Blogging Tips

How to use Digg to get Traffic

2009-08-17T09:44:00.000-07:00

"Digg is a very popular social bookmarking site which if used properly brings a lot of traffic constantly to your blog"

Many people make a mistake of just sharing their blog postson digg and then they check their profile to know how many diggs they got for their story which leads to disappointment because it is just 1 which they do it them self. So if you are doing the above mentioned things then stop doing this from today. Follow these simple steps which will change the results

1. Complete your profile on digg because it is the only wat by which people will know who you really are. Upload an eye catching avatar to your profile and add some links to your profile like you can add follow me on twitter link and your blog's link.

2. Add Friends: After all Digg is not just a social bookmarking site, You should build a network there. Add a lot of friends and share your stuff with them. One thing more, Make a habbit of digging your friends' stories. If you have to get some you have to give some.
3. Shout: Digg has a very useful feature called 'shout' it helps to spread your syory among your friends and to avoid spam digg alows you to shout to just 100 friends at a time. Choose your best stories only because extensive use of this feature might lead to ban.

4. Comment: Comment on your friends' stories so as to make your friends feel your prescence.

5 Tips to Improve Your Blogging

2008-11-13T06:27:00.001-08:00

Are you always on the lookout for ways to improve your blogging? With the many aspects involved in maintaining and building a blog it's understandable that certain areas of your blogging may have become stale. Every blog whether it's new or established can benefit from periodic reevaluations.

Here are 5 blogging tips that should help tune-up and re energize any blogs performance.

1. Know your Subject

It's always a good idea to possess a certain amount of knowledge concerning your selected subject matter. Your choice of topic could be based upon a personal interest or perhaps something you want to learn about. Either way you'll want to be familiar with the subject so that you're content will be informative and fresh for your readers.

2. Don't Stray from your Subject

Remain consistent with the theme of your blog. If your blog is about water sports for instances, don't start posting on embroidering unless it is somehow related to water sports. The point here is that if you start to veer from your original subject then readers will become confused and uninterested. After all they were attracted to your blog based upon the original theme. You've worked hard for these subscribers and you don't want to lose them like that.

3. Maintain Quality Content

As mentioned previously you'll want to have a certain amount of familiarity with the subject you are blogging about. This will be reflected in the quality of the content you post on your blog. This information needs to be interesting and informative for your visitors. The reason they've subscribe is their interest in the subject and obvious yearning to learn more about it. They're counting on you to supply them with this educational information. It also wouldn't hurt to inject humor where appropriate for the entertainment element it brings to the post.

4. Post Frequently

For a number of reasons it is advantageous to post often to your blog. Firstly it keeps your readers coming back for the new content. Another benefit of regular posting is it attracts the search engines to 'crawl' your site for the new content and as a result it will boost your search engine rankings. This is why search engines love blogs, for the continual updates and fresh content.

If you are sometimes 'lacking' inspiration or fresh information on which to post, do some research, which you should already be doing, and rewrite something you may have found interesting. Referencing other sites for good information is another way to circumvent the occasional writers block and improve search engine rankings.

5. Easy to Read Posts

Publish your content in a concise and easy to read fashion. Don't make your readers have to try and figure out what your saying.

If you're truly intent on how to improve your blogging without 'reinventing the wheel' these 5 blogging tips, if put into regular practice, will definitely get you results.

Increase your site/blog page rank

2008-11-13T00:23:00.000-08:00

The following tips won’t guarantee an instant increase in your PageRank overnight but it will help:

Exchange links with other sites
When conducting a link exchange, try to look for pages that have good PageRank such as 4 and above - preferably better than yours.

Notice that I didn’t say look for sites that have good PageRank. One misconception is that a PageRank value applies to the whole site. A PageRank value is actually assigned on a page-by-page basis. Different pages on a site have different PageRank value.

While the number of pages linking to you will have an impact on your overall PageRank, the PageRank value of those pages linking to it is more important than the number itself.

