How To 301 Redirect From Non-WWW to WWW using .htaccess

If you are a blogger or a developer who mostly works on blogs, websites, you will definitely have faced this situation to have the website with www prefix to your domain.

There's no official proof that having www prefixed to the domain has any improved SEO effects, yet I have seen most of the websites to have www domains compared to non-www domain.

Here's this post that will help you do a 301 Redirect from non-www to www domain using .htaccess file.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^example.com$ [NC] 
RewriteRule (.*) http://www.example.com/$1 [R=301,L]

The above snippet of code will do a 301 redirection of the non-www url to www url.

Note : Replace example.com with your domain name

Another way is to have a generic htaccess snippet of code to redirect the url from non-www to www.

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]

This piece of code will take up any domain url that's non-www and redirect to www domain.

Add either of the above code snippet to your website's .htaccess file

HTTPS urls can be redirected in the same way as above by replacing the http to https.

Let me know in the comments, if the above code snippet worked for you.

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How to Upload ads.txt file to Blogger - Adsense

This post is going to help people who have Adsense enabled to their blog and are using Blogger Platform for Blogging.

I was recently browsing through my Adsense account after some period of time and I could find an alert notification that's here in the picture below.

I updated the ads.txt to this blog as I'm running this blog under Blogger since 2013. I thought this would be a useful post for fellow bloggers who would search on how to upload the ads.txt to their Blogger platform domain.

So, here's how it is done.

Step 1 : 

Login to your Adsense Platform and click on "Download" to download the ads.txt file for your domain. You will see a one liner text in the file with the Publisher ID.

Step 2: 

Login to your Blogger Platform. Go to Settings >> Search Preferences

Step 3: 

You should see "Monetisation" at the bottom end of the Search Preferences. Now, here Custom ads.txt would be disabled. Click on "Edit"

Step 4 :

After you clicked on the Edit Link, you should copy paste the content from the ads.txt file and click on "Save Changes".

Step 5: 

Now is the time to verify if the changes are present. You should be able to verify this by going to your blog root domain in a new tab and enter /ads.txt.

https://www.example.com/ads.txt

This will show you the ads.txt content that you have updated in the Blogger.

As it is mentioned in the Adsense Alert Message, it might take a few days to see the updated changes in your Adsense Account. Be Patient and keep Blogging.

Let me know in the comments if this worked for you. Happy Blogging.

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How To Optimize Images with WebP Format

Do you own a website ? If you have a website, or any business that is running online, or even a blog for that matter, you should make sure the site runs fast and the users can access it without any waste of time. 

Load time of a web page matters in the online business., Lets say you have a great website with colorful images, and really nice design and rich use of JS animations. It'd take hell amount of time to load the page and the user who's trying to visit your website, gets annoyed by the time that it takes to load and it'll lead you to a heavier bounce rate which will kill your blog/website rating at any time.

I was just surfing the web recently and I found something called "webp" format which is a modern image format with the tagline "lossless and lossy compression" for images on the web. I couldn't help but write about it in my blog here.

It's been said that WebP images are 26% smaller in size when compared to PNG images.

You can read more about how webp works here

WebP format is natively supported in Chrome, Opera browsers.,

In this post, we'll tell you how to use webp format to optimize the images for your website/blog in the following steps.

Step 1: 

I'm guessing you've followed the google webp link to know a bit about the format. Now, lets download the precompiled version of the tool that we'll use to convert any image to webp format with lossless and lossy compression.

Download the precompiled version of the tool here

Choose your platform - Windows, Linux or Mac OS and download the files.

Step 2 :

Extract the zip/tar file, copy and place it anywhere you feel convenient. In my case, I'd place it in my C drive.

So, now the path of the files in my system would be "C:\libwebp-0.5.0-windows-x86" 

Step 3 :

Once that is done, go inside that folder "libwebp-0.5.0-windows-x86" in your drive that you've copied it to.

Now, lets copy an image that you want to compress and check if its actually working. Copy a bit bigger sized image and place it inside "bin" folder which would be like below

"C:\libwebp-0.5.0-windows-x86\bin\image-to-be-compressed.png"

Step 4 : 

This is a bit trickier part yet you can do it even if you're not any sort of developer, or just someone who knows to operate basics of command prompt.

Open your command prompt and navigate to the installed folder. Check out the screenshot that is attached below to make sure you're on the right track.

Once you're inside the bin folder in your command prompt, run the following line

"cwebp yourfilename.JPG -o webpfile.webp"

If you've done that correctly, you'd see the below screen.

Now if you check the size of the image that's been created, you'd be amazed of how much smaller the image size you get out of it without losing its pixel sizes and quality.

There's a reason why the webp format is being said to be "lossless and lossy" . You can even convert back from webp format to any other format such as PNG, JPG etc, with "dwebp" command. 

Checkout the parameters that you can use with "cwebp" command - cwebp command

Checkout the parameters that you can use with "dwebp" command - dwebp command

That's it. you can do the image compression with just one command without using any photoshop tool.

P.S - Do comment below to let us know how did it go or even if you get stuck somewhere.,

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4 Tips For Choosing a Blog Niche

Blogging is a platform where you help people know things that you knew once and thought to share with others. Blogs are preferred to share the tiny details of your experiences and studies which are someday gonna help someone who'd be reading it. Most people don't realize what they want to blog about but they do want to write about something which they're not sure what it is yet.

I was referring to me especially who want to write-up something but couldn't exactly figure out sooner enough to start with.

This blog post is for those people who are like me who wanted /wants to write /share things whatever it might be yet isn't sure about it.

I''m gonna disclose some 4 tips down below that could get you choose what you really want to write about and start a blogging career sooner.

