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Billion Wordpress Spam Comments Date

Posted by Unknown Wednesday 25 September 2013 0 comments

77,430,232,104- That’s the number of spam comments prevented by Akismet to date. Unbelievable but true! Are you wondering how many of these were directed towards your blog? If yes, then it’s time to quit thinking and start acting!

Spam commenting is at an upsurge. At the time of writing, 52,453,722 spam comments had already been detected for the day! It is the easiest way for attackers to compromise with the security of your Wordpress blog. So, what do you do? Akismet will obviously do its job, but as a blogger how will you decipher between ‘ham’ and ‘spam’? Let us help you. Enlisted below are some ways to give spammers the boot.

Know What’s Worth Taking A Gander:

It is best to halt spammers as soon as they strike! Identifying spam comments is easy. Such comments are often filled with misspellings, promotional links and meaningless phrases. Further, keep a track of comments which have nothing to do with the topic in question. For instance, if you have published a post regarding the oldest existing collection of watches and people are commenting about the presidential elections, then it is a red alert!

Put Some Barricades:

Older posts top the hit list of spammers. Observing this trend, it is best to close the comments on such posts. This is a calculative move. While you don’t ban conversations altogether, you promote appropriate and timely discussions. Moreover, a handful of Wordpress tools allow you to block certain terms which are frequently used by spammers.

Limit Link Usage:

As you restrict the amount of links which can be inserted in a particular comment, you considerably cut down on the amount of spam comments coming in. Here’s how to go about it- sign into your Wordpress account, go to the Settings segment and adjust the settings in a way that only one link is allowed per comment. Doing so, WP notifies you every time a user posts a comment which has higher number of links than the permitted limit.

User Registration Should be Paramount:

Ask users to register on your site or blog before commenting. This is a tried and tested way of preventing spam comments. If you are worried that legitimate users may get annoyed while filling up the long registration form, then adding a short note is the best thing to do. Let the note explain your users that you only permit comments from registered users because you are tired of the spam comments appearing again and again on your blog.

Comments Should Be Subject to Approval:

If you don’t get thousands of comments on your blog, then this is the best way to deal with spammers. Approving every comment before it appears in public might sound painstaking, but if you prefer hands on method, there’s nothing better than this one. Moreover, you have the option of adding a tweak to your blog which makes every comment subject to approval from a moderator. Both these tactics are definitely time consuming, but are worthwhile when it comes to robbing a spammer of his gratification!

Keeping Wordpress spammers at bay isn’t a lost battle, especially if you implement the aforementioned techniques gradually and determine which one works the best for you.
source:spiceupyourblog.com

Guide Comments On Blog And WordPress

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It's been a week since Google launched the new Google Plus commenting system for blogger.In this post we will look at how to use Google+ Comments on Wordpress, Bloggger and the custom blogger templates.

With Google Plus trying to compete in the social network scene with Facebook it's no surprise like Facebook they launched their own comment system.The question for us bloggers and publishers will be "Should We Use Google Plus Comments ?".

The thing that first struck me was the fact once implemented only people with Google plus accounts would be able to comment on your blog.With the current blogger treaded comments blogger treaded or indeed Discus and Intense debate readers had a number of options as to how they wanted to comment.I think the real let down with Google+ comments is the lack of an option for people that don't have a G+ account to comment either as anonymous or with name and email.

So the other comment systems defiantly have the advantage of choice but that is just one aspect.Google plus comments do look great, are lightweight and Google+ is a fast growing network.

If you think Google+ comments is for you below we have information on how to add them to Blogger and Wordpress.

Add Google+ Comments To Your Blog

Using G+ Comments On Blogger

Adding Google Plus comments to standard Blogger templates is very straight forward.Simply click the drop down menu for your blog and tick the "Use Google+ Comments on this blog" box.Remember all previous comments on your blog if you used the standard Blogger comments will be imported.

Using G+ Comments On Custom Blogger Templates

Google+ comments may not work on all templates so if they are not working for you there is a snippet of code that can help :

Step 1. In Your (New Design) Blogger Dashboard Click The Drop Down Menu For Your Blog > Choose Template > Then Edit Html > Now Proceed as shown in the video Below :

Step 2. Find the following piece of code in your blogs Html : (Click Ctrl and F for a search bar to help find the code - How To Find Code In Blogger Template Template)

<div class='comments' id='comments'>

Step 3. Copy and Paste the following code Directly Below / After <div class='comments' id='comments'>

<div class='cmt_iframe_holder' expr:data-href='data:post.canonicalUrl'expr:data-viewtype=' data:post.viewType'/>

Now save your template.Thanks to our friends at MBT for this code.

