Free Essential Tools for Blogger Blogs

So you have decide to create your first blog on Blogger. It has a simple and fine interface that takes care of many things for you. This is my suggestion to you for your first free essential must haves for your blog.

1. Feedburner - It generates an smart feed compatible with all feed readers for free like my feed. It allows you to put easy subscribe buttons for XML, Add to yahoo, Add to Newsgator, Add to MSN etc. Read about how their single feed policy can benefit you.

It can give you a cool feed count chicklet button to show how many readers are using your feed to read your blog. It also gives you a headline animator which you can attach to your blog to display the recent 5 posts in a nice animated fashion. You can get an authentic Creative Common license, get a browser friendly RSS feed, Splice photos and links and more…

2. Haloscan – Trackback is an essential component of blogging these days. Unfortunately Blogger does not have trackback. Haloscan provides you with a seamless way to integrate free trackback in your blog by adding a small code. You can also integrate their comments component if you like to replace the Blogger comments. Read about Haloscan or Blogger comments.

The benefits are that you can edit Haloscan comments, and open them in a pop up and keep them separate from your post (Blogger allows you to only delete comments and not edit them, also on the post page all comments will show whether you like it or not).

The main disadvantage is it will not email you these comments (like Blogger) for free and it is difficult to track where these comments were made. Another major benefit is that it allows you to send pings and trackback to other sites when you mention about them in your posts.

3. Imageshack – Dont you want to fill your blog with images without hassles of registration. Imageshack provides an excellent interface to take care of your free image hosting needs. Maybe it is this the fastest way to host an image on the web. Allows lots of image format, hotlinking, transloading from other sites. Its a good idea to register to keep track of all your images in one place. It is much convenient than the proposed Hello and Picassa options…

Update: Blogger enabled hosting of images on its own webspace making it easier to host images in your posts. But you cannot manage or edit / delete your blogger images in any way

4. Technorati - Create and add a technorati profile. It allows you to claim your blog in this huge blogosphere. It allows you to put an excellent technorati search on your blog. The best part is that whenever someone mentions or links to any page of your blog, technorati knows and a search for your blog on technorati shows exactly how many sites link to which pages of your blog and when they were added with a small description. See why you need a technorati account.

5 – Sitemeter – Just takes 5 minutes to get a free tracker which gives you realtime site traffic statistics to check the quantity and quality of your site traffic with detailed referrer and geographic data. I have checked out several other tracking sites, but this one seems the best. Although you need to keep a counter visible (as a logo, visitor counter) and the statistics can be made private too.

StatCounter gives much more detailed statistics and the counter is totally invisible and free totally till you start getting large traffic, when you need to pay. But the disadvantage is that both of these track the last 100 visitors only, while another free service Extreme Tracking tracks them all… but you statistics cannot be made private. More options I like are Google Analytics for deep traffic statistical analysis and it is hidden too.

6. Feedblitz – It quickly allows your blog visitors to subscribe by email to your new posts. They just have to enter their email. You decide which page opens after they press Subscribe. A quick confirmatory email to them and they get 1 email daily with all your new posts. You can decide if you want to send the full post or short posts with defined number of characters. Very good to keep your subscribers informed of new posts. It allows them to unsubscribe easily also. Example for our blog.

7. My Blog Log – Tracks outgoing links to let you know where your traffic is going. The free limited version data is not in much detail, yet provides a good idea. You can also add a Top 5 Our Links module to your web site. Now they have a MyBlogLog community to get some extra site traffic too.

8 AudioBlogger- Audioblogger allows free unlimited audio posts from any phone to your Blogger blog. You call the number (Currently a US phone number), record a post, then your blog is updated with an audioblogger icon and a link to your recorded audio.

9. w.bloggar – It is a Post and Template editor, with several features and resources that the browser based blog editors do not offer. It enables users to have only one interface to several accounts hosted on several different sites, using different publishing systems. Helps to manage multiple blogs on Blogger very effectively.

10 Blogger Mobile – opens a new concept of Moblogging i.e. blogging by your mobile phone. When you send text or photos from your mobile device to go@blogger.com they’re automatically posted to your new blog page.

