Common Confusing Words In English [Infographic]

Everyone knows the problem with spell-check: your word might be spelled right, but it may be the wrong word. English is full of confusing words that sound alike but are spelled differently. It’s also full of words that share similar (but not identical) meanings that are easy to misuse. Below are some of the most commonly confused and misused words in English.

Let's face it, English can be confusing. A lot of words are similar but with different meanings, as a result it is almost impossible to avoid making mistakes in English, but if you can get your head around these explanations in the below infographic, you might be able to avoid making these ones or at least recognize them when you see them.

Source: www.grammarcheck.net

Most Popular WordPress Plugins For Your Blog [Infographic]

WordPress is definitely the most preferred blogging platform for bloggers. With WordPress, you are having the full control to modify and tune the performance of the website  accordingly to your requirement. So it requires few essential plugins which help your blog to sustain over net and increases feasibility on search engines. Here I have listed 25 Best WordPress Plugins of 2014. The plugins mentioned below will make your WordPress website fast and secure.

When it comes to functionality and performance, it’s hard to beat a WordPress website. But all that power doesn’t just happen. It’s the result of the plugins you select to solve problems and add features. There are thousands of plugins in WordPress database. Out of those many, this infographic recommends 30 of WordPress’s most popular plugins.

Source: WPtemplate

22 Ways To Create Attractive Content [Infographic]

There are several ways to create attractive contents over web. Your website has only seconds to capture interest. Think about articles you’ve read, speeches you’ve heard, books you’ve begun. The initial exposure helps people determine whether they want to spend more time reading, listening or viewing. There is simply too much competition for time to expect that people will invest too much of theirs in trying to overcome a tepid introduction. This post demonstrates how to repurpose existing content in a different media format, get more bang from your archives, and reach new and different audiences in the process.

You have to be edgy, but not poke someone in the eye. You have to be willing to challenge and amuse, while not bragging or boasting. Your site, and particularly your homepage, should be provocative enough to be memorable and cause others to tell colleagues, “You ought to visit this site." The following infographic from CopyBlogger shows 22 Ways to Create Compelling Content When You Don’t Have a Clue.

Source : CopyBlogger

If Your Blog Were A Beer [Infographic]

It’s no secret the beer and blog markets are over-saturated these days, with every content and craft curator out there clamoring to generate enough hype to capture at least 30 seconds of their audiences’ (or customers’) dwindling attentions. But bear with us when we say this might actually be a good thing, since out of all the hundreds of millions of blogs and over 20,000 different kinds of beer out there, you can actually afford to be a little picky.

Labels may vary, but the taste is pretty much the same. Often found in red plastic cups. Some people live Miller Lite. They're brand loyal, just like some of your readers. But taste your last few posts. Do they read like a lot of other blogs? could they have been written by anyone? If your blog tastes like water, that's not a good thing. Your blog should sound like you. It should have a personality and style of its own.

Source : Visual.ly

SEO and PPC Practices In Online Market [Infographic]

SEO organic listings and sponsored/paid PPC listings both can place your site on the first page of Search engine result. Choosing PPC or SEO largely depends on your online marketing goals, the time slot in which you want to achieve them and also your budget. In other words, it can be said that if you need instant but not constant traffic, then go for PPC and If you need affordable and reliable traffic for long time, then go for SEO.

What’s SEO?

To put it simply, the process of acquiring top position in search engine result page in an organic manner is Search Engine Optimization. The best way to start SEO is to get your website created and content for the website added. Once you are done, you can start with your website optimization.

What’s PPC?

PPC ads are sold in an auction. Why? It is a paid form of internet advertising where advertisers pay for each click that directs the user to a dedicated website. You pay what you bid for a click on the ad. In other words, it can be said that popular Search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo allow business groups and individuals to buy listings in their organic search results by the way of specific targeted keywords.

Here is a self explanatory infographic recently published by infoshot, which we found to be useful as it explains the practices of SEO and PPC in online market.