Using G+ Comments On Wordpress

While Google have not yet made G+ comments available for Wordpress there has been a plugin created.

Follow this link to download the Google Plus Comments For Wordpress Plugin.

That's it for now although I'm sure there will be more updates and changes to the G+ comments over the coming months.
Source:spiceupyourblog.com

Connect Instagram,Photo Gallery,Gadget

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licker is the most popular photo sharing website for people looking to showcase their photography online.Instagram is currently winning the race to be the top app for sharing your Mobile images and photos.We have previously looked at ways to share your flickr photo stream on your blog, in this post it's the turn of Instagram.I have looked for the best way for you to display your Instagram photos on your blog with a sidebar widget.Also we have a neat Follow on Instagram button to help you get more Instagram followers.

So if your a 'Instagrammer' this is the one for you.

Both these Instagram widgets are added to the sidebar of your blog so first are the codes for the gadgets and below that are our videos on how to add gadgets to the sidebar on Wordpress and Blogger.

Follow On Instagram Button

Button :

Code :

<iframe src="http://widget.stagram.com/follow/UserName" style="height:27px;" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Note : Replace UserName with your Instagram Username.

Instagram Photo Gallery Gadget

Gallery :
(The gallery below is using webstagram's stream)

Code :

<iframe src="http://widget.stagram.com/in/UserName/?s=100&w=2&h=3&b=1&bg=FFFFFF&p=5" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" style="border:none;overflow:hidden;width:230px; height: 345px" ></iframe>

Note : There are a few things we can change here but first you have to imput your Username were highlighted in yellow in the code.

Background color : The current background color is white/#FFFFFF (Highlighted in blue).You can change this to suit your blog by changing #FFFFFF with the color you want.

Size : Finally the size is highlighted in green 230px wide 345px high change this to resize the gadget.

Add Gadgets To The Sidebar Wordpress And Blogger

Blogger :

Step 1. In The New Blogger Dashboard Click The Drop Down For Your Blog > Choose Layout > Click Add A Gadget > Choose HTML/Javascript > Paste In The Code as shown in the video below :

Wordpress :

In Your Wordpress Dashboard Click 'Apperance' > 'Widgets' > Add A text Widget to your sidebar and paste in the code as shown in the video below :

That's it your blog viewers can now connect with your and see your latest photos on Instagram.

Drop your comments and questions below.
Source:spiceupyourblog.com

Blog’s Design Making Susceptible Hacker

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Running a blog is often a work of love that takes a lot of work and creates something of enormous personal or even business value. This applies especially if you’re blog is old and loaded with thousands of posts that garner you thousands of visitors. Losing all this to hackers and intrusion programs over the course of a single day would be a serious disaster.

While no site or blog can be made completely and totally hack proof, you can limit the possibility for total damage by following the following crucial steps, and making sure that you do one other vital thing: Back up, back up and back up again! Do it regularly, never forget to do it.

1. Badly Chosen Webhost

Not all webhosts are created equal when it comes to site or blog security –some give you access to many more security features than others. Thus, when you’re picking out where to settle your blog’s databases, go for a well known host with a solid reputation for technical support, security features and regular updates.

As a minimum, your hosting provider should regularly be updating their server’s LAMP applications (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) along with any additional third party software that they give you access to for your blog. Also, the host you pick should offer SSL (secure socket layer), SSH (secure shell), secure FTP options, DOS( denial of service) protection and anti-intrusion software protection.

2. Infrequently Updated CMS and Addons

Your CMS, or content management system, is the platform on which your blog is built. You might have designed your own blog from scratch, but most likely you’re running it from a CMS platform like WordPress, Joomla, Drupal or TypePad. Whichever of these you use, you should be keeping them regularly updated to their latest versions. The same goes for all your third party blog addons such as Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Java and any CMS plugins you’ve got installed. Finally, the update rule also applies to any blog themes you’re using; always maintain their latest versions.

Though this may seem like a pain in the ass at times, it’s a very necessary step for proper security, since all those new versions of everything are actually being designed with security bug fixing in mind, in addition to adding new functionality and aesthetic features.

Installing new versions of all of these features should be as easy as doing a few clicks inside your hosting cpanel or within your CMS dashboard, and it is important, since an estimated 45% of all site and blog breaches come through improperly updated software addons.