Ideally you should look to trade links with pages having the least links possible especially if they have low PageRank values. This ensures each link has a bigger share of the page’s Google juice.
Improve the internal linking in your site
It’s important that you organize your own site linking structure properly to improve their PageRank. Link your homepage, which usually has the highest PageRank, to other pages on your site. This can be done easily by having a clickable logo at the top left of each page on your site that links to your homepage for example.

Try to minimize the number of links to external sites on your pages. While this seems a little selfish, more Google juice will be transmitted to your internal pages instead of having to spread it across other sites.

If you are conducting a link exchange, I would recommend creating a dedicated links page containing links to other sites instead of placing everything under your Blogroll.
Update you site/blog frequently with good content.
Keep on adding new content and good quality articles into your blog. With good quality content, other bloggers will only be happy to link to your pages. If these pages are linked to your homepage, it will enjoy some PageRank boost in the long run too.

Contrary to what some may believe, I think writing ‘pay per post’ frequently in your blog could be detrimental to its PageRank in the long run. When you are adding a new page, you are not only spreading your PageRank amongst your internal pages but it’s spread across the external site as well. This is bad because instead of voting for your own pages, your vote goes to the external site. As a result, your internal pages will have a smaller share of your own Google juice.

Unless you could write something really useful in your review, it’s unlikely that others will find your pay per post worth linking to from their blog.
Buy text link ads.
You could buy text links from other high PR sites or blog. This is perhaps one of the fastest ways one could increase his/her PageRank.

However, a recent development in how Google views paid links as possible spam demands that one should approach this avenue more carefully.

Google suspects that some of these linking schemes are setup to the game search engines.
Offer free stuff
You could offer free blog templates and include a link to your hompage in the footer of the templates. So, each time someone uses your template, you’ll get a free vote from them.

The sheer number of pages linking to you could improve your PageRank tremendously. One good example is the PHPBB site which offers a free forum software. With close to 2 million pages linking to their homepage, it’s no wonder why PHPBB.com homepage has a PageRank 9.

Despite what I said above about the importance of Google PageRank, it’s not the only factor that could make or break your website.

Instead of worrying about your Google PageRank, you should spend more time on creating rich content and improve the users’ experience in your site/blog.

Ask yourself if your site offers any value to your visitors. If it does, your PageRank value will naturally improve in the long run.

How To Disable Right Click On your Blog

2008-09-26T18:38:00.000-07:00

1. Sign in to your blogger account.

2. Go to 'page elements' page.

3. Click on 'add a page element'.

4. Click on HTML/Java script.

5. Copy and paste this code there and save changes.

Show comment box under post

2008-09-08T04:45:00.000-07:00

If you are using blogger and want to show your comment box under your post for the convenience of your visitors than you have to follow these steps to do this:-

1. Login to you blogger account through blogger draft.

2. Go to 'settings' and click on 'coments'.

4. There you will see options for 'Comment form placement'.

5. Check the box whre this is written 'embed under posts'.

6.after this click on save settings.

you have done it!

Get rid of blogger navbar

2008-09-05T08:07:00.000-07:00

Many bloggers do not like the navbar to be displayed on their blog page but they have no option to delete it!
But there is a way to hide your blogger navbar. it is very simple.
Just follow these 5 steps :-

1. Sign in to your blogger account.

2. Click on layout and than 'edit HTML'.

3. copy this code :-

#navbar {
  height: 0px;
  visibility: hidden;
  display: none;
}

4. paste it at the position as shown below:

5. Save your template and you can see the magic you have made.

I want to tell you one thing that if you want your navbar again to be displayed than just delete the code which you have pasted.

Add Paypal Button To your blog

2008-09-01T08:54:00.000-07:00

1. Log in to your paypal account.

2. Then you have to click on ‘merchant services button which can be seen on the top of the page.

3. Now, you have click on ‘donations’ .

4. Now,you will see some options like Donation name/service ,donation id,etc etc...

The first field (Donation name/service) is the only thing that is required and all the remaining fields are optional.
Enter that first field,choose a button style,scroll down the window and click on "Create a button Now"

5. Now you will be provided with an HTML code which you have to copy and paste in to your blog. You can do it by going to ‘page elements’ page of your blogger account and copy that HTML code anywhere you like.

