Blogging Tips
Link Within Your Blog to Increase Backlinks and Web Traffic
Nov 25th
Linking your blog posts with keywords you use in new posts is a great way to make the visitor engrossed in your blog for a longer time. Many authors write only half the article and link the other half to another post. I don’t use this way because I feel that it’s frustrating for the reader to go from one page to another just in the search of what he wants. I rather place links of some other related posts in my blog which the visitor might be interested in.
For example, if you have written a post on how to increase traffic to your blog, then you might place a link to another post on your blog about search engine optimization. This way, the reader finds everything he needs and is often satisfied.
Placing links within your blog to other posts of your blog has a few more advantages.
- It refers your visitors to older posts which many visitors usually don’t have time to look to.
- In case someone tries to copy your article and place it on your blog, then your link also goes with it (unless he removes it manually that is). It is a feature in blogger that when you copy anything from a blog and paste it on another blog, everything goes with it, the headings, posts, points, pictures and the links. So even if someone took your post without your permission, he actually did a favor to you by giving a backlink to you!
So always remember to place links within your posts referring to more relevant posts in your blog.
How to Use Digg to Promote Your Blog
Nov 24th
Social bookmarking sites are a big boom today. Twitter, Orkut, Facebook, Stumbleupon are only a few to name. But one of the most promising of all these is Digg.com and it can be used in a great way to promote your blog. Why is Digg different from others and why it carries such a HUGE potential to promote your blog?
On digg, you can submit your blog posts as articles. But you can do that on many other sites such as Ezinearticles.com. So what differentiates Digg from other similar sites?
On Digg all you have to do is submit a description of your article and not the full article as required by many articles submission sites. So the reader on Digg will have to come to your blog to read the whole post. This is a HUGE bonus for bloggers and I personally feel that it is very much justified also as all the hard work is done by the blogger and he should also get a share of the fruit.
Digg also displays your blog address just below the heading of your submission. To add to it all, you can submit any post of your blog directly to Digg by adding a “Digg It” button to your posts automatically.
By placing this button, your blog readers can also submit your posts on Digg and this will attract more visitors.
So don’t waste anymore time. Register today on Digg.com and start promoting your blog.
How to Create Your Own Website in Minutes
Nov 23rd
If you think that creating a website of your own is a very difficult task and it is only for computer professionals, you are absolutely WRONG!!! Creating a website about any topic is a very very easy task. you can create a website in just a day or two. Trust me, I am not lying. The previous version of our website, MyArticlesHub.com, was also made just with the tools I am going to tell you about now.
So How Can You Do It?
1. Get An Automatic Website Making Tool.
There are many FREE automatic website designing tools available on the net. But all of them are rubbish. When I was planning for t his site, I searched and downloaded a dozen of such free automated website designing software’s but all of them were either full of their own ads or they didn’t allow me to use all the features.
Then I got this SUPERB tiny software…NAMU6. I was amazed by the speed and simplicity with which it works. Even the website of Namu6 is itself made by this small software!!!
Some of it’s great features are -
- A small file size (Just 3.7 MB)
- Absolutely FREE
- Very easy interface
- Auto publishing feature, i.e., you won’t need an FTP client to publish your website
- No Ad of Namu6 Website on your site. What impressed me the most is that there is only a small link pointing to their website and saying “Made by Namu6″. But the great thing is that they give you an option of removing that link too!!! Now that is called FREE!!!
Namu6 saves your whole site as a namu6 file. You can publish the whole site on your own server directly at the push of a button. You can also publish the website to a local folder on your computer and later publish it via any FTP agent. Get Namu6 HERE
2. Get a free hosting account
I have hosted my website on Awardspace.com. I really found it very simple and good. It gives you what it shows. No forced ads, free subdomain names, easy interface, and so on. I will STRONGLY recommend you all Awardspace.com as your hosting service. You can name your site with a FREE subdomain name once you create an account with Awardspace.com. You can put Adsense codes in all the webpages on the server itself as Awardspace.com allows for HTML editing also.
3. Get An FTP Agent
If you want to use an FTP agent, use FILEZILLA.
It is FREE and very easy to use.
