4 Free New Words in Blogging Because You Need More Traffic

Free.

From Large Billboards to Online Marketing, from toddlers to Men and Women the words has targeted every type of people. So is the power of this word, even great marketers think what would they do if they had to found an alternative to ‘Free’. But what if the same is used in the Blogging counterpart? Will it bore me the success at the blogosphere too?

‘Yes, certainly’.

Let me put it clear. Suppose there’s a guy ‘X’ and you have got a Tech enthusiastic blog. He has no interest in tech niche at all and is not any kind of Geek. So to attract Mr. X to your blog is quite  more than wonder. How will you get him to your blog? Bribing him (probably not). But by using some of the most used and appealable words noted down the article might get him towards your blog. You can embed this Golden words to your Title, or Description or Post anywhere you want. But the result will be same : Massive Traffic.

Once again, let us stitch the blogging and marketing scenario. The worst part or the taboo is that most bloggers think that the later cannot be mixed up with former. By mixed up we mean, tactics used in once cannot be used in another. And the thing is that, this is how their is a bridge of difference between them(Great Bloggers) and you. And that’s another way how secrets are born.

Remember, Blogging is no more than a experiment. Your failures can you teach you much, and with your success you can become a overnight Blogging sensation. Great bloggers experiment to evolve, that’s how they leave back mark. Even great philosophers like Darwin has said that to evolution is a necessary part of survive. In this case, the survive is the tough and tedious rivalry of blogs these days. In this whole article, we are going to explore some of the great words often scribbled by most bloggers in their posts. Straightway from Free to many other words.

4 Powerful Words For Your Blog To Get More Traffic

Before you start using any of these words, I highly recommend you to don’t overdo it. These words are useful and does work well, but overdoing it will kill the essence of these words, and you will not get the same kind of attention as occasionally using these words.

1.FREE

It’s a no wonder that the word is so damn popular that even led us to an opening of a post with that. From old days of Shopping with Mom to your newest hanging out with your Buddy, this is one of the word that no one can dodge. We have already seen marketing legend having embedded this magical words into their every shopping campaign, but did you ever thought  what if the same is applied and implemented to Blogging? Massive success. People will just flock to your website no matter what is even given as free. This is a natural behavior in humans and humanity. Even I flock to the nearest shop or website stating as free regardless the object placed at free.

The word just brings the excitement out of the soul of every body. And, if you are successful at trap out the visitors to your blog, God! Your Website gonna be Insanely flooded with visitors. This is the power of words. Use it anywhere, Title, Description or in your whole post anywhere (only where visitors can see it publicly) it will bore you the fruit.

If you have observe the word ‘Free’ has been used only when there is a season of giveaways or any online shopping website. But as noted above, try to experiment with these words. And the best part is that it don’t have any worst part as people would surely run to your website as they spot the word ‘Free’.

So Let’s shift our word base from Free to another word, which is :

2.NEW

Gizmos and Gadgets, new albums and songs or new show premiers or movies, everyone wants to get the taste of the “NEWEST IN THE MARKET”. People are in the move, the times are changing. Taking the urge of the ‘latest’ as the base, you can provide them with some fresh and latest content of your niche.

Let’s look from the Gossip view of the topic. Basically, Gossip is the sharing of the new hot topic among your friends. And these hot topics, people come to know through reading newspapers and the internet. And internet is flooded with websites and blogs. Who knows they hit upon your blog too? So assuming that, you can provide your visitors some fresh new never heard content.

Or, create your own news.

‘Your own news?’

By this, we meant that get some leaks to your blog. Some sneak previews of the new movie or song, or leaked images and specifications of a new gadget coming up. Leaks are the best source of new topics.

By getting some prominent leaks, you can get thousand of backlinks for free! But How?

You see, there are tons of traffic visiting your website. Which may include some of the great writers or editors or administrators  of the top-notch blogs. They would immediately try to cover up the latest leak or rumor and indexing the source of the leak, or your blog’s link. Voila! You got a free link without much work.

3.YOU

You? That’s it? What the heck will it do?

We know this type of questions might be floating in your mind, but it is scientifically proven. According to recent research examining brain activation, few things light up your brain while seeing one’s name in any media. Research has shown that we will gladly pay more for personalization, so why not use that tactics?

There’s one problem, a very annoying one out there.

In your blog post, you can’t apply anyone’s name in it. Suppose you add one, you can’t index all of the names out there. Which is the biggest glitch. But no worry folks have found an awesome solution to it too! Why not indexing your fan’s name and emailing them about the latest stuff or reports? In that manner, it’s quite popular and is highly recommended.