3. Downloading Plugins and Themes from Untrusted Sources

For many CMS platforms, especially WordPress, there are thousands of available site appearance themes and plugins available for download all over the internet. What these do is make your site appearance change according to your needs or give it additional user/admin features that the basic templates and CMS download don’t have.

The problem with them can emerge when you start downloading either from sources that aren’t trusted and reliable. For both themes and plugins, you should be getting your downloads either right from the CMS website itself (ie: www.WordPress.org) or from major distributers, such as ThemeForest.com, that everyone knows and regularly uses.

Old themes from a site that doesn’t get updated or themes built by people who haven’t been vetted by review can either be insecure or conceal deliberately injected malicious code.

4. Failing to Use Strong Access Passwords

Hosting a blog means using a lot of different password protected access points: for MySQL databases, your hosting cpanel CMS dashboard, FTP accounts etc. All of these passwords should be distinct from each other and hard to guess. Don’t rely on simple, easy to remember passwords and don’t ever use any generic passwords provided to you by the systems that run them as defaults. This is a bad idea and will eventually lead to some sort of leak down the line.

You should also make sure that you don’t go sharing your passwords around to easily with others, and change them all after any time you do share access for development and blog maintenance purposes.

5. Failing to Write Good Clean Code

If you’re doing some of your own coding, you need to make sure that its clean, neat and tightly written; the sloppier the code, the more holes for hack access. This applies especially to things such as website forms, dynamic pages and coding around added videos and other third party applications.

To avoid dirty code, run everything you write through the W3C validator at: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/. And for all third party CMS/Plugin addons you’ll be installing to your blog servers, review them with the code and blog forums on the internet to see if they’ve been vetted as secure. A great place to find information like this is at the forums on www.Stackoverflow.com

Bonus: Some Great Security Plugins

Since you’re going to be installing CMS plugins anyhow, here are some great security oriented ones to include with your blog:

-Stealth Login : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/stealth-login-page/

-User Locker available here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/user-locker/

- Limit Login Attempts http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/limit-login-attempts/

-Login Encryp: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-encryption/

Check these out and look for others; they’re a helpful security bonus.

Tips for WordPress Blogging Success

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If you're new to WordPress, listen up!

You're so used to people talking about how easy and great WordPress is, but if you're not the tech-y type just yet, chances are you need a bit of guidance: it's nothing to be ashamed of. This post is for those of you that have done the initial set-up on your WordPress blog or site, and now you're ready for the next step.

Often when you search about WordPress tips or any questions you may have, you're met with jargon that can make the process of getting to know your WordPress site even more confusing and frustrating.

Hopefully this post will clear up some of that confusion for you. Below are a few tips for WordPress newbies that need a beacon of light in that foggy WordPress world.

Use these tips to make your WordPress experience smooth from here on out:

Keep a Clean Media Library

You can start your media organizing by first disabling the automatic organization that WordPress does for you. Under Settings & Media, disable the option of organizing media chronologically. Uncheck "Organize my uploads into month and year-based folders."

Now all of your media uploads will be placed in one folder, and you can find that perfect picture you're looking for by simply plugging in a related keyword. Just make sure you accurately and thoughtfully label your media. And:

Treat Your Pics Like Content

After all, they are.

Pictures are a great SEO tool that should not be ignored. When you load an image to your site, WP will give you the chance to add keywords, titles and descriptions. Take the time to label each one! It should go without saying, but make your titles relevant and think of SEO as you label.

Images that are labeled properly will serve a double purpose: search engines will eat them up (driving more traffic to your page), and if your image fails to load or for any reason it's not available to a viewer, the alternate text tag will be featured to explain to readers what the image consists of.

A Little SEO Goes a Long Way

Speaking of SEO: make sure you know the importance of title and description tags for both readers and search engines.

If you're a true newbie, and you're not sure what the function of keywords, titles and descriptions is, just trust that taking the time to construct these for pages and images is worth it.

Descriptions explain to users what they'll find on your site. Make them alluring and spur links by incorporating the ever-popular "call to action" phrasing.

Research the best SEO plugins for WordPress if you need a little help with this. We could get into it here, but it's really a whole other topic or post in and of itself.

Tidy Up Your Sidebar

Your sidebar will have a tendency to get messy. Don't let it. A clean, minimalist site is extremely impressive and desirable, so aim for having one at all times.

WordPress sidebars are jam-packed with ads, newsletters, social media icons, recent tweets, and so on. Don't let important links get lost in the shuffle. Only choose links that you really want your site visitors to click on, and make sure they are prominent and readily available in your sidebar.

