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Most smart blogger you've seen online and maybe wished to be like probably had that one time in their blogging career where they made mistakes. Mistakes aren't just there for fun of it but because most times we learn from them. Blogging can be complicated, so you want to make sure you’re doing things right and below are 10 blogging mistakes you've made or you are still making; 1. Blogging without direction Have you ever read your blog posts wonder if you are blogging or just blogging?  So many bloggers go into blogging without having an insight of what blogging really is and why they are into blogging. Do you just blog because you've heard of the money others made or you probably just want to show your writing skills? The first blogging mistake you should avoid is blogging without a purpose. Know what you will excel in, know why you blog and define your target audience. 2. Copying Contents from other blogs This is probably an act performed by many bl...

Truth is, most times your first blog posts aren't as cool as the ones that follows suite...Most times New bloggers get confused over what they want to blog about and end up posting an amazingly horrible blog post which could become an item of ridicule even to you... So basically, after you’ve set up your blog , you’ll need to start writing posts. Your first blog post serves as the primary basis of your blogging business . But sometimes we get it wrong. having and amazing first blog post doesn't really determine your blogging career or lay the proper foundation for success but it does matter a lot...  Most times our first blog post isn't always mind blowing, but you want your first set of visitors to come back to your blog after reading your first article so you try to make it as catchy as it can be... After creating a new blog or installing WordPress, all most bloggers wish to do is to publish anything just to let the world know that they’re online. It's not really cool...

2016 came like it was never gonna end, Here now we are in the last day of the year, 2016, whether horrible or adorable as the case may be... Here and now I want to review my presence online in 2016! I don't know how your moments were in 2016  but I've got moments I would want to and not want to share... some things are better left unsaid... I started this blog roughly on August this year (2016) I hope by the same time next year (2017), I Would have achieved a whole lot of stuff with it...Although I was able to do some stuff apart from just blogging to making some bucks by writing for another blogger... I tested my writing skills and it was cool but I still had to struggle with procrastination! trust me it's evil!  2016 taught me not to hide in the dark... trust me, there's no reason to keep hiding out. It's really not hard to regret.  Actually the whole lot I learnt this year isn't as much as I wish I could learn... but it is still cool to take one step at a tim...

A good amount of traffic comes to a blog post within the first day, after it gets published. You can get lots of traffic to a blog post not withstanding when the post got published, but often, a good amount of traffic comes to a newly published post if you promote rightly... Thus, it's important to promote your blog posts and increase traffic their immediately after you publish. This is particularly important for posts whose relevance dwindles overtime but this  practice should apply to all your blog posts. Below are 15 ways you can promote your blog posts immediately after they get publishled so as to increase traffic to them quickly. 1. Share Your new posts to twitter Twitter is a very popular social media platform, thus it is a perfect place to share a link to your blog posts as soon as they get published. There so are many tools that enable you to automatically publish a link to your latest blog post on your twitter account but you can also share them manually. Als...

  It's obvious that every webmaster wants to give more exposure to his blog, and there are various ways one can increase his/her blog exposure and also improve traffic.  When you submit your blog to blog directories, Your blog will be exposed to lots of new audience. Traffic from blog directories are highly targeted and you will be generating good number of backinks to your blog.  Here is s list of verified blog directories where you can submit your blog.  Before you begin submitting your blog, to make the take easier, note down the following aspect of your blog. Name of the blog: URL of the blog: Feed URL of the blog Description of the blog in 2-3 lines This will make the submission task easier. List of the websites  http://www.anoj.org http://www.bedwan.com http://www.bestbusinesswebdirectory.com http://www.bizzdirectory.com http://www.blogarama.com http://www.livepopular.com http://www.marketingwebdirectory.com http://w...