11. Blogexplosion – helps you get confirmed traffic to your blog. The principle is simple, you visit other peoples blogs and they visit yours. For every 2 blogs you visit, one visitor comes to you. This is very good if you are new blogger and have hardly any traffic. Definitely try the Rent a Blog advertising swap service.

12. Pingoat – Pinging lets dozens of blogging services know you’ve updated your site and increases traffic to your blog. Just enter your blog name and blog home page, check the blogging services you want to ping, just click ‘Submit Pings’ and in one click it pings all of them. Pingoat offers a wide variety of such services and is fast too. See many more one click pinging services.

13. Creative Commons – It offers a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors and artists. They have built upon the “all rights reserved” of traditional copyright to create a voluntary “some rights reserved” copyright. They are nonprofit and all tools are free and useful to highlight the way in which you want others to use you content.

14. Google Adsense and Search – When you take all effort to write for a blog, why not optimize it to make some money. Let users search for good posts in your blog. And now it even helps to monetize you feeds.

This is periodically updated. Happy Bloggering!

blogging,blog,blogs,make money blogging,bloggers

Adsense is the first step for Internet newbie when they are start learning to make money online. Adsense is one of the easiest way to generate a decent amount of money at start. There are people who are earning thousands per day with just adsense. But they have spent time and got very good experience and tricks in this time to earn this amount each day. Here is a basic starter plan for you to earn $100 per day with adsense by using mini adsense content rich sites. Target is to take each site $5 per day income.

Choose some keywords and domains
First step is to get some of the best paying keywords and the ones you can write on. Just google for best AdSense paying keywords to get a list or alternatively you can go to https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal Google’s keyword tool. Write any keyword e.g finance, computer, technology, web design, php, adsense, internet marketing, affiliate marketing or anything of your choice. Just make sure you are going to that topic for your first website to which you can write some interesting words.

Google Keyword tool will give you a list of top competitions on your keyword query. You can display/hide columns to view highest bid on every keyword and estimated number of search traffic. Pick a few from top of the list and start search for domains related to these keywords. Domain does not need to be related but if your keyword is also in your domain, it will be helpful in term of SEO.

Register your first few domains.

Get some web hosting account
You can try hostgator web hosting plan or any other which supports multiple domain hosting at same account. You can try coupons to reduce the initial cost for your hosting plans.

Setup a Website or Web blog
Now setup your first website. If you are going for a weblog then best idea is to upload and install wordpress. Wordpress is best in means of SEO. Write few articles (7 to 10 articles) on website.

Start SEO for your website
Submit your website in search engines like google, yahoo and msn. Use the link of your website in signature of any of web forum if you use. Forums are fastest and free way to get backlinks to your website. More posts on a forum site you have, more backlinks you can get. Then submit your website in social news, networking sites like digg, del.icious, reddit, blinklist. And submit your website to a couple of free web directories. Keep a record of everything you are doing. In two or three days your website will be indexed in google and you’ll be start getting traffic from google. Now build as many links as you can but don’t spam too much.

Signup for Adsense (Or use if you already signed up)
Signup for adsense and wait for their approval. Once you got your account, create and place ads in your website. Use Ads blending and Adsense placement methods to embed the ads properly to generate more clicks by your visitors.

Final Step
Do as much SEO as you can. Build links, get more RSS subscribers, publish your site to social networking sites. Sooner you’ll be get your target for $5 per day

Multiply your income
Now repeat the above steps for another 20 websites. It’ll took some time but you can easily achieve $100 per day target with mini adsense sites. Just make sure you follow this rule

100 High PR RSS submission sites

Building a website is not a difficult job. But running and promoting it for obtaining a profitable goal is the big and hard way. SEO or simply search engine optimization plays a big role in it. The best and cheapest traffic always comes though search engines. So it is better to optimize your website for search engines like Google , Yahoo and msn so you can get maximum targeted visitors from search engines and spend less on PPC to save your PPC budget.

First step for promotion walkout is to build as many links as you can but with patience. Because google does not like fast link building and you can even get a penalty from google.

RSS is today’s best way for people to keep them updated for their favorite sites by simply joining or subscribing to RSS feed of those sites. RSS feeds can bring a lot of traffic to your site as well a lot of long term subscribers if you can submit your Feed url to RSS directories. Here is a big list of RSS submission sites along with their PR (Page Rank). You can submit and get your site listed in these RSS directory to gain maximum free & targeted visitors.

http://www.bloglines.com 9
www.moreover.com 8
http://www.answers.com/main/new_blogger.jsp 8
http://www.blogarama.com/add-a-site/ 8
http://www.newsgator.com/ngs/subscriber/Folksonomy.aspx 8
http://www.syndic8.com/ 8
http://www.technorati.com/ 8
http://rss.msn.com/ 8
http://www.whoi.edu/mywhoi/help.go 8
www.rss-verzeichnis.de/anmelden.php 7
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/submit_blog.html 7
http://blogdigger.com/add.jsp 7
http://www.blogflux.com/add.php 7
http://www.blogpulse.com/submit.html 7
http://boingboing.net/suggest.html 7
http://www.romow.com/submit.php 7
http://www.icerocket.com/c?p=addblog 7
http://portal.eatonweb.com/add.php 7
http://www.topix.net/member/register 7
http://www.rocketnews.com/ 7
http://www.rss-specifications.com/ 7
http://www.2rss.com/ 7
http://www.rss-faq.com/ 7
http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/…oo_for_rss.php 7
www.newsmob.com/ 6
www.rssbus.com 6
http://www.all-blogs.net/submit.php 6
http://www.avivadirectory.com/submit.php 6
http://blawg.org/modules.php?name=We…s&l_op=AddLink 6
http://www.blog-directory.org/ 6
http://www.blogexplosion.com/directory/ 6
http://www.bloggapedia.com/ 6
http://www.bloggernity.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi 6
http://www.bloghop.com/account/index.htm 6
http://www.bloghub.com/cgi-bin/add.cgi 6
http://www.blogs-collection.com 6
http://blogs.botw.org/helpcenter/submitblog.aspx 6
http://www.crayon.net/using/suggest.html 6
http://www.diarist.net/ 6
http://findingblog.com/add_blog.php?cat= 6
http://www.globeofblogs.com/register.php 6
http://www.iblogbusiness.com/add.html 6
http://www.lsblogs.com/howtosubmit.php 6
http://www.pressradar.com/suggest 6
http://smallbusiness.com/wiki/Weblog…_company_blogs 6
http://www.tailrank.com/import 6
http://www.truthlaidbear.com/addtoscan.php 6
http://www.genecast.com/ 6
http://rssfeedreader.com/ 6
http://www.anse.de/ 6
http://www.jordomedia.com/ 6
http://www.millionrss.com/ 6
http://www.plazoo.com/ 6
http://www.search4rss.com/ 6
http://www.weblogalot.com/ 6
http://www.chordata.info/ 6
http://www.listible.com/list/top-rss…bmission-sites 6
http://www.chefsblogs.com/directory/…ogs/RSS_Feeds/ 6
http://www.submitrssfeed.com/ 6
www.newsisfree.com 5
www.feedminer.com/addfeed.aspx 5
www.memigo.com/feed 5
www.rssmad.com/ 5
rss-portal.com/ 5
www.devasp.com/search/AddRSS.asp 5
www.nfeeds.com/submit.php 5
www.feeds.com.br 5
http://www.5starblogs.com/ 5
http://www.blogbib.com/submit.php 5
http://www.blogcode.com/signup.php 5
http://www.blogdir.co.uk/ 5
http://www.bloggernow.com 5
http://blogintro.com/submit/ 5
http://www.blog-search.com/blog-submission.html 5
http://www.blogscholar.com/ 5
http://www.sarthak.net/blogz/add.php 5
http://www.gobignetwork.com/entrepreneur-blogs/ 5
http://www.rateitall.com/suggest.asp…&TopicID=20004 5
http://www.redtram.com/pages/addsource/ 5
http://scienceport.org/index.php 5
http://www.thevital.net/ 5
http://www.wilsdomain.com/blogs/wils…p?op=newsubmit 5
http://blogsforsmallbusiness.com/ 5
http://www.rsshugger.com/ 5
http://reader.rocketinfo.com/ 5
http://www.feedsfarm.com/ 5
http://www.postami.com/ 5
http://www.feedage.com/ 5
http://www.rssdirectorysubmission.com/ 5
http://www.feed24.com/ 5
http://www.feedcat.net/ 5
http://www.feednuts.com/ 5
http://www.feeds2read.net/ 5
http://www.feeds4all.nl/ 5
http://www.rssfeeds.com/ 5
http://www.rssmicro.com/ 5
http://www.purerss.com/ 5
http://www.rss-software.com/rss-blogs.htm 5
http://www.fulldisclosure.org/Mesoth…sbestos_lawyer 5
http://www.nevon.net/nevon/rss/index.html 5

