The First Ever Tots100 Index of British Parenting Blogs and Bloggers
November 15, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Here at Talking Tots, we’re pretty keen on new technologies. We have our own website, we write our own blog, and we’re even learning to love things like Twitter and Spotify (Madonna’s back catalogue at the click of a button – what’s not to love?)
We also love to read other blogs – particularly those written by fellow parents, mumpreneurs and Mummy-related ventures. But when we looked for a list of influential parenting blogs from the UK, we realised that a list doesn’t really exist – although Susanna at British Mummy Blogs has made a great start here.
Although Mummy blogs are a newer phenomenon in the UK than in the US, we knew there were hundreds of British Mummy bloggers just waiting to be discovered. We pulled together a list of around 250 UK blogs, but we had no idea which blogs were being read by parents, and which were most influential. So, with lots of help and advice from social media guru Brendan Cooper, we’ve put together our own list.
The Tots100 Index is the first index of the top 100 British parenting blogs and bloggers. How did we find our top 100? We took the 250 blogs we found and created a scoring system that rewards blogs for three things: currency (ie the blog has been updated regularly and recently), influence (other people link to the blog) and popularity (lots of people read it). We’ll be updating the Tots100 Index regularly, and including details of movements up and down the index in future editions.
(For a more detailed explanation of how the rankings work, and how to submit a blog to the Index, read down to the bottom of the post.)
We hope those of you looking for great British parenting blogs will find the list useful, and perhaps you’ll find a few new favourites in our directory – there are some brilliantly useful, funny, inspiring and moving bloggers in our index and we’ve loved discovering all of them.
Best Wishes,
Tracey and Lisa
The Tots100 Top British Parent Blogs and Bloggers:
Rank Blog Score
1 Petite Anglaise 741
2 Wife in the North 718
3 Jo Beaufoix 701
4 Alpha Mummy 696
5 My Boyfriend is a Tw@t 687
6 Crystal Jigsaw 681
7 Babyccino 670
8 A Modern Mother 640
9 Single Parent Dad 629
10 Notes from Inside my Head 610
11 The Potty Diaries 608
12 Bambino Goodies 597
13 The Bedside Crow 591
14 Man About the House 568
15 Woman of Experience 562
16 Bringing up Charlie 559
17 Millennium Housewife 522
18 Sticky Fingers 520
19 Noble Savage 517
20 Dulwich Wife 508
21 Little Mummy 507
22 Flower Fairies and Fairy Cakes 507
23 A Midwife’s Muse 504
24 3 Kids, No Job 500
25 Mother at Large 499
26 Cotton Pickin’ Days 498
27 Family Affairs 483
28 Menopausal Old Bag 475
29 Diary of a Desperate Exmoor Woman 472
30 Musings of a Juggling Mother 467
31 Home Office Mum 465
32 Breastfeeding Mums’ Blog 461
33 Working Mum on Verge 449
34 Thames Valley Mums 446
35 Nappy Valley 445
36 More Than Just a Mother 442
37 Violet Posy 441
38 Nunhead Ramblings 432
39 You’ve Got Your Hands Full 428
40 Are We Nearly There Yet, Mummy? 405
41 Dulwich Divorcee 395
42 The Bush Babies 390
43 Family of Five 383
44 WAHM-BAM 382
45 Don’t Panic – RTFM 379
46 I Promise That I Will Do My Best 378
47 My Life Now 367
48 A Confused Take That Fan 366
49 Single and Surviving 363
50 The Brinkster 362
51 Mom or Mum Wars 359
52 Most/Least 355
53 Good Enough Mum 323
54 Not Supermum 318
55 Suffolk Writings 313
56 Posh Mum 311
56 The Smell of Little Pong 311
58 Family Friendly Working 300
59 Keir Royale 286
60 39 and Counting 283
61 Motherhood: the final frontier 279
62 Tales from the Naughty Step 277
63 Married with Four 260
64 Mrs Trefusis 259
65 Mothers on the Verge 258
66 The Baby Juggler 255
67 Being Lucy Diamond 254
68 Miss Meep’s Guide to Living 253
69 Teen Coach Blog 244
70 Lemon Drizzle 241
71 Arabella Miller 235
72 Family Relationships 229
73 Positive Parenting 222
74 Chunky Monkey 202
75 Is that me? How did that happen? 198
75 More to Life than Laundry 198
77 View from Nappy Mountain 189
78 Mothers Who Work 186
79 Little Sheep Learning 184
80 Totsy’s Place 183
81 Diary of a Surprise Mum 179
82 Rosie Scribble 177
83 Pink Fairy Cake 172
84 Don’t Tear Your Hair Out 171
85 Motherworld 166
85 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em 166
87 Family Treehouse 149
88 Adventures of a Sleepless Toddler 133
89 Mummo Mia 128
90 Music Bugs 125
91 It’s a Mum’s Life 123
92 Milky Moo 119
93 Jessica’s Trust 118
94 Sleepy Tots Blog 91
95 Perfectly Happy Mum 74
96 Amanda’s Adventures in Chocolate 63
96 Pixie Minx 63
98 Mum’s the Business 61
99 Tots 2 Travel 54
100 Time Management Mum 43
What Do The Scores Mean?
