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ServInt Dedicated Servers. Pair Hosting. Earn revenue on your website, blog or app with local, mobile and search targeted ads by Chitika | Publisher Program Overview | Chitika. TextLinkAds | The Leader in Text Link Search Engine Optimization. Categories and Tags. This post on using Tags and Categories on a blog was written by Michael Martin from Pro Blog Design.

In terms of coding, categories and tags are almost identical. A category system could very easily be used as a tagging system, and vice versa. So what is it that makes the two different? And how are they best used? Understanding and Using Categories Categories are best imagined as a paper filing system. In your blog, categories are best used in exactly the same way: The number of categories should be small. Complement the Categories With Tags The most common problem with tagging is that it is used for the same purposes that categories are.

Think of tags as the colorful little page markers you might use to flick back to your favorite pages in a book. Use the same tags over and over again. Tags have a lot of potential. Categories and tags are both very useful assets, provided they are each used for their own purpose. Top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites. Here are the top 15 Most Popular Social Bookmarking Sites as derived from our eBizMBA Rank which is a continually updated average of each website's Alexa Global Traffic Rank, and U.S. Traffic Rank from both Compete and Quantcast. "*#*" Denotes an estimate for sites with limited data. 1 | Facebook3 - eBizMBA Rank | 900,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 3 - Compete Rank | 3 - Quantcast Rank | 2 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | eBizMBA 2 | Twitter12 - eBizMBA Rank | 310,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 19 - Compete Rank | 8 - Quantcast Rank | 8 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017.

The Most Popular Social Bookmarking Websites | eBizMBA 3 | Pinterest23 - eBizMBA Rank | 250,000,000 - Estimated Unique Monthly Visitors | 29 - Compete Rank | 13 - Quantcast Rank | 26 - Alexa Rank | Last Updated: July 1, 2017. How to Make Money From Your Blog. StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it? This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). Do you actually want to monetize your blog? Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs.

If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. Can you make a decent income online? Yes, absolutely. Can most people do it? No, they can’t. Perks. How to Build a High-Traffic Web Blog. Since posting my 2005 traffic figures recently, I’ve received many questions about how I was able to start this web site from scratch and build its traffic to over 700,000 visitors per month (Jan 2006 projection) in about 15 months – without spending any money on marketing or promotion.

Building a high-traffic web site was my intention from the very beginning, so I don’t think this result was accidental. My traffic-building strategy isn’t based on tricks or techniques that will go out of style. It’s mainly about providing genuine value and letting word of mouth do the rest. Sadly, this makes me something of a contrarian today, since I happen to disagree with much of what I’ve seen written about traffic-building elsewhere. Here are 10 of my best suggestions for building a high traffic web site: 1. Is your content worthy of being read by millions of people? When I sit down to write, I sometimes imagine myself standing on an outdoor concert stage before an audience of a million people. 2. Blog Tips. Blog and Ping Tool. Ping-o-Matic! Comment spam prevention.

How Trackback Works. Blog Carnival. SEO. Increase Google Page Rank. Google page rank is an elusive term that most bloggers don't completely understand. In fact, there are probably few people in the world who completely understand it, because Google keeps the secrets of its page rank algorithm very guarded. Boosting your Google page rank isn't something you can do in a day. If it were, everyone would have a Google Page Rank of 10. Keep reading to learn a few of the tricks to increase your blog's Google page rank that are fairly easy to implement over time. 1.

The best way to increase your Google page rank might not make a difference over night, but it will make a big difference in time. For example, if you write a blog about finance, getting a link from The Wall Street Journal website would give your blog a big boost. 2. Search engine optimization is an important part of increasing Google page rank. 3.

Do not copy content from another site. 4. 5. If you write great content, people will want to link to it, particularly high quality websites.