Bloggers R Us

Zukario asked:


Before i start the basics about blogging are you aware that there’s a new way to keep your friends updated of the things happening in your life? blogging is one of the revolutionary way in the internet that can let you owned a personal diary that can be viewed by many people. This is called the weblog or more popularly known as the blog or blogging.

A blog is like a journal where you can write or post your daily activities on a regular basis. The term blog is the short term for web blog. Blogging is an act of adding, writing and maintaining a blog by yourself.

There are several types of blogs that in my opinion you should know. These type of blog is commonly use by a blogger in the web today.

• Personal blog – this is the most famous type of blog used in some of the friendly hub in the net such as blogspot,wordpress etc. This is defined as the online diary or journal that you owned, where you can post your poem and other literature piece or even what is happening around you.

Cultural blog – it discusses all about music, arts, theater and other popular culture.Usually,this is for educational purposes. Topic blog – it focuses on the function like some of the search engines present now. Some writers who want to write about something unknown can use it.This type of blog usually it focus on one niche topic. This type of blog is commonly use by internet marketer Business blog – this talk about the stock market and other business related topics. It is also use to promote businesses, to talk about economics in forum type and manage information.This type of blog is commonly use by buisnessman. Science blog – it is the mode used to disseminate information and data. However, scientists only use this mode for simple scientific data and information because they believe that it could damage the credibility of their science as many people can read it.This type of blog usually reveal a part of confidential information that only authorise people can view it. Moblog – it contains all the information from a mobile phone. This type of blog focus in one niche called handphones. Collaborative blog – this kind of blog is written by two or more writers. Particular site is open for all the writers to write together with others.This type of blog usually encourage people to share their thoughts and ideas. Eclectic blog – This type of blog it focuses on niches individually or collaboratively made. Educational blog – Similar to cultural blog but this is used by students to record the things they learned from their teacher including the activities done in a day. Directory blog – this blog gives a regular update of all the visited links.usually this kind of blog is contain a guide or information for its visitor. It focuses on particular news and happenings. Forum blog – it functions as an internet forum. It allows two or more bloggers to post discussion on the net. Spam blog – this is a form of persuasive advertising. Commonly known for the name splogs. It is characterized by the use of bold letters and self-claim advertisements.

There are many web-based blog journals available online. You can post your own blog, too. Anyone can start writing a blog. In many cases, it is free. How do you start making a blog?

Here is how, follow the following steps in writing a blog.

1. There are many blog sites available online that offers free blog posting. They also offer free accounts with many features.As i stated above, blogspot and wordpress provides free blog service.

2. You can choose your blog to be private view or public view. Many blog site offer a blog that contains a password, only a few can read your blog. You can also post a blog that can be read by anyone.

3. In Blogspot (a blog service that i personally use) You will be given an option to choose the scheme of your blog site. You can edit your own color, layouts and schemes according to your taste and personality.

4. You can write your own blog and post it after you choose the scheme of your blog site.

If you are keen to learn how to make a niche blog that will maximise your chances of getting blog traffic or If you want me to guide you step by step and give you tips and strategies in blog marketing for free please do not hesitate to visit my blog at http://increaseblogtrafficdirectory.blogspot.com.

I hope you find this article useful. Have a nice day!!!

Michiel Van Kets asked:


Newspapers, or the majority of them, are currently noticing that they are having less and less repeat subscriptions annually as other alternatives to printed news becomes available. A new format for obtaining your local or international news information is news blogs. One of the reasons people are not reading as much as they previously did is related to the constant state of activity most people are in for work or home life and the time is just not available to sit and take in the newspaper. The days of Sunday morning over breakfast reading the newspaper are gone for a lot of people but not all.

A lot of people of course will still be watching their news on the television with nightly news updates and of course dedicated news channels available. There are so many different news options available on television now that making your preferred choice can also be a difficult task. However watching the news on television also requires in most cases, sitting through the endless periods of advertising as well as the news itself. Again this takes up a lot of time of the average person and many do not consider this a priority way of obtaining their news fix.

