Blogging software is really a simple Content Management System (CMS) that easily adds new pages and integrates them into your site's navigational structure and linkage.
Blogs and blog posts are naturally search engine friendly because they are text-rich, link-rich, frequently-updated webpages that use stylesheets or CSS, and have very little extraneous HTML.
Optimizing a blog is very similar to optimizing a website, and optimizing a blog post similar to optimizing a web page. But depending on the blogging service or software you use, the results may look somewhat different.
If you follow some simple rules for search engine optimization, your blog can rank much higher than static website pages in the search engine results pages.
Here are the most important rules to follow to get your posts listed for keywords of your choice.
1. Use your primary keyword in your blog domain
Whether you purchase a separate domain (recommended) for your blog, or host it on a blogging service or a subdomain of your own site, try to ensure that your URL contains the primary keyword you want to optimize for.
For example, if you want your blog to get found for the keyword "RSS" get a domain with the keyword "RSS", or use the keyword in a subdomain. Getting a domain name with your own name might make for good branding, especially if yours is a personal blog.
But if you're doing it for business and want the targeted traffic to flow your way, keywords in the domain or subdomain are a move in the right direction.
2. Use your primary key phrase in your blog header tags and the title of your posts
If your primary key phrase is "business blogging" make sure that the word business, or blogging, or both, appear in your blog headers (the H1 or H2 tags) as well as the title of each of your posts.
Most blogging software will take the keywords in your post title and put them into the file name of the permalink posts it creates.
For example, if you have a blog on Blogger and title your post "Search Engine Optimization For Blogs", Blogger will automatically create a page with your post and name the file "search-engine-optimization-for-blogs.html" or something similar.
With other server-side software like WordPress and Movable Type, you may require the mod_rewrite command to save the title of your entries as a permalink.
3. Use your secondary keywords in the body of your post
If you want to get listed for secondary keywords use them infrequently in the body of your post and pepper your blog titles or links with them appropriately. Don't overdo this or your posts will end up sounding unnatural and spammy to readers.
4. Use your keywords in the anchor text of links
Keyword in links have more importance than simple text. Use your primary and secondary keywords in the anchor text of links when linking to other blog posts or to other pages on your main site.
Link keywords where they naturally appear in the body text, but again, don't overdo it, or you'll end up with spammy looking pages.
5. Make sure search engines can spider your blog easily
Set up your blog so that the side navigation bar is present on all pages. Make sure your archives and previous posts are accessible from all pages of your blog so they get spidered easily.
6. Get backlinks from other blogs or websites
Links pointing to your blog or posts are essential to build pagerank and make your blog rank higher in the search engine listings. I recommend that you focus your linking efforts on the methods here.
Submitting to Blog Search Engines and Directories:
Submitting your blog and RSS feed to blog search engines and directories is essential for getting high-quality links back to your blog.
Link Exchanges:
Many similarly-themed blogs are often willing to exchange links with other blogs and form richly interlinked networks or communities. Link exchanges with other blogs are easy to implement with most blogging software.
Trackbacks:
You can also get links back to your blog using trackbacks. One of the disadvantages of using Blogger is that it does not automatically create trackback URLs that others can use to link back to your posts.
But if trackbacks are an important component of your linking strategy, I would advise using another software or system that adds this feature automatically.
Comments:
You can also get back links to your blog by posting legitimate comments in response to posts on other blogs.
7. Update frequently
There's no better food for search engine spiders than fresh content.
Post and update your blog frequently using all the rules outlined above and there's no reason why your blog will not get you top rankings in a short period of time.
8. Stay put
Once you create your blog, try to stick to the same domain and blog host or system for as long as you continue to publish.
You could end up losing a lot of your traffic, your readers and all your search engine listings if you decide to move.
For more ways of building traffic to your blog, read the article "How To Build Traffic To Your Blog".
Friday, March 7, 2014
Advertising Using Blogs
Advertising Your Blog In Your Email Signature
If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of,and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.
One of those ways is something that you do everyday,and that you may not even consider as a way to share your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature.
Chances are that you send out emails more times that you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email's signature.
It's always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have.
The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement in your signature for your blog is to make it short, but eye catching.
You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don't want to scare them off.
Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising.
Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people about it and want to visit That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.
Blogger Forums - A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog
No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject.
It's a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.
There are quite a few blogger forums that you can signup for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries,where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog.
Another good place to go is to Blog Forum.
Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog,
Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.
If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure.
When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy.
Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you'll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the
Blogging Directories - Great Advertising Venues
If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submitted cover.
Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there.
Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.
There are other blog directories on the Internet -these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily.
As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.
Blogging Traffic - Give And Take
Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship.Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else 's blog.
Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common.
When you find something that you find truly interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.
One of the best known blogs available is Live Journal. A great feature of Live Journal is that you can search for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.
Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well.
When you are commenting on someone's post, you want to make sure that you don't leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.
After you have commented on the person's post, then you can say something like, 'I really like horsebackriding too. I had a similar experience to yours.' and then use it to link back to your journal.
But be sure that you sound sincere when you are commenting, and don't make them feel like you're just fishing for traffic.
If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won't visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.
Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog
Something that you will find, especially if you join something like Live Journal or Greatest Journal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.
There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn't a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.
The nice thing about communities is that there isn't any limit as to how many communities that you can join.
For example, say that you love blogging about books,horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.
As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps they will check out your personal blog.
Something to remember is that you don't want to write a post that is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.
Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post.
As with posting comments on someone else's blog, you don't want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won't visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.
Email Groups - Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising A Blog
Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues.
They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.
There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject.
These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.
Most of the time when you join a group, you are encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself.This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don't overdo it.
Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.
If your blog covers different subjects, you can advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well.
Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There's nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.
When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that they leave.
If they know that you appreciate the time that they took, they are more likely to come back again.
The power of being seen is the up most importance and blogging is one the best ways you can make sure others know of you, don't let it pass you by.
[http://www.theonlinenbiznetwork.com]
If you have a blog that you are particularly proud of,and that you want to share with other people, there are a lot of free ways that you can get your blog noticed.
One of those ways is something that you do everyday,and that you may not even consider as a way to share your blog. Put the link to your blog in your email signature.
Chances are that you send out emails more times that you can count during the day, Each time you send out an email, you can advertise your blog by putting the address of your blog in your email's signature.
It's always a good idea to write something catchy like, See what I am up to now, or Read my latest chapter of my fanfic here, depending on what type of blog you have.
The thing to remember about putting an adveritsement in your signature for your blog is to make it short, but eye catching.
You want people to be interested enough to want to click on it, but you also don't want to scare them off.
Just like it is with any adveritsement, you want to give them just enough to be interested and take a closer look at what it is that you are advertising.
Think about what it is that your blog is about. What is really going to interest people about it and want to visit That is what you should include in your signature, and that is what is going to get people to go to your blog.
Blogger Forums - A Great Place To Advertise Your Blog
No matter what type of blog that you have, one of the best places that you can advertise your blog is to join a blogger forum. After all, everyone who posts there has a blog and thats the main subject.
It's a great place to meet other bloggers and to advertise your blog.
There are quite a few blogger forums that you can signup for on the Internet. One is known as Bloggeries,where you can show off your blog, get your blog reviewed or review other blogs, and find lots of tools that you can use for your own blog.
Another good place to go is to Blog Forum.
