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Increase Traffic`s Blog

Posted by Xdream Monday, November 30, 2009 0 comments
Increase Traffic`s Blog
You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.

Http://www.bloglet.com

2. Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)

http://www.my.yahoo.com

3. Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4. Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.

http://www.pingomatic.com

5. Submit your blog to traditional search engines: http://www.submitfire.com

6. Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:

http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7. Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8. Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9. If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10. Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11. Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12. Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to. The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13. Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14. Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15. Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16. Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.

The Other References.....Next is 7 ways to drive traffic

You’ve put a lot of work into your blog, and you put more in every day. But without a steady stream of traffic, no one’s the wiser. Use these seven tips to get more traffic to your blog.
1) Do your SEO and keyword research homework. Make sure the HTML of your site is search engine friendly. Here’s a basic search engine optimization checklist:
• Do your post titles have appropriate keywords?
• Do your anchor links have keywords in them? Using “here” as a link is a missed opportunity.
• Does your domain name include a primary keyword?
2) Submit your site to the 1st and 2nd tier engines like Google, Yahoo, Dmoz, MSN and Looksmart, and to the blog directories. Here’s a short list of sites that offer free blog listings:
Blog Search http://www.blog-search.com/blogclicker-submission.html
Technorati http://www.technorati.com/
Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com/
Blogdex http://blogdex.net/
Blogwise http://www.blogwise.com/
WeBlogALot http://www.weblogalot.com/
Globe of Blogs http://www.globeofblogs.com/
BlogHop http://www.bloghop.com/
Blogarama http://www.blogarama.com/
3) Ping like you mean it. This is a way for you to raise your hand to the blog trackers when you’ve posted new content. You can do it site by site at places like Technorati, or go to Ping-o-matic (pingomatic.com) and mass-ping your blog to over 20 sites. Make sure your blog is set up to ping the appropriate sites every time you publish a post.
4) Feed your RSS. Make sure your blog has one and that it’s working. An RSS feed is a bit of XML that allows your blog to push content to RSS readers. That way people don’t have to visit your site to get your latest insights – they just open their RSS reader and read the news. If your blog is at Blogger.com, don’t worry about an RSS feed – its already been created for you. If you’re not at Blogger.com and your current blog doesn’t have RSS functionality, visit Feedcraft.com and sign up for their free service that will set up an RSS feed from any website (blog or not). 5) Swap links. Make a list of relevant sites you’d love to link to your blog. Write them a short friendly note and offer to let them use a few of your posts as content on their site in exchange for a link back to your site. Also, link to their sites from within one of your posts. Be sure to offer to exchange links in the links section of your blog. Most blog software programs offer this. There are also sites that special in helping bloggers swap links. Web Log Empire (http://www.weblogempire.com/) is a large one. If you’re willing to pay for a link to your site, check out Text-Link-Ads (www.text-link-ads.com)
6) Be part of the blogging community. Go to other blog sites you admire. Contribute to their blogs in ways that add real value. Write good, thoughtful comments that are content rich. Give away what you know. Do it a lot – at least 3 posts a week. Over time you’ll become recognized as someone who has something worthwhile to say. As your reputation grows, people will seek out your blog. This is not an overnight process, but by paying your dues and building an audience you are positioning yourself to become a star. By the way, if your site doesn’t have the functionality for visitors at add comments, Haloscan (http://www.haloscan.com/) is a free service that will let them do so. It also allows for “trackbacking”, which is a way to manage pings.
7) Write your blog! Put everything you’ve got into it. Make it great. Post as frequently as you can. The search engines will note frequent postings. A blog that has a new post every day is obviously more active – and important – than a blog that was set up in 2003, has 4 posts, and has been dead since 2004. To really make your blog get noticed you’ll need to post at least 2-3 times a week.

how use iGoogle

Posted by Xdream Sunday, November 22, 2009 0 comments
iGoogle is a personalized Google homepage. You can put just about anything on it. Read the following steps to learn how.

