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Niche – How far is it Important?

admin — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:27:44 +0000

As every Internet user, I have my traditional customs in navigating the Web, which includes, in any case, the visitation to some Blogs that I like personally, but which can not reveal here so as not to affect anyone. It was through these visits that I noticed something that is important to many in a way, but for others it technically does not affect anything: a Niche Blog.

The niche on the Internet, would be more or less like having content focused on one area, so to speak. Something like: if you write about music, his niche is music, but if you write only about Web Server Hosting, then your niche is Web Hosting. And so on. Many of my friends also meta-bloggers keep talking about that niche is important in several respects, including the loyalty of readers and monetize their content while others suggest that this aspect is not, so to speak, needed, and that somehow only limits the idealization and publishing content.

In my opinion, a niche but is a very important factor for a blog focused on being professional, customer loyalty as a specific type of visitor that guarantee returns, statements, comments and, especially, makes the reader able to always be alert to new content of your Blog, as if he knows that in the example above, you only write about music and also likes his texts, will always come back, naturally and almost compulsory, in some cases more explicit fidelity.

Moreover, a niche is often greatly facilitate the rankings of your blog in directories and search engines, since, to get directions, you end up gaining Links course (beyond the traditional “word-of-mouth”), and it improves your position on Google, attracting more visitors. Already, in monetizing a Niche usually facilitate the work of semantic mechanisms of ads, like Google Adsense, looking at your blog, the ads more closely related to the content of, and difficulties in Blogs without a niche specific and in some cases, generating very strange results during their use (although this rarely happens even in some Blogs with a niche specific).

However, in my honest opinion, a niche is usually limited to a blog more focused on being more professional, like I said above. This means that there is no sense in maintaining a niche in a very specific blog with your name, or a personal blog, for example. This is why, in this example, it is a blog talking about a person in question, and one person is always subject to change, sometimes frequently, sometimes rare. Of course, again, it changes into a blog-style ‘Portfolio’, in which a person tends to express his professional life in a clear and subjective, but for some web developers who often have tips on programming languages in their respective blogs.

But beware: the continuity of the Content of a Niche explicitly depend on the area it covers. That is, you can quietly talk about web server hosting, since the each passing month comes with new and interesting web hosting news, keep providing content for your blog, but most likely you will not be easy to write about website hosting dominated the 1990′s, as that, besides this is technically a time distant from the present, is likely to upgrade, or are unlikely to make new and interesting insights into this season, specifically in the area of web hosting, verified that this is no longer necessary, overly restricting the content of a blog.

Well, that’s my honest and clear opinion on the necessity of a niche in a blog. Whereas, as now it is up to you now define that area you know best to use it as a niche in your Blog and further improve the loyalty of its readers or not, if they deem it necessary and best for the contents of your blog.

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Steps To Install Joomla On Your Website

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:03:13 +0000

There are number of easy methods to install Joomla on your website, but the easiest and quickest is via Fantastico or Fantastico De Luxe. Using this method you can easily install the Joomla and many more scripts in just 1-2 minutes. Before that, you need to know, How to install Joomla on your website through Fantastico.

Follow the below steps to install Joomla successfully on your website:

Log in to your web hosting account’s Control Panel. This should usually be http://www.yourdomain.com/cpanel, where your have to replace ‘yourdomain’ by your own website.

Look for the smiley icon that says “Fantastico” and click on it. This is where you will be installing the Joomla package from. Note that sometimes, it may say “Fantastico De Luxe”.

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Look for “Joomla” under the “Content Management” category of scripts in Fantastico and click on it. Also, note that the title ‘Joomla’ may sometimes have some numerical suffixes showing which version it is. For example, the title may look like “Joomla 1.5″ for version 1.5 of the CMS. Just click on the most recent version and go to the next step.