Blog Forum, like Bloggeries, has spots for you to market and show off your blog,
Blogger forums are a great place to advertise because everyone in them are of the same mind and want to make certain that their blogs get noticed and read.
If you use your blog to advertise something that you are selling, or you want to get a lot of traffic to your blog in order to make money, you want to go someplace where it can get exposure.
When you advertise on a blog forum, you know that you are placing your advertisement in a place where blogging is something that people enjoy.
Just remember when you are posting to a forum to read the rules and abide by them. That way you'll get your blog noticed and you will know that you are doing the
Blogging Directories - Great Advertising Venues
If you want to have more people visit your blog, there are plenty of blog directories on the Internet that you can submit your blog to so that people will come and visit it. Most blog directories are listed by the topics that the blogs that are submitted cover.
Blog Catalog is a free blog directory that offers categories such as career and jobs, writing, Iraq, and many others. It has features such as featured blogs and other things to offer those who submit their blogs there.
Another great place to add your blog is blog-drectory.org. Not only do they have an an extensive list of categories with sub categories, you can get your blog reviewed. For the most popular blogs, it shows the amount of hits that blogs have and if they have any reviews. As well as listing by category, the blogs are also listed by location.
There are other blog directories on the Internet -these are only a couple of them. But blog directories are a great place to advertise your blog and to make new friends. You never know what you will find when you browsing through the directory, and you may just find out information that you never knew. Some of the blog directories offer chat features as well, so that you can meet other people easily.
As you can see, blog directories are a great place to get your blog noticed and bring people to read your blog and look at your pictures.
Blogging Traffic - Give And Take
Blogging traffic is a give and take relationship.Sometimes one of the best ways to get traffic to your blog is by visiting someone else 's blog.
Go to their blog and read one of their entries, or read a few of them. Chances are that you are going to find something that you have in common.
When you find something that you find truly interesting on a blog, leave a comment so that they know that you were there.
One of the best known blogs available is Live Journal. A great feature of Live Journal is that you can search for interests on their site and it will come up with results of those who have that interest.
Are you interested in horseback riding You can see what other bloggers are interested in horseback riding as well.
When you are commenting on someone's post, you want to make sure that you don't leave generic comment. If you like the post, say something about what you read in the post.
After you have commented on the person's post, then you can say something like, 'I really like horsebackriding too. I had a similar experience to yours.' and then use it to link back to your journal.
But be sure that you sound sincere when you are commenting, and don't make them feel like you're just fishing for traffic.
If someone thinks that you are using their blog to get more traffic to yours, they won't visit your site and your efforts will be wasted.
Join A Community To Advertise Your Blog
Something that you will find, especially if you join something like Live Journal or Greatest Journal, is that users just like you have created communities for people with common interests.
There are communities for just about any subject, and if you find that there isn't a community for the subject you can create one. This is a great place to advertise your blog.
The nice thing about communities is that there isn't any limit as to how many communities that you can join.
For example, say that you love blogging about books,horseback riding, and skiing in Tahoe. All you have to do is look through the communities for ones that have those interests and join them.
As long as you post something related to the topic to the chosen community, people will see you and perhaps they will check out your personal blog.
Something to remember is that you don't want to write a post that is one sentence long in order to get people to go to your blog. They will want to know that what you write is interesting and is something worth reading.
Joining communities can be a great way to advertise your blog and drive traffic to it. If you are referring to something that you posted about on your blog, you can use a link back to your entry in your post.
As with posting comments on someone else's blog, you don't want people to think that you joined a community simply to get traffic to your blog. Otherwise, people won't visit your blog and you may get banned from the community as well.
Email Groups - Hidden Treasure Troves For Advertising A Blog
Something that has become increasingly popular since the Internet has grown are the email groups that are available through Yahoo, MSN, and other venues.
They are a great way to meet other people who have a common interest, and are very similar to the communities that are available through blogging sites.
There is plenty of diverse subjects and there are communities for just about any subject.
These groups can be a great place for people who have a blog about the subject and want to share it with other people.
Most of the time when you join a group, you are encouraged to take a moment and to introduce yourself.This is a great opportunity to tell people about your blog, but make certain that you don't overdo it.
Just like with any of the other places you will advertise your blog, you want to make people want to go to your blog. If you are too overbearing, you will turn people off.
If your blog covers different subjects, you can advertise it on the other groups that cover those subjects as well.
Make certain that your post to the groups is interesting and that you let people know what it is that your blog is about. There's nothing worse than getting taken to a blog under false pretences.
When people visit your blog, make certain that you thank them for visiting and respond to comments that they leave.
If they know that you appreciate the time that they took, they are more likely to come back again.
The power of being seen is the up most importance and blogging is one the best ways you can make sure others know of you, don't let it pass you by.
[http://www.theonlinenbiznetwork.com]
Best SEO BLOG 2014
I. Overview of Topic
How to blog is a question on many people's minds these days. Blogging has taken the world by storm. Since 2004, when it first made its appearance, this popular medium of having your own little corner of the world to express yourself has turned into a veritable deluge. Today there are more than 120 million blogs that are currently tracked by the Tecnorati blog search engine. No wonder then, that owning and maintaining a blog has become almost a fashion statement, especially in the U.S.
When first embarking on a blogging journey, there are some knotty questions that usually beset one's mind regarding how to blog. Let's start with the basics.
What kinds of topics can be the subjects of blogs?
Just about anything. Simply put, a blog is an online personal diary on just about any topic you care to write about, ranging from politics to sports and fitness to religion, health, freelancing, literature, or whatever suits your fancy. But picking a subject you have solid experience in will enable you to write meaningful content that will pull in an audience for your blog. Without an audience you'll soon tire of your blog and it will join the millions of abandoned blogs lost in cyberspace.
How are blogs categorized in blog search engines?
Blog search engines like Technorati and IceRocket categorize them by subject. The most general categorization, though, is personal vs. business-oriented blogs. Yours will probably fit into the former of these categories.
Are blogs only text or can they have other features as well?
Though basically consisting of text, many blog users make their web pages more attractive by adding pictures, audio and video files.
How can I make my blog easy to navigate and attractive to readers?
A successful blog usually follows a clear simple format with its articles plainly delineated, archives (in a sidebar), and a place at the bottom for visitors to leave comments. Some also include blogrolls, which are just lists of links to other similar blogs. The best bloggers are usually people who are able to connect with their visitors' emotions, by means of artistic expression in many cases. To learn how to blog with the winners your number one teacher is other blogs - read and study a lot of them before starting your own. A good place to research blogs on your topic is Icerocket.com.
What are some tips for setting up a blog?
- First, remember your blog is a reflection of your personality. Pick a theme or a topic close to your heart or one you know something about. Correction, one you know a lot about.
- Be consistent. If you want your blog to get really popular you need to connect with your visitors on a regular, predictable schedule. Plan on publishing at least twice a week. If that sounds like too much work, once a week is the absolute lowest you can go, say blog gurus.
- Connect/network. Connect with other blog writers by leaving comments on their posts and by providing links to their blogs on your website. This kind of networking will do wonders for your traffic.
- Keep it simple. Don't clutter up your blog with meaningless details. Select a simple clean appealing design. Use fonts and colors which increase text visibility. Add videos, audios, photographs and music files only if these make your blog more attractive and/or useful.
- Don't stick your neck out - or not too far anyway. Blogs can get opinionated, which is fine, but don't put yourself at risk of a heavy-duty defamation suit. It's fine to express your opinions - so long as you make it clear they're just that, your opinions -- and always be sure that your blog is not defaming somebody, divulging sensitive information, or giving away corporate secrets.
