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How to Convert Your Blog Visitor into Loyal Visitors for Life!

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Alok Vats

You are the owner of a blog, what would be your desires from your blog?

Simple, in my case, I would think plenty of visitors on my blog.

Ah, we all know it’s a difficult task.

What else would you desire from your blog?

I guess, a good pool of loyal visitors, who will come back to your blog on a regular interval, or who should bookmark your blog for future use, through which they can visit your blog regularly.

You might say mate it’s not that easy.

Agree.

It’s not that easy to get some dedicated visitors to your blog, but you can do some stuff which can convert your blog into a power blog and people will start becoming fan of your blogs.

Amazing?

Sounds interesting, but saying this is easy, but hard to do it in practical. I am also doing blogging, since 2008, but I am not a regular blogger, and this is the reason why most of my dedicated visitors become upset when they visit my blog after some time and did not found any new blog in it. This is the reason why I have decided to put some more time on my blogs which will definitely please the visitors of my blogs.

Anyways, from next week, I will dedicate full time on my blogs, and you would be glad to see some more quality blogs very soon, that too on a regular interval. Meanwhile as we were discussing about the ways through which we can convert our visitors into dedicated and loyal visitors, so here are a few tips through which you can make it possible:

How to Convert Your Blog Visitor into Loyal Visitors for Life!
How to Convert Your Blog Visitor into Loyal Visitors for Life!

Regular Blog Posts

Regularity is something which is very much required, if you really want to be liked by the visitors. If you post your blogs on a regular interval then your chances of getting more likes are always increasing. As I mentioned above that the visitors of my blogs are must be feeling disappointed when they visit next time and see no new posts, so the same can apply to those who don’t posts regular blogs.

What to do?

If you ask me, I would suggest you to prepare a schedule for your blogs. Don’t only make the schedule rather start following them strictly and you will realize that you are posting your blogs on a regular interval now.

Sounds good, now coming ahead to other points.

Interesting Blog Posts

When I was a newbie in the field of blogging, one of my friends Pinal Dave, who is the SQL expert and runs his blog at SQL Authority, suggested me a few ways to make my blog more interesting. As per him, we all share more or less similar types of stuffs, then why will someone is going to like my content?

This is where our knowledge and creativity comes into play. To make our blog more interesting and useful, we can make it more fact oriented, catchy and should be written in simple language.

What to do?

Frankly, we can make our blog more interesting with the help of graphics, images, cartoons, etc. A perfect picture will make your blog more interesting.

Also when you write the blog, try to put your knowledge about the post so that the reader will associate with you, and thus surely like your blog and want to read your future blogs as well.

These are the reasons why my buddy Pinal is a successful blogger.

Okay one more interesting tips, you can also use videos to make your blog more interesting. You can also create your video blogs to post in place of the regular blogs. People will definitely like this idea.

Uniqueness

The first and the most important thing which is very much required for converting your blog visitor into a regular visitor is the uniqueness of the content. It should be original enough, it can further help you to get rid of the Penguin and Panda updates of Google.

Also read these two blogs of mine on is SEO becoming obsolete and is SEO becoming more difficult after Panda and Penguin updates?

What to do?

To write unique content, nothing special is required. It only needs your knowledge about the niche on which you are writing. Do a bit of research about the blog topic and come ahead with the ideas or information which you might have about the same. Thus you can be able to write unique content.

As per some old sayings in the field of online marketing, Content is the King, and it is very much true.

Interacting with Your Readers

Proper interaction with your blog readers is a must to let them visit your blog again and again. Just realize why we visit a local shop regularly, just because the shop owner interacts with us in a very good manner, which makes us loyal to him.

Similarly in the world of web, we also need to interact with all the readers of our blog, so that they can be interested in visiting our blog once again.

What to do?

In this case, try to ask for comments from the readers, once you have some comments, you should respond to each and every comment in a very polite manner. Never become aggressive, as you might be due to some obsessive language in the comments, try to be polite against them as well.

Subscribe Options to the Reader

Though I myself is lacking in this, but it is very much required if you need loyal readers to your blogs. Whenever you are reading a blog, and you like the stuff, you must think about subscribing to that blog through which you can get information about the new posts from the same blog.

Why I am not using it?

Frankly speaking, it is my mistake that I am not using it so far, but I promise you all that by next week you will have the same option available on my blog as well.

