Shocking News 'Phantom' banned in Pakistan

A Pakistani court today banned the release of Bollywood movie "Phantom" in the country on a plea filed by JuD chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed against it alleging that the film, set on post-26/11 attacks, contains "filthy propaganda" against him and his outfit.

Lahore High Court judge Justice Shahid Bilal Hassan issued the order to ban the release of the Saif Ali Khan-starrer film in the theaters in Pakistan after hearing the arguments of Saeed's counsel and the government law officer.

Before issuing a short-order on the film, which was scheduled to release on August 28, the judge observed that Indian and other movies are easily available after their release and asked the government what it could do to stop it from being available in the market if a movie is banned.

"If a movie is banned in cinemas what the government could do to stop it from being available in the market in CDs", the judge asked.

In the petition filed in the High Court on August 8, Saeed's advocate A K Dogar alleged that "there is a direct threat to the life of the petitioner (Saeed) and his associates emanating from the content of the trailer of the film."

"It is obvious that dialogues coming out of the lips of the different Indian actors and actresses will poison the minds of Pakistani public and will portray Hafiz Saeed as terrorist even though JuD has not been declared as a proscribed organisation," Dogar said.

Arguing in the court, the government law officer said that since no one had sought No Objection Certificate (NOC) from the government for the release of the movie in Pakistan the petition was "useless" and should be dismissed.

"The petitioner is unnecessarily trying to involve the government," he said.
Based on crime author Hussain Zaidi's novel "Mumbai Avengers", 'Phantom' is set in the aftermath of the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and deals with global terrorism.

The Pakistan censor board had yet not cleared the film for screening in the country.

Since the government allowed exhibition of Indian films in Pakistan, the Censor Board has been careful about not allowing screening of Indian films which deal with the subject of Pakistan, terrorism and ISI.

In the past, Saif Ali Khan's 'Agent Vinod' and Salman Khan's 'Ek Tha Tiger' were also banned from being screened in cinema halls in the country although they are freely available on CDs and DVDs in Pakistan. 

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Sunny Leone makes her Dubsmash debut in style : Bollywood Actress

Bollywood actress Sunny Leone is the latest celebrity to join the Dubsmash bandwagon by opting to lip-sync to lines of the adorable animated characters - Minions.

On Saturday, Sunny Leone shared her first Dubsmash video on Twitter and wrote, "My first dubs mash. It will get better lol @DanielWeber99 @911Yusuf"

In her debut Dubsmash video, she can be seen with her husband Daniel Weber and consultant Yusuf Ibrahim.
 The same day, she posted another Dubsmash, but this time, she chose to go all 'gangster' by mouthing lines from Tupac's 'Hit Em Up'. While sharing the video, she tweeted, "Having so much fun finding my inner dub smash ;) haha"Recently, Saif Ali Khan's son Ibrahim made headlines for dubsmashing Shah Rukh Khan's 'Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai'.

On the work front, Sunny Leone-starrer sex comedy 'Mastizaade' has finally been cleared for a theatrical release after some censoring.

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Nargis Fakhri loses almost 4 kgs in a month

Nargis Fakhri eliminated "certain foods that I am allergic to" from her diet and the "Rockstar" fame actress says she has lost a good amount of weight.

"I lost almost four kilos in one month just by eliminating certain foods that I am allergic to out of my diet. And walking 10,000 steps a day! Amazed," Nargis tweeted on Sunday.

The actress has been often tweeting about food.
Nargis had earlier shared about French fries craving and how she overcame it.

"Staying up late nights for shoot makes me so hungry!! Arghhhh help! French fries are calling my name???? Noo stop it! I will not give in to you," she posted on Twitter.

She even wrote about eating "simple healthy food".

"Why do places put like a cup of butter on your vegetables? Why is it so hard to have plain simple healthy food?? steamed boiled that's it," she tweeted. 

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Hold On Sunny Leone Ready To Shock You Again

Sunny Leone-starrer Mastizaade has finally been cleared for a theatrical release after some censoring

Milap Zaveri's 'Mastizaade' starring Sunny Leone, which had been denied a Censor certificate earlier, has now been cleared with an 'adult' tag after the makers agreed to cut a few scenes and dialogues. The adult comedy was supposed to hit the marquee on May 1, but the Censor Board, at its various levels, had rejected it for its risque content.

Milap Zaveri says, "We are happy and excited to get a clearance. We will announce a release date soon. The film is an adult comedy and in anticipation of cuts from the Censor Board, we filmed extra shots. We have chopped some scenes here and there, but they do not affect the film in any way."
'Mastizaade' producer Rangita Nandy refrained from sharing details on the number of cuts effected to obtain certification. "I can only tell you that we have escaped unhurt and the impact of the cuts are not that bad. Though it was not an easy process, we managed to pull it off and had a quiet celebration for it. We are now looking to release the film as soon as possible since it is ready," she adds. 

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fight for jalebis between Mallika Sherawat And Katrina Kaif

It's a fight for jalebis (and we thought we'd never say this outside the newsroom).

Katrina Kaif, who has performed on a number titled 'Afgani Jalebi' in her upcoming film 'Phantom', hopes to win the Jalebi title.

However, she will have to fight a certain Mallika Sherawat, for it.

After all, the originaly Jalebi tag when to Sherawat after her performance in 'Jalebi Bai' in 'Double Dhamaal' (2011).

Let's wait and watch who wins this bitter-sweet war.

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Shraddha and Tiger Shroff's rumoured ladylove look alike?

Shraddha Kapoor seems to have a doppelganger in model and aspiring actress Disha Patani.

Patani, who is also rumoured to be Tiger Shroff's girlfriend, resembles Shraddha quite a bit.

Interestingly, Tiger and Disha were to feature in the upcoming film Baaghi, but at the last-minute she was dropped and Shraddha was roped in.

Whatever the reason for Disha's ouster, looks like Tiger will have a co-star that reminds him of his lady love.

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Watch New Movie poster of 'Jazbaa'

After the humongous response that Jazbaa received at Cannes with the unveiling of their first look of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan and Irrfan Khan, an intriguing message has just shown itself.

The makers of Jazbaa are now releasing the new official poster which has the two global icons together. Much has been spoken about their unsaid chemistry and how the unusual yet electrifyingly power packed duo has won hearts at the shoot.

Jazbaa releases it's poster this evening.

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Kritika Kamra does not like saas-bahu dramas anymore

She has essayed a doctor, been a narrator for a cyber crime show, and is currently seen as a journalist in a TV show. Kritika Kamra says she prefers content-driven projects over "saas-bahu dramas".

"When I'm associated with a show, I want to be a part of something that I would enjoy watching. I can't be a part of something that drags. I don't enjoy the saas-bahu dramas... I don't watch it (and) I'm not that audience," Kritika told IANS on the phone from Mumbai.

She said there is an audience like her that is constantly looking for differentiated content on Indian television.

"And there is such less to choose from," added the actress, who has received a Cyber Celebrity Award for hosting the show "MTV Webbed".

