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How to select best topic for your blog

The most important question after deciding to blog is how to select the best topic for your blog. Are you blogging just for fun or you have plans of making money? There is a difference. If you are blogging for fun, you write for yourself. If you wanna earn money, you write for the audience. You should try to find a topic suited to both the things.

Find a topic which you are interested in. If you create a blog which do not attracts you content-wise, how can you think of others to be attracted to it? Write about something you are passionate about. Select a topic which you will love to Google Search.

Stick to a particular topic. There is no point writing about 'blue whale' on a recipe blog. Stick to the topic you started with. Its always better to target a particular audience. If you are maintaining a blog for body building, you hope to see visitors who are interested in it. Trust me, they will be really frustrated if they find a "laptop review" there.

Fun or money?. If you are doing it as a hobby, you don't really need to worry about. Just go and write about your favorite athlete, places, or anything. But if you wanna blogging as a source of income, try selecting a topic which not only interests you but also to a large number of people. Just sit and think what you search daily, and try to get an image of what other people search for. Try to select any such topic.

Think about the competition. If you start a blog which already has been over-written on the internet, then its less likely for you to get visitors. Those websites or blogs are older than you, containing more posts, indexed in search engines and much more.Competing with them with a brand new blog would be a messy thing. Try to find a topic which is less written about and is interesting. And by the way, even there is a large competition in the area you wanna write, go for it. Who cares man!

Can you write about it enough?. It must not happen that you run out of contents to post. Select a topic which you can write about for a long period of time. Starting a blog on "Nokia 5233" model will lead to 'nothing to write situation' after a time. Try writing about 'all Nokia models'. Its just a example!! Contents will be the key.

I have created a lot of blogs. Some as hobby, some professionally to earn some money. I have failed at times. But i am still continuing. Go on with whatever you started. That's the mantra for success.

Best Blogging platforms 2013

Blogging platforms are a great way to share your knowledge with the rest of the world. Early in 2002, when we only had print media to share our knowledge, sharing was only limited for commercial purposes. Giving ads in newspaper or advertising on television or on radio station really costs big bucks. But as the internet industry grown more and more content sharing platforms came, of which blogging platforms proved revolutionary and it just boomed the internet industry. A person can sit at his comfort from his PC and throw up content on the internet and big giants like Google will really make it possible for your contents to get delivered to the right audience. Blogging Platforms are the only reason for the growth of Internet. People would never spend their time online if there were no contents to be found. Blogging platforms have made people to blog on what ever topic they love and this had made internet industry a living place. I don't find a topic on internet where people have not blogged on.
As more and more people get interested in using blogging platforms, this had made internet a constantly refreshing and expanding place. One very often and most desirable reason for people getting interested in Blogging platforms, is the ability to earn money out of blogging. So people lets review every thing about blogging platforms in details.

Top 5 Blogging Platforms for one to Blog

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Since Internet is vast, not even Google can exactly say how many Blogging platforms are out there on the internet, but in this post I will be talking about the best top 10 blogging platforms.

1. Blogspot :

Blogspot also known as the blogger, is the most popular and trusted blogging platform. It is easy to use and maintain and It is one of the products of "Google". Like you own and use free gmail for emailing similarly Blogger.com is free to use and supports 100 authors. If you use Gmail then your blog will automatically created if you are logged in to your Gmail and then type "blogger.com"on a new tab.

You can see that this post which you are reading now is powered by "blogger.com" and it is a sub domain of "blogspot.com".

Why I prefer using Blogspot as my Blogging Platform?

Blogspot is owned by manged by Industries most expert and experienced engineers. Yes Google engineers.
If you can trust gmail for keeping your private files then you can definitely trust Blogger.com as well.
When it comes to creating the blog, it's just as easy as abc.
Blogger is the Blogging platform which cares for both new and advanced users.
The best of all is that Google has a separate "Google for blog" search engine which definitely helps new blogs to gain traffic much easily. Great huh!

