What is blogging? Read it my way

Blogging……… What is it? My mom used to ask me. Know She does not allow me to sit on the computer for more than about 1 hour , so you want to know what i answered her? I am Writing technology related essays. 

People take blogging at different levels like some professional bloggers blog about 5 posts per day and sit online for about more than 16 hours, while some people post only about once a week and are roughly online for about 1 hour.  But the fact is that both recieve traffic!

I don’t know why but yes! In this complex world of ours where competition is on our heads, we need to do something unique. I yesterday read that one guy blogs by only using Flash presentations and no words, then i came accross a blog where one guy only posts about gadgets only after he opens up the gadget. Now common, this is amazing!
It not all about traffic, but blogging is about your “style”. Here i mean not your clothing style but the style which comes from within. If you got that then traffic will come like anything. Its not always a bout SEO but it is also about your love for the topic.  Like for example SRK (Shah Rukh Khan) loves gadgets (yes, its true!) so he can speak about it for a day long without stopping as he loves gadgets. So make sure before you post anything on your blog make sure are you blogging what you love?
These are few of the thoughts i wanted to share with people as they were in my mind since i started Blogging. I know this post was complete mess but thats what my mind said. Well, thanks for reading.

7 possible reasons why bloggers want traffic

I don’t know why all Bloggers want to increase their traffic. But i managed to find about 7 reasons Why. So check it out and tell me are they true or not? 

  • You want to make a Good income from your Blog – In case of most of bloggers, i think this is the main reason why people start blogging. I don’t Understand why? The Whole term Blogs mean a place where you can express your ideas. According to me you should use advertisemts to Cover your ISP and Domain  and hosting costs. 
  • You want to Get Popular. Yes this Is True. Many people blog to become Quite known among the Blogosphere , for Good or even Bad things.
  • You are true to your readers, you really want to share your knowledge with people all around. Incase of some people its true like KidTechGuru
  • You Want to Advertise some of your products. I know this is quite mean but thats true. Periodic posts about their product on their blog may differ them from other Good Blogs.
  • You want to bring a Change. You are sick of your problems and thats the reason why you want to Tell the worl to help you out. You need Support which you can get online. 
  • Some people are in competition. It’s True in Many cases. If you have monthly traffic of about 50,000 visitors and your rival has 60,000 your mind sets an aim for 200,000 visitors per month. That’s why people go on working till they get their gift for their hard work.

I know SEO surely increases Traffic, but to be frank Please write for humans. Always notice negative remarks about your website and try to improve it instead of deleting it. That’s how you can become a good blogger. BEST OF LUCK ALL BLOGGERS!

Blogger Adds New feature : Now Mark your Location on the Map

What are you blogging about? From where are you Blogging? Words are not really enough, right? So here’s what you should use to tell people your location. A map!

Blogger in Draft released this feature where any user can mark his location or the posts locations using a simple Map. If it is successful then this feature may be added to Blogger’s Original Version. Yes!

I Love what Amazing features Blogger keeps on adding and experimenting.

Heres a list of recent additions -

  • Followers
  • Import , Export Blog
  • Rating the Blog
  • Location Marker

Find Ad revenue and Daily pageviews of a website or a blog without using a tracking script

Etiole's estimated revenueEver wondered how much money top blogs make from ads they serve? yes? But i know if you ask them them they will tell you “We are restricted to tell you our ad revenue due to certain Guidelines”. So what to do?

I know. Try Website Outlook, a free service which gives you a complete analysis of a website including estimated Daily page views and also estimated Ad revenue. I know it’s not perfect but its an estimate but if you want the perfect figure than you cant do anything. Its not Exact so please do not rely on it before buying or advertising on their blog.

It gives you some cool information about websites like on Which Ip it is hosted and which other websites are also hosted there. Quite simple and easy.

Overcome Bloggers block : Get some good content to blog about

skribitWhen you start blogging you’ve got a lot of info to blog about. But slowly it get’s less and less until you have nothing to write about…… But now what?

Ask people around! Know what people want to read and then you will always be the winner. But is it easy? How? Through a website??? Yes!

Skribit is a discussion portal developed by a student in USA which helps overcome Blogger’s Block(It’s when you don’t know what to blog about due to lack of inspiration or creativity).

Users write on their suggestion suggesting toskribit people to blog about it and then people vote for the idea and when someone blogs about it, the url also get’s published (so you also get some traffic out of it).

And it’s obvious that if many people have voted for the topic than probably you will get good reader attention. Simple And straight, I like it.

Find what software, advertising networks, widgets, blogging platform and other things being used on Pro blogs

Ever wondered What softwares, Ad serving technologies, tracking script Mashable, Techcrunch and others use? Sitanomy

Sitonomy gives you complete detailed information of whats currently turned on on the Website.
You also get alternatives with every piece of info.

