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Get Your Blog Cached by Google
2007-10-26 04:53:00
Increase your blog traffic by submitting it to google. Registering your domain on the Internet is no longer enough. It can't hurt to do it once and here is the place to do it. You can submit it to Google by completing the Add URL Form at www.google.com/addurl.html.Check to see if your blog is cached by typing this in Google: cache:http://getting-to-blogs.blogspot.co m/(insert your blog address for "sitename.com"). If your search did not find any documents your blog is not cached.
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PING your Blog!
2007-10-24 09:41:00
Another way of increasing traffic to your blog is By pinging it. In this way you will be able to track of weblogs. You would also be able to update different search engines that your blog has updated. Ping ing your Blog helps crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity. Below are the list of sites where you can ping your blogs for free.1. http://technorati.com/ Allows you to ping your blog. Provides plugins, applications and widgets to help you get more out of Technorati. 2. http://pingoat.com/ Pingoat is a service that pings or notifies a number of services that keep track of weblogs and publish them. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog's popularity. 3. http://pingomatic.com/Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.We regularly check downstream servi...

Monetonizing your blog
2007-10-23 13:04:00
Listed below are some of the ways you can add to your blog if you are aiming to earn money from it1. Google Adsense AdSense for content automatically crawls the content of your pages and delivers ads (youcan choose both text or image ads) that are relevant to your audience and your sitecontent-ads so well-matched, in fact, that your readers will actually find them useful.2. Yahoo Publisher Network Yahoo's answer to Google Adsense3. Adbrite - Text advertising Adbrite operates a network where publishers (blog owners included) can sell text ad spaces directly to advertisers4. Text Link Ads "Text Link Ads" specialize in placing static html links on high quality, high traffic webproperties5. Chitika - Product display ads Chitika says "We make money for you by displaying revenue-earning ads and merchantoffers on your web site"6. Kontera - InText Advertising The company's flagship product, ContentLink%u2122, finds contextually relevant keywordson a publisher's web page in real-time and ...
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Google Adsense - Make money through your Blog
2007-10-22 05:27:00
Imagine... being paid checks by the largest and most popular search engine, simply for displaying a few ads on your website for FREE? Well, this is exactly what the Google Adsense program is all about! And when you think about it, it's a revolutionary way of earning yourself a useful online side income. But let's back up a bit... In the past, many webmasters displayed ads from various companies, via pop-ups, banners, pop-ins and pop-unders. However, visitors to these sites soon got tired of these advertising methods - I mean, who'd like to go to a website where they'd have to close pop-up windows every other minute? This resulted in a dramatic loss of traffic, and in turn made many webmasters to lose profits. That's when Google announced a novel program ? Google Adsense. Instead of having to use banners and pop-ups to advertise companies and gain a commission, website publishers could now earn a decent profit by displaying unobtrusive text ads on the content pages of their webs...
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Ten Ways to Write Great Blog Posts That Get Attention
2007-10-22 05:19:00
Millions of blogs fight for readership online (over 75 million by some counts), with thousands more being created every day. Making yours stand above the rest may seem like a daunting task, but here are ten suggestions for making your blog posts stand out from the crowd.1. Write each post title so it grabs the reader's attention. It is the first thing someone reads, and it should get your reader's attention right away. Your title should both pique the reader's interest and be informative. Do not write "Business Writing Advice"; instead, say "TheBest-Kept Secret to Reducing Your Business Writing Worries." Longer titles have the advantage of describing in detail what your post is about; 8-12 words are a good range.2. Keep sentences short and clear. A little goes a long way. Readers are busy people and they will not spend hours detangling complex syntax or sifting through blocks of text. Also, use strong language. Start a new paragraph every few sentences, and limit each post to 250...
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Adding Photos to your Post
2007-10-20 09:00:00
Let me show you the steps on how to add photos and videos to your post. It?s simple and easy. When you are in your posting window screen just select the add image or add video button and a window like the image below will appear.For Adding VideoJust browse a file in your computer that you want to upload, agree to the upload terms and conditions and click the upload button.For Adding Photos When adding photos, you may want to browse files and images from your computer or add photos from the net just by simply typing its URL. Select the layout of your photo the way you like it to appear on your post and click the upload image.myLot User Profile
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Customizing blog layout
2007-10-20 03:39:00
One way of attracting people to view and read your blog is by making it look nice and attractive. As a blogger you are free to customize the page elements, font color, HTML codes and templates of your own blog account. You can do this by selecting the template index that you can see on your screen. It?s easy and you can start experimenting by yourself.Below are some tips to guide you on customizing your Blog Account1. Page elementsThere are usually 4 page elements in your blog that you can manage. You can do this by clicking Edit which you can see on every page elements available. A window will appear asking you what you like to do.a. Navbarb. Headerc. Blog Postd. Side/footer bar2. Fonts and ColorsIn this section you can chose the font style and colors that you wish to see in your blog3. Edit HTMLIf you wish to add or edit some HTML codes in your blog, you can do this by just going to the edit HTML index that you see on your screen.4. Pick new TemplateYou can also select a new templ...
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Creating a new Post
2007-10-13 08:15:00
For new Bloggers out there let me share with you some tips and guidelines in creating a new post1. Log on to your blogger account and go to your Dashboard.2. Create a name and title for your blog.3. Now you can start posting by selecting new post shown on your screen4. You can now start typing your post and you may want to save or publish it.5. Don't forget to put label or tags to all your post so that viewers may easily find keywords that they are looking for.
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Topics for your Blog
2007-10-11 09:11:00
After deciding on which website you want to post you blog, its time for you to select a topic that you want to discuss and post. Topic that you select can be anything and everything that is under the sun. There are many options out there. You don?t need to be an expert writer you just need to express yourself, your thoughts and ideas. There you have it! You can now start writing. Your blog serves as your diary. You may keep your writings just for yourself or you may want to share it to others. What?s important is that you enjoy what you are doing.
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Getting started
2007-09-19 10:26:00
To begin with, the first thing that you should have in mind is the question "Where do you want to start blogging?" There are many options for you in the internet. There are loads of free blogs that you can join and get started setting up your own blog rather easily. If you want, you can set up blogs with various blog programs. You can have more than one. You might have a blog on blogger and one on blogster and maybe more.The following is a brief list of free blogs :Blogster.comBlogger.comBlogspot.comWordp ress.com