What to do?

In this case, use feedburner, and don’t forget to visit my blog in next week as I will write about how to use feeburner for a WordPress blog. Also use the plugins like FeedBurner FeedSmith (though it’s an outdated plugin now), or Feedburner Email Subscription, or FD Feedburner Plugin or similar types of plugin to make it more useful on your blog. Wait for my next blog on the same.

Thus, I guess you must have realized that you will have to work hard and hard to make your blog outstanding, something which can develop a unique identity in the eye of the readers of your blog, through which they can be able to remember your blog.

Providing up to date information, and developing a user friendly blog will surely help you further in this regard. I might be missing some points while writing this blog, if you are having some new point you can share the same in the form of comment. Please also don’t forget to share your view about this blog of mine.

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5 Alternative Blogging Platforms to Try Out in 2013!

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Alok Vats

When it comes to picking a blogging platform, of course, there are the most popular sites like WordPress and Blogger that will always be the choice of the majority. Even though there is nothing wrong with these obvious choices, it couldn’t hurt to check out some newcomers and less popular blogging platforms because you never know, you just might like them better. These newer and smaller platforms look to instill a sense of community and interaction with bloggers new and old, which is what essentially separates them from the big names and which might make them appealing to people who want to try something fresh and innovative when it comes to blogging.

Here are five exciting new blogging platforms that bloggers might want to check out if they are looking to try something new or take their blogs and general writing and sharing of ideas into other territories this year.

Posthaven

This new blogging platform comes with a pretty great idea attached to it. A lot of people who are not everyday bloggers might have had their blogspots shut down because of inactivity, or in many cases, had their blogs disappear for one reason or another. If you are sick of having to move your content whenever a service you are using disappears or changes, you might like the idea of Posthaven. For five dollars a month, users will be able to use Posthaven, which guarantees that it will never go away or change your posts or content. It’s a very ambitious goal, but a worthwhile one for many people. The interface and look of the blog platform itself are very sleek, modern and basic in design. All in all, Posthaven comes with a very exciting idea and foundation. We’ll have to wait and see how it progresses and whether it will be able to sustain its promises and build a larger following through them.

Jux

Jux is a great option for people who love more visual blog platforms like Tumblr or Pinterest. These image-based blogs are increasingly popular, which might make Jux a perfect candidate for experiencing a similar level success and popularity as Pinterest did last year. The design of this platform is the main attraction; it definitely makes it easy for anyone to get their posts to look great. It’s a great blog platform if you are into food or travel blogs and like to include a lot of pictures with your writings. Even the most basic themes offered look really great and don’t have to be tweaked at all to look professionally designed. So if you are looking for a visually impactful blogging alternative, look no further.

Svbtle

If you are looking for a blogging platform that is mostly made up of professionals and you’re looking for a place to share expert writing and learn from the most knowledgeable, Svbtle seems to be a good place for this. It might not be a place to open up a blog about your dog or your vacations, but if you are interested in writing about things like finances, literature, business or anything professional, this could be a nice change of pace. It’s definitely designed with professionals in mind and it looks to not only allow people to write, but to also learn from others and interact within the community. Svbtle also provides a fantastic outlet for trying to network within your own niche. It gives you a much more personable approach to establishing contacts and aims to create a tight-knit community than most larger blogging platforms do not facilitate.

Glipho

Glipho is another one that is looking to form a community and promote more interaction. One of the greatest downfalls with the big blog platforms is that it is hard to get people to read your stuff and interact with you, because you are getting lost in the shuffle. When you sign up to Glipho, you are part of a smaller community and are therefore more easily noticed, especially if your writing is good. One of the best features of Glipho is that if you are switching to it from another blogging platform, you can import all of your old writings so that they can be seen be fresh eyes and finally noticed. It is a very social blogging community and it’s even a great place for freelance writers to make connections.

Medium

Medium is another blogging platform that notes the fact that there will be no shutting down of blogs because of a lapse of content, which is great for people who only blog very casually. The scope and community of Medium is not very defined, the owners of the site say themselves that it’s a blogging platform for everyone from “professional journalists to amateur cooks.” It is meant to be a blogging platform that is not obsessed with plug-ins and side bars, but instead allows you to focus on the words you are writing and reading with its simple design and interface. If you are serious about your writing and want to give your writing a better chance to be actually seen by people who would be interesting in what you are saying, Medium could be a good choice for you.

