Managing the Ads right way

After you got approved for ads or get ad codes. The first thing you think is where to place the ads, Which ads to place, how much ads to place, In this article I will write about it in synopsis.

Where to place the ads
Ads can be placed at various places in your blog but in order to get a higher revenue you need to choose a prime position at your site. Its like a prime position for a shop to earn more.
Mostly user put their ads in first half of their page, so that the readers are tempted to click and also in Sidebar along with the posts. Example: You can place A wide banner Ad in a Sidebar of your blog and a Horizontal banner in top and center. Some ad programs even give revenue just for viewing the ads(Page Impressions).

Which ads to place
Chose ads which are best suited. That is the Ads should match the colors of your blog and also the Size. Unequal or Bad sizes will look Odd. Always go for banner ads they are very attractive.

How much ads to place
The more the ads the more the revenue as it gives you greater the greater page impressions, But don't place that much of ads that the user gets irritated, Use banner ads as they more attractive and give greater Page Impressions, Normally 2 Wide Vertical Ads and 1 Horizontal Banner Ads are more than enough.

Being Social or Helpful

Being Social on yours and other people blogs helps a lot. If you listen to the voice of your readers take it to consideration, reply them soon and give the appropriate answers, this will impress your readers and they will want to come back to your blog and raise questions you can also participate in external forum(remember participate into forums related to your Blog) activities and then publish your blog there. This if you would be enough popular there you will surely get readers moved to your Blog. You can also give your readers advice personally or publicly. Personal means include E-mailing and public means include either Shoutbox or Comments section of your posts. You can also allow Anonymous comments through Settings section, 8/10 Anonymous comments are positive the point some people don't want to express them as Readers and maintain their privacy. Reply in as polite manner as you can. Never take any reader for granted to read your blogs. Keep your blog regularly updated.

Focusing the Aim for Your Blog's Article

1. Brainstorming great ideas: Document what you want to see in your blog either a soft or hard copy. But don't forget to work upon it .
   
2. Make the best use of your time and resources: Firstly review or document what you have written find and aim on the much important thing and focus your Blog's article on it or prioritize it.
3. Document the article main Aim or Focus: Imagine what you want to do with this article and what efforts you need to put to make it more attractive. Finalize how will you put your imaginations into practice .
4. Checking the progress of your Goal: If you only have the idea what you are doing, you’ll never know when you have got . Document on how will you keep tack that your goal is achieved.
   
5. Keep on setting a higher goal: And so on.

Increasing your Blog's Page Views

People think that how to increase their Blog's page views. They think it depends upon the article.
Page views are based on Visitors(Non Unique).

Bloggers want to increase page views for following reason :

• Addiction for Readers - It is believed that the more page views a blog has the more readers are there and the more chances of coming back.
• Income -The revenue goes up the more the page views are. The term used is 'Cost per impression' That means the cost given to you per impression(Page View).

1. Interlinking your Posts:
There is a simple way of increase your blog's Page Views is that interlinking your own posts that is when you are posting and write some phrase in which you have a relevant post make it a link and redirect it to your that post. Bloggers use the same topic again and again. But this should be done in a way.

2. Making a Archives or Labels Column:
Archives or Labels Column is the way labeling your posts that is grouping the similar ones and then display them in a order. Its like a Recipe book and then choosing the cuisine(Indian, Thai, Chinese). This ease your readers.

3. Highlighting the relevant Posts:
In a Post make a section of 'Related Post' WordPress offers a plugin for that. Its like after you have written a post in the end make a 'Related Post' section and give another posts related to the current posts.

4. Using a Search Feature:
Making a Search Feature allows user to to browse your browse your old articles and see your other articles they want to see.

5. Using the RSS right way:
Use a RSS as make readers give the subscription links in upper half of page. Once the User's start using the RSS feed they will automatically use your blog which will increase your Page Views.

6. Building Internal Activities for your Blog:
Make your readers tempted to participate in the interactivity of your blog as the more they participate the more their chances of coming back and the more the page views. Interactivity means activities like poll, comments , voting etc. Interactivity's are generally common in Comments and Polls Section.

You can constantly check your Page Views by: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details

Writing the 'About Me' and 'About' Page

Features for About Me Page
Writing an About Me page has been a problem for beginners. The main things you should keep in mind while writing about me page are as follows.

