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How to use Google webmaster tools to increase your traffic?

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Google webmaster tools

Google webmaster tools was first announced in the year of 2005 (summer). Beginning from that date, it has been 6 years now, and maybe millions of web sites has been utilizing this service, and most them has started using it from the very beginning. But why do people care about this? The answer is quite simple, if you want to be indexed in a higher rank in Google, you have to care about what Google thinks about your site. Google webmaster tools is the Google way of telling the site owners about how they are doing. Webmaster tools offers some quite valuable information that no one else can do. Sitemap status, Search queries, Keywords, Internal links, External links,  Crawl errors, HTML suggestions and many more. If you are still not registered your site with Google webmaster tools, now go and do it. The rest of this article will help to readers who has been already using Google webmaster tools (at least for 2 months and more.)

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Which one is suitable for you; Shared Hosting, VPS or Dedicated Server ?

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Welcome !

I wanted to share my experience about Hosting in this article, which may give you some idea and decide which option is suitable for you. I just tried to keep it clear and simple, but the subject is a big one, so I ended up having the following. I hope it provides you a basic insight. Grab some beverage and go on reading.

If you are a new into the world of Web, you start with a free host which provides limited amount of space and a simple interface to manage your site, and they put ads on your site/blog in return as a cost for this free service. It is a perfect way to discover the world. However, as your site grows bigger and get some attention from people, you start to need a paid hosting, which offers considerable amount of space, no ads, increased service quality such as access speed, server availability and service up-time.

Paid hosting services can be divided into 3 different groups:

  • Shared Hosting
  • Virtual Private Server
  • Dedicated Server

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A little discussion on blogging and niches to write about

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NicheIf you are new to blogging , probably you don’t know that every niche’s earning is different. So the quest in your mind is to start with which topic ? You should remember that you would better write about topics that you know very well. But again this depends on what you are aiming. If you are good at your area, it will take time before you draw some serious attention. Be patient.

1 )Earn money from best earning niches. (MoneyComes First)

or

2) Write about something that you know about. (Real blogging)

As you can realize, I don’t aim at earning, I write about things that I enjoy. But you may want to target at earnings.
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Vacation is a nice way to boost your blogging

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If you have a laptop or hand-held device with internet connection, then you are lucky that you are able to blog in peace. Human brain thinks in a different way on resting. This means that when you are on a holiday, you may be more creative and think different. This is like a natural brain storming. You can use this as a nice way to boost your blogging. Just carry your laptop or hand-held with you whenever possible. Put your ideas into your favourite text editor. Collecting and organizing ideas is a beginning of an article.When you have enough ideas then you can start expand each idea to cover the topic. You may come across with different ideas when you are on a holiday. So it is a better way if you carry at least a paper and a pen with you, because you don’t know when lighting strikes in your head. So if you have time to sit and drink something, then you can think about your ideas and expand them to form the story.

List:

  • Carry your laptop/hand-held with you
  • Collect ideas
  • Write down the ideas you collected
  • Organize them
  • Drink something, complete the story

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Golden Rule ‘Content’

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content

Many bloggers are hopeless, they just work hard and run their blogs for months, but they still don’t get any valuable amount of visitors. This is just because something is wrong with your content. Maybe the most anticipated subject by bloggers.Catching a good content and idea must not be so easy, because among those millions of bloggers only some of them earn much.Problogger,John Chow,etc..

So have you ever think that what if you spend your time on your content rather than your design? Probably you will start to get some loyal readers, and your feed chicklet will show a number greater than 10. If you still lack of ideas what may your content be, you have to ask for yourself, you know the things that you are better on.

Searching other sites, browsing many blogs in your niche can be very helpful, to do so, get a feedreader, add your favorite blog feeds and it will be much more easier to follow many blogs.This week Problogger touched an interesting point Go Shopping and Improve Your Blog , this was really an interesting experiment for me. He asked for his readers go shopping, observe the people and note their ideas about what is going on around. Problogger himself did the same thing, he went the nearest shopping center and catched some ideas. The most important point is that he related the ideas with blogging.

An example is :

3. Lines and Waiting in Queues Kill Customer Loyalty

(He related this with slow load times of sites.)

To catch some ideas, the only thing is to look around something, go away from your computer.Think about your content, how to improve it, or maybe you have to change your niche.You have to know your professions and skills, and choose your niche accordingly.People who are successful are the people who aware of their environment, having a good reasoning, and relating every experience with their jobs by catching common points.
Sitting and waiting will not inspire you, do different things and read a lot.

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WordPress Tip : Quick Rollback

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typingMost of us did something wrong when editing our Themes, so you can probably kill the whole theme, for example you did something wrong with the sidebar.php, and suppose you don’t have a backup, so that will be hard to restore it. To prevent these kinds of situations, there is something which can save life. Suppose that you are editing sidebar.php file, then open 2 distinct sidebar.php in two distinct window, you work with one, if something goes wrong directly switch to another sidebar.php, then save it! Done your code is saved, there is also another thing you can do, just before editing copy your whole code to somewhere, maybe a text file on your desktop, then just go for editing, if you need to restore, use the file that you saved.

 

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A nice blogging Tip ! Offline Editor !

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If you are running out a blog, then you faced difficulties when there are connection problems to load your blogs control panel, so that blocks you to write posts. There is an easy way, you can use an offline editor.

Here are the advantages:

  • No slow downs caused by browser
  • You do not need to open your control panel
  • Easy to use, so you don’t waste your time.
  • Comfort of sending posts from your desktop

Search for “BlogDesk”, the best offline software.

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10 Useful Free Services for Bloggers, Optimize Your Content, Drive Traffic

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Most blogs are established without some certain optimizations and organized content. There are dozens of free tools that are offering bloggers & webmasters to observe their sites, get an idea about what is attracting traffic, what is not. Without knowing your mistakes, your site will not be going in a right way.Below you can find many services (completely free) to track your traffic sources, contents, keywords, backlinks, alexa rankings, pagerank etc.

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A Recent Blogger Disease : “Digg”

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Maybe the most important traffic source for most of the bloggers. Bloggers are just slowly turning into “Digg-Zombies”. They write for to get on the front page of Digg. So why is this all about? Simply desire to getting more traffic so to increase earnings Of course no one can deny useful sides of Digg or any other social communities. They deliver fresh news in a fast way. So called Digg-Zombies builds clicking communities such as “gangclick” to get on the frontpage. Some of the most popular Digg users give some secret of getting to the front page. The most important point is just collecting at least 15 Digg friends for fast clicks and getting all your friends to digg your stories.In addition subscribing to popular 50 feeds to catch the fresh news is a key point. As a result as long as such communities like Digg exist, there will be a competition between Digg-Zombies and conscious bloggers.

How a kid can make $900 monthly from Adsense ?

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Yes, that is true! A teenager kid is making nearly a thousand dollar monthly from Adsense.In addition to this the kid has 3827 comments on a single post, and the kid has many posts and has knowledge about on her subject. The interesting part is the blog is just about Neopets (I guess it is a game), I actually don’t know what it is and I have never heard about it. Check this link, this is what I am talking about “http://www.neopetsfanatic.com/neopets-game-cheats/“. The girl has some knowledge of wordpress and blending Adsense or maybe she took some help, who cares. She just did the right thing and now she is earning.

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