Search engine optimization rules for Google 

SEO

Search engine optimization is the only way for increasing traffic to your blog or website. Everybody wants to increase traffic to their blog. But, for that purpose you must have to do some seo(search engine optimization). In my previous articles I taught you that how you can implement search engine optimization onyour own blog? But, if you do not take care of something while doing search engine optimization then your website may be reach in Google search engines’ spam folder. And, if your website is spammed by Google then it is not visible to search engine. Google has some rules for doing search engine optimization which you must have to follow for increase traffic on your blog or website.

SEO RULES FOR GOOGLE

1: KEYWORD STUFFING
             
Keyword stuffing is the black hat seo method through which you can increase traffic to your blog for few days but when search engine finds that you are trying to make fool search engine then it will decrease your ranking in its database and your serp (search engine ranking position) will be decreased. In keyword stuffing people generally repeats some keyword immediately without appropriate content. And because of that at first look this site get higher ranking but after one or two week search engines finds that it is ill-legal technique for seo and it will send this web site in its spam folder.

2: WEBPAGE SIZE
             
Webpage size is also affects to your search engine ranking position. Let me tell you that every search engine has its own size limit for crawl a webpage. If your webpage size is greater than this limit then only up to this limit your webpage is visible to search engine rest of area of your webpage is not visible by search engine. Let me tell you that Google has 100kb size limit. It means that Google can read your webpage up to 100kb without images. Images are not visible by search engine. Yahoo has 500 kb size limit. So whenever you are writing your post make sure that it has appropriate size.

3: DO NOT USE TINY TEXT
               
This seo rule is related to font size of your webpage. I found on many websites that they are using font size less than 5 pixels. Let me tell you that Google search engine can read the text which has greater than 4 pixel font size. If your font size is less than 4 pixels then it is not visible to search engine. You can use tiny text for notes. If you want to give some note to user but search engine cannot read it then tiny text can help you. So use tiny text only where needed.

4: DON’T USE STOP WORDS
                
In, of, the, out these all are stop words. You cannot use these words as your keyword. If you include these words into your keyword then your keyword weight will be reduced. So it is better to do not use stop words into your keywords.

5: JAVASCRIPT AND VBSCRIPT FILE
                
Keyword prominence is the most important factor of seo and these two types of files are reducing your keyword prominence. I am not telling you that do not use these types of files but do not use these files as internal files. It is better to use these types of file as an external javascript or vbscript file. And do not include these types of files in top most area of your blog. Try to include it in lower area of your blog.

                  

These are the basic search engine optimization rules which you have to follow when you are doing search engine optimization.

Microsoft Stops Supporting Windows XP

Windows XP,the most favourite opeating system from Microsoft will no longer be available in 53 weeks exactly from now.Microsoft in a report announced that it will stop supporting the 12 year old Windows XP os.Along with this support to Microsoft Office 2003 will also be stopped.So after April 8,2014 XP users will no longer receive official support related to security or maintenance of windows so that if users  are using Xp than the mentioned date are open to cyber attacks.

This most popular XP was announced in 2001.From then it became the widely adopted opearting system worldwide because of its user friendliness.Even now Windows XP holds more than 40% of market share being a tough challenge for Windows 7 ,Windows 8 and many other operating systems.
This is really bad news for XP addicts who never changed to other even though most of them are convincing.Microsoft recommends users to upgrade users to Windows7 or 8 from their old operating system as soon as possible.The company is also offering discounts for XP professional and home basic users to upgrade to newer Windows version.

The company is now offering 15% discount to upgrade Windows 8 Pro license.Now users can purchase Pro license and Office 2013 for 477$ with 84$ discount.So this is the right time to upgrade to newer version of Windows operating systems.

What is Classified Ads?

What is Classified Ads?

Peoples are posting classified ads and searching about that what is classified ads. I am going to discuss on the topic classified ads. Have you ever noticed that in news papers there must a page named as, classified or classified section. In that section there are short ads classified in different categories, I mean ads or advertisements are sorted by category and placed there in the relevant category. Normally these classified ads in text format or may small logo be included too but usually classified ads are avoided by graphics.

News papers usually charge very low rate for classified ads because these ads are sorted category wise and have not specified location by the advertiser. These classified categories may be such as, “for sale”, “wanted”, “services”, “offers” etc. Normally classified ads in newspapers charged by the text lines or the lengh of ad.

Classified Ads in the World of Internet
Now posting classified ads online in classified websites is common for most internet users or business men. Peoples prefer to post classified ads in well reputed and highly targeted traffic website. Some of them are charging cost per ad and the cost may be depend on the time period for the placement of ad or the size or text word count etc. (for instance autos.yahoo.com is paid classified advertisement website for autos, vehicles, cars etc.) But there are thousands of free classified advertisement websites which are offering their services without any price. They are just offering services for the ease of its visitors. I know many free classified websites which are offering 100% free classified ads and intstant approval for the placement of classified ads. One of them is my own free classified website which is most popular classified website in USA, Pakistan, India, Philipines and other 176 countries.

How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Website

How to Choose a Good Domain Name for Website

Domain name is the first impression of your website. So be careful while choosing a domain name for your website. Because domain represents your website’s content. A visitor can make an idea about the content of a website. If your website’s domain is irrelevant to your content then you may loose visitors at the very beginning stage when they will search in search results and find your domain name irrelevant to there search.

After deciding the nature of your website you just have to go to any registrar’s website and register a domain name for your website. If example if you go to powweb.com and now check your domain’s availability by filling the domain checker form on the home page of that website. If your desired domain name is still present then you can register it by signing up and making payment by any of the given method of payment. At powweb.comif you choose web hosting service then you need not to set name servers or dns for pointing your domain to a hosting server because this will be done automatically be thepowweb.com.

