The 5-part Recipe for Successful Blogging

The 5-part Recipe for Successful Blogging

You have brilliant ideas, you love to write, you possess a skill in photography, and you want to share your view of the world with the online community. Why not to start a blog? An online blog is a perfect platform to develop relations with readers and introduce yourself to the world. Of course, running a blog requires some skill and knowledge. Here, we collected the most effective tips and tricks that will help you in blog promotion and attraction of more traffic. Use them to create an effective blog that will help you join the world of Internet media!

Check-in list: what you should do in advance

Choose platform

A blog is not created by the power of your thoughts. First of all, you need to decide what platform to use for blogging. WordPress is the most popular one: it has enough setting options to develop a site of your dream even without a deep understanding of HTML and CSS.

Buy domain and hosting

The next point is buying a domain and hosting. Domain is an address for your blog, a hosting is a ‘place’ where your blog will be located. Pay attention that domain name should correspond to the theme of your blog.

Choose topic

A theme is another thing that you should check in advance. It is better to choose one basic idea for your blog and follow it throughout your posts. Today, many bloggers select food, fashion, games, IT, technologies and other social spheres as a basic theme for their blogs. Of course, you should select the one that is interesting for you. It will help you stay motivated and continue to write posts even if the number of your followers does not rise.

Do research and start writing

In order to compose good content one has to do some research. The problem of creating meaningful content and attracting organic traffic emerges before each blogger. These 7 secrets will help overcome it and choose a proper strategy for blog content and communication with readers.

1. Clarify your niche
   

If you have chosen that food is your theme, you need to make it clear for the readers. Make sure that the design, name, and tags correspond to this niche. You can also write posts on related topics, but the theme should always indicate the direction for your blog development.

2. Create a portrait of your reader

Always keep in mind an image of your reader. Perhaps, your ideal reader is a 30-something woman with two kids and a husband. She loves to cook and spends all her free time in the kitchen. She is a little bit overweight, so she is interested in healthy food, especially in healthy desserts.

3. Mind you content

Your readers should trust you. Always provide them with high-quality content that you double-checked and asked your friend to check it once again. Never steal information! If you want to share some interesting materials, always put copyright. However, readers rarely follow blogs with reposted information. They are interested in unique content, so you’d better think about creating something original.

4. Find ways of communication

The first thing you need to do before you write your first post, to choose your tone of voice. How will you talk to your readers? How will you engage them in a conversation? The next point is to add social network plugins so that your readers can easily contact you on Facebook.

5. Learn to deal with negative comments

This is perhaps the basic skill for online blogger. Thousands of Internet users have that on aim. They just want to leave negative comments, create conflicts, and offend bloggers and readers. There are also many so-called trolls who just want to annoy and destabilize you. Do not pay attention to these comments and simply delete them.

6. Take care of graphics

Being a blogger does not include only writing. You should also be able to select proper pictures that support the idea of your post or even photographing skills. Sometimes images are even more important for blog success than writing itself.

7. Format your writing

If you want to create a good blog, you need to check how your posts look like. If you do not use headings, bold and italics, capitalization, bullets and other formatting patterns, you lose your visitors. Ensure the readability of your text and make it easy to catch from the first sight and understand all basic points.

Analyze your work

Many bloggers have no experience in online marketing. Moreover, they do not even know what techniques to use to promote their blogs and how to analyze these techniques. However, analysis is the most effective tool to find a proper way for a blog development.

Analysis helps improve SEO, make a blog more popular, estimate the effectiveness of advertising, and discover possibilities to attract new visitors. Using analytical tools, you can understand what content is more effective for your site, and what posts attract more visitors and views than others. If you are a beginner, basic Google Analytics options are enough for you. A professional blogger will need some advanced options to create an effective strategy for a blog promotion.

Running a successful online blog is a hard job. However, it has multiple benefits: you meet new people, reveal new prospects, and always know everything about what is going on in this world. We hope that this article will contribute to your development as an online blogger and will help find your segment in this highly competitive sphere.

Author's Bio:

Kevin Nelson started his career as a research analyst and has changed the sphere of activity to writing services and content marketing. Except writing, he spends a lot of time reading psychology and management literature searching for the keystones of motivation ideas. Feel free to connect with him on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Linkedin.

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How to Withdraw Money from Odesk

How to Withdraw Money from Odesk

If you haven't read the article on how to sign up to Odesk you should. In this article, I'll show you the various ways of withdrawing money on Odesk.
After you sign up for Odesk, click on wallet. You'll find a link below with the words, "Add a Withdrawal Method". Once clicked, you'll find various withdrawal options such in the ones in the figure below:

Click on "Set Up" button that is beside the withdrawal method of your choice. 
I'll show you how to Set Up the Skrill withdrawal method.
Once you've clicked the button, you'll be required to sign up to Skrill. The process is easy pretty easy. 
Follow these steps to sign up

• Click on the gold colored sign up button.