2. WordPress:

WordPress is a great Blogging Platform. Though it's not an easy blogging platform if you are a newbie but if spend a little bit of your time you will definitely find WordPress great.
WordPress brings two blogging platform for a blogger. Either you go to "WordPress.com" or "WordPress.org".

WordPress.com : Here you can start your own blog or website for free or paid.

If you choose to go for a free blog, then you gonna get your desired WordPress sub domain and you can start blogging without paying anything.
If you choose to go for paid, then you gonna get features like no ad serving, domain mapping facility, 10 GB of disk space, custom designing option for editing css and video hosting services and much more.

Note: When you decide to go for free version WordPress is gonna server advertisement on your blog so it's always a good option to start with free and then switch over to paid if your blog starts getting traffic which you can monetize.

Visit here to learn >> How to create a website for free

Wordpress.org : This is the place for WordPress organization. WordPress team brings frequent updates on their Blogging platform and you can download it from here for completely free. The most important thing which I didn't tell you is that you can download their blogging platform script and upload it on your server and you are ready to start building your blog and your audience.

WordPress.org is like a showcase of their blogging platform. Here you learn about different plugins, their use, themes and much more.

3. HubPages:

Hubpages is not a designing platform but it is definitely a great blogging platform. At Hubpages you can blog almost about any topic. The blogging topic could be from any niche but it must be your own copyright.
You can either share an article, video or create a recipe. The best part about Hubpages that if you are a passionate blogger then you can also earn money from your posts. Ya, you are allowed to sign for different advertising and monetizing programs on your hub.
One of the most important thing to note here is that unlike blogger and WordPress, Hubpages has many active user and every time you post a page it gets viewed by most of the hubbers and it's easily found and indexed by Google and other popular search engines.

Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.hubpages.com

4. Squidoo :

Squidoo is another blogging platform just similar to hubpages, but the only difference between hubpage and Squidoo platform is that at hubpages you can sign up for monetizing programs like adsense and eBay but at Squidoo you do earn a part of earning which Squidoo ads earn on your pages.
Squidoo is again a very great free Blogging platform and your content gets seen by search engines very easily.

Both squidoo and hubpages are a great blogging platform indeed and you can earn money on both. I would recommend you to try both of them and see which one out of the two blogging platform works best for you.

Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.Squidoo.com

5. Weebly

Weebly is just an amazing and very simple to use blogging as well as designer platforms on Internet.
For designers weebly offers a highly professional looking templates which are all drag and drop and it supports html5 and Css3.
For bloggers, weebly can help you share your contents with the world in just minutes. Even if you do not know the ABC of programming but still you can develop your own professional looking blog with contact us and form filling features.
Weebly also offers you to earn money online just by applying for adsense program from your blog.
Weebly like other Blogging platforms display advertisement on your free blog and if you upgrade to their premium, then their ad displaying on your blog.

Copy and paste this in your browser to visit the Blogging platform: www.weebly.com

Blogging platforms reviews- blogging platforms comparison

Here i am going to review the blogging platforms and give you a good comparison between different blogging platforms so that it can help you decide the right blogging platform which suits your needs.

www.Blogger.com	www.wordpress.com	www.Squidoo.com	www.weebly.com
1. Best blogging platform for both simple and advanced bloggers	1. Best blogging platform for experienced bloggers and best for designers	1.Best blogging platform only	1. Best blogging and designer platform for both fresh and experienced users
2. Custom domain can be added	1. Custom domain can only be added for premium users	2.No Custom domain can be added	2. Custom domain can be added only when you go premium
3.Look and feel of the blog can be fully optimized	3. There are some limitations and need upgrades.	3. Though it Can be optimized but it does not look very professional	3. Look and feel can be optimized to sum degree but for full optimization requires to be premkum
4.Absolutely free	4. Free but in some cases the services are chargible.	4. No body knows when their privacy policy changes	4. Chargible in most of the cases.

