Create A Blog To Earn

1. Create A Blog on Blogger

2012-02-19T20:57:00.000-08:00

Want To Create A Blog?

And Earn Through it?

But Have No Clue How To Begin?

Well U R in A Right Place. Here Video Tutorials Will Walk u through All Steps To Creating And Marketing A blog From Scratch.

2.How to publish a blog post

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3.How to create and edit pages

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4.Uploading a custom header image for your blog

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5.Manage comments on your blog

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6.Choose who can read and edit your blog

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7.Updating your blog to a three-column layout

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8.Setting up Email Posting on your blog

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9.Adding the Follow by Email gadget to your blog

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10.How to remove labels from your Blogger blog

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11.Setting up Email Posting on your blog

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12.Adding a static page to your blog

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13.Uploading your own background image to your blog

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14.How to add a Youtube video to your blog

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15.Enabling Mobile Templates for your blog

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16.How to Enable Blogger in Draft for testing beta features

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17.Adding a transparent navbar to your blog

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18.How to post to your blog from your mobile phone

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How to Build a List: Why Would Someone Bother to Sign Up and How to Retain Them

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If there’s one thing I learned about learninginternet marketing, it’s this – never take a marketer’s point of view without caution (unless of course if it’s Frank Kern or Dean Hunt and the likes that are talking).

Take list building for example.

Left and right, we’re literally swamped with list building tips from so-so marketers.

I wouldn’t even attempt googling the topic – you won’t find much credible, current, let alone free information on it.

So, where do you really learn it? And I mean the real deal?

Well, aside from the trustworthy experts (and there are only a handful), the best way to learn it is from the end-user’s perspective.

Yes, that’s right. People like you and me.

After all, aren’t we all targets of someone’s list?

There are two essential parts to the list building puzzle.

The first is about the obvious list building, that is making people sign up for your newsletter. Or should I rather say the reasons why people would even bother to put their coveted email address into your form.

The second one is about the art of retention.

It’s about making sure you’re not operating a cold list (a list that’s useless and with virtually zero subscriber action) and keeping people glued to your next email.

Okay. On to the first one.

Why Would Someone Bother Signing Up to Your List

Chances are the answer is no one.

I mean, ask yourself: how many newsletters have you signed up for the past week, let alone the past month?

The truth is we’re all reluctant to give away our key information, except if we come across something really special.

List Building Don’ts

1. When we are fed up with getting even more tips in our inbox.

Check various blogs right now with newsletter opt-in forms.

Usually, they would say something like “sign-up to receive more <insert niche here> tips!”

Personally I think it’s not a well-thought catch phrase (if not lousy). The blogosphere is a dump site of virtually endless tips and you’d still want to chunk that to my inbox?

I don’t think so.

2. Lack of call to action.

Your opt-in form is just sitting right there, at the sidebar.

I get it – it serves a function being there at the sidebar. Someone might sign up just by seeing it, right?

Yes, probably. But let’s admit it, what kind of conversion rates would you get without actually asking people to sign up?

I’m not saying you strip it right now. My point is that you should never depend on just having your opt-in form plastered in some part of your blog.

3. Traditional internet marketing.

No innovations. Boring.

“Sign up to my email list and you’ll get my perfect money-making system right in your box – for FREE!”

People would generally avoid lists like these like a plague that they are.

List Building Dos

Of course, there are some instances, in which we’d be more than willing to give up our private info and then some. Usually, these scenarios are reserved for newsletters by niche experts.

But who says you can’t copy their strategy?

1. Exclusive information value.

In Brian Clark’s newsletter, for example, the first couple of lessons are published in the blog (as teasers), but once you get hooked, you have to sign up to read the whole sequence.

2. A possibly good return.

Again it’s all about exclusivity.

Do not present your newsletter as yet another information source that you can find anywhere else.

Instead, position it as something that can bring exclusive benefits to subscribers only.

For instance, if you are an email subscriber at Traffic Generation Café, you might get a free blog audit – something that a reader in general won’t get. For free, that is.

3. Immediate return.

This one is much more common.

Subscribe to get a free ebook, a free course, a free access to videos, etc.

Effective? Yes. A bit overused though, don’t you think?

Unless, of course, you step it up a bit and come up with something more exciting… something like this:

4. Give ‘em a free gadget.

Okay maybe not a gadget, but a prize perhaps?

Organize an outrageously good contest to spike attention to your newsletter subscription list.

For instance, John Chow gave away a free iPad 2.

Before that, ShoeMoney once gave away lots of Flip Mino HDs to spike up the number of his Twitter followers.

Seriously, if you have some funds to spare, this strategy will work wonders.

How targeted of an email list you’ll get? That’s another story.

