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Tuesday, 3 June 2014

How to Automatically Remove Spam links from Blogger Comments

Posted by Unknown On Tuesday, June 03, 2014

Fighting against comment spam is among the most frustrating job for a blogger, especially when you don’t have enough money to hire a comment moderator that trashes the spam comments while publishing all the useful comments to your blog. Obviously you don’t want to delete your all comments just for the sake of few spam ones? Since, Blogger doesn’t have a real-time comment spam detection plugin the reason why we have to implement some techniques to make sure that spam comments are staying away from our blogger site. Today, in this article, we will show you How to Automatically Remove Spam links from Blogger Comments.

Method # 1: Use CSS to Remove Spam Links From comments: 

These days search engines are smart and they know what you are referring is useful and what they should ignore. By removing spam links from comments with the help of CSS could not only hide those links but would stop search engines from indexing them too. So go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML >> Search for Skin tag and just above it paste the following piece of code:

.comment-content a {
display: none;
}

Method #2: Use jQuery To Remove Links:

Some people might not recommend the above process they might argue that the spam link is still there, because we have just hide it with the help of a simple display:none; CSS. So go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML >> Search for starting <body> tag and just below it paste the following piece of JavaScript code:

<!--Stop Blog Comments -->
<script>$('.comment-content a[rel$=nofollow]').replaceWith(function(){return ($(this).text());});
</script>
<!--Stop Blog Comments -->

Once everything is done, Save the template and now you can sleep with worrying about comment spam. Whenever, a user will leave a link into his comments the link will be considered as spam and he the script will automatically remove it within seconds.

We hope this short tutorial may help you in tackling comment spam from your blogger blog to a certain extent. We would recommend you to also use comment moderation featurethat would also be a useful thing to be done to take care spam.

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Saturday, 17 August 2013

Top 10 Mistakes Beginner Bloggers Make With Social Media

Posted by Unknown On Saturday, August 17, 2013

Social Media Globe
Guest Post - Our host is Chad Goulde, here Chad takes a fresh look at some of the Social Media Mistakes bloggers make be making.See How To Become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Today, there are so many social media sites, which all operate completely different from one another. For beginners, choosing the right one for your blog marketing can be very confusing. What’s even more confusing for beginners is figuring out how to use these various social media networks effectively.

Social Media Mistakes for Beginners to Avoid


There are some pretty common mistakes that social media beginners tend to make. Avoiding them from the beginning could help save you time, money and frustration in the long-run. Plus, your networking efforts will start to reap great results right from the start. Here are 10 common mistakes beginners should avoid when using social media as a marketing tool:

1) Using Facebook Only

When people think of social media, the first site that usually comes to mind is Facebook. Yet, this is not the only network that can effectively help market your site or blog. When it comes to business networking, you need to utilize other networks where your target audience can be found. Play around with Google+, Pinterest, LinkedIn, Twitter, MySpace and YouTube as well. That’s the best way to determine which platforms are best for your industry and reaching your target market.

2) Trying to Use Too Many Social Networks

Although you should concentrate on more than just Facebook, you don’t want to use too many social media sites at once. Why? Because it’s impossible to be engaging with too many audiences at ones. At some point, some of your networks will begin to suffer, along with the content you share, post and tweet. Determine which 1-2 others to concentrate on. Then, focus on quality, not quantity when posting.

3) Your Website and Blog Have No Social Media Icons

Your audience want a simple, on-click method for joining your social networks, as well as sharing your content. Add social media buttons/icons to give them this in very prominent, easy-to-spot areas on your website and blog.

4) You Only Share Your Own Content

Only savvy, established, famous bloggers can do this without bringing down their popularity. Beginners are in the process of building their online presence, trying to get noticed and increase social media network members. Sharing relevant content from other industry leaders is a very effective way to provide your target audience with even more valuable content and resources they can actually use.

5) You Simply Refuse to #FollowBack

If you never make an effort to follow people who are already following you, many will simply leave your network altogether. Although this is not a social rule set in stone, it is considered to be social media etiquette when trying to build your networks on social media sites.

Social Media
6) You Confuse a Personal Profile with a Business Profile

Just about all of the most popular social networks have separate versions for business and personal profiles. Facebook and Google+ require you to have personal profiles before setting up your business profiles. Twitter and Pinterest business profiles can be established without personal profiles. No matter which platform you choose to use for social media marketing, make sure that you’re using a business profile, not your personal one.

7) You’re Don’t Engage Your Audience

Social media marketing is all about networking with your target audience, as well as engaging them. One of your goals should be to interact with your audience to create interest in your brand and solutions. This will encourage them to visit your blog for more valuable industry insight, follow it and share your content with their social media networks.

8) You Think All Your Fans and Followers See All Your Posts

Let’s break down how your post views actually work. Say your Facebook business page has 2,000 fans. You publish a new post on your business page. Only about 10%, or 200 of your fans will actually see your post in their individual timelines. All of the other popular social networks have very similar rules. Want to increase your posts’ reach? You’ll need to pay for advertising?

9) Your Posts Don’t Contain Interesting, Relevant Image

Images help to break up text, making your posts more pleasing to the eyes. According to social media marketing studies, these posts get more pins, G+s, likes, tweets and shares than those without images. So, include quality images in your social media posts when possible.Pictures also help get shares on Pinterest.

10) You Don’t Utilize #HashTags

Hashtags make it easier for people to follow social media discussions about particular topics. For example, let’s say you’re posting NBA Finals updates. Using the hashtag #NBAFinals in your posts will ensure that people searching for this info can find it quickly and easily. All they have to do is conduct social media searches using the hashtag, and related posts will automatically appear in results.

What do you think ? Add your comments below.

AuthorBy Guest Author - This content was provided by Chad Goulde of The Blog Builders. Want to learn how to start a blog quickly and easily? Visit TheBlogBuilders.com for a complete walkthrough to starting your blog today.
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5 Type of related post widget for blogger with images and thumbnails

Posted by Unknown On Saturday, August 17, 2013

5 Type of Related Post Widget For Blogger With Thumbnails
5 Type of  Related Post Widget For Blogger With Thumbnails
Related post widget for blogger with images and thumbnails plays an important role in increasing your traffic of your blog.such widgets helps to get clicks on related posts of your blog.there are lots of posts in your blog that does not get good amount of traffic does not matter they are written good and unique so how to get traffic for those posts which are still unnoticed by readers.then such widgets like related post widget comes to importance.many of your posts with the same labels appear in related post widget above comments and readers are more often clicks them and hence you get more traffic for your blogger blog.there are many ways to add related post widget for blogger.first one that i am describing is manual and other ones are third party widgets from this websites like Nrelate,Linkwithin,Outbrain and from zemanta.all of them have their own pros and cons.so choice is yours which one you would like to add in your blogger blog.

