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5 Twitter do’s and don’ts

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:27:23 +0000

Twitter has taken over the social networking world by a sway with its revolutionary micro-blogging concept. From emails to blogs to tweets, written language is going the nano way. If blogging is a way of healthy social expression then twitter has made it possible to express umpteen emotions in just 140 characters. Its fast, its concise and you can race through hundreds of blogs, sorry, micro-blogs in no time. Purists have long rued over the fact that internet media has butchered the language. But, now the concern is not the language. It is the basic etiquette of conversation that is taking a severe beating. Especially with twitter, some do’s and don’ts should be followed to have a healthy tweeting atmosphere.

1. Avoid unintelligible short forms

It is sometimes difficult to stick to express everything in just 140 characters. So, you may end up using SMS style, extensive use of which will obfuscate your tweet. Make sure your tweets do not need extra effort to understand.

2. Avoid Upper-casing words

. One of the most important etiquette is in the usage of uppercase. It is never used to emphasize your point in a good way. It is akin to yelling. So, do not use uppercase under normal circumstances. What you perceive as emphasis of point may be perceived by your followers as “putting your foot down”.

3. Provide notes for short URLs

With the growth of twitter, a host of services became popular in tandem. The most significant of them is URL shortening services. With just 140 characters on hand you cannot afford to waste half the space for typing the URL. But, gone are the days when you can identify the site with its URL name. URLs of the form http://ih.gj/34p do not even remotely give the impression of a URL, let alone a proper word. So, when you tweet, make sure you give a small note of what the URL is about. Just a single word is sometimes sufficient.

4. Avoid tweeting mundane activities

Twitter is not a medium of live commentary on your daily trivial chores like drinking water, going to bathroom etc. Make sure that your personal tweets have some meaning. Twitter is a medium of personal expression, but it is not a sticky note with a to-do list. Tweets with mass appeal will draw encouraging responses and increase your followers.

5. Leverage the medium

A general trend that is observed is, following someone out of politeness. This is not a helpful practice. Make sure you follow only trusted people, the ones who have useful things to say. You do not want your page to be flooded with tweets that you will not even read.

Twitter is a great medium of concise expression. Tapping it the right way will open a whole new vista of social network.

Blogging tips for newbie bloggers

admin — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:20:19 +0000

At present, a lot of people are making money online through their blogs. Do you also want to start a blog and reap money benefits from it? If yes, then you should keep on making yourself aware about countless blogging tips. Here, we are providing a few helpful tips for new bloggers.

Before Starting the Blog

Before you start a blog, you should be clear about the niche of your blog. It is best to choose such a subject for your blog, which interests you a lot. If you select such a subject for your blog, which does not interest you then you would find it difficult to carry it on for a long time. Most of the bloggers are successful because they write on things which interest them.

Content is the King

Before you think about your blog promotion, please pay attention to the content of your blog. If you promote your blog a lot but do not give your best to the content then your blog would not be liked. Remember that the main purpose of the blog is to attract readers. Even if you do less promotion but your blog has high quality content, your blog would be loved by people.

Daily postings are important

Do not make your blog look like a dormant blog. You should publish at least one new post daily. If you can publish more than one post every day then it is great. Adding new posts will help in bringing back the readers. Also, advertisers prefer to advertise on those blogs which are updated on a regular basis.

Do all what you can to promote your blog

There are countless ways to promote a blog. You should try as many ways as you can for promoting your blog. Participate in blog carnivals, use twitter, MyBlogLog, SpiceyPage, Digg, BlogCatalog and numerous other services to connect to other people and promote your blog.

Patience is the key

As a beginner, you need to understand that your blog would not get popular in just one or two weeks. Like everything else, blogs also need time to get popular. If you will keep on doing continuous efforts then one day your blog would surely be popular. People who are aware about Search Engine Optimization would have an advantage over others because they know how to use the keywords and various technical things.

How to add No-Follow Target Blank Tags to a Link

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:33:15 +0000

Creating No-Follow links, Target Blank Links, Hypertext links in Blogger, Wordpress

In today’s post, I’m going to talk about what are nofollow tags, how and where to use them on your page content with other some hyperlink properties.

What is nofollow?

Nofollow is an HTML attribute that we use as a part of hyperlink to instruct Google not to distribute any page rank value to the linking website whether its website own page or any page on other domains.