120 blogs were originally included in the index. Each blog was assigned a score from 1 (bottom ranked) to 120 (top ranked) in seven categories:
1. Technorati Authority: number of blogs linking to this blog in the last six months
2. Technorati Inlinks: number of inbound links, excluding self-referring hits
3. Yahoo Inlinks: number of inbound links in last six months (excl self-referring hits)
4. Google Blog Hits: number of posts/links/weblinks in Google
5. Google Hits Recent: number of links from the last 30 days
6. Readers: number of subscribers based on Feedburner and Google Reader
7. HowSociable: the blogger’s visibility outside the blog, measuring activity on sites such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
This meant a blog scoring the highest score in each of these categories would achieve a maximum score of 840 points. The lowest possible score was 7.
These aren’t perfect metrics but we believe that combining measurements from Google, Technorati and Yahoo ensures an accurate reflection of a blog’s influence, while the inclusion of HowSociable clearly showed how the top bloggers use social media to boost their blog’s profile.
There are a couple of blogs on the index that haven’t been updated in a few months, but still scored highly because of high numbers of residual links. We expect these links to reduce over time, and the blogs will fall down the index – but we’ll be removing any blogs that haven’t been updated in 6 months or more for the next index.
We welcome suggestions of how to improve the Index, as well as suggestions of new blogs to include in the next index. Our criteria for inclusion are simple: the blog must be by/about parents, be written by a British parent or a parent in the UK, and you need to score higher than someone already in the index.
Matthew Anderson is a franchise consultant and founder of The Franchise Shop, a UK business franchise directory featuring Talking Tots and childrens franchises
Fruity Plugins – The Fruitiest Wordpress Plugins Ever!
November 13, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
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Making Money Online Is Easier Now Than EVER Before
November 11, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
The point of being online anymore, isint about just checking your email, there are millions if not billions of people making money online every single day. How do they do it? What steps are they taking? What do you need to know in order to make money online? I have a feeling this is going to be a long one, because there are hundreds of ways to making money online and making money online does not have to be mission impossible!
In this article Im not going to be talking about traffic, although traffic usually does equal money. In this article Im going to be talking mainly about different things you can do to make money, direct money, online. One thing I absolutely have to emphasize right now is the absolute need for a website. This can ultimately be the hub for more than half of your money making ops online. While Im writing this Ill assume you have a website, or your going to get one soon, because some of these options like CPM banners or affiliate links need to have a place to be posted. So heres a few options available to you.
These aren’t ALL the things you can do to make money, just the ones Im most familiar with and know work.
Affiliate Programs – Almost every single site out on the internet has some sort of an affiliateship, affiliate program, profit sharing program etc. An Affiliate program is a program you join as an affiliate from a website. These can be large well known websites such as Amazon, AllPosters, ProFlowers etc.
Or they can be from other sites you may not have heard of. Check all of these sites out. A good place to find a directory for Affiliate Programs is a site called AffiliatePrograms. You can earn a percentage of every sale you make. If your a good salesperson this would be the way to go for you. Me, Im not so good at selling stuff, but that doesn’t mean I dont belong to a few programs! They also have affiliate programs where you can get paid for getting people to do trials, or if you can get people to download things like software, e-cards, e-books etc.
Provide Products- If you have the capabilities or are already selling something offline, why not try doing it online. This is a really good idea if your product is something unique and isint like everyone else’s. You can set up a free website, even find free hosting, set up shop online and voila your own e-store. How simple is that?!?