Source : submitedge SEO

Recipe For A Perfect Blog Post - Google Effects [Infographic]

While throwing together the perfect blog post can feel intimidating, it’s as simple as memorizing a straightforward ingredient list, assembling it all with love, and giving it the time, space, and attention it needs to develop into something extraordinary.

Google has been dropping algorithm changes like hot potatoes, and it’s left many companies engaged in inbound marketing wondering just how they should move forward with their marketing strategies.

Congratulations! You’ve just assembled your perfect blog post! That wasn’t as hard as you thought, was it? Keep in mind that blog posts are very flexible, so you can repeat this recipe, trying out various lengths, topics, methods, and writing styles. Let's take another infographic and see how to make a perfect blog post with a different recipe.

Source : kunocreative & ExpressWriters

How To Get Maximum Speed With WordPress [Infographic]

With more than 72 million WordPress sites on the Web (and counting!), it’s safe to say that this content management system (CMS) is one of the world’s most popular site design platforms. And because it’s so ubiquitous and user-friendly,

WordPress attracts not only accolades, but expectations, from its users. The software itself is so intuitive and responsive that many of its adherents want the sites they create using it to share those traits; however, like any other application, WordPress has its limits as well as its perks.

Lets have a look the below infographic to know how to get maximum speed with WordPress.

Source : WhoIsHostingThis

Why Blogging Is Good For Your Business

There is no doubt that "Blogging" is one of the most powerful internet marketing tools for business to keep their services running in the market. Various types of organizations from startups to Fortune 500 ones are enhancing their digital presence and trying to get leads over other companies via blogging. 

Here are some reasons why blogging is good for your business.

1. Product or Services - Branding :

Blogging allows you full control of the look, feel, messaging, and function of the social interaction emphasizing proper branding of your product or services. Using others images promotes their business but if you want your business to be promoted then get ready with your own offerings.

2. Online Presence : 

Blogging shows visitors and search engines that your website is active and relevant, which increases your online credibility and increasing popularity of online presence.

Each and every blogger knows that in order to be “legitimate” in business today, you need to be active online. Different social media websites allows this important function by sharing contents over net, but a regularly updated blog also lets search engines know that your site is active as well, which increases your search rankings and online availability.

3. Getting Backlinks :

Visitors from other websites or some website owners and businesses can link back to the static pages and products listed on your website in case those are valuable contents you provide on your blog. It increases your blog traffic, and the back links provide another boost in online link building activities

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4. Emphasizing On Subject :

Blogging gives you a chance to speak more thoroughly on a topic, and it emphasizes on the topics on the subject you are promoting for your business. This opportunity for greater depth often results in greater value for visitors, which ends up getting huge number of readership subscribers.

5. Building Followers & Readerships :

Blogging brings people from other websites and social media networks to your website, increasing your ability to build your follower list and/or sell products & services offered on your website.

Once you have visitors to your site then you might have the chance to show them around a little bit more on product & services offered. They may take a peek into some of the other spaces your site provides or they can just accept your invitation to join your email list. Moreover it increases the opportunity for them to purchase one of your products and share it with their friends.

Benefits explained above are clearly justifiable on how and why to make blogging a part of your content marketing campaign, whatever the nature of your business may be. Hope the above steps help you promoting your business online. If you have any other suggestion, do not forget to share with us in comment section.

How To Avoid Common Blogging Mistakes [Infographic]

Most of the new bloggers are eager to make their blog published online and the process they follow is very fast. In this race, they missed out several mandary and very inportants things to be followed before posting their article.

Here is an infographic which will help bloggers to make themselves aware of the common mistakes they make while blogging.

Source : Startbloggingonline.com

Why Should You Ignore Thumb Rules Of Blogging?

Evolution is a constant change which brings out different things and concepts with time. There used to be a lot of best blogging practices that may not work in today’s digital world. It is the best time to evaluate that whether generally accepted blog best practices still apply to your blog or not.

Here are few blogging best practices which are being ignored nowadays.

1. Multiple Posts Per Day Increase Traffic

An ancient myth which says “traffic is directly proportional to the number of posts”. It means that if you want to increase traffic then you have to post as much as you can throughout the whole day. A lot of bloggers are there who still think that increasing frequency for posts per day will bring them good amount of traffic.