What Do You Know More About Anything?

Yep. That's a question that you gotta ask yourself first time when you choose you want to start a blog. 

Do you know that there are a lot of people in the world who needs to know about the one thing that you're good at and you know more than anything?

Yeah, that's true. You should be sure about what you know clear and good enough.

That's it. That will lead your mind to choose the niche you want to blog about.

Let Yourself Write For People :

Most people who choose a niche and start a blog will get it wrong the first time. Choosing to write expecting something back will always get yourself stuck into the runway.

Write a blog for yourself, and the people that are gonna read it. Let it be useful for the one's who actually admire the way as you are. Consider writing a blog as if you're keeping an online note of everything that you've learned and getting good at.

Writing for money can still get you score but that won't give you the flow and the interest as always. Yet if you find a niche that makes you money and keeps you interested every single time, then that's  reward for yourself.

Long Term Posts Frequency : 

Choosing a topic to write for a blog is not that hard when you know what you're looking for.

Clear up your mind on writing a blog. Take a list of all the topics that you could possibly want to write about. Make it an xls/ csv file if you want to. 

Now lets filter the topics that you think you can write for a long term frequently. You'd have filtered already and you're left with a little of something around 4 or 5 niche topics at last.

From there its not that for you to choose because you'd already made up your mind with some topic which is more convenient for you in delivering quality content to the readers.

Choose the One That Interests You : 

Interest is the main aspect in doing anything that you do in your day to day life. Interest is the one thing that keeps you doing the same thing everyday even at times when you think that's not worth doing.

Choose a topic that keeps you interested in writing for a very long time. Time is a constraint when you start blogging on a specific topic and you wouldn't know when you'd run out of topics. So, its always the best to choose a topic that you're so much interested as much that you're willing to write even when you find it very hard to continue the course.

Conclusion : 

Blogging is not just a money making platform for all who cares to start writing a blog. It could be a space where you share your skills and knowledge for the people who are in need of and also could become an identity of yourself in the online world.

So, concluding this, my one cent would be choosing a niche that you're good at or choosing a niche that you'd wanna be good at some point in future. Those are the two niche types that will keep you grow yourself and make you see yourself as a blooming blogger over the long run.

Also Read : 3 Things to Know Before Starting a Blog

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6 Best Things Of Being a Blogger

Being able to write what we like and have a certain (limited or unlimited) amount of people that read and follow us for updates would sure make anyone feel awesome about it. It is the key source that induces to write better than you can with more accuracy.

Being a blogger can make you feel the way that you want to be in terms of what you write.

I've been writing this blog for nearly a couple of years and it takes real pleasure to write about what I want to. Most of the posts that I write here are related to Twitter tips, and a bit of blogging tips as well with a little option of SEO. And I've been getting pretty good responses based on the topics that I write which makes me to write even more posts related to the niche that I've chosen.

This post is completely about my experiences of being a blogger for this amount of time.

Here we go with the 10 Things that I feel great about being a blogger.

Independence Day :

The sub title seems a little bit strange, don't you think? ;)

The day I started to write this blog. I got the independence to write what just want and when I want to. Very often that just felt bad of not giving up what I learn everyday.

I was too narrow in choosing what to write and all of a sudden I wanted to write about something that I wanted to learn and with flow to the learning phase I'd write the posts then and there. That was the plan.

That made me to choose this niche and start collecting informations and started writing. And with that I got the independence to write about the things that I learn often.

Learning Curve :

I was really excited about writing on what I wanted to know.

Learning about SEO, reading blogging tips wanted me to write about it so that I could talk to pose with my ideas and views.

Connections :

Obviously, you should know the "Big Fish in the Pond".

Being a blogger, You obviously would get to know your fellow bloggers. Fellow bloggers who blog on the same domain, or different niches, start following then on Twitter, Facebook, G+, and other popular social media's so that you could get their updates soon and sometimes might get a chance to talk to them, discuss a little business ;)

Talking to like minded people helps a lot, the same way you could share your views with your fellow bloggers and understand their views .

Joining forums that teach/preach or actually discuss your niche, and interacting with other bloggers makes your learning curve speed up the graph.

Participating in IRC chats , Twitter interactions helps in this matters as well.

Accuracy :

Being a blogger taught me accuracy which is highly important for any blogger to have.

Anything and everything that a blogger writes should be accurate and relevant to topic. Before writing a post, I used to collect data from various sources that are legitimate and then start writing on my own blog.

Accuracy is the point anywhere that you should be having to write on a topic which should make the post a legit one.

Stay with the Trend :

Being a blogger means staying updated with the latest trends every single time. Whether it is SEO, social media, public news, tech or anything, you get updated all the time with the current trends.

At times, There can be running out of time, but never there's running out of knowledge of latest trending news June being a blogger.

I think you'll agree with me on this point.

The simple logic behind is that you do research before you start writing a topic. And that makes you get updated in your niche from time to time.

Business Opportunities :

Being blogger opens you a number of business opportunities on the road.

You're a blogger today and you just might become an entrepreneur tomorrow gather in your own followers and release something big that attracts a large amount of people online.

You'll never run out of ideas once you're onto blogging. If you're being an excellent writer in your own niche, chances are you'd see yourself blogging on some of the too blogs as well.

Conclusion :

The above things are completely based on my experience and I wanted to write about it as it 'll reach people who feel the same way.

I should say even this post is written to communicate with people anytime.

Now that I've shared my views it'd be awesome if you share your views in this posts via comments.

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3 Things To Know Before Starting A Blog

Are you starting as a blogger in your own niche?

Are you bold enough to call yourself a blogger?

Have you made quite a few posts for the visitors and for yourself?

