9 Tips For Setting Up A New Blog

Starting a new blog with the right steps makes a concrete foundation to build a high rise blog. "Well begun is half done" says an old adage. Just give me 10 minutes and I will give you the mantras to start a rock solid blog.

Choose an SEO friendly URL

When creating a blog it is preferable to go for a URL containing words that revolve around the central idea of your blog. Separating the words with a hyphen will help it get indexed better by Google e.g. www.blog-tips-to-earn-money.com is better than www.blogtipstoearnmoney.com. This may not always be possible but try to as far as possible.

Optimize The Title
Blogger titles are not optimised for search engines. Visit this page on eblogtemplates to know how to do it.

Write 20 Posts Before You Publish Your First Post

You may be having sufficient matter of the subject you are going to write about. Make 20 posts in advance, with smart headlines and each about 3-4 paragraphs at least. Addition of illustrations in the form of pics and graphs will be an added advantage. This is not applicable to those who write their everyday events on the same day just as a diary.

Write 20 Headlines For Prospective Posts

Write down 20 prospective headlines for your posts beforehand. It is not necessary to follow the order or even elaborate on all the headlines but it will definitely make a path for you to tread in future. A very effective way to do this is to write it in Google calendar and set reminders for it according to your planned posting frequency.

Choose 20 Tags

With the help of various search engines decide on 20 tags that closely describe your site. These will be used as labels as well as in Technorati when claiming your blog( See claiming later). They will also be of much use when registering on various bookmarking and sharing sites. for e.g Stumble upon and Delicious.

Write 2 Summaries Of Your Blog

Write down two summaries of your blog, one in 250 characters and the other in 160 characters. Most popular blog search sites will provide you with 250 or 160 characters to describe your blog. This will ensure uniformity at all the places you register.

Add Google Analytics Code

Analytics is much more than just counting hits or visitors of your blog. It gives you many other facilities such as entrance keywords, geographical distribution of your readers etc.

Burn Your Feeds

Let people read your site through RSS or Atom feed readers. Feed burner is an appropriate and satisfactory site to burn your feeds.

Claim Your Blog On Technorati

By far the most important blog search and ranking engine is Technorati. Registering at technorati is indispensable. It shows your blog authority depends on how many other sites or blogs have linked to your blog.

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How To Add Google Reader Shared Item On Blogs

Login to Google Reader Account. Find the Shared Items link and click it. See the yellow rectangle in the image below.


On the right hand side of the Shared Link pane, you will find Add a clip link.



Here you can choose the style color and number of entries to be shown. To add it to blogger the button provided will do the rest.
If you want to add it to any website then copy the code given below and use it.


Any questions ?

The Secrets Of Blog Footer Utilization

The footer of your blog can be a stepping stone for success if utilized efficiently.
Though the footer lies at the bottom, by no means it is a thing to be looked down  upon. It can propel your blog right up in the sky, like a rocket engine, which resides at the bottom and delivers all the force. 

A blog structurally consists of four parts.

1. The header
2. The body
   
3. The sidebar
4. The footer

Why Footers ?
According to a survey, even if a user skips reading a blogpost and scrolls to the bottom of a page he looks for something to be done. Keeping this report in mind the post footer ads were suggested and they worked well. So keeping some interesting and informative columns in the footer is bound to help you in one or the other way.

Footers As Sidebar Saviour
It also serves to reduce the the burden from the overly cluttered sidebar. As the footer lies horizontally, it accomodates much more efficiently.  A subtantial portion of sidebar real estate  can be saved.

Prominent Examples
Many successful bloggers have utilized this space for various purpose.

• Problogger has a mighty double storey blog footer. The upper is dedicated to categories and is divided into 5 columns. The lower row is divided into 3 columns and contains recommended Money Makers, Problogger Resources adn The About (Page) Column.
• John Chow Dot Com is yet another double storey footer blog. Upper row dedicated to categories and the lower is divided into three columns for Recent Comments, Friends Of The Community and Blogroll.
• Digital Inspiration uses a 4 column single row footer which includes About Digital Inspiration, RSS Feeds, Contact Us / Send a Tip and Get news on the go.
  

Get some excellent footer examples at 50 Excellent Blog Footer Designs from Hongkiat.

