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The basic definition of a blog can be framed as an internet site or a page which is updated regularly or keeps on updating. Blogging has been very popular in the recent times. Many people are going for it and there are many who have a number of blogs they own

How the question comes how to promote your blog???

Well if you have the same question then here are some of the key points about blogging and tips on promoting your blog.

Connect to google+ : Google is the best and rated number 1 search engine in the world and you can take the benefit of it by just switching to google+. Once your blogger profile is switched to google+ then you will enjoy the benefit of automatic sharing.

Quality of content matters a lot : what is the use of hard work if the output is not proper or desirable. If the quality of your contents is not good then it will leave your visitors panicked and sometimes confused. Nobody wants to use extra mind when they are reading something that is supposed to be perfect.

I hope you all make use of my tips to produce more high quality content.

Target on Search Preferences : Search Preferences are a special feature provided to bloggers. Special because it gives you an opportunity to target on some of the words which are preferred and your content containing those words will be on the top of search results.

Email this post : Using this feature on your blog will create a platform for the people to send and share your posts with various people and in various places or sites. This will increase the reputation of your page. You surely want this to happen so eagerly. This feature is a plus one for bloggers.

Subscribe option : You will come across to “subscribe to our site feed” or “subscribe us” while surfing on the internet. This enables you to get the newsletters from your blog. The more they get newsletters from your blog, the more are the chances that they will read it eventually. If you have quality content and interesting topics then it will be a matter of a trial for them before they start reading your blog feeds on a regular basis.

Update on a regular basis : People visiting to your blog will not want to see the same content all every time they visit. They would want to read something new. Contents also have a life and make sure that the contents of your blog have a very short life. Updating on a regular basis will improve the overall quality of service on your blog which will eventually make your blog among one of the favorites to people.

Blog URL in your email signature : This will increase the possibilities of your blog getting the attention of many people up to a very great instant.

Target on blog search : You just have to submit your blog address to various search sites and enjoy the visitation of people on your blog. Searching at those search sites is easy to find what we are looking for and thus people frequently use those sites. If your address is there and your SEO is good then you have a lot of scope.

We all realize how important it is to get more blog traffic. Being a blogger the most important works you need to do are content writing and trying to get traffic to your blog. When you publish articles you get some good amount of blog traffic but you don not get that much blog traffic because you don’t give much effort in some key areas. Here in this post we will talk about getting huge blog traffic by working with Promotion, SEO and SMO.

Important Notes:

• Content is King no doubt, but Promotion is the queen because without any promotion our article will not reach the right audience; and in that case, our works will not be seen by anyone.
• Getting organic traffic is always good as it’s a long-term traffic source. And so Search Engine Optimization can do a lot good to rank for important keywords.

Again, it’s not always easy to rank for each and every keyword and in that case the main source of traffic is social media. So, Social Media Optimization is really important.

In this article I’ll share some tips which will finally help you to increase your blog traffic:

1. Good content and grammar:

Everyone likes good content and so you should always find good blog ideas and write unique content for your readers. Then you should determine whether your content is well composed with exceptional sentence structure, punctuation, obviously fitting spelling and grammar or not. Provided that, employ a supervisor to tidy things up for you. Relying on the sort of altering included, editors may be expensive; however, having clean and well-composed articles will assist your site get the credibility that it needs.

Always value your content because it will not just help your web index standing but will also make your webpage as a great place to get updated. This will increase engagement on your blog and will also bring returning blog traffic.

2. Continuous Promotion:

Promotion through Twitter

One of the fastest and effective ways to get traffic is using Twitter for promotion. Tweeting is quick and simple to do -and your trust is that some of your supporters will “re-tweet” it and will make it reach more people (considerably more than just your “follower base”). You can use JustRetweet to get more retweets and blog traffic from Twitter.

Using Video to Promote

Not always but sometime you can use a fast 30-40 second ad of your article. You can post it to YouTube which will not just draw blog traffic but will also make an additional link back to your article on your blog.

Using Facebook & LinkedIn

Status may as well head off to every last trace of the social sites you are interfaced to. Some will even give you a chance to set up auto-connect. At the time you declare your new post on Facebook it mechanically tweets the greater part of your follower. You will discover that the social site is driving traffic to your blog. Again, you can use LinkedIn to drive traffic and heavy leads too.

