27 June 2012
Email marketing is directly marketing a commercial message to a group of people using electronic mail. In its broadest sense, every email sent to a potential or current customer could be considered email marketing. It usually involves using email to send ads, request business, or solicit sales or donations, and is meant to build loyalty, trust, or brand awareness. Email marketing can be done to either cold lists or current customer database. Broadly, the term is usually used to refer to:
Sending email messages with the purpose of enhancing the relationship of a merchant with its current or previous customers, to encourage customer loyalty and repeat business,
Sending email messages with the purpose of acquiring new customers or convincing current customers to purchase something immediately,
Adding advertisements to email messages sent by other companies to their customers
Researchers estimate that United States firms alone spent US $1.51 billion on email marketing in 2011 and will grow to $2.468 billion by 2016.
Email marketing can be carried out through different types of emails:
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Email newsletters
Email Newsletters are direct emails sent out on a regular basis to a list of subscribers, customers. The primary purpose of an email newsletter is to build upon the relationship of the company with their customers/subscribers.Transactional emails
Transactional emails are usually triggered based on a customer’s action with a company. Triggered transactional messages include dropped basket messages, purchase or order confirmation emails and email receipts.The primary purpose of a transactional email is to convey information regarding the action that triggered it. But, due to its high open rates (51.3% compared to 36.6% for email newsletters), transactional emails are a golden opportunity to engage customers; to introduce or extend the email relationship with customers or subscribers, to anticipate and answer questions or to cross-sell or up-sell products or services.
Many email newsletter software vendors offer transactional email support, which gives companies the ability to include promotional messages within the body of transactional emails. There are also software vendors that offer specialized transactional email marketing services, which include providing targeted and personalized transactional email messages and running specific marketing campaigns (such as customer referral programs).
Direct emails
Direct email involves sending an email solely to communicate a promotional message (for example, an announcement of a special offer or a catalog of products). Companies usually collect a list of customer or prospect email addresses to send direct promotional messages to, or they can also rent a list of email addresses from service companies.
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24 June 2012
Increase Your Adsense Income
Getting into an Adsense program is a difficult task, after the approval the next problem is, how to earn your living from it. Considerably this chore is also a complicated one. But if we are able to overcome the complications then we can say that the best and safe way to earn online is the Google Adsense, as you all know the Google Adsense is one among the oldest and largest advertising network. You will start earning from the moment you put ads on your site which is provided by the Adsense but will you earn your living ? Are you able to pay your bills which is used for blogging ? No! then you should check this out ! Come lets have some tips to earn more from your Adsense account.
The Best Location, the More Views
It's a technical tip, the place you assign for your ads has an immense importance in giving you more money, usually we can say that the more impressions you get, the more you earn.. As per the Adsense rules you are allowed to use only three ads in your site, even if you choose to put 1,2 or 3 ads, the placement for them should be made very cautiously. It's always better to select wide ad units and put it in a side that never makes the visitors irritated and will be always viewed. Here's an image that shows you the best ad placements.
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Follow the Guidelines
As a member of the Adsense program you must be well aware about the rules and regulations. Neglecting or making any alters in the guidelines that you have to be followed will or may result in the ban of your account. So follow the Adsense rules and regulations, it is always a superior tip, that you must read the Google Adsense Policies at least once. Remember Google is not a fool that can be easily cheated like that you do to other smaller sites or companies.
Customize the Ad Units
While choosing the ad units you will be given an opportunity to customize your ads, never leave it as the default, select the color that matches to your blog or site and make it feel like the content itself. It's a tricky way, that may not agreed by all but you may use this option since it opens great chances to earn you more. Usually this is applicable to text ads, if your site's background color is white, give white to the background of the ad unit too, so some users may think that it's a part of the content you wrote. It's a cover-up but not a crime or against Adsense rules, so use this tip and earn more.
Wait For Sometime
Starting a website and applying for Adsense the next day and becoming a billionaire overnight is not at all possible for any one. At first make your blog popular, get many followers and fans, get a nice amount of traffic then apply for Google Adsense, if you gets approved then start earning, still you can't become billionaire overnight but can become after months or years if you do it well, caring both your Adsense account and blog.
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22 June 2012
7 Top Web Design Blunders You Should Avoid
Having a web site is not a rare matter now. Almost all the ventures that are being started or has started already, launches a website of their own to spread their presence around the world. So starting a web site nowadays is a simple thing but making it well usable and popular is a tough thing since the number of websites that share almost the same niche is very high. So in order to make your website popular and usable you may have to avoid some usual blunders that beginner web designers or bloggers do. Lets see those silly but serious blunders that we are likely to do.Avoid Stylish, Fancy and Tiny Fonts
If you own a site that has to say a lot means that has a lot of texts then please avoid using stylish, fancy and tiny fonts. Use the fonts that can be well read by an old guy too. Use of stylish or fancy fonts will be more appropriate for a site that share very little text means some sites that share photos, videos, etc.......... So use fonts that can read properly.