1. Who are you ?
   
2. Your expertise(Specialty) and addressing it.
3. Readers problems or main aim, How they can resolve it.
4. Your contact information.

There is a problem with About Me pages of Wordpress that default pages unchanged.
When you click in an About link on a template you will find something like this.

This is an example of a WordPress page, you could edit this to put information about yourself or your site so readers know where you are coming from. You can create as many pages like this one or sub-pages as you like and manage all of your content inside of WordPress.

Many readers are these days interested on seeing whom the Blog is writing. About Me pages are ignored by many Bloggers.

Features for About Page

• Photo: Users will definitely like to see a pic of whom has written the entry. It will create an impression.
  
• Blog objectives: Give in brief the Blog main aim/Goal. Evaluate what will readers gain.
  
• Introduce Yourself: Write a short and sufficient introduction of yours and give your experiences for the blog.
  
• Introduce Blogging: Give external references about blogging depending upon your article/post. Users might not know what is RSS, Comments etc.
• Contact Details: Give the user your Email ID for contacting or giving them assistance.

Publishing Articles in a Blog

When you have a blog the first thing comes to our mind is publishing articles most of us Google the wanted material and simply copy and paste it but this is strictly unrecommended as Google Adsense doesn't have ant sympathy publishers publishing Copyrighted contents or Non-Unique contents. Blogs having non-unique content are mostly not used by readers. Readers prefer to have a unique content written by someone(Even its non accurate). Never use technical terms while blogging it doesn't show off your knowledge. Use simple terms as the readers might not be so technical.

Writhing Content Techniques

1. Use Examples and statements like"Like":

While writing articles don't become so theoretical use "Example" statements and frequently use statements like "Like". This will increase ease of understanding the articles by readers.

3. Give your voice for it
While blogging its recommended to have your own suggestions on the article. Like if you are publishing an article for a particular Game. You can say what do you feel about the Game using adjectives like "Cool","Awesome","Fabulous" etc ..

4. Use Vivid Illustrations
Use simple illustration related to your post. This will also increase the ease of understanding the posts.

5. Add a short story related to it
You can add a very small story or quotes by someone related to the post.

6. Giving or Suggesting Further Reading
It is a simple way of make your post into a valuable one. Further reading refers to give hyperlinks related to the Post. The hyperlink can be Internal or External.
Internal means giving links to a URL(Post) which is yours only and related to your current posts.
External means giving information or full review given by another website. Example you have written a entry on Web 2.o and then giving its Wikipedia link as further reading.

How to Choose a Domain Name for Your Blog That Will Generate the Most Traffic

Years ago, the conventional wisdom when it came to selecting a domain name was to keep it simple, short and ended with a .com. Think Pets.com, Cars.com, Shopping.com, etc. The idea was to give web searchers something easy to remember that also said what the site was all about.

However, domain names like this have long been registered. So, how do you name a blog or website for maximum profit? Thankfully search engine optimization (SEO) has changed what is considered a “good” domain name.

How SEO Has Changed Domain Name Registration

SEO has changed domain name registration principally because most surfers find information via organic searches, instead of heading to a specific site, for example.

Search Engine Optimization Definition: What is Organic Search?

People use the internet to find information. Organic search is when web surfers type in a search terms (ie, keyword phrases) and sites pop up. As most surfers have no specific site in mind when they use the internet to find information, they type in search terms and head to the sites that pop up in their search results. Most keep doing this until they find what they want.

Hence, it’s important for sites to be optimized well (eg, have lots of SEO content populated with relevant keyword phrases) so that surfers looking for the type of information they provide will to be able to find them.

It helps to have a domain name that clues surfers into what the site is all about.

Yesterday, I received an email from a reader of one of my past posts here about using dashes/hyphens in a domain name. She wanted to know how the search engines treat them. I wrote her the following:

These days, a site’s domain name doesn’t matter as much as how it’s optimized for SEO. This is because most surfers find a site via organic search, not by specific site name. . . . In fact, some SEO experts say that it’s better to have the subject matter of your site as part of its domain name because it makes it easer to find. For example, if someone typed in the keyword phrase “buy organic oranges”, they would land on your site (eg, buy-organic-oranges.com) faster than one that’s named, “buyorganicoranges.com” for example.

*Note: Domain names buy-organic-oranges.com and buyorganicoranges.com used for illustrative purposes only.

