Do You Guest Post For Free Backlinks Only?

If you ask 10 people who are up for the guest posting; "What is your main aim for writing a guest post?". I am sure at least 7 people will have free backlinks in their mind.  If free backlinks is not set as prime goal; it will at least feature in first three goals. So is guest posting is all about getting free backlinks? If that was so Google must have banned free backlinks building trick long time ago....!

5 Things to Check before Publishing Your Article

What does an ideal article have in it...?

At least few million new posts are being published everyday. But there are only a few who make it on the top charts. That does not mean those posts are not good; but they lack something or other thing. Thoughts are okay, but when they are reproduced on keyboard you should have some things in your mind. It is very essential that your article has that minimum requirement; so it is accepted. Any post must fulfill 5 minimum requirement listed below to make it to the charts. Let's explore them one by one.

1) Does your article make any sense?

Always ask yourself, "Why this post should be published?" If your work is having good information which can be benefit online community of any niche, group or class. If it is beneficial you should publish it or else you should amend your work accordingly. Sometimes the information is old and not useful at all. For eg, Barack Obama scores big in second term as president...This might be good topic and work but not required at this point of time. So, always think whether your work is needed or not. It is good not to post anything than posting un-necessary stuff.

2) Check your Spelling and Grammar.

Is your work making sense...? First and foremost thing you should check is that your work is free from typo and grammatical errors. This sends very negative message to the visitor about your credibility. Always have a check of your work for these things. There are tools available online to check your grammar online. This is very effective tool which can highlight any spelling, grammar, punctuation mistake in your work. It is always good to get it checked online as well as by you.

3) Have you done proper formatting of the post.

If your article is having a lot of bold and italics it can distract your visitor. Always have simple yet effective formatting for your site. It is advisable to highlight very important word or sentence of the post. But you should avoid highlighting too much words which might not be necessary. Same thing applies to bold, italics and strike-through.

4) No Duplicates Please...!

Google does not like to see the plagiarism. It is very essential that you check your work for matching phrases and lines with the online content. Sometimes only few words can come as copy cat but still they can harm you. Google does not rank plagiarized pages and you can also get other penalties. This step becomes very vital when you are getting content written by someone else. Few people take this as short cut and they usually send you sub-standard work. Always get your work checked on copyscape or smallSEOtools.

If it is your work and few phrases are matching, you should change them using proper synonyms.

5) Use SEO to push it up the ranks.

SEO is very important for blogs. If you are following SEO practice have a last check before publishing your article. Some changes are not permitted after publishing. Like, you are not allowed to change the URL of the page after the post is published. So, it is advisable that you always have an eye on your SEO work before you go for publishing or scheduling.

These are 5 basic yet essential things you should check before you publish any article on your blog. There are more things to be considered, but these are the most basic and most important ones. We will surely have more light on each of these in the following articles soon....!!! Please leave your valuable comments and let us know what you feel about our work. We want your opinion to make this blog more and more interesting for you.....!!!

Top 5 Advantages of Blogging (Apart From Making Money)

Blogging is bucks, what else?

"Blogging is a tool which is being used by a lot of people to earn money."....If I say this sentence in my post, it is simply outdated. Probably, every person who knows what is blog knows this. So what other benefits are there which are directly attributed to blogging. Blogging can get you money that is universal truth (let it be cents or thousands that depends on your input), what else it does in parallel. Let's see how it can affect your personal, social and academic graph.

1) That wasn't me. 

If a TV star earns few thousand dollars a day, people know him head to toe. No doubt they become celebrity and they get fame. But in getting those things, they compromise their social life. How many times have you seen your favorite actor buying his son an ice-cream on a beach. Their social life is trapped in Twitter or walls. That can be avoided by blogging. For Example, Huffington Post on an average is making 27000$ a day on Adsense alone. This is the biggest blogging earning by a blog. Still the owner of this blog has been able to hide behind and he can have a life of a normal person. He might be famous to all bloggers but he can certainly enjoy vacations when and where he wants.

Though this guy has not hidden his true identity, in blogging that is absolutely possible. You can stay anonymous and still make money. Don't you think this is very good tool for people who blog. You can write with ghost name and enjoy the life of a normal person.. :)

2) Work when you want and where you want.

It is not possible for everyone to work when he or she wants. Blogging allows for this, you can have enough content in scheduling and you can just relax for that much time. Same way you can have liberty of working where ever you want. You can take the city break and write your blog on the beach only for one month. You can always plan your work and have the most of the life. I know some bloggers who work 3 months or less and remaining time is just watch over and vacations.

3) 50$ is all you want to start blogging.

Starting to blog is not the hardest task of lifetime. You require minimum investment when it comes to money. If you know basic computer and adaptive to learn, this is for you. You can get domains free on hosting plans which are offered on less than 50$ an year basis. You can get free themes for your blog. You can always customize your blog if you know HTML/CSS and if you don't know WORDPRESS has all in it for you.

So, this is the correct time for you. If you know something on one topic, you can start your own blog. Internet is full of information, you can always gather more info and post on regular basis.