Okay, I get the feel about how to blog. Now where do I go from here?
To get started, you first need to select suitable weblog software. This is necessary in order to create and manage your blog. There's quite an assortment of blogging software out there. Some offer ease of design and development while other programs offer more elaborate features, for example, allowing you to add discussion forums, message boards etc. Some weblogs can be downloaded and installed directly on your system. Freeware and open source software are available, though these programs are not as feature-rich as some of the paid proprietary software. Here's a rundown of the most popular blogging software:
Wordpress
Wordpress is the number one blog publishing software. Why? -- because it's freeware, easy to install, and has a minimal learning curve. Its extensive documentation and step-by-step installation guide make it a cakewalk even for a novice user. Among its most salient features are --
Easy installation - Even a newbie can get Wordpress up and going in 5 minutes. Moreover, web pages are generated dynamically by using thousands of built-in templates thereby greatly reducing your time and effort.
User Management - Restricts access to users while you're making modifications in your weblog. So in effect you have separate access for readers and administrative users.
Saves precious bandwidth through its Gzip feature, which reduces blog transmission size.
Enables you to place RSS feeds into your blogs and also aids in inter-blog communication by providing features like pingback and trackback.
Comes with lots of plugins making it possible for you to incorporate any feature you want. You can also integrate Wordpress with Akismet, a popular anti-spam software program used to protect blogs from spammers.
Other useful features include a database of visitors, capability to save previous drafts, blog previews, and easy formatting.
Want to see some popular blogs that use Wordpress. Two to start with are: Ilovetypography and Problogger.
OTHER WEBLOG SOFTWARE
Typepad
Created and owned by Six Apart Limited, Typepad is a blog hosting website currently used by many large organizations in the US, such as Sky News, BBC, and MSNBC for hosting their weblogs. Launched in October 2003, Typepad today can boast that it's the number one paid blogging service worldwide. Available in multiple languages in different parts of the world, users have three different subscription options: $4.50/month for a basic subscription to $14.50/month for the pro edition. Among its features: The software enables you to associate each article in your blog with a URL, and easy uploading and sharing photo albums from multiple authors have made this a vox populi among professional bloggers. So if writing is your passion and you want to make it a profession, you can start by signing up for Typepad.
Movable Type
The first blogging system developed by Six Apart Limited in 2001, Movable Type hosts some of the world's top blogs, such as Huffington Post and Boing Boing. Developed using Perl, Movable Type supports LDAP protocol for efficient user management and automatic provisioning of blogs. This blogging system is extremely useful if you want to run multiple blogs using a single installation. The system is enriched with all possible features you could possibly think of, such as a customizable template library, ability to create categories and sub categories of articles, efficient user management directory servers and hordes of independent plugins that can be used to support different services, like creating discussion forums. This blogging system is an attractive choice if you have a technical bent.
Text Pattern
Developed by Dean Allen as an open source content management system, this is one of the simplest blogging systems available today. The most useful feature of Text Pattern is textile that helps in converting simple text documents into stylish HTML web pages using built-in style sheets. Text Pattern has a built-in CSS editor that simplifies the task of changing your web site's designs, fonts, position of the text and the background color. You can also password-protect certain sections of your blogs and keep regular track of visitors and their comments. The date and time stamp of each article is adjustable and you can save drafts of your blogs for future publication. What makes it most attractive is that Text Pattern provides a built-in search engine and the users can also link XML feeds into their blogs. The simplicity of Text Pattern is its USP. For most beginners choosing this service is almost a nobrainer.
Blogger
Developed by Pyra Systems and bought by Google in 2003, Blogger is one of the most popular blogging systems to date. Google subsequently acquired Picasa in 2004 and integrated the latter's photo sharing feature 'Hello' into Blogger. Alexa ranks Blogger as the 9th most visited site worldwide, indicating its enormous popularity. Blogger offers multiple author support allowing the user to create group blogs. Bloggers can even earn revenue from Google AdSense by integrating it into their blogs. Another interesting feature provided by Blogger is a free add-in for Microsoft Word called "Blogger for Word" that helps blog users save their blogs directly in Blogger from their Word document. Bloggers can also customize their blog templates as per personal preferences. For users having a Google email account, it is a pretty simple matter to link to Blogger and then start writing and maybe earning some extra income.
In addition to the above five blogging systems there are a number of up-and-coming lesser-known blog systems which include all the aforementioned features but don't require any plugins for extending their feature list. Some of the best of these second-line blogging systems are:
Habari
Habari, meaning 'news' in Swahili, is one of the most promising new blogging platforms and one of the finalists in the 'Best New Projects in 2008' Sourceforge Community Choice Award. Habari allows the user to launch multiple blogs using a single installation, supports multiple writers and has a modular structure for easy extendibility. All these features will make Habari a formidable competitor in blog publishing.
Symphony
Created for ultra-serious bloggers, Symphony has been developed in XML and XSLT. This is a blogging system for web developers and has an MVC architecture which gives the blogger full control over their website. An extremely versatile system, Symphony can be customized to a high level making it popular among bloggers who want to keep a tight grip on all aspects of their website.
Pixie
Positioning itself as a small, simple website maker, Pixie is also a great blogging platform for all of you who are new to the world of blogging. Ease of installation, lots of creative CSS themes, search engine optimized clean URLs for your website, spam protection, a file manager which supports tags for easy sorting of files and a small memory requirement of just 1 MB are some of the features which explain
Pixie's fast-rising popularity.
That's it, our ten minutes are up (okay, maybe eleven or twelve). Below are additional resources on How to Blog.
II. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Following are additional research resources on "How to Blog."
Tumblr
Tumblr is a popular micro-blogging site where users create and share small posts of about 140 words or less. What makes these micro-blogs, popularly known as tumblelogs, all the rage is their ease of customization and the freedom they provide for posting everything from photos to quotes, to emails, and even links. Moreover, signing up for Tumblr really does take only about 10 seconds. More and more people are attracted to micro-blogging due to its capability for posting short, incisive and hopefully witty messages about the poster's latest doings, inventions, discoveries, observations, misadventures, etc. Tumblelogs even make it possible for people to post their art works and music audios and videos for public viewing.
Clubmom
If you are a homemaker who loves sharing recipes, health tips, beauty secrets and child care advice and also love getting similar words of wisdom from others, Clubmom is the place for you. It's a blogging site/forum where moms can meet and share their experiences while at the same time having a chance at winning exciting gifts. From family anecdotes to home remedies, careers to kids, this is a bonding place for moms of all age groups. Joining Clubmom means connecting with individuals at a personal level and sharing information which benefits all.
How to blog is a question on many people's minds these days. Blogging has taken the world by storm. Since 2004, when it first made its appearance, this popular medium of having your own little corner of the world to express yourself has turned into a veritable deluge. Today there are more than 120 million blogs that are currently tracked by the Tecnorati blog search engine. No wonder then, that owning and maintaining a blog has become almost a fashion statement, especially in the U.S.
When first embarking on a blogging journey, there are some knotty questions that usually beset one's mind regarding how to blog. Let's start with the basics.
What kinds of topics can be the subjects of blogs?
