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With the progress of time, our dreams and aspirations keep soaring higher and higher. For those who are in the web marketing business keep looking for new strategies that can help them compete with their biggest competitors. One such strategy is taking help of SEO services. Without adopting such strategies, it might be simply impossible to survive. Therefore, the more you let people let know of your services, the higher the chances of fetching more and more customers. So, if you are looking for exposure, why don’t you create blogs and let your business flourish?

Blogging is one of the most effective techniques in making your website earn huge revenues. It’s through your blog that you can let your customers know about your services and products. In fact, blogging can help your business expand and bring ample customers from various corners. Remember, the more the clicks on your website URL, the higher the chances to get your site optimized. Rather, your primary intention will be to take your websites to the acme in the top search engines. So, your blog should be designed professionally.

Do you know why people get more attracted to blogs than articles? Blogs are usually shorter in length than articles, and readers tend to read write-ups that are shorter in length. Therefore, you need to be creative in designing your individual blogs since you have to state everything in a compact manner. You should hire professional graphic designers to get your blog designing done. Make sure that the content as well as the images you are inserting in your blog should be catchy so that visitors can get compelled to take a look at your site.

I have written and posted ten blog entries in the “Blogging” category on www.eparadise-india.com/blog/ till date. Thanks to my readers who are a constant source of encouragement and inspiration for me. I have covered multiple different aspects of blogging in those posts. A question from one of the readers came my way last week. “How to write an engaging blog post?” or “How to structure an engaging blog post?” It clicked with me and grabbed my attention. This blog post of mine is the answer to the question.

Make the Intro a Magnetic Capsule

The intro of a write-up and the first sentence of the intro are immensely important. Target the introductory paragraph to connect with readers. Present it as a capsule of the information that you intend to cover in the post. Make sure that the intro is of magnetic quality to arrest attention and spark curiosity. If possible, use a vital question that is relevant to the topic as the first sentence of the intro. An opening interrogative sentence is sure to strike the reader.

End the Intro with a Riddle

Leave the intro with a riddle or puzzle in the last sentence to be solved in the next paragraph of the blog post. Keep the first and last sentences of the intro bold so as to grab the eyeballs. Reveal the significance of your topic for the post in the second paragraph. Let this paragraph tell the readers why the topic is important, why they should go through it or listen to you. End the paragraph with a striking sentence directing the reader to the next paragraph and firing their appetite to read more.

Offer Ideas or Tips in Third Para

How-to blogs and blogs offering solutions or providing tips are popular on the web. These blogs are most clickable primarily because of the information they provide. In the third paragraph, focus on how to do something or tips or solutions, if this type of content structure goes with the topic you have chosen. Original ideas or effective solutions or easy tips are always valuable. Borrowing the ideas or tips from some other source is no wrong. But present them in a new fashion. End it with a catchy note to drive the reader to the fourth paragraph.

Make Fourth Para an Explanatory Note

Start the fourth paragraph with an explanation telling the reader how they can put the ideas into application or how they can use the tips or how they can benefit from the solutions given in the preceding or third paragraph. Put flesh on the most important tips or ideas by illustrating them particularly in this paragraph. Let no confusion remain in this paragraph. Make it as much comprehensible as possible so that the reader can move on to the end paragraph.

It is an Art to Conclude the Post

How to conclude the post is no magic but an art. End the last paragraph with a thought-provoking question and answer it in the next blog entry. Conclude the post asking the reader for additional tips or suggestions in the last sentence. If you have got a suitable topic for the next blog post on your mind, leave an index to the next blog post topic at the bottom of this post. It really works to make the reader wait restlessly for the next post.

WordPress blogging has become a simple affair. Adding to the popularity of WordPress blogging is its simplification with the use of innovative plugins that do not cost a penny. Most of these plugins are available to be used online. Some plugins offer lots of functionality to do online editing at WordPress. While searching for off-line editing tools to make WordPress blogging simpler than before, I came across a few user-friendly off-line WordPress editing tools.

