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Gone are the days when blogging was just a hobby. nowadays, everyone wants to make ends meet and blogging has proven to be one if the many ways to make money online. You are probably here because you want to make money doing what you know how to do best. Truth is being a successful blogger is a little bit hard now but nonetheless, achievable. At the beginning, setting up a blog and writing article is fun but as time goes on, the need to make money blogging steps in. It always do, at one time or the other. In the long run interest dwindles if you only came in for the money. Sometimes I wish people would realize earlier that monetizing and actually making money from your blog is a very hard nut to crack, yet achievable as earlier stated. Nevertheless, we all just need good guidance and walk through the right direction. If You don't have a blog;  Learn how to start one with WordPress Now Probloggers as I like to call them always preach the need to have good, genuine an...

SEO, Search Engine Optimization is a very important aspect of aspiring great webmasters. There are some basic SEO terms we may need to know to understand the word fully. Crawling and indexing are two important SEO terms. You probably have an idea of these terms if you have been in the web world for a while. The entire web depends on Google Crawling and Indexing. A definition of this term with reference to Google Crawling: crawling occurs when Google visits your website for the purpose tracking. This is done by Google’s Spider crawler. In the SEO world, crawling means moving around your website. Whenever bots come to your website (any page), they follow other linked pages also on your website. We create sitemaps to aid crawling as they contain all of the links in our blog and Google’s bots can use them to look deeply into a website. To stop crawling parts of our websites, we use Robots.txt file Indexing: Indexing takes place after crawling has been done, the re...

There are numerous unanswered questions about blogging and traffic many answered are only but opaque. You may have thought of boosting your blog traffic but have never had a reason to think twice about utilising some of the popular things you use online to actually boost your blog traffic Just a Simple Question; What actually encourages you to blog more? My guess would be Traffic and user engagement!  Are definitely my best guess. An average blogger and most new bloggers hunger and thirst for traffic to their blogs just like me! The reasons for attempting to boost ones blog traffic is numerous and a common reason is; it is encouraging when the traffic rolls in indefinitely.  Isn't it really heart breaking that after striving day and night to publish a new post and expect nothing but some good readership which triggers social shares yet you get stuck with little or no views at all.  Some bloggers go extra miles seeking for traffic so they indulge...

  Blogging is a lot like you starting a speech; You have to make a good first impression, then you have to keep people interested and engaged in what you deliver in the way you present your statements. Why would something done to improve another thing kill it? Well, it's obvious the answer isn't unknown... Our blog posts are the major reason for keeping a blog but Sometimes what we write about actually leads to our blog's demise... 1. Copying or Plagiarizing other bloggers Google hates copy pasting and 80% of bloggers seem to enjoy doing this, when you copy and paste your articles you get your blog stuck in Google's list of substandard blogs and though you may find your blog in its search engine, you may rarely or never get clicks from searches... Do that, you kill your blog gradually... Although most bloggers claim copying and pasting is allowed in their niche due to its saturation... Obviously, a blogger who knows his onions will blog about an already ...

Everyday is a good day to learn new hacks and learning more about blogging is something I wish to keep doing. I hope you'd want to learn also... I once had some of these blogging misconceptions and I may not be wrong to say I'm not alone on this one... 1. You Have to Post Every Day This actually isn't true. You don't grab a user’s attention just by merely throwing contents at them, you should know that quality is way better than quantit. So, just a few posts a week that are unique, solid, interesting and informative is enough to grab the readers you wish to grab and much better than so much posts that are short, uninteresting, pointless, scrappy and useless. 2. Good Content Gets Found I always thought this way until I realized it was a farce... Most times bloggers get wrongly informed tha when you make your posts extremely good and satisfying, visitors will come, But truth is, creating a great blog post doesn't mean it’s going to get thousands of...

The title of your blog post plays a major role in the success of the post. Your blog title compels users to click on the post and read it. The title of a post also plays a great role in your post’s search engine ranking. Infact, titles are extremely important, Coming up with a cool title for your post may be a really difficult task. Now  let’s take a look at sites that can help us construct better titles for the best results, not just for readers, but also for search engines. 1. UpWorthy Title Generator If you one of those bloggers that enjoy publishing viral stories and need to generate viral post titles, this is the perfect tool for you. This tool randomly suggests post titles from the UpWorthy site. You can make any necessary or desired changes to suit your taste. Their titles are well researched to get maximum attention on social media platforms. Try UpWorthy Generator. 2. Portent’s Content Idea Generator This is an amazingly nice content idea generation...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Every website owner's dream is to get noticed online. In the course of your struggling moments online, your site in one way or the other may have fallen short of google webmaster’s policy and got demoted. This post is basically for site which got demoted due to malware attack or bad html codes.  Sometimes we implement html codes that may affect our site without even knowing. When your site gets demoted in google search, you do not have to panic but resolve the issue which isn’t and very hard nut to crack.  First thing to do when you receive such message is,  Login to  webmasters.google.com  and find out the cause or possible cause of  the demotion. Visit your site and remove anything that you deem harmful. It’s advisible to remove the last implementations before you received such message.  After you must have done the above, visit google webmasters again and apply for a review, that’s if you have actually removed all possible ...