How To Optimize Your Blog For The Search Engines

Now you have your blog set up and ready for a flood of visitors it's time to
optimize your blog for the search engines.

You need to do this in two ways. On page optimization and off page optimization.
Now the on page optimization is already done if you have posted key phrase
specific content to your blogs and added the keyword to the title and description
of your blog in the settings.

This leaves you with the off page optimization which is basically the incoming
links to your blog. These need to be key phrase specific e.g.

You link should be like below
Puppy training

As this is a link to your blog for the phrase you are trying to rank well for in the
search engines.

Most people make the mistake of linking to their blogs like below.

[http://puppytraining1.blogspot.com]

Now this link could be on the exact same page as the key phrase specific one
but it is of far less quality as it would be very little good to rank number 1 for your
URL.

Now you know how to link to your blog you need to go and get hundreds of
backlinks. This will be sure to get your blog ranked high.

Now for your sub blogs it will take less links but in large markets I have seen that
it can take thousands of incoming links before ranking on the first page which is
why the research phase is so important.

So how do you get hundreds or even thousands of links without using any black
hat techniques or risky software.

There are a few white hat ways to get incoming links which are...

1 - Links on your other blogs

By following this system you will have already have links on your blogs to you
main blog by posting articles with the keyword in the title field and blog url in the
link field.

Now if you want to add links to other blogs you can either use this method or you
can place anchor text code in the template code.

You can place this either in the side bar or at the bottom of the blog.

2 - Links from submitting articles

The best way to get outside links from hundreds of different websites is by
submitting articles.

Now this can be done manually or semi automatically using software
[http://www.articleassistance.com]

Using the software allows you to submit to over 150 directories in around an hour
which is excellent considering it would take you at least 5 hours to do it manually.
Once your article is in the directory people like yourself can place these articles
on their blogs or websites for free so long as they keep the links to the author's
site or blog.

This means that within a few weeks you can have hundreds of extra links coming
into your blog from people who are displaying your content on there sites.

Now writing an article is really easy and it only has to be 350 to 400 words long.

You can simply research and read a couple of articles in around 30 minutes and
re word that information into a unique article in another 30 minutes.

Remember to make sure the links in your author box are keyword specific using
anchor text like when linking from blog to blog.

3 - Links from link exchanges

Another excellent way to get links from hundreds of on topic websites is by
joining link exchange websites. The one I recommend and use is
[http://www.linkmetro.com]

This has over 20,000 members wanting to exchange links and makes it really
easy to exchange links.

You just find a site you want to link to. Place some code they give you on your
blog and then that site is notified and asked to link back.

Link metro even has videos showing you step-by-step how to use their free
service so even that a total newbie can do this with ease.

Now you have a blog which is optimized for the search engines and you are
starting to get incoming links which in turn is moving you up the search engine
rankings.
 
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How Can We Use Blogging to Make Online Income?

Different Ways to Make Online Income
  
Now more people are interested to do online work from home and earn online income.  

Is it possible?  

It is possible but not easy.  If you have a skill that you can market and if you are able to market this skill successfully, you can make a lot of money.  Online jobs like web designing, article writing, program creation, designing works, online translation work and copy writing are some of the online jobs from which you can make online income.  

Web portals like Freelancer.com or Elance.com are offering a lot of jobs for skilled people.  You can register in these sites freely and find out the suitable job for you.  But all these jobs have to be completed according to the specification of the job providers and working schedule also will be dictated by them.  You can work as a freelancer only under the stipulation of your employers. 

Blogging for Money

Blogging is also an online money making opportunity but it is different from other jobs.  Here you are the boss of yourself.  Nobody is there to decide the time schedule of your work or validate your work.  If you have a talent to write reasonably without spelling mistake and with a few grammar mistakes, you are competent enough to start your own blog.  But another requirement for this is the deep knowledge about the topic you are discussing in the blog.  You should also read and update your information always and then only you can include new information and data in your posts.

 

If you are confident about to start a blog, the next doubt is that how it can be possible to make money from this?  There are a lot of ways to make money from a blog.  Different opportunities are available to monetize a blog, but you have to choose the suitable option/options for using them in your blog.

Before planning to monetize your blog, make sure that you have enough traffic for your blog.  That means you should create regular readers for the posts.  Many different tips and tricks have to be applied to get good traffic for your blog.  Some of them are good and fresh contents, keyword research for search engine optimization, social media postings, social network postings, participating in the social forums’ discussions of your niche etc.  Without a good traffic, your effort to make money from the blog will not be successful.