(1)Manually ADD Related post widget for blogger

how to add related post widget to blogger with images and thumbnails
how to add related post widget to blogger with images and thumbnails


Below are the step by step procedure to add related post widget for blogger. do not edit the code otherwise it would not work all the customization that are required i will explain it to you.so learn how to add related post widget in blogger or blogspot blog.

  • Go To Blogger.
  • Click on template and then on edit HTML.
  • Type (CTRL+F) and search this piece of code.
  • Type </head> in search box.
  • Now copy and paste the below code before the </head> Tag.





<!--Related Posts widget for blogger Start-->
<!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<style type='text/css'>
#related-posts {
float:center;
text-transform:none;
height:100%;
min-height:100%;
padding-top:5px;
padding-left:5px;
}
#related-posts h2{
font-size: 18px;
letter-spacing: 2px;
font-weight: bold;
text-transform: none;
color: #5D5D5D;
font-family: Arial Narrow;
margin-bottom: 0.75em;
margin-top: 0em;
padding-top: 0em;
}
#related-posts a{
border-right: 1px dotted #DDDDDD;
color:#5D5D5D;
}
#related-posts a:hover{
color:black;
background-color:#EDEDEF;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
var defaultnoimage=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0PPcy_dRDR4gvZxmgllqYEj3DdgQ6ht2jD_KAGOuKxt6Zv6ADaFRrPcWw76hPXaazGhajx3kJD6OHMptNPxIu9H71CnpTt20wsk2gTWmpeSe0kF8dFXJbkskVm34NvYDcnys23pCCF8uF/s1600/no_image.jpg&quot;;
var maxresults=5;
var splittercolor=&quot;#DDDDDD&quot;;
var relatedpoststitle=&quot;Related Posts&quot;;
</script>
<script src='https://avdhootblogger.googlecode.com/files/avdhootblogger.relatedpostwidget.js' type='text/javascript'/>
<!-- remove --></b:if>
<!--Related Posts widget for blogger End-->


Customizations


If you want to change the default picture in case one of your post does not have any thumbnails then this will appear.so if you want to change the picture then change the URL in bolded color.

If you want display more than 5 posts than change the value 5 from
"var maxresults=5;"
of your own numbers.
If you do not want related post widget to appear in homepage also then delete the code in blue color.so your widget will only appear in posts only.


Now find the following code
<div class='post-footer'>


And just above it, copy and paste the below code:
<!-- Related Posts widget for blogger Start-->
<!-- remove --><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<div id='related-posts'>
<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'>
<b:if cond='data:label.isLast != &quot;true&quot;'>
</b:if>
<script expr:src='&quot;/feeds/posts/default/-/&quot; + data:label.name + &quot;?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=related_results_labels_thumbs&amp;max-results=6&quot;' type='text/javascript'/></b:loop>
<script type='text/javascript'>
removeRelatedDuplicates_thumbs();
printRelatedLabels_thumbs(&quot;<data:post.url/>&quot;);
</script>
</div><div style='clear:both'/>
<!-- remove --></b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'><b:if cond='data:post.isFirstPost'>
<a href='http://www.avdhootblogger.com'><img alt='widgets for blogger' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgURePfiH8Ofn8Ss_5n7QkRNOMLgEFitrQqMps8__6Js1ALsDnSxhpxY9buH6YN2uAGEef_53ZpESt-ymciYU6TVkwqYRetBw8djT2o7IMwIlJnm-odifjbyyEhzTGGy8RyhRNl5l4q8hDL/s1600/best+blogger+tips.png'/></a>
</b:if></b:if>
<!-- Related Posts widget for blogger End-->


Note:-

If you want to display more than 6 posts then change the number 6 in max-results=6 with the number of posts that you want to dissplay in that widget.

Save your blogger Template and you are done.

(2)Linkwithin Related Post Widget For Blogger with thumbnails and images


Linkwithin is a good widget fast and stylish for blogger.it shows all related posts of your blog within each post above comment box.the good thing is it is free to use and installation is free from all type of coding.they automatically add their widget when you are logged into your blogger account just few clicks required.
Linkwithin Related Post Widget For Blogger with thumbnails and images
Linkwithin Related Post Widget For Blogger with thumbnails and images

Installation


Linkwithin Related Post Widget For Blogger with thumbnails and images
Linkwithin Related Post Widget For Blogger with thumbnails and images

Installation of this related post widget for blogger is quite easy.you have to edit some entries like:-

  • Your email address
  • Your Blog URL
  • Type of platform choose blogger.
  • Width means how many posts you wants.3 or 5.

(3)Nrelate Related Post widget for blogger with thumbnails or images.

Nrelate is a popular and reputed website for widgets.they have two type of widgets for you one is most relevant posts and other one is most popular post widget for blogger blog.
Below is the screenshot how to add nrelate related post widget for blogger blog and wordpress.
nrelate related post widget for blogger blog and wordpress.
nrelate related post widget for blogger blog and wordpress.
                                              Image source and credit:-Nrelate

(4)Outbrain related post widget for blogger with thumbnails and images



Outbrain is a standard website.many of the biggest websites are using its widget.you can understand it's popularity that it has alexa rank of 164.it also has some of the good widgets for blogger blog with thumbnails and images .and one of them is related post widget.you must give a try to their widget.
outbrain related post widget for blogger
outbrain related post widget for blogger


(5)Zemanta Related post widget for blogger with thumbnails and images


Zemanta claims that has the best related post widget on the planet.well you must give a try to check this.well they have already 3,00,000 users who are using zemanta.zemanta has page rank of 13,000 worldwide.as far as installation is concerned.installation is quite simple just like linkwithin.you just have o sign up and all the remaining things they will do it.so try this one also.below is the screenshot how does it look like.
zemanta related post widget for blogger
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Add Meta Description In Every Post In Blogger

Posted by Unknown On Saturday, August 17, 2013


Blogger Meta Description
As you all of you knows that in the new Blogger interface the search preferences section is added which helps the user to make his/her blog more search engine friendly. That section really contains such great things and from today I'm going to discuss with you on each and every part of search preferences section. Well, So today we're going to learn the first part of search preferences which is Meta Description. In the old interface we were unable to use meta description in each and every post, we only used to add that description to homepage only by manually. But now every one can add it in every post and page without touching any HTML or XML coding. You just need to enable it from search preferences section.

What is Meta Description?

Meta description is an HTML or XML element that describes the web page to search engine's crawler. In other words it tells the information about your web page to search engine's crawler so that search engine may provide your web page in search results on proper place. It also shows in the search results page so that the user may know that what kind of page it is. 