So we can use this rel=nofollow tag with our links where we don’t want to pass Google page rank to other websites. There can be many situations when we would not love to pass page rank to other websites.

Reasons why we should use nofollow tags

Suppose we are promoting some affiliate link on our website or blog, there is no point in passing a page rank to it
And if we are selling some test or banner links on our websites, should keep them nofollow. Because if we pass page rank to the advertiser’s website, we are taking risk of getting some form of penalty from Google (that may came in the form of low page rank or no page rank at all)
There is no point in sending page rank juice to your website pages like About US, Contact Us, Disclaimer, Privacy Policy etc. So keep all of these links as nofollow.
When we are writing content on our website and link to external websites within our content, so its upto you to decide whether you want so send some page rank juice to these websites or not.

Adding No-follow tag to a Link

Generally we use the following link format:

http://www.scopeformoney.com/”>Make Money Online

And in this case we are passing the page rank to ScopeForMoney.com website and this link will look like on our webpage as:

Make Money Online

There are many things we can use with our hyperlinks like using Seo optimized anchor texts as I used in the example above and included the keyword make money online for which I actually want to get high rankings in search engines. So we can repeat the same thing with other websites. If we use keyword based anchor texts in our hyperlinks, we will be helping other websites to rank well for those keywords.

Here are some other standard hyperlink examples where I actually linked to my websites internal pages with the keywords I want to get top rankings in search engines:

Blog Tips
Seo Tips
Directory Submission Services

Now let’s see a working example of website called SponsoredReviews with which I have been working as an affiliate and sending new Advertisers and Publishers to their network and will be able to make some money depending upon the activities my referrals will do on this paid blogging network. So to link to this network, I will be adding the nofollow tag to my link as:

Sponsored Reviews

So in this case, I will be sending them the traffic, but will not be passing any page rank or search engine value to Sponsored Reviews keyword.

So this is how we add nofollow tag to a link. Just add rel=”nofollow” to a link where you don’t want to send some page rank and search engine rankings value.

How to find a link is no-follow or not

There is a Firefox plugin available called Search Status which helps you find out whether a link in nofollow or not. A nofollow link using this ad-on from firefox will look like:

Sponsored Reviews

And in case you are not using this plugin, your link will look very normal i.e.

Sponsored Reviews

How to add target blank to a link

We add target=”_blank” to a link where we don’t want to open the linking page in the same window. When we specify target blank to a link, linking website will open in new tab. And in case we don’t specify target blank value to a link, lining page will open in the same window. So you can think of using target blank value when linking to external websites or some affiliates. Here is the HTML code for this:

Sponsored Reviews

How to create nofollow hyperlink in Blogger, Wordpress

Now select the text that you want to use as Anchor text for your link in HTML view and click ‘Link’ icon shown in the blogger editor and enter the website URL, you want to link to

And now add rel=”nofollow” after adding a space just after the website URL. Click Publish Post button to see nofollow tag in action in your blogger post.

In the same fashion, you can add nofollow tag to Wordpress blogs as well.

Let me know in the comment section if you have any doubts or problems in adding any of your blog or website.

Write an E-book for Promotion and Profits

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 10:30:11 +0000

Guest Post by Chris Ruminski

There are a good number of authors out there who earn a full time living by writing and selling E-books. They are the minority; most people do not make much from their efforts. Usually these people don’t put in the necessary effort in either the writing or promoting process. When written properly, an E-book can act as a gateway to your website or online program. This can bring repeat traffic and promote your business while you earn money from the sales. Using E-books as a promotion strategy can be very effective.

Writing a Free E-Book

You don’t have to charge for an E-book to bring traffic to your site. Actually free E-books can bring more traffic than the ones people have to pay for. When someone gets an E-book for free they won’t expect the whole story to be laid out for them. It was free after all. You can provide them with links to your website, or affiliate programs, within the E-book. Entice your readers by providing a bit of whatever you are selling in the book and then provide them with a link to your site.

Write an E-book to Sell

If you write an E-book with the intent of charging for it you better have something good to say. You can make a lot of money if your information is worth buying. It is good practice to take the time and really research and layout your E-book before you write it. So how can you get your E-book found and get purchased.

