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Making money from a blog in 2013

2013-01-11T15:46:00.001+05:30

Bloggers generally orient around making money from their blogs . The bloggers who do not seriously consider making money from a blog , do not also mind if they do make money. However the efforts behind making money from a blog may differ. There is no established formulae of making money from a blog. The primary idea is that a blog is a medium to express thoughts ,ideas and knowledge. People do visit a blog for various reasons and generally bloggers do moneti8ze this attention. Making money from a blog is a difficult thing but if considered seriously , it can really prove to be a source of real good income for a blogger. This post is about making money from a blog in 2013.

Blog monetization scenario in 2013

Making money from a blog is becoming difficult everyday. 2013 is not an exception, however there are some factors that may affect your blogging monetization aspect very positively. First is the increasing number of internet users and secondly various innovative ideas being introduced to make money from your blog. Like any other industry and work , blogging has its own challenges and good income prospect. It has to be taken seriously as a profession and the key fundamentals of blogging should be carefully mastered to make money form a blog.

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Factors that affect your earning

Before we proceed any further , let us have a look at few factors that can really impact you money making struggle.

#1. Visits to your blog – The most important aspect that will affect you money making from a blog. This is also a reason why SEO has gained importance. Search engines have the capacity to send huge number of visitors that will hard to be considered by building readership alone. Still, the readership that a blogger builds is the only primary source of for a blog and search engines may take time to send visitors because they operate on their own terms.

#2. Quality of traffic/visitors – This is one more important factor that affects the earning potential. The geographical location and demographics will impact your earning. Generally visitors from developed nations or visitors who are potential buyer for some product or service are more likely to help you earn more.

#3.Reputation of your blog – Reputation of your blog is one more important factor as this will. attract advertisers and sponsors for your blog.

#4. Alexa rank – Alexa rank of your blog will be seriously considered by advertisers and ad networks before approving your blog to participate in their program.

#5. Interactions – Comment , reactions and social share will also affect traffic to a blog and also the advertisers.

Ways to make money from a blog

There are many conventional and newly arrived monetization option for a blogger. Below are few of them.

#1. Affiliate Marketing – Affiliate marketing is a result based money making option in which advertiser or sponsored will pay for a visit or a sale. This is kind of conventional ad networks. Few examples of affiliate networks are as below;

Amazon Affiliate

Many hosting providers, hotels networks, tour operators , software vendor do offer affiliate marketing programs. Bloggers can participate in suitable programs and make money

#2. Contextual Ad Networks – Contextual ad network is the most used way of monetizing web properties. Contextual ad networks display ads related to the content of the web page thus creating scope of the ad being clicked by the visitor out of own interest. Contextual ad networks like Google AdSense display ads on other data like searches made by a user etc. Few known contextual ad networks are;

Google AdSense

Chitika

#3. Selling Advertisement Space

Bloggers can directly sell ad space on their blogs . There are many services that can help a bloggers sell ad space or even find advertisers. This way of monetizing blogs has gained popularity in past few years. Some examples of agencies that can help you with selling ad space are;

Blog Ads

Buy Sell Ads

#4. Sponsored Posts – Bloggers can write and publish post for whish they are paid. Known bloggers get more requests for sponsored posts.

#5. Sponsored Blogs – Some bloggers write blogs which are dedicated to some topic and completely sponsored by a brand or an entity from the same industry.

#6. In Text Link Advertisement – In text links are complementing advertisement option. In this form of advertisements ,certain keywords are highlighted and on hovering or clicking those keywords ads are displayed. Infolinks is a noted in text link ad network.

#7. In Image Ads – In this type of advertising, ads are displayed in an image already existing on a webpage. These ads are generally related to the ATL text of the image. Gumgum is a known image ad network.

#8. In Video Ads – In this type of advertisements, ads are displayed in an video. The ads can occur before , after or between the video is played. Video hosting site YouTube has its own monetization program for videos.

#9. Featured Posts and Related Posts – Bloggers can use services like nRelate to display related posts from their own blog and other networked blog and make money for every visit sent to other blogs while offering related post from their blog.

#10.Google AdSense Custom Search – Google AdSense offers advertisement options in the custom search engines by Google. Bloggers can make money by showing relevant ads in the searches made by users.

#11. Accepting Gifts and Donations – Accepting gifts or donations is a way to earn from a blog. Loyal readers who love your blog may offer you gifts and donations.

#12. Selling E-Books – Creating and selling online E-books is also a good way to earn. Self publishing has gained popularity in past few years. Programs like Kindle Direct publishing help blogger publish books and make money from it.

#13. Merchandizing – Merchandizing a fairly popular blog is also a good way to make money. Merchandizing services like Cafepress can help bloggers set up a store with own merchandized products in minutes.

#14. Selling Blog Subscription – Selling subscription to blog can also be a good earning option for a blog publishing highly valued content.

#15. Operate Tutor Program – Operating a tutor program on a blog and charging fees for it is a good money making option for freelance experts.

#16. Accept Freelance Jobs From Your Blog – Many bloggers make money by accepting freelance jobs on their blogs. Blogs gain reputation and work for them.e.g. a webmaster can get and SEO job for a blog or a website through a blog.

#17. Sell Photos and other media from a blog – Selling photos, videos and other media content can be a good earning option for photographers and creators. Gumroad is a service that helps people sell or make available downloads of valued content.

#18. Charitable Programs – Charitable programs offer commission for helping in raising fund.

#19. Fundraisers – Bloggers can set up fundraisers for a cause and raise money.

#20. Sell blogging related services – Bloggers add to their knowledge everyday. Over a period of time bloggers can gain extraordinary knowledge and sale their knowledge in form of various blogging related services.

These were some ways to make money from a blog. There are many other ways of making money from a blog and many other new monetization options for blogs are introduced timely. Below are some tips that will help you make money with comfort.

Simple tips for making money for your blog

#1. Monetization of a blog is later part and first the focus should be entirely on building reputation and readership

#2. Traffic from search engines is a crucial element of blog monetization, bloggers must understand this and learn at least the basics of SEO.

#3. Though many monetization options exists but bloggers must consider few of the very carefully. The code provided by ad networks for displaying ads may load large JavaScript files , images and such media thus affecting the performance of your blog pages. Bloggers can use tools like GTMetrix before and after placing ad code and check the difference in performance.

#4. The location of placing ads can affect the revenue largely. Bloggers must use few ads at key places like below the title etc., this will help them earn more from less ads.

Glossary of terms related to blogging internet and technology

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A Blogger is generally a kind of internet addict, the idea behind having a blog might be different for individual bloggers but bloggers it is anticipated that bloggers know more about internet than other users. Many people who do not operated a blog might also be interested in knowing about terms related to blogging and internet. Here is a list of terms related to blogging , internet and technology.

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Ajax - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a technique used to make websites dynamic
Alexa Rank - A rank in the website ranking system by Alexa Internet – most preferred website ranking system
Anonoblog – A blog operated anonymously
Apache - Apache is a web server software to serve web pages from a web server
Atom - Atom is a content syndication format
Back-links - Links to a web page found on other web pages
Black Hat SEO - Negative Search Engine Optimization techniques
Blammer- A person responsible for spamming blogs
Blargon – Blogging Glossary
Blaudience – Blod readers
Blawg - A blog dedicated to law
Bleg - A blog post requesting information or input
Blego - Blog+Ego Measuring blogger worth
Blog Carnival – Links to other blog post about some topics
Blog Day – A day you find new blogs
Blog hopping – Switching from one blog to other
Blog of Note – A known blog recommended by readers
Blog Tipping – Complimenting a blog
Blogathon – Updating blog with extremely high frequency
Blogathy – Not posting on a day
Blogger bash - A blogger party
Bloggerel – The same opinion posted repeatedly on a blog
Bloggies - A known bloggers award
Bloggies- Annual blogging awards
Blogging Platform Blog publishing platform
Blogiday- Holiday from blogging
Blogiversary – Birthday of your blog
Blogiverse – Blogging universe something relevant to Blogosphere
Blogoholic - Addicted to blogging
Blogophobia – Fear of blogs and blogging
Blogopotamus – Extremely long blog post
Blogorific - Terrific blogging
Blogorrhea – Extremely high blogger output
Blogosphere – Group of blogs/bloggers existing in some specific area or category
Blogroach - A commenter who rudely disagrees with posted content
Blogsit – Maintaining a blog for some period in absence of blog owner
Blogsite - A web site that combines blog feeds from a number of different sources
Blogsnob – Denying to respond to a blog comment
Blogstorm – Suddent increase and huge amount of blogging activity due to some reason
Blogvertising – Advertising on blogs
Blogware – Software for blogging
Blook – A book created from blog posts
Blurker – A reader who does not post comment
BOBs – A bloggers award
C-Panel – An utility to manage various aspect of hosting a website
CAPTCHA - Span protection utility
Category – A category of publishing post
CC – Creative Commons is a type of license under which free to use content is provided
Celeblog – A blog talking a bout a celebrity
Celebriblog – A blog by a celebrity
CMS – Content management system used for creation of blogs and websites
Comment Spam – Posting irrelevant and links as comments repeatedly on many blogs
Comment – A reply to a blog post
Content Keyword – Most important word repeatedly used or found in content
Content Syndication – Making content available of various websites
Content – Article pictures videos and other media generally posted on a blog
Contextual Ads – Ads that are closely associated with the content on a page
CPC – Cos per click a blog monetization model
CSS – Cascaded Style Sheets are used to style WebPages
Dark Blog- A private blog
DNS – Domain Name Server keeps the record of a domain and its various aspects
Domain – A Website identity/location on internet e g Facebook com Google com
Doppelblogger – Plagiarizing wrongly copying content of other blogs
Draft Post – A post which is yet to be published
Edu-blog – Blog about education
EFF - Electronic Frontier Foundation a group working to protect bloggers interest
Feed Aggregator – Tools that fetch feeds from various sources and put them at one place
Feed Reader – Utilities used to reader feed from a source
FeedBurner – A know utility to offer feed subscription
GAD – A habit of unnecessarily checking Google AdSense earning repeatedly
Google Analytic – A service by Google which offers analysis of various aspects of visitors to a website
Google Authorship – Establishing connection between a blog/blog post and its author profile on Google Plus
Google Honeymoon – A period when new sites receive high traffic from Google search
Google Publisher Ship –Establishing connection between a Google Plus Page and a website
Google SandBox The period when Google Search puts new websites away from displaying in search results till their legitimacy is proved
Hat Tip- Acknowledgement of source for a news
Hitnosis – Refreshing browser repeatedly to find response to a blog/ blog post
Hosting – Maintaining a website on a webserver
HTML – Hyper Text Mark-up Language is the key language used to create webopages
HTTP – Hyper Text Transfer protocol is the protocol on a web server that is used to serve web pages and content
HTTPS - Hyper Text Transfer protocol secure is the protocol on a web server that is used to serve web pages and content securely
IP – Internet protocol is generally the numeric address of a web server or a location on the web
JavaScript – A client side scripting language which is used to make WebPages interactive
Keyword Density – The volume of important words in some content
Keyword Research – Research to find a keyword or various aspects about a keyword generally related to Search Engine optimization
Keyword Stuffing – Unnecessarily using irrelevant keyword in an attempt to fool search engines
Kittyblogger – writing about cats
Label – Similar to category a keyword or phrase to categorize a blog post
Linguablog – A blog writing about languages and translation
Linkbaiting - Writing content just with an anticipation of getting back links
Metablog – A blog publishing about blogging
Milblog – A blog abour=t military or armed forces
Moblog – a blog crated to be viewed on a mobile device
Mommy Blog – A blog primarily talking about home and household things
Monetizing – Making money from a website or blog
Movlogs – A blog that offers videos to be viewed from a mobile device
Multiblog – Maintaining multiple blogs
Open Graph – A mark-up generally used by Facebook
Organic Traffic – Traffic that comes from search engine without paid advertising
Page Rank – A Ranking system by Google Search that evaluates the reputation of a web page on the web on a scale from 1 to 10 where higher is better
Permalink – A hyperlink to a webpage
Photocast- An automatically updated photo blog
Ping – A way to notify various services about a new blog post
Podcasting – Podcasting is offering rich media like videos photos audio and other image files
Post Slug – Slug is search engine friendly terms used in an URL of a post
Post – A blog post
Pro Blogger –An experienced expert and known blogger
Reciprocal Links – Offering links in anticipation of links
RSS – Rich site Summary or Real simple Syndication is a feed format
SEF – Search Engine Friendly
SEM – Search Engine Marketing is are techniques used to promote something in web search results
SEO – Search engine optimization are techniques to make web pages compatible with search engine crawlers generally
Shocklog – Provoking discussion by publishing such content
Sitemap – A map of various section and web pages on a website created for users and search engine crawlers
Slashdot Effect – Getting huge temporary traffic after publishing a post link on Slashdot m Digg or such sites
SMM –Social media marketing are techniques to promote something using social media sites
Social Sharing – Sharing links and content on social media websites
Social Signals – The volume or response for a link shared on social media sites
Splog- A spam blog
Spomments- Spam comments
Tech blog – A blog publishing about technical topics
Technorati- A known blog search engines
Track Back – Offering links and notifying other blogs similarly receiving notification from other blogs
Vlog – Video blog
Warblog – A blog writing about war
Web mastering – Maintaining various aspect and tasks related to operating a website or blog
Web Property – A website or blog
Weblog – Original name of a blog
Webmaster Tools – A service offered by Google to take care of various search related aspects of a website
Website Traffic – visitors to a website
WYSIWYG – What You See Is What you Get is type of editors that allows user to create and publish web content without needing or using any mark-up
XFN – XHTML Friends Network Is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks

A sincere request

I have created this post just to ensure that internet users and enthusiasts have a place to known about few important terms related to blogging, technology and internet. This post was written in a short time and may lack many important terms. I request readers to contribute such terms in comments and make this post more useful.

Composing and publishing a blog post – the right approach

2013-01-09T13:14:00.000+05:30

“Composing a blog post is the most important aspect of blogging.”, This was the answer by me when some ne asked about the most important part of blogging. Many bloggers do not realize this and commit the biggest mistake. To explain this further I can give one example . Just imagine that you find two chocolate stores in your nearby market. Store is always full of people and Store 2 has few regular customers checking in and out. Store 2 is more successful and the reason is that store 2 has few people coming in but they are real customers and store 1 more visitors and less customers. When you try to research further you find that store 1 has variety of chocolates and always introduces new varieties but the varieties offered by store 1 are not popular in your market, on the other side store two has regular variety of chocolates that are popular and has regular buyers.
What we can learn from above example is that a blogger must always try to focus on few things ;
#1. Whom they are writing for ?
#2. What are they writing ?
#3. Why readers will like that ?
Above mentioned tips apply to bloggers seriously trying to build readership but every blogger will not have such a goal. However , there are many other things that a bloggers must know for composing better blog posts.

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Blog post idea

The idea behind a blog post is really important. This applies irrespective of the goal behind blogging. A blogger has to be very clear about the idea behind their blog post. A blogger can not just write anything.

Series of blog posts

This blog post is part of the better blogger series. Offering blog post being a part of series can really add to the reputation of a blog. This will increase the time readers spend on a blog and make it easy for a blogger to elaborate on a broad topic by dividing it in smaller posts.

Blog post title

The title of a blog blog post is important from the perspective of SEO and readers too. The SEO aspect is covered in a point below but from the readers perspective, a blogger has to ensure things mentioned below,

#1. Post title should be most relevant to its content.
#2. Post Title should be appealing for most of your readers and other people who may see it.

Writing a blog post

Writing a blog post in general is about a style that the bloggers have of their own but a good idea is to script few very important points of your blog post and after that those points can be further elaborated.

Editing blog posts

Editing blog posts involves making it proper for readers and search engines too. The search engine part is discussed below but for readers, avoiding grammatical errors is very important. Bloggers can use blog post editors to write blog posts rather that using word processing utilities like MS Word or Open Office etc. Blog post editors are very advanced nowadays and are generally "WYSIWYG” ( What you see is what you get ) editors. All leading blog platforms have such editors. Bloggers have to ensure that grammatical error detection is turned on.
Time is becoming very important and it keeps the same importance to your readers too. A blogger has to ensure that optimum information is provided in minimum words. Generally a post of 500 words is sufficient but can have more words if the topic demands.
A blog post must also use , images , videos , tables etc. wherever applicable. Blog post editors have these features inbuilt. Bloggers must also avoid using iframes , nested tables and flash if not explicitly needed.

Using videos, images and other media

Videos and images make a blog post appealing and adds to its utility. It is recommended that videos and images are hosted on a content delivery network or services using such infrastructure. Leading videos and image hosting services like YouTube, Picassa and Flickr etc. use advanced and highly capable infrastructure that ensures prompt loading of the content.
Images and videos can be embedded in your posts. While doing this bloggers must ensure that they use proper ALT tag for the content.
While using content like videos or photos or any such , blogger must use valid sources. Blogger must not copy content straightaway . There are many sources on the internet that offer reusable content for free license or licenses like CC . Attribution is also very important. Post linked below will help in this.

Ways to find free photos for modification and reuse.

SEO while composing blog post

SEO while composing a blog post is a broad topic however we will be dealing with it in short here. Here are few tips for better SEO while composing blog posts.
#1. Use most relevant keywords in title.
#2. Limit the title to 75 characters.
#3. Use H1 To H6 tags to highlight the important points in your post.
#4. Distribute content in paragraphs.
#5. Use CLEAR property for images wherever needed.
#6. Use ALT attributes to images.
#7. Use NOFOLLOW attribute to links wherever needed.
#8. Use few but most relevant categories and tags.
#9. Use meta search description , it is possible in many leading platforms.
#10. Use custom URL that includes important keywords and describes the post in least possible words.
#11. Use plugging and extensions for increasing SEO while composing post. Such plug-ins are available for WordPress and many leading platforms.
#12. Use most important keyword while starting the post or a paragraph in the post.

Associating post with your blog and other posts

While writing blogs post associating them with existing post on your blog/s is recommended.

Making blog posts interactive

A blogger should develop interactive style of writing. This styles will make readers offer more comments will will give more ides for writing. This will help bloggers make readers visit regularly to their blogs.

Building readership for your blog in 2013

2013-01-08T15:38:00.001+05:30

In year 2012 , I wrote a lot about SEO and other related topics. Throughout 2012 I always felt that the meaning of SEO is changing rapidly. Finally I could only figure out that SEO is no more about doing all the hard work to make your web pages rank higher for some keywords or topics but about making your blog and web pages more and more compatible with search engines. I can surely say that search engines are not going to be a reliable source of traffic for your blogs. Even though you have done all the work to be better for the search engines but still there are going to be many bloggers who are doing the same. Year 2013 will be challenging for bloggers from the perspective of building readership. Let us just find out a better approach for building readership in 2013.

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How to build readership for blogs in 2013 ?

Lets us try to figure out a better approach for increasing the number of readers for a blog. This process will involve 3 tasks as mentioned below. However there will be many other sub tasks that will be part of this entire exercise e.g. making your blog perform better and load faster is a part of building readership because no one will be interested in waiting , whatever good the content be. We will not be discussing about all these sub points here. Readers can search thins blog to find out related articles.

#1. Strengthening the idea behind a blog.

Have your ever asked this question to yourself that what number of people will be interested in reading something that you are writing, why they will be interested in doing so and how are you going to let the know that you have something that they are looking for ? A blogger who can successfully answer these questions can make it to success.

The thought behind your blog is important and before writing anything or setting up a new blog one must carefully think about the content and the readers that will receive this. I personally recommend that you must write about topics that will be able to fetch attention of readers. Topics that are associated with there routine activities are going to be worth considering because topics that will just help readers to build knowledge will not be able to fetch their attention.

#2. Strengthening the content aspect of a blog.

This is most important yet most ignored aspect of blogging. Bloggers must realize that if they can write about something that is not commonly available but highly sought, they have there readers waiting for it. A single post may go viral and add to the number of your readers.

Before considering any success , bloggers must think seriously about increasing the quality and usability of their content.

#3. Building readership.

Commenting, social media sites blogger communities are all ways to find readers for your blog. There are hundreds of ways a blogger can find people to covert them to readers but not every way should be used. Find one or two suitable ways to make people know about your blog and its idea. Offer all common subscription options like Feed , Facebook , Twitter and Google Plus.