There are so many questions that rises when you start thinking about making blogging full time.

It should be pretty clear that you decided to blog for a reason. May be it is your option to make some money on the other side of having a full time job, or may be you love to help people with the things that you know and wanted to share via a medium.

Anyway you've chosen blogging for a reason. It should be obvious that at one point of time you'll start thinking what to write afterall you've written nearly everything that you know, This is the time that you've to evolve your ideas and broaden up your niche circle and start learn new things and then start writing about it .

Bloggers are growing in a large number these days and if you consider to reach more readers, then you should seriously think of doing something different that other bloggers couldn't, in a way of speaking you should give a clear impression to your readers what your blog consists of and what they can do if they start reading your blog frequently.

In short, your blog should interpret the input that you give and the visitors should be getting the exact output that you wanted.

Now below down are some of the tips that you should be knowing before you start your own blog.

Choosen Your Niche? 

It is good that you've chosen your niche.  Niche blogs get more visitors as it concentrates on a specific topic rather than to roam around different parts of the internet,

There are so many benefits of choosing a niche blog.

The best part about choosing a niche blog and get successful is the amount of fame that you'll get used to is huge.

You'll start to have your own following who wants to learn things from your in your niche. You'll get to meet people who think that you can change their life with what you write.

It is always to have a following who hear your words and thoughts.

One word of advice from my side where you can get like minded people is 'Twitter',. Yes, this is where you get to easily tweet/connect with people who share same thoughts.

Expect Nothing. Give Everything: 

This is one important thing that anyone who wants to become a blogger should work on. You should never worry about what you'll get in return for your writing and how you're going to get paid. You should be worried about a lot of other things like, how can you improve your piece of writing, how frequently you should blog, how many ways that you can let people know about your blog.

Put in everything that you have., If you're not clear about something, do some researches before blogging on that topic and then start to write about it.

Always strive heard to provide legit and useful content to your readers when it comes to blogging.

Even before writing this post, I did my research on this topic and found some useful and awesome posts on various blogs and then started writing this post.

You Blog? Then Blog Frequently:

Blogging is an art which is something that I believe. Getting your readers is more important as much as you have the content in your blog for the readers to roam frequently on your blog, Frequent writing is more important than anything for the growth of your blog.

Technically speaking, Google indexes fresh blogs (in the sense the blogs that is updated frequently) more often than those that are not updated for a long time.

Getting your post on the first page of the google search results is as much important as providing your readers valuable content once they click on your post link.

Conclusion:

Blogging can be very different when you start to blog with passion and not just for money. Frequent blogging keeps visitors to your blog all the time.

You'll start to enjoy every part of blogging and getting back responses.

Now do let me know what are the things that you think anyone should know before starting a blog in your comments.


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How To Set Up Custom Domain in Blogger

Adding a custom domain to a blog is not at all a tough task to do if you've done already. You can add your custom domain to your blogger blog just by adding the domain that you purchased from Godaddy or any domain providers.

I purchased a domain today which is the current domain techlanes.com and I wanted to change my blogspot blogger to the custom domain which I did successfully.

I just found it quite easy though since I have already done with my another blog codedsack.com . I was wondering if I could write it in a blog post which would help other blogspot bloggers to run their blog with a custom domain name.

Those who don't know where to buy a domain so cheap , I would recommend you to use Godaddy.

First of all, when you buy a domain from Godaddy, you'll be provided the godaddy domain set up option once you login.

Now, we are going to add the custom domain to our blogger blog.

Step 1:   Reach out to the Settings -> Basic in your blogger and you'll find Blog Address under Publishing. 

Step 2: Now click on the Add a Custom Domain . You have to type in the custom domain that you purchased from Godaddy.

The main point to note here is that you when you type your custom domain, add prefix www to it.

For example : http://www.yourdomainname.com

It will now show two fields such as Name, Label or Host field and  Destination, Targets, and Points to field.

Step 3:  Now login to your godaddy account and launch your domain to edit the DNS zone file.

Before you'll have one A host and now you've to add the below IP Addresses below.

216.239.32.21

216.239.34.21

216.239.36.21

216.239.38.21

After adding the IP Addresses, you've to add the Host  and the target (Points To) field in the CNAME section.

That's it. You're done with your DNS Zone file in your Godaddy Account.

Step 5: Now Add the domain to your blogger blog.

While adding make sure you type www infront of the domain name and then click on the checkbox to redirect naked domain (yourdomainname.com) to regular domain (www.yourdomainname.com)

Hope that I explained it well for you to set up a custom domain to your blogger blog.

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5 Tips for Making Your Posts Really Speak to Readers

Writing punchy, engaging, and informative content is crucial to keeping your readers interested and coming back for more, but never under estimate the power of imagery to act as a secondary bit of flair when it comes to publishing online. From simple photographs to highly detailed infographics, throwing a bit of visual stimulation in with your words can make the difference between holding onto a fickle web surfer's attention or losing them as a member of your audience forever.
Unfortunately, while most of us are hipped to the fact that illustrations within blog posts are more or less required, far fewer of us do that fact justice. Helping you with that point and a few others, here are five tips for making your posts really speak to readers:

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6 SEO Tips To Improve Your Blog Traffic

Blogging can be fun when your hardwork pays off. Its not those old times that you've to do all the work by yourself and wait for the result. Its the time that you automate everything on the handes of plugins and softwares and then wait for the result. Its all made easy with the technologies and it is what we call as SEO (Search Engine Optimization).

If you play smart by knowing what the search engines want and react to it efficiently, you might see your blog gaining more traffic on the way of blogging.