Write Articles- If your creative and articulate enough you can write articles, blogs, reviews or forum posts for people and they will pay you. You can also do this as a business if you want to, by creating your own website putting examples of your work on it, make a price list, so on and so forth.
Or you can do something even simpler. Go on forums, sites like scriptlance, getafreelancer, genuinejobs, or even craigslist and you will find a multitude of people looking for YOU to write articles for them. I love to write. I would write 50 articles a day if it was possible and getting paid by doing so is also incredibly satisfying and fun. Who doesnt love doing something they love to do? You can even goto Google and type in “freelance writing jobs”, “freelance sites”, or “writing jobs online” you will find lots and lots of pages, people, forums etc looking for this kind of work.
Domain Parking- If you own any domains online even if its just a handful you can actually make money from those domains. You can find a parking site, park your domains with the program, and make a percentage of the money thats made. These are search portals. You get paid a percentage when people goto your search portals and, search. Some programs offer optimization, different options, etc.
You shouldn’t ever join a parking program where YOU have to pay them. Try sites like Sedo, TraffiClub, Parked, Fabulous etc. Some are better than others, not all pay the same, so check the sites out before you join! Try searching for “domain parking programs” or “domain motenization”. Depending on how many people you get to goto your site, and the quality you could make good money from this. *** Always follow guidelines and TOS or your account could be terminated and it doesnt matter if you have 35cents or $35,000 owed to you. Break the rules and your done.
Freelancing- This sort of goes along with writing articles. If you know how to do something like write, do web design, web templates, web development whatever, you can do it as a freelancer. You can make actual money from this! Check out freelance sites, do a search on Google for “Freelance sites”, “freelance jobs” or “freelancers”. This will take you to many different sites where YOU might be able to offer your service(s).
Provide a Service Online- if you know how to do some of the stuff above, web design, web development, web hosting or you know other things like optimization, backlinks, how to submit sites to directories, how to bump peoples PRs up, you can provide this service to other people and they will pay you. Again you have to either offer a unique service or pay lower than your competition. Dont tell them I said that though!
MLM or Networking Marketing- I dont usually get involved with this stuff, only because of two reasons. One is a lot of these sites are scams. Two, about %99.9 of these programs make you pay. And it usually isint a few bucks. But if its something your interested in and you can afford to invest money into a scheme like this, do it! Be cautious tho.
Domain Real Estate- If you know anything about domains, and can get your hand on some good ones for however much your willing to spend, you can make a living buying and selling domains. Buy low sell high, type thing. You can sell domains pretty much anywhere but there are certain “official” websites for this kind of work, such as afternic and sedo. But you can also sell them on forums such as NamePros or DigitalPointForums. Dont think just because your selling them on forums you wont make good money. Ive seen people on NamePros selling and buying domains for as much as $35k!
Ok now Im going to go onto something a little different. In the beginning of this article I mentioned that I can tell you about things you can do online to make money but you will most likely need a blog or a website of some kind. Well now that we got a majority of the things that you can (usually do) with out a website, I want to dig in a little deeper and list the things you can do if you DO have a website or a blog.
First off let me just start by saying something about the blog/website. There are ways now a days that you can do this for hardly any money at all. If not for free. I set up my website with wordpress, I got a really nice theme/template that was %100 free and all i had to pay for was hosting which is literally a few bucks a month. You gotta spend money, to make money!
CPM Programs- Most likely if you have a blog or website you will be putting CPM banners or CPM links on your site. CPM= Cost Per Thousand. If you put CPM banners or links on your site you will get paid a certain amount of money every time someone views that banner, or rather every 1000 times someone views that banner.
Example if a site offers to pay you $1.50 CPM and you have 5000 visits, then you will make $7.50. I know it doesnt seem like a lot but you can have multiple program CPM banners on your sites. And you can usually have one banner per page per CPM program on your site. So it gets a little better when you raise the numbers from 5000 to 50,000 = $75. Sometimes you will also get paid if people CLICK on these banners/links too. It depends on the program.
Affiliate Links / Affiliate Programs- Having a blog or website is a good way to incorporate your affiliate programs/links into the content/layout of your website or blog. Example, I am an affiliate for Amazon. My main website is about food and drink.