There are some other recommended web hosts and domain registrars. such aswww.hostmonster.com , www.webhostinghub.com, www.justhost.com

Some strategic points those must be kept in mind while choosing a domain for your website:
Domain name must be your website name or abbreviation of your company or content which your are offering. It should reflect your business or the content of your website.Domain should be an easy to keep in mind to your visitors.Keep it short as possible.Choose a prefix according to your requirement. Such as if your are going to make a website for your organization then .org is suitable. And if your website is for commercial purposes, then choose .com prefix. The most recommended domain prefix is on .com.www.dotomator.com has a powerful tool to choose a suitable domain. Just try it.Avoid using hyphens and numbers in your domain. Because such domains are difficult to remember. For exampleIf you have multiple options to choose a domain name from available domains then choose a very common and known name.Prefer a unique domain name.Your domain name should not the violation of some one’s trademark.If you find that your required domain name is still available then register it quickly.If your business or website is on wider term then it is suggested that register your domain name on different prefixes such as .com, .net, .org etc. In this way no one can use your unique name for other prefixes. You need not to make separate websites for all domains. Run your website on your preferred domain and all other domains should be redirected to your preferred domain.Do not use trademarks or brand names of other companies.Choose a domain name which can be spoken easily and can be understood easily such as on phone or while any one talking about it.Do not choose misspelled words such as “kool” for “cool” because it creates doubt in minds when in case you use it in talking.Don’t use “4″ instead of “for” or “2″ for “two” or “to”.
When choosing a domain name please keep in mind that in future you may broaden your network. So choose a domain name in wide range of your main idea or theme. For example if you are going to make a website about a popular Sports Car “Honda CR-Z” and you have chosen a domain name as “www.hondacrz.com” then you put all the information about that car in your website. And in future you feel that you should add more information about other most popular sports cars then it is not suitable to put your other irrelevant information to this domain. Because you have limited the content of your website at the very beginning step. So keep in mind that your topic must be relevant to your domain name.

Now consider if you were chosen your domain name such as “www.hondasportscars.com” then you can put data related to all Honda sports cars. Now, broaden more domain name such as “www.sportscars.com” or “www.popularsportscars.com” then you can put your all data related to all sports cars. And your website you can categorize your content by brands.

How to Get a Free Domain

How to Get a Free Domain

Many people used to ask question that if there is an option of making website with free domain then why people purchase a domain. For making a website there are two options that either you should have to choose a free domain or paid domain. It depends on your budget or needs. If you are going to make a website for commercial use then you must have to purchase a domain (with commercial prefixes such as .com, .net etc.) from a registrar by paying amount. Or if you are making a temporary website for the purpose of little bit needs then free domain is suitable.

If you want to make money online then you must have to invest some amount on your website. There is no any successful business without investment. If you have to compete with your competitors then you have to choose paid option because free domains can not compete in the search engine search results. Because search engines often ignore free domains.

I never recommend you to choose a free domain but if it suites your requirements then you need not to waste money on that work which can be done by free way. There is always a risk in free domain or website of removing with out any advance notice. Your free domain or website runs until the main website which is offering such service is remain in the field. If in future the owner of main website fails to renew the domain or web hosting services then due to his alone negligence or failure all sub domains will be terminated. So think more while creating a free website.

Some advantages of paid domain:
Paid domains are easy to remember.It is totally of your choice.Search engines give priority to paid domains.It gives a good impression of your website of company. It will be deemed as your company is at good position.You can avail your email at your own domain such as email@yourdomain.com.There is also an option to make sub domains of your main domain.Your own full control on your domain.No forced ads.Full control on look and feel.Looks more professional as compared to free domain’s website.Visitors prefer to visit a paid domain instead of free domain.
Examples of paid domain:
www.yourdomain.com
www.yourdomain.net etc

Some disadvantages of free domain:
Lengthy name. Because it results in sub domain of the main domain.Forced ads. You can not remove those ads.You have to accept strict terms and conditions of the service provider. And due to this in case of any little mistake your website can be removed with out giving notice to you.You can not make further sub domain because free domains providers do not allow such advanced features.Only given templates for your website.Limited control on your website.No privacy, because the owner of main domain can access your data. He has full control on your domain too.Free domain has low credibility among the visitors.Search engine also ignores free domains.You can not earn more money from free websites.You may not avail email account on your free domain because free domain service providers do not provide such services.Main domain is forcefully added to your free domain.
Examples of free domain
www.yourdomain.maindomain.com
www.yourdomain.maindomain.net etc

How To Create A Website

How To Create A Website

Website Creation Steps For Newbie
Do you want to know that,

how to create a website?
what are the beginning steps to create a website?
Well you will learn here from A to Z for creating a website. Creating a website is an interesting process. But you need to work a lot for the success of your website.

Let us start knowing about the basic simple steps for creating a website. First of all focus on following simple and easy steps.

Plan A website
Register a domain name
Select a web hosting company

Create your web pages
Upload or transfer web pages to web server
Above mentioned steps are essential steps for any website. But there are some other additional terms that must be in your mind while you creating a website. Such as either you should choose a free domain or paid domain, free web host or paid. Suitable content or material for your website. You will learn all about a website in this site.

What is Domain Name?
A domain name is a unique web address or IP just like as your unique street address of your house in real life such as your house No., street No., and city or country etc. You have to approach to a registrar to register a domain name. A domain name must be relevant to your content or main theme of your website. Because a relevant domain name can build an idea of its content before visiting it. An Example of domain is “yourwebsite.com”, “yoursite.net” etc. Read more about domain name and how to register a domain name.

What is Web hosting?
Web hosting is a web space provided by web hosting company or server for the stuff or content of your website. It is just like memory of your hard disk in your personal computer or laptop. The web hosting fee depends on the space for your website and services provided for you.

How to create web pages?
Nobody wants to pay money to web developers if they can build their own website. If you want to success then you should yourself know about web designing. It is very easy and simple. There are multiple options that which method you use to create your web pages. It also depends on the type of your website and your skills too. Most of web host offer you to build website online from an online site builder.

