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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.

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How to Choose an Affiliate Program to Make Money Online?

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:17:25 +0000

Every successful internet marketer will tell you that the key to his success was a selection of a good affiliate program. No one succeed in selling anything unless the object being sold has value, if the case is otherwise, then the success is short lived. Many people are making money online with affiliate programs. It is mainly because most internet marketers have realized that the product which they sell should be powerful and that is the first step towards make money online with affiliate programs.

Here in this post I will discuss some methods in which you can choose a good affiliate program to make money:

Quality of Product

There is no point selling a product online which you yourself may never buy. But if you find that your opinion may be very narrow, and then you can always ask your good friends or family on what their opinion on the product is. A good product hardly ever goes unsold unless the person selling is doing it incorrectly. Another important point is that before you sell any product makes sure that you have earned the trust of your customer. Also, all too many times many interested customers click on the link and arrive at the landing page only to discover that the product quality is quite poor. This will also affect your image as an internet marketer.

Product Performance

It is a well-known fact that some products tend to perform better than others. At the same time, most products will have reviews on the internet. The internet being what it is today there are sure to be someone who has reviewed the product you intend to sell. Google keeps all this information only a click away. Some products can have a notoriously negative impression and it will reflect in their sales data. At the same time, there will be products that perform exceptionally well with certain niches. Your work is to scout and evaluate the data wisely and in your best interests.

Promoting Tools

Does the company provide you a good support to sell their product? The companies have a good experience in selling their product and most of them are generally willing to extend you support on many ways through which you can earn money by being their affiliate seller. It is the best if the company is willing to provide you training. Apart from that if you have an intensive promotional campaign in mind then they should graphic banners of all sizes and articles which market the product. An array of promotion tool can be a key to successful affiliate marketing.

Although choosing a new affiliate program is time-consuming – it is well worth the time. It is mainly because you can have a better idea on how to promote. At the same time, you will not be wasting time by trying to promote some product which nobody wants.

How Much to Charge for a Paid Review on Your Blog?

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 02:24:59 +0000

It is very common for many bloggers to receive emails which ask them to do a review on a service, product, websites, ebooks and such. In most cases the blogger is in a dilemma on whether the price they are offered is a fair one. And there is no doubt about the fact that paid reviews are a way to make easy money for webmasters.

All blogs do not deserve the same price for a paid review, so there is no way that I can tell you an exact pricing which can be quoted as fair. So I have listed a few parameters which should be taken into account while deciding how much you should charge for a paid review on your blog.

Google Page Rank

This is a very important factor when you decide the price for a paid review. As if you have a very good page ranks then you are providing link juice to the advertiser. This will eventually help the advertiser move up in search engine result placements. Just to give you an estimate, any blog with a Page Rank 3 should charge a minimum of $25 for each review.

Blog Traffic

Traffic on a blog also plays a big role when we think about deciding the amount of money we should charge for a review on our blog. I would recommend charging $50 to $100 for a paid review if your blog gets 300-600 page views on daily basis. And you can think of charging from $100 to $500 if your blog gets 1000 to 10000 plus page views on daily basis.

Alexa Rank

Although a controversial tool due to the method Alexa ranks websites – it is still in the top factors of decision for every advertiser. Moreover, an Alexa rank also takes into account the time spent by a user at your website. So if you have a very good Alexa rank then you can easily quote a premium price for any paid review that you do on your blog.

RSS Subscribers

The number of people who subscribe to your blog is important. As the paid review which you do will be sent by mail to all your readers. More over, it is the trust in the information you provide that made them subscribe to your blog. So basically the advertiser is leveraging your image to sell its products to you readers. That is why you should ensure that the price you set does justice.

ROI for the advertiser

The kind of profit that the advertiser makes from the review on your blog is a major factor to decide how much to charge the advertiser. For example, if you are reviewing a web host or an SEO company then for even a single sale they are earning up to $50 to $100 or maybe even more. Considering that the post you make for them is permanent, it could result in more than one sale easily. So it will be wise if you charge anywhere from $100 upwards for a paid review for such kind of advertisers.

The price for a paid review in each blog will vary. It is important that you remember you are always free to quote the price which you expect and you will get the value for the review you make.

What is your opinion on pricing paid reviews?

How to Boost Backlinks through Article Submission Directories?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:09:33 +0000

Backlinks are a great way to improve your website position in search engine result placement (or SERP) and for higher page rank. It is very important that you get a lot of quality of backlinks for your website; the more your website will be pushed up in results you can get from search engines.

Over the time many bloggers have adopted many different ways of building up backlinks, the most common of them being by commenting on other blogs. Also it is also quite popular to leave your link as a signature on many forums. These not only help in attracting some residual traffic but also support in your endeavor to build one-way links. One-way links are much more effective than reciprocal links, where you have to link back to the site which links to you. These are all some tips and tricks in SEO.

