The first year of blogging is often the most difficult. In your first year of blogging, the learning curve is likely to be the highest as you will be learning new techniques and trying out new methods to see what works best for your blog.
Although there are many hurdles to overcome in your first year of blogging, it can be a fun journey getting there. Blogging is dictated largely by passion. Very few start blogging unless they are passionate about their niche. Unfortunately however, our passion and knowledge of our …

This article contains guidelines for best result on Google. Following these guidelines will help promote better ranking of your pages on Google search results, make it easy for Google to index your website and minimise the risks of penalty. Google strongly encourage websites to pay close attention to its guidelines in order to prevent a website being penalised or removed entirely from the Google index.
Google updates its algorithm frequently in order to improve the ranking of relevant websites and filter out low quality content from search results. If your website …

There are many ways to measure the growth and success of your blog. Blogging is a time consuming task. Running a successful blog requires significant time and effort. It is hence important to measure the growth of your blog in order to monitor your performance and achieve the best results. It can help you to determine the overall effectiveness of your strategy as well as the techniques used to promote your blog. You can use these parameters to set your goals or use them as benchmarks to measure your growth. …

Making money from your blog is one of the greatest challenges for many bloggers. We use a number of methods to measure the growth and success of our website. First and foremost, you want to build a loyal customer base and regular traffic to your blog. You also want readers to syndicate and reference your content. You want mentions on leading social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook and you also want your content to be voted or favoured on social bookmarking sites like Digg or Delicious.
We also measure …

Discussed below are 15 Blog Post Topics for business blogs. Finding topics to write about is one of the biggest challenges faced by companies who run a blog on their website. Over the years many businesses have realised the importance of blogging for business. In fact most new corporate websites, small or large now include a blog.
One of the main problems with business blogs however is the frequency at which they are updated. While those who are serious of their web presence manage to post regularly on their blog, others …

Selling Ad Space to advertisers is one of the best ways to make money from your website or blof. There are many ways to make money from your website including Google Adsense, commission from the sale of affiliate products, and text links. However selling Ad Space to advertisers has one of the highest earning potentials. It commands one of the largest shares of income on many profitable websites.
Methods such as Google Adsense work well to start with, however you will soon realise its limitations for earning significant amounts. If you …

Guest blogging refers to writing a post as a guest on another blog.
There are two types of guest blogging:

Inviting others to contribute on your blog by writing a guest post
Contribute on someone else’s blog by writing a guest post

This post addresses the latter i.e. writing a guest post on another blog. Guest blogging typically involves contacting another blog in your niche that accepts guest posts and writing a quality post for the chosen blog. Based on factors such as popularity …

Millions of people search Google Maps every day. Google places offers businesses with a free listing on Google Maps which makes it easy for prospective customers in your area to find you.
Location based searching is a growing area on the Internet. Google Places offers an interface to control what is displayed about your business on Google Maps and related products.
Anyone with a product or service can benefit from Google Places. It is an excellent way to promote your business, whether you have your own website or not. It ensures that …

I have been using Social Bookmarking successfully to drive traffic to my blog. On the busiest days, almost half the traffic to my blog is generated as a direct result of social bookmarking. I have also found my ad revenue from Google adsense to increase on days I submit my bookmarks.
There are many social bookmarking websites, most of which are free. Internet Marketers all over the world use social bookmarking to drive traffic to websites. Bloggers use it to improve their readership. Here are 10 reasons why you should use …

Landing Pages help turn your website traffic into money. Using landing pages offers significant benefits not only with pay per click campaigns like Google Adwords but also with your organic search engine listings and other external links to your website.
According to a report by MarketingSherpa based on data from 2,673 marketers, 92% of marketers agree that landing pages are effective.

When to use a Landing Page:
Technically, you can use targeted landing pages whenever you have control over where your traffic is originating from. E.g. you can create specific landing pages for …