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Managing the Ads right way

2008-11-24T16:10:00.006+05:30

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

2008-11-22T13:21:00.001+05:30

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

2008-11-05T20:39:00.003+05:30

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 .
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.
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 .
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.
Keep on setting a higher goal: And so on.

Increasing your Blog's Page Views

2008-10-05T20:23:00.001+05:30

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

2008-10-02T11:10:00.000+05:30

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.

Who are you ?
Your expertise(Specialty) and addressing it.
Readers problems or main aim, How they can resolve it.
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

2008-10-01T21:18:00.000+05:30

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

2008-10-01T20:23:00.001+05:30

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

2008-10-01T16:34:00.000+05:30

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 Ad sense
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) Ad brite

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

2008-10-01T15:44:00.000+05:30

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

2008-09-30T19:22:00.001+05:30

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.