Search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc., and its search algorithms work efficiently based on the blog's performance and its content. Google's search algorithm Penguin 2.0 filters fresh and updated content to the top searches and avoids spammy keywords. A lot has been changed since the rolling out of Penguin update.

Here are some 6 SEO tips to improve your blog traffic.

Fresh and Updated Content:

If you have been searching every other blogs that write about the tips for improving blog traffic, you might be familiar with the sentence 'Content is King'. I found a beautiful infographics about 'Content is King' on visual.ly which explains everything . This is the first tip that every blogger will give for other bloggers. Yes, Offcourse Content is King. Currently considering the update of Google's search algorithm at the end of may this year (2013) , you might have had spam changes with the traffic in your blog rankings and page views. It is mainly because of the freshness of the blog and its frequent updation of the pages.

Penguin Update filters the pages that are currently updated and the latest results are shown.

Keywords Search:

Searching for the most used keywords is very easy when you've Google Webmaster, Adwords Tool. Search for keywords with the most impressions on your niche and try to use it in your posts where it suits. You can use those keywords anywhere in your blog. Also keep in mind that more usage of the same keywords or keywords that doesn't suit the content are considered spammy.

Check for the keywords all by yourself via Google trends and you can find its correlation factor based on the months or years. This is neccessary to know what the readers are looking for. You're to act like one and know what keywords you will google for something that you need in your niche.

About Page and Meta Tags:

 Meta tags are real useful SEO functioned tags. Even though it is not much of a SEO technique, it draws users to click to your link or page. This is where you give your blog description and the search engine lists your blog based on the description information. Without a proper description, it is difficult for search engines to index your blog among millions of blogs.

<head><meta name="description" content="You can write your blog description here"></head>

About Page plays a substitute role for the meta tags and let the search engines index and ranks your blog among million other blogs on your niche.

Guest Blogging:

Guest blogging is a very good opportunity to lead your traffic to a new level and self-recognition in the field of blogging (your niche). Moreover, you'll find your connections grow in a mass media of like minded professionals and gather more readers to your blog and more followers to your social media profiles too.

You also need to avoid these mistakes while Guest blogging in other blogs.

Backlinking:

Backlinking is the linking back to your blog from anywhere on the internet. For example, you have a social media profile on Twitter and you add your blog to your twitter account and that makes you a  backlink from twitter to your blog. Backlinking can be achieved in many ways. 

When you guest blog on other blogs, you'll get a backlink to your blog.

Commenting on other blogs will let you add a backlink to your blog as easy as that provided you don't spam!!.

Participating in communities, forums etc., and answering questions with solutions as well as backlinking to your blog.

Social Media Presence:

Self-Promotion is the best word to put in here that explains everything that we share our blog posts via social media profiles. Social Media Presence is very important for the blog traffic. In other words for business, self-promoting can be called with respect as 'Branding'. There's no point in feeling shy or guilty of promoting your blog.

This is what we do best and this is what social medias are for. To improve your blog traffic and to get more recognition for your online business, it is necessary to keep your presence in social media and share with your followers frequently.

To make it work efficient, your blog must need atleast one social media profile in every networks. It creates a name that will automatically let people think of it as a brand. If you don't have any seperate pages on social networks for your blog, better you link your personal profiles to your blog from where you share your posts. This will increase your referral traffic to a whole new level.

 With constant sharing and live on social profiles, you will gather more followers and readers to your blog as well.

Conclusion:

Blogging will be a whole new experience if you start to make it SEO friendly. You'll experience a change in your blog traffic no matter  its referral or direct or organic. Keep in mind that you write for humans and not for search engines and at the same time you're making it SEO friendly too with proper content and strategies.

Now that I have finished this post, please leave your thoughts on this post through comments and share the love.

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5 Steps to Make Great Social Content [INFOGRAPHIC]

          To Make a Great Content which is worth spending  time on reading, all you need is some time to think and gather content for your ideas. You need to be relevant on writing about such topic and should not go AWOL.

          I wrote about How to write Quality Content in 3 Steps last month and I just wanted to include an infographic on to my blog about creating great content in a simple way.

          I was hunting on the internet for hours  about this topic and I finally got a perfect Infographic which I literally found on Pinterest pinned by dr4ward that was originally posted on Lindon East. I really can't say more to it as this infographic tells everything that you wanna know about writing an awesome content worth reading.

Having a big idea about a topic and digging about the Internet Market for right customers and right time to post  is the key for a great content. Sharing is a different key factor where you have to do promote all the time and make use of everything you can.

Here's to you the infographic on 5 Steps to Make Great Content.

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6 Steps to Create Backlinks To Your Blog

                   

  Blogging is a fun related platform that pays you wild money. Before monetizing your blog, make sure that your blog has a decent number of visitors per day and having quite a PR value. PR value is based on the popularity of your blog among the search engines and the spontaneity of the post. Now, What is Backlinking?. Backlinking is a SEO technique that provides traffic to your blog all the time. For those who do not know what's backlinking, its not much of a technical term that you fear of reading, its a process of linking back to your own blog or its posts through social media and communities etc.,. When you link your posts or your blog in anywhere around the internet, you'll get more traffic to your blog stated them as referral sites. You could check it through your Google Analytics.

                    In this post, I am going to share you with some 6 easy ways to create backlinks to your blog that will help you increase traffic.

Guest Blogging on your Niche:

It is always necessary for a blog to be successful, it has to reach many readers. And Guest Blogging is one way to provide it. Search for famous blogs on your niche. I'm sure you'll get many blogs as well. Choose any and request for a guest post. By publishing a guest post on a popular blog will get you a backlink to your blog and also you can backlink 2-3 posts to your blog anywhere. Moreover, its just not only a backlink, its your identification as a blogger professional.