Can I earn money from my website?
Yes, you can monetize your website. Most of websites are feeding their owners. By displaying ads or sponsor’s stuff you can really earn more from your website. Earning from website depends on your content and traffic of website.

Some of major ways by adopting you may earn lot of money from your website, those are listed below

Ecommerce 

Google Adsense 

Affiliate Marketing 

Yahoo Publisher Network 

Paid Surveys or Polls 

Geting Donations 

Selling Your Service 

Selling Estuff 

Selling Hard Stuff

Creating and publishing a website is not the last step for the success of your website. You have to do more with it. You have to generate traffic to your site. A website is just like a shop in your street. As you know there is no success in any business without its clients. So visitors are the clients of your website.
Learn more about how to generate traffic to website.

Duplicate Classified Ads – What should I do?

Duplicate Classified Ads – What should I do?

I am really wondering that why people use to post duplicate ads again and again. They think that publishing same ad again and again will make an importance and may be held outstanding among the other ads but the reality is totally opposite of it. Actually following proverbs fit on them,

“Inviting unnecessary trouble by one’s silly actions.” (English)

“Cutting off the nose to spite the face” (English)

“Apne pair pur kulhari marna” (Urdu)

I am running a good classified website having good targeted traffic to ti and people are spamming in it but I am strictly fighting with them. There are many logics due to that we must have to delete spam or duplicate ads. We are bound to delete duplicate ads due to following facts and reasons behind,

Google has strictly forbidden duplicate content in the website. So that to run good with google we are bound to delete all duplicate classified ads.We respect our visitors and we really want to bring true and quality content to the visitors of our classified websites. Whenever a visitor use to browse a classified website and he found same ad again and again he will think that this website is publishing same content on different pages and this is not serious so they may drop that page and may go to some other website which is offering quality classified ads or quality content.Having same classified ads on different pages is really bad impression overall at all search engines and on visitors. As the owner of any classified website, no one will like to allow post same ads in the same website again and again.

What Should I do with duplicate classified ads?

I use to delete spammy all duplicate ads from my website. Because there are still chances to be published the same ad again by the spammer once again, so I delete all duplicate ads assuming that they will again publish that content and once again I will again do this. I really hate this act by spammers. If they use to put there ad in our classified website then there is 100% chances that their ad will live in our website for life time but when they act as greedy then it will destroy the opportunity of having our free services to post classified ads without any fee or charges.

How to Write a Good Classified Ad

How to Write a Good Classified Ad

A good written ad can play an important role of any advertisement either that is in the shape of banner or text classified ad. A good looking or well managed ad can inspire its reader or viewer to avail the offered services. The people who know well advertising techniques they earn the hearts of their clients or customers.

Text ad should contain an invitation to act or some inspiring words in the title and in short discription. The ad should speak loudly to visit the site office or the online website for more details. When a visitor use to visit the site office or the website there are more chances to get return of that published classified ad.

Points those should be kept in mind while posting a good classified ad,
Inspiring words should be used in the title of classified ad.Mostly mention only beneficial parts of the offer for the client or customer.Tell the reader or visitor of your ad that he has in need of that product by telling or displaying the benefits of the product or services.Use simple and short descriptive text.Invite the visitor to visit the website or local office for more and complete details.
You should also follow the 7C’s of business communication to make your ad more effective. Following are 7C’s of business communication,

Correctness Clarity Conciseness Completeness Consideration Concreteness Courtesy
Try yourself by posting a free classified ad in my this classified website. You can post your classified ad from this page. This service is completely free for all over the world.

How to Build Visitors for a Classified Site

How to Build Visitors for a Classified Site

Today I am going to discuss about the traffic of a classified website. Now a days I have noticed that mostly people are making classified ads website even they have not experience of running a classified ads website. I am running a highly targeted traffic classified ads website. So I have a good experience about classified advertisement websites. Know here about the classified ads website for doing something and what not to do?

Best Practices For Classified Ads Websites

Try to make your website simple and user friendly as well as search engine friendly. Allow visitors to post free classified ads. Allow visitors to post without registration because visitors don’t want to post classified ads with registration, I have a separate post about registration for classified ads websites. Check daily ads posted by your visitors and delete any duplicate content or illegal or adult material from your website. I know it is difficult to  get rid of spam posts but you should do this. Put your classified ads website to a well known and quality web hosting provider’s server. Do you know that google gives priority to high speed website and if your server will be good and have good configuration then your site will be loaded without wasting time because no one want to wait while browsing on internet.


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Increase Traffic to Your Blog

Increase Traffic to Your Blog

Blogs are a very popular ways of promoting your product or service. They are easy to install, easy to administer and easy to update. And search engines love them too. But what is a blog without traffic?Exactly. Here are five quick ways to boost traffic to your blog and start seeing those big sales.

Build a list of blog services to ping
There are a lot of blog services you can ping. This means that you notify this service, that you’ve updated your blog. These services then list your new posts and you get the traffic from them. I’ve made a list of 50+ blog services you can ping on my site. These list are also available if you search google or any other search engine for it. That should be enough to give an initial boost to your traffic.

Add buttons to popular news readers
What does this mean? Well there are sites like yahoo or google or bloglines etc, which have a members area where you can select sites with RSS feeds to fetch the latest updates from different blogs. That way you can have the latest updates from let’s say 50 blogs listed on one page. I have a list of these popular pages on my website plus the buttons which link to them. Users can then easily add my blog to their news reader members area.

Update your content regulary
Search engines and blog services love regular updates. It’s very likely that you will get targeted traffic from search engines if you post regulary. That means you should make a new post to your blog at least once per day. But be careful. Too many updates per day can harm your search engines position and hits. What’s too many?  more.