Wbloggar.com

The very first thing to mention about this WordPress editor is you do not need to pay for using it. Downloading and installing the plugin is the only do to put it into application for the better look of your WordPress blog. It speeds up the pace of making posts and thus, saves a chunk of time to help you increase your blogging activity. Make a post in Wbloggar and upload the post to your WordPress blog with just a few clicks. Using this offline editor, you can upload a post to other blogging platforms like Bloggar than WordPress. Wbloggar lets you edit the published posts from a single dashboard. You can edit templates without importing text files, reworking code strings and formatting text alignment. Inserting pictures, graphs and charts in posts with the help of Wbloggar is no longer a matter.

Live Writer

The interface of Live Writer offers an easy application to provide an instant preview of work in progress. It helps make necessary changes immediately. Live Writer comes with a complete range of fonts exceeding the limited number at WordPress itself. Plus, you can easily define spacing, image placement, alignment and text wrapping. A couple of clicks work to let you embed videos and add photos. Live Writer is a more functional and flexible off-line editing tool with a host of plugins, many of which help innovate the display of your blog posts. ‘Simple’, ‘flexible’ and ‘adaptable’ are better to describe what you expect from Live Writer.

Post2Blog

Post2Blog is all the rage with the core bloggers. It should be your pick, if blogging is your world. It is a complete off-line editor with hotkeys. It offers automated pinging to the selected services. It comes with an automatic tagging application for Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati and many other social bookmarking sites as well as blog search engines. Using this off-line editor, you can post content in any virtual format of image, text and video. Automatic image upload to your blog from various sources is possible with Post2Blog. No more details. It will kill your curiosity about this editing tool . Post2Blog is sure to get you in the spirit of blogging.

Quamana

Quamana helps make a simple and easy approach to blogging, when flexible usability is a concern with the round-the-clock bloggers. With the cross platform functionality of Quamana, you are not required to worry about flitting between PC and the Mac anymore. Installing this editing tool is just the only do to use it. It is a simple HTML interface. Text alignment, image alignment, cross posting options, many window editing options, complete pinging and trackbacks are simple but notable features of Quamana. A good take for daily blog maintenance and promotion, it simplifies the process of making posts on blogging platforms.

ScribeFire Blog Editor 3.4.6

This off-line editor is a good use for those bloggers who can’t think of other browsers than Firefox. It is basically an add-on. Though rich in features, it is simple in use. Being integrated to the Firefox browser, it makes posting a super-fast experience. To beef up things, ScribeFire hosts some nice features like an image gallery, an open page suiting your needs for artistic display and an integrated sharing option which make a new post go viral as soon as it is published.

Let me know which of the above-mentioned off-line blogging editors has clicked with you or if you have any suggestion.

You can compose a most informative and convincing piece of content out of raw materials from different sources to establish yourself as a brilliant blogger. Though your composition is as precious as diamond or you, don’t keep it hid to all. Rather, get your blog maximum exposure across the World Wide Web.

Like advertisements to market products, blog directories are the right platforms to promote blogs. Having your blog listed in the top blog directories is a good opportunity to fetch traffic from various avenues related to your niche. If the blog is featured in high PR blog directories, it gets noticed among the search engine results on the topic that the blog covers. Almost all the directories work on the same line. I have googled the top free blog directories where you blog needs to be in.

Technorati is a cosmic network of blogs in all fields. This free blog directory allows you to run a frisk for blogs on any subject. It maintains a hierarchy of blogs by assigning a rank to each of them depending on their content quality. It lets you update your blog profile manually or automatically. Technorati is a hub of more than 50 million blogs.

Blog Catalog is a blog directory on the one hand and a social networking on the other. It lets you to create a profile, make friends and update the profile with new content. Whenever the blog site is updated with fresh posts, you can easily notify your friends on Blog Catalog about it.

Blogarama is a colossal platform promoting more than 100,000 blog sites. Simplicity is the mainstay feature of this directory. It is easy to use and therefore, user-friendly. It is a doddle to get your blog listed on this directory. It just requires you to go a few easy steps and you are done.

