January 2012

search-engines

Search engines are an important part and parcel of any blog’s success. On one hand they provide you with traffic and readers. On the other hand, they do have some limitations. Search engines are not perfect. It means that they cannot crawl everything on your blog.

Let’s take a look on how your content appears on the search results. You publish a post on your blog . Search engines get updated of the added content and they crawl your blog. If their algorithms find your content suitable and appropriate enough, they index your post and it appears in the search results. But what if the search engines are not able to index something on your blog? It will not be indexed in the search engine results.

Generally , image and text is crawled and indexed easily by the search engines and appears in the results. But  here are a few limitations to the search engine spiders :

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avoid -paid -links

We all know that one way to grow high in search engine rankings is to grow the number of backlinks to your blog or site.  One way to grow links is to do it yourself by :-

  1.  Writing articles, blogs and guest posts at various directories and blogs .
  2. Promoting your blog or website at social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
  3. Submissions to various…

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affiliate-marketing

Most of the successful bloggers find a large portion of their online income coming from affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is the process of selling other people’s products for a commission in return. Blogs are extensively used as a platform to promote affiliate products.

If your blog is high on traffic, then you can easily use affiliate marketing to make some sales and generate income. Though, it’s not an easy task to sell affiliate products.  It can be easy for you if :

  1. You have a large network and authority in a community and people trust your advice…

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This question is a serious issue of debate for every new blogger who plans to generate some income from his blog. There is always a suitable time when you should start advertising on your blog.  Generally you should keep away from advertising on your blog for the first two-three months.

Then when should you start advertising?

The answer to this is in the terms of traffic. You must not look to advertise till you are getting 150-200 daily unique visitors to visit your blog and spend some time on it. When you start getting…

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successful-bloggers

If you are disappointed with your blog’s performance in 2011, then you must hope to make a mark this year. 2011 witnessed a lot of bloggers failing and a lot of bloggers go on the top from the bottom. What were the differences between those two? Who can be a successful blogger ?

In this post, I am going to share a few characteristics and habits which you must adopt in 2012 to become a successful blogger. Though it takes some time for your blog to start generating fruits for you , but you must keep going on.

  1. Write For Your Readers: – If you think only search engines decide the future and success of your blog then you are completely mistaken. Search engines can only give you…

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load-time

Someone might think that a blog is too cool as it has almost everything on its pages. It is stuffed with things and features. But rarely they know that it takes a lot of time to load such a blog! A blog which takes a lot of time to load never goes well either with the search engines or your visitors. It is always preferred to keep your blog as simple in design as possible because it reduces the overall load time of your blog.

Imagine yourself in a situation when you are looking for something over the internet. You come across a blog and click the link to open the blog.

How would you feel if the blog…

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