She says she enjoys playing a variety of roles as it helps her to "learn something and get to be a part of a new world, reinvent and be different".
The 26-year-old stressed that her motive is to be in shows which are high on "content", rather than being high on TRPs (Television Rating Points).

"My whole idea is that I want to be a part of the shows that are remembered for the quality of content...and not remembered for the TRPs."

Her ongoing show "Reporters" is soon going to get wrapped up. "It was supposed to be a finite series," she said.

Kritika is "glad" that the show is a finite series because "it comes to a logical conclusion and it doesn't go on for years and leaps happen and (the story gets) dragged."

In "Reporters", Kritika shares screen space with Rajeev Khandelwal.

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Useful Backlink Analysis Tools That Increse Your Website Ranking

As Google continually changes its algorithms in a bid to improve the search experience for its users, search rankings of websites often go up and down. Now Google claims that there are more than 200 factors that work together to determine how well your website will perform, but one of the biggest factors is your backlink profile, which helps determine your PR, which in turn determines your website’s crawl and index rate. So how can you improve your rank and crawl/index rate? By analysing your backlink profile of course! Here’s a list of the top 5 backlink analysis tools you can use to analyze your backlink profile, and take the necessary steps in order to improve and optimize it.

1. Google Fusion Tables

This isn’t your conventional backlink analysis tool. Although still in its experimental stages, this is a great tool to visualize data, and see the relationship between different sites or sources of data. With Google Fusion Tables, you can;

• Upload small or large data sets from spreadsheets or CSV files.
• Visualize your data on maps, timelines and charts.
• Pick who can access your data; hide parts of your data if needed.
• Merge data from multiple tables.
• Discuss your data with others. Track changes and discussions.

2. Open Site Explorer

Moz’s Open Site Explorer is another great tool that is now being used increasingly by bloggers and webmasters to analyze backlink data. The Open Site Explorer shows you the Page Authority and Domain Authority for the URL you wish to analyze. In addition, you can see all the backlinks to a page of yours, along with the Domain and Page Authority of the individual linking pages as well, so that you can check out what backlinks have a low Authority, and might need weeding out.

3. Yandex Webmaster Tools

The Russian search engine is often ignored by users and webmasters alike. But it is nevertheless a pretty good and accurate tool collection with many useful features in its dashboard, including a pretty accurate backlink reporting. Another plus point is that, it has a pretty good API, which makes it easier to export data to other services.

4. SEOkicks

SEOkicks is a German tool that claims to have it’s own index of around 42 billion URLs. I really like how easy it is to use and the ability to instantly export into a CSV. The data set includes the domain’s IP address along with Moz’s Domain Authority metric. The only down side to this tool is, it’s written completely in German. So you might have to use an online translator to get the full experience.

5. Gephi

Like Google’s Fusion Tables, Gephi is a great way to build dramatic visualizations of a backlink profile. This tool is designed to chart graphs, so it is the ideal solution for showcasing networks and link relationships. One cool aspect of the visualizations is they can show both link connections and other metrics at the same time.

So, do you have any more good backlink analysis tools in mind? please feel free to share them with us in the comments section below! Good day :)

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SEO Mistakes That Affect Traffic of The Blog

If you are looking to earn reasonably huge through online money making business, you need to learn how important the SEO management is for a blog. Search Engine Optimization is the key to make your blog Google friendly so that the search engine directs traffic, and in other words, the revenue to your blog. We have been discussing SEO tips with you all to make sure that nothing goes unnoticed by our readers, and here are 5 detailed SEO mistakes that the bloggers often make and make their business suffer, Have a look!

1. Counterfeit words

It’s hard to think, be creative and invent words corresponding to a topic but it’s far easier to plagiaries and borrows the same article for your website. What you can’t see is you are hurting your own image and bringing up a potential baby of dropping your site from search engine. Even if you are rewriting the article try to bring a positive change which can give it a new identity rather than looks like a summary to the previous article.

2. Inappropriate Keywords

What signifies and publicize your article are the keywords you introduce to the search engine, because those words are going to reflect your article when audience type specific words in a search engine. It’s the major element that has been neglected often, and blogs are deficient with words that can reveal a best possible explanation according to the reader. It took hours to generate a new idea, to search and produce an article but it would take only 15 minutes more if you work on the words that could show your hard work. If you think you can’t come up with public words you can use a suggested tool, Google Keyword Tool, to research keywords and to make your article available to your targeted audience.

3. No analyses ever made

Are you spending hours and constantly looking your ratings to get low? Did you try to spend more time in writing to produce better articles but still it seems useless? The only answer to your simple problem is you are lacking the golden tip, “Site-Keeping”. It may take hours to write but it will only take minutes for you to see what audience has proposed and suggested regarding the content you post. Sometimes we believe we are doing our best but we don’t realize, it’s not we who are going to like it, its THEM! Let your subscribers, decide criticize and comment, and use those comments in a constructive way to bring positive changes and improvements where necessary. This small tip will save your hours to write a great article with similar mistakes.

4. Unnecessary words

There are some writers who don’t bother to enter keywords while some stuffed the keywords in the search engine for increasing the chances to be obvious but this is not the case now. Smart and eminent words will do your job or else search engine will penalize your website. Work on the quality of your articles and not the quantity of unnecessary words.

5. Using Black Hat Techniques

Breaking rules and regulations, unethically present content in a different visual or non-visual way to search engine users just to get higher search rankings in totally going to get you in a trouble. Such techniques will provide short term gain in terms of rankings, but if you are discovered utilizing theses spammy techniques on your website, you run the risk of being penalized by search engines. Do not get on tracks of putting less efforts and hoping to receive quick results. Be honest with what you do, and you will definitely see the positive result.

Online business has a lot of risk and uncertainty yet  there are things that are still in your hand as a blogger, try making a hold of them and turning your learning into earning

Best Wishes,

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Killer Ways To Increase Traffic To Your Blog 2015

It has been quite long that we didn’t update our readers with the tactics to increase their earning by attracting a good traffic to their blogs and here we are with 20 fresh tips that would really help in generating a considerable traffic for your blog.  Before you move on to the 20 tips, make it clear that the online business never pays you back in a night, in fact it consumes much more time than you think, be patient and keep following the below stated tips!

1)Spread the word

You write audience like, they share and you enjoy the share in your account. What’s most important for you is to drag the traffic and it’s just little fingers away, you need to turn, twist, type magical words that is targeted at audience likely to share because such people are inspired by your style, point of view and descriptions you write. Enjoy the company of active community who love to evangelize your work.

2)Be visible to your readers

You can’t be targeting the entire world on your blog, you must be focused and centralize over an idea of targeting a specific age group community, and that is your central idea. But mostly what we do is, we care about the writing and forget about the idea. Explore and discover your large portion of population over forums, social networking sites, blogs by following the discussions and contents being posted regarding your topic, create an account, participate in discussions and expand using web based tool like DoubleClick’s Ad Planner. Enjoy the reward with traffic, fans and trust later.

