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Free SEO Reports Tool for your Blog

Pradeep Kumar Singh — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 14:39:25 +0000

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is definitely the much talked about topic on the web and so is its importance. Ask anyone how you could drive more readers to your blog and every one of them will include this important topic in their answer. The most important thing after the quality content you produce for your blog is the way you get readers for your content and this is where SEO comes in play. Yes you heard it right; SEO is the most essential component to drive traffic to your blog. How you could optimize your blogger blog for SEO should make another important blog post (Which I will publish after this post) but for now I want to refer an important tool for SEO analysis if your blog. It should warm up the SEO spirit in you and keep it alive till I come up with another post on how you can optimize your blogger blog for SEO.

Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post. I have used the tool Free SEO report and have gained a detailed analysis for my blog. This blog post on shoemoney enthused me to use the tool and importance of the tool inspired me to come with this post.

So what is free SEO Report?

As the name suggests, Free SEO Report helps you generate free SEO report for your blog or website for a specific keyword you want to target.

Is it all that free?

Yes, it’s all free for one report of your blog and for a small fee you can go pro which enables you to generate unlimited reports and also the ability to customize them with your own branding.

What do you get?

In a sentence, all you need to know about SEO for your blog. If you think that bit more exaggerating, try it for yourself. You will be seriously blown away by your custom, detailed and in depth report!

Free SEO Report tool helps you to have a detailed overview on several headings of SEO including Document title, Headings (H1, H2, H3), Body text, URL, Sitemap and robots.txt, Meta description, Links, HTML Code and page load time, Images and Meta keywords.

General Suggestions that I really found useful for beginners of SEO from the report are;

Make websites for people, not search engines.
Make websites that convert to your end goal… not just rank for keywords.
Build a brand around a community. One that loves you and will fight for you because they love your services. Don’t shut them off.
Make your brand so big that search engines need you.
Don’t focus on just one keyword. Do a proper keyword research to find out what people seeking your products and services are actually using.
Read Google’s SEO Starter Guide.

And much more is so easily explained in the website itself that you don’t need any extra guide to know the features. So give it a try and explore it for yourself and don’t forget to add a comment below with your view.

Viglink – easy affiliate marketing for bloggers

Pradeep Kumar Singh — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:30:40 +0000

Official Blogger blog keeps on pointing out a lot of resources that can help you make most out of blogger. Though I like most of them, there are really few that are appealing enough for me to actually use it on blog. This week on Blogger Buzz Viglink CEO, Oliver Roup talks about one more way of making money from your blog and in a simpler way through viglink.
Have you heard about the Affiliate marketing concept? If not, it’s just a marketing practice in which a business (websites) pay you for any visitor or customer you send to them. You can go on learning more about affiliate marketing if you haven’t any idea already. Now this viglink makes the process of affiliate marketing easier. If you are blogging about products or services and actually influencing your readers to buy and use them, you can be really making money out of that. Viglink helps you easily turn your links to affiliate links of products and services and so within minutes you will be practicing affiliate marketing. Its lot easier as you don’t need to worry about joining proper channels and manually doing the codes and everything. With some lines of code you can start making money out of affiliate marketing.

Here’s what viglink has to say about themselves in a blog post of blogger buzz;

VigLink is a content monetization company that makes affiliate marketing very easy for bloggers. We offer a simple snippet of code you can install in your blog that automatically and transparently does all the work for you. We’ve catalogued and signed up for more than 12,500 affiliate programs and we collect all the performance information and deliver you a single integrated payment. In return, VigLink takes 25% of the incremental revenue you earn.

Go through this video as well.

So If you really intrested, You can go on and join Viglink.

Let me also take you through the process of installing viglink on your blogger blog.
1. After creating an account with Viglink, Go to the dashboard and click on “Install” on your left side of dashboard.

2. Copy the Code Provided by Viglink.

3. Now go to your Blogger Dashboard and click on the “Design” of the blog you want to use Viglink

4. Make Sure you are now on Page Elements Tab.

5. Click Add A gadget in your Footer or any other closest area to the buttom of your page.

6. Select to add the “HTML/Javascript” Gadget.

7. Now Paste the Code that you had copied in step 2; in the Gadget Content.

8. Save the gadget.
Thats it. If you want to see if you have installed the code properly you can use the viglinks Installation checker by entering your blog Url.

Let us know what you think about Viglink in the comments below. Is it helping you to monetize your blog?

