How To Improve Your Blog Post URL For Better SEO

Any blog post or any html page component on the internet has its own URL which is most preferrably accompanied with the DNS of the system. For better performance in terms of SEO, and in terms of looks, your URL needs to be perfect. If that is not the term, it has to be readable as well as understandable. When I said understandable, I meant it for the search engine algorithms which are changing from time to time. URLs need to be understandable for the search engines to get indexed easily and also for the best search results.

The url contributes a major part to the SEO and it speaks for the content inside it. The URLs should be apt for the content and it also suits the blog post or any page that you're gonna write on. Most importantly, for humans, internet searchers should guess what's inside when they see the url of the blog post or a page.

Now I'll tell you how to improve your blog post URL just doing some researches.

Bring In Words:

URLs need to be easily read for any user to click them and have a look.

For example, when you're writing a blog post like 4 Simple Tips to Increase Your Twitter Followers, you might think how you can give a better url to get listed. The words that are used in the title of the post are keywords and they are mainly responsible for getting listed in the search results of users.

Here tips, twitter, followers are the most searched keywords which you sure have to use it in your url. With the new keyword planner tool, you have to set up an account on Google Adwords which will suggest you al list of keywords if you search for it.

Make use of those keywords in your URL. You have to be sure that your URL should portray what the page or post should be about.

It is a good practice to write with a structure so that the users can navigate easily if they want to view other pages too. If you're using blogger platform, the blog post url must contain the year and the month followed by the keywords.

For example:

 http://techlanes.com/2014/01

It is a good thing that it shows the posts that are written on the respective month and year.

It shows the users a structure of the blog and any users can navigate to other posts easily, If you're using wordpress, you can change the url as anything you wish and it is a good thing too where you can optimize your url with only main keywords, so that it looks short, clean and neat and easy to read.

Since I am using blogger, I can't change the structure of my url, where as I can just contribute to the usage of keywords in the my url which will do the rest.

Things to Avoid:

Avoid using lengthy urls where you can short urls with small lengthy texts (keywords) which in wordpress said to be slugs. Actually lengthy urls are not easy to remember  and most users might find it difficult to make a connection with it.

Avoid using default url generations because if you're using blogger, sometimes your url might generate something like page1.html etc., Sometime it takes the first line of the content if you don't provide a title and once it is created it can't be reset unless you open a new post, Even when a title is given it generates urls based on the titles which includes unwanted (not most important) words in it. 

It goes the same with the wordpress as well but you can edit them easily from time.

Easier Navigation URLs:

URLs need to be easier for any user to navigate throughout the blog. When a user enters your blog via the google search results, after reading the post completely and lets say, they want to navigate to another page.

Some users find it easy to just cut a part of the url and enter it at the address bar, to see the posts related to it.

Some blogs might have restricted the usage of typing urls on to the address bar. When a user enters the part of the url, it should return the related page, where if there's no related page, it should show a 404 page.

In this case, if your url is not structured well, and your users don't know it, it might lead to an error and still giving a bad impression to the user who is trying to find something on your blog. 

Write the urls that gives a pretty structure to your blog. Like I said earlier, the blogger urls have the year and month added with it and the keywords, wherein if any user just cuts the keywords from the url and just enters, it will show the posts that are written in the corresponding year and month.

For Wordpress, most of the urls that you see everyday contains only the slug keywords, that are accompanied to the url of the blog. Make use of the pretty permalinks nicely for easier navigation through your blog.

And this is a nice way where if the user takes off the keywords, it will direct the user to the main page.

Conclusion:

Whether you're using blogger or wordpress, its important for the users to know the structure of the url. By the structure, I mean, even if the user cuts keywords on the url and enter it on the address bar, it should return to the page where it meant to be.

 Like I said earlier, URLs speak for the content and it is a main part of the SEO. Make sure you use it for the bright future of your blog.

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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 Tools To Create Your Own Infographics

Infographics are very powerful in the blogosphere and in every other business as well. Inspite of Time and writing more content, they are indisputable in reaching more readers and can be understood easily.  As Web Designers and Bloggers, we come across a lot of infographic presentations everyday and only we know how much effort we are putting into for creating such infographics using tools like Photoshop. Photoshop is really a competing tool for designing Charts, images and infographics etc., but in the POV of designers, it consumes a lot of time and energy and budget. To reduce the amount of time spent in creating such infographics and charts, came the infographic creator tools which can save you a lot of time and money. Anyone can design cool infographics with these tools and you don't need to be a designer to furnish your carvings.

 Here are 5 of my favorite tools for creating cools infographics with your data.