Every effort has some goal and in this case bloggers must have some set goal of achieving number of readers like 500, 1000 etc. These readers will be earned by you and as you go on they will visit back to your blog , comment and share your posts. All this will add to the reputation of your blog and you will find the search engines also sending visitors to your blog.

Blogging in 2013 is challenging yet rewarding

2013-01-05T00:46:00.000+05:30

This is my first post of 2013. I take this opportunity to wish a prosperous and full of knowledge year 2013 to be for all our readers. I also wish all the blogging success to all co bloggers in the global blogosphere but I truly believe that successful blogging in 2013 will not be very easy. I remember the time when I had started writing somewhere around year 2010, things have changed to great extent. It is not very easy to take a blog to larger audience very easily. Increasing number of bloggers and tough search engine advancement make it difficult for bloggers to build readership for their blogs. On the other side blogging in 2013 will be rewarding in terms of monetization prospect and increasing number of potential internet users who can be converted as regular blog readers. Many nations with big populations are becoming internet friendly. India is one of the best examples. Social media sites are also big players in your blogging success in 2013. We have some important points to know, that will help you achieve the blogging success that you desire.

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Tips for better blogging in 2013

#1. Search engines mind their users and you must mind your users not the search engines.

#2. Select your blogging topics wisely , the likes and needs of readers are always changing. A bloggers who can move along with changing times is always popular.

#3. Be creative while researching blog posts and do always try to create something new rather than copying completely , partially or even someone’s idea. You will find it difficult initially but later you will master the art of creating.

#4. One most important thing is that readers associate with some thought and not blogs. You blog must orient around some thought that readers will like to be associated with and you end up creating readership. Just like your friends and family associate with you on Facebook or other social media website, similarly readers associate with your blog for some cause. You must have a defined cause and let people clearly understand that why they must keep up with your blog.

#5. SEO is a complex topic but understanding that search engines need to show quality result for a search query and having that quality of content is the best SEO.

#6. Hundreds of social media sites exist in 2013 , you can not use all of them but select few of them which best suit you.

#7. You must have a planned strategy to promote your blog in 2013.

#8. The days of 2 to 3 posts a month are over, you should write regularly and also at regular interval.

#9. There are many ways of better blogging, you can not keep on experimenting but have some solid idea which includes few ways to build a successful blog. I have seen many bloggers wasting a lot of time experimenting, experimenting is a part of learning and you can keep some time for it.

#10. Be interactive, I have seen people commenting on hundreds of blogs just with an anticipation of getting visitors , however I have not seen any of them becoming successful. Commenting is the best way to build a close readers group that includes bloggers like you and who visit regularly to your blog.

There will be a lot that I will learn and also share with you in 2013.

YouTube Brings Capture - a New App for iOS

2012-12-23T11:34:00.001+05:30

Capturing videos from your iPhone and uploading them directly to YouTube is a pretty difficult task as it cannot be done within minutes. You always have to find time to perform this task. But now, the task has become much easier with YouTube Capture. Last Monday, Google released this app to let you upload videos on YouTube directly from your iPhone and iPad. The best thing about this release is that Google put this app on YouTube as a free application.
With direct image capturing and uploading, the app lets you do much more.
What’s interesting in it?
With direct videos uploading to YouTube, the application offers image, stabilization, correction, and trimming. Moreover, uploading simultaneously to Facebook, Google Plus and Twitter can also be used with this application.
Earlier, many applications were launched to solve this issue but none of them ensured reliability. However, this YouTube Capture is an application launched by Google. The company ensures full security and reliability.
In one go, you can spread your videos to social networks. Apple’s built-in camera app does not support this feature. Even on YouTube, you can to share each video manually but with this application you can share your video to multiple social networks.

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YouTube Capture is very user friendly and people belonging to any age group can use it. The app is really good functionally as compared to Apple’s built-in camera app. All the uploading is done in background so that you can continue watching your favorite videos on YouTube.
What about iPad and Android?
The application isn’t designed for iPad yet so obviously the latest version does not support iPad. For Android, Google Corporation has announced that the application will be designed, through these words:
“Also working to bring this to Android in the future”
Anything else?
Yes, Google’s YouTube Capture makes your file management easy. Whatever you shoot gets uploaded directly on YouTube within minutes. Apart from this, YouTube Capture also ensures security and privacy. It is your choice if you want to share your videos on all social networks or your favorite one. Through privacy settings, you can set this social sharing functionality.
You can make adjustments when the video uploading finishes. You can even edit the videos when capturing is not complete. Currently the application is only available on iTunes and will be available soon for Android.
So if you are an iPhone user and want an application that enables you to upload videos directly to YouTube without any inconvenience, then you must go for YouTube capture since it is really user friendly and fast. Its video editing option will always keep it on the top position on the list of mobile video editing and uploading applications.

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Samsung Unveils Galaxy Grand: Is It A Strategy to Hit Big Markets?

2012-12-22T13:01:00.001+05:30

Samsung has successfully launched Galaxy Grand last Tuesday, which is a superb mobile device hitting

all the big markets. The device almost resembles to Samsung S3 just with a little difference in resolution

i.e. 800X480 pixels. This resolution factor is really a point of discussion for Samsung, but it does not

matter because its features are more dominant than drawbacks. Dual-SIM support, superb display,

awesome camera results, and enhanced technology applications are few of its core features. Release

of any Samsung device always put a great influence on huge markets, but discussion over here will only

focus the Samsung Galaxy Grand device’s impact on the mobile markets of various countries.

Positive Impact on Chinese Industry:

Samsung is considered as the most valuable and highest brand, and is the biggest handset product of

China. Galaxy Grand is popular in China markets and all other mobile markets where mobile prices are

found very less. Keep in mind that if you are Samsung S3 user, this Galaxy Grand may not prove feasible

for you. Therefore, because of its low prices and more features, device was successful to have positive

impact on Chinese markets. Samsung mobile manufacturing is growing more in Chinese industry and

is putting very high profit margins as compared to other countries’ markets. In future, such Chinese

Samsung handsets are expected to be launched along with quad-core phone segments.

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Not Suitable For Release in US Markets:

This Samsung device is not yet suitable for USA markets because of few major issues. The very first is

concerned with its costs. Its low-cost had a great impact on US markets. In addition to this, dual SIM

option is not much common in US because of States’ rules and policies.

The second issue is concerned with its proper authentication and licensing. Reports were there that the

handset has successfully cleared necessary documentations and licensing from Chinese Industry, but

these were just rumors, the final release of this gadget in US markets is still not guaranteed.

Asian and African Mobile Markets:

It is observed that residents of Asia and Africa make best use of Chinese mobile products. Samsung

Galaxy Grand is being offered with more advanced features at very low cost. Moreover, the Dual-SIM

feature has been popular in these continents because of extensive mobile usage. Thus, the availability of

this gadget in such a way has created a positive impression on Asian and African markets.

Customers involved in the purchase of quality products always influence the markets. Quality over

here refers to maximum users’ satisfaction, which is only achieved if reliability, cost, durability, and

performance issues are kept in consideration. Same is the case with this Samsung Galaxy Grand mobile

device, which has satisfied infinite users with its tremendous looks, low-costs, and countless features.

Last but not the least; the release of this gadget has alarmed the mobile markets all over the world and

has forced them to change their marketing plans for the efficient survival in the global market.

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Web-mastering after setting up your blog , guide to basic web-mastering

2012-12-19T12:56:00.001+05:30

Blogging and web-mastering are two different things . The kind of competition blogger face these days is too high. Building readership is one thing and receiving organic traffic from search engines is different thing. For a blog to make good money it is really important that it receives free traffic from the search engines. Apart from search engine optimization there are many other aspects of web-mastering that a blogger has to learn but due to unawareness many bloggers are not able to take care of many web-mastering tasks which are important these days. In this article we will be knowing about some steps that a blogger must take after creating of a blog.

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Steps to take after creation of a blog

Template inspection

Template inspection is a very important aspects that has to be taken care of before starting publishing of content. The primary goal is to make sure that the template has clean code and is optimized for search engines. The W3C markup validation tool is really important in this regard. A blogger can easily check the markup of template and rectify the errors in the template code.

Other step that can be taken by the blogger is to make sure that the blog home page has proper title and meta description and other meta elements. Read more about the HTML Title and Meta Tags at W3C online tutorial site. Bloggers must also check the H1 and H2 tags for the home page and post pages of their blog. It is recommended that the title of blog be the H1 of the home page and the title of post be the H1 of a post page. A template has to be optimized accordingly.

Adding the Author markup for Google authorship

Adding authorship markup for Google Search is also important these days, a blogger must take appropriate steps explained here to add the authorship markup to there posts.

Make sure that the font and color combination is good

Many times we see blogs with odd font size and irritating color combinations. One has to make sure that there blog has got a good color theme, font and font size.

Performance inspection

Using tools like GTMetrix will help a blogger understand the kind of performance their blog pages are doing. The goal is to make sure that pages have less size and HTTP requests.

Making pages available and unavailable for search engines

Making appropriate arrangements for search engines crawlers to understand which pages to crawl and which pages not to and also to direct the search crawlers to do many other required things is essential. This can be achieved by setting up a proper robots.txt file and by using proper meta robot tags.

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Submission to search engines

Submission of a blog to search engines is also a very common but important step. Though search engine crawlers will find every page that is crawl-able on the web but submitting a site and analyzing data is really important. Bloggers can use Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Center to submit there blogs to Google , Bing , Yahoo and MSN.

Submission to DMOZ

Submitting a blog to DMOZ has been important . A blogger can find a proper category to submit their blogs to. If they find it difficult to look for appropriate category , a search can be made by using the domain name of a popular blog in the same niche. However the acceptance ratio in the DMOZ directory is extremely low these days.

Submission to blog search engines and blog directories

Submitting a blog to blog search engines and blog directories is also essential. Blog search engines and directories like Technorati are important is these regards.

Configuring site traffic analytic tools

Using a traffic analysis tool is an important part of web-mastering. Google Analytic is the most advanced free tool for this.

Creating XML and HTML sitemap for your blog

Creating XML and HTML sitemaps for your blog is essential part of web-mastering. An HTML sitemap is primarily for the users to understand your blog structure and XML site map is for the search crawlers to understand it.