Never Remove the Search Box
Make your site searchable, if a person is coming to your site for a particular topic he is likely to use the search box to find his need, so never forget to add a search box in your site. Since the websites nowadays contains a lot of info's, it is difficult for one to find a specific topic from it, this problem can be rectified using an internal search box.
Direct Access
Time has become the most valuable thing in our life hence no one likes to waste their time on specific things while a lot of same kind are available in the market. Therefore you should avoid using some ads or requests or some intro's before giving access to your site. A lot of sites asks it's users to see a video or to read a book or to download something before they are given the permission to the real content, as a result people gets annoyed and wont like to come back to you further.
Avoid Harsh Colors
Using colors that make terrible feeling is not a good practice, so avoid using harsh colors. We cannot say that this color is terrible or that one is, etc............. it depends on you, but you know that some colors are always hated by everyone, like if the color red or such dark colors are used throughout the site it won't see good. So better use colors that are favorite to all, and always my choice is white body background.
Avoid Pop Ups
The most hated item by almost all users, keeps them bored or tired clicking the Skip or Cross button on the pop up screens. In most cases pop ups are generated by the ad providers and most of the bloggers or website owners ( including me ) likes to use it hence it earns much more than an ad which is placed in the site. So a pop up is an item that creates difficulty for our viewers so better avoid it.
No Horizontal Scroll
Use a design that is screen fit, you may scroll down if it contents are much but never make a user scroll horizontal. Scrolling down is more easier as it can be done using our mouse's scroll but scrolling side ways ( horizontal ) is a bot difficult and consumes more time than scrolling down, so usually people doesn't like it hence better avoid horizontal scrolling.
Open Page in Same Window
Opening every page in a new window is an irritating practice. It is ok to open a page in the same window itself, as opening a new window always will make the processes slow and boring. So avoid opening pages in new window.
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21 June 2012
Word Hippo - An Essential Blogging Tool
Having a good language of contact is an essential aspect in blogging. For that you should be well in the universal language English. Usually most of the bloggers has got a minimum standard in English language but as he/she grows in the field of blogging, it is essential to improve the language quality. Here i'm sharing a site or a tool named Word Hippo, that can bring up the quality of your posts.
Some days ago i had to find a substitute for a word and the search i did for that word got it's end at wordhippo.com. Really, i was surprised to see the results that wordhippo gave me. You can have a look at wordhippo by clicking here ' WORD HIPPO'. The home page of wordhippo has six brown colored boxes having a text box and a 'Find It' button. The first box helps you to find an another word for a word, the second box allows to find the opposite of a word, the third box can help you to translate a word to different languages. At present we can translate a word in 12 ways ( i hope they will increase the possibilities ). Through the fourth box you can find words starting or ending with with some specific letters also you can specify the number of letters too. The fifth box enables us to find, sentences with a specific word and the sixth box helps to find words that rhyme with a specific words.
Also at the top of the page there are some more options, to find meaning of a word, to pronounce a word and to find the different forms of a word like singular, plural, past tense, present tense, etc............
And now i use wordhippo 10-12 times a day. While making studies of some posts, wordhippo is so helpful to find the meanings of some words or to find an another word for some others, etc.................
So using wordhippo you will have the chance to meet more words in the English vocabulary and will help you to build a good quality in your post's language.
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20 June 2012
How to get Traffic From You Tube
Most of us likes to watch a content rather reading it, because watching a content makes us more clear about the topic, may be its a great problem that the present youth faces, they have less imagination power than their parents or elders. So due to the popularity of watching videos through sites like You Tube, etc, we the bloggers can get a lot of unique visitors from our You Tube videos. Uploading some videos and creating a channel in You Tube is a great tip to generate traffic from You Tube.
If you are a beginner first of all create some unique and high quality videos having some great information. If you are planning to make some tutorials or descriptions that is related to your blog niche, it will be more appropriate. You can speak yourself in the videos using a mic or may use some text to speech software to create the audio for your videos. It is good to show a text or image that represents your blog or site at the beginning and ending of your videos, so that the viewers get more noticed about your blog. Now edit your videos properly and attractively, give some intro sounds, some text effects but should be clear for reading, use some video effects, to give more creativity.
Then this or these videos shall be uploaded to You Tube using your email account and you can create a channel for your videos. Give the channel name as your blog name itself so the video and search engine optimization will be gone hand by hand.
The next step is the one which is going to give traffic for us, enter you blog or post links in the description field of your videos, so these links will be visible and clickable to viewers when they watch your videos and from my experience a lot of visitors clicks on these links so they gets more info regarding the videos since videos are brief contents of what we write in our blog.
After the uploading process you can embed those videos in your blog too so the visitors who comes directly to the blog too will have a chance to see the videos. Also before entering the title and keywords for the video you may use the official you tube key word tool to find the most searched keyword related to your content. You can also comment on other videos with your signature as the link to your blog, so as to generate traffic.