Affiliates – Don’t take the responsibility of selling an E-book on all by your lonesome. There are many communities out there that will help sell your book for you. You will have to pay a good commission to entice people to sell your product, but in the end it is 100% profits. It is recommended to offer at least 50% of the selling price to your affiliates.
Tandem – A great way to sell your book is to write both a free and a paid E-book. Your free one will be used to entice people to buy the paid one, and the paid one will give them much more advice than they could have learned with the free book. It is important to actually provide good information in your paid E-book or you will face a barrage of complaints.
PPC Advertising – If you are feeling saucy, you could look into promoting your product with pay per click advertising. Depending on your topic, this could be really expensive. If you are trying to sell an E-book on mortgages, forget about it. You might have to spend over $5 per click. There is no way you could recoup that cost.
Article Marketing – This approach isn’t just for websites anymore. You can write articles based on the topic of your book and provide links to the book for more information. It is important to write a lot of articles to get your product out there.
Forum Signatures – Sell your product through forum signatures. This won’t bring in a lot of sales, but every little bit helps.

If you are persistent and can convince a lot of people to promote your book for you, you can make tons of money while promoting your website. An E-book can be a great investment in time if you are a decent writer with good information to sell. If you are not willing to put forth effort in your endeavors, you will never make any money. There are many different ways to make money on the web, and they all require a commitment of time and energy.

Author Bio

Chris Ruminski has been making money online since Oct 2009 when he lost his job. No, he is not rich yet, but he is well on his way.

5 Reasons People Fail to Make Money Online

admin — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:57:07 +0000

Every day millions of people come online and start a blog or website with the intention to make money online. Unfortunately, most people fail to make any money online, while others are only moderately successful. Whereas, only a few number of people are able to realize their ambition to make money online and leave their day job. It is important to think why most people fail to make any money online. I am writing this post to analyze a few top reasons why people fail to make money online:

1. Impatience

It is the number one criteria between those who are successful in making money online and those who are not. They Dream to Get Too Much Too Fast. What they do not understand is that making money online takes time and it is a gradual climb up a pyramid to reach the top. Along the way you learn a lot of things that are required to create a massive cash stream from the internet. But many get impatient and quit in the early stages of their initiative.

2. Lack of Knowledge

Most people who come online for the first time to make money online are totally unaware of the basics in making money online. They are unaware of what is Search Engine Optimization, they are hardly aware of the importance of social media tools such as Twitter. Then they expect that they can make a lot of money fast online. Unfortunately, learning to make money online is an art and it takes time to master it.

3. Poor Application

It is quite commonly observed that many webmasters will browse from one blog to another to read posts that will help them enhance their money making skills. Unfortunately, they fail to apply the knowledge which they have acquired. Making money online requires you to take actions and be a proactive decision maker. You cannot expect to make money online by simply maintaining a blog.

4. Fly by Night Schemes

In the impatience to make money online, many people get desperate and get stuck with fly-by-night schemes that fool many. There is no lack of people on the internet who are ready to take advantage of your desperate measures to make money online. Then you end up demoralized and may even lose your money due to these scams. So it is important you put in your time and effort in legitimate and trusted money making services.

5. No Action Plan

If you are trying to make money online then you require an action plan to see yourself successful in the future. Those who lack an action plan to proceed in their ventures online will eventually lose focus. They try to get into too many streams trying to generate revenue and fail to make any money in the end.

So it should be your commitment to avoid these costly mistakes.

Customize Your Blogspot Blog with Blogger Template Designer

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:11:29 +0000

I’m a big supporter of using Wordpress for blogging purpose when compared with other blogging engines like Blogger offered by Google.com, one of reason behind this was the level of customization Wordpress offers. But after yesterday launching of Blogger Template Designer in Blogger Draft, I think I have to change my views about blogger blogs.

With Blogger Template Designer in Blogger Draft, you can customize your blog to great extent like trying fresh new templates, changing background color, trying out different layouts, changing the font, color, size etc of different blog elements like page text, backgrounds, links, blog title, tabs text, tabs background, date header, post, footer etc and can even add your own CSS.