One way to clean up is to head to the Appearance and Widgets section and remove all the extra widgets, leaving only the ones that are beneficial to your business or your site.

A good rule of thumb is, if it does not add e-mails to your list, make you money, or get a user to do something you want--don't include it in the sidebar.

Show Your Footer Some Attention

You might not think your footer is important, but surprisingly a lot of people will navigate to this area of your site to see what's there.

Pick a WP theme that gives you access to this section and include one or more of the following:

• A link to an important article or page

• A field for your e-mail list adds

• A copyright statement

• Info about the owner or web designer

• A bio or mission statement

• Link/s to a blog

If you forget about your footer, you're neglecting a very crucial piece of web real estate. Be careful not to.

Boil Down Permalinks

Long permalinks aren't the best tools for SEO or readers. If you want search engines to find you and you want your readers to easily decipher your links then it's simple: you've got to shorten them and make them relevant.

A long permalink that uses en excess of pointless words looks like this:

wordpresssite.com/best-tips-for-planting-flowers-in-your-new-advanced-flower-pot

A short, easy-to-glance-at permalink will look more like this:

wordpresssite.com/flower-pot-planting-tips

Users and search engines will appreciate your concise links and will reward you for it with rankings and views. The same can be said for the rest of the tips mentioned above. If you follow the guidelines, you'll be rewarded with a clean site that receives traffic and rankings for the right reasons.
Source:spiceupyourblog.com

Candy Social Icons For Blogger And Wordpress

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Today we have another great set of social icons to link to your social profiles with an awesome effect created with pure CSS.The icons have a delicious candy design that will grab the attention of your readers and are so easy to add to your blog.The icons can be added to your blog sidebar to let readers quickly follow you on your favorite social networks and we have icons for your Rss Feed, Email, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn, YouTube and Skype.

I have two seperate tutorials for Wordpress and Blogger users with instructions to add your links and remove the icons you don't want.I have added the no-follow tag to the icons as there is no need to pass link juice to social profiles and also set the target for the links to open in a new window.

The instructions are below but first let's see the demo's.

Here is a working example, hover over each icon to see the pop out effect :

And you can see them in a blog sidebar here :

Add The Candy Social Icons To Blogger

Step 1) In The New Blogger Dashboard Click The Drop Down For Your Blog > Choose Layout > Click Add A Gadget > Choose HTML/Javascript > Paste In The Code as shown in the video below :

Code :

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="RSS-FEED-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/7lsUogp.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="EMAIL-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/oJeNikj.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="GOOGLE-PLUS-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/F70aY6r.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="FACEBOOK-URL-HERE" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/g4KQ38R.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="TWITTER-URL-HERE" target="_blank"> <img src="http://i.imgur.com/rRbcRlQ.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="LINKEDIN-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/dofbMIX.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="YOUTUBE-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/OukhzWK.png" /></a>

<a class="spice-popout" rel="nofollow" href="SKYPE-URL-HERE" target="_blank"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/8c35IfD.png" /></a>
<style>
.spice-popout{height:48px; width:48px; margin:10px; float:left; display:inline-block; -webkit-transition:all ease 0.5s; -moz-transition:all ease 0.5s; -o-transition:all ease 0.5s; -ms-transition:all ease 0.5s; transition:all ease 0.5s}
.spice-popout img{border-radius:50%; margin:8px; width:100%; box-shadow:0px 0px 4px 1px rgba(0,0,0,0.8); -webkit-transition:all ease 0.5s; -moz-transition:all ease 0.5s; -o-transition:all ease 0.5s; -ms-transition:all ease 0.5s; transition:all ease 0.5s}
.spice-popout img:hover{margin:0px; box-shadow:6px 6px 4px 4px rgba(0,0,0,0.3)}
</style>

Note : Add the Link to each of your social profiles as highlighted in yellow.Each icon has the title above so you can easily remove the ones you don't want. That's it your blog readers can now easily subscribe and follow your blog.Be sure to also check out our 3D spinning social icons and the Hover Effect Social Icons you can use on your blog.I have two shout outs to OneExtraPixel for the icons and BradKnutson for the Css inspiration.
Source:spiceupyourblog.com

Sliding Underlines On Blogger and Wordpress

Posted by Unknown Tuesday 24 September 2013 0 comments

As someone constantly looking at design and ways to add to the design of blogs often it's the little things that amuse me.This post is definitely an example of that, something as simple as an underline sliding out under a heading or for that matter any text most would see mundane but I see as 'Cool'.So lets look at the effect, first up it's a very easy effect to use on your blog no code knowledge is needed.