I  have written a brief overview of what you should know about vlogging and this post centers on the steps and guides to starting a vlog. You can read my previous post which introduces you to Vlogging if you are just hearing this for the first time... Setting up a vlog is a hundred times easier than setting up a blog, here you don't need to worry about getting a custom domain name or hosting your blog on a server (if you don't want a blog for your vlog)... The basic requirement to starting a vlog is a gmail acount...  before we go over the steps in setting a Vlog, let's take a look at the necessities needed before creating your vlog. 1. A good camera you definitely need to get a camera with great picture quality to shoot your videos and your smartphones and laptops can do just that in case you aren't ready for a new product... Just make sure your device's picture quality is high... 2. Good Audio Quality Since you Will be doing a lot of taki...

We definitely know the importance of search engine traffic and getting high quality backlinks to your blog is one of the best ways to skyrocket your blog's rankings and get better search engine traffic and results. When building  backlinks, you need to keep the quality of links and anchor text variation in your mind. Also, instead of creating mere backlinks to your homepage only, start building links to internal pages.  In here, we will be listing some ways you can get quality backlinks to your blog. Note; Google hates spam and it gets rid of sites using spammy or paid ways to build links. 60 Ways to Boost Blog Backlinks 1. Submit Guest Post to Other Blogs. 2. Post comments on dofollow blogs and make sure these blogs are relevant to your niche.  3. Create Relevant Threads in Forums and Link to Your Blog Posts 4. Link to Your Blog in Your Forum Signatures  5. Social bookmarking can also be considered as backlinks. You should link from the foll...

What is a Vlog? A Vlog is a blog in which the postings are primarily in video form. Thus, a vlog is a video blog. One of the best places to start a vlog is "YouTube". Blogging is more appreciated than Vlogging (That's why everyone wants to blog!) and most people want to become bloggers and not vloggers. But we don't all have to ignore vlogging for blogging, besides you can run both... About YouTube You've probably heard a lot about YouTube and in one way or the other you have watched a video on YouTube...  In case you don't know, YouTube is a Large video sharing site, owned by google! About Vlogging The Good thing you probably didn't know about vlogging is that it isn't really saturated and vloggers are easily approved by the popular AdSense unlike bloggers!  So, You want to start a vlog and make some cash? well, vlogging on YouTube is the next big thing, that's if you play your dice well. What Makes Vlogging Dif...

This article is dedicated to every Nigerian hoping to start their own Self-hosted Blog but wish to do so with an indigenous host. Basically, We have two types of blog host; The free blog host like Blogger, WordPress.com and Tumblr. And the paid hosts... You need a host for blogging software like WordPress.org, joomla, drupal (WordPress.org is the best cms you can get). WordPress.org blogs are usually referred to as self hosted because you only get access to them by hosting them, self–hosted server. If free hosts like Blogger end up not satisfying you because the limits are so many, WordPress.org self hosted blog can just be what you need... Read: How to Create a Blogger Blog Everyone no doubt would love to start something they can totally be in control of. I will be pointing out some basic things you should do in order to Start your Self Hosted Blog. STARTING YOUR SELF-HOSTED BLOG 1. GET A DOMAIN Your Domain name should be the first th...

If you've noticed, I almost always post my contents with some interlinkings to my older blog posts. This is something I learnt while trying to figure out how to get to the top genuinely. and I honestly have noticed its importance and I want you to also have an insight of why this practice is important. Don't just write a blog post and promote it on social media sites, forums, blog, and etc. you will definitely get visitors but it will be for that blog post alone. Your visitors may mange to take a look at 2-3 more posts then leave without looking back. What is interlinking? Interlinking is the of making links within a blog or a website. interlinking is an addition of links that connect two pages of a same website.  This link is a simple example of internal linking; as a part of SEO strategy . I just made a link to another page of this blog and that would navigate crawlers as well as users to that page. How does Interlinking help in user experience and SEO? ...

WordPress ping list are indeed useful when you want to extend your blog reach to major search engines. If you are not aware of pinging feature in WordPress, then be aware now! :) When ever you publish, edit or modify a post, WordPress sends ping to all the Ping services which must have been listed under your ping update service. So this way, ping services get notified about new post and search engine will quickly index them. Now by default WordPress notifies all major ping services but we can always extend our limit by pinging more services. adding them manually is an option definitely.  Below is a list of ping services for WordPress , which will help you to ping more services. You can also copy the list from WordPress doc file http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/ http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 http://1470.net/api/ping http://api.feedster.com/ping http://api.moreover.com/RPC2 http://api.moreover.com/ping http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2 http://api.my.yahoo.com...

