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If you’re new to blogging, you’ve probably heard of how it could earn you money! But before you jump in, here’s a quick and easy way to find out if blogging is really for you:

1. Is there a topic you’re so passionate about you’re willing to read all about it even if you don’t get paid doing so?

2. Are you ready to write and write and write about that topic for at least six months even if nobody visits your blog and praises you about what you have written?

3. Are you ready to put in extra hours of work for your blog even if you’re already tired from your day job?

4. Are you ready to do research work to understand blogging, website, and internet marketing tools you’ve never encountered before in your life?

5. Will you still go on even if your blog gets infected by a virus, totally crashes down or gets closed down without knowing what it was you did wrong to deserve it all?

If you’ve answered YES to all the above questions, then congratulations! You’re ready to be the next great blogger. ;)

Very Simple Tips in Choosing The Type of Blog to Write:

1. Choose a blog topic that interests you most

2. Choose a blog topic you’d still want to write about even if you don’t earn money from it.

3. Choose a blog topic where you have qualifications and skills e.g. a blog about health if you’re related to the health profession.

4. Choose a blog topic that best utilizes your gifts i.e. music, arts, writing.

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It’s very simple to use, fast, and gives you an idea of your twitter friends, and followers. Try it!

You can’t last for a long time if all that you want out of blogging is to earn money from it. There’s got to be something else that could keep you going, especially in the early days when you have only 5 to 0 people visiting your blog. For me, some of the things I like about blogging are the following:

1. I like to read, read and read, and blogging helps me take down notes on important things I wanted to remember from my readings.

2. I want to explore and to discover new things, including new tools and gadgets.

3. I like being able to reach out to people and help them in ways that I could.

4. I want to be able to keep track of my progress, whether it be technical skills or spiritual learnings, by browsing through my blog.

If you have various twitter accounts i.e. a personal account and a brand account that you manage, you could definitely use Tweetdeck. It is a browser that enables to you to view your various accounts simultaneously. You could also post your tweets, or schedule them using this tool.

Per their latest update, you can also use tweetdeck not only for your twitter account but also for facebook, google buzz and even foursquare accounts. Check it out at this link http://tweetdeck.com

To be able to attract more followers, learn to choose your twitter name wisely. Your twitter name need not be your real name, especially if you’re not a celebrity.

You can instead use a name that describes your blog or the product you are promoting. In that way, people would know what they can expect from your twits. For example, I use the twitter name “moneybyblogging” which is very descriptive of what I will be tweeting about ;)

FEEDM8.COM lets you offer your blog free using a regular mobile (cellphone). If you register, you can now connect to your readers in more ways in addition to twitter and facebook via wap.

Readers can then view your blog even on the go and be updated of your latest posts. It even has a ‘share’ feature which lets them share the articles that they like, even through their cellular phones.

What’s great is that you can even earn through advertisements shown at your blog. Don’t worry because these ads are non-intrusive and does not get in the way of convenient reading for your subscribers. Simply click the button below:

It is crucial to know if your site is indexed by the search engines. After all, what good it is to spend weeks or ever months developing and optimizing your website just to realize that your site is nowhere to be found. In this article I will share some of the tricks I use to find out whether or not my websites are indexed by Google.

1. Install Google Toolbar. If you do not wish to install this small application, I will show you another method in a moment.

2. Open the browser where the toolbar in installed and type in the url of your homepage.

3. Click on the i icon on the toolbar

4. Select Cached Snapshot of Page. If Google shows that there’s something in the cache, you should congratulate yourself because your website is indexed. If there is nothing in the cache, it does not mean that Google did not index that page due to the fact that a cache is a temporary storage used to store websites short-term. If your website is not cached it could mean that Google did not have a change to do so.

If you do not have Google Toolbar installed, go to Google and type: cache: yourdomain.com in the search box (replace yourdomain.com with the domain of your website). This will also tell you if Google cached your website or not.

How many pages are indexed?

Here’s another trick that will show you how many pages are indexed by Google. Just type “site:yourdomain.com -blablabla”. This syntax will display ALL the pages on your website known by Google that does not contain the word “blablabla”. Replace yourdomain.com with the domain of your website. You can use any word instead of “blablabla” as long as this word does not appear anywhere on your website.

Please not that by changing the garbage text the results will be different. For example you will get a different results when typing yourdomain.com -blablabla and a different one with yourdomain.com -trtrtrtrt.

The easiest way of finding out how many pages are indexed is to look at the link at the top of your query. For example a “1-10 of about 15″ result means that Google has indexed 15 pages.

If you do not get any results back, try adding www in front of your query: www.yourdomain.com -blablabla. You may also try just typing your domain name in Google. Any of these searches should return something. If not, your website is not indexed.

How to find out if your website is indexed in other search engines?

The easiest way of finding out if your website is listed in other search engines is to go to a specific engine and search for your domain name.

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Linkwithin is a very easy to install tool to help your readers view more of your articles. If you can see the 4 thumbnails below this article, you can see how linkwithin works. It renders a thumbnail image of the picture you included in your article plus the title and a link to that title so that your readers could easily click it and read your other posts.

Using linkwithin has increased the pageviews of my blog and enabled people to learn of other useful articles I have.

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the importance of ranking on the top positions of the search engines. The one and only goal that a web owner should have is to get to those top positions on the search engines, by identifying proper SEO tactics and methods to rank for and that will help conversions. Search engine optimization’s ultimate goal is to help raise your keywords to the top of the results page. Customers and clients respect and trust those top results in the search engines.

The search engines can’t manually review each website on the internet so they use algorithms and computers to help them, their ultimate goal is to make a search as relevant as possible to the searcher. By doing a few things you can help influence Google, Yahoo or Bing to rank your website better. These few suggestions can enable your site to go from no where to somewhere very easily. Without any further or do, we’ll get started on the Top 10 Search Engine Optimization tricks.

1. Finding the ideal keywords is the smartest thing that you can do, spend time getting to know phrases like PageRank and Search Volume. When selecting keywords don’t just choose the one with the highest search volume, you should find relevant keywords that go well with your business or service but that also has a decent search volume.

2. Quality over quantity. Don’t make small thing websites that no one is going to enjoy. Users are becoming smarter and smarter on the internet, your one webpage about your company website won’t cut it anymore. Small and unfriendly websites just won’t work.

3. Titles are absolutely crucial make sure that you put the keywords IN the title. Writing captivating titles with your keyword in them will help the search engines better identify your pages true theme while helping your customers WANT to click on your results.

4. Do not waste your time submitting your info to the search engines. Submitting your sites is just letting the search engines know that it’s not very exciting or worthwhile, wait until they come to your site naturally. It’s not much of a quality indicator if you have to tell the search engines about your site.

5. Forget about link farming. Link farms are pages that are specifically created to have thousands of links in an attempt to game the search engines. Search engines are able to easily identify link farms, don’t get yourself caught up with them.

6. You really want to increase your keywords strength by having it a few times on your site. Again this will help influence the search engines to better understand what your “main” keyword is on that specific page.

7. Backlinks backlinks backlinks. Backlinks are indicators of trust to the search engines. The higher quality the links, the higher your website will rank. Spending time getting quality backlinks is what can make or break you.

8. Just do it. Focus on ranking on Google, their search volume far exceeds the competitors.

9. Minimize the use of Images or Flash The search engines can’t read images, and has a very difficult time with Flash. Spend time making sure that you don’t have any unnecessary images or use of Flash on your website.

10. Keep your website fast. Bloated websites take a longer time to load and Google hates that. Google’s ultimate goal is to make a better internet by making websites fast, don’t get crappy rankings because of a slow website. If you use WordPress, try and use less plugins. Get rid of unnecessary images as well and any outside code.

Implementing these strategies can help you rise to the top. Keep in mind that there are many other SEO tactics that can help you rank, except that these are the top 10 that you really want to remember.

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