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Best 3 Reasons to Choose Blogger over WordPress

admin — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:36:58 +0000

Today’s world is full of technology. Almost everyone has a blog or a site. Many users around the world use many aspects to upload and publish articles and other stuffs over the web. Out of which Blogger and Wordpress are two main ways through which users do their tasks. There is a tough competition between Blogger and Wordpress. But there are few reasons where users choose Blogger over Wordpress. Let us see them in detail.

1. It’s free

Blogger is provided by the Google and it is free of cost. While Blogger pertains to prompt money for using it. Blogger provides various options to users and it is fully featured. User can edit its profile easily and can view the statistics of his blog which provides the various hits over the pages and along with comments.Blogger also provides such features but it not so user friendly as it lacks alignments. Inserting images and links in any sort of written article is similar in both the aspects.

2. Easier

Blogger doesn’t costs for anything. But in case of Wordpress user need to pay for the hosting. While the options in Blogger is way to user friendly and easy to manage. User can have its things related to publishing done in dew minutes. While Wordpress takes a more time aligning and other sort of things. But Wordpress even though being premium used by various people over the web for publishing purposes. Blogger has various easy sharing options over the web such as Facebook, Digg and Twitter sharing along with the Google+.

3. Google

As I told earlier Blogger is a Google’s release. Google is the best and the fastest search engine in the world and provides is services to the Blogger too. One of the services is Google Adsense Account which is found to be inbuilt with this Blogger account. Through this the users can earn on basis of clicks on the Ads provided. It also provides stats over the Blog through users can keep an eye on the number of page reviews. It also provides a graphical representation through which user can know which of the countries are viewing its blog.

Author Bio: Chintan Jain is a web developer at CINR Solutions who also has a blog of Free Download Buzz which covers topic on Windows Themes Free Download

What My Medifast Weight Loss Blog taught me About Effective Marketing?

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:20:51 +0000

Are you a MARKETER ?

I know your answer to that question will vary depending on who you are, but the reality is that, at the end, being a marketer is something very cool.

A lot of us are very happy to call ourselves bloggers, and most of us fail to realize that there are currently hundreds of millions of blogs fighting for our readers’ attention. The reality is that, the difference between bloggers that succeed in comparison to bloggers that fail is that they are marketers. Yes, you heard that right, they are marketers.

In other words, the reason why you are probably not achieving any result with your blog today is because you suck at marketing.

There are a lot of steps you can take to market yourself and build a successful blog, but in the end, only a few lessons really matter, and if properly implemented, these few steps can mean the difference in the success or failure of your blog. I have learned quite a lot of lessons from my nutrisystem and medifast weight loss blog, and in this article I will be sharing some of the best marketing lessons I learned from my medifast and nutrisystem weight loss blog.

1. Your Readers Determine the Game

One major marketing mistake most bloggers make is that they believe they are in charge of the game and as a result leave their readers out of the equation. The reality is that your readers determine the game, and not only do they determine it, they also control it.

While you can spend years learning what is the best way to market a blog or which headline formula will go viral, the best way you can achieve quick success is by understanding your readers. You need to realize that the needs of your readers depends on your niche, and sometimes, it can take years to really understand your readers, but they day you start to understand your readers is the day blogging starts to become easy.

2. Having a USP is Key

It doesn’t matter whether you want your blog to be talking widely on the subject of health or whether you want to narrow it down to be talking about products like medifast or nutrisystem, what matters most isn’t what you talk about, but how you position yourself.

There is every probability that there are thousands of bloggers writing a blog about the same subject as you are now, and there is also every probability that your readers are aware of a few of them. Instead of having to change niches every time, why not try to focus on positioning yourself in such a way that every of your reader can relate with you.

3. Promoting yourself is Essential

The final marketing lesson I learned from my weight loss blog is the importance of promoting oneself. It doesn’t matter whether it is through guest blogging, article marketing, social networking, blogging collaboration or interviewing with other bloggers. Don’t just expect your content to go viral while you’re sleeping. You have to do your best to spread the word about it, and as a result you should keep yourself up to date with the best ways to market a blog.

John is a blogger who believes in the importance of effective marketing. He gives coupons and discounts on his blog for products like Medifast and Nutrisystem. Some of his best articles give coupons for nutrisystem diet program review and review of medifast diet.