So start creating videos and upload it to You Tube to earn more traffic and thus to earn more money from your blog and from your You Tube videos.
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19 June 2012
5 Essential Gadgets For Bloggers
Blogging has become the most easiest and toughest way to make money online being in your home. Even though blogging can be started free of cost it wise to invest some money later because you may need some essential gadgets that has to be bought in order to make the process of blogging easier and faster. So here i'm listing some essential gadgets for a blogger but remember it entirely depends on the revenue you get from your blog or the financial status of yours and i doesn't mean that you should buy all these things. If you earn a lot from your blog you may buy these things so it can make your blogging faster and easier.
Laptops \ Netbook \ iPad
If you are a professional blogger, you may need to stay online 24/7 for that you should have a portable device that can give you the internet service. So you should have a laptop or a netbook or an iPad to keep yourself online. Remember always the priority is given according to your budget, if you has a good budget you can buy a nice laptop that may be of Apple and if your budget is low, just buy a lap that enables you to blog without any difficulty.
External Hard Drive
As a blogger the main problem i have faced is to store my data since my hard drive has got only a less memory i am planning to a buy an external hard drive. It is better to buy an external hard drive than a internal one since you will be able to carry it, in your journey's. You can also approach the cloud services for storing but you should keep in mind that hackers are still alive and they have become more powerful and dangerous.
Printer and Scanner
A Printer and a scanner are two unavoidable gadgets that a professional blogger should own. Being a professional bloggers means that you have to be in front of your computer or laptop, all the day. As a blogger i always makes a study or research before a post is written and i wished many times that i could have a printer or a scanner which is of mine so that i can take the prints of files that has to studied. And if you need to upload some images or texts to a post from a hard copy you need the help of a scanner. As per the present situation, in a week i has to take at least 2-3 print outs and 4-6 scans so a printer and a scanner are two essential gadgets for a blogger.
Digital Camera
I always like to put the images that has been taken by me or made by me but often this is not possible due to lack of time. Blogging can be made more attractive if you have a digital camera or a handy cam with you. Take videos related to your post and upload it along with the post so that people gets more clear idea and you will be earning more from your YouTube account. And if you are a professional blogger or a popular blogger you will be having frequent meet ups and may have launching functions of your blogs or products, so a digital camera can be used to take the best of those valuable moments.
Smart Phones
Smart phones, an unavoidable factor in a blogger's life since it keeps him connected. You know that Smart Phones are not just a phone but it enables you to do almost all the things that can be done using a computer or a laptop. Faster social media updates can be made easily using a smart phone. Also having a personal contact with your clients and fellow bloggers is a good idea and a great relaxation tool, so use your smartphone to get in touch with your close fellow bloggers and clients.
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18 June 2012
Best Affiliate Networks for Bloggers
Affiliate Networks are a way to monetize our blogs, and is a best earning method if your blog have a high traffic and popularity among the other blogs. In the web there are a lot of affiliate networks and almost all the sites that sell products and services have a affiliate center. So basically it is knotty to find a good and safe affiliate network for us. Here's a list of some best and highly paying affiliate networks that can be used safely to generate more traffic and income for you.
Amazon Affiliates
The most widely used and one among the oldest Affiliate network which is very much beloved to the bloggers. since it has a large amount of products any blogger can select products from Amazon that is related to their niche. Also Amazon has a lot of good tools to put in your blog for selling the products.
Click Bank
Like Amazon Affiliates, Click Bank too have a large list of products which can be promoted through your blog. They claims that they has a collection of about 50000 Digital products and has about 100000 active affiliate marketers. Their daily sales is a number of 30,000 digital products.
Commission Junction
Commission Junction or CJ is one among the largest and most highly regarded affiliate network in the internet. They claims that they give unmatched access to widely recognized and highly specialized brands. CJ is a venture from the famous advertising network Value Click. Their sale commission ranges from 3-50% so CJ is a good choice if you have a good traffic.
Google Affiliate Program
Google Affiliate Network is a free program by Google that makes it easy for publishers to start a tie up with quality advertisers and to earn more from promoting and selling their products. The only problem that you may have to face is this, to get into this program you should have an active Adsense account.
I gave description about the above four networks because i have experienced them personally or through my friends. Now i will give the links of some more networks that i feel is, OK and safe.
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17 June 2012
Forums For Blog Traffic
Forums are like our group discussion periods that we have in our school's. There are a lot of forums which discuss various topics, and for bloggers forums are an essential element to drive traffic to their blogs. Also forums helps us in solving many of the problems we face in the field of blogging. But many of the bloggers complain that the forums in which they have joined is not giving any traffic to them. why ? In order to find a reason for this we may have to discuss some points. lets have a look.............
Choose the Right Forum
Simply choosing a forum for you to interact is not the thing that we need. Choose a forum that is popular and that shares the topic that of your blog's. Such a forum can generate traffic to your since the people who comes to that forum wants to discuss a niche that is related to your blog's niche. There are chances to have more than one forum that talk over the same theme, so become an established user of one forum then move to the other. Trying to be a member of multiple forums is possible but would find it difficult to get established in all of them, so be a top user of one the forum then move to another.