3)Stay SEO friendly

Being SEO friendly, you will enjoy the massive traffic opportunities which are of tremendously important value to the bloggers. They are simple and easy to set up and takes only 20% of the effort and tactics to make your content optimize for search engines which then draw you 80% increment in your traffic. A good SEO friendly content is important but a lot of people ignore it over the fear and misunderstandings rather than actual problems.

4)Spread the word about your blog

There are multiple eminent social networking sites like Linkedln, Twitter, Facebook etc, with millions of people using them daily, use the opportunity, make use of it because these are going to spread the word about your blog as they are acting as “content Distributors”. Track your contents post on different sites and share your view, be active in discussions, stay visible to your readers, make possible memorable impression on your followers. Be honest in what you do, following the industry luminaries, connectors and influences, as social media is single largest source of traffic. They will surely love your attention.

5)Analyze and evaluate

“Practice makes the man perfect”, but simply writing and jumbling words on blog won’t bring the perfection. You need to be analytic, skeptical and curious about your writing and wondering how many people like or going through your content so you could make changes or up gradations according to it. Your job is not to write! Your job is to drag the traffic and grow the tree. You can only do that if you keep your eyes open. Install Google Amalytic, it is going to help you to see what others think about what you think.

6)Catch the eye

What makes your writings attractive, sight catching, beautiful and most importantly preferred to read first? If you think you are an amazing writer and have a better style than others, than forget it! They are attracted by those cheesy pictures with link back licensing and outstanding colorful graphics. A picture speaks thousand words, that’s the strategy you have to adopt. Once you catch the eye of traffic they will give time to your words.

7)Keyword research

What’s most important for your blog is to get easily navigated and it is only possible if words or phrases typing by the people in search engine show your article as one of the results. The many times your articles are revealed over the research by audience, there are greater chances to catch an eye of public. You need to learn tactics, words and phrases which audience could possibly think of in relation to your context and then submit those words. It is an important element for your blog publicity, use eg AdWord Keyword Tool to find such words and get ready to be obvious.

8)Posting references

“Give and take” is perfectly implies on the web. While traveling through another blog, you encounter a question over which you have done enough research, then do not hesitate to post the link of your own material but in a way that is not manipulative, by this move you potentially draw visitors to your content and secondly it is more humble to referencing the contents of others as it is one of the best ways we earn recognition.

9)Be active

Social sharing communities are perfect place for you to be gregarious, famous and earn recognition.  Be active at social networking sites together with the sites concerning knitting (Ravelry), News/politics (Newsvine),etc. to aware and to tailor your content on better lines to meet the demand and guidelines to stay survive among the best.

10)Guest Blog

It’s hard to make someone believe to trust on your skills when you are a new bee and it’s even hardest to convince the bloggers to allow you to post on their sites but it is a fantastic way to spread your brand to new folks who have never seen your work before and this can be use to earn early links and references back to your site.

11) Incorporate Great Design Into Your Site

First impression is the last impression it’s not just set of words but a hardline fact. Even if you’re content lack experience or research a bit according to the demands of the topics or viewers if your presentation skills are remarkable then your mistakes will be overlooked and you will be looked upon as a professional blogger. When readers look at a blog, the first thing they judge is how it “feels” from a design and UX perspective. Allocating more budgets or trying it at least will ultimately lead to reach your goal in less time. Design, layout, friendly use and site maps properly made all these are captivating policies of a blogger for its viewer.

12)Interact on Other Blogs’ Comments

Not every word spoken or written is of worth same is the case with answers many of the answers on sites are nothing but spam or act of foolishness. However this can be changed in your favor once your interact or answer the queries in professional manner in such a way that people start craving for your answers and wish to have more answers from you often. This will ultimately lead to follow up of your blog by these viewers.

13 )Participate in Q+Sites

Answering popular questions with authentic lines and grip and even with proper links there is very high margin chances viewers would drop by on your blog to see your other creativity too. Referring the viewer from a Q & A session on a page to your blog by posting links on it might make spammer there however once it’s done with tactics and right move then you are all set to go ahead.

14)Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email (and track them!)

It’s easy to forget things even if you like them and that’s what viewers do after they visit and even like a blog. Many of the viewers never pay visit again to the same blog as the content on internet is filling up every day. It’s better to make a good family of viewers and never be forgotten and for this add RSS button on the correct place of your blog encourage viewers to click on it once they like your effort and keep a check on the followers list to see if your work is still like by other people or not.

15)Attend and Host Events

Humans are called social animals and it’s true. No matter  how much the world is summed up in a nutshell by the internet world, the class and aroma of person to person meeting will never die or extinct. Bloggers should enhance and enlarge their social circle and attend events particular of their interest to exchange views, and get popular visits on their blog and yes once you are big enough it’s time to pay back to try host events so that the cycle doesn’t break.

16)Use Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Blog

Leaving an impression in the last is pretty important job. Using your blog links as your signature or referring to you posts and blogs in your conversation is a smart move of present time. Try bringing up likes of your post or blog in different conversations. If a question about a particular topic or related to it, it is asked again and again a blog post could be generated to address the issue as a whole to capture many people asking same query.

17)Survey your Readers

Many products of brands and new concepts are based upon the perception and believe of common man and that is what blogger should also inculcate in his site. A common survey or questionnaire regarding different topics or even based upon current situation can end up with flow of traffic on the blog once the common man start taking interest in the survey. A useful website like survey monkey can be handy at times.

18)Add Value to a Popular Conversation

It’s better to be talked rather being ignored. The phenomenon existed since the inception of world and high tech world. People your clients do follow the famous or hot debates and conversations. Being a part of big game is risky but mostly healthy and fruitful in long run and that is what bloggers are supposed to do to bring traffic towards their blog at the end of the day.

19 )Aggregate the Best of Your Niche

At times including burning question in the framework of your blog helps to capture the attention of many viewers and one of its ways at the moment is to have list of top tens or top x or some other top blogs of websites that are scored on different grounds. The whole concept of this idea is to let people have some working of brain cell let them think about the score and places the websites, blogs or any other format have made in the list and how.

20 )reconnect to your roots

No matter which platform or social network you use whether it is Facebook, linked in, yahoo groups or even photos websites like flicker all your contents view by your valued clients should be linked back to your blog. The agenda of your content should be that they have some link to your identity it could be trademark in your text link of your blog in end of your any video last but not least make sure you give path back to your blog for your client.

Hope that our experience helps you out in your business,
Wishes,

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Strategies To Get The Most From Article Marketing

Article marketing is one of the many ways you can increase traffic and backlinks to your blog. It can be an excellent way to get a website started in Search engines. Over the years, I’ve been able to accomplish awesome look for website optimization Results with article marketing for a coordinator of service companies and info-product sites. And today, I will share some of my experiences with you so you can better understand why you should use article marketing. Here are 5 tips on how to get the most out of your article marketing efforts:

1. Headlines

As you might know, headlines are essential in almost any published interaction, whether it is a sales page or articles. When running a blog, a headline is either extremely powerful, or search term wealthy, or both. But if you have to choose between the two, go with what exactly is powerful to individuals first. A short article that gets read and attached to is more useful than a post with a keyword-packed name that gets ignored.

