Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Tips. Show all posts

Tuesday, 7 August 2012

How to Make Your Website Multi-Culturally Accessible?


How to Make Your Website Multi-Culturally AccessibleStarting an online business with a blog or a website demands more power at all levels as you have the entire world to counter in order to survive. It is essential to understand that your Online business is operational for the visitors who belong to different regions, widely spread across the globe, having one thing in common and that is, the facility of accessing the internet world. Think about targeting a greater audience rather than establishing your business for a particular group. It is true, that English is used as the major language when it comes to online communications, however, the fact cannot be neglected that there are 34 languages existing on the internet , contributing to two-third of the web surfers worldwide. Interesting, isn’t it?
Now, to ensure that you become a universal source to be visited, you need to take into account the following factors so that the probability of making more money by attracting a large audience increases.
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5 Must Follow Principles for Bloggers


follow-traits-successful-bloggerWith the hype that has been created in the world about the best online ways to make money, Blogging comes on the top. There is no doubt about the power of blogging at this time of stage, yet there are some ethical principles that a blogger must dissolve in his career and drink to maintain his business smoothly. What happens is once the blogs start generating revenue, bloggers find themselves, somewhere out of the world, often neglecting the fact that it was their readers who contributed in taking the blogs to such successes. In order to grasp your customer’s attention consistently, Here are five simple principles to keep your readers happily bonded with your blog and enjoy making money online!

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Wednesday, 20 June 2012

The Difference Between a Pro Blogger and a Celebrity



Pro Blogger or Celebrity?
Becoming a pro blogger is a dream for many and more, yet so few actually make it. It isn't a matter of just having surplus time on your hands or having nothing else to do. People, who are non-bloggers, often think that bloggers are wasting time, or that they are nerds who "don't have a life", and spend way too much time on a computer and don't play games, etc. Well, a pro blogger is nothing like a nerd. Indeed, a pro blogger can be compared to a celebrity. For those of you who are new and don't know who a pro blogger is, let's first go into the definitions.
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YouTube HOT Traffic Strategies To Increase Blog Subscribers



YouTube Traffic Strategies
YouTube is the most popular video sharing website on the web. Approximately, more than 2 billion videos are watched daily on YouTube. Such a large viewership means a huge potential. surprisingly though, all that potential seems somewhat unexplored by most of the bloggers out there. This is one gate that is waiting to be opened. And once you open it, you'll see how many opportunities you've been missing.
Getting views on your videos and increasing your subscribers' base is no big deal. You just need to have the right focus for the task. Starting is the hard part. But once the wheel starts moving, it'll require minimal effort at the right places to keep it in motion. Here are some best tips that will help you along the way. These tips will help increase subscriptions, and ultimately bring more traffic to your blog.
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Google Explains The Difference Between Google Plus, +1 Button & Search



Google Plus

Google+ is the most recent player in the social networking field. When it first came, we reckoned it was just another attempt by Google to counter Facebook's increasing dominance, and that it will fail like other projects from Google in the past such as Google Buzz, Orkut etc. But now, it seems that it is obviously here to stay. Google+ is a lot more than just a social networking website. The +1 button isn't just another Like button, as you will see later in this post. Google+ is a site where you can show your interests, have connections, and build an identity. It's a friend of webmasters, who can achieve a lot more by using this simple social site. In a way, Google is trying to provide a coherent experience to the users by introducing all their products such as Google Search, GMail, Google News, etc. And Google+ could be the glue that holds everything together to provide an uninterrupted and 'seamless Google experience' to the users. In this post, we will talk about how important Google+ is, and why should you use the +1 button, and how it all helps webmasters.
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YouTube SEO and Marketing - Things To Do after creating Video


YouTube Video Marketing


In the previous part of this two-part series, we discussed some of the basic things you need to know about YouTube Video marketing. This is indeed a great strategy, especially since billions of videos are being watched every day. So if you do it right, you could channel a fraction of that viewership onto your own blog, and hence increase your traffic and subscribers. In this post, we will talk about somewhat more technical aspects, and also who you need to do with your videos once they are done.
We have already talked about what a video should contain. Now, let's discuss how to optimize your video. This is similar to how you'd optimize a blog post. But only, there's a lot less you need to do. For YouTube videos, you only need to optimize the titles, descriptions, and the like. So let's get started.
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Breathe New Life Into Old Blog Posts To Increase Traffic


Recycle your old posts

Are your old blog posts gathering dust in your archives? This is a very common problem with many bloggers. No matter how much effort you put into a post, it will eventually be pushed down into your archives by newer blog posts. And sometimes, if those posts don't show up in search engine results, they eventually get forgotten. So all your hard work goes to waste. If only you could reuse your old posts to get the most benefit out of them. Maybe you can not reuse them as such, but with adequate SEO and some other ways, you can blow new life into them. Here is what you can do with your old posts to bring them back to life.