Adsense Basics every publisher should know

Pradeep Kumar Singh — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:47:00 +0000

Many people have online presence with ideas and plans of earning money through blogs or website. And topics such as earning money Online are really popular in that context. Internet is the only home to people who have plans to make Money online, no matter through promoting their business or through any other means. And among those other means, Adsense is the most popular one.
Adsense comes from the top internet company, Google and is often called Google Adsense. It was introduced in June 2003 and has been very popular among publishers who have desire to earn money. Publishers in this context refer to those who are publishing the Google Adsense advertisement on their website or blog. So if you opt for Adsense ads for your website or Blog then you are the Adsense publisher. Another part Advertiser is that if you are displaying the ads through the Adsense ads but that comes with different program from the same company (Google) namely Adwords. But that’s different story.

Well, Adsense is an advertising program that publishers (see above) use to display advertisements on their website or blog in accordance to their content and make Money. Why we focus more with the term “content” here is really because Adsense Ads come with the type of content you have, or put it simply “Adsense is contextual advertising”. Ads that are displayed on your website’s specific page depend upon the content that you have on the page. For instance, if you have Blogger information on your blog’s page then its more likely that you have ads related to blogger on your page. But sometimes what happens is the software thing of Google can’t exactly determine the type of the context on your page or may not simply have the ads related to your content and thus the ads are not relevant. This also happens frequently if you don’t have content on your page. But it’s really essential that you have Ads according to the content of your page in order to make some bucks using this program.
Now, the adsense program should not sound confusing if you are willing to make some money online; this is one of those programs that can really help you. But if you also want to know if it makes some sense using adsense or the reason why I am saying its worth to give it a try, you can read the below sub topics of why to use Adsense and why you may not want to go with that program.

Why use Adsense?

The first thing that any one can immediately utter after looking at Adsense, is Money. The money is the basic or primary thing to choose adsense. And this is really important thing to seek Adsense. Almost all of the publishers choose Adsense only because they have the money making concepts in mind. And the good thing is that it’s really possible to make a good amount through Adsense. Nonetheless making money through Adsense depends on lot many things which we shall be discussed in other posts of this blog.
There’s one more reason to choose Adsense. In fact there are many reasons and may differ from publisher to publisher but one more important reason is to make your website or Blog of more worth. Yes it’s possible to make your site more valuable by displaying ads and this is more relevant when we are talking about Google Adsense Ads. It should have been pretty much clear about the contextual ads Adsense displays and by displaying such ads on your website or blog works rather as more resource links on the topic or the content. Thus by displaying such Adsense ads on our pages, we are pointing to lot many valuable (in many cases) resources to explore. People may also be happy to go through the links if found useful afterwards and we are happy after all to have made some bucks through those Ads.

Why to avoid Adsense?

Frankly, one would really need to think lot to get the reasons on avoiding Adsense. However there are some that make sense to avoid this big deal program. First, many people believe that it reduces your page views. In fact any type of advertising does so. It may have several reasons but one thing many can agree with is that people prompt to leave your site with those Ads. This may be because they many not be satisfied with the content on your specific page and may be searching for other related things and end up with clicking on the ads instead of other relevant posts on the topic in your site itself. Many can argue that this is helpful as this can bring some revenue but if you don’t matter the revenue, its better you don’t go with the Adsense ads. For instance, if you sell some products through your site there’s probability that people navigate away from your site without buying the products and in this case even the money you may earn from Adsense may be less worth then the possibility of your products being sold.
Second important reason to avoid Adsense is that you don’t have complete control over the Ads being displayed on your site. Well, you can have some control in accordance with the content you publish in your site but that’s not really adequate. There may be several Ads that you may not want to display on your site and using Adsense you have no choice that you remove those Ads. This is significant if the status and reputation of your site matters in ways of displaying Ads. I think this may be the reason why high profile sites are not attracted to this program and continue their own type of advertisements.
Ok, its up to you know. But I am sure; you are going to choose Adsense to display ads for your website or your blog. Well, if you have been already using, then I hope at least you should have known the basics of this Adsense program. I too hope this helps to have a better figure of Adsense in your mind.
If you didn’t get enough time to go through the whole post above and have scrolled to this end, please make sure to go through the important tips on the topic below. It’s just a summary of the Adsense things discussed above.