Rule Now: The rule can be ignored and instead of following this rule a new rule of blogging could be applied that will say “not to post that much frequent but a slow content posting” would be helpful for blog’s growth.

2. Comments On Blogs

It was very much surprising when Copyblogger closed its comment box. The reason behind the decision of shutting down its commenting option is copyblogger receives a lot of spam which made some irrelevant comments. They prefer viewers to start discussion on their social media network than comments. They are active on Google Plus. People can engage with their own blog, who want to share opinion on any topic in reference the Copyblogger post.

Rule Now: Copyblogger has introduced a new blogging rule which says to write a blog post in response to a post and expand your initial comment to include an opinion.

3. Content Outsourcing 

Content writing has always been outsourced to grab the attention of viewers for own blogs. Nowadays website owners and bloggers are realizing that outsourced content will never get them the identification that they always wanted. Content is very important aspect for a blog. Useful content only brings audience to your blog. So it is always good that you write your own content.

Rule Now: Write your own content. If you can’t write content at all then you can probably have to engage the fellow bloggers to discuss on topics, direction, and ideas on how to write.

4. Original Content Creation

It is been told that your content should be 100% original while you post. But in fact, no one creates 100 percent original content all the time in a blog. People are always getting inspired by others and re-phrasing the same content with their own words.

New Rule: Read more and more other people’s content and give your unique contribution to it. But always give attribution and credit to your sources and references.

5. Post With Image Is Optional

People usually say that your content should be original and unique but adding a picture an optional. But the fact is that the web is now rapidly growing with visual contents and most of the search results come with images with ALT attribute which in turn show the post from the specific blog.

Rule Now: So it is always better to add both images and captions to every post you write along with your unique and original content. It’s good for capturing eyeballs, it’s good for SEO, and it’s good for social sharing.

6. One Format For One Blog

Despite of having a podcast with big brands and entrepreneurs some bloggers usually complains on their earning which turns out to be very less. It is quite possible that this is happening because of the only format that the particular blog shows “only podcasting”. How can this problem be solved? If a different approach is adapted then this issue could be resolved. The blog’s readers can be able to quickly scan the content and subscribe to the blog and it may result a rise in traffic.

New Rule: Re-produce the same or produce a different content in multiple formats like written content, graphics, podcasts, videos, presentations, etc.

7. Post 500 Words

Nowadays practically saying the era of “500 words post” is gone. Now everything is measured by quality than quantity. In fact it is observed that short posts are still popular. Longer posts (up to 2,000 words) are read also. Word count doesn’t matter anymore.

Rule Now: Post should contain the purpose and importance of the article.

8. Never Publish Post On Third-Party Websites

Most of the bloggers post their articles on their own social media accounts and network. But this is the network limited to you. If you want to spread among larger audience with a larger social network we need to get the posts on third party network too.

Rule Now: You can promote your content on reputable third-party websites. You post should provide a link back to the original content where it is first published. You can give an author bio tied in to your G+ profile. Within a week or two search bots will update the search engine where and when the original article was first published. You can also include links within your article that link back to your website for driving larger audience.

How To Build Backlinks - Dos & Don'ts

Most of the bloggers want more backlinks to their blogs because all of them want to attract huge number  of regular visitors and subscribers. This is one of the best SEO practices as gradually those blogs will get more and more traffic. It increases your blog's page ranking in search engines making your blog more visible and quick searchable on SERPs. There are various organic or natural ways to build backlinks. But while building links, you need to take care of some guidelines.

Please follow the DOs and DON'Ts for building backlinks:

DOs :

1. Article Submission :

Regularly submit your article to the article directories like - Ezinearticles.com, GoArticles.com, ArticlesBase.com, ArticleCity.com, Amazines.com, ArticleTrader.com etc. By submitting to these higher PR sites you can ensure your quality of writing as well as getting more readers for your blog.

2. Visiting Blogs With Same Niche :

Always visit blogs which follow same niche and cover similar topics. These articles will add aditional value to your knowledge base which can be expressed in your own way.