It provides you complete info about website -

  • Advertisement serving technologies
  • Tracking script
  • Server
  • Blogging Platform
  • Widgets
  • And much more.

It’s A must use if you are a newbie in the world of blogging. It will help you make the most of what you can get to make your blog – “THE BEST”. Here’s What result I got -Snap
Thanks Kidtechguru

Great blogging tips by a blogger (must read if you want traffic)

This is a guest post by Priyan , a 20 year old male living in India. You can read his blog Windows-Xp-Secrets.

Guide To NewBie Bloggers

I know i’m not a Pro Blogger, but still i had learned a lot of things in Blogging. I just thought to give some tips to Newbie bloggers to get success in Blogging. Most of the Newbie bloggers becoming losers as they not following their path correctly in Blogging field. So, I hope my tips will surely help the Newbie Bloggers to get success. Ok, here my 10 Tips,
1) Learn The Platform : First learn as much as possible about your Blogging Platform and its possibilities. Many bloggers use Blogspot and WordPress. I highly recommend WordPress if you going to start a blog if you can invest some money in Domain Name & Hosting. Otherwise choose the best free Blog from Blogger. Once you had registered or setup your blog learn about the Platform as much as possible and also know what you can do with it.
2) Learn Some Codes : No need to completely learn Coding but some basic knowledge on HTML will helps you to shape your blog and blog posts. Also, learn the basics of PHP if you going to blog in WordPress. Remember that no need to learn the HTML or PHP until you want to customize your Blog theme or Posts !

3) Choose Good Domain Name : Its no matter whether you going to host your own WordPress Blog or Free Blogger blog, always try to get a Good and Easy domain name for it. It helps people to remember your blog easily.

4) Keep Clean : Always try to keep your blog very clean. Don’t fill it with a lot of Ads, Images and so… Try to make your blog content easily visible to the visitors so that it will attract the visitors to read and make them to come back to your blog regularly.

5) Quality Content : It is the main thing of a Blog. Ya, until you not posting good and quality posts on your blog, remember no one will come to your blog back ! So always try to publish Quality, Original contents.
6) Make Friends : To become a blogger don’t just keep posting on your own blog. Also, read other related blogs and comment on them if you are really interested ( Don’t Spam ! ). Also try to participate in Social sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, etc.. and make friends there with same interests. It really helps you to expose your blog more !
7) Don’t Target O Money : Many Newbie bloggers becoming losers due to this only. Once if you start thinking of Making Money with your Blog then you can’t publish Good content on your blog. Then, you will always start to go back to the Money ! and finally you will lose ! So don’t Blog for Money. Try to Make Money from Blogging. ( I hope everyone can able to understand what i’m saying :) )
8) Stay Within Niche : If you don’t know what to post on any day just simply ignore that day or just post that you have nothing to post or post about any other relevant thing. But remember that don’t try to publish a off topic blog post. It may leads you to lose your regular readers. Also don’t do Paid Postings which are not relevant to your niche !

9) Blog Offline : Try to write blog posts on a Desktop Blog Publishing client and publish it after you completley finished writing. You may get diverted while using a Browser while writing a Blog Post directly on the Dashboard especially browsers like Firefox with Tab features makes you to get diverted. And i highly suggest you to use Blog Desk if your Blog Platform is WordPress.
10) Respect The Rules : If you want Organic traffic i.e., traffic from Search Engines then respect the rules strictly. To rank high in Search Engines try to build quality backlinks from relative sites or blogs, stop spamming with keywords, avoid Paid posts, don’t sell links and this list goes a long. Also learn some SEO techniques to increase organic traffic to your blog !

I hope My Tips will helps the Newbie Bloggers ! Friends, Please don’t forget share your comments…

About the Author -
I am Priyan ( My NickName ), a 2 year Old guy from South India. I discontinued My Studies two years before due to the interest in Computers & Business. Now I am looking after a shop in my local and also managing some Websites.

I am also making money in Online from Websites with the help of Google Adsense, Domain Parking and more. I have good knowledge in WordPress, Joomla, SEO. And i am also doing Web Hosting & Domain Registration business.

If you feel i may help you in any case please contact me at : priyan@dollarspoint.net

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Why your blog is not getting traffic ? We have the solution

no. 1 Google RankingI know lot of bloggers around who want to earn big money but have 0 traffic.
What is the reason , while this is what everyone wants to know.

I know why and i will tell you how to completely reverse it.