As stated previously, blog platforms such as WordPress will remain dominant for years to come as far as not only attracting new bloggers, but also increasing the visibility of seasoned veterans, but there are many options out there for people who are looking to try something new.

Within every niche, there will always be the most popular services and then small, not-yet-established ones trying to do something innovative and different. Blogging platforms are the same in that respect. These smaller up-start blog platforms recognize their positions in the market and try to offer new outlooks on blogging that might appeal to people who are either just starting to blog or have been blogging for a long time and want to try a new angle.

Author Bio: David Lazar is a blogger at the PDF Converter tips blog. He enjoys following and writing about all of the latest goings-on in the worlds of technology, new media and the Internet in general.

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Penguin 4 or Penguin 2.0 Rolled Out – What Should We Expect Next in SEO!

Posted on May 23, 2013 by Alok Vats

A few days back when Matt Cutts announced about what we should expect next in SEO, Google is planning to launch the latest update of Penguin, a completely new generation of spam fighting algorithm, it created pain in many hearts of webmasters.

You will be surprised to know that when Matt announced that Penguin 2.0 is coming, which is in fact the Penguin 4, I clearly saw panic in many people’s attitude, who are working in the field of SEO or those who are still involved with some of the spamming activities for the websites for which they are working for.

Last night one of my friends ping me at around mid-night and informed me that one of his sites is now out of the search rankings. Out of sudden I realized that Google must have launched the latest Penguin update, and it was a fact, as I checked the blog of Matt Cutts that Penguin 4 or Penguin 2.0 is officially rolled out now. You can also check his blog at this place: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/penguin-2-0-rolled-out-today/

Frankly since the day one when Google rolled out Penguin 1 on 24th April 2012 it created panic in the world of webmasters. This affected around 3.1% of the queries throughout the globe. Since then Google launched two more updates on Penguin but those were quite small changes, and impacted very few sites.

This is the reason why Matt calls this major release as Penguin 2.0 rather than calling it as Penguin 4. This is an update which can impact around 2.3% of queries throughout the globe. You can expect some major changes in the search results in coming days.

What Should We Expect Now?

Frankly, if you ask me, I will say that Google is now following the original quality guidelines strictly. As per Matt, it is always better to put focus on making your site as good as possible for your visitors, provide them whatever they are looking for, and update your sites with more meaningful and informative content on a regular interval.

Other than these using all those spammy things to promote your site is over now. Those who are still doing Link Exchange, Article Submission or Directory Submissions, or similar types of low value activities to building link for their sites, are needed to change their way.

Those who missed the latest video of Matt for what is coming up in term of SEO, here is the same:

I will come up with some more details about these updates of Google in coming days.

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Is SEO Really Becoming Obsolete!

Posted on April 24, 2013 by Alok Vats

A few days back I write about is SEO becoming more difficult after Panda and Penguin updates and I was surprised to see the responses of other bloggers about it. I received a few mails concerning with the current situation in the world of SEO.

After reading all those reactions I analyzed that the current scenario in which Google is updating it’s algorithm on a regular basis, and strictly forcing all the ethical things on the webmasters, many people are considering that SEO (search engine optimization) is really becoming obsolete.

What Exactly Was SEO?

SEO means doing the optimization of your website, so that it can rank well for the keywords for which it was meant for, and thus to increase the visibility of the site and ultimately the visitors to the website.

There was two ways to do so, one part was meant as On Page SEO, which includes the stuffs which we do on our own website, like designing, content, Meta tags, etc. While on the other hand there was one more portions involved with the SEO and it was the Off Page SEO, which basically includes doing stuffs which can be helpful in building links for your website.

Off Page SEO was something which involved in the way of article marketing, blogs, press releases, putting comments on other sites, etc. through which we can be able to build back links to our website.

There were some people who were involved with some unethical things too to promote their website, and increase ranking. It also includes the thing like building Reciprocal Links, for which Google was strictly against.

What Does Google Want?

One common question which comes in every second person’s mind was what Google wants. The actual response to this question is that they want quality, quality of the pages which their users will click after searching. If they cannot be able to provide the relevant stuffs to the users who are searching for something then it will be counted as the failure of themselves only.