Blogging platforms market share

Lets review, how much the market share a blogging platform occupies? and what is the most important reason for holding that market share. This market share reviews of blogging platforms is only for blogging not for designing

1. Blogger: holds 30% of blogging share in the internet industry.

Reasons:

Better SEO standing
Absolutely free
Can be monetized

2. Wordpress: holds 10% of blogging share

Reasons:

Better SEO standing
Free

3. Weebly: holds 1% of blogging share

Reasons:

Free
Designing and look aspect

4. Others including Squidoo and many more not known and unspecified : holds the rest of the blogging market share

Best blogging platforms to make money:

No doubt blogger is the best blogging platform to make money. If you wanna make money by blogging then Google Adsense ad inventory is best for you and since Blogger is the property of Google, it becomes much easier to get approved for Adsense program.

Best blogging platforms for photographers:

For photographers I wold recommend to give WordPress a try. Though blogger and weebly can also be your best option but since for weebly you need to go premium for photographing website and blogger look and feel is not that great.
So ya, WordPress should be your best blogging platform as a photographer.

5 Tips that will help you become a Humble Blogger

Blogging as we all know is one of the best things you can do in free time. Also you can learn a lot from it rather that doing useless things on social networking sites.

But many people who are new to blogging are not at all connected with blogging thinks that it is the simplest thing to be done. But they are so wrong. Blogging if done correctly can be very simple and effective but is tough to get along.

Your blog runs on the fuel that your readers provide by visiting your blog; and if you are not nice enough to your readers then be prepared for the complete destruction. Apart from providing quality content and doing hardcore promotions, there is another thing that keeps your blog running. That thing is the humbleness in you.

You have to respond to your readers’ comments and queries

Five Problems With Your Title that Can Cause Publishers to Decline Your Article

Some people who are new to article marketing are under the impression that to build links to their sites, all they need to do is write an article, submit it and the article will automatically be published.

Did you know that after you submit your article, it will most likely be reviewed by an editor before it is published on a website? This editor will have a list of editorial guidelines that he or she is using to evaluate your article.

If your article passes the test, then it will be published. If it does not, it will be declined. One of the first things publishers/editors look at is the title. There are several reasons why an article might be declined right out of the gate due to issues with the title.

What’s so important about the title?

The title is the very first thing a reader will see and it’s often the primary means by which a reader will decide if he wants to read your article. If your title is great, more people will read the article than if it’s just so-so. The title can have such a big influence on the success of an article, that publishers will often decline articles solely because of problems in the title. The rest of the article may be perfect but, if there are problems with the title, then the article can be declined.

Is HTML5 Important for SEO?

As the IT developers propose state-of-the-art structures that surpass the well-known HTML standards, which make possible website structuring, more and more regular individuals and owners of online businesses are interested in revising the old HTML standards and changing them with the new ones. The new standards are gathered under a new HTML package, known as HTML 5. The latest changes must be performed by all those who have a website or a blog as soon as possible. This is because the entire cyber space is about to change completely. Obviously, the online business owners, who cannot keep up with the latest developments within the IT field, will lose their customers sooner or later. In order to avoid this, you must understand the importance of HTML 5 for SEO.

Seo mistakes effects your Search Engine Rank

Sometimes you think, everything is ok but your website still not has enoughtraffic. Here you make sure you did Search engine optimization with latest Search engine algorithms. There are so many tools are available for check Seo mistakes. Search engines mistakes crush your website / blog ranks. Before you workout with search engines, you study the latest search engine algorithms. Then you optimize your blog without Seo mistakes. Every Search engines works with their own algorithms and they update it to give the target suitable results. Recently Google update their Search engine algorithm called penguin.