Post in forums
Post in forums, but don’t spam them. Post something fresh and interesting and put a link to your blog in your signature. Don’t just post in any forum. For example if you’re selling cds, post in forums that are about music and cds. Don’t post in car forums if you’re selling furniture. By posting in forums you will get one-way links which are good for search engine position in search engines like google or msn or yahoo.

Submit to blog search engines
There are masses of search engines available, that list only blogs. Just google for „blog search engines“ and you should find at least 20 of them. These blog search engines will help you with targeted traffic. Be sure to write a good title and a good description to your blog, so that people will easily find it and click on your link.

Follow these 5 steps and you will start seeing lots of traffic to your blog. And the so long awaited sales will start coming in. And don’t forget to update your blog with fresh unused content that you write yourself.

Search Engine Optimization Services

Looking for Affordable Search Engine Optimization Services?

If you are looking for affordable SEO services (company), then you have landed on the right page. Our SEO services and web solutions are tailor-made to suit even the most shoe-string budgets. We follow the most advanced SEO methodologies to help your site rank higher in SERPs adopting our Ethical SEO approaches.

Our SEO services will help your site increase visibility and bring quality and targeted visitors. Although our services are capable helping your site achieve potential customers and higher conversion rate yet, to your pleasant surprise, we offer these website rankings at the most competitive prices to you.

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It’s true. Your site can not increase its website rankings by happenstance. It has numerous competitors to fight against so that it emerges victorious by putting them behind in the search engine visibility. We by the virtue of our white hat SEO techniques ensure that your site consistently improves its ranking over the times. We value ethical SEO practices and incorporate highest level of search engine marketing ethics into our business practices. Our organic SEO practices with while-hat techniques uniquely differentiate us from the other SEO Companies in the industry.

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We, as a leading SEO Company, are capable of performing through Ethical Search Engine Optimization practices. One of the reasons of our rapid growth over the past few years can be largely attributed to the fact that we have always given consistent performances to our clients. Ethical SEO practices have been ingrained deeply in our business ethos and we believe in passing it down to each and every staff in our organization.

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Each of our Dedicated Search Engine Marketing professionals has ample experience in handling SEO campaign for many customers. We utilized our collective experience and expertise to bring the desired results for our customers. Our search engine optimization specialist are not only thorough in field of search engine optimization and marketing, but also they are talented enough input their valuable contributions to make each and every campaign successful. Our search engine optimization specialist display brilliant coordination among themselves which is a critical factor while handling an SEO project. Starting from search engine submissions, Link Building team to Web development team and Content developer team, our SEO experts help you get the best results and boost your sales growth.

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Our higher website rankings services enable your site to achieve higher volume of targeted, potential and convertible traffic. This creates a chance of higher conversion rate resulting into sales. Apart from the natural or organic search engine optimization services, we are also into sponsored list campaigning of Google. Our efficacious PPC campaigns help you achieve grater ROI (Return on Investment) thereby maximizing your revenue generation.

Search Engine Optimization vis-a-vis Search Engine Marketing

Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the surest ways to boost traffic to your site and increase sales revenue of your business. SEO or Online Marketing has become extremely indispensable for the growth of your business. It helps your site increase its ranking in various search engines thereby improving the search engine visibility in different search engines. This in turn helps your site generate more traffic leading to higher conversion rate. Search engine marketing, on the other hand, deals with the entire process of optimization, i.e., organic as well as paid results. A well-strategized paid result campaigning (known as PPC Campaigning) can do wonders for your site.

Quick Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Search Ranking

Quick Things You Can Do Today To Improve Your Search Ranking

You know all that extra time you have to work on Search Engine Optimization? [A little sarcasm there] Actually, I tried to put together a list of quick things you can do that will help you move a little higher in your Google or Yahoo results.

Get listed in more search engines. There are tons of them out there. There are also many free services that will help you get listed. Or just set aside some time to get it done yourself. Here is a free search engine submission site that will let you cycle through the top 100 search engines and get your site submitted.

Get listed in more directories. Again, there are a lot of them out there. Look for higher pagerank directories. Improvingrank.com has some listed by pagerank. Look on the left side of the homepage.

Clean up your html and check your links. You want the bots to have smooth sailing through your site. Use the tools on W3c.org and have a real person check them over too.

Get a few more links to your site. Make them relevant and at least the same pagerank as you.

Make your page filenames descriptive and keyword rich. Naming your page new_page_1.html is wasting an opportunity to do some SEO. Use names that describe the content and keep the keywords flowing.

Check your Title tags. You can use 90 – 100 characters in the title, so add some keywords. We know Google looks at them, and so do many more search engines.

Check your ALT tags. Searchbots can’t see pictures. Make sure you have ALT tags on all of your pictures, and make sure they are descriptive and keyword rich.

Rewrite your URL (anchor) tags. Good anchor tags (the text between the http: and /a tags) reinforce the message and key words of your site.

Go post in a few forums and put your website in your signature. Forums are a great place to put one way links. And you can help somebody out at the same time.

Put together a text based sitemap and put it on your site. There’s a lot of navigation that spiders can’t understand, such as flash, forms, java and javascript. Putting together a text-based sitemap gives the bots a way to navigate around the site.

Fifteen minutes every couple of days will make a huge difference in getting your rank higher.

Adsense Alternatives For Your Blog

Adsense Alternatives For Your Blog 

Many people have started using Google’s AdSense program to make cash on their blogs, but there are some who find it a bit too uncertain or simply not suiting their own requirements from an ad program.

But thankfully for such people, there are many alternatives to AdSense to help make you cash from your blog that attempt to alleviate some of the Adsense shortcomings. Here is a list of the most noteworthy ones from the lot with a description concerning each one.

