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Heavy Disadvantages Of Default Blogger Domains

Blogger is a free CMS PLatform by Google Inc. More than 250 million users are using Blogger actively . Blogger has many advantages . THey offers free hosting and a Blogspot subdomain . But , have you ever thought of its disadvantages ? Nowadays , you might have spotted that many bloggers are migrating to Wordpress . They all have understood that Wordpress is a more professional one than Blogger . Blogger gives us a Blogspot domain when we create a free blog on their network . And , you can create more than 100 blogs on Blogger . So , as it is free , many are still using the Blogspot domain rather that buying a good domain name from Sub Registrars like Godaddy and Dotcomcentre . Every free objects has its own advantages and disadvantages . Sometimes ,these disadvantages can cost you a lot in the way of getting the blog deleted or something very horrible . So , i will tell you some of the disadvantages of using Blogspot domain !

Not Professional

Blogger domain names are having the Blogspot domain extension . These are very lengthy and readers will not remember your name forever . So , to increase your readership , you should buy a custom domain . And , if you are taking your blog as professional , you should really need a highly professional not too lengthy custom domain name that all your readers can remember easily and fastly . It should be something that can be grasped by your readers easily . So , Firstly , change your blog domain to a professional one !

Less Traffic

If you write great content , you are sure to get to the top of search engines . But , whats the use of getting to the top of search engines if nobody clicks on your result . Its a universal truth . Blogs with Blogspot domains are just ignored by the people all over the world. Instead they just give all their attention to the search results with Custom domain . Again , another factor to make sure that you buy a custom domain as fast as possible .

Ranking Problems

You can check this yourself . Your blog will be having many domains . Blogspot.in , blogspot.com, blogspot.nl etc . So , all these domains will be having different ranking . Usually all these domains will get redirected to Blogspot.in . So only this domain will have a higher ranking , but by default the blogspot.com will be indexed by the search engines .So , a major confusion in the rankings might occur . So , its a must that you should change the setting of the Custom 302 redirection on which i will write an article surely. In Alexa, you will have different rankings for each of your blogspot domains . So , this is a big problem faced by the blogspot domain users .

Less Fans

Fans always love websites that are professional . But , as we do not have a custom domain then you will not have any fans even if you do not have great awesome content . Building a large fan base is very important in a professional bloggers career which is not possible with a subdomain from Blogger . So , again you should change your blog to a custom domain . Its a must if you are taking your blog as a career !

Less Advertisers

Advertisers also hate to advertise on Blogspot Domains because most of these domains lack professionalism . Moreover , most advertising networks do not accept blogspot domains even though there are excemptions . So , advertising revenues will decrease like hell if you are using the blogspot domain . Most bloggers , blog for money , so you should change it to a custom domain for making the most out of your blog !

Final Words 

So , i Hope now you will understand that it is a must to change to a custom domain . And , Godaddy is offering $3 domains which is very low compared to the old prices . So , what are you waiting for ? Go grab one perfect domain for yourself without wasting any time !

Ultimate Guide To Google Plus Marketing of A Blog

Social Networking is one of the best ways to get traffic , mainly traffic that is targeted . We should always use socail networks usefully . They are not only for chatting and uploading photos , they can be used for other marketing urposes also . Such a social network is Google Plus . Google+ was started in 2011 and since then it has acquired more than 500 million users of which 230 million are active users . Whenever we use Gmail or any of Google's Services , popups start emerging encouragin us to join Google+ . Recently, Google Plus was named the second most popular social networking website in the world after Facebook . Surely , Google Plus will not reach Facebook , but it is surely one of the best Google Services ever . Many bloggers are still not using Google Plus . Google Plus was not a success at first . But, when they started encouraging people with Gmail account to join Google Plus , it really became a heavy success than they though . I Still remember , when i first used Google Plus , I though nobody will join it because of it low quality design and slow navigation . But after two or three months , i was really impressed by seeing their layout and their active users .

Here , they are using Circles instead of Friends . So , Adding to circles is just like following on twitter . the number of people who add you to their represents your fame and reputation and also popularity .Google Plus has the ability to take out the potential of your blog . Marketing your blog on Google Plus surely increases your traffic . Moreover , if you use Google Plus , you will be regarded as better than other people without Google Plus Profiles . In many , google PLus is useful to bloggers , we will discus it here .But , should every blogger use Google Plus ? Yes , of course , every Blogger should use Google Plus . It can take your blog from zero to hundred ! So , we are going to share the best profits of using Google Plus !

Use Google+ To Get Traffic

Google+ can be manually linked with Blogger . This is a good technique because each time you publish a post , you are automatically prompted to share this on Google+ . THis a really good marketing strategy , because you not only get traffic but you also increase the number of people seeing the post on Google+ .When they see your post in Google+ , some might click it andget you traffic , but other might see this and they will come to know of your blog ! We can also manually share on Google Plus just like other social networking websites .

Author Photo In Search Results

Check the photo provided below and you can see why author photo is important . Still didn't understand ? Search in Google ' Qadabra Review ' . I was totally amazed when i saw my blog first . then i checked Webmaster Tools and was quite shocked because , that search query got more than 1000 impressions , but only 60 clicks i got through that query ! Its because , my link in the search did not have the author photo ,so most users did not clicked on my result .

Author Photo in Search results can be obtained only if you have a Google Plus Account . You should link to your Google Plus account from your website properly . So , if you do not have a Google PLus profile , you will lose a lot of organic traffic just because people are not impressed by your listing in the search engine !

 

Increase Popularity 

When the author bio is coming in the search results , then , it will also show in how many people's circles you are there . The more people adds you to their circles , the more your popularity in search engines . Google Plus has this facility just to make it unique . Twitter uses follow while Facebook uses Friends and Like , Google Plus uses circles , its very unique ! More Popularity , More Traffic . So ,You should really join Google Plus , right . Every Blogger should be popular . If other readers find that you are very popular , then they will surely come again and again to your blog !