So far I have made 3 types of sites from Amazon, all of which are for cook books. So if Im talking about a Chef I like, say Jamie Oliver, I can then hyperlink the word “Jamie Oliver”, so when people click that link they will be directed to the site from Amazon I made about Jamie Oliver which include all his cookbooks. This is also a form of marketing!
Sponsor ads- You can charge people a certain amount of money and put their ads on a certain place on your website, known as “sponsors”. It gives them great exposure and you get paid for charging them a certain fee, say per week or per month.
Featured Blogs/Articles- People can be featured on your site, you can write blogs about services or programs they offer. Another relatively close thing to this is a site called BlogVertise. You sign up with an account tell them what category your site is, and then different companies online choose you to write blogs about them. BlogVertise will then disapprove or approve these blogs and you will get paid. Thats pretty easy!
Product Blogs- This is similar to that above but instead of writing about the company for a site like BlogVertise or PayPerPost, you write about a certain product from this company. I did one last month for a company that wanted me to write about their unique and luxurious gift baskets. It had to be 4 paragraphs, had to include certain keywords, include 1 link to the product per paragraph. I mean its fun and easy, why wouldnt you do this!?!
Adsense and sites similar- This is the last one! This is another way you can make money online through your website. Sites like adsense, bidvertiser, and adbrite will allow you to put contextual “ads” on your sites. When people click these ads you will be given a certain amount of money per click. Once you build up enough money on your account they will send you a check, money through PayPal or allow you take make a EFT (electronic funds transfer) to your bank.
This was a lot of different ideas, options and things for you to check out online. Hopefully I gave you more than enough information for you to begin your search! Don’t fret if at first your not making very much. Millionaires aren’t made over night. It takes perseverance, determination, and patience. Go out and get yourself a blog or website today!
Seriously, I dont think I ever realized how important having a website could be. And not just any old website. If your going to have a blog or an article web site make sure you sit down every day and do at least 4 posts. Dont copy and paste even if the articles are not copy written. This is another mistake people make. If your going to take the time to do all this stuff, or even just 2 or 3 things, your going to want to do it right. Remember Content Is King.
If you have content that is unique and interesting, they will come! I wish you luck in your search and I hope you find some really great programs to join so you too can start making money online. Thanks for reading, this was a fun article for me!
This author is the proud owner of http://www.money007.com. Feel free to distribute this article in any way or form as long as you include this resource box.
How To Earn More Money From Google Adsense And Exceed Your Best Ever Adsense Income!
November 11, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
If you’re not in it for money – Adsense making money tips
To paraphrase the lovely Shania Twain – “If you’re not willing to give it all you’ve got- get out of here!”
It’s easy to waste your time trying to understand the internet business and end up being in a daze, surrounded by too many miracle cures and instant success stories.
It’s like a tsunami of information drowning you, and there is no escape to higher ground.
I don’t know how someone got my email address, but some drongo (an Aussie term – you’ll figure it out!) wrote to me asking me to put in just 5 dollars and immediately get back 20 without my doing anything…. one of those “instant cash doubler” schemes.
After all this time I’ve got more common sense… and so should you…than to get into his “program.” That common sense will tell you that the only way you will get back 20 dollars for five is if five other mugs like you fall for his scam and front up with their five dollars, so that the promoter can pay you and keep some for himself.
All very well if you are one of the first in line, and get your seed money back with just one payout, but that very rarely happens.
I just got I don’t know how many of these “miracles” and at least one “Next
Product” alert in my mailbox which is supposed to help me get instant riches in internet marketing.
Listen, if you really want to make serious money, you have to be one of these promoters, cobble together a few tips and tricks that anyone can get for free, give it a catchy name, and get one of the big hitters to promote it to their list. I’m sure you’ve seen your inbox flooded by lots of these people, all trying to sell you the same thing, and with ever increasing bonuses which you will never use, but they sound great.
However, for most of us down in the food chain, that’s not a realistic option – we don’t have our own product, and no guru will touch us.
Let me tell you, the only solid money I’ve ever made is from using Google Adsense to make money. Sure I won’t retire from it, but I am making around $2.50 a day from my sites. Not much, I know, but what if I had an Adsense network of 100, or even 200 sites? (That’s $50 a day for you non-accountants!) That’s how much you can make, and that’s the secret of making money with Adsense.
