tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60778679140180378972024-03-13T02:24:18.125-07:00Web Design and Blogger TipsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.comBlogger59125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-54702413550105487002012-06-24T07:35:00.001-07:002012-06-24T07:35:36.457-07:004 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic<br />
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One of the most common complaints that I hear from bloggers is the fact that no matter how hard they try, they can’t grow their blogs past 100 or so daily page vies. Those early days are indeed the hardest, because you need to put hard work in without the certainty of achieving results.</div>
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If you are in that same situation, here is a simple strategy that will certainly increase your blog traffic and make you break the 1,000 daily page views mark. In fact, the strategy could be used even if your are already over that number but have reached a traffic plateau lately.</div>
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Just make sure to execute the 4 steps as planned and to spend the two hours and a half every day (obviously if you have more time available you can expand the time spent on each of the four steps proportionally).</div>
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First Step: Killer Articles (1 hour per day)</h2>
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Spend one hour brainstorming, researching and writing killer articles (also called linkbaits, pillar articles and so on).</div>
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Notice that your goal is to release one killer article every week. If that is not possible aim for one every 15 days. So the one hour that you will spend every day will be dedicated to the same piece. <strong>In other words, expect killers articles to take from 5 up to 10 hours of work</strong>.</div>
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If you are not familiar with the term, a killer article is nothing more than a long and structured article that has the goal of delivering a huge amount of value to potential visitors. If you have a web design blog, for example, you could write an article with “100 Free Resources for Designers”. Here are some ideas for killer articles:</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">create a giant list of resources,</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">write a detailed tutorial teaching people how to do something,</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">find a solution for a common problem in your niche and write about it, or</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">write a deep analysis on a topic where people have only talked superficially</li>
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When visitors come across your killer article, you want them to have the following reaction: <em>“Holy crap! This is awesome. I better bookmark it. Heck, I better even mention this on my site and on my Twitter account, to let my readers and friends know about it.”</em></div>
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Second Step: Networking (30 minutes per day)</h2>
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Networking is essential, especially when you are just getting started. The 30 minutes that you will dedicate to it every day could be split among:</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">commenting on other blogs in your niche,</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">linking to the posts of bloggers in your niche, and</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">interacting with the bloggers in your niche via email, IM or Twitter.</li>
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Remember that your goal is to build genuine relationships, so don’t approach people just because you think they can help to promote your blog. Approach them because you respect their work and because you think the two of you could grow together.</div>
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Third Step: Promotion (30 minutes per day)</h2>
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The first activity here is the promotion of your killer articles. Whenever you publish one of them, you should push it in any way you can. Examples include:</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">letting the people in your network know about it (don’t beg for a link though),</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">letting bloggers and webmasters in relevant niches know about it,</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">getting some friends to submit the article to social bookmarking sites,</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">getting some friends to Twitter the article, and</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">posting about the article in online forums and/or newsgroups.</li>
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If there is time left, spend it with search engine optimization, social media marketing and activities to promote your blog as whole. Those can range from keyword research to promoting your blog on Facebook and guest blogging.</div>
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Fourth Step: Normal Posts (30 minutes per day)</h2>
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Just like a man does not live by bread alone, a blog does not live by killer articles alone. Normal posts are the ones that you will publish routinely in your blog, between the killer articles. For example, you could publish a killer article every Monday and normal posts from Tuesday through Friday. Here are some ideas for normal posts:</div>
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<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">a post linking to an article on another blog and containing your opinion about it</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">a post informing your readers about a news in your niche</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">a post asking a question to your readers and aiming to initiate a discussion</li>
<li style="list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px;">a post highlighting a new resource or trick that you discovered and that would be useful to your readers</li>
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While killers articles are essential to promote your blog and bring new readers aboard, normal posts are the ones that will create diversity in your content and keep your readers engaged.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com375tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-16390134835359248872012-06-24T07:32:00.001-07:002012-06-24T07:32:44.481-07:0050 Simple Ways to Gain RSS Subscribers<br />
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Most bloggers love their RSS readers. Not only that, but they also love to gain new RSS readers. It is such a joy when you wake up one day and see that your Feedburner count jumped by 200 or 300, right?</div>
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Those days are quite rare though, and most people seem to have a hard time gaining even a small number of new RSS subscribers consistently.</div>
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Is there anything you can do about it? Any way to efficiently attract more RSS subscribers?</div>
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Sure there is. Many people wrote about this topic in the past, but I wanted to give my take on the issue too. I wrote those 50 ideas as they were coming to my head, as briefly as possible. Enjoy.</div>
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1. <strong>Have a big RSS icon</strong>. People are lazy. You need to keep that fact always in mind. If you use a little RSS icon, visitors might have a problem finding it. Most of those will just give up after a couple of seconds, so make sure the RSS icon is big and easily recognizable.</div>
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2. <strong>Display the RSS icon above the fold</strong>. Apart from using a big RSS icon, you must make sure that you display it above the fold. That is where most blogs have one, and that is where people are used to look for when they want to subscribe, so go with the flow.</div>
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3. <strong>Display the RSS icon on every page of your blog</strong>. When I started blogging I did this mistake. Only my homepage used to have an RSS icon…. As soon as I added it to every single page on the blog, the number of subscribers jumped.</div>
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4.<strong> Use words</strong>. Depending on your audience, just using an RSS icon might not be effective. If they aren’t tech-savvy, they might not know what that little orange thing is. In those cases, you can write a small message explaining that subscribing will allow them to keep updated with your posts and so on.</div>
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5. <strong>Write a post asking for people to subscribe</strong>. Ever heard the saying “Ask and thou shalt receive”? This principle works on most areas of our lives. Blogging is no exception. If you want people to subscribe to your feed, ask them to! Write a post about it, give them some reasons and you will see how they respond.</div>
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6. <strong>Use the <a href="http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/10/the_feedsmith_plugin_newly_for.php" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">FeedSmith</a> plugin</strong>. Unless you hand code a lot of redirects on your blog, readers will still be able to subscribe to different RSS feeds provided by WordPress. This plugin will make sure that all your subscribers will be forwarded to the Feedburner feed, so that you can track them and control how your feed is formatted.</div>
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7. <strong>Offer email subscriptions</strong>. Like it or not, only a small percentage of the Internet users know about or use RSS feeds. Studies confirm that this number is below 10% around the world. Why would you want to miss the other 90% of the pie? If you use Feedburner, you just need to go on the “Publicize” tab to activate your email subscriptions.</div>
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8. <strong>Use an email subscription form</strong>. For most bloggers, an email subscription form will convert better than a simple “Subscribe via email” link. That is because Internet users are used to seeing those forms around, and typing their email address there is quite intuitive. The top of your sidebar is a good spot to place one.</div>
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9. <strong>Encourage readers to subscribe at the bottom of every post</strong>. Apart from having an RSS icon and email subscription form above the fold, it is also important to place them below each single post. Why? Because right after people finish reading your articles, they will look for something to do next, and subscribing to your blog is a good option. Additionally, if the article they just read was really good, they will be on the right mindset to subscribe and receive more of your articles in the future.</div>
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10. <strong>As few steps as possible</strong>. People are lazy (I know I mentioned it before, but it is worth re-emphasizing). The fewer the steps required for them to subscribe to your blog, the better. If you can reduce the number of clicks required, therefore, do it!</div>
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11. <strong>Use icons to offer subscription on the most popular RSS readers</strong>. One practical thing that you can do to reduce the number of steps required to subscribe to your feed is to use RSS reader specific icons (e.g., “Add to Google Reader” or “Subscribe on Bloglines”). Just analyze the most common RSS readers among your subscribers and add those icons to the sidebar.</div>
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12. <strong>Have clear focus on your blog</strong>. If you write about 10 different topics, it will be hard to convince people to subscribe to your blog. They might like your articles about technology, but they would hate to receive the house cleaning ones…. Having a clear focus is one of the most efficient ways to attract subscribers.</div>
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13. <strong>Publish new posts frequently and consistently</strong>. By frequently I mean publishing many posts per week or even per day, and by consistently I mean sticking with that frequency religiously. Those two factors will communicate to the visitors that your blog is active, and that subscribing to the RSS feed might be the best way to stay updated with it indeed.</div>
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14. <strong>Don’t exaggerate</strong>. While writing many posts per week or per day is usually a good thing, there is a limit to it. Many people mention that if a certain blog starts overwhelming them with dozens of new posts a day, they will just unsubscribe. The exceptions to this rule are the blogs on fast paced niches like gadget news.</div>
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15. <strong>Write valuable content</strong>. People will only subscribe to your RSS feed if there is some value that they can derive from it. This value might come from different different factors depending on your audience: it may come from the breaking news that you offer, from the deep analysis that you write, or from the funny things you say and so on, but it must be there.</div>
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16. <strong>Write unique content</strong>. You content might be valuable, but if people can find it elsewhere, they will have no reason to subscribe to your RSS feed. For example, suppose you copy all posts from a popular blog on your niche, say Lifehacker. You content would still be valuable, but it would not be unique, and most people would end up subscribing to the original source.</div>
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17. <strong>Don’t ramble or go off topic</strong>. If your blog has a clear focus as we suggested before, readers will subscribe to it for a very specific reason. If you then start writing about off topic stuff, it will annoy a great part of them. Just consider that a bad or unrelated post is worse than no post at all, since it might make some of your readers actually unsubscribe.</div>
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18. <strong>Use your RSS feed link when commenting on other blogs</strong>. Many bloggers have the habit of commenting on other people’s blogs. Some do it simply to join the conversation. Others because they want to promote their own blogs and generate some traffic. Either way, you can leave your RSS feed link instead of the website one to encourage people to subscribe to your feed (if you use Feedburner, they will be able to see your content anyway).</div>