Just about anything. Simply put, a blog is an online personal diary on just about any topic you care to write about, ranging from politics to sports and fitness to religion, health, freelancing, literature, or whatever suits your fancy. But picking a subject you have solid experience in will enable you to write meaningful content that will pull in an audience for your blog. Without an audience you'll soon tire of your blog and it will join the millions of abandoned blogs lost in cyberspace.
How are blogs categorized in blog search engines?
Blog search engines like Technorati and IceRocket categorize them by subject. The most general categorization, though, is personal vs. business-oriented blogs. Yours will probably fit into the former of these categories.
Are blogs only text or can they have other features as well?
Though basically consisting of text, many blog users make their web pages more attractive by adding pictures, audio and video files.
How can I make my blog easy to navigate and attractive to readers?
A successful blog usually follows a clear simple format with its articles plainly delineated, archives (in a sidebar), and a place at the bottom for visitors to leave comments. Some also include blogrolls, which are just lists of links to other similar blogs. The best bloggers are usually people who are able to connect with their visitors' emotions, by means of artistic expression in many cases. To learn how to blog with the winners your number one teacher is other blogs - read and study a lot of them before starting your own. A good place to research blogs on your topic is Icerocket.com.
What are some tips for setting up a blog?
- First, remember your blog is a reflection of your personality. Pick a theme or a topic close to your heart or one you know something about. Correction, one you know a lot about.
- Be consistent. If you want your blog to get really popular you need to connect with your visitors on a regular, predictable schedule. Plan on publishing at least twice a week. If that sounds like too much work, once a week is the absolute lowest you can go, say blog gurus.
- Connect/network. Connect with other blog writers by leaving comments on their posts and by providing links to their blogs on your website. This kind of networking will do wonders for your traffic.
- Keep it simple. Don't clutter up your blog with meaningless details. Select a simple clean appealing design. Use fonts and colors which increase text visibility. Add videos, audios, photographs and music files only if these make your blog more attractive and/or useful.
- Don't stick your neck out - or not too far anyway. Blogs can get opinionated, which is fine, but don't put yourself at risk of a heavy-duty defamation suit. It's fine to express your opinions - so long as you make it clear they're just that, your opinions -- and always be sure that your blog is not defaming somebody, divulging sensitive information, or giving away corporate secrets.
Okay, I get the feel about how to blog. Now where do I go from here?
To get started, you first need to select suitable weblog software. This is necessary in order to create and manage your blog. There's quite an assortment of blogging software out there. Some offer ease of design and development while other programs offer more elaborate features, for example, allowing you to add discussion forums, message boards etc. Some weblogs can be downloaded and installed directly on your system. Freeware and open source software are available, though these programs are not as feature-rich as some of the paid proprietary software. Here's a rundown of the most popular blogging software:
Wordpress
Wordpress is the number one blog publishing software. Why? -- because it's freeware, easy to install, and has a minimal learning curve. Its extensive documentation and step-by-step installation guide make it a cakewalk even for a novice user. Among its most salient features are --
Easy installation - Even a newbie can get Wordpress up and going in 5 minutes. Moreover, web pages are generated dynamically by using thousands of built-in templates thereby greatly reducing your time and effort.
User Management - Restricts access to users while you're making modifications in your weblog. So in effect you have separate access for readers and administrative users.
Saves precious bandwidth through its Gzip feature, which reduces blog transmission size.
Enables you to place RSS feeds into your blogs and also aids in inter-blog communication by providing features like pingback and trackback.
Comes with lots of plugins making it possible for you to incorporate any feature you want. You can also integrate Wordpress with Akismet, a popular anti-spam software program used to protect blogs from spammers.
Other useful features include a database of visitors, capability to save previous drafts, blog previews, and easy formatting.
Want to see some popular blogs that use Wordpress. Two to start with are: Ilovetypography and Problogger.
OTHER WEBLOG SOFTWARE
Typepad
Created and owned by Six Apart Limited, Typepad is a blog hosting website currently used by many large organizations in the US, such as Sky News, BBC, and MSNBC for hosting their weblogs. Launched in October 2003, Typepad today can boast that it's the number one paid blogging service worldwide. Available in multiple languages in different parts of the world, users have three different subscription options: $4.50/month for a basic subscription to $14.50/month for the pro edition. Among its features: The software enables you to associate each article in your blog with a URL, and easy uploading and sharing photo albums from multiple authors have made this a vox populi among professional bloggers. So if writing is your passion and you want to make it a profession, you can start by signing up for Typepad.
Movable Type
The first blogging system developed by Six Apart Limited in 2001, Movable Type hosts some of the world's top blogs, such as Huffington Post and Boing Boing. Developed using Perl, Movable Type supports LDAP protocol for efficient user management and automatic provisioning of blogs. This blogging system is extremely useful if you want to run multiple blogs using a single installation. The system is enriched with all possible features you could possibly think of, such as a customizable template library, ability to create categories and sub categories of articles, efficient user management directory servers and hordes of independent plugins that can be used to support different services, like creating discussion forums. This blogging system is an attractive choice if you have a technical bent.
Text Pattern
Developed by Dean Allen as an open source content management system, this is one of the simplest blogging systems available today. The most useful feature of Text Pattern is textile that helps in converting simple text documents into stylish HTML web pages using built-in style sheets. Text Pattern has a built-in CSS editor that simplifies the task of changing your web site's designs, fonts, position of the text and the background color. You can also password-protect certain sections of your blogs and keep regular track of visitors and their comments. The date and time stamp of each article is adjustable and you can save drafts of your blogs for future publication. What makes it most attractive is that Text Pattern provides a built-in search engine and the users can also link XML feeds into their blogs. The simplicity of Text Pattern is its USP. For most beginners choosing this service is almost a nobrainer.
Blogger
Developed by Pyra Systems and bought by Google in 2003, Blogger is one of the most popular blogging systems to date. Google subsequently acquired Picasa in 2004 and integrated the latter's photo sharing feature 'Hello' into Blogger. Alexa ranks Blogger as the 9th most visited site worldwide, indicating its enormous popularity. Blogger offers multiple author support allowing the user to create group blogs. Bloggers can even earn revenue from Google AdSense by integrating it into their blogs. Another interesting feature provided by Blogger is a free add-in for Microsoft Word called "Blogger for Word" that helps blog users save their blogs directly in Blogger from their Word document. Bloggers can also customize their blog templates as per personal preferences. For users having a Google email account, it is a pretty simple matter to link to Blogger and then start writing and maybe earning some extra income.
In addition to the above five blogging systems there are a number of up-and-coming lesser-known blog systems which include all the aforementioned features but don't require any plugins for extending their feature list. Some of the best of these second-line blogging systems are:
Habari
Habari, meaning 'news' in Swahili, is one of the most promising new blogging platforms and one of the finalists in the 'Best New Projects in 2008' Sourceforge Community Choice Award. Habari allows the user to launch multiple blogs using a single installation, supports multiple writers and has a modular structure for easy extendibility. All these features will make Habari a formidable competitor in blog publishing.
Symphony
Created for ultra-serious bloggers, Symphony has been developed in XML and XSLT. This is a blogging system for web developers and has an MVC architecture which gives the blogger full control over their website. An extremely versatile system, Symphony can be customized to a high level making it popular among bloggers who want to keep a tight grip on all aspects of their website.
Pixie
Positioning itself as a small, simple website maker, Pixie is also a great blogging platform for all of you who are new to the world of blogging. Ease of installation, lots of creative CSS themes, search engine optimized clean URLs for your website, spam protection, a file manager which supports tags for easy sorting of files and a small memory requirement of just 1 MB are some of the features which explain
Pixie's fast-rising popularity.