Steps

1. Go to Google. In the upper left-hand corner, there should be a link that says "iGoogle".
2. Click on it and it will take you to the iGoogle section. There, you will see various different boxes (i.e. news, weather, horoscope, etc).
3. You can move its contents by dragging the boxes around to wherever you like on the page.
4. If you look above the boxes, you should see a link called "Add a Tab". You can click it, give it a name, and decide whether to check or uncheck the "I'm feeling lucky" box.
5. Click "Add Stuff>>", located on the right side near the top. This will take you to a page where you can search for add-ons in different categories, such as Fun & Games and Sports.
6. Search a criteria. For instance, "Bengals" under the Sports category; various items will appear. If you want "Yahoo! Sports - NFL# - Cincinnati Bengals News", click on the link. This allows you to view information about it, as well as a screenshot for some. If, after viewing this, you want to add it to your page, click the button that says "Add it now".
7. Once you get it on your page, you can always remove it by clicking the x in the top left corner. You can also add some useful gadgets like calendar, countdown, to do lists, email, gas price check, etc.


Tips

* Most of the time when you type in a name for your tab, it will automatically add content, depending on the tab's name. Uncheck the "I'm feeling lucky" box if you'd rather start from scratch and add your own gadgets.
* Use the "Add stuff" page wisely. The search bar at the top let's you find stuff to add to your page more easily. Also, you can click the "Add by URL" link to its right to add a link of your own. That way, you'll be able to add an RSS feed of a site or blog that you like that you wouldn't be able to find in the search results.
* A fairly new feature is Themes. The link is on the right side of the page, next to Add Stuff. When you click on this, it will come up with a box with several different themes to choose from. Click on the one you like and save it. You can then enter your zip code/hometown, and it will make the theme and colors change according to the time of day.


Warnings

* Either create an account or don't delete your cookies. Otherwise, everything will be lost and it will go back to the classic Google page.
* Don't add too many things to your page; it will load really slowly and increase the chance of browser crashing. Instead, you can create multiple tabs (e.g. one for games, another for RSS feeds, etc)..

How to Be a Millionaire

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Regardless of where you go in the world, money is the basic universal measurement for being "rich", or becoming a millionaire. And it seems like everyone wants to be a millionaire these days.
Steps

1. Open a savings account. Having a savings account is one of the many ways where you can set your money up to work for you. Your initial deposit of money grows whether or not you make additional deposits by interest. Learn the different types of accounts, including accounts like IRAs.
2. Buy stocks. If you are gung-ho for individual stocks, you should buy stocks of the companies whose products and services you use or purchase. One of the best ways to invest in individual stocks is through an investment club; you may want to consider forming one with your friends.
3. Buy mutual funds. Mutual funds are really an investment of other investments. When you own a mutual fund, you actually own the securities (stocks, bonds, cash) within the mutual. With mutual funds, you are pooling your money with other investors and diversifying your investment.
4. Audition for game shows. Game shows earn their money by the audience, not the contestants.
5. Find a "system" that has been proven to make people become millionaires. The top five producers of millionaires today are: technology - internet marketing, direct marketing, home-based business, product distribution, and investments (stocks, bonds, real estate investment / development). Usually, the most stable and reliable forms of income would be from internet marketing, technology, and real estate, with internet marketing, and home based businesses requiring the least money to set up. Investments like real estate and stocks are usually quite risky and time consuming.
6. Find a mentor who has walked the walk and seek advice. Surround yourself with already-made millionaires. They can be found in several places, there's even a private online club where you can have a millionaire mentor personally show you how to make money in many areas online.
7. Win who wants to be a Millionare. If you don't know the answer to the question, just guess you have a 25% chance of getting it right, if you do know the answer, then say it.


Tips

* Don't use a credit card much, all of the excessive spending will come back to haunt you, and you may end up in debt. Try getting a debit card for daily purchases, they're a lot easier to deal with. Use your credit card only for emergencies, and to establish your good credit.
* Try not to take any big loans, because that's "big" money that you'll just have to pay back, and you could end up in debt for that also.
* Control your expenses. You get rich on the difference between that and what you make
* Make it a game. Looking for opportunities to make money is supposed to be fun. Never sweat it.
* Read. The more you know the more you will perceive to be possible, the more you can make.
* Make it about something else than money. It has to be fun. Fair enough you are doing it to become financially well off but few wealthy get off on that alone.
* Make friends with people who share the same goals and values. It will reduce your downtime, and give you pleasure when you are down.
* Make friends with people who are different than you. They can be the greatest source of inspiration and guidance if you are open to their different perspective.
* Help others. Learn to be a caring individual that makes the world better for people around yourself. It will lead to more positivity coming your way. Also, donating to charities can come back to you in the form of tax deductions.
* Plan. Define what you want, Act on it, and Evaluate often to see how you are going.
* It is OK to be cheap, but never be cheap on things that give you value.
* Never invest more than you are willing to lose. This is particularly important when you start. The older and more experienced you get the less risk you are likely to take, or the better you are capable of taking it.
* Think a lot on why you want to become rich, what exactly you want to buy, what lifestyle you want. Make it specific, and date your time for having it and why it matters to you
* Money represents value. You might come to the understanding that you make money on giving something that other value more than what they pay. You spend the money to get something that is more valuable.
* If possible, make the maximum out your retirement fund provided either by your government or your work. Then proceed to put as much money in to an account like a Roth IRA.
* Whoever said money can't buy happiness has never driven a sports car!
* Money can never buy true happiness. Do not lose your friends and family over making money.
* Stay out of street mean that get married and be serious