4.Because

Experts claim that this is the top #1 word for blogging, and why not it is! Likewise in blogging most of us try to clear FAQs and Q&As via our writings. And no other word has more potential than ‘because’ the way it heals and answers the question is undoubtedly the highly preferred. Even checkout any post in the blogosphere, you would get to see this word for sure. Be it in the start or the end or anywhere else you will find this word more than once.

NOTE : You might have been some other words too, but this is the list of words mostly sequenced and chronological kept.

• Also read: Why? What? How? – Rule in Writing blog post

Try adding any of these uplifting words in your next blog title, and let me know how it works out for you. If you know of more such powerful words which we should use in our blog Title, do let me know via comments. Don’t forget to share this article with your other blogging friends on Facebook and Google plus.

PS : Did you Observe how we silently placed all the four words in our headline?

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How to Get Google Adsense Approval With A New Blog

Google Adsense is one of the best ad networks to monetize a website or a blog. It is 90% better than any other CPC advertising programs. It offers the publishers the highest CTR for every web page. The publishers could make lots of revenue daily from Google Adsense. Every new webmaster has a dream to monetize his website with this ad network. But unfortunately, many of them fail. Adsense has introduced some strict rules and requirements. It seems hard to get Adsense approval for our own blog.  But, we know impossible is nothing.

The good news is “Getting Approval of Google Adsense with a New Blog is Now Really Easy”, if you follow some basic rules from the starting of your blog. When I first tried, I failed to get approval. But, following these rules, now I have my AdSense approved account. Thinking about this topic, I made a decision to share the basic rules of Adsense.

How to Get Google Adsense Approval With A New Blog

First Ready Your Blog Before Applying for Adsense:

Adsense moderators always approve those blogs whose have met up the requirements. First of all, you should make your blog ready for this process. Check first if your blog considers these requirements. Now, there are some initial basic requirements announced by AdSense team, and there are some known hacks and tricks that work. For example, on this official page it’s mentioned that for countries like China & India, publishers need to own the site for minimum 6 month, which is not a thumb-rule. Many Indian bloggers have got approval with one month old domain. The only thing which really matter here is “Quality”. Let’s look at factors which will make your blog AdSense ready:

Write High Quality Contents:

A writing proverb “Content is King” helps you understand this requirement. A high quality blog is identified with the high quality contents. Great contents mean unique, decorated, stated and clear concerted content. Some black hat webmasters say, copy paste content only between 100-200 words is enough. But, I may assure him that his journey to Adsense will be certainly finished. I think, how a blog post or a content could be only between 100-200 words? In my judgment, it is not possible to completely describe a topic within 100-200 words. And if copy paste content is enough, anybody can declare him as a blogger. Please keep in mind, Google AdSense doesn’t approve blogs with copy pasted copyright content. A well optimized blog post should be 100% unique and above 500-600 words. So, always write blog post above this limit and it must be unique which clearly determinate the post topic.

Optimize Blog Post with Meta Tags and Make It Search Engine Friendly:

Optimize your unique blog post with Meta Title and Description Tag. The meta tags describe what the content is about to the crawler bots. It is not possible for Adsense editorial board to check every single website that has applied to get Adsense approval. So, positively they will use their crawler bots. The bots will check for every footprint on your blog.  That’s why you should make sure, you have specified these tags with appropriate information.

Please keep in mind that your Meta Title should be between 69 characters (including spaces) and Meta Description should be between 156 characters (including spaces). If you are using platform like WordPress or Blogger, here are two guides which will cover all basic SEO requirements:

Have Sufficient Contents or Posts:

You must lead sufficient contents or posts on every page and category. In total, you should have 15-30 blog posts on your whole blog. This is not an official declaration. But, I recommend everybody to at least have it. So, you should have at least 3-4 posts in every category, tag and page. Google Adsense told that we must have sufficient contents in every single web page. So, we should add contents in all pages and categories. There shouldn’t be any blank page without any content. And these posts have to pass the minimum length of 500-600 words as it is the best blog post length. The more you increase the length, the more you go towards to get Google Adsense approval.

Blog Domain Must Old At-least 6 Months:

As I mentioned above, in certain countries like India and China, there is a requirement of 6 month for domain to apply for AdSense. Here is official statement from AdSense team:

In some locations, including China and India, we require publishers to have owned their sites for 6 months. We’ve taken this step to ensure the quality of our advertising network and protect the interests of our advertisers and existing publishers.

Some blog domain could get approved having less old than 6 months. Even, I got my Adsense account with just two month old domain. Can you imagine? But, the average domain age for certain geo-location should be 6 months.

Apply Using Root Domain:

You should always apply using the root domain like yourdomain.com. Not blog.yourdomain.com.