Basically on any text on your blog you can make a sliding underline appear on hover (when you place the cursor over it).For me this effect works best on headings and links as these are the text visitors to your blog will hover on most.In future posts I may show how to add the effect to all links on your blog or maybe to Labels/Tags (Like the previous Bump effect for Blogger labels we published in 2011).

Show Me The Effect Already !

OK, hover over the "Show Me The Effect Already" text above to see the magic, cool ehh ?

Hover Here For The Effect In A Heading.

And Hover Here for It In A Link.

What About The Underline Slide From Right To Left ?

No Problem hover over the heading above or this text to see the slide from right to left.

Add The Slide Underline Effect To Your Blog

Using this effect on your blog could not be easier and below I have tutorials for WordPress and Blogger.First I have the CSS to make the effect possible then I will show you how to add the tag to the text you want to have the effect.

Add Sliding Underline To WordPress Tutorial

1) In Your Wordpress Dashboard Click 'Apperance' > 'Widgets' > Add A text Widget to your sidebar and paste in the code as shown in the video below :

CSS Code

<style>
/* Underline Slide */
.uslide {
display: inline-block;
}
.uslide:after {
content: '';
display: block;
height: 3px;
width: 0;
background: transparent;
transition: width .5s ease, background-color .5s ease;
}
.uslide:hover:after {
width: 100%;
background: #990000;
}
/*Slide Right To Left*/
.uslide2 {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 3px;
}
.uslide2:after {
content: '';
display: block;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 3px;
width: 0;
background: transparent;
transition: width .5s ease, background-color .5s ease;
}
.uslide2:hover:after {
width: 100%;
background: #990000;
}
</style>

Now you can add a tag to the text you want to have the effect.In WordPress posts make sure you are in 'Text' mode (You will see text and Visual options at th top right of the post editor).

Now add the class : class="uslide" or if you choose right to left add : class="uslide2".You add them as shown below :

<div class="uslide">The Text You Want Underline</div>

<div class="uslide2">The Text You Want Underline</div>

Add Sliding Underline To Blogger Tutorial

Step 1. - In Your (New Design) Blogger Dashboard Click The Drop Down Menu For Your Blog > Choose Customize > Advanced > Add Css, as shown in the video below.

Step 2. Copy and Paste the following code into the Css Section then click Apply To Blog.

/* Underline Slide */
.uslide {
display: inline-block;
}
.uslide:after {
content: '';
display: block;
height: 3px;
width: 0;
background: transparent;
transition: width .5s ease, background-color .5s ease;
}
.uslide:hover:after {
width: 100%;
background: #990000;
}
/*Slide Right To Left*/
.uslide2 {
display: inline-block;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 3px;
}
.uslide2:after {
content: '';
display: block;
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 3px;
width: 0;
background: transparent;
transition: width .5s ease, background-color .5s ease;
}
.uslide2:hover:after {
width: 100%;
background: #990000;
}

Now you can add a tag to the text you want to have the effect.In Blogger posts make sure you are in 'HTML' mode (You will see Compose and HTML options at the top left of the post editor).

Now add the class : class="uslide" or if you choose right to left slide add : class="uslide2".You add them as shown below :

<div class="uslide">The Text You Want Underline</div>

<div class="uslide2">The Text You Want Underline</div>

Source:spiceupyourblog.com

3 Coolest Way To Many More Google plus Followers

Posted by Unknown Wednesday 31 July 2013 0 comments

If you have been following the news about Google+, you would know there are conflicting reports about it.

Some say it is a ghost town in the sense that no one is using it. Here are some statements from the Freelance Switch:

Google Plus remains a social media ghost town. Though it has half a billion users, almost no one actually uses it, at least not regularly. …

Google Plus has over 500 million members. And every day, millions of people move around the margins of Google Plus through Google Local, Hangouts, Picasa and Social Search.

Yet the core of Google Plus, its social network, is hardly used at all. It’s a social networking ghost town.

Others say it is an active social media hub. Here are the views of Copyblogger:

Google+ is now the second largest social network in terms of active users, passing Twitter and ranking only second to Facebook. So much for the “ghost town” theory, huh?

Where did all that ghost town talk come from, anyway? How about Facebook’s PR department and snarky bloggers who’ve invested too heavily in other platforms?