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19. <strong>Run a contest</strong>. Contests are very popular on the blogosphere. If you have a somewhat popular blog, in fact, it is not difficult to raise some prizes and create one. By making subscribing to your RSS feed a requirement to participate, you could quickly boost the number of subscribers that you have. If you want to control who is going to take this action, use the email subscription method.</div>
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20. <strong>Offer random prizes to your subscribers</strong>. If you are not a fan of contests and competitions, you could always entice people to subscribe to your RSS feed by giving away random prizes. For example, if some company approaches you to donate some free copies of its product, you could in turn donate it to your subscribers</div>
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21. <strong>Write guest posts</strong>. Guest posts represent a very efficient technique for generating both brand awareness and traffic. If you guest blog on a popular blog on your same niche, there is also a good chance that a good percentage of that incoming traffic will end up subscribing to your feed.</div>
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22. <strong>Welcome the new readers</strong>. Whenever you manage to land a guest post on a really popular blog, or when you get mentioned on a larger website or mainstream site, it could be a good idea to write a specific post to welcome those readers. Use that post to describe your blog briefly, to talk a bit about yourself, and to encourage them to subscribe.</div>
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23. <strong>Go popular on social bookmarking sites</strong>. Some people say that the quality of the traffic coming from social bookmarking sites (e.g., Digg and StumbleUpon) is very low. This is true to some extent, because those visitors will rarely click on anything on your page (including on the subscribe link). Because of the sheer amount of traffic that you can get on those sites, however, even a really small conversion rate could easily mean 200 or 300 new subscribers in a matter of 24 hours.</div>
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24. <strong>Explain to your readers what is RSS</strong>. As we mentioned before, it is estimated that less than 10% of the popular know about or use RSS feeds. Can you do anything about this? Sure you can! Write a post teaching your readers what RSS is, why it is good, and how they can start using it. It works particularly well on blogs that have a non tech-savvy audience.</div>
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25. <strong>Have a special “Subscribe” page with all the info and links there</strong>. Apart from writing a specific post teaching your readers about RSS, you can also create a special “Subscribe” page on your blog where you explain briefly how to use RSS feeds, and place all the subscription links, badges, and email forms. You could then link to that page from the sidebar, with a link that would say “Subscription Options” or “How to subscribe.”</div>
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26. <strong>Create a <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/welcome/" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">landing page</a> on your blog to convert visitors in subscribers</strong>. If you are going to purchase some banners or other type of advertising, it is highly recommended that you create a landing page to receive those visitors on the best way possible. Use that page to describe your blog, to highlight your best content, and to ask them to subscribe. When doing guest blogging, you could use this page as the byline link as well.</div>
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27. <strong>Send traffic to that page using PPC</strong>. Pay-per-Click advertising, like Google AdWords, is one of the cheapest ways to send targeted traffic to your site. Depending on the quality score that you get (this is calculated from the AdWords side) you could start getting visitors for as low as $0.01 each. That is, with $100, you could send up to 10,000 visitors to your landing page. With a 1% conversion rate this would mean 100 new subscribers.</div>
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28. <strong>Write an ebook and ask people to subscribe in order to download it</strong>. Whether you like them or not, eBooks are a part of the Internet. Many people write them, many others download and read them. If the content and the promotion are well structured, you have thousands of people wanting to read yours. What if you then require people to subscribe first before they can download it? That would bring a heck lot of new subscribers.</div>
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29. <strong>Launch an email newsletter with Aweber</strong>. An email newsletter can be used to complement the content on most blogs. You send a weekly email to those subscribers with your insider views of your niche, with some extra tips, tools and so on. If you then choose Aweber for your newsletter, you can use the “Blog Broadcast” feature to turn those newsletter subscribers into RSS readers too (they will receive a weekly summary from your feed).</div>
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30. <strong>Offer a full feed</strong>. If your goal is to have as many subscribers as possible, then offering a full RSS feed is the only way to go. Many people get annoyed by partial feeds, and even if that does not discourage them from subscribing at first, it might make them unsubscribe shortly after.</div>
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31. <strong>Clutter your website with ads</strong>. This point is a funny/weird addition to the list, and I don’t recommend anyone doing it. I didn’t invent this though, and I saw some people in the past talking about it. The idea is simple: if you clutter your website with many flashy and intrusive ads, but offer top quality content anyway, some people might get an urge to subscribe to your RSS feed just to avoid the clutter on the website….</div>
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32. <strong>Don’t clutter your RSS feed with ads</strong>. Just as too many ads on your site can scare visitors away, too many ads or badges or links on your RSS feed can make people unsubscribe. Keep the RSS feed as clean as possible. That is what people expect to have when they subscribe to an XML file, after all.</div>
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33. <strong>Use social proof</strong>. Ever entered into a restaurant because the place was packed with people, or didn’t enter one because it was empty? That is social proof in action. If you have a good number of RSS subscribers already (I would say over 500), you could display it on your site using the Feedburner feed count widget. This might motivate people to give your RSS feed a shot.</div>
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34. <strong>Offer breaking news</strong>. RSS feeds are one of the most efficient ways to keep up with sites that are frequently updated with information that you care about. If you manage to break some news, or to offer frequent updates on popular topics (like stock market alerts), people would have a stronger motivation to subscribe.</div>
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35. <strong>Mention that subscribing to your blog is free</strong>. It might sound strange, but many people actually get confused with the “Subscribe” terminology. I received dozens of emails over the past year from people that wanted to know if there was any cost associated with subscribing to my RSS feeds! To avoid any confusion, it could be worth mentioning that subscribing to your blog is free, so instead of “Subscribe to my RSS feed” you could use “Receive our updates for free.”</div>
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36. <strong>Use pop-ups to encourage subscription to your newsletter</strong>. Darren managed to increase his conversion rate by more than 700% using pop-ups. Sure, they are intrusive, but they work like nothing else. If you already have an established and loyal following, perhaps using this technique wouldn’t hurt your traffic. We also did a recent <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/pop-up-mania-will-they-come-back-to-vogue/" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">poll on the topic</a>.</div>
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37. <strong>Use an animated RSS feed icon to draw attention</strong>. Animated ads get a much higher click-through rate, exactly because they move around and draw people’s attention. You can use the same technique with your RSS feed icon, and make it an animated GIF to call the attention of the visitors.</div>
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38. <strong>Use feed directories</strong>. Don’t expect to receive hundreds of new subscribers by using this technique, but every small bit helps right? Some people use feed directories to find new RSS feeds and content to subscribe to, so if you have some free time you could submit yours on those sites. Here is a list with almost 20 <a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/resources/feed-directories/" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">feed directories</a>.</div>
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39. <strong>Email first time commentators encouraging them to subscribe</strong>. Sending a personal email to your first time commentators is a kind gesture, and many will thank you for that. You could use this opportunity to remind them that they can stay updated with your blog via the RSS feed. There is also plugin called <a href="http://www.justinshattuck.com/comment-relish/" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">Comment Relish</a> that can automate this process, although it becomes less personal.</div>
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40. <strong>Make sure the feed auto-discovery feature is working</strong>. Most modern browsers have an auto-discovery feature that tried to identify if the website you are visiting has a valid RSS feed. If they do, the browser will present a small RSS icon on the right side of the address bar. So make sure that your can see that icon while visiting your blog, and click on it to see if the right RSS feed will pop. On WordPress you can edit this part on the header.php file.</div>
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41. <strong>Offer a comments feed</strong>. If you have an active community of readers who often engage in discussions on the comments section of your blog, you could consider offering a comments RSS feed.</div>
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42.<strong> Offer category feeds</strong>. If you have many categories on your blog, you could offer an RSS feed for each of them individually. This would enable visitors that are interested only in specific topics to subscribe to them and not to the whole blog. At the same time this granularity could increase the overall number of RSS subscribers you have.</div>
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43. <strong>Run periodic checks on your feeds</strong>. It is not rare to find blogs around the web with a broken RSS feed. Click on your own feed once in a while to make sure that the link is working, that the feed is working, and that it is a valid XML document.</div>
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44. <strong>Recover unverified email subscribers</strong>. You will notice that good percentage of your email subscribers will never confirm their subscription. Some are lazy, some just don’t understand the process. This percentage can go as high as 30%, so you could end up losing many would-be subscribers there. Fortunately you can email those unverified subscribers and remind them about the problem. It works for some.</div>
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45. <strong>Leverage an existing blog or audience</strong>. If you already have a popular blog, newsletter, forum, twitter account and so on, you could leverage that presence to get new subscribers. People that already follow you in some place will have a higher chance of subscribing to you new blog, especially if they like your work or person.</div>
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46. <strong>Use cross feed promotion</strong>. Find some related blogs that have a similar RSS subscriber base, and propose to the blogger to use a cross feed promotion deal. That is, you promote his blog on your feed footer, and he promotes your blog on his feed footer.</div>
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47. <strong>Use testimonials on your “Subscribe” page</strong>. You probably have seen how most product sales pages on the web use testimonials, right? That is because a personal recommendation from a third party goes a long way into convincing a prospect. If that is the case, why not use testimonials to convince people to subscribe to your RSS feed?</div>
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48. <strong>Get friends to recommend your site and RSS feed on their blog</strong>. Even stronger than having a testimonial on your “Subscribe” page is to have someone recommend you on his own blog or website. Many of his readers will pay attention to the message and head over to your blog to check what the fuzz is about.</div>
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49. <strong>Do something funny or weird while asking for people to subscribe</strong>. People love blogs with a sense of humor. If you can make them laugh, you have took them half way into subscribing. Some months ago I published the<a href="http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-huge-rss-icon-experiment-subscribe-today/" style="color: #2c64b4; text-decoration: none;">Huge RSS Icon Experiment</a>, and gained 300 new subscribers in 3 days.</div>
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50. <strong>Start a long series so people subscribe to keep update with it</strong>. Long and structured series of posts are not only traffic magnets, but also RSS readers magnets. If a casual visitor discovers that you are publishing a long series about a topic he is interested on, he will think about subscribing in order to not miss the future posts of the series.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com177tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-53788702165317353072012-06-24T07:29:00.002-07:002012-06-24T07:29:59.566-07:00How To Keep New Content Flowing On To Your Blog<br />
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As all bloggers know, the initial setting up of the website is just the beginning. Unlike static websites where information remains the same for many months at a time, blogs (especially newly established blogs) need to be updated frequently to remain or start ranking in search engines. Chances are, most of us who run blogs to make money have more than one project on our hands, and therefore, may not have time to update it daily.</div>