5. Create a squeeze page without making it look like a squeeze page.

I’m sure everyone’s familiar with your typical squeeze page.

Single-page site, big bold headers, green check lists, the why-it-is-important’s, and of course that very prominent subscription box.

Glen Allsopp has recently tried this method and reported a 64% conversion rate. That’s nothing to sneeze at.

6. Use the link to your squeeze page (or any page with your sign-up form).

Instead of your home page, that is. Places like your social media accounts or in your comments.

Everyone can get nosy at some point. That’s why people click on your Twitter bio link (for example) or your comment name to see who you are and what you are about.

Why not lead them straight to the page where they’d be enticed to sign up? Might as well convert every little bit of traffic you are getting.

7. Try testimonials.

Why not collect positive testimonials from the people who’re already on your list?

There’s nothing known to marketing right now that beats social proof and a word of mouth.

How to Retain Your Subscribers

While you’re trying to get more and more people to sign up for your list, hope you realize that there are already those who are in it and need some attention as well.

There are two no-no kinds of lists.

The first is the cold one – the list that really doesn’t convert into actions or clicks (or worse, is not even being read at all) and the dying one – where your subscribers just go *poof* one by one.

You won’t want to end up with either one.

Therefore, how do we retain subscribers and keep the list hot?

1. No crossing fingers.

Simply put, deliver what you promised when they signed up.

2. Observe the right frequency.

There isn’t a standard, but see to it that you send at least an email a week (take note the word at least) just to make sure they don’t forget who you are.

My personal sweet spot is 2-3 times per week.

3. Keep them on the edge of their seats.

Email them something you don’t post on your blog, for instance.

I do it all the time. Or email them a post or a tip that you haven’t published yet and make sure they know it.

“Being included” is a very powerful social trigger.

4. Don’t spam. NEVER EVER.

Marketing Takeaway

It’s not easy nowadays to seduce your readers into giving you access to their inboxes.

The trick is you’d have to give them a clear incentive to do so.

Of course, make sure you’re true to your word and to never keep your list stalling.

Always, always promote and keep the connection to your existing subscribers.

There. Off you go to build your very own responsive list.

Google Analytics Helps U Very much To Reach ur Goal

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Google Analytics (GA) is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. The product is aimed at marketers as opposed to webmasters and technologists from which the industry of web analytics originally grew. It is the most widely used website statistics service,currently in use on around 57% of the 10,000 most popular websites. Another market share analysis claims that Google Analytics is used at around 49.95% of the top 1,000,000 websites (as currently ranked by Alexa)

GA can track visitors from all referrers, including search engines, display advertising, pay-per-click networks, e-mail marketing and digital collateral such as links within PDF documents.

Integrated with AdWords, users can review online campaigns by tracking landing page quality and conversions (goals). Goals might include sales, lead generation, viewing a specific page, or downloading a particular file. These can also be monetized. By using GA, marketers can determine which ads are performing, and which are not, providing the information to optimise or cull campaigns.

GA's approach is to show high level dashboard-type data for the casual user, and more in-depth data further into the report set. Through the use of GA analysis, poor performing pages can be identified using techniques such as funnel visualization, where visitors came from (referrers), how long they stayed and their geographical position. It also provides more advanced features, including custom visitor segmentation.

If your site sells products or services online, you can use Google Analytics e-commerce reporting to track sales activity and performance. The e-commerce reports show you your site’s transactions, revenue, and many other commerce-related metrics.

Users can officially add up to 50 site profiles. Each profile generally corresponds to one website. It is limited to sites which have a traffic of fewer than 5 million pageviews per month (roughly 2 pageviews per second), unless the site is linked to an AdWords campaign

How to decrease your bounce rate to 20%

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The Sexy Metric: Bounce Rate (Photo credit: cambodia4kidsorg)

You must have seen bounce rate as one of the stats in your Analytics account. Actually this is the only figure which needs to be decreased. For all the other figures like page views, time on site etc. the bigger the better rule is applicable.

The bounce rate is a figure which do not have a direct effect on your Adsense income, but it has a long term effect on the growth of your website or blog.

Read : How does Google determine your search engine ranking ?

What is an ideal bounce rate ?

Anything below 50% is good and ideal bounce rate and a Bounce rate approaching 20% is magical and will definitely make you a valuable blog in eyes of search engines.

How to decrease your bounce rate ?

Make your website or blog more engaging by placing related articles in the places where the article ends. Once the reader gets your point by reading your post fully he may click on another articles and will go to another page.
Use most popular posts on your pages . It will let your first time users to have a look on whats popular on your blog. WordPress users can use Popular postsplugin.
If still finding it difficult, use lesser ads on your pages. Stuffing your pages with ads creates an annoying experience for users and he may sway away.
Use intriguing Titles for your posts. Its like saying the same things but in a way that it creates an urge to read.

