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5 Things To Remember When Creating Your Own Site

2013-05-14T00:48:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Lily Davis. If you want to maximize your reach to customers and readers, you have to have your own website. However, it is no longer just enough to put up a website and hope that users will come. You need to have some direction and put in the effort to make a user experience that will keep visitors coming back. Below are five things to remember when creating your own

5 Awesome Online Backlink Checker Tools for Your Website

2013-05-09T17:09:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Mackenzie Gauvin. Every website owner should understand and know how valuable it is to have the ability to create and monitor backlinks to their website. Having inbound links to your website is essential in order to help you obtain a higher webpage rank on Google. However, the backlinks you should have on your site should not be based on the quantity but more importantly

How to maximize your blog traffic

2013-05-06T18:12:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Dapinder Singh. Blog traffic is a serious and very popular matter in the field of blogging. If you want to become a successful blogger then you must have a great blog with lots of traffic. But getting huge amount of traffic to your blog is not an easy task. These days there are millions of blogs related to every niche are available on the internet so it is extremely

How Facebook’s Graph Search Can Benefit Bloggers

2013-05-02T17:31:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Amanda DiSilvestro. Social media is particularly important for bloggers because it is such a good way to create buzz around a piece of content. While I would never advocate the idea that social media doesn’t matter for other types of businesses, there is no denying that because blogging is all about content and promotion, social is particularly crucial. The new Facebook

Prevent People From Copying Your Blog Content

2013-04-30T00:29:00.001+08:00

It’s frustrating when people copy your blog post or image and pass it off as their own. No thank you, no credit, no linkback. Worse still when the stolen content ranks higher than yours (the original) in search results. All the hard work, down the drain. This post will show you how deter bad people from stealing your blog content. How your blog content is copied? Below are some of the ways people

5 Reasons Why Authors Should Accept Online Payments

2013-04-25T03:02:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Kimberley Laws. Times have changed since the days of freelance writing in front of a clunky manual typewriter. You know, the ones with the keys that would get tied up in knots every time your typing fingers moved a little too quickly. As you tried to pry them apart, your fingers would wind up a black smudgy mess. And no amount of Ivory soap could wash them clean. Our

AdSense Adds Link Unit Ad Previews For Higher CTR

2013-04-21T05:46:00.001+08:00

Google recently updated their Adsense link units to include thumbnails in the ad pages in order to improve publishers' performance. From now on link unit ad pages will show previews of advertisers' landing page in addition to the usual text links. Tests conducted by Google showed thumbnail images generated higher CTR (Click-Through Rates), leading to increased publisher revenue and more

SEO: 6 Things You Must Do Before Publishing Your Articles

2013-04-11T22:42:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Emmanuel Obarhua. There are some simple, yet imperative practices bloggers ought to put to work on their articles after writing and before publishing them, these practices aren’t compulsive but are essential for SEO. It is advised that bloggers should make sure their articles are search engine optimized, but this has never been compulsive, implementation of SEO is always

How To Make Any Widget Sticky

2013-04-09T14:59:00.001+08:00

When a visitor scrolls down your blog to view more content, the upper portion of your blog goes out the window from the top to make way for the lower portion that enters from the bottom. Now what we are going to do is stick your chosen widget to the top edge of the window as it is about to leave, thus making the widget visible at all time while the visitor scrolls. It will float there until its

Tips For Handling Ornery Commenters

2013-04-03T01:12:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Valerie J. Wilson. You’ve heard of that clothing line called “Life is Good,” right? That Jake character has it goin’ on! His glass is half-full, and the dude just keeps on keepin’ on. Everyone should be like Jake. But there a lot of folks out there who are the antithesis of that guy on the t-shirt who just smiles all day long. There are the haters. The meanies. The

Why You Should Capitalize on the Potential of Social Media [Infographic]

2013-03-31T08:31:00.001+08:00

Social media facilitates customer acquisition & retention, promotes credibility & professionalism of a brand, and also offers tremendous potential for networking. If you are a B2B business marketer, here is an infographic with facts and figures on the immense potential of social media, and why you should leverage that potential in 2013. Click on image for a larger version. Source: http://

Four Steps for Maximizing the SEO Potential of Your Mobile Site

2013-03-27T08:38:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Anna Robeson. The online mobile market is possibly the most rapidly expanding one at the moment – and this almost in spite of current economic outlooks, which still speak of the aftermath of the global financial crisis. The number of smartphone users in the United States literally exploded in 2012 and all experts in the field forecast a similar pattern for 2013. That being

How To Draft The Perfect Tweets To Promote Your Events And Sales

2013-03-21T02:21:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Vishal Gumber. Planning an offline or a web event? Or perhaps you have an online sale on your Facebook or E-commerce store coming up. Either way, Twitter can prove to be an excellent marketing tool. It’s a cost effective way to promote an event, attract customers, and accelerate sign ups or web visits. It also helps to build new audience and strengthen loyalty of the