Link the older posts

First and foremost, link back to your older posts that are related to what you are saying in your current post. You can see that I have already done this twice in this post. Not only is this a good SEO practice, it also gives exposure to your old posts. Without this interlinking, your old posts would just be stand-alone posts which will eventually get forgotten.
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Saturday, 2 June 2012

4 Reasons to Promote Your Blog on Facebook and Twitter

This may come as a surprise but a lot of people hesitate when it comes to blog promotion on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Sometimes it’s because they don’t want certain people to know about their blog, other times it’s because they don’t want to look like they’re spamming up their friends and followers feeds, and sometimes it just comes down to the fact that they don’t know how or even realize that they should be doing so. However not using Facebook and Twitter for your blog promotion is a massive mistake. Here are four reasons you need to use Facebook and Twitter for marketing your blog:
1. More exposure: It’s pretty simple really. You post your latest blog posts on Facebook and Twitter and more people are going to click on the link to read them. You can’t leave all of it to chance and people finding you through search engines because, unless you’re a mastermind with keywords and SEO, increased traffic just isn’t going to happen as quickly as when you’re promoting on these two sites.
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4 Tips for Organizing And Uncluttering your Blog Archive



A well organized blog has a tone of respectability as well as being easy for your followers to search through for their favorite articles. Unfortunately, many bloggers let their blog devolve into a mess of discombobulated pieces. In the name of creating order out of the chaos that is far too many blogs, here are my top 10 tips for organizing your blog archive.

1. Use Pages on Your Blog


The most important thing that you can do to improve the fluidity of your blog experience is to add pages. Pages make it much easier to find what people are looking for. Pages don't get lost in the infinite black hole that is an archive; instead, you can put them anywhere you want on your homepage and, actually, on every page within your blog. This means that pages are always vying for attention and will, as a result, get that attention.
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10 Things Every Blogging Office Needs



Being a professional blogger isn’t as simple as waking up one morning and stating, “I am a blogger, look out world!” Like any other discipline or endeavour, being a successful blogger means that you have to take the job seriously. That means working with dedication, planning and forethought. Having the right tools is an essential part of being a blogger, as you need the right tools in order to get the job done.

1. Computer or Laptop: There is no doubt one of the key tools of the modern journalist and the pro blogger is the computer. After all, the computer has become the informational link to the world. Blogging is all about information and staying current with what is happening in the world around us. This means that your computer is an essential tool in your blogging toolkit. While it is not necessary to have a top of the line gaming computer, you should have one that can get the job done or you will lose hours and hours on productivity. Making sure that you have a quality anti-virus program and firewall might be savvy addition as well.
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Sunday, 20 May 2012

Top 10 Fee Blog Pinging Services To Ping Your Blog




Pinging blog is a one of main method to get high rank on search engines.By pinging your blog search engines will know about the updates on your blog.It is very easy to ping your blog.You only have to submit the url of your blog,blog name and the rss feed url.But Don't try to do it over the limit.Otherwise search engines will ignore your blog as a spam.Here is the list of top 10 pinging services.
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How To Save, Back Up And Restore A Blogger Template Using The New Blogger Dashboard - Video Tutorial


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Last week i was busy making some video screen casts with tutorials for the new Blogger design.In the next few posts i will be sharing the videos with you here on Spice Up Your Blog.Whether you like the new Interface or not we do need to familiarize ourselves with it.I'm sure as with all new Google products or updates the Blogger team will continue to make improvements.I'm certainly not over impressed with the new design and did leave feedback with 8 changes or additions I would like to see.

The first video covers Making a back up of your Template, as we know when you edit your template it's vital to make a back up in case of mistakes.
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How To Delete A Blogger Blog Using The New Dashboard Design - Video Tutorial


Blogger Logo Black Background

In the last post we had a video screen cast showing how to Back Up And Restore A Blogger Template in the new Blogger design.In this post we continue with the new Blogger design tips theme and show how to delete an unwanted blog.Remember when you delete a blog on Blogger you have the option to restore it within 90 days.Check out the video below and look out for more screen casts on using the new Blogger in upcoming posts.


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7 Fresh Ideas To Deal With Bloggers Block


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Guest Post By Grace Pamer.Want to get involved ? See how you can become a guest author on Spice Up Your Blog.