3. Comment On Related Blogs :

While reading other blogs' posts, you may comment on them ensuring inreaction with other fellow bloggers and take a view or idea from those comments and replies and later on you can make use of it. make sure that you are not doing any SPAMMING business here. Make your comment box available for people so that you can also interact with them and making sure to get a returning visitor to your site.

4. Web 2.0 Usage :

You may use such Web 2.0 websites like Hubpages, Squidoo to get large number of viewers as these sites are already having indexed pages with higher page ranking in SERPs and have large number of viewers and connections with different websites of similar niche.

5. Guest Posting :

Select some good sites within your niche and start posting as a guest author.  It will make you known to other blog's viewers and in this way you can promote your blog too.

6. Forum, Q&A Community Engagement :

Start writing on a forum and take participation in Q&A online communities. This will increase your understanding on the topics and will clear your views ensuring leaving your blog link there in relavant and related topic.

7. Blog Carnival Participations :

Participate in the blog carnivals which have targeted audience and  there is a scope for you to get few percentage of that massive audience to your blog.

8. Upload Videos :

If your blog niche comes under technology and you provide how-to guides. Start making your own how-to guides' videos also so that people who will watch the videos on online video websites like Youtube, will come to your blog too.

9.  Offer Giveaway :

This is one of the best techniques to bring traffic to your blog. Organize Giveaway Contest/Quiz very often ensuring the visitors are taking part on the Giveaway contest and quiz.

10.  Quality and Unique Content :

Obviously this is the most vital rule in the field of blogging. Until & unless you write quality and unique content, you won't get visitors. Readers will be attracted to the posts which are unique and original which will be having good quality and full information.  You can go for a good catchy domain name and start blogging.

Unfortunately, the above things are not taken care by the pre-bloggers, newbies who want their blog be a hit one over night. Nowadays the search engine crawlers are very accurate and can catch false links. They treat the links as spams and may ban your site. Therefore, we have drafted some not to do thing below :

DON'Ts : 

1. Buying Backlinks : 

Don't buy backlinks and get your site linked. There are a lot of software for backlinks builder available over net but stay away of them.

2. Link Exchange Communities :  

In SERPs, links found via link exchange communities will be considered as fake and will not encourage your blog for good page ranks.

3. Article Submission Service : 

Good article submission service will help your blog to grow fast by increasing readers and subscribers but if it submits to cheap and junk directories? Don's make sense. So, be selective before you submit article.

4. Compromising With Quality :

Bloggers do think that it is necessary to post everyday without fail. Yes, it is a good practice that you write at least one article every day but it doesn't mean that you should look for quantities rather than quality. Posting degraded quality contents will reduce the number of viewers.

5. Spamming : 

Engaging with online communities doesn't mean that you write anything irrelevant to the topic itself. This useless comments and links will not bring any visitors to your site. Search engines consider these links as spams.

We have discussed about the DOs and DON'Ts while you build backlinks ensuring a good SEO practice on your blogs/websites for better ranking in SERPs.

Not To Do Things With WordPress

People do start a blog with blogger/blogspot platform and once it is getting popular and able to create buzz in IT world. Once a blogger starts a WordPress site also keep the desire to make their site a stand-out. Obviously once you opt for this, would not let your WordPress go down by simple mistakes which could be ignored easily. This article will help you in learning how to avoid some common mistakes which in turn harm your WordPress site. 

Bloggers or website owners can make an amazing WordPress site easily with some equally amazing content and images. And with the help of so many SEO plugins your blog an be visible in Google SERPs. But only if we care the below mentioned 3 important guidelines which many of us don't give much importance.

1. Avoid Free Hosting :

Free hosting is somewhat good and helpful for the starters or beginners who just stepped into blogging world. But after opting for WordPress you might have desired for better ranking and visibility for your blogs. So you can't expect free hosting will serve you as the same way what paid hosting does. We should always keep in mind that nothing is ever free. By using free hosting service you may be saving some bucks for the time being but it’ll cost you later in other ways. All the companies which offer these ‘free hosting’ services have to pay their bills somehow. The only way for them is spamming your website with ads and get money from advertisers. It does not annoy you only but distracting for your website visitors also. So go for some paid hosting service.