If you are familiar with the changes happening during last few years, you must be aware that Google’s prime focus is on users. They want to provide the most relevant and informative content to the user who were looking for the same and will like them as well.

So does it mean that SEO is dead now?

Obviously No.

With recent algorithm updates made by Google, it’s a clear indication that they are strictly returning to the basics. The most simple fundamentals of doing SEO was to build website as per the need of the users, and build it in the way that they are compelled to like it.

In the world of SEO now the likes and share matters the most.

New Approach towards SEO

If you ask me then I can confirm that neither the SEO is dead, nor it is going to dead ever. It will always remain the same, and it is to provide the useful stuff to the users.

The basics of SEO have not at all changed, and it is quite simple, you need to design the site in a very interactive way, and provide the rich, informative content in it. Content was always the king and would remain the same.

The only approach which has changed during recent time is of links to your website. Earlier links were considered as a vote to your site, but now Google (and other search engines as well) has realized that if a person (who is real) want to vote for a site then he will definitely do the same with the help of his/her social media profiles. Search engines are now thinking that social media signals cannot be fake, as links were.

Though in my opinion social media trends can also be fake, we will discuss about them later.

The bottom line is that with time people must need to change their approach, and now they should focus on providing relevant, informative, shareable content to the users, which can compel the users to like them and share as well.

My Suggestion

It is time to think in a more real way, and follow the real approach. It cannot be possible that you created a page on your site and everybody started giving link to it, unless you are as big as Google or Microsoft. If it is happening then it must be fake.

In case of social media the chances of fake votes are less compared to the previous one, thus instead of focusing on getting more and more likes and shares, my advice is to invest more and more on the reliability and trustworthiness of the content, which you are providing. Thus you can give the valuable content to the user, which in a way will contribute for a community and will be beneficial for them.

Don’t hesitate to share your opinion about the same, you can share your opinion in the form of comment or mail to me.

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5 Common Mistakes to Avoid While Developing Your Blog!

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Alok Vats

As we all know dedication is something which is always required for the success of your blog. Other than dedication, regularity and importance of the write-up which you are writing also matters too much behind the success of the blog.

I have written a few posts in the past about maintaining your blog properly, some of them are listed here:

5 Most Important Blogging Tips Required for the Popularity of Your Blog!
How to Write Killer Blog Posts for your Blog!
Importance of Keyword Research in Blogging!
How to Use your Blog as Branding Tool?
Tips to Successfully Start Blogging for Business!

I am quite sure that above blogs are quite helpful for those who really want to gain some blogging tips.

5 Common Mistakes to Avoid While Developing Your Blog!
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid While Developing Your Blog!

As you all know that Search Engine Optimization, popularly known as SEO plays a vital role behind the success of your blog. Still many people have misconception about how they can start a blog. Here are a few mistakes which we all should always avoid while starting a new blog:

Free Blogs

Many people consider blog as a free platform, it’s true as well, but creating free blogs are not at all a good idea. There are many blogging tools like blogspot or wordpress.com which normally provides the option of creating free blogs, and many people use them too. The problem with these free blogs is that people sometimes don’t take them seriously, as they consider that it is a free blog. They don’t care to click on link in search engine result pages which are targeting some free blog.

So in my opinion opting free blog is the worst idea to begin with. Always opt for a self hosted domain name and host them on a proper server, and use tools like wordpress to generate your blog. If you too really want to own a blog, but don’t know how to do it, you can contact me for the same.

Duplicate Content

One of the worst things which many people follow is using the duplicate content on their own blog. Willingly or unwillingly, many people do the same; they copy some nicely written content from some other site and post it on their own blog. This is completely unethical and search engines highly dislike this activity.

My advice for this case is that, if you want to develop a good blog, then you will have to invest too much on the content of the blog. You will have to put serious efforts towards creating content for your blog, as they will generate your identity.

Automated Tags

Many people do this mistake of using automated tags for your blog. Many people also don’t give much importance for tags. In my opinion we should optimize tags in a proper manner so that they can rank well in search engines. Sometimes you will find that for a particular search you can find your tag page in the search results.

Also always put most important and relevant keywords in the tag field. While publishing the blog, you should yourself take care of the tags of your post.

Also please try to put around 12-15 tags only (maximum) in a blog post.

Aiming for Page Rank

For some people Page Rank of your blog matters a lot, for me it’s useless to have a PR value. The important thing is that your blog should provide informative stuffs to its readers.