Stumble Upon Launches Su.pr: Shorten URL and Share In A Single Click

Su.pr is a URL shortener with the capacity to post your links and updates directly on Facebook and Twitter. It provide both syndication and discovery in one tool. Su.pr also provides some useful tools like tools to identify the best times to post, schedule future posts and see real-time results on clicks, tweets and traffic associated with your posts.


It is now in Beta and can be accessed from here.

To get the INVITATION CODE follow @Su.pr on Twitter.

Are You An Adsense Master Or An Adsense Slave

I was in my balcony watching the world of ads outside when this picture struck me. It forced me to think that are we slaves to the ad agencies that are based on cost per click model.

Placing Ads Like A Business Man
If you see care fully on the left hand side is an ad displayed by the 3G mobile company with a bunch of employees. These employees are located at the same place where a business man has parked his ads display vehicle and is coincidentally displaying the ads for the same company.
The basic difference between these two groups is that despite the same location the employees will earning by the number of sales of new 3G connection which of course will be not more than a few percent incentive of their measly salaries.
At the same location the business man is charging here in Jaipur somewhere between 7 to 12 lakhs INR for one month of ads display. Needless to say the employees will not get even a 1/1000 of this all five of them combined.

No Records More Money, All Records Negligible Money
The business man who has bought this spot will never have to produce any document that these many people have got your connection because the ad was displayed at this particular place. In fact this can never be tracked because you never find a customer who tell he is buying a certain product by looking at such and such hoarding located at bus stop no 3 lane no two on the right hand of the gulmohar tree, besides the large blue yellow lafanso ad or whatever.
On the other hand the employees will produce a full details complete with address and all to prove that they have got these many customers to the company yet the amount earned will be far less .

Which Model Are We Serving Through
If you own a website or a blog then you may have noticed that the ads are displayed on your site but you are paid like the EMPLOYEES in the above example. By the time you get a single click you have already shown this ad to a few hundred people but where is its benefit. In fact you should be earning like the businessman because you OWN a site a spot where there are thousands of visitors and why should you produce a click to earn when you can be a businessman. If you are the employee mentality then I think you are loosing a lot despite the inherent potential of your blog or site. What do you say, Agree or Disagree!!!

Google to Help Guard your Copyright

The Problem
It has been noted by many of us that an original content is sometimes copied and posted by someone else. Google now comes to your rescue.

The Initative
Google has come up with Help Centre for copyright infringement.
Also refer to Learn more about our DMCA process Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Google AdSense.

Ref Google Adsense.

How to make a bookmarking or sharing button to bookmark and share your sites across multiple sites like digg facebook stuble upon technorati etc

Adding a bookmark or share button to your website or blog makes it user friendly for the purpose of sharing and bookmarking. It is well known that anything that increases the ease of user interface adds greatly to the value of that site. As there are a number of sites for bookmarking and sharing this simple button would prove to be indispensable for you. This one small button is a Swiss Knife for this purpose. To have a taste of it just scroll to the footer of this post and get hands on experience. Vist Add This .com for making a book marking and sharing button.

After reaching here you need to register. An extremely simple and faaaaaaaaaaaaast registration process. After login you are provided with options of Two buttons. One is The Blog Button and the other is Blog Post Button.

The blog Post button can be placed in your blogs side bar with much ease. Just click on the button shown above " Add the menu to my blog" . You will be presented with an option whether you have a site or a blog. If a blog then you have to choose the platform you are blogging on.
Now a few more clicks will automatically get this button in your blogs sidebar.
If you want this bookmarking and sharing button to appear in every post then proceed as follows.

This is how your button will appear. Give it a try!

Blog Post Button

To include the button beneath each post,

1. Select Template > Edit HTML
2. Check the Expand Widget Templates checkbox
3. Copy and paste the code snippet below into the template, right after the
4. Click Save Template

If you can't find the tag, copy the template code into a text editor (e.g. Notepad), and search for post-footer. We suggest you save a copy of the original template before changing it.

If you get impressed by number then here are 43 sites which can be accessed by clicking more on this bookmarking button. Yeh dil mange more......

How to blog via mobile on Google Blogger at blogspot.com

Video Tutorial On Blogging via mobile phones on Google Blogger at Blogspot.com

How to Blog Via mobile on Blogger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmE1PbeOYVE