Adding Meta Description In Every Post With Blogger

By default in blogger that is disable so we'll need to enable it after that we can use it. In this section the meta tags will enable for homepage only and the last section of this will show you that how can you use these tags for every post. Simply the follow the below steps.
  • Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preferences
  • Look For Meta Tags Section and Tick "Yes" To Enable It.
  • Now a box will appear where you have to write your meta tag or description. Make sure that it doesn't exist 150 characters.
  • Click Save Changes!
Now here is one problem! If you are using custom blogger template then continue reading this. The problem is that sometimes custom blogger templates doesn't work with these meta tags but if you are using blogger default template then it's fine. In order to work properly meta tags with custom blogger templates you will need to insert an short XML code in your template which we will solve this issue. Simple follow the below steps.
  • Go To Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML
  • Search For <head> and Paste The Following Code Below <head>
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>
  • Save Your Template and You have successfully added meta tags for homepage.
  • Now let's jump to next step. 

Adding Meta Tags In Every Post

After enabling meta tags for homepage, it's time to add these tags in every post. Now when you will go to any post editor or create new post, You will see "Search Description" section in the sidebar where you have to simply write your description for that post. This search description section was disabled but after enabling for homepage it is also enable for every post and page. 
Write your description for every post in that box and publish it. Is it not so easy?

What's More?

So Friends, That was our first part of search preferences settings which was really pretty easy and so useful. In our next posts we'll talk on each part of search preferences and soon we'll complete the Blogger SEO. If you are facing any problem then leave a comment below. Be in touch with us for more and also subscribe us. Take a lot of care of you and your family. 
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Friday, 16 August 2013

Why Should You not Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories?

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013
Driving continuous flow of traffic to your blog is a wish that never seems to end. With the growing expansion of sociBlog-Directoriesal media networks and creation of more advanced search engines, traditional methods of driving traffic to your blog is slowly loosing its importance. Indeed Blog directories that once flooded the blogosphere are loosing reputation considerably. Check your Google Analytics and discover it for yourselves that how much Traffic are these directories paying you in return for their reciprocal links and banners? I am sure the answer would not be a delightful one. So today we are going to remove all doubts regarding directory submission and will try to educate you all with something that may be worth trying.


Why Should You not Submit Your Blog to Blog Directories?

Following are some of my strong reasons against this tradition.

Reason #1
search_engine
When there is competition then quality service emerges by its own. Five years back Search engines were battling with one another to reach a status and today we finally have Google as an ever developing Search Engine that has turned out to be a multi million dollar company now. Before 2005 blog directories were trusted and often visited by all international traffic to find blogs of their interest and read the specific articles. But today what do you do when you have to find an answer to a problem? Of course you Google it. Who will in today’s hectic life would waste time navigating blog directories in order to read content of their interest.
Reason #2
Most Blog directories seem inactive and their service seem dead. Many exist today just by name with no active query service. You will have to wait for weeks in order to get something done. For instance I once submitted my blog to xyz.com (This anonymous directory has good PR and traffic but dead!) with my previous domain tnt-by-stc and when I changed to mybloggertricks. I requested them to kindly update my domain and months past but got no reply. I had to then remove my URL from the list.
Reason #3
Most of these directories share reciprocal links which means in order to submit your blog to them you will have to add their banner or link to your homepage. This surely benefits them but harms your search engine ranking. Its best when people link you. But when you link websites which are not in your niche, you simply flow your precious PR juice in waste!
Reason #4
Most Blog directories have no authority. Directories with PR<3 and with Alexa Rank> 100,000 itself have no proper traffic then how can it benefit you? Many of these directories have Alexa Rank in 132,000 which means they receive around 300-400 daily visitors.
Reason #5
Linking Directories and adding their banners on your homepages diverts your traffic and effects your PR. Ask yourself what impression do you get from blogs which have long list of ugly banners added on their sidebars? The first impression that you get is that “Man he is just a newbie!”
You blog needs a professional touch and your readers want a clean touch. Serve them with justice.

Do not be a Blind Blogger!

Blind Blogging
A good blogger is one who respects what others share but do not take things blindly. You should test what others are advising and examine if they really make some sense. Almost every tutorial on Blog Directories tell you that by submitting your Blog to one of them can boost your Traffic significantly. But your criteria of work should be such that you must always keep a good look at your Google Analytics and ensure if a particular Directory is bringing you some traffic. If they are bringing you one or five visitors a month then you must rethink your idea of submission and may give priority to what is more important.

Are All Directories not useful?

Well of course not. There are some directories where search engine robots love to crawl. They sometimes provide the biggest hits and do really contribute in building fair traffic. It can be accepted to some extent that well established Directories like DMOZ and Yahoo Directory do bless you with good PR and Traffic but then again the traffic even from these directories is temporary.
For newbie Bloggers Who wish to drive readers to their Blogs, I have shared below some Directories which can help you to some extent.
  • BlogCatalog
  • Mybloglog
But again don’t add their widgets. Just add their code in your templates. Keep your template as clean as possible. Add only those widgets which the readers want and not those which makes your blog look like a Widgets Shop.

What is Alternative to Blog Directories?

search_engine_optimization
The answer is simple. Its all about better understanding the Search Engine crawling, indexing and ranking criteria more and more. In other words, do what Search robots love and stop what they hate. I may be sounding complicated here but my future posts on SEO will help you better understand how exactly are people getting several visitors a day by making use of their good optimization skills.
Optimizing your Blog is the easiest but the most significant thing when it comes to achieving your Online Goals. The only way to drive consistent and good traffic is to write what the current era demands and give more importance to Post titles, Post frequency and search engine likings. Simple but fact. I will write consecutive posts on SEO from today on wards. I will try my best to make this SEO term look more like eating chocolate for all of you. Things that will be required will be shared and those tips that never helped will surely be avoided.
That’s All!
Hope you may understand my point and may take mature steps in making your Blog a place where readers may find comfort. Do let me know about any interesting story that you may wish to share with all of us. Peace and blessings :)
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Correct VS Wrong SEO Techniques For Blogger Blogs (3)

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013


correct blogger seo techniques This is a continuation of Part -3 of our series on Blogger SEO Pack 2012, the title sounds different but it will help you out to optimize links in blogger like comments, archives, categories/labels and related hyperlinks. We ended our last post with the difference between rel="nofollow" and rel="external nofollow" link attributes and we will continue from there. If you have not read that part we recommend you read it first. All links are given below:




SERIES ENDED...
BLOGGER SEO PACK 2012 SERIES
Part1: Blogger Multiple Sitemap Generation and Submission   Don't Forget to use our PHP TOOL For this!
Part2: Submit Sitemap to Bing and Yahoo without Errors and Ping them
Part3: Reduce Crawl Errors- 
           i.  Optimize Links in Blogger like Comments Archives and Labels
           ii. Correct VS Wrong SEO Techniques For Blogger Blogs

Correct SEO Concepts & Techniques

rel="nofollow"
Discussed in previous sub-part
rel="external nofollow"
Discussed in previous sub-part
rel="tag"
This is a popular and correct way of adding a tag attribute to all categories in your blog. This tag is normally used by default by Google Blogger developers in label links. It tells robots that the link is URL/address of a particular category in the blog. This helps robots to identify between normal web page links in your blog with those in categories.
In blogger a normal links looks like this:
http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/02/hostgator-best-hosting-plans-for.html

Note: The above link belongs to the label Make Money Online
Your blog URL is followed by trailing slash then date and then keywords from post title where each keyword is separated by a hyphen (-).
rel="tag" links in blogger
And the label link or category link or archive link that is a URL address for all your posts coming under the same category/Label. In our case the above shared link comes in the category Make Money Online. The label link would look like:
http://ncp-onlineschool.blogspot.com/search/label/Make%20Money%20Online
Here as you can see the primary domain link (homepage link) is followed by keyword search and then label and then finally by label title where each keyword in label title is separated by a percentage (%) symbol.
Now your post can be accessed either using the normal link or the label link. Since both these URLS contain same content so it can create troubles for robots to identify which one is the true resource and which one is just a reference link back to the original post. The TAG is the attribute that is added to Label links and this tag attribute tells search robots that the link bring crawled is a label link. If this tag is not present then search engines can penalize your blog for sharing same content on two different urls thus your blog could get penalize for sharing duplicate content. However search robots have become so much efficient that now they can clearly identify if the link is a normal one or a label one. We are just making its job more easy by adding this tag. 
rel="archives"
Just like rel="tag" attribute this one helps robots to differentiate between archive links and other link in your blog. An archive link lists all your posts date wise. It assembles the posts by year and month.
rel="archives" links in blogegr

rel="category tag" (For wordpress users only)
This is a so called correct way of adding an attribute to tags and categories in Wordpress blogs. Not relevant to us. Though this tag is never succeeded in passing HTML5 validation by W3C but I am still seeing it in many famous wordpress frameworks like genesis and thesis. The reason why it never gets validated is because w3c does not accept spaces between keywords inside a rel attribute (with exception for rel="external nofollow"). Since there is a white space between category and tag therefore it will never get validated unless or until you remove the space or replace it with a hyphen. There are several php scripts that will help you get rid of this tag in yoru wordpress blogs. Just search for "remove rel="category tag" in wordpress"

Wrong SEO Concepts & Techniques

I had been personally a victim of these false and wrong seo concepts and during my early blogging stage due to lack of SEO knowledge I kept on forwarding the wrong concepts even to my readers and I do whole heartedly apologize for it. All those posts are now pointing readers to this latest and correct SEO techniques.
Following are some link attributes that can be found on popular blogger blogs but none of them is approved by Search engines or World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Wrong:
rel="follow"
rel="index"
rel="index, follow"
rel="noindex, follow"
rel="index, nofollow"
rel="noindex, nofollow"
rel="index, tag"
There is no complementary word for nofollow. Follow is not a SEO term and should never be used. To let robots follow a link just remove the nofollow attribute from it. Simple!
Nofollow tells robots not to pay importance to the link, don't follow it and do not pass your hard earned PageRank juice to it. While noindex tells robots that the content on a particular page should not be crawled and that page must not appear in search results. Noindex is a meta tag attribute and it can never be added to links. It is silly to add noindex to links using a rel attribute. It can be mentioned only in meta tags using the content attribute.  Robots indexes pages only. The correct term for links is crawl. Robots indexes a page and crawls links.
Sources to defend my point. Read Set out rules by W3C and those at Google Webmaster Forums
Correct
rel="nofollow"        we mentioned it already
rel="tag"                 we mentioned it already
content="noindex, nofollow"
In the following example a robot will neither index the webpage, nor analyze it for links.
<META name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

Enough of Theory Tell me What to do!

I am sure I was a bit too technical with this part of the series but all this information was important in order to remove a lot of wrong concepts spreading rapidly in blogosphere and blogger forums. Now lets turn all links inside your free BlogSpot blog templates into clean, optimized and search engine friendly hyperlinks.
To Optimize comment links in blogger do this:
  1. Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
  2. Backup your template
  3. Search for the following code (Search for a similar code).:
   expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'
Note: If you found a rel="nofollow" in the above code inside your blog template then simply replace it with the one described below.
add rel='external nofollow'   anywhere after the a tag. Like this:

 rel='external nofollow'  expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'
       4.  Now search for this:
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'
       5.  Replace it with this:
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='external nofollow'
      6.   Done!
To Optimize Label links in blogger do this:
  1. Inside your template search for the following code: (Search for a similar code).
          <a expr:href='data:label.url'

     2.   Replace it with this one:

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'     

     3. Done!

To Optimize Archive links in blogger do this:
Note the archive links will only appear on your blog if you add the archive widget. If you have not added the archive post widget to your blog then you can skip this part.
  1. Search for this code inside your template:
  <a class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>
    2.   Replace it with this:
<a rel="archives" class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>
     3.  Finally save your template and you are all saved! :)

Series Completed

With this our series on Blogger SEO PACK 2012 ends. We tried our best to help blogger users to the best of our ability with as much technical knowledge as possible. All techniques shared in this series are the ideal ones which we apply to orders we receive from clients and are being widely practiced on MBT blog too and all blogs in its network. I have used the same techniques for my new blog on SmartEarningMethods.com. If you need any help or need further assistance, just let me know pals. I know this series was a bit techy but we can implement it together so no worries. Just feel free to post your questions. I wish these techniques may bring a significant positive change in your traffic trends and may help you use blogger with even more excitement. Peace and blessings pals! :)
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ALL In One SEO PACK For Blogger

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013
The Blogger SEO PACK 2012 contains some of the most important techniques that are what needed to set anALL IN ONE SEO PACK BLOGGERy blogger blog viral on all major search engines by smoothening the path for robots to index and crawl your blogs more efficiently. However I have not shared some other important SEO tips that we published on this blog previously. This request was made by most of you especially Brandon. I will be listing all important seo tips (a total of 13 tips) in this post that will cover posts, post titles, internal and external linking, use of nofollow link attributes, anchor tags and a lot more. Lets apply them one by one:
Update: Blogger Search Preferences introduced. Learn how to create 404 error page, redirect and set meta tags.


