September 14th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Blogging, Networking, Publishing, Search Engines, Tools No Comments »
New bloggers who intend to drive traffic & make money have 2 challenges in the first 6 months. The first one is surviving Google Search Index . The second is losing popularity over time.
Millions of websites & blogs are created everyday & many of them with the intent of making big bucks from advertising .
So it helps to have a popularity building strategy in place if you want to survive long time.
September 12th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Blogging, Publishing, Search Engines, Small Business, Videos No Comments »
Videos are a great way to add value to your blog posts. Reports on BizJournal shows how food corporations like Whole Food Market added cooking demo videos on their blogs to attract & keep visitors .
While a picture could be a 1000 words, a video could be a million! Videos could complement a post’s content with additional information that could be lost in writing.
If you already have a website, adding a blog to it could multiply your hits & conversions several times in a short period of time.
September 3rd, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Blogging, Publishing, Search Engines No Comments »
Even though there are millions & millions of blogs on the internet today, not all are successful . When I say "successful" I do not necessarily mean successful revenue generating blog alone.
To me, a successful blog is one which attracts a lot of readers & also blogs that have a lot of participation from readers . Thats Reader Engagement to Blogs .
In this article I will highlight the Top 5 Ways to Write Blog Posts that will keep your readers interested. They are time tested recommendations to make effective blogs & be a successful blogger .
August 29th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Affiliates, Blogging, Networking, Publishing, Search Engines, Tools No Comments »
There are numerous articles, some quite repeating the basic concepts & expectations of building your website & blog’s value in the eyes of the search engines.
The caution always is to create a strong content oriented site that attracts continuous visitors from search engines.
However, the caution is not to create content just for search engines. There are also options to make money from widgets on blogs.
August 24th, 2008 Ranjay Mitra Posted in Blogging, Publishing, Search Engines, Tools No Comments »
Comscore has released the data for the most widely used search engines . Quoting the release:
Google Sites led the U.S. core search engine market in July 2008 with 61.9 percent of the searches conducted, up from 61.5 percent in June, followed by Yahoo! Sites (20.5 percent), Microsoft Sites (8.9 percent), Ask Network (4.5 percent), and AOL LLC (4.2 percent).
Americans conducted 11.8 billion searches at the core search engines, representing a 2-percent gain versus June. Google Sites handled nearly 7.3 billion core searches (up 2 percent), followed by Yahoo! Sites with 2.4 billion and Microsoft Sites with 1 billion.