Participate in other blogs

You can participate in other blogs either by blog commenting or guest blogging. Either way is effective and drives great amount of genuine readers and blog traffic. You just need to be active there through your comments. You need to try to stand out in the crowd and engage with the people over there.

3. Pitch it to another Blogger:

Keep a record of different bloggers who have High Traffic Blog Sites. Meet them or try to contact them via social sites or mail. Keep a good touch with them and once you prepare something of genuine quality shoot out a message by offering them to post it. Now since you had a good relation with the blogger he will take care of you and will finally post your article in his blog. And this will help you to get traffic from his blog.

Again, you can also make good connections and share content of a top blogger with your followers. If you continuously do so, that blogger will also do the same for you.

4. Make it easy for people to share:

When you actualize the plans above, you should to be getting some blog traffic. Now you need to make it simple for them to share your content with others. The least demanding path to do this is by the utilization of incorporating social media buttons with your blog.

There are various plugins that will do this for you. Anyhow I emphatically propose that you don’t over compensate it! A couple of basically set catches or choices are helpful. You can try social plugins like Flare, Socialize and WP-Socialite.

5. Search Engine Optimization:

As I said above, getting organic traffic is always good as it’s a long-term traffic source. Search Engine Optimization can do a lot good to rank for important keywords. SEO is not hard but some bloggers don’t work on it as they think it’s hard. Simply, SEO means optimizing your content for search engines.

Steps you need to go with to get a perfect SEO article and drive blog traffic:

• Find a topic which is mostly searched by people by using Google Trends.
• Write a unique piece of content with detailed info to discuss that very topic.
• Find the best keyword which is mostly used by users to search that topic.
• Use Adwords Tool to find the most searched but low competitive keyword.
• Then install a free plugin like Yoast WP SEO or paid plugin like SEOPressor.
• Now optimize your article by using that plugin. This is On-page optimization.
• Then do guest posting and blog commenting to get dofollow link to that article.

It is always great when a low competitive but mostly searched keyword is targeted. If your content is unique and has good quality links from other blogs to that article then your post will easily rank in Search Engines. And you will start getting huge blog traffic.

I hope you found this article helpful to drive more blog traffic. If you know some more ways to get blog traffic then do share with us.

The guys over @ Tresnic Media, a NJ online marketing company, did an intriguing case study on the frequency of blog publishing.

I first heard about it from Ryan. You can read the results and learn more about their findings here.

The challenge was to measure the growth in traffic (and business) over a period of 25 business days of straight content publishing.

The solution: writing and publishing 50 blog articles on their website, twice a day. That’s 10 articles a week.

“I can honestly say that at no point throughout the five weeks did I feel a stress on myself for a deadline or fear of missing a day. How was this possible? By having a solid blogging plan and efficient routine and multiple sources of content inspiration”, says Todd Giannattasio. 

This post is written by John Gibb about Aggressive Blogging – A case study. He explain how blogging twice a day can be a powerful content strategy to uplift your blog to the next level

It was really an aggressive blogging strategy!

Traffic results after blogging twice a day:

• Website Traffic Increase (overall traffic): 481%
• Search Traffic Increase: 427%
• Referral Traffic Increase: 440%
• Direct Traffic Increase: 570%
• 50th post went viral.

Business growth results:

In Todd’s own words…

“The first way we generated leads was that people found TresnicMedia.com via a Google search for one of the almost 500 keywords that we’re now ranking for.

Another was via LinkedIn Discussions where we highlighted certain tactics (SEO or lead generation) in an article and people were interested in learning more about how we can help…

… But the best, and my personal favorite, once post #50 went viral, people started calling ready to hire us to do what they saw we did for ourselves. This is a brand new position for me, where the customer is no longer looking for a service and wants me to sell to them. But they are actually calling to hire us because they already know we can deliver results. It is a great feeling and well worth all of the time and effort put into this blogging experiment.”

How does aggressive blogging apply to you?

To me, blogging more often as a way to grow traffic was an instinctive strategy. After reading reports like the above and seeing the type of results others were getting, I knew I was onto something big. So I went ahead, refined my aggressive blogging strategy and created a crazy plan.