Be careful who you listen to.

So it’s up to you whom are you listening. This article won’t attempt to analyze such claims. Google is not revealing its stats and in their absence it would be pure conjecture to lean on one side or the other.

This article assumes you want to use Google+ and will explain how to get more followers for your Google+ account.

To business.

1) Create a cool Google+ page

This may sound obvious but take a look at random profiles on Google+ and you will be amazed by how much this advice is ignored.

This is business 101 baby.

The very definition of business says first create something of value and only then do marketing. Or else what will you market if you have nothing in the first place?

Similarly first of all make a brilliant Google+ page. Fill up all details in correct grammar, use a good quality, photo not something taken from your webcam, and insert a huge awesome image as your banner. Ask yourself – when someone will land on your page will he get that vow feeling? If the answer is no, you need to change it.

For an example see the Coca Cola’s page whose screenshot is displayed above.

2) Get custom URLs on Google+

What is a Google+ custom URL?

Take a look at the following two URLs:

http://plus.google.com/114124401690420551118
https://plus.google.com/+hubspot

The first one was the old URL of HubSpot and the second one is their new one.

The latter URL is called a custom URL because it has been customized to suit the profile name.

In August, last year Google had announced it is rolling out custom URLs for some profiles and pages, and that it will soon make the feature available to “many more brands and individuals”.

You’ll have to check whether you qualify for the custom URL or not, but if you do, it is strongly recommended that you choose the custom URL. It is much easier to remember and share and demonstrates professionalism.

3) Share quality stuff to get more Google+ followers

As they say, focus on quality over quantity. Don’t spam your followers’ feeds with garbage content from all over the Internet. Share quality stuff.

The advantage of sharing quality material is that it will receive more +1’s and more shares from your readers. The people in their circles will then see your content and will come over to check out your page and, if impressed, they will circle you too.

Also, sharing quality stuff will demonstrate to your followers that you can be trusted with your editorial judgment.

Source: Smashinghub.com

Outstanding 5 Way To Make Money For Your Website

Posted by Unknown Friday 26 July 2013 0 comments

Website monetization has become a hot topic. After all, who would not want money? One of the types of website monetization is 5 Ways to Make More Money from Your Blog

5 Ways to Make More Money from Your Blog

earning from your blog. Making money from your website or blog is not bad at all, especially with your site already gaining a lot of traffic. Blogging nowadays has really become a huge industry where many people earn good money.

Moreover, more and more people become bloggers daily to earn some respect and have money along the side. If you own a blog, you can get an unbelievable income from it. Earning decent money from your blog requires some valuable information and tips. There are many ways to make more money from your blog and you do not necessarily need to apply all the methods. Check on them and apply those that most suit you. Below are some of the most popular ways to make more money from your blog.

Increase Your Blog’s Traffic

First things first, make your blog site friendly to the search engines so it draws more traffic. A blog site with a great deal of traffic is capable to earn money, especially when it comes to advertising. To increase traffic, keep on posting the latest news and talk about topics that appeal to the general public; but such topic should be related to your blog’s niche. The use of the right keywords in your content is also one of the ways to be in friendly terms with search engines. More traffic to your blog site can boost earnings for you as a blog owner.
Aside from more traffic, make sure your blog is designed in a professional way. A decent and simple design also attracts visitors. More visitors means more income. That is what traffic really means anyway.

Allow Advertising on Your Blog

One of the most well-known methods of making more money from your blog is to allow some advertising on your blog site – posting advertisements such as ad banners, ad texts, etc. By featuring ads on your blog, you can get a good deal of income when someone clicks or buy from the companies which advertisement is posted on your blog. When advertising through direct banner you need to give advertisers full permission of your site to set up ad spaces and charge them. If anyone buys the products promoted in the ad space, you earn. If you find it difficult to have direct advertisers, you can go to third party websites such as the BuySellAds.
You still get 100 percent revenue for third party service and you give them commissions. Earning through advertisement on your blog site has something to do with traffic. The more traffic your blog site has, the more chances that the ads posted shall be clicked by your readers or visitors.
A way of putting ads on your blog site is in-text ads. Companies advertised using this way give a parcel of code to be placed on your site in any word from your content which has a paying advertisement. The links are indirect and give no credit for SEO. It shall have double underlines which will popup small ads when moused over.
Advertising on your blog can also be done through ad networks. Ad networks sell ads on your site by putting their codes on your blog. They handle monitoring, collect from the advertiser and pay to you. They get a commission from your earnings in return. Most ad networks work only with blog sites that have heavy traffic.