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<strong>Wake Up Early</strong></div>
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One of the techniques I personally use is to wake up early. On a normal day, I will wake up at 5:00 AM and go to the gym to work out. Going to the gym gives me time to think about what I want to write about while getting my blood moving at the same time. By 6:00, I am ready to go home and start blogging for the day… My process usually starts with browsing blogs that are in my same niche. If I am going to write on my technology blog, I will spend 10-20 minutes browsing other technology blogs for inspiration. After I figure out two or three topics I want to write about, I jot them down on my whiteboard, along with a few key points I want to talk about. After I write about 2-3 posts, I will then continue on to my next project, whether it be a web design client, another blog, etc.</div>
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<strong>Schedule Posts</strong></div>
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If you’re the type of person who works during the weekdays, but has off on the weekends (such as a school teacher), then it may be hard for you to update your blog during the week. What’s good for you is that WordPress (and other blogging software) will allow you to schedule posts. This will allow you to write ten articles over the weekend and schedule each one to automatically post itself on a certain day and time. This won’t work for news blogs that need to be updated as soon as the news breaks, but for things like how-to blogs and editorials, it will work perfectly.</div>
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<strong>Invite Guest Bloggers</strong></div>
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Every blogger out there (that is, the ones who are ambitious) is always looking for a blog to guest write on. If you are having troubles being able to write the content on your own, invite guest bloggers to submit articles for free. Also allow them to include one backlink that will go to their own blog. This not only helps build you free content, but it helps the guest blogger build backlinks.</div>
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<strong>Hire a Writer</strong></div>
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If you can’t seem to attract guest bloggers, there is always the option of paying somebody to write content for you. There are many “professional bloggers” out there that are looking for freelance writing tasks, but you could also hire a teenager looking for a job. The advantages of hiring a teenager are that they are willing to work, familiar with technology, and work significantly cheaper than a freelance writer. A good wage is about $4-5 per blog post, depending on the length and quality of the work.</div>
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<strong>Rethink Your Topic</strong></div>
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If you can’t find the time to write on your blog, is it because you truly don’t have time or is it because the topic is boring? Although topics like financial and medical blogs will make more money, they don’t do you any good if they aren’t updated frequently. If your topic is too boring to write articles for, it may be time to make a blog about something you are actually interested in.</div>
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<strong>Sell Your Blog</strong></div>
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If you don’t go with any of the options listed above, I would suggest selling your blog altogether. I first started blogging in 2010 and started a technology blog on Blogger. It was the first blog I had ever started and its beginning days were quite lame… Posts were short, my blog name and domain were terrible, and I didn’t really understand SEO. After about two years of practice, I moved the blog over to a self-hosted WordPress server. I realized that with the crappy posts from my beginning days and my domain name not being so great, that I should start a brand new blog. I was able to get $800 for the blog on the Flippa Marketplace for what I like to call my “sandbox blog.”</div>
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If you are unhappy with your current topic and your blog is in a format that you can sell and transfer to somebody else, I say list it on Flippa and see what you get for it. Then, use those profits to fund a blog you are actually interested in. For example, after I sold my first blog for $800, I invested $200 of that into finding a good, aged domain name that will work perfectly for the blog I had in mind.</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-5994757951053434632012-06-18T22:31:00.000-07:002012-06-18T22:32:14.293-07:00Start Tips Blog: Make random post blogspot<b>- Blog / Add a Gadget</b><br />
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<div id="random-posts"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getRandomPosts(json) {
var maxEntries = 10;
var numPosts = json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t;
var indexPosts = new Array();
for (var i = 0; i < numPosts; ++i) {
indexPosts[i] = i;
}
indexPosts.sort(function() {return 0.5 - Math.random()});
if (maxEntries > numPosts) {
maxEntries = numPosts;
}
var container = document.getElementById('random-posts');
var ul = document.createElement('ul');
for (i = 0; i < maxEntries; ++i) {
var entry = json.feed.entry[indexPosts[i]];
var li = document.createElement('li');
var a = document.createElement('a');
a.title = entry.title.$t;
for (var j = 0; j < entry.link.length; ++j) {
if (entry.link[j].rel == 'alternate') {
a.href = entry.link[j].href;
break;
}
}
a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(entry.title.$t));
li.appendChild(a);
ul.appendChild(li);
}
container.appendChild(ul);
}
</script>
<script src="/feeds/posts/summary?alt=json-in-script&callback=getRandomPosts&max-results=999999" type="text/javascript"></script>
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<b>- Enjoy :)</b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-82631980942546722872012-06-08T00:00:00.002-07:002012-06-08T00:00:17.156-07:009 Reasons Why I AM An Amazon AffiliateJohn Chow today posted a post outlining why he’s not an Amazon Affiliate. It’s a good post in that it gives an insight into his approach to affiliate marketing. The best point John alludes to is that Amazon doesn’t ‘fit’ with his blog. He makes more from other better targeted affiliate programs than Amazon.
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However the Amazon Associates Program is well worth considering for some bloggers. I use it and this month it’ll earn me over $2500 USD – not my biggest income stream, but not the ‘pennies and dimes’ that some say it has the potential to earn.
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To bring a little balance to the debate over the Amazon Affiliate program I thought I’d give a few reasons that I am an Amazon Affiliate:
<b>1. Amazon is a trusted Brand</b> – I surveyed some of my readers a year back and asked them to give me a list of online stores that they had made purchases from in the last 12 months. Amazon came up number 1 as the most popular shopping destination mentioned. Readers know Amazon and are familiar with it – they trust it and do spend significant money there.<br>
<b>2. Commissions</b> – John writes that he’s not satisfied with a 4% commission. He’s right in some ways, 4% isn’t that much when you’re selling a $10 book – however when you’re selling a Get a Price on the $5000 Camera or a $25,000 Tractor (I know someone who does quite well out of ride on mowers and tractors) it certainly adds up. Not only that, the 4% rate that John talks about is the base rate. Unfortunately it is as high as it goes on consumer electronics – however on most other products there is a sliding scale where the more you sell the higher your commission goes to. Sell more than 6 items in a month and your commission goes to 6% – sell over 630 and you’re up to 8% (the rate I’m on). The 4-Hour work Week that John uses as an example earned me around $1 a book. Still not a lot – but I did sell 100 or so of them (after my interview with it’s author) which not only earned me $100 but also helped push the numbers of sales up for the month, moving me into the next earning bracket.
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<b>3. People Buy More than One Item</b> – the great thing about Amazon is that you don’t just earn a commission on the product that you people to, but anything that they buy once they’re at Amazon. I did an experiment earlier in the year where I published a review of a digital photography book on my blog and placed a tracking code in the link to see how much the review earned me specifically. What I found was that the product in the review did quite well – but the sales of other products that people made once they got to Amazon was actually much greater than the sales of the actual book. People went on to buy all manner of products (other books, electronics, cosmetics etc) – I earned a commission on each one of them – now that’s passive income. You earn a commission on anything that a person buys within 24 hours of you sending them to Amazon.<br>
<b>4. Easily Integrated</b> – There are more and more plugins and tools that have Amazon Affiliate integration built into them to help you easily place links in your blog posts. I use ecto for Mac which has a tool that searches for products and links them in in just a couple of clicks. WP has plugins also. The affiliate links already mentioned in this post took seconds to integrate in.<br>
<b>5. Payment Options</b> – Amazon pays their affiliates in a number of ways. One of the things that I like is that they give you the option to be paid in products instead of cash. I don’t do this every month (I couldn’t spend that $20,000+ a year at Amazon… well maybe I could) but occasionally do and use it as prizes for blog readers. I recently offered DPS readers $500 of Amazon products in a forum signup competition. The prize is paid for out of my affiliate earnings.<br>
<b>6. Small Payments Add Up</b> – In my early days of making money from blogs I didn’t have the luxury of picking and choosing my income streams as much as I (and other full time bloggers) now do. I needed to earn money somewhere and even the small amounts that Amazon brought in were better than nothing. Over time these payments began to add up. In the early days I didn’t even earn enough for a minimum payment amount and had to wait a few months before they’d pay me – but those pay outs were milestones that I celebrated. If I’d not gone with Amazon because they didn’t earn me a lot I might not have gone with any ad networks or affiliate programs – sometimes you have to take what you can get.<br>
<b>7. It’s an Investment that Matures Over Time</b> – My approach with Amazon is to treat it a little like a savings account or an investment that you put a little into each week and which matures in it’s earnings over time. What do I mean by this? I add links to Amazon over time and find that in doing so I’m creating more and more doorways into the Amazon store. Each time I do I increase the chances of sending someone to Amazon and seeing returns on those visits.<br>
<b>8. The Holidays are Boom Time</b> – While I’m really happy with the way my Amazon Affiliate income is growing ($2500 a month is so far beyond what I’d ever expected from it in the early days) it’s worth noting that things really fire up in the lead up to Christmas and the holiday season. Over the last few years I’ve noticed significant jumps in Amazon earnings in December (as much as 100%). The key is to plan ahead (make sure your links are all up to date a couple of months out) and run a few Christmas specific posts in the lead up to the Holiday rush (start to prepare as early as October/November).<br>
<b>9. Wide Array of Products</b>
What initially attracted me to using Amazon’s Affiliate program was the breadth of products that they had in their system. This is a great thing if you’re niche is narrow or quite obscure as many bloggers find it difficult to find affiliate programs to match their blog’s focus. Blogs like John’s and mine here at ProBlogger do have an array of options for affiliate programs (which is why I don’t use it a lot on this blog and make most of my earnings from Amazon from product related blogs) but many bloggers don’t have the luxury of being able to choose high paying affiliate programs because they simply don’t relate to our topics. Amazon then becomes one of the more attractive options.<br>
<b>So is the Amazon Affiliate Program for you?</b>
I can’t answer that question for everyone – I won’t pretend that it works brilliantly on every blog but I know quite a few bloggers making significant earnings each month from the program. Blogs with a strong product focus can do quite well through the program if links to Amazon are well integrated into posts (see some of the links below for tips). I would advise moderation in using the program – don’t place them in every post you write unless they are relevant. Links placed in genuinely helpful reviews do better than links and banners in sidebars.
The best way to see if it converts is to give it a go.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-46542009199408138342012-06-04T07:31:00.001-07:002012-06-04T07:32:12.004-07:005 Ways Twitter is Better Than Google+As soon as Google+ was out I somehow managed to beseech an invite. After weeks of using Google+ I realized Google+ has as many cons as the pros. Similar to falling in love with a guy I fell in love with Google+ at first sight but it took me second and third glance to know the negatives of the Big G’s latest kid.
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Thank goodness that I didn’t dump my ex (Twitter). Yeah even before launch of Google+ I was more attached towards Twitter than Facebook. This ultimately led me to utilize Twitter to the maximum. Now after using Google+ for a while now I found a few things that thwart the Twitter user in me.
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By the way, if you have not yet played around fully with Google plus, this tutorial on using Google+ could be of help to you. Now let’s dive in.
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<b>God of search! What happened?</b>
The search option in Google+ is none other than a friend finder (amazing to know that Google is giving priority to humans). Friend finder is cool but if we want to find a post by a person in Google+ then we need to go to the traditional Google search engine. However Twitter has got an awe-inspiring search which is both amenable as well as ideal.
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Of course Google may enhance Google+ to have advanced search options in the near feature but as of now search in Google+ is too ironic.
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<b>5000 friends only? That makesG+ equal to Facebook</b>
As in Facebook Google+ also limits your contacts to 5000. Unlike Twitter which neither limits the number of followers nor the ones you follow. Facebook has fan pages as a relief to people who have more than 5000 contacts.
