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6 Best Ways To Promote Your Blog For Free - BloGGingPlace

6 Best Ways To Promote Your Blog For Free - BloGGingPlace
As a blogger you are aware of all conventional promotional technique for blog promotion and now you must be looking for some more tips to take it to next level. The world is not a small place. Here we got many awesome gaps to fill it with our blog. In this article, lemme walk you through some extra ways to advertise for free and promote your blog real-time.
After reading this article, you might think that I’m a crazy blogger. If you think so. ! Whoa! You are absolutely right :D . I do some crazy stuffs to push my blog to the next level and survive on the internet. Boo Boo Kakaa !
Okay, lemme not get your bored. Let’s dive into the ways, shall we?
So, you wanna promote your blog for free and effectively. Right? Then hold on to your keyboards and gear up your mouse near the scroll bar.

6 Ways for free Blog promotion which you not


thinking of:


(1) Make Use of the Facebook Covers.

Facebook’s cover feature is a great idea to place your blog in a wide and eye catching place on profiles. You can upload and use any picture you want to give it a display.
Then why not try advertise on that area? I’m pretty sure you don’t want to miss a wide, big space on the Facebook.com domain. Do you? :)
So go on and create a professional cover picture, add your blog address or blog name at the very bottom-right corner of it. Make sure the text stands out and roll it over to all the places you can.
  • Use that pic as your Facebook Cover Picture.
  • You might have a bunch of newbies or supportive buddies on your Facebook friend list. Give them the image and ask them to use it as their cover picture.
  • If you or your friend have a popular Facebook group, just flag up your cover picture there too. 

(2)Be the comment star.

Yeah! You spelled it right. It’s not a comet start or something. It’s Comment.
Imagine that you are reading a fantastic article on the web, and you liked it. At the end you see some pretty big discussion and there is one guy who stand out at the discussion. There is no doubt that you will think about that comment and stare right at him.
So, go target an authority blog. -> Draw all the attention towards you and your blog by being a professional.
I’ve written a post on Commenting on Other Blogs for love recently which you might want to read for a better view.
  • Wish,
  • Talk about the post,
  • Criticize,
  • Point out something new,
  • Congratulate,
  • And Say something ‘Cool’ at the end.
Keep these things in mind while you comment. It will be worth it! ;)

(3)Share some Music.

You might be thinking, “how on earth could you promote your blog by sharing music”.
Well, actually you can. It’s something I’ve tried and made sure it works.
Music
I’m sure you have your own collection of music albums or DJ songs on your PC and a bunch of friend. You can hopefully edit or set the information details of the music files with your computer. There are some software like mp3tag which you can use it to edit the music details and set new music cover.  Why don’t you then make use of that? Still confused? You wouldn’t be. Create a 250*250 image with your blog address under it and set it as the cover pic. Edit the comment from the tagline suiting your blog and you are done.
When next time you play the song, you will have your own music featured picture up and running on the player with your blog link. Tadaaa!
Tell me about it at the end.

(4) Video Watermarking.

This one works exactly like sharing songs. There are many watermarking software out there you can download for free and use.
Host up your Blog address as the transparent water mark at the side of the video and share it. Do it on all of your movies and video files. This is a great way to promote your blog and gain some movie guys as your readers.
Make sure your friends get em’.
Well, let’s get the promotion outside the online box. Shall we? ! Why don’t we give it a try on the offline world to gain some attention?

(5) Scratch on the Classroom Benches. 

Classrooms are where the teenage life get’s boiled on. Your benches might probably be filled with rough scratches, mafia languages and secret codes. Some benches are like a love registration directory, where we can see the names of lovers wrapped in a Love/Heart sign. ♥ ! Don’t forget to tell me if you have seen it too.
It’s time you find a plane space and start scratching. I think I don’t need to tell you more about it. I’m pretty sure you know what to do.
Make it catch some eye by using various inks and special effects :D
Wall Paint

(6) Let’s hit the Public.