2. Avoid Downloading Free Widgets :

Apparently free widgets are great by looks and features. If you populate all this widgets in your blog then your blog loading speed may go down and it any widget doesn't work it may stuck in browser also. Available freely doesn't mean you have to feature all these widgets on your site. Always try to keep them limited and only install widgets that add some value to your site and its useful for your blog.

3. Avoid All Updates :

WordPress keeps releasing new updates very frequently including updates to the core, theme and plugin updates. Ignore all the update alerts if it is not that much necessary. Analyze first which updates are relevant to the functionality of your site then go ahead and ensure that it’s done timely basis and correctly using the services of a web host. Relevant updates will surely help your WordPress site to keep properly optimized and search engine friendly.

How To Remove Comment Spam In WordPress

Comment spam has been one of the common problems with any blogging platforms. Being the most used blogging platform WordPress is also having the problem..

Comment spam is done by some website owners who want to boost their Google rankings by having lots of links pointing to their own websites. The result of this might be any of the following:

1. Once Google finds content spam, they will often block the site it’s coming from because it messes up their ranking system.
2. It consumes and wastes your valuable time and internet bandwidth to remove them.
3. Commenting spams heavily is a situation in which the server tries a lot to post bad information or deliver notification emails to you for each comment which in turn increases you server load.Consider a situation where a blogger received over 1 thousand email notifications of the comments on a single post which needed approval. In this case that bloggers will be getting more and more gradually and ultimately crashing his mail server resulting website unavailability.

If each of the comments goes for approval then it would be a serious problem. WordPress is having multiple plugin but one of the mostly used and popular is Akismet plugin for WordPress.

How Akismet Plugin for WordPress Helps In Removing Comment Spams :

Akismet is a WordPress plugin which is there to help you filter out those spammers. It is very easy to get it installed into your WordPress system. 

Follow the below steps to install Akismet Plugin :

1. Download the plugin, and upload it to the blog directory on your server in the plugins subdirectory under wp-content. 

2. Now activate from the WordPress plugins menu. 

3. If you get any message which says that you need the Akismet API, go to the WordPress website and search for one.

There will be an instruction in Akismet, which says “forget that spam was ever a problem.” So you don’t have to do anything else at all. Eventually the spam will simply be bounced. You will not receive a notification, nor will you have to delete spams wasting time.

Did You Pass Math plugin for WordPress :

Among the various plugins for WordPress, one more popular plugin is there for eliminating spam is the “Did You Pass Math” plugin. It basically makes the user perform a simple math problem before submitting a comment. The advantage of using this plugin is that most humans can understand this and most spambots can’t. So it is obvious that a comment posted through this is a legitimate comment. Here you can show a notice of caution that comments will be deleted if the math answer submitted is wrong.

What if all plugins fail ?

If all the plugins fail to remove spammers then there is one option by denying them access to your comments area. It does not mean you have to disable your comments section. For this you need to set up a filter.

Blocking their IPs would not help this. Most of the spammers use random IPs, while blocking IPs may reduce for a short time. Spammers are also experiment hijacking other people’s IP addresses. But if you are looking for short duration solution, you can try it. The IP address is included in the information packet for the comment. It is as easy to detect like traceable phone number. Search for patterns in your IP numbers.

Working with .htaccess file :

Best way to prevent them by using the .htaccess file to block unwanted IPs from even seeing your blog. Fro example, below lines can be added to the file:

order allow,deny

deny from 123.123.123.123

deny from 456.456.456.*

deny from 789.789.*.*

allow from all

As we all know that IPs are four-part numbers, such as 192.168.0.1, and if you see a pattern with the first two sections being identical, you can block all IPs of that type by simply listing them as 192.168.*.*, as you see above. It screens out all these IP numbers. In this case all the blocked IPs will get a 403 error page. Now you can customize yours so that your contact details are listed in case you’re blocking out a legitimate user. Never use your regular email because a spammer can harvest that too. Instead, encode your email so that it’s not automatically readable.