Final Words 

Every Boy is a dull boy if he does not play ! Every Blog is a dull blog if he does not become social . Social Marketing is a must for every blog ! So , Happy Socializing

Migrate Your Feedburner Subscribers To Mailchimp

Feedburner has always been the first priority email marketing service for every blogger user. But, Unfortunately, Feedburner does not have all those features which other competitors like Mailchimp and Aweber have . Many people do not migrate from Feedburner thinking that other services are costly and people also fear that they may lose their subscribers. But, now its time to erase this myth. Feedburner does not allow us to send emails at anytime like other services like Mailchimp. Recently, we migrated from Feedburner to Mailchimp's free service. Mailchimp's free service has a limit of sending 12000 emails in your lifetime and your subscriber count has a limit of 2000. Anyways, i did not import my old subscribers which were nearly 149 because most of them were not at all responding. And, right now i have got 21 confirmed subscribers in Mailchimp . So, now i think you know why you should transfer to a modern interface. So, now i am going to show you a tutorial on transferring your feedburner email subscribers to Mailchimp .

How To Transfer Feedburner Subscribers To Mailchimp

Before we go on to transfer your fedburner subscribers to Mailchimp, first you have to import your feedburner subscribers into a file. This process will make us easier to transfer the subscribers in toMailchimp. Here are the steps. 

  1. Go To Feedburner and access your account and click on the feed that you want to import .
  2. Clcik on Publicize and now click on Subcription Management in the left side menu .
  3. Scroll down and click on ' View Subscriber Details '
  4. Now, you can see all your subscribers .
  5. There will an option named Export CSV . Click on it a CSV file will be downloaded. Check the image for more . Now, you have successfully imported your email subscribers.


Okay ! Now that you have imported your feedburner subscribers , Now lets go to Mailchimp and export them there . Follow the steps written below and everything will be easy for you .

  1. Go To Mailchimp and Sign Up for a free account . After that log in into your dashboard .
  2. Click on Lists from the menu on left side . And then click on Create A List .
  3. Now, type the required information and click on Save .
  4. Now, you can access your email lists . In lists menu, no your new list will be found .
  5. Click on it to access it . 
  6. Now click on Add Subscribers in the top menu and a dropdown menu will appear .
  7. There, click on Import subscribers .
  8. A new page with many exporting methods will appear. 
  9. There click on Upload from CSV File .
  10. Browse for the CSV file and upload it .
Now you have successfully transferred or migrated your subscribers from Feedburner to Mailchimp, you can now start new campaigns and design it and send it straight to your subscribers anytime from anywhere . But, rmember on thing, you have only 12000 mails left . Happy Blogging !

7 Reasons Why People Don't Read Your Content

Blogging is a way to share your experiences and advices as well as your knowledge . We write ona blog to get people from all over the world to read your content. Wont you feel bad if people are not reading your content.Getting people to come on to your blog or your website is hard enough. Which is why it is a little heartbreaking when they do not read your content. A high bounce rate is really eye popping for a guy who works day and night to get more visitors to his blog. Here are seven simple reasons why your content is not being read. Take an example. Whats the use of me writing this article if you are not going to read it. It will be really bad for me as i worked a lot to write this article and you guys not even coming to visit it. People will not come simply to your blog. you should make them come to your blog which is quite simple if you write unique content and optimize it for the search engines with a mixture of social media sharing. But, there are some on-page factors which contribute to the unwillingness of people to read your content. Well, I have listed out 7 main reasons why people are not reading the content that you are producing from your mind .

#1 - Not Easy To Read The Main Points

Do you think people are reading each and every word of every article they see on the internet. They only check out the main points of your article. Only if they liked the concept of the article, they are going to read the full content. So, make the main points more descriptive and maybe you can differentiate the main points and keyword from the content by making these bold. People are just going to read the main points first.So, make it easier for them to find out the main points .Dont try make your words together in big paragraphs and do not use small fonts. Do not make the mistake of using a script or italic text because it is hard to read on a screen.

#2 - Caring More About Advertisements

This is one of those things where people strike an unhealthy balance. Even if you are not a greedy web master, it is still possible to go overboard with your adverts. It is understandable that you want to make the most of your web content and so have installed lots of adverts, but people are not keen on reading content that is laden with adverts. The adverts that are links within the actual text are annoying. It pops an advert up and obscures the text when people accidentally scroll over it, but that is not the worst type. The pop up widgets that demand you sign in to Facebook and click “like” before reading is the worst idea ever. Pop up adverts are often enough on their own to make people not want to read your text. There are also annoying adverts that cause people to bounce so quickly that they never even see your text. The most annoying are auto-start adverts and audio. Advertisers will tell you that people will simply turn off the video or audio if they do not like it, but this is not true. People will close the window or tab if they even hear it. Do not forget that many people search engine results pages by opening new tabs and looking through them. They will close all the tabs immediately if they have to suffer your auto-start adverts.

#3 - Compatibility Issues - Responsiveness

It could be that your content is not readable on some operating systems or browsers. But, the most common reason is that it is inconvenient to read. Things such as the screen only showing one half of the sentence makes it too difficult to read. People have to scroll both left to right and then down, and most do not have the patience for it. Make your theme responsive, thats the only way to defeat compatibility issue. I thought, my blog theme was superb until I checked my blog in an iPhone. That was a really bad experience as i was not able to read almost anything. I had to change the theme. It was totally unresponsive

#4 - Boring Content - Spinned Articles

Do you watch a film which you already watched a lot of times ? Do you read the same book thousands of times again and again. That is the current stage of our blogging world. The same kind of articles can be seen here and there in a cunnning disguide. There is some content that cannot help being boring, but if you have targeted the right readers then it should not matter. For example, how the lighting director on a movie made Goldie Hawn look younger may be of no interest to some, but of great interest to others.

#5 - Posts Made Of Grammar Mistakes

If your content looks like it belongs on an email to a friend, then people are probably going to not want to read it. If your content is poorly written, or worse still is spun, then people will not read . They have better things to do that reading your article which is full of grammar mistakes. When we finish writing a post,
the post thing that we should do is revising the post for spelling mistakes and other unwanted grammar mistakes.

#6 - Choosing A Bad Theme

It is possible to put people off by simply choosing the wrong web design. When people look up certain things then they expect certain things. If people are looking up advice on health/illness, then a simple white background is going to be more effective than multicolored bubbles. The content of your website may be ideal, but if the web design does not fit with the expectations of target reader, then people will not look at it.

