10 Steps - Google Indexing Guide

Having your blog indexed by Google makes it to be alive and visible. Everything about Search Engine Optimization (SEO) starts when your pages are indexed, in time, your blog will receive traffic This guide will give you now 10 tips to let your blog breathe Google's air in one hour or less.

1. Write at least 3 posts. To index you, Google sends the crawler to check your site. And it is important for it to have something to check to.


2. Add your URL on every profile you have on social networks like Facebook or Twitter, will generate some traffic but more important is that the crawler pays attention to the presence of your link in other places.


3. If you speak Spanish,  go to EspaInfo and add your blog there. You have the "agregar empresa o página web" option, click there and follow the steps, they tell you to.


4. Add your blog in blog directories and search engines.


5. Share every post in Twitter, Facebook, Reddit.


6. Invite your friends to see your blog. Make it popular.


7. Use free ping services and ping your blog. (Pingoat, Pingomatic).


8. Join a forum and insert your blog URL in your user signature. Comment some subjects so people can see you.


9. Find a friend who has a blog and ask him nicely to put your link in his blog.


10. Use viral traffic free sites for link exchange. You can find some free sites here.

After doing all this, insert your blog URL on Google search and see if you are indexed. You can check with Google Webmasters Tools also. If you find this is not enough then you have some helpful free tools listed on this blog, that helps you get indexed by Google, rank your position and keep it high. I use only one tool for Search Engine Optimization and I am very happy with the free version of WebCeo, you can check it out too.

Free Unique Keyword

Today I checked Webmasters Tools,  provided by Google, to see what keywords found Google related to my blog. And I was very surprised to see that Dorin Hornea, writer of this blog, is listed there. His name became a keyword. So I entered his name in Google and I discovered our blog on the first page.  Then I tried it using my name "Ema Ile" and guess what? I had to surf seven pages to get to my blog. Why? May be my name is to close to "e-mail" and it is harder to identify it. Anyways, I wonder how many more posts do I have to write to be considered a keyword?

The point is: use your name to sign your posts. And if you don't find it original enough, choose an original nickname. That way, any search on your name, will lead to your blog.

So, make yourself visible, brand your name and keep blogging!

Search Engine Optimization Intro

Except maybe for those who work for Search Engines, we cannot know for sure how search engines work. I will share with you everything I know for sure about search engines, keywords, Page Rank and hints for you to do your free  search engine optimization for your blog.

Google.com is by far the biggest in the search market, but to keep this position they need to provide relevant search results. To do that, google.com uses  over 200 criteria (they keep us in a relative dark area, not even the SEO industry knows google's secret criteria recipe) to rank web pages and to decide witch contain the most relevant content for every search result they display, so every web page has it's own Page Rank.

In this section I will give you more and more facts about SEO.

10 Things You Must Consider While Blogging

Blogging is like a journey.  There are some basic things you must consider before or while doing it. Here you can find some of them.

1. Your content is the essence of your blog. Try to be original.


2. Post often. Plan to post at least one time a day and try to do so.


3. Use an adequate language considering who is your target audience.


4. Let everybody know that you have a blog. Family, friends and their cats must read you!


5. Join social networks for new friends and potential new readers.


6. Include images and videos in your posts.


7. Create your own original blog design. It is the first thing the readers see when they get on your blog.


8. Try to write about uncovered subjects. It makes you unique and more interesting.


9. Subscribe to a blog where you can find tips about blogging, like this. :)


10. Even if at the beginning you don't have readers and comments, don't give up. Keep blogging!

Top 10 Free Blog Hosts

Now that you found a reason to start a blog and a content idea, you can choose a free host from the list below.

1. WordPress is maybe the best free blog host. You have a lot of widgets and helpful tools.


2. Blogger Powered by Google, Blogger is a very popular free host for blogs.


3. Blog - easy to use, nice themes.


4. Xanga - free social network access and blog hosting


5. Weebly - friendly appearance and easy to use


6. TBlog - community based blog hosting


7. Bravenet - pre-defined blog templates, easy to use


8. SoulCast - here you can write your blog anonymously.


9. Blogster - offers free photo hosting


10. Multiply - free blog hosting and social network

25 Reasons - Start Blogging Today

If you didn't find a reason to start a blog till today, check out my list! Maybe in the end, you will be the happy owner of a blog!

1. It's free and available for everyone. No risk to lose money or any other owned stuff.


2. It is a way to express yourself. Create a place where you can go as you are and share your dreams, your beliefs, your ideas.


3. To promote a business, a product or an idea. No one knows better than you your business or product's potential. Get out of the box! Let the world know about you.


4. To help people by sharing your experience. Become a source of influence.


5. To keep in touch with your family and friends. Upload photos and videos to keep your family up to date.


6. A blog can make you famous. Maybe someone in the books area will see your blog and will propose a collaboration.


7. Make friends all around the world.


8. Discover things you didn't know about yourself.


9. Donations You can receive donations if people like your style and your content or if you present a good cause.


10. Google loves blogs and that makes it easier for you to be found in the search engines.


11. Because you are smart enough to do it. And you know it.


12. To make a difference. Do you have a different opinion about a fact? Or about peace in the world? You can raise your voice and make a difference.


13. To have something original to tweet. You already are a tweeter, aren't you? Why tweeting others ideas when you have your owns?


14. To never be bored again. A blog requires time, attention, research, so you won't have time to be bored.


15. To become popular. Once your name is online, your chances to become popular are much higher.


16. To complain. If you are always unhappy with the services and the products you buy, you can create a community and maybe find solutions.


17. Because it can show the best of you. It's a good way to prove yourself, your skills, your thoughts, your everything.


18. Improves your spelling skills. A good language tool.


19. To have something to focus on. When you have a purpose, you become a better time manager, for instance.


20. Because you can find here blog ideas. And if you find an idea that fits you, you have a great start.


21. Because I will put a link from your blog on my blog. It helps for your visibility on the search engines.


22. Because you can read here how to get your blog indexed by Google in 1 hour. Fast and easy.


23. Because you can make money with your blog. Pocket money or more... it's up to you.


24. Take it as a dare. Challenge yourself. See how far  you can go.


25. Because you can't find 25 good reasons to not start a blog today.
    

Feel free to add your own original reasons to start a blog today.

32 FREE Blog Ideas

Your life and everything around you may seem boring to you, but it surely is a new and interesting story for all of us, your readers. I will give you a list of free blog ideas. And I hope that you'll find it inspiring enough to determine you to start a blog right away. And with the right decisions to find in it the perfect job.

This could be your first step to a new life, you could be your own boss.

1. My Pet Adventures. Do you own a hyperactive dog or a wise parrot? No? Then you can write about the squirrel that visits you every morning.


2. My VIP neighbor. Tell us about a VIP day by day life, as you see it from your window.


3. My Own Kitchen. You don't need to be Jamie Oliver to describe your cooking experience. I'd love to find more daily recipes, ordinary recipes. Or try to involve one more of your friends and cook the same dish, and after that each of you write a post about cooking that dish, comment the differences with your readers.


4. Next Big TV Series. Pick a TV Series that is not yet on air, do some research about it, build up the blog with enough time before the releasing date, and maybe when the TV Series will be famous your blog will follow the same path.


5. My Library. They all write different forms of literary criticism and analyze every book. Why don't you tell the world how did reading it made you feel? The memories it revived or about a friend of yours that resembles a lot with one of the characters.


6. My Baby Boy/Girl. When is possible, tell us everything about your child. You have enough subjects for 50-60 years of daily posts, maybe more :)


7. My Dads Inventions. Does your dad build gadgets around the house all day long? Might be a funny story.


8. My Collection. I've heard that there's a potatoes lady collector. She has over 300 potatoes varieties. One of them is a potato with strawberry flavor. What do you collect?


9. My Grandma Cookies. Same cookies, 50 years later, why they have a different taste and no resemblance?


10. I'll Be Famous. You think that you have what it takes to let your skills make you famous one day? Then tell everyone about it.


11. My Garage Band. Do you still rehearse in the garage? I bet there are lots of precious funny moments.


12. My Shopping Experience. Tell the world a real consumer opinion. We've read enough ads.


13. My Mobile. Are you one of those who always have the latest mobile on the market? Then you have a lot to talk about it.


14. Untold History. Do you think that history facts are being presented to us from a wrong point of view? Enlighten us all.


15. History Repeating. If you are good at observing some resemblance between today and yesterday, maybe you are not alone.


16. Don't Try Suicide. Give them reasons to choose life.


17. Inside a Court. Give us the inside view to a Courthouse. You can write books about it.


18. My Local Cuisine. We don't eat the same food.


19. Bananas and Oranges. About 1 year ago I find out that Bananas comes in more than 1 variety and that there are more than 4 or 5 citric fruits in the world. I still don't know where do peanuts grow.


20. Fashion Victim. Do I need to say more?


21. Party Squad. Share your party hot and sour with us.


22. Learn My Language. There are thousands of languages in the world, many wish to learn one more foreign language.


23. My Dying Language. 100 years from today about 70% of today's languages will be dead languages. Save your language.


24. My Collaborative Blog. Find some interesting people, online or among your friends and start a collaborative blog. If you still don't have a good idea, give them the link to this post, you never know...


25. My Life Embarrassments. We all love to read about it.


26. My Idiot Boss. Do you have an idiot boss too? Write a blog about it. And when your blog will pay you enough you'll be the happiest on the planet to quit your job.


27. Do you live by the Ocean? You know that not many people know the beauty of the Ocean in autumn, winter or spring?


28. My Scuba Tutorial. Make a tutorial about something.


29. My Daily Lies. You need to let it out? You need to clear your conscience? Write under the protection of anonymity.


30. Cards Around the Globe. there are many card games, you know the kind of game people play in trains all over the world? Make some kind of collection with rules and everything. Maybe a play cards e-shop too with global distribution.


31. Latte Art. Learn how to make drawings in a cup of coffee, then teach your online friends. (at least collect articles about the greatest artist or designs.)


32. World Peace. Sketch-up a plan to achieve peace all over the world in 2020 or 2090, when you think it will be possible. I don't believe that there is a functional idea at this moment... so you might have all the world eyes on you.

to be continued...

But if you want you can participate with your own free blog ideas.

Why Blogging to Make Money Online?

Creating a blog is free. And nowadays is one of the most popular ways to make money online. Huge amounts of money are invested in online advertising. And you can take advantage of this, making a blog.

If you aren't decided yet, you can find here reasons to start a blog, content ideas and a lot of "how to" help tutorials.

Your time is money. Your words also. Why wasting them?

A blog fits perfect as a part-time job, for students or work at home mums and for anyone who is willing to spend time online and write.

Michael Jastremski
for openphoto.net CC:Attribution-ShareAlike

Blogging is a long term journey, but the destination is full of earnings and satisfactions.  You need to start, to persevere  and never give up.  Maybe your blog can be your career. Express yourself and make money!

Essential Tools for Making Money Online

Once you choose to make money online, you need some tools to receive the money earned.

Here you have some sites offering payment services, providing for you an easy, safe and secure way to receive your payments, making money transfers or even shopping online.

PayPal is maybe the most popular way to send or receive money online. You can also make online shopping.  It is free and easy to sign up. You add your bank account there and that's it!



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Earn Free Money Online

I am one of those who didn't believe that you can really make money online in a legitimate way, until the day I was paid just for being online. I understood the big opportunities that Internet offers me and now I share all of it with you for free. This is about your time spent online, your favorites activities and getting paid doing them.

The Internet is a place where you can do a lot of things: research, find out the latest news and information about all kind of subjects, make friends, earn money and much more just by being online.  Earning money is my favorite way to spend time online. And the fact you are here shows me that maybe we have that in common. So now, that we have a subject in common, let me tell you more about it.  There are many ways to get money online,  you just have to discover which is the best for you.

This site is the result of a research. I was looking for ways to get money online and  I found great ideas to work from home, but I also found scams  in my way. I decided to hold all the good stuff together and share it with you for free, because I would like you to have a shortcut in your way to earn legitimate money online.  This is not a scamming site, neither are the links you will find in it.  All sites are verified and I use them myself.

Think about what are you doing while you are online and I will tell how you can earn money doing it. Do you chat a lot? Here is a list of sites where you chat and get paid for it. Or maybe you are a gamer? Play for money here. Do you like to write reviews or comments on subjects you like? Review this and comment that! I want to let you know this: now you can do everything online and get paid for it.

Then, we have the  programs that offers  money for your click, for reading e-mails or watching videos.  This is really easy, funny and can get you easy pocket money, just by spending some time online and solving the required quests. If you get involved deeper in those kind of activities, you have the possibility to earn much more. In most of this kind of programs, you earn cent by cent doing what you are asked to. But now you have the opportunity to increase your revenues every day more.

Let's say this is like a plan. A plan to get some money. The plan has different levels. If you want to get pocket money, is very easy, all you have to do is join for free the programs that I will list for you, and do some very easy tasks.  But if you find yourself in the "I want more" mood, I have some good news for you: you can do it. I will help you to design your own plan. I bet you are very popular. And you know what? This is very helpful in your plan. Because if you get your friends to join your plan, you get rewarded for that. You create a group, with you in the top of  it and you earn money for everyone that signs in as your referral.

So now, would you like to be part of the plan? If the answer is no, I want to thank you for your visit and if you change your mind, I am here. All that it takes is for you to read us once in a while. Maybe in a few days you will realize that you don't want to lose more of your time without being paid and come back. And again, I will be here. You can subscribe if you would like to keep in touch if you are undecided for now.

If the answer is yes, then please let me tell you "Welcome! You made an intelligent move. Thank you for being here and I hope you will enjoy being part of the plan. Now let's have fun and get some money!"

I am here to help you.  I have for you reviews of the programs, how to sign in tutorials, how to increase your income tips and much more. Every time when I  find a new site that pays  users for doing stuffs on it, I will let you know. If you want to be the first who get announced, you can subscribe.

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What is this?

If you are here, it is or hazard, or the fact that you are looking for some ways to increase your revenues. If this is true, let me tell you something: maybe today is your lucky day. I spent a lot of time online searching ways to get money and I actually found them, but I got to a moment when all my information was a chaos because  I had too many poor content sources for the information and scams.  So I took the functional solutions, I decided to hold it all together and share it with you, hoping you will find the convenient way for you to make money from home. If you are willing to spend some of your time on that, it can be really easy and funny. It is all about patience and  perseverance.

Mix work with fun, smile a lot, sit at your desk or in your bed and just be. Be your own boss.

Enough with the talking right now. Let's get some money!

20 Ways to Improve Your Blog Popularity

Every blogger would like to be heard, to be known, to have visitors, comments and loyal readers. So, let see some tips to improve your blog popularity:

1. Submit your blog in free directories. Type free directories submission in Google and you will find directories where you can submit your blog for free.
2. Submit your blog to DMOZ. It's not easy to get your blog in this major directory, but once you succeed, the good results will follow.
3. Write good and original content, so people would like to have your link in their website.
4. Create pools. 
5. Write something useful, something funny or something weird.
6. Post often. Every post is an opportunity to be found by search engines or to answer someone's questions.
7. Interact with your users, start a contest, tell a secret.
8. Try to learn some SEO tips.
9. Write tutorials and pillars articles.
10. Get a good slogan and a logo for your blog.
11. Create video tutorials and post them on YouTube 
12. Take pictures everywhere you go and post them.  You will have no copyrighting troubles and interesting content.
13. Submit your blog post to social bookmarking sites
14. Link to others and get linked.
15. Submit your blog to Technorati.
16. Be patient and committed.
17. Add meta tag to your blog.
18. Use Squidoo.
19. Start a newsletter for your readers.
20. Add a game to your blog. 

Hope this was helpful. Now go, write a post, raise your virtual voice and never give up.

Another Thing You Must Consider While Blogging

 I made some research today about PageRank and I decided to share all I found about it, since this blog is meant to tell you everything about how to make yours to work. And the rank of  the blog has much to do with it being a successful one or not.
 So, PageRank is a link analysis algorithm. It earned the name from Larry Page, the developer of the algorithm and Google's co-founder.  This algorithm is used by Google Internet search engine to calculate the importance of a page, considering the referral links and quotations that the page has. In English, the image looks like this: it has more impact when a big dog runs towards a small dog then when a small dog runs towards a big dog, no matter how loud the little one barks. What I want you to know is the relevance of exchanging links and making yourself visible in this picture called the Internet. The image below represents mathematical PageRank for a simple network. Every circle is a page and every arrow indicates the references.

Now you can check the rank of your blog thanks to GoogleRankings, a free tool offered by Google. You just have to go to this page, complete the required fields and click the "what's my rank" button.

I think someday anyone can be a big dog. Till then... write more and smile as well. Thumbs up!

Source: Wikipedia 

Make Money With Your Blog (I)

Today I start the "make money with your blog" post series. The first way to make money  I would like to present you is Bloggvertise.com . It is a place where bloggers and advertisers come together and get what are they looking for. Bloggers receive tasks to write about the advertisers and get payed for this and for all the clicks they get on the advertisers links in that article. Advertisers obtain more traffic, more popularity and more clients if they have something to sell.
 All you have to do is open an account and  submit your blog for free at www.bloggvertise.com. Once your blog is approved, you will get assignments  and start to earn. You also have the option to comment and rate other blogs and get "Do-Follow links". If you are active, you increase the chances to receive tasks.
 Enough! It's time for you to earn real money. Way to go!

 To be continued...

How to Blog Effectively

I bet most of you begun writing a blog because you have something to say. And a lot of you would like to earn money blogging and be heard. This takes a lot of time, patience, perseverance, but in the end, if you stick to it, you'll get it. I will offer you here some tips to make the process a little bit easier. So... here we go:

•  Take care of the blog traffic. Make it grow. Learn some SEO tips, join social networks and activate the RSS, so your readers can subscribe.
• Keeping post frequency - decide to write at least a post everyday of the week and use the week-ends or free days to post more, 4-6 posts if possible. Try to not get lazy.
• Advertise your blog. Join social networks and share your link. Make a banner and ask a friend to host it in his website.
• Be interesting and out of the box. Try to write about uncovered subjects and be original.
• Get comments and stay in touch with your readers. Make them be curious about your next post.
• Choose an attractive look for your blog. The design of the blog is the first thing seen by the reader. First impressions does matter.
• Include images and videos in your posts.
• Don't ever give up. If you don't have readers or comments, keep writing.   

Fell free to add more.

Top 10 Free Blog Hosts

Here is a list of free blog hosts, so you can choose what is the most adequate for you.

  1. Blogger
Blogger is a free tool offered by Google. It very easy to use and offers you the possibility to monetize your blog with AdSense. It's one of the most popular free blog host.

  2. WordPress
WordPress is very popular also. The big advantage offered by WordPress is that you can install it on your site or you can use the same software on their site, thing that saves you a lot of time and work.

  3. Blogster
Easy to use and nice design. It offers free photo hosting.

  4. Multiply
It offers social networking and space to share your ideas in a blog, for free.

  5. SoulCast
Here you can write your blog anonymously.

 6. Bravenet
Nice design, RSS feed option and more.

 7. TBlog
This is a blog host with the purpose of generating traffic.

  8. Xanga
Socializing and blogging free and easy.

   9. Blog
Powerful publishing platform, easy to use.

 10. Weebly
Here you can create a site and a blog, both for free.

Top 5 Sites With Free Photos for Your Blog

To stay out of trouble, is better for you to use pictures from sites with free resources. Don't forget to check the copyright restrictions on any photos you use on your blog. Some of the free photos on these sites could require you to link back from your blog post to the source or to provide attribution. Here I have for you 5 sites where you can find free photos for your blog:

1. Flickr
Not all the photos on this site are for free, but thanks to their advanced search, you can find right what you need.

2. Stock.xchng
This site has a big stock of free photos. Some of them have some requirements, but everything is fast and easy.

3. FreeFoto
Here you can find a lot of free pictures, but with link back and attribution required.

4. FreePhotosBank
 The big advantage with this site is that you don't need an account, so you get very quick what are you looking for.

5. FreeDigitalPhotos.net
You don't have to register. All you have to do is to navigate to the images you want and download.

Now you can make your blog much more interesting by adding pictures from this sites. Post wisely! :)

How To Get Your Blog Indexed by Google in 1 Hour ?

Getting your blog indexed by Google's web Crawler is very important.  Is maybe the biggest step that a blogger can take. Having your blog on Google makes it easy to be found in the search engines, when someone makes a search that contains your keywords. Google offers the possibility to submit your URL on their index, but just by doing that you might not get fast results. So here I have for you some things that I did and my blog got on Google in it`s first day, in about 1 hour.

• Join  Twitter, go to the settings -> profile -> web and add there your URL.
• Join Facebook and share your URL with your friends, on your wall.
• Join a forum, put your URL in your user signature and leave some comments.
• If you speak Spanish,  go to EspaInfo and add your blog there. You have the "agregar empresa o página web" option, click there and follow the steps they tell you to.
• Use "ping your blog" free services like: Pingoat, Pingomatic, PingMyBlog.
• Tweet every new post.
• Invite your friends to read your blog and leave comments.
• Write at least 3 posts.
• Insert your URL everywhere you can. Google finds it if it your blog can be seen (forums, social networks, comments on other blogs).  

Try this and let me know you succeeded. Keep blogging!

13 Tips to Write Successful Posts

The essence of a blog is his content. You must keep your readers updated and challenge them to leave you a comment, a feedback.

• Use questions in the title, at the beginning or at the end of the post.
• Make sure all you say is real and honest and as a result you will get loyalty from your readers. No one wants to be informed by a source who lied once.
• Use easy words and short phrases. It is easier for the reader to follow the idea if all is clear and concise.
• Write list posts (10 reasons to start a blog today, 10 things you must apply from the beginning, top 10 rock ballads, and so on)
• Insert photos and videos in your post, something related to your news, story or whatever your subject is. It's up to you to make your site beautiful for the readers eyes.
• Be original. Write your own ideas and opinions. If you quote something from somewhere, remember to provide a link to the original source.
• Be careful with the grammar and the spelling. 
• Don’t write topics you have no ideas about. If you know nothing about your subject matter, readers will notice it.
• Give the reader a reason to come back. This reason could be your great content, they won’t want to miss out, so they’ll come back or subscribe.
• Keep your style. People like to know what to expect, once you have settled on a style for your audience stick to it.
• Create a good title.You could have the greatest content, but if your title is not catchy, most people won’t end up reading it.
• Write comments on your own posts. A blog without comments doesn't seem to attractive.
• Be constant. If your blog content is updated daily, search engines will tend to spider the pages at regular intervals.
  
   I hope this was helpful for you. I will tell u more when I find more. Till then, keep writing!

  
  

Adding PayPal Donate Button to Blogger, Step by Step

Today I added Paypal Donate button to my blog and I decided to share with you the entire process. All you have to do is to follow every step I present you and you will get the button on your blog too. So, let's begin!

 1. Get a PayPal account and login.
 2. Click on the Merchant Services tab
 3. Select Donations from the key features list that you can find in the right sidebar of the PayPal Website Payments Standard Option.
  4.When you get to the the Paypal Create a Payment Button screen, select Donations. It is usually already selected.
 5. Choose your currency.
 6. Select Donors enter their own contribution amount radio button if you don't want to have a set amount. 
 7. The Secure Merchant ID radio button must be selected to protect you e-mail from spammers.
 8. At step 2 you can save your button, so you can use it again when you need it.
 9. At step 3 you can allow the donors to leave a little comment among the donation.
10. Choose the No radio button for Customer's Shipping Address.
11. Click on Create the button.
12. Copy the donate button code that PayPal created for you.
13 .Go in your blog, Layout - Page Elements and select an Add a gadget link.
14. Choose HTML/Javascript widget from the list.and paste the button code into the Content box.
15. Choose a title and then save. View your blog for the result.

