7 Ways to increase your blog traffic

1. Social bookmarking : Social Bookmarking Sites like digg, delicious, reddit, propeller etc. helps bring traffic to your blog. But sometimesit may not happen if you don't use these sites properly. For example on digg you should make a good profile of yours and add some friends there who will definitely digg your stories if you will do it for them.

2. Submit to search engines : submit your blog url to popular search engines like google, yahoo!, msn(now called ‘live’), ask.com.
Google : http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
Yahoo: http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

If you want your blog to be indexed quickly to the google then add your blog to google webmasters tool.

3. Post at forums : There are many forums present online. Start posting at these forums on some appropriate topic which is related to your blog and never forget to add your blog’s link along with your message. Remember, you shouldn't spam at forums otherwise you will not be paid any attention there. Give some genuine tips if somebody need them.

4. Submit articles to article directories : Submitting articles to the article directories is a very nice way of increasing traffic for your blog. If you need some more information on how submitting articles helps in bringing traffic Read this.
List of article directories where you can submit articles.

5. Leave comments on other blogs: whenever you visit a blog, make it your habit to leave comments on their articles and add your blog’s address to that comment. Try to comment on those blogs and sites which have got high search engine rankings. And keep this thing in mind that don’t spam. Your comment should make some sense so that readers will get good impression for your blog and hence the will definitely visit your blog.

6. Submit your blog to blog directories: there are many blog directories where you can submit your blog and will surely help you to increase your blog traffic.
Dmoz.org
Technorati.com
Topblogging.com
Blogtoplist.com
Fuelmyblog.com
Mybloggingarea.com


7. Youtube Videos: Upload videos to youtube.com with your blog's address diplayed as an introduction or at the end of the video. If your video start getting a lots of views than it will also bring a lots of traffic to your blog.

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How to show google ads between posts

It is assumed that you are using the inbuilt templates of blogger

1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard and click on layout of your blog.

2. On the layout page, you will see a section named ‘blog posts’. On the lower right hand corner click on ‘edit’.




3. A page will be displayed on which several options are given. You just have to check the box at the bottom ‘Show ads between posts’.




4. The moment you will check that box, another section under it will be displayed ‘configure inline ads’. You can change the looks of ads in this section.



5. When you are done with all these things, click on the orange box at lower right corner ‘save’.

Now you can view your blog for changes.

Google Tricks

Search for specific file types:
There are various kinds of files available over the net. Searching for a specific file type isn’t really easy. But using this tip you can easily search for a specific file type.
For instance if you want to search for a guide, let’s say a ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career’ in ppt format. You can make use of the “filetype:” function. So in order to search for the PPT version of the guide you can enter in search bar ‘Guide to Building a Successful IT Career filetype:ppt’

Weather Updates:
You can easily know the weather condition of a specific place. In order to find out, all you need to do is just enter the place name followed by “weather”. For ex: “london weather”
Compare currencies:
Google’s search has an inbuilt currency converter. It allows you to perform any currency conversion. All you need to do is just enter the conversion you’d like done into the Google search box and hit “Enter” or click the Google Search button. For instance: “1 USD in INR”


Google Convertor:
Using this feature you can convert units like millimeter into inches, kilometers into miles, liters into ml, etc. You can do so by typing ‘25km in miles’ for converting km in to miles, ‘50litres in ml’ for converting litres into ml, and so on.



Google calculator:

Google search can be used as a calculator. It can calculate anything from the simplest math to the most complex equation. All you need to do is just enter the math in the search box and hit enter. You can use the following functions:
+ : add
- :subtract
* :multiply
/ :divide
^ :to the power of
sqrt : square root of a number