And you can see more about Blogger Template designer in this Video:

And to use Blogger Template Designer go to

Blogger Draft –> Dashboard –> Layout –> Template Designer

With Blogger template Designer, blogger is giving its users lots of freedom to customize their blog design. And if you also want to try this feature available in Blogger Draft, you will get:

15 New Blog Templates to choose from
Lots of background colors for your blogger blogs
Customizing blog template with one, two and three columns Layout
Option to customize different page elements

When you click on the Template in Blogger draft, you will see list of templates available:

When you click on Background tab, can try out different color schemes:

Clicking Layout tab will try out different layouts and can change your blog to one, two or three column:

And when you click on Advanced tab will show different page elements with their customization options:

For more details about the blogger template designer, check Blogger in Draft blog post.

How to Make Money Online from Paid Review: LinkFromBlog

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:23:11 +0000

The latest opportunity to make money from blogging is by writing reviews for advertisers through LinkFromBlog. LinkFromBlog is a new website which allows bloggers to earn money from their blog by writing reviews about the advertiser’s services or products. Although, it is a lot similar to other paid-reviews site such as PayPerPost, Blogsvertise and Smorty – LinkFromBlog looks very promising for bloggers like you and me.

Earning money from paid reviews is one of the easiest ways to make money online. Also, there are no issues of a review being illegal or unethical. LinkFromBlog allows you to monetize your blog in a very easy way.

There are a lot of features that gives LinkFromBlog an edge over its competition. One of the most helpful features is that they allow the advertiser to search for a blogger choosing a parameter of their choice. They offer an array of parameters to advertisers for selecting the blog they want to advertise on. An advertiser can select the blog based on its Page Rank, Alexa Rank, Domain Age, Country, Language, backlinks etc.

One of the most attractive features about LinkFromBlog for bloggers is that they do not charge any kind of commission from bloggers. This is really a great point to encourage more and more quality bloggers to enter their market place.

LinkFromBlog offers a quick and easy registration process with minimum fuss. Also, it offers a very simple interface to the user to add blogs into the account dashboard. But each blog is activated only after it is approved by the site administrator. The approval is done by placing an invisible counter at the bottom of any one of your post. This counter code is given to you on the completion of your registration process. LinkFromBlog claims that this invisible counter will allow them to gauss how many ‘real’ people have read your post. On the acknowledgement of this – the blog is approved. This process allows LinkFromBlog to maintain high standard blogs in their market place.

All approved bloggers can send an invitation to write advertiser reviews by choosing advertisers from a list. The advertiser can then accept or reject your invitation. He also has the capacity to send you a counter-offer in case the price you set for him is not favorable. However, it is important that you carefully go through the requirements of an advertiser before you write a review. It is his choice if he wants to send the review for re-editing or decline it directly.

So LinkFromBlog is great way to make money online. One can go for a free registration here and start monetizing your blog.

5 best web design strategies

admin — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:39:56 +0000

Guest Post by Vyom Munjaal

Website design is like any other serious business. A good website plays a key role in driving a lot of potential customers to your company. A website is the only powerful media that advertises your organization globally. Hence, an involvement of a large amount of research and skilled developers is very important.

Here are 5 simple and powerful web design strategies you will have to consider before you can develop our website.

Strategy 1: Keep it simple

Does it sound odd? May be it does. But this is the first rule you have to follow which should remain in your mind throughout the development phase. A proper business website is not for you to showcase your talent in design and create something very complicated. Always have the end user in mind. You lose a customer once, there is no second chance. The website should be in such a way it invites the customer once again. Do keep in mind that not all customers or visitors have a proficient understand of a website. Each one’s profession is different.

Strategy 2: Keep it fresh and unique

Just like how it is in the offline world, it’s the same with the online world. Fresh and unique content drives traffic to your website. The quality of content you update actually portrays the quality of business you do. The business trend keeps changing periodically. It’s important that your website provides information and solutions every time a user visits. Implementing a content management can be of great use when you create a website that has to be updated very frequently. Also make sure the content you update is highly relevant.

Strategy 3: Keep the design interesting and enticing

A website that has written text all around does not fascinate the visitors. It is essential that you implement high quality graphic images in your website. Graphics and basic animation are certainly a part of a professional design. This makes the visitor explore your website for longer period of time. The font that you use also has to be chosen appropriately. There are specific fonts for business and contemporary based websites. It is a good practice to implement it accordingly.