Many a time people who aims for the PR go for some stuffs like buying links from high PR pages, which is not good and disliked by search engines.

So I would suggest everyone to not think about having a Page Rank, rather you can consider about how you can increase the reader base of your blog.

Less Content

Many bloggers do this mistake of providing too less information about the blog post. I am not saying here that writing long-long write ups are the only thing which you can call as good stuff; rather you can provide all the relevant information required for the topic in the post.

The blog post should always reveal around the title for which it has written for. It should not deviate from the discussion. It should have all the relevant information about the same, if you are feeling short of words then you can chose images, or videos to illustrate the same.

Many people discuss with me about the ideal length of a blog post, I normally think that a blog post with around 600+ words is good enough.

In my opinion above mentioned five points are something which are most commonly mistaken by many budding bloggers. These are something which can hugely affect the success and ranking of your blog, so it is always advisable to avoid following.

Please share your thought about the points in the form of comment.

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Is SEO Becoming More Difficult After Panda and Penguin Updates?

Posted on February 28, 2013 by Alok Vats

During 2012, Google introduced many algorithm updates, different updates of Panda and Penguin. These updates caused panic in the community of the webmasters. The ultimate aims of all these Google updates were to punish the websites for a variety of wrong or unethical things like placing copied or poor quality content on their websites, building poor quality back links for their websites, placing so many advertisements on their websites to divert the attention of the visitor towards something else, etc.

Is SEO becoming more difficult?

Though Google provide details of the updates, but many webmasters failed to identify the reasons why their ranking goes down. Have seen many small web marketing companies to shut down their business during last one year, just because their own site suffered from these updates and they were not that much efficient to recover from it.

They suffered losses because of these two updates and failed to survive. Can you believe it a firm of so call SEO professionals and failed to sustain their own websites due to Google Algorithm Updates?

But it is the reality.

The second thing which generated panic in the webmaster community is the pace of the updates through which Google threatened them. One update came, and when the webmasters realized its impact, it becomes too late, another update came in between and another set of things implemented on their website.

Though if you ask me, I would rather suggest you all not to worry anything about those updates if your website did not performed any unethical stuff, like copy and pasting the articles of some other websites, building unnatural links for your websites, etc.

Who suffered mostly?

I guess the small website owners who were involved with duplicate content and developing creepy websites suffered badly due to these updates. Websites with unique and original content survived these updates, and I am sure they will definitely survive any algorithm update, as these updates are meant for giving more value to them only.

What I really admired about these recent Google updates is that now Google is giving more value towards the websites which are providing the interesting, unique and informative stuffs to its visitors. Also the site developed in a very natural way without doing any unnecessary or unethical things are getting more value now.

Frankly SEO term is slowly-slowly becoming obsolete now. Following webmaster guidelines is something which is overcoming the term SEO. Obviously the main purpose of Google performing these strict updates was to provide the best value to the user who is doing search on Google. So Google will always prefer to provide the best results to them.

So ultimately Google don’t want to give value to the websites which are trying their best to manipulate the search results, thus doing SEO is becoming a bit more difficult after Panda and Penguin updates. But, it’s not true as well. You can still manipulate the search results.

The only thing which is required from the website owners is that you should provide the best possible stuffs to the users. Never go for some creepy search engine optimizer who will claim that they will bring your website to the number one place in Google, though your website is not at all related with those keywords for which they are claiming for. Always judge the knowledge of the SEO before handling your website to him/her.

Challenges

The biggest hurdle in the world of SEO is the money. People think when they can get services for a cheaper value, they why to waste money on the experienced people?

It’s a big mistake in my opinion. When you are dealing with a website, always consider that website as a business. You should always prefer to handover your business to the knowledgeable guys who can take care of it in the best possible manner. You should not ever try to handover your business in the hands of a person who don’t even know the A B C D of your business.

Conclusion

Thus as I said that SEO becomes a bit more difficult during post Panda and Penguin updates, but it’s not at all become impossible as well. Try to focus on building your website in a more intelligent way, avoiding all the unethical stuffs, and never focus on building links for your website, focus yourself towards following the Google webmaster guidelines and I am sure SEO will never become difficult for you.

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How SEO Can Save A Business During A Recession!