Comment on other blogs:

It is easy and do-able. But mostly when a person search for something in google and reach a page, he's not likely to comment unless having any doubts regarding the subject. So, when you comment on any blog, automatically when you enter your website's name, it becomes a backlink. The speciality of the comments is that  when a person is reading a review on their niche, they mostly focus on the comments section at last and there is a possiblity of getting clicked on your blog link as such they find any amusing comments and reply. The blog owner will also have a chance to read your blog, when you leave a comment on their post. This is kind of a mutual benefit to readers and bloggers.
Make sure you comment on the blogs that belongs to your niche. Because it will help you get readers on your community.

Participate in communities:

So far I have found, community websites like Reddit, Digg, Bloggers, StumbleUpon etc., add more traffic to your blog. Interact with the co-bloggers in the community and share your ideas along with backlinking your post url. If you do not have one till now, then its the time to create an account in the community websites and share your ideas via your blog posts. The community includes the social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn etc., too. Once you interact with the people in your niche area, you might get ideas on developing your skill sets too.  Any site where you can able to share your posts via backlinking is said to be referral.

Backlinking to your own Social profiles and Pages:

I assume that you have your social media profiles where you find yourself social to others.  Link the blog url to your social profiles and stay updated. If you are managing business pages on facebook, it is to be noted that always be active on it even though you are posting an old post. Also keep in mind that don't spam sharing the same post all the time. Twitter is a best place to start your link sharing as it is a vital micro-blogging service all over the world.

Link to your Own Posts:

This is an easy way and you don't need anyone's permission to do it. You can link as much as you want to but make sure your readers don't take that as a spam. You may link as many posts, but when someone visits to your blog and would think of you as a spammer. Link to posts that are related to and don't link all the way you can.

Link to Directories, Forums:

There are thousands of link directories out there to backlink your posts as similar to RSS Directories. Some of the link directories are even payable to backlink your blog posts. These are of  great SEO Value to your blog. There are also many forums where people asks questions, share their ideas. You can also log in to the forums and backlink  your posts to the solution.

Conclusion:

The SEO traffic to your blog mainly comes through backlinks. Backlinks can be of great use to your blog's traffic. To check whether you have really got any traffic through backlinks, check to your google analytics account and see to number of "Referrals" that bring traffic to your blog.
Now, Please share your other ideas to produce backlinks to your blog through the comments so that it might help us all.

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5 Guest Blogging Mistakes That You Should Avoid

             

Guest Blogging is one of the ultimate way to gain traffic to your blog and also a medium to join the community of your niche industry bloggers. When you guest post on a high PR blog, the amount of visitors visiting your guest post will also click on your backlink to your blog reading your Author Bio. Guest blogging is not only a traffic providing option but also an experience gainer and a knowledge provider in terms of your niche. You may think having a own blog, is it necessary to guest blog on other blogs? Yes!!, It is necessary to guest blog on other blogs if you're concerned about popularizing your blog name to the world. Many Bloggers will make mistakes when it comes to Guest Blogging. Not only the mistakes cost deleting their post on the blog, but also it destroys name in the blogging community. Continue Reading to avoid the  common mistakes that every blogger makes when they decide to guest blog on a popular blog.

Poor Choice of Choosing Blogs:

                        This is the first mistake that every blogger does. They want to write a Guest Post.  They target on popular blogs that they find according to the PR and the name in the blogger community. They never see on what niche they are going to blog about. Even though it not always happens because the blog owner rejects in most of the times in terms of unrelated niche. Some may accept to post. But it is not useful for you when your blog is concerned about a niche that is too different from the niche you guest blog at. For example, you blog on internet marketing strategies, then choose the blogs that are familiar to your niche. You can find blogs like Kissmetrics, Copyblogger, Problogger etc., and request for guest post with your ideas.

Poor Choice of words:

                When I quoted the heading Poor Choice of Words, I meant frequent grammatical errors and lack of words. I am not offending any of the bloggers. Simple English that any grader can understand is more than enough to write a beautiful post. And also its your duty to raincheck your posts for errors and mistakes. It is always a fact that when any visitor reads your guest post on any popular blog, they expect perfection because of the blog's name. And when they find any mistake say spelling errors, it destroys both their blog and yours. The traffic to your blog will reduce to a level that you'll will never imagine. Before sending the fair draft to the blog owners, raincheck for any grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. I'm sure that WYSIWYG editor for wordpress have spell checker. Check for the mistakes twice before sending your post. The blog owner will never have the time to check your post for errors like you do. Once the check is finished, then send it to the blog.

Greedy for Links:

           This might seem odd, but actually every blogger does it. When writing a niche post on any blog, they just include so many links that the post can't afford.  It is an irritating moment for the blog owner to delete the backlinks and proofread it again. You can add links to your blog in your Guest Post. More than 3 links to your blog in your post will always seem to be spamming as in the sense it's not a good manner to guest post on a blog. They provide you a backlink to your blog along with the Author Bio and more than that you can add 2 links to your blog anywhere in your post. It is the decent way to post to any blog on your niche.

Poor Author Bio:

             Author Bio is the only place where you can be shown as a professional in your niche. It is also one of those places where some bloggers struggle to write about them. My advice is to maintain a neat and simple Bio that would show you as a professional. Maintain the same bio in all the blogs wherever you post as a guest author. Author Bio with your social network profiles will increase your value as a blogger in the market.

Poor After Effects:

               Lets say you have done the guest post in any blog, what will you do after getting published? Sit inside your home and waiting for the traffic to come automatically? No, then that's a mistake if you do that. You should never hesitate to promote your post even it is not from your blog. It will always help you increase traffic for your blog when both the blog owner and you promote the post. When a post is promoted only by the blog owner's side, it will reach his readers and his community. When you promote your post in their blog to your community readers, it will increase your chance of getting more Guest posts proposals and also will increase your business along with the traffic.