Now, you don’t want to go crazy and have a domain name with five, six or seven hyphens, but don’t shy away from using hyphenated domain names. They can actually boost your search engine rankings, particularly if it’s a commonly searched term.

Search Engine Optimization Tip: Which Is Better — .com, .biz. .info, etc.?

Domain names don’t have to end in .com anymore either. Again, a site that’s optimized well will rank high in search engines, even if it ends in a .info, .biz or any other kind of “dot”.

Remember, search engines spider content. If you have relevant content on your site that incorporates well-researched, popular keyword phrases as it relates to your niche, your blog/website will get good search engine ranking – no matter what its named, or what dot it ends in.

Making Money by Blogging

Making money through blogging is a common trends these days. Many people want to earn by blogging. Example: student wants to blog to have a increase in Pocket money.

You can earn through blogging if you have a popular blog and users use it.

The top organizations which can help in income are

1. Google Adsense
This thing give you the highest income as because its best rates for clicks and page impressions.
It knows the value of your blog.


2. Chitika
It is a great performer before Google Adsense it was at number one it has helped many people to earn big bucks.




3. Amazon Associates
It was bad choice some years back but from 12 months it is growing.



4. Specific Advertisement programs
There are many more Advertisement programs such as

a) Adbrite


b) Bidvertisers




c) YPN(Yahoo Publisher Network) U.S. Only





d) Microsoft® adCenter Publisher Program



There are some advertisements programs particularly made for blogs.

Making your blog popular on the net

This is the first step after you have made a blog.
There are the following step for making your blog popular.

1. Chose the right template
Your template selection is one of the main part of making a successful blog. Chose right template that is one which is related to your blog. Example- If you have a blog related to gaming you should have template that is related to gaming. It will look funny if you will use a flowers template in a gaming blog. Like Finalsense

2. Submit it to Web
Submit your site to internet by giving the URL to search engines, there are lot of sites these days which offer Blog submission to a particular category. You can submit it to Google webmaster tools or Google Base. Blog submission sites are like Blogged Technorati

3. Publishing
Have regular entries of posts which should offer unique content. This will attract the readers.

4. Labels
These labels are just like normal labels which you apply in your daily life. These are used to classify posts of your blog. Like in a Gaming download's blog there could be posts varying to different gaming consoles like PC or Xbox 360. So there is a column having the different labels.

25 Must Have Firefox Plugins for Bloggers

Us bloggers are a busy lot and it can be difficult to find enough time to do everything. That’s where this article comes in. These 25 Firefox plugins will increase your productivity, and make you a better blogger:

1. ScribeFire

ScribeFire is a blog editor that allows you to easily post to your blog and has many features.

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2. MorningCoffee

If you routinely visit several blogs or websites as soon as you wake up (like check your stats or AdSense earnings), then this plugin is for you. It basically lets you open websites in tabs that are a part of your everyday ritual, in one click. This extension also lets you organize websites by day, which is handy if you follow a different routine on Sunday, than, say, Tuesday.

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3. Read It Later

Read It Later allows you to save pages of interest to read later. It eliminates cluttering of bookmarks with sites that are merely of a one-time interest.

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4. All-in-One Sidebar

The All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It let’s you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, or even the source code of websites in the sidebar.

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5. StumbleUpon Toolbar

Channel-surf the Internet with the StumbleUpon Toolbar. StumbleUpon discover websites based on your interests, learns what you like, and brings you more. Bloggers can also use it for promoting their blog.

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6. Delicious Bookmarks

Delicious Bookmarks is the official Firefox add-on for Delicious, the world’s leading social bookmarking service. It integrates your bookmarks and tags with Firefox and keeps them in sync for easy, convenient access.

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7. Shareaholic

Social networking and link sharing addicts rejoice, Shareaholic allows you to quickly share, bookmark, and email web pages across many web 2.0 social networking and bookmarking sites such as Digg, Delicios, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Mixx and many others without cluttering up your browser with multiple toolbars and buttons.

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8. MeasureIt

Draw out a ruler to get the pixel width and height of any elements on a web page. Now you won’t have to paste images in Photoshop or a any other photo editing program to find its height or width.