4) Earning as well as learning.

Blogging is a very good platform for you to learn so many things. You can have a bigger circle as you grow in blog world. You can always interact with fellow bloggers, your post commentators and see how other webmasters are doing. It is day to day learning process for you and you can have great sense of satisfaction with this. No other job offers you this much learning as this. And you will be your own judge here. So blogger world is a great place for you to learn.

5) Make your CV look strong.

Suppose you are a student in mechanical engineering, and you have a blog on cars. You have shown your expertise in that blog. Don't you think this can help you if you are applying for a job in a car company after the studies. Lot of companies now ask their prospective employees about their blogging experiences and whether they can blog or not. So, if you have a very good blog with good daily visitors you will always outweigh the fellow interviewees. Start using blog as a tool to strengthen your CV, this can bring more shine into it.....!!!!

There are so many benefits associated with blogging other than making money. We have just tried to bring in your attention only 5 which we think are important ones. You can always comment to our blog and have your say on any topic. Subscribe to us for more and more tips and tricks to come.....!

How to Write Good Articles?

Why Good article?

If you have a look at Mid February 2011 data, there were whooping 156 million blogs in the existence. And the bloggers have the blog posts or the articles on an average every week. But let's take in consideration every one published every month. So we will have monthly 156 million new articles every month which comes to 5.2 million new articles everyday. Now, let's remove the only picture posts as well as only embed posts. If you take out 65% (which is very high percentage for calculation), still you have 1.82 new articles being published on daily basis. Do you still need any justification why your article should be a good one to swim in the search engines ocean on top and should get good reviews and comments. If your bread and butter is entirely focused on blog or website, it becomes really important for you to deliver good article (or no article). Because you can create you readers base which is good for great income. So, let's see how you can write an article which can really be called a good article.

1) Content was king, now SEO content is the new king:

If you are in blogging you must have come across a saying that CONTENT IS KING. And that is really true, search engines prefer the blog and sites which are publishing more often. So, a site publishing every month will be less important for Google compared to daily updated blog. But, there are millions of sites which are daily updated...!!! So, you will have to get ahead that race in the race as well.

Try to post on regular interval like at least one article every week. And make sure you have proper SEO aspects taken care in that article. Good article has a specified keyword and it's content is based upon it. Have ideal keyword density (1-2%), have keyword in your meta description, SEO title, URL. Also have your keyword in first para of the post. Get a back-link from a genuine source (Remember Google hates paid back-links).
Few people take content as part of the SEO, but content was well there before the SEO was introduced. And also if you keep on posting 10 posts a day with no meaningful words it is not going to make any sense. That is also content, non-meaningful though.

 

2) Simplicity is the best publicity:

Try to be as simple as possible when you write your articles. You might have enough knowledge to have a 10 hour seminar on that subject. But, please keep in mind that you have some basic users and intermediate users too. If everyone dealing with blogging was a computer engineer, we might not have seen the concept of blogging. People visit your site as they are there to learn something, so write your article in a way that it start from basic concept and have detailed information in it.
Same way try to have that simplicity in formatting of your article as well. Keep the fonts and other things in a way that it is not distracting your visitor. It has been found that most successful blogs have plain white background and the posts there are easy and written in basic English. Google and other search engines also take into consideration the easiness of your content when they rank them.

 

3) Nobody is interested why you went to Switzerland, unless you are a celebrity

Please don't make your blog too much personalized, unless it is a personal or family blog and intended for that purpose only. People hate when they saw posts like "How I made 2000$ in three days". Same topic could have been used as "Making 50$ per day on Adsense is Easy".
Also, never add any false info in your blog. Some people are writing articles on how they made so and so much money in only a week or month. Their sole intention is to promote the affiliate links within those article. But a good article is all about fact. If you have given false info and if that is found by visitor; he will might well stop trusting your words.

 

4) Good article is free of typo and grammar errors

Always have a thorough checks for typos and grammar errors in your article. These errors lead to doubt creation in reader's mind about your credibility. Good article, as we said, is simple English and simple formatting. If you follow that step you will prone to have less errors.
Some people have habit of using hard vocabulary in the article. But, no one likes to check the meaning of words when they are reading something. So, stay easy and you will have less mistakes. If you want you can use free tool like this to check your grammar before publishing it on your blog.

 

5) Write for money but not only money

We all write for money, or money is someway associated in our articles. But please don't make your articles look like they are literally begging for the affiliated links to be clicked or affiliated jungle with so many links in all the articles. Instead write a good article on the same niche as that of your affiliated product.  Your CTR can be much higher if your article is informative. Informative does not mean telling good and hiding the bad things. Give all the pros and cons which you might feel can affect your visitor. If the article is not bias and if the visitor feels the pros are outweighing the cons, you will surely get clicked on.
These were 5 essential things to consider for good article writing. There are so many other things as well which are to be considered while you write an article. But out of all the factors these 5 are the most basic and essential things which one can look for while writing....Happy Blogging.