Once you realize that your problems are addressed, you can remove the block from your .htaccess file. If it still doesn’t work, or if you don’t see an IP pattern, it’s likely that spambots are hijacking someone else’s machine to attack your site. In this case, do not use the IP block. In other case, if you don’t have an IP pattern of attack, this may not work. An IP follows almost the same pattern, with the last of the four sections referring to the specific computer it is attached to.

Google’s Nofollow Attribute

You can use the Google Nofollow attribute for links. This attribute is embedded automatically by modern versions of WordPress.

It does not remove links, instead it makes those links irrelevant to Google. As a result it doesn’t hurt your rank in Google, and it doesn't allow a spammer to send data to your site.

It is not a quick fix. But it is a way to make your website resistant to spammers in the future. In case your website is already a target, you’ll have to work with it slowly, incorporating all these fixes. else you can turn on the nofollow option in your WordPress system; this will reject any spambots. Better you should upgrade your WordPress version or use soem similar plugin which will work in this principle.

How To Do Social Blogging With Glipho [Infographic]

As a blogger, you don't have to feel on your own- read other's gliphs and take part in discussions, become a trending writer and connect with writer's on other social networking mediums.

Glipho has launched the  following nifty infographic which explains how Glipho helps in increasing readership.

Source :  Glipho

How To Get More Traffic To Your Blog Posts

If you have a blog then you must be finding ways to drive traffic to your blog. Hope you have tried various ways already, we assume that you have made use of social media also. Sharing contents over Facebook, twitter, Google+, Pinterest etc has become a normal practice. We will discuss some creative way to drive more traffic to your blog. This post will guide you with some fresh and innovative ideas to generate large amount of traffic and get your posts noticed among billions blog posts over net.

Here are some ideas which would help you in getting traffic.

1.  Share Your Content on smaller network platforms : 

The lesser known sites often have active, focused audiences and offer less competition for attention, so your content will definitely drive some amount of traffic.

Here are some examples of smaller networks:

Quora.com : this is purely a  question and answer based website. It was founded by two former Facebook employees. Quora is unique because all content is created, edited and organized by its user communities only. Business and education oriented audience will be there in Quora.

Tumblr : It is a microblogging site which is recently acquired by Yahoo!. Its user base has younger and trendy. It is the perfect platform to share niche-based content.

Empire Avenue : Empire Avenue uses social media marketing tool and a partly social media site. It enables users to broadcast content across all of the other social networks. Small businesses, social media professionals and bloggers like this platform primarily.

2. Get Attention Using Different Media :

You have to give users a compelling reason to click your blog post. So here are some creative ideas to promote your posts with images, audio and video effectively.

3. Short Audio Interaction Via Dubbler :

Dubbler is available for iPhone and Android devices, which offers an easy way to record up to 60 seconds of audio on your phone. After recording you can share it with other Dubbler community members. 

 Using Dubbler you can record an audio message that communicates your excitement and passion about the content. With it, add a filter or photo and enter your blog post URL in the description. Finally you can share with your friends and social media networks.

4. Creating 6 Seconds Looping Video Via Vine :

You can easily create 6-second looping video shorts and share it. For video teaser, Vine video is a great apps available in iPhone. Using Vine you can also share to Twitter and Facebook. Vine is a product of Twitter now so if you include any Vine short, it will be displayed in Twitter tweets also.

5. Overview Of Your Post Via SlideShare :

SlideShare is not only a content sharing platform but a community with multiple times more traffic from business owners than Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. It has 51.6 million monthly visitors. You can easily make presentation and it will be visible and searchable from within SlideShare. You can extend its reach and share it to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and LinkedIn.

6. Pinning On Group Board Via Pinterest :

You can pin on individual boards and collaborate by pinning to contributor boards. The advantages of pinning to a contributor board is to increase exposure. Once you pin to a contributor board, your followers see the pin and so do their followers.