How submitting articles increase blog traffic

Submitting articles is a very effective way of bringing traffic to your blog. But it takes a little bit time. If you want to submit articles to these article sites you have to be a good writer. You can’t submit useless material. Whenever, you submit article, these sites provide you a box or space in which you can write about yourself and about your site along with this you can also provide link to your blog there. Your job is over here and you have to just wait and watch. People visit these article sites, where you have submitted your article, in two ways. First is through google search and some of them directly access these sites. So, when they read your article they will also see author’s biography box where you have provided information about yourself and your site along with a link to your site. They can access your sites through this link. Not only this, Some people may find your article so useful that they copy it and paste on their own sites but they also have to copy and paste that magical box i.e author’s biography box where you have provided link to your blog. The visitors have to do this because of the copyright laws according to which they cannot modify your material and also they have include author’s biography box. Now, when they copy paste your article along with your blog info and link they are improving your ranking in google search and also other people may visit their site and they will see your blog’s link and can visit your blog and hence a chain reaction will start. So, look at the power of your one article and imagine if you will make it your routine what!. But you have to be patient. So start this from today.
List of sites where you can submit your articles.

More traffic building tips
7 Ways to increase blog traffic

Submit articles here to increase blog traffic

If you are a good writer and want to Increase traffic to your blog then start submitting articles to the following sites :-

1. ArticleCity.com

2. Goarticles.com

3. Ezinearticles.com

4. Valuablecontent.com

Now, you must be thinking that how can submitting articles can help in bringing traffic. If you want to know the details behind it then you must read this, it is a very useful information which you must know about before submitting articles.

Google Adsense Game

If your Blog has already been approved or you are seeking for adsense approval than you should play this game. you will definitely enjoy this game and also you will learn some tips for adsense.

play the game

5 Steps to get adsense approval

1. Good content : The most important thing and it generally haunts many people but it is truth and there is no chance at all to succeed without having quality content on your blog. For the beginning, choose a particular topic which you know about very well for example: if you have good knowledge about marketing so start writing on it. At least 4-5 articles must be there on your blog. Don’t listen and follow those who shouts for having 15 pages. And always try to write what real material and don’t copy paste.

2. Good look: This thing also matters. If you are having and going to have a blog on blogger.com
Then they have ready to use templates, you can pick anyone of those and use it for your blog.
If you want to use other templates then no problem you can get it from anywhere. The only point to be noted in this case is that don’t use a bulky template which will make loadind of your blog difficult. I would recommend you to use light and good looking template.

The following 3 steps which i have mentioned have no direct link with getting approval for adsense but when i got approval i was using these services.
people may say anything but submitting your blog sitemap to google webmaster tools definitely helps in getting the approval. This is my experience and you must also follow this.

3. Use google webmaster tools: Google has a very good service which is known as google webmaster tools. When you have fully prepared your blog or completed with step 1 and 2
Just sign in to google webmaster tools with your google account. After this you have to add your blog url and then verify it. If you are new to this click here and get some more detailed information on how to verify your blog for google webmaster tools. I must tell you that this step will play the most important role in getting the adsense approval. The reason for this is that googlebots can easily access your blog if you are using google webmaster tools.

4. Feedburner: This is another service which is provided by google. You have to burn your blog feed at feedburner and don’t worry at all it is very simple. I have published a separate post for
Read it and you will be able to do it very easily. Feedburner also provides some widgets which you can add to your blog.

5. Sitemap: This is must to ensure approval. Now, don’t start thinking about sitemap but just concentrate on procedure to add sitemap. You have add your blog’s sitemap at google webmaster tools. Now step 2 again comes into play. This is the last step towards google adsense approval. Actually, it will be better if you read this post which I have published separately how to add blogger sitemap. Now it’s the time to chill because it takes few days to get your blog’s and your sitemap’s pages getting indexed. You can easily check it from time to time on your google webmaster->overview.

you must be thinking about traffic. If you think that traffic is important to get adsense approval then you are wrong. Don’t even think about traffic. There are many people who just keep thinking about traffic and they find nothing out of it.

And at the end, submit your application to google adsense. You will have to wait for at most a week for their answer.

Feel free to contact me if you are having any problem. And forget to subscribe to my blog because nobody knows about the stuff which I am going to post.
Best Of Luck

Google secret search tips

Search for Ebooks

+( ?index of ?) +( ?/ebooks ?| ?/book ?) +(chm|pdf|zip|rar) +apache is the query when searched in google is which gives out an index of ebook servers based on Apache and an Index of Files.

allinurl: +(rar|chm|zip|pdf|tgz|lit) TheTitle is the query to be searched for where TheTitle is to be replaced with the book you want to find. Say if you want to find for Google Hacks, replace TheTitle with “Google Hacks” . The quotes are suggested only if you are sure of the name of the book. Searching for “The DaVinci Code ? will give you poorer results since the book name is “The Da Vinci Code ?