Be Active
Just registering an account and entering your details along with your web site info won't create any traffic for you instead be active in your forum. Publish something at least a couple of times a week. Feel free to ask your doubts and be ready to give answers for other's doubts. Even if only you become an active user, you will get the traffic otherwise your account will end up as a useless forum member.
Signature Link
The main source of getting traffic from a discussion forum is through the signature links, after each publishing, we usually gives a link to our blog or to a post as a signature. It is better to give a link to a post that is related to the thread that you have published so the viewers will have a leaning to read more about it. Usually the signature links can be just the blog name but if you want to get more traffic to a specific post you may use the post link as the signature.
Post New Threads
You will get more popular if you post a new thread than posting a comment in other's thread because whoever reading a thread is likely to read the first post as it is the beginning of the thread and it will only contain the main content. So posting a thread is more effective than answering in some threads.
Be a Friend
Our ultimate aim may be to generate traffic to our blog but in the beginning be a good friend to other members in the forum and don't be a professional. Interact with them as a knowledge seeker and get into professional matters as you become more popular in the forum. So don't be a spammer at the right beginning itself wait for your turn and promote your blog.
Have a Complete Profile
Have a complete profile, fill out your profile with valid information of yours. The readers should feel that you are a person who will be there with them always. Add a real picture of you instead adding a character as your avatar. Almost most of the forum members like to know the details of the person with whom they make a contact..
Go on friends be active in your forums and starts generating traffic to your site and if you don't have a forum membership find a nice forum for you and be active.
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16 June 2012
Prevent Adsense Invalid Clicks
Even after getting into the Adsense program you have to be more careful in order to prevent your Adsense account being blocked. One of the main reason why many Adsense accounts get blocked is the invalid or fraud clicks that they get. So what is an invalid click ? An invalid click means a click or impression generated by a publisher clicking on his own ads, uses automated clicking tools or traffic sources, robots or such deceptive software. Also if we gets some clicks from other unsafe sources Google will also treat them as invalid clicks and these clicks may be generated by a person who wants to see you fall from the Adsense program. So we have to be more and more careful when using an Adsense Program. Here are some tips through which we may prevent the invalid clicks.
Know your Visitors
You must be well aware of the traffic you gets. Have a clear idea about the sources that generate traffic for you, also check your visitors data, from where they come ( geographical location or web source ), do they look suspicious, what page they looks for, etc......... For these you may use the Google Analytics or such programs and if you see that a traffic source is unreliable, you may block those sources.
Do not Click Yourselves
You are not at all allowed to click on the ads that are published on your blogs or site. Accidental clicks may happen but clicking in a manner that looks dubious will lead to the blocking of your Adsense account since Google wants to protect their Advertiser's. So even if the ad is an interesting one for you, do not click on it.
Don't Tie Up with Untrusted Parties
Some of the bloggers has a tendency to tie up with some sites for getting more traffic. It's a good idea to generate more traffic but the site which you chooses should also be a nice one with a good traffic. Partnering with low quality site, ad networks, search engines and directories are likely to generate invalid clicks for you, so avoid partnering with these kind of sites.
Check your Ad Code
Since many of the users use custom implemented Adsense code, you may be liable to programming errors, so you should have a check on your ad code in order to ensure there is no programming errors in it. Also it is better to check the performance of your ads in different browsers and different platforms since variations may be there in different platforms and browsers.
So dear friends if you are fortunate with an Adsense account, its your great responsibility to keep it safe for both you and the advertisers. Keeping your Adsense account safe from blocking is not a difficult task if you are ready to be a faithful publisher.
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15 June 2012
In my last post we discussed how a person can get addicted to Facebook. Simply just identifying those reasons is not what we need. We need to find some points which can help us to get rid of our Facebook addiction. So let's discuss some simple points by which we can throw away our FB addiction.
Confess you have the Addiction
The most usual matter that no one likes to admit. We will be knowing that we are addict to Facebook, but doesn't likes to admit it to ourselves or to the public. The first step that you should do to get rid of Facebook Addiction is this, you should admit yourselves that you are a Facebook Addict.
Schedule the Usage
Set a schedule for using Facebook, you can specify a time for using Facebook and you shouldn't use more than the time you had specified. Pin Facebook usage time to your daily routine so that you won't miss your Facebook updates also you won't get addicted to it. There are also a lot of plugins and apps that helps you to limit the Facebook usage time, if you cannot control yourself, use these kinds of plugins, The Chrome Nanny extension available in Google Chrome is a good extension to control your Facebook usage.
Turn Off the Notifications
If you are a person who has to check your mails daily, then you may turn off the email notifications in Facebook. Because when you open your mail, you may get a lot of Facebook notifications which will give you a tendency to log in into Facebook. So disable the email notifications in the Facebook settings.