I am now at war and we (I and my partner) are on a mission to write and publish (with the help of my partner) 30 guest posts a month (each and every month) on other people’s sites. Within a year I’ll have 365 unique articles back-linking to my home page and different posts/urls on my blog.

That’s not all… I will also write 30 articles per month for my HWA blog (which is the core source of generating traffic and leads). Plus, I submit 200 premium comments a month as well. Within a year, I’ll have an additional 365 links from relevant sites and more importantly, a whopping 2,400 premium comments, sitting on other people’s blogs.

These comments often look like mini articles, and provide real value to readers. They aren’t one line or small blurbs written just to steal a back-link in return.

How to blog often and with passion, like never before

“Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.” ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo

If you want to grow your site traffic, you cannot expect miracles. The reality is you have to get up and work like mad. Turn your company/marketing team/yourself into a 24/7 premium content factory. Be the Google replica in your industry. Start your aggressive blogging journey!

Finding new ideas is EASY!

You don’t have to rely on Amazon or online blogs alone, although these two methods could bring you mountains of cool and practical ideas.

I’ve once seen an article that reads…

» The 50 Cent Approach to Content Strategy: Get Rich or Die Tryin’

What a great title and concept I’ve said to myself.  And I started to create similar content myself.

Example:

» Aggressive blogging – title example

» 5 Key Social Media Lessons from One of the Greatest – Michael Jordan

» A Big Lesson I Learned from LeBron James about Making Money Online (that Made Me a Top Affiliate Earner)

» 5 Lessons from Donald Trump About Social Media

You can replace “lessons” with “tips” or “techniques” and take over the web with this concept alone.

Smart, isn’t it?

Here’s another way to find remarkable and proven content ideas: browsing through local magazines and newspapers… it’s a method that most people are often overlooking or ignorantly neglecting.

Editors and journalists are always looking for the latest trends and red-hot topics to cover in their writing. They’re doing the heavy research for you. Blog on the same (or similar) topics if they’re relevant to your niche, and if not, MAKE them relevant.

How to make boring topics hot, and leave your competitors behind

You can connect two unrelated things into something new and relevant to your audience. Like how I did with social media and Donald Trump.

You can also turn boring ideas into hot topics. Your imagination is the only limit. Example:

» 18 Microwave Snacks You Can Cook In A Mug.

“There are no boring topics, only boring content creators”. ~ Pratik Dholakiya.

Want to expand and enrich your imagination? There’s a single way: read and learn. Study novels. Watch movies. Read cartoons and illustrations. Buy the latest shopping, tech and travel magazines. All of this is fun and enjoyable anyhow! While I’m playing on my I pad for example, I’m still learning. Now is the generation where we an play and learn at the same time!

The more you read and study beyond your industry, the better and more often you’ll be blogging, with a twist. That’s what will set you apart and zip you miles away from competitors.

The question is: do you gave the guts to aggressive blogging? To blog twice a day or let competitors out-score and out-profit you?

“Time is the biggest factor in building a successful blog. You can never get success in a day or become famous over night. It’s your continuous works that will bring success to your life. Making a blog is easy but developing it and turning it into a successful blog is real hard. A blog always needs some sufficient time to become popular and gather a readers base. But sometimes it takes more time which it wouldn’t have taken if you would have followed some important points. And this post is all about that.” -Avi

Sangram, one of our new guest authors will tell you how to get a successful blog in a short span of time.

Whenever we launch a new blog the most important thing is to promote it in a daily basis and use correct techniques. If you don’t promote your blog and the articles then no one is going to find it. There are many thing you can work on in order to promote your blog.

Key factors to get a successful blog in a short span of time:

1) Relevant sharing:

Sharing or promoting your blog in relevant places.

Targeting like-minded people only.

Writing relevant tweets or status is the most important thing. Many people make this kind of mistake which can hit you back resulting in that many people will unfollow you on twitter or ignore your updates. Writing relevant tweets and status is directly proportional to getting more no. of readers. Sharing articles on social networking sites is key to getting more traffic. However, that doesn’t mean that you need to spam.

2) Content that goes viral:

Writing content that goes viral, what people actually want.

