Blogging and IT : 06/04/13

Tuesday, 4 June 2013

What are these ''META TAGS''

Hi Friends, How are you. Think you are doing well. How about your blog progress now? How about the help I gave you? Hope it is going well. OK. Today we are going to know another important word that everyone speaks who are blogging. ''Meta tags'' ''<meta>'' What are these meta tags? Everyone heard of this word and no one knows what does that really means. So many requests came to me saying that please write about meta tags.........please.......please............ like that. Ok Let's get to know about this. I found a very useful article from w3schools. So I thought to share these information with my friends.

Definition and Usage

Metadata is data about data.

This <meta> tag provide data about HTML document. This data will not shown on the page but they are working inside for SEO.

Metadata is use for specify information about site's description, author of the articles, keywords and other meta data.

These metadata are used by browsers, search engines or by other web services.

Tips

Examples

Define keywords for search engines:

<meta name="keywords" content="HTML, CSS, XML, XHTML, JavaScript">

Define a description of your web page:

<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials on HTML and CSS">

Define the author of the page:

<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes">

Refresh document every 30 seconds:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="30">

This is the basics of the meta tags. Think this was helpful to you. Comment or email with any questions regarding meta tags. I will help you any time. Thanks for reading. See you soon again with another valuable article about blogging. Good bye friends!

Regards!

How to of How Blogs That Make Money Do It

Here’s a “How Blogs Make Money” example -if I sell air conditioners and I know you are writing a blog on how to stay cool in the summer, I may place a coupon on your site for a period of time and the readers who use the coupon code triggers a commission that gets split between you and them. This way you get rewarded for having a buying audience. And your audience is rewarded from being readers of your site. What can happen after that is they might share that coupon code with others who aren’t normal visitors too. You get the idea. And this is how blogs that make money do it.

In simple terms blogs that make money do it like this:

1. They Develop an audience

2. They offer or sell products via Ads or Actual Products on their site.

HOW TO WRITE EFFECTIVE BLOG POSTS

Writing a good blog post is as much science as it is the art of composition, for both human conversion and SEO. There are a few key things to take into consideration:

Who is the target audience (persona)

What stage of the sales cycle

Is it evergreen or topical

Keyword(s) targeted

I want to focus on a visualization of these concepts and how you can think of your blogging / content generation efforts, especially keywords selected.

If done correctly blogging can provide great returns through SEO, community building, and expert status development.

How do people make money blogging?

There are several ways people do so. Here are the main ones:

Putting advertisements on their blog. Just like a TV show gets paid by advertisers to insert commercials into their show, a blogger gets paid by advertisers to insert graphic or text ads into their blog.
Promoting a product for someone else and then getting a commission if a sale is made (a.k.a. affiliate marketing).
Using a blog as a launching point to sell their own product(s) or service(s) like I did recently with my time management ebook Tell Your Time and like I do when I coach others.
Taking advantage of other opportunities their blog brings such as authoring a book,virtual assistance, speaking, brand ambassadorships or writing for online and offline publications.

Why I Love and Hate Blogging

I started blogging full-time about seven years ago. During those years I have lost count of how many people have asked me how to “Do what I do.” The funny thing though is that most people don’t want an honest answer. Blogging, like any other business, is not rocket science but it takes hard work, dedication, long hours and a lot of sacrifice, but that’s another story in and of itself.

Below are just a few reasons why I love blogging and why you should finally start that blog you have always wanted to start but had ten reasons to delay and put off until another day, month or year has passed. But, like anything else in life, there are reasons I don’t like blogging as well and those are included below too.

Advice on Blogging

Are you a serious blogger and have been doing it for very long time but it is not bring you anywhere? You want to take blogging up to the next level? There are estimated 250 millions blogs out there and the number is growing by each day. You would need to do it right to outrace all your other same niche bloggers. How can you do that? Here is some good advice on blogging and pitching it right to the correct audience.

How to Get More Blog Subscribers

Perhaps more than any other marketing strategy you employ on your blog, e-mail marketing is the most effective way to build relationships with your customers and to drive conversions. It’s also an excellent way to ensure repeat traffic and repeat business.

In order to create a powerful e-mail marketing list, you first must build up your e-mail subscribers. Here are a few of the most effective strategies for helping you get more subscribers for your blog fast.

Make Attractive Opt-In Boxes

Your opt-in box is your gateway to your e-mail list. Slapping up a generic text box without any color or styling is unlikely to get very many responses. You need to draw attention to the box and make it inviting to encourage people to signup.

Create a unique box that matches the style of your blog design while also standing out enough to get noticed. Use a quirky design or bright colors. The key is to get noticed while also maintaining a professional look.

Include a Unique Call to Action

Many websites use a generic call to action, such as “Sign up for e-mail alerts” or “Click here to subscribe to my e-mail list.” While this is straight-forward, it’s not very inviting. Instead, create a unique call to action that is related to the theme of your blog.

For example, if you run a weight loss blog, you could include a call to action that says something like “Learn more about how to burn belly fat” or “Get recipes to help you get the body of your dreams.”

What Is Blogging and How Does It Work

Searching the search engines using the term: “what is blogging and how does it work”, then you’re in the right place. Honestly, blogging has so many practical uses.

1. What is blogging?

Blogging is the online version of a newspaper basically. You may already be reading blogs and you were unaware of the term. Many people asking this question are probably in their 50′s and older.

These individuals read articles on the homepages of MSN, Yahoo, and other sites on a pretty regular basis. Yahoo is a search engine, but the home page has a blog functionality to it.

Many writers, or bloggers, are contributing to those articles on those homepages. The internet is filled with millions and millions of blogs and bloggers. You can find a blog on pretty much any topic out there. Some bloggers blog daily, while others blog multiple times a day, and others update whenever they feel like it.

2. How does blogging work?

Blogging is based off the same principle that newspapers, magazines, and even TV shows work. Each of those are filled with content that they think people will like.

To start a blog, you’ll need a platform. There are a variety of platforms out there. Some are free, while others have a cost associated with using it. If you’re just starting out, I would recommend the following blogging platforms to you:

Blogger
WordPress.com

if you want to take your blog more seriously and be in it for the long haul, then there’s some better options available to you. First, let me educate you on the process of making your own blog.

Most bloggers who take this route use the platform, WordPress.org. (Not to be confused with the free WordPress.com) They need to purchase a domain name and host that domain. A popular domain registrar is GoDaddy.com. We, of course, offer hosting!

A domain name is the web address you type to visit the website. For example: Facebook.com and Twitter.com are both domains. Hosting is like electricity and this is what keeps the site up and live on the Internet.

(Note: both domains and hosting expire. If they expire and you don’t renew, then you lose your website.)

Guest Blogging is Beneficial

New blogger always should take two initial task divert visitors and link building. As soon as possible, if they can divert traffic they will be success in blogging and by building link they can get higher page rank. But for this task a newbie should do hard work. However, guest blogging is comparatively easiest task to divert traffic and building links as well as you can increase online reputation. As a result the importance of Guest blogging is massive.

Below I will explain about the benefits of Guest blogging how it helps to-grow new blog andonline reputation.

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