Google Panda and Google Google Penguin - What's That?

Google is the leader in the online world and is breaking new ground in the internet search. Google owns almost 2/3rd share in the industry till this time. Today Google is the biggest company present on the whole web! Google updates its search functionality very frequently almost more than 10 times in a day. Since the past 4 years, some fundamental changes have been spot in Google's search model. Just like it was only two years ago that the Panda and just one year ago when the penguin were unleashed onto the cyber world! Since the very first day these algorithms were released, they have become a very hot SEO topic.

These names really do give out a friendly image about the algorithms. But they are not friendly at all! They have punished and penalized a great number of websites and blogs. But the question is that what are these about and how do they effect websites?

Google Penguin and Panda Series

Part1: Google Penguin and Google Panda Penalty - What's that?

Part2: How To Recover From Google Penguin Update Penalty?

Part3: SEO Strategies To Recover your blog from Google Panda Update

Why are these Algorithms Essential?

If all these updates are about something, they're about Search Engine Optimization. SEO is good because of it, you can take your website to a better level and make it rank even higher in the SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages). But in particular, that is where the problem exists. It gives a shortcut to the webmasters where they can just pass over creating quality content, and still be able to take their low quality content to a higher ranking.

Since the day it was born, Google has been continuously improving its whole search algorithm, but Google's every update was dodged by black hat optimizers no matter what Google had to throw at them. Basically, these black hat SEO techniques defeat the basic goal of Google, which is to provide quality content to readers, instead of webpages that spam the web and gain high authority in the SERPs. Hence, an advanced spam screening and filtering mechanism was required which would filter out spam and let quality through.

So basically, all these algorithmic updates are released for delivering quality and filtering out spam.

Google Panda

Google released the Panda on Feb 24 2011. Without wasting even a second, the Panda immediately made its mark and hit so many websites and blogs shaking the entire ranking structure. New websites started gaining ground in the SERPs and some old websites started to come down. According to Google, the Panda was indented to filter "low quality content". Since its launch, Google have made changes to it 25 times. And a total of 12% websites and blogs have been effected by this algorithm.

Google Penguin

Google Penguin was introduced on 24th April 2012 to the online world. It aimed at penalizing spam websites with link farms, hidden content, keyword stuffing and copied content. Since its release, it has effected a total of 3.1% blogs and websites. Before its release, Google said;

In the next few days, we’re launching an important algorithm change targeted at web spam. The change will decrease rankings for sites that we believe are violating Google’s existing quality guidelines. We’ve always targeted web spam in our rankings, and this algorithm represents another improvement in our efforts to reduce webspam and promote high quality content. While we can’t divulge specific signals because we don’t want to give people a way to game our search results and worsen the experience for users, our advice for webmasters is to focus on creating high quality sites that create a good user experience and employ white hat SEO methods instead of engaging in aggressive webspam tactics.

Panda and Penguin Penalty

Once again, these updates are aimed at punishing spam websites, although there could be a lot more reasons for the updates to hit your site. A picture speaks a thousand words. So for a way better explanation, take a look at the images below,

Google Panda

Google Penguin

Why have you been effected?

The exact reasons of why any site or blog got hit are known only to Google. Google does not give out any kind of technical knowledge about its algorithms, because if they do, search engine optimizers would try to become successful in cheating Google once again. So Google doesn't reveal all the details, thank you very much. Here are, however, some causes as to why you took a hit.

• High keyword density / Keyword stuffing - Blogs and websites with high keyword density call out loud to search engines; "check me! check me!". And search engines hate it when you call them out loud. Search engines consider this practice as a form of spamming. It was 10 years ago in the past when pages were ranked by number of keywords and keyword stuffing was a good SEO practice but not anymore. Never forget that.
• Lack of good user experience - Google has been giving a hell lot of importance to this lately. Pleasing the search engine is one thing. Pleasing the visitors is another. Even if your website has proper SEO, if it lacks good user experience then it's the reason why your hit.
• Over optimization - Now this is crucial. Websites lacking quality content are just over optimized. So it is better to do what is important, and just create quality!
• Duplicate content - People think it is a lot easier to copy content than actually creating it, but it makes things more harder. You see Google not only hates plagiarism but also penalizes the website. So never ever try to copy something from another source.
• Virus and Malware - No one likes a website that infects their computer with viruses and malware. Hosting malware on your site, or even having spamming scripts can trigger the alarms for Google.
• High Bounce Rate - Slow loading blogs and websites often have high bounce rate as they are hated by both people and Google. Reduce site loading time as much as possible by reducing number of advertisements and other heavy scripts and graphics to make sure your sit is way more faster. Don't even make the page look dull and grey. Be smart and yet creative!