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Look for the hyper linked blue “New Installation” link and make sure you have at least as much as the minimum disk space required for you to install Joomla on your website. This is usually about 25 MB of disk space. This is not usually a problem, with most people’s disk space running into the tens of gigabytes. But it is still good to make sure you have enough to hold a new Joomla installation.

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Choose where on your website you want to install Joomla. Will it be on your main domain, an existing sub-domain or a new not-yet-existing sub-domain or directory? Indicate it in this part of the installation process.

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Fill out other required fields that are required to smoothly install Joomla on the site. This includes creating an Admin username and password. Don’t choose ‘Admin’ and ‘password’ as your username and password. Many people do this and have been hacked. Also, fill out the site name or main keyword, email address and other details here. Then click the “Install Joomla” button.

On the next page, make sure that all the needed information is correct. Also, note down your Admin username, password and backend page (the one that ends with /administrator).

Lastly, press the “Finish Installation” button.

Now, after going the whole process you should be able to install Joomla on your website. Normally, it should take not more than 1 or 2 minutes.

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How to Move Your TypePad Blog to Your Own Hosting?

admin — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:07:07 +0000

Last time we saw, How to Move Your Blog from Blogspot to Your Own Hosting? This time I will show you, How to Move Your TypePad Blog to Your Own Hosting?

It is always a good decision to move a blog to your own hosting as on your own web hosting you will have your own control panel and you can access all the features which a free hosting can’t provide you. For some it may seem difficult to move their blog to their own hosting from the free host, but in actual it is not so.

Below are the steps for transferring your TypePad blog to your own hosting from free blog hosting sites like TypePad, Blogger, WordPress, etc…

Step 1: Prepare for the migration

Load few HTML and php pages to make sure that the hosting is steady.

Step 2: Install Blog Software on Your Hosting Account

You can install preferred blog software, as supported by your web host, but we’ll recommend WordPress as it’s the best platform for beginners as well as experienced users. Customize it with desired look and plugins, and don’t forget to take the backup of your installation, as in case of any uncertainty, you should not redo the things.

Step 3: Export Your Data Directly From Your TypePad Control Panel

Login to TypePad > Weblogs > Manage > Import/Export
At the bottom of the page, find the “Export: Your-Blog-Name” link. Download it and save on your desktop with a .txt extension.

How to transfer your blog from TypePad to your own hosting?

Before importing your data, make sure that your WP-Content directory is writable. If not, set the permission to 777. Now, login to WordPress Dashboard and go to Manage > Import (refer to diagram). Upload the .txt file you exported from your TypePad account, follow the screen prompts and you’re done.

All you need to do after this is to reorganize categories, images and internal links you’ve used in your blog.

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How to Move Your Blog from Blogspot to Your Own Hosting?

admin — Sun, 10 May 2009 22:14:59 +0000

Moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting is undeniably a clever decision of time, but before that you might be looking for the right Web Hosting Plans that will fulfill your current and future needs. If you are seeking for an option that can let you bring all your Blogspot entries, comments and of course your blog traffic to your own hosted blog then, WordPress is the right choice for you.

WordPress as it’s the most famous blogging software on Paid hosting. Well, here’s the step by step guideline for moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting using WordPress. There may be two situations for this:

You’ve yourblog.blogspot.com
You’ve yourblog.com hosted by WordPress

In first situation you’ll be moving like:

Prepare for the migration by uploading few .php and .html test pages
Install WordPress on your server
Go to WordPress Dashboard > Manage > Posts, and delete “Hello World”
Now go to Manage > Import > Select Blogger and follow the instructions. All your entries and comments are there now.

Now go to your Blogspot blog and download all images, and upload them on your own server and enter them in the posts manually. (This is a hectic job, but you’ll have to do it.)

In second situation, you’ll have to:

First get back to yourblog.blogspot.com from your Blogspot account. For this go to Setting > Publishing > Switch to Blogspot.
Now change the name servers of your domain from your domain panel. You’ll have to give new name servers, i.e. as prescribed by the new hosting company.
And now follow all the steps as described in case 1.