Here are the tips for pinning your post to Pinterest :

• Select any descriptive image from your blog post to pin
• Always set the title of your blog post on the image you choose
• Include keywords to the description
• Use relevant hashtags
• Always mention someone in your blog post. Include @ mention them on Pinterest
• Pinterest always add the URL to your blog post

7. Share Images On Instagram :

Instagram maintains updating feed of images that is viewed by over 100 million monthly users. You can share your main blog image with the post title. It is a great way to get organic traffic to your blog.

Here is an easy way to post your picture to the Instagram :

• Upload your blog image to Dropbox
• Login and access Dropbox account from your mobile device
• Upload the image to Instagram
• Include a relevant hashtags and the URL of your blog post to the caption
• Use Bitly to shorten and track click-throughs
• Include @ mention anyone you referred to in your post
• Share your Instagram image to Tumblr, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, and Foursquare

Hope you have used these idea. If you have anything else for promoting your blog posts, share your suggestions and comments.

5 Basic SEO Practices Before Posting An Article

You might be publishing articles on regular basis or in certain intervals in a week. Whatever might be the fact, you should ensure few things before you post anything on your blog for SEO purposes. If you want your blog to come in better rank on Google SERPs then you must follow the five important and 'must do' basic practices before posting .

Here are the five tips :

1. Catchy Post Title : 

Consider a post title "How To Improve Skills On Content Marketing". How does it impact on the people who are searching for articles on "Content Marketing"? Yes! the title will definitely draw the attention of viewers. So in addition to good article "proper post title" helps a lot in bringing audiences for your blog. It increases your website’s traffic resulting better rank in SERPs.

2. URLs Optimization : 

Set proper permalink optimization which will be in great help for the URLs you share on SERPs. Keep all the URLs short with target keywords of the topic so it appear on the search results.

3. Old Post Interlink :

This is one of the best common practices which is useful to keep your viewers stick to your site. It often works better than related articles list. Eventually it increases page views and let viewers stay on your blog for longer time.

4. Grammar and Spelling :

A very common mistake by the bloggers is related to their grammar usage in their posts. This is the most required prerequisite for writing a good article. Before you post any article just check the spelling and grammar. Wrong spelling, grammatical errors, and poor sentence making will give a negative impression of your blog to the viewers even if it consists of useful and informative topics.

5. Image Embedding :

Always keep in mind that viewers will like the post which will have proper information with relevant images. Just think about a post without any image? Looks dumb. But when you use image to your article it makes your post look good and interesting. Keep a short description for the image while embedding to your article.

This article is a basic quick reference guide which will be helpful to the budding bloggers. If you want to know some advanced tips here is an article which will help you in improving skills on content marketing.

How To Improve Skills On Content Marketing

A lot of articles are there on "how to get rapid popularity" with a blog, which can teach all content creators about how to write for fame, for money, and come out on top in SERPs. But most of the bloggers can't follow it correctly and finish with a failed website whereas few of them make good footprints in the field of content marketing area keeping in mind some factors.

Here are the factors which can be useful while practising content marketing :

1. Fresh Content : 

People like to read fresh contents and useful topics. Try to write new, fresh and unique content daily encouraging visitors to read and get ranking higher in SERPs.

2. Quality Over Quantity :

Maintain a standard quality for your blog so that visitors can come again and again to read your articles. Preparing a lengthy article doesn't attract visitors always because sometimes they feel boring while reading it. People would like to read quality article than quantity of content.

3. Catchy Headline :

Consider two headlines - "How To Make Money With Blogging?"  and  "Why Does A Blogger Fail To Make Money?". These are the catchy headlines which attract people for the strings "Make Money" and encourage them to click on that and read the article.

4. Social Media Sharing :

Share each and every article of your blog over social networking sites so that your blog visitors can keep them updated with the regular posts and updates.

5. Image & Video Contents :

It is found that most of the visitors prefer to watch video or an infographic than reading a whole story because reading a text article takes longer time. So if your content is based on video and infographic along with the usual text based article then it will be helpful to increase visitors for your blog.