Warnings

* Unless you are the wealthiest person in the world, there will always be someone with more money than you; there will always be someone with less money than you.
* Be prepared to make choices that are different than most people around you.
* Keep riches and wealth in perspective i.e. don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg. In other words, avoid neglecting the source of the wealth e.g. decent health.
* Money doesn't always buy happiness (but it can take care of almost everything else).
* Never steal money. So don't get any ideas about robbing the bank.
* Do not brag about how much money you have. Thieves will be more likely to target you. Consider investing in a means of personal defense such as a martial art or a firearm.

How to Use Wordpress

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Wordpress.com is a fun, and very easy way to create a blog and/or website!
Steps

1. Create an account on Wordpress.com
2. Pick a title, and your url
* When you create a Wordpress, they automatically give you a theme called Kubrick. To change that theme, On your dashboard select Appearance, then themes, then browse through the themes.
3. Activate the theme you want.
* To add a post, click on New Post at the top. If you have many blogs, it will ask you which blog to make a new post


Tips

* If you have any other questions, go to www.wordpress.com and click on Support
* If you do not like the premade layouts for your blog. google 'wordpress layouts' and browse through the results to find something you like.


Warnings

* Wordpress's interface may seem difficult to learn at first. And a bit complicated at FIRST. Once you get used to it, it's easy.
* Always be careful of what you blog about. You never know who is reading your blog.
* Do not start a 'hate blog' its a little old and no one will like you in the end if all you do is tell others why you hate them.


Things You'll Need

* Internet Connection
* Computer
* An Idea to blog about
* Common sense.

How to Make Money With Affiliate Programs

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Affiliate Programs are programs created by various companies to help promote their products. When you become a member which is usually for free, you can create links to put on your website or various places to promote the products. When people purchase the products through your links, you will receive a portion of the profits.
Steps

1. To make money with affiliate programs start with Researching a topic or niche like one of the things that are most popular today ( See Google Trends).
2. Use the Google Keyword Research Tool to further break down the niche into more specific niches. Weight loss is a popular niche but it way too broad. People want to lose weight for vacation, weddings, summer, after the holidays, for special birthdays or events. Weight loss for summer and weight loss for weddings are niches
3. Find out how many people are searching for that topic by doing just a regular Google Search in quotes "quick weight loss". The quotes will give you how many sites there are on that topic. Try to find a topic that has under 5,000 results.
4. Create a Website around the topic that you have chosen and provide lots of information about the topic to create interest with your visitors. Refer them to purchase the product through a newsletter.
5. You can also promote affiliate programs without having a website if you want to do what is called article marketing. That is a process of writing articles on your product and finding free places online to post them such as article directories. You can put a link to your product with your affiliate code in some. (Be sure to check and see if you are allowed to do that.) Some place only allow a text link to your wesbite.
6. Research long-tail keywords to target. If you are selling a weight loss product the word weight loss is too broad of target and has tons of competition. You can break it down into phrases like lose weight in two weeks or lose weight for wedding.
7. Use the keywords strategically in your articles - in the headline, the first few sentences and throughout the body of the article to attract the search engines more.


Tips
* Research and test, research and test, research and test.