That's it, our ten minutes are up (okay, maybe eleven or twelve). Below are additional resources on How to Blog.
II. FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Following are additional research resources on "How to Blog."
Tumblr
Tumblr is a popular micro-blogging site where users create and share small posts of about 140 words or less. What makes these micro-blogs, popularly known as tumblelogs, all the rage is their ease of customization and the freedom they provide for posting everything from photos to quotes, to emails, and even links. Moreover, signing up for Tumblr really does take only about 10 seconds. More and more people are attracted to micro-blogging due to its capability for posting short, incisive and hopefully witty messages about the poster's latest doings, inventions, discoveries, observations, misadventures, etc. Tumblelogs even make it possible for people to post their art works and music audios and videos for public viewing.
Clubmom
If you are a homemaker who loves sharing recipes, health tips, beauty secrets and child care advice and also love getting similar words of wisdom from others, Clubmom is the place for you. It's a blogging site/forum where moms can meet and share their experiences while at the same time having a chance at winning exciting gifts. From family anecdotes to home remedies, careers to kids, this is a bonding place for moms of all age groups. Joining Clubmom means connecting with individuals at a personal level and sharing information which benefits all.
Monday, March 3, 2014
5 Blogging Tips For Success
Blog Tip Number 1
Make sure you post to your blog frequently, at least a few times per week. The biggest mistake made by bloggers is to let weeks or even months go by without blogging. If your blog is not being updated it will no longer be considered "sweet" to the search engines, by that I mean it will be considered a "dead" blog and the search engines won't visit as often.The search engines are always looking for new content. A blog that has frequent updates is just the kind of content they love.
Blog Tip Number 2
Start leaving comments on other successful blogs in the same niche or category as your blog. Once you have built a relationship on the other blog you can eventually leave a link back to your site after creating a relationship.
Blog Tip Number 3
Research the most popular blogs within your category; you can use Technorati for your research. Look at what they are doing and try to model their success without copying. You can also subscribe to their RSS feed so that you always know when there is a new post on their blog.
Blog Tip Number 4
Add your links to the blog directories to gain more backlinks. Be sure to claim your blog at Technorati.
Blog Tip Number 5
Monitor your web stats to see where your traffic is originating. It is important that you use a web stats program that can show you how many people are "bookmarking" your site. A good bookmark ratio is a good sign that people are interested in your blog and have plans on re-visiting it.
Follow these steps and you will be moving forward with a very successful blog. Please remember each blog post does not have to be pages in length. It can be as little as one to two paragraphs. Keep in mind that whatever you post should be valuable to the user and elicit a response.
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Make sure you post to your blog frequently, at least a few times per week. The biggest mistake made by bloggers is to let weeks or even months go by without blogging. If your blog is not being updated it will no longer be considered "sweet" to the search engines, by that I mean it will be considered a "dead" blog and the search engines won't visit as often.The search engines are always looking for new content. A blog that has frequent updates is just the kind of content they love.
Blog Tip Number 2
Start leaving comments on other successful blogs in the same niche or category as your blog. Once you have built a relationship on the other blog you can eventually leave a link back to your site after creating a relationship.
Blog Tip Number 3
Research the most popular blogs within your category; you can use Technorati for your research. Look at what they are doing and try to model their success without copying. You can also subscribe to their RSS feed so that you always know when there is a new post on their blog.
Blog Tip Number 4
Add your links to the blog directories to gain more backlinks. Be sure to claim your blog at Technorati.
Blog Tip Number 5
Monitor your web stats to see where your traffic is originating. It is important that you use a web stats program that can show you how many people are "bookmarking" your site. A good bookmark ratio is a good sign that people are interested in your blog and have plans on re-visiting it.
Follow these steps and you will be moving forward with a very successful blog. Please remember each blog post does not have to be pages in length. It can be as little as one to two paragraphs. Keep in mind that whatever you post should be valuable to the user and elicit a response.
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Earn Online Blogging Tips
A few earn online blogging tips will help to build an online business for any niche.
The potential of Internet for earning money has got unleashed with the presence of numerous blogs. One may go on counting the number of blog owners who have made it big in the Internet world. But, how does one individual make money and others can not? To learn the tricks of the trade, few practical earn online blogging tips are presented here.
These blogs represent most walks of life such as commerce, politics, personal opinion and fashion etc. These have become the order of the day in the online world. People find information and tips about the topics of their interest in the numerous blogs available on the Internet. This urge for searching has been cashed by countless blog owners to earn fat pay cheques.
Earn Online Blogging Tips Is A must For All Niches
However, every niche is not necessarily as profitable as others. The reason for the same lays in the search preferences of the Internet users. Some topics are searched more as compared to the others. Commerce and fashion related stuff is most searched on the Internet. Owing to this fact, it makes perfect business sense to blog about these niches.
Regardless of the current economic scenario, stock markets still have the charm to attract people. People are always on the lookout for useful earn online blogging tips which can help them in becoming successful there. Internet users can throng a well crafted commerce related blog even from beyond the international borders.
Whether the blog is going to be based on fashion, commerce or any other niche, certain points ought to be considered. A major related aspect is promotion of blog. People should be made aware of the same by every possible means. One can do so by updating the content regularly, submission of articles at article directories and blog directories.
Writing Great Article Content Is one Of The Important Earn Online Blogging Tips
Advertisers too, like to get associated with such popular weblogs. This can assure them big exposure and a possibility of increase in sales as well. Good content and efficient promotion boosts popularity of a blog which in turn, increases its market value. The content of the same happens to have immense importance.
Brand owners may even ask owner of a popular blog for recommendation of their products. This is usually in lieu of a handsome cut from the sales or for a fixed pay. Both these situations present a win-win scenario for all the parties involved in the process.
Fashion houses are known to avail the services of blog owners for promotion of clothing lines. They may even present free services like passes for fashion shows and other stuff along with their fees. It is quite common to see popular bloggers grabbing first row seats in fashion shows and guest columns in fashion magazines.
To say that Internet provides stupendous earning opportunities is not an understatement. The presence of huge numbers of users on Internet makes it an interesting and highly rewarding marketplace. Persistent efforts combined with smart blog promotion invariably lead to success in short time. All that one needs to do is to grab useful earn online blogging tips as these and start writing.
Looking for easy ways to earn income via the Internet? Get exclusive inside information on highly useful earn online blogging tips
More information, please visit :
The potential of Internet for earning money has got unleashed with the presence of numerous blogs. One may go on counting the number of blog owners who have made it big in the Internet world. But, how does one individual make money and others can not? To learn the tricks of the trade, few practical earn online blogging tips are presented here.
These blogs represent most walks of life such as commerce, politics, personal opinion and fashion etc. These have become the order of the day in the online world. People find information and tips about the topics of their interest in the numerous blogs available on the Internet. This urge for searching has been cashed by countless blog owners to earn fat pay cheques.
Earn Online Blogging Tips Is A must For All Niches
However, every niche is not necessarily as profitable as others. The reason for the same lays in the search preferences of the Internet users. Some topics are searched more as compared to the others. Commerce and fashion related stuff is most searched on the Internet. Owing to this fact, it makes perfect business sense to blog about these niches.
Regardless of the current economic scenario, stock markets still have the charm to attract people. People are always on the lookout for useful earn online blogging tips which can help them in becoming successful there. Internet users can throng a well crafted commerce related blog even from beyond the international borders.