Participate in Affiliate Programs

Many internet marketers find affiliate programs as the best way to make more money from your blog as many earn as much as $10k monthly through an affiliate marketing program. Affiliate marketing is a marketing based on performance wherein a company pays its affiliates for each customer coming from the marketing effort of the affiliate. While much money can be earned through the affiliate program, it is not a short-term achievement. Some blog owners earn it after four to five years of doing really hard work on improving their blogs and make the blog sites capable of earning.
Affiliate programs also work with affiliate networks. Here is an example of how affiliate works: You have a blog post that talks about a gadget by Samsung Electronics and links to the page on the website of Target, which features the gadget. Target is a merchant which is covered by an affiliate network. They affiliate that link so that anyone clicking the link and buys the item at Target because you link them, you shall earn a commission from the sale. Examples of master affiliate networks are Skimlinks and Viglink.

Do PPC Advertising

PPC advertising is one of the common ways to make money from blogging, and among the easiest. However, this does not work if the blog site does not have a minimum of 500 visitors daily. If you choose this way to monetize from blogging, make sure to check on the terms and conditions of the PPC advertising networks as they are sometimes strict. Your account might be banned when you do something against the terms.
Some of the examples of PPC advertising networks are Google Adsense, Yahoo Bing Ad Network, Clicksor and Chitika. Google Adsense works by placing codes of Google on your blog site and they display text-based ads related to the content.

Write Product Reviews

Many product owners want to promote their products through product reviews such as internet products like SEO tools, eBooks, WordPress themes and plugins. You may contact the product owners and agree to write a product review for them and get paid for the review. Price depends mainly on the blog audience. Shoutmeloud blog for example with its millions of blog visitors earns $500 for each review.
Since your blog site is a publication medium itself, the opportunities are many. There are other ways to earn more money from it. Some of which is selling your own products such as themes and eBooks. Famous bloggers like Darren Rose makes money selling eBooks. You may also try it. However, the blog must gain more traffic and have many regular guests first. Then you can start checking out the methods of making more money from your blog and see which ones apply to you.

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Website monetization has become a hot topic. After all, who would not want money? One of the types of website monetization is 5 Ways to Make More Money from Your Blog

Increase Your Blog’s Traffic

Allow Advertising on Your Blog

Participate in Affiliate Programs

Do PPC Advertising

Write Product Reviews

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Best Tools for Getting Backlinks

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In this post, I will cover the recommended tools for getting backlinks. Backlinks are one of the better ways of improving your website. This helps you to bring in traffic in multiple ways, directly from the links themselves, from search engines, and from the spread of popularity of your site. By taking advantage of this, you will be able to see your website grow quite a bit. This is especially true if these come from more popular websites where there is higher traffic and the site itself is better as a whole. You will be able to create something incredible when doing this properly and when making use of the tools out there.

What Are Backlinks?

For those who may not know, backlinks are simply links to your website from across the web. While this might seem as small, there is a lot to it. Other sites post these and the links are created either through content that you publish or through original works from the site itself. They are small, simple links that tell the visitors where information was obtained or where more can be found. While it sound nice at first, you have to remember the amazing benefits that follow. This is much more than just a connection between your two sites, especially when you consider the boost that it gives to SEO.

The obvious benefit is the direct traffic. When there is a link to your site from theirs, you are bringing in some of their readers or viewers. These are people who would not have known that you exist otherwise, allowing you to appeal to a much larger audience. There is also the boost in SEO that you get from this. With how PageRank works, you are going to want to take advantage of it. You will be creating more links, which is what this uses to determine which sites appear higher. When people are searching for you or what you offer, you will be more likely to be at the top of their list, or at least as far up there as possible.

Useful Tools for Backlinks

There are some useful tools out there for you. One of the biggest is going to be Google, which is where you should turn when trying to make use of it. There are others, as well, like Majestic SEO. The main point of them is to see the quality of the sites used for links. Yes, different sites will affect this differently. The more well known and trusted it is, the more likely it will be to help you. Some of the lesser known ones, however, will barely make a dent in your search engine results. You want to make sure that your choices are the right ones if you are to make use of this.

Backlinks can prove very helpful if done properly. You will be able to see your website grow and you will be able to attract far more traffic in various ways. It is also going to help you with PageRank since this will give your site a boost with it. As long as you are using the best sites possible, you will be able to turn simple links into your success.