4. Upload Your Website
After you finish making the website, just upload it onto the server. Awardspace.com provides you with all kind of help for uploading your files on the server. It is as easy as uploading a file on any file sharing service.
And you are Done!!!
Personally, I will give all these three utilities Namu6, Awardspace.com & and Filezilla 10/10 marks for their performance.
Do let me know how did you find it after you make your website with these tools.
How to make your blog sticky and readers stay for hours
Nov 23rd
As we know, most of the readers are coming to our blog to get some information that they’re looking for but not coming to hang around. Sometimes, they get the info in one post and they leave. So, how to make your blog post sticky and make your readers stay for more than a minute or more? In order to make money online, you need traffic. There are a few little tips that might helps to make your blog post sticky and gain more traffic:
1) Put Your RSS Feed Subscribe Higher
You should promote your RSS Feed or newsletter, ask your readers and friends to subscribe your newsletter online. This is a way to make them will come back your blog and read your latest blog post. You should provide several subscribe options for your readers to increase the chance that a visitor will subscribe your blog.
2) Interlink Your Blog Post
This is what everyone and I will do. Every time we write a new blog post, try to seek a relevant post to link to within your new blog post. Let say if a reader is reading a post about ‘How To Make Money Online’ and you inserted a relevant blog post link about ‘Make Money Online With Affiliate’, they might click the relevant post link to read more as well after finished reading the first post about how to make money online. With that said, they will stay for another minute to read another post on your blog, if your another blog post has other related information link within it, your reader will be reading all over and over again.
3) Response To Every Single Comment From Readers
It’s to build good relationship with your readers, never act like a superstar and never replied to any comment. This is what I’m practicing in every of my blog post. Once your readers like your attitude and character, they will be more likely to visit your blog again.
4) Focus on Your Niche
Not only we should make our blog post sticky but our blog as well, try to only focus on a specific or single niche. This is the basic tips to make your blog post sticky. If you’re writing many different niche, says you have 1 post each in categories like ‘make money online’, ‘food’, ‘technology’ and etc, when a reader is looking for food post, they will only read the only 1 post about food and then leave.
5) Create Archive Page
This is a must for a blog, whenever your readers want to search for something in your blog but they forget when you post it, Archives page might help your readers to seek for the blog post.
By following this 5 simple tips, you might be able to make your blog post more stickier. I will be more likely to hear your other tips on how to make your blog post more stickier too. Simply drop a comment over here and we can discuss more about it.
The Golden Rule for Succeeding With AdSense
Nov 20th
AdSense is does not need an introduction here. Everyone knows this modern marvel which has made possible billions earn billions. Almost every other blogger today joins Adsense for earning money online. But how many of you actually succeed? I mean even if you are getting a 100$ check every 2 months or so, do you call it success? I don’t think so. Websites and Blogs today earn in thousands of dollars per month! Techcrunch.com, for example, earns a whooping 2,00,000$ per month!!! What is the “Golden Rule” that gave these SUPER BLOGS the success they have today?
There are more than one for sure, and the list is ever growing. But one “Golden Rule” which, you can call, the first step in moving towards success with Adsense is selecting your “NICHE” properly and writing about it. What I mean to say is that your blog should be targeted to a particular audience and not to the whole world.
Google’s advertising is very simple. It does not imply very strict rules on allowing blogs to enroll for Adsense. And it shows targeted ads on your blogs. But for success, the word “TARGETED” needs to be understood.
Once you start your blog about a particular thing, write articles related only to that particular topic. For example, I write articles on this blog about earning money online, affiliate marketing, earning traffic, blogging tips, cool gadgets to have on your blog, etc etc. But I stick to the same topic. I don’t write about the latest century which Ricky Ponting scored against England at Lord’s!!!
Why This Is Important?
As the content of your blog increases day by day, the matching of Ads displayed by Google on your blog also increases and the ads displayed are very similar to your posts and keywords you have used in your blog. So a visitor searching for affiliate marketing article will get ads referring to other sites offering this in which the visitor will definitely interested in and the chances of him clicking on the ad increases many folds.
So friends writing articles related to your niche is of utmost importance for generating decent revenue from Adsense. According to me, this is the most important thing to increase your earnings. Don’t agree with me? Do let me know what you feel is the most important thing to do to earn money.