Publishing a post or page about your blog

A blog must possess a page or a post describing the idea of the blog.

Setting up a contact option

Setting up option for visitors to contact the blog webmaster is essential. Using tools like Kontactr is recommended that offering just an email.

Setting up privacy policy and terms of use

Setting up privacy policy is must if a blog is accepting registration or collecting data. Terms of use is also an important documentation if a blog is publishing about any sensitive topic. Many Ad Networks also need you to have a Privacy Policy before using their code and displaying ads to visitors.

Using utility tools like WooRank to make a blog better

Internet is full of free resources to make a blog better. Tools like WooRank can be used to make a blog more better by following the tips offered after analysis of the blog.

The features that a blog must possess in 2013

2012-12-14T17:53:00.000+05:30

I remember the days of my early blogging days. I do not need to go back to extreme history to remind this and I can realize the kind of excitement I used to have toward exploring every new thing here and also trying to have it on my blog. While I feel the excitement , I also know that many bloggers do spend a lot of time trying to do things that are not going to help them at all. Trying to have a fancy blog without any application on creating quality content will always lead to waste of the most useful time. A blog is primarily about content and other feature support them. I personally believe that a blog should possess all essential features and not too many things. This article is all about the features that a blog must possess in 2013.

Goal of blog feature management and this article

While we understand the most essential features for a blog , Understanding the goal from this is important. Our goal from having features is to facilitate various actions taken by readers and increase the usability. The goal for adding features is not to have something fancy that even does not load in some cases.

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Understand the feature set for a blog

Every time you add new features like share buttons and other widgets, the pages of your blog and the entire blog layout gets some additional size and HTTP request. For increasing usability of your blog you have to make sure that your blog should offer pages with least possible HTTP request and size. When you add services from external platforms e.g Add This , Share This , Disqus widget or any other such features , you add on to make your pages larger in size. These platform collect data from your visitors and to do this they load large JavaScript files that increase the page size of your blogs.

Just imagine that why Google , Facebook , Wikipedia and other large websites load faster , this is because they have least needed features on a single page . In some cases they have many features that work together on a single page but you must also understand that they have the kind of technology and servers that can take care of the rest. Google home page , Facebook home page and Wikipedia pages are always lightweight in size and have least possible HTTP request.

Just understand that your users do not use al features but all the feature load when they open a page from your blog. I do not say that your blog must not have any feature or widget but keep it to least needed. Do not put everything on your blog that you come across.

Right approach to adding features in your blog

The right approach for having a feature set for your blog is all about the things mentioned below;
#1. Understand the users that will be using your blog and their geographical locations; If your users are located in geographical areas with possible high bandwidth connections then it is fine but if you have users from areas with low bandwidth connections you have to mind them.

#2. Keeping page size to small will be fine for all users but large page sizes will only suit few users. Every user is not having similar configuration of internet connection and system.

#3. Understand that every widget and everything will add to your page size to some scale.

#4. Before creating a blog you must be clear about the feature your blog needs.

#5. Use Page Speed, Yslow before and after adding and removing Ads and widgets to your blog. I recommend using GTmetrix – a free online service for this.

#6. Avoid using fancy widgets, images and videos , too much advertising on your blog layout.

#7. Have more text links than images or buttons for various option on your blog . This is also good for SEO of your blog.

Must have features for a blog

Few must have blog features are below;

#1. Name , Logo of your blog

#2. A search box

#3. A simple menu that works with every browser and links to every important topic, post , category , label etc.. Many fancy menus do not work with old browsers.

#4. Links to subscriptions offered by you. Feed , Facebook , Twitter , Google Plus are the most common and recommended , others have limited use.

#5. Links or buttons to share your pages and posts on social media. The page size must be considered before adding these buttons on your blog because these button use complex Java Scripts that add to page sizes. Popular social media platforms use content delivery network to serve these files and sue to their popularity many of these files are already in the cache of the browsers of your visitors but this is about Facebook , Twitters , Liked In, Google Plus , Pinterest and such other platforms. Every platform is not popular, so make sure that you have limited sharing buttons.

#6. Related posts, popular post, trending posts, recent posts , labels , archive and other such widget for readers to find the right topic for them. These widgets do not add to the page size much but increase the usability of your blog and also take care of the SEO aspect of your blog.

#7. An HTML site map that is meant for your users.

#8. A description page for your blog.

Most simple do not's for Search Engine Optimization of blog and website

2012-12-13T16:33:00.000+05:30

Bloggers are not always webmasters . Generally bloggers are individual or a very small team of people creating content oriented about some topic. A very good blog may also go unnoticed due to improper web-mastering and optimization for search engines. It is very simple to understand that to monetize a blog and also to build readership, it is very much needed that a blog gets traffic from search engines. Now it is also very uncommon and difficult for a blogger to be a very good webmaster. Blogger writing about web-mastering and web technologies may understand it better but still very professional web-mastering may need a lot of time and attention to be given. A simple solution for this is that every blogger understand SEO and content optimization to some extend. Most particularly , content optimization has to be understood by a blogger because content is created by them and it is not a very good idea that someone creates content and then it is optimized. This article will talk mostly about few simple do not’s that a blogger and webmasters must know for search engine optimization of their blogs and websites.

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Simple do not’s for search engine optimization of a blog or a website

#1. Never use a title that is irrelevant to your content. Make sure that your title has the most relevant keywords for your content.
#2. Do not use similar or same title for multiple pages. You can have keywords repeated in content but your titles should be different.
#3. Do not use more that 75 character in the title of your page.
#4. Do not repeat keywords in your title unless they are extremely required.
#5. Do not write similar search description for different posts. Nearly all leading blogging platforms provide features to add a search meta description for a post.
#6. Do not use common ( generic ) search description, e.g. if your blog post is about London , you must not write have a search descriptions like “ This post is about London” rather you should have some other description that explains your post properly.
#7. Do never stuff keywords in search description and make it some thing to be read and understood by human.
#8. Do never copy and paste entire article or a large part of your article in search description. Just understand that article and your description are two distinct things that have different purposes.
#9. Do not have lengthy URLs for your blog posts. Nearly all leading blogging platforms offer the flexibility to use a custom URL.
#10. Do not use URLs like page1 or html1 and such others. Have unique and descriptive URLs.
#11. Do not repeat keywords in URLs
#12. Do not use too many labels, tags or categories for your blog posts.
#13. Do not use irrelevant labels for a blog post.
#14. Do not use same pages on subdomains, e.g abc.com/page1.html and xyz.abc.com/page1.html
#15. Do not use capital letters in URLs
#16. Do not have more that 200 links on a webpage
#17. Do not use images for navigation , rather use text for links.
#18. Do not use unorganized HTML sitemap, HTML sitemaps are generally for users to understand your content they must find it easy to understand the content on your pages.
#19. Do not have unorganized text in your posts. Use H1 to H6 tags to organize content.
#20. Do not at all have hidden text on your pages and descriptions.
#21. Do not at all have spelling mistakes in your content.
#22. Do not use irrelevant anchor text. Anchor text is the text used for a link.
#23. Do not use too lengthy anchor text for links.
#24. Do not keep links look like text only. Links must be different in looks that just text.
#25. Do not add unnecessary links and off topic links on the same page . If required use “nofollow” attribute to them.
#26. Do not use images with filename like image1 or photo1, rather have unique names for images.
#27. Do not use images without ALT tag.

36 steps to create a blog and start your blogging career in 2013 – blogging cheat sheet

2012-12-12T00:00:00.000+05:30

I was trying to imagine that how much time I had to spend to just understand blogging to the extent I have reached. I know that there is a lot more to to do but also have the feeling of understanding this to the extent where I find myself very comfortable doing this. I just thought if there can be an article on the steps that a blogger may take to reach this point, someone may be saved from wasting the valuable time. This article shares such 26 steps for a blogger to set up a blog and start your blogging career in 2013.

The blogging cheat sheet 2013

#Step 1. Read 50 articles from known authors about various aspects of blogging
#Step 2. Read 25 articles from known authors about selection of blogging platform and setting it up
#Step 3. Select your blog platform and blog hosting provider in case of self hosted blogs
#Step 4. Do research on the content orientation of your blog and the primary topic of your blog to decide your primary blogging topic
#Step 5. Write a trial post and share it with your close people for their opinions
#Step 6. Do some research on your writing style and plan a definite writing style
#Step 7. Set up a blog and use a coming soon page on the home page , also have some options for users to talk about this
#Step 8. Build a network of around 100 people to become your primary readers
#Step 9. Continue discussing with them about the content that you should publish about
#Step 10. Set up a page for your blog on Facebook

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#Step 11. Set up a page for your blog on Google Plus
#Step 12. Get a Twitter handle for your blog
#Step 13. Create a professional account on LinkedIn and also a page for your blog as a company if possible.
#Step 14. Have a profile on Pinterest
#Step 15. Create a Klout account
#Step 16. Create a Hoot Suite account for social media management
#Step 17. Create blogs on other hosted blogging platforms like Blogger , WordPress , Tumblr etc.
#Step 18 . Create account with popular commenting systems like Disqus and Livefyre
#Step 19 . Remove coming soon page and other stuff from your blog, let regular blog post layout be visible and use social share and subscription widgets.
#Step 20 . Read up to 10 articles about blog post composition
#Step 21 . Publish your first post and share it on Facebook, Twitter , Google Plus , LinkedIn etc. Pin the image to Pinterest.
#Step 22 . Reply to the comments you have received.
#Step 23. Continue researching on better blog post topics as per your blogs primary topic.
#Step 24. Write up to 5 posts and do the similar things you did earlier.
#Step 25. Start using a feed reader like Google Reader
#Step 26. Start using feed detection add on for your browser, such add-on-s are available for many browsers but Google Chrome is recommended.
#Step 27. Add your blog to Google Webmaster tools, Bing /Yahoo Webmaster Centre and other search engines.
# Step 28 . Add your blog to blog directories and blogger communities, Communities like Technorati and Bloggers are important but there are many such others
# Step 29. Add your blog to Alexa verification
#Step 30. Start using analytic tools like Google Analytic and others if needed.
#Step 31. Check the performance of your blog pages using tools like GTmetrix
#Step 32. Make your blog pages SEO friendly and optimized using tools like WooRank and SEO tools
#Step 33. Look for few good and active bloggers and subscribe to there blog feed in your feed reader.
#Step 34. Start reading and offering proper comments to their blog posts
#Step 35. Subscribe to feeds of few important blogs like Google Webmaster Center blog and such other blog of people and companies providing needed information.
#Step 36. Continue researching topics , composing – publishing posts , sharing them on social media , replying to comments, reading subscribed feeds in reader offering quality comments to the posts, be interactive and blog regularly.