Your Blogspot blog is now completely moved and set on your own hosting. Experience the new interface and better customization.

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New Technique to Expose Previously Written Blog Posts

admin — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:46:02 +0000

The major issue bloggers face is that over time their blog archives gets fill up with thousands of posts and by default a blog normally only shows the most recent posts that you have posted on the front page while the majority of your previously written posts can’t get noticed once they drop off the front page.

The new technique is called Sneeze Page. The idea behind it is simple – to create a page that forces the people in different directions deep inside your blog by highlighting a variety of previously written posts.

In simple words – A sneeze page is all about exposing those archives.

There are many types of Sneeze Pages that you can create on your blog. Few types are explained below.

Themed Sneeze Pages – these are posts or pages on your blog or site that revolve around a single theme. The sneeze pages (and others) are linked to prominently around the blog – including the ‘best of blogs’ section of the front page, if you have. These pages generate a lot of page views both themselves and the pages that they link to.

Time Related Sneeze Pages – these pages are based around a defined period of time. They are usually a ‘best of’ post that highlight your key posts from that period to either remind readers of previous posts that they might want to revisit or to highlight posts that they might have missed.

The period of time that you choose can really be anything from a year through to a month, week or even a weekend (ie a post that summarizes the posts from a weekend that those readers who don’t read your blog on a weekend might have missed).

Retro Sneeze Pages – Another variation of this ‘time related’ sneeze page is to do one that unashamedly shows off a number of posts from your blog from a particular point in its history. The most common way to do this is to do a post highlighting posts from the blog from a year ago.

Series Sneeze Pages – many bloggers use the technique of writing a series of blog posts that allow them to explore a topic over a period of time with lots of interlinked posts.

One key with writing a series of posts is to make sure that readers have a trail of links between posts so that they’ll not only read one but the full series.

A great way to help readers discover a full series is to develop a sneeze page. All of the posts in the series should link back to it and it links to them. Series Sneeze pages can become key pages on your blog.

Advantages of Sneeze Pages

Exposure to your archives – I don’t know about you but when I spend hours (if not days) crafting a blog post, I want people to read it! Sneeze pages lengthen the time that people interact with your older posts.

Benefits to SEO – search engines not only look at the links that other people make to your posts in order to give them ranking but the internal links on your blog. Linking to old posts can help them grow their search engine ranking.

Help’s create a Sticky Blog – I’ve not seen stats on this but it is my suspicion that a person arriving on your blog for the first time increases the chances of coming back to it the more great posts that they view on it. Get someone to read 10 great posts that you’ve written previously instead of 1 and you’ll exponentially increase the likelihood that they’ll subscribe and become a regular reader.

Sneeze pages can be an effective way of driving people deep within your blog – but they’ll only do that for as long as you’re able to drive people to the sneeze page itself. As a result – a sneeze page is something that you’ll want to promote and position prominently on your blog in a place that people will continue to see it.

Link your sneeze page from the navigation menu, sidebar or other hot spots on your blog. It works beautifully for both SEO and user experience purpose.

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Building Fresh Content for Search Engines

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:58:37 +0000

Fresh & unique content always plays an important role in terms of search engine optimization. Internet user surf’s daily on net to find the latest information on their interests. Search engines understand this and therefore places a great weight on the content freshness. Websites that are regularly updated also encourage the search engine spiders to visit often.

For example, a web page that has its content updated daily will find that search engine visits and crawl’s the page more often than the other less active pages. This clearly explains why blogs are visited frequently by bots as compared to other sites.

Perhaps the RSS feeds’ is the easiest way to get fresh content for your website. These feeds can be found by searching for RSS feeds in the search engines. Syndic8 and Feedster are some of the most popular feeds directories available on net. All you need is a RSS parser that can convert these feeds to real time content for your site and you will have daily content instantly!