There is a whole big world out of your computer room and know it. Let us step outside with the markers, paints and scratchy tools to do some extra advertising. Shall we? :D
The public places are probably the best area to advertise your blog. Hundreds of people walk along these roads and you can surely grab some serious readers by making use of these areas.
I know this is gonna be a little funny and crazy thing to do. But trust me on this :D
  • Scratch on the Public Toilets and Rooms.
    Hehe, that’s where people finally reaches to throw away some junk and patiently. :D ! Go get em’.
    But don’t actually get them while they are in these places. But make use of them :D !
    Hehe haha! I know what you are thinking you idiots. :D I didn’t mean that you crazy fella! :D
Paint those walls and Scratch those roofs. Display your blog around so they will inject something into their heads before leaving.
  • Scratch The Walls.
  • Go around the street with your painting tools and advertise in style. I think there is no need to tell you much about it.
  • But make sure you don’t get behind the bars for destroying the public property :D
  • Scratch on Buses.
    Now that’s a moving advertisement. Ain’t they? Stick your home made stickers and draw some ad for yourself on buses and trains to grab some travelling people.

Source : Shoutmeloud

Tips to Google Adsense Approval Less than a Month

Tips to Google Adsense Approval Less than a Month

This post is for all those publishers who are looking for a fast Adsense approval ,Adsense is unarguably the best Advertising network and it can boost your income in no time. Adsense policy states that you need to wait for 6 months if you are applying from India or China, but I don’t seem to agree with that ,getting an approval is always tough since they are looking for potential publishers for their advertisers ,however if you follow all the their policies,this task really seems easy.
In this post I will explain you what all I have done in order to get adsense application approved and steps to take before applying for adsense.
Adsense-Approval-fast
credits to Alltechbuzz Team

Important factors for Adsense approval:

Below I mentioned the things which I have taken care of before applying for Google Adsense publisher program.

Content Is King:

Content is king, if you have high quality content nothing can stop you from getting approval.Now I have seen many blogs getting approval in the past , main reason being Content.Adsense policies haven’t mentioned about number of articles ,but your blog should have more than 20 articles to get approval.

Good design is heart

Although design is not the top most priority for getting adsense approval ,however I still believe most of the application which are rejected  due to bad template.If you have good design, adsense team will find it attractive to approve your account.
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Disclose information

Adding a privacy page is mandatory,this is what I think,I have taken part in many adsense forums and found out from my research that and most of the rejected applications don’t contain privacy page.

Why privacy page is important?

You need to disclose information such as what information you are going to collect from your readers eg IP address,Browser info,email address,location and may share this information with third party (Google analytics) for promotional purposes .You  got to ensure that your website is safe to use.And you also need to ensure that your visitors privacy is important to you.

Same goes with About us page, here you need to disclose your information about your website ,what is it really all about.

Avoid plagiarism :

Don’t copy articles or images or from others website without permission ,adsense hates this and it would be better if you too avoid it ,to be on the safer side ,because it may eventually result into plagiarism

Tips to avoid plagiarism:

Give credit before using others images
Paraphrase another persons words used in articles.
  • Don’t apply immediately after disapproval ,wait for a week to pass make some necessary changes and then apply
  • Apply from different email accounts.This is one of the best tricks which you a can use too If you get disapproval first time , then make sure next time use different email account.
  • Never post about pornography or pornographic content(Adsense doesn’t approve such sites)Never mention jail breaking on your site.
Now a days to get approval you need to pass 2 review process.If you pass first step of review you have liberty to place adsense code in your website , but again they monitor and if it meets all the requirements ads start to appear on your website , the final review process takes about a week,so after getting approval in first process ,it is important that you have descent pageviews otherwise you might fail to get approval.

My Final words In this Post:

“If you are disapproved by adsense , don’t loose hope,keep trying because my application was rejected thrice,before I got a full approval”.

Alexa.com Pro Membership Upgrade Review-Is it Really Worth

Alexa.com Pro Membership Upgrade Review-Is it Really Worth


Every Blogger/Web Master know the importance of Alexa Rank to drive more advertisers to their websites/blogs these days.For a profitable blogging you must have a good Alexa Rank.Alexa has a pro upgrade since many years but recently they are encouraging many bloggers to upgrade for Pro Membership to take full advantage of accurate site metrics and good Alexa Rank.
To test the Alexa Pro features I stepped forward and upgraded for PRO.I think I am one of the very few people on the whole internet who dared and stepped forward to upgrade for pro membership.But after few days I realized that upgrading for pro is not a good option for me  because there was a huge drop in my alexa rank recently.However it was fixed later after contacting with alexa support.

What is Alexa Pro? 

As you know Alexa is owned by Amazon which ranks every website based on some of their ranking algorithms.Alexa Pro is upgrade to alexa free membership.Which costs $9.99 per month.They are also offering one month free trial for new customers.Pro members can have some advantages over free members like Certified site metrics,Custom Logo,Custom Ranking system which we will be discussing in details further in the article.