Writing list posts or post which has some real and successful experiments.

People love to share articles if it’s worth of sharing. You might have seen articles on StumbleUpon getting up to “100K Thumbs Up” as soon as it is posted there. So it’s very important to write content which can go viral in no time.

3) Building reputation for blog:

Helping people on forums (Leaving a sign is must).

Giving credit (No sarcastic comments).

Giving useful suggestions.

Earning reputation for a blog takes a lot of time. However, if you follow the simple points given above that will surely help you because many of the other bloggers don’t do that as well.

4) Giving people a reason to love your blog:

Building relations with your readers and increasing engagement.

Solving your reader’s queries or providing the answers to their questions.

I should have mentioned this earlier but as you know, we should always respect our readers because, without them we are nothing. So whenever any one asks you a question as a comment on your posts it’s very important to reply back. If you follow these simple technique people will love to keep coming back to your blog.

5) Submitting articles to best directories and guest blogs:

Good directories like DMoz.org can help you to get more love from google.

Guest posting in authority site will help you in many ways.

This comes under link building. Submitting articles to high quality directories can help you get indexed in search engines in no time. Guest blogging on good blogs can helps you to earn links and also a good readers base.

6) Writing consistently:

Searching for new blog ideas and writing about it.

Posting articles in a regular manner.

Consistency is the key to a successful blog and blogging career. Many would agree with me over this. Writing consistently will result into more people coming to your blog. Readers should get some new posts to read from time to time.

I hope these techniques will help you in the long run of your blogging career and make a very successful blog.

Happy new week to you my valued reader and, I hope you had a fabulous weekend. I’m happy I’m back again for us to continue where we stopped, the ailment that caught me recently really took me away for a bit long but, thank God it’s all over now.

Now, based on the question I asked on the title of this post, I know the answer will certainly be different for each of us but, I just wanted to share with you something I discovered for some time now, you know it’s all about sharing our experiences right? I guess.

There is something that really caught my attention to write this post, it’s not as if this is the first time it happened but, I never made up my mind to write about it until now so, let’s get the point.

It’s all about writing blog posts and I ask you again……What time do you normally write your posts? I hope you will answer this question on the comment thread.

I discovered that it’s normally very easy for me to write in the morning, I mean, very early in the morningthan any other time of the day.

Initially, I can write at any time especially late in the night because, that’s the time I’m always less busy and have less distraction so, I usually utilize it to work on my blogs but recently, those time no longerwork for me when it comes to writing.

I can certainly do any other thing on my blogs but, not to write a blog post. I’ve tried so many times to write at night as usual but, each time I opened my PC and word document to write, the inspiration will not just be there, I will always find enough reason not to write.

However, the next thing I normally do after I’ve done every other thing on my blog is to go to bed. This same thing also happened last night, I tried everything I could to write, all to no avail in fact, what you’re reading now is not what I planned to publish here today but, I just changed my mind to tell you about this rather.

Why am Writing About This Now?

I know that there is a thing called writers block and many of us surfers from it at one point or the other in fact, most people don’t even know how to handle it.

What am I saying? The reason you normally have writers block may be attributed to the time you always choose to write, do you agree with me?

Yes, think about it based on my own experience. I can’t write very well at any other time except early in the morning and since I discovered that, I don’t know what writers block is again. Once I open my PC to write in the morning, the ideas will just be flowing and flowing unstoppably until I decide to stop now, isn’t that amazing?

This is the same reason why I’m asking you, when do you normally write your own blog posts? You really need to answer this question because; it might be a solution to your writers block problem you know.

If you normally experience writers block whenever you’re writing, why don’t you change your writing time and see what happens next? If you normally write in the afternoon, why don’t you try writing in the evening or at night?

However, I also noticed from my experiments that, majority of writers also prefer writing early in the morning than any other time of the day so, why is it so?

I don’t know really but, I think it’s because our brain is usually very calm and fresh at that time of the day because, we just woke up and have not had any form of distraction or something to think about but, after going through all the daily struggles, we normally feel weak and tired and therefore, our brain might not be able to function well again when we try using it in writing.

I don’t know if this is the reason but, that’s my own thinking.