When posting articles to internet directories, headlines are still essential, but you are now composing for a little different audience. While you were composing for people before, now you are composing for marketers first. And the existing mind-set among the individuals most likely to post your articles is that key terms issue most. So you concentrate on them just like you would on any other article. Write the most compelling name you can, but it absolutely must consist of eye-catching key terms.

Don’t feel like you need to aim for the most popular search term blends related to the topic; there can be basically too much competitors. Think Lengthy Tail instead. Do market research and discover excellent market blends. This is what marketers are looking for, and keeping marketers satisfied will create your article marketing efforts more successful.

2. Resource Box

An excellent article with a bad resource box is a waste of your energy and ability. Various articles submission sites have varying requirements for how much information can be placed in your resource box, or “byline.” There are also particular guidelines regarding how many backlinks can be present, and how they can be partitioned.

Carefully evaluate the guidelines, and utilize every web link opportunity that is permitted. If three hyperlinks are allowed, then add three hyperlinks to your resource box. There should be at least one backlink to your website using anchor-text for relevant key terms and words. For example, I might backlink to my website with the anchor-text web copy writing. It’s sensible to differ the anchor-text you use a little bit every once in a while, and you may even web link sometimes with “click here” or other more natural words. Simply duplicating your preferred key terms and words in your anchor-text again and again will likely work against you in Google’s eyes.

Leave at least one web link in the full http://www.yoursite.com structure. Why?

Inexperienced blog owners or marketers may unintentionally fall short to effectively structure your anchor-text web link, making you link-less. Plus, e-mail writers who post in plain published text cannot assistance anchor-text hyperlinks, so you want to create sure you always preserve a fool-proof web link. No web link, no value.

Also, when styling the http://www.yoursite.com web link, never put a period at the end of a URL. In some circumstances that can cause the web link to break. I basically try to never put the URL at the end of a phrase.

3. Write 2 small articles better than 1 long post

Conventional running blog wideness says that shorter content is better, and with “link and opinion” type content, that is true. But there happens to be increasing activity among resource-oriented weblogs toward longer, more helpful content.

With articles, it’s essential that they remain short. There are two excellent reasons for this.

One, never ignore the writers resource box. Your objective is for people to see who you are and visit your website. While you need to provide some powerful value in your article, it is a means to an end. Otherwise, your articles is offering more value to the index (and their AdSense ads) than to yourself.

Two, the key to effective article marketing is amount. If you normally create long articles, go forward and create them that way. Then divide the produced articles into two or more articles of 250 to 500 terms.

The greater part of writers who post articles to the internet directories deliver in less than 10, then stop because the outcomes are not frustrating. You basically cannot get outcomes with that few articles. I’ve been able to get achievement in the look for engines with as little as 20 articles, but the more you post, the better your results. Volume is the simple key behind effective article marketing, but most individuals basically do not create it over the problem.

Here’s a sign that will help you come up with thoughts. Browse around an articles directory in the groups that are appropriate to your topic. See what others are writing about. Now, put your own whirl on some of those articles. You can always find a new position. Remember, there can be nothing truly new under the sun, but there can be a thousand ways to tell a tale.

4. No duplicate Content

If you are running a blog, it’s very appealing to basically post your content to the directories. I keep away from this. I think it’s controversial that Google will concentrate on you for having articles on your website that is also released elsewhere, but there is definitely some risk.

From a realistic viewpoint, basically having what you weblog republished can harm you with individuals who simply click through from your writers resource box. When I study an excellent directory articles, and then simply click though to the weblog only to see the identical content, I keep. Reasonable or not, I’m not sensation the value of investing time there.

Anecdotally, I’ve basically had the best outcomes when there is no replication of content. Often I will enhance a free resource, such as a guide or other articles that is provided by e-mail. The articles targeted visitors the resource and help it rank in Google, and I get an opportunity to start a persistent connection with that guest. The distributed article was the first exclusive step in developing that relationship.

5. Copywriting Issues

Your articles cannot basically be a marketing or message for whatever you are selling. Actually, even your writer’s resource box should not be throwing the purchase. An article is an entrance that allows you to be able to begin a conversation with a prospective prospect.

Publishing lots of articles that backlink to your concentrate on website or weblog will help you in Google. However, to really get the most out of article marketing, you need to turn articles visitors into immediate visitors.

To do that, you need a powerful title, and a smash hit starting paragraph. From there, your content should cause people step-by-step, sentence-by-sentence, to your source box, where the proactive approach is such that the audience presses through onto your pitch. Studying primary and innovative copywriting methods will increase your overall promotion efficiency by leaps and range.

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Killer Tips To Improve Your Google Search Engine Ranking

What makes you a professional blogger is your Search Engine Optimization knowledge that decides where your blog is going to stand in the world ranking. Search Engine Optimization, referred as SEO, means to make your content of your blog, search engine friendly. What you actually want to do is to boost up your Google Search engine ranking so that when a potential reader types something related to your niche or your article in the Google search, it becomes more likely that your blog link is displayed. The better are your rankings, the better would be the result. It is to remember that it’s your search engine that directs a huge traffic to your blog if and only if you have applied SEO tips in your blogging content.

Considering the importance of improving your Google Search engine ranking consistently, here are 10 decent tips to follow in order to keep boosting your ranking and enjoying more directed traffic from Google search Engine.

1) The Niche Of Your Blog

We have been sharing tremendous ideas on what niches are most productive to blog on. According to the trend that has been set by the Google Search Engine, it is evident that Google loves to link with niche sites. Having a particular niche for your blog increases the credibility of the content available on it. Google show results of the user search, from the sites that seem to be more authorized in terms of its niche.

Many bloggers think that choosing many niches to write on their blog might attract more traffic but in reality, the traffic suffers the most here. This is because, there is no targeted traffic. Writing about fashion, money making, clothing, gadgets on a single blog is truly not a good idea.

Choose a particular niche for your blog and stick to it. post articles that are relevant enough to drag Google Search Engine’s attention, and you will see your rankings improving in no time.

2) Work on Headings

First being the niche, the second important thing that decides how much the search engine is going to love you is the heading Tags that you choose for your articles. According to the reports revealed by Google, it’s the Heading Tag that let Google understand about what is the topic of the post and thus, it then plans how and where to link you up. Heading 1 and 2 should be chosen for your titles that help it exposing your content to the targeted audience.

3) Keywords on your page

Knowing the significance of keywords, we actually dominate the search engines with our articles. Its always recommended to select the keywords for a topic before starting to write on it. using keywords in your article makes it more Search engine friendly. What happens actually is that when a potential reader types a keyword to search about, Google first matches it with the blog having a related niche, once done with that, the robots match that keyword with the keywords that are used in articles and then show the results.