ALL In One SEO PACK For Blogger

1. Generate sitemaps and Optimize Links

This is the most significant part which we fortunately covered in our latest series on Blogger SEO PACK. Read this series to understand clearly how many sitemaps should you create for your blog and how should you submit it to major search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing (MSN). We also discussed ways to reduce crawl errors by optimizing hyperlinks of labels, archives and blog comments.
  • Blogger SEO PACK Techniques 2012 

2. Blogger Post Content Optimization

There is a difference between a writer and blogger. A writer can be anyone who writes to attract readers interest but a blogger is a skilled author who writes to attract both readers and search engines. A Blogger adopts a technical style by giving more value to rich keywords, word selection, intro paragraph length, images in posts, links and anchor tags in posts. You must be able to make your post extremely easy to be crawled and at the same time interesting and catchy for your readers and visitors. Post content is the soul of your blog. People often add too many keywords in post titles when focus should be The following post will teach you the magic art:
  • Let Search Engines and Visitors enjoy your posts Note:- This post is a really old one but it is still valid and will give you some important tips.

3.  Post Title Optimization

Now here comes the King of all your content. Post titles are the backbone of your entire blog traffic. Post title is the first thing a robot crawls and it is the first thing that appears on Search results page followed by post url and then  a snippet from the post. The choice of keywords, word limit and use of characters is something that you understand. Following posts will help you a lot:
  • How To Write Search Engine Friendly Post Tiles?
  • Use H2 Tag for Post titles and kick H3
  • Make Homepage title appear after post title
  • Post title limit
  • Shall you use Underscore or Dashes in post titles?

4. Image Optimization

After the introduction of image search technology, traffic through images can simply not be avoided. Every image on your post is a source for quality traffic if you tag them properly. With tags, images have no value because robots can not read graphics unless you tell it what the image is all about by adding its description inside alt text attribute.
  • How to tag images in blogger to drive traffic?
  • Optimize Images before uploading them

5. Meta Description and Keyword

As the video below suggests meta keywords are not that important for Google at least but you must write a good meta description for your homepage.

  • Why Meta Description appears in all Posts?
  • Meta Tag Generator tool

6. Internal Linking

Linking one post with another helps robots to better dive deep into your content and index every single post and build a relationship among them. Always link related posts with one another just the way I normally do by pointing readers to previously published tutorials that are related to my current post.
  • Internal Link Pages To Flow the PageRank Juice  Note:- Old Post but valid

7. Nofollow Do's and Donts

Nofollow was introduced to filter low quality content from good. This link attribute is very hot term when it comes to PageRank juice. To understand what it is and when and where should it be added, read the following tutorials.
  • Never Tag internal links as nofollow
  • When should you tag external links as nofollow
  • Add nofollow to Download and DEMO links along Iframe pages

8. Directory Submission

You might have seen several badges on every new blogs. Directories today are out-dated and there is no sense in expecting traffic from them. The biggest directory so far is DMOZ but it gives me no traffic value at all but adding your site to important directories helps in your search rankings indirectly. Read carefully the post below:
  • Is directory submission a waste of time?

9. How To Improve PageRank?

I put my heart and soul in the following tutorial to explain its concept:
  • 3 reasons why your PageRank do not increase

10. SiteLinks

Sitelinks appear on blogs with a minim of PageRank 2.0. It displays a table of your important 8 posts on Google search results page just below your homepage. It gives a completely different look to your blog on search pages. Read more about it here:
  • Tell Google What links to display in sitemap

11. Organize Labels

You must not use more than 15-20 labels in order to keep blog navigation clean and easy both for readers and search engines. Read this:
  • What are blog labels or categories?
  • Add and delete blog labels

12. Blog Load Time

Just as much as your readers get annoyed with slow load time of your blog or website, similar is felt by a robot. Google values load time a lot in order to provide Google users a great searching experience by taking them to sites that load faster. Not everyone uses fast broadband connection and internet speed on smart phones is comparatively slower so you must maximize blog speed as much as you can.
  • 11 useful tips to reduce blog load time

13. Best Traffic Tip

One of my blogging article of faith is posting daily and posting several times per day if you can afford. All the tips shared above are meaningless if you are not providing search engines with fresh content daily. Blogging is about daily updates and if you are not providing thirsty internet with innovative ideas daily then you are surely;y going to loose the wild race of traffic.
  • Publish several posts per day to boost traffic!
Also check this one:
  • 25 best tips to increase traffic to your blog
  • 13 Killer SEO Tips For Beginners

Need help?

I wrote the post in great hurry. I just hope these tips may help you with something new and applicable. I wish you all the best with your traffic endeavors and if there is any question you may have just let me know. Don't forget to share this valuable tutorial with your loved ones. Peace and blessings pals! :)
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How Come Web Development is the Key To Become SIX FIGURE Blogger? Part

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013


six figure bloggerYes you heard it right! No one can be expected to Park a luxury car safely without  Practice or prior Driving knowledge. The number of entrepreneurs, bloggers, freelancers and Internet Marketers is successfully increasing but only some of them succeed in establishing their base online after correctly following the survival tactics. From16 February 2011 onwards, there are now over 156 million public blogs in existence but only atom equivalent numbers have turned Blogging into a Online Happy Living, others gave up with disappointment. During my presentations I often ask the crowd this question "How many bloggers are here?" I then see 80% raising their hands but when asked "How many are earning at least $500-$1K monthly with their blogs?" I find all hands down. This is funny yet a big logical fact. How can some one just jump at something without first building the foundation for it. In todays tutorial, we will be focusing on students, housewives and jobless at large and even those newbie bloggers who are looking for every possible way to increase organic traffic and generate revenue.



Note: This is part 4 our our series on Pro Blogging. We will highly recommend that you read this series sequentially. If you have not read the previous parts then you may do so for better understanding of the topic.  
Pro Blogging SERIES
Part1: What skills are needed by a Professional Blogger?
Part2: "Three Learning Stages" To Become a Professional Blogger
Part3: Why Your Blog Makes No Money?
Part4: How Come Web Development is the Key To Become SIX FIGURE Blogger?

What is Blogging?

Blogging is not at all the art of publishing links to Google and Making Money with Adsense or any other Ad service. Blogging is a long term business that turns a noob into a skilled entrepreneur. If you are blogging just to earn via Adsense then you are badly mistaken. Ad services cost for just 40% of blogging revenue , remaining is earned via Blog services and Affiliate commissions.
Blogging follows this sequence
  1. Learn Web Development  (For becoming not just a blogger)
  2. Start with Google Blogger
  3. Learn SEO
  4. Build Readership
  5. Build Traffic
  6. Display Ads
  7. Promote Affiliate Products
  8. Earn and Enjoy!
To get an idea of what blogging is and how to start a blog, better read these tutorials,
  1. What is blogging and how to start a blog?
  2. How To Destroy Your Blogging Career?    -  Must Read!