Conclusion:

             Ultimate vision of this post is to make aware of the common mistakes most Guest Blogger does while signing up for a Guest post. Make drafts and proofread more than twice before sending it to the blog owner. And never argue with the Blog owner for more backlinks as you'll be provided more of a Professional ID through their blog that is more than enough to increase your traffic.
                 Share your views of what are all the other mistakes that you have made while Guest Blogging and how you avoided it.

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7 Things To Do Immediately Once You Start Blogging

                     

Blogging field is a rising sunshine that never rests. The craze for blogging will always be in every webloggers and it will evolve its growth through their blog appearances and its quality accompanied with quantity. Only the content you are providing in your blog post is not enough if you want to reach more people. The success of a blog not only lies in the quantity of the posts but also rests its main platoon of Appearance and Marketing. Some may have a wrong thought that only quality content with rich wordflow will reach more readers and get more appraisals. Unfortunately, along with the quality content, some promoting makes sense to what you write and also will reach more people. Down here are the most important 7 things you should include in your blog to get more stable and frequent readers.

Link all your social network profiles to your blog:

                 Identity is the foremost thing that needs to a blog. Being Anonymous you can post whatever you want but you won't be getting stable readers. When you link your social network profiles to your blog and let people know about the blog, it will increase your blog's identity more that it would get more stable readers. I assume that you all have your own accounts on social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn etc.. If not create one in all and make sure you use it professionally for your business purposes. Link all those profiles to make awareness to the readers that you're the author of the blog.

Include Tweet Widget to your Blog: 

                  As of Today, with more than 400 million tweets sharing a day, Twitter is a powerful tool to promote your blog. Make use of all its functions that will help you gain your crowd that listens you. Read about How to make use of Twitter for blogging. Tweet API plugins are available on Twitter. All you have to do is copy and paste the code in your template page of your blog. Also embed your tweets to your blog at the bottom or may be at the right sidebar. It will show the latest tweets shared from your Twitter profile to your blog. This is a way to increase your credentials as a blogger.

Include Facebook Social Plugin:                                                                               

                    Now, we had done 2 things and the next to do is to get a Facebook social Plugin that will cover overall comments, likes, shares of your posts to your blog page and will also let users comment and like it on the blog page itself. This will increase your blog traffic along with your Facebook business page insights. It is an easier way to link your readers just because the fact that more than 600 million users online everyday.

Include Subscribe via RSS Feed:  

                    RSS- Rich Site Summary plays a vital role to your blog subscribers. Once you link your own RSS Feed to your blog, it will be much easier  to your blog readers to subscribe to your blog posts. So, whenever you post a new one onto your blog, the subscribers get notified through your RSS feed. If you use wordpress hosting, RSS will be developed automatically, and you just need to link it with the feed whether it is through feedburner or atom or if any.

Include Popular Articles Plug-in:

                           This plug-in is an important asset to a blog. Lets say, When a reader visits your blog once for the first time through search, if you have the popular posts on your blog that are related to the one they are reading, they might want to check it too ending up in spending some more time in your blog. If they like the content, chances are subscribing to your blog.

Include Comments Plug-in: 

                    All the wordpress blogs allows comments., some blogs allow only after logging in and some allow using social plug-ins etc.. Nobody wants to login to a site and comment on it. Mostly, readers will not spend time in signing in to comment for a post. There are awesome comment plugins out there like CommentLuv, JetPack etc., that will help you to make your comment options very attractive and useful to your readers to comment on your blog.

Include Famous Wordpress Plug-ins:

                    There are so many wordpress plug-ins that is must for a blog to survive on the Blogging world. Install wordpress plugins for mail sending like Mailchimp, Aweber etc., SEO plugins, and most importantly Guest Post plugin. This plugin is important because when another blogger visits your blog and interested in doing a Guest Post, it is useful to get your guest posts ready. And Guest Blogging is essential to every blogger for his own blog's growth and for his own name to grow among the leading blogger's lists. The Shareaholic plugin provides you to share your posts to more than 100 social medias and bookmarking services.

Conclusion:

                       As far as considering the field of Blogging when you  take it seriously and make a way to earn out of it, you have to be well connected to all the means of marketing, promoting your blog. You need to have most of the plug-ins that you could make use of within your blog. Please share the names of the most used plugins in your blog  with us that helps you run your blog in an efficient way.


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7 Ways to attract more Readers to your Blog

Writing a perfect Blog Post is not a easy task. Its not a day's work. It takes some planning, skimming, brainstorming sessions. It becomes a draft. Furthermore, it needs some tinkering and painting works that leads to publishing it as a post. As like that, attracting your readers is also a tough one. You may think it as a piece of cake but it's not. You have to work on your presentation levels as well as your knowledge about the topic.

Lets say you have written 10 blog posts so far and your Google Analytics tool shows your returning visitors rate is much lower than new unique visits. That indirectly means you have not satisfied your readers. Your readers are not attracted to your posts. This post will help you to get noticed by your readers.
   Here are 7 ways to attract your readers and to increase your returning visitors rate of your Google Analytics tool.

1. People love reading personal experiences:

               People love hearing about your personal experiences with your post subject. No matter what your niche you write about, try adding some of your real time examples that you cross over daily. For example:; If you write about Tools that manage your Tweets, write something that you have used for your account and found useful and your views about it. This will not only attract your readers but also increase your content. Readers prefer your views about a particular topic. Give them your views through your post.