Ideal earning goals and scenarios for bloggers to make money in 2013

2012-12-11T13:09:00.000+05:30

I have come across with hundreds of bloggers who have selected blogging as an earning source. I personally believe that a blog is one of the most difficult way to earn money but it has its own flexibility . Once a blog reaches the level of success , it can be a high paying activity. However to reach that level is not easy and it will be a long learning and a lot of development efforts needed for one to reach that point. I personally believe that a blogger needs more time to learn and make their skills fine in order to make good earning from a blog. It is also a crucial part of the story to know that what money can be earned at what level. Though the monetization aspect and prospect for a blog depends on variety of aspects but on certain scale it can be assumed that a blogger may earn this much is some set scenario. This article will be focusing on the levels and kinds of scenarios that a blogger will have to achieve to reach certain scale of monetization. This article will also help bloggers understand the money they can earn from their blogs in year 2013. Before we proceed let me just make it clear that there is no such scale to measure the earning potential of a blog and this is completely based on my experience, still I can assure you that these findings will be very close to what it can actually exist.

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The money a blogger can earn and the levels – scenarios to achieve

While you go ahead to know blog monetization potential , I must admit that these are not fixed sets of measures but the monetization will depend on many aspects . This is for purpose of guidance and commonly accepted. In a case a blog receiving less visitors may earn higher income that any high traffic blog just because of the geographical location of the visitors.

#Level 1 – Earning U.S $ 100 Per Month – The first goal of blog monetization

Time – 6 Months of serious efforts

Articles – 200 to 300 Quality articles

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 100k

Regular Readers/Subscribers - 100

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 3000 Approximately

#Level 2 – Earning U.S $ 500 Per Month – Make blogging a good earning source

Time – 12 Months

Articles – Up To 500

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 60k

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 200

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 6000 Approximately

#Level 3 – Earning U.S $ 1000 Per Month – Get more time for growing your blog

Time – 18 Months

Articles – 500 to 800

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 50k

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 300

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 9000 Approximately

#Level 4 – Earning U.S $ 3000 Per Month – Reach the premium earning blogger club

Time – 24 Months

Articles – 800 to 1200

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 15k

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 500

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 12000 Approximately

#Level 5 – Earning U.S $ 5000 Per Month – Feel like an internet entrepreneur

Time – 30 Months

Articles – 1200 to 1500

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 10k

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 2000

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 15000 Approximately

#Level 6 – Earning U.S $ 10000 Per Month – Earn very serious money from your blog

Time – 36 Months

Articles – Around 2000

Alexa Traffic Rank – Around 7500

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 3000

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 18000 Approximately

#Level 7 – Earning U.S $ 25000 Per Month – Reach the highest earning individual bloggers club

Time – 3 To 4 years of serious blogging

Articles – 3000 to 5000

Alexa Traffic Rank – 3k to 5k

Regular Readers/Subscribers – 10000

Comments/Interactions leading to promotion of blog – 21000 Approximately

Most important points to know before starting a blog in 2012-13

2012-12-08T17:20:00.000+05:30

Now that a person is influenced with blogging and has planned a blog . Whatsoever the cause behind operating a blog, be it the love for this activity or any other reason . Blogging in 2013 is full of challenges. Blogging as an activity has seen extreme growth in last few years , that too in largely populated nations of the world, contributing to the actual number of active bloggers and thus creating competition. This is not a reason to be disappointed because with the increased number of bloggers , the number of internet users and blog readers has also increased. The thing that will make the difference in all this scenario is the quality of content and promotional strategy by a blogger. Building a successful blog is not impossible but a blogger must understand the basics of building a blog. This article is part of Better Blogger Series 2013 and will talk mostly about the fundamentals of blogging and most important points to know before starting a blog in 2012/13.

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Must know and most important points to know before starting a blog in 2012/13

Blog Identity and ownership

Before starting a blog I strongly recommend that you must use your own domain and a domain name that is relevant to your primary topic. Do not imitate the name of a popular online or offline entity as this will not result in visitors but will result in negative user experience because users will look for something and will get something else. Create your own identity by using unique and relevant domain name. It is also important to use the same name on social media websites and create profiles using it.

Must know before blogging for money

If you have started a blog considering that a blog will give you big money in immediate future , rethink blogging as a solution for this need. Blogging is a long term goal and even full time bloggers may need up to an year to build a successful blog as well as earning money from it. Also to know is that a blog is not a guarantee for money and even when a blogger will reach the level of initial earning from a blog , the earning will not be very regular and will be fluctuating.

The most common and most important fundamentals of blogging

#1. Content orientation

Content orientation or the primary topic of blogging is important because a blogger must be capable of writing useful quality content about it and also that the topic has to be of interest of a larger audience.

#2. Content quality

Content quality is something that can not be replaced with something else. Working hard to create quality content is difficult and if a blogger thinks that there is some solution to the quality and usability of content , just forget about blogging. There can be some way to make search engine send traffic but that will not be permanent. Only the readership that a blogger attracts due to the content will last long.

#3. Create some unique style of writing

A blogger has to have some unique style of writing and presenting content. Usually the way content is represented can make it more useful for readers.

#4. Blog promotion

Blog promotion is self service process. This itself is a skill to make some buzz about your blog and to offer some useful content so that readers turn back to your blog regularly. Building a readership of even up to 500 bloggers can make your blog to the league of top blogs, just understand this.

#5. Building network of readers and followers

As mentioned is the earlier point in short , building network of readers is essential . A blogger should always try to optimize for search engines but must not rely on search engines for visitors. The better way is to have smaller goals for smaller periods rather that expecting some magic and hundreds of visitors in no time. Associate readers with your topics , provide quality content and keep up with them, while you do this just see that how tremendously this will change your blogging experience and results.

#6. Understand web-mastering and SEO

I have not seen a successful blogger not knowing the basics of web-mastering and SEO. There might be few blogger who write for large internet publications but just understand that they are backed by a capable team of webmasters.

#7. Have long term goals of blogging

Set long term blogging goal at the time of starting a blog , say for about 6 months to 1 years and then set up smaller sub goals as you go ahead and learn more things.

#8 . Do the research before doing anything
New blogger tend to experiment with many things , I personally did a lot experimentation in my early days of blogging , that still is not extreme history. The basics of blogging are about few things that are not very difficult to learn and start . A blogger must be comfortable with these basics of blogging and involve with other experimentation as they go on.Without experimentation a blogger may not emerge as an experienced blogger but the only strong recommendation that I have is that any experimentation should not be done by ignoring the basic and after doing every possible research only.

Guest blogging and Guest blogging communities

2012-12-07T18:51:00.000+05:30

KsnWorld has already published few post about guest blogging, below are few of them.
Guest blogging and the way Google sees guest posts on your blogs.
Guest blogging disadvantages and their solution.
Guest blogging is a simple concept with complex application because of the kind of negative consequences that it might have if not practiced properly. We will not be discussing about the consequences of guest blogging as we had already talked about it in one of the earlier mentioned post. Guest blogging has many benefits also and can really change the fate of a blog. Guest blogging can not only build link for a blog and strengthen the SEO aspect of a blog but also get a lot of visitors for a blog.
New blogger find it extremely difficult to find guest contributor because of less awareness and least benefits that the contributor may get. New blogger can really more on contributing content to a good blog and later once they have good reputation, they can really accept quality posts for their blogs. One more simple solution to guest blogging in both ways is using guest blogger communities that have emerged in some recent time. Guest blogging communities connect guest authors and blog owners seeking content. It is a two way benefit association. This article explores few of the currently available guest blogging communities.

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Few guest blogging / blogger communities

The guest blogging communities below are listed in alphabetical order and not in the order of their popularity.

Guestr

Guestr is a free guest bloggers communities that has listing of many high PR blogs looking for content and many good blogger offering content.

My Blog Guest

My Blog guest is probably the most popular guest bloggers community that is free to use.

BlogDash

Blog Dash is free to join but partially paid community to look for guest bloggers offering content and blogs seeking content.

Blogger Link Up

Blogger Link Up is a free guest blogging community.

Blog Synergy

Blog Synergy is a free guest blogging community.

Guest Blog It

Guest Blog It is a blogger community that offers a free basic membership and paid pro membership.

LinkNami

LinkNami is a free guest blogger community

PostJoint

PostJoint is about guest blogging but more of content marketing community as they say that they connect bloggers and advertisers. Post joint gives monetization opportunities.

Care to be taken while using guest blogging communities to post or accept content.

As already specified frequently by us that guest blogging can prove to be a costly affair if not practiced properly. A blogger must be cautious about using these communities to offer or receive content. After joining the communities a blogger must first study carefully the kind of blogs listed and then select the quality one to offer content to and good authors to accept content from. Very few profiles on such communities are worth and maximum of the profiles are spammers.

30 most useful blogging tools and services for better blogging in 2013

2012-12-06T12:00:00.000+05:30

Blogging in 2012-13 is not limited to concepts like Blogger and WordPress. This is web 2.0 and every time we have something new. This time is dominated by social media and hundreds of other services that help bloggers blog better. This article combines few of the web’s best services that bloggers can use for better blogging and productivity.

After The Deadline

After The Deadline is a very good tool to check spelling check , writing style check and grammar check.

Alltop

Alltop is a collection of best article from worlds best blogs. Users can create a magazine of their favorite stories.

Awesome Screenshots

Awesome screenshots is a browser extension that lets you capture screenshots of a webpage.

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Bitly

Bitly is worlds favorite URL shortener.

Buffer

Buffer lets you share smartly on social media.

CoffeCup

CoffeCup is an HTML editor and Website designing tool that makes coding easy for everyone.

Content Idea Generator

Content Idea Generator can generate ideas for blog posts , tweets based on the information provided.

Digg Digg

Digg Digg is a sharing bar for WordPress blogs.