Define your Purpose
For what you are using Facebook ? Give the answer for this question and log in to Facebook. You should have a clear idea about what you are going to do in Facebook. In my case, my prime aim is to get more traffic to my blog, So i uses Facebook frequently. If you defines the purpose, you can get out from it after your purpose have finished . So this tip will make your Facebook usage, a time tabled one.
Too Addicted, Leave Facebook
Are you too addicted to Facebook ? then you should quit using Facebook or should give a vacation for your Facebook usage. Giving a break for some days will make you understand how to live properly with out Using Facebook.
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14 June 2012
Reasons for Facebook Addiction
Do you know what is meant by FAD ?
FAD is the abbreviation for Facebook Addiction Disorder, a phrase given by US psychologists for the people who are addicted to Facebook. Even though Facebook Addiction is not a established clinical disorder, according to a survey in 2010 about 350 million people suffers from FAD. So now in this 2012 it would have reached far more.
Then let me ask you a question, why we gets addicted to Facebook ? I have a Facebook account and i log in's to my account everyday, so am i addicted to Facebook ? I think no! because, in a week i have 6 school days and a holiday, in all the 6 days i go to school at 7 AM and reaches back at 4.15 PM, when i reaches home i log in's to my mail account and Facebook account at a time. Since am a blogger i gets an average of 10-15 useful mails a day, useful here means i may have to read it or may have to reply. The condition is same as in the case of Facebook too, neglecting the silly updates of my friends there will be a lot of comments or messages where i should reply back since it is related to my blog or blogging. Other than my FB account i owns about 4-5 Facebook pages, where i makes a status updates almost every day because most of the traffic i get to my blog is from the Facebook. So due to these reasons i put my Facebook account logged in while writing a post or while surfing, but this doesn't mean that i'm always looking in to FB.
So how people gets addicted to FB ? Here in this post am trying to explain some points which makes us addicted to Facebook
Contacts
May be the most common reason why all gets addicted to Facebook, FB offers an opportunity to be in contact with your family, friends and dear one's who are in abroad or away from you. Since contacting through Facebook is more easy and cheap, most of the people uses it. So this could be one of the reason why we doesn't likes to log out from Facebook.
Recover the Mood
Another widespread use of Facebook, every one becomes bored at a time or not, in olden days there were a lot of things through which you may boost your mood but now the most regular mood booster is Facebook. Nearly every Facebook users says that Facebook boosts their mood when they become bored or depressed. According to me, it's a nice point ( but not so healthy ) as when you become depress or anger it's good to change your mind to something else like Facebook but remember it shouldn't cross the limit. If it crosses then you will become a FB addict.
Self Egos
Not everyone confesses it but Facebook is a place from which we gets feedback about ourselves. If you post a photo of yours which you feel is a rocking one so you are likely to get a lot of feedback through comments and we feel these comments as a great asset for us. Due to this reason many people gets addicted to Facebook because, in Facebook you are a celebrity to yourselves.
Nostalgia
A sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past can be gained back through Facebook. If you are a person of age 30 years, you may be missing your close friends who were with you in your school and college days and Facebook have become the best place to get networked. Through Facebook, i think you will be lucky to get connected with 60% of your old friends whom you miss now. And in the coming years almost all your friends will be there except some Facebook Haters. So Facebook helps you to go back to your past days along with your dear one's and will make you a frequent FB user.
Entertainment
In the olden days children preferred to go out and play but now they likes to play inside, inside means may be using their computer, play-stations, etc...... Also the Online gaming industry is going through its best as a lot of people are addicted to it. Facebook too offers a way to play online along with your friends, so now a days Facebook is a play ground, much crowded than a real Euro Cup.
So as i conclude let me say that this is not a complete list and there are a lot of reasons why someone becomes addicted to something, it may depend on his or her personal affairs too. So if you have something to share about this topic, free feel to comment. Enjoy Facebook but avoid Addiction.
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13 June 2012
Things that Bloggers are Likely to Forget
Every blogger who wants to have a good life through blogging is always busy, so he or she is likely to forget some essential matters that a blogger should not forget. In this post i'm sharing some essential factors that every bloggers should keep in its mind, also i confess that these points are some times buried by me too. Let me quote a sentence by Albert Einstein " the only source of knowledge is experience ". So most of the bloggers would have or will face these situations even if they take extra care about it.
Backup
For blogging we need a computer or a laptop ( or anything that enables blogging ) with an internet connection, all these things are electronic devices or are made up of electronic components, so we cannot predict, at what time these things may crash. So backing up your data systematically will help you a lot. Likewise there have been many issues where blogs got crashed and the owners were unfortunate to get back their data. So backing up is a crucial factor that you should not forget. You may backup your data manually or may ask your hosting provider to do so.