Problem with Publishing Platform – If you are knew my tip to you is to choose wordpress for your blogging platform as there are many plugins which will help make your blog user friendly. And if you use blogger , if you are getting high traffic , over 50k per month , please do shift to wordpress then as you will be able to give your users a better experience.


Problem With Content and niche – Most blog contain only One topic like only increasing traffic , now if any one who comes to your site and is interested in your content will always be a webmaster , as commoners wont want to read all that stuff but if you write content about some gadget or something you will surely be able to get some good audience. Or even if you write long ……..long posts you will surely loose traffic as people like it short and sweet.

Problem With Blog design – You probably don’t get traffic because your blog is filled with ads and less of content , chuck those ads until you receive plenty of traffic i.e 10k (atleast). Your navigation , if not good will be the main reason for you to loose traffic , so make it easy and very simple. Make sure the text size is also good or if you have tiny text no one will use a magnifying glass to read your content. Always add a search bar to the top of you blog as this makes it easy for anyone to search your blog. Here are some really cool designs for your blog.

Problem with Search Engines – Main Traffic bringers , and if you have a problem with them , not they but only you will suffer. First try creating Sitemap for your blog ( Sitemap: it is a list of all webpages of your website) and submit it to google. Make Search frinedly urls, make sure your post url (www.yourblog.com/topic/your~blog~post) contains all needed keywords.

Problem with you – If you don’t know how to reply back to comments on your blog , or you don’t know how to reply back to user feedback than i think you should really stop blogging (joke!).
You should make sure that the language you use on your blog should be clean and should have the least spelling mistakes.

Problem With Language – Make sure You add a language translation tool to your website or else you will miss out readers who visit your blog but don’t understand your language. May be this post will help you.

For people using blogger – I had written a post on 50+ tips and hack which could bring you some good traffic, may be you should check it out , it will surely help you.

I cannot write about all of problems or else my post would be like writing a book on blogging so if you want to add on please leave a comment below and i will follow up.

Make sure readers subscribe your blog and also make sure that they like your blog

Subscribe!
How many times does someone visit the homepage of your blog and exit it?
100 or 1000? Why are you loosing them?

DO some corrections to your blog and then see them reading every damn post.

1. Good template – Afterall Presentation matters , so you need to get a good template. I advice you not to use advertisements at least for 2-3 months if you started you blog recently. It’s helps you to build search engine ranking and also to attract readers because if they see ads they will surely exit and also this takes away a lot of space. For WordPress users they have a wide variety of templates available all over the internet , some good wordpress websites are -

If you use blogger you can read my post on blogger templates which has a complete list of website’s providing blogger template.

2. Using Feedburner’s or feedblitz Email Subscribtion -Now it is your turn to choose which email subscription service you want. I would advice you to use Feedblitz as it offer’s much friendly user interface and also the email’s sent by feedblitz are quite arranged i.e the have recent posts link, then they have many other options in the email itself so try using that.

Facebook logo3. Using Facebook to catch hold of readers – Now after you have completed attacking your user’s Mail inbox not it’s time to go social. Try Making Groups and Pages about your blog on facebook and other social networking websites. This will help you to get in touch with readers much easily and also send them updates about your blog.

4. Make Toolbars for your website – Now the next thing to attack is the reader’s browser. Now create a toolbar for your website with search options which directly search your blog or even some updates so whenever they access the internet the first thing they see if your blog.
Conduit is a service which will allow you to create some cool free toolbars for you website.

Google Sms Channels logo5. Sms updates for your blogs – Now set’s go to the Other side and access the readers at any place in the world and the smartest way. Try using Google’s Sms Channels to allow users to subscribe to your blog and receive updates anywhere in the whole wide world.

6. Using twitter to get some good traffic – Now it’s time to get back to where we were. Use twitter to send updates to your readers via twitter as most people now only log on to twitter and that’s it.

8. Topic posting – Write Topics which may rise interest not ony in the mind of webmasters but also the common people i.e if you write a post on how to run a apache server on your computer and ……… , the reader’s will only consist of people who know what it is, but if you post a about a cellphone you will be able to gather much more traffic.

9. Few of the best but need a lot of effort ways to increase traffic – As soon as you post the content just digg, reddit , stuble upon it. Make this quite quick so that you can get more visitors because if you are a news reporter reporting about a story which happened 10 hours back while the other news reportes have already telecasted it who will give a damn for your post?
So use social networks to get traffic like anything.

10. Some Good widgets and cracks and hacks so that your blog looks quite a strong one. I have written a blog post about 25 great widgets and hacks and cracks for blogger. You can read the complete post here.

11. The recent posts widget, on in the sidebar so that users can read some of your recent posts and if they are interested they will click. You can install one widget on your blog by using feedburner’s Buzz boost. A complete instructional post has been given here.