Cloud Backup Options to Keep Your Blog Files Safe

2013-03-14T17:09:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Gina Smith. You’ve spent much time writing articles, reviewing guest posts for publication, collecting images and videos, recruiting followers and customizing your blog just the way you want it. The last thing you want is to lose all of the time and hard work you’ve put into perfecting your masterpiece. Unfortunately, a person with the right technical knowledge can hack,

The Essential Guide To Google Webmaster Tools

2013-03-11T08:35:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Salman Farooqui. Google Webmaster Tools is a free service from Google that helps website owners to improve and keep track of the visibility of their site on Google. It shows webmasters how Google bot accesses their website. What Google Webmaster Tool tells about your site? Index status Shows how many of your webpages have been indexed by Google by date. In Advanced

Content Spoiler With Simple Animation

2013-03-06T02:14:00.001+08:00

Here is a light spoiler code that can be used to hide parts of your blog content. You can use it in posts, pages, widgets, or wherever you see fit. This spoiler adds a few improvements to our previous spoiler, such as: Button text changes according to the state of the spoiler - “Show” in hide state and “Hide” in show state. Animated expand and collapse actions, achieved using CSS3 Transitions.

Google Author Rank Guide For Guest Bloggers

2013-02-26T13:53:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Michael Pina. Google likes high quality results because every time the value of their concepts falls they lose users to Bing. Google’s battle against poor quality content has moved people in the direction of blogging. Guest posting is now a significant SEO tool, but some people still post dubious content, thus compelling Google to come up with Author Rank. This service

Blogger Auto Pagination And Its Solutions

2013-02-19T00:56:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Damilare Bakare. Most blogger that are hosting their blogs on Blogger platform would have heard about Blogger Auto Pagination. This Auto Pagination was introduced by Google in the early 2010 and it was meant to control the size of pages for the purpose of making blogs load faster for all users. Blogger Buzz stated that auto pagination dynamically adjust how much content

The Importance of Removing Your Private Information from Public Record

2013-02-15T12:28:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Cara Aley. Google and other search engines are able to pull up a vast amount of information about each of us, much of which we often aren’t even aware exists for public consumption. Interestingly enough, even though we’d like to think that we can remove what we feel is private information from public record, it’s not all that easy. While some information from registered

How To display Pinterest Latest Pins In A Slideshow

2013-02-12T02:25:00.001+08:00

Pinterest latest pins slideshow is another way of displaying latest pins from any Pinterest user or board on a Blogger blog. In my opinion it is a better alternative to the Pinterest’s Profile or Board widget because it occupies less space. Furthermore each image is directly linked to its pin page on Pinterest, as opposed to profile/board page if you are using Pinterest’s Profile/Board widget.

7 Tips To Stop WordPress Comment Spam

2013-02-06T13:14:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Adrienne Erin. Open discussions make blogs fun to read and engaging. After all, a one-sided conversation might be satisfying for the blogger who initially writes it, but the fluid nature of subsequent agreement and disagreement is what makes readers click on posts and get absorbed in content. However, not everyone visits a blog with the intention of adding something

Understanding Google Analytics

2013-01-28T21:51:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Lucas Clum. Blogging can be a lonely business. You write and publish post after post in the hope of attracting more traffic, and in turn more revenue, but with little or no information as to who is reading your blog, how they are finding you and most importantly how you can generate more visits. Free to use, Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the best performing web

Speed Up Blog with Online Image Optimizer

2013-01-24T19:02:00.001+08:00

Images usually are the largest component of a web page as they on average make up 62% of a web page size. Larger images correlate with slower web page load time; it creates a bad user experience and will drive them away from your blog. If you intend to keep your readers, you would want to reduce the file size of images you post on your blog. You can do that in two ways: By shrinking the image

How To Use Effective Blogging Strategies in Place of Professional SEO Services?

2013-01-18T16:15:00.001+08:00

This is a guest post by Emma-Julie Fox. There are thousands of articles discussing which blogging strategies have worked wonderfully in the past, which ones are effective at present, and which ones are likely to remain valuable in the future. It’s easy to get lost in the sea of information unless you seek answers to one question at a time. So, here’s a list that cuts out the noise and gives a

Free Online Character Counter and HTML Escape Tool

2013-01-12T01:04:00.001+08:00

Introducing two free online tools from Blogger Sentral. The two tools are a character counter and a HTML escape tool. These tools can simplify your day to day tasks as a blogger. I personally use the character counter to optimize the post title whenever I’m publishing a new post. As for the escape tool, it is a must-use when I need to post codes in the comments. Character counter This free