Why are you relating Blogging To Web Development?

Blogging doesn't just require some good written and grammar skills, neither just SEO, its beyond that. Majority of successful bloggers today are web developers or at least having some idea of languages like CSS3, HTML4 and php. You need to provide readers with some extra ordinary skills. You need to develop these skills to present a better blog to the world. During your blogging career, you will often need to create a logo, banner, design a page, create a tool etc. and it would sound weird if you can't do these things yourself and rely on a freelancer. Neither will these skills help you with your blog management but you can even sell your web development skill services and win bids as freelancer. Your readers would love to pay you as much as you want for the services you offer.
No matter what you blog on, you always need to create a video or banner or an ebook and lastly a promotional web page to promote your work. All these is a complete headache and loss of revenue if you don't know basic developing skills.
Your tutorials will sound more logical and correct if you have knowledge about these web technologies. You will be able to format and optimize your posts better. You can edit the codes for your templates without anyone's help and most importantly you can estimate how robots crawl and index your content. You let a search robot dance at your tones!

What is web development?

In part one of our series we discovered the skills required by a professional blogger and we emphasize on web designing but today we will go a step ahead and would talk about web development.
Web designing is limited to learning these:
  1. Web graphics using Adobe Photoshop CS5 at least.
  2. HTML4 and CSS3
  3. Dream Weaver CS5
  4. JavaScript, Jquery (Just applications)
Web designing helps you to design Static websites, your very own blog, add elements and objects to your page to make it more interactive, create logos and banners for blog promotion and helps you in doing small freelancing jobs. It is limited to Static pages only while web development is the next level to create Dynamic pages.
Difference between Static and Dynamic Pages
Static Pages are created using CSS3, HTML, JavaScript and Jquery. Our Services Pages are examples of static pages which involves no programming and is simple display of content.  You will learn to create such pages with web designing skills.

Dynamic pages are created using a programming language largely with either PHP or ASP. Wordpress or Facebook are created using PHP and it lets you create amazing programmable pages to create interactive plugins, widgets and auto controllable stuff. The Meta Tag generator and Pinger Tool is an example of a dynamic page. The tool is coded with PHP, even our contact form is coded with PHP. To perform some function you need to learn programming languages and my personal recommendation is that you learn PHP as it has a high market demand and is the perfect bid earning language for freelancers. Parallel to this you must learn MySQL to understand how databases work and are manage. All your images, posts, comments and every single element on your Blogs are stored at Blogger Databases. You will learn to create such pages with web development skills. I just completed my PHP and MySQL learning course this month to become a full time web developer.
So web development is all about creating dynamic pages that perform some function rather just a read only graphics.

Learning Chart

This should be your target to achieve within 6-8 months in 2012.
Web Designing  (Six Months) Web Development  (Two Months)
Adobe Photoshop PHP, MySQL
HTML4
CSS3
Dream Weaver
JavaScript (basic knowledge)
JQuery (extreme basic know-how)

Isn't it difficult? I don't have enough time

Time is the main constraint in everyone's life. But high term goals require effort. If you have youngsters at your home then you must guide them to this path. Our presentation on entrepreneurship is what that you must read and watch.
Web development is the easiest yet most interesting field choice for everyone looking to make a living online. Blogging is fun when you know how to present yourself uniquely and share stuff that is creative. People love creative content and they love listening to people with skills. Therefore you must learn this magic art to keep yourself distinct from your competitors. Recommend it to your youngsters and children at home.

End Of Series

Dead jobs with fixed salary is never a clever aim of life. You need a smart living plan and it is surely blogging that teaches you how websites generate revenue, how traffic trends changes, how latest technologies work and how people turn into SIX FIGURE Millionaires by working less but working smart.
This marks the end of our series on pro blogging. The entire aim behind this knowledge sharing was to educate you with the right decisions and plannings. Things aren't that difficult if you apply correct logics. Those who are millionaires today are not extra ordinary Genius mortals, they are common people like you but the only difference that lies is use of LOGIC. Blogging can surely turn out into a business for you if you carefully follow the instructions shared in this series and our previous tutorials. You must first develop skills and at the same time work on your blog. Work on your goals parallely and never stop one activity for the sake of starting a new activity. I wish you all the best with your entrepreneurship endeavors and online goals. Do let me know if you need any assistance related to this series. Would be a pleasure to help you out. Peace and blessings pals! :)
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Why Your Blog Makes No Money? Part3

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013
One of the question that almost everyone starts asking after working hard for days and nights by why blog makes no money?writing tons of articles online. Why should your blog make money? Why should advertisers sponsor it? What have you got in your content that will provide potential return to advertisers? Why should someone buy an ad spot on your blog? Are you receiving good page views? What is handsome traffic in numbers for you? Do you have readership power? How many people actually re-share your content? How active are your daily readers, do they shop online? Which country brings you a lot of traffic? Forget about PageRank, whats your Alexa? A lot of questions that can be asked from people who just stepped into blogging and all these questions have logical answers. I have observed new enthusiastic people rapidly turning their attention to this beautiful art of writing and earning online. Yes without any doubts, blogs do make money and they drive hell lot of traffic but if that is the case then why aren't everyone becoming a millionaire? The secret lies in a sensible traffic formula and understanding search engine optimization strategies, the sooner you know it, the better it gets.




Note: These series in no way highlight me as a Pro Blogger. I prefer the title of a peanut blogger and would remain and live so always.
Pro Blogging SERIES
Part1: What skills are needed by a Professional Blogger?
Part2: "Three Learning Stages" To Become a Professional Blogger
Part3: Why Your Blog Makes No Money?
Part4: How Come Web Development is the Key To Become SIX FIGURE Blogger?

Internet Users Turning Into Content

People everywhere around the world has realized the importance of education. Literacy rate is growing at an alarming rate producing brilliant authors every single second. Every good writer wants to turn his writing skills into cash. Some try their luck as freelancers whilst others in search of their own unique identity choose blogging as a long term goal. Netcraft, which is an Internet monitoring company, reported in 2007 that there were 106,875,138 Web sites with domain names and content on them in 2007, compared to just 18,000 Web sites in August 1995. Billions of webpages are published every day within 24 hours, making the competition online tougher every second. Can you expect to survive as a new content publisher amongst already existing giants? 
Yes you can! Internet traffic is like a hungry whale eating everything coming in its way. The only difference is that are you providing a smooth path for search engines to come and value what you publish? I guess I have asked enough questions, its time to solve some mysteries and bust some widely popular myths online.