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Alok Vats

Please note that this is a guest post written by Maria, who provided a few guest blogs in some of my other blogs.

Search engine optimization is a powerful technique which may save your business during recession. Effective usage of SEO increases your business sales by attracting more customers. Research says that business owners are investing their money to hire SEO professionals. These people can help to improve the functionality of your website making it more responsive and communicative.

How SEO benefits your business

  • SEO is a gifted tool for entrepreneurs. It is the cost-effective way to promote your business products
  • It is the effective method to attract clients and visitors to a business
  • You can earn huge profits by investing little
  • Your business will surely increase its sales rate and can compete with the target market
  • It is an effective advertising medium when compared to TV, newspapers
  • Today’s customers are attracted to online shopping which saves their time and money. They surf the web to find the desired information. Search engine optimization increases visibility of your website

How SEO saves your business in recessions

  • Marketing: It is a tough job to maintain marketing budget during recession. Use cost effective SEO tool which pulls more visitors to customers. Now, it’s your job to turn visitors into customers. You can maintain a healthy advertising strategy even in business down times by giving a tough competition to your competitors. SEO is the cheapest tool when compared with other online and offline marketing tools.
  • SEO tactics: Through online marketing you can target potential customers. To achieve high return on investment, you need to find a potential customer which is possible with the help of search engine optimization For example optimize your site with new keywords. SEO matters a lot while selecting keywords. It is common to face ups and downs in business. According to the changing business trend select the right keyword to target right customer.
  • ROI: Research says that SEO is the powerful marketing solution to gain a good return on investment even in business down times. Invest less, promote more is the key factor which helps entrepreneurs to meet their requirements.
  • Customer’s attention: Change your marketing strategy to attract more customers to the business. For example offer special packages and discounts to existing customers. But make sure that these discounts fetch business. Optimize your website based on customers wants.
  • Tracking methods: Using web tracking tools, you can clearly understand your website progress. For instance you can identify the time spent by a particular user on the website, can analyse what the customers are looking for, which page attracted more users etc. Using these factors you can optimize a website.

SEO approach: You can approach SEO during a recession to market your products:

  • Research: Gather as much information as possible regarding SEO techniques. It includes periodical updations of website content, links which enhances search engine ranking.
  • Outsourcing: Managing the business budget is a hard task during business down times. You can expect successful outcomes only if you follow the right methods. SEO professionals will find the right strategy to improve your business standards.

To sustain business down times, you need to have enough money. While taking business loans have payment protection insurance linked with it. You can refund the total amount using PPI claims which can be utilized in business down times to maintain your financial stability.

Author bio:

I am Maria from UK. I am a tech writer and deals with PPI claims. I am into business and finance.

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Effective Ways of Blogging!

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Alok Vats

Blogging, blogs, bloggers, etc. are at the forefront for quite a while. In fact these days blogging has become one of the most essential tools behind the success of any online business.

Many people ask me about how to do blogging, while a few out of them even ask me about what is blogging and can we be able to do it as well?

In my opinion blogging is not a big thing, anyone can either create a blog on WordPress or Bloggers platform, or anyone can purchase a domain name and install some blogging software to create a blog.

Though everyone can become a blogger, but the challenge lies in doing an effecting blogging. It’s a real challenge for anyone to own a blog which is useful and provide quality to its readers.

Though I never claim that my blogs are really successful, but it is you who can decide about it and I will always welcome your comment about my blog.

Effective Ways of Blogging!

Self Hosted Blog

Going back to the topic about how to do blogging in an effective way, I would suggest everyone that never tries to create free blogs, like people do create blogs with WordPress or Bloggers, rather always go ahead with self hosted blog.

Always purchase a unique domain name for your blog, and also opt for good web hosting services (as you all know that my favorite one is of Hostgator) and then host WordPress blog on it. Thus it will be an unique blog and people will certainly look for it.

If you don’t know how to create a self hosted blog or you want to do blogging but don’t know how to begin, you can anytime contact me (contact@techacid.com) for providing the professional help.

Be a Master

Always remember to choose a niche in which you are a master and you can provide some unique information to others. As far as the development of an effective blog is concerned, it can be possible only when you can provide unique and informative content to your readers.

It can only be possible if you are the master of a niche, and doing blogs on the same niche. Though I am not a big name as far as blogging is concerned, but I really liked one mail which came to me on my birthday this year, the sender wishes the birthday to me and pronounced me as Blog Guru.