Many now are turning to the internet for their news in the form of news blogs. These kinds of blogs offer them the opportunity to select blogs specific to their local news interests, or even news about their latest hobbies or sports. As well as, of course, offering feedback from others regarding the current topics of interest. A huge portion of the world population is now online in their work place and often this is where they are sourcing their news information as well and they can be updated continually throughout the day with news blogs.

The majority of our older generations will and do still prefer the newspapers as their first choice however the younger set don’t have the ability to use the time required to sit and take in their news, whether it is on the television or in a newspaper. I am sure it will also be obvious to all that the older generation is slowly on the decline with the new older generation already changing their habits and it could be that the newspaper alternative becomes more a recreational activity than an actual source for news.

Many news blogs are also used as RSS feeds which means that the news can be used on multiple blogs at the same time and with people able to comment those who are interested or have a point to pass across can do so whereas this is not possible with a newspaper or the television unless you partake of family discussions relating to either choice. Having the opportunity to offer up your own comments or views is also often a pastime of many who wish to be involved in particular events of interest and of course it is not possible to be in every part of the word but you can almost partake in the news itself when commenting and receiving responses to your queries.

News blogs or online news is more and more popular and you will most often find that major newspapers have created their own online blogs to ensure they are not loosing their customer base completely and perhaps seeing the way of the future where they may no longer be able to offer up their printed versions.

Creating a news blog yourself is relatively easily, all that is required is research of the topic of news you wish to show an interest in. You post it as a blog entry and continue to update the information and reply to comments as received. Another alternative is to locate other news feeds that relate to your news topic and have them included in your own blog. The second option requires less work in that others are providing the information for your news feed but it does mean that you are not able to control the content that is being displayed.

Whatever your choice, you are not restricted to just the television or newspaper so perhaps a news blog could be an option for you as well? Ask your colleagues how they obtain their news or if they can recommend a news blog for you, or create a news blog of your own.

babu2345 asked:


We want both blog.stampingdetails.com and www.blog.stampingdetails.com to go to our stampingdetails.blogspot.com blog. We have been able to direct blog.stampingdetails.com to our blog using either a CNAME record or A records. But we cannot get www.blog.stampingdetails.com to work.

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blogging, blogger,blogspot,make money from blog 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

307373 IN CNAME    ghs.l.google.com. 168 IN A 74.125.53.121

Attempt #2

blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.38.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.32.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.34.21 blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400    IN A 216.239.36.21

www.blog.stampingdetails.com. 14400 IN CNAME ghs.google.com.

477736 IN CNAME    ghs.l.google.com. 158 IN A 74.125.53.121

This is the result of both attempts when when you try to go to www.blog.stampingdetails.com:

blogging, blogger,blogspot,make money from blog

404 Not Found

Google Error

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

What are we missing, or setting up wrong?

blogging, blogger,blogspot,make money from blog

Thanks.And we have my in thread tutorial.

Having your blog searchable on the web won’t happen automatically, nor will it happen immediately.  A lot of hard work, and patience, is required.

Besides friends and family, your initial readers will come through the “Next Blog” link, randomly.  You get more “Next Blog” traffic from posting more, less from posting less.  And, you’ll need this initial traffic.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/01/more-traffic-to-our-blogs.html

Most long term readers will initially find your blog through search engine hits, from meaningful searches.  Not from searching for your blog by name.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/06/relevance-yields-readership-and-search.html

You have to get the search engines involved, but you won’t get listed by them, automatically.  You have to do some work, let them know that you’re there, that you want to be listed, and that you are worthy of being listed.

1) Get your friends to link to your blog, where your blog is relevant.

2) Participate in forums, where your blog is relevant, and include the URL.

3) Comment on other blogs, in relevant comments, and include the URL.

4) Put relevant and useful content in your blog.

5) Some search engines may index your blog using the site feed.  Be sure to activate the feed.