Be Serious to Choose Content Images:

Google Adsense doesn’t approve blogs if they lead to copyrighted contents. Copyrighted means the things that have been copied from others directory without their permission. And we make fault everytime when choosing an image. Some people just go to an image directory, take their suitable images and upload these on their blogs. Did they ever check if they have permission to use these? Really sad news is that, most of the webmasters who fail to get Adsense because of this copyrighted law. And this is really caused by copyrighted images. Here are guides which will help you to find images for free:

Lead a Nice design and Blog Structure:

Blog structure is the basic structure of your blog. So, make sure that you have a nice looking header, content area, sidebar, footer etc. Always think if the visitors will like the structure. If people like it, Adsense would definitely like it. First impression of any blog comes with blog design, and you can take advantage of any professional looking templates (free or paid), and use it on your blog.

Check if Your Blog is Not Blocked by Google:

Be sure that, your blog is not blocked by Google. Because Adsense will check your blog statistics on their search engine. Don’t know how to check it? Just search for “site:yourdomain.com” on Google. If you find out search results, your blog is not blocked. But, if you not, it is blocked.

Don’t Have Adsense Prohibited Content:

Adsense has directly told that, sites with adult contents, copyrighted contents, drug alcohol related contents, hacking cracking contents, violent contents, weapons related contents and other illegal contents will not be approved.

Visitors Are Not a Factor for Approval Yet:

For getting Adsense approved, visitors are not a factor. Because, you will get approved depending on your blog quality. It is sure that the Adsense moderator will never check for visitor count. So, don’t worry about visitors. But, for generating revenues you must have enough visitors.

Applying for Google Adsense:

If you follow all the above mentioned tips, you are most likely to get your AdSense application approval at first go. But, before you apply for the same, here are two articles that you should definitely refer to:

And once you are ready, read this guide to apply for an AdSense account. Do let me know if you have any particular question related to AdSense approval, and I would love to answer them. If you enjoyed reading this article, don’t forget to share it on Facebook and Google plus.

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List of Top Websites To Download Free Blogger Templates

List of Top Websites To Download Free Blogger Templates

Blogger.com is a platform where you can easily build/create your free blog within few minutes. It doesn’t require any extra skills that you need to create a free blog. After creating your first blog on blogger, you need to have a good looking and professional template for it. However, blogger’s default templates are very simple and not much appreciated in designing, so all who are using blogger for blogging want to change their default template to a very professional and shiny one. So in this post I’ll tell you about some websites which are offering free blogger templates, and you can download thousands of free templates from these websites. Installing a blogger template is not a headache while the customization of a template might be a little bit sticky for new bloggers who don’t know how to code. Anyway, here is the list of websites offering free and great templates for blogger platform. Visit them one by one below and try to understand the value of free stuff  .

#1. MasTemplates.com

This website is having one of the treasures of blogger templates and the important thing is that the webmaster himself creates new templates and publishes for free of cost. You’ll find a lot of templates there for any topic you may have for your blog. Even there are templates for creating an Online Store which was never possible before. Video sharing blog templates are also available and you can find any template you need for any kind of blog.

#2. Templateism.com

This website for free blogger templates was created by Syed Faizal Ali one of the talented young bloggers in Pakistan. The blog is offering awesome and unique blogger templates for absolutely free. You’ll find some stylish and even amazing blogger templates by browsing this website. All the templates are awesome in design and professional in coding. Must give it a try.

#3. Bestbloggertemplates.net

I like this website for blogger templates because it has everything that you need to find a beautiful template for your blog. You may search by selecting a category, you may search by selecting a color, you may search a template by selecting a Layout. There are every option available for you to find your desired blogger template. This website is created by Paul Crow from Ireland and he has another blog spiceyourblog.com for blogger widgets and tutorials.

#4. Deluxetemplates.net

Deluxetemplates is one of the older sites offering free blogger templates as well as WordPress themes. If you want to find a template that is converted from WordPress to Blogger then you must browse this website to find a stunning template for your beloved blog. All you need to do is; just go there and view the templates one by one.

#5. Btemplates.com

This is also one of the older websites which offer free blogger templates for last couple of years. If you want to have thousands of blogger templates for free then there is no better site than btemplates.com itself. It will provide you a large number of tools to search your template which you require for your blog. All templates are free to download and even there are instructions to install any template before downloading.

#6. Btemplates4u.com

This website is also without doubts a great source to find best blogger templates. I’ve visited it many times and I observed they are updating this website on regular bases. This website is not only offering free blogger templates but also offers free WordPress themes which makes your job more easier for both the platforms at once. So you must give it a try to find your lovely template over there.

Here are some already published blogger tutorials in Urdu: 

I must say I’ve shared some great resources with you guys for finding your template which actually suits your blog, I know there may be guys who already knew these websites, but actually there might be more people who don’t know the list I shared above. However, I’ll request you to share any website you know and that has more great templates, just share that’s address in the comment section so everyone will get benefit from it. Thanks in Advance! 

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Post Writing Guidelines for Bloggers

Well this is not an easy topic to write about. You could never imagine how much responsibility is to be taken when you are discussing about any guideline. Because whatever you write as guidelines/ policies these might be applied by other people. If they get benefited then it's your credit. But if they face any problem by following your principles you should be held responsible for that. 

Anyway, I will try my best to provide you some guidelines which I believe must be considered before publishing a post. These tips will be very useful for you 

• To increase search ranking
• To increase visitors 
• To retain existing visitors
• Most importantly to improve your writing quality

Read the whole post carefully and participate through your valuable comment . . . :) 

• Post Title: The first and most important part to the search engines to display your site at the first page. Attractive post title is also helpful to encourage visitors to enter your site. The title shouldn't be unnecessary long. And you must try to keep it as meaningful as possible. 

• Post URL: You can create custom URL/ link for a post. Both blogger and WordPress let your customize the post URL. It is not only important to the search engines but also to the visitors of your site.

• Contents: The most important things to keep your visitors in touch! Your contents should be attractive and useful. Information provided must be accurate. Contents should be written in a clear and easy language. Try to make your contents unique and exclusive. But if you're not able to create unique contents never try to copy and paste from others. This is strictly prohibited by Google. When you write the contents from other website first you have to take permission and then you should refer to that site. 

• Labels/ Tags/ Keywords: Labeling is also very important. Proper labeling helps the visitors to find the right post within your site. And definitely the labels have a great impact in search results. So you should carefully use labels/ keywords in the posts. But never try to use the irrelevant labels or tags in your posts. If you do so, you could be blacklisted both by the visitors and search engines! Be Careful! 

• Formatting: Very very important. Make the texts bold, italicize or underline them when and where necessary. Also use different fonts to highlight some parts. Use numbers and bullets when giving a list of something. Use quoted text where applicable. You should keep sufficient space between paragraphs. Never type the whole post in a single para. It makes the reader bore and uneasy. 

• Search Description: This is a lovely feature of blogger. Usually the first few sentences of a post are shown by search engines in search results. WordPress automatically do this for the users. But if you're the user of blogger blog, then you have to do this manually. This could be boring for you. But this feature lets you customize the search description. Because the first few sentences may not be relevant to your post or may not able to attract visitors. Read more about search description. 

• Post Length: What is the optimum length for a post? Actually there is no rigid rule. Post should be descriptive enough so that it clarifies your message to the readers. But it doesn't mean that you will make your post unnecessary long. It should be precise, accurate and clear. Most of the bloggers try to write more than 500 words. You can also practice this rule. Because the more you write, the higher is the chance to be matched with the search queries of the visitors. 

• Language: Your language should be friendly and attractive so that the visitors feel free to read the contents. It should be easy and meaningful. Never try to be over smart in using the language style. 

• Grammar: Well 100% accurate grammar is not important for you unless you're writing something about language or grammar. But it doesn't mean that you will not care about grammatical accuracy. You should be careful enough to avoid mistakes. If the visitors find too much grammatical errors they may feel bore and lose interest to your site! 

• Color, Text Alignment, Text Size, Font: These issues are crucial to look your posts attractive and readable. Use of color is okay but only when it's necessary. Black is the best. But when necessary, you can use any color. Text alignment should be justified but when required you can use left, center or right too. Font size shouldn't be too large or too small. It should be readable. Use large text when necessary. You can use any font. But always avoid stylish fonts (ie. Monotype Corshiva, Vivaldi, Vladimir) in normal text. I mean use a font that is easy to read and understand. My personal choice Georgia. 

• Image: A single image might be worth of thousand words. So you should use relevant image with your post (never copy from others). In case of using image you should consider some factors. Image placement should be proper. Make sure it doesn't looks odd and hinders the visitors to read properly. Image should be attractive and creative. Use the post link with the image. Give it a proper title text and alt text. Avoid extra large size images. Because they consumes data and increase your site's loading time. 

• Outbound Links: You can also use reference links with your post which may be helpful for the visitors to know more. And this is also important to Google. But never share too much links with the post. 

If you follow these rules I think you will be a good writer for sure. And your site will get more visitors and higher ranking soon. Along with these rules you must ensure that your site loads faster. Visitors never like a slow site. Site's design should be attractive. Never place too much social sharing buttons on your site. Be careful while placing Ads on your site. 

You should also follow my style. I think my posts are properly designed. If you think something is wrong then please inform me. Waiting for your feedback . . . :) 

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