AllFeeds (http://www.allfeeds.com/?action=publishers)
AllFeeds has a great pool of online advertisers to choose from to place on your blog. It also features many display formats that you can choose from. These include banners, buttons, XML feeds, DHTML pop-ups and so on. It also features real time reporting of your ad status. The site will mail a check every month, provided that you earn more then $25.00, while rolling over earnings for the next month if you don’t. Another interesting thing about AllFeeds is that it integrates with Google AdSense, maximizing your earnings with AdSense.

MarketBanker (http://www.marketbanker.com/mb/sell.php)
MarketBanker allows you the unique possibility to set the pricing for your blog. It also allows you to allow or reject any link that appears on your site (although AdSense itself does a very good job of this as well, with URL filters) There’s also a statistics section which will allow you to see how well your site is doing. The ads are small just like AdSense’s and they’re just as easy to set up. Also, registration for MarketBanker is free.

BidClix ( http://www.bidclix.com/PubTop.html)
BidClix is different because it has advertisers compete for clicks on your blog, which in turn is meant to generate the highest possible profits for your blogs pages. It also has a very large pool of advertisers which ensure there are plenty of people to choose your site. However, it does require more polish on site contents then AdSense. As most sites, real time statistics are available and its very easy to get started with this service, but it’s also very flexible.

Chitika (http://www.realcontext.com/index.php?option=RealContext:+Contextual+Targeting+Engine)
RealContext uses Artificial intelligence to retrieve the most relevant ads for your page. And there’s an extra feature which makes RealContext unique as well. Keywords are selected based upon which previous selections paid off and which didn’t. That means there’s a constant feedback process that ensures you gain better revenue from your ads. It also supports blocking certain adds and child-safe filtering and many more options.

AdHearus (http://adhearus.com/webmaster.php)
AdHearus is a very feature-packed contextual ad provider. As with AdSense, advertisements are targeted but it doesn’t stop here at all. The ads are very flexible, you can select from text-ads, banners, rectangles, pop-ups, pop-unders or skyscrapers. You can also display your own ads, through rotation, both on your site and on other affiliate sites, which makes AdHearus a hybrid with conventional advertising technologies. There’s a very comprehensive on-line real time reporting feature and, as usual with such services, starting out is free and it’s a breeze.

AffiliateSensor (http://www.affiliatesensor.com/)
AffiliateSensor has highly customizable ad blocks, which you can make for yourself with an easy to use on-line interface. You also get realtime reporting with clicks-by-domain, page and referrer. There’s integration with Google AdSense as well, through the google_alternate_ad_url so AffiliateSensor can be used as a substitute for Google PSA’s (Public Service Ads).

Kanoodle Bright Ads (http://www.kanoodle.com/about/brightads.cool)
Kanoodle’s offering allows publishers to get ads related to topics or segments, and not the traditional keyword oriented ads. The site also groups publisher sites with advertisers by hand to ensure high-revenue generating ads. And speaking of revenue, the amount of money you receive is a clear 50% share of the amount of money Kanoodle receives for an advertiser.

TargetPoint (http://publisher.targetpoint.com)
TargetPoint is oriented more towards content publishers. It offers full control over the look the ads, statistics over your site’s overall performance and better revenue. It’s free to register and you earn a guaranteed 60% of the total revenue. You can get paid with Paypal of Bank checks and (most times) wire transfers as well.

Clicksor (http://www.clicksor.com)
Clicksor will earn you as much as 60% from the amount of money your website produces. What you get is about the same as AdSense, there are targeted text ads, you can view the revenues from your website in real time. You can receive money via PayPal or through a check every two weeks, provided that you have earned more then $50. If you haven’t made that much, your earning roll over to the next period

Ways To Use A Blog To Develop Content For Your Book

Ways To Use A Blog To Develop Content For Your Book

Participate in the blogosphere: Read and comment on other blogs in your field. This is a prime way to build readership of your blog. It is also a way of getting fresh content for both your blog and for your book.

To check out other blogs in your niche: use www.blogsearch.google.com, www.technorati.com, or www.google.com.

This is also a good way to get ideas. What are other people in your field writing about? What are the major challenges of the people in your field? If you have competitors, check them out. They may be a great help in inspiring you for content ideas, different slants and perspectives. The old song, “Anything you can do, I can do better,” comes to mind.

Ask readers to comment on your blog. In fact, each time you post something, ask them a question. Then spell it out to them on how to post a comment because your readers will probably need to be educated or at least encouraged to comment. (“Click on the comment link in the footer of this post, and leave your responses.”)

Sometimes readers will need assurances of privacy, in which case, you can ask them to email you their questions or comments in private. Others are not worried about privacy because after all, a blog isn’t meant to be private. However, readers can be shy about commenting, and need encouragement.

You may also encourage them to respond by telling them that you would like to use their replies in your book, but will only do so with their permission.

Survey your readers, do a mini-study on their preferences, their experiences, etc. The Internet is the fastest way to acquire some statistics of readers’ preferences. Far from being a scientifically validated study that would pass muster in universities with academicians, an informal survey can give you ideas and material to write about. It can also confirm that you are addressing the concerns of your readers.

Run a contest for the best idea, funniest experience, most influential or heart-grabbing situation. If you want to use these readers’ responses for content in your book, you should tell them. Many people jump at the chance to be included in a book. Others may prefer to participate anonymously. You can give them both options.

Here’s an example of how one writer asked his readers for input:

Do You Have A Broken WIndows Story?

Michael Levine’s new book, Broken WIndows, Broken Business is being released later this month. Many people feel this is going to be a mega best-seller.

We have set up a website, where you can rant about broken windows in your everyday experience… Check it out at BrokenWindows.com.

People love to share their experiences, and they love to rant, or rave. Just ask.

Ask your readers to attend a teleseminar based on the needs, challenges, concepts and ideas of your blog readers. This is a great way to go deeper into the problems and solutions you are writing about. You can record the sessions, transcribe the dialogue, convert the teleseminar to audio and PDF files. These can be sold, or given away as marketing materials for your book.