You can not only use Adsense on your site, you can use Adsense in Wordpress blogs, use all the Google information marketing tools, Adwords etc.
Of course the drawback is that you have to set up those 200 sites and maintain them with constantly changing content, and that content has to be sufficiently interesting to make a few people click on a few ads.
However, there are ways to do this, using RSS feeds, feeds from other blogs, and other auto blogging techniques, but be wary of not overdoing it, make sure the feeds add genuine interest to your site.
The main problem will be in setting up 200 attractive, keyword and Adsense rich sites.
To do this yourself will take a lot of time, effort and money, and you will never do it if you’re just mucking around with internet marketing.
You will have to spend some serious cash on hiring someone to do it for you, or get a website generating software program, and a really good one will not be cheap, but if you’re serious, you will spend that money, which gets back to the thrust of my opening paragraph – “If you’re not willing to give it all you’ve got – get out of here!”
©Peter Phillips
2007
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My Top Ten Twitter Applications Your Business Will Ever Need
November 7, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
It has been 3 years now since twitter was launched publicly in August of 2006 and you can see how twitter has risen to prominence as the most popular community to share your thoughts in short messages.
Due to its increasing popularity, many businesses have realized the potential uses of twitter in business marketing. Businesses used it for personal branding, promoting products, getting feedbacks, hiring people, generating web traffic, making new friends, notifying customers, finding business prospects, setting up meetings, updating business events and more.
While there are hundreds of cool twitter applications that can be found on numerous sites that will help you manage the way you use twitter, I collated my own top ten twitter applications to bring you the most helpful in marketing your small business.
Here are my top ten twitter applications lists:
10. Splitweet- It is a twitter multi-account manager and brand monitor that allows you, twitter user, to compose a list of accounts and distribute their tweets, choosing their release in one or more of their accounts. You can also follow your contacts tweets from all of your managed accounts and monitor your brand.
9. Tweetlaw- This is a website primarily designed for legal professionals where members of the legal community can instantly share new information and network. This is a big help for any business owners who will seek legal consultation.
8. Calendartweet- It is an easy event management tool via twitter that allows you to plan your business events and control frequency of updates on your twitter page.
7. FutureTweets- It is a very simple application that allows you to schedule your business/ product/ service tweet ahead of time for a specific date and time.
6. CoTweet- It is a platform that help businesses send and receive messages from multiple twitter accounts. CoTweet lets you connect to one master twitter account, but still use it as totally separate users. Each user can log in and turn their status switch on so that others will know you’re online. It also allows you to assign tweets to specific team members and it will track who ended up answering the question and what they said.
5. TrackThis- Using this application you can easily track any UPS, USPS, FedEx or DHL shipment. Updates are sent via Email, SMS messaging, RSS feeds, Facebook, or Twitter account whenever your package is out for delivery, delivered, or delayed.
4. TwitPic- It is an application that allows users to take photos from their mobile phones and post it to twitter. This is a good way to introduce your new products to your twitter followers.
3. Bubbletweet- It is a fun way to make a short video of your business or business product and bubbletweet it. It makes your twitter page extra special. It adds a short video that plays in a Bubble video player that floats on top of your twitter page and when it is over, it pops and goes away.
2. Followbase- It is a very simple real-time customer service and support application for any business company that uses twitter. Using the application, your clients can easily get in touch with you, ask questions, report problems, suggest ideas and more.
1. BakerTweet- It is a very innovative application that could apply to any kind of businesses tweeting people that you have something new coming . Bakertweet is an application designed for busy bakers to tell the world that something hot and fresh has just come out of the oven. It has a device that sends messages to twitter. It has a very simple web interface where the baker can update their messages and things they are selling. It is a way you can get the freshest baked stuff first.
These are just some of Twitter Applications Your Business Will Ever Need.
Hope these applications would help you in accomplishing your business goals successfully.
Jay Mabalot spent most of his time doing online business. He is also fond of doing online jobs, online selling, online shopping, blogging and work at home jobs. You can visit his site at Pinoy Business: The Livelihood Resource Portal for Young Entrepreneurs.
The Best SEO Tip Ever
November 4, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Let’s take it for granted that:
a. You want to be top of the search engine results
b. You understand about on-page optimization
c. Your website is up and running and indexed
Now what? How do you take your site from the middle of the pile and push and pull it slowly to the promised land of the top 5 positions?