Publish Comments
Feel happy to publish the comments you gets, it may be an appreciation or a depreciation. Because comments are a great mean to get a feedback about your posts. Also it makes an opportunity to create contacts with your fellow readers. In the beginning most of the bloggers are so happy to see the comments they gets and will reply to majority of them but when the blog starts growing there is an immense attempt to forget commenting back. So publish the comments and reply to it.
Never Plagiarize
I have mentioned this point a lot of times but it is an indispensable matter that should be discussed lot of times. Never, never copy the contents of a blog to your's without the appropriate permission. You should remember that it is the result of great hard work of a blogger like you. So never support or do plagiarism.
Don't Forget Older Posts
If you are a daily blogger or a regular updater your blog will have a lot of posts and you may forget these posts as days passes. But you can generate more traffic if you give a link to these posts in your new articles. Otherwise the stats of the older posts will decrease day by day. Through this method you can increase your internal links and can also attract more visitors who seeks about the topic that you blog. So remember to use your archives nicely.
Update Plugins
As days go on the plugins that you may be using will become old and won't have the old effectiveness. So find the upgraded versions of your plugins and use it. It's better to use more attractive, useful and simple plugins so that it becomes suit for your visitors.
Be Networked
In my case, a lot of bloggers have helped me to become a young blogger. In past 6 months i have made contacts with a lot of younger bloggers like me and their experiences were and are a great lessons for me. So if you are networked you can gain a lot of things, and do not forget anyone who may have helped you to put up your best. There are a lot of groups and communities to share your experiences and doubts, try to be a member of those networks and be engaged with other bloggers.
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11 June 2012
Adsense Rules That Everyone Should Follow
Every one knows that Google Adsense have become the most common technique to earn money online. But getting into an Adsense program and continuing it is a thorny task. As you all know Adsense has a lot of rules that should be followed by we, the publishers but often many bloggers doesn't take care of those rules because like me they too know its a bit hard. But the heartbreak comes when we gets blocked from Adsense, so it's an essential due to of our's to follow some Adsense rules evidently so that we can avoid getting a block. Have a look at some essential rules that every bloggers should follow,Artificial Clicks
Making artificial clicks to generate more income is an illegal way, so those clicks are often caught by the Google team and will be considered as spam. The usual artificial methods that bloggers use to generate clicks are Clicking on ads by themselves, asking friends or relatives to click on the ads and use of illegal processes. Using these methods will pave the way for your account to be banned. So keep away those craps and be faithful blogger and publisher.
Multiple Adsense Accounts
According to the Adsense policies you may have a multiple blogs or websites under an Adsense account but having multiple Adsense accounts for same blog is not allowed. Many bloggers thinks about this method because its a good way to earn more from the same blog. For example if a blog has a monthly earning of $100 from an Adsense account, then if he creates one more account he can earn a $100 from that too. So his earnings becomes almost double. But Google doesn't allow this type of crap and hence trying to do this will make you get out of the Adsense community.
Use of Restricted Content
Using the restricted contents, will also ban's you from Adsense. The main contents that are forbidden in a website or blog that using Adsense are;
- Pornographic Contents
- Hacking or Cracking Stuff's
- Use of bad and offensive language
- Violence, religious intolerance, etc........
- Illegal drugs
- Copyright Contents
- Use of repetitive and irrelevant keywords
Overcrowding of Ads
Do not overcrowd your site or blog with ads, specify some relevant places that has great chance for views and put ads on those places alone. Do not put ads wherever you can. It doesn't earns you much instead makes your readers annoyed because of your ads and also leads to banning of your Adsense account.
Got Confused ?
Some tricky and clever bloggers put ads along with their contents hiding the links so the visitors get confused and may click the ads thinking its a part of the post's content, but it's a clear violation of Adsense policies. Some other's gives some promotional words like " Click Here ", "Click to get a surprise gift", "Today's offer", etc.... to get the attention of the visitors to the ads. And both the above ways will only results in the circumstance of getting banned from Adsense.
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9 June 2012
Increase Your Google Page Rank
Google Page rank, another ranking most of the bloggers like to have. The algorithm used by Google to determine your Google Page Rank is a tough that everyone doesn't know. You cannot raise your page rank by a day or by a night it takes a long time of successful blogging. So lets see some tips and tricks that may help you to boost your Google page rank.
Back links, the back bone
yeah! In the case of Google page rank, back links are the back bone of our site's rank. If we have a lot of links from other good and popular sites that share the same topic it will enhance your page rank very nicely. If a site that deals with the same topic that of yours is ready for a link exchange it will be a great blessing for you.
Great And Original Content
The content that you write should have a minimum quality and should be unique, you should avoid plagiarism, copying one's hard work into your blog with out giving any courtesy is not a nice practice. If the content of your site is good, back links will generate automatically. Remember, Content is the King, other all factors will engender robotically if the content is good enough. So don't make your visitors fool by copying contents from other sites or blogs. Try to be unique and creative.
Search Engine Directories
Submitting your site to search engine directories will surely help you to gain a good listing in famous search engines like Google, etc........ By submitting to search engine directories you can get free links to your site. Search engine submission is a good way to get links from most of the search engines by submitting in one search engine for free. If you gets listed in one search engine other all search engine's will also list you.