A common RSS parser used by many webmasters is the Magpie Parser; this powerful open source PHP parser allows the coder to transform any feeds to relevant content pages. RSS feeds are a great way to create fresh content when one has no time to write.

Another great way to have fresh content is Reprinting Articles on your site. Lot of directories are available out there that lets the webmasters to reprint their articles. Reprinting articles involve very little effort and often allow the search engines to have new content to index for your site.

Though, many article directories limit the amount of times the articles can be reprinted on your site. Nevertheless, this is one of the easier methods to have fresh content.

All the methods mention above are great in creating fresh content, but it is also necessary to note that creating unique content for your site is another issue worth considering. The only way to create unique content is to write them yourself or get someone else to write for you. Weblogs are extremely useful when it comes to adding of new unique content.

WordPress is one of the most popular CMS for content management. It allows the owner to enable multiple people in a company to post new content so that a group of people can manage the content more efficiently.

Another method to acquire for unique content is to create a forum for your members. This is a very low cost operation if you have many supporting members who are active and willing to commit.

In the eyes of Search Engine Optimization, fresh and unique content is of paramount importance. In order to display the latest information on your website to the visitors via search engines, updating your website pages regularly is must so that the spiders will visit and index more often.

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Advantages of Hosting a Blog on Your Own Website

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:49:11 +0000

The real benefit of hosting a blog and maintaining it has been a quick way to spread your business across the internet audiences. It has been proved by the search engine marketing specialists and bloggers in the past few years that a blog can benefits your website or business in very effective ways.

When you decide to host a blog on your website, the first question that comes up is where to setup a blog on your own website or separately. Each one has its own advantages that will help your website.

Where to Host Your Blog on Own Website or Separately?

There are two ways you can host your blog, either by creating an account on the blog platforms like Blogger or WordPress or simply installing your own blog software on your own website. Hosting a blog as a sub-domain of your own website looks like a professional approach and often preferred by those who want to boost their website ranking on search engines using blog as a tool.

Search engine ranking benefits

Setting up the blog in as a sub-domain on your existing website also benefits to your websites search engine ranking. Any new content that is added to your blog will be treated as new content part of your main website. Every new blog posts that you create are easily and quickly indexed than regular web pages. It thus helps promote better indexing and visibility of your main website, if the blog is hosted on the same domain name.

Backlinks benefits

If you spend some time and efforts on writing quality contents on your blog, you can easily attract the quality backlinks using those articles. If you host your blog on your main domain then all back-links will benefit your main domain. If your blog is on an external domain then back-links will not be directly passed on to your main website. However, you will still get the benefits if you are able to pull the PR and links from your separately hosted blog to your main website by cross linking. But, in order to get benefits via cross linking from your externally hosted blog it will need to be successful.

Brand targeting for business owners

Some business company’s or website owners can choose to start a blog on a completely new domain name. This can help if you wish to differentiate between the branding of your website and that of your blog. If the blog you are setting up is not directly related to the content on your main website, then you may not wish to combine the two on the same domain name.

If you wish to target on enforcing a collective brand for your company rather than creating a new brand for your blog, installing a blog as a part of your main website will help. If a blog is installed in a sub folder of your existing website, the blog URL will include your primary domain name in the address bar and appear as a cohesive entity.

Technical resources

If you are setting up a blog on your main website or domain name, you will require a certain level of technical skills in order to install the blog and add the database. If you are starting a blog using one of the free blog platforms then no software installation is required and a blog can be set up in a few easy steps.

Cost benefits

Another common reason for setting up an external blog outside of your main company website is the possibility for using one of the many available free online blog hosting services such as Blogger or Word Press. Most leading social networking websites such as Facebook also allow users to set up their own blog using their website platform. These services are usually free whereas setting up a blog on your main website or private domain name will require web hosting space and technical infrastructure.