7 Ways to increase your blog traffic

2008-08-27T02:16:00.000-07:00

1. Social bookmarking : Social Bookmarking Sites like digg, delicious, reddit, propeller etc. helps bring traffic to your blog. But sometimesit may not happen if you don't use these sites properly. For example on digg you should make a good profile of yours and add some friends there who will definitely digg your stories if you will do it for them.

2. Submit to search engines : submit your blog url to popular search engines like google, yahoo!, msn(now called ‘live’), ask.com.
Google : http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

If you want your blog to be indexed quickly to the google then add your blog to google webmasters tool.

3. Post at forums : There are many forums present online. Start posting at these forums on some appropriate topic which is related to your blog and never forget to add your blog’s link along with your message. Remember, you shouldn't spam at forums otherwise you will not be paid any attention there. Give some genuine tips if somebody need them.

4. Submit articles to article directories : Submitting articles to the article directories is a very nice way of increasing traffic for your blog. If you need some more information on how submitting articles helps in bringing traffic Read this.
List of article directories where you can submit articles.

5. Leave comments on other blogs: whenever you visit a blog, make it your habit to leave comments on their articles and add your blog’s address to that comment. Try to comment on those blogs and sites which have got high search engine rankings. And keep this thing in mind that don’t spam. Your comment should make some sense so that readers will get good impression for your blog and hence the will definitely visit your blog.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories: there are many blog directories where you can submit your blog and will surely help you to increase your blog traffic.
Dmoz.org
Technorati.com
Topblogging.com
Blogtoplist.com
Fuelmyblog.com
Mybloggingarea.com

7. Youtube Videos: Upload videos to youtube.com with your blog's address diplayed as an introduction or at the end of the video. If your video start getting a lots of views than it will also bring a lots of traffic to your blog.

If you like this post than don't forget to post your comments.

How to show google ads between posts

2008-08-26T02:46:00.000-07:00

It is assumed that you are using the inbuilt templates of blogger

1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard and click on layout of your blog.

2. On the layout page, you will see a section named ‘blog posts’. On the lower right hand corner click on ‘edit’.

3. A page will be displayed on which several options are given. You just have to check the box at the bottom ‘Show ads between posts’.

4. The moment you will check that box, another section under it will be displayed ‘configure inline ads’. You can change the looks of ads in this section.

5. When you are done with all these things, click on the orange box at lower right corner ‘save’.

Now you can view your blog for changes.

Google Tricks

2008-08-23T07:22:00.000-07:00

Search for specific file types:
There are various kinds of files available over the net. Searching for a specific file type isn’t really easy. But using this tip you can easily search for a specific file type.
For instance if you want to search for a guide, let’s say a ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career’ in ppt format. You can make use of the “filetype:” function. So in order to search for the PPT version of the guide you can enter in search bar ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career filetype:ppt’

Weather Updates:
You can easily know the weather condition of a specific place. In order to find out, all you need to do is just enter the place name followed by “weather”. For ex: “london weather”
Compare currencies:
Google’s search has an inbuilt currency converter. It allows you to perform any currency conversion. All you need to do is just enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button. For instance: “1 USD in INR”

Google Convertor:
Using this feature you can convert units like millimeter into inches, kilometers into miles, liters into ml, etc. You can do so by typing ‘25km in miles’ for converting km in to miles, ‘50litres in ml’ for converting litres into ml, and so on.