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What does G+ have? Google+ doesn’t restrict the number of people who follow your posts (that’s a good news) but if you are the one accustomed to have thousands of followers or the one who follow thousands of people in twitter this feature (restricting to 5000 contacts) of Google+ is a glitch.
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It would be nice if number of persons per circle is restricted to some 1000 or 5000 but this may not secure Google+ users from spammers (the reason why facebook and Google+ restricts the contacts to certain number). Hope Google+ will come up with a cool plan to clear this issue.
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<b>More like Facebook</b>
Since Google+ was launched in an attempt to overpower the leading social network Facebook the former has adapted certain features blindly from the latter. Similar to Facebook Google+ is not scannable. Yeah, as Google+ doesn’t have a character limit for statuses and posts the contents are not crisp and clear. For a hardcore Twitter user like me (familiarized with reading precise and concise posts) the Google+ seems to be a somewhat ambiguous.
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With 24 hours not being enough for a lot of people in the world Twitter made a culture of conveying your thoughts short and sweet but Google+ is again brought lengthy posts which are inconvenient in comparison with Twitter.
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<b>Big Boss: Befriend others</b>
It was expedient for us to publish our posts, thoughts, links, etc. in both Facebook and Twitter with a single click on publish (thanks to the compatibility between these two social networks). Even certain social network like Tumblr too has this option but Big G is all alone and it doesn’t seem to befriend anyone. I frequently see similar posts posted separately in Twitter and Google+ or Facebook and Google+ (even I do that most of the times). This is very much time-consuming.
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<b>Business environment, Information centre – I don’t find one.</b>
Unlike twitter which has all leading brands in it or the facebook which has fan pages for almost every odd product on this Earth Google+ doesn’t seem to be supporting business. Even after days of launching Twitter it acted as a wondrous platform for business, promoting, advertising, etc but G+ is not that shrewd when it comes to business.
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Of course Google+ lovers may claim that the network is new and would take time to improve this. In such a case let’s wait and watch what enhancements are made to it.
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<b>MY VERDICT ABOUT GOOGLE+</b>
The new kid of Google is super cool with incredible features like circles, gorgeous UI, hangouts, etc but when compared with Twitter which is super hot (always) Google+ gets diminished in some aspects. What to do, after all people always fall for hot things.
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Have you experienced more ways in which Twitter is better than G+? Share them through comments.
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Jane writes about Blogging Tips, Relationships and Self Improvement at her blog Find All Answers. She also writes for promoting Bistro MD and Diet to go coupons since she is part of the team at Coupon Triumph. Here are two cool coupons for you: <a href="http://www.coupontriumph.com/bistro-md-coupons-codes-bistromd-promo-code-discounts/">bistromd promo code</a>, <a href="http://www.coupontriumph.com/diet-to-go-coupons-codes-diettogo-discounts-promotion/">diettogo coupon</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-58931562129877239962012-06-04T07:16:00.001-07:002012-06-04T07:16:57.367-07:00Where SEO is at in 2012Each year brings with it lots of new surprises in terms of alterations, updates & improvements in the internet technology. SEO or Search Engine Optimization techniques are also rumored to experience quite a few changes in this year.<br>
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· Social Media is expected to play a very important role for SEO in 2012. Google has already announced the fact that they consider websites that use social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace etc. for posing links & videos to promote their websites.<br>
· Images & Video links as well as essential transcriptions for keyword purposes would carry a lot more weightage.<br>
· It is advised to steer clear of inadequate, weak & irrelevant web-links as they can decrease the overall weightage of your webpage on the internet. A number of SEO experts stress on including web-links of informative articles as being one of the most powerful tools for a higher Search Engine Ranking. It is also predicted that this year many SEO professionals are looking forward to experiment by associating their client’s WebPages with high-page rank links.<br>
· Hi-Tech gadgets have made the keyword search much more complex than it was earlier. With the advent of advanced versions of smart phones and android gadgets, it is now possible for people to use the unique feature of ‘Speak to Search’ on a number of cell phones. This is precisely the reason why keywords that are used within the content posted on a website have to be in the form of short phrases & up to the mark.
SEO in 2012 is also expected to emphasize decreased volumes in keyword framing.
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<b>The most important SEO resolutions for the year 2012</b>
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Simple and Direct content has to be reflected on your webpage. No matter what product or service you are promoting through your website, it is important to ensure that the subject matter on each page is extremely informative to the reader & makes use of simple keywords that are frequently researched by most internet users.
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Incorporate quality in-bound links and associate with practical/relevant outbound links. Doing so would not only increase the online visibility of your webpage but also enhance the ranking of your website on the net. Avoid using too many irrelevant inbound/outbound links as they can easily damage the reputation of your website. By associating your website through links with superior-quality & high ranked WebPages, you can easily retain a good ranking for a long time to come.
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Keep your website user-friendly and stay accessible at all times. One of the main benefits of being a website which is recognized by most Search Engines is that it increases the popularity, web traffic and online visibility of your webpage. In order to maintain a constant connection with your customers it is crucial to ensure that your contact page is always updated with recent changes, if any. An efficient online accessibility will never let you lose important leads & make it easier to stay in touch with the buyers.
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Be aware of changing SEO trends at all times. This will help you in renewing your SEO strategies from time to time for the betterment of your website. While doing so, always ensure to stick with quality content and ignore cheap tricks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-78123004556668955472012-06-03T08:15:00.000-07:002012-06-03T08:17:41.480-07:0014 Ways To Promote Your Facebook Page<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Facebook has become an important communications and marketing channel for many small businesses, many of whom could benefit from having more visitors to their pages.
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Unfortunately the average small business operator has neither the time nor the resources to promote Facebook pages like big business can but there are several simple things one can do to get more visitors.
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Include a link to your Facebook page in your business and personal email signatures.
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If you send out email newsletters to clients you should include a link to your page.
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Add a Facebook link to your website’s home page and contact page and add Facebook Like buttons to your article or blog pages. Do this also for any blogs you run on other platforms like blogger.
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Even printed promotional material like brochures and flyers can include a mention of your FB page.
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Mention your page in any shop or vehicle signage you might have, add it to your business cards.
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If you have personal profiles at sites like Linkedin or Hubpages include a link to your Facebook page.
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When commenting on blogs or in online forums try linking to your page instead of your website.
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Leverage your existing contacts – ask personal friends and colleagues to like the page so their friends get to hear about it. Ask existing likers to share your posts with their friends.
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Offer incentives like free reports or discounts to page likers, everyone loves a freebie.
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Consider running a competition and ask your likers to share with their friends. Make sure you comply with Facebook’s rules on competitions.
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Use a landing page to ask new visitors to hit the like button. Tell them what benefits they will receive and most first-time visitors will become likers.
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Go and find good relevant discussions on other Facebook pages while logged on in “use Facebook as Page” mode. Hit the like button for those pages then add to those discussions meaningfully, don’t spam. Now everyone who previously liked or commented on that post will receive a notification about your post, a great way to get noticed!
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Mention other Facebook pages in your posts and tag them so the post appears on their page as well as your own. Not all pages allow it but many do.
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Use Facebook advertising to promote your page to whatever demographic you like. You can target who sees your ads by age, gender, interest, location and many other ways.
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Post regularly to your page but make it interesting so as to engage users, the more they interact with your page the more their friends will get to see your page mentioned.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-28682217598814822272012-06-02T06:10:00.001-07:002012-06-02T06:12:13.149-07:00Making Money Online with DonkeyMails<b>What is DonkeyMails?</b>
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<a href="http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=stevenjohn07"><img src="http://www.donkeymails.com/images/banner5.gif" border="0" alt="DonkeyMails.com: No Minimum Payout" /></a>
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DonkeyMails is a GPT site featuring multiple ways of making money. It includes -
Paid to Click, Paid to Sign Up, Paid to Review, Paid to Promote, Paid to Read, and many more..
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Here's information about each one.
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<b>1. Paid to Click</b> - This feature is accessed through the link "Paid2Click" on the site's menu. You will be prompt with a list of banners to click, along with the amount you can earn from clicking each ad. Rates for Paid to Click include $0.01, $0.005, and $0.0025 per ad.
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<b>2. Paid to Sign Up</b> - To access this service, click on "Paid2SignUp" on the site menu. There are many offers with instructions listed in order from highest paying to lowest paying. Most of the offers pay approximately $0.10.
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<b>3. Paid to Review</b> - It's accessed through the link "Get Paid to Review" on the site menu. You will be prompt with a list of websites along with instructions and a text box. Read the instructions and enter whatever they tell you to enter in the text box. The average pay for this service is $0.05.
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<b>4. Paid to Promote</b> - This is located in the link "Paid to Promote". There you will see 2 links for you to promote - one that earns you credit (which can be converted to money) and one that earns you points (used for advertising your own website). For every 1000 unique views your link gets, you will receive $0.50 or 2000 points.
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<b>5. Paid to Read</b> - This is one of the more popular features of the website due to its convenience. Basically, this service is the same as the Pay to Click part of the website, except that the ads are emailed to you directly. Depending on what interests you selected on your profile, DonkeyMails will send out the ads accordingly.
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<b>Payment Information</b>
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Payments are sent out every 2 weeks. You can cash out using either PayPal, AlertPay, or LibertyReserve.
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<b>How much do I need to cash out?</b>
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For PayPal and AlertPay, you need a minimum of $1.00. However, for LibertyReserve you only need to have earned $0.01.
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<b>Referral Benefits</b>
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What makes DonkeyMails worthwhile, is its referral system. To be honest, you won't be making a lot of money regardless of how dedicated you are, with only yourself clicking on advertisements. You need referrals as well. DonkeyMails referral system allows for 5 levels of referral commissions to be earned. The percentages for each level are as followed:
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1st Level (Direct referral) - 10%
2nd Level (Referral's referral) - 5%
3rd Level (Referral's referral's referral) - 3%
4th Level (...so forth) - 2%
5th Level - 1%
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As you can see, the extensive referral system allows for an extremely high earning potential. This is why DonkeyMails is one of the best PTC sites around. With some effort into getting referrals you will be generating some nice profits in time.
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<b>Proof of Payment</b>
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Seeing as how this may seem too good to be true, here is a payment proof from one of the members of the website.
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With some work you can be earning a lot more than this.
Also, they have a list of paid members on the DonkeyMails website: <a href="http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/beenpaid.php">http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/beenpaid.php</a>
Conclusion
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DonkeyMails is overall an incredible and reliable site that can earn you a lot of extra money. Give it a try. You won't regret it.
