponder, Ben Sweetland, Zig Zigler, Norman Vincent Pearles, Napoleon Hill,Ernest Holmes, Charles F. Haanel, Robert Collier, Vernon Howard,Shakti Gawain,Deepak Chopra,Gary Zukav, Mary Baker Eddy, US Anderseen, Joseph Murphy,Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., Warren Farrell, Ph.D., Nancy Synderman, M.D., Jeffrey Kottler, Ph.D., Nathaniel Branden, Ph.D., Judith Briles, Ph.D., Steve Allen, Jr. MD, Chin-Ning Chu, Warren Farrell, Ph.D., Hattie Hill, Brian Holloway, Bruce Jenner

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Starting Your Day the RIGHT Way

Starting Your Day the RIGHT Way

The morning is the most important time of the day. Why? - Because it can easily set the mood for the rest of your day! - This is due to many reasons. One of the most significant is that it is much easier (scientifically, almost 25 times easier) to develop short term paradigms (viewpoints) upon first waking up. When you first awaken, your mind is slowly leaving the delta state, (low brain wave frequency) where it is most easily influenced by mental suggestion. In other words, your mind is most open – and what you put in it will stay in it, until at least the end of the day. It is for this reason that often, if you are awakened by a sound or a song, you may be able to easily recall it again and again throughout the day (even if it’s a song you cannot stand!).

That being said, it is absolutely critical that you start your day off on the “right side of the bed.” Any negative thoughts you have will shape your subconscious for the entire day. Realize, if you wake up and say “Sh*t… today’s gonna suck…”, then it will suck! - Your subconscious would be imbued with a belief that “today sucks” and would work with your mental filtering systems and all of your senses to perceive information accordingly. There’s a lot to it, but the point of this article is to give you a list of tips to start your day off the right way… so back on track.

We know you’re busy as #%$! In the morning and don’t have time for therapeutic, two hour spa sessions when you’re trying to get to work or class on time. Therefore, this list is as “grounded” as is possible, and you can start using it – Now.

Also, for the record, we DO use every single one of these ourselves.

1. Initial Wakeup

GET UP! FAST! When you wake up, get out of bed as fast as you can! (without sending yourself into cardiac arrest, of course.) Waste no time in getting up. The best cure for procrastination is action – so if you’re procrastinating about getting out of bed, just force yourself to get up! …and wallah! - Problem solved! Jumping out of bed will spike your metabolism, and will end all thoughts of “just lying there” a little bit more. As an added bonus, I put my alarm clock on the other side of the room – forcing me to jump out of bed and go turn it off… and once I’m out, I stay out!

2. Light

The power of light is severely underestimated by most people. How? It has profound effects upon body chemistry and energy levels. You circadian rhythm (based on light levels) affects nearly all aspects of your physiology. Over 200 processes are controlled by the level of and type of light that you receive, including heart rate, digestion, appetite and thirst, fluid balance, stress level, emotions, immunity, hunger, energy, blood pressure, body temperature, physical strength, reaction times, sexual appetite, urine production and brain balance – just to name a few. Bright, natural light is ideal for bringing the most energy to all these systems. The more light you receive, the more serotonin your pineal gland produces – a “feel good” neurotransmitter. The less light received, the more melatonin your pineal gland produces. Melatonin is essentially a depressant / sedative. This explains why humans living in Spain are some of the most upbeat, positive beings on the planet, where as residents in Norway or Russia are some of the most depressed. Your body makes melatonin at night, and makes serotonin during the day. So, the sooner you turn on the lights, or open the blinds preferably, the sooner your body’s systems will increase their energy levels. The longer you keep it dark, the harder it will be to wake up – that simple.

3. Wake Up to a Clean Room

This one may not seem that significant, but believe me – it is. Waking up to a clean, organized room has a positive first impression upon your mind. Waking up to clutter, dirty clothes, and piles of beer cans from the night before does not. This may seem like a bit of a feng shui thing, but give it a try, and you will realize – it does work. It’s easier to vacate a room when it’s clean, pristine, and relatively organized / empty, versus one that is piled high and more “cozy.” Keep your room stark… put things away from you’re done using them. It will help.

4. Fresh Air

Open the window. No matter what season it is. Open the window… even if it is just a crack. Your bedroom has sat stagnant all night, void of fresh air, especially if you leave your door closed as I do. When you open the window (and the door preferably) you create a cross draft to bring in fresh air. You have lowered the oxygen level by rebreathing the same air in the room at night. However, as soon as you open the window, you bring in fresh air with high oxygen levels – instantly raising your energy level. Even if it is 10 degrees out, open the window just a tad. When it’s cold out, it will have even more of an effect – the cool, denser air will carry more oxygen, and the temperature alone will help you to awaken.