So, as I always state that effective blogs are something which can deliver unique and informative information to its readers. So always try to come up with something new and informative.

Interesting and Creative Posts

To do blogging in an effective manner we always need to provide informative as well as interesting and creative posts to its readers.

Always try to put some images, graphs, etc. in your post, so that the readers of your blog can get attracted towards it. Though I am not a good designer, still I try to post some pictures, or graphics with my each blogs.

As we all know that “Variety is the spice of life.” If you cannot create images for your blogs always try to provide varieties to your readers with the help of your write-up only. Believe me it is not that much difficult as well.

Reader Involvement

One of the most important aspects of effective blogging is the involvement of the readers with your blog. The more they will interact with your blog, the more it will be considered as successful.

These days’ people are promoting their blog on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. just to build community and involve the readers with the same.

My preferable way to interact with readers is to ask them for their comments. As with this blog as well, I would prefer to hear your opinion about the same. You all can share your views with me in the form of comment on the post and I will definitely respond to the same.

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5 Most Important Blogging Tips Required for the Popularity of Your Blog!

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Alok Vats

Blogging is as simple as writing a diary. Is not that true?

Yes. Up to an extent, it’s true that it is quite simple, but just tell me one thing, why will someone prefer to read your diary?

Are you an industry giant so that every other person would love to hear you? Just like one of my friend who is an industry expert in SQL and everyone wants to hear something new from him.

Certainly we are not that much industry giant that everybody will start following our blog from the day it got launched.

So the point is that you are either trying to set up a new blog, or would be planning to do so, or running a blog, you must know a few things which can help you to popularize your blog. Here are a few tips which can help you to make popular the blog which you write:

Blog Something Which You Knows Better!

This is something which can make your blog a better place for your target audience. Always prefer to start a blog on niche in which you are having a good knowledge. Don’t copy others.

Blog Something Which You Knows Better!

The idea behind any successful blog is that it provides unique and informative blogs to its readers. So if you too want to get success as a blogger, then you must need to provide unique and informative ideas to the readers of your blog.

So before starting or creating a blog, you must choose the niche carefully. Always prefer the niche in which you have some sound knowledge.

Then only you can succeed.

You Must Create a Brand of Yourself!

For becoming successful blogger you must need to build a brand of yourself only. I am sure many of you are already aware about it.

It is quite simple as building an identity of your own. You should define yourself who you really are.

You Must Create a Brand of Yourself!

You will have to tell your readers your USP; I mean to say that you will have to tell them about the things which differentiate you from others.

With each blog the reader of the blog must understand what you want to offer them.

The question which you might ask me is how can I become a brand? The answer is quite simple, with your blog content only you can develop your own branding. To know more about how to develop online branding and authority, you can also check this blog of mine as well.

Connect with Right Audience!

Target your own niche audience only. This is the age of networking and you can build your own brand with the help of different social networking websites like Facebook, Twitter, etc. also.

Connect with Right Audience!

The most important thing while connecting with people is that you must connect with correct audience. You need not to connect with any other person.

When correct people are connecting with your blog, they must read the blog which you have written and they will also like or post relevant comment about the same in Facebook, or retweet your tweet as well.

You Must Know to Treat Spam’s!

If you really want to focus on building a great website, then you must need to know about how to tackle with the spams.

You Must Know to Treat Spam’s!

On a particular day my blog use to get 1000s of spam comments, but I really don’t give a damn to them. I use to delete the spam’s comments after a certain time only. I usually installed Antispam Bee plugin on my site, but frankly am not that much happy with this plugin. I also used a few most popular anti-spam plugnis, but I really did not like them.

My suggestion to you all who want to become a successful blogger is that don’t spend much time on treating spams. It is always better to delete them immediately after seeing the name of the comment poster only. You can easily decide after looking towards a comment that weather it is a spam or not.

These days we are also facing one different types of spam, and it is about sending you bullshit types of content for guest posts. I usually prefer to ignore them.

Continuous Work!

To popularize a blog you must need to work 24X7X365 on it. Well, though in my opinion this is the best and the most important tips towards the popularity of your blog, but I myself use to ignore the same. The prime reason behind this is my full time job as an internet marketing manager; I did not get much time to spend on my own blogs.

Continuous Work!