6) When you have done all of the above, your blog will have some weight.  Submit your blog to the search engines, for indexing.

7) Post frequently, and keep the content of your blog moving.

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/how-to-get-traffic-and-repeated-readers-for-your-blog

None of this happens overnight.  Search engines can take months to index your blog fully.  And even when indexed, don’t expect for a search to some key element in your blog to give you an entry on the first page of the search hits.  And remember that owners of other blogs, like yours, are actively working to be included by Google too.  Try to ignore the trolls who babble about SEO.

http://groups.google.com/group/blogger-help/web/blogging-is-all-about-patience

Use Google Webmaster Tools, and Yahoo Site Explorer, to watch the indexing progress, keep an eye for problems, and know when the blog is indexed.  And to setup a sitemap, which is useful to the search engines.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2008/05/google-webmaster-tools.html

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/03/yahoo-site-explorer.html

Google Analytics, that’s suggested by some helpers here, is more useful to small businesses and corporations.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2006/07/know-your-visitors.html

And understand the differences between followers, readers, and subscribers.

http://blogging.nitecruzr.net/2009/09/know-people-who-view-your-blog.html

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9/22/09

Wow thats some great information there I am glad I visited this section.

Thanks so much for all that info!

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9/23/09

Before you know it you will have more readers.

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9/23/09

You will also get more traffic by posting regularly. It takes more than one post for anyone other than friends and family to have reason to find you.

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gr8 help  ‘nitecruzr”  Thank you very much … “0turner0″ and “The new Katney” thank u both … I’ll try yo ideas them

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Ehud Furman asked:


Tips to Establish an Online Presence – Blogging

Your Google CV is vitally important to your online brand and as a result you will need to strive to occupy as many of the listings on page one of the Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) as possible. There are a variety of ways to achieve this and we will be looking at a new set of tips to help you establish and heighten your online presence each week.

A Quick Look at Blogging

Derived from the word weblog, a blog is essentially a website that sports continuously updated information in the form of posts that are displayed in reverse chronological order. Typically a blog will sport the following features: content area, title, comment area, an archive of older posts and a feed which users can use to subscribe to it.

A blog allows individuals the opportunity to foster an online identity, engage with a community and establish themselves as experts in a given arena. Blogs enable you to participate in conversations taking place in your industry or area of specialisation as well as allow you to build your own voice – all the while heightening your web presence.

To promote yourself online via blogging you will need to implement a solid blog strategy. Think about the goals you want your blog to achieve and ensure that each post is geared at achieving them. But remember, a blog can not be a purely promotional tool – if readers wanted information on you or your offering exclusively they’d visit your website.

Better Blogging Tips

There are millions of blogs in existence with new blogs being launched every second. But not all blogs are created equally, in fact more than half of the blogs launched don’t make it past the first three months. If you are serious about utilising blogging to establish an online presence, you will need to make a commitment to do just that. Blogging does take work, but the rewards are worth it.

In order to make sure that your blog is attracting readers and that its profile (and by association yours) is being raised daily, you’ll need to pay special attention to the flowing tips for better blogging.

Promote your blog – With millions of blogs in existence, you’ll need to promote your blog in order to attract readers. There are many ways in which you can promote your blog. Listing your blog in blog directories like Blog Hub, Technorati and Bloglisting is a good start.

Using your preferred social networking or business networking site is another excellent way of alerting your friends, colleagues and clients to the existence of your blog and where they can find it. Your blog will be tied in to your professional self – the “you” that you want potential clients, invertors or employers to meet. If you are in the online marketing game, a link to your blog which details your daily TV viewing habits should be scrapped in favour of a blog which offers insight into your industry.

Participate – Conversation is key to blogging. You need to not only participate with your audience, but with other bloggers operating in your sphere too. By leaving insightful comments on other blogs the authors, or their readers, may follow the link back to your blog and if they like what they see chances are that they will come back.