Watch a video below by makemoneyblogging321   about How to Make Money by Blogging:

Some of the methods which will help you to make money from the blog are discussing below and find out which are the suitable options for you to monetize your blog:

• ADSENSE: Signing with Google Adsense is one of the best options to make money from the blog.  But negative aspect of this option is that your blog have to get approval from Google to get an adsense account.  Please refer their guidelines before applying for approval.
• CHITIKA:  This is also another pay-per-advertisement option and this also needs prior approval.  But here the approval is not very tough as in the case of Google Adsense.
• AFFILIATE MARKETING:  You can sign up with different companies of your niche for affiliate partnership and place their links in your blog for getting commission of the sales.  Skimlinks, Amazon are some examples.
• SUBSCRIPTION:  You can make money by collecting membership fee from the viewers if you can offer anything valuable to them.  It may be some tutorials, training etc.  If you can be successful in this field, online income will flow into account continuously.
• EBOOKS:  Write quality eBooks related to your niche and offer them at reasonable price through your blog.  If you have enough knowledge about the topic you are writing and if you are able to offer some valuable information though these eBooks, you can sell your eBooks like hot cakes!

The above discussed methods are the common methods that are using to monetize blogs.  You can find out which of these option/options are suitable for you to follow.  A good blog can make millions of money but only a few bloggers are becoming successful in this field.  This is because of the mistakes they are committing in blogging by ignorance or by misguidance.  

To start a good blog you should have some good guidance and that will help you trigger your success.  Conduct a ‘Google Search’ about the blogging in internet and you will be able to find a lot of practical advice from experienced bloggers.  

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7 Blogging Basics for the Creation of A Popular Blog

Blogging Guidelines

Blogging is a commitment.  It is a commitment to you as well as to the readers.  When you are starting a blog about some topic, you should have enough knowledge in blogging basics.  You should be able to continue the efforts of blogging with live contents with capturing ideas always; otherwise, your efforts will become wasted.  

What should be the main important points that are to be taken care to create a popular blog? 

All the posts you are publishing should be related to the the topic of your selection and they should contain new ideas or information for the readers.  People are reading your post for getting more information or for knowing about new ideas.  If you are able to fulfill their expectations, you will get a good viewership for your blog.

After publishing some good posts, if you are unable to present new interesting posts, your readers will go somewhere else where they get more interesting information.  So continuity and quality in your effort is a must to get repeated viewers for the blog.  Let us discuss about some blogging basics that are required to make a blog more popular:

1. Selection of the Topic: You can select any popular niche in which you are interested, to start the blog.  There are many subjects that can be selected to create a popular blogs such as cinema, online business, love, health etc.  Select a topic in which you can create attractive posts for publishing.  If you have a passion for this topic, it will help you to do more research for new ideas and information related to this; so that you will never run out of ideas for the creation of new posts.
2. Blog Design: Select an appropriate blog platform, either paid or free.  Be sure to keep your site orderly, and make it easy for people to learn who you are with enough information about you and and set up a ‘Contact Page’ to keep in touch with you.
3. Blog Content: Always publish good content.  Content means articles, images, audios or videos.  It is always better to have a mixture of all these things.  All posts should be related to your niche and specially focus on search engine optimization (SEO Techniques) for getting traffic through search engines.  Take your time to create each post and do not make this creation in a hurry.  Always keeps two or three posts ready in advance.
4. Blog Frequency: Viewership will only develop slowly.  Your effort should have to get enough publicity through search engines and other marketing works to increase the viewership for the blog.  But to get repeated readers for your blog, you have to publish the posts in regular intervals.  You can publish your posts daily, weekly, fortnightly or monthly as per your convenience.  But keep the same frequency always otherwise your blogging efforts will become a failure. 
5. Blog Navigation: When somebody visits your blog, first they will look for the different subjects that are discussed in the blog.  If they are more interested, they will look for the links to search for these different subjects.  Make their efforts easy by creating separating pages with links for different subjects.  It is better to create a ‘Search Link’ for finding the posts of different subjects.
6. Blog Comments: Always encourage your readers to post their comments about the posts.  It will help to create a good relationship with your readers.  Many people are interested to write something about the topics (though they are not full time bloggers), so give them a nice welcome.  Most of the people who read blogs assume and expect that they can also participate as well, so don't disappoint them.  Encourage them by replying to their comments without fail.
7. Blog Marketing: Your blog will attract readers slowly if you are able to publish good posts.  But in addition to that, you should also do some marketing works to popularize your blog.  Allow easy sharing buttons to social media sites and social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, Pinterest, StumbleUpon etc.  It will help the readers to share your posts to their followers without difficulty.  Create a ‘Link’ to allow readers for subscribing to your blog feeds.  Some back links also should be created for getting better page raking.  High quality links will attract search engines and you will get more traffic.  For creating back links, write guest blogs or submit articles with links to your blog in good article magazines regularly.

Watch a video below by PsycheTruth about the Basics of Blogging:

Above discussion about blogging basics will give you some better ideas to create good and popular blogs.  Keep in mind that maintaining a good blog is more difficult than starting a blog.  Your constant effort is the fuel for the success of the blog.  Learn from the mistakes and keep a positive attitude for winning.  Read a lot about blogging for better ideas.  If you are very serious to create a successful blog, get some professional training from somebody who has enough experience in the field.

Click here to know more about the Blogging Training by John Chow, who is considered as one of the most successful bloggers.

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