Search for Warez in Google

“parent directory ” Xvid -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” MP3 -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” applications -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” Gamez -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums
“parent directory ” DVDRip -xxx -html -htm -php -shtml -opendivx -md5 -md5sums

Replace the bold part with your query and search for it in Google
Say if you want to search for Limewire simply replace the applications with Limewire and search for it on Google
Say if you want to find a song by Guns N’ Roses November Rain, replace the mp3 part with November Rain or if you want to find songs by Guns n’ Roses, replace the mp3 part with Guns N’ Roses and voila! You get a string of results related to what you want

Search for MP3s on Google

?intitle:index.of? mp3

Another way to search for mp3s on Google is to use this query. After mp3 put up what you want to download and search for it on Google.

Say you want to look up Nirvana, the query will be ?intitle:index.of? mp3 Nirvana

Search for files on megaupload and rapidshare

To see video files available on MegaUpload… put the following in google:avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:megaupload.com
To see all music files available on MegaUpload… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:megaupload.com
To see all archives and programs available on MegaUpload… google: zip|rar|exe site:megaupload.com
To get some ebooks google: pdf|rar|zip|doc|lit site:megaupload.com

To see video files available on Rapidshare.de… put the following in google: avi|mpg|mpeg|wmv|rmvb site:rapidshare.de
To see all music files available on Rapidshare.de… google: mp3|ogg|wma site:rapidshare.de
To see all archives and programs available on Rapidshare.de… google: zip|rar|exe site:rapidshare.de
To get some ebooks google: pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de

For megaupload and rapidshare searching, narrow down you search for what you want by putting your query at the first part.

Say if you want to search for da vinco code ebook use the query
da vinci code pdf|doc|lit|rar|zip site:rapidshare.de
Hope this helps.

How to earn money from blog

There is one and only one way of earning money and that is google adsense. Google adsense is an integral part of google.

If you want to use this service for earning money, you have to first of all submit your application to google adsense which will include your blog url and some more details.

After doing this, you will have to wait at most for a week for approval.

It depends on content of your blog whether it will be approved or disapproved. I must tell you that google is very strict with their adsense program so don’t expect that you will get adsense approval without any effort. If you want some tips to get approved for adsense click here.

Further, I want to tell you that once you get approved for google adsense, they will provide you advertisement codes which you can display on your blog. Every time these ads are clicked you will get money for it.

Actually, google gives you a share of the money which they get from advertisers if their ad is clicked from your blog.

Never to click on these ads by your own because if you will do this your blog will be banned and removed.

How to prepare your blog for money making

This is the beat part of blogging. You can earn money from it along with sharing your thoughts with the whole world.

If you want to earn money from your blog, you have to follow these steps:-

1. Platform: You must have a blog at blogger because I think it is the best platform for blogging.

2. Content: Your blog must have such a kind of content which will help other people in any way. Don’t forget that blogging is all about quality not quantity. Don’t just copy paste material.
You should write atleast 4-5 posts which must be informative.

3. Look: You should give a good look to your blog. Blogger has some ready to use templates which are very good and you can use them without any hesitation. If you get bored by these templates then you can find good looking templates from the web by just searching for ‘Blogger Templates’. One most important thing which you must keep in your mind is that not to choose a bulky template. This will result in poor accessibility of your blog. Your blog will take a long time in loading and hence irritate other people.

4. Burn your blog feed: you should burn your blog feed at feedburner.com. this is a very good service which will also provide you some tools which you can add to your blog which will help you to link with your visitors.

5. Sign up for adsense: Google adsense is the service which is the integral part of Google. If your blog get the approval from this service, you will be able to put ads on your blog. Then you can earn money according to pay per click and pay per impression rules.

So, hurry up!