Diigo

Diigo helps you collect notes, bookmarks , images , note as you surf the web and remember them for later use.

Disqus

Disqua is extremely useful commenting system that can be used with many popular blogging platforms.

Evernote

Evernote is a tool that can be used with many devices like PCs , Tablets , Laptops , Smart Phones etc. This tool allows you to remember everything that you come across and want to remind later.

Focus Booster

Focus Booster helps you to updated with the time you allocate for a task by keeping you updated with the available time. A great way for blogger to focus on content creation.

HootSuite

HootSuite is a great way to manage social media activities.

IFTTT

IFTTT is one of its kind task automation utility that is extremely useful.

InboxQ

InboxQ is a tools that finds the questions asked on Twitter about something you know about . If a blogger knows and writes about web-mastering, this tool can find questions that are asked on Twitter about web-mastering.

Instagram

Instagram is a mobile phone application that can be used on Android and iOS devices. Bloggers can use this application to make their photos further more interesting and use them with their blog posts.

Markup io

Markup.io is a browser extension that lets you draw on any webpage and share those pages using thee link provided by Markup.io

OmniWriter

OmniWriter is a disturbance free writing environment for Mac, PCs and iPad.

Paint.net

Paint.net is a free software for editing of digital photos.

PhotoPin

PhotoPin is a creative commons photo search utility that not only searches for creative commons photos but also creates a link for attribution.

Pixlr

Pixlr is an online photo editor with very good feature set.

Pocket

Pocket is an interesting way to store things that we like while surfing on web for later reading.

PostCron

PostCron is a platform to schedule posts on Facebook and Twitter. One very good thing about PostCron is that it can post photos directly to timeline and also to a suggested album.

SEO Blogger For Firefox

SEO Blogger for FireFox is a FireFox browser extension that works with blog post editors of leading blogging platforms and does the keyword research as you write.

SEO Tools

SEO Tools by SEO Books has many tools to take care of the SEO aspect of a blog.

Stock xchng

Stock xchng is a leading free stock photography website that allows access to thousands of free stock photos.

Storify

Storify lets you create and share stories on social media.

Tagul

Tagul lets you create linkable keyword clods in beautiful shapes.

Trello

Trello is a project and task management tool that blogger can use to manage blogging tasks.

Zemanta

Zemanta is a social blogging tool that connects bloggers writing about similar topics.

There can be no list which accommodates every good utility on the web for blogger. Readers can contribute to the list by recommending other good utilities in comments.

Why to blog - 11 other than money reasons to blog

2012-12-05T16:47:00.000+05:30

Blog is a powerful medium to share thought and ideas. It has become further more efficient as this lets people earn money from it. Though the monetization aspect of a blog is very important aspect of blogging but not every blogger writing to make money. Blogging has many other reasons that make it the most preferred social sharing tool. This article draws attention to 11 such other than money reason for a blogger to blog.

Few other than money reasons to blog

Liberty of expression of your ideas

A blogger is at liberty to express ideas and thought . Blogging is an activity for many to express their thought and let people know what they think about an issue.

You experience may help others

A blogger can help other by sharing knowledge and experience over a complex issue.

To build a network for some cause

A blogger can build a network of similar minded people over an issue or for a cause.

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Keeping your mind creative

many blogger just blog to keep their mind creative and learn new things.

Stay connected with a topic

Blogging also helps you to stay connected to a topic and learn the latest news and information about that.

Polish your knowledge about something

Many people just blog because they want to keep their knowledge about something polished.

Become an expert with something

Blogging is a great way to become an expert with something and let other know of your expertise.

Spread knowledge about something

Blogging can help you spread knowledge about something.

Promote your thought , ideas and business

A blog is an uncompetitive way of promoting thought and ideas. The most good about it is that you continue to grow on the reputation that you achieve.

To fetch opinion about something

A blog can be used to fetch popular opinion about something.

To make a common opinion about something

A blog can be used to form a common opinion about something by giving information and discussing.

Best blog post editors for 2013

2012-12-05T00:00:00.000+05:30

Blogging platforms have inbuilt blog post editors but many bloggers have been using a desktop blog editors. Desktop blog editors can do things that an inbuilt blogging tool of a blogging platform can not do. Due to the increased network speed and availability of internet connections everywhere as well as blogging through tablet devices and smart phones, use of a desktop blogging platform has reduced. Blogging platforms nowadays have efficient blogging features these days but there are some things that can be done using a desktop blog editor only. This article shows a list of few good desktop blog editors to be used in 2013.

What different a desktop blog editor can do ?

1. A desktop blog editors is available even if you are not connected to internet.
2. Blog posts can be created offline.
3. Blog post can be saved offline and a copy is available on local disk.
4. Desktop blog editors generally have better formatting features if compared to the inbuilt blog post editor of a blogging platform.
5. A desktop blog post editor is must for a multi blog author.

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Windows Live Writer

Windows live writer is by far the most used , recommended and full featured desktop blogging tool that has extremely advanced features and is also extendible using plugins. This blogging tool is available for free and is part of Windows Live Essential set of applications. This application is made to be used on Windows but can also be used on Mac as claimed by some bloggers . Here is a link to an article about using WLW on Mac. However this is not tried by myself and I personally do not guarantee the successful use of WLW using the techniques recommended in the said article.

Scribefire

ScribeFire is Firefox browser add-on that works a local blog post editor.

Thingamablog

Thingamablog is one of those very few blog post editors which are cross platform ( work with or available for multiple operating systems like Windows and Mac )

W.Bloggar

W.Bloggar is also an efficient desktop blog post editor for Windows.

Qumana

Qumana is a cross platform desktop blogging tool.

This list could have been bigger but I have excluded many known desktop blogging clients for the reason that they are not free or they are not updated and have very old versions. Use of desktop blogging tools is reducing a lot. Windows users generally use Windows Live Writer as it is the best choice . Many good desktop blog tools for Mac OS are not free and also not very competitive. Use of Windows Live Writer is recommended for windows users and MarsEdit3 can be a competitive choice if a Mac user may prefer to buy a desktop blog post editor.

Best blogging platforms for 2013

2012-12-04T17:37:00.000+05:30

Blogging in 2013 is going to be a lot more competitive due to the high number of bloggers around the globe. Building readership is going to be a real challenge in 2013. Individual blogger will have to use every possible resource to promote their blogs in the internet of millions of other blogs and bloggers. Blogger who have started in 2012 or planning to alert in 2013 have a tough fight. To make sure that a blogger survives the real fight in this competitive blogging arena , selection of right blogging platform is extremely essential. This article compiles a list of the best hosted and self hosted blogging platforms for the year 2013.

Lists of hosted and self hosted blogging platforms

Hosted Blogging Platform

Blogger

The hosted blogging platform that has helped blogger to start a blog for years. Extremely good for individual bloggers and small team blogs.

Wordpress.com

The hosted version of worlds most used blogging platform, a good choice for semi professional and small team blogs.

Tumblr

Worlds most loves and fastest grown platform for micro blogging and casual blogging. The best choice for fancy casual blogging.

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Typepad

Typepad is not a free service but a reliable and efficient hosted blogging platform. A good choice for professional and marketing blogs.

Posterous Spaces

Posterous Space is a hosted blogging platform that is now owned by Twitter. This blogging platform is a good choice for individual bloggers.

Blog.com

Blog.com is a hosted blogging platform that is scalable , offers a free plan but shows ads and the premium plan that will need you to pay for extra space. A good choice for individual pro blogging.

Weebly

Weebly is not actually a blogging platform but a website creation tool that also lets you create a blog. A good choice for a website with a blog.

Livejournal

Livejournal lets you create online journals that are similar to blog posts.

Jux.com

Jux.com is an innovative way to show your content to world. This platform offer some innovative features.

Blogetery
Blogetery is an hosted blogging platform that uses WordPress.

Wix
Wix is an online website builder that also lets you create a blog.

Simplesite

Simplesite is and online website creator that lets you create a blog.

Few other WordPress powered blogging platforms are
Blogsome, freeblogit and Blog Dive

Self hosted blogging software

Self hosted blogging software allows you to install and use it on a web server and create a blog. Such software are generally advanced and highly scalable as well as configurable.

Wordpress.org

Wordpress is the most used blogging platform in the world and the leader in blogging technology. Wordpress is also an extendible CMS that lets you create a website. Many of the worlds leading blogs are based on Wordpress technology. Mashable is an example.

Joomla

Joomla is a CMS ( Content Management System ) that lets you create a website rather that a blog but also has advanced blogging capabilities. It is generally used for creation of websites though.

Drupal

Just like Joomla Drupal is also a scalable and trusted CMS that lets you create a blog too.

Movable Type

Movable Type is an publishing/blogging platform which is scalable and extendible. This is used by worlds top blogs , The Huffington Post is one of those blogs.

Express Engine

Express engine is a paid blogging software for enterprise level usage.

Virtual Retinal Display - The future of graphical interface for electronic devices

2012-12-04T16:49:00.001+05:30

Technology has become a common element of our lives today. We use all existing technologies to make our life better and faster. Technology has taken us to an era of fastest developments that is becoming speedy everyday. An advanced mobile phone purchased a year ago look to be dated these days. One thing about technology in the current scenario is that a technology which is done with the research and development part of it takes approximately 5 years to be commonly available in markets, this period is reducing everyday though. We are going to see a technology in recent future that will change the way we use devices. This is known as Virtual Retinal Display. A technology that creates images directly on the retina of eye.

Virtual retinal display is an advanced technology that allows hands free and screen free display of picture directly on human eye. This type of display can be used for an Tele-Vision set , a Mobile Device , a Tablet Device , a Laptop and any other device that has a display or uses graphical interface.

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How devices will use Virtual Retinal Display technology

Television – We may see a set of spectacles with inbuilt Virtual Retinal Display that allows us to view television program by just wearing them. The device will be smarter enough to receive signal and command by words.

Mobile phone – An head mounted mobile phone that makes and receives calls and does all other functions that a mobile phone can do and that too with-ought pressing any key.

Computer – An head mounted computer that interacts with us and does all the common functioning that we have to do using a computer.

