How To Identify A Reliable Web Host For Your Blogging Business

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Whenever you think about starting an online business, the first thing that comes to your mind is the name of the site and its e-location or web address.

Well, you should research your market to find out a good domain name (by managing to include the primary keyword in your domain name). Once you've decided on the name of your website and the domain name, the next biggest question is: Where to host your website?

Web hosting is a serious booming business, thanks to the thousands of new websites being started every day. I'm even thinking of starting a web hosting business lol (just kidding).

Anyways, there are always two groups of people -

  • those that prefer free web hosting for various reasons, and
  • those that say 'NO' (I mean, a big … [Read more...]

1634 Words on Pinterest For Internet Marketers

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Pinterest is the new social media fever. When I heard about it, my first reaction was "overwhelming". I asked to myself, "What? Yet another social media?".

Well I hate to spend time on social media. I simply don't have the time for it. I'm sure many of you bloggers are on the same boat with me.

Although I love to spend reasonable amounts of time on social media by sharing stuff and interacting with people, I cannot get the most out of social media interactions.

Well, don't get me wrong; by "making most", I don't mean making the most sales for my business. I simply can't even effectively build relationships with people.

It seems to be a lot easier with email marketing and interacting with people on my blog, than trying to do the same on social media. … [Read more...]

Blogging In Saturated Niches: 12 Tips To Survive

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When exactly is a blog saturated enough not to allow scope for a fresh take? Is there such a thing? It’s a good thing to ponder, especially when the concept of saturation does not have any physical bounds when it comes to a blog.

There’s a growing market especially for popular niches - and the more the readership, the greater the number of customers as well. Here’s how you survive and thrive despite the 'saturation'.

1. Become A Niche Subject Expert

If you want to stand out in your niche, you must know your niche topics better than others. Know it well enough to teach others, more like. Readers check out other blogs in the same niche before sticking with one or two, and that’s because the blogger knows what they’re talking about.

2. Make Your Business Supremely Pervasive Make sure your reader or buyer is … [Read more...]

Blog Engage: Why I Cancelled My Premium RSS Syndication Subscription

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... And why I won't be endorsing the Blog Engage RSS Syndication service hereafter. In fact I will remove or update my review about Blog Engage, just to make sure that I don't endorse a service in which I'm not happy with.

Here's the story

I am a member of Blog Engage since a very long time.

I started using the premium RSS syndication service since a long time back and I was initially very happy with the results. Blog Engage was my third largest traffic source.

Then by the time of Christmas holidays, 2011, I had an issue with my Credit card budget and so I stopped most of my subscription services. This is when I cancelled Blog Engage subscription as well.

Brian asked me why and I said him that I have some financial issues and I'll subscribe again when they're sorted out.

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Timthumb Vulnerability: Your Site Security Could Be Compromised

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Nobody likes one of those days - when you wake up to see that your website's security is compromised. Hacked or close to it.

Well, I just had one of those days (and on a weekend!).

Thanks to the participants of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest. They were the ones who reported to me first that they could not direct their friends to their contest post and they can't access their contest posts as well.

At first I took a couple of those emails lightly and told them that it could be a temporary issue and asked them to try again later. I was able to load my blog(s) both in the front end and the back end without any problems. So I didn't take it seriously.

Then the number of emails I got from other people … [Read more...]

7 Twitter Imperative Steps For Bloggers To Become Successful

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Twitter is known and recognized as one of the best social networking sites throughout the world. It is a good medium for any serious blogger to get loads of quality traffic to his blog, if that person knows how to go well about it.

But, it is unfortunate that twitter doesn't allow users to post more than 140 words per update, and that has gave bloggers the challenge of trying to make their messages as short as possible. Though, that teaches most of bloggers the ability to make their tweet as short and informative.

But, do you know that even, as short as your tweet is, it can make or break your online business? Yes, you can ruin your blog’s reputation with your tweets. And that is … [Read more...]

List Building: The Pros And Cons Of Using Freebies As Bait

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I must admit that I learned about list building really the hard way than anything else with blogging. Building email lists is a tricky process.

Believe me, although there are lots of "email marketing rules" they don't work always! They just don't.

That's why not everyone succeeds with email marketing. I'm not being pessimistic here - but lets face the truth.

The problem is there is no "one-size-fits-all" solution to email marketing and list building. Every blog is different in terms of niche, voice, authority and audience/readership.

So it becomes really different with every blog when it comes to a list … [Read more...]

Money Making Blog: 4 Bullet Proof Tips To Convert Your Blog Into One

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This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

When the word "Blogging" comes to our mind, for most of us, a picture starts revolving - we all imagine lots of blogger fans and no doubt lots of money also. Why most of the people are into blogging? The simple answer to this question is "to making money from home".

If you started your blogging career keeping one thing in mind that "I will make money from Google Adsense" then you are wrong.

Do you really think its a safe way to monetize your blog?

I am asking this question to you because I am seeing people daily on different Facebook groups who complain about their Google Adsense account disabled. And most of the newbie bloggers quit at this stage when they lose good … [Read more...]

Easy WP SEO Review: Your Ultimate WordPress SEO Plugin

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Easy WP SEO is one of the most effective plugins I've tried recently. Wow, how dare I say it?

As you may or may not know, I do invest in internet marketing tools to try and see what works and what doesn't.

This way I can offer my un-biased views of the tool I tried. I'm sure most internet marketers at their newbie level have thin pockets. So if they go for a software or a tool believing that it will boost any particular aspect of their business and if it doesn't I can exactly relate to their feelings.

I've traveled that road.

Let me come to the point.

SEO is a magical concept that ties up every … [Read more...]

EDU Backlinks For Free: The Power To Dominate Google

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If you are able to learn where and how you can get EDU backlinks for your websites then you have taken a massive step in the right direction. Two of the main reasons are:

  1. EDU backlinks are much harder to get than other links and are seen as a lot more trustworthy, and
  2. a backlink from a site which is EDU will always trump a non EDU site.
Learning how to find and utilize EDU sites for backlinks will help you dominate the search engines for you chosen keywords much more easily. Google, Bing and the other search engines love EDU backlinks. How To find EDU Backlinks Using Google Tools

If you want EDU backlinks for your sites you first of all need to be able to find EDU sites. Google has everything you need and will help you in your search for these juicy backlinks. What you need to do is use search queries with Google’s Search bar. What am I … [Read more...]