That's all we had to share today. Some more detailed posts of this series are awaiting you where we are going to discuss reasons for failure, how to avoid them, and best practices. Give us your feedback in the comment section below. Peace and blessings! :)

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6 Actions Taken against Blogs that are Flagged

Some days ago, we posted all the things that are against Google's policy. And if you do something against the guidelines, it will result in your blog getting deleted. But sometimes people get lucky and their blog doesn't get deleted but at least gets flagged by people reporting your blog for violation. Google has a flag queue where you blog enters after getting flagged. Then a guy reviews those blogs and if everything is OK then they let that blog go. Otherwise, action will be taken by Google against the blog simply to maintain the quality and safety of Blogger, and to ensure that nothing of that sort happens again in the future.

Google doesn't send the admin of the blog an email informing them about the situation. Then how can you tell if your blog has been penalized? Well you can tell when the following things below happens to your blog, as these are the actions that are taken against blogs found guilty of violation(s)

Actions Taken against Flagged Blogs

Disabled Blogger account - If you have been copying content, then you might end up getting your blog deleted.

Blog becomes visible only to the author - Only you will now be able to see your blog. If your blog will have multiple authors, it will also be only visible to them. And no one else will be able to see or search your blog.

Deletion of offending content - Google will remove all the content from your blog that is violating its policies. As long as you have no such content, your safe. And honestly speaking, this is actually the least thing that could happen to your blog.

Disabled Google account - OK, things are now getting serious. If your violation is serious, then Google won't just disable your Blogger account. Your entire account, with all the associated profiles and Google products will then be deleted!

Mature content interstitial - If you host adult content on your blog, then it will be placed behind a 'mature content interstitial'. After this your site will no longer appear in Google's safe search and will only appear to users who have family filter turned off. This will effectively reduce your traffic.

Reporting to law enforcement - OK, now the things are getting pretty real, so I guess its better to snap out of it. If you're involved in promoting illegal activities, then you might get reported to local authorities or law enforcement agencies. So now would be a good time to pack your bags and run away.

How to report a violation?

These harsh steps, as some may sound, are necessary to take only for the safety of Blogger network. If you see someone actually violating Google's guidelines, then please do not hesitate to report that thing to Google. Please help everyone to make the internet a better place by reporting violators.

I will write some posts on how to report a particular blog to Google. Make sure you don't miss any, so subscribe now in order to be informed via Email whenever a new tutorial part is published.

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Peace and blessings :)

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11 Activities That will Cause Your Blogger Blog to be Deleted

Every second, millions of blogs add a very vast inventory of knowledge to the world wide web. All these blogs run on one platform i.e, Blogger. Blogger is owned by Google which is a free platform designed for self-expression, communication and freedom of speech for the people. This makes Blogger the most popular blogging platform in the whole world. But giving the freedom of speech, Google Blogger also has to keep its reputation, quality and safety in the eyes of its users. It has given its quality guidelines and whenever a blogger violates Google's quality guidelines, then Google will take any type of action he wants, against the blogger and his blog to protect its users. A common thing done by Google is simply delete the blog. Many people asked me why their blogs get deleted even when they haven't done anything wrong. I always answer them with one thing i.e, "There must be something that you have done, and it had forced Google to do this" Also one of my reader asked to post any possible reasons. So in this post, we will discuss all the things that are against Google's policies and what you should do to avoid them to stay safe.

11 Things to Avoid in Blogger Blogs

1. Violence

Promoting or spreading any kind of violence on your blog is not allowed by Google because it would not be suitable to people especially kids who can be easily affected. Also it is not allowed by Google to spread or promote any kind of violence against a specific group because it comes under racism, and also because Google is used all over the world and it could effect Google's traffic as it might get banned by some groups if it promotes racism.

2. Gore/Death

Google doesn't allow anyone to put up images, videos or any type of other content that contain gore/death because that can be very disturbing to a lot of people. For example, you are not allowed to show a horrific accident resulting in death, or someone getting viciously killed by a gun.

3. Copyrighted Material

Would you like it if someone copies your content and hard work and then gets away with it? No you won't and no one ever does! That's why to keep its users, Google has developed a very effective system of controlling this problem as much as it can. Google lowers the rank of copyright violating  and suspends their Google Adsense for that blog. And if you still keep copying, your blog will be deleted. Be aware!

4. Hate Speech

Legally being a crime, hate speech is not tolerated at all by Google. Even though it is very common on the internet, Hate speech or racism against any religion or a certain group is also not appreciated Google and never will be. Even being very common on the internet, Hate speech is not appreciated by Google at all and it never will be. And promoting hate against a certain group is also legally a crime, so therefore is also not also tolerated by Google.

5. Adult content

Google always wants to keep it family safe especially for children. Google has also never allowed anyone to make money off any adult content. Also Google has set up some very strict laws against adult content and if bloggers who promote adult content don't mark their blogs as 'adult' from Blogger Settings, you really run the risk of getting it deleted.

6. Impersonation

Pretending to be someone else or literally stealing someone's identity is not only a cyber crime but also a real crime punishable by a fine or by imprisonment. Which is why it is also not tolerated by Google.

7. Illegal Activities

Blogging about any dangerous or illegal activity. Blogger never allows this kind of content on its blogs. And if you are involved in a serious illegal case, then not only your blog and account will be deleted but you may really get yourself reported to the authorities by Google.

8. Malware

No one would like it if their new computer gets infected with viruses and becomes slow. It is something which no one will appreciate. That is why Google has always forever planed to keep its systems malware free. Google has strictly forbidden any type of malware on Blogger. So if you are spreading malware or impact your readers with any type of malicious code, then you run the risk of getting banned by Blogger.

9. Child Safety

Google has already said that it has 'zero tolerance' when it actually comes to producing content that harm children. It is strictly forbidden to produce content like child pornography and pedophilia which might manipulate little children and Google will immediately terminate the account of the person who is promoting such stuff.

10. Spam

Spam is a thing which isn't appreciated by any search engine. Google is always trying to weed out spam from its roots! That's why it spends a lot of money to roll out new algorithmic updates almost regularly, and will delete the blog which spams.

11. Violating Privacy

Now one will like it if you will post their confidential details online without their express permission. Google     also has a strict policy against publishing other people's private information like phone numbers, private information and other contact information and you must avoid these in Blogger blogs.

Conclusion

Always try to avoid these type of activities and try to stay safe. And also remember! Whenever in doubt, always ask for help. We're always here to help :)

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Important cPanel Settings For Beginner Webmasters

Once you migrate to your own custom domain or buy a new domain, your hosting company will most likely provide you with a pre-installed cPanel software on the domain mostly for your ease. Because the most popular web hosting software or  platform nowadays is cPanel. In fact now, cPanel has become the industry standard for mostly web hosting companies. For anyone who is acquainted with web hosting, he would know how important such a software can prove to be. cPanel is a powerful web hosting software that puts a lot of features and tools at a guy's finger tips, allowing the webmaster to completely stop worrying about the management and concentrate more on the domain. But for the beginners, especially for those who neither have any kind of knowledge about web hosting nor any experience, the cPanel could be a very confusing and challenging environment. So for those people, to ensure that their domain is safe and secure, here are some of the basic settings.

Create a Strong Password

A very obvious but the most important thing that you should do after assigning a cPanel access is to set up a very strong password almost as long as 8 characters. This is only because of the numerous complains from people regarding their cPanels getting hacked and mostly reasons are weak or default passwords that have never been changed! Once a webmaster loses access to his cPanel, it's really very hard to again get access to it. The webmaster will then have to contact the company and then ask for a retrieval. Not only that but the hacker can also get the billing details, and steal all information including the credit card number for future use so that he can easily request password resets with the hosting company.

To save yourself from these terrible hacks, change all of the default passwords assigned for things like cPanel, E-mail, billing account login, and so on with strong passwords to ensure the security of your account. The password for your cPanel can be easily changed from Preferences >> Change Password.

Server Interface

Just like any guy checks out specifications for his new computer, it's also very important that you check out the specs for the new web server you have got and where your site is hosted. You can easily see all the information that you need to know on the left sidebar of your cPanel. For the account information and other statistics, you might need to scroll down a bit. Always keep a close eye on all these statistics because you would never want to exhaust any limit. From here you can easily check all the things, from CPU and memory usage to all the graphs to see site load time, and more.

Get rid of any Kind of Spam

The time will come when your domain will become popular, appreciated by a lot of people and well-known, you will then start getting tons of spam emails everyday from unknown and fake email addresses or bots. So the nest step that you should take is enable Spam Assassin in your cPanel to take care of spam for you. You can easily find this settings in your cPanel >> Mail >> Spam Assassin.

It is also a good idea to actually set up a Discard message whenever an email is sent to your domain to any non-existent email address. Also this option can be easily set by simply going to cPanel >> Mail >> Forwarders >> Add Forwarder. Now click on 'Discard with Error to Sender', and then click on Add Forwarder.

This is also a very important option to set up because if you didn't set up this, then all the emails sent on any non-existent email address on your domain, will be sent to a default address thus sending spam.

Monitor all your Data

In the cPanel, another useful and important setting is to Update your contact info anytime you want. You can also add a secondary email to get notifications and alerts. This can be done from Preferences >> Update Contact Info. This is known as an emergency email and it proves helpful if in case you lose access to your primary email address. All notifications that are sent to your primary email address, will be sent here as well.

Depending on the web hosting company you choose, you get many monitoring that notify you when you almost reach your limits, load time, bandwidth, downtime and more. Such data can really prove to be valuable to a webmaster.

Conclusion

After getting a custom domain and setting up a web host, setting up your cPanel and getting along with it is the most important step. You just need to know the basics and then there's no rocket science involved in it after that. Then you can learn all of it along the way. All you need to make sure is that you don't play with your databases and stuff and delete them accidentally thus sending your site back into the Stone age! Keep yourself limited to all the other features except databases, and just explore all the features at your disposal. I thought this post was important. A big surprise awaits all you MBT readers! Cheers :)

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3 Reasons Why Your PageRank is not Increasing!

Actually PageRank is no more than just a link analysis algorithm introduced and used by Google. It was introduced by Google in 1998 when Larry Page and Sergey brin first brought their paper formula to public. The PageRank algorithm scales sites between values starting from 0 to 10. It is really a very effective Page Popularity or Page Ranking algorithm that keeps track of all incoming and outgoing links to and from a page. It is based only and only on the quality and not quantity of sites' linking to one site. Google PageRank is the most popular algorithm amongst the bloggers and webmasters is it has always remained a very hot topic in all SEO forums and blogs. The algorithm is updated three-four times a year. The most recent PageRank update was in February 4th 2013. Whenever I inform my readers about PageRank Algorithm update, many of them cheer on hearing the news while many of them get demotivated. So in the last post of this series, we will learn the actual technical reasons of why some of the pages rank higher in this algorithm with just few links while others still remain where they are despite of having several incoming links.
Note: This is part 4 our our series on PageRank and Alexa Rank. We highly recommend that you read this series sequentially. If you have not read the previous parts then you may do so for better understanding of the topic.

PageRank and Alexa Rank Series

Part1: PageRank v.s Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

Part2: PageRank is Not Important Says Google!

Part3: Killer Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of your Blog!

Part4: 3 Reasons Why Your PageRank is not Increasing!

Is Google PageRank Dependent on Incoming Links or Not?

The answer is a direct NO! Yes PageRank is scaled on the number of dofollow links that point to your site or blog but if the quantity of the links were the only source to achieve high a PR, then why does PageRank actually drop for some? Why do blogs with just few links rank higher than those with several inbound links? You should understand that the Google PageRank algorithm is based not only on the quantity of  links towards a blog. Google PR robots look carefully at three factors,

• Significance of Incoming links
• Balance Between Incoming and Outgoing links
• Use of your Current PageRank

Now for better understanding, lets discuss all these three phrases one by one.

1. Significance of Incoming Links

Google spiders scan the World Wide Web in every fraction of a second and crawl and index pages continuously present in its databases. It always hunts for quality websites with good, helpful and unique content and then categorize them individually from those blogs, websites or forums that always publish poor content, old and outdated stories and violate Google policies and copyrights. When sites with rich authority in the eyes of Google and those with PR greater than 2 link to your blog, your blog starts attracting Google spiders (robots) and then forces them to pay you proper respect because you have been recommended by a blog that has already won reputation in the eyes of Google and has a lot of respect of itself for the past 3 months and above. So significance of links is actually referring to whether sites that link to you do have some good PR or not. As I mentioned above, PR is based only and only on the quality and not quantity of links. Can there really be a difference in who is linking to you? Yes there lies a great gap. I have made a table to make you better understand. Follow the table below,

Please Note: Take for granted that your site has a PR 0.0 and your then gradually it starts receiving links from one single site. I repeat, the inbound links that are mentioned here are only from one single site and not from several! See how these can effect your PageRank.

Note: The following data is based on my blogging experience and are mere but close assumptions.

Website's/Blog's PageRank	Links Impact
PR 0.0	50 or above links required to earn a PR1 or maybe PR0.
PR 1.0	About 5-10 links from here can easily earn you a PR 1.0
PR 2.0	One Link can Earn you a PR1. Greater than 5 Links Can earn you a PR2
PR 3.0	One Link can Earn you PR 1 or PR2. Greater than 5 Links Can earn you PR3
PR 4.0	One link can earn you PR2 5 Links Will Earn you PR3 15 or above links will Earn you PR4
PR 5.0	One Link can earn you PR2 or PR3 5 Links Will Earn you PR4 Not sure about PR5 and PR6
PR 6.0	One Link can earn you PR3 Two Links PR4 Greater than 10 Links Can earn you PR5 Not sure about PR6

I have mentioned the impact of 10 links only for PR6. I really don't know the intensity of impact at higher PR's for such numbers of link density. 

So if your fellow blogger received a PageRank increase with just one link and you could not receive it with even 20 or above links, then check to see if your incoming links are rich and have authority already in the eyes of Google. This is one reason why some rank high while others don't!

2. Balance Between Incoming and Outgoing links

Always make sure to only link to external sites when needed. Actually when you link external sites, you are indirectly sharing your PR with that site. Linking to low quality websites or blogs often effects your PR. Of course your outgoing links will always be greater than your incoming links but it is very important to keep the ratio between them as low as possible. This is indeed one of the best optimization strategies and is highly recommended.

For instance if your incoming links are 100 and then your outgoing links are more than 10,000, then the chances of a PR drop are certain. There is one way to keep the ratio as low as possible. You can simply tag the external links as nofollow. The nofollow tag will only allow your readers to visit that link but will tell Google spiders not to craw the link.

3. Use of your Current PageRank

Many people ask this question that even when they have done nothing wrong, their PR has dropped. Now this phrase has a complete different meaning. So this phase will answer that question.

You will loose your PageRank when you disobey the rules set by the Google PageRank Team. It is been clearly mentioned several times by Matt Cutts The Head of Google Web Spam Team, that PageRank should never be misused. By misusing, he means selling links on your website to many link builders. When you link to a site, you recommend a website to Google and doing that just for the sake of money and not because of quality content, will disturb the whole search results and quality content will rank higher lower. When you receive a PR4 or above, many webmasters will contact you and offer you money to add their link to one of the high ranked pages of your blog. They will offer you as high as $200 per link. If people commit this crime, then upon next crawl of that page, Google detects that a new irrelevant link has been added which was previously not present and then the robot finally comes to a conclusion "Link Sell Detected!"  Thus on next update you loose your hard earned PR.

Conclusion

Do not worry about PageRank as you should be about your Alexa Rank. Give more value to your readership and social rankings. For the first year of your blogging, pay less attention to revenue and more to getting good readership and social rankings. I hope this little info proves helpful in clarifying all the technical reasons behind PageRank drop and rise of certain blogs or sites. Wish to see you all rejoicing on next PageRank update probably on June 28 - July 1st Week. If you want to know the PageRank update Schedule the read this post:

• Google PageRank Update Schedule 2013

Peace and blessings pals :)

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Killer Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of your Blog!

Alexa Internet, Inc. is a subsidiary company of the Amazon.com. Alexa collects data from all over the Internet via its toolbar which is installed on millions of PCs globally. The Alexa toolbar collects data on the user's browsing behavior and then transmits all of it to the main website, where it is stored and then carefully analyzed, forming the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. As of 2013, Alexa provides Traffic Rank, Global Traffic Rank, Reach, Pageviews, Bounce %, Load Time rankings and other information on more than 30 million websites. Blogging is one of the most popular environments where anyone can easily steal out a huge amount of traffic by sharing quality content and easily and quickly decrease your Alexa Rank (Alexa works like the lower the better). This post can turn out to be the biggest utopia in your whole blogging business if you apply the points here seriously for at least six months!

PageRank and Alexa Rank Series

Part1: PageRank v.s Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

Part2: PageRank is Not Important Says Google!

Part3: Killer Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of your Blog!

 Part4: 3 Reasons Why Your PageRank is not Increasing!

Yes I know six months may seem a big deal but frankly speaking about it, I have seen that many sites don’t even get under 100K in more than 100 months too! The only reason behind this is that they actually don't know the secrets behind how to increase Alexa. I spent a lot of time in crafting this great post so I hope you will read it :)

What Alexa Actually Is?

Alexa is a Web Information Company. It's full name is Alexa Internet, Inc. It is a subsidiary company of the Amazon.com. It keeps record of each and every webpage available on the whole internet! Alexa indexes new sites within a month or so, so we wouldn't consider this indexing period. We would start from the time when your ranks starts showing a numerical number. Usually it starts from 10 Million. I am not exactly sure about it but I am saying this because mine started from 10 Million. Alexa collects all the data it needs via their Alexa toolbar from all over the Internet which once installed on the users' computer, collects the data on users' browsing behavior and then transmits it to the website, where it is stored and analyzed, forming the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. While providing all the traffic insights about a website, Alexa claims that 6 million people visit its website monthly.

Why Should You Care About It?

Alexa, a really big factor to be consider for getting sponsors for your blog. Most advertisers first go for Alexa to provide direct advertisements. Alexa is the only and only important thing after you have both quality content and Traffic. Astonishingly both traffic and content are independent of solely rankings but depend a lot on what you publish.

Advertisers look for four things while buying an ad spot,

1. Readership (Subscribers)
2. Traffic
3. Alexa
4. Only 10% Advertisers look for PageRank.

How To Improve Alexa Rank?

I know first you would want to check MBT's Alexa Rank to see if it is below 100k and this is a valid post :P. But believe me the points presented here are personally tested by me on this blog and these have helped to get the Alexa of MBT from 624k to 360k in just a week! So below are some of the secrets that you must know if your serious about improving Alexa and getting sponsors for your blog.

1. Frequent Posting & Regularly Updating your Blog

If you are serious about your Alexa Rank and want to earn a hell lot of money then your authority tool should be your post frequency. Because the more you write quality, the more you receive traffic. If you are destroying your precious hours in looking for exchanging links and not posting consistently, then you are close to ending your blogging career. When you post more, your Alexa improves and when you stop posting or post randomly in irregular way then your Alexa will rapidly shoot up (Loose rank)

But again make sure that when we talk posting regularly, its not about simply throwing out a post. You will have to consider quality also if you want to attract robots for traffic and Alexa. Always make sure that the post which you've written, provides value to the reader and also with proper search engine optimization done. Thus you would increase your traffic considerably with in 3-6 months period.

Recommended Post:

• Publish Several Posts Per Day To Increase Traffic!

2. Consider Post Publishing Timings

Alexa rank will never improve until you don't post consistently but it also won't improve until you don't consider post timings. Search spiders carefully record how often and how much you update your blog and your update schedule sets a schedule for Search engine crawlers. If you post constantly for a week then nothing for the next week, then you will really confuse search robots and will get nothing in return from them. If you really think that this way you will get a good Alexa rank, then I guess you should re-plan your traffic campaign.

I first made this same mistake. The very next day, as you all experienced, I started publishing posts at or after 12am (Pakistan standard time), that makes 2pm at US (where most of our traffic comes from). This is often the time when most of the people are active and bound to come by your blog.

So the factual point is that post frequency is the actual baseline, but you should think again before neglecting post publishing timings.

3. Stop Plagiarism

Just like Google, Alexa is also very strict against plagiarism. So, never ever try to copy any post or article from another site. Create your own, unique content so that the people and search engines would love it. If you are copying form another blog, then you are just wasting your time, no more! Original content always gets on top! Never underestimate the robots of Alexa as they are as much smart as Google's and can detect copied content. Your Alexa may even fall bad if you would copy content of others.

4. Create Quality Content

 

Not only Google, but quality is also a very sensitive issue with Alexa. The aim of the search engine is to return the best possible search results. And if a website falls short of the recommended quality guidelines, then it will be penalized sooner or later. If you will not receive good traffic, then you will not get Alexa. And even will good traffic, Alexa will not also improve until you don't have quality content.

5. Go Social

Social Media interaction of your site is also considered as a very important factor for improving your Alexa rank. Try to get active on popular social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Digg, StumbleUpon and so on. Try to increase your fan following as much as you can, and try to interact with many people. So get into social media and try to squeeze out traffic to get your best Alexa! The most affecting social media are Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Pinterest, Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, del.icio.us and myspace.

6. Claim your website on Alexa

Yeah this may sound a little weird at first but actually claiming your site on Alexa helps Alexa to understand and rank it better. Also it is not very hard claiming your site on Alexa and hardly takes minutes. Just follow the simple steps below:

1. Go to Alexa
2. Type in your Domain in the box and click on "Claim Your Site"
3. Now, it will ask for plans. Select free one and click Signup.
4. Now, you would be prompted to sign up to claim your site.
5. Simply click on Claim and signup an account. Now, after signing, on the right side you will see a meta tag similar to this one : <meta content='VHjyfLSjILCAyknu7IrTawegDm0' name='alexaVerifyID'/>. Simply add it below the <head> tag.
6. Then Click on Verify My ID.
7. You have successfully claimed your site!

7. Install Alexa Toolbar and encourage your visitors to do so!

The whole Alexa is an algorithm which is based on the use of Alexa toolbar. Install the toolbar on your browser. As the toolbar makes the foundation of the website's traffic reporting, it will greatly affect your Alexa rank. The Alexa toolbar collects data on the user's browsing behavior and then transmits all of it to the main website, where it is stored and then carefully analyzed, forming the basis for the company's web traffic reporting. If you have Alexa toolbar installed right now while reading this post, then indirectly you are actually benefiting me a lot by telling the Alexa robots that "Hey I really like MBT Please rank it more higher!" and when more and more people visit MBT provided that they have Alexa toolbar installed, I rank higher and higher. You can easily download the toolbar. Also encourage and suggest your readers to download and install the Alexa toolbar.

8. Use Alexa Widget

This a working trick actually told by Alexa itself! It tremendously affects your Alexa rank and really helps a lot to decrease (improve) your rank. Alexa counts the hits which they receive on their servers. If you would install their widget on your site, then this would literally tell Alexa how much hits you receive which would really improve your rank! Alexa provides different types of traffic statics buttons for your blog. You can select any one of them. To install the widget, follow these simple steps:

1. Get to your site’s information page.
2. Now, click on Get Widgets on the sidebar.
3. Select your appropriate widget and click on Build Widget
4. Now, copy the coding and paste it in your blog.

The Do's and Don'ts

The Do's

• Publish posts consistently but never publish posts with no consideration of quality.
• Always consider post timings because without them, your post frequency is nothing.
• Create unique, quality and useful content for your users.
• Claim your site on Alexa and use their toolbar and widget and recommend your readers to do so.
• Get active on Social Media.
• Get more visitors on your blog especially from the Blogging community because there is a better chance that they might have Alexa toolbar already installed in their browsers.

The Don'ts

• Don't copy and stop plagiarism.
• Avoid throwing out posts at random times and with no consideration of quality.
• AVOID using bots or any other automated methods because you will lose all your rankings easily if Alexa ever finds out!

I hope that you would have read this whole post. Just remember never to use bots, never to write useless posts and never copy and violate copyrights. Try to get active on social media, use Alexa's toolbar and widget and always consider posting timings. I hