Best 4 Tips to Stop Hashtags Abuse

Hi friends ! Today i share a article about how to stop hashtags abuse? No issue what it is you’re composing about, hashtags can boost your page views and in some situations bring a entire new readership to your location. Of course, like everything else – you need to do things properly. If you’re organising a blog or in ascribe of one’s Social media, you should already be well known with how to use hashtags to encourage your posts and content. although, lately mind-set towards hashtags have altered across the www as a entire. For blog maintainers, that means you have to rethink how you encourage your mails using Hashtags.

Here are some tips on what to do and what not to do when looking to actually encourage posts using hashtags.

1 Don’t be Conspicuous

Let’s state you have a post that you desire to encourage on Twitter, Google+ and Facebook to drag in a quick signal of traffic and confidently hold some of them as permanent readers. This post could be about Miley Cyrus – for argument’s sake – and if you’re looking to get some hits off of Twitter, the conspicuous alternative mileycyrus. although, every person is going to be utilising that tag, particularly after she’s done certain thing else controversial.

2 Take the Subtle, Yet Productive Approach

Instead of going for the conspicuous tag, you should try and work certain thing into your share. Like for instance “Perhaps miley should stop…”. With a Tweet like that, you’re still getting some juice extract extract from the Miley Cyrus buzz but, you don’t look like you’re out of place. Besides, Twitter can do all the rest.

This way you’re still aiming at the topic but, you get to be the site standing overhead the disturbance.

Going this route isn’t super-effective for an instant boost of traffic however, this is one of the more effective ways to keep those readers coming back, following your Twitter account and retweeting your subsequent tweets. It’s the little things that count when earning esteem online.

3 Bypass “Hashtag Misuse”

Lately, the Internet and the newspapers as a entire have turned to “Hashtag Abuse”. If you’re unfamiliar with the period, it’s essentially a way to describe the over-use of hashtags in a post, like this:

Only one or two hashtags are required for a mail to get vigilance. It’s all in how you use them, too.

4 Take Your Time and Turn Off Auto-Sharing

Counting on the amount of posts you’re dispatching to your Twitter account, auto-sharing your posts as Tweets is likely doing you more harm than good. particularly if you use one hashtag for all of your posts. If it’s manageable, you’re far better off doing things manually. distributing a mail manually to Twitter doesn’t take too much longer and that way you can better choose which hashtags to use. Not every mail desires the same hashtag and in some situations, the right hashtag can be all your post needs to actually take off.

Source of Info: bloggercousre.com

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Tips and Tricks Backup / Restore Template in Blogger New Interface

     

Are you going to make changes in your blogger blog template or going to include some extra HTML, CSS or JavaScript code to add more functionality to your blog like post views counter or any other widget? If yes, then wait for a minute. By saying wait, I mean you should do something before making any changes. If you don't want any template crash during customization, you should definitely make a backup of your template in your PC. By storing a backup file, you can revert to original template if there is any mess up with your blog template during tinker with the code. It will also prevent you from losing all your hard work and precious time which you denote to design your blogger template. If by mistake you do something wrong with your template during make changes, then you will be able to go back in the previous stage easily. Now you are clear with the importance of keeping a backup file. So, let see how to backup and restore template in blogger new interface.

Note: Always make a habit of backup your blog template if you are planning to do editing in your blog template.

Backup Blogger Template

Open your blogger dashboard.

Point to your blog menu and select template.

Press Backup/Restore button located at the top right corner.

Click "Download full template" button.

Done!

Now you have successfully store a template backup in your PC. Keep it in a safe place where you remembered it. So that, when required you restore it without any headache. Now, let see how to restore a template.

Restore Blogger Template?

Restoring a blogger template is also as easy as backing up. Let see how to do it.

Repeat step #1 to #3 that you do while backing up your template.

Click on Choose File button.

Select your backup template from the location where you keep it.

Tip: It will be an .XML file

Now simply press the Upload button and you have done.

You see how easy this to restore blog template in a single click. This is a part of my blogger tips series. You may be interested to read this post also.

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Make Blogger Blog Private Tips and Tricks

Blogs created on blogger are by default open for all readers so that they can come and read any blog according to their choice. But sometime we need to make our blog private so that nobody can read it without our permission like in case of private blog where we share our family photos for family members only or a blog for friends so that only they can read that blog. The reason can be different for different bloggers to make their blogger blog private and restricted for specific readers.

Blogger provides a weird tool by which we can easily restrict our blog for public readers. They will not be able to access our site. Only blog admins and authors can access the blog if they are log in to their Google account. Let's start the tutorial.

Make Private Blog in Blogger

Log in to Blogger and go to Settings >> Basics >> Blog readers.

Under the blog readers section click on edit link where you will find below three options.

Anybody: This option is selected by default means your blog is open for public readers. Anyone can access your blog.

Only Blog Authors: If you choose this option then your blog will become restricted for public users. Only blog admin and blog authors can read the blog. But they have to log in to their Google Account to access the blog.

Only These Readers: This is the last option which provides the facility to open your blog for particular readers. You can enter the list of their email ids so that they can receive an invitation to become your blog readers.

Choose any one from these three options and click on "Save changes" button.

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Remove Blogger Navbar Tips and Tricks

Blogger platform is simple and easy to use. There are numberless third party templates available in the blog-o-sphere. You can use any template to give your blog a professional look. But if you are using blogger's default templates then you definitely notice that there is a navbar (navigation bar) at the top of your blog. This navbar looks nasty and it shows that this is not a website but simply a free blog. It will ruin your efforts to convert your blog into a professional blog. So, at that time you may think to remove navbar from your blogger blog. Don't worry I have the solution of your problem and it is very easy to remove the navbar. Let's start the tutorial.

Remove Navbar from Blogger Blog

There are two methods by which you can remove navbar from your blog. First by hiding it using CSS and second one is by disable it from blogger layout. Let see both the methods.

Hide Navbar Using CSS

Go to Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML

Please Backup your blog template first. (Read this: How to backup template in blogger?)

Search for

]]></b:skin>

Now paste the below code just above it.

#navbar-iframe { display: none !important;}

Click save template button.

You are done!

Disable Blogger Navbar

If you don't want to put additional CSS code in your blog template then you can also remove navigation bar by using below method.

Go to Blogger >> Layout

Now click on edit under the navbar section. See below screenshot.

A Navbar Configuration pop up will open. Choose "off" from the various options.

Click on save button.

You are done!

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Choosing The Perfect Advertisement Option For Your Blog

Blog monetization is among the best ways to earn money online. Indeed, advertisements are a primary (and the only) source of income for most bloggers. Hence, online advertisements are extremely important, especially to a blogger. For most blogs, the type of advertisements can determine how much revenue is generated. Not only that, they can also impact a blog's traffic. Good, well placed ads can make a lot of money for you. But if you use poorly configured, irrelevant ads, then forget about generating a decent income. Such ads can ruin your blog's traffic. Hence, choosing the right advertisement is vital for your online success.
When choosing ads for your blog / website, there are many things you need to be mindful of. It's not just about ad size, ad colours, ad placement etc. Ad effectiveness also depends upon the type of ads that you choose. There are various online advertisements option available to you as a blogger. You can choose from Banner ads, in-line text ads, contextual ads etc. Let's look at some advert types, and compare them to see what they have to offer.

Popular Advertisement Options

Banner Ads

Banner Ads are a visual form of advertisements that contain colourful picture advertisements coupled with text. They can be flash files, animated GIFs or simple JPG images. Banners are the most popular form of advertisements, since they are attractive and known for drawing customers.

Advantages - Banner advertisements have a lot of advantages. First of all, banners are easier to make than some other types of ads, such as video ads etc. Secondly, banners can go anywhere on your size, since they come in different sizes. Banner ads attract more people due to all the colours and animations etc. They provide the 'eye candy' to visitors, and hence provide more click through rate than most other type of ads. Banner ads have become an important part of most websites, without which the site seem sort of empty.

Bad practices - Publishers need to be careful about their banners though. Banners with annoying animations can irk the visitors. Moreover, the heavier the animation, the larger the file size, making the website load slower. This is perhaps one of the greatest drawback of using large-sized banners. And if there is anything more annoying than a site loading slowly, it's the sounds that suddenly start to come from god knows where! It is recommended that you do not use sounds with animations, unless the visitor chooses to click on a banner.

Contextual Ads

Recent trends have shown that contextual ads are the need of the hour! Contextual ads are becoming more and more popular, since they are highly relevant to the blog. Contextual ads use your website information such as meta keywords etc and decide what ads are best for you. These are dynamic ads that change according to the advertiser's wishes. Mos such ads usually pay on a PPC (Pay Per Click) basis.

Like I said, these ads are quite relevant to your website, which means a higher click through rate, since most of your visitors are interested in exactly the kind of things displayed on these ads. Such ads need to be handled carefully though. Blogs may need to redesigned slightly to optimize them for such ads.

In-line Text Ads

In-line text ads are another popular form of advertisement. In-line text ads are a form of contextual ads, and are embedded into the text on your blog. Whenever a reader hovers over the specified text, a small pop-up appears containing more information about the product.

In-line text ads have the advantage that they are not obtrusive and don't come in the way of those who don't want to look at ads. But they are highly efficient for those who are interested in some particular product.

Keep in mind, however, that in-line text ads mostly work on large blogs/websites, usually where there are a lot of daily visitors, and they tend to read between the lines. For small blogs, this strategy isn't very effective, mainly due to the low traffic.

Video Ads

Although Video Ads are not as popular as the above, the average revenue per conversion is generally higher. Videos also give exposure to your ads since they can shared on multiple social media networks. But unfortunately, the conversion rate for video ads is low. Not many people will click on a video to play it. Remember; do not make the mistake of starting videos automatically! Believe me, it's really annoying to the visitors, who don't want anything to bog down their loading speed.

Interstitial Ads

Interstitial Ads can be considered as a form of pop ups. But they appear on transitions. Meaning that they appear between user requests. For example if your website has a movie review with an excerpt at the main page, then such ads can appear after someone clicks on the excerpt to see the whole thing. Since such ads do not interfere much with the users' browsing, this form of advertising is preferred to pop up advertising.

Donations

If you have a blog that provides quality information that readers really need, then you might ask for donations. For this, you will need to build interactions with your audience, and resolve any troubles they have relating to the expertise you offer. Small and new websites don't benefit from this. Instead, they are seen as frauds. So if your blog / website has authority, only then should you go for donations.

And one thing more. Please don't claim that you will be giving the money for charity unless you are really doing so. Falsely claiming donations for charity is not only unfair and against social ethics, it is also a crime. Charity funding comes under a certain legal jurisprudence, with its own rules and regulations. If you claim that the money is for charity, some organization might approach you and ask for all invoices and audits etc. You could be tried in court then and there! So please just ask for donations for supporting your own business and/or your team.

There are a lot of advertisements types you can opt for. But only choose one that's right for your blog. Wrongly used ads can seriously effect your blog's reputation, while well configured ads can add meaning to your life :)

That is it for now. Thanks for all the support guys. See ya soon in the next post :)

Cheers :D

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Top 50 Tips To Increase Blog Traffic Tremendously

The success of a Blog totally depends on the traffic following it. It’s important to identify the significance of building a considerable traffic and then maintaining it because it is your blog’s traffic that decides the future of your blogging career. I have been observing newbie Bloggers Trend closely since the day I started my blogging career. The reason why most of the bloggers find their blogs going nowhere is that they serve 40% of their time in searching from where to get the contents, 20% on manipulating it,20% graphics and layout, etc. and only 20% on bringing traffic and increasing viewership. However you need to know that no matter how masterpiece articles you produce, if there is no traffic to read it, you have simply wasted your time in writing it!

Therefore, in order to enhance your earnings with your blog, you need to follow the examples that professional bloggers have left for you. We experimented whatever we learnt throughout as a blogger on our sister blog, smartearningmethods.com, and the result is in front of you.
Here are 50 best Tips to Drive huge traffic to your blog.

1. Outline Your Objectives

Just like any other business to start, you must figure out what your actual target is. You need to understand yourself whom to target to. Once you know who can be your potential readers and from where to get them from, you can then apply the remaining tips to increase your blog traffic-and your earning!

2. Offer Quality Posts

No other good example can make the point clearer here, to keep your living room attractive; you need attractive furniture too, isn’t it? Now, the quality of your content reflects your entire blog, further attracting readers to stay connected.

3. Comment On Blogs And Come In Limelight

You must accept the fact that when you are planning to make money online, then you must interact with readers on different blogs having same niche. As having expertise in your niche, you can always leave your suggestions on other blogs, this highly attracts readers of that blog to learn more about you.

4. Optimize Your Blog For Search Engines

Although majority of the newbie Bloggers find this one as the toughest part of the story, it’s the most important one, to be accurate enough. Try learning more about how to make your posts SEO friendly.

5. Use Forums

Have your heard of “out of sight – out of mind policy”?, if not then better start considering it. as a blogger, you need to achieve some popularity- enough to drag people to your blog to know more from you. Join forums and take part actively. Don not forget to add your blog signatures (link) in the end of your comments

6. Say Yes To Guest Posting

Guest posting is an effective way to get back links for your blog. while you offer guest posts on blogs, having huge traffic, you are actually introducing your existence, asking them to come and visit your blog-thus follow you!

7. Using Trackbacks:

You can always take the help of trackbacks that are widely available on internet, one of them being copyblogger. Its do wonders in increasing your blog traffic

8. Play With List Series

About 70% of the total net users are not bloggers. You need to keep self inviting posts to attract readers and the best results are achieved with list series, where you provide quality information in terms of lists like, Top series, Best series, etc. Readers hardly find long, dry piece of information without having any sense of attraction in the content

9. “Top 10” Posts

Show versatility and produce top 10 Series, readers look for them

10. “Top 50” Posts

Too much material to make it as a top 50? Go ahead; it would bring more readers, generating more traffic.

11. Best 100

Large Numbers increase your credibility. If you are sure to share a lot of interesting information, it’s better to split the post in two or three parts, like 100 ways to earn money-part1 and similarly for other parts.

12. Share Your Secrets- Earn More Secrets

Talk about the strategy that works best for you. People are in search of working formulas and there are possibilities they get what they are looking for on your blog.

13. Write Link Bait Posts

“Link bait” basically is the type of work others will want to link to.

14. Create A Mailing List

Use email marketing for promotion of your blog traffic.

15. Try To Get A Hold Of Media

Publicity of your blog via media can generate huge traffic for your blog.

16. Technorati

Submit your blog to technorati,

17. Write Tutorials – Become Authentic

Writing tutorials for a tutorial site is again a great idea. You can tutor people in your domain and can increase your own blog traffic by leaving a link there.

18. Secret Bloggers Club

Help other so that they help you. Bloggers here retweet their posts and share traffic.

19. Ping Your Blog

ping your blog after writing your posts, e.g. pingomatic.

20. Take Help Of Blogging Communities

There are communities that are administered by professional bloggers like MMO Social Network and BlogEngage.

21. BlogCarnival.Com

Blog carnivals is a good platform to get traffic from. A Must join site.

22. Create Videos

Create videos related to your niche and promote your blog with them.

23. Your Site- Your Identity

Just as Mr Irfan did, professional bloggers recommend to Include your blog URL as signature in your email.

YOUR SITE IS YOUR IDENTITY

24. Use Social Media

Use social media to promote your blog like advertising your blog with Facebook Ads. It does wonders.

25. Offer Contests

Starting contests on your blog bring more real targeted subscribers.

26. Advertise With Google Adwords

Advertise your blog using Google Adwords.

27. Feed Directories

Submit your blogs to these feed directories

28. Free Press Release

Free press release websites are in search of press releases. Write it for your blog and submit to them

29. Use Newspaper

Ready for some investment? Advertise your blog on your local newspaper

30. Stay Updated

Visit big blogs like techcrunch and mashable to keep a check on the latest happenings so that you can share them quickly with your readers too.

31. Do Video Posting

Entertain your readers by sharing video posts as reading big articles sometimes become too boring.

32. Interview ProBloggers

Give importance to professional bloggers by interviewing them. this will bring their followers on your blog too

33. Use Pictures

Images you use are equally important as the words of your post. choose them wisely.

34. Use Google News

Get your blog listed in Google news.

35. Target Celebrities

Your readers have an other side of the personality too. They always take ken interest in the news your share about celebrities. do focus on that as well.

36. Television

Publicizing your blog on local television is the best way to attract maximum customers. This method is very fruitful if one has the best resources.

37. Radio

With the rejuvenation of the radio channels, marketers now tend to advertise their blog on these channels by making live calls, sending text messages regarding your blog or through different deals with the radio organization.

38. Twitter

Twitter welcomes all kinds of bloggers to market their blog as tweets using #hashtags.

39. Online Yellow Pages.

The Online yellow pages can be also used to make your blogs available to your readers.

40. Like, Tweet, Google+, Etc.

One best way to attract traffic for your blog is by adding the social sharing buttons of like and share. Through this, hundreds of people will come to read your blog when you share your posts.

41.Blog Directories

Blog Directories assist in directing huge amount of traffic to newly turned bloggers and hence it adds to the publicizing of your blog.

42. Website Directories

By sharing your articles to website directories you can get traffic.

43. Use Article Directories

People also get to know about your blog when you submit your posts to Article Directories.

44. Write On Controversial Topics

Diplomatic statements and controversial topics always help in achieving traffic for your writings. Writing on famous controversies like Steve Jobs, Facebook Timeline, etc can be very effective for your blog’s marketing.

45. Attack Google Or Any Big Company:

Once you hit your target of getting enough traffic to be talked about after one big hit article, all you got to do is keep moving with that flow as big platforms like Google is bound to cover for your blog already!

If you want to upgrade your blog rankings, then getting yourself enlisted in DMOZ, a google-affiliated directory that improve your blog rankings in various search engines and you can earn huge traffic.

46. Tags – The Most Important:

Having a tag is extremely crucial for attracting traffic. When you develop tags that are in hand with the tags used by the best search engines, you are bound to get traffic for your blog.

47. Yahoo Answers:

Being a proactive and a reactive blogger is very important. If you prove to your readers that you are a reliable blogger, your traffic will cease to go elsewhere and you will enjoy blog-loyal traffic permanently.

48. Use Stumbleupon

Remember to posts your articles to Stumbleupon.

49. Blogger Feedbacks On Questions

Compile the various queries that are frequently asked from different bloggers and write them up in one post. That particular post would serve as an added bonus for your readers.

50. Consistency

Earning with a blog on regular basis requires you to work hard consistently too. Its not a matter of a day or a week, in fact, you need to work harder and harder each day to build a strong readership, so much so that your readers start relying on you as an authentic source.

That was all for now, really hope that these tips would do magic for you as they did for Us.

Blessings,

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