#7 - Making Your Blog An Advertisement Market

This is a bigger factor than most people realize, and yet when you point it out to people it seems obvious. Let’s say you have written a piece about how every expertise in the world has a secret behind it and that is why some people seem to be born with skill or very good at what they do. Such a theory is going to take some explaining and people are automatically going to assume you are blowing smoke because you think the world is a magical place instead of what it is (a dying rock falling through space). You may create a very good explanation of your theory, but if your advert in the top right is advertising penis enlargement, or anti-depression pills then people are not going to take you seriously. Do you think people would take news programs seriously if they ran small adverts in the top corner for anti-wrinkle miracle cures?

About The Author

Kate Funk is an essay writing specialist at Aussiessay.com. She is the author of numerous essays on SEO, internet, marketing and blogging.

3 Illegal Ways To Get Immense Traffic To A Blog

Many Publishers are writing about many different ways to get traffic to a blog . Most of These articles have the same ways . The main ways are by Guest Blogging , Building backlinks , offering giveaways and by writing highly user friendly unique content . I Have read many posts on th same topic of which most of th post these 4 ways as the main ways to get traffic . Many bloggers who couldn't find success through these steps head for the Black Hat Methods . Some Of These methods was did by many of my friends . Thy got instant sucess , but later they got penalized by Google and lost all their hardwork . You should never use these techniques to get traffic to a blog . Traffic will come searching for you if you write unique content and if your site is properly optimized for the search engines . Search engine optimization also leads to getting organic traffic . In this new generation , we should concentrate more on long tail keywords rather than those short and useless ones. We should always try to get highly targeted visitors rather than some visitors who doesn't even know what is a blog and who are not interested in our topics . So , Now lets be aware of these three techniques which you should never implement on your blog as these can make your blog not reputed in front of the search engines .

Paid Traffic - Paid Destruction

SEO demerits of paid trafficNowadays , most of these websites have become a lot popular than how it was a few years back . These sites generate you traffic through their members who get paid for visiting your websites . Most of these visitors will not even read your content , nor they will like or share your articles . Traffic should be generated legally though it requires a lot of time , I guarantee you , it will be fruitful at the end . Paid Traffic generating websites creates offers which are very cheap and this makes our mind tell us to do it ! Some even say , 2000 visitors for $1 . Who knows , if its th truth . These paid visitors will not even take a look at your content nor they will comment on your blog . Paid Traffic is the worst traffic that you will encounter with in your blogging career . Dont try to get yourself into trouble . You tell me , are these visitors whom we actually want ? Will they do any good to our blog rather than just increasing our pageviews . Based on my experince , you should never focus on your traffic . The only thing that a publisher should focus is the content . If You have royal content on your blog , then search Engines will treat you as the king by making you at the top of The SERP Ranking . Now , its you who should decide what to do with these website .

Link Exchange - Death Of Two Blogs

Do you want to be involved in the death of two blogs ? If you were brave enough to use this technique, then i had give a pound. We should always remember that Google is smarter than us and that Google can find out these techniques quite easily. This is one procedure which you should never implement on your site . You should never start such link building relationships with other partners . This procedure is seen by Google as a very bad technique as most of these links are only for a specific time and after that you remove the links . Definitely , you will get penalized by Google .

Traffic Bot Software - Silent Assasin

Many people are using their creative brainpower for creating such bad softwares . These softwares are just bots which send us traffic from different proxy servers which can be found on the Internet . If I tell you this is not the actual traffic , will you believe me ? If not then you will have to believe me because these are just robots , which destroys our site ranking in the search engines . Never buy or download such softwares . It can definitely destroy your blogging career. Traffic bots can also be used for other methods. People used traffic bot softwares to send illegal traffic to my blog. Later I shared a case study of it. I opened a giveaway on my blog and somebody used illegal traffic bots to register entries in their affiliate link. You can read more about the incident here. In other words, the traffic bots silently assasinate your blog.

From The Editor's Desk

So, now  , it is you who has to decide wheather you have to use such softwares or websites or any link building scheme to increase your traffic . Blogging will not be suitable for you if you do not have the patience till your blog gets recognised in front of other people . Patience is required in every step of your blogging career . Nobody has become the president the moment he was born . It takes a whole lot of procedures to reach our destination

An Ultimate Guide To Successful Guest Blogging

successful guest blogging tips and guide
Have you ever got your guest posts rejected ? Then , have you ever bothered about why it was rejected ? THe most probable answer is NO . Most Bloggers , Guest Blog just for the sake of getting backlinks and they will never check the grammatical mistakes . Such people have a " Why should i check the grammatical mistakes ? Let the blog owner do ! " attitude which must be abolished . We always try to guest blog at Blogs/Websites with High Pagerank And Alexa Ranking . This strategy should be maintained by every bloggers . Why are we posting at these well established blog ? The reason is they have higher targeted audience . Moreover , we also get a chance to socialize with other fellow bloggers whom we don't know . I Am only 14 Years old and i dont know many of the blogger out there , So , Guest Blogging can make me highly reputed as well as i get a chance to socialize as i said before . So , many bloggers , guest blogging for links should definitely read this guide that will tell you how and why to write a guest post .

Why You Should Do Guest Blogging ?

Guest Blogging is a way of making relationships with other better reputed bloggers by publishing a post written by us on their blog . As thse better blogs have a higher and better audience , the readers will read our post getting us more exposure . Not only this , many blogs also allows us to keep two do follow backlinks in the author bio section which is usually seen at the end of the post . So , now we know that by Guest Blogging , you not only get get more social fans and more exposure but also more targeted traffic who wants to know more about us . So , now lets discuss how to write an ultimate guest post which guarantees you better exposure and traffic to your blog .

Find The Right Blog To Do Guest Blogging

Finding the right blog is not such a difficult task now because a lot of bloggers are allowing Guest Posting in their Blog . Dont worry , if you cant find one place to submit a guest post , you can submit here . While selecting the right blog , you should also check their rankings and pagerank . Always try to guest post at blogs with Pagerank higher than 1 and with Alexa ranking lesser than 100,000 . Posting at these blog will get you better exposure than other simple blogs with less ranking .