Life in Blogging from Blogspot to VPS

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:03:55 +0000

Once upon a time around 3 years back while was working as Computer Instructor for a Computer Hardware and Networking Field my friend suggested me to start Blogging in order to share knowledge using Blogspot with by force i started blogging and day past and he said you can earn while blogging by showing some Familiar blogs like Labnol, Amit Bhawani, NirmalTv, Shoemoney, Shoutmeloud, Shodan, TechPavan, Pro Blogger, Mashable , Honey Tech and Cant Forget Mohan from Bangalore.

And manyother Bloggers who i cant mentioned them now and all in above totally inspired from Kiran the Blogger from Mangalore but day passed and suddenly i migrated to Self Hosted Wordpress day by day consistently Visitors going on increased and by month end some of my daily visitors may observe in my blog an bandwidth exceeded Problem and that day my plan was to Migrate to VPS within a year and thank to Idaksh and Kudlahost who Sponsored my Blog to VPS and also thanks heartful greetings to all the Visitors who made technicalathma.com a grand success. And know finally i migrated my Blog to VPS

www.technicalathma.com

Blogspot : Desgin your Theme using Template Desginer

admin — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 00:27:09 +0000

With the help of new feature introduces by blogspot.com named Template Designer will help the bloggers to design thier own template easily, You can change your template,background, Layout and also you can change the color of the template.

To start designing your template :

Log into your Dashboard.
Select your Blog , Click on Design

After Design, Click on Template Designer

Select the type of Template, Layout, Background etc

Click on Apply To Blog.

Finally Turkish people don’t need GOOGLE

admin — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 05:02:42 +0000

Look at this poster by a Turkish Blogger mocking on behalf of Google Banned in Turkish . Because he is expressing his anger in an interesting way have a look .

for more info : http://sansuresansur.blogspot.com

Find Icons Online for Free

admin — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 15:29:37 +0000

FindIcons.com is an search engine were you find lots of ICONS with various types and Categories,It helps you find free icons. It has a largest searchable free icons database in the world and a sophisticated search filtering and result matching system both make it possible for you to get an icon you need in every design tasks. Its an all in one Roof for Designers and Programers and those who like Icons very much.

Icons are one of the most important design tools which is being used by every graphics designers, web designers, bloggers and many more. FindIcons.com is an amazing icon search engine which helps you find free icons from more then 300,000 +icons in 2100+ icon sets with different formats. You can even convert your icons online to formats like ICON, ICNS, BMP, EPS, ICNS, JPG, PNG, PSD, SVG, TGA and TIF with FindIcons.com. You can also Filter it as your wish.

Features of these Icons are :

Color Filter Option
Upload Icons Easily
Accurate search result with Filtering
You can convert icons online

For Icons just log on to below link

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How to check who all subscribed your blog through email

admin — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:13:35 +0000

Email subscription is one of the main source to the readers who follow a blog or a site, In another way to keep up with your blog by placing an email subscription form on your site so that whenever a blogger or a web master updates his blog or site they will be notified through Email. So it is good to communicate through electronically VIA Pc.

So coming to the point to know who all have subscribed your blog through Email VIA feedburner, Just log on to the feedburner account go to Publicize-> Subscription Management -> Click on View Subscriber Details there you can find all the email Ids who have subscribed your Blog,Websites.

By this method we can check who all subscribed your blog through email.

Some Tips to Drive Traffic for your Blog

admin — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:18:03 +0000

Blog Traffic technique is a huge demand nowadays to bring your blog at the top ranking with huge traffic on your site as well as articles nowadays its totally Viral. Blog traffic is to measured and see the popularity of blog and individual pages or particular within a site. Blog traffic can be analysed by viewing the traffic stats found in the blog server. A hit is generated when any file is served. A page view is generated when a visitor requests any page within the web site .

Having to plan a Blog and got your blog set up and you have started posting articles and useful information that your enjoyed by others but day by day goes and you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats on your blog getting irritated. But still What do you do?

Don’t worry here are some tips which will drive your blog traffic ultimately. Which i tried and worked finally.

As soon you finish publishing your article, share it through social sites, through manually or using plugin.

Set up an email subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network .

Set up a feed on Feedburner, Feedreader and MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered search engine.

Submit your blog to blog directories like free article submit sites.

Ping your blog regularly .

Read and comment on other blog and please appreciate thier work, because they spend lots of time in that topic. Surely you will also get reply from them and if possible make nice friendship with other blogger they will help you in one or the other deed.