So, decide your own where to host your blog, if it’s similar to your website and hosting it to boost your search engine rankings then definitely host it as a sub-domain of your own website.

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Google Blog Search Improved

admin — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:03:49 +0000

Blog Search – A Google search technology especially focused on blogs which allows the internet users to discover the blogging universe more successfully. No matter, whether you are searching any reviews, political commentary, summer food recipes or anything else, Blog Search allows you to look out what people think on any subject of your choice.The Google Blog Search results shows not just the blogs published via Blogger but also blog results for WordPress, Joomla and for many other blogs that are written in different languages like English, Italian, German, Thai, Swedish, Turkish, Indonesian, Dutch, Russian, French, Spanish and many other languages as well.

Now, Google Blog Search has improved their search service in more effective way. They are now capable of reading links on web pages. If you search for a query like a website URL, Google Blog Search automatically uses the “link:” service and displays the list of all blogs that have backlinked to the website URL presented in your search query.

I will explain you with an example here: If you search for yahoo.com, Google Blog Search will automatically convert your search query to “link:yahoo.com” and displays this search results which is a list of blogs that are linking to Yahoo.com.

Google now introduced some changes in the way they index content from blogs / RSS feeds. As before, they were only capable of using links from RSS feeds to decide the results for “link:” service but now they also consider links that are mentioned on web pages as well very similar to Technorati.

Simply, it means that if another blog say: xyz.com has linked to your blog “my.com” from his sidebar, Google will now display xyz.com in the search results as well when you query for link:domain.com

If there were a Technorati Rank like parameter for Google Blogs Search, almost every blog may have seen major fluctuations in their rank due to this simple change.

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Boost Your Blog Traffic: 10 Simple Steps

admin — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:24:02 +0000

Everyone knows that SEO is an ongoing task it needs consistency, constant care and attention to increase you blog traffic and rank. As Google algorithm keeps changing on all the time, you need to keep working on the major factors of SEO. There are many ways of doing these things as many newcomers’s always hit the same question on internet, what are the reasons that I am unable to get traffic for my blog?

Many times people spend a lot of money on advertisement and marketing, when you can get a nice handful of free web traffic without paying for any advertisement. In this article I will show you 10 simple steps which are necessary and will help you to boost your blog traffic.

The very first and important step is while creating the blog one should always do a lot of research on keywords and key phrases relevant to your niche. Use the most popular keyword suggestion tools like Google Adwords, Overture and SEObook.
Choose a resourceful and well-known blog tool such as WordPress which have their own wide range of plugins and can provide you strong community support that will make your blog very effective.
The benefit of the WordPress is that you are able to select or create your own themes or download the compatible themes online for free.
Try to get the domain names based on your niche rather than the hosted blog services that don’t allow using your own domain names.
Always check your website HTML code with the W3C HTML Validator as it has much more importance to SEO. Check more about Importance of HTML code to SEO.
Work more on creating appropriate title and description tags as they are important points taken into consideration in SEO.
Update you blog regularly with fresh and unique contents as they are mainly focused for better traffic. Comment on your friends or on relevant blogs on similar to your niche. Reply to the comments of your blog as much as possible so that visitors will stay active. Also, submit your blog to top most blog directories such as blogcatalog.com, blogtoplist.com and mybloglog.com. This will help you to get a free backlinks for you’re your blog.
Another popular way of promoting your blog is to submitting you blog to quality social bookmarking sites such as Stumbleupon, Del.icio.us, Blinklist, Technorati, etc. This will definitely give some extra boost to your blog.
If you have any product promotional videos like “How To”, the use the video site like youtube.com to submit your videos, which will bring you a good traffic if you have captions or watermark of your website on the video.

Remember that SEO is an ongoing process, so work hard and follow these above 10 simple steps to boost the traffic for your blog.