How To Select The Title 

Always use titles with words that compells people to read it . Try some titles that are never discussed before . While selecting the title , do not make it too small or too long . Write a medium length title , but dont make the article medium . For example Take these two titles . What is Guest Blogging ? OR Ultimate Guide to Guest Blogging Strategies. See the difference between these two titles . Surely , most people will select the second one . Why do they select it. Its because, its more attention grabbing. 

The Introduction Plays The Receptionist

Yeah! The introduction is just like the receptionist of a hotel. what if the receptionist behaves badly towards you and your family. Its sure that you will leave the hotel immediately. So, using the inroduction , try to catch the visitors attention.Sometimes , the bloggers will not accept your guest post if the introduction is not good . Try some catchy words in the introduction and dont include any grammatical errors in the Introduction . You should also make the audience enjoy your introduction and make them follow you till the end of the post . Make a good impression in front of the Blog owner with a good introduction . 

Writing The Main Content

This is the most important part of your post . Dont make it shabby and lose the impression that you gained from the title and the introduction . The main content is what the people had been looking for till now . So , This is the place where you have to shine well . Moreover , even if they didn't like the Introduction and title , awesome content in this place can make your post very well designed . THis place should have all the information regarding the title whatever it is . This place should contain all the do's and dont's , how to's , steps or whatever it is that you are writing . It should a well explained one with all the necessary editing like blod . italic etc. Also , try to interact with your readers in this part . 

Don't Forget The Conclusion

This part of your post will be about your final word to your readers . Make it attractive and dont miss this part . THis is also a very important part of your post . Ask your readers to comment about their views in this section . Also , ask to your raders to share this post in this section of the post body . So , you know - All's Well That End's Well :)

Use Images And Revise The Post Once More

Images speaks a thousand words . It will take hours to write a thousand words , so its better to add some images and dont forget to optimize the image for better SEO . Revising the post lets you find out the mistakes and it also gets you more ideas , so , do it after comlpeting the whole post . Revise two or three times before submitting the post for review to the blog owner. We should try to do all the help that we can to the owner. Dont just make hime hate us with so many mistakes.

Internal Linking - Less Bounce Rate

As I told, you above, we should help the webmaster. Internal Linking is another way to get more favour from the owner. If we can link to the otheer posts of the blog , then it had be a great help for the blog owner. And Internal linking also increases the search engine optimization of your blog which in return get you more exposure. So, this step should also be implemented. If you do, a little study about the older posts of that blog, then you can easily link to other posts in that blog.

From The Editor's Desk

So Let me write my conclusion or the post will not be complete . What do you think about this guide. Is it good enough to shared on the internet . Well , then you should know it , right ? Share it if you liked it and comment your views about it . Happy Blogging ! Bye  :P

Is Google Analytics Essential For A Blogger ?

Google Analytics is the most popular website analyzer. Analytics helps you to find out almost everything about your blog and its visitors. We can know everything about our visitors from where they come to how much time they use your site. This is all possible now because of these immense and free facilities provided by Google. If you go on talking about the features of Google Analytics, then we had better stop here as the features are infinite. Analytics is helpful bothe Blogger and Wordpress users. But, I think it is more helpful to those Wordpress users. I will share the reason below. but my question is, Is Google Analytics important for every blogger? Can a Blogger succeed without using Google Analytics ? If you know the answer to these two question, comment below before reading the remaining portion of this blog post . Now, Let me tell you the answers from my side. After that, Lets compare. Probably, It might be the same. Because, the answer for the first question is Yes and the answer for the second question is No. So, the remaining part of this post is about justifying these answers. From my side, No Blogger can succeed without using Googl Analytics because of the features it provides. And Google analytics is important for every blogger because of its features. So, the answer of these two question are related to the features of this service. So, before justifying the two answers, lets talk a bit about the features of this service. Not all features, but some handy features.

Google Analytics 

Google Analytics was one of the most ignored services of Google by me. I never thought that it was so astonishing and that it could find things which other services couldn't. I used many services like the Webmaster Tools, Adsense and many other, but i never came to a conclusion that Google analytics is the best service provided by Google. Yeah! I finally agreed to it. There was no other way. Google analytics can help us to track our visitors and optimize our site for them. It helps us to find more about our visitors. I really regret the first two months of my blogging career. That was the time when I didn't use Google Analytics for sorting out the actions and instincts of my visitors. I used Blogger Traffic Stats to find out my traffic and from where they came from. It was only when i came into the magical world of Analytics, i understood that i missed something really important. I came to a situation where I felt being cheated by Blogger in terms of Traffic. Google Analytics helped me find out my real traffic stats. Well, now let me tell you all the features of this wondorous piece of free tool of Google.

How It Tracks Our Visitors

Now, the question is, How it tracks our visitors? You know one thing? Its a tool by Google, one of the largest internet empire where everything is posible. Now, lets see the logic part.  After accessing Google Analytics, they give us some code which we should paste in our website coding. After that , all is magically done. They track our visitors and reports it in the Analytics software. Maybe it is easier than throwing a stone, but you should know how to throw it. Okay! Now lets talk about its features provided by Google Analytics.

Real Time Statistics

Do you know what it means? You can know what is happening on your site like a live TV Show. Google analytics shows us the number of active visitors on our site at the moment and we can also get to know what they are doing. Real Time Statistics is the best feature of Google Analytics that i have found till now, even though i have only six or seven active visitors most of the time. A high number of active visitors means , you are getting a lot of traffic. Yeah ! Its all for free. Thats why i told that Google is really generous sometimes. We can also find out the location of the active visitors on our site.

Traffic Sources

This is the next great feature of Google Analytics. Its mainly useful for users blogging on Wordpress and other Content Management software's without Traffic stats . Maybe, thats an advantage of Blogger, even though they are not that much accurate. Traffic Sources help us to find out the division of traffic coming to our site. Its divides our traffic into Search Traffic, Referral Traffic and Direct Traffic. Search Traffic means traffic coming directly from the search engines. This traffic is really helpful for our site. In ordr to get more Search Traffic, your site should be properly optimized for the search engines. that doesn't mean you need not optimize it for the readers. You should do both.