<a href="http://www.donkeymails.com/pages/index.php?refid=stevenjohn07">Sign up here</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-67415195235538417172012-06-02T05:25:00.001-07:002012-06-02T05:29:51.269-07:005 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings<b>5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings
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If webmasters want to monetize their websites, the great way to do it is through Adsense. There are lots of webmasters struggling hard to earn some good money a day through their sites. But then some of the “geniuses” of them are enjoying hundreds of dollars a day from Adsense ads on their websites. What makes these webmasters different from the other kind is that they are different and they think out of the box.
The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.
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<b>Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.
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<b>1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format have the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being used to clicking on them, click these types of links. They may or may not know they are clicking on your Adsense but as long as there are clicks, then it will all be for your advantage.</b>
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<b>2. Create a custom palette for your ads. Choose a color that will go well with the background of your site. If your site has a white background, try to use white as the color of your ad border and background. The idea to patterning the colors is to make the Adsense look like it is part of the web pages. Again, This will result to more clicks from people visiting your site.</b>
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<b>3. Remove the Adsense from the bottom pages of your site and put them at the top. Do not try to hide your Adsense. Put them in the place where people can see them quickly. You will be amazed how the difference between Adsense locations can make when you see your earnings.</b>
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<b>4. Maintain links to relevant websites. If you think some sites are better off than the others, put your ads there and try to maintaining and managing them. If there is already lots of Adsense put into that certain site, put yours on top of all of them. That way visitor will see your ads first upon browsing into that site.</b>
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<b>5. Try to automate the insertion of your Adsense code into the webpages using SSI (or server side included). Ask your web administrator if your server supports SSI or not. How do you do it? Just save your Adsense code in a text file, save it as “adsense text”, and upload it to the root directory of the web server. Then using SSI, call the code on other pages. This tip is a time saver especially for those who are using automatic page generators to generate pages on their website.</b>
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These are some of the tips that have worked well for some who want to generate hundreds and even thousands on their websites. It is important to know though that ads are displayed because it fits the interest of the people viewing them. So focusing on a specific topic should be your primary purpose because the displays will be especially targeted on a topic that persons will be viewing already.
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Note also that there are many other Adsense sharing the same topic as you. It is best to think of making a good ad that will be somewhat different and unique than the ones already done. Every clickthrough that visitors make is a point for you so make every click count by making your Adsense something that people will definitely click on.
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Tips given by those who have boosted their earnings are just guidelines they want to share with others. If they have somehow worked wonders to some, maybe it can work wonders for you too. Try them out into your ads and see the result it will bring.
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If others have done it, there is nothing wrong trying it out for yourself.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-38879094970829757092012-05-13T06:47:00.002-07:002012-05-13T06:50:48.380-07:00Increase google+ followers with addmefast<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Both Google and Bing have added many social search features in the past 12 months. One of Google's most important addition in the past year is the Google +1 button. There’s also been talk about using “social signals” to help rank regular search results. But are either of the major search engines actually using those social signals to rank regular search results? According to blogsgate:
Search engine Google recently came out into the open with the newest parameter it uses to rank websites. Dubbed as social signals, this new method of website ranking has added to the growing importance of the world of social networking and marketing. This system of ranking will see Google use information from social networking portals such as Facebook and Twitter to assess the rank of websites.
Blogsgate is not the only established seo site stating that Google is definitely using soocial signals more and more to rank sites. Now here comes the problem: it is not easy to get Google 1+, Facebook likes etc. fast. of course you can buy them e.g. on Fiver or on sites like Socialcobra. However, if you are an a tight budget, this will not be an option.
If you have been doing online mareting you might remember the times of trafficexchanges and start / exit page exchanges. You had to visit one member's site and in exchange got another member to visit your site. Times have changed. I have no idea if there are still any traffic exchange sites left, but obviously 2012 will be the year of Social Signal Exchange Sites.
The first service of this kind is AddMeFast.
<b><a href="http://addm.co/?XLFETZG">What is AddmeFast?</a></b>
Addmefast is a social signal exchange site. Members vote on other user's site (Facebook likes,Google +1, Google Profile, Twitter followers, Youtube views). For every member site you voted for you will earn points. These points can be used to get likes, 1+ for your own sites. It's simple, it is fast, and it is free. <a href="http://addm.co/?XLFETZG">Sign up is FREE</a> You will even get 100 bonus points every day (you'll need to login).
Services Offered By Addmefast:
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Adding Your Sites / Pages to AddmeFast is easy and only takes seconds:
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Earning Points is fast, easy and convenient, because you won't have to leave the addmefast member's site.
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As you can see on the image above, you can earn up to 9 points for giving one Google +1 to another member's site. You can use these 9 points and get several +1's for your own site. The higher the number of points you are willing to give to another member for voting for your site, the faster the votes will come in.
In the beginning I thought that it will take forever to get some votes. However, it only took about one hour to get 50 Google +1's and Facebook likes.
Of course you can also buy points. This is a great option if you do not want to spend time visiting and voting for other member's sites.
All in all AddMeFast is a great service if you are looking for a cheap (Free) and FAST way to get tons of Facebook likes, Google+1, Twitter followers etc.
Join AddMeFast Now! (It Is FREE + You Will Get 100 Points Instantly! - <b><a href="http://addm.co/?XLFETZG">CLICK HERE</a></b>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-30875064015089708822012-05-11T02:06:00.001-07:002012-05-11T02:06:11.758-07:00Should I Blog for Money?I speak with bloggers every day who have heard the stories of blogs that make big dollars and who want to try to make an income from blogging also. One of the pieces of advice that I attempt to convey (and I’m afraid it doesn’t always get through) is that it’s worth pausing, before running out to slap ads on your blog, to ask yourself whether making money from your blog is right for you.
While this might seem to be a silly question to some (what’s wrong with earning money?) I think it’s worth at least asking the question.
Not every blog is suited to blogging for money.
Does it Fit with Your Blog’s Goals and Objectives – For me a lot of the advice that I’ve given in this series of blogging for beginners comes down to working out some goals, strategy and vision for your blog (I’ve written extensively on strategic blogging here so won’t unpack this now). There are many reasons why people blog and the motivation of money is just one of them. Here’s some of the responses I had when I asked why people blog:
‘I blog for recreational purposes – to help me relax’
‘I blog as part of my plan for world domination’
‘I blog to help me promote my book/business’
‘I blog to keep a record of the life and times of me’
‘I blog because I want to help others’
‘I blog to because I’m lonely and want to connect with others’
‘I blog to pick up cute girls/guys’
‘I blog because it’s fun’
‘I blog because I want to build profile – I want to be known’
‘I blog to make a living’
Now there is nothing wrong with blogging for more than one reason – but bloggers considering adding income streams to their blogs need to consider the possibility that there are implications of going in that direction that MIGHT impact their other goals.
Let me share some scenarios of real cases that I’ve come across (no names given) where putting ads on a blog wasn’t a good idea. If I were a betting man I’d say that they represent the story of many bloggers and that others could add more scenarios:
Scenario 1: Business Blogs - I remember one blogger who added contextual advertising to their Business Blogs (blogs which had primary goals of promoting a business’s services) only to find that the ads that were served to their blogs were for other businesses in their field who they were competing with. While they could block some of the ads they found that more ads replaced them. In the end they felt it was better to remove the ads and keep the focus on themselves.
Scenario 2: Reader Uproar – Another blogger who I have been talking with recently told me the story of the day she added impression based ads to her blog and created a mutiny among her readers who were angry that she’d gone that route. While on some blogs reader ownership are not very high, there are other blogs where for one reason or another that readers take great offense to bloggers changing the rules midstream – especially when it comes to ads. Depending upon the community levels and the way you introduce the ads you can end up losing readership and you need to consider whether the benefits of the income will outweigh the costs of fewer readers.
Scenario 3: Money Obsession - Perhaps one of the saddest examples that comes to mind is of a blogger who had been running a really interesting and reasonably successful blog (I wouldn’t call him an A-lister but he had a small loyal following) who got bitten by the ‘money from blogging’ bug so badly that it ended up killing his blog. Ultimately he ended up deleting a lot of his archives (the ones that had no income earning potential) and slapping so many ads onto his blog that it was hard to find any content. He ended up only ever writing on topics that he thought were ‘earners’. In doing so he lost the vast majority of his readership and ended up with a pretty poor blog. Greed took over.
Scenario 4: Poor Conversion and Clutter - A number of bloggers come to mind who have announced that they are fed up with ads on their blogs largely because the payoff has not been worth giving the space over to the ads. Ads do add another element of clutter to your blog and if the conversion isn’t sufficient they can seem quite pointless. This varies from blogger to blogger and sometimes comes down to the type of ad chosen and the topic that they are writing about – but it’s one of the main reasons I see bloggers taken ads off their blogs.
Scenario 5: Reputation – My last example is of a blogger who was blogging to build his own reputation in an industry. He’d been blogging for a number of months and was slowly become better known (although had a way to go). His problem started when he started promoting affiliate products that he’d had no knowledge of and which (he later found out) were actually ripping people off. In doing so he ended up doing the exact opposite to what he’d set out to do – he destroyed his own reputation.
I’m aware that this post has a somewhat negative tone to it and don’t want to disillusion readers too much. On the flip side of these stories of bloggers who found that blogging for money is not the answer for everyone are many more stories of bloggers who have found ways to supplement their income via blogging (and even a few stories of bloggers who now blog full time).
It’s to these stories (and the strategies that these bloggers are using) that we’ll now turn our attention next in this series.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-15951321994233755432012-05-11T02:00:00.002-07:002012-05-11T02:00:46.530-07:00How to Make the Most Outta Your Google Adsense for SearchFew years after the introduction of Google Adsense in 2003, the idea of Google Adsense for Search was born amidst other Google Adsense products like Adsense for Feeds, Adsense for Contents, and Adsense for Domains, thou, there are other products today which I do not made mention of. Google Adsense for Search is quite useful in addition to other products for increasing revenue. It might not be the highest, but it can certainly increase your earnings, supplementing other Adsense products.
How Google Adsense for Search Works
In a simple explanation, you insert your generated-code into your blog or website to display a Google Custom Search box and let your blog visitors search for information using this Custom Search box. This is to capture visitors to remain on our blog instead of them going to www.google.com, hence earning from this activity.
However, it is highly recommended I pointed this out; you will never be paid for visitors using the Custom Search box, you only get paid whenever the visitors click on Google ads that appears on the Search Result page. For example, if I visit your blog and I use the Custom Search box for query, on getting to the search results, I clicked one of the ads that shows up, then you get paid for it. And if I do not click on any ad, you get nothing.
So in one sentence, you only get earnings whenever a visitor clicks on ads showing on your Search Result pages. Get it?