Frequency – Posting too often may overwhelm readers and posting too infrequently may mean that your readers will come back, find nothing new and as a result not come back again. A post a day is ideal, but very few individuals have that kind of time on their hands. Try for at least three new posts each week.

Good content – How many times have you heard that content is king – well, it’s true as long as it’s good content. If your readers are gaining value by visiting your blog and if you are giving them what they are looking for they will come back. Use the feedback you receive via the comments in order to tailor posts to your audience. You can also introduce features, like our weekly online promotion tips. It’s important to try things out and re-evaluate your blog strategy as you go.

SEO – Search engine optimisation is an eMarketing tactic which sees bloggers and website owners optimising their sites for certain search phrases in order to get their sites listed as high up on the SERPs as possible. You may want to conduct some key phrase research and ensure that your posts target those pages. The higher up you are on the SERPs the more likely searchers are to find your blog. Keep an eye out on our blog for future posts that will guide you through the process of utilising SEO to build your online presence.

Monitor – The sheer amount of consumer generated media has made online reputation monitoring essential. Ensure that you are tracking what is being said about you online so that you can be aware and respond accordingly.

Good luck and happy blogging!

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By allowing you to create or improve your online presence, Lookup Page can help you to take control of your Google CV and start branding yourself online. Visit the blog for more tips on how to build your Google CV and increase your online visibility.

Pradeep chauhan asked:


It is really amazing to hear that in India the internet usage has grown more than 11 times over the last seven years. This internet boom is being driven not by metros, but by smaller and non-metro towns, where the number of users has risen by a whopping 69 times and 33 times respectively since 2000. More and more Indian sites are coming every day with new and hot news and information. To make this news available to the targeted audience, these sites must be well surfed and easily viewable by the Indian visitors.

With the growing popularity of wordpress and blogspot blogs, news blogs with variety of topics from bollywood, sports to politics have been seen everyday. Such type of blogs requires a new approach for site promotion as these news survive for just a day or maximum a week. The easiest and quickest way to drive traffic to your news is to submit your news url to some popular news bookmarking sites that are especially made to target Indian surfers. In this article, I have tried to mention all the popular Indian news submitting sites.

Here goes my list…

1. Bookmarks.nazariya.com – It is a site where you can submit news and stories related to India and its subcontinent. Its users are growing continuously and have succeeded to provide quality news and hot stories. It covers a huge categories list from lifestyle to computer and technology.

2. Indianpad – In my view this is the best digg clone site specific to India. I myself is an active user of this website. It has a very clean interface and best part no intrusive ads. Here a user can also earn by showing ads on the stories submitted by him/her.

3. GyanIn – Another site with similar concept of digg. It still looks at initial stages. But it is worth to check out. Site loads quicker and has clean interface that may tempt you to digg here. Here I find some interesting stories there, you may also find some.

4. Rambhai – Although having a strange name, it is also growing popular and is worth to submit your stories and news here. It has covered all the common categories and glossy interface. So submit and vote your favorite stories here.

5. Putvote – Having a nice name and nice effort put in there. I think this site can improve its design and can put some glossy banners and heading for attraction.

6. NewsCola – It looks bit like reddit.com and you can submit your news here. It looks simple and worth to submit here.

Few other sites for quick view are indianbytes.com, bestofindya.com, humsurfer.com

charchaa.com, ekjut.com, mirchh.com and chalo.net

Matthew Overstreet asked:


You own a blog with a good page rank and decent traffic, but now you want to make money blogging. You want to capitalize on all your hard work and effort, but how exactly, do you make money blogging? There are undoubtedly many ways to make money with a blog, but affiliate marketing is probably the most well known method to start bringing in the cash.

So, what is affiliate marketing? Affiliate marketing is a method employed by businesses to drive traffic to their websites. When the owner of a website or blog signs up for an affiliate program, the business then assigns a tracking code, text or banner system to the affiliate to place on their website. When a person goes to the blog or website and clicks the link provided, the affiliate program begins tracking the visitors actions. If the visitor proceeds to buy something from the business, a percentage of the sale goes to you.

1. Clickbank

Clickbank features hundreds of eBooks for you to promote. You simply browse their online catalog for various eBooks by topic. When you find something you like, Clickbank supplies you with a tracking code, just like any other affiliate program. You place a link on your blog and the affiliate program tracks any sales generated by your lead.

2. SwordWares.com

SwordWares.com supplies text links and banners to it’s affiliates. Any sales generated from a click-through will land the affiliate 10% in sales profit.

3. Blogitive

Blogitive is a popular method bloggers are using to make money blogging. The site is actually run as an advertising service offered to businesses. A business usually pays around $20 to use the service, and then as a blog owner, you pick an ad to make $5 by promoting it on your website. Just be careful with this last method, since I’ve heard certain websites are beginning to ban or delete blogs that blatantly promote ads from blogitive.

Now that we know which services to use, just realize that neither of them are get rich quick schemes. You could just place these links randomly on your site and expect the money to come rolling in … but it’s not likely. To make money blogging, it’s all about sales. People trust personal recommendation more than a blatant sales page, and that is why blogs are such a good sales engine to capitalize on.

Keep in mind that it’s very possible to make enough earnings from affiliate marketing to actually live on. But, also keep in mind that over 90% of affiliates and blog-owners will never reach that kind of success. It takes time, patience, and education.

Instead of just placing a standalone link or banner, it’s usually good to accompany the link with some kind of opinion or buzz surrounding the product or service. If you have experience with the product or services being sold on a site, let it be known. Get people excited about the products you’re trying to sell, and you can certainly expect to make money blogging.

Brad Sinjin Smith asked:


As you know, blogging is one of the best ways to increase traffic flow to your new online business website (“Um, what’s blogging?” – if you don’t know much about writing blogs, please read this article first.) Once you write your first entry, you start wondering, what is the best place to post a blog? What are the top blog sites that could aid the marketing of your online business?

Here is a list of the best free blog web-sites that I use myself and recommend to my team members:



Blogger.com

Wordpress.com

Hubpages.com

Tumblr.com

Xanga.com

Blog.com

Livejournal.com

Zimbio.com



“Oh no!” – you say. – “So many sites to sign up for! I **** that!” No worries – I recommend you use the free version of the software called Roboform (http://www.roboform.com/) for all of your Internet sign-ups. Roboform fills out your forms automatically with a push of a button, which reduces your sign-up time to a few seconds per website.

Generally, it’s good not to make your blog sound too promotional, with no more then 2 links to any one web-site per entry, but Wordpress and Hubpages are especially strict when it comes to blog content. Make sure you don’t put anything that sounds like a “direct sell” onto those websites – otherwise your entries will get deleted and your account could get suspended.

If you like to write your entries in Word Document and then post them to the blog web-sites, make sure you preview your blogs before posting them. Blogs imported from Word tend to show up with a bunch of gibberish HTML codes, visible on top of the page. You would have to go to the blog edit window, and remove those manually. Once you post your entry on one of the websites I would recommend to copy and paste it from that site for when you start putting your blog on others. That way, you will be rid of the Word HTML codes forever.

Posting your blog manually to all of the above web-sites will take anywhere from an hour to 3 hours, depending on how fast you can work. My team and I have cut our posting time to 30-45 minutes, using a great free blog disseminator (a service which auto-posts blogs to various web-sites for you). I strongly recommend blog disseminators to anyone who values their time.

A quick note about the disseminators: they don’t auto-post blog tags – only the body of the blog – so make sure you put your tags underneath every entry. I advise my team against using simple one or two-word tags, the reason being, that they act as keywords for search engines and if they are too general, your posting will not get nearly as much traffic. For example, try googling the keywords “blogging”, “blog” or “online business”. There are millions of search engine results for each of them. What is the chance that YOUR blog will show up on the first page?