Is It Important For A Blogger ?

Yes, Of Course. What else can the answer be. Can you maintain your blog without knowing more about your blog and its visitors. The most probable answer to this question should be YES. Can any worpress users check their daily traffic statistics without the help of Google Analytics ? Answer it in the comments. Again the most probable answer is No. How can a wordpress user check their traffic stats without Google? They can't. So, for every Wordpress users it is essential to implement Analytics tracking on their website. And for blogger users, Do you think the traffic stats of Blogger are accurate. If you thought they were accurate, then you might have been wrong. Maybe, you were definitely wrong. Take my experience. The Blogger stats showed I got 600 daily visitors and most of them were from USA. But, the real thing was that, i got only 300- 400 visitors and only 14% were from USA. Now, you decide.

Can You Succeed Without Analytics ?

No. A blog will not succeed without knowing the correct amount of traffic they are getting. Nor without knowing the instincts of the visitors. So, go fast , sign up, Get the implementation code and track your visitors and their whereabouts with the help of google analytics. So, If you wanna succeed in your infamous blogging career with a superb blog with awesome content, go get Google analytics

From The Editor's Desk

Share your thought about google analytics in the comment form below. And remember one thing that Google Analytics is important as well as essential for a successful blogger. Till next post, Happy blogging :)

Four Advanced Obstacles Faced By A Blogger

Blogging is now being taken by many as a professional career. Seeing this, a lot of beginners have come to this field. But most of these quit blogging just because they think they can't find success. Whatever you tell such guys they wont come back. The main thing is that they are bored or they are facing the writers block. Writers block is a situation in which you can't find any fresh ideas to write about. A lot of successful bloggers have revealed to smaller publishers how they got success. I am not making any money from my blog, but i really love blogging as it helps me to speak out my mind. Now, lets come to the topic. Here, i am going to share 4 most advanced obstacles through which most of those professional and successful bloggers have passed through. If you are on the right track of blogging, then you are ought to have passed through any of these four phases .The phases which i reveal may be wrong for some, but definitely it will not be wrong for everyone.Now, lets share the four advanced obstacles that comes for sure in a successful blogger's career.

Phase #1 - Lack Of Money & Traffic 

Every successful blogger was once a beginner. He or she might have gone through many obstacles like designing and grammar mistakes as they are beginners. The main problem that beginners face is money and traffic. These two can end any blogger's career. The thing is that they get lost in the blogging world without  any money and traffic. Surely, traffic will not find you, you have to find traffic. Wait, its not just traffic, its organic traffic. In other words targeted traffic from search engines . Such a phase have been overrided by many probloggers. The next one is traffic. Traffic and money are two sides of a coin. If ones not there , the other will also not be there. That is, If traffic is not there, you will not get money. Lack of money is something which you need not worry of. As a beginner, the only thing that you have to worry is of traffic and search engine optimization. If these two are done , then surely your blog will get approval from almost all ad networks.

Phase #2 - Lack Of Ideas ( Writer's Block )

Whats the use of a blog if you do not have anything to write . This is one of the most advanced obstacles faced by most of the professional bloggers. The thing is that their ideas get exhausted. +Ryan Biddulph has written a wonderful guide on overcoming writers block as a guest post at BloggerDoc. This guide may have been used by many top bloggers to overcome this. If you have gone through such a situation, and if you have come back, then surely you will one day become a great blogger. But, if you haven't come back from the block, then i dont have any idea or guarantee that you will get success in your career. Writers block is a simple situation where your ideas are exhausted. Just fresh up your mind and you will get back to old ways.

Phase #3 - Theme Problems 

Well, as we were all one day a beginner, then we ought to have faced problems with themes, designing, CMS Selection etc. Professionality does not depend on the CMS platform which you are using. But, definitely, the theme and design fully reflects the professionalism of your blog. We all have one day used a downloaded theme from Templateism or other Blogger Template Developers. If you are a wordpress user, you might have used the cheapest theme or free themes in the beginning. This all shows off that you are not professional. But, even after getting familiar with blogging, if you are not designing a new theme, then surely, again i can't guarantee you success. Design a good theme which reflects off the professionality of your website .

Phase #4 - CMS Selection

Definitely, a blogger cannot create website from scratch in Frontpage and update it frequently. Thats why most bloggers use Wordpress. If you have been in this field for a long range of time, you might have noticed that most probloggers like Amit Agrawal and Harsh Agarwal have all startd their blogs in Blogger and letr migrated to Wordpress .This is the way through which all those probloggers go through. Most of them start their blogs in Blogger and then later when they have enough money and resources, they migrate to self hosted wordpress. Most probloggers have all travelled in this manner. I too wish to go in this way after i get enough money. 

Final Words

If you have gone through two or three of these phases, then i can guarantee you that, if you continue blogging frequently, you will surely get success . Its been almost two weeks since i published a post. I had been affected by the writers block and i also had the terminal exams. But, i hope this is a good post and thanks for your time everybody. Share and like the article

Some Quick Tips To Remember While Blogging From Mobile

Mobile Blogging is becoming more popular and popular day by day. Our last article on the issues and advantages of mobile blogging was a mobile post. Posting through mobile is not such a widespread technology, but still it is used by thousands of people without a personal computer to update their blog. But, if you are not an experienced buy in this technology, then this post is mainly for you. Mobile Blogging has a lot of issues as we discussed in our last post, but there are also advantages. You should keep in mind the important tips that i am going to give to you. These tips can help you write a better post in mobile. Even if you are using Android or iOS, these tips will be effective for you. Writing wil be more effective in Mobile as we can take it anywhere and write from a calm place. We will be having less stress and tension while blogging from mobile and we will get some privacy.

Tip#1 - Never Publish From Mobile

This is the most wanted tip. Do you know why we should not publish posts from mobile. There are a lot of reasons for it. The first reason is that we can add title and alt tags for images. This means that our post will not be fully optimzed. Note this, i am talking about the android Blogger App. All the facilities are available if you take blogger from browsers in mobile. Second reason is that you can't add a search description from Blogger for Android.This will again make our post not at all optimized for the search engines because search engines will only take a set of words or a paragraph as default description. But if we add it manually for seperate posts , we will get a higher ranking . We can add some good keywords in the meta description and a higher SERP ranking is guaranteed. Third reason is that we can't customize the permalink. Permalink is the link that we see in the address bar. It is also known as Hyperlink or just link. They make our posts more optimized. For example, if the keyword 'mobile blogging' is present in our title, meta description  and the URL , then our post will sky rocket it in the search .