Making the Most Out of Your Google Adsense for Search
Several publishers have recorded success with this product while several others are not seeing tangible results. And some do not even take advantage of this great product (althou some chooses not to).
Below are some tips you can follow to help increase your Adsense for Search earnings:
Tip Number 1:
Although there is a limit to how much we can edit our Adsense codes, we will only be adding few lines of text at the top of our code (not editing codes anyways). After copying your generated Adsense for Search code, do not just paste/insert the code into your blog. We are going to add a little ‘command’ line at the top of our code. Something that can convince (not confuse) your site visitors to make use of your Custom Search box.
For example, a few line of this can help:
“Can’t find what you’re looking for? Google it here!”
or
“Looking for something else? Search Google!”
Now let us judge this. If you have only the Search box with no ‘command’ line on top, and you have a Search box with a ‘command’ line like the one above, which one do you think your visitors will likely to use the most? Of course, the one with the ‘command’ line phrase. Even if I do not intend using the Search box, mere seeing those line of action, I will definately remember I need to search for something on Google.
And do not forget to make the ‘command’ line bold.
Tip Number 2:
This one is so simple… put your Google Custom Search box where eyes can see them. I have seen several blogs and websites placing their Custom Search box at the bottom of their pages.
What da hell!
You should take note that placement is also important here as the Google Adsense for Content.
Here are some good and effective placement for Google Adsense for Search box:
- Put 1 Search box at the top-right Sidebar of your blog/site
- Put the 2nd box below every post on Single Page. If you use WordPress, you can use any ‘Footer Plugin’ to do this or insert it manually if you are on Blogger blog.
These 2 placement, from experience, has proven effective for me.
Note however that you may not put more than 2 Google Adsense for Search box on a page. Having more than 2 Custom Search boxes will only get you banned because it is againt Google TOS.
Tip Number 3:
This tip will be base on your discretion. This has helped some while it never worked for some. It is the choice of Search URL you made. While setting up your Adsense for Search, you will be required to choose if you want your visitors to search ONLY your blog, the web or specified websites. Some believed by choosing ‘web’, you are driving traffic to competiting sites, while some do not give a damn, so far it will bring in some few dollars.
That is the update for now pal. I hope my sharing on how to increase your Adsense for Search earnings helps in your Adsense journey.
While not say a little ‘Thank You John’ by clicking on the Facebook and Twitter icon below.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-25678436681431738032012-05-11T01:59:00.005-07:002012-05-11T01:59:51.615-07:00How to Insert Google Adsense Code in Single Post in Blogger BlogIf you are a regular reader of this blog, you will noticed WordPress is massively discussed but because of any other thing but because of many limitations confer on blogger to tweaks and customize. Blogspot blogs has so many advantages and disadvantages. One of the advantages is the unlimited bandwidth. With a blogger blog, you do not need to worry about “Bandwidth Exceeded”. Also, one of the disadvantages of a blogger blog is customizing. One of which, do not leave room for its users to insert Google Adsense code within post on a single post content. All you get from a blogspot blog is inserting Google Adsense code on the Sidebar, between Posts on the homepage, before Posts and after Posts but not inside a single-page post. No doubt with a WordPress blog, anyone can conveniently do that, even without knowing any code. But with blogger, one can only customize and change things within the narrow framework of blogger. Thus, leading o the limitation of inserting Adsense code directly into Single Post.
Why I Decided to Write About This
Despite the fact that there are numerous resources that contains this solution, I got several fans, friends, and readers of this blog asking me how they can easily insert a Google Adsense code into their blog Single post. The second reason I decided to write this tutorial is, I discovered that almost 80% of blogger from Nigeria uses blogger and thirdly, one of the Google Adsense Placement that performs well is placing ads inside your single post – right below the title of your post. From study and my personal experience, placing a Large Rectangle (336×280) sized ad right under the post title always performs well. It has been said and confirmed (by me) that this kind of ad size have a higher CTR, hence increases Adsense earnings.
If you need to add Adsense code in other places on your blogger blog, you can use the Adsense Gadget just like you use other Gadgets like Text Gadget, Poll Gadget, Profile, etc. Just go to Layout > Page Settings and click Add a Gadget. Select the Adsense Gadget and then configure it to suit your blog’s look.
8 Simple Steps to Adding Adsense Code Within Post
Now to the main topic of this write-up, let us go ahead and add a Google Adsense code into our single post – right below the post title.
1. First thing you need to do is to get your Adsense code from your Adsense account, preferably the Large Rectangle (336×280) sized ad format because the larger the ad, the better the performance – Google confirm this!
2. After you must have copied out the ad code generated from step 1 above, you must parse it. This is done by replacing some special characters with HTML entities. If you do not have an idea on how to parse Google Adsense codes, see this post
3. Next, go to your Blogger Dashboard, go to Layout and click Edit HTML
4. Click Download Full Template to have a backup of your blog template in case other codes are been tampered with.
5. Then click Expand Widget Templates
6. Find and locate the code below:
<data:post.body/>
7. Paste your already parsed Adsense code right above the code above.
8. Save the Template.
NOTE: You must parse the Google Adsense code before pasting it into your blog template. If you do not parse it, your ads will not display properly and you risk been banned by Google.
With that simple steps, you should be able to insert Google Adsense code within post in blogger blog. However, you might decide tomake the ad wrap around your post content, which is also nice. You can make the ad wrap either left (like the one you see on this blog) or right of your post content with the use of the “floating div”.
Your Adsense code will go inbetween the div tag. See below:
<div style=’float: left;’> PUT YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE </div>
After integrating the above code into the code of your blog template, save the template and your ad should be showing within your post – below the post title – left wrapped. If you want the ad to be right-wrapped, replace the ‘left’ in the code above to ‘right’ (without the quote).
How to Only Show Adsense Ads in Posts on a Single Post
To solve the problem of the Sidebar ad unit disappearing on your homepage because you can not have more than 3 ad units on a page, or to stop the annoying showing of ads showing on your homepage, we will be using the pageType tag, which can have a value of ‘item’, ‘archieve’ or ‘index’.
To do this quickly, you need to find the code below in your blog template and integrate your ad code with the code below:
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType =="item">
INSERT YOUR ADSENSE CODE HERE
</b:if>
The above code simply means, if it is a single post, include the CODE. So only single post will show the ad – it will not show on your homepage.
At this point, I hope you can now solve the problem of inserting Google Adsense ads into single post content of your blogger blog. Any question? Make use of the Comment Form below. And do not forget to share this with others.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-63870724203945518002012-05-11T01:59:00.002-07:002012-05-11T01:59:07.805-07:004 Tips to Maximizing Your Adsense EarningsOne of the easiest way to make money as a blogger is thru Google Adsense. The reason been that, you need not do any difficult work, all you have to do is place generated Adsense Code into your website or blog and start making your money. Sound easy right? Yeah, it is easy.
If you really wants to make it big with the Google Adsense program, it is necessary to do some essential ‘tuching’ to your blog, apart from traffic, of course. And today, I will, as usual, be writing base on my experience with Google Adsense.
I have found these 4 tips to be useful since I have implemented them on my blogs and I noticed an increase in my earnings. Here I will be discussing these 4 tips:
Tip #1: Color
As writing is important to your blog’s success, so is ad color to your adsense success. Make your ad color blend well with the look of your blog. Make your ad background color match your blog’s background color, your post title color should match your ad title color, let the ad link blend well to make it faint (but it must be visible as well), and lastly, remove the ad border. Removing the ad border will make it look as if the ads is part of your blog content, so visitors tend to click on them.
Tip #2: Ad Placement
The best ad placement I have seen, read and implemented is at the top of your page. The logic is, place your ad where eyes will see them immediately your site is coming up. You might want to insert a Leaderboard Ad size under your blog header, before your contents. A vertical ad (skyscrapper size) can be placed in your sidebar, either left or right. Note that ads placed on the left sidebar of your page always has the best click through rate. So remember, on the top of your page (under header) and on the sidebar (if possible left side). And the last can be inside your post content, either below the post title or below the post content.
Tip #3: Testing
Testing is very important when considering your CTR (Click Through Rate). It is necessary to always test new ad colors, placements and layouts. You might want to change the color and placement of your ads frequently to achieve a higher and better CTR.
Tip #4 Use AdSense Ready Themes
Although Google may not like MFA (Made for Adsense) sites but you do not have to make it look like that. If you want to become successful with Google Adsense, you can make use of the various Adsense ready WordPress themes available on the Internet. The point of using these themes is, they are easy to insert Adsense codes into your blog, using various positions and hence, increasing your CTR.
Some bloggers might see it deem fit to come contrary to these tips. I won’t disagree because adsense is all about testing. What works for me might not work well for you. These four tips I have listed above are only what I have experimented and seems to work well for me. If you have any other tips that has worked for you, let us know in the comment form below. Did you like this tips, share with your friends.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-29568517156538088852012-05-11T01:57:00.002-07:002012-05-11T01:57:31.265-07:00Google Adsense: Tips on How to Earn MoreGoogle Adsense> is still by far the best way to make money online from blogs or just any website, especially when you’re just start out. Here are some tips on how to earn more with Adsense.
First you must understand that it is the traffic that brings in money. More traffic you have will make you more money. Apart from the traffic, it’s the CTR or click-through rate, which determines how much money you earn from Adsense.
CTR simply means the ratio of ad clicks to impressions. Say for every 100 times the ads had been shown on your website if you get 5 clicks, the CTR is 5%. If the click rate is high, then, it also mean more money with less traffic and more traffic back to earn more money.
You can improve the CTR by blending the ads in the content. The people of this age are turning to blind ads. I mean, no one visits a Web site to click on an ad link. This is so because people are only looking for pure information. But if there are more information on your site, people will keep coming back, and the more they look, the more ads they see and because the ads matches the contents of your site, people tends to click on them.
Make your ads look like regular content. Place them in positions where they can be seen. Don’t just hide them!
Since Adsense supports various color options and formats, you can choose the one that best fit your blog or site look. You must always use the same background color of your blog or website to display background color and make sure the background color and border color of the ads are the same so as not to create a border around the ads. Reason behind this is that, if there is border around ads, visitors tend to overlook them because they look abstract – telling them it’s an advert.
Finally, if you could not decide the color that will match your website because of the limitation provided by Adsense, make your blog look and content to match the ads.
After the improvement of the CTR, active work on attracting more traffic should be your priority. Optimize your website for high rankings in search engines because this is where you get the most of traffic from. As it is said, organic traffic is king. You can also participate in forums and get links to your site by using the signature functionality. You can also get backlinks by commenting on other blogs that are similar to your niche, but do not overdo it because it might get you banned as a spammer. Make it look natural, and you should be fine.