Blogging is a phenomenon of the Internet age that has few precedents from the past. Bloggers have to come up with new ideas for articles on a regular basis, write and edit their work, and post them, ready to move on to the next blog entry. On the whole we undertake no formal training for such demands and yet the pressures can sometimes be intense. We often work in a particular niche, sometimes alone, and on occasion may feel the constraints of such choices. In fact, in many ways, the only activity prior to the advent of web logs (blogs) was the work of professional column writers at newspapers and magazines for they had to come up with new ideas regularly to maintain their readerships expectations - and they were paid to do it!
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Thursday, 17 May 2012

Add Meta Description Tags to Blogger


blogger meta tagsMeta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.







Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.
 
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Redirect one page to another in Blogger


custom redirection in bloggerBlogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.










Blogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.
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Wednesday, 16 May 2012

How To Track Visitors And Optimize Your Website


Post Updated (9th July, 2010): Now "Stats" is an integral part of Blogger.
If you haven't used Blogger in Draft (Beta-Blogger) till now, then do it right away. It is where, Blogger releases all its new features before officially adding the services to Blogger blogs. To access Blogger in Draft, instead of logging in to www.Blogger.com log in at draft.Blogger.com

The latest Beta add-on from Blogger is a "Stats" section in the Dashboard - to monitor and analyze your visitor traffic in near-real-time.

Tracking your visitors' activity on your blog is an important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). So, if you haven't yet accessed the "Stats" section of your Blogger-account - then do it right now. And as of now "Blogger Stats" is relatively new and limited in terms of the information these tools provide, so even now I advise everyone to sign up at the below mentioned websites/services, start tracking to give your visitors what they want (that's what SEO is all about)...



You would have seen many fancy and flashy visitor counters in hundreds or rather thousands of blogs, but simply counting the number of visitors or page views is totally of no use to any blogger or webmaster. Visitor-Tracking is a much more advanced and useful method as compared to those simple counters.

So here's a list of important tracking websites, providing free and fabulous features to all the bloggers...
The tracking reports and statistics from these websites mainly contain:

1. Of course, unique visits & page views, averaged and archived to weekly, monthly and yearly graphs. (And all the reports are in real time)
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4 Tips for Organizing And Uncluttering your Blog Archive



A well organized blog has a tone of respectability as well as being easy for your followers to search through for their favorite articles. Unfortunately, many bloggers let their blog devolve into a mess of discombobulated pieces. In the name of creating order out of the chaos that is far too many blogs, here are my top 10 tips for organizing your blog archive.

1. Use Pages on Your Blog


The most important thing that you can do to improve the fluidity of your blog experience is to add pages. Pages make it much easier to find what people are looking for. Pages don't get lost in the infinite black hole that is an archive; instead, you can put them anywhere you want on your homepage and, actually, on every page within your blog. This means that pages are always vying for attention and will, as a result, get that attention.
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11 Elementary Tips to Consider When Redesigning Your Blog


Do you think that your blog looks and feels very ‘dated’ and that it would be good to move it in another direction in order to let it progress and grow? If so, the following 11 tips should be a good rundown for making the redesigning of your blog as simple and un-complicated as humanly possible.

1) Navigation 

Navigation is a vital aspect on any website in the world just for the simple fact that without the ease of navigation through a website we would never actually find the certain pages we are looking for.  I find it extremely annoying when I cannot find what I am looking for - your visitors will probably feel the same, hence making navigation crucial.
A good example of an easy website to navigate through:
Fuel Your Creativity
As you can see on the fuelyourcreativity.com website, it is easily navigated through; with the main navigation bar on the top of the page, the blog posts are easily indentified, and below the logo is a list of all the categories for easy access to your specified blog post.
There is also a "most popular posts" section, pagination and a list of the social networking links, all in all making this an easy accessible website.
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Tuesday, 15 May 2012

What is the ideal Word Count limit For an Optimized Blog Post?



BLog Post LengthNowadays, there are no constraints on digital media, as compared to the print media. There is no limit to the physical resources available, there is no cost for writing extra stuff, etc. Indeed, there is little limitation to what you can do to your content online. This liberty comes at a cost, however. For a lot of bloggers, especially new ones, the question as to "Where to stop?" can be challenging. You see, there are no clearly demarcated boundaries that dictate how long a blog post should be. You might be able to convey your message in 200 words, or you might need more than 2000 for the same purpose. So how long should your blog post be? In my opinion, it's more a matter of best practices than it is of predefined do-and-don't rules. So let's talk about how an ideal blog post should look like.
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