6. Brand Identity :

Endorse your brand by attracting visitors. If you are a blogger and have website then promote that via social media and email marketing. Make people aware of the product or services offered by you and gradually your blog will be identified as a brand.

7. Honesty : 

Keep your promise to the visitors of your blog that you are going to serve them with good quality content and that would  be a valued article which in fact will help them in some aspects. Be honest while writing to keep the readers tuned to your blog.

8. Distribution : 

Keeping good content doesn’t mean anything, if you aren't actively trying to get people to see it and make them regular visitors. Internet always has a soft corner for celebrities and their embarrassing habits and stories, but there is a huge market for intelligent and world-changing content as well. 

So that's all from our side. Hope this article helps you to encourage yourself for writing better content keeping in mind the above points. If you have some suggestions, we would love to welcome them here.

How To Attract More Visitors To Your Blog Posts From Social Networks

Every blogger has the motive to attract more and more visitors to their blog or website. But how about the way getting from social media shares? How about the people share your posts over social media? Sounds great! Are you sure that the posts from your blog when shared on social media network do have proper description with an image so that people can click on the link easily?  Well, you need to always control the images that accompany your posts when they appear in status updates on Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ because it is more likely that visitors will click on the shared link and re-share it.

How They Look On Each Social Platform :

It is very essential that you examine the social snippet looks while sharing on Facebook or Google+.

Facebook Social Snippet

The Facebook social snippet is a combination of the page title and image

Google+ Social Snippet

The Google+ social snippet also has a title, domain and image.

Here we have shown how it looks on different social media platforms :

How To Manage Social Snippets Looks :

This can be fixed easily by adding tags into the HTML code of your document. Try to add the appropriate tags so links to your content will show the right image in any status update. If you are comfortable using HTML codes, then follow the below steps :

1.  Adding Title and Meta Description Tags :

Include these two page elements into your blog as these two elements are used to show your post into Social Media:

<title>…</title>

<meta name=”description” content=”…” />

2.  Schema.org Micro formatting :

Schema.org has some common set of rules for most of the search engines and used for all the social media networks. You can control your social snippets, you’ll only need these tags:

<body itemscope itemtype=”http://schema.org/Product”>

<h1 itemprop=”name”>Interesting Headline</h1>

<img itemprop=”image” src=”{image-url}” />

<p itemprop=”description”>Thought provoking description</p>

</body>

3. Add Open Graph Protocol Tags :

Most of the social media sites use Open Graph standards for tagging content. So you can add tags to set the image in status updates:

<meta property=”og:image” content=”/image.jpg” />

Open Graph tags can also be used to set the title and description.

<meta property=”og:title” content=”…” />

<meta property=”og:description” content=”…” />

4. Add Use Image_SRC Meta Tags :

It is very useful if you can add image_src meta tag between the <head> and </head> tags to manage the images in social snippets.

<link rel=”image_src” href=”http://www.example.com/image.jpg” />

How Do You Manage These Tags ?

Here’s a quick guide showing how to put the tags into the right places :

If you are using WordPress then try the below plugins :

1. All in One Schema.org Rich Snippets Plugin:

It provides the control over tags for social snippets and also make your search listings look better when you rank in search engines.

2. WP Open Graph Plugin:

It also works like Schema.org plugin and the tool will add all of the Open Graph meta tags automatically.

3. Custom Image_Src Plugin:

For images appearing in social networks, this one is the best tool.  Create the image_src tag and this plugin will force Facebook to use image what you choose.

Note : You install the plugin and manage the tags from within WordPress. If you face any issue with Facebook sharing and you can also clear your Facebook cache using the Facebook URL Debugger.

Hope this effort will have an impact how your content appears in social media streams when it’s shared and we are very much sure that it will be able to receive a lot of clicks and shares gradually.

We would welcome your comment and suggestions if you have something to share.

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Evolution Of The PR Industry [Infographic]

No matter how much technology alters the way we communicate, the principles of PR will always stay the same. Relationships & credibility and other industry measures will never change. Check out the full graphic to see how the industry has evolved.

The below infographic highlights the many ways the industry has grown.

Source : Inkhouse.com