Whether the blog is going to be based on fashion, commerce or any other niche, certain points ought to be considered. A major related aspect is promotion of blog. People should be made aware of the same by every possible means. One can do so by updating the content regularly, submission of articles at article directories and blog directories.
Writing Great Article Content Is one Of The Important Earn Online Blogging Tips
Advertisers too, like to get associated with such popular weblogs. This can assure them big exposure and a possibility of increase in sales as well. Good content and efficient promotion boosts popularity of a blog which in turn, increases its market value. The content of the same happens to have immense importance.
Brand owners may even ask owner of a popular blog for recommendation of their products. This is usually in lieu of a handsome cut from the sales or for a fixed pay. Both these situations present a win-win scenario for all the parties involved in the process.
Fashion houses are known to avail the services of blog owners for promotion of clothing lines. They may even present free services like passes for fashion shows and other stuff along with their fees. It is quite common to see popular bloggers grabbing first row seats in fashion shows and guest columns in fashion magazines.
To say that Internet provides stupendous earning opportunities is not an understatement. The presence of huge numbers of users on Internet makes it an interesting and highly rewarding marketplace. Persistent efforts combined with smart blog promotion invariably lead to success in short time. All that one needs to do is to grab useful earn online blogging tips as these and start writing.
Looking for easy ways to earn income via the Internet? Get exclusive inside information on highly useful earn online blogging tips
More information, please visit :
How to Make Money Blogging
The fact of the matter is that most bloggers, even popular bloggers, do not make money blogging, not what you would consider good money. But there are a small minority of people who are making a killing by operating blogs. Yes, it can be done. I've compiled the top tips for bloggers that actually want to make money blogging.
1. Blog for search traffic
Writing a popular blog post that gets a lot of social traffic is fleeting. Even if your article makes to the front page of a site like Digg.com the traffic boost that you receive will be momentary. If, on the other hand, one of your blog posts ranks for a popular search keyword on Google that same article can bring you traffic for months, even years.
In addition search traffic is targeted traffic. When your article about, say, Blogging Tips ranks number one in Google for "blogging tips" you will only get traffic from people who are looking for information on blogging tips. This will, quite frankly, make you a lot more money as your traffic will be targeted to your content and offers.
2. Write long posts
It is better to write one long blog post with your top ten blogging tips than it is to write 10 one hundred word entries containing one tip each. The reason for this is that it will be easier to rank a 1000 word post in the search engines than it will be to rank a 100 word post. Additionally, you can more easily promote one post and others can promote it for you by linking to it.
3. Sell something
If the point of your blog is to talk about your day then you will not make money. The point of your blog has to be to encourage some kind of profitable activity. The fact of the matter is that reading is not a commercial. When a person comes to your blog and reads your content, no money changes hand. The simple act of reading does not make you (or anyone else) money. Even your advertisers will pull their advertising if your readers only read.
If you recommend a product on your blog you will be able to earn affiliate commissions when your readers take your advice and buy the product. It is best if you have a product of your own to promote and sell, though affiliate marketing is probably more attainable for the average blogger.
Even if you refuse to specifically market any products you must at least be willing to sell your traffic to someone who will try to market to them. You can sell traffic by using a program like AdSense or by selling advertising directly.
4. Write about a topic that is commercial
For every blogger who writes about their favorite sports team or political party, I can show you a blogger who has a day job that they have to report to every morning. Bloggers that write about their passions, unless your passion is making money, are not getting rich generally. In order to make money from a blog you need to encourage some sort of profitable activity. Like I said, nobody (especially not the blogger) makes any money when somebody reads their words.
Some topics lend themselves naturally to blogging. Unfortunately, these are the topics you least want to blog because the market is so crowded. I often use the example of politics but another good one is personal finance. Personal finance is a wonderful topic to blog about in theory because it is both commercial (there are lots of advertisers and products for the blogger to recommend) and easy to write about. The problem is that there are thousands of other blogs in the niche already. This is a problem if you want to make any money in the next year. Yes, you may be able to make money with a personal finance blog in time, but it will take a lot of patience. Which brings us to our next tip.
5. Blog where there are no blogs
If you find a topic that is commercial and has products to promote and advertisers to advertise and you can't think of a single other blog who blogs about that topic, you may have hit the jackpot. Today, there are blogs about just about every mainline thing that you can think, so you have to be willing to dig down into micro-niches or niches that are not so obvious. You can make a lot more money as the single blog in a $10 niche than you can as one-blog-among-a-million in a $1000 niche.
The best topics for new bloggers are those topics which are a little bit unappealing to the masses. For instance, if you come upon a niche that seems promising but that you would be embarrassed to have your name attached to then you might have a winner. And remember that there are lots of bloggers who write under pen names.
Those are my top five tips for making money blogging and I can assure you that if you follow those guidelines and are willing to work hard you can make a very nice living online. More information, please visit :
1. Blog for search traffic
Writing a popular blog post that gets a lot of social traffic is fleeting. Even if your article makes to the front page of a site like Digg.com the traffic boost that you receive will be momentary. If, on the other hand, one of your blog posts ranks for a popular search keyword on Google that same article can bring you traffic for months, even years.
In addition search traffic is targeted traffic. When your article about, say, Blogging Tips ranks number one in Google for "blogging tips" you will only get traffic from people who are looking for information on blogging tips. This will, quite frankly, make you a lot more money as your traffic will be targeted to your content and offers.
2. Write long posts
It is better to write one long blog post with your top ten blogging tips than it is to write 10 one hundred word entries containing one tip each. The reason for this is that it will be easier to rank a 1000 word post in the search engines than it will be to rank a 100 word post. Additionally, you can more easily promote one post and others can promote it for you by linking to it.
3. Sell something
If the point of your blog is to talk about your day then you will not make money. The point of your blog has to be to encourage some kind of profitable activity. The fact of the matter is that reading is not a commercial. When a person comes to your blog and reads your content, no money changes hand. The simple act of reading does not make you (or anyone else) money. Even your advertisers will pull their advertising if your readers only read.
If you recommend a product on your blog you will be able to earn affiliate commissions when your readers take your advice and buy the product. It is best if you have a product of your own to promote and sell, though affiliate marketing is probably more attainable for the average blogger.
Even if you refuse to specifically market any products you must at least be willing to sell your traffic to someone who will try to market to them. You can sell traffic by using a program like AdSense or by selling advertising directly.
4. Write about a topic that is commercial
For every blogger who writes about their favorite sports team or political party, I can show you a blogger who has a day job that they have to report to every morning. Bloggers that write about their passions, unless your passion is making money, are not getting rich generally. In order to make money from a blog you need to encourage some sort of profitable activity. Like I said, nobody (especially not the blogger) makes any money when somebody reads their words.
Some topics lend themselves naturally to blogging. Unfortunately, these are the topics you least want to blog because the market is so crowded. I often use the example of politics but another good one is personal finance. Personal finance is a wonderful topic to blog about in theory because it is both commercial (there are lots of advertisers and products for the blogger to recommend) and easy to write about. The problem is that there are thousands of other blogs in the niche already. This is a problem if you want to make any money in the next year. Yes, you may be able to make money with a personal finance blog in time, but it will take a lot of patience. Which brings us to our next tip.
