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Market Samurai: Temporary Interruption In Services

January 31, 2012 by Jane Sheeba 41 Comments

If you're a Market Samurai addict like me, you would have already known about this. If not, here it is.

UPDATE: The issue is fixed as of now. Here's the official blog post - http://www.noblesamurai.com/blog/technical-updates/were-back-2888/

If you want to know what happened, continue reading.....

A majority of Market Samurai functionalities are affected in the past few days. Market Samurai people are trying their level best to restore the normalcy of services. Let us find the reasons for this issue and what Market Samurai is doing to sort out the issue at the earliest.

But before that, for those who are totally unaware of Market Samurai, let me give a quick run through of its … [Read more...]

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How Develop A Good And A Professional Blog

January 28, 2012 by Guest Author 48 Comments

This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

"How to make a Good and Professional Blog" - This is a very common question asked by many bloggers. Every blogger wants to be the owner of a good blog but they ignore some simple things which are very important for a blog . We all know, content is the soul of any good blog and many of us write quality content but still they do not succeed because they ignore some simple but important factors of a blog; content isn't everything. Here I am providing some factors which affect the quality of your blog. Theme of your blog

Looks are very important for any blog. I see, many bloggers choose a common theme because it is freely available. If you want to make your blog good, then choose a unique … [Read more...]

Search Engine Traffic: You Need It To Build A Profitable Blog

January 27, 2012 by Guest Author 103 Comments

This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

The best thing about having a blog is that when it successfully attracts search engine traffic or bags a pretty good amount of money so that you feel on the top of the world.

But the art of becoming a successful blogger is not the hardest thing in the world although it is not too easy either. Organic traffic is very important and reliable for every blogger to have a steady and promising traffic than through referrals or other sources.

Here are few points which will help you write a good keyword optimized post. A keyword enriched (not stuffed) post will surely be helpful to improve your search engine ranking in Google's search results page.

Selection of keywords Before blogging you should … [Read more...]

A Cool Little Secret To Get Quicker Blogging Success

January 23, 2012 by Jane Sheeba 32 Comments

"Blogging is not a 'get rich quick' scheme" - How many times you've heard this lately? I support it 200%.

But wait, you can surely speed up the process of achieving blogging success.

The usual theory is something like this:

You start a blog, write awesome content everyday (no matter if anyone reads it or not), you promote your posts, you wait for months to get recognition from Google and people and THEN you start reaping little benefits.

The time from when a blog is started to when it starts to see "some" (really some) results is called "honeymoon period". This period is different for different blogs and is usually dependent on so many factors including the niche, the level of commitment of the blogger and many other things.

Now over 70% of the bloggers quit blogging before even the … [Read more...]

Blogging Success: Failure Is Success

January 20, 2012 by Guest Author 227 Comments

This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

“One's best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” –Henry Ward Beecher

What happened to all the bloggers?

Just recently I decided to categorize my RSS feeds I had in my reader. As I did this I rediscovered blogs I had forgotten but I also found that many blogs I had grown to love had stopped posting.

What occurred to make these bloggers feel they needed to cease writing? The first blog had no excuse, just the most recent post in November 2011 showing no signs of the author wanting or needing to stop. I headed to another, I saw the same result. Then another and another. I found many blogs with the latest post talking about the writer’s favorite subject, then nothing … [Read more...]

Get More Subscribers To Your Blog: Simple Tips

January 18, 2012 by Guest Author 111 Comments

This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

No one can deny the fact that blogging comes with many obstacles, and most challenging of them is getting blog traffic. Each blogger would like to attract heavy traffic to his/her blog.

However, the fact is that traffic won't come as you are resting on a bed, you need to work hard to get it. But if you are able to get more subscribers, then it's not a tough job for you.

Subscribers are loyal readers of your blog.

Here are some simple tips, you can [Read more...]

How To Combat Spam User Registration In WordPress

January 16, 2012 by Jane Sheeba 42 Comments

Spam is a word that anyone using the internet is so much aware of. Spam can take any form, can attack you at any time and with any frequency.

With my blogging and online business experience since 2007, I must say spam is taking newer and interesting forms everyday. In this post, I will talk about a form of spam that has particularly annoyed me for about 3-4 months now.

And I got so annoyed and took action just now. After 3-4 months? Yes that's a much slower reaction, but I wanted to learn the pattern and some of the inside aspects of this particular spam problem.

Well there's no suspense - the spam I'm talking about is user registration spam pertaining to Wordpress blogs or websites.

It all started to me when I opened up guest posting and when this blog got a decent PR from the … [Read more...]

Business Blogging: 5 Risks Which Needs Mitigation on Your Blog

January 13, 2012 by Guest Author 56 Comments

This post is part of the Blogging Tips 101 Contest.

Business blogging - Are you the one who does a risk analysis often on your blog? Or are you one of those who considers that there is not much risk in business blogging?

What is a "risk"? According to BusinessDictionary

A probability or threat of a damage, injury, liability, loss, or other negative occurrence that is caused by external or internal vulnerabilities, and that may be neutralized through preemptive action.

There can be many classifications for the risk but here are the 5 types, which we need to look and try to mitigate for our business blogging.

Business blogging always includes financial risk

Each blog requires some finance to run, it … [Read more...]