Another thing, when we say work more on your blog, it simply means you should work smartly on your blog.

That’s the all for the moment for this blog, I hope you all must have gone through my last blog on Disavow Links tool, and I am sure you must have like it. I am hereby requesting you all to share your opinion about the blogs so that other readers of my blog will also be able to hear some different angel view about the same. They can also get benefit from your own experience about the same.

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Google Launches Disavow Links Tool!

Posted on October 17, 2012 by Alok Vats

It was February 23, 2011 when Google first launched the famous Panda update, which was a major update, and affected around 12% search results that time. Panda update was something which was related with types of bad content, duplicate content, content farms, etc. Basically the update was an effort by Google to provide the quality results to its users.

Since then, Google rolled out different versions of Panda, Penguin, and many smaller updates like Freshness Update, EMD (Exact Matched Domain) update, etc. All these updates give the goose bump in the stomach of many so called search engine optimizers and professionals.

Honestly, those who were involved with any kind of unethical stuff, while promoting their websites, are sure to get these goose bumps. But the guys like me who always tried to do all the ethical stuff, and develop the website as per the need of their visitors, will never face any problem with these updates. You might consider that I am doing a bit of self praising, it’s true up to an extent too, but frankly, it’s a fact.

Anyways, let’s leave behind this discussion. Let’s get back to our current discussion which is that, Google launches one of the most anticipated link tool, known as Disavow Link Tool. Matt Cutts, who is the head of the Web Spam team of Google, revealed this.

Frankly speaking, at around the end of the June 2012, Bing launched their Disavow link tool, which already created pressure on Google to release it as soon as possible.

What is Disavowing Links?

Well, frankly speaking it is a process in which you can request the search engines to not count or consider the particular back link of your own website. Consider the nofollow attribute, disavow is also similar as far as the concept is concerned. Through rel=”nofollow” tag we requests search engines not to crawl a particular link which we were placing on our own website, while with disavow tool we would request search engines not to consider a particular link which someone else placed on his/her website.

How it Works?

As per Matt, Google is becoming better at accessing the back links of a website, and as we all know the importance which back links plays in ranking of the website, some people will think to remove the low quality back links, or some kind of paid links, which Google can consider bad, or any link from unrelated neighborhoods. Frankly, it’s useful as far as if your site is in anyway involved with link trading, which Google does not at all like.

So the process of disavowing links is quite simple, you can create a text file, which can include comments in the form of the lines starting with a pond sign i.e. #, or one links at one line like example1.com/page1.html, or directly you can exclude all the links from a particular domain which will have the syntax like domain:sitename.com

An example of the sample text file can be like this:

# here is a comment which can explain about the dates when we contacted the site owners

http://www.example1.com/page1.html

domain:example2.com

Thus the above example can explain you clearly about how to create a sample text file which can be submitted to Google for considering disavowing the links.

How much Time will it take to Disavow?

Well, as per Matt Cutts it can take around a few weeks to disavow links. He also warned to use this tool very carefully as you can think about considering the links again, but for Google it will be hard to consider the same link once it is disavowed earlier.

One more thing, as per Matt, it is a simple request, and depends on Google whether they want to consider it or not. Though as per him, it is a request with highest priority.

Though he also suggested to first directly contacting the respective site owners to remove the links rather than directly asking Google to disavow the link.

Who Should Use it?

Well million dollar question is that who should use the disavow link tool? Well, basically this tool is good for those webmasters whose website got affected with Google Penguin update, or those who participated in any kind of link trading or link spamming.

As per Matt, most people actually do not need to use this tool. More precisely, if you are really not doing any excessive or aggressive SEO, and you are truly following the normal sort of things as per the Google webmaster guidelines, then you are not suppose to use this link tool.

You can also watch the video in which Matt Cutts explained all these things:

That is the all about the Disavowing the links for the moment, while I was excited to let you all know about a particular thing. A few days back, Allison Boyer who is a writer for BWE’s blog and the owner of Blog Zombies, liked my recent blog on Google Adwords Tips for Beginners, and put it into her series of Brilliant Bloggers. It was truly a great moment for me, if you want you can also check the post on 28 Brilliant Bloggers Talk About Adwords.

Do not forget to share your own opinion about the Google Disavow link tool, as well as my achievement of featuring in the brilliant bloggers list. I will be waiting for your comments.

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