Why You Should Have Your Own Business Website
Nov 19th
Creating a web site is crucial to your home business success and your efforts to make money online, regardless of what home business method you decide to go with. In fact, aside from determination and will, your own website(s) is the single most important factor to your success.
I initially operated my blog My Articles Online. But then I realized the importance of doing your hard work on your own custom domain. So I switched to MyArticlesHub.com. Having your website on your custom domain has many advantages.
With the advancement in web programming, you can easily create a working web site using many of the free web site generators or software. We will explain how to get started building your web site in a minute. First, let’s review some of the benefits of having your own web site.
One of the biggest hurdles a home business company has is reputation and trust. Why should anyone trust you with their money, especially when there are much bigger more reputable companies around. With online shopping, internet users can easily go to websites like Walmart.com and buy almost anything they could possibly need. Having a professional looking web site is one way that you can combat the “big guys”. A web site is your chance to talk to the customer without the customer feeling pressured.
On a side note, did you know that over 95% of all Internet users use the internet to search information only? Your web site should be designed to educate the customer on your product or business. Tell them everything they could possible want to know in an informative and non-pushy manner and you will not only fulfill their need of more information but, you will also gain some credibility in the customers eyes. If they see you as an expert in your field or product, they will be more likely to buy from you. In addition to creating a “professional” impression of your home business, a web site allows you to generate extra income with little to no effort. Affiliate marketing is a good example of how any business can make extra cash just by having a web site.
Let’s look at an example. Bob Shoemaker in PA started his own business as a personal finance consultant. He traveled around to his friends, families and referrals assisting with debt management and retirement planning. He built a web site so that his potential clients could get more information after his sales pitch (if they were still uncertain). His potential clients would use the business card he gave them, log on to his web site and further educate themselves about personal finance. Why should they use his services? What other options could the look into? What about credit card debt? Bob was able to answer all of these questions and more without pressuring the client. Even if the potential client did not hire Bob as their finance consultant, Bob knew they were still in the market for something.
The fact that they were visiting his web site proved their interests in personal finance. He then added affiliate links on his site that linked to credit card and debt consolidation companies. By including these affiliates, Bob was able to get up to $20.00 per client that signed up with each one of his affiliates links. If Bob ended up losing a potential client (they did not want his services) at least he was able to make some money of the person. In the end, Bob was earning half of his income from personal consulting and the other half from his affiliate campaign.
So the crux is that having a business website of your own is not very difficult. It just requires a basic knowledge of computers and can bring out some very decent results to your earning potentials.
How to Choose a Good Domain Name?
Nov 18th
The domain name is the most important thing which you must keep in mind while planning a website. Choosing a domain name for your new website can make a HUGE difference in the amount of work you will need to do later on.
Have you ever thought why one of the best social media websites today have pretty amusing domain names? Why twitter chose twitter? Technorati, spurl, Digg, Plaxo, Propeller etc etc. The list is never ending.
One thing that is common in all these websites is that before these were invented, if you had searched any of these names in Google, it would return only a few results.
I will explain it to again. Say for example you want to start a website on how to make money online. You choose a name say mymoneymakingwebsite.com.
Now, if you open Google and search the keywords “make money online” or just search the name of your website, it will return more than 4 billion webpages. Before I started my other website Tenomania.com, I was in a dilemma so as to what should be the name. It is based on 10 ways to do things. I thought over and over and searched many potential domain names in Google. With the name Tenomania.com, Google just returned over 400 results. So, I just have to compete with 400 odd people and in that too many wont be taking things that seriously. So SEO becomes very easy.
So always remember, keep in mind that it is the content that you have to offer and the tags and meta data you use that ranks your website in search engines and not only the name. Choose it wisely and make your life a hell lot easier.
How to Post Your Blog Content to Multiple Social Bookmarking Sites – INSTANTLY | Ping.fm
Nov 11th
It has always been said now and then that social book marking sites are the cornerstone of website/blog promotion these days. Every other blogger or small website online uses so many social book marking sites available online to promote their content. This actually has led to the concept of viral marketing.
But how can you quickly post all your content to over – 40+ social book marking sites?