Some websites never optimized for Search engines, some websites had over optimizations. Both are under search engine mistake. You make sure the target keywords and optimize those under latest Search engine algorithms. Business owners use various

Keyword phrase Search engine optimization

Keyword phrase is describing more than one keywords use to made a keyword phrase. Keywords phrases are more affecting the Search engine result rather than a single keyword. Most people use keyword phrases on Google to find accurate results quickly. If you are a blogger you must know the importance of the keyword. How many times you can use a keyword on the article. This is maintaining your keyword density.

Read this – How to Avoid Seo Mistakes

What is keyword phrase?

How to Optimize Your Blog Posts for Search Engines?

Search engine optimization is the key to get long lasting traffic to your blogs.

No matter how great your content is, you should always be taking care of properly optimizing your blog posts for the search engines to get quality results.

This is Panda and Penguin world, so make sure you’re contents are not heavily keyword stuffed and optimized properly. Use the following tips to properly optimize your blog posts for search engines.

How to optimize your blog posts?

There are certain guidelines to properly improve your websites for the google to carry great look for visitors. There is no way you can carry immediate look for visitors to your websites. Search engine optimization visitors always needs time, the more you wait, the more chances for your websites to carry more visitors. But make sure you’re not writing duplicated content to get a hit by panda or penguin. Always write unique material to produce best look for visitors to your sites.

Without further ado.. here are few top ways to optimize your blog posts for the search engines.

How I see the new Google changes affecting SEO moving forward

The more I think about what Google has done to website owners the more annoyed I get. By targeting websites that have done link building to help increase their rankings they are alienating the people who actually care about their internet businesses.

It almost seems as if the new way to do SEO is to remove all SEO. Can that be right? Do I actually have a better chance to rank for my main phrases if I purposefully don’t optimize for them? It’s like I feel the need to ensure that none of the links I get have any targeted anchor text for fear of getting the message from Google that they have detected unnatural links.

This doesn’t even address the fact that you now have to legitimately worry that your dishonest competitors will start building links for you.

How To Install a Blog Template In your Blogger New Interface

Many awesome and beautiful templates have been designed for blogs. If the templates given by Blogger don't satisfy you then you can select any template from any site of your desire. And you'll be able to upload that template on your blog.
Its quite easy. You gotta do nothing so difficult.

Now let's see how to install a template in blogger

Follow the steps given below:
  Step #1:
  Go to www.Blogger.com

Step #2:
  Then go to "Template" and on top right corner click on "Backup / Restore" button.

Step #3:

Then you have to save your current template.

Step #4:

Decide that "of the downloaded templates which one you wanna upload".

Step #5:

Now to do this you will have to go to "Template" and again click on "Backup/Restore" button.

Step #6:

You will find "Browse" option there. Then click on Browse button to choose the XML file of your desired template. When you have selected your template then you're supposed to click on "Upload" button.

5 Blogging Tips that Will Make You A Productive Blogger

Most new bloggers don’t understand how valuable their online time is. They simply spend time wasting online be it on Facebook, twitter or YouTube.

If you look at the history of most successful bloggers – almost everyone has utilized their time to the large extents. So, it’s no doubt – the effective time utilization is the key to succeed online.

Here are few blogging tips that will make you a productive blogger.

1. Stop multi-tasking: You really can’t achieve anything by doing so many things at a time. Don’t open Facebook tab when you’re writing a blog post. It makes your writing even worse and you’ll take hours of time to finish one single blog posts. Because human brains are capable of doing only single task at a time (one can’t use his time effectively by doing multi-tasking). So avoid doing too many things at a time, and focus only on one thing. By doing this, it will not only allow you to get the things done more faster – it will also make you a productive blogger.

Top 10 Ways to Make Press Releases More SEO Friendly

If you are thinking to sell products or services on the internet or seeking to start a company or seeking to make your existing company a achievements, submitting efficient Media Launch or PR is essential. For guaranteed achievements you need to maintain a good on the internet image that can be made possible by hiring efficient Media Launch solutions. In order to obtain the right kind of media coverage and popularity you should seek the services of efficient press release submission Services in Indian.For efficient company promotion and product exposure, you should seek the services of efficient press release submission solutions which will ensure that your product is being promoted and promoted in the best way. Today internet promotion is a valuable part of the overall on the internet promotion strategy, and therefore, many onlinepress release submission Services Delhi and other places in Indian are coming up that offer efficient press release submission as well as press release submission solutions.