Use your blog site meter stats to examine what are the most popular articles posted. This information will guide you to expand on the topics and subtopics that capture the interests of readers.

Consistently reconnect with your passion, and ignite and inspire others with similar interests. After you’ve been blogging for awhile, you will probably develop good blogging habits:

Write something on your blog daily, or at least 2-3 times a week.

Read other blogs 2-3 times a week. Be sure to use the My Yahoo or other RSS feed buttons to subscribe to your favorite blogs, or sign up to get email updates through a FeedBlitz service on each blog.

Write with your readers in mind. And if you’re not sure where their interests lie, ask them. If they’ve found your blog, and have subscribed, chances are you share a lot in common.

If you ever fall into blog-block, reconnect with your core purpose for the blog (remember, the one you wrote out before starting your blog?). When this happens there is usually a reason, although it may not be clear to you at the time. This will pass. You can help it along by asking questions – of your readers, yourself, your closest allies.

Podcasting – Create audio files easily by scheduling teleclasses and recording them. Some people like to get their information auditorily and at their convenience by downloading mp3 files to their iPods.

Use a free teleconferencing bridge line like http://www.freeconference.com to host a call. Record your call, upload the audio file and then post to your blog or podcast using a service like http://www.audioblog.com.

As an added benefit, you can get these calls transcribed; then convert the word doc to a PDF file which you can either give away, or sell, in exchange for people’s email address; http://www.CastingWords.com is a fast, affordable transcription service.

Tips To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

Tips To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

There are many factors that make blogs much better than normal WebPages including the speed at which blogs are indexed, ability to submit to blog directories & normal directories, pings and track backs. All these little things can help drive more traffic to blogs. Here are 15 popular techniques you can use:

Create at least four keyword posts per day. Most of the top blogs such as Boing Boing, Daily Kos, and Instapundit (with literally tens of thousands of visitors per day) publish an average of 30 small 100-150 word posts per day according to “Secrets of the A-list Bloggers: Lots of Short Posts” by http://TNL.net

Submit to My Yahoo! When you submit your own RSS to My Yahoo it is indexed by Yahoo.

Submit to Google’s Reader. When you submit your own blog RSS to Google’s Reader the Google Blog Search will index your site.

Add a relevant link directory to your blog and trade links like a demon possessed! Although it may take more time than simply submitting to a search engine one time, this method is perhaps the best way to drive traffic to your site. Use software such as Zeus to speed up the link trading process.

Use ping sites like ping-o-matic. Ping your site every time you add a new post.

Submit your blog to traditional search engines such as AltaVista, and MSN.

Submit your blog to traditional directories such as DMOZ. Directories (particularly DMOZ) increase relevance with Google. DMOZ is very picky, but what do you have to lose by trying?

Submit to as many RSS Directories and Search Engines as possible. This is a simple but repetitive process that can be done with software such as RSS SUBMIT.

Comment on other blogs. Do not just leave short, lazy comments like “I agree.” Leave well thought out replies that will force readers to wonder “who wrote this?”

Use track backs. If there is a blog that you refer to or quote and it is highly relevant to your subject, leave a track back. It increases your link popularity and may even score a few interested readers from the linked site.

Go offline. Use newspaper ads, public bulletin boards, business cards, even stickers to let as many people as possible know your blog exists.

Ad a link to your blog in your e-mail signature block.

Use Groups (Usenet). Find a relevant group on Google groups, Yahoo groups, MSN groups or any of the thousands of other FREE group services and find like minded people and talk with them. Make sure your use your blog URL like it is your name.

Use Forums. Forums are one of the best places to go for advice. Go to forums and find problems to solve. Make sure you leave your blog name, but be tactful about it; some forums get annoyed with those who selfishly drop a few links to their own site and leave.

Tag your website. Tagging is a new idea that has erupted across the web. Sites like http://Del.icio.us, Technorati and many others have a social feature that allows you to place your article under keywords or “tags” that everyone interested in that tag can see.

Although these are some of the most popular ways to drive traffic to your blog, do not limit your self to tips and lists. Use your imagination and you will come up with thousands of ways to drive traffic to your blog!

Successful Blogging

Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.

Where to start?

You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home. I don’t say that because I’m the owner, but a free blog host is very rewarding for a new blog.  Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to build an audience and buzz for your blog.  It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service, is in the case your blog doesn’t become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog is that they are organized in chronological order, your latest entry is displayed first. When your blog traffic grows greatly and you are ready to upgrade to your own domain then you can simply make your last blog entry the announcement of your “move”.  Simply add a last entry stating that your blog has “moved” and type the new blog URL address. Which directs visitors to your new blog site, keeping your following, without a major inconvenience to anyone. Upgrade as you need to…but only when you need to!

Niche

A niche is a targeted product, service, or topic. You should first decide on a product, service, or topic which interest you. Choose an area which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics. It does NOT matter if your topic is popular as long as there is a audience for your topic and the topic is precisely focused then your blog should be successful. Anything can be considered a niche as long as it has a target audience no matter how large or how small the audience is. A blog about your cat can be a niche or a blog about the species of the cat family can be a larger niche market, if there are people who are interested in hearing about your cat or the species of the cat family, then you have a niche…you can even choose to build your audience for a market which an audience does not exist, but first you must build your blog.

Update Daily (nothing less)

This step is a must and not a suggestion. Updating your blog daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it more appealing to search engines. Not updating your blog on an occasional holiday or one day here and there is understandable to most, but missing days at a time or weeks is unacceptable and will most likely result in your blog being unsuccessful. To keep your blog traffic and retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog daily with multiple entries. Though, I am seeing a growing trend of successful blogs that are not being updated daily, but they are successful and have a stable audience who continue to visit their blog daily.  Regardless, these blogs are still updated weekly with multiple entries.  Until you have a steady audience you should try to update your blog everyday with at least 3 or more daily entries. The best way to accomplish this is to set aside 1-2 hours a day for tending to your blog and adding new entries. It may even be wise to schedule a set time which you dedicate to your blog each day. Give yourself work hours and treat your blog as a job, what happens if you don’t come to work for days or weeks…you lose money or worse you get fired! Same applies here…if you don’t update your blog for days or weeks you’ll lose visitors.