Do a free search engine submission through the form below;
Be active in Forums
Forums are a great way for you to make your blog popular and active, find forums that discuss the same topic that of your blog's and be active in it. So you can direct the user's of the forum to your blog. Also most of the forums allows you to put our links as the signature or as reference site so these links can increase our page rank too.
Commenting
Commenting on blogs that holds the same niche of your's is a great tip to increase the Google Page Rank, you can give your links as a signature like i said in the case of forums. It's better to give a good and descriptive comment about the post in which you are commenting, so others readers are likely to read it and may use your link for more reference's. So in brief commenting is a great tip to increase your page rank and to drive much traffic to your site.
So friends try these simple and essential methods and boost your Google Page Rank.
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8 June 2012
Choosing the Blog Name
Naming process of a blog or a site is a tough task, there are a lot of sites having almost same name and shares the same niche. Some months ago, i decided to start a blog on computer errors and fixes but still i lack in getting a good, attractive and a unique name for it. The name of this blog is Ji-MaKe, i think a different one but there's a Fashion company that uses almost the same name. Ji-MaKe Web Services is my best blog ever which shares blogging and online money making tips and tricks. In the name the three letters J,M & K are in block letters because they are the first letters of three names, many of my friends have asked me whether the name Ji-MaKe is "Jithin Make's" no not at all. Ji-MaKe is the combination of first two letters of me and my brother's name's. Ji for Jithin, Ma for Martin and Ke for Kevin. Now you'll be thinking that this name has nothing to do with the blog's content, yes i agree to that the name Ji-MaKe has no relevance when it is compared to our blog's topic. In this post i'm sharing some tips before selecting a title for your blog or website, lets see it...........
Same Blog Name and Domain Name
It is better to use the same name for your blog and the domain, so there will be no confusion among the visitors or for the search engines. Also it is a great tip in Search engine optimization of your blog. In my case my domain name is jimake.blogspot.in and my title is Ji-MaKe. So both the names are almost same and doesn't cause much confusion to the readers. But some fellows does like this, they will choose the domain name as blogging.com and will name the blog as Online Money Making these situations are likely to create some confusions among the readers. So better use same blog name and domain name.
Use Simple and Memorable Names
Don't use names that require much effort to be remembered, use simple, charming and memorable names which one never forgets in his life. Names that resembles to your niche is more appropriate since they will be more haunting.( but not in my case ). Also avoid using names that are common now because those name's may not help you in SEO.
As a Keyword, Just Once
Adding keyword in the blog name is a useful method if it's been used only once and a barren method if you use it a lot of times. Adding the keyword will help your visitors recognize what you deals with so its superior to use a keyword with your blog name but having more keywords won't help you. In my blog name there's no keyword that is allied with my theme but i think Ji-MaKe will become a keyword soon............
I hope this will help you, i haven't added much sub categories but i think, have included lot of points that will help you to choose a good and attractive blog name.
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6 June 2012
Writing Better Posts
Write now, Edit later
The main tip that every blogger should follow, if you wrote a post just now don't edit it at that moment itself, because you will be in a mood of that post so editing it at that moment wont give you a result. So it's better and useful to edit a post after a couple of hours or a day.
Attractive Headings
Use attractive and simple headings that will enter into the readers mind at the moment he or she sees it. The theory of using headings can be explained in two ways ( according to my views );
- The reader should understand the content of the post from the heading itself.
- Make the readers excited, to read the post, to know what's inside it.
I don't how others describe these views but in my views both the methods are useful in their own aspects. So use your headings in a way that all the visitors will be attracted.
Begin Nicely
Start your article in a nice and inspiring way, if the beginning is good, readers will like to complete it even if the rest of the article is not so good. Other wise they will get bored in the right beginning itself. Remember it's your responsibility to not to make your readers bored, reading your post.
Point By Point
Its better not to write the post as a whole paragraph, divide your post into small small paragraphs having a sub heading. This practice will help your readers to understand the matter easily and more clearly.
Be Sure about what you Write
Yeah! Be sure about what you write, do not write about the contents that you are not sure or familiar with. Writing foolish things will make your blog end up very fast. People needs relevant and good contents that can be applied in their day to day life. Writing about a content with a little knowledge in it wont bring success, instead you should be smart enough to answer your viewer's doubts on your article.Use of Multimedia
Decorate your posts with related and relevant images and videos. There are a lot of videos and images regarding most of the contents that bloggers usually blog. Collect, attractive and related images or videos from it and use along with your post. If you use an image about the matter you blogged, it will more easy for the viewers to understand it.
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3 June 2012
Increase Facebook Fan Page Likes
Most of the bloggers have a Facebook Fan page, through your fan page you can post some updates of your blog, post links of your articles or may post some videos or images regarding your blog's focus. There is a gadget that Facebook offers to show our status of Fan page in our blog, this gadget will show the number (also image )of people who have liked your page. So if your page has a lot of fans surely your blog will too have a good traffic.So a Fan page status is a great tool in determining your traffic.