5. Music
Music is a huge part of my morning. Even if you are not musically motivated, music can shape your mornings. Turn on music as soon as you can after waking up. Make sure it is something positive and uplifting – as chances are it may become stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Personally, I love pounding trance in the morning – it’s positive, uplifting chords and driving bass last with me all day. Make sure you’re listening to something that pulls you up… not down. The effect of music upon the brain is something we will discuss down the road – stay tuned. Also, if music is not available, any high frequency sound chords can work. Birds chirping, wind chimes, ect – all help awaken and sooth the mind.

6. Food

Start your morning off with a full glass of water before you eat anything else – This is essential. Toxins have been ejected from tissue and line your throat and mouth (thus, morning-breath) and the last thing you want to do is to allow them to adhere to your breakfast. Drink a full glass of water –and give it ten minutes. If you have an empty stomach, the toxins will be flushed down, and pass out with your urine, with no food to absorb them. Ten minutes later, you may eat your breakfast. The subject of a healthy breakfast is obviously a lengthy subject, but I’ll be brief – DO NOT SKIP BREAKFAST. They’re not lying when they say it’s the most important meal of the day. Your body has been starved for eight hours or more, and breakfast is crucial. Breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism, ends your body’s “hoarding mode” from the night, and will actually help you lose weight and stay lean if you chose the proper foods. Make sure you eat some fruit, some protein, and some carbs. My typical weekend breakfast consists of an orange and three scrambled eggs… very basic, but quite healthy. If you’re eating loads of sugary cereal, or worse, doughnuts for breakfast, you need to go do some basic research online on how to eat healthy. You could be lean and good looking, but lack energy, and your arteries may be 90% blocked – as a result of your diet.

7. Cold shower

Take a cold shower. Yes, freezing cold is unbearable. You don’t have to do it that way. Start it off hot… like me. Then, after you’re medium-toasty (not well-toasty... it will make you more tired), put it on cold for as long as you can take it. Then, put it on hot for a minute… then cold for a minute. Repeat the hot-cold cycle a few times – this will not only wake you up fast, but it will expand and contract your pores to force out toxins and oils from the night. End the shower with a cold rinse – you want to be cold when you step out… it’s critical, as it will raise your metabolism, and keep it there. Try the cold shower thing for a week – you’ll notice a difference. A long, hot shower depresses your physiological systems and makes you want to go back to bed. A cold, invigorating shower will wake you up – fast. Try it.

8. Make Your Bed

This doesn’t serve as much of a purpose for in the morning, as it does for in the evening. I’ll explain how it works from my situation. I wake up. I do my morning routine. I (in this example) do not make my bed. I leave. I work all day, and at the end of the day, I think of all the projects that I am going to work on when I get home. However, when I get home into my room, I suddenly feel tired… there’s something drawing me to my bed. The covers are thrown back – like a great, yawning mouth of gaping comfort… calling for me to dive in after a long day at work. So I do – I jump in, cover up, get all toasty, and sleep away half of my evening – only to go to bed again a few hours later. Leaving your bed unmade kills your motivation. Not only does it appear messy, which drains your energy in its own right, but it also invites you back in repeatedly, when you usually cannot afford to. So, make your bed. You’ll notice you get more things done in the evening.

9. Time Savers

There are several small, simple things you can do to save time in the morning. For one, if you check your computer in the morning (MySpace, Facebook, email, stocks, weather, ect), then try this. Rather than shutting down your computer at night, put it in standby. You will save a few minutes over turning it on, and it won’t use any more electricity. If it takes your computer four minutes to boot up, multiplied over a year, that is over 24 hours! An entire day you would save if you followed the routine everyday. Another rather obvious tip is to put all your “to-go” items in one spot. Put your phone, wallet (or purse), watch, rings, notepad, ID badge, car keys, ect; all on the same part of the counter, or in a bowl perhaps. It will save you time searching for everything. Additionally, whatever time you are waking up now, wake up ten minutes earlier. It makes a world of difference in the morning. If you can get over the “I could sleep for ten more minutes” thinking, you will reap amazing benefits. Ten minutes can take a lot of the edge off of your morning, allowing you to take your time as you go about your routine. It can save you money as well. I can tell you in my case that if I leave a few minutes early, rather than driving 80 MPH to make it to work on time, I can drive 65-70 MPH, which, due to exponential drag and air resistance, is optimum gas mileage speed for my car, and saves me a few bucks each week in gas.