Three Fundamental Tips To Succeed As Blogger

(1) Patience and Dedication
The first lesson that I learnt in my school economic classes was that the success of a good businessman lies in investing power. Those who step into business today and expect profit in material form tomorrow, are the first to badly end their endeavors. Hopelessness and frustration accompany you when you expect a lot. Why should you receive tons of traffic daily when you have not invested at all? Pro bloggers that you hear of daily were lucky champs who started blogging 10 years ago. Every single blogging ICON today has written around thousands of quality articles online and these articles were a smart investment that today generates them revenue in hundreds of dollars via Ad impressions.
You don't need to write 1000 of articles to reach a stable stage and work hard too much, what you need to do is answer the call of internet. Stick to your topic and don't deviate. Work hard for continuous six months and your targets should be the following:
  1. Write at least one post per day. My personal recommendation would be 2-3 posts per day. Hire authors just like me if you cant do it alone.
  2. Write on social media to boost your traffic. Always write on latest updates related to social media networking sites and keep social media as a for granted part of your blog no matter what your niche may be.
  3. Keep track of updates related to your niche and provide readers with something new. Act like a journalist, hear it first and share it first.
  4. Keep post length to a minimum of 500 words and post title limit to 65-70 characters
  5. Post at a fixed time and don't just push the publish button anytime you want. Alexa Rank improves only when you fix your posting time. Keep note of every minute. Keep an interval of 7-13 minutes between your posts. Keep timing odd always.
  6. For improving PageRank do not waste time by commenting on every forum and blog, do Guest posting. There are several high PR blogs that accept guest posts. Search for the list of High PageRank blogs that accept guest posts.
  7. Keep Adsense away for six months! Adsense is useless when your traffic is less than 500 unique visitors/day. Add it only once you cross the stage#1 of blogging.
  8. Add  social networking buttons on your blog, Add likebox, twiiter follow button and Google Plus sharing widgets on your blog. Keep your sidebar as clean as possible and wait and watch.
  9. The only motivation for you should be improved Alexa Rank daily. If your Alexa is not improving then you need to change your posting time. Post at midnights if you live in Asia. You must achieve 20-10K Alexa Rank Within this six months investing period. Remember you are investing in terms of patience and dedication.
  10. Apply SEO PACK to your blog, no matter you use Wordpress or blogger.

(2) Learn and Keep exploring Skills
There is a difference between a normal essay writer, journalist and a blogger. The aim of blogger should not be to write well polished posts with high-fi vocab instead he should write well optimized posts using SEO techniques. Avoid use of strong English with idioms, complex phrases, clichés, metaphors and instead adopt a simple and easy to understand style. Simple English is what that attracts both visitors and search engine robot hits. Learn baics of search engine optimization related to the platform you are using. Don't apply every SEO tip that you learn online. You must follow people who share tutorials related to the platform you are using.
If you are a blogger user or wordpress user than the following tutorials are what you need:
  1. How to become a Pro Blogger? (Current)
  2. Blogger SEO PACK Series 2012
  3. Complete List of Blog SEO - 13 killer tutorials
  4. 100 Best Tips given by Professional Bloggers To Drive Traffic To a Blog
  5. 20 Guru Tips To Drive Traffic
  6. 3 Reasons why your PageRank is not increasing
  7. How To Find Sponsors for your blog?

(3) Avoid the unavoidable
You need to understand the value of your time online. Every hour is precious in life and time turns productive only when you filter the obstacles. Do this to keep ideas flooding in your mind and in order to protect yourself from distraction
  1. Delete your Facebook Account permanently and do not use any social media network as personal profile. Use them for blog promotion only. Today the first website I visit is my blog and lots of posts are waiting in queue to be published while back in the start of 2011, the first website I used to visit was Facebook and I would always find myself with no unique ideas in mind because I had become an addict who was always looking into personal lives of other people with no objective for his own life. The day I left Facebook, I discovered what true life is and how dreams could be turned into reality.
  2. Avoid listening to the tips shared by story tellers. Story tellers are people who are well established online and they always force you in accepting them as role models. These stereotype people online often pretend to be role models and give you a believe to trust them with everything they share. There tips to be honest often lack practicality. The reason behind their success is that they are well educated actors with accidental achievements in life.  If you really want to push ahead then avoid the shortcuts that they provide. Whether they may be pro bloggers or Internet Marketers, they only aim at building their email lists in order to keep rolling their marketing strategies that keep fooling people the way they did you. Please read this article to open your eyes:
  • 5 Tips To Destroy your Blogging Career
    3.   Do not Display your subscriber or fan followers count unless you get at least 100 subscribers or 100 followers from any social media network you use. Low followers count often discourage new visitors from subscribing and thus readership to grow.
    4.   Act like a professional and give an impression like you are not the only one running the blog. Avoid the word "I" and prefer using "We"
    5.    Check your analytics report only once a week and not every day. Human mind is very sensitive. sometimes a drop in traffic often disturb a lot. Therefore in order to keep your mind fresh and away from distraction, you may check your website stats only once a week to see the result of your one week hard work. Daily checkup of stats will often distract your mind and can disappoint you too.
    6.    Do not waste time commenting on blogs and forums unless you need help. In order to receive rich backlinks the best you can is to Write at most one quality guest post once or twice a month at a a well established blog that may accept guest posts. You don't need to be someone big in order to qualify for guest posting. As long as your guest post offers some value to Admin readers it will never be rejected. In order to qualify for guest post the best strategy is to keep its length as high as possible. Generally guest posts that share top20 tips, tech gadgets or tools are always accepted. Therefore write one good guest post daily to ensure build up backlinks at an early stage. Remember this applies to Bloggers of Stage#1 only. Stage#2 bloggers may focus on their blog.

Conclusion

In short in order to make potential revenue out of your blog, you must keep posting daily. For a maximum boost in traffic and revenue writing two quality posts per day play wonders for Stage#1 bloggers. Stage#2  bloggers are also bound to post at least once a day. When writing a new post think at least for 5 minutes to give your post a better optimized title and keep opening paragraph rich with keywords. Apply social media plugins to blog, answer readers regularly and write on latest updates. Nothing works like magic than sharing updates on social media and technology. I will be completing this series very soon. I just hope this ongoing help may prove beneficial to most of you. I am sharing my personal experiences and formulas here, sharing everything I learnt sop far. I hope this small effort from this little blog may educate newbie bloggers in a more correct way, guiding them to true webmaster strategies. Peace and blessings pals! :)
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Three Learning Stages" To Become a Professional Blogger Part2

Posted by Unknown On Friday, August 16, 2013


blogging learning stagesIn our previous post on skills required to become a successful pro blogger some commented that how is web designing related to the art of content writing. They are linked so tightly together that they are the loops that form the chain required to strengthen your online existence. Development in technology has broken all past records and new tools and gadgets are out in market every second. People are slowly turning their businesses Online. After 9/11 even IBM shifted to cloud computing, which means even they realized the importance of online media for their safety. Different Content Management systems like Joomla, Blogger and Wordpress are spreading like a crazy wave. Those who can afford are switching to Wordpress and those who can not stick to Blogger.  Since you are going to start a profession, that will serve the rapidly increasing internet population with ideas, tutorials, guides and resources, therefore to survive, you need to be extra ordinary in your skills. You must know how to make design changes to your webpage. You need to understand and learn how web hosting works, how data is transferred via ftp and how webpages are structured along with how to market your blog and skills smartly.