Infogr.am:

 

Infogram- Create Interactive Infographics. One of the best Infographic creator tool and easy to use as well. A total of 1,039,728 Infograms (and counting) are created using this tool. Infograms created with this tool are rich in data content and more like charts.   Chart type datas can be created in minutes. It ha a built-in spreadsheet where you will be providing the data or you can also import data from Excel sheet, XLS or CSV formats too. You can create chart type infographics in formats like Bar chart, Pie Chart, Bubble Chart, Tree Chart etc., . The Download feature is available only to pro users who buy subscription for 18$/ month or $/year. You can share the infographics created by you on your social networks and can  embed in your website too.

Get About Me:

 

This is a cool infographic creating tool which gathers data from your social networking profiles and generates your own personalised infographics. Yes, by signing in via Facebook, the tool automatically generates an infographic image based on your social media activity. It is one of the best tool to view your ups and downs of your day to day social media profile activities.

Vizualize.me:

 

Visualize.me is an apt tool to rejenuvate your resume in an infographic format. The tagline- Visualize your Resume in one click says it all. Yes. That's Right!. Just be connecting with your linkedin profile, it creates a professional infographic resume. You can create your infographics resume in minutes. You can share your personalised Resume to your social networking profiles as well as embed to your blog. It is in its beta version and some of the features like Print are coming soon and it will be quite exciting in coming years with the personalized infographic resume.

Piktochart:

 

Piktochart is another free infographic tool that contains more than over 120 themes which you can create visual infographic datas. It is easy to share and easy to use as it guides step by step tutorial even for a perfect newbie. The attractive feature is that download as JPG or PNG formats are available for all the users. The Pro users will get hands on unlimited themes. Free Users can access only 7 themes whereas Pro Users can access more than 100 themes. The cost of Subscription is $29 /month or 169$/year.

Easel.ly:

 

Easel.ly is another free tool to create your infographics. It calls its themes as vheme (Visual Theme) and it is totally free. You can create your infographics within minutes with this tool and is cost-effective too. The best part is it has drag and drop facility that works on the themes where anyone with no designing background can use its features very easily.

Conclusion:

 So far I have seen and tried, the above are the 5 tools for creating infographics. There are many other infographic tools out there but I am sure that you'll love the above ones more than the other tools for your purposes.

Now, leave back a comment with your favorite infographic creation tools. 

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Social Bookmarking- A Time Saver Aesthetic

Social Bookmarking

Social Bookmarking tools are a remarkable piece of value to the internet which let us share and bookmark things right where we sit.  Social Bookmarking is a major time saver aesthetic for all of us who are running business online.  Just imagine the situation if there is no social networking and bookmarking medias.!! Well,now that's hard. We have to do everything manually promoting our business through advertisements and  campaigns, webinars etc., I am sure that Blogging will be a piece of cake, but the part next to it called as marketing will be the outta deal. The part where we have to let the internet to know the content that we have becomes a hundred men's job .

          If not for all the social networking media and its bookmarking tools, a blog would suffer a lot to come up with a high PR and traffic rather you go on advertising online and through mass medias and do campaigns. Technically, bookmarking tools brings a lot of traffic to your site than through listed in search giants such as Google, Bing etc., Speaking of traffic, recent surveys provide an analytics that more than 60% of traffic to blogs come through social bookmarking sites and social medias.

         The definition of a bookmarking tool is just a tool that helps you to pin your posts for future references. Here, a social bookmarking tool is said to be a via program that helps you to pin or share your posts to various social medias. With the introduction of these social bookmarking websites, the trend has been changing that people are searching for what they want in these social bookmarking websites and its social medias.  Pinterest with its infographic revolution, Reddit with forum kinda coolness, Twitter with their hashtags, Digg with its whole lot of awesome bookmarking service, Quora with its community services (gather and group around your community experts) are becoming the places where people prefer to show their interest to satisfy their needs.

         The relation with social media and social bookmarking  is that you can call a social networking site as a social bookmarker, but you can't say a social bookmarking tool as a social networking site. For example, We know that Twitter is a famous social networking platform, a microblogging website.  It is also considered to be a social bookmarking site. The latest Top 15 social bookmarking sites list by EbizMBA puts Twitter 1st on the list which is followed by Pinterest, Reddit and so on.

       Attention!! It will be lame not to mention one of the gaint social media here. Yes. I am pointing out the Twitter guys who made us to speak with not more than 140 characters. Twitter is a social microblogging service also a leading sharing service that light out your content to the social media. A one follow button can change everything to be knowing interest of your crowd.

        I also have to agree the fact that, my interest in writing some of the posts did come from these sites especially Twitter and Pinterest.

     Bookmarking Services:   

                   There are hundreds of thousands of bookmarking services out there that will help you keep posting live content all the time to the social environment. Even the communities like Reddit, Stumbleupon, etc., makes you promote your posts among your community readers. 