Instead, try using longer tags. Think of something an actual person would search for in Yahoo! or Google. For example, good keywords/tags for this particular blog are:

Where to post a blog, best websites to post a blog, top blog sites, top blog web-sites, the best place to post a blog, marketing a new online business, online business marketing, blogging for a new business, writing a blog for a new business, how to post a blog, new online business marketing tips, best free blog sites, best free blog websites

If you haven’t yet joined an online business opportunity, make sure you ask your team leaders for help with blogs, as they are extremely important to your development as a marketer. For example, I provide my team with links to various blog directories and with detailed tips on how to avoid common blogging mistakes. Remember that the more blogs you write, the more people will go to your website. I would recommend writing a blog every other day for the first month after your start/join an opportunity.

I hope this was helpful to you! I wish you best of luck in your blogging endeavors.

Brad Smith

blueoctopus@cox.net

Brad Smith is a marketing expert with a revolutionary cash gifting system that has helped thousands of people create wealth on the Internet. There is no product involved and one doesn’t have to be a computer wiz to be successful at it. On Brad’s web-site http://ToGiveAndToReceive.com, you can learn about how cash gifting can aid your financial situation without considerable money and time investments.

Kingsley Modozie asked:


Blogging is one of the ways to earn money online. Most people love to learn the best way to blog and be able to earn cash from it. Blogs are an extraordinary method to make money on the internet, mainly when you are starting out as a newbie. It requires no technical experience and they are simply to receive web traffic unlike most usual websites. When you discover the best ways to blog you are going to make lot cash from it, same as any blog you build. In order to get the best out of it all you need to perform a thorough research to conclude on the topic you wish to blog about.

Promoters refer to it as “finding a niche”. A niche is simply the subject of your blog. It may be about reviews, products like TV, iPod, software, fishing, sports, hunting etc. These are some of the category you are likely to make cash from. Stuffs that will interest people, meaning they are going to read it and like it, and also come back or even subscribe to your upcoming posts. Funny stuffs or crazy stuffs like how funny your cat is or how crazy your brother is are cool, even though people are going to read it but it isn’t gonna make you lots of money. The reason is because this category of readers is not searching for anything to buy.

What you require is to learn to blog in a method which will bring audience searching for the niche of your blog and are ready to pay for it. When you’ve come up with the niche of your choice, then you can start with the creation of your blog.

Below are three preferences you can choice from when thinking of the kind of blog you need.

-    Option of obtaining a free blog like blogger or Wordpress

-    Option of creating your own blog from scratch

-    Option of purchasing an already made blog or request somebody to create it for you

It is right that free is cool in some instance. The bad side of a free blog is that you can’t use what you didn’t pay for. You won’t have many options like: ability to edit your blog to your own taste. That means you can’t make your blog appear the way you need it, and it won’t be very professional.

If you have no money for a paid blog, you can start off with a free one. Use free blog like blogger.com. Simply purchase a domain, find a hosting company that gives you a service like Fantastico. Fantastico is a set of programs which comes with varieties of products, with it you can set up your own blog on your web server using just a few clicks, search for a template, edit it to your taste (that is you add your kind of colors, graphics and revenue programs to earn money with it and then begin blogging. You also have the option of purchasing a blog which has already been created and made available for sale.

When your blog is ready, there are some best options which you can use to earn cash using it.

-    AdSense

-    Affiliate programs

AdSense is simply a program own by Google which displays matching ads on your blog based on the keywords you use on your blog. You earn money on any click on the ads placed by Google on your blog and also for impressions.

Affiliate programs are a way of selling the products of others and when you make a sale you get paid. Assuming you created a blog about fishing, you may find some affiliate programs related products which pertain to fishing. Place it on your blog and wait for sales. Every week try to write a small article about fishing related stuffs to make your blog content fresh and unique.

Blogging to the Bank is a site that unveils techniques which you can use to earn a lot of money from blogging. You can earn up to a thousand buck from applying the secrets offered by them.

You can find more about it by visiting http://modospot.com/review/bloggingtothebank.html