3 ways to make your blog profitable

Few years back, nobody was aware of what the heck is blogging. But today’s nobody care about building websites. Everyone is going to stick with blogging because its sometime fun and you can even make yourself rich with blogging.

Blogging is basically an update of your thoughts that you gives to other readers. Unlike a web forum or community website, blogging is a personal publishing system. Anyways, lets keep the heck of definition away and start the topic.

There could be many way to make money with blogs. Some can bring you a lot while some can give you only few cents a day. Its all up to you that how you run your blog and how much of course.

The key to success with blogging is to update your blog as much as you can. Do an update at least 4 times a week and you are not going to lose generic search engine traffic. Because thats the traffic which brings free money and traffic.

1. Three old words - Sell Advertisement space
Of course selling advertisement space is the biggest way to make money with your blogs. As long as you have enough traffic on your blog, you have the gold chain. If you are starting a blog then choose the topic you can write most because people will stay on your blog as long as they have good information on your blog. Otherwise they will just read and go away forever. You can sell advertisement space on your blogs easily as much as from $50 to $200 per 125×125 banner. But this really need good and targeted traffic. To obtain traffic, you might need to read SEO Tips section to learn how to optimize your website search engine friendly and the best way to get backlinks to your blog.

2. Write reviews for other blogs
This is another good way to earn with blogging. You can go to some best review sites like sponsoredreviews, payperreview, reviewme etc. Then sign up as blogger and start writing reviews or posts on a topic of advertiser’s choice and give them two or three link backs. This way you get two things. One is the few dollars for writing reviews for advertisers and second is the update of your blog. Yeah , your blog is always up to date to get more traffic from Google and other search engines.

3. Write reviews for affiliate Products
Another way to earn with blogging is to start writing your own reviews or posts on different affiliate products. In an action (e.g sale or lead) you can get a good amount of commission from your affiliate advertiser. You can sign up for commission junction, neverblueads or some other good affiliate networks and find the product you can write on, and promote. A good and helpful review always returns something. People make plenty of money by running web hosting blogs, health & fitness blogs etc.

If you like this post on blogging, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed from top right corner of this website. This way you can get latest updates in your feed reader or email whenever I publish any post