            Bit.ly is also a bookmarking tool along with the functionality of a url shortner, that allows you to share on Twitter and Facebook. There are also bookmarking sites like Digg, Delicious, Stumbleupon where you share your content through the share plugin installed on your blog.

          I don't know how many of you would know Bloggers, but I believe that it is a platform where you can find most of the bloggers of your niche where they form community of mutual beneficiaries. Bloggers shares your content automatically through the RSS Feeds of your blog. 

        Coming to Pinterest, It has the most finest infographics on the internet. A picture is worth a thousand words. Here, the pictures are not only worth just words but also worth of the information one would write in a whole post. Moreover, you can use the infographics as an information for your next post. Pin the blog post on your account by creating and organizing boards. You can also follow boards on your niche. Note while pinning your pictures write the description that relates your blog post. Your description is a key value to your pin that decides whether a pinterest user to visit your post or not. Most possibly add the pinterest Pin It button on your pages that will let you share easily to the service.

Conclusion:

        I have just quoted some of the bookmarking tools that I use and I know of. There are a number of bookmarking services out there. Don't use everything like you have to. Use some of the main services that is easy and popular to catch the readers. And most of all share frequently to those services as and when ever you create a new blog post. Sharing is an effective strategy considering the Internet Marketing. Social Bookmarking is the place where you'll find yourself complete to any search queries with solutions. Make use of these stunning social bookmarking services to save time and for marketing your blog at the same time.

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How To Write Quality Content In 3 Simple Steps

 Want to write about a topic with more content, but its soon already?. You want to make an informational article with more than 800-900 words per post?. But you don't know how to write such a big article. You want to make a master piece of your writing but it seems you have no idea? Don't worry. I have a special 3 step equation for you. 

       Writing an exceptional content is not that difficult if you have some vital points to explain. You don't need to be a professional writer to write with such a beauty. Moreover, you don't need to be a literature guy who plays with words in his post. This post will help you to write a good quality content in 3 steps.

Select a favorable Topic:

First of all, you need to find a topic to blog about. The topic should be related to your niche, so that you don't need to study much for a good writing. And more than that, the topic should be more informational than a problem solving. For example, say you are a social media marketing blogger, you would find many topics to blog about that provide information which leads to 1000 words accomplishment. It you are a software coding blogger where you provide solutions, tricks etc., its rare to find topics with more content and you know why. 

 Choosing a topic that you know nothing about is a waste of time. You can write about it but you don't find it worthwhile as like your other topics that you know very well. Choose a topic that you think you're able to write more and also provide more information. Its okay to choose a topic that you don't know a thing about. But before writing  it, spend as much time as you can so that you learn the maximum and have the faith to make a better blog post on it. 

So, I guess selecting a topic is a piece of cake now.

Read More, View More:

Reading helps a lot. Even though you have the belief that you can write a quality content on a specific topic without reading any, there are so many things that you might not know about it. Read other blogs that have posted on the same or related topic. 

There are always stuffs that you may not know about a topic and when you read various resources related to your stuff, you'll be able to know the POV of the other authors (bloggers) and gather more information that help to make a quality content with more than 900-1000 words. 

 Make sure you note down important points to write and stick to the point, so that you don't go AWOL.

Create Drafts or short notes:

We read so many things a day. We don't stop by thinking that this is enough for today and let the others be tomorrow. And when time passes by, we tend to forget some of the things that we've read earlier. So, its better to have taken short notes about the topics you've interested and such that it helps in future. 

 When you want to make a post on a topic and you read other resources, take notes on the main points that you're gonna write about. Its better if you make drafts on your blogger or wordpress editor to remind yourself to use those points.

Conclusion:

These are the 3 most important steps to write a quality content.  Make sure you include all the key points to rotate your post based on it. 
Also note that after writing, check your content for grammatical errors or spelling mistakes. This is one of the most important thing to do as it evaluates whether your content is of good quality or not.
 Now that I have finished up writing this post, What are you waiting for?!.  Go and write a Quality content on your favorite topic. And post your experiences with it.

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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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Marketing Your Blog with Google +

             

  Google+ is one of the popular social networking site that is growing fast irrespective of its debut. Earlier when it was introduced around mid 2011, many of us would have thought how could it come along with all the other famous social networking sites. Google announced that they reached 10 million users within a couple of weeks time  at the trial phase. I never minded it as a main system for blogging.  I never thought it would create an impact on marketing this good. Like everyone else, I created an account there and just left it unnoticed, honestly I never made an effort to get knowing about it. Later on, I found the importance of having a profile on Google + that could help grow our business in an efficient way. 

