Naruto Games plus Naruto’s Guide to Effective Blogging Equals… Naruto Optimization?

Hmmm, what a title? For those who are wondering why, I’m just trying my hands on keyword experimentations to see if it can boost my traffic from search engines. For this post I’m setting my eyes on the naruto keyword, naruto games specifically. Naruto’s climb to being one of the highly searched keyword in the web started picking momentum by 2006, perhaps fueled by its story line which gets better and better as the characters grow up and its ever growing fan base as well. Obviously, since the keyword is too saturated with competition, which could mean a pretty tough niche to break into, I decided to settle down to naruto games which has fewer strings pulling on it but can still rake in 2,000 plus searches per day. Along with naruto games, keyphrases such as naruto online games, online naruto games, download naruto games, and free online naruto games also generate some substantial search volumes. I just hope that this post will eventually manage to squeeze into a better spot in the search engine results one day.

Naruto's Keyword Trend

For those who are living in another dimension and aren’t aware of the “naruto hype” going on these days, Naruto is a story of a young ninja, named Naruto, who has a nine tailed demon fox, called Kyuubi, sealed inside him to save the village of Konohagakure from its destructive powers. Having the nine tailed demon trapped inside him, Naruto possessed immense powers ninjas of his age don’t have. Powerful as he is, the draw back of this gift was being ostracized by most of the villagers because of the beast inside him, a curse which he eventually managed to overcome because of his boisterous and cheerful personality. The story revolves around the adventures and misadventures of the main protagonist, enemies that get more and more powerful each time, and new ninja techniques which get cooler and cooler as episodes get concluded. If you want to know more about Naruto please visit his Wikipedia page.

Being a Naruto fan myself, I believe one can pick-up a lot of lessons from him which you could apply in life, as well as blogging. To begin with, Naruto is a simple character, very predictable, but true to his intentions and goals. You could see through him because of his transparent character. Did I strike any chord about blogging? As homage to Naruto’s immense nine-tailed chakra, I came up with a list of 9 lessons from the anime series which could seriously help you in your path to being a better blogger. I’ll call it the “nine jutsus of blogging”. Here it goes:

1) Simplicity and humility

According to his creator, Masashi Kishimoto, Uzumaki Naruto was purposely created as a simple and straight forward character because he is not very much interested in smarter and sophisticated heroes. Being that, it’s easier for fans to understand and, perhaps, relate to him. Besides being simple, Naruto is also humble in his ways. He might be boisterous, but he never boasted about what he has achieved or looked down on his fellow ninjas based on their shortcomings because he understood that he has greater shortcomings himself.

As a blogger, I believe there’s an art of keeping complicated things simple. It’s difficult but we should strive to perfect it for our readers. It’s keeping things informal, conversational, and straight to the point. That way information can be a lot easier to digest for most readers. Also, keeping your blogging ways simple will make your blogging life a lot less complicated. In the same way, humility should be an integral part of blogging. There’s nothing people avoid the most than those who are unapproachable and extremely full of themselves. Always keep your feet firmly on the ground. Additionally, talking to people about themselves and what they were looking for is always better than focusing about you and you alone.

2) Dream big

Naruto dreams of being a Hokage, or the leader and protector, of their village. He strives each day to be one and never loses it. As a blogger, we should always think and dream big because that will shape our actions. It’s your reason why you started this whole blogging thing so hold on to it and never let go. Strive each day to follow that dream and little by little you’ll be closer than what you think.

3) Determination

When it comes to protecting his friends and those important to him, the straightforward Naruto will never give up no matter what it takes, even if it means sacrificing his life. We’re not warrior ninjas so we don’t have to sacrifice our lives; but it doesn’t mean we won’t give the obstacles that go our way one hefty fight. If you want success in anything, it’s always important to be determined about it. Iron determination is what differentiates those at the top from the rest. Without it, I doubt that you’ll still be blogging after a few months or a year.

4) Be friendly

I guess this is important everywhere you go. In blogging, our version of friendliness is through connecting with our fellow bloggers and our generous linking to other sites. Of course, being nice to our fellow bloggers is also part of being friendly. Naruto’s cheerful qualities helped him make lots of friends not only in his village but in other territories as well. And it is through his friends that he draws strength, courage, and the determination to be better every time. We as bloggers, on the other hand, have better means of connecting with other bloggers and making friends with them rather than fighting enemies all day. By being friendly, you’ll get more followers, learn new things, and meet people whom you could run to if you need help on something about blogging.

5) Nothing compares hard work

Although lazy most of the time, Naruto works hard when it comes to training and learning new ninja skills. Through the guidance of his teachers he is able to perfect some ninja techniques that no body else can do like his massive shadow clone technique (kage bunshin no jutsu). If you work hard on something, it will show afterwards. Oftentimes, hard work exceeds those which are done in a short time just for the heck of producing one. You could see it in the quality and detail of the work. Blogging will always be better if it’s out of hard work. Copy and paste blog scrapers are always doomed to fail. Come out with something unique through hard work and the rewards will be better.

6) Be resourceful

Naruto is not a genius but he is resourceful. If he can’t achieve something through the tried and tested way, he compensates by finding other ways of doing it. The same applies to us. More often than not, you’ll find things not working your way no matter how hard you try. It is during these circumstances that you must be able to reinvent things to make it work your way. Maybe it’s your limited time for blogging, your contests, or your blogging projects, etc. What matters is that you discover a way to overcome set backs and make things work to your advantage.

7) Always be positive

Always hope for the best, that’s the skill no ninja in Konoha have seen except for Naruto. They are always calculating and fearing of the evil things that would come after. But for Naruto, the world is what you make of it. He always hopes that it will be better and he works hard to make it happen. By being positive, it’s easier to work because everything seems lighter and manageable. Additionally, by being positive, you help others because, mysteriously, a positive attitude can easily infect others. People respond better to positive thoughts than negative ones.

8) Learn from your mistakes

You’ve heard it everywhere. Guess what, you’ll also get it here; “learn from your mistakes”. Naruto is a hard-headed brat. Being such, he often ends up in trouble, but it is through these troubles that he learns what works and what doesn’t. He learns that rasengan works only when it gets into contact with its target, so obviously he had to make diversionary tactics to trap his enemy into making contact with the rasengan before releasing it. We as bloggers often commit mistakes, don’t fear if you did. Accept and correct it. Don’t be a complete “noob” who refuses to learn and be corrected. By learning from your mistakes, you become better every time you rise up.

9) Strive to become better

Rise up from your old self. Become better. Naruto’s enemies get stronger and stronger every passing episode. If he isn’t getting better each time, he’d be dead before the story ends. Every time he learns a new technique, acquire new friendship, learn important information and work cooperatively with his team mates, he becomes better than his former rebellious brat self. What we have in our reality is the same. Everytime you move forward, your problems also move forward with you, it’s a never ending cycle. That’s why the saying; “With great power comes great responsibility” was conceived in the first place. Expect more headaches and troubles in your blogging path; you’ll be facing more and more as you climb to the top. But you should not worry if you’re striving to be better each time.

Okay, that’s it. Did you like it? Please leave your thoughts in the comments below. And yes, for those who got here because of the naruto games, I haven’t forgotten about you. Below are the links of the best online naruto games I found through my searches. Trust me, I’ve read their reviews.

The Ninja RPG – The best so far.
Naruto Arena – Some good reviews but many say it’s complicated. Also their servers seem down for the moment.
Naruto Flash Games – Past time games in flash.

Did you like this post? How about I offer you another serving of Naruto blogging one more time? Here's the next Naruto post in case you're interested: Naruto Shippuden.

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