Try to write articles using keywords which make sense!

4) Ensure Quality

Now that’s what is really important to understand. As a blogger, your aim is not only to drag a reader to your blog by applying SEO techniques, No! In fact, you want to increase your readership by providing the best quality content to your readers who are directed from search engines to your blog. if your content would be worth following, your readers will start trusting your blog and would directly visit your blog without taking the ladder of Google Search engine which might not always a lucky one for you.

Contrary to this, sacrificing on the quality of content might still bring some potential reader to your blog if you have worked on SEO, but a bad content would encourage the readers to un follow you, rapidly increasing your bounce rate, which is again what a blogger is scared of.

Never compromise on quality of your content as that is something the readers are attracted the most!

5) Relevant Meta word tagging

Have you ever thought why for the heaven sake you add meta-tags while customizing your post before publishing it? if you did, then you might be aware of its importance. Meta-tags help search engines know what your article is about and then links it with appropriate search results.

Make it a habit to add relevant meta-tags to make your article’s objective clear in front of Google Search Engine.

6) Add Do-Follow Links

When you plan to make money online, you cannot simply stay away from other hit sites. It is always a good practice to add Do-Follow Links in your posts from authorized sites. This affects your Google page ranking positively as it brings huge traffic indirectly to your blog, increases your credibility and Google start trusting you for your content!

7) Your Readers’ comments

Its always a pleasure when you are appreciated for the hard work you put in to make your post a success; and the medals given to your article for your efforts are your readers’ comments. The fact that many people often neglect is that the comments on your posts are equally important as your content, after all, they stays on your page along with the content, working as a summary for the new readers whether to read the post or not. At the same time, Google is smart enough to notice the feedbacks from your readers and increase your Google Page Ranking too.

8. A Good Grammar

When you decide of making money with your blog, you need to take care of small things which can affect your productivity significantly. To ensure that your posts appear on Google’s first page, you need to re check your content.

9. Loading Speed of Your Blog

Search engines prefer sites that have a high loading speed because slow sites take more time in getting indexed as well as getting visitors too. To boost your blog’s loading speed, avoid using heavy plug-ins and widgets and use compressed images.

10. Social Media Friendly

With the Online world going extremely viral with social media craze, it’s the social networking websites that holds good reputation when it comes to Google Page ranking, start promoting your blog on Social media as much as you can and this will indirectly please Google, enough to improve your page rank as well.

To make any Business a success, its always recommended to start learning things and implement them in your business to achieve fruitful results and enjoy more profit. Hope the following tips work out for you.

All the Best

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Top DoFollow Blog Directory To Increase Your Page Rank

Increasing Googlle PageRank is something many bloggers search for in their quest to increase their website traffic and authority. And the terms ‘backlink‘ and ‘dofollow’ are used frequently in this regard. Backlinks indeed are one of the major contributors towards a website’s ranking, and quality backlinks form the basis of Google PR and Alexa rankings. The most common method of increasing backlinks is by commenting on dofollow blogs. When you post a comment with your website’s link, you get a dofollow link from there, or a backlink. In this post, we will talk about the importance of dofollow links and how you can find dofollow blogs.

Google Page Rank is a measure of a website’s quality on a scale of 10, with 10 being the highest. Google ranks itself at 9, so it’s a 0-9 scale really. And backlinks, and the quality of those backlinks is one of the primary factor that effects this ranking.

About dofollow and nofollow

The ‘nofollow’ attribute was collectively introduced by Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft in 2005 in an attempt to combat spam and control outbound link quality. It has since become an industry standard. The nofollow attribute simply tells search crawlers not to go to that link. Hence, for a crawler, a nofollow link is just a piece of text, and not a link.

There is no ‘dofollow’ tag as such. A dofollow usually means the absence of a nofollow attribute. A dofollow link is a real backlink, and will contribute towards a website’s ranking.

Blog directories

A blog directory is a listing of blogs organized into categories. They have backlinks to other blogs. Blog directories, especially dofollow blog directories can be of much importance for a blog. One way to benefit from them is to submit your blog to get a free backlink. Another is to visit the blogs listed there. We’ll explain how.

What is DoFollow Blog Directory?

The DoFollow Blog Directory is not any ordinary blog directory. It is the largest directory that lists dofollow blogs. Dofollow blogs are those that give you a dofollow backlink when you comment on them. Commenting is a great way to boost your website. Besides building links, you can also increase interaction with other bloggers. Besides, you can get some of the audience from other blogs as well.

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Killer Ways To Increase Treaffic To Your Blog 2015

The only aim of every blogger is to achieve the highest Alexa Rankings and to attain a large traffic as that’s what brings revenue for them. There is no doubt about the significance of the page rankings of a blog or a website.

Here are 15 best tips you need to work on to attract a large traffic for your blog.

1. Be- Consistent

The first tip in my list is the consistency which is needed by a blogger to give his best shots continuously. This means that you should love your blog and must post on daily basis and should give a reason to your readers to start relying on your site.

2. Link Bait

Link Bait is known as back links in simple words. If you dream big about your blog, start concentrating on getting more link baits. They are actually the links you get when the other sites link to your contents. It results in bringing a huge traffic from other sites to your blog.

3. Submit to directories

There are number of directories available online where you need to submit your blog.

4. Promote your Site on Forums

Make it a habit to visit forums that are related to you niche. Be active there and relate your site often to drive traffic.

5. Submit Articles to Directories

Once you submit your blog to directories, next task is to write some great pieces of writing and submit them to article directories. This brings a good traffic to your blog when people who are searching about the related topic as yours and find what they were looking at your blog.

6. Advertise your Blog

We cannot overlook the importance of advertising for sure. Like other marketers, you should also advertise your blog to attain a good traffic.

7. Write Guest Posts

Once you observe that people have started considering your blog a little, this is another important move. Start writing guest posts on other blogs to drag some traffic of that site to yours.

8. Make Your URL your Sign – Your Identity!

While contributing on different sites like on forums and commenting on other blogs, make it a practice to include your URL in your signature. This can bring traffic to your blog when people go through your contribution.

9. Search Engine Optimization

If you succeeded in getting into the good books of the search engines, then you don’t need anything else, however, search engines are never too down to earth for the beginners, in fact a lot of hard work is needed to for that. You need to learn a great deal about the SE0 techniques.

10. Business cards

You are a blogger by profession, isn’t it? Then do you have a business card? Majority of you must not have paid attention on this aspect. Create an optimized Business card for you as is do wonders. It’s another way of promoting your blog and introducing yourself as a pro-blogger.

11. Use social networking sites

Thanks to technology, the Social networking platform like facebook, twitter and Google+, you can share your articles and posts with all your friends to make it sure they don’t miss it up.

12. Join Social Bookmarking Sites

There are a lot of bookmarking sites like Digg, twitter, Reddit, Facebook etc.

13. Use Q&A websites

There are plenty of Q&A sites where you can always serve people and enjoy a good traffic to your blog. Sites like Yahoo allows you to answer questions related to your niche.