For example : “how to increase your rss subscribers” may be written as “how i increased my rss subscribers by 400% in 2 weeks”.

Decrease your page loading time of your website. If the page takes enough time to load , the users may get bored and he may close the browser. You are not only content producer in the whole world. There are billions of search results available for him. So try to decrease it.
Put a search box on your blog at top positions. so that is a users come to your blogs and looks and realizes that this was not the thing he was looking for, he may search to find what he needs.
Do interlinking of your posts. It means linking some related text inside your posts to appropriate pages.
Do not make your meta description or title misleading. In an attempt to look artistic, bloggers try innovative Titles, which search engine users may not understand. This will bring misleading visitors which may bounce. Remember blogging will not give you booker prize anyway. You are not here to become shakespeare. You are here to bring useful content to your blog for making money. So , be straight forward.

For example: Lets say i am blogging for Dogs and write an article about “ how to create a good relationship with your pet”. If i make a title which says : the art of exploring hearts, who will come to your article. May be some heart patients.

Blog is not newspaper or magazine. In order to get found easily, you must write a Title which clearly engulf the motive of the post and thus bringing visitors which do not bounce.

Alexa ranking method explained

2011-12-03T08:14:00.000-08:00

Do you know how Alexa evaluates rankings. If not then read on.If you will visit Alexa, they will prompt you to download their toolbar. Of course you are smart enough and you will not download their toolbar at once. But Alexa is addictive and once you start visiting alexa frequently to check yours and others CGPA , one day you will surely download their toolbar to save time. Once downloaded, you will become a part of Alexa sample survey group.

Alexa Ranking method

For example on this earth 10,000 people have Alexa toolbar. What it does is that it keep recording browsing history of those people everyday and stores on their huge databases.

Lets say, Alexa have to track visitor statistics of twitter.

It will watch how many of those 10,000 people ( victims of alexa toolbar ) visit twitter. Now Alexa founded out that approximately 73 people out of 10k visits twitter. Hence Alexa calculated what we call visitor percentage or reach.

Visitor percentage = 7.3%

Now, Total number of internet users in world = 2 billion

Hence total number of twitter visitors came out to be = 7.3% of 2 billion. = 146 million visitors / day (My god, whats there server config Anyway?)

Now, in same way it calculates visitors of other websites and prepare a crappy ranking chart.

Note – Now this is the most childish way to evaluate others. How is it possible that people with Alexa toolbar are the ideal crowd with a mixture of interests. Actually these are people with one common interests . They are generally bloggers or webmasters. Now i will tell you how it effects Alexa rankings for Blog with a particular category.

Its been seen that blogs with topics like seo,blogging, themes,internet etc. reach inside Alexa top 100k websites easily with only 200-300 visitors/ day . But if you have a blog about celebrity, fashion or health , it will take more than 2000 visitors per day to reach inside Alexa top 1k websites of the world. Thats also the reason why many people (me also but with different reasons) choose internet topics as their blogging career and avoid general blogging topics for their blog.

Clearly lot of them get inspired by alexa graph of these kind of blogs, but let me tell you, It takes internet related blog 1/10th of the visitor traffic to compete with general blog or website.

So, next time your friend who is a SEO blogger boasts you about his alexa rankings, just shut the fcuk up to him

Best traffic exchange programs for picture blogs

2011-12-02T21:37:00.000-08:00

Blogs containing pictures are the biggest looser in adsense arena. If you have a picture focussed website, whether it be a celeb or wallpaper website or a funny pics blog or a forwarded email collection portral, whatever it is , 99% chances are that it fall in the entertainment category. This results in industry lowest eCPM for Adsense and similar advertising programs. Picture focussed blogs don’t have much text in them, hence lesser search engine visitors.

Zaparena is a website which shows other’s website picture thumbnails on your website and your website thumbnails on others. In this way they act as a traffic exchange and also claim to give double traffic what you send to them. First time, i thought it was a marketing trick to say unachievable claims, but i got satisfied by receiving 173% of the traffic in return.

If you check the make earning option, paid ads will be shown and you can earn from them as well. The payment is through PayPal.

STEPS

All you have to do is to create a widget and geta JavaScript code after defining the dimensions of the area in which the thumbnails will appear. Even if you don’t earn money, Zaparena can be useful in making your content discoverable on different websites. Getting just traffic is also not a bad idea.