5 Factors to Consider Before Choosing A Domain Name

Domain name is what makes your blog stand out from the crowd.

If your domain name is easy to remember, it can grab more people attention and can bring you more traffic in the long run. Because when someone lands on your blog, they’ll look out what domain name you’ve. If it’s easy to remember, they’ll surely type in Google or Bing to reach your blog. If your domain name is hard to remember, they may never find you!

So, it’s crucial point to remember that your domain name should be as easy as possible. Ask yourself the following questions before considering to buy a domain name for your blogs.

Top Search engine optimization Techniques

If you’re beginning an internet business, make certain you realize the fundamentals from the internet marketing abilities. You cant ever expect your company to achieve new limits without employing a few of the Seo (Seo) methods. Seo methods are inevitable for each web page that wishes to improve its exposure and search engines page ranking in search engines. Following really are a couple of most helpful Seo methods, utilized by webmasters around the world, to improve their site's exposure and targeted traffic the web page.

1. Search engine optimization-Friendly URL:

To begin with, make a web page store the attention from the targeted traffic, guaranteeing the Website is Google search engine optimization-friendly. You should implement proper key words within the URL, since that can help an web page to get more exposure. Apart from this, be sure that your web page has a user-friendly customer interface, attractive enough to sketch in targeted traffic.

Developing a Good Off Page SEO Plan

Here are a few uses of an off-page Seo plan to targeted visitors your organization web page. To begin with, create certain you receive on-page Seo together prior to doing this. That is essential. Okay then, the initial aspect you must do is to buy on every public networking website possible. This is actually the #1 most popular aspect that everybody is implementing these days, consider getting on Facebook or myspace, Facebook or myspace, LinkedIn, and then any other public networking web page you’ll discover. Network and send information to people about lifestyle causing your organization. Weblink and acquire visitors. The following most significant aspect you should do is to blog. It is important to consist of useful content.

Why Social Media Is Better than Search Engine Optimization?

Great content = Quality Traffic = More Sales

When you want to get more visitors to your website contents, you need to have more online visibility either in public networking or in Google.

Getting visitors from Google is never an easy task especially when you don’t know how to effectively optimize your contents for the google.

Indeed seo is good, but when you don’t where to place your desired search phrases, density of search phrases, you won’t get much visitors.

Because, you need to compete with hell lots of bloggers out there to get better look for engine optimization visitors to your websites. Most new bloggers think that inserting the same search phrases again and again can improve their look for visitors to their websites, but it’s wrong!

Why?

In this Google panda and penguin world, you simply can’t expect great visitors from look for engine optimization bots if you repeat the same search phrases again.

You need to properly know your before write your websites, then use RELEVANT search phrases (not inserting the same search phrases again and again), you can expect good results from the google in the long run.

How Local SEO is Becoming More Important for Internet Marketing

When you get close to an Online promotion talking to organization, you need to talk about a lot more than just the common subjects of Online promotion and the process of incoming promotion. You need to pay attention to more than just generally top quality information and trying to control the right chosen look for phrases to the best level possible. Your main objective should be to pay attention to just the right individuals, in contrast to creating the regular error that a lot of organizations end up creating.

Far too many organizations think that their focus on customers should be "everyone," which is an difficult objective. Almost as bad is the organization that represents its focus on audience is everyone on the globe that wants a particular factor. While this may perform well if you're a very effective catalog shopping organization, for most companies this just isn't very realistic. You have to pay attention to individuals who can actually come to your organization regularly and make use of what you're providing easily. Which indicates you have to pay attention to natives, and there are a lot of methods to do this.