6 Questions to Ask Before you Start Blogging

Do you want to be considered as a serious player in the blogging market? Are you a novice blogger to understand the technical glitches? Do not worry and blogging is not a difficult thing. It has become the mainstream form to express the individual and communal thoughts. It is proven to be one of the best ways to conduct your business online. Several companies and brands are trying to establish their online presence and get noticed. There are more numbers of people interested in finding out informative blogs and regularly visit them to gain knowledge. Do you know that there are about 150 million domains active in the internet domain?


Questions to be asked:

 The first and foremost thing is to clarify your purpose of blogging. Why should I blog? What is the purpose of blogging? These questions should be answered before you set up your blog. It is important to set up realistic goals before you start any task. Many people fail to plan which will ultimately lead to failure at the day end. Setting up realistic goals and identifying the purpose will help you to gauge the results and performance.






 Who am I targeting? So, who is going to listen to your blog posts? Have you identified your target audience? You can gauge the results only by identifying the right set of audience and getting in touch with them to listen to their feedbacks. These people will be receptive to your posts.





 What am I going to tell them? So, what is the information that you wanted to spread? What is the intention behind your blogging spirit? Do you have anything useful which would benefit your readers? These questions will help you to identify your purpose of blogging and bring in more number of online audience.






 What is the platform? Have you decided about the platform to be used? There are so many open source blogging tools available. Have you picked up the right kind of tools to be used and integrated with your platform? It is important to be able to sustain in this blogging industry. Unless you choose the best platform, it is highly impossible to continue posting.






 How many posts should I make? Most of the bloggers will publish their first post without finalizing the theme and context of blog. They randomly choose topics and fill up the information. It is considered as a blunder in the internet domain and people will often be confused with your posts. It is important to have a plan or a good strategy that will help you to accomplish the goals.


 How am I going to promote? Do you want your blog to be a popular online portal? Do you want a good number of visitors’ every day? It is important to work on things which will make your blog notified in the internet domain. It requires a lot of patience and commitment from the blog owners. Understanding various metrics to promote your blog is an important aspect here.








Make sure to understand the above described points which will help you to accomplish your goals in blogging market.

Author Bio
This is a guest post by Rajkumar Jonnala who is an expert author in churning out articles based on server rack, network cabinets etc. He also gives valuable suggestions on reliable brands, cost and quality factors on rack cabinets.

30 Custom 404 Pages for Blogger

With Blogger introducing the option for Custom 404 Page for blogs recently, its been a much welcomed feature. A separate page type has also been created to give more control over these 404 pages. This feature is only available for New Blogger Interface nearly marking the end of the Old Interface (Its being officially shelved on 1st April ). Firstly we will be discussing how to use this feature followed by the collection of 30 witty 404 pages designs.


Steps for using these awesome designs on your blog

1. Go to Settings > Search Preferences

2. Under Errors and redirections , Edit the Custom Page Not Found option

3. Now copy the specific code under the images below and then paste it there

Tip: Make sure give your 404 page a witty title as well. Blogger has introduced a new page type specially for the 404 pages known as the Error Page

Go to Template > Edit HTML and paste the following code just after the <head> tag

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;error_page&quot;'>
<title>You've ripped a hole in the fabric of the internet. </title>
</b:if>

Feel free to change the title as per your wish


Collection


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Code:

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body {background:white url('https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfNJZp7G6VMvSCwfwi6l-KASRvgTmk1Z1HsadIGfpAssRGmFTz6ENlF3nnwJhR547tn0cnbg85FJp-Dm2D-saglSKmbGWDMFTMZxQSeMiIcZwuukbCsEJ_WrmVoZDEff93k8FxFBXNLmg/s1600/1.PNG')  50% 0% no-repeat !important;z-index:10000000;}
.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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body {background:white url('http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ODAyD5JasIA/T3SaBjtBZWI/AAAAAAAADc4/Z0OOdsACbT4/s1600/10.PNG')  50% 0% no-repeat !important;z-index:10000000;}
.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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body {background:white url('http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C45nv_Rafm0/T3SamEZ33fI/AAAAAAAADfs/bS-YASblcsE/s1600/4.PNG')  50% 0% no-repeat !important;z-index:10000000;}
.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
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.sidebar, footer, .content, .header, .columns-inner, .footer-top {display:none;}
body {min-width: 0px !important;}
</style>

Do remember to check the 404 page of SYB and share any other 404 design of your liking via the comments below.