Personally, I feel that there are some methods of getting one-way links that are still not utilized to the optimum extent. One such way is by submitting to article directories. Most of these article directories have a very good page rank. When you submit an article to an article submission directory you should make sure that you are submitting to the correct category as many people who want to read something will browse according to the website categories.

In your profile page, you will have to write about yourself and give your personal details along with a link to your website. This link is DoFollow and is the all important backlink which you are looking for. Just make sure that your article conforms to the Terms and Conditions given by each Article Submission Directory as they vary a lot. Also it is required so that your article is not rejected.

Another major advantage of Article Submission directory is that you can project yourself as an expert in your niche through your articles. If the content turns out to be good, then many readers will visit your website and may become your loyal readers.

Below I have included links to six of the most popular article submission directories on the internet:

Apart from these there are a lot many article directories that are available; I have listed out the best of the lot. Do you have any more article submission directories which you use?

Blog Commenting: Do you know its advantages?

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:08:39 +0000

There are many advantages when you comment on other blogs. How many times have you worried over the fact that your blog lacks publicity? Have you ever wished that you could promote your blog easily and cheaply? Then the solution to your problem is blog comments. Leaving your comments on other blogs is a great way to tell people about yourself and providing your blog with exposure. It is so important at a time when each day millions of blogs are created.

To give you a more detailed idea, I have analyzed the following main advantages when you comment on other blogs:

Backlinks

This is a very major advantage that you get when you comment on other blogs. Make sure that majority of blogs on which you comment are DoFollow blogs. These DoFollow blogs will allow your link to be followed by the Google spider. In turn, you will be able to create a lot of backlinks if you continue to comment on many DoFollow blogs. This is a much easier way to create backlinks for yourself rather than posting 400-500 words articles.

Brand Exposure

When you comment on other blogs you are creating an image or a profile in front of the readers of the other blog. Most people would not recognize you, but once you are regular at commenting then you will begin to create an image in the minds of other bloggers who visit the blog you comment. It is advisable to make a sensible and frank comment to the post written by the author. You need not always make your comment sensational and controversial – which is unfortunately done by many bloggers for cheap publicity. It is best if you avoid all this as it ruins the very spirit of blogging.

Residual Traffic

Commenting on other blogs also offers you another great bonus for you. Your blog comments can result in residual traffic to your blog. It happens when other readers who go through the comments find you interesting, and then they might click on the link you provided along with the comment. Also for many, going through the commentators is a great way to find new and interesting blogs. I am sure you also visit many random commentators link when you read a post. So make it a point to leave a comment on any article you read – regardless of whether it is a DoFollow or NoFollow.

More Comments On Your Blog

When you leave a genuine comment on a blog, there is every chance that owner of that blog may comment back to your blog to appreciate your commenting efforts. I himself noticed I get lots of comments from those bloggers on my blog where I do commenting. So it’s a win-win situation for you as commenting on other blogs will help you get some genuine comments on your blog as well.

Do you find any more advantages of commenting on other blogs? Let us know!

How to Make Money Online by writing?

admin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:29:09 +0000

The internet is information driven and there are many corporations that are raking in millions of dollars just by providing information that a person requires. However, they require people who can write well and transfer the information. So most of people who write well can earn a lot of money online. It is especially easy to earn money online if you have a passion for writing as it will no longer be like work for you. Although there are many people who are professional writers because they earn well.

Writing has become a big business and everyone is trying to get a share of the pie. There are many companies existing in the internet which purely provide content creation services. Here are a few ways in which a blogger can earn money online by writing:

Writing for Bloggers

There are many blogs on the internet and all of them are content driven. If you make proper contacts and relations with fellow bloggers then you will notice that most of them are looking for quality content. So, if you have the capability to provide good quality content related to their niche then it is the most basic way to earn money online by writing. Most bloggers would be more than willing to pay you well for the content that you give them. However, you need to be regular and hardworking.

Associated Content

This is a great website online that is among the easier options for beginners. You can earn anywhere from $3 to $40 for each article that you submit. However, it has a unique way of functioning. In AC, you are only able to earn over time – it depends on how many times your article is viewed. So the trick is to write about topics that are in demand and you are sure to earn well.

SSWUG

This is a website where you can register for free. Initially, they will grant you the ‘Guest’ status – this is enough for you to earn online. You need not upgrade for full membership. The only issue is that it is harder to get approval. But they pay you well i.e. up to $20 per article or even more if you have written on a premium topic. Apart from that you get bonus payments for high page views and article popularity. The only hurdle is to get approved.

These are few of the ways that you can earn money online by writing. If you know any more websites that pay writers for submitting articles then share it with us!