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9. ReminderFox

ReminderFox displays and manages lists of date-based reminders and To-Do’s. It makes sure you remember all of your important dates via easy-to-use lists, alerts, and alarm notifications. Very useful for bloggers and freelancers alike as it’ll enable you to set deadlines and reminders for writing posts, paying your bills, important events etc.

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10. SeoQuake

SeoQuake helps you to better optimize your blog for search engines. It shows detailed information about your competitors, such as their PageRank, the number of pages of their blog indexed in Google, AlexaRank, WhoIs info, and many more similar SEO parameters. Using this data you can know what you can do clinch that top spot for a keyword. The great thing about SeoQuake, that’s missing from other SEO plugins like SEO for Firefox, is that you can save the data to a .csv or a text file for later reference.

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11. ScrapBook

ScrapBook helps you to save web pages and organize your collection. Very useful when you’re researching stuff for your next link bait or resource post.

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12. One-Click Installer for WP

The One-Click Installer plugin allows you to install plugins or themes on your self-hosted WordPress blogs with a single click. Now you won’t have to first download your favorite plugin and then FTP it to your blog.

PS: This plugin requires that you have installed and enabled the One Click WordPress plugin.

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13. SearchStatus

SearchStatus displays the Google PageRank, Alexa Rank, and Compete Ranking anywhere in your browser. It also enables you to quickly analyze keyword density, highlight no-follow links on the page, and more. Very handy for all the bloggers and the SEO people out there.

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14. WiseStamp

WiseStamp enables you to easily customize & add personalized HTML email signatures on any webmail service (GMail, Yahoo!, AOL, and HotMail). You can see a few examples of the signatures it can make in the above image.

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15. FireFTP

FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers. Along with transferring your files quickly and efficiently, FireFTP also includes more advanced features such as directory comparison, syncing directories while navigating, SFTP, SSL encryption, search/filtering, integrity checks, remote editing, drag & drop, file hashing, and much more…

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16. FoxyTunes

Do you listen to music while blogging or surfing the web? FoxyTunes lets you control almost any media player and find lyrics, covers, videos, bios, and much more with a click right from your browser.

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17. Download Statusbar

View and manage downloads from a tidy statusbar without the download window getting in the way of web browsing. If you’re an avid downloader then this plugin will certainly boost your productivity.

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18. ColorZilla

With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color, and paste it into another program. You can zoom the page you are viewing and measure the distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets and saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there’s more… Very nifty plugin if you ask me.

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19. AdSense Notifier

AdSense Notifier displays your AdSense earnings on the statusbar. A huge productivity booster and time saver if you’re addicted to checking your AdSense stats every 9 seconds.

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20. FireShot

FireShot allows you to take screenshots of web pages. Unlike other Firefox plugin though, this one provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text and graphical annotations. FireShot lets you capture the entire web page or only the visible part of the web page. This plugin is very useful for bloggers who don’t have a premium screenshot taking utility and editor like SnagIt.

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21. IE Tab

This is a great tool for bloggers as you can easily see how your blog will be displayed in IE, within Firefox. Now you won’t have to open Internet Explorer ever again! This plugin is also useful when you want to open IE specific websites such as Windows Update.

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22. Zemanta

Zemanta inserts a box in your right hand sidebar in the WordPress write panel and it enables you to paste images and links in your post related to your content with a single click. Once you’ve written about 300 characters, it automatically adds related images and articles in the right sidebar. You can easily insert the images you like by clicking on them. The images are creative commons. Click on the above image to get a glimpse of what it can do.

Very cool plugin. It also supports LiveJournal, Blogger and WordPress.com.

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23. CoComment

CoComment allows you to keep track of your comments across any blog. Very helpful if you subscribe to a lot of comment feeds or if you comment a lot.

PS: You’ll first have to register at CoComment before you can use this plugin.

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24. Split Browser

This splits the the content area of the browser window as you like. It’ll save you a lot of time if you research and write your post simultaneously.

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25. Rank Checker

Using Rank Checker you can check where your blog ranks in the search engines for a particular keyword.

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6 Essential PC Applications for Bloggers

1. Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is the king of all browsers. Limitlessly extendable, fast, and lightweight. If you’re still using any other browser (even Google Chrome), then switch to Firefox immediately, it’ll boost your productivity – guaranteed.

2. MemoKeys

Stop wasting time typing the same thing repeatedly. MemoKeys saves you time by letting you call up commonly used text with keystroke combos. This is very handy is you get a lot of email, comment on blogs a lot, or have a default email/comment template.