Finally, I think I’ve already made my points, what I now want you to do now is simply to give what I said here a shot. If you finds it difficult and challenging to write at any given time then, why don’t change the time and see if that works for you, it’s all about trying so, JUST DO IT.

Don’t forget to answer my question and also tell me your own opinion based on this post via the comment thread; I always love to hear your opinions. And please, share this post with your friends if you enjoyed it, use the buffer button to tweet.

Thanks for reading my post today and, may we all have a productive week.

One of the most important characteristic of a successful blogger is that they know who they are, what they want, what they believe in, and what they stand for in blog-o-sphere. Most newbie bloggers are confused about their goals, values, ideas, and what they can stand for in the blogging community, and that is the more reason why they find it difficult to accomplish their blogging dream. -

To be frank, life is the ability to leave from the inside-out. The value you created for your blog makes it what it’s today, and the look of your blog solely depend on the value inside of you. The greater clarity you have regarding your blog, the more precise, and effective the possible outcome of the blog.

Thinking of target with concentric rings: You can imagine your blog value, personality, and authority by thinking of targeting concentric ring. Your blog value, personality, and authority is made up of FIVE good rings which begins with the value you place on your blog as the topmost priority, and radiating outwardly as a result of good job you have done on your blog to the next circle which I will call your RELEF.

Below are crucial ways to create value for you blog.

1. Your blog value determine people believe

If your blog is valued by you, definite; you will do everything within your reaches to make it the best by posting quality contents, building quality backlinks through guest blogging, comment, and some forums that allow dofollow.

2. Belief

Some bloggers don’t believe in themselves that they can do it without been tutored for months/year(s) by an expert. Gone are those days when I was in the university, either I attends lecture or not I will have to read on my own rigorously without anybody putting me through, though it may not be easy but try to confide in your innate ability. I chose blogging because I love what the internet offers as the second largest community after the planet earth. Believing in yourself will give you the courage to accomplish your blogging dream and will enable you to set a precise target with a specific time.

3. Expectation

Blogging is like a computer; garbage in, garbage out, and there is no gimmick about that. The more you determined, the more your zeal increases, and the more consistence you are determines what the later tale of your blogging career will offer. Like my secondary school tutor said and I quote “No manner will fall from heaven”. Yes! And it works in blog-o-sphere. Write down what you want to accomplish, and work to leave for it, and not leave to work for it.

4. Altitude

Your level in blog-o-sphere is determined by your outward manifestation or reflection of the charisma you are carrying in you. The level of the value you place on what you are doing, belief, and the expected outcome, is determined by your altitude in the community. For instance, if you belief blogging is a community that needs talented men and women and you are not one, then you need to make yourself one. And before you know what is happening, your service will be honor in the community.

5. Action

Action speaks louder than voice so they say; the action you take toward your blog will determine the level. You cannot only add value to your blog by thinking and writing down what you want to accomplish with a credible action, and if you are the type that procrastinate it is high time you put and to it and take action.

Final word: What you achieve in blog-o-sphere is a result of your inner mind which reflects itself in your action.

Blogging is getting popular nowadays as it is a famous hobby and income generating source for the people.

Building a blog for business needs thousands of daily visitors and some genuine ways should be handled to drive lot of traffic to a blog.

If you have just started your blogging career, then the next thought in your mind might be “how to make your blog popular”?

Or if you have started your blog since few months and still wondering with stumpy number of visitors, this post would help you to make your blog popular.

Let’s discuss some imperative strategies with which you can get a prevalent blog certainly.

Effective tips to make your blog popular

1. Personalize your blog design

Personalizing the blog design by having a unique theme with personal touches enhances you to stand out from other bloggers.

How to personalize the blog design?

Select perfect (premium) theme and add suitable logo to it.

Have a custom default Gravatar & style author comments, use your footer space effectively and ensure your sidebars with comprehensive archive by adding your popular blog posts and your well performed guest posts.

Incorporate your social media profiles in the top place of your blog and engage your readers with it.

2. Publish worth reading blog posts

Publishing worth reading blog posts is the basic promotion which could make your blog popular effortlessly.

How to publish worth reading blog posts?

If you focus only on your fascinating stuffs and not providing the solutions for your targeted visitors, then it is quite difficult to shout about your blog.