Tip #2 - Eye Straining

The only thing is that dont write a full post at once. Write only a paragraph at once. As if you write a lot , it can strain your eyes . Straining eyes can be harmful in your future . We should also try to secure our physical future while we are building up an internet future . Eye straining starts when you focus onto a specific thing for minutes until you \r eyes can't handle it. Such a situation will happen if you blog on mobile for more than 20 minutes. If you are writing posts from mobile regularly, try to secure your eyes by consulting the doctor regularly .

Tip #3 - Write Slowly

This tip is from my own personal experience. Trying to finish the post fast will make your productivity very low. We should try to write posts slowly. We should put our heart and soul into it. Maintain the keywords and check the spelling mistakes as well as mistakes in grammar . Writing slowly will be boring, but its what will guarantee us a good post. Would we write more than one post in a day ? We will not, because , our topic is not a daily topic. It can be weekly, but neve make it monthly. Most bloggers start with daily posting and end up with monthly blogging. So, write slowly and make the readers pleased with your writing.

Final Words

These tips are all from my own experience while blogging from mobile. Fortunately, this post is not from mobile, so it is more understanding and better than the last post which was from mobile. Blogging from mobile is good, but blogging from computer is better.

An Overview Of The Issues And Advantages Of Mobile Blogging

With the inclusion of the Blogger application on many operating systems, Mobile Blogging has taken its place in the market as one of the quickest way to maintain and update your blog . To make this guide even more effective, I am writing this post in the blogger app for android. Experiencing a situation can make you help people understand the situation much better. Blogger app is an easy to use app which has a lot of downloads on the Play Store. Even though it does not have all the features of the PC edition, It can be used as an alternative way to update your blog, If your PC has some technical issues. The Blogger app can be used to write, edit, publish and save posts. It has an easy to use user interface which really makes it easy to maintain our blog.But, we can only do the processes listed above. We cannot check our page views, nor edit the template, nor changing the layout. They made it too simple. Anyways, it is a really effective app for those without a PC or those who cannot spend time in front of the PC. Now let me give you some of the issues and advantages that I am experiencing right now by updating my blog through the android Blogger app.

Issue #1 - Spelling Mistakes

The first issue that i faced while using blogger app for android was that there were frequent spelling mistakes. The screen of my device is big enough. Even then, there are a lot of spelling mistakes. My android device is Micromax Canvas Lite and it has a good 5 inch screen. But, still it is not enough. If you have to write posts from mobile every now and then, i recommend you to use a tablet or something else. I took more than 4 or 5 hours to write this whole text. But, not in one day, 3 days where took to complete this post from my mobile . Spelling mistakes can be corrected either from the PC or using some other tool. But still, i love to blog from my android device because i have the freedom to post from anywhere and i can sit and write in calm locations .

Issue  #2 - Less Features

The second issue is not so horible if you have a PC to maintain your blog at home. But, for those who do not have a PC, and you are blogging from mobile, then surely this will effect you. We do not have all those features as of PC in Android. We can only write and dit posts as well as publish poss or save posts as draft in it . We cannot change th template or the layout or you can't configure pages . Even then, for me it was not an issue because i have a PC in my home and i was just testing mobile blogging .

Advantage #1 - Freedom

While using a computer or a laptop, we will have to either sit on a chair where the computer is located and we cannot change the place of the computer. The case is different in laptops, but they too are big and are not easily portable while operating. But, In mobiles , you can sit and relax anywhere and write according to your needs. This one of the best advantage that I experienced while blogging this post through mobile. We have enough freedom to write from anywhere and we feel relaxed while writing. 

Advantage #2 - Maintain Your Blog From Anywhere

If you had spend a little bit of money, we can configure a data connection for our mobile and we can publish posts from anywhere around the world. But, surely you need range. Data connection will help you to update your blog from anywhere and also maintain it.Blogging through data connection maybe a bit slow at places with low range, even then you can save it as draft and publish it when you have some time and range . Really a good way to update your blog freely.

Final Words

What more can you expect from such a small 7 MB Android Application that is available for free. Well, this post is published from Micromax Canvas Lite and please comment if you experienced any changes from the old interface of my blog .

How To Find The Page Speed Of Any Webpage

A Webpage consists of HTML and CSS binded togethor to wrk properly. Page Speed is something which we all like to have . Even though we work very hard, we might not get the best results. But, How do we know if our page speed is good ? How do we find th errors that make our blog slow .Such a tool is the Google Page Speed Insights .It analyzes the whole webpage in a matter of seconds and shows you the errors that are making it slow. It shows a mark out 100 seperately in both mobile and PC . This is one of the best and fastes web page analyzer tool out there in the Internet. Well, You can believe it as it is developed by Google . Its a must to increase our page speed . If our site is very slow, our bounce rate will increase rapidly. We have to decrease our bounce rate rapidly or else our traffic will go like a rocket. Not to the sky, but to the ground. Now, lets discuss how to get the accurate analysis of your webpage . Using this tool, we can improve our page speed . We always have to keep our site totally optmized so that our readers and search engines have the best experience visiting our website . Folow this tutorial for finding out the errors and issues that are slowing down the webpage and also find out your page speed which is listed out of 100 .

Steps

  1. Go To Google Page Speed Insights.
  2. Now , Enter your URL in the box and click on Analyze .
  3. Wait A Few seconds .
  4. It will now show two reports of Mobile and PC
  5. It will also show you a rank out of 100 for your website.
  6. Thats IT !
Now in the suggestions summary you can find the detailed reports about errors and issues and how to solve it . Google Page Speed Insights is a great tool and it is great to use it frequently to find out the errors in your template . Hope you liked the tutorial . See You !