Strategy 4: Keep the design browser compatible

Different browsers have different specifications. Hence, test your design in all possible browsers and see if the graphics and animations you used are displayed the same way everywhere. It is also important that you note download the download speed. A customer cannot afford to waste time being patient if a page takes a longer time to load. Make sure the resolution of graphics you use abide by the web design rules.

Strategy 5: Keep the navigation simple and professional

This is one of the most important strategies. Once you have a clear understanding of the above mentioned strategies, special attention should be given to design the navigational structure of the website. Design the navigation in such a way the user will have no trouble in toggling between different pages. If information from your website is hard to find, the customers will never get back. Navigation is an important key to a successful and professional web design.

The above mentioned strategies are just the basic ones. There are a lot more things you should consider under each strategy. But once you follow the ones mentioned here, you can be sure that you are on the right track.

Author Bio:

Vyom Munjaal is a writer and an internet marketing professional from an SEO Company India. He writes on a wide array of subjects ranging from internet marketing to web design which includes PHP web development, flash, JavaScript etc.

How to Maintain Posting Frequency on Your Blog?

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:10:20 +0000

We know now that the frequency of your posting is also a factor when it comes to crawling of your website. If you post content regularly then automatically Google’s spider begins to come more often to your blog. A well archived content with a regular posting frequency can do wonders to your site’s SEO. This post will discuss how to maintain the most ideal post frequency.

Typically, the ideal post frequency is when you post at least one post per day. Unfortunately, most of us find it very difficult to maintain that since we have various day jobs and it becomes very difficult to give full commitment to our blog. It can get quite de-motivating to post articles on your blog after a tiring day at office or your college.

A good idea to maintain a good posting frequency is to write two to three posts on weekends. Then you can schedule to them to be published automatically in the coming week. This way it will take off a lot of the pressure from you to write a post even when you are tired after a day job. You can utilize your week days in other productive pursuits such as commenting on other blogs, replying to comments made on your blog and maybe you can learn more tips you can use when you blog. Also you may strike up inspiration for your next blog article.

Finding topics to write about is also quite time consuming, so it is encouraged that you maintain a list of topics that you can write about whenever you are in the mood for writing. This way you will save a lot of time and energy on the day that you decide to write more than one blog article.

Your mood is also a big factor when it comes to posting. Sometimes when you are exhausted you just cannot post an article. However, there are certain days when you are still pumped with energy. It is on days like this that you should write posts more than one. When you are in a good mood your mind does not tend to realize the energy that is spent. So you should optimize your writing in this time. Use the list of topics which you have thought about and begin to tap away on your keyboard.

I hope the ideas discussed in this blog post are helpful to you to improve and maintain your frequency of posting.

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How to get maximum out of guest blogging?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:28:44 +0000

Most bloggers on the internet are driven by the Google Page Rank. When they look for a website to guest blog, the webmaster makes a fatal error to consider the Page Rank alone. There are many ways in which you can optimize your guest post at a blog.

Here are a few pointers on how to get the maximum out of blogging, so that it really boosts your SEO.

The position of your link in your guest post

By default the search engine spiders are accustomed to certain factors. Such as, in an article directory – the links are always at the bottom of the article. So if your link is also at the end of the post then it will not be given as much priority. Try and use your links as high up in the article as possible – it will help you pass a much higher Page Rank.

Usage of Anchor Text Links

Relevant anchor texts are major criteria to help in search engine optimization. However, many guest bloggers make the grave mistake of including multiple links to the same page. Suppose, you have made to links to the same page in your post then the anchor text only of the first link is considered by Google spiders. Essentially, the second anchor text you have included is useless.

Target Keyword

Suppose your article is based on some other topic which is not related to your target keyword then there is a solution. You can smartly include the related target keywords all along the post without making it look forced or artificial.

Flow of Link Juice

The page rank displayed by Google for a website is the Page Rank of its home page. It is highly possible that the other pages of the site may not have the same high page rank. This is where you have to ensure that the guest post you write is linked to the home page so that you get the link benefits that you were aiming for while writing the guest post.

Duration of post at Home Page

Like it was mentioned earlier, the home page is where your main page rank is. So it is important that your guest article stays at the home page for a sufficient amount of time before it is buried under latest posts. Sufficient time will ensure that the link benefits reach the links you have included in your post.

So there are lot of things you should keep in mind while guest blogging. Let me know your views.

How to add No-Follow Target Blank Tags to a Link