Google Webmaster is an amazing tool, and if you are a serious blogger, you would never overlook the Google Webmaster’s tools because they give you complete information about how your site functions in Google Search engine. The Search Console (aka Google Webmaster Tools) offers many tools that will let you analyze your blog actively. this analysis can help you work on problem areas to make your blog rank better in the Google Search engine.  search engine optimization is a gradual process that sometimes takes weeks or months to get a proper search engine ranking. How To Make Your Blog Search Friendly Using Google Search Console: 1. Submit Sitemap to Google The first thing that you need to do is to sign in to search Console, add and verify your blog then you go ahead to generate a sitemap of your blog and submit it via the Google Search Console. This will help Google crawl your site effectively, and you can keep track of how many links are being indexed by Google...

When starting a blog or a business online, one of the most important features for getting the word out is your business' domain name. Think of the domain name as the name by which your business will always be known online & offline, example drinks•ng. So, are you still struggling with settling for a domain name? I guess you don't want to flop or regret so you found yourself here... Before choosing a domain name for your site, it is advised that you make all possible research to help you settle for the best... In this article I will share few rules and tips to be considered before choosing a domain name. Before starting a website, the first important thing you probably think of is selecting and buying a domain name. A bad domain name can hurt your blog in long run. It's a common mistake for people to start any niche blog with their name, Gone are the days such were overlooked...  Start A WordPress blog for $12.88/year With Godaddy How to grab best domain name: It...

It's not an easy task when you have to look for free stock photos. If you have the money to pay image repository like iStockphoto or Shutterstock, your rights and responsibilities are clear: You pay for the rights to use the image, without attributions However, if you choose to go the free route, well, why shouldn't you? Before we go further in this article, You need to know how you're allowed to use the photos, and what (if any) attribution is required. In this post, I will list 20 sites that offer 100 percent free images for use on your blog or social media posts.  All the sites below offer photos under the Public Domain or the Creative Commons Zero (CC0) license; thus no attribution (link) is required. So you know the copyright categories, here's a brief overview of the three main types: Public Domain Images in the public domain are works whose copyrights have expired or whose creators have abandoned rights to them These are however made fre...

Getting accepted by google AdSense is a dream come true for most bloggers and getting disabled or banned is the worst nightmare for bloggers... trust me, getting disabled by AdSense is as easy as ABC if you don't keep to their TOS. The most popular reason why a webmaster gets disabled by AdSense is INVALID ACTIVITY, and this invalid activity mainly constitutes invalid click which sometimes we can't help... WHAT IS INVALID ACTIVITY Invalid activity occurs following clicks or impressions which artificially inflate an advertiser’s costs and publisher’s earnings, and for which Google decides not to charge the advertiser. This includes clicks or impressions generated by a publisher clicking on his own ads, a publisher encouraging clicks on his ads, automated clicking tools or traffic sources, robots, or other deceptive software.  How Does Google Detect Invalid Clicks  1. IP address. Adsense makes it clear that you do not click on your own ads and when you or s...

One of the biggest problems with both old and new blogs, is poor keyword ranking. Using the right keyword is as important as writing great contents on your blog. Most traffic blogs get from search engines come from posts with keywords.  The right keyword actually is a basis in driving traffic to posts from search engines. If you know what keywords your blog is ranking for and the keyword’s position , you can do several things to improve your search engine ranking. Most people have no knowledge of what keywords are and actually write without a speciYou keyword which definitely won't help in blog ranking. So, have you been looking for a Search Engine Optimization tool which allow you do keyword research, track keyword ranking, check backlinks, check competitor, and a whole lot more.  There are many Keyword Rank Checker tools and some of them include; Google Keyword Planner, Analytics, Webmaster Tool, SERP, Small SEO Tool, SEMRush etc.. In here, I'm personally recommending SEMRUS...