Google calculator:

Google search can be used as a calculator. It can calculate anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. All you need to do is just enter the math in the search box and hit enter. You can use the following functions:
+ : add
- :subtract
* :multiply
/ :divide
^ :to the power of
sqrt : square root of a number

How submitting articles increase blog traffic

2008-08-23T02:45:00.000-07:00

Submitting articles is a very effective way of bringing traffic to your blog. But it takes a little bit time. If you want to submit articles to these article sites you have to be a good writer. You can’t submit useless material. Whenever, you submit article, these sites provide you a box or space in which you can write about yourself and about your site along with this you can also provide link to your blog there. Your job is over here and you have to just wait and watch. People visit these article sites, where you have submitted your article, in two ways. First is through google search and some of them directly access these sites. So, when they read your article they will also see author’s biography box where you have provided information about yourself and your site along with a link to your site. They can access your sites through this link. Not only this, Some people may find your article so useful that they copy it and paste on their own sites but they also have to copy and paste that magical box i.e author’s biography box where you have provided link to your blog. The visitors have to do this because of the copyright laws according to which they cannot modify your material and also they have include author’s biography box. Now, when they copy paste your article along with your blog info and link they are improving your ranking in google search and also other people may visit their site and they will see your blog’s link and can visit your blog and hence a chain reaction will start. So, look at the power of your one article and imagine if you will make it your routine what!. But you have to be patient. So start this from today.
List of sites where you can submit your articles.

More traffic building tips
7 Ways to increase blog traffic

Submit articles here to increase blog traffic

2008-08-23T01:51:00.000-07:00

If you are a good writer and want to Increase traffic to your blog then start submitting articles to the following sites :-

1. ArticleCity.com

2. Goarticles.com

3. Ezinearticles.com

4. Valuablecontent.com

Now, you must be thinking that how can submitting articles can help in bringing traffic. If you want to know the details behind it then you must read this, it is a very useful information which you must know about before submitting articles.

Google Adsense Game

2008-08-21T00:50:00.000-07:00

If your Blog has already been approved or you are seeking for adsense approval than you should play this game. you will definitely enjoy this game and also you will learn some tips for adsense.

play the game

5 Steps to get adsense approval

2008-08-20T09:59:00.000-07:00

1. Good content : The most important thing and it generally haunts many people but it is truth and there is no chance at all to succeed without having quality content on your blog. For the beginning, choose a particular topic which you know about very well for example: if you have good knowledge about marketing so start writing on it. At least 4-5 articles must be there on your blog. Don’t listen and follow those who shouts for having 15 pages. And always try to write what real material and don’t copy paste.

2. Good look: This thing also matters. If you are having and going to have a blog on blogger.com
Then they have ready to use templates, you can pick anyone of those and use it for your blog.
If you want to use other templates then no problem you can get it from anywhere. The only point to be noted in this case is that don’t use a bulky template which will make loadind of your blog difficult. I would recommend you to use light and good looking template.

The following 3 steps which i have mentioned have no direct link with getting approval for adsense but when i got approval i was using these services.
people may say anything but submitting your blog sitemap to google webmaster tools definitely helps in getting the approval. This is my experience and you must also follow this.

3. Use google webmaster tools: Google has a very good service which is known as google webmaster tools. When you have fully prepared your blog or completed with step 1 and 2
Just sign in to google webmaster tools with your google account. After this you have to add your blog url and then verify it. If you are new to this click here and get some more detailed information on how to verify your blog for google webmaster tools. I must tell you that this step will play the most important role in getting the adsense approval. The reason for this is that googlebots can easily access your blog if you are using google webmaster tools.

4. Feedburner: This is another service which is provided by google. You have to burn your blog feed at feedburner and don’t worry at all it is very simple. I have published a separate post for
Read it and you will be able to do it very easily. Feedburner also provides some widgets which you can add to your blog.

5. Sitemap: This is must to ensure approval. Now, don’t start thinking about sitemap but just concentrate on procedure to add sitemap. You have add your blog’s sitemap at google webmaster tools. Now step 2 again comes into play. This is the last step towards google adsense approval. Actually, it will be better if you read this post which I have published separately how to add blogger sitemap. Now it’s the time to chill because it takes few days to get your blog’s and your sitemap’s pages getting indexed. You can easily check it from time to time on your google webmaster->overview.

you must be thinking about traffic. If you think that traffic is important to get adsense approval then you are wrong. Don’t even think about traffic. There are many people who just keep thinking about traffic and they find nothing out of it.

And at the end, submit your application to google adsense. You will have to wait for at most a week for their answer.