Some Unique Features for Alexa Pro Members:

Once you upgrade for Alea Pro Membership they offer some new features like Certified Site Metrics,Custom Logo,Two Dofollow Links with Targeted keywords on your Alexa Info Page and monthly site audits.

If you are upgrading for pro with an intention to increase alexa rank then it doesn’t show fruitful results in all cases but it helps for some.

Who Should Upgrade to Alexa PRO?

If your blog is Tech Niche or Internet Marketing niche and already has a good alexa rank then I strictly recommend you not to upgrade for alexa pro.
After you have upgraded for pro you will be given a piece of code to install on to your blog/website.This code tracks the number of visitors your website gets.Generally alexa calculates the number of visitors a website gets on the basis of toolbar information.But once you upgraded for pro they measure your number of visitors accurately and rank your blog on the basis of those visitors.For high traffic blogs this is a good thing but for blogs with low traffic pro membership results are very much negative.
  • If your site has less traffic and has an awesome alexa rank then stay away.Never upgrade to alexa pro.
  • If your site is getting high traffic like 50,000 to 100,000 visitors per day still has a low alexa rank then I strongly recommend you to upgrade to alexa pro.

My Final Conclusion:

Alexa pro upgrade shows fruitful results for high traffic blogs which are having low alexa rank but its not at all recommended to upgrade for pro if your blog already has a good alexa rank, instead follow the tips which I already wrote on how to increase alexa rank.

10 Tips on How To Increase Alexa Rank Of Your Blog

10 Tips on How To Increase Alexa Rank Of Your Blog

Alexa-Rank

After Google Page Rank the number which is given high importance by webmasters is Alexa Rank.Believe me many of them judge your blog/website by just seeing your Alexa Rank.Even advertisers check your Alexa Rank to advertise on your blog.


Well honestly speaking Alexa rank is just rubbish and has nothing to do with your blog traffic.So what is this Alexa Ranking and how to get better Alexa Ranking read on…….

What is Alexa Rank?

Alexa.com defines themself as a “web information company“.They rank every website and blog  based on their traffic and some other factors.This Alexa Rank gets updated daily.Lesser the number better.

How Alexa Rank is measured?

You might freak out after reading “How Alexa Ranking is measured?
Alexa.com is measuring your website’s traffic is one of the most unfair surveys around. Why?
They only record those hits which passes through their systems.That means your visitors either have to Install Alexa Toolbar on their browser or you should put an Alexa widget/plugin installed on your blog.
That means the blogs under the niche Blogging,Technology will have a better Alexa Rank compared with the blogs which are not related to Tech Stuff.


10 Tips to Increase Alexa Ranking:



1.Install Alexa Tool Bar:

Install Alexa Toolbar on your browser and also ask your friends, visitors to install toolbar on their browser.

2.Claim your site:


To gain full control over your site.Claim your site on Alexa.com.This will help others to know who owns the site and helps you in ranking better on Alexa.

3.Put Alexa Widget on your blog:

As I already said Alexa counts only those hits which comes under their system.So put an Alexa widget on your blog.

4.Get Traffic From Bloggers and Techy guys:

This is the most important factor that effects your Alexa Rank.If you get more visitors who are bloggers and techy guys then your alexa rank will increase fast because all the Bloggers and Techy people will be installing alexa widget on their browsers.

5.Write a review about Alexa on your blog:

Write a review about Alexa Ranking and link back to Alexa.com.

6.Write posts related to Blogging and Internet Marketing

As people who read posts related to Blogging and Internet Marketing are web masters so ,if you write posts related to those topics then you will get more visitors who installed Alexa Toolbar on to their browser which directly boosts your Alexa Rankings.

7.Commenting and Backlinking:

Comment on other blogs which are under the niche Blogging and Technology with good traffic and link back to your blog.In this way build more links from blogs with good traffic because backlinks are crucial as you might have noticed that alexa even calculates the number of backlinks you have.

8.Update your blog regularly:

It is strongly recommended to write frequently to increase your alexa rank or else your alexa rank will go down and it becomes hard to bring back your alexa again.

9.Write quality posts:

As I always say quality matters.If you write quality posts then others will automatically link back to you and thereby increasing backlinks and traffic as well which increases your alexa rank.

10.Share your posts on Social Networking sites:

Share your posts on social networks like Facebook,Stumble upon and Digg.These sites not only brings massive traffic but also helps in increasing your Alexa Rank.