GlobeofBlogs is a well-organized blog directory where you can make quest for a blog by topic, blog title or blog author. Though it takes you time to get registered and live on the directory, you can be assured of the listing of and views for your blog here, if the content is good and comprehensible.

Super Blog directory is equipped with a high-tech system to categorize the blogs. Navigation through the directory is a pleasing experience. Having the attributes of a professional directory, it allows the other uses to rate your blog site and its content between 1 and 10 stars.

Blog Explosion is not only a blog directory but also a community of bloggers. You can earn credits for your blog and its content from the others in your community. It is among the directories whose blog listings turn up in search engine results.

Movie, music, food and travel are elemental means of entertainment for almost everyone. Digging into the resources of global travel and tourism industry has opened up multiple avenues like travel blogging. Travel blogging is a passion for some, a pleasure for some and a profession for some. Be blogging in this field is your passion, pleasure of profession, you need visitors for your travel blog site and readers for your travel blog posts to make a go of your effort. It does not require you to look for your target visitors or readers, with a lamp in your hand. The Internet is home to many travel forums, travel blog hosts, travel social bookmarks and travel social networking sites where you can promote your travel blog by earning links and fetching traffic from there. Let’s have a go through the brief on top travel social networking platforms, forums and communities –

TripAdvisor is a popular travel social networking website that dishes out advice and information through the comments and opinions of real travelers. It provides platform for graphical advertising and cost-per-click marketing.

Tripwolf is a vast reservoir of travel tips, reviews, opinions and experiences from professional travel writers and travelers like you. It is an online community of travel writers and globetrotters in thousands. Tripwolf is a hub of travel blogs and a travel map focusing on above 400000 locations all around the world. Commenting on the blog posts leaving a link to your travel blog is a tip to get the best of this travel site.

RealTravel is the best online platform for people to network with travelers and share their valuable real-life experiences. It provides suggestions from travel experts that you can get resource for your travel blog from.

Dopplr provides a social networking base for travelers, travel writers and bloggers. Being a member of this travel networking site, you can network with others to exchange tips on different tourist destinations and cuisines of the world with them. Better to be called a travel atlas, it is accessible by mobile phones.

Bootsnall is a community of travelers, a platform for travel writers and a base for travel blog hosting. It is the best online place to access thousands of travel blogs, stories and guides on global destinations at one go. Bootsnall deserves a mention as a good source to build links for your travel blog.

Gusto, a leading online community of globetrotters, is the place to come across several travel websites and blogs. It offers not only tips on traveling but also global travel news. Having membership of this community benefits to get you valuable links for your travel blog.

Exploro, a part of travel social media, aims at providing opportunities for networking with travelers from across the globe, sharing your travel experiences through pictures, videos or write-ups and seeking travel information. Have a profile on this forum and build links to direct visitors to your travel blog.

TripSay is an out and out travel networking platform where you can connect to travel enthusiasts and get into discussions with them on trips to global destinations. It is a social community for travel junkies to document their memorable trips in blogging style. Make the most of it to develop a pool of visitors for your travel blog.

TravelBeen is a prominent travel bookmarking site on the one hand and a good travel search engine on the other. It offers lots of activity for the users. If your travel site or blog provides quality content, submit it to TravelBeen for free. It lets you do bookmarking for your own site or blog. Have a user profile and then, spring into bookmarking.

Reddit’s Travel Section is one of the promising platforms for online travel marketing. A quality writeup, combined with pictures and videos is a great travel marketing tool to build dofollow links from this platform. The more votes for the writeup, the more traffic for your travel site or blog.

World66, TripConnect, Boo, TripShake, Trazzler and GeckoGo are similar other travel networking sites. Build a travel blog of your own and be a travel bookmarker or a travel networker or a travel community member to put the blog in the public eye.

Monetization of blog is a bandwagon in the blogosphere. A blog with search engine friendly features can make passive income for its owner. Google AsSense is not the one and only option to monetize blogs. Amazon Associates and Infolinks are two other potential means to make passive income through your blog. Most of the bloggers know that the best approach to spinning money from a blog is to use Google AdSense. However, if you want to maximize your income from a blog, try the before-mentioned means f passive income.

Passive income, an antonym of active income is a kind of income that you can pocket without much hard work. You need not be at work to make passive income from your blog. Passive income though smaller in amount than active income is a great boost with long-term effects to your financial condition. So what, it works slow and takes time to pay off. A passive income blog does not require you to abide by the ‘no work, no pay’ policy. This blog is an illustration of how to make an impressive passive income from your blog, with Infolinks and Amazon Associates.

A diamond fascinates all, only when it dazzles. Likewise, a blog fetches readers if it features quality content. The content quality and quantity of a blog is not to be sniffed at. It is an important consideration for passive income. Evaluate the status of your blog content in terms of quality and quantity, before you go crazy with Amazon Associates and Infolinks. Check the following requirements for passive income, with your blog –

The age of your blog - If the blog is merely a month old, be in no hurry for being an Amazon associate or an Infolink publisher. Take time to stuff the blog with quality content and practise organic search engine optimization to get traffic. No shortcut is there. Optimize the blog with keyword-centric rich content.

At the initial stage, you have to work hard and put in efforts in order to build a large readership and a huge visitor base for your blog. Besides dedication and commitment on your part, what it requires more are quality content and search engine optimization, both of wich will get you lots of traffic. Keep updating the blog with posts on relevant and popular topics.

The type of your blog – Is your blog really content-oriented or text-based? Some bloggers are not serious about the originality and quantity of their blog content. Blog posts with strenght of 500 words are considered standard for passive income. Keep in mind that Amazon Associates and Infolinks prefer to work with content or text-based blogs. They hardly favor the blogs, full of images and videos. Only original blog content can help you become a publisher with Amazon Associates and Infolinks for passive income.

Follow the next blog in this series to get the details about how to spring into activity for passive blog income with Infolinks and Amazon Associates.

If you have a lot to share with the world, if you want to make the most of your writing accomplishment or if you need to build a fan base in order to overcome your lonenliness, blogging is the best do. A domain name and a hosting space are two essential requirements to do blogging in a professional way, but it costs some money. Having no experience in blogging or being a first-time blogger, if you are in doubt about the outcome of this investment, you can go for a free blogging service. Multiple free blogging service providers are there. Blogger, WordPress, LiveJournal, Multiply, MySpace and Friendster are a few to name. The problem is which one to choose. In this blog of mine, I aim at offering a solution to this problem. This piece of writing is a focus on the criteria for selecting the best of free blogging platforms.

• Choose the free blogging service that allows you to edit the HTML source code of the blog template. It is immensely important because without this feature, the blog cannot be monetized. The lack of this functional facility with any free blogging service makes it impossible to add AdSense code or use other monetization methods. Moreover, the number of features to optimize the blog is limited with the blogging service that disallows editing the template source code.
• Choose the free blogging service that transfers the link juice of blogs to their new domains. You may transfer the blog content to a new domain from a free blogging platform in future. If the link juice is not transferable from from the free blogging platform, you will suffer a fall in the number of visitors to the new domain and in the search engine ranking of your blog. It means no use of your time and labor that go behind building a fan base for the blog.
• Choose the free blogging service that allows you to monetize your blog. If you take up blogging as a means of making money, monetization of the blog is a must need. The free blogging platform that does not support Google AdSense codes or affiliate links on blogs will not serve your purpose of blogging. No matter, how greater is your blog post content, it will be of no use to help you make money.
• Choose the free blogging service that allows you to modify the look of your blog. You can change the theme and design of your blog on the free blogging platform with this feature, some days or months after you have started blogging. You may need to optimize the blog with a more search engine friendly design at times. What is the benefit of using the blogging platform that lacks this feature?
• Choose the free blogging service provider that does not crowd the users’ blogs with third party links or advertisement banners. A clean blog page looks better and professional. Check if the blogging service provider makes use of your blog for its own benefit or not.
• Choose the free blogging service that provides anti-spam protection and helps you maintain your privacy. It is very important to have anti-spam protection for the search engine ranking and relevance of your blog. Make the free blogging platform that does provide protection against spam comments, your choice.

Make sure to choose a free blogging service on consideration of these criteria. Let me know what you have selected to do blogging.

With the rising curiosity of youngsters from different niches to be noticed online, blogging has evolved to be a professional activity. Being out and out a 24×7 blogger, you need to update your blog site with newsy information from various segments of the World Wide Web. To help you maintain professionalism in the domain of round-the-clock blogging, the service of a blog editor is a must have. If you allow guest bloggers to contribute content to your blog site, you need a blog editor to keep up the quality and standards of the site. Moreover, the blog posts should be fine-tuned prior to making their way online. Many of my fans have asked me to define the characteristics of pro blog editor. This blog of mine is a response to their request.

Being Organized

Being organized is the first of all characteristics of a great blog editor. If a blogging editor is unorganized, he will end up doing nothing so remarkable to redefine the look and feel of your blog site. He needs to evaluate the relevance, quality and worthiness of blog posts that pile on in a heap on his desk. He needs to maintain the on-page order of blog posts according to their categories and tags.

Having Eye to Details

A keen eye to details is among the typical attributes of a blog editing pro. Attention to the minutiae of blog editing and management is an index to the professionalism of a blog editor. There may be a series of blog posts on a specific topic, but no repetition of a particular post without significant variations. The first-time guest bloggers may not be in the know of posting, post formatting and content approval process. The blog editor is required to deal with these bloggers to ensure they are abiding by the rules and following the guidelines of the site.

Having Excellent Communication Skills

Having good communication skills is a plus point in the profile of a successful blog editor. He needs to connect with and coordinate among the guest bloggers. Many blog sites are equipped with such online communication tools as Campfire and TeamBox to facilitate communication and exchange of ideas among the authors. The blog editor should communicate the objectives and guidelines of the blog site to the guest bloggers. He needs to make sure if the guidelines are followed and the objectives are accomplished.

Being Straightforward in Approach

May come times when there is no contribution from a few bloggers. Maybe they are sick or on leave. In this case, the responsibility to fill in the column with a post in order to keep up the regular flow of content on the site lies to the blog editor. He should not mess words while telling the bloggers in face about the shortcomings of their content.

Having Fundamental SEO Skills

Professional blogging entails the implementation of SEO strategies. Therefore, a blog editor is expected to master some essential SEO skills. He is not necessarily required to be a SEO pundit. He needs to check if the posts from guest bloggers are keyword focused. If needed, he should take pains to optimize the posts with search engine friendly key phrases while revising the posts. Examining the solidity of internal linking structure and the strength of keyword-based anchor texts in larger blogs is one of the SEO dos for the editor.

Having Social Media Presence

A blog editor is an online content editor. He should have a considerable contact base on social media platforms. Friends and followers from his social network will drive traffic and may contribute guest posts to the blog site. He can generate traffic for the blog from his own social profiles. It is a plus point of having a blog editor with presence in the online world.

In the present era of online activity, most internet freaks are nuts on blogging. Airing opinion, ventilating ideas and sharing thoughts is not the sole objectivity of blogging. Online identity building and money making are the other targets of pro bloggers. Many blogging pros earn a lump sum out of their blog sites. However, the monetization of blogs results from hard work that entails implementing certain monetizing strategies. The amount of money that you can spin from your blog varies with the volume of web traffic. A blog with good SERP, high visibility and tons of traffic can be easily monetized. Without traffic, no monetization strategy would work to your profit. I have made a list of mostly used blog monetization strategies.

Product Reviews

One blog monetization strategy is to review the product or service of a third party and post the review on your blog site. The review should be informative and attractive with a sharp focus on the features, functions and benefits of the product. Post such product reviews with images, demos and videos. If the review gets multiple views, either the product manufacturer or provider will pay you. In addition, someone looking for such promotional content will purchase it from you.

Affiliate Programs

Starting an affiliate program of your own is a strategy to monetize your blog. You should have a product on sale in order to kick off an affiliate program. It will let others sign up an account on your site to participate in the program and market your product. They will drive traffic to your site by marketing the product. You will pay them if they earn sales leads.