Feel free to contact me if you are having any problem. And forget to subscribe to my blog because nobody knows about the stuff which I am going to post.
Best Of Luck

Google secret search tips

2008-08-20T06:38:00.000-07:00

Search for Ebooks

+( ?index of ?) +( ?/ebooks ?| ?/book ?) +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +apache is the query when searched in google is which gives out an index of ebook servers based on Apache and an Index of Files.

allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz|lit) TheTitle is the query to be searched for where TheTitle is to be replaced with the book you want to find. Say if you want to find for Google Hacks, replace TheTitle with “Google Hacks” . The quotes are suggested only if you are sure of the name of the book. Searching for “The DaVinci Code ? will give you poorer results since the book name is “The Da Vinci Code ?

Search for Warez in Google

“parent directory ” Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” applications -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

Replace the bold part with your query and search for it in Google
Say if you want to search for Limewire simply replace the applications with Limewire and search for it on Google
Say if you want to find a song by Guns N’ Roses November Rain, replace the mp3 part with November Rain or if you want to find songs by Guns n’ Roses, replace the mp3 part with Guns N’ Roses and voila! You get a string of results related to what you want

Search for MP3s on Google

?intitle:index.of? mp3

Another way to search for mp3s on Google is to use this query. After mp3 put up what you want to download and search for it on Google.

Say you want to look up Nirvana, the query will be ?intitle:index.of? mp3 Nirvana

Search for files on megaupload and rapidshare

To see video files available on MegaUpload… put the following in google:avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com
To see all music files available on MegaUpload… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com
To see all archives and programs available on MegaUpload… google: zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com
To get some ebooks google: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com

To see video files available on Rapidshare.de… put the following in google: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de
To see all music files available on Rapidshare.de… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de
To see all archives and programs available on Rapidshare.de… google: zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de
To get some ebooks google: pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de

For megaupload and rapidshare searching, narrow down you search for what you want by putting your query at the first part.

Say if you want to search for da vinco code ebook use the query
da vinci code pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de
Hope this helps.

How to earn money from blog

2008-08-20T05:33:00.000-07:00

There is one and only one way of earning money and that is google adsense. Google adsense is an integral part of google.

If you want to use this service for earning money, you have to first of all submit your application to google adsense which will include your blog url and some more details.

After doing this, you will have to wait at most for a week for approval.

It depends on content of your blog whether it will be approved or disapproved. I must tell you that google is very strict with their adsense program so don’t expect that you will get adsense approval without any effort. If you want some tips to get approved for adsense click here.

Further, I want to tell you that once you get approved for google adsense, they will provide you advertisement codes which you can display on your blog. Every time these ads are clicked you will get money for it.

Actually, google gives you a share of the money which they get from advertisers if their ad is clicked from your blog.

Never to click on these ads by your own because if you will do this your blog will be banned and removed.

How to prepare your blog for money making

2008-08-18T22:05:00.000-07:00

This is the beat part of blogging. You can earn money from it along with sharing your thoughts with the whole world.

If you want to earn money from your blog, you have to follow these steps:-

1. Platform: You must have a blog at blogger because I think it is the best platform for blogging.

2. Content: Your blog must have such a kind of content which will help other people in any way. Don’t forget that blogging is all about quality not quantity. Don’t just copy paste material.
You should write atleast 4-5 posts which must be informative.

3. Look: You should give a good look to your blog. Blogger has some ready to use templates which are very good and you can use them without any hesitation. If you get bored by these templates then you can find good looking templates from the web by just searching for ‘Blogger Templates’. One most important thing which you must keep in your mind is that not to choose a bulky template. This will result in poor accessibility of your blog. Your blog will take a long time in loading and hence irritate other people.

4. Burn your blog feed: you should burn your blog feed at feedburner.com. this is a very good service which will also provide you some tools which you can add to your blog which will help you to link with your visitors.

5. Sign up for adsense: Google adsense is the service which is the integral part of Google. If your blog get the approval from this service, you will be able to put ads on your blog. Then you can earn money according to pay per click and pay per impression rules.

So, hurry up!