5. Blog where there are no blogs
If you find a topic that is commercial and has products to promote and advertisers to advertise and you can't think of a single other blog who blogs about that topic, you may have hit the jackpot. Today, there are blogs about just about every mainline thing that you can think, so you have to be willing to dig down into micro-niches or niches that are not so obvious. You can make a lot more money as the single blog in a $10 niche than you can as one-blog-among-a-million in a $1000 niche.
The best topics for new bloggers are those topics which are a little bit unappealing to the masses. For instance, if you come upon a niche that seems promising but that you would be embarrassed to have your name attached to then you might have a winner. And remember that there are lots of bloggers who write under pen names.
Those are my top five tips for making money blogging and I can assure you that if you follow those guidelines and are willing to work hard you can make a very nice living online. More information, please visit :
Easy Blogging Tips For Beginners
You may already have a blog or want to start a new blog so here are blogging tips starting from choosing the blog name (domain name). Please read following 25 blogging tips to build better blog.
Following are Blogging tips useful before starting a new blog or writing new post. These are important for search engine optimization.
1) First do the keyword research for the blog topic / subject. Finding popular keywords related to your blog or your post topic is must. You will need at least 2-3 keywords to be used in blog title and around 10 keywords for post titles to start with.
2) Try to use the keywords in domain name, blog title, post title, post content,hyper link, ALT tag, TITLE tag etc.in a natural way.This will help you to get higher search engine ranking.
3) Try to limit no. of your labels / categories around 20. Use tag cloud or label cloud if you want to save space. If you have many topics on one blog try to regroup and relabel. If totally different topics are mixed on one blog and has sufficient no. of posts for each topic then start new blog for that topic.
4) Do not copy old posts of a blog on new blog.You can get penalized for duplicate content.You need to remove old copy from the search engine and then add same post at new blog.
5) Use post title optimization widget on this blog for blogger / blogspot blog so that you get better search engine ranking. WordPress bloggers can use plugin like All in one SEO for meta tag and title optimization.
Following are blogging tips related to look and content of the blog.
6) The look and layout of the blog should be nice, neat and beautiful so that it can create good impression on the visitor and he should feel to stay more and visit again. Content quality should also be good for this.
7) Navigation and layout should be such that visitor should be able to find the recent posts, labels very easily. So if Recent posts and Labels are near top of side bar it will be visible in first screen of the blog and the visitor will have a quick idea of what the blog is about and can jump to his topic of interest quickly.
8) Use pictures, images wherever possible to make your post colorful and attractive. Do picture / image optimization as described in my earlier post. No need to use large images, you can use medium to small images.
9) Loading time of the blog should not be very long or visitor will run away before the page opens. So keep check on what widgets / code you are installing and does it slows down the loading. If you are loading pictures, make sure that the file size is not big.
Do not use BMP files, you can use jpg, png files. Also check image size. You can do all this using photoshop. As sometimes images load slower from external sources, check that also.
Blogging tips related to writing and visitors
10) Write your post after proper research and gathering total information. Do not write too long. Use grouping, paragraph, sub titling for arranging the information in post body.
11) Writing language should be easy to understand and wherever possible write in humorous way. If visitor enjoys your post he will come back.
12) Give links to useful resources related to your topic. Also give links to your earlier posts with proper anchor text wherever possible. This improves internal linking of your blog.
13) Encourage the reader to participate / comment. You can also run some contest or survey on your blog and keep some prize for that.
14) Use beautiful and professional looking theme / template and header image for your blog. There are many free templates available so you can easily get one suitable to your blog. Choose 3 column template which uses full 1024 X 768 resolution.This gives you more space.
15) The font color and size should be such that blog should be readable in different screen resolution. Other blogging tips to increase readers and revenue.
16) Burn your feed at feedburner and provide subscribe via email facility for your RSS feed.
17) Check your blog visibility and feed in different browser.Especially in internet explorer and Firefox.
18) Try to increase your RSS feed subscriber and use AdSense for feed to display Google AdSense on the feed.
19) Use Google AdSense or other advertisements in post body, right hand side bar and below the header. Use AdSense link unit with labels or links or below header. Match background color of AdSense with blog or post background color.
20) Read my post on blog traffic tips to build traffic from sources other than search engine.
Following are precautionary blogging tips
21) There should not be many outgoing links (pointing to other websites / blogs) in the post or side bar. Remove unnecessary outgoing links. Place all outgoing links near bottom of right hand side bar or footer.
22 ) Do not buy or sell links for link building.
23) If paid posts are must for you keep it minimum or have separate website / blog for paid posts or articles.
24) As said above do not write same post again ( duplicate content ). Do not edit old post titles and content for search engine optimization.
25) Do not have METATAGS only for main home URL of blogger blog, as it will be used for all the post and you will get duplicate metatag error in Google webmaster tools. You are also misguiding and confusing search engine by having same meta tag for all posts. So you can use script / widget which can give different METATAGS to individual posts. WordPress blogger can have METATAG for individual post by using All in one SEO plug-in.
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Following are Blogging tips useful before starting a new blog or writing new post. These are important for search engine optimization.
1) First do the keyword research for the blog topic / subject. Finding popular keywords related to your blog or your post topic is must. You will need at least 2-3 keywords to be used in blog title and around 10 keywords for post titles to start with.
2) Try to use the keywords in domain name, blog title, post title, post content,hyper link, ALT tag, TITLE tag etc.in a natural way.This will help you to get higher search engine ranking.
3) Try to limit no. of your labels / categories around 20. Use tag cloud or label cloud if you want to save space. If you have many topics on one blog try to regroup and relabel. If totally different topics are mixed on one blog and has sufficient no. of posts for each topic then start new blog for that topic.
4) Do not copy old posts of a blog on new blog.You can get penalized for duplicate content.You need to remove old copy from the search engine and then add same post at new blog.
5) Use post title optimization widget on this blog for blogger / blogspot blog so that you get better search engine ranking. WordPress bloggers can use plugin like All in one SEO for meta tag and title optimization.
Following are blogging tips related to look and content of the blog.
6) The look and layout of the blog should be nice, neat and beautiful so that it can create good impression on the visitor and he should feel to stay more and visit again. Content quality should also be good for this.
7) Navigation and layout should be such that visitor should be able to find the recent posts, labels very easily. So if Recent posts and Labels are near top of side bar it will be visible in first screen of the blog and the visitor will have a quick idea of what the blog is about and can jump to his topic of interest quickly.
8) Use pictures, images wherever possible to make your post colorful and attractive. Do picture / image optimization as described in my earlier post. No need to use large images, you can use medium to small images.
9) Loading time of the blog should not be very long or visitor will run away before the page opens. So keep check on what widgets / code you are installing and does it slows down the loading. If you are loading pictures, make sure that the file size is not big.
Do not use BMP files, you can use jpg, png files. Also check image size. You can do all this using photoshop. As sometimes images load slower from external sources, check that also.
Blogging tips related to writing and visitors
10) Write your post after proper research and gathering total information. Do not write too long. Use grouping, paragraph, sub titling for arranging the information in post body.
11) Writing language should be easy to understand and wherever possible write in humorous way. If visitor enjoys your post he will come back.
12) Give links to useful resources related to your topic. Also give links to your earlier posts with proper anchor text wherever possible. This improves internal linking of your blog.
13) Encourage the reader to participate / comment. You can also run some contest or survey on your blog and keep some prize for that.
14) Use beautiful and professional looking theme / template and header image for your blog. There are many free templates available so you can easily get one suitable to your blog. Choose 3 column template which uses full 1024 X 768 resolution.This gives you more space.