Last Words:

Secret of Increasing Alexa Rank:The secret behind increasing Alexa Rank is to “get traffic from bloggers“.If you get more traffic from bloggers then your Alexa Rank will boost like anything.
Tough the way which Alexa.com calculates ranking of website is unfair,you have to focus on Improving Alexa Ranking of your blog as it one of the most important factor to make good profit from your blog.
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How can we Make Images SEO Friendly In Blogger Blogs

How can we Make Images SEO Friendly In Blogger Blogs


Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is the best way to increase traffic to your blog.Though you have many posts,without knowing the basic rules of SEO you cant get more traffic.Most of the new bloggers will be afraid of hearing this term SEO.Search Engine Optimization is nothing but maintaining quality,consiseness and clarity.
Coming to Image Optimization 20% of the daily searches are images.That means if you optimize images  properly then you can get more traffic from what you are getting now.

image-optimization-seo

Frankly speaking as I always say blogger blogs are very poorly optimized than wordpress blogs.It doesn’t mean that blogger blogs cant be optimized like wordpress blogs but you have to put some extra effort and need to be a pro in Blogspot.So lets get started with Image Optimization Tips and Tricks.

What are the Disadvantages of Blogger when coming to image optimization:

  1. In Blogger there is no such plugin or widget using which you can give alt title tags for the images.
  2. You cannot compress the image size automatically.
  3. In Blogger blogs there is no way to crop images to fit the layout of the blog.
These are the major disadvantages of default blogger platform taking into consideration of Image Optimization.There are few other disadvantages which you will understand after reading the whole article.
In this article I will be explaining all the Tips using which you can make your images very much SEO friendly and you will be overcoming all the above disadvantages.

How To Make Images SEO Friendly in Blogger Blogs?

1.Resize Images Properly:

I see most of the newbies upload images directly without cropping the images.After uploading a image to blogger it will give you few options like Medium,Original,Large and X-Large.Always keep original size because if you use the other options like Medium or Large then image quality will be lost.
  • The best tool I recommend you for cropping images online is cropp.me.
  • For offline cropping and editing Adobe Photoshop is the best tool which I regularly use.
Note:Always remember that your image size should not be larger than the width of the post body.If your image is larger than the post body then the image will be hidden behind your widget or it may overlap with your widgets.By default it is recommended to keep the image size less than 580px.

2.Compress Images Before you Upload to Blogger:

Blog load time is one of the important factor.So to reduce the load time of the blog you have to upload images which are light weight.
If you upload any image to blogger by default blogger takes the original size of the image and it will have a huge impact on your blog load time.
So,first you have to compress images using Yahoo Smushit.
  • I always see that Yahoo Smushit goes down and takes alot of time for uploading and downloading.
  • The best alternate tool for smush.it is Puny.Png.I was using this tool since couple of weeks and has a great compression ratio.I personally feel this tool is far better than Yahoo Smushit.

3.Add Alt Title Tags for Images:

Alt Tag:If  your image goes down or becomes unavailable then the image space will be filled with this Alt Tag.
Title Tag:When you hover over a image.The keyword(s) appearing on the image is the Title Tag.
Alt Title tags play a very important role for better ranking of your images in Search Results.
After you upload a image to Blogger then go to HTML and Add A Alt and Title tag as follows.

When you upload an image then HTML code looks like the following

You have to make the following changes to make it SEO friendly

 title=”ATB Slider” alt=”ATB Slider” border=”0″ height=”200″ src=”http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_So-xppeH7x0/TNbfFpWlWFI/ AAAAAAAAAj4/tzl_ZYIuES4/s200/ATBSlider.png” width=”200″ />
This is the manual method of adding Alt and Title tags.In my next post I will introduce a Script which automatically adds alt title tag for images.

4.Give proper names to Images:

I see most of them give image name as image1,image2 etc or 1,2,3 so on.But this is not the right way to optimize your images for better Search Engine Ranking.
You can see how the url of the image looks like.For example if you are explaining a post on Tiger and you will name it as image25.After uploading see the below link how your url looks like.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/ovUFOKRs_q0/Tmc_xBDJwwI/
AAAAAAAAE80/kL9_ck78C4c/s400/image25.png
Now image25 and Tiger are no where similar and you dont get any result for this on Search Engines.
So you have to name your picture as Tiger instead of image25 for better Search Engine Optimization.See how the url looks like after you replace the name with Tiger.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/ovUFOKRs_q0/Tmc_xBDJwwI/
AAAAAAAAE80/kL9_ck78C4c/s400/Tiger.png.