You can also submit articles to many directories and link back to your site. Take advantage of Web 2.0 features such as Sqidoo and use social media to gain attention and traffic to your blog.
Final Word:
To increase your Google Adsense earnings, improve on your CTR, write quality and unique contents, do some backlinking by commenting on related blogs and posting on forums. And also, let your ads match your blog’s look. Rinse and repeat the process and keep writing fresh content to your blog every day for more free traffic from search engines, which ultimately help you make more money not only with Adsense, but with any other method you’re using to make money online.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-59103251361173433432012-05-11T01:56:00.002-07:002012-05-11T01:56:07.809-07:00Getting Started with AdSense as a NewbieA very important element in the rapid adoption of AdSense is that it is very easy for publish ads on blogs or websites. The integration of AdSense on your site only takes a few minutes, and you can be well integrated on your way with one or more AdSense ads.
The first thing to do is to navigate to http://www.google.com/adsense and either apply or log in to your existing account with your email and password. What follows is a page presenting the Google AdSense terms and conditions, you must agree to continue.
They have a report page that you use to be able to get a detailed status report on how your AdSense advertising is doing. This allows you to improve your website content and layout to maximize your AdSense revenue. At the top of your page you also have the link to the Setup section, where you can find ad code you will insert in your site to have AdSense ads showing your site.
You can choose AdSense for Content (Ad Unit and Link Unit) with a search box. Your choice between these options depends on how users navigate your site.
Finally, there is a “My Account” that allows you to set up information about your account, payment and tax information. To add a text ad on your site, go back to the “AdSense Setup” and click the “AdSense for Content” link. Make sure the cookies is enabled in your browser.
You have the choice between ad units and link units. The earlier text and images, most with a detailed description, leading to a specific site, the latter only contain links to specific pages. Of course it is a bit hard to know which type you should use, so you might want to experiment with both for a while
before you decide.
You can also see example of how the ad will look like on the left side of your page. You can, however, have only three ad units and three link units on a particular page. Having more than that is going against Google’s Term of Service.
Next is to choose your Ad format and size. There is an “Ad Formats” link which will takes you to a page where you see all types of format you can use.
The next step is to choose your colors. You can basically select any color palette you choose with Google offering some of its own if you do not have the time or the skill. You can always see the range considered by an example. The one that works best in terms of look and revenues vary with the look, feel and content of a particular site.
After you finish with customization, click “Continue” from the bottom of the page.
You are now presented with a section entitled “AdSense for Content” – this is the ad code. You can click anywhere in the text and that shows the JavaScript required to run AdSense. This will automatically select the text in the box. Then you can copy and paste it directly into your pages. If you use dynamic pages, you should add this code in your template, so as to ensure that it shows up on each page of your site. Some customers choose, do not display Adsense on every page, and that is understandable.
What then is the next thing to do? Get content on your site (assuming you did not already). Google AdSense crawlers will soon visit your site to make sure that the ads displayed are for the content of your website.
And you’re done.
For a blog, this should in fact be completed in a matter of minutes. Although it is quick to setup, its mass application has left Google no choice than to scrutinize each sites use to apply for Adsense.
Final Word:
Google Adsense is one of the best (if not the best) way to monetize a blog or website with ease. Although, making money with Adsense has proven worthy but it process is slow. To really make it big with Adsense, it might takes some month. So never give up!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-2145792252804232752012-05-11T01:55:00.000-07:002012-05-11T01:55:07.379-07:00How to Get More Traffic, Make More Money With YouSayTooEvery blogger deserves more from his/her blog. The dream of every blogger is to get as many reader/visitors as possible. And since it is no more news that blogging could give bloggers some extra income, it is a must to find a way to find traffic to our blog because traffic equals more money. Getting enough web traffic is not enough. We will always strive to find more traffic, especially free ones. And that is where YouSayToo comes in. YouSayToo is an ad revenue sharing community where bloggers promote their existing blogs, boost readership and make money with Google Adsense, Amazon and Infolinks.
YouSayToo will help you get your blog contents out there, to be read, liked and commented, thereby, exposing your blog and getting you huge traffic, all for free. This is the main reason most bloggers like me find YouSayToo so attractive. By adding your existing blogs to YouSayToo, either from Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr or other blogging platforms you can increase your blog exposure, boost readership as well as earn additional revenue with AdSense, Infolinks and Amazon.
The interesting part here is, you did not only get traffic to your blog, you also make money with it. YouSayToo offers every blogger participating to enter there Adsense, Infolinks and Amazon IDs. Every time your blog is viewed, Adsense and Infolinks will show up in the content and if there is a click, you get paid your own share of the percentage. You also make money from your Amazon products with YouSayToo.
How to Get Started & Join YouSayToo
To join YouSayToo is very simple. All you have to do is join and add your blog. Then leave the rest for YouSayToo to handle. They will pull your blog contents every time there is a new post, hence giving your blog a wide audience and at the same time, making money of it. Click here to register and join YouSayToo.
Final Words:
I have been using YouSayToo and it has benefited me. So I decided to write about it and make other bloggers benefit the same. It has announced my blog beyond SOJBlog.com and at the long run, got exposure and makes some few bucks in addition to earnings generated from SOJBlog.com, which feels so good. I hope it will work for you too.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-61687470497577167492012-05-11T01:52:00.001-07:002012-05-11T01:52:25.821-07:00Top 10 Best Blog/Magazine WordPress ThemesIf you are a blogger, then WordPress won’t be a new thing to you. You can use WordPress to create any website or blog with its various tools and plugins. If you are planning to create a professional blog, magazine-style blog, or news portal site, then WordPress blog/magazine themes are your best bet. With a very good and quality blog or magazine WordPress templates, you can build a magazine blog or online news portal within hours, even if you can’t code HTML.
In this post, I will not go deeper on what WordPress is, or why you should use WordPress for your websites and blogs, but I will be listing the best top 10 blog/magazine style WordPress themes that you should consider when creating your news portal, or magazine blog. Last week, I wrote on the top 10 best corporate/business WordPress themes. If you need to create a business or corporate theme, you can read the post by clicking here.
Here are my recommended top 10 themes from themeforest:
It should be noted that most of the below WordPress themes are only recommendation from me as the best, clean and modern blog/magazine WordPress themes of 2012. All of the themes are premium WordPress themes. Meaning, you need to purchase them before you can have access to them.
1. SwagMag – WordPress Magazine/Review Theme
Swagger is the first-of-it’s-kind magazine style premium WordPress theme that allows you to create unlimited custom review “mini-sites” within your main website (works for non-review sites just as well as review sites!). That means you can load up your site with tons of content and then present it to your users in an organized way using just one or multiple mini-sites. Swagger’s front page will grab content from your mini-sites and display it all together in an awesome, content-rich page to give your users the best user experience possible. Swagger is guaranteed to increase both the average length of time that your users spend on your site and the average number of pages that they view.
2. Avenue – A WordPress Magazine Theme
Avenue is a feature-rich WordPress magazine theme and is suitable for almost any niche. The theme comes with an inbuilt review system and 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries). The homepage layout is very flexible, you can built your own layout using the 3 homepage widgets. You can also easily change the skin so it fits your needs!
3. Newscast 4 in 1 – WordPress Magazine and Blog
Newscast is a WordPress Theme, best suited for Magazines and Blogs. It comes with 3 fantastic Image and News slideshows has multiple Page templates and of course gives you the option to choose from 4 Fantastic skins.
4. Continuum – Magazine WordPress Theme
Stop fussing with lengthy setups; Continuum immediately works perfectly. Of course, with almost 200 theme options, you can customize it to no end. Continuum was designed and built by a die-hard blogger who has used magazine-style WordPress templates for 5+ years. It is best used for newspaper and magazine blogs, but because of all of the custom widgets, shortcodes, page templates, unique sidebars, and custom menus, it can be molded into whatever kind of site you want, like a portfolio site for example. Continuum fully supports and was designed specifically for WordPress 3.0+. Continuum features an extensive Feed Framework which intuitively groups and displays your posts, and lets the user sort the posts several ways depending on which part of the site they are on.
5. The Daily Press: Super Simple WP Publication Theme
The Daily Press is a super simple publication theme for WordPress. This site was designed and built for businesses wanting a similar presence on the web as the New York Times and other prestigious news organizations. Support iPad/iPhone “Reader” button!
6. London Live 3 In 1 – News, Magazine And Blog
London Live Is the perfect theme for any News, Magazine Or Blog site. It has multiple options to choose from and unlimited possibilities to create a great website.
7. Bangkok Press – Responsive, News & Editorial Theme
Bangkok Press is the most awesome News and Editorial WordPress Theme. With this theme that comes with Responsive Action, your readers can easily read your article everywhere, on there mobile or tablet. There’re more than 10 of blog option for your alternative. Moreover, you can change almost every elements color easily via admin panel. Page items are managed very easily via our awesome tool, ‘Page Builder’. Admin panel in this theme is a real feature rich. You can also create unlimited sidebar, choosing over 450 fonts or if you want to use your own, we provide a cufon uploader. You can also translate each elements to your language via this admin panel.
8. Felici – WordPress Magazine Theme
Felici is a new breed of magazine theme, it has been build for all of those who are tired of messing around with there homepage posts. This theme can make any homepage structure you need without having duplicate categories inside. With 3 types of columns, default, small accordion and full width accordion, all managed through a nifty and user friendly drag and drop system.
9. Insignia – a Magazine / Community / Blog theme
Insignia is a clean and flexible WordPress theme based on a powerfull framework intended for magazine or community style layouts. It may be used for other purposes as well.
10. Backstreet – Blog & Magazine Theme
Backstreet is a modern WordPress magazine, portfolio and blog theme. With the 3 post formats (videos, audio & galleries) Backstreet can be used for almost any niche. Backstreet also built-in review system (with up to 5 rating criteria). Furthermore you can customize the look of the site easily via the custom theme options panel.
I believe I have save you a lot of work and time you might have used in searching for a better WordPress themes that you want to use for your blog. You can see through the demo to find which one to best suit your need.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-3464616684938069092012-05-11T01:48:00.002-07:002012-05-11T01:48:35.014-07:00Top five tips to follow to form money with Google Adsense quickhere are some blogs have been published on the internet, but we've got to understand some tips and tricks on this subject. and will write simply and watching for the arrival of traffic alone doesn't work if you're extremely interested in creating money with Adsense.
The problem is that just about all areas during which we tend to write within the blog we've got better content and a lot of helpful elsewhere on the internet, and most of the traffic comes through the AdSense revenue that you simply receive traffic from search engines. ought to develop an idea to increase their ability to earn income. you can follow these five simple steps to increase your AdSense revenue ...