How to Protect Yourself from Computer Identity Theft

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Identity theft is considered as a huge problem in our society. Identity theft occurs once a thief assumes another person’s identity by using confidential information supposed to be known exclusively by that person. The thief will commit fraud using the person's name and important confidential information without the victim ever knowing about such transactions.
Steps

1. Make a disposable email address - Make sure that you have an email address that you can only use for businesses and other personal communication. If for instance, you want to buy something online, or you want to join a newsgroup, it is better than you use a disposable email address. Yahoo and hotmail are some of the free accounts where you can make you own disposable email. Both of these are able to interface with other famous email clientele such as the outlook and the outlook express. You can use one of the two for your purchasing transactions.
2. Cover up your internet identity - If your name is Anne Brown try to not to use it in making your email accounts especially when having business with people you are not familiar with and deceitful-looking. Perhaps if your birth date is April 17, 1968, do not make an account that contains both your name and birth date.
3. Cover up your internet identity - If your name is Anne Brown try to not to use it in making your email accounts especially when having business with people you are not familiar with and deceitful-looking. Perhaps if your birth date is April 17, 1968, do not make an account that contains both your name and birth date.
4. Use “tough” passwords - Avoid using birthdates, anniversaries, or your children’s birthdates when making passwords. Do not use passwords that are purely letters or numbers. In addition, to not to use passwords consist true words. Make passwords made of phases like “I drink 1 glass of milk everyday”. Get the first letter of every word in the phrase and it will result to “id1gome”.
5. Change your passwords
6. You must change you passwords at least every 6 months or if you want, you can have it changed every year. If you think your passwords have been exposed, change them for your protection.
7. It is important that you only use one credit card for every online transaction that you make - If you have more than three credit cards, stick to the one that you know will best work for online transactions. This is to monitor the transactions made with each of your credit cards. Therefore, if your other credit cards have an online transactions you are certain that those are fake.
8. Make use of a credit card rather than a debit card
9. Though many debit cards have online purchase safety steps, it is easier to fight fake charges than to refund debit card finances already used.
10. When you make online transactions ensure that it is safe
11. If you are making your first transaction on the internet, make sure that the company you are dealing with is someone familiar or referred to you by a trusted one.
12. Check for the company’s privacy guidelines - When doing the first purchasing online, ensure to check the privacy guidelines, search for logos from purchasers groups and try to find out if they are a member of the better business bureau. If possible, click the logos to confirm that they are genuine.
13. Do not open or sign up email inviting you to update your email account or credit card information through email. These are only fraudulent. Some people do them attempt and secure your personal data. Most of them increasingly improve their modus operandi and go to great lengths to appear genuine like the company websites using their own logos.


Tips

* Following the above guidelines, you are surely keeping yourself away from this computer identity theft.

Warnings

* As an advice, if an individual feels that he is a victim of an identity theft, it is appropriate to contact the nearest Justice Department. If not, a bank office can also help in that particular situation. Remember, in every action, taking extra care and getting help from the appropriate agencies is the safest thing to do.

Start-a-Blog

Posted by Xdream Saturday, November 21, 2009 0 comments
A "blog", abbreviated word for weblog, is a web-based journal in which people can publish their thoughts and opinions on the Internet. It is everyone's home on the world wide web and probably their number one venting venues. Anyone can start a blog. It's straight-forward and, in a lot of cases, free.

Steps

  1. Find a decent blogging provider that appeals to you. The most popular providers include LiveJournal, Blogger, WordPress.com, and Xanga. These sites are pre-made with templates and push-button publishing that don't require much technical know-how.
  2. Once you sign up, you'll have a gallery of ready-made templates to choose from. With these, you can pick a color scheme and layout for your blog.
    • Most sites come with a set of predefined layouts and schemes that you can choose from. Select one and personalize it. Then add your name, interests, images, etc.
    • If you want to, get a more unique template, there are some sites up that have many of these that might make it look better. For example, PimpMyProfile.com or Pyzam.com.
  3. Add blogging freebies like buttons, images, blog chalks, imoods, tagboards (for example, myshoutbox.com), guest maps, guestbooks, comment boxes for readers' input, etc.
  4. Explore other blog sites that offer more features for a small fee, such as Typepad.com and ChoseIt.
  5. Decide whether you want your blog to be private or public: do you want any Internet visitor to be able to read your blog, or do you just want your friends and family to be able to read it? Most blog sites offer the ability to password-protect your published posts so only those who you approve of can view what you've written.
  6. After you've set up your blog, write a few posts to test it out, and make any adjustments to the layout or style that you see fit. Like if you just got a new template, you'd check your blog to see if you like it, right? At first, it will seem tough to figure out what to write, but once you get into a routine of daily blogging, you will find it addictive. Write about your day, your thoughts, events, ideas, fears, pleasures, the news, current affairs, art, or anything you are interested in!
  7. Visit other blogs to build a blogging circle. When you leave comments, add your blogging address so they can visit you too. (Note: This will not work if your blog is private)
  8. Publish your blog by sending the URL to your friends or publish the URL on your website. Add the URL to posts you make on other blogs.