5.Avoid Giving Spaces for Images and Pictures names:

For example if you are writing a post on Making Money Online and you want to show a image that resembles Making Money Online.
Now you will give name as Making Money Online.But it is recommended to avoid spaces because these spaces are generally replaced by %20 and doesn’t has any value when it comes to SEO.So, it is better to replace space with ‘-’ or ‘+’.
How can we Make Images SEO Friendly In Blogger Blogs
Instead of Making Money Online name it as Make+Money+Online or Make-Money-Online

Conclusion: 

Most of the bloggers ignore optimizing images.If you dont optimize images properly then it will effect your blog load time and search engine ranking.It is wise to optimize each and every aspect of your blog to stay away from penalties of Google ( like Panda and Penguin).

9 Tips To Reduce Blogger Blog Load Time

9 Tips To Reduce Blogger Blog Load Time

Loading time of a blog is really an important factor in SEO’s prospective. Every webmaster should care for his/her blog’s loading time because now a days major search engines specially Google consider load time as a ranking factor. Beside this, visitors also don’t like slow loading sites. They will surely press back button and go to another place for the information they are searching for. It will also increase bounce rate that affects the blog ranking. So, Today in this post, I’ll share my own way on how to reduce load time in Blogger Blog. Below are some very important tips that you can use to optimize your blog load speed.

Tips To Reduce Blog Load Time

1# Avoid JavaScript


JavaScript makes page loading speed slow. Try to remove unnecessary JavaScript codes from your blog. Don’t link to external sites for storing your JavaScript codes whilst you can save them inside your blogger blog. You can save your all JavaScript codes in your template above </head> by using the code below
<script type=’text/javascript’>
//<![CDATA[
Paste Your JavaScript Code Here//]]>
</script>
Just replace the bolded text with the JavaScript code you want to store in your template.

2# Widgets and Social Media Buttons

Widgets and social media buttons are really very important but use of too many social media buttons and unnecessary widgets can slower your blog. Try to remove widgets that are not really necessary for your blog and use social media buttons wisely.

3# Give Proper Dimensions To Images

Always give proper height and width to the images you are using in your posts, because it help the browsers to load the image quickly. To give height and width attribute to your images use below code.
<img width=”” height=”” src=”URL Of Image” /> 

4# Don’t Use An Image As A Background

If your blog template have image as a background, then remove it. A background image is responsible for slow loading speed. Always use background colors not an image. To remove background image simply search below code and remove it from your template.
body { background: #B3B3B3 url(http://abc.com/background-image.jpg);
The code will surely be different in your template. To remove background image, search this type of code in your template and simply remove the text which looks like the bold text.

5# Reduce Advertisement On Blog

Advertisement banners are coded with JavaScript. As I already told you in tip no 1 that too much use of JavaScript make blog loading speed slower. So please use limited advertisements on your blog.

6# Limited Number Of Posts At Home Page

Try to show only 4-5 posts at your Homepage because if you use too many posts to show at Homepage then it will take more time to load. Fast loading Homepage keeps your visitors happy and they will stay at your blog for long time. If you don’t know how to set number of posts on Homepage then see the screenshot below.

7# Always Use Quality Blogger Templates

Most of newbie bloggers do this mistake. They upload any template that attracts them. There are lot of templates available on the internet but most of them are improper scripted. Using of those templates make job tough for search engine spiders to crawl your blog. Choose theme wisely for your blog which should be designed by professionals.

8# Use Read More Link To Summarize Blog Posts At Homepage

Always summarize your blog post for Homepage by using a read more link. It has two benefits:
  • Improve Blog Load Time.
  • Increase Page views and Reduce Bounce Rate.

9# Eliminate External Links

Eliminate all unnecessary external links from your blog. One common example for this is using stat counters. You can use Google Analytics instead of stat counter widgets to check your website traffic status.

How To Check Blog Load Speed?

There are lot of tools available on the internet which can be used to check your blog load time. Here I am listing two famous tools.
Just open the link and type your blog address like this.
http://www.your-blog-address.blogspot.com/

Feedback!

These are 9 Tips that you can apply to improve your blog loading speed. If you are aware with more tips that can help to reduce load time in blogger blogs, then please share them with me through comments. Your help will be appreciated.
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