1) the utilization of social bookmarking sites to spread the blog and your post. you can realize several of them in socialmarker.com. This produce traffic to come to their jobs and increase search engine indexing of their own.
2) research word for their content. so that you can solely use the tool from Google AdWords, KeywordSearchExternal. simply type "Adwords KeywordToolExternal" in Google search and find the link.
3) put in the maximum amount as words (the highly competitive pay, and low) on the content. but use caution so that its contents appear authentic. Use keywords are also some ways not feasible may be a problem for you and search engines will create your content as spam.
4) choose the world of research lots of attention as it should, and an inventory of topics you would like to put in writing.
5) this can be in all probability the toughest thing you can do. However, i feel that if you follow the steps listed on top of shouldn't be too difficult to try to to thus and that i have used these steps and already found a big boost in revenue from AdSense to my account.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-43042840601804757262012-04-17T17:11:00.001-07:002012-04-17T17:11:48.452-07:0020 Adsense Tips For Online MarketersGoogle Adsense is a very popular online ad platform. Quite likely it will be the first way you monetize your blog or website. It will also probably be the first platform that earns you money, as getting your first Adsense click is usually easier than getting your first Affiliate commission.<br /><br />Here are some random Adsense tips that will help you make the most out of your ad space:<br /><br />Never click on your own ads, or get your friends/family to do it. Google will find out and ban your website.<br />Google is quick to ban, but very slow to answer appeals – so be careful.<br />Once you are accepted and have your adsense code you can add it to all of your sites, without applying for each one. This doesn’t mean you can break the terms and conditions of Adsense use though. They will still monitor websites that have their ad code.<br />Is the new Adsense home page a bit confusing – Use this post to help navigate it: Understanding The New Adsense Home Page<br />Here is a list of the highest paying Adsense keywords – the problem is this list is available to everyone, so the competition for these terms is fierce: The List<br />A domain name including the keywords you want to make money off of always helps.<br />Learn about Search Engine Optimization. it is one of the best free traffic methods out there.<br />Check out Adsense’s recommended ad layouts.<br />Try to limit the amount of low quality links that point out of your site.. You want your visitors to exit through the ads.<br />Adsense Official Blog: Bookmark it or add the RSS feed to your RSS Reader.<br />If you use WordPress (why wouldn’t you?), make sure that your permalinks are set properly.<br />Focus on one niche on one website.<br />If you are successful with that site, and want to try another one – start a whole new site, don’t add another niche to your existing site.<br />You can use popular affiliate ads like Amazon, Clickbank, Shareasale and Commission Junction on your site in combination with Adsense.<br />You can NOT use another contextual based ad platform. This means any ad platform that chooses what ads to display based on your content.<br />Read the Terms and Conditions, understand them and make sure you don’t break them!<br />Adsense isn’t a get rich quick platform. It takes effort to learn, and time to set up properly optimized websites.<br />AdSense Earning = Impression-count x Click-though-rate x Cost-per-click x smart-pricing-factor<br />You can put up to 3 AdSense units on a page.<br />336×280 is the best paying adsense formatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-26370597827489912532012-04-17T17:06:00.000-07:002012-04-17T17:10:37.491-07:00Google Adsense Tips for 2012Google Adsense – still going strong in 2012. I know it isn’t everyone’s favorite way to earn money, but it is a pretty simple way for someone with a site to start earning some extra cash.<br /><br />If you want to use Adsense to monetize your website or blog, there are a couple tips you should keep in mind:<br /><br />Make sure you have some decent content on your site before you apply. If you are using a blog – then I like to aim at 7-10 posts before I even apply. Just ends up being quicker, rather than having your site denied.<br />If you do get denied, adjust your site accordingly and reapply with another Google account.<br />Once you are approved for one site you can use Adsense on any site you also own. remember though the terms of service still apply.<br />Learn the terms of service and don’t break any of the rules – you will be caught and you will be shut down.<br />Never click your own ads, or get friends/family too. They will know.<br />Use a blogger.com website to apply – seems to work faster.<br />Feel free to use non-contextual ads alongside Adsense – you can use both affiliate offers and adsense with no problem.<br />You can have 3 different page blocks per page.<br />Make sure your ads fit on your site. Don’t have ads that stick out of the sidebar and appear cut off.<br />You have to create new ads on the Google Adsense page to change the size.<br />Blend your links into the site. Choose your own custom colors for ads. Match them with your website color scheme.<br />Add lots of content to your site – more content that people can find and share – which leads to ad views/clicks.<br />Don’t add images with arrows etc… pointing at your ads.<br />Adding Adsense search to your site is a good way to increase your ad revenue. WordPress has a number of plugins that can help with that.<br />Don’t have any illegal stuff on your website – porn, illegal downloads, drug or etc…<br />If you keep these tips in mind, you are off to a great start. I hope your 2012 is your most successful year yet!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-29395784179932548822011-10-28T05:24:00.000-07:002011-10-28T05:27:38.708-07:00Chitika TutorialChitika is the latest PPC ad network sweeping the internet. It has taken off in the blogging community especially mostly I would say by a combination of excellent product and smart marketing. Prominent bloggers have taken to it and it’s service is attracting the big guns.<br /><br />Chitika is the next revolution in contextual search marketing (not just my opinion) and will be experiencing explosive growth. It already has a strong subscriber base.<br /><br />I have signed up with Chitika and my own experience has been extremely pleasant so far. My account console is clear and simple and I was up and running in less than 24 hours. For anyone who has used adsense before it is a breeze.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What’s the difference between Chitika and Adsense</span><br /><br />Firstly the similarities are that they both can be contextual - meaning that the ads displayed on a publishers site relate to the content in a dynamic way. However with Chitika you have the option of turning off contextual advertising - and in fact have too if displaying Adsense and Chitika on the same page.<br /><br />This is a simple matter.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How to turn off Chitika contextual ads</span><br /><br />The Chitika code is pasted into your page - just like adsense. There is a line in your code:<br />ch_non_contextual = 1;<br /><br />This is actually the default so you really don’t need to change anything to make it non-contextual.<br />If the value of this code about says 1 it means it is already non-contextual.<br /><br />Now you can display Chitika ads and Adsense on the same page.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How to change the colours of my Chitika ads</span><br /><br />There is a easy point and click colour picker provided in the Chitika admin interface.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How often does Chitika update your stats</span><br /><br />From my experience this is done once per day, but they say that they are working on<br />more frequent updating.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">What’s the coolest thing I found out about Chitika recently</span><br /><br />There is an important difference with regard to price per click. Currently Chitika pays the same click price to a publisher with only a small amount of traffic as they do to a huge traffic site. Adsense has something called smart pricing which means that if you are low in the search engine you may only be earning a few cents a click while someone else may get several times as much for the same ad.<br /><br />I have a number of high position pages - but overall with the new adsense smart pricing - my income has dropped from adsense. I believe Chitika is a fresh look. They seem to be taking the best from everywhere and putting it into their program.<br />How do I get Started as a Chitika Publisher<br /><br />Simply <a href="http://chitika.com/publishers.php?refid=stevenjohn07">apply here</a> - once your site is approved - takes about 24 hours - you can place the Chitika code on any of your sites.<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How to increase the clickthru with Chitika</span><br /><br />Optimising Chitika ads to increase clickthru rate, follows the same principle as adsense. Merge the ads into your site - so that the background colors match - using Chitika color picker - or even hacking the code - they don’t mind if you change the colours to suit your site. Place the ads above the fold (so they are in the most prominent place ) Use Similar positioning techniques to adsense and then test.<br /><br />The ads are themselves interactive but strangely pleasant. I don’t know how they did this but I’m impressed.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-6683377712285944282011-10-28T05:15:00.000-07:002011-10-28T05:21:14.902-07:00Chitika Blog | Getting Started With Chitika Ads on BloggerAs some of you have probably noticed, Blogger’s layout has changed a little since we last updated our FAQ’s. This post will be helpful to those of you new to Chitika and/or Blogger.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Posting on Blogger From Your Chitika Account</span><br /><br />There is a way to post Chitika ads to your Blogger account right after you create your code within your Chitika account. After selecting “Ad Setup”, “Get Code”, and customizing your ad, you can use our “Add to Blogger” widget at the bottom of the page:<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.imgur.com/2gUOO.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 83px;" src="http://i.imgur.com/2gUOO.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />his will automatically post the ads to your blog.<br /><br />*Note: Widget not currently available for List Unit ads.<br />Posting Chitika Ads From Your Blogger Account<br /><br />You can also post Chitika ads within your Blogger account. From your account homepage, click “Design.”<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.imgur.com/8Pqm0.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 84px;" src="http://i.imgur.com/8Pqm0.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />Next, you will see a layout of your blog with some blocks that say “Add a Gadget.” This is where you can post Chitika ads. Also note that these blocks can be moved around by dragging them with your mouse. Click whichever one you like.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.imgur.com/8Lu46.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 253px;" src="http://i.imgur.com/8Lu46.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />After you select one of these blocks, a little screen will pop up that says “Basics” with a list of 24 gadgets. Select the 8th one down, titled “HTML/Javascript.”<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i.imgur.com/FyzTZ.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 176px;" src="http://i.imgur.com/FyzTZ.png" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />After you select this gadget, you will see a place to add a title and then the box to paste your ad code. You can title the ad block whatever you like, as long as it doesn’t say “Click Here,” or something along those lines (it is against our Terms and Conditions). Some users like “Chitika” or “Related Results.”<br /><br /><br />Finally, to preview the ads Chitika Premium ads on your blog, you can add #chitikatest=keyword to the end of your URL. For example:<br /><br />www.yourblog.com#chitikatest=keyword<br /><br />Do any Blogger users have other tips they would like to share?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6077867914018037897.post-38244094734379234532011-10-28T05:12:00.001-07:002011-10-28T05:12:41.703-07:00Start Earning Revenue From Your Website Traffic<span style="font-weight:bold;"> *<br /> How is Chitika different?</span><br /><br /> Chitika is the only ad-network which knows when not to show an ad, helping to preserve your user experience.<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;">*<br /> Can I use Chitika Ads with Google AdSense?<br /></span><br /> Yes. You can use Chitika Ads with AdSense because Chitika Ads are non-contextual and do not look like AdSense units.<br /> <span style="font-weight:bold;"> *<br /> How do I get paid?</span><br /><br /> Chitika charges advertisers to be featured alongside your site's content. At the end of every month you are paid based on the previous month's earnings (Net 30). Payments are sent after your account earns at least $10.00 (USD) for PayPal payouts or $50.00 (USD) for checks.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09143176636018832571noreply@blogger.com4