Let me tell you how i got benefited and liked the program . 99% of the visitor on my website were from india and i was heavily frustrated by this fact. I wanted traffic from higher income group country for higher adsense revenue. But after this traffic exchange program i started getting 3k visitor daily with different countries by sending only 1.5k visitors. It was giving away oly 1000 poor indians in return of 3000 international visitors. I would not have achieved this target from doing adwords as doing an adword campaign in US would have costed my bike.

Don’t Take the “Social” Out of Social Networking

2011-12-01T02:57:00.000-08:00

One of the most popular ways to promote your site is through social networking.

However, many of you are taking the “social” part out of the equation because you are relying too heavily on automation.

By automation I mean using various online tools and apps that automatically post content to multiple social networking sites at once.

Don’t get me wrong, automation has its place and it can be immensely convenient, but it’s not always the best way to announce all your content all the time.

I just created a FaceBook fan page last week and I’ve spent a great deal of time researching other successful/active pages. One thing I’ve noticed is that most successful pages have the right mix of automation and personal interaction.

FaceBook vs. Twitter

While many people use FaceBook and Twitter to interact with people and websites, there are thousands of people who hate FaceBook but love Twitter and vice versa. Not to mention, people use these sites very differently.

A lot of people like Twitter because they can get quick updates on their favorite people/sites. They don’t necessarily want to engage in lengthy discussions (not to mention the character limit makes that challenging anyway).

Then you have those who love FaceBook because of the personal interaction, and they love giving their opinions, getting involved in discussions, etc.

So while an automated tweet about your latest blog post is fine for Twitter, perhaps there’s a better way to word this same update on your FaceBook fan page so you engage your fans.

You may want to manually post this update to FaceBook and follow up with a question or comment.

This often sparks comments, questions and discussion which can make your fan page more engaging/interactive (if that’s your goal.)

This is about knowing your audience. As a whole, FaceBook users have different expectations and behaviors than Twitter users. So it’s up to you to find the right mix and balance so you’re getting the most out of each social networking scene.

Automation Isn’t Always Bad

Now, I realize there may be times when automation is appropriate. That’s why I love the Selective Twitter FaceBook app. It allows you to post selected Twitter content to your fan page by simply adding #fb to the end of your tweets.

You can install this app by visiting this link and selecting “Add to My Page.” Then follow the instructions for linking it to your Twitter account.

It’s easy to fall in love with all the apps and tools that automate content publishing, but don’t rely on them so much that you appear too robotic and impersonal.

Remember, it’s called social networking for a reason

Stop Stressing Over SEO

2011-12-01T02:55:00.000-08:00

People often stress over domain name choice because they worry if they choose a certain name, they’ll only be found for the keywords in that domain and nothing else.

While the domain name is important for branding, letting people know what your site is about etc., don’t stress over getting every “important” keyword in the domain for fear of alienating other phrases.

If there are secondary keyword phrases related to your main theme you’d like to rank for, then you can still target them by publishing other articles that focus on these words.

The search engines are getting smarter. They don’t just rely on your domain name and meta tags to determine where your site will rank for certain keywords.

They look at the complete picture. The content of your homepage, additional pages, how often your content is updated and more importantly off-page criteria all play a role.

In fact, off-page criteria has become a much more important factor in how your pages will rank.

What is Off-Page Criteria?

In other words, how other sites link to you is far more important than how many times you mention your main keyword in your body, meta tags, etc. (Also called backlinks orinbound links.)

So you could list “blue widgets” in your meta tags 3 times, mention the phrase 20 times on your homepage and even choose the domain blue-widget-101.com.

However, if there are no quality sites linking to you using “blue widgets” in their link title or description, then it’s going to be hard for the search engines to deem your site popular for that phrase.

When you see a site at the top of Google for a particular phrase, a big part of that is the number of related sites who have voted for them by giving them a complimentary link.

How Do You Get Complimentary Links?

If you want to simplify it, it really comes down to how useful and interesting your site is to your target audience… plain and simple.

People generally link to sites they find useful, informative, unique, or entertaining, and in some cases, all (or some) of the above.

Look at your site through the eyes of other Webmasters? Why would they want to link to you? Does it offer something fresh and unique or is it just like all the other sites in your niche?

Every time a site in your niche links to you, that is considered a vote for your site. And the more votes you have over time, the more popular your site will be according to the search engines.

And links coming from related sites that are already “popular” in Google’s eyes are even more credible.

Sure, your body content, title tags and other on-page criteria still play a role, but Google (and other engines) are much more interested with how others describe and link to your site.

Continue to follow the basic meta tag guidelines on every page, but don’t get caught up in all the tweaking and keyword placement to try to please Google and every other engine out there.

Don’t write for the engines. Write to please humans.

And if they like your site, chances are, the search engines will follow.

Literally.

Get it?