2. Statistical Explanations with Quotes:

           Explaining the things with statistic numbers will attract your readers. The numbers need not to be accurate but it has to be approximate . Use some Quotes while writing a post. You can start with a Quote if not  you can end with a quote. For example:; When writing a Blogging Tips post, try adding some motivational quotes at the start. It will make the readers excited to read next below.

3. Infographics:

             Infographics has been the latest trend these years. With the growth of Pinterest it has gone quite effective in Blogging. A picuture says everything that you want to write in a post. Add images with statistics and informations in your blog post. Mostly people will find useful these pictures rather reading full posts. Surprisingly, if an image is not good or related to your blog post, people will neglect reading the content. Try including infographic images often in your posts.

4. Use of Videos:

             Videos play a vital role as the same as Infographics. For example:; If you're running a tutorial blog, your blog post is about "How to crack a Wi-Fi?". You may write every instructions line by line. Some may read it fully and some may understand it fully. When they try with only the instructions, it won't be that easy. If you add a video for that tutorial I bet they will watch and learn. It is an easy way to attract your readers to your blog.

5. Make them Imagine:

              Imagination is a very big tool to attract your readers. We all imagine whatever it is worst or the best. Imagination is a daily routine of we humans. Making people imagine while reading your posts will attract many readers. Use words like "Imagine the situation where ...", "Lets say ..." etc.. You have to be clear at the end when making your readers imagine the worst, that you have something to come up with a solution.

6. Use of HTML Tags:

            Your blog post should produce a kind of impression to your readers once they see it. All your blogging tools provide the HTML Editors like WYSIWYG etc. You can make use of the rich HTML tags for your post to make them shine. Make use of the tags like blokquote, heading tags h2,h3,h4,h5 etc., bold tag <b>, italics <i> etc in your post. It will create an alignment to your post and also will attract your readers.

7. Run an Interactive Session:

              Most of all, running an interactive session will always be a thing for the readers. When a reader wants to comment on your blog, reply with them and make it an interactive session. For example:; Ask questions at the end of the post or it is even better to ask them share their views on the topic. Let them know you are concerned on their views. This will never hurt you or your readers. If they like your post, they will comment and this is a chance to know your readers ideas and point of view. Always finish your post with a Conclusion or give a proper ending.

P.S: Another thing that is not listed in the above 7 ways to attract your readers is concern your readers and never disappoint them. Satisfaction comes when you deliver a good post to your readers and they feel the same about it.

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4 Reasons why you should do Guest Blogging

  Guest Blogging probably I hope you know what is Guest Blogging exactly as in the word it says it all. Recently Guest Blogging has been on its revolution stage getting viral such that almost all sort of bloggers are using this facility. Wordpress is providing a plugin for Guest Post already for their service users. If you do not know what is Guest Blogging, let me tell you; It is nothing different but you blog in other blogger's blog so that the number of views, traffic goes to their blog and credits goes to you, you get paid too. If you want to do a Guest Post in a blog, you have to request the owner of the blog with your ideas and your information. If they are interested in your ideas, they'll let you do a Guest Post in their blog. Recent surveys on Guest Blogging shows that it is highly responsible for the blog traffic. It is because not only your blog allows Guest Posts but also you guest posting on other blogs. I am writing this post about Guest Blogging to tell you the importance of it and why you should also do Guest Posts often.

Exposure to the Internet World:

                   Say you are blogging for over an year and still you find it hard to get more readers, your PR is still low. That means your blog is not much popular among your niches in the internet world. What Guest Blogging offers you is simple. It helps you gather more traffic to your blog. There are so many popular blog on your niche. Select some of them and prepare a topic(Post) very attractive to read and guest blog on any of the selected blogs. Once you do a Guest Post to a blog, they provide you a credit of an expert in your area along with your blog information, I guarantee you there are chances of your post viewed my thousands of readers a day. Not only they read your post, they read your information, know about your blog. It gives you an exposure to the internet world. You are known to people all over the world as an expert in your niche all through your one Guest Post. Seems Tempting?

Creates Business Contacts:

                    When you do a guest post for a blog, you'll professionally said to be placed in their business contact's list. Likewise, if your guest post is good and attractive, you'll get many contacts not only to your blog but also personal business contacts. Many people will try to contact you through social medias or though your blog. This increases your business contacts list. Opportunities are getting more community readers to your blog.

Increase your blog traffic through backlinks:

                  Increase in your business contacts automatically means the increase in your blog traffic. Guest Blogging is a SEO Technique that gathers you more backlinks. When you guest post a blog, they provide you a backlink to your blog along with your credentials. They also credit you with a name professional(expert) in your niche. Backlink to your blog from a popular blog with high PR like makeuseof, ehow, Kissmetrics etc means your blog is about to get more traffic from it. Precisely, your blog is one step near to being popular. It will increase the traffic to your blog and your frequent readers list.

Growth in Ideas and writing skills:

              Guest Blogging means to whatever blog you write a guest post, it should stand out to be the one in your masterpiece lists. It will have to be perfect to improve your credibility. It also improves your writing skill, and also your thinking capability. When you do a guest post, you'll get more ideas from your side and also from the blog owner's side. When Ideas combine, there comes Perfection. It will improve your writing potential.

Conclusion:

Honestly, at the time I got my interest in Blogging, I was not aware of many blogging professionals and their blogs. Whenever I visit a Guest Post in any blog, I look into the blogger's information and visit their blog too most of the times. I find amusing posts on their blog right equals to I become a Subscriber to their blog. Guest Blogging is a successful technique of gathering traffic to your blog.