Traffic

It’s no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories. You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and Blogdigger. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates. Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or <a href=”http://www.zapcontent.com”>ZapContent.com</a>. Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others. The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the “About the Author” passage. What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the “About the Author” passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. The search engines is bound to find your blog in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.

Track Your Blog

How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn’t mean your blog isn’t growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors. I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what “you” have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors.

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com or Active Meter will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.

Listen to Your Audience

When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog. If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.

Multiple blogs

Use multiple blogging accounts (free) to attract more people. This means you should have a blog with JournalHome.com and others. The more blog accounts the better (be sure to read and adhere to the Terms of Service for each site). You can copy/paste from 1 blog to all others. Having different blog accounts is like having a publication in different newspapers. This enables you to attract more visitors and this also increases the chance that 1 of your blogs will be in the search engine results for your focused keywords.

Short & Concise

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic.  Stay keyword-focused.

Digital Art

Try to include non-advertising graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries. Not too much. Once a week is fine. Graphics can sometimes bring your blog to life. Of course, the content of the blog is the most important aspect and you do not want to overshadow your content with graphics, but displaying graphics can add a bit of spice to the blog. Be choosy about your graphics and make sure they fit your entry topic. You should add content with the graphic, at least a caption. Original graphics, photos, pictures, and art is recommended.

Keep it Personal

A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write with a more personal style and use first-person narratives. Do not write any of your entries as sales letters, instead share product reviews and personal endeavors.

Interact With Your Visitors

You now have the traffic you deserve. You should begin interacting with your visitors. Create a regular theme such as: “Monday Money Tip” or “Picture of the Week” which entices your readers to look forward to each week.

Give your readers advance notice about a product, service, or topic which you are going to review and then talk about later. If the President was scheduled to give a speech then in your blog you should state that you “will discuss the speech and give your opinion after the speech airs. Comments will be appreciated”.

Try your best to find exclusive information that not many have. Do not disclose any confidential or secret information which is deemed illegal or can potentially get you into trouble, but try to get the scoop before everyone else does. Such as: If your blog was about Paris Hilton (the socialite) and you had a blog entry about “Paris Hilton Getting Married” then it would be interesting to your readers if you had a actual picture of Paris Hilton engagement ring. Give your best effort to dig and search the internet for exclusive information and you will possibly come up with something useful. Your readers will appreciate this and they show their appreciation through word-of-mouth referrals. Imagine how many readers will tell their friends, family, and others about information they only can find at your blog.

Make Money

Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog traffic is increasing then it is time to start thinking about turning your traffic into profit. You should use contextual advertising, like Google Adsense or Chitika. Contextual advertising is usually text links which use the content of your blog to publish targeted ads on your blog. The payout is usually based on a pay-per-click model, meaning for ever click an ad receives you are paid a small percentage of the profits. In addition to contextual advertising it is good to also use graphical advertising such as: BlogAds.com, Amazon.com, MammaMedia, or General Sponsored Advertising.

You’re a Professional

You’re a professional now! What are you still doing with that free blog hosting service? It is time to upgrade to a domain hosted solution. You need to get a web host and choose a domain name for your blog then check its availability. Select the blogging software you wish to use, such as: Squarespace.com, WordPress.org, MovableType.org, TypePad, etc. When you have your new blog domain setup and ready for traffic then it is time for you to announce your move on all your previous blog accounts. Your last entry to the blog should be a “move” announcement. The title should be “Moved” and the blog entry should state something like “I have a new home for my blog, please bookmark and follow the link: http://www.YourNewBlogDomainName.com”. This way all returning visitors and new readers should not have any problem finding your new blog domain.  Plus, search engines can easily index and crawl your new blog, since your old blog should already be popular with the search engines.

At the level of a professional blogger you may want to team up with 1 or more other bloggers. This will create a more interesting and more powerful blog. The old saying “two heads is better than one”, more authors mean more advertising and exposure because each author will have a vested interest in the blog. The idea of a team blog is to make it profitable and rewarding for all authors, while continuing to target the blog topic and keeping the blog interesting for visitors.

Following these blogging techniques should make your blogging experience much more rewarding. There is no guarantee that your blog will become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer. Making money online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.

Successful Blogging

Successful Blogging

Blogs can be a very marketable and very profitable tool if used correctly. Profiting from blogs is just a matter of grabbing the attention of an audience and not doing any actual salesmen selling. In this article you will learn the 13 most essential steps to successful blogging.

Where to start?

You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Journal Home. I don’t say that because I’m the owner, but a free blog host is very rewarding for a new blog.  Starting with a free blog hosting service allows you to begin blogging instantly without having any advance knowledge of scripts, hosting, or programming. It allows you to build an audience and buzz for your blog.  It allows you to focus on your content and not the internal maintenance of the blog. The best benefit of starting with a free service, is in the case your blog doesn’t become successful you do not lose any money or are you left holding the bill. The great thing about a blog is that they are organized in chronological order, your latest entry is displayed first. When your blog traffic grows greatly and you are ready to upgrade to your own domain then you can simply make your last blog entry the announcement of your “move”.  Simply add a last entry stating that your blog has “moved” and type the new blog URL address. Which directs visitors to your new blog site, keeping your following, without a major inconvenience to anyone. Upgrade as you need to…but only when you need to!