3. Microsoft Office 2007

All you Microsoft haters might say otherwise, but you need Power Point, Excel, and Word if you want to make it big as a blogger. Office 2007 is easy to use and has beautiful default templates.

If you don’t want to pony up for Office 07 then the open-source OpenOffice is a nice alternative.

4. SnagIt

SnagIt is the best screen-capturing program out there. Using SnagIt, you can take screenshots of menus, windows, specific regions, and more. The more-than-capable editing program that comes with SnagIt is also a godsend for productivity seekers and Photoshop phobics like me.

5. WordWeb

WordWeb is a free powerful dictionary and thesaurus program. It’s mainly an offline dictionary tool with about 150,000 words in its database, although it also allows you to look into online reference sites such as Wikipedia. WordWeb’s a feature rich dictionary & thesaurus tool and a must have for bloggers who write their own content.digsby-logo

6. Digsby

Digsby is an all-in-one IM/social networking client. It supports most of the IM protocols out there, like Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, and AIM. It even supports Facebook chat! It features tabbed conversation window, allows you to manage your email, and stay up-to-date with everything that’s happening on your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn accounts. As its makers say: Digsby = IM + Email + Social Networking.

7. Link Popularity Check

Link Popularity Check checks how many links you have according to Google, Yahoo!, MSN and a bunch of others.

8. RoboForm

RoboForm is the tool to have for bloggers. It cuts out the time you spend filling various forms online, it remembers all your passwords, and it even features a random password generator for the security freaks among us. The price? Only $29.95. Use the discount code GOOG1 to get $6 off.

I’ve yet to come across another app that is better or on the same level as RoboForm. If you don’t have it, you don’t value your time.rss-bandit

9. RSS Bandit

RSS Bandit is a desktop RSS reader that syncs directly with Google Reader. The best feature is has is that it allows you to download your feeds (including images) for you to view offline. Very useful for travelers and those who hate web based RSS readers.

10. Camtasia Studio

Camtasia Studio is the ultimate screen-recording program for PCs. With the latest version, you can create HD quality professional-looking videos. It can produce your videos in many formats such as iPod, Flash, Quick Time, Windows Media, AVI etc.

11. Windows Live Writer

A full-featured desktop blogging application, Writer allows you to add images, videos, maps, tables, and much more. Overall, it’s a much better alternative to your blogging software’s inbuilt editor.

12. AdesClrPicker

This little known color picker has recently gone free. It’s fast to load, easy-to-use, and captures colors in HTML, RGB, C++, VB, and Delphi color codes. You can capture color codes anywhere on the screen. What more could you want?

13. Yahoo! Widgets

Yahoo! Widgets adds small widget apps to your desktop. Aside from being glitzy, it can be useful if you choose the right widgets. Here are a few widgets that bloggers should get:

• Day Planner – Calendar – A very useful to-do and day planning widget that also has a calendar
• Simple Notepad – Useful for quick note-taking without having Notepad always open
• My MemoPad – Useful sticky-note widget. I actually use it to display my goals.

14. Twhirl

Of course, how could I forget Twirl? A must-have app for twitterers to twitter their tweets.

15. PeaZip

PeaZip is a beautiful but fast archiving utility that supports most of the compression formats out there. It’s recommended for bloggers who download and sample a lot of files. Alternatives are WinRAR and 7Zip.

16. The Journal

Keeping a diary/journaling can help you improve as a blogger. Now, not many of us are so keen on opening a notebook every now and then to write in, so if you’re such a person then The Journal is for you. It supports separate volumes, inserting images, tables and the like, and you can even password-protect your diary.

What Do You Use?

I’m sure that I’m just scratching the surface here. I’d love to hear from other PC using bloggers – what applications are you using?

What is blogging and Why ??

Blog
A blog is a type a website in which it is maintained by an individual or group. Maintaining refers to having regular entries of any thing like gaming, cooking, or any thing. It is a medium through which every common person becomes a reporter by publishing their own articles. There are mainly 2 applications for creating and managing blogs. That is Wordpress and Blogger.

Blogging
Its the term used to say when a person adds a entry or article of any matter in a particular blog.

Why
Most people do blogging to earn. And some do raise their voice or express their opinions on net, some people might to blogging as it is simply their hobby.