Submit your blog to traditional search engines.

Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence work such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers,research etc.

Add a link to your blog in your email signature file. Use wisestamp plugin its damn good. Read More

If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issues.

Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and banners whenever you print so. Its nothing for a publicity purpose and it also helps lot.

Use your blog name as a signature in your mobile while you sending SMS .

Have a RSS Feed URL in your blog.

Post often to keep attracting your subscribers and refer you to others in their networks.

Use link exchange service. Read More

Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts.

Write articles to post around the web in article directories.

Include a link to your blog in the author info box .

Include your blog link to Social Sites.

Make a commitment to blog everyday.

Type your blog name in your IM chat client as a personal message.

While blogging if you give example for your site just give your blog name like http://www.technicalathma.com

Use link plugins if you have more blogs. like linkwithin.

Create Communities, forums in Social Site and other site.

Write some shocking and amazing news this will surely drive traffic.

Here are Some Tips to Drive Traffic for your Blog , I tried these steps it worked for me now you try it.

What do Google like from Bloggers

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:33:51 +0000

Google the number 1 search engine as we know contains lots of data in the server. If we need some content it will show the bunch of required content. So specially what i want to say through my Blog to other blogger is try some new article with killing ideas which does not exist in google , because Google is in thirst of fresh topics or contents.

Do you know how Google Works:

Not exact idea but i got some points from the net that Google runs on a distributed network of thousands of low-cost computers and can therefore carry out fast parallel processing with some help of data mining technique. Parallel processing is a method of computation in which many calculations can be performed simultaneously, significantly speeding up data processing.And hence we get the search criteria what we were searching for.

Google has a 3 Distinct part which make Google most familiar :

Google Bot : Finds and Fetches the Web page and Contents.
Indexing : It sorts out every word,sentence,web page so that to sort the huge amount of data which the user is need of
Query : It is a type of processor which compares your search data with the indexed data in the server and recommends to be the most suitable data for users.

So when you enter an article in your blog google finds it and index it for future use and it take more preference on new or fresh content with unique keywords. So blog some thing new.

Keep Blogging New and Fresh Articles

Whats Up Blogger or WordPress ?

admin — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:04:04 +0000

Nowadays Blogging is very fascinating subject. Most of the people blog every day, some people wana start a blog but still stucking with blogging interface whether to Start Blogging with Wordpress or Blogger. But in my side i wana say that i started blogging 2 years back with the help of Blogger it is very easy to use , somewhat user friendly and less programming basic required and we can say it is the best platform to start a Blog but day crossed one day i changed my mind and just migrated to Wordpress , starting one month it was difficult for me to maintain my blog with Wordpress because i was missing Blogger but later on i realized Wordpress is much professional that blogger due to lots of themes and plugins in it.

For Starters you can compare Blogger and Wordpress below :

Blogger :

In blogger you can customize the themes,layouts,colors also you can include third party theme and tracking scripts.
You can store upto 1GB of images and you can go for higher using images hosting like Picasa.
And no Static pages available.In case of private blogs you can restrict google readers and cannot edit the comments.
Widgets speaks loudly here and its fun to be a blogger because it is easy to use and good for starters. But later on you feel to migrate on Wordpress as i did

Wordpress :

It is more professional than Blogger .
Here no template editing but style sheet editing is only available as a paid users those who purchase themes . Around 70% themes let you upload a header image. Some have additional customization options too.
But still dont worry try for free themes which is available in internet grab them out.
Here legally no script allowed but with help of plugins you can add the script here in Wordpress plugins speaks louder.
And you can migrate from Blogger,Live Journal,Yahoo 360 or any other Blog ti Wordpress but not Wordpress to Other. Minimum of 3 Gigabytes uploads are available .
But if you need more you must pay for it.Here you can also upload.ppt, .doc,.pdf files etc.
The worst thing i dont like in Wordpress is Updates and Upgrades but still we cant ignore it because it is for our betterments and Spamming but thanks to Akismet plugin which will take care of all the Spam.

Finally in both Blogger is friendly with lots of Fun because it is very easy to use and user friendly and any people with Basic knowledge on Web can handle it . But Wordpress is much Professional than Blogger and one thing you can ignore is the Traffic in Wordpress is more than Blogger.

So for Starters try to start you blog with Blogspot and later on see for Wordpress but starting with wordpress is also cool no problem just go for it

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