14. Keep it alive

There should always be something interactive for the readers on your blog that should encourage the viewers to come back and follow.

15. Add Widgets

Using widgets like sitemaps and RSS on your website enables the reader to get used to of your site easily and can then quickly have an over view of your site.

so, that’s all for now, one thing that I would like to say by the end of this is, you need to have patience in all this because its  not an event but a procedure. stay Firm and keep working hard.

All the Best,

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Increase Facebook Likes For Blog Articles Instantly

How To Increase Facebook Likes For Blog Articles Instantly

The power of social media, especially Facebook is a great tool for bloggers. This is the reason every blog have social buttons, which however are left unused most of the times, simply not bringing any good. Revealing my secret, today, I will share will you all an efficient technique to increase Facebook like for your article on daily basis. It’s important to know what good will it brings out for you. Well, when you share your article on your Facebook wall, you are actually promoting your article – and – blog to your friend list, letting them know about your piece of work. When people click on your shared link, they are diverted to your blog, hence increasing your page rankings and blog traffic.

If you are a professional blogger and already have a fan page that has a considerable targeted audience, you must know what I am talking about. To make it simple for other friends, understand the fact that your friend list has only 2% of the readers that might find any particular topic interesting and try finding it. But 98% of your friends will simply ignore it. Then how to increase the likes?

Here is my secret of increasing Facebook likes for my Articles that eventually increases the page rankings.

1)   Keyword strategy

You know what you are writing about obviously. After publishing your article, re- read it. identify the keywords of your articles and search for the groups available on facebook of that particular niche that you have targeted in your article. For example, I recently wrote about Windows 8 customization, here windows 8 is what I find out. Simply go to your facebook page and search for some relevant keyword group, where people might find your write up interesting.

2) Post your link

Select a relevant group and post your article link in there. Always try to interact with the group you have just entered for you own benefit. Try leaving a small message along with your link so that when people go through the group, they find something appealing in your link.

3) Select Wisely!

Always keep in mind that you need followers, not groups. Before selecting a group of your required niche, highlight its followers. A group with 100 members will give you nothing. In fact, visiting that group, you will realize that it is dead itself. Give priority to the large number of followers and post you link there.

4) Its FAST – Submit your Links!

Searching and publishing on a group takes less than two minutes. So always try to leave your link on all possible huge groups that are relevant to your post. Submit your links to all such groups and try to manage being in its recent activity all the time.

5) Stay Awake – learn

Sometimes your post fails to achieve even a single like in two days, although you played it safe while choosing the group that had a huge number of followers. In that case, keep that group in your hate list and never post your links there until and unless you are left with no other option.

6) All Success!

Make it your habit, the next thing after publishing your article is to promote your writing too. Unlike other promotional techniques, it is fastest. This is how I am able to earn likes within 10 minutes for my articles every day.

Its true that Opportunities are unlimited, you only need to act smart to earn smart!

Try this trick and share your views.

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10 High PR Dofollow Forum Lists of 2015

We have already discussed about the Backlinks and its roles in the sites and blogs. Backlinks generating process is not easy way. It is too difficult because backlinks only can be generated by the dofollow comment blogs, dofollow forums etc. So to increase backlinks for your blogs, just use the dofollow forum. Its little bit easier and simpler than any other way and its almost permanent backlink.

But it is also too important that your backlinks should be in the right or high page rank sites and blog. This can cause increasing of more visitors and increasing your blog ranks constantly. If your backlinks on the low page rank sites or negative page rank site that can cause the decreasing the rank of your blog and site. Now you just should know that backlinks are that link which can be benificial for your blogs if their page rank and visitors are higher. This time I am suggesting you to use dofollow forums to increase your visitor's and increase your page rank high. But always all the dofollow forums are not good because most of them are also low and negative page rank and don't even think to make backlinks on that forums.  So now some list of high ranked dofollow forums which have high Google page rank. But there is a remembering thing that you should not leave after registering an creating links. You should constantly post on your forum and you should spend some little time on your forum.

High Page Rank Dofollow Forums:

http://www.siteownersforums.com/
http://www.siteownersforums.com/index.php
http://forum.joomla.org/
http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/
http://forums.cnet.com/
http://forums.mysql.com/
https://forums.digitalpoint.com/
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forum.php
http://www.warriorforum.com/

These are just Top 10 Dofollow Forums for the bloggers who want to increase viewers on their blog.
Guys this is just a way of getting high page rank backlinks on your blog and increasing the more visitors.

Guys if you know any other better idea to get high page rank backlinks, you can kindly share your ideas with us. To send your ideas just go to Become An Author Page and post your ideas. We will appreciate your thoughts and visions. Don't hesitate to share your ideas.

Thank you.

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Where To Your Site For Free PR 2 To PR 7 List For 2015

Ping your site into search engine and directories is a vital part of SEO. Ping is easy service or it might be called tool using this, you can ping your site in popular search engines and directories. The main advantage of this service is  to index your site into search engines automatically by which can grow the visitors in your sites and blogs. Ping can be used by blogs, websites, forums etc. Here I listed some ping tool sites which helps you to promote sites and blog.

Page Rank 2 Ping Sites: 

• http://www.backlinkping.com

• http://www.pingoat.net

• http://www.pingbomb.com

Page Rank 3 Ping Sites: 

• http://www.blogbuzzer.com

• http://www.bulkping.com

• http://www.googleping.com

Page Rank 4 Ping Sites: 

• http://www.totalping.com

• http://weblogs.com

• http://www.ping.in

Page Rank 5 Ping Sites: 

• http://www.blogpingtool.com

• http://feedshark.brainbliss.com

• http://www.pingler.com

Page Rank 6 Ping Sites:

• http://www.bitacoras.com

• http://www.icerocket.com

• http://www.blo.gs

Page Rank 7 Ping Sites:

• http://www.mypagerank.net
• http://blogsearch.google.com
• http://www.pingomatic.com
• http://www.blogs.yandex.ru

Use the above free tools that will definitely help to ping sites in many search engines like google, yahoo, bing etc and directories too. If you use these sites, you do not need to submit your sites into many directories and search engines manually. 

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Process To Submit Your Blog To Apple News Publisher

With iOS 9, Apple is all set to launch Apple news that is similar to Flipboard. As a blogger & publisher, you can submit your blog to be a part of Apple news app. By submitting your blog to Apple news, you will be reaching out to millions of iOS users (iPhone, iPad & iPod). I have just finished submitting ShoutMeLoud to Apple news, and you can do that too.
In this tutorial, you will learn how you can submit your blog to iOS 9 news app. You can read the review of the upcoming app here, which will give you a fair idea of how your content will be displayed.

How to become a publisher at Apple news:

The process is easy & you can submit your blog in the next 5 minutes.

• Head over to Apple news publisher page here.

• You can login with your Apple ID & if you don’t have one, click on Signup at the bottom to create one right away.