And slowly here is the key. If you want short-term, quick-profit solutions (in other words ‘black hat’ techniques) you may as well stop reading now. I’m talking about long term investment into the future of your website and business.
I’m also not talking about ranking number 1 in Google for your business name or a 10 word phrase that absolutely no-one else would want to rank for. If you haven’t done that yet, you need to go away and get some very basic SEO grounding.
What I want to discuss is out-performing your competitors on the absolutely top-notch make-you-a-fortune keywords that bring laser-targeted traffic. In other words, the ones you’re only dreaming about ranking for!
Enough pre-amble; how do we do it?
Simple, really – we stand on the shoulders of giants. In other words, we look at what successful websites do and have done – and we use that information. No, we’re not going to re-invent the wheel and copy others’ business models, we’re going to take the cream from their hard work and pour it onto our sites!
Ranking in Google is about two things – it’s about relevance and it’s about popularity. We’ll assume that our sites are relevant to the traffic we’re seeking – no point attracting shoe shoppers if we’re selling ice cream! So it’s about popularity. And in Google’s case, that means backlinks. Put simply, the better the links to your site, the more they’ll see you as being popular, and the more they’ll pull your site to the top of the results.
Notice I said ‘better’, not ‘more’. In this case, quality is far more important than quantity. I can give you examples of sites with 300,000 inbound links that are far outranked by sites with 2000.
SEO experts talk about ranking number 1 in Google rather than Yahoo or MSN simply because Google is the search engine that most searchers use. Ironically, though, we need to use Yahoo to get to number one in Google. This is because Google is really bad at showing inbound links.
Yahoo Site Explorer (siteexplorer dot search dot yahoo dot com) is far better at this. YSE will show you which sites link to your competitors. And better still, they’ll rank them in terms of importance, so all the hard work’s done for you!
You just need to type in the URL of the site into the SEARCH box at the top of the screen, click on ‘Explore URL’, then click on ‘Inlinks’ and select ‘Except from this domain’ in the drop-down box. Lo-and-behold – a list of your competitor’s most important links. Not bad, eh?
So here’s your strategy:
First, draw up your list of must-have, top-drawer keywords and keyword phrases.
Second, search Google for them and take a note of the top 10 websites for each.
Third, examine each of the top 10 in YSE and see where the important links are coming from.
Fourth, filter these links into three categories: 1, the sites you won’t get links from; 2, the sites you’ll get links from with some hard work; 3, the sites you can get links from straight away (these can include blogs that allow comments, directories, article sites etc)
Fifth, get to work on acquiring links from the third category, then move on to the second.
This takes time, obviously, but not as much time as randomly searching for links that you’ll ultimately discover have no importance whatsoever.
If you follow this procedure diligently and methodically, I can guarantee that you’ll soon begin to see your sites slowly but surely marching up to the top of the rankings.
Andy Follin is diligently and methodically applying this SEO tactic in a quest to drive a website to the top of the rankings in the online casino niche. Only by applying such techniques can he have any chance of showing in the top 10 for terms such as best online gambling guide, best online casinos, and online casino bonus offers.
The Only Money Making Tips You Will Ever Need!
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
It’s easy to make money and you do not have to work for someone else to achieve it. All you need is a little self-confidence, determination and inventiveness. You do not have to purchase a costly business course that will end up accumulating dust in your closet. You do not have to get a loan and purchase a franchise that costs thousands of dollars. All you need is a little money for marketing and to offer a service, product or information that people need or desire. Apply these money making tips and success will follow.
Article writing has turned out to be among the many preferable home money-making techniques because just about anyone can get into it and provide copy writing services with minimal cost. In addition to the increasing demand for content and article writers, it has turned over to be an attractive feature of sorts to individuals all over the world. Confessedly, it can turn out to be a career which can bring a prosperous level of living. For that matter, I would like to demonstrate to you some of the techniques which you’ll be able to utilize to create income from your articles.
Among the finest techniques to guarantee that your blog is will create an income for you is to pick out a topic which people are fascinated in reading about. Since most money making blogs are attained so by the amount of individuals who visit the web site, it is important to pick a subject which individuals are interested in and which will draw them towards your particular blog. In some manner to figure away what topics are popular at the moment include searching for the solutions online through popular search results, inquiring with others as to what they like to read about on blogs and going over a few of the more common blogs online.