Summary / Important Tips on the Topic to Remember

Introduction:

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Introduced in June 2003
An advertising program to earn money for those who have online presence through Blogs or Website and publish some type of content
Ad-placement Program Based on Google and displaying ads on your blog bought from the Adwords program of Google.
Specifically termed as Contextual Advertising that displays advertisements on your Website/Blog according to the context, i.e. content surrounding the Google advertisement or simply the content on your page.

Adsense Use

Use Adsense for the best and easy way to make Money online from your website or blog.
Use Adsense to make your site of more worth to your visitors by pointing to valuable resources through the ads.

Why you don’t use?

Do not use Adsense if you don’t want people navigate promptly from your site clicking on those ads.
Do not use Adsense if you think and want complete control over the advertisements displayed on your site.

Top 10 Google Services for Blogger

Pradeep Kumar Singh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:41:00 +0000

In a sentence, “Google owns blogger”. Ok, so the giant internet Industry Google is behind the blogger you use. It’s really a matter of great thing probably because of the reasons which we shall be discussing ahead in this blog post.First of all, let me make you aware most blog’s future relies upon the giant search engine “Google”. After all it’s the only most popular search engine that drives the most traffic to your blog. And also the page rank which most bloggers take care of is determined by the same Google. Well, these are just simple examples of why Google connection to the blogger is important. The most important thing why Google is important to your blog is that Google owns a lot of services which in many ways are very important to enhance and enrich your blog and blogging career.

Discussing some very important Google services and the ways we can use them to enrich our blogger blog can be really useful. So here are the Top 10 services from Google that you use to make the most of blogger.
1. Google Webmaster services:

Google webmaster services are crucial for blogger blogs. You can have more visibility in search engines with the proper use of this Google service. You can submit your site and sitemap to this Google webmaster service. You can also know how many pages or links of your blog are indexed in the Google search and much more. For details on using this service and other important tasks you can perform, you can read another blog post, “Google Webmaster for bloggers”.

2. Google Analytics:
With Google analytics, you can track all the details of blog visitors. You can have all details of your page views, unique visitors, site referrers, bounce rate and much more. You need not use any other stats counter if you use the Google analytics and even using this is simpler than using any other counter codes. You can use this service and know more about this on another blog post “Google Analytics for Bloggers”.
3. Google Docs:

Bloggers can easily create documents, spreadsheets and make presentations through this Google service. One more thing this Google Docs is helpful for bloggers is that they can directly publish their created documents to their blog.
4. Google Feedburner:

Feedburner is the most important tool for bloggers. It has not been much google realized its importance and made it own. It is a pompous online web content feed management program. Almost all bloggers use this tool to easily let other bloggers subscribe their blog content. The most advantageous thing is that your blog users can easily subscribe your latest content via email. This will certainly help to increase your blog readers. You can know more on using Feedburner in our post “Feedburner for Bloggers”.

5. Google Adsense:
If you are really interested in making money through blogger, then you need to go for the Adsense program seriously. You will be finding a lot posts in this blog about the Google Adsense and the ways you can benefit through it. Well, Blogger is also making the use of Google Adsense easy for bloggers and there is not too much to do to get started with it. You can learn more in general about the adsense program through our post “Adsense for Bloggers / Blogspot”.
6. Google Earth:

Using Google Earth really makes it easy for bloggers to create required maps for them.

7. Google Reader:
If you want online feed reader, Google Reader can be a good choice. You can subscribe to Blogs via Google Reader and follow them too. You can learn in detail about this program in our post “Using Google Reader for Bloggers”.

8. Google You Tube:
With this most popular video website, you can create videos and embed them directly in your blog. You can also search for the videos you need for your blog and use them directly. Most importantly you can help other bloggers by video blogging through this. This will certainly help you to drive traffic to your blog and thus make your blog popular.

9. Google Picasa:
You must have noticed the photos you upload in your blogger blog are stored in Picasa account. You can use this Picasa to manage your uploaded photos and much more. Read our another post “Google Picasa For Bloggers” to learn more about this.

10. Google Groups:
Using Google Groups is really useful for your blog in terms of driving traffic to your blog by creating your own group. You can also use Google groups to share common information with similar interest bloggers. You can learn in details of using Google Groups in our post “Google Groups for Blogger”.

Conclusion:
There are also other services such as Gmail, Google Toolbar, Orkut, Google Video… which you can use along with the above listed popular Google services. All these services in a way help to make your blogging career successful.

Make a good use of all those services and also let us know why any service is most important for you. Also let us know any other popular Google services for Blogger if we have missed any.
Enjoy blogging…..