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Easier and Faster Way to Get Indexed by Search Engines

admin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 18:17:07 +0000

Getting indexed in search engines is very much necessary to drive web traffic to your website. To get noticed by people you need to get index in search engines. If you submit your site manually to Google or any search engine it will normally take more than 4 weeks to get indexed. In this article I will show you the easy and fast way to get your website indexed in search engines.

First of all, indexing your website means to get your website visible in search engines. In order to get indexed, you have to follow few simple steps and will need the below listed things.

Already built website and well-optimized for search engine traffic.
Top 5 keywords, key phrases related to your website content.
A clear head.

Content Bait

First of all, take top 5 popular keywords or key phrases and make 5 article titles using them. For example, if my keywords are software, website & article, then my article titles could be:

How to use software
How to create a website
How to write an article

Of course you should be more original than this using your own keywords but you get the idea. Now that you have your article titles, you now need to write a brief article for each title. It doesn’t need to be the best article in the world, just make sure that it’s original. Around three paragraphs for each article are good. Try to use as many of your keywords or phrases in the article content as possible but don’t over do it to the extent that the article doesn’t make sense.

Creating Blogs

Now, that you have your five articles ready, select the one that you think is the best and most relevant to your website and put it to one side, we will come back to that one later. We now need to create a couple of blog accounts to house our articles. First of all visit blogger.com and create an account using one of your most popular keywords… For example if your keyword is “shoes”, make sure your blog URL is shoes.blogspot.com or sports-shoes.blogspot.com.

Take the time to modify your new blog a little, create an introduction post, change the template, and put bit information in the profile, that sort of thing. Once your blog is looking ok, its time to post two of your four articles on your blog. Remember I told you to use as many keywords as possible in your blog. Before submitting your post, convert a couple of these keywords to links to your website. Again, don’t over do it and try to link to separate, relevant pages on your website, not just the homepage. Once your done and your blogspot blog is published on the web its time to move on to the next one. Visit WordPress site, get another blog containing your keyword and repeat the steps for your other two articles.

The fifth article

So, now you have two Blogs all setup and ready to send you traffic but what about that fifth article I told you to put to one side earlier. Let’s get that one out there too. We are now going to submit your fifth article to some of the many article directories out there. Now you of course you could do this manually but I’ve found the best solution is to use one of the many article submitters that are now available. Simply search Google for “free article submitter” and I’m sure you will find one.

Make sure to fill in all the forms accurately and thoughtfully. The objective is to get your article published so don’t scrimp on the description etc.

Ping the robots

The next step is to tell all the search engine robots about your blog. There are literally hundreds of these so called ping services out there but for this article I’m only going to use only one because that’s really all you need to begin with. Visit pingomatic.com and enter the information for both of your blogs. Remember to enter your information carefully and accurately.

Quit tool

Quit is a tool developed by Eli at Bluehatseo site. You can find a link to the tool in the header on the blog. He won’t tell anybody exactly what it does but I can assure you it works. Again make sure you fill in all the information about your two blogs correctly before you click submits. Only click submit once, the tool can take about 20 seconds to work so be patient.

Directories, Directories & Directories

If you have completed the above steps completely and properly it shouldn’t be more than 24 hours before your website is indexed by Google, Yahoo and some of the other search engines. So what do you do while you are waiting? Directories my friend. A lot of so called SEO experts say that submitting your website to directories is no longer worth the hassle but don’t listen to them. Any inbound link you can get to your website, no matter what the quality is worth its weight in gold.

If you take your time and submit your website to the correct category of directories I can assure you it will increase the amount of bots visits and indeed user visits to your website. You can find a huge list of directories on my website at the large list of directories page. Take your own time to choose the good ones to suit your website.

Link Exchanging

Finally as an extra step to getting your website indexed you should try asking other webmasters to exchange links with you. There are literally hundreds of link building companies and services out there or you could visit forums such as the Link Exchange Forum and post your link exchange request in the correct topic.

Make sure you follow the above steps properly, and watch your website getting indexed very quickly.

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