10. Self-Talk

Self-Talk should be the most important part of any morning routine. In the morning, you need to load yourself with as much positive mental programming as possible. Your mind is most receptive to it in the morning (and at night), and it will shape the rest of your day. Your programming comes in many different forms, and it is our job to help you use it to your advantage. Mental programming is too much for this article… keep your eyes on us as we come out with new products to help you shape your mind exactly the way you want it – and help you live the life you deserve.

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Sejenak penonton K!ck Andy di studio malam itu pun tersenyum. Boleh jadi senyuman itu tak sekadar mentertawakan kehebohan Pak Raden mencari si Unyil, tapi juga mengingatkan mereka kembali akan sebuah tayangan yang pernah sangat digemari pada era 80-90 an, ’Si Unyil’.

Pada masanya, tayangan boneka Si Unyil memang menjadi favorit semua kalangan. Pasalnya, tayangan tersebut bukan saja menghibur tapi juga kental dengan pesan-pesan yang mendidik. Menurut Drs. Suyadi selaku salah seorang tim kreatif sekaligus pengisi suara tokoh Pak Raden, kehadiran para tokohnya mewakili kondisi serta realita sosial kala itu.

Unyil misalnya, menggambarkan anak Indonesia yang baik, penolong tapi juga agak bandel sesuai dengan karakter anak-anak. Sementara tokoh Meilani yang keturunan Tionghoa, menggambarkan adanya pembauran. Sayang, setelah selama 12 tahun menemani para pemirsanya, tayangan Si Unyil pun dihentikan. Persoalan dana konon menjadi penyebabnya.

Tak hanya Unyil yang hilang dari layar kaca lantaran kendala dana. Cerita Boneka Si Komo pun mengalami nasib yang sama. Padahal cerita boneka inipun, selain sangat digemari anak-anak, juga sarat dengan pesan yang mendidik. Para tokohnya seperti Si Komo, Ulil, Dompu, Belu dan Piko memiliki karakter serta sifat khas yang dimiliki anak-anak.

Menurut Kak Seto yang membidani lahirnya Si Komo, pembuatan cerita boneka dianggap lebih mahal dibandingkan film-film kartun import. Tak heran, jika belakangan layar kaca kita memang lebih marak dengan film-film dari luar yang seringkali kurang sesuai dengan budaya asli Indonesia. Belum lagi dengan maraknya sinetron yang terkadang hanya menebar mimpi dan kurang mendidik.

Padahal, tak hanya tayangan boneka Si Unyil dan Si Komo saja yang pernah menyajikan hiburan sekaligus mendidik anak-anak. Gatot Soenjoto dengan boneka Tongki-nya juga pernah begitu berjaya. Dengan menggunakan seni bicara lewat perut, Gatot dan Tongki menjalin komunikasi dan mampu menyampaikan pesan-pesan, seperti jangan lupa cuci tangan atau jangan mengompol dan sebagainya.

Demikian halnya dengan Ria Enes dengan boneka Suzan-nya. Dengan karakter yang pemberani, centil, ceriwis dan khas anak-anak, boneka Suzan bersama Kak Ria menjadi idola anak-anak di tahun 90-an. Ria menjadikan Suzan sebagai teman untuk berdialog dan berkomunikasi dengan anak-anak.

Atas keprihatinan itulah kali ini K!ck Andy hadir dengan episode GAMBAR BURAM LAYAR KACA KITA. Topik ini diangkat karena semakin maraknya tayangan program anak-anak di televisi yang mengandung kekerasan dan seks, yang membuat banyak orangtua khawatir. Apalagi tayangan-tayangan tersebut diyakini bisa mempengaruhi kejiwaan anak-anak sehingga mereka menjadi agresif, melakukan kekerasan dalam tindakan mereka sehari-hari. Disamping itu, maraknya pemerkosaan yang dilakukan anak-anak di bawah umur serta remaja juga diyakini akibat pengaruh negatif program anak-anak di televisi belakangan ini.

Karenanya lewat episode ini, K!ck Andy ingin sekadar mengingatkan bahwa layar televisi kita pernah semarak dengan program tayangan-tayangan anak yang mendidik. Semoga tayangan-tayangan tersebut bisa kembali hadir mencerahkan televisi kita. Sehingga tak ada lagi tudingan bahwa tayangan televisi menjadi penyebab lahirnya kekerasan maupun tindak kriminal yang dilakukan anak-anak.