How To Get Your New Posts Quickly Indexed In Google

Search engine traffic is something which gives us a lot of benefits starting from money to higher conversion rate . We do not simply get search engine traffic just by writing articles. We should optimize our blog for the search engines as well as for people .Many good bloggers, just leave their blogging career just because they don't get enough traffic. Its because they only do 50% of their work. The other 50% should also be done by ourselves. We should tell the search engines that our sites are updated and that we have a new post. We should make our post get indexed rapidly so that we get more organic traffic from search engines . Many , Still think that posting in groups gets you lifelong instant traffic. But, the only gain is that our site gets marked as spam by Facebook . If such a thing happens, surely Google will also ban our website . There are two alternate methods to get your new blog post get indexed in the search engines rapidly. We will show you how to do this trick which enables the other 50% work after publishing the post .

Method #1 - Fetching As Google

  1. Go To Google Webmaster Tools And Select your website
  2. Now select Fetch As Google in the Crawl submenu
  3. Submit the link of the latest post here .
  4. After adding it correctly, You will get a Success Message.
  5. Now click on the Submit To Index button near the success message .
  6. Now wait for 5 minutes and you have successfully indexed the post

Method #2 - Sitemap Submission

  1. Go To Webmaster Tools 
  2. Select Crawl Menu . Then click on sitemaps
  3. Now click on add sitemap
  4. Copy and paste the URL given below - /atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
  5. This step will take time to get your post indexed
  6. Success :)

Final Words

This remaining 50% should b done by yourself. Many newbie bloggers do not know the basics of SEO and blogging. Still they blog and eventually they do not get success . Surprisingly, these guys are great writers and still they don't get success . I can only tell one thing to you guys , Work Hard .

Advantages And Uses Of Zemanta Blogger Tool

Zemanta is a blogging tool which gives you an improved Blogging experience in Blogger .Zemanta is a plugin for chrome and other browsers which can be integrated in Blogger . Its a quality service which gives us free images and many other optimization services in the post editor. Zemanta, If added in Google Chrome, can be seen above the post settings .Many other advantages as well as disadvatages are being generated by this free tool. But, everything is not for free. Zemanta, keeps a small image with a link to their website if you use their images or services . Using Zemata, your posts writtn in the post editor will sky rocket the search engine results page. Zemata plugin constantly offers you tips and many other services . Using Zemanta, Blogging becomes a lot more easier for you . Zemanta also has another feature which automatically finds relevant text which has a website, and it automatically links to that website. But, its only when we click a button, it will add the link . There are a lot more other feautures in this plugin which i will demonstrate and show with images to you .

Images

Many bloggers thought that all those so called great images in Google are free to use. They only realised that what they did was one of the blunders in their blogging career after they get a copyright issue and finally the blog gets deleted or disabled . Zemanta provides free images to use on our blog. Images added through Zemanta will link to the the website from which the image is taken. The link will  be a text link and not an image link and it can be found in the cation  area as stated in the image . So no copyright issues.Moreover, it also has many other free images without links . Its a great service for busy bloggers because you will not need to waste time in creating images and editing them as well as adding text to it .

Related Articles

Zemanta also gives you a chance to show some posts as a related posts widget . But its not to your website. But, these related posts will be of other websites. Moreover, these are something which i have never used. So, i recomend you not to use it as you are simply linking out without the need of anything. But, its good if you value your readers very much and linking to better articles are not a waste . See the pic for a live demo of it . Its good for your readers and visitors .


In - Text Links

I like this feature a lot , because we just have to click a button rather an adding all the links one by one. It is really cool, right . Well, i love this one . It takes out popular and relevant names in the text which have an official brand or is really popular and shows it in the column of In-Text links . We can add the links of our choice or we can add all links at once. See the image below for reference .It can be found below the scrollbar of the post editor . 


Credits

Do you think you get all this great, cool features for free . Well, if you think so, it is possible . But, if you get caught, you are really going to regret it . Zemanta adds an image link at the bottom right corner of the post . Its really small, so you should respect their free service by not removing the image . Finally, Hope you liked Zemanta and please add it for an increased and improved blogging experience. 

How To Make A Professional Logo For Your Blog Using Photoshop

A Professional logo is a way to recognize the reputation and professionality of a brand or a blog. Creating a professional logo is really tough if you try to make a logo totally by your own. Even, we took a lot of time to create our logo totally by ourselves. A lot of websites offer free logos. But, most of them are not at all good looking nor attractive. One of the most essential things of a blog is a good logo. A professional logo can be created using Photoshop . But, this is not at all easy for newbies. A lot of tutorials on creating a logo with Photoshop can be found all over the net, but it takes a lot of time to study the basics and start practicing on it. So, we will share you a much easier and unique way to create a logo which will look like created with Photoshop and will also look a much better logo than creating with Photoshop.

Create Logo Online

  1. Go To Logomaker.com
  2. Now, Click on Get Started Now
  3. Now, A Pop Up Window will appear.
  4. Now Choose your niche . Choose the right one. You can change it later.
  5. Now, you can either choose abstract icons and you can also choose Niche based logo's
  6. After choosing the logo, you can add two text fields to it .
  7. The colour of both text can be changed .
  8. Ok, Now after you create the logo. You will have to buy it. 
  9. If you dont have money, then there is a trick !
  10. Click Print Screen, Go To Paint and Press Ctrl+V. 
  11. Now Crop the image and make your logo perfect .

Create Logo Using Photoshop

  1. Open Photoshop and click on new to open a new and empty document.
  2. Select any size you want for the logo.
  3. Now take the pen tool. If you dont know, then click the shortcut button P.
  4. Draw any line and start dragging it to form shapes .
  5. Play a bit with it a draw a cool logo
  6. Add layers to it to make it more professional .
  7. Now you have created a wonderful logo .
Its hard to make beautiful logos in Photoshop than Online Logo maker's. But, as a Blogger , you should know the basics of Photoshop editing as it will hlp you in the future .

Final Words

Thats how you create a wonderful logo. It will look pinch perfect and you can edit it as much as you can . Logo Maker is the most perfect site to make logos for your website. But, it might not be unique. You can contact us anytime to make us design a wonderful logo for you .