                               Running a blog successfully, is not a piece of cake. It includes a bit of ridges and furrows. Only updating your blog often will not help you to get noticed by people. It will only help you get listed on the top search engine's list. But, when you need many readers to actually read your post frequently, you have to promote your posts through various medias and anything that would help others to know about your blog. Recently, Google+ seems to be a glittering tool for SMB's and bloggers to run their business. Promoting a blog post or any business page is very easy with the Google+ network. Once you decide to spent some time learning the functions of this network, you'll find it easy to get through it.

                             In this post, I will help you with some tips that could be a great deal for marketing your blog with G+. Read it through to know the things that you could make use of to publicize your blog with Google+.

Create a Strong Bio:

                             As you have been promoting your business through most of the social networks, you may know that a neat professional account will always do the thing for you. Whenever you do publish a post, remember that if you have author of the blog linked to Google+ profile will provide you priority to other authors. When you do marketing with Google+, professionally a strong tech bio that suits your niche will do the thing for you. When people read your posts and then may read your profile to know your credibility. The Bio should be exactly related to the niche you blog at. Actually people on Google+ are mostly business professionals and SMB's and bloggers., They would love to Add you to their Circles only when you have a strong bio that portrays your work. I guess it is not that difficult to create a decent bio for your business profile on Google+ than to write a blog post.

Create a Business Page:

              Google+ allows you to create a business page as like Facebook. Mostly the probloggers share their posts on their personal profile that makes them a business pro.  If you may not want to share it on your profile, you can create a business page for your blog to share it to your circles and the public.

Make Use of the Circles:

                       The Google+ provides you a special functionality to share your posts and thoughts with the people you want. It is a Social Network after all and it allows you to use the circles in your way. You can add people to your circles. First of all, create seperate circles for family, friends, business etc.. You might not want to share your business with anyone who feel disturbing. But the truth is when you share a post public to all including your circles, even there is a chance of others who are not in your circle would view and click on your post. Sharing isn't a crime though. You may ask people to share it with their circles.

An Integrated Process:

             Google+, Gmail, Google search etc..  are the products of Google. Whether you have noticed it or not, when you share a post from your blog, it'll ask whom to share with and when you select the people in your specific circle, it also sends a notification mail to get their attention that you've share something with them. It'll increase the number of people who view your post and visit your blog if they like it. And it is also a benefit when on the search, Google prioritizes the posts on a particular topic with the G+ profiles linked on it. All you have to do is when you do a blog post, link your G+ profile as the blog author.

Follow Communities:

              Inside of Google+, there are hundreds of thousands of communities that will help you gather more to your circles. Join the communities on your niche and interact with the people inside. It is a great opportunity to make you and your blog go famous among the crowd. Use the keyword Categories in Google+ that will recommend you to follow your niche categories and also will help you to know more people. Search for categories with # and interact with the people and publicize your blog.

 Conclusion:

                   
              Marketing your blog with Google+ is not a big work. It's just a matter of time to invest in frequently to interact with the people of your kind. When you do get a crowd who listens to your posts, it all comes to sharing frequently. Sharing is not a tough work as you can share through your blog page or you may use sharing tools. Please speak your mind if you have any other useful tips on marketing with Google+ through the comments.

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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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Best SEO Tools

Blogs simply do not get listed in the Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. Blogs need to be promoted with the help of tools which are preferably called as SEO- Search Engine Optimization. Blogs are promoted using these tools and thus are indexed in the search engines.

Listed here are 5 mostly used SEO tools for blogging.

1: Google Webmaster Tool
             It is the most used SEO tool that bloggers use to make sure their blog is doing good or not. Google Webmaster Tool provides you with detailed results of your sitelinks, traffic, page visibility on Google. It provides all your site back links and your site performance, your blocked URL's lists.

2: Google Ad Word Keyword Tool
           It is widely used tool for blogging. Users may type their own thought in Google and the mighty google provides results checking with the words that they provide. These words are listed for the view of bloggers with the help of this tool. You can search for the most apt ad word that suits your content and also suits with the search results. This helps in the recurrent chance of listing your page at the top of other pages.
3: Page Rank Tool
          Page Rank Checker is another tool that provides you to search for your page ranks as per Google. The page rank is validated according to the contents that are valid and consistent to the title. The Page rank starts with PR0 and increases if your page is indexed and ranked well by google. This is most used tool to check your site rank. If your Pagerank is PR0, it means you really have to work hard to strike atleast to get to PR1.
4: Site Stats Checker Tool
         Site Stats Checker tool is another tool that can be used a to check the status of your site. This tool provides you your site's possible backlinks, blocked URL's. It shows all the current status of your site . The site stats checker is available for free from most of the SEO providers.
     These SEO Tools are mostly used as a whole providence. The SEO Tools are been free over the internet from SEO Providers. It will easy and user friendly for you to use Google Webmaster Tool for your Search Engine Optimization.
P.S: Social Networking sites can also be used as SEO Tools for your blog promotion

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