Earn More with Adsense: Tips & Layout Optimization Tricks for High CTR

Google Adsense is perhaps the easiest way to attract advertisers from across the globe to your blog. Just submit your blog or website to Google for approval and if their content team approves your content, you are ready to place contextual text ads on your websites. Every time a reader clicks an AdSense ad link, the AdWords advertiser pays Google a small fee and Google splits the revenue with you. Now you know how to make money with Google Adsense but to help you improve AdSense performance (and advertising revenue), here are some of the best Google Adsense Tips and Tricks for making more money (profit) from the Google Adsense program.About me: I have been using Google AdSense since 2004 and my technology blog was recently featured as an AdSense Case Study. Update: Some of the AdSense tricks in the article are old so you may please check my latest article on AdSense Optimization Tips that includes a PowerPoint presentation as well.
Tips to Increase Google AdSense Earningsa. Strictly follow the rules mentioned in Adsense policies. You will always earn more revenue from Adsense by playing it clean.b. Never modify the Google Adsense HTML code. If have trouble embedding AdSense code in your WordPress or Blogger template, take help of the AdSense support forums or send an email to your AdSense account manager.c. Never ask your friends or visitors to click on your Google ads. Google takes click fraud very seriously. Do not include incentives of any kind on your site for users to click on your ads. Don't label Google ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements.".d. Don't click on your own ads - Google is much smarter than you think and can discover invalid clicks through IP addresses, site navigation patterns, etc. If you working on a new design for your site, avoid reloading your pages (with AdSense) excessively. You can turn off AdSense temporarily and avoid invalid CPM impressions. Or you can use the unofficial Google Adsense Sandbox Tool that is accessible from Firefox, IE and other browsers to see what kind of Google ads will be served based on content (website address URL) or keywords. e. Don't place ads in pop-up windows, error pages or even empty pages. Update: With the new AdSense policy change, you can probably place ads on 404 pages. Check with the AdSense support team.f. Don't start a "adsense asbestos" or "home equity loan rates" website merely to make money from accidental clicks. You will never make money out these Made for Adsense websites. Instead, write on topics what you are passionate about. Don't waste your money on high-paying adsense keywords lists. Stay away from AdSense Adwords arbitrage.g. For short articles, CTR is best when ads are placed just above the content.h. For long articles, CTR will improve if you place ads somewhere in middle of the content or just where the article ends - when visitors are done reading the article, they may be looking for related resources. i. Use Text Ads instead of Image Ads as users get more options and the payout is often higher. If you still want to display image ads (for CPM), consider ad formats like the 300x250 medium rectangle or the 160x600 wide skyscraper as they support also support rich multimedia and the new gadget ads.j. Google Ads with no background color and no borders will always perform better. Make the border color and background color same as your page background color.k. Always put ads above the main fold. Make sure that the ad unit with the highest clickthrough rate is the first instance of the ad code that appears in your HTML source. Since the first ad unit is always filled before the rest, you want to make sure that ad unit is located in the best placement on your page.l. Try setting the ad link URL color to a lighter shade. If your text is black, you may make the adlink as light gray or something like #666.m. Go Wide - The large rectangle (336x280) is the best paying Adsense format especially for text ads. Try using the 336x280 large rectangle, 300x250 medium rectangle, or 160x600 wide skyscraper.n. Don't places images next to Google ads as that will invite a permanent ban to your AdSense account.o. Blend AdLinks with other navigation links or place horizontal adlinks at the top of your webpage. AdSense publishers are permitted to click on link unit topics on their web pages, provided that they do not click on any Google ads on the resulting page.p. You should try adding a unit near the comments senction of your blog. See more AdSense tweaks.q. You can put upto 3 adsense units on a page. Try putting a large skyscraper on the right navigation sidebar of your website. That area is close to the browser scrollbar. You can also add 2 AdSense for search boxes and 3 adlink units.r. The first few lines of your content are an important factor for determining what Ads are served on your webpage. That's the right place to put keywords in bold (strong or tags) or header tags (h1, h2, etc).s. Always select the setting to open Google Adsense search box results in a new browser window, so you won't lose your visitors. Click the Open search results in a new browser window checkbox and this add target="google_window" to your form tag.t. Maximum people think the search box is on the top right corner. So you know where to put it.u. Always syndicate full text RSS feeds and then monetize your feeds with a 468x60 ad in RSS feeds.v. Monitor the AdSense performance of individual web pages with Google Analyticsw. For low CTR pages, try changing titles or adding more relevant content to get better focused ads. Alse see: Get relevant Google Adsx. Block low paying advertisers with Filters. Why to loose a visitor for an ad that will only pay you a cent. Use Overture or Google Adwords Keywords tool to discover keywords that are less popular with advertisers.y. Learn how to implement AdSense Revenue sharing if you run a site with multiple authors and need to pay your writers based on advertising revenue generated from their articles. z. Experiment with color schemes and layouts using split testing. You are the best judge when it comes to choosing ad formats for your own website. Even Google doesn't offer the best advise always. For instance, in the visual heat map, Google suggests that webmasters are best served by positioning ads on the upper left-hand side of a Web page but if you go to any search page on Google, the ads the mostly in the right. Bonus Tip: Use the AdSense Preview tool to determine what ad campaigns are currently targeted for your site in different geographic regions of the world. Enter any keywords or a website address (URL) and choose a geographic location of the visitors to see all the related related Google Ads