Niche

A niche is a targeted product, service, or topic. You should first decide on a product, service, or topic which interest you. Choose an area which you can enthusiastically write about on a daily basis. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics. It does NOT matter if your topic is popular as long as there is a audience for your topic and the topic is precisely focused then your blog should be successful. Anything can be considered a niche as long as it has a target audience no matter how large or how small the audience is. A blog about your cat can be a niche or a blog about the species of the cat family can be a larger niche market, if there are people who are interested in hearing about your cat or the species of the cat family, then you have a niche…you can even choose to build your audience for a market which an audience does not exist, but first you must build your blog.

Update Daily (nothing less)

This step is a must and not a suggestion. Updating your blog daily not only keeps your blog more interesting to readers, but it also gives your blog fresh content on a day to day making it more appealing to search engines. Not updating your blog on an occasional holiday or one day here and there is understandable to most, but missing days at a time or weeks is unacceptable and will most likely result in your blog being unsuccessful. To keep your blog traffic and retain your visitors interest it is a must to update your blog daily with multiple entries. Though, I am seeing a growing trend of successful blogs that are not being updated daily, but they are successful and have a stable audience who continue to visit their blog daily.  Regardless, these blogs are still updated weekly with multiple entries.  Until you have a steady audience you should try to update your blog everyday with at least 3 or more daily entries. The best way to accomplish this is to set aside 1-2 hours a day for tending to your blog and adding new entries. It may even be wise to schedule a set time which you dedicate to your blog each day. Give yourself work hours and treat your blog as a job, what happens if you don’t come to work for days or weeks…you lose money or worse you get fired! Same applies here…if you don’t update your blog for days or weeks you’ll lose visitors.

Traffic

It’s no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs. There are numerous ways to build traffic. Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories. You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Technorati, Ping-O-Matic, and Blogdigger. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates. Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or <a href=”http://www.zapcontent.com”>ZapContent.com</a>. Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others. The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the “About the Author” passage. What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the “About the Author” passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. The search engines is bound to find your blog in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.

Track Your Blog

How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn’t mean your blog isn’t growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors. I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what “you” have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors.

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter like StatCounter.com or Active Meter will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.

Listen to Your Audience

When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog. If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.

Multiple blogs

Use multiple blogging accounts (free) to attract more people. This means you should have a blog with JournalHome.com and others. The more blog accounts the better (be sure to read and adhere to the Terms of Service for each site). You can copy/paste from 1 blog to all others. Having different blog accounts is like having a publication in different newspapers. This enables you to attract more visitors and this also increases the chance that 1 of your blogs will be in the search engine results for your focused keywords.

Short & Concise

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic.  Stay keyword-focused.

Digital Art

Try to include non-advertising graphics, pictures, photos, and art in your blog entries. Not too much. Once a week is fine. Graphics can sometimes bring your blog to life. Of course, the content of the blog is the most important aspect and you do not want to overshadow your content with graphics, but displaying graphics can add a bit of spice to the blog. Be choosy about your graphics and make sure they fit your entry topic. You should add content with the graphic, at least a caption. Original graphics, photos, pictures, and art is recommended.

Keep it Personal

A blog is most successful when it is kept personal. Try to include personal experiences which relates to the topic of your blog entry. Stay away from the business style of writing. Write with a more personal style and use first-person narratives. Do not write any of your entries as sales letters, instead share product reviews and personal endeavors.

Interact With Your Visitors

You now have the traffic you deserve. You should begin interacting with your visitors. Create a regular theme such as: “Monday Money Tip” or “Picture of the Week” which entices your readers to look forward to each week.

Give your readers advance notice about a product, service, or topic which you are going to review and then talk about later. If the President was scheduled to give a speech then in your blog you should state that you “will discuss the speech and give your opinion after the speech airs. Comments will be appreciated”.

Try your best to find exclusive information that not many have. Do not disclose any confidential or secret information which is deemed illegal or can potentially get you into trouble, but try to get the scoop before everyone else does. Such as: If your blog was about Paris Hilton (the socialite) and you had a blog entry about “Paris Hilton Getting Married” then it would be interesting to your readers if you had a actual picture of Paris Hilton engagement ring. Give your best effort to dig and search the internet for exclusive information and you will possibly come up with something useful. Your readers will appreciate this and they show their appreciation through word-of-mouth referrals. Imagine how many readers will tell their friends, family, and others about information they only can find at your blog.

Make Money

Once your blog has gained some real momentum and your blog traffic is increasing then it is time to start thinking about turning your traffic into profit. You should use contextual advertising, like Google Adsense or Chitika. Contextual advertising is usually text links which use the content of your blog to publish targeted ads on your blog. The payout is usually based on a pay-per-click model, meaning for ever click an ad receives you are paid a small percentage of the profits. In addition to contextual advertising it is good to also use graphical advertising such as: BlogAds.com, Amazon.com, MammaMedia, or General Sponsored Advertising.

You’re a Professional

You’re a professional now! What are you still doing with that free blog hosting service? It is time to upgrade to a domain hosted solution. You need to get a web host and choose a domain name for your blog then check its availability. Select the blogging software you wish to use, such as: Squarespace.com, WordPress.org, MovableType.org, TypePad, etc. When you have your new blog domain setup and ready for traffic then it is time for you to announce your move on all your previous blog accounts. Your last entry to the blog should be a “move” announcement. The title should be “Moved” and the blog entry should state something like “I have a new home for my blog, please bookmark and follow the link: http://www.YourNewBlogDomainName.com”. This way all returning visitors and new readers should not have any problem finding your new blog domain.  Plus, search engines can easily index and crawl your new blog, since your old blog should already be popular with the search engines.

At the level of a professional blogger you may want to team up with 1 or more other bloggers. This will create a more interesting and more powerful blog. The old saying “two heads is better than one”, more authors mean more advertising and exposure because each author will have a vested interest in the blog. The idea of a team blog is to make it profitable and rewarding for all authors, while continuing to target the blog topic and keeping the blog interesting for visitors.

Following these blogging techniques should make your blogging experience much more rewarding. There is no guarantee that your blog will become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer. Making money online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.