You’ve got to discover the keywords people employ to search in Google; you’ll then build your content around these specific terms and long tail keywords and optimize your blog for the search engines. This keyword research steps must to be carried out very thoroughly; this is the means to effective and daily traffic to your site.
There are a lot of blogging programs you will be able to select from, Blogger.com, Wordpress.com, and Blog.com to name a few. Setting up your blog isn’t hard; the vast majority of these providers suggest automated solutions to achieve this task in a couple of minutes. I wish you great success and hope that these money making tips has given you a better understanding of what it take to achieve success!
This Article was written by Ray Bordelon
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The 5 Best SEO Tips You Will Ever Read
November 3, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Contrary to popular belief, you don’t need to be an SEO “guru” to rank well in the Search Engines. There are only a handful of things you need to do in order to rank well. Those who concentrate on what’s important will quickly pass those who spend their time worrying about all of the little things that may or may not increase their rankings!
Below you will find the 5 most important SEO factors:
1: Links – The quantity and quality of the links on the WWW which point to your site and it’s subpages is the #1 off-page SEO factor! When it comes to top Search Engine rankings the most influential factor really is the incoming links! Submit articles and do selective link exchanges to give your site a push-start and let your good content (below) bring it to the top!
2: Title and META Tags – The title and META description of each individual page is the most important on-page SEO factor! Craft your title and description in a way that is both Search Engine friendly (contains your primary keyword) and user friendly (convinces them to click.) Remember, if it is full of keywords and not user friendly, your rankings will not matter, as no one will click. If it is user friendly, but doesn’t contain your main keyword, you will not rank as high as you would if it had your keyword (in most cases.)
3: Internal Linking – A good internal linking structure will not only show the SE’s which of your pages are more important, it can actually increase the rankings of those pages! Use the rel=”nofollow” attribute on links that don’t need any “link juice” like your contact pages, about pages, affiliate links and duplicated pages.
4: Quality Content – Quality content will bring in “natural” links. If you’re spitting out low-quality, rehashed content, you won’t impress anyone. If you do not impress anyone your job will be much harder, as you’ll have to manually build all of your links.
5: Keyword Density doesn’t Matter – “Keyword Density” is no longer important. With the implementation of “Latent Semantic Indexing” (LSI) most major Search Engines do not rank a page higher because it contains a keyword a set number of times. Just write natural content and good things will come!
So to recap, build solid incoming links, compose a good title and META description, create a solid internal linking structure, write quality content and don’t worry about keyword density!
This is the strategy that has worked for me in order to obtain front-page ranking for many competitive terms and I’m confident it will for you as well!
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Some Of The Best Ever Blog Specific Tools
November 2, 2009 by IBI · Leave a Comment
Blogging is one of the most popular activities people do on the Internet today. According to Technorati, there currently are seventy-five thousand (75,000) new blogs everyday and about 1.2 million new blog updates everyday. As the activity of blogging gets more popular, there will be more and more tools that will be created to specifically address the needs of the blogging population of the Internet users. This article will attempt to catalog some of the best ever blogging tools created for users. To help users find the tools that they need, these blog tools are classified here into four main categories – blog publishing, blog reading, blog searching and the blog toolbox – a collection of tools important to the serious blogger.
Blog publishing
Blog publishing tools can be further categorized into three sub-categories: Online blogging services, do-it-yourself blog publishing platforms, and accessory blog-publishing tools. Blogging services provide the blog engine that you need to get yourself started in blogging as well as the hosting. Though most of the services offer this for free, some of them require that you become paying members in order to fully enjoy all the benefits.
Blogger – Google’s Blogger is one of the earliest blogging services and it helped popularize blogging. It is one of the easiest ways to get started blogging because of the focus on usability and easy blog creation. The Blog this feature, which is integrated in many Google tools, makes posting to Blogger possible in many different situations. It is also integrated with Google’s Adsense advertising program that makes monetization of your blog quick and easy.
TypePad – Typepad is the largest paid-blogging service around. As mentioned, a paid subscription is required to create a blog using the service. It uses the Movable Type blogging technology but it caters more to the non-technical users.
Wordpress.com – one of the newcomers in the online blogging services, Wordpress gets its credibility from the success and popularity of the blogging engine that it uses -Wordpress.