Very useful blogging tools that are provided by Google

2012-12-03T16:21:00.000+05:30

Internet giant Google has also grown a lot since it was established in year 1998. It has grown to become one of the largest internet corporations in the world. In is also interesting to understand that blogging has also grown a lot over this period . The growth story of an internet company “Google” and internets most loved activity “Blogging” is extremely close and similar. The reason behind this can be that Google could use the increasing usage trends of the internet across the globe and blogging could prove to be the most liked and efficient way people could exist on internet but also that both these things have contributed to the growth of each other. Google has been the most special supporter of blogging and over the years , it has offered extraordinary services and products for bloggers. It is very interesting to know that there will be no or very few bloggers who do not use even a single service provided by Google. This article compiles a list of few known and less known services that Google offers for bloggers.

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List of services that Google offers for bloggers

Blogger

I just can feel the way this service has helped individual bloggers grow and experiment their blogging skills using it for free and with unlimited usability. Blogger is world most favorite blogging platform to start blogging. Hosting millions of blogs and innovating the possibilities of a blog for individuals and smaller groups in an extremely secured Google environment and high performing Google servers.

Google Plus

A competing tool by Google in the social media era. Google plus is an extraordinarily useful social media platform. Useful for blogger due to various customized services for bloggers including sharing widget , +1 widget etc. Google plus is also offering seamless integration with Blogger.

Google Authorship

Google authorship is a way that Google offers to bloggers to connect their Google Plus profile to the content they create.

Google pages for publishers

Google Plus pages can be linked to the publisher website and can feature in search results for the publisher.

Picassa

Picassa is an online photo hosting service by Google that offers unlimited free photo hosting for Blogger hosted blog. Picassa also offers a desktop application and can be used efficiently with Android powered mobile devices , smartphone and tablets.

Analytic

Google analytics is one of the worlds best website traffic analytic service that is offered for free.

Webmaster Tools

Google webmaster tools is an interface for webmasters and bloggers to see various search engines related aspects of their websites and blogs. This interface also suggests various improvements.

Page speed online

Page speed online is free tool that automatically evaluates a webpage from the performance aspect and suggest basic to advance improvements.

Google Reader

Google reader is a web based service that allows bloggers and other enthusiast to subscribe to feeds of their favorite blogs , organize and read them.

Friend Connect

Google friend connect used to be service for all websites to build a community of readers and do multitasking. This service is restricted to Blogger hosted blogs now.

FeedBurner

FeedBurner is worlds most loved way of burning feeds and offering feed subscription.

AdWords

Google AdWords is worlds most used contextual and graphical ad creation and distribution networks. Google AdWords is flexible enough to handle the needs of small to large publishers.

AdSense

Google AdSense is the most loved way to monetize a website or a blog. Google AdSense is a CPC ad network that offers huge monetization potential by showing primarily the contextual ads. AdSense is known to offers industry high earning prospect.

Blog Search

Google Blog Search is a custom blog search engines that helps bloggers search for interesting blog and blog posts using a query.

Google Alert

Google Alert is a Google Search feature that helps a person to receive email alerts when something is added to their favorite topics.

Goo.gl

Goo.gl is a URL shortening service that helps bloggers and other users to shorten URLs and to share it. The services also provides analytics od the shared URLs.

GoMo

GoMo is an extremely useful service for bloggers and webmasters to create a mobile website . This service is provided in association with DuDa Mobile and is sponsored by Google for some period. This service is a professional solution for bloggers to create a mobile versions of their blogs just using the feed of their blog in few minutes.

Google Custom Search

Google custom search is service by Google that helps webmasters and bloggers create a search engine for their websites and blogs. This search engines is powered by Google Search and also helps bloggers earn money by showing relevant ads.

Google Books

Google books is a useful search facility for users to find books on the web using keywords. This search shows paper books in an electronically scanned formats. This service also creators access their own books on Google Play.

Google Groups

Google Groups is a service that helps users to create and join groups dedicated to some cause or topics. Google Groups is a very unique way for blogger to promote their content on relevant groups.

YouTube

YouTube is world most popular video hosting service offered by Google. Bloggers can use this service to create video blogs and embed videos in their blog articles.

Importance of a cause and a well planned thought behind a blog

2012-11-30T17:37:00.000+05:30

Bloggers are creative , they like to create things that their readers will like . The primary idea behind blogging was to avail the opportunity to express our thought , ideas , skills and knowledge using the possibilities of technology and the internet. This soon became an activity oriented around earning money. Maximum of the bloggers on the internet are always seeking to earn money from a blog , few try to use a blog as a medium of promoting commercial activity and very few blog just out of passion. There is nothing wrong in a blogger considering earning money from a blog but it is always sad when a blogger creates content oriented around getting more visitors from the search engines.

Setting up a blog and taking it to success requires that to have large number of regular visitors. The visitors can come from a search engine query or from feeds, social media posts etc. For both the sources it is important to create a reputation of being something. Search engines are smart these days and do not rank a webpage higher only because it has some keywords but evaluate that webpage and its domain on many aspects. Quality of content , search engine reputation and loyal readership can only be achieved by writing around a thought and making it clear for visitors to understand the orientation of the blog. When visitors understand the principle idea around the blog and find the content useful for them, it is more likely that they will become regular visitors of that blog.

To understand the importance of a well planned thought behind a blog we will first try to understand the two primary types of promotional strategies that bloggers use.

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Two types of promotional strategies

Building readership

Building readership is a strategy that bloggers use after setting up a blog and writing some posts. In this strategy bloggers generally make other bloggers and readers aware of their blog and the idea behind it. In this way blogger associate few readers with them. These readers do regularly check out for blog post updates and also offer comments to the blog posts.

Building keywords

Some bloggers apply the strategy of building content with highly searched queries. This way the bloggers try to make search engines aware that their blog is hosting large information about some topics. This way can only produce if the blog really hosts useful content but it it does not have any quality content and is only stuffed with keywords, this way will not produce.

The right approach toward professional blogging

The right approach toward professional blogging can be to set up a blog that has a good looking layout and start posting quality articles on it. While quality articles are posted on a blog , the blogger can also interact with other bloggers and make them visit their own blogs. Social media can also be effectively used to promote blog posts and blogs. This will give a blog the primary exposure required. As the readers of blog posts will be bloggers and regular internet users, they are more likely to backlink, comment and share these blog post. This will help a blog to create existence on the web and also let search engines crawl the blog more frequently. As a blog will go on to build readership , simultaneously the search engines will also list the pages from the blog high in search results and thus sending more visitors to the blog.

How to plan a cause or the thought behind a blog ?

As mentioned in this post earlier , it is really important for a blog to have some application behind it. While planning out the idea or the thought behind a blog, some points mentioned below must be taken in consideration;

1. Make sure that the thought you apply behind a blog involves creation of topics that are widely searched and read on the web.

2. If you opt to write about a topic that is not very popular on the web, see to it that there is very less competition for the same.

3. Select few popular subscription methods that you will offer your readers.

4. Select 2 to 3 social media websites and blogger communities that you will use to find readers for your blog and make them aware about your blog.

5. Have a clear strategy as to what kind of blogs that you will read and comment on.

6. Have a set strategy about the topics to create blog posts about.

Blog questions - Most common questions for new bloggers and their answers

2012-11-29T18:11:00.000+05:30

Thousand of people start blogging every year but very few of them can continue to blog and other stop blogging at some point. The reason behind people quitting blogging is not that they could have not created a successful blog but only that they do not know the basics of blogging. Blogging is all self learning and there are many resources on the we to do this but this big information is itself a problem and many new bloggers can not find definite sources for authentic and useful information. Bloggers who still apply mind every time and learn the fundamentals of blogging have very big competition ahead of them. In all this scenario , operating a blog and taking it to success is challenging but also rewarding. New bloggers can take their blog to success in some time if they have the concept clear to them. This article is part of the Better Blogger Series 2013 and is solving some most common questions that new bloggers have. The goal of this post is to make few most common things very clear to new bloggers so that they can start their blogging journey with confidence and in a correct manner.

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Most common questions about blogging and their answers

I know very basic about a blog but where can I learn more about blogging ?

Blogging is self learning and has various aspects like web-mastering , SEO , research , posting , promotion , social media and building readership. There are many blogs that publish about such topics and this blog is also publishing about all this. New bloggers can follow these blog and check for updates. It is also advised that a blogger does a lot of study about blogging for at least 15 to 30 days and then starts blogging. This will help bloggers save most valuable time and start blogging in a correct way.

How can I set up a blog ?

Setting up a blog is easy . If you do not have much technical skills , you can start a blog on a hosted platform like Blogger by Google. It is also recommended by me personally . If you wan more flexibility , controls and scalability , you can start a blog on a self hosted blogging platform like WordPress. Before setting up a blog with any blogging platform , it is advised that you go through all the the instruction carefully so that you can use all the feature of your blogging platform properly.

What should I blog about ?

This is very big question because many things will depend on this question after some time of active blogging. Selecting a proper blogging topic depends on various aspects and it is extremely important. Posts liked below will focus more on this;

Blog topics and writing area planning - tips and tricks

Blog Topics, ways to find blog topics that are popular and SEO friendly

When and how much should I blog ?

You can blog anytime and at any scale as per your convenience but the success of your blog may depend on the scale of content of your blog if you are writing about a very popular topic. If you are writing about some unique topic the scale of content will not be very important. In both the cases the quality of your content in terms of usefulness will matter the most. Whatever be the scale of posting but I strongly recommend that you post on a regular interval e.g. daily , weekly.

Why a person would like to read my blog when there are many famous blogs about every topic ?

If someone is famous does not mean that no one can be better that that person. Everything has a limit and an option. You must not target to become like some one but try to create your own identity. People will like to read your blog because they find it useful and interesting. Creating great content and taking that content to good number of people is very important. As you go on doing this and offer ways to people to stay connected with you , you will go on to build readership.

What is Search Engine Optimization, how important is it and where can I learn about it ?

Search engine optimization is making your blog better to be analyzed and understood by search engines and using most searched and relevant keywords/key-phrases in your content. Though these two points are the key but SEO is more than this in todays time. SEO is a broad concept that has to be taken very seriously. A blogger must know very basics of SEO while starting a blog. Advance SEO may be studied as you go on blogging. SEO is very important for professional blogs but not a concern for very new bloggers. There are many resources a blogger can learn about SEO . Few such are Google Webmaster Central Blog , SEMrush and WooRank.