• Select the account options either personal or business 
  

•  Make sure you sign up with the email you used for your Odesk account -- it makes things easier that way.
• Once you've signed up, you'll be redirected to Odesk.com and Skrill will be automatically chosen as your withdrawal method. 

Note that it takes two to three days for the process to become functional. Once it's functional, Yahoo! you can now withdraw money from Odesk 

When logged into Skrill, complete your profile details by entering your bank account number (dollar account number) and your bank's swift code. If entered successfully, your name and bank branch will be dictated automatically and that means your money will be wired straight to your bank account.

If you have any questions as regards the withdrawal process, please leave a comment below.

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World's Thinnest Smartpone - Huawei Ascend P6

The Huawei Ascend P6 is now the world's thinnest smartphone with thickness slightly over 6mm. It is expected to be released next month --- July

Specifications

Camera

Front Camera: 5 mega-pixels, 720p
Rear Camera: 8 mega-pixels, 3264 X 2448 pixels, LED flash, auto-focus.
High dynamic range imaging, face and smile detection.

Operating System

Android OS v4.2.2 Jelly Bean
Processor Speed: Quad-core 1.5GHz

Features

Sensors: Gyro, Proximity, Accelerometer, Compass Temperature
Browser: HTML5 compatible
                A-GPS support and Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS)
                Color Flavors: Black, White, Pink

General Features

2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1700 / 1900 / 2100
SIM: Dual SIM (Micro-SIM, dual stand-by)
Dimensions: 132.7 x 65.5 x 6.2 mm (5.22 x 2.58 x 0.24 in)
Weight: 120 g (4.23 oz)
Capacitive touchscreen
Micro SD, up to 32GB
Internal memory: 8GB
RAM: 2GB

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Download MSI Installer/DMG Installer of Adobe Flash Player 11

Sometimes, installing Adobe Flash Player straight from the Adobe server might just seem impossible especially when you have a slow Internet connection; in such a case, you can save yourself a lot of stress and download the MSI installer instead.
The MSI Installer is an standalone application that can be installed without downloading additional files from the Internet. You can download this file now by clicking on any of the links below.

Windows (11.7.700.224)

Browsers: Internet Explorer: Download MSI Installer for IE
Plugin-based browsers: Download MSI Installer for Plugin-based browsers

Mac OS X(Intel) (11.7.700.225)

All Supported Browsers: Download DMG Installer for Mac OS X

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SEO for the Completely Clueless

In this current era in which everything seems to be online, it is still fairly astonishing to see how many people have resisted the use  of a website, blog, or other online identity. For instance, someone who offers a local service such as plumbing or lawn maintenance may  not feel that they actually "need" a website or a blog, but this is 

horrifically shortsighted.

Why? Consider the use of the telephone book or classic "yellow pages"…just thinking about these publications may make you realize  that you haven't picked them or used them in a very long time. That is because most people use a mobile device or a computer to find what they need. That fact alone tells us that all business owners - no 

matter how big, small, local, or global they might be - need a web presence.

Establishing Yourself

What this also means is that anyone who wants a web presence has to know how to get their website to appear in the first few lines of  search engine results. And that, as Shakespeare said, "Is the rub". 

This is because it is very challenging to accomplish a high search engine rating, but it is possible if you master the necessary  techniques of SEO. 

Again, this is not something that many people believe they have the time, the skills, or the actual need to do. For instance, that local  lawn maintenance professional doesn't think that they have to show up on a web search because they tend to find clients through "word of mouth". However, this is not a good business plan because it leaves 

too many factors in the air. How does this person plan on building, expanding, or just sustaining business? Where are the solid figures that they can use for their future? 

The Benefit of a Web Presence

Of course, most business owners are not arguing the point that they need good market or web presence; it is most often a case of "I just don't have the time to learn this SEO stuff, and to constantly keep up with it!" 

That is understandable, but the use of WordPress, and one of the adaptable professional WordPress themes, eliminates around 80 to 90 percent of the typical work needed to make a page SEO, or search engine optimized. This is because 

WordPress designers have ensured that the pages are laid out in a way that encourages web "bots" or "crawlers" to read all of the significant information and to then index it for search engines . 

What this does is ensure that the page or site is going to be extremely competitive in the search engine results pages, even if it is a site that uses a lot normally non-SEO friendly stuff. 

A Good Example

Consider the artist who used a WordPress theme that was designed particularly for those in the graphic arts. This means that the site might fare vary badly in searches because it would be loaded with image files and very little "readable" text. With a WordPress theme, however, the forms are designed to ensure that a lot of tags, labels, 

titles, and text is found by the bots, and indexed accordingly.

All that artist had to do was dedicate the time to learn what terms their potential audience might type into a search engine, and then use those terms throughout the site. With almost no effort, their site became very competitive and effective. 

SEO for the completely clueless is really no longer in existence because of WordPress and its SEO friendly design. Though some market research is always necessary, using a good theme and taking the times to fill in the blanks will seriously pay off. 

About author

Anny Solway is a dedicated writer at ThemeFuse – a leader in the premium WordPress themes area. She likes to discover new ideas about internet marketing, social media and blogging.

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 Online Marketing: Here’s the Expert Advice You Need

Online marketing can be a very challenging ordeal. Just when you thought starting an online business was hard, you’re faced with the task of moving your business forward. The problem for most Internet entrepreneurs is that there are simply too many choices available. There are a limitless number of tips and advice that can be found on blogs, forums and community sites. To get through all that clutter, here’s some expert advice you can follow:

1. Start with One Strategy and Master It

Rather than trying out multiple strategies, research which strategy would best fit your business. A software application business would do very well by focusing on joint ventures. An eCommerce business on the other hand may do well by hiring a feed manager, Google shopping feed experts are always a good place to turn for advice. See what strategies that businesses similar to yours are using and explore the medium to see if you can also use it with success.

2. Focus on Building an Audience

Most Internet marketers are too short sighted. Their main goal is to create a sale when they should be building an audience. Relationships are what will eventually bring long term success and growth. This can be built by posting quality content on blogs, following up with prospects via email, and building followers on social media. Readers, email subscribers and followers will help sustain your business and can be leveraged to bring in more people into your business.

3. Integrate Your Marketing

Integrating your marketing is essential to getting the most out of your results. For example, if you’re building a content marketing campaign, use your social media followers to spread your content. This will in turn help you build incoming links for your content, which will increase your search engine rankings. Use different marketing strategies and channels together to get better results.

4. Track and Test Everything

Many experts say that the difference between successful and struggling marketers is that the successful ones test and track everything. You need to track all your campaigns so that you can capitalize on what’s working and discard what’s losing you money. Testing everything will help you increase the results of your marketing campaigns. It’s almost like giving yourself a small pay raise when you find something that increases your profits.

Those are some of the most important pieces of advice you can receive for online marketing. The biggest results come from knowing the fundamentals rather than the flashy tricks and tactics. Hopefully, these tips will help you move your business forward.

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New Computer Virus Threatens Community

 New Computer Virus Threatens Community

Recently, there has being a incline in the rate of viruses that are coming up. Currently, Police in Fredericton have warned residents concerning a trending online virus that tries to trick Internet users into thinking they are being investigated for accessing child pornography.
The message, often, comes as a pop-up window that claims to relax any charges that are to be meted to the "offending individuals" only if they pay a fine of $100.
The police has assured people that the message isn't from then and as such it should be considered as an online viral scam therefore, it should be reported on receipt. Amid all the crisis, it is advised to stay away from unfamiliar links
and to avoid clicking on unsolicited pop-up windows. 
Above all, you should secure your computer with an antivirus software in order to prevent a possible security breach or compromise.

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How Viruses Work

Viruses

A computer virus is defined as a self-replicating computer program that interferes with a computer's operating system or application
software. Computer programs that has been infected by a virus has been converted into a trojan horse. The program is expected to perform a useful function, but has the unintended side effect of viral code execution. Upon execution, the virus attempts to replicate and "attach" itself to another program. It is the unexpected and generally uncontrollable replication that makes viruses so dangerous.

 

How Computer Viruses Work

Basic viruses typically require unwary computer users to inadvertently share or send them. Some viruses that are more sophisticated, such as worms, can replicate and send themselves automatically to other computers by controlling other software programs, such as an e-mail
sharing application. If your system is infected, the virus may try to attach itself to every file in your system and spread each time you send a file or document to other users.

WHAT CAN VIRUSES DO?

Viruses used to play pranks or stop your computer from working, but now they not only do that, but they can compromise security in more insidious ways. These are the things that viruses can do.

•  Slow Down Email: Viruses that spread by email, such as Sobig, can generate so much email traffic that servers slow down or crash. Even if this doesn't happen, companies may react to the risk by shutting down servers anyway.

•  Steal Confidential Data: The Bugbear-D worm records the user's keystrokes, including passwords, and gives the virus writer access to them.

•  Use your computer to attack websites: MyDoom used infected computers to flood the SCO software company's website with data, making the site unusable (a denial of service --DOS-- attack).

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Smart SEO Tips

SMART SEO TIPS

As we all know by now, SEO is an activity you carry out either on your website or off your website with the sole
aim of driving traffic to your website from search engines (traffic gotten from search engines are known as organic traffic) to your site.
In this article, we'll show you short steps that will help you drive massive traffic from search engines down to your blog.

SEO TECHNIQUES

1. USING SOCIAL NETWORKS: 

Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus and Pinterest are very essential in your walk on improving your site's SEO, basically because content shared from your blog to a social network almost immediately goes viral.
Let's say, for instance, you shared an article "Smart SEO Tips" from your blog to a social network, say, Facebook. Your friends on Facebook can do any of the following: like the link to the article, visit the link or comment on the link. any way, it is a win-win situation; whatever the option that is chosen, you stand at an advantage. Once your friend likes your link on Facebook, their friends get to see the notification. If per chance, they like the content of the link, they'll either like or visit the link or better still, they can do both; that way, the link to your blog can go viral and thus drive traffic to your site within days.
Consequently, Google Plus, a major social networking site,  is a big breakthrough for bloggers. Content shared on Google plus goes almost as viral as content shared on Facebook. Recently, Google Plus introduced a new page called "Community", it allowed members to join a large community of their choice. For instance, a HTML5 community or a CSS3 community. Note that a community usually can have up to 70, 000 members who share similar views and ideas where you can share your content and thus, your website gains the opportunity to increase its traffic through high quality back-links.

Pinterest is a social networking site that allows you to pin photos and graphic illustrations of things that interests you. If, for instance, your website was all about photography and you wanted to attract traffic to your website. All you've got to do is sign up for Pinterest, post a pin that includes your photography and just let it roll. Make sure to add and follow people on Pinterest, make a name on Pinterest and soon you'll have enough followers that will re-pin and comment on your photo or item. Ultimately, you have a greater chance
of leveraging those followers into traffic for your website.

2. GUEST POSTING / BLOGGING:

Guest posting or guest blogging involves posting articles on the website or blogs of others. Now, you should think of this as an avenue to generate back-links to your site. Often times, when you guest post, you are given the privilege to include a link to your blog or your email. Most preferably, it would be wiser to include a link in the article pointing to your blog; that way, you are assured of getting traffic through back-links.
Make sure you only write articles for websites with a Google Pagerank of at least 1. An unavailable or 0 pagerank is unacceptable and could ruin your SEO simply because Google gives more recognition to back-links gotten from high ranking websites than from lower ranking websites. My Guest Blogger, is a website that links guest authors to authors that seek a guest post. You can sign up to it as soon as possible.

3. PINGING:

Pinging is a way of telling search engines that you have updated your page. It propels the search engine bots to crawl and index your site and thus your newer articles or content will now appear on search engine results. A good example of a website that provides you with pinging services is pingler. Visit http://www.pingler.com to ping your website today.

In this article, we learned about three basic steps to increasing your website's SEO which are: the use of social networks, blog posting / blogging and pinging.

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CSS Reference

It is crucial to have a CSS reference while designing web pages and as such, I have provided a bunch of CSS elements that'll be helpful to you.

Text and Fonts

font
font-family
font-size
font-weight
font-style
font-variant
line-height
letter-spacing
word-spacing
text-align
text-decoration
text-indent
text-transform
vertical-align
white-space

Colours and Backgrounds

color
background-color
background
background-image
background-repeat
background-position
background-attachment

The Box Model - dimensions, padding, margin and borders

padding, padding-top, padding-right, padding-bottom, padding-left
border, border-top, border-right, border-bottom, border-left
border-style, border-top-style, border-right-style, border-bottom-style, border-left-style
border-color, border-top-color, border-right-color, border-bottom-color, border-left-color
border-width, border-top-width, border-right-width, border-bottom-width, border-left-width
outline
outline-style
outline-color
outline-width
margin, margin-top, margin-right, margin-bottom, margin-left
width
height
min-width
max-width
min-height
max-height

Positioning and Display

position
top
right
bottom
left
clip
overflow
z-index
float
clear
display
visibility

Lists

list-style
list-style-type
list-style-image
list-style-position

Tables

table-layout
border-collapse
border-spacing
empty-cells
caption-side

Generated Content

content
counter-increment
counter-reset
quotes

Paged Media

page-break-before
page-break-after
page-break-inside
orphans
widows

Others

cursor
direction
unicode-bidi

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Principato HTML5 Template

Download this HTML5 Template

Features

1. Login button

2. Featured Post

3. Thumbnailed post

4. Two Column

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IM Creatives HTML5 Template

IM Creatives is a responsive HTML5 

website that uses CSS3 designs for its styles 

and layout. You can use your mouse wheel 

to  scroll through the image slider.

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