There are two effective ways –
1. Ping.fm
A fantastic service for sharing your content very quickly to almost all the popular social book marking sites. All you need to do is just post the link in it. It automatically extracts the headings well as excerpts to post to various book marking sites. It also can be integrated with twitter clients like Hoot suite. So all you have to do is schedule a blog post and also schedule a tweet for it in Hoot suite. As Hoot suite posts your tweet, it automatically gets posted in all the social book marking sites added in ping.fm. So, all you need to do is blog posting. Rest everything is automated. Super easy…isn’t it?
2. Onlywire.com
It also allows a service similar to ping.fm and infact has a book marking list as good as that of ping.fm. But still, it is not that convenient. It can not be integrated with hoot suite and the Wordpress plugin for autopoisting to Onlywire has it’s own issues.
We would highly recommend you all to register to ping.fm and get started right away.
How to monetize your blog
Nov 1st
Having a blog does not automatically mean you can make money out of it. There are a number of factors that make the difference between simply publishing information and actually making money. If you already have a blog, read through the steps below to learn how to make money out of it.
Step 1: Posting Regular Content Updates
Your blog site must never be stagnant. Whether or not you get any feedback, it would be best to write something new on a weekly or even on a daily basis. Your readers will lose interest in visiting your blog site if they do not see any updates.
Step 2: Pinging Your Blog
Pinging your blog is important because it ensures that blog directories as well as search engines will be alerted each time you update your blog. This will help you get the attention of more blog readers. Pingomatic and Pingoat are some of the available sites that supply this kind of service at no cost.
Step 3: Promoting Your Blog
Apart from pinging your blog, you need to pursue other internet marketing efforts to let your target market know that you exist and that you are a valuable source of information. As soon as you gain a steady flow of targeted traffic to your blog, you have the potential to make money out of it.
Step 4: Making Space for Advertisements
Advertising would be the primary means for you to make money out of your blog. As long as you have a good number of loyal followers and you maintain a steady flow of traffic, you have much to gain from publishing pay-per-click advertisements or even directly selling some space to advertisers.
Step 5: Promote Affiliate Marketing Programs
This can be a very valuable means to leverage on your readership. Join affiliate marketing programs with products that your target market may be interested in. You can then use your blog to promote those products and earn commissions.
By following the steps listed above, you can be more effective making money online out of your blog.
How to popularize your blog – 8 known ways
Oct 27th
1. Write compelling text
To build a loyal blog audience, your content should be interesting and offer something to the readers that will urge them to come back for more. You need to write often and offer your readers some meaningful information to help breed loyalty and maintain their interest.
2. Submit Your Blog To Search Engines
You should submit your blog URL to various search engines including the popular ones like Google and Yahoo. This will help you to appear in the search results of these engines as they will crawl your blog and include your pages after your submission.
3. Add links to other blogs in your blogroll
Though many blog owners do not like to put outbound links on their blogs, relevant links to other blogs will not only help your readers get information but also bring traffic from those blogs. The owners of blogs to which you link are likely to add a reciprocal link, thereby sending their visitors to your blog.
4. Use the comments section
The Comment section of your blog is a simple yet effective tool to bring traffic to your blog. You need to respond to your readers comments to show how actively involved you are with the blog and the opinion of your readers. This two-way conversation between you and your readers will also increase their loyalty. There is an icing on the cake too. Search engines love content. The more active your comment section is, the more content will be created there. The search engines will lap up this fresh and unique content, created by your blog readers.
5. Use RSS Feed
Make it easier for your readers to read your blog by putting the RSS feed button on your blog. It will also help your feed subscribers to know when you publish new content even if they do not visit your blog.
6. Use tags
The search engines notice tags easily. Make sure to include tags in your blog posts as it will get you some additional traffic.
7. Optimize your blog posts
While you write your blog posts, try to include relevant keywords and links. Use of proper and relevant keywords play a major role in search engine optimization. However, do not overload your copy with too many links and keywords, thereby robbing the natural flow of language. If you do so, the search engines may blacklist you and your blog may even be pulled off the search results.
8. Use social book marking sites
An easy way to boost traffic to your blog is to submit your blog URL to popular social book marking sites like StumbleUpon, Digg, Reddit and Delicious.