 I hope this helped you and you are now the owner of a Donate button on your blog.

13 Steps That Get Traffic to Your Blog

The traffic shows the health state of your blog, it proves that a blog is dead or alive and every blogger's dream is to get lot and lot of traffic. Cause this means lots of readers and maybe lots of money. so read this article to find out how to get traffic to your blog.

 1. Let everyone know about your new blog: family, friends, pets and co.
  2. Join social networking sites, such as Facebook , MySpace, Hi5 , make new friends and share them your new posts.
 3. Join forums, make a few comments and put a link to your blog in your signature.
 4. Join groups and communities online, find people in your area of expertise and show them your ideas by giving them a link to your blog.
 5. Add your blog to Google index.
 6. Add your blog to Yahoo! Search Index
 7. Use the "ping my blog" services, such as Pingoat, Ping-o-matic or others. Do this every time you publish.
 8. Write a least one post everyday. Make time for your blog.
 9. Leave comments on other blogs.
10. Use pictures and videos in your posts. Your blog must be friendly and warm.
11. Submit your best posts to article directories.
12. Add e-card pages and pools.
13. Use good grammar.

To be continued... Feel free to add more.

10 Things You Must Apply From the Beginning

Starting a blog is easy. But if you want to have a successful blog, you can try to follow next advices:


1. Define your goal and go for it
It is very important for you to know your goal from the beginning. Maybe an online diary, promoting a product or a business, sharing funny things, videos and picture or even making money online. If you have your purpose in your mind, it is much easier to be constant and to not give up when you meet the first obstacle.

2. Post a minimum of one post everyday
Writing is very important. In fact, that's blogging about. You need to write at least one post per day. That way, your blog grows and always has a fresh air. You don't want your blog to be perceived like a static one, so be active!

3. Picture speaks a thousand words. Use it! 
Your posts will look much better with a picture on it. Don't be afraid to use images related to your post.


4. Join social networking sites
 If you want the world to read you, join social networking sites and let your the people know about your blog. You will get traffic and new friends. Try Facebook, MySpace, Hi5 and others.


5. Make yourself visible
You can do this by participating in social bookmarking, by joining sites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon.

6. Offer e-mail subscription 
That's how your readers receive an e-mail notification about your every new post.

 7. Have an “About Me” page
It makes your blog more personal, so more trustful. Complete your personal information and let the readers know you, build a relationship with them.

 8. Blog name must be concise and short
 It's easier to remember a short name. For readers and for the search engines as well. So find something concise and catchy.

9. Start or end your posts with questions  
A question expects an answer and makes the reader express his opinion and his ideas. And that's what are you looking for right now: to interact with your readers.

10. Be patient and don't give up
There is no shortcut to a successful blog, so you must have a lot of patience and try to learn from your mistakes and from others experiences.
 
... and don't forget to have fun!

10 Reasons to Start a Blog Today

If you are here, but you're not convinced to start a blog yet, I give you 10 reasons to do it today.

1. To express yourself
A blog gives you the opportunity to express and share your thoughts, dreams, ideas and opinions.

2. To promote a business or a product
 No one knows better then you your business or product's potential. Get out of the box! Let the world know about you.

 3. To highlight a mass-media ignored topic
 Make a blog about a subject that will intrigue the readers.

 4. To become famous one day
 Become the voice who people follows.

 5. To make money
 Find the best keywords and use AdSense .

6. To get feedback on your niche or ideas
Write about something and the criticism will follow, as well as appreciations.

7. To post your reviews and recommendations 
Write your own critique column.

8. To tell your story. Easy and free
Write your diary online. Your story deserves to be heard. Making a blog is easy and free. I recommend Blogger or Wordpress.

9. To help people
Do something.

10. To have a lot of fun
You can have a lot of fun blogging, customizing your blog, sharing ideas, receiving feedback and watching your readers number growth.