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170+ Must-Have Tools For The Beginning Blogger. Ok, so you’re a startup blogger. You want to establish yourself in the online world and hopefully make a little money in the process. Well, if you’re like me, it is quite a difficult and intimidating task to just “start.” Maybe you are a website designer, a logo designer, maybe you specialize in banner design, business card design, blog design, or you work with coding like CSS and xHTML.

No matter what it is you are doing, we all must start somewhere. So I’m here today to hopefully give you some pointers and some resources that will help get your blogging career jumpstarted and get you rolling on the road to fame. Let’s start with the basics: Getting your website. Registrars 1. Ok, so maybe you chose one of the above websites or you found your own services. Hosts 1.HostICan 2.BlueHost 3.HostMonster 4.HostGator 5.AptHost 6.WebHostingBuzz 7.HostingZoom Out of those seven companies, you are bound to find one plan or service you like. Good job. Designs 1. Great. Advertise 1. 1. Excellent. 1. THE BIG LIST OF BLOGS. Shout. Airbag Blog Advisory System - Because words sometimes hurt. 5 Dirty Blogging Tricks.

Even in white hat SEO or blogging the SEO 2.0 way you can use some dirty tricks that will make you earn 100.000$ in 3 months your blog a little more successful. I collected 5 of them, which of course I use successfully myself. Do not display a date on your postings and write for infinity: People don’t read yesterdays newspapers. Also people coming from Google will not read your articles if the first thing they notice is that they are already some months or years old.

Many blogs are more topical than newsworthy anyways, so do not engage in the race to be the most current one.Link to new blogs: Many new bloggers often are not really recognized by the community. Nobody knows them, even if they publish content that is much better than the established blogs. Those bloggers are thankful for every link and are more likely to notice that you link them in the first place. So now you see: You can make your hands dirty without tainting your white hat. 10 Blogging Mistakes Most Bloggers Make. Executed by mistake is a Creative Commons image by the moog. Sometimes it takes years of blogging to notice your most obvious mistakes. I’ve been blogging for several years privately, then a few professionally and still do on several business blogs. By now I have made most mistakes you can make as a blogger I guess. I’m not the only one though. Most bloggers make the same mistakes either by neglect or due to the limitations of the medium and software itself.

In many cases you have to make the decision to change your ways to stop making the most common mistakes. Embedding videos from YouTube etc. Vimeo is less restrictive but people also remove videos on their own sometimes. Tweeting instead of blogging Some people obsess about Twitter. Submitting your own blog post on social media other than Twitter Many bloggers still tend to submit their own postings to social sites like Reddit or StumbleUpon. Using 125*125 display ads Banner ads are dead but everybody uses them on blogs these days. Top 10 Blogging Trends. 101 Ways to Make Your Blog More Popular and Successful. Public marks. Moluv - The World's Best Web Design - Today's Best Looking Web Sites. Web Design Booth - Ultimate Resources For Web Developers and Designers.

HOW TO: Attract Attention to Your Website. This guest post is contributed by Bailey Digger, who writes on the topic of web design degree. When it comes to the web, it’s all about how visible and how accessible you are. You may have your own website, but if you don’t have any visitors, it’s as good as being dead online. The more crowded your site is, the more alive you are, and that’s why everyone who has a presence online strives hard to attract attention to their website. Today WordPress is way more than just a CMS, you can easily call it website builder, as long as its architecture allows you to build all types of websites easily. With all those various templates, tons of widgets and clear FAQs and tutorials you can build a website, which will be too hard to identify as a “WordPress-based”.

Search engines rule the roost SEO works, but only when augmented with other methods Guest posts boost your popularity Don’t discount the power of regular updates Credibility counts when it’s the web Simplicity scores over complexity. IceRocket real-time search.

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BlogPulse. BlogCoach: Grow Your Blog. Media.web.tech.geekculture.blog well.