Instead, keep publishing the killer blog posts by providing superior solutions for your readers which would make them to come back regularly.

Speaking generic stuffs with your own voice would help you to get good reputation and to retain your brand name.

3. Build social proof

Building social proof helps the new visitors to confirm that you are in the right path of giving keys to your audience.

How to build social proof?

You can make use of popular social networks and get enough social signals from the viewers by sharing your pillar articles.

Using social plugins (limited no) would invoke your readers to share your amazing blog posts on their network.

Including case studies and testimonials would help a bit in building the social proof and encourage your visitors to leave their valuable thoughts through comments.

4. Create valuable Relations

Creating valuable relations would definitely support you to make your blog popular.

How to create valuable relations?

Mentioning other bloggers and providing links to exceptional blog posts aids to create good relationships.

Next effective method is to perform guest blogging with your excellent posts. If the blog owners drive quality traffic through your guest post, then it builds your strong relationship with them.

Sending newsletters to the subscribers, offering bonus and giveaways for the readers and hosting the contests for bloggers are the genuine ways to create valuable relations.

5. Optimize blog posts for search engines

Focussing the readers and writing for them is good but the basic optimization is needed to please the search engines.

How to optimize the blog posts for search engines?

Do keyword research and select eye catching blog title with popular keyword. Add Meta tag description, optimize it with long tail keyword and avoid using special characters in it.

Make use of relevant keywords in the main content and bold it.

Optimize the blog post images with alt tag and add suitable name to it. The basic optimization is enough for search engines to get good SERP and avoid keyword stuffing.

Conclusion

Blogging have great importance in today’s online world. Making the blog popular is the dream of every blogger.

So it is imperative for the bloggers to formulate a splendid blogging schedule and stick to it.

Just try to reach the reader’s heart with your exceptional posts added with humour and personal experiences. Also follow the imperative ways which I discussed above.

Speak with me now!

How do you make a blog popular?

Just tell the ways which you are handling to stand out from the crowd!

No one can deny the fact that most of the bloggers including you and me are attracted to the sponsored posts. And if those posts are found to be very much similar to the content that is being produced on your blog then we tend to accept them.

We don’t look after the things such as backlink that will be pointed through this blog post and how it can ruin your blog completely.

I do check my Facebook account a lot and I’m always wondering how one can accept any type of blog posts just for the sake of earning few dollars.

Well, there are reasons and I’ve been through the same phase. That’s why I’m sure that I can convince you to stop accepting certain sponsored posts.

I think it’s time to talk about the facts. It’s time to talk about how sponsored posts can ruin your blog.

So, let’s first talk about the type of sponsored posts that are good and bad.

There are two types in which a sponsored posts can be categorized i.e., Good and bad.

Good sponsored posts are those which are talking about the subject deeply. They are certainly the one who are written for the purpose of building network and trust. Also, they don’t really link back to spam website. Usually, they will put a backlink to their company website.

On the other hand, bad sponsored blog posts are those which are not well-formatted. Those posts are written for the sole purpose of putting some spam or casino website.

Remember, linking back to the casino websites will affect your blog’s search engine ranking. So, you better shouldn’t accept the sponsored posts which are linking back to casino website.

Reasons Why Bloggers Accept Sponsored Posts

It’s important to get to the roots to find out why bloggers are accepting sponsored posts.

Quick Cash

This is the real reason and in fact I would say the most important one. Everyone wants to earn money from blogging however not each of them succeeds in earning.

So, they start thinking that this is the best way of earning the money. However, if you accept irrelevant backlinks on your blog, you’ll definitely be penalized sooner or later.

Well, I don’t feel that there is any other reason except the one that I’ve mentioned. If there is any, do let me know via comments.

Now, coming back to our original topic of discussion.

How Sponsored Posts Can Ruin Your Blog Completely

 

Poor Quality Article

You need to pay an extra attention to the quality of these posts. Generally, the advertiser tends to provide low quality blog posts because that’s easy to produce.

In fact, some advertisers go ahead and provide spun article which might have grammatical mistakes.

Readers? Don’t you care about them anymore?

Did you forget that you started your blog to help out others? That’s when you started having readership around your blog.