Using Facebook to get Traffic

As compared to other social networking sites Facebook is the leading one today, because it is the second popular website in the world. You may want to know what the first one is, of course it is Google as it has many services. So you may think why Facebook, Google is the best and should go using Google Plus. Yes you may use Google Plus but as Google Plus has don’t yet have the number of monthly users compared to Facebook, so for now Facebook is the best social networking site. And as the title says today you will be learning how to get the maximum traffic from Facebook.




1) Make friends to get traffic!


You may be wondering how you can get traffic if you add friends to your Facebook profile. This is a common question. But this effects your blog traffic, and increases. How does traffic increase if you add more friends. Making friends doesn’t make your traffic grow. Making blogger friends grows your blogs traffic. For example if you share a link on your wall or timeline, only people will go to the link if the link is useful to them. Increasing friends by sending friends requests to the people having more mutual friends will not do. Make friends who are interested in your blog, or let them make you their friend by providing a profile badge on your blog. I recommend you to use RSS graffiti app to post all your blog posts directly to your Facebook wall or timeline.


2) Join groups to get traffic!


This is something similar to the first one. Joining groups will make a good and healthy traffic to your blog. But which group to join is the matter. Here I not at all mean that join any group you like and post you links in it, because people have different interests and according to their interests they create and join groups. For example if you join a group like “Friendship Quotes” and post your link with tutorials that are not related to friendship of course you will be removed from that group. So join wisely and post wisely to get wise traffic. If you own a blog on pets then join a group related to pets and post your link or there are some groups for all bloggers like - Bloggerz created by Stylify Your Blog where you can post the links of your posts.






3) Make a Fan Page to get traffic!


Creating a fan page in Facebook is one of the very best ways to get good traffic. This runs on a simple trick the more fans you have the more traffic you get. How to get more fans to your page, well this is a question that was once answered on this blog on a post “GOING VIRAL FOR FREE: YOU LIKE HITS” this is the best way to get fans and getting good amount of fans makes quite good traffic. Now you may ask I have a fan page and fans, but no traffic from Facebook. Yes, having a fan page and more fans won’t get you traffic. As written in the above points you need to post links to get traffic, but this point is more powerful than the above ones. Posting links every time is a very boring work and even I don’t like to do that. So what to do. Best way is to use RSS Graffiti; this is an app on Facebook that posts all your post links to your fan page’s wall or timeline directly.


So you are ready to get the maximum from Facebook. Well everything isn’t easy but is possible. Maintain a good blog, keep posting. Your main aim is Blogging if you go on blogging, traffic will be a fan of yours.

Author Bio

This is a Guest Post by Pradeep Laveti who is a small school guy and a Blogger from India, He loves blogging and owns a blog Blogger Tricks Hut . You can find him on Facebook .

Using Social Media Effectively for SEO

Social media has grown from a niche trend to the face of the web, and the ingredients of a good SEO campaign changed as a result. Accordingly, webmasters and SEO services need to change the tactics they use in order to optimize their websites.

With that said, here are a few tips for incorporating social media platforms into your SEO efforts. By continuing with the tactics you've been doing and effectively involving social media, you'll see a much greater return on your SEO investment.




Actually Use It

 This one might seem obvious, but the fact is that there are still SEO managers out there who have yet to add social media to the mix. This is a mistake for a couple of reasons, mainly because the largest search engines have started to include social media in their results. Google has, Bing has, and others will.

Thanks to this, if you're not using social media in your SEO, you're no longer speaking to the web with the loudest voice that you can. Launch social media pages and develop a buzz; get people to retweet and +1 your websites.



Give Your Audience a Reason to Talk

 Of course, you can't just launch a Facebook page and expect it to manage itself from that point on. Once you've attracted a following - likely through self-promotion on your own website or other avenues - it's time to get people to talk. How, though?

Giveaways or discussion both work great as catalysts for discussion. Giving away a product and asking for a retweet always does well to stir up a buzz. Or if you're managing a Facebook page for a car insurance company, perhaps you could create a post asking users what their worst driving experience has been.

The point is that you need to engage your audience. Retweets, Google +1s and Facebook Likes can all work to increase your social media presence and, therefore, your site's search engine rankings.



Don't Be Modest

 So you've launched some social media pages, ran a few campaigns and developed a strong following. Still, you aren't seeing the results you'd like to. Maybe, you start to think, this social media thing isn't all it's made out to be.