• Once you are logged in, you need to accept the End User License Agreement for News.
• Next step is to setup the Publisher information, which is pretty straight-forward.
• Create new channel: This is where you will add the information related to your blog or news website. You can create different channels if you have more than one blog.
• You can click on Specify territories to make your content available on specific countries only. By default, all countries are selected. Use this feature if you don’t want your content ton be visible in certain territories. Click on Submit
• Submit RSS feed: This is the final step where you need to submit your blog RSS feed. This is not mandatory but I recommend to fill it up. You can follow this guide to create an RSS feed for your blog. Soon Apple is coming up with Apple news format that might replace RSS feed feature from the submission process. (More on this in upcoming artcile).
• Click on next, and last step is to add your brand logo. Here is the requirement for adding logo:
• Full-color transparent PNG
• Required height: 256px
• Recommended Width: up to 2048px (8:1)
• Maximum width: up to 2560px (10:1)
• Complete logo guideline here.
• This is not mandatory but I highly recommend you to complete this step for higher brand visibility.
• Once done, Apple news publisher team will review your submission in few days. You will also get an email after the successful submission.
• If you have multiple blogs, you can click at the top & click on create a new channel to add more blogs.

As a blogger, I’m pretty excited to see my blog reaching out to a wider audience with the help of Apple news app. I will share the stats & more details once iOS 9 will be launched & HowToFixGuide starts getting traffic from Apple News app.

Important information about Apple news publisher:

Here is one important announcement from Apple which I saw after submitting my first blog:

• You can monetize your content on Apple news using iAd. The revenue distribution is 70% to you & 30% to Apple.
• You can also keep 100% revenue by selling your ads directly. I don’t have enough detail as of now on this part.
• A company, a publisher, a Blogger can submit their digital property in Apple news.
• Every channel has section that you can use to organize your content. You can have a separate section for your categories. If you use this feature, you need to have a minimum of two sections.
• Currently, they are accepting submission from English language only.
• Your RSS feed needs to be full & not partial. Read more about RSS best practices here.
• You can read more details about Apple news publisher & FAQ here.

For now, you should leave everything & submit your English blog to Apple news. It would hardly take 5 minutes, and I’m assuming that Apple news will be a game changer for many publishers in the coming days.

Read more: http://www.howtofixguide.com/2015/08/submit-your-blog-to-apple-news-publisher.html#ixzz3jQqBNoBK

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Difference Between Pageview And Visit of a Blogger or Website

Webmasters are often confused while analyzing their web analytics dashboards. Many fail to understand the basic difference between “visits” and “pageviews”.Read on to learn how visits differ from pageviews.
All web analytics software measures different parameters differently (including visits and pageviews). The stats may or may not be similar.

For example: The pageviews shown in your Blogger dashboard might differ from what is shown in the Google analytics.
You’ll have to rely on one web analytics software and improve your scores or statistics. Otherwise, you might get confused with different softwares and tools showing different results.

What is visit?

Visit is the number of visitors visiting your website. Visits are the number of individual sessions of your website visitors.
A single user may be responsible for multiple visits. If a user has your site open for sometime in their browser, and return after a while, it might be considered as a start of a new session. The time maybe variable for different analytics softwares.

What is page view?

Page views represent the number of times web pages are accessed by your site visitors. If a single visitor refreshes a web page or accesses many pages of your site, each instance counts as an another page view.
Whenever a page is loaded by any visitor of your site, it will be counted as an additional page view.

What is the difference between visit and pageview?

When a person accesses your site it is called as Visit. On the other hand, Page View is the number of pages that the person navigates during his visit.
One visitor can generate several Page Visits within a single Visit. 
Conclusion
Visits and page views are both different. More the page views and the amount of time spent on your page by your site visitors determines if your audience is interested in what you’re serving.
Have any more questions or doubts? Let us know in the comments below.

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Killer Way To Reduce Bounce Rate of Your Blogger Blog

Bounce rate is the percentage of your site visitors who leave your site after viewing only one page. Having an extremely high bounce rate means your site visitors hardly navigate more than one page of your site.Following are the six smart strategies that you should use to keep your visitors on your pages longer. These strategies will help you to decrease bounce rate of your website.

1. Use larger fonts.

According to Smashing magazine, using fonts smaller than 16 pixels can decrease your website’s readability. Your site’s font size should be larger than or equal to 16 pixels.

Also, your site should be readable across multiple devices – desktop or mobile.

The line length, height and font size should be balanced.

2. Open external links in a new window or tab.

Having external links that open in the same window or tab will take your readers away from your site. To keep them longer on your site make external links open in a new window.

However, you can have internal links open in the same window or tab as it would point to an another page on your own site. Thus, reducing the bounce rate.

Setting all the externals links within your content to open in a new window will keep your readers retained on your site.

3. Interlink your posts.

Internal links are the links which points to a web page of your own site and not to an external website.

Having two or three internal links within your posts which keep your readers or visitors engaged with your content. This will ensure that they read or open more than one page and thus reduces the bounce rate of your blog.

A quick SEO tip: Try to interlink higher in your posts.

 

The links placed within the first two paragraphs of your post are likely pass more link juice compared to the ones which are placed towards the bottom of the post.

4. Include speed bumps.

Making your posts more scannable increases the chances of your readers to stay longer at your site and explore it further.

You might be wondering, what are speed bumps? Speed bumps are nothing but the sub-headings, bold, italics, etc. that catch your reader’s eye.

You can make important points as your sub-headings. Including the sub headings will force your readers to slow down, stop and read it.

5. Have a good site design.

A simple website design is much better than the one which is overwhelming and confusing. Right color combinations and easy navigation contribute to a great site design.

Do the following to convince your visitors to stay longer through the power of your site’s design alone:

1. Use a responsive layout.

2. Do not put up too many Ads above the fold.

3. Avoid too much text and poor formatting.

4. Use sub-headings and larger fonts.

6. Reduce your website loading time.

“The percentage of users users who hit a page and then quit that page (i.e. bounce) before the page even loads” is actually an incorrect definition of bounce rate.

According to Rigor, If the page does not load, or if the user bounces from a slow page load, the analytics platform won’t register the user at all.

Your website’s analytics measurements begin only after the website is loaded. People who leave your website even before the pages load will not register as bounces.

But to play safe, always work to reduce your website loading time because people leaving your site even before it gets loaded will not be considered as a bounce but will surely decrease the number of readers of your site.

Over to you! 

Do you have any other insightful tips to decrease bounce rate? Let us discuss in the comments below.

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Things Every Blogger Blog Should Have

The web is full of websites and blogs. In order to outshine in this competitive online business world you need a reader-friendly blog. Whether you have a business blog or a personal blog, you should have functionalities that actually help your visitors.This post will help you to throw out Bells and whistles, and will make you actually focus on things that really matter the most. From thorough About page to testimonials, here are the 7 things every blog should have.

1. An outstanding about page.

Someone who lands on your blog must not struggle to know about you. You should have a clear author description under each blog post. In addition to the author box, you must have an “About” page. The “About” page must describe what you exactly do and what your blog is all about.
If you have some services to offer, don’t shy away from mentioning details about the services you offer to your clients.