How to add blogger sitemap

2008-07-27T02:53:00.000-07:00

1. Though it is obvious that before reading this you must have got your site/blog verified for using google webmaster tools.

2. Log in to your google webmaster tools with your existing Google account.

3. You will see a sidebar there. Click on sitemap option.

4. Then you choose a general web sitemap.

5. After that either write atom.xml or rss.xml(Whichever you have burned using feedburner).

6. The job is not over yet!. Click on tools->set preferred domain and choose the second option.

7. Then go back to your blog settings->site feed and there you will see ‘allow blog feed’ option, click on full.

YES! Job is over.

How to burn your feed using feedurner and integrate it to blogger

2008-07-27T00:36:00.000-07:00

1. Go to feedburner.com

2. Type your blog/site url there and click next.

3. You will see some options to be checked on the next page. There you have to check Clickthroughs option and also you can check pro stats.

4. On the next page you have to choose whether to go with atom feed or rss feed.

5. Now your feed is ready to be burned you have to click on next.

6. Congrats! Your feed has been burned and fed address is there for your services.

7. Now go to your blogger settings->site feed.

8. Enter your feedburner feed address in front of POST FEED REDIRECT URL.

Note:-you should not paste your feed address there, you should write it by your own otherwise it may show you some error.

How to verify your blog for google webmaster tools using metatag

2008-07-26T10:08:00.000-07:00

1. Log in to google webmaster tools with you’re your existing google account.

2. There you will see an option to add site/blog url.

3. As you add your site/blog url , you have to get it verified and the way is to use metatag code.
Copy that metatag provided specifically for your blog/site.

4. Go to your blog and then click on layout->edit html. There you will see.

5. Just paste that metatag under HEAD and save template.

6. Then go back to your google webmaster tools screen and click on verify.

That’s all it was so easy!

How to create a good blog

2008-07-22T05:44:00.000-07:00

There must be a purpose Behind starting with a blog. You must have something in your mind which you think that you can easily write it down and share with the whole world. The reason behind this is that you must have some content on your blog to show to the world. If you don't have content on your blog than forget about getting it listed in the top search engines Like Google,Yahoo,Live. So content is the most important thing which you must have in your mind.

Once you have good quality content on your blog you should give it a good look. There are many templates already present for use in blogger .So you can pick one of those templates for your blog. If you get bored of using these templates you can use other templates also which are specially designed for blogger. Just search templates for blogger in google and you will find many resources for templates. But keep one thing in mind
that you should choose such a kind of template which is neat and clean and need not to go for high graphics which will make your blog page heavy to load and inconvenient for other people who visit your site. So try to choose a good looking light template for your blog.

Then you can add various page elements provided by blogger to your blog. Most recommended ones are Labels which lists different categories on which you are writing for example if your blog is about technology and food then label section will include technology and food as the main categories. Other one is subscribe to feeds which will help visitors of your blog to get themselves updated what you are posting to your blog. You can also add google custom search engine to your blog.

Keep one thing in mind that do not try to copy the material of other people and paste it to your blog because you are just wasting your time by doing this as google doesn't like duplicate stuff and and you will not at all listed in any search engine. The reason is that the material you are providing by copying is already submitted to search engines and hence you will be caught there. So always try to add unique content on your blog.

In the end i would just like to remind you of CONTENT. Keep adding CONTENT on your blog and WALAA !your BLOG is ready.

How To Start A blog

2008-07-21T07:45:00.000-07:00

ARE you looking for starting a blog ? It is very easy to start a blog . There are many sites which on which you can make your blog, the most popular ones are wordpress and Blogger . Its upon you
which one you choose but as you are a beginner so you should choose blogger because it is very simple to use provides very good page elements. As you have chosen to start a blog on blogger.com.
Go to blogger.com make a account by signing up there. After that they will ask for your blog title which will appear on the top of your BLOG as a headline. Then you have to enter your desired blog address(www.xyz.blogspot.com) ,here you have to choose a desired name in place of XYZ. Next step will be choosing a template i.e a design for your blog and WALAA! your blog is ready you can craete a post of your choice.