The Hidden Face Of Giveaway Winners - Case Study

If you are a regular reader of my blog, then you might have noticed that more than 30 days was there for the $10 Giveaway to end. But, i just deleted that way to get traffic and subscribers by offering giveaways the moment i realized the disadvantages. Indeed, offering giveaways are good for your blog in many ways, but what if someone misuses your giveaway . What if someone tries to win the giveaway by making many referrals illegally .As an experiencer of this i recommend you to never use Punchtab as it is prone to fake entries which are generated through fake traffic bots .I too was really excited after i got more than 1900 visitors one day. Usually i used to get only in the range of 900-1200 . But, i thought many people were coming to participate in the giveaway . My belief was ought to be right, till i was amazed to see some things which you might now, but you might not have understood .

Punchtab is a giveaway manager. But, they are really not at all good. Me and my friend filed a ticket at their support regarding this fake entries generated through fake traffic, but they did never reply to it .Okay, i will now explain the situation fully !Like every other blogger, i thought of offering a giveaway on my blog. You can check it out here

The award was $10 Paypal cash and a sidebar banner . Many people were making entries. At that time i was getting only 900-1200 pageviews daily . But after offering the giveaway, i saw that my traffic reached 1900 one day . I thought my giveaway was performing well . But, my assumption was wrong . It was FAKE TRAFFIC . One guy was using a traffic bot to generate illegal referral points on the giveaway to get to the first.

Unfortunately, only after he made more than 1000 entries, i came to know of this .Still, he was doing it. I had to delete the giveaway to escape. I don't know what will happen to my website now. Will Google believe i used fake traffic. Guys, that why i recommend you not to use Punchtab. There are a lot of alternatives out there like RaffleCopter etc.

Now let me tell you in detail. After i came to know of this, i started researching a lot . A researched and researched and finally i got success . It is Jingling.exe . A Chinese Traffic Bot which sends fake traffic to any URL from different IP addresses. He used this to send traffic to me . I don't know how it will affct my blog , but i know it will affct my blog somehow.It is a software . And you know one thing, it really works .

I also stated it to those stupid Punchtab officials who doesn't even reply . Now, Fake traffic is bad for your blog . He was using traffic to that Punchtab referral link which redirects to my giveaway . Actually , he was the winner and i had to discard him because he was trying to ruin my blog and get away with my cash . Really rude, right ?

I'm not accusing anyone, but i am informing such things are possible

Now , do you want to know who it is ? Wait, let me think a bit if i want to expose him . And, i know you are reading it, you fake entry maker. Well, not one . There are two of such illegal entry maker. Once before i knew all this, he asked to me in the chat , who has the most entries. Unfortunately, i checked and saw that it was he himself . I reported it to him .

Don't believe me. Well, now i'm going to expose them in front of you. And i also have some evidence against them . But, promise me first that you will never ruin your hard work by using the punchtab plugin to offer Giveaways . You see this is a major loophole of  Punchtab services. Whats the value of offering giveaways if anybody can win it using fake traffic to the referral link . Hope you understand !


Punchtab is good, but they will be better if they remove the referral system. So, you see anyone can win any giveaway by making fake traffic and fake entries .I will not expose those villains because they might send fake traffic again to my blog  . I had no other way, but not to expose them because of some advice from other bloggers. 

I don't know if he will send fake traffic again to my blog any more . But i have taken protective measures against this. I have blocked some IP's and did something else . If you want to know who they are , i will tell to you privately. Because i value others privacy higher than mine whoever thay are ! 

How To Clone Any Blogger Template, Widget And CSS Codes

advanced tutorial on Blogger template cloningActually , this thing which i am going to share is an illegal thing which i really oppose to . I am writing this to make sure that your hard work on your template will not go waste. Blogger Template is made up of HTML5 and CSS3 . We all know it . We all have spend a lot of time in adding widgets, creating widget, customizing template, adding CSS and many other for making our template beautiful. But, BEWARE ! Any blogger template, widget or CSS styles are clonable if you have a browser which supports HTML5 . I strictly oppse this way of cheating other . But, it is a must that we should make our blogger template protected .Template cloners are increasing day by day . So, we should all make our template protected ! Moreover , if our template keeps on getting cloned, you will waste a lot of time in redesigning it instead of posting at your blog . First, I will share with you ' How To Clone Any Blogger Template,Widget Or CSS Coding ! Again , this is one of the disadvantages of Blogger . Blogger blogs are getting more vulnerable . Not to hacks, but to clones ! Websites like BlogTipsNTricks are now frequently updating their blog design to cloning !

Some Requirements 

- It Should be Hosted On Blogger or Wordpress ( Worpress is a bit difficult )
- HTML5 supported Browser like Google Chrome
- Some HTML Knowledge
- Adequate CSS Knowledge

Steps To Clone Blog Hosted On Blogger 

+ Open the blog which you want to clone .
+ Now , Click on the settings tab on the top right under close button in Google Chrome.
+ Now click on Tools.
+ Another menu will appear 
+ Now Select the option 'View Source'
+ A new tab will appear.
+ This is the template of the blogger blog.
+ Check The image for better understanding .
+ You also have to make necessary changes to make it work in Blogger 


Steps To View Source Code In Google Chrome

Facts

+ Its not as easy as you think 
+ This is easy to copy the codes of widgets
+ But, the whole code will not work properly, unless you apply necessary changes

How To Protect Your Blog

Now as you know that your blog is very highly vulnerable to clones if you are having a good design.The blogger template is all based on CSS and HTML . The CSS decides the way how an HTML object works. So, if you can hide the CSS, then you can surely block any cloner. CSS ca be hosted in Google Drive. This is more faster than hosting in your template and never think of any downtime because Google is faster than your computer !

First of All , You should hide your CSS . You can host it in Google Drive or any other . A Detailed tutorial on Hosting CSS on Google Drive is available at Blogger Yard - Host CSS In Google Drive

Now , You should try to make the cloner more confused . +Syed Faizan Ali of MyBloggerLab suggested to make your CSS coding in a jumbled manner so the cloner gets confused . Indeed , It is a good way, because HTML and CSS is coded in such a way that if it is not in proper order, thn you may really get mad and you might even lose your control! .So, Lets take our blog to the next level by protecting our Blog design from Cloners. Thank You ! Happy Blogging !