Tips

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    If you update your blog frequently, more people will return on a regular basis to read it. Establishing a reader base will motivate you to write more and in turn more people will read your posts.
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    Get into a routine of blogging. Make it part of your day. Soon, you will notice things during your day and think, "Hey, I'll blog this."
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    Personalize your blog. A pretty blog always catches the eye. Visit blogger.com for ideas; they have a list of their 10 most recently updated blogs.
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    You could Google for "blog California" or "blog Shakespeareans" (or anything else), depending on location, interests, etc. For instance, if you have a blog on lawns, you may want visit allaboutlawns.com's forum and other similar type blogs. Circles of interest are the essence of blogging, and it can start to develop you as an authority in the "blog-o-sphere" on lawns or whatever area of interest you choose.
  • Keep the posts interesting. Try to avoid focusing on things that most readers won't find worthwhile (such as "I went to the mall today and saw Kelly.") Write about things you noticed, thoughts you had, and feelings or ideas. Blog about a recent trip to Spain. Write about the chemical explosion during class.
  • Spell check your writing before posting.
  • Some sites allow you to make money off your blog by using an Amazon Associates ID or by placing Google AdSense advertisements. If popular enough, your blog could start to pay your bills.
  • Don't feel bogged down if no one visits your site for the first few months. As with communities this large, it will take some time for your blog to get noticed.
  • Find blog aggregators. They will place a link to your site on their webpage and/or have a feed running from your blog so that every time you post something, it will show up on the blog aggregator homepage. Also, this can help increase readership.
  • If you want a broad (international) readership, do not use too many abbreviations or slang terms that might not be easily understood by people who are not from your country/area.
  • Get interesting news from Yahoo Oddly Enough..., other Yahoo! stories, Crayon.net and other websites that you frequently read.
  • Blog on a specific subject. You can't please everyone, so target a specific audience and go with it.
  • See also How to Write a Famous Blog.
  • Pictures are also a great idea.


Warnings

  • Avoid posting anything on your blog that might be personal to other people if just anyone can read your blog (example: Your uncle might object that it's published on the Internet that he is an alcoholic). If something is personal, avoid using last names at the very least, or make up a name for that person. Be wary of unwarranted attention. Blogs are for the world to read. If you want a private blog just for friends, use Xanga or any other password-protected blogging site.
  • Xanga and MySpace are good for beginners, but for more public blogs, sites like Typepad and Blogger are much more "respected".
  • Be wary of unwarranted attention. Blog stalking is possible; don't give out too much personal information such as name, location, school, etc.
  • Be prepared for some nasty comments and/or e-mails if you are blogging about "touchy" items, such as bad leadership in a school system, rumors about an official or local government. As long as the messages do not threaten bodily harm, you should be safe.
  • Always back up your commentary with reliable sources, and keep the sources varied (i.e. wikipedia isn't a good source and don't just quote from one newspaper).
  • Read the small print. If you don't, your blog's content may be "owned" by the company that puts it on the web for you.
  • Don't make your blogs like MySpace bulletins (adding random posts to suck in friends) and don't include your friend's name or websites in them either.
  • Write ins ands outs people love them! .

How to Find Many Wiki Websites on the Web

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Wiki, wiki, wiki. So many Wikis in the world. You know they are out there but... can't find them. What should you do? Read this article on how to do it!

Steps

  1. Surf the web. Surf the web for Wiki websites. Try guessing names that would probably be a wiki. Such as WikiPedia. Put "www.Wiki[fill in name here](.com, org, edu, net).
  2. Socialize. Ask friends, family members, colleagues, club members or whoever you can think of! Maybe they found a new Wiki website.
  3. Use Wiki Search. Go to Wiki Search This may help you as it is a Wiki Search Engine and may find you a Wiki!
  4. Keep trying. Tried all these steps and couldn't find one? Make a new account on a Wiki website you know. Start over. You may find new and exciting friends on your account.


Tips

  • On your new account, do not vandalize! You will make more work for RC patrol, and vandalizing will not make you cool. You wont make friends with RC Patrol's or Authors who made the article that you vandalize!
  • If you haven't already created an account here at wikiHow, you might want to try wikiHow!.

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