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7 Things I learned from Batman Triology

Batman, the name when I hear it, I feel like I'm excited, anxious to know what people say about the character. I have a huge craze for Batman movies and the comic books too. Also to add with it, Christopher Nolan one of my favorite directors, the combo has given a special meal to every eyes that watch. Whenever I watch a Batman movie whether it is more than 1 time, I am always eager, thrilling, more excited about what happens next even if I know what it would be. I wanteed to make a blog post because I were able to relate some few things from that movie to the area of Blogging. I want my blog to be a bit tech, so better I get back to what I have to say.
    Read down to know what I had learned from my favorite Batman Troilogy. So, lets start with Batman Begins.

  Let me start with a quote from that movie.

Batman Begins:

1. "And why do we fall Bruce? So, we can learn to pick ourselves up" - Alfred.J.Pennyworth

          It is a line actually from Bruce's Father Thomas Wayne telling his Bruce when he fell into a trap. It is echoed here and there by Alfred to Bruce at some places. Can you relate it with something? Well, "Failing is a part of us learning something better for the next time". There's nothing wrong in failing. It is only wrong when you fail at something and you don't learn anything from it. Only when you fail, you learn to do it better for the next time. As for bloggers (Newbies) keep on blogging., never worry that you are not getting any traffic, more readers or not getting popular posts and all., just do what you have to do and what you can do. Learn something from it so that you can apply it for the next time to make it better than before. You can learn about something only when you try it. And when you try it develop a passion for it to make it worth you doing.

2."It's not who you're underneath, It's what you do that defines you". -Rachel Dawes

            I'll take that you remember exactly when the line comes in that movie. Yes, it's when Bruce is walking out with two hot chicks outside the hotel and Rachel delivers him the speech.

  Deliver what exactly you are intented to. Make it clear for your readers to understand what you are trying to say in a post. Give them a bright picture of your views. "Nobody remembers what you meant to do. People only remember what you do!". You can't say your readers that that is what you meant it to be and this is how it turned on. It's in vain. If so, then you are going to lose your serious readers. You have to offer your readers the way they like with better appearances on your blog and quality content with good quantity too.

Batman-The Dark Knight:

3: "Why so serious?" - The Joker.

            The Dark Knight with an IMDB Rating of 9/10, I wouold say it is an epic of thrill. And also It is one of my favorite more than the Batman Begins movie. Joker is a legend in his work whatever it is. "Appearances are often deceptive". I agree with that point. Some may say "I have a beautiful blog with rich CSS content, but I am not getting much traffic to my site!!". Folk, I will say that only a beautiful dress is not enough to show you pretty. You need to bring out the smile inside you to make yourself seen pretty to the world. I have seen some blogs that are not rich in their look, but have  great content inside it. Its worth reading too. But like I said in the 2nd point, you should also look atleast neat enough to impress someone. The way your blog looks, gets you the weightage to your content inside too. May be some miss their effect to make it seen rich but all it matters is the content inside whether its worth or not.

4: "A Hero can be anyone"- Bruce Wayne

    This line belongs to  "The Dark Knight Rises" . But I wanted to quote this here with Dark Knight. Harvey Dent is the reason to quote it here. He was a hero until he lost faith in himself and the world, turned to see himself as a villain. Unlike anyone, Gordon trusted in Batman as much as he trusted himself. I am about to say that "Trust in fellow people and yourself". For gaining the trust of your readers, your posts should possess a quality called Truth. Write with real time examples and lead them exactly to the station.

  You are never going to increase your frequent readers list not unless you write the truth. Assumptions and some rubbish explanations may find amusing for just one time  but it wont last long. Take time to review things before you write. Rely on legitimate resources. You will find interesting with your readers to share the truths.

Batman-The Dark Knight Rises:

5. "It's the fear of death that will drive you to move faster than possible, fight longer than possible"- Blind Prisoner in the Pit.

             As it is been said by a guy who was with Burce in the pit where Bane prisoned him to die a slow death, in Blogging you need to be feared  about one thing. Quitting. The more fear you develop for Quitting, the more better you turn around to be a person who is opposite to it. Most newbies quit too early getting frustrated before even waiting to reach a year full on. Quitting doesn't help. It makes you a coward. Face the world with truth and reality. Blogging is a life time process to do it, rather to say it is an enjoyment of life. Everyone has their own style . Blog by it. Once you continue you may start to find the fruits on your tree.

6. "Make a climb without the rope like the child did" - Blind Prisoner

                I am never been much impressed by anyother than this scene from the movie The Dark Knight Rises. Bruce triees, tries and tries to climb off the pit. He fails for 2 times. Then he makes the climb without the rope. He was able to do it finally. "Try, try, try until you succeed. Never Say never". These words say it all. What if he had decided to quit and stay back at the pit and let himself die? He would never have his chance to save this Gotham city. Who knows your chance might be the next step you're going to take. Doing something so long in different ways makes you an expert in that field. Try out and make your climb.

7. You think Darkness is your ally? I was born with it.- Bane

           In The Dark Knight Rises, Bane almost defeated Batman at the first half. He had an ally- Darkness his power vested in him by birth. Bane has more experience in dark than Batman. So, this means to do something continously makes you good at it. Finally Batman beat Bane. "Make an Ally. Go by it". Blog the topic that you are interested in. It will be better if you have known about it for so long so that you can make a good outcome from it.  That will help you gather more content with less effort. You cannot shine writing a tech blog with all your interest in Cars and Bikes. Make a connection with your work and carry on your bright work. Don't even think about quitting before you know it.

  

Conclusion:

  I love Batman Movies right from my childhood. I just wanted to share what I could able to relate with my favorite movie of all times so that I could make out a post from it. A better post that can relate with Blogging tips and I would love you guys if you could comment on your views with this movie. Keep Blogging Guys. Make your blogging passion out with fun and enjoyment.

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