Note: These series in no way highlight me as a Pro Blogger. I prefer the title of a peanut blogger and would remain and live so always.
Pro Blogging SERIES
Part1: What skills are needed by a Professional Blogger?
Part2: "Three Learning Stages" To Become a Professional Blogger
Part3: Why Your Blog Makes No Money?
Part4: How Come Web Development is the Key To Become SIX FIGURE Blogger?
 

Should you Follow Pro Bloggers?

People like Darren Rowse, ZacJohnson and JohncHow are accidental millionaires. You should never take them as role models at initial stages for becoming a successful blogger but do follow them once you reach stage#3. They had started their careers 8-12 years ago when even social networks like Facebook was hatching out and new to the world. The traffic that they have today is due to those Golden days when competition was Zero to what it is today. To be simple and straight, you should follow them once you start earning at least $500 per month. Before this stage, following their tips wont help you a lot. Most of them talk about affiliate marketing and Ebook promotion. You can surely make money out of these two golden tools but first you need to build a repo online.

Blogging Learning Stages:

Stage#1:
Duration: 6 Months
Traffic: Zero
At this stage you must learn and apply the following:
  1. Start a blog with blogger.com and never with free wordpress
  2. Choose a Topic that may help you Make Money. You should not start writing on anything you like, only selected niches work wonders for a Blog. You need to be logical in the choice of your Blog Niche. People who often end up blogging career with disappointment are those who don't understand what drives money and what keywords actually mean. This will be discussed in Part-3 of the series
  3. Submit your sitemap to Google, link to Yahoo.
  4. Apply all SEO related tweaks to your template. This will turn you into a SEO. Give great focus to SEO articles published at MBT because we share everything here that would work for any blog, may it be running on wordpress or blogger or typepad.
  5. Do not apply for Adsense! It comes in stage#2
  6. Read tutorials on how to customize your template. This will polish your web designing skills. 
  7. Keep learning and applying HTML and CSS3 tutorials
  8. Write at least one Post per day of at least 500 words. Adopt the written formatted style of your favourite bloggers. See how they present their ideas with a post and how they format the text to make it appealing.
  9. Always Write on social media no matter what your blog topic may be. Do mention Facebook and Google Plus updates to your readers and keep writing on them when the news is worth sharing. The initial push in traffic depends on social networking sites.
  10. Buy a Custom domain
Stage#2:
Duration: After six months of your start. Lasts for Six more months
Traffic: Above 500 daily unique visitors
Now when you have been applying all tips of Stage#1, you qualify for stage#2. Here you should do this:
  1. Apply for AdSense. Add 336 by 280 just below post titles. Enough! Add Text & image/rich media ads. You should not turn your blog into a fish market of ads. This wont increase your revenue, instead would discourage readership. Read next tip..
  2. Give more importance to readership and less to Revenue for at least 1 Year.
  3. Build your twitter, Facebook, Google Plus Fans and most importantly your RSS Subscribers. How? This will be answered in Part-4 of the series
  4. Write Guest posts to build rich backlinks. Give your best shots with your guest posts. win the heart of the admin as well as his readers. There are many sites that accept guest posts. We accept guest posts from loyal subscribers only.
  5. Don't waste time commenting on forums and blogs. Write only quality guest posts to drive PageRank juice and consistent inorganic traffic.
  6. Work on your Alexa Rank. The best tip to improve Alexa is Post Frequency and nothing else. Keep your posts focused on social media to boost Alexa Rank.
  7. Learn how Web Hosting works.
 
Stage#3:
Duration: stage3 1 year of your start. Lasts forever
Traffic: Above 1000 daily unique visitors
Target: Succeed in receiving 5000 visitors per day the second year of your blogging.
At the point where you succeed in receiving above 1k traffic daily, you then qualify for stage three.
  1. Apply for Banner Ad services like BuySellAds
  2. Don't increase the Ad spot prices when you start seeing sponsors. Maintain a fixed price for at least 20-30 days. Display no more than 12-15 Ad spots per page.
  3. Never Compromise Blog load time for anything. Beauty matters too but use only those widgets that may help your visitors and do not add widgets just for the sake of attractive design.
  4. Share posts based on Affiliate Ads. Learn what is Affiliate Marketing.
  5. You can now confidently Follow Pro Bloggers! Learn their Marketing strategies and apply them.
  6. Increase your post frequency and make sure to increase traffic by 200%. You must now be able to understand what brings traffic.
  7. Choose Topics wisely now and keep fascinating readers with free goodies and resources
  8. Write at fixed time and don't just publish posts randomly at any time you find your post ready. Schedule your posts to a fixed time. This boosts Alexa greatly.
  9. Start valuing every single hour in a day. Work at most 6-8 hours per day.
  10. You sole purpose should be now building readership, maintaining traffic, interacting with readers more and more.
  11. Keep reading on how to Choose Ad spots wisely.
  12. Choose just one Affiliate product and promote it
  13. Subscribe to biggest technology blogs and keep yourself updated with latest developments. Publish a post on biggest headlines always!
  14. Be polite in your tone even if someone tries to pull your legs.
  15. Each day you must see a change in your Alexa Rank, Fan Count, Subscriber count and unique visitors and PageViews.
  16. Always keep an eye on your competitor. If you think he has shared something you have not yet published then do not wait just post on it in your own unique style with more enhancements.
  17. Be unique in your tone, style and strategy. Success will be waiting at your doors to Hug you soon.

Need Help?

If there is anything I could not clearly explain just let me know pals. I tried to be as honest in sharing this valuable information as I could. I have share almost everything that I have learnt so far. Indeed due to lack of time I could not explain some points in detail but I am sure once we publish the remaining parts of this series, you will have a clear picture in mind about how blogging is done and practiced.
Do let me know how much did this post help you in making your minds clear and in guiding you to the straight and correct track. Peace and blessings buddies. :)
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