These articles on KsnWorld will also help in understanding SEO ;

What is SEO is today's times and the changing approach

Keyword optimization strategy for your blog and blog posts

Search engine optimization of your website is about these three factors

A starters guide to Search engine Optimization for a blog

The 3 core areas of SEO ( Search Engine Optimization )

How to make a website more Search Engine Optimized and Friendly? Learn Now, Article 8

How to make a website more Search Engine Optimized and Friendly? Learn Now, Article 7

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 6

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 5

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 4

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 3

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 2

HOW TO MAKE A WEBSITE MORE SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZED AND FRIENDLY? LEARN NOW, ARTICLE 1

Where will I find new initial readers for my blog ?

Other bloggers and regular web surfers are the best people to promote a blog to. You can easily find such people by searching for other blogs and using blogger communities. It is advised that you build a two way relationship with these bloggers and regularly check and comment on their posts. Posts below will help you with this;

How to promote your blog , 5 fundamentals of promoting blog and posts.

Free traffic–visitors for your blog by syndicating blog feed and content

5 Step guide for using Facebook to promote your blog.

How can I make money from my blog ?

You can make money from our blog by many monetization tools . Currently there are many ad-networks and other monetization tools on the web that help you earn from a blog. Google AdSense is the best and leading one of them. However you will have to build some readership and reputation of your blog before you approach these ad networks.

When and how much can I earn from my blog ?

You can earn money from your blog by using any monetization tool only when you have some visitors to your blog . The volume of your earning from a blog will depend on many aspects like the number of visitors and their geographical location as well as the content on your blog. Articles lined below will help more on this;

Important tips for monetizing websites

Earn big money from a website,Tips and tricks about monetizing a website

Types of bloggers and their goals

2012-11-29T16:40:00.002+05:30

A blog is the oldest and most used form of social media. The scalability , possibility and usability of a blog is incomparable with any other form of social media site, even in the web 2.0 era and thus a blog is used for various purposes and there are many types of blogger who maintain a blog. This post is part of the Better Blogger Series 2013 and focuses on the kinds of blogger that exist. The purpose of this post is to let new bloggers have better idea of the possibilities of using a blog as a medium to connect with world.

Types of bloggers and their goals from a blog

Below are few types of bloggers that exist on the web. Due to the scalability of a blog , it is used as medium to connect people for various purposes and I am sure that there must be many other types of bloggers.

Bloggers by hobby

Bloggers by hobby are the bloggers who host a blog just as a hobby and give any extra time available with the to write about any topic of their own interest or anything that comes in their minds and they think of sharing it with others. Such bloggers are generally less skilled with technologies behind a blog or a website and use basic features of a blogging platforms. Maximum of the bloggers in the world belong to this category.

Celebrity bloggers

People are always wanting to know what famous people have to say and such celebrities are looking for ways to connect to their fans or people who like them . A blog is the best way for celebrities to connect with fans. Celebrity blogs are generally maintained by skilled webmasters on behalf of the person and only keeps the name of the person. Such blog publish about the view and opinions of the celebrities on any topic of public interest, the development in the life if the person and photos , videos featuring the celebrity person.

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Corporate bloggers

Corporate blogs are maintained by large companies and publish about the developments related to the day to day operations of the company. Companies use a blog to connect with their investors , employees and media. Such blogs are generally linked with the name of the company but hosted on a sub domain of the company’s primary domain. Such corporate blogs are maintained by skilled staff of the companies.

Customer relationship bloggers

Customer relationship blogs or bloggers are the blogs maintained to stay connected with the customers availing any product or service from a company. Such blogs are maintained by companies , agencies appointed by the companies and publish about new products and services as well as updates about the products and services. Such blogs also write about customer queries and their solutions.

Brand promotional bloggers

Brand promotional blogger are the bloggers who write to promote a brand of products or services either actively or passively. Active promotion will be like writing directly about a product or service and passive promotion is writing about a product or service category and just linking the posts to the website of a brand for the same service or products.

Marketing bloggers

Marketing bloggers are bloggers who write to sell a service or product and to earn commission/incentives for the sale of the product or the service. Such blogging is extremely difficult to promote and takes a long time for bloggers to build relationships and trust with readers so that they can be converted to buyers.

Professional bloggers

Professional bloggers are the bloggers who blog for full time and earn money for their living from the blog itself . The money earned by such bloggers is generally by showing ads on their blogs. Many bloggers have the ambition to become a professional blogger but it is really difficult to blog full time and to earn living from the blog only. Being a professional blogger requires one to possess technical skills of maintaining and promoting a blog and also the ability to research and write useful content. It takes a lot of time for blogger to become a professional blogger who earns good money from a blog. It has further become very difficult due to the increased competition between bloggers.

Team bloggers

Team bloggers are the professional blogger who team up to write about some topic of interest. Team bloggers are generally associated with a large blog that publishes regularly and have large number of regular readers. Such blogs earn high income due to the large number of readers.

13 Must remember quotes for successful blogging

2012-11-28T19:30:00.000+05:30

Just thought of scripting some thought that apply to blogging. I could figure out 13 quotes that apply to this and feel that that these quotes are the must remember for successful blogging.

Blogging needs a cause

Blogging needs a cause because a successful blog has to be known for something that is found to be useful by other and in this way a blog must have a cause that people/readers follow.

Blogging is an activity and not a mechanism

Blogging can be pursued as an activity that a person is passionate about and can not be treated as an mechanical kind of operation that is carried of some time and for some result.

A blog is created by heart but grown by mind

A blog is created by heart and bloggers do everything related to this from their heart but it requires application of brain to take a blog to success.

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Blogging is quality and not quantity

Blogging is all about quality of the content that one produces and not about the quantity of it.

Content is to be pure and has to be original

Content created by a blogger has to be pure and must be original work that is not duplicated from or to any other place.

Blogging is learning that never ends

Blogging is learning that never ends , a blogger has to keep learning new things and to keep updated with things around.

Blogging is not only creating but also promoting

Quality and useful content needs to be promoted properly and successful blogging requires less writing and more promoting.

Blogging is all about thinking interactively

A blogger has to think interactively , this means that a blogger has to create ideas for ideas . This can be done by thinking on own ideas and by following other blogs.

Blogging is a discussion

Blogging is a discussion . Just like any other discussion that takes place in our daily life, blog post is what we contribute to a discussion and comment or following other blogs is like listening to what others say.

Do not blog for money but earn money to blog

No blogger can be successful if only considers blog an utility to earn money but it is an utility that has to be made to earn money from it and to be taken to the quality where it produces for you.

A blogger does not need to write for search engines but search engine have the need to find blogs

A blogger should never write because something is searched on search engines. Keyword optimization or search engine optimization is all about creating quality content that is related to the cause of a blog and incorporates searched keywords and the blog is maintained in a manner suitable for search engines.

A blog is not an encyclopedia

A blog is not an encyclopedia that has an article for everything but a source of information about something that houses few extraordinary articles about the something.

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Making money from a blog in 2013

Blog monetization scenario in 2013

Factors that affect your earning

Ways to make money from a blog

Simple tips for making money for your blog

Glossary of terms related to blogging internet and technology

A sincere request

Composing and publishing a blog post – the right approach

Blog post idea

Series of blog posts

Blog post title

Writing a blog post

Editing blog posts

Using videos, images and other media

SEO while composing blog post

Associating post with your blog and other posts

Making blog posts interactive

Building readership for your blog in 2013

How to build readership for blogs in 2013 ?

#1. Strengthening the idea behind a blog.

#2. Strengthening the content aspect of a blog.

#3. Building readership.

Blogging in 2013 is challenging yet rewarding

Tips for better blogging in 2013

YouTube Brings Capture - a New App for iOS

Samsung Unveils Galaxy Grand: Is It A Strategy to Hit Big Markets?

Web-mastering after setting up your blog , guide to basic web-mastering

Steps to take after creation of a blog

Template inspection

Adding the Author markup for Google authorship

Make sure that the font and color combination is good

Performance inspection

Making pages available and unavailable for search engines

Submission to search engines

Submission to DMOZ

Submission to blog search engines and blog directories

Configuring site traffic analytic tools

Creating XML and HTML sitemap for your blog

Publishing a post or page about your blog

Setting up a contact option

Setting up privacy policy and terms of use

Using utility tools like WooRank to make a blog better

The features that a blog must possess in 2013

Goal of blog feature management and this article

Understand the feature set for a blog

Right approach to adding features in your blog

Must have features for a blog

Most simple do not's for Search Engine Optimization of blog and website

Simple do not’s for search engine optimization of a blog or a website

36 steps to create a blog and start your blogging career in 2013 – blogging cheat sheet

The blogging cheat sheet 2013

Ideal earning goals and scenarios for bloggers to make money in 2013

The money a blogger can earn and the levels – scenarios to achieve

#Level 1 – Earning U.S $ 100 Per Month – The first goal of blog monetization

#Level 2 – Earning U.S $ 500 Per Month – Make blogging a good earning source

#Level 3 – Earning U.S $ 1000 Per Month – Get more time for growing your blog

#Level 4 – Earning U.S $ 3000 Per Month – Reach the premium earning blogger club

#Level 5 – Earning U.S $ 5000 Per Month – Feel like an internet entrepreneur

#Level 6 – Earning U.S $ 10000 Per Month – Earn very serious money from your blog

#Level 7 – Earning U.S $ 25000 Per Month – Reach the highest earning individual bloggers club

Popular blog topics in 2013 - 9 most popular blog topics in 2013

9 most popular blog topics in 2013 , starting from 9 and to 1

#9. Personal Improvement Blogs

#8. Make Money Online Blogs

#7. Make Money Online Blogs

#6. Online Shopping Blogs

#5. Travel , Leisure & Lifestyle Blogs

#4. Fashion Blogs

#3. Internet Technology Blogs about blogging and social media

#2. Educational Information Blogs

#1. Technology Blogs about Mobile Phone , Gadgets and Devices

Most important points to know before starting a blog in 2012-13

Must know and most important points to know before starting a blog in 2012/13

Blog Identity and ownership

Must know before blogging for money

The most common and most important fundamentals of blogging

#1. Content orientation

#2. Content quality

#3. Create some unique style of writing