Well, then it doesn’t sound good to force them to read sponsored post which poorly written or which is totally unrelated to the topics that you’ve been covering.

If that sponsored post is not adding value to your blog, it’s totally useless to have one.

Selling links?

Well, you’re definitely selling backlink if the advertiser is asking for a link back to their site. And according to the terms and conditions by various companies such as Google, this is illegal.

If it is found out that you’re selling links, your blog’s page-rank will be ripped off. You may even lose search engine ranking.

Low quality backlink

I know that I’ve just talked about the fact that selling link is illegal however I know that there are thousand other bloggers who simply ignore it. So, I decided to include this section of low quality backlink.

What I mean by low quality backlink is the quality of the website that is being linked through the blog post.

If the website is found to have spam content that would certainly put your ranking down.

Is it worthy?

Well, there is a slight line between accepting good and bad sponsored posts.

• When you decide to accept such type of blog posts, you need to take care of things such as –
• Will it affect my blog’s search engine ranking?
• Will it affect my position that I’ve been able to create in the minds of my readers?
• Is the content really worth posting?
• Is it adding value to your blog?

What are your thoughts on accepting sponsored posts? How do you go after them?

Feel free to add your opinion in the comments below.

                            Image credits - empowernetwork.com

There are several free blogging platforms, but only two of them have become quite popular. Yes, they are WordPress and Blogger. Both of them are facing huge competition. The pros and cons of both Blogger and WordPress are mentioned below, to let you decide which one is better. 

The advantage of Blogger

Blogger provides you the below mentioned advantages.

1. It is easy and free

Possibly the biggest benefit of using Blogger is that it is free, fast and easy. If you are strapped for cash and are a new user, Blogger can be a great solution. It gives you experience before investing your time and money into self-hosting the blog.

With Blogger, you do not need to purchase any hosting or domain name. Also, it has a user-friendly interface, which does not require any technical skills. Only some clicks, and there you go.

2. Google advantage

Google owns Blogger. Many inbuilt services and features of blogger are quite helpful for new users. It also provides you services like:

• Robust Hosting 
• Better Security
• Hacker-proof 
• Low spam attacks 
• Fast Indexing 
• Social sharing 
• Integration with other web features like YouTube, Gmail, and Google+ 
• Native support for Ad sense 
• Monetizing option for your free site 

With all these features, it is easy and simple to use. However, like the other face of a coin it also has some cons that are mentioned below.

Drawbacks of blogger

Although Blogger.com is a great place for the new users to start, but it also has some downsides.

It lacks several important plug-ins that are vital for improving the functionality of any site. 

The design features are limited. It makes every other blog appear the same. 

You cannot own any blog although you are hosting it. 

Google can remove your blog anytime (Mainly due to your one wrong step). 

Despite of all these disadvantages, it is a great blogging platform. It is the safest version of all the blogging sites.

The advantage of WordPress

It is available in two version the free and the paid. Once you know this, you would be interested to know the advantages. Some of them are mentioned here.

1. Free Hosting

WordPress is managed and hosted by Automatics. You need not to worry about spending money for hosting because it is free. You can easily get a domain-name in the format – domainname.wordpress.com

They will popularize your blog more and more if you pay $15. It is worth doing this because it makes your blog popular, which helps in increasing your business.

2. Customizing option

Unlike blogger, WordPress allows you full control over blog customization. This feature helps in making your blog look unique.

Although WordPress provides these features they are very basic. Moreover, you have to pay to increase the count of features.

Drawbacks of WordPress

The downside of WordPress is more than that of Blogger and is mentioned here.

It is not for monetization 

Google Adsense is not allowed 

You have to pay for each additional plug-in 

The free version is ideal for those, whose primary aim is learning and not business promotion or money making.

Conclusion

If you want to clear the basics free of cost blogger is meant for you. Whereas, if owning a website domain is your aim you should go for WordPress. WordPress appears daunting and expensive in the beginning, but it provides a better professional platform than blogger.

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Author Bio: 

John Conor is an experienced blogger and he believes in upgrading his knowledge and skills by passing various certification exams. If you’re looking for properly well organized study materials to complete your exams, then you should also visit Testsexpert website.