Xanga – Xanga is one of the largest blog-networks, boasting a user base of 27 million users worldwide. It edges over its competitors by offering excellent community features such as blog rings, metros, and a social networking profile system.
MSN Spaces – Although it is relatively a newcomer in the blogging services space, MSN Spaces boasts of a huge user base, because of the ease at which existing MSN services users were able to start blogging. The integration with the rest of MSN’s services (hotmail, messenger) makes Spaces a very good blogging option for the existing users.
Do-it-yourself blogging platforms on the other hand, only provide the blogging engine. Although you have to find your own hosting service, DIY blogging platforms give you more control in configuring your blog. Below are some of the best DIY Blogging platforms.
Movable Type – Movable Type powers TypePad and it adds the usual advantages of a server-side blogging platform: flexibility, more advanced configuration, and total control over your blog.
Wordpress – Wordpress is an increasingly popular open-source blogging platform that is written in PHP and backed by a MySQL database.
Radio Userland – Radio Userland, one of the earliest content management systems used by the pioneering bloggers, is still a good blogging platform choice. It has solid RSS features that include a built-in aggregator. Configuration is done in a desktop web server then it is upstreamed or sync to the web server. This gives the blogger a cached copy of the whole blog.
Blog posting tools are third-party applications that are used to compose and publish blog posts. These tools usually support multiple blogging services and are ideal for those without a persistent Internet connection.
W. Bloggar and BlogJet – these are two of the best blog-posting tools in the market, and both are available for free. They support almost all of the blogging platforms. They do what most web-based posting apps does, including rich text editing, with the added feature of being able to save your drafts offline.
Performancing for Firefox – a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows you to immediately compose a blog post while using the Firefox browser. It is Ideal for active bloggers who use Firefox as their web browser. It automatically saves your unpublished posts.
Blog Reading
RSS/Atom aggregators and other RSS tools belong to this category.
My Yahoo – My Yahoo tried to bring the concept of RSS subscription to the Internet masses. Though it lacks the more advanced features, it serves well as a good aggregator.
Google Reader – Google’s web-based RSS aggregator that features an AJAX-driven user interface. It has a good support for tags or labels, and features a very nice reading interface. One of its best features is its labels-sharing feature that allows you to put aggregated content to your blog.
Bloglines – Bloglines is one of the most widely-used web-based RSS Reader. It uses the traditional two-frame reading interface, and subscriptions are grouped into folders. It has a good blog-suggest feature, that uses linking analysis to suggest which blogs might be of interest to you based on your existing subscription set. You can also share your subscriptions using Bloglines.
Blog Search
Tools used to search information and blogs, and to watch the blogosphere for topics or issues being actively discussed.
Technorati – Technorati is one of the best blog search engine, feature wise, and is indexing over 49.4 million web blogs. It serves as a one-stop shop for those who want to know the current happenings in the blogosphere, including features such as blog ranking based on linking, personal aggregator (for those who login) and many other nifty tools.
Sphere – one of the newcomers in blog search that came even after many other engines have folded down already. It promised to deliver more relevant blog search results, and it rightfully did so, as attested by its early beta testers. It features a “sphere it” feature that allows you automatically query http://sphere.com to see topics that might be related to what you’re currently reading.
Blogger’s Toolbox
A collection of other tools essential to the serious blogger
Mint / Measure Map /Google Analytics – these are three different tools used to analyze your blog statistics. Mint specializes in giving you a big-picture snapshot of your traffic, somewhat lacking in the providing specific details, something that Google Analytics is good at. Analytics can provide detailed information on what’s happening on your blog, which contents are popular, what keywords used in searches that bring you readers, and many others. It features a calendar to specify the time range of the analysis that you want to see. Measure Map, like Analytics is a fresh acquisition of Google, but still in early stages. It somewhat sits in the middle of Mint and Google Map in terms of what information is provided.
Akismet – Akismet is a highly-acclaimed anti-comment spam plugin for Wordpress blogs. It is free for personal use.
Feedburner – Feedburner is a tool that “burns” your RSS feeds in order to add tracking and analysis features. This way you can see statistics regarding your RSS subscribers.
The tools listed above are just a few of the many others that can help users; from those who are just starting to blog to those who want to become even better bloggers. It also includes some tools for searching and aggregating blogs, because a good blogger must learn to watch the blogosphere closely if it wants to be able to make more effective blog contents.
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