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Update Your Page Regularly
Be active in your Fan page as you are in the blog, post your blog's updates regularly in a manner that the fans of your page will be attracted. Like in the blog, interact with your followers nicely, answer their queries, give them essential support and try to be one among them. When i write a new article in my blog, i gives a brief about it and pastes the link to it by entering 'Read More', so the fans who see this may visit the blog too for more details. Posting images and videos related to your article with tagging's may also increase your fan's. Like in Movie industry, a blog's power is, the number of fans or followers it has.
Advertise through Facebook
Facebook offers an advertising facility which is likely to get more likes for your fan page. For this you need to pay some bucks but it will be a great tool for you to increase the number of likes in your page. These ads will be shown in the right side bar where usually we see the ads, the viewers will be able to like the page from the ad itself. Now a days there a lot of sites that offers Likes for money, but it is better to use the official facility that Facebook offers us.
Add Facebook's Like Box to your Site
Facebook offers a social plugin that can be put on your site which will show your fan page's status that is it will show the number ( also profile pictures, if chosen ) of people who have liked your page. Many of the bloggers achieved their fans through this because whoever comes to your blog will show this status and may Like your page if he or she has a Facebook account. See my Like Box;
Offer Incentives
You may offer some incentives to your visitors like " LIKE our page to get a free e-book on Blogging " etc.... because every one likes offers. You can use some widgets to show these offer ads to your visitors, there are some widgets which makes your site blackout and a box appears asking to LIKE to get a free e-book and when someone likes your page the screen comes back to the original style.
Ask your Dear One's
It is the initial step that you should have done, first of all when you create a page ask your friends and relatives to LIKE it and then ask them to share it in their timeline or in some groups.
If all your friends and relatives like's your page then your page would have put a base, then it will automatically starts to generate likes. In my page 60% of the likes i got is from my friends and relatives, they put a base for my page. So don't forget it is the first step that you should have done.
If all your friends and relatives like's your page then your page would have put a base, then it will automatically starts to generate likes. In my page 60% of the likes i got is from my friends and relatives, they put a base for my page. So don't forget it is the first step that you should have done.
Buy Likes
Not a good method from my views since most the sites offering these services are frauds, promotional words of these companies are like this " 500 likes for just $5 ". it is very hard to find the true services from these. Likes given by those people may be of fake accounts, so fake accounts will only make your page inactive in order to grow you need likes from active people so their friends too may see your page. Better don't use these services but if you lack in getting a good number of likes even after hard working you may use them.
Please LIKE my page too......................
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1 June 2012
Increase Your Alexa Ranking
Like me every blogger likes to have a good rank for their blogs, the main two rankings every bloggers likes to have are the Google page rank and Alexa ranking, here i'm sharing some tips to increase the Alexa ranking. Alexa ranking will display the ranking of your site in the internet also this can be used to show the number of back links that your site has. If your site has a good Alexa ranking you are likely to get more advertiser's for your site. Many of the bloggers usually complain that they has a lot of traffic every day, has a nice Google page rank still their Alexa ranking is very low. So its very clear that getting a good Alexa ranking is not an easy thing, here's some tips and rules that usually makes your site top in the Alexa ranking.
Install the Alexa Toolbar
There's a toolbar offered by Alexa, which can show how popular a site is, this toolbar has a great influence in increasing your Alexa rankings. You should install this toolbar using the browser that you use now and then from your own computer that you use for blogging. So this toolbar will track how many times you visit a site and the ranking of your site will increase.
Claim your site
If you claim your site Alexa can get more details about your site.While claiming your site you will be asked to put an Alexa ID in your site and may need to verify it. When you enter the description about your site be sure to use some popular keywords related to your site.
Boost your traffic
If you have a lot of traffic to your site, you will have a good Alexa page rank. A sites traffic will determine how popular a site is, so the traffic that you get to your site will enhance your site's Alexa ranking very nicely. The site's traffic and Alexa Page rank is in a direct proportion, Learn how to get more traffic to your site.
Always Comment
Commenting on blogs that share same niche that of yours will make your site more popular and may generate more traffic to you. So if you put links to your blog using the comments section in other blogs it is likely to get more visitors. Also put a link to the new article of your post, so the visitors of that blog can checkout your blog too for more information's.
Social Networking
Increase your presence in Social Networking, you may create pages in Facebook and Google + and post your blog's details in these pages so, many people will get to know about your blog in detail. You can post the links of your new articles in the pages with an attractive image along with it. Tag your friends in those photos so friends of those friends will get to know about your blog.
Quality Content
The quality of the content that you write should be of good quality. Then only the readers will come again to your site for more reference. Good quality of articles shows the quality of your site. It has a great influence in determining the health of your site. So write good articles which never makes your readers fed up.
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