15) The font color and size should be such that blog should be readable in different screen resolution. Other blogging tips to increase readers and revenue.
16) Burn your feed at feedburner and provide subscribe via email facility for your RSS feed.
17) Check your blog visibility and feed in different browser.Especially in internet explorer and Firefox.
18) Try to increase your RSS feed subscriber and use AdSense for feed to display Google AdSense on the feed.
19) Use Google AdSense or other advertisements in post body, right hand side bar and below the header. Use AdSense link unit with labels or links or below header. Match background color of AdSense with blog or post background color.
20) Read my post on blog traffic tips to build traffic from sources other than search engine.
Following are precautionary blogging tips
21) There should not be many outgoing links (pointing to other websites / blogs) in the post or side bar. Remove unnecessary outgoing links. Place all outgoing links near bottom of right hand side bar or footer.
22 ) Do not buy or sell links for link building.
23) If paid posts are must for you keep it minimum or have separate website / blog for paid posts or articles.
24) As said above do not write same post again ( duplicate content ). Do not edit old post titles and content for search engine optimization.
25) Do not have METATAGS only for main home URL of blogger blog, as it will be used for all the post and you will get duplicate metatag error in Google webmaster tools. You are also misguiding and confusing search engine by having same meta tag for all posts. So you can use script / widget which can give different METATAGS to individual posts. WordPress blogger can have METATAG for individual post by using All in one SEO plug-in.
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Easy Make Money Blogging
These blogging tips are a great way to share with new blogger that are interested in a way to get paid to blog.
Having a blog is almost a must for any network marketer today. Once you have your blog set up, in order to make money blogging, you can no longer rely on the old ways to generate traffic to your site. Today, you must be creative and these 8 blogging tips should be of great benefit to you.
One of the blogging tips is to take advantage of 2.0 marketing. Getting on the different social networks where people are congregating to talk and visit. If you're new and know absolutely nothing about how to make money blogging then these 8 blogging tips should help you get started.
1) One of the first blogging tips that you need to know is how to drive traffic to your blog.
Driving large amounts of traffic to your blog will insure that you make money blogging. One way to get your blog found is to learn how to optimize it for the different search engines and using a SEO plug in like SeoPressor will make the job very easy for you. It will pinpoint all the areas that need to be addressed for high ranking and optimizing your blog site is also one of the great blogging tips.
Using article marketing, forum posting and commenting on other blogs is three blogging tips that I would urge you to implement immediately. This creates back linking and helps in raising your rank with sites like Google.
2) Be sure to Optimize your blog name is one of the best blogging tips that I could give you.
When you choose a domain name for your blog, be sure that the name contains your keywords and that the domain name is easy to spell. The name must tell the prospect what your blog is about. You only have 30 seconds to get a prospects attention.
3) Placing advertising on your blog is another way to get paid to blog!
Google offers a program called ad sense where you get paid each time someone visits your site and clicks on an ad that might interest them.
Amazon and Click bank are other companies that will pay you a commission but only if someone clicks on and buys something.
4) Making money blogging requires some Link Building!
You can activity offer to exchange links with other blogs that are involved in the same topic as you. This blogging tip has been used by some of the top bloggers because they know that search engines will increase your rank based on the number and the quality of links pointing back to your blog.
5) You can also join paid blogging networks as well!
Check out other sites for programs that are being promoted or new start ups and write a review on those services. People love to read "how to" or "reviews" to get information before they make a purchase.
6) If you want to get paid to blog, Update your blog on a regular basis!
I would suggest updating your blog at least 2 or 3 times a week so that your readers have constant new content to keep them involved.
Post a new article or make a new video and post it to your blog occasionally. This blogging tip will keep your customers actively reading and re-reading your blog on a weekly basis.
7) Once you write your blog post, check it for grammar and spelling.
In order to make money blogging and look like a professional doing it, prospects will not accept bad grammar or massive spelling errors. I suggest writing your blog post, then letting it set for 24 hours, come back, read it again and you will easily find errors that were overlooked on the first reading.
8) Be Original
Prospects and readers don't want to read the same ole rehashed jargon over and over, so take this marketing tip to heart and give them something new and refreshing. Allow your personality to come through as you write your post, some people say that you should write like you talk.
Give that a try and test the results for yourself. If you're new and want to make money blogging, use these blogging tips as a guide to help you grow your blog, practice your writing skills daily and weekly and with each improvement you should see traffic start to migrate to your blog just from using these blogging tips.
More information, please visit :
Having a blog is almost a must for any network marketer today. Once you have your blog set up, in order to make money blogging, you can no longer rely on the old ways to generate traffic to your site. Today, you must be creative and these 8 blogging tips should be of great benefit to you.
One of the blogging tips is to take advantage of 2.0 marketing. Getting on the different social networks where people are congregating to talk and visit. If you're new and know absolutely nothing about how to make money blogging then these 8 blogging tips should help you get started.
1) One of the first blogging tips that you need to know is how to drive traffic to your blog.
Driving large amounts of traffic to your blog will insure that you make money blogging. One way to get your blog found is to learn how to optimize it for the different search engines and using a SEO plug in like SeoPressor will make the job very easy for you. It will pinpoint all the areas that need to be addressed for high ranking and optimizing your blog site is also one of the great blogging tips.
Using article marketing, forum posting and commenting on other blogs is three blogging tips that I would urge you to implement immediately. This creates back linking and helps in raising your rank with sites like Google.
2) Be sure to Optimize your blog name is one of the best blogging tips that I could give you.
When you choose a domain name for your blog, be sure that the name contains your keywords and that the domain name is easy to spell. The name must tell the prospect what your blog is about. You only have 30 seconds to get a prospects attention.
3) Placing advertising on your blog is another way to get paid to blog!
Google offers a program called ad sense where you get paid each time someone visits your site and clicks on an ad that might interest them.
Amazon and Click bank are other companies that will pay you a commission but only if someone clicks on and buys something.
4) Making money blogging requires some Link Building!
You can activity offer to exchange links with other blogs that are involved in the same topic as you. This blogging tip has been used by some of the top bloggers because they know that search engines will increase your rank based on the number and the quality of links pointing back to your blog.
5) You can also join paid blogging networks as well!
Check out other sites for programs that are being promoted or new start ups and write a review on those services. People love to read "how to" or "reviews" to get information before they make a purchase.
6) If you want to get paid to blog, Update your blog on a regular basis!
I would suggest updating your blog at least 2 or 3 times a week so that your readers have constant new content to keep them involved.
Post a new article or make a new video and post it to your blog occasionally. This blogging tip will keep your customers actively reading and re-reading your blog on a weekly basis.
7) Once you write your blog post, check it for grammar and spelling.
In order to make money blogging and look like a professional doing it, prospects will not accept bad grammar or massive spelling errors. I suggest writing your blog post, then letting it set for 24 hours, come back, read it again and you will easily find errors that were overlooked on the first reading.
8) Be Original
Prospects and readers don't want to read the same ole rehashed jargon over and over, so take this marketing tip to heart and give them something new and refreshing. Allow your personality to come through as you write your post, some people say that you should write like you talk.
Give that a try and test the results for yourself. If you're new and want to make money blogging, use these blogging tips as a guide to help you grow your blog, practice your writing skills daily and weekly and with each improvement you should see traffic start to migrate to your blog just from using these blogging tips.
More information, please visit :
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