Google Adsense

The oldest of blog monetization strategies is using Google Adsense. It is what lets you display Google Ads relevant to your blog content on the blog site. You will be given a commission for each click that someone makes on the ad. The commission will vary depending on the niche that the ad belongs to.

Selling Text Links

You can sell links to other websites through the content of your blog. It is one of the effective strategies to monetize your blog and make money. If your blog receives thousands of visitors a day, business website owners dealing in product or service will purchase links on your blog site. Make sure using a nofollow attribute while posting links to other sites as anchor texts on yours. It will not pass the link juice from your blog to your clients’ sites.

Adding a Job Board

Adding a job board is a useful way of monetizing a blog with a huge traffic base. In this monetization method, you can earn from job recruiters on one hand and serve your visitors on the other. Let job recruiters post industry specific jobs on your blog site.

Creating a Membership Section

Having a membership section is a great way to make lots of money out of your blog that feature premium content. But, it takes a lot of time and effort. Categorize your visitors and evaluate their interests. Offer content after their needs and interests. Only persons who make payment for the membership can have access to the content that they need.

Consulting

You can offer consulting services through your blogs to make money. If the blog content of yours is meant to impart knowledge of a particular industry to your visitors, some of the visitors may feel need to consult you regarding the industry. Leave a note focusing on the fields which you offer consulting services in, on your blog and add a contact page to the blog as well.

Do you have online name and fame? If yes, then you are a blogger. Blogging is an online activity that is escalating higher and higher day by day both for personal and professional purposes. WordPress is a most professional as well as customizable platform for blogging. Installing WordPress is an elemental step for blogging. Fresh bloggers may not be in the know of how to install it. The following is the step-by-step- process of installing WordPress –

Downloading a WordPress copy is the very first do in the process of how to install WordPress blog. Log on to wordpress.org/download and find out the link for “Download ZIP” on right front of the page with dark blue as its background. Click on the link and then, save the file on desktop.

Once you are done with downloading the program, you need to unzip the folder and extract the files in the folder on desktop. Some desktops come with a built-in unzip and zip application while some other desktops have this application installed on them. Click the right mouse button on the downloaded file and the menu features the option, “Extract All”. Select the option to get the files out of the zipped folder.

FTP is an abbreviated term for File Transfer Protocol. It is a program that will let you copy files from desktop to the web hosting account. Available are there several FTP programs. FileZilla is a free-to-use popular program.

Get this information entered into the FTP program of your choice to access as well as upload files to access as well as upload the files from desktop to the web host. Then, put the details like domain name and username and password in your FTP account. Your web host can provide you with this information.

You can easily see a link in the web hosting control panel in order to install MySQL database. After setting up the database, you will require database name, database hostname, database username and database username. Make sure to check the hostname with your web hosting service provider.

Open the downloaded and unzipped folder only to locate the other folder, named “WordPress”. There was a file called wp-config-sample in the folder. Use any text editor like Wordpad or Notepad, to open the file. Opening of the file will reveal some text which mostly seems to be gibberish.

The process of installing a WordPress blog is almost towards the end. The next most important thing to do is uploading the WordPress program from the computer to the host server. Connect FTP program to the host’ server. Track down the FTP information. If the information has not been entered into the FTP program, do it now.

Now, you need to decide regarding where to keep your WordPress program. It can be put in either a sub directory or the root directory of the host server. It is better to keep the WordPress program in a subdirectory, if several websites are running on the same server. After the decision is taken, go ahead to upload the files as well as directories from the WordPress folder.

If you have decided upon the directory of the host server to install the WordPress there, open the web browser on your desktop and make sure to type the following – “http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/install.php”. Use the domain name of your own instead of “mydomain.com”.

If a subdirectory is your choice to install the WordPress, type in your web browser the following – “http: //www.mydomain.com/subdirectory/wp-admin/install.php.” use the domain name of your own and the subdirectory that you have created instead of “mydomain.com” and “subdirectory” respectively. a move to the WordPress page will show you the way to go further following the onscreen directions.