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Best 5 Tips For Increasing Traffic Fastly

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Increasing your blog traffic seems to be the hardest part when you start your blogging journey. I’m pretty sure most of the bloggers 5 Steps to Increase Your Blog Traffic

out there having hard time getting huge amount of traffic to your blog no matter how much effort you put into your blog.

I l totally agree with you when you say its hard 10 years back, because you need to put great efforts with a doubt whether it will work or just going to be waste of time. As a newbie blogger, you might be in the same situation right now!

I will share a simple strategy on how you can increase your blog traffic the right way…

If you utilize this guide and do the right thing, getting 2,000 pageviews will be a piece of cake… Trust me!

Your gain is my gain…

Never miss spending merely 2 hours to 2 ½ hours on executing the following 5 steps blog traffic strategy.

Step 1: Killer Blog Post

You should allocate one hour to research and write a killer blog post which should be the most important content which will boost your blog. You don’t have to write a killer blog post every single day. If you’re new, make sure to write 2 killer blog posts per week. Slowly, decrease it to one killer blog post a week. So the 2 hours that you’re going to spend will be for the killer blog post.

Don’t get exhausted… Have a cup of coffee when you’re doing your research…

Basically, you need to spend 6 up to 12 hours of work for your killer post. If you don’t have any clue what killer blog posts is about and how it differs from normal blog post, carefully look at the explanation.

Killer blog post is a long well-structured content which is important in delivering extraordinary information for your potential visitors. Let’s say, you have an android jailbreak blog, for example, you could write a blog post with “Top 20 Free Android Jail breaking Resources”. Here are some great points for killer blog posts:

Create a list of android jail breaking resources (i.e. free tutorial, step by step guide)
Write a detailed guide to teach android users to jailbreak their android devices to use great features and apps.
Provide solution for android users for the problems they encounter.
Write a deep analysis on android jailbreak methods and add great value for your visitors.

The killer blog post should attract your visitors and encourage them to share the great information with his friends.

Step 2 :Communication

Communication is important, especially when you’re new to blogging. Spend an hour a day for the following communication tasks:-

Interact with the authority bloggers within your niche via Facebook, Twitter, email or Skype.
Write high quality comments on authority blogs of your niche.
Link to other bloggers post within your niche through your blog post

Always remember the main purpose of communication is to build a genuine relationship with your competitors. Never ever approach other bloggers just because they can help you to promote and advertise your blog.

Bare this in your mind…

Approach your competitors for the quality work they produce and think how both of you could grow your blog together with mutual understanding.

Step 3: Viral Marketing

Ok you’re done with your killer blog post…

How are you going to get it across the Internet and make it viable for your visitors?

The first thing is the promotion of your killer blog posts. Whenever, you’re done with your killer blog post, make sure to promote them for maximum exposure.

Notify the blogger within your niche about the blog post through email, Facebook or any desire social network.
Get your like-minded friends to share your killer blog post via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and other familiar social networking sites.
Post the excerpt of your article on forums and social groups.

Just spend around 30 to 45 minutes on this task. If you have extra time left, concentrate on search engine optimization and social media optimization to promote you whole blog rather than emphasizing on your killer blog post.

Search Engine Optimization… What you should optimize?

SEO in 2013 emphasizes more on the quality of content and backlinks. If compared to the previous years the importance of content playing a big role in year 2013.

Step 4: Create Normal Blog Post

Do you thin killer blog post is enough for your blog?

You’re absolutely wrong…

Normal blog post is as important as your killer blog post as it spice up your blog. Normal blog posts need to be scheduled to be published consistently in between your killer blog post. For an example, you’re posting your killer blog post every Friday, so you can post your normal blog post from Monday to Thursday.

Ok… I hope you’re ok so far…

How to get ideas for your normal blog posting?

Write about the latest news in your niche.
New tricks and techniques that you have learnt recently that would be beneficial for your readers.
Create a discussion blog post where your readers can share their opinion with comments.

For a normal blog posting you can spend around 45 minutes to an hour…

Step 5: Power of Comments

Most of the time I have encountered blogs where the author never ever interact with fellow readers through comments…

Commenting on your own blog shows your readers that you value their opinions and suggestion which will increase your reader loyalty…

So what you need to do now….

Take Action!! Start working on your blog and schedule it the right way to increase your blog traffic…

Always Remember…

Killer Blog Post promotes and leverages your blog and normal blog post will create diversity in your content and keep your fellow readers engaged!

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Do PPC Advertising

Write Product Reviews

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