2. Simple and easy-to-remember web address.

Your domain name should be simple and easy to remember. Visitors should find it easy to type it in the browser. Try to have a .com domain as users are used to type domain with a .com extension.
Don’t use any special symbols like dashes or numbers. Be smart with the selection of your web address. A domian name similar to the blog name does exceptionally well.

3. Trustworthy Testimonials.

Adding honest testimonials can boost your conversion rates. If you sell products or services, testimonials can help your customers establish trust on you.
If you aren’t a famous blogger, you must try having testimonials from notable personalities.
Always remember, visitors would love to read real testimonials and they might easily make out if there are any fake ones included.

4. Quality content.

Articles or posts are the backbone of a blog. Having best quality posts at your blog can make you outplay your competitors online.
Not to mention, that search engines as well as readers too love quality and fresh content. Sharing the posts on social media would help you reach the right audience.

5. Good design and readability.

Your blog design must not be clumsy. It should be simple and easy to navigate. While writing your content, follow these tips to make your posts more readable –
1. Use bullet points.
2. Use bold, italic and underline to highlight the important points.
3. Use simple and easy language.
4. Write short paragraphs.

6. SEO.

No matter how good you are at social media marketing, there will be a time where your social media efforts won’t help you drive traffic to your blog.
Search engine traffic will come to your rescue. You don’t need to hire an SEO expert to do SEO of your blog. You can do it yourself.
Using keywords, internal linking, including ALT tags/text, etc. are the basic SEO practices.

7. CTA.

CTA stands for “Call-To-Action“. Always tell your readers what you expect from them. CTA’s can be used for asking visitors to subscribe to your blog, hire you for your the services you provide or buy any product.
Use buttons, highlighted text, banners, videos, etc. to call attention.
Over to you! 
Does your blog have all the things mentioned in this post? Do you have any other suggestions to add to the list? Let us know in the comments below.

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Top Significant Differences Between A Website And A Blog

Many online as well as offline businesses these days are preferring to make a blog instead of a website. What exactly distinguishes a blog from a website? And which one is more effective? Read on to find out 15 significant differences between a website and a web log (blog).

A website and a blog can be distinguished from each other on the basis of the following. 

1. Frequency Of Updates.

A blog is updated and new posts are published regularly. Mostly bloggers aim to write on trending topics. The posts or articles on a blog are most of the times informative.

Whereas a website is rarely updated. And it may contain information about services or products. A website might have a static landing page.

2. Dynamic And Static Content.

Blogs have dynamic content. Posts are displayed on the home page in the reverse chronological order. Posts written on a blog may contain date and time stamps. Design and functionality updates are frequent to keep the blog new and fresh all the time.

Websites have static home pages which are hardly updated. Once the site is designed and developed, design and functionality updates are infrequent.

3. Search Engine Ranking.

Blogs appear higher on Google search engine results page (SERP) than websites. This is so because one of the most important ranking factors for Google is “Freshness of content“. The more frequently a web property is updated, the higher the chances of it appearing higher in the SERPs.

Although websites are rarely updated but they too have fair chances of appearing higher on Google if they contain relevant and best content.

4. Which Is More Conversational?

Of course Blogs are considered more informal and conversational. Blogs have posts which are written in a conversational tone. Also many blogs have commenting systems installed on them for the purpose of encouraging discussions and conversation.

Many business websites are adding blogs in order to avoid any kind of communication gap between the visitors and the business owners.

Some blogs as well as websites add forums to encourage reader’s/customer’s feedback, discussion, support or help, collaborative tasks, inquiry or complaints.

5. Communication Style.

As discussed under the above sub heading, blogs have conversational tone and they are meant for discussions. If blogs don’t contain any kind of interactions they are considered as ghost house.

The key to run a successful blog is to have quality discussions or create interactive content. Whereas a website might or might not give importance to engagement and discussions. But website owners must surely take customer satisfaction seriously.

6. Information.

Blogs contain extensive information about whichever niches they are concerned with. The information on the blogs are regularly updated or changed based on the recent happenings. Whereas websites may only contain information about a particular company, business, service or product.

7. Marketing.

Blogs can be marketed using inbound marketing as well as outbound marketing. Inbound marketing is nothing but permission-based marketing. It relies of getting customers attracted to the service. Marketers help, add value, educate or entertain audiences. As blogs are interactive in nature so they facilitate a two-way process. This is the reason why almost all the blogs ask their readers to subscribe in exchange of their content.

Whereas websites mainly adopt outbound marketing. Outbound marketing is forceful in nature. It is mainly done using paid advertisements, cold calls or e-mails which rarely add value. If site owners wish to make use of inbound marketing, they might consider adding blogs to their business sites.

8. Money spent on Marketing.

Blogs concentrate on providing value to the readers. Hence, blogs have tendency to attract massive visitors without any money spent on advertising. On the other hand, websites require adopting paid advertising to sell their services or products as they might have no value adding features.

9. Community.

A blog might have a bigger and better community than a website. As mentioned before, blog encourages interactions so blog readers might also prefer interacting among themselves than to the actual author.

In contrast to a blog, website visitors can only interact with the owners. To stimulate community feeling, websites might add forums or blogs.

10. Setup Cost.

Blogs can easily be created using free or charged services like Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Typepad, etc.

A website might require to be coded by a professional coder who can build it as per requirements. Blogs have a pre-structured layout and template. Major design chances may require installing new theme or tweaking all the codes.

11. Expertise.

You don’t need to be an expert to maintain and backup your blog; thanks to the content management systems.

On the other hand, websites might or might not be made using content management system. So the level of expertise required to maintain a website may differ based on the basic building blocks used to create the site.

12. Blogs are websites.

All the blogs are websites but all websites are not blogs. Websites can add blogs to get readers and credibility.

13. Relationship Building.

Since blogs are based on the concept of permission marketing and adding value, bloggers build great relationships with their readers.

Websites fail to establish quality and dedicated relationships most of the times because of the lack of commenting system and value adding capability (other than by selling services or products).

14. You can add Widgets to a Blog.

Plugins or widgets like Recent Posts, Popular posts, Recent comments, Top commentators, Engagement widgets can be added to a blog. Different plugins or Widgets facilitate different purposes.

For example: Recent Posts widget arranges the blog posts in a reverse chronological order (latest to oldest) on the sidebar or footer of the blog.

You cannot add such widgets to a website because there exists no posts.

15. Blogs have a RSS FEED.

Since blogs are updated regularly (maybe daily, weekly or monthly) they attract readers. Readers are asked to subscribe in order to receive latest blog updates through an emailing system which is technically known as RSS subscription. 

Over to you! 

I hope you can now easily differentiate between a website and a blog. If you have more differences or criterion on which websites and blogs can be distinguished, do let us know in the comments below. Or if you still have any questions regarding a blog or a website, feel free to ask your questions using the comments box below.

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