That may be the case in some very niche industries, but what's more likely is that you're being too modest. Giving things to your followers and getting lengthy discussions going is great, but it doesn't do much to help you engage new customers.

The solution is to not be modest! Ask for a Like, +1 or Retweet when you're doing your campaigns. These types of promotion will help your exposure on social media networks. More importantly, though, it will signal to the major search engines that people find your site relevant. This will give you a boost in your SERPs.



Direct Followers and Fans to Your Website

 This goes hand-in-hand with the last point, but it's worth repeating because sometimes company profiles still manage to fail at this. Don't keep your social media followers on Google+ or Twitter. Encourage them to visit your site.

After all, your site is where most of your business will come from. Customers can't buy anything from your Facebook page, they have to go to your site for that. Although they might not normally have a reason to go to your company's site spontaneously, social media gives you a chance to reach them and direct them to your site.

Another advantage of including a link to your site is that it will give your website yet another incoming backlink. Once people start to +1 and Like your social media profiles, the backlinks to your main website will help to further improve its standing in the search engines.

Between all of these tips, the goal remains the same: Get people to recommend your social media pages and get more inbound links to your site. By maintaining a strong social media presence, you'll have a head start on competitors who haven't yet moved into the social territory.

Social media is here to stay, so it's time to further your skills if you haven't already. With these tips and an active approach towards blending social media into your SEO efforts, you'll be able to leverage social media in your favor. Try out new combinations and see what works best for you.

Author Bio
This is a Guest Post by Kelly L. who is a self-proclaimed social media expert. Kelly enjoys hiking, swimming, and jogging in her spare time. Kelly's job keeps her busy as she specializes in helping her insurance clients settle car insurance claims.

Step by Step Plan to Make More Profit from Your Blog

Do you want to make more money from your blog? Most new bloggers take the wrong step. They monetize first before attracting traffic. The right step should be to build your traffic first before you start monetizing your blog. If you want to make more profit from your blog, follow this step-by-step plan.




1. Build your content-base

The first thing to do is to attract more readers to your blog, which means to build your content-base. The most effective content-building for blog is to post regular content. Remember that blog is different from regular website. Blog should be updated regularly, because blog is designed similar to a journal. If you don’t blog regularly, you will have difficulty in keeping your traffic. By updating your blog consistently, you are signaling to the search engines that your blog is active, thus they will index your blog faster. In return, you’ll have more traffic coming to your blog and you’ll be able to make more profit.



2. Start blog commenting


 If you have a blog, you better start finding related blogs and subscribe to their updates. Why? That’s because you will submit your comment to those blogs. When you’re subscribed with those blogs, you will have more chance to submit the first comment to those blogs. This will give you good benefits. By commenting first on those blogs, you will get noticed by the blog readers and you will get more chance to increase your blog traffic with your comment. Also, if you can comment on those blogs regularly, you can build good relationship with the bloggers.



3. Start guest posting


Another way to boost your popularity of your blog is through guest posting. This simple tip will boost your blog traffic and reputation. There are many blogs that accept guest post. If you can offer good content to those blogs, you will be able to feature your blog in other blogs. The link that comes through your guest post will have more weight in the search engines. Thus, you can attract more traffic to your blog, both from the blog readers and from organic traffic. Guest posting will help your blog to earn more money.



4. Bookmarking and building social media presence


 Once you have fair popularity with your blog, you can start to leverage more of your traffic by building social media presence and using various bookmarking services. However, don’t use too many services at once. The most effective method is to use two or three bookmarking websites regularly to post the link of your newest post. Then, build your presence on Facebook and Twitter. Those are the most effective social media platforms for your blog. Install Facebook Like button to your blog to build more popularity for your blog. Then, put “Follow us on Twitter” badge in your blog as well to build your Twitter followers.





5. Build your mailing list


 The last thing to maximize your traffic is to build mailing list for your blog. This is important in two ways. First, mailing list will help you to keep in touch with your regular readers. You can inform your subscribers to read your latest post. Second, mailing list will help you to promote products related to your blog. So, once you have good traffic and good reputation, why not start building mailing list? This is your next step to succeed with your blog.


Those are the step-by-step plan to make more profit from your blog. Remember that building a blog is an ongoing process. You can’t leave your blog once you’ve got some readers to your blog.

Author Bio


This is a Guest Post by Charles who is a contributor to HowToTradeCommodities where you can get some useful tips when it comes to investment.