Recently, I received an email from a revenue sharing website that I joined. It is a website where your blog entries are viewed to a wider audience, so it involves what we call “feeds.” Well, I really don’t have enough knowledge about feeds although I’m using it in my blog. The email just caught my attention because it says that the site will no longer accept blogs with “short feeds.” I’m ignorant, and I don’t know what this short feeds means. So thanks to Google, I’d be able to have some place to know this term. Read the rest

In recent years, blogs have had such a following and demand that many bloggers have turned what used to be a hobby into a source of full-time income. Here are some tips gleaned from the expertise of these probloggers which would put you on the road to a full-time blogging income. Read the rest

Anyone who starts a blog has a primary wish – to get as many visitors and subscribers as possible. Traffic is important to a blog, especially if you want monetize it. However, drawing traffic to your blog is no child’s play, especially if you’re a new kid on the blogging block. You would have to compete with thousands of new blogs created daily for traffic, not to mention “veteran” blogs which already have a large chunk of it. Read the rest

It takes only minutes to start a blog. What’s difficult is to draw readers and get them to subscribe to your blog. Here are tips you can use to increase your blog subscriber base, albeit on a gradual basis. Read the rest

This article looks at some sought-after, time saving extensions for bloggers who use the open source Firefox web browser. Read the rest

One of the best ways to gain readers and traffic to your blog is by using video posts. With the competition for blog readers at the level it is, only blogs that stand out and offer unique content are the ones that end up being successful. One of the most popular types of content that people often either look for or take notice of is video content. Adding video content that others have created and uploaded to the internet is fairly easy and somewhat beneficial. But what really sets a blog apart is adding your own videos to the content of your blog. To many bloggers, that sounds like a complicated process, but there is an easy way to accomplish it. Read the rest

When compared to the building, updating and maintaining of a website the hardest thing that any website owner has to do is get traffic going to their already developed website. Much of the traffic generation process is a long and drawn out plan of constant development, building of backlinks and networking. There are however quick ways that a website or blog can grab it’s share of initial traffic, and here are five of them. Read the rest

When it comes to creating a successful blog, there is more than needs to be done than just coming up with an idea and following through with it. Many of these decisions involve advertising, design and layout, scripts and programming, and more. One thing that every blogger, whether they are just starting out or are a blogging veteran, always needs to make sure is present on their blog is well written and informative blog posts. At the birth of a blog it is fairly uncomplicated to continually come up with provocative and interesting blog posts, but as time wears on it can become more difficult. There are a few things that the author of a blog can do to make sure that their blog posts continue to display the kind of writing skill that makes them effective and attractive to those that come to read it. Read the rest

One of the most popular websites on the entire internet is Google’s YouTube. With the ability to host videos placed there by movie studios, political candidates, television networks, and of course the regular users of the service too, YouTube has become the place to go to watch video content online. One of the best moves that webmasters or bloggers can use to promote their own web content is to harness the power of other more popular websites and web service providers. By capitalizing on the advertising done by these other services, a blogger can have their content or site promoted in ways that they otherwise would not be able to accomplish. Read the rest

Many people every day go online trying to find different ways to make money. Some people want to bring in a little extra money to supplement their full-time or part-time incomes, while others are looking towards the idea of being fully employed working online. When people look at different ways to make money online, they are sometimes overwhelmed by the incredible amount of options available. Though it takes a lot of work, one of the easiest ways to break into the online money making world is through blogging. Whether setting up a blog through one of the free blog providers or buying their own domain name and hosting plan to handle everything themselves, would-be bloggers can get started blogging almost immediately. Read the rest