Blogging Tips

If you scroll down a little, you will see a Yahoo! Search widget that I just added today on my left sidebar just below the Alexa Traffic Rank widget. This widget provides a quick information about the number of links of the page where the widget is shown. If you are a link conscious blogger like me, you might want to use this handy tool in your blog to quickly monitor your inbound links. [click to continue...]

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Baidu, the world’s second largest search engine (in terms of popularity and usage) next to Google presents another potential source of huge traffic for your blog. Statistics shows that China has already surpassed the U.S. in internet use. By June 2007, China has about 162 million internet users and the number is growing rapidly everyday. [click to continue...]

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Ahman Mera, a freelance writer at Digital Point, shares his most effective tips to help you drive more traffic to your blog.

Consider a situation where you have finally managed to create a blog for yourself, picked up a topic that you believe is the best for you to post about, and in money-making perspective as well. Also, you have started posting concise information, that you believe is best for the blog, intriguing for every visitor, and would benefit the niche market you wish to cater to. [click to continue...]

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The demand for free Blogger templates have grown rapidly as the number of bloggers using Blogger as their blogging platform has also increased. Blogger’s user friendly interface is particularly appealing to newbies. Blogger is easy to set-up and manage, which is what most blogger are looking for. Perhaps the only problem with Bloggers is the fact that free Blogger templates are very limited. Not anymore!

If before, only Wordpress users enjoy a wide variety of Free Wordpress Themes (i.e. Search Engine Optimized Wordpress Themes, Wordpress Themes For Adsense) this is no longer the case now. In fact, there are already thousands of free Blogger templates available online. Some of them are Wordpress Themes converted to Blogger. Here’s a list of websites where you can grab yourself a copy of well-designed free Blogger templates. [click to continue...]

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What is a Blog Network?

As the name suggests, these are a cluster of blogs, which have been put together, linked with one another, and are categorized under some common banner or name. These come in a variety of shapes and sizes.

Here are a few helpful blogging tips to boost your network:
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It is hard to imagine the time when people managed to drive loads of traffic to their websites and blogs before the popularity of networking started increasing. It used to involve heavy investments, as one had to pay for advertising.

Networking is a must in the blogosphere, and although a bit time consuming, it’s free of cost and highly effective as well.

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The basic intent behind most niche blogs that you happen to stumble upon the internet is the same: market a product/service etc., and hence earn money in the process. These blogs serve to a particular niche market and are created solely to serve that market only. To put it in simpler words, niche blogs pertain to those blogs which focus on a sub-category of an otherwise general concept/topic.

Take, for example, a blog which is about wi-fi systems, is a subset of the popular topics: gizmos, gadgets, and technology.
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Blogging has been around for almost a decade now, but not until recently did blogging become an addicting fad. Today, blogging has become an outlet for many people to reach out to the world and share their thoughts, talk about their personal experiences or blurt out whatever bugs them. Blogging has also become a useful tool for professionals, especially those in marketing. It has become a much preferred alternative to traditional advertising media because it’s cheap and effective.

Blogging, a popular term that refers to weblog, is an online journal, which could be personal or business in nature. It could be created for several purposes like communication, networking, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing among others.

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Today, I decided to compile the elements of a blog that I believe are important. Blogs are supposedly better with these elements giving both the blogger and the blog readers a pleasant experience.

1. Custom Header Or Logo

Having your own custom logo/header is an effective branding strategy for your blog. Your logo or header should be customized. As much as possible, use an image in replacement of your default header.

Blogs without customized headers are not only unattractive but are highly suspected as spam blogs. Serious bloggers are expected to invest time in customizing their headers while spam bloggers settle for less… the default header setting. Without a custom header or logo, your blog is missing the opportunity to be recognized, remembered and promoted. Try using a custom header and see the difference it can bring your blog. [click to continue...]

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