5 Blogging Mistakes
Posted on December 28, 2009 and filed under Beginner, Blogging.
We all want to make our blogs popular and we apply different tactics to do so. But here I will discuss some mistakes you must absolutely avoid while blogging.
Not Updating Your Blog
Commonest mistake we do is that we do not update our blog on regular basis, doing this we loose interest of our readers.
Blogging Only for Money!
Some of us blog just for money and doing this create crap articles and reviews that worth nothing and this not only make our blog unpopular but also useless.
No Interaction with Readers
Some times we are so much busy that we do not reply to the comments of our readers. Doing this we loose our reputation in eyes of the reader.
No Proofreading and Copied content
If you are relying on copied content to boost your blog, then you are absolutely wrong! Such type of content is already rated by search engines so they do not rate it again. Also do proofreading every time you publish something as command over language impresses readers.
Writing for Search Engines Only
Many of the newbie bloggers writes for search engine only and forgets the readers. This really hampers the growth of the blog.
Not doing above mistakes can not only boost the traffic to your blog but also popularizes it. So happy blogging!
Blogging and All in One SEO plugin
Posted on December 27, 2009 and filed under Blogging.
Search engine optimization of your blog posts is very necessary, if you want the search engine to rate your blog higher in the search. You have two solutions to this problem, either you spend money on the SEO experts and let your blog optimized or install All in one SEO plugin. Well, according to me the latter is a better option for your new blog.
All in One SEO plugin can be downloaded from here.
Basically this plugin automatically generates Meta statement for your blog. So each of your post has a different Metastat and let the search engine better recognize your blog.
There are two components of the plugin, either you can define the settings through main setting page:
Or you can do custom settings for each of your post:
I have worked with this plugin, and have found that it is really helpful in search engine ranking.
Blogging and Google XML Sitemaps Plugin
Posted on December 21, 2009 and filed under Blogging.
This is one of the most famous plugins for wordpress. Blogging is made easy by this plugin. This plugin creates xml site maps of your site and helps the search engine like Google, Bing and yahoo to index your pages in a better way.This plugin can be downloaded from here.
Once downloaded it generates a page on your website which is called the sitemap of your site. Site map has all the URLs coming from your site. Sitemap is read by the search engines to index your blog and its posts.
Once installed, you can configure it under the settings tab.
You can generate sitemap regularly when you change the content of your site. So happy blogging!
7 Tips for Successful Blogging
Posted on December 16, 2009 and filed under Blogging.
Many a time people ask how to make a successful blog and most of time they don’t find an appropriate idea to do it. Here I want to share some tips for successful blogging which will surely help a newbie.
1. Your blog should have at least 3-5 Pillar articles. Pillar articles are informative articles related to your niche. They share tips and general thoughts about your niche.
2. Maintain continuity by posting at least one blog post daily on your blog. This helps to bind your readers.
3. A proper domain name is an essential part of a good blog, basically the domain should be illustrate the blog content precisely
4. Build links by commenting on other blogs and adding a backlink to your post.
5. You can trackback and link your posts to other blogs this will help you to get a good traffic diverted to your blog.
6. Your readers should be made to participate in the discussion. You should ask them to comment on your posts.
7. You can submit your blog articles to reputed article submission sites like ezinearticles and ariclesbase.
Blogging and Building Backlinks
Posted on December 15, 2009 and filed under Beginner, Blogging.
How to get a better PR is a question that most of webmasters ask. There are no fixed rules set up by search engines for better PR, but one thing that always works is building backlinks to your site.
So the next question arise here is how to build backlinks to your website. Here, I will mention easy tips to get the backlinks to your blog.
Article Submission
Many reputed article submission sites like ezinearticles.com and articlesbase.com, let you put backlink to your website with your article. So more articles you submit more backlinks you get.
Commenting on other blogs
The idea behind leaving comments on other blogs is to place your backlink to your blog along with comment and this really helps.
Guest Blogging
Writing blog entries on other blogs and placing your backlinks with your posts is yet another way to build backlinks.
Pay for links
You can pay high PR websites or blogs to put your link on them. This is an expensive method.
Following these tips you can easily form backlinks to your blog. So enjoy blogging!
Blogging and Search Engine Marketing
Posted on December 12, 2009 and filed under Blogging.
We all talk about blogging and its effectiveness in marketing your business, but the most important point to do it effectively is search engine optimization. This is a not an easy task to do, either you require expert to do it or a lot of experience.
Some points to be noticed here are:
Original content
The most important point to be noticed while writing a blog is the originality of content, if your content is genuine and well written, Google or any other search engine does not rate copied content. So the articles written for your blogs should be 100% original and copyscape passed.
Keyword Density
The next important point is to keep in mind is a good keyword density in your article so that search engine can rate you better in the search. Keywords bring traffic in a specific way by specific keyword searches.
Link exchange
Link exchange with other reputed blogs also let your blog rated higher in ranking. Link exchange is very essential for good traffic and high PR.
Blogging and Guest Bloggers
Posted on December 7, 2009 and filed under Blogging.
Owning a blog and not getting time to update it? Here the concept of “OPT” fits very well, OPT means other peoples time. So if you don’t have time to update your blogs regularly you can take the services of guest bloggers.
There are thousands of probloggers available to write on your blogs. So blogging and guest blogger’s concept has become relevant for those authors who don’t update their blogs timely.
A question arises here, is guest blogging fruitful? Well for most of authors the point of argument can be that the guest bloggers may promote their own blogs through your blog and take away all the traffic. In that case the new blog platforms are very beneficial where you can limit the rights of the guest blogger and ask him to save his article as a draft and you still own the option of editing it. Or you can make a tie with him on the traffic share.
So guest bloggers are important in present day blogging. But keep the deal to limit so that your blog don’t suffer later.
Blogging and Your Small Business
Posted on December 6, 2009 and filed under Beginner, Blogging.
This post is specifically for the owners of small business. You have to face a lot of problems in the beginning. The basic essence of success is to stand alone and be distinguishable among your competitors. People tend to buy things from authenticated and dependable sources, so your site should be such that it creates trust among the customers. The best medium for it is blogging.
Why blogging? There are many benefits of blogs over the full websites these are listed here.
Cheap marketing
Blogging requires cheap updates or really no money for updates but the websites require fair money for updates. Blogs can be updated regularly without much effort.
Direct contact with customers
Websites and companies cannot communicate directly with their customers, but blogs give you an option to interact with your customers directly. You can read their reactions in comments or can leave an automated email feedback.
Search engine rank
Blogs are always search engine friendly and hence are rated high in search engines. So if you have an established blog you can divert a lot of traffic towards your site.
Blogging is very cheap media of marketing and give your product a reputation to compete with the rivals.
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Blogging and Top 5 Plugins
Posted on December 14, 2009 and filed under Beginner, Blogging, Security.
As a blogger, you must know how to use your blogs to maximize your traffic and income. Basically, you need plugins to run your blog with ease. These plugins systemize your blog and let you create better SEO friendly content.
So, 5 plugins you should definitely have are:
Akismet
Practically no blog can exist without akismet. This plugin once activated automatically rejects the spam comments. So prevent your blog from being spammed. It not only save your time but smartly manages your blog too.
The Akismet WordPress plugin ships with WordPress 2.0 and later by default, but if you don’t have it for some reason, you can download it from the official page.
Related Posts
This plugin links the different posts on your blog to each other and let the user a better searching option. There are several different plugins available, try this one.
All in One SEO pack
This plugin helps a better search engine optimization of your blog posts and hence help in bringing traffic and giving higher PR. Download it here.
Top Commentators
This is very user friendly plugin and brings a better interaction on your blog, allowing your blog readers to participate in active discussions. You can download this widget here.
Wordpress Database Backup
This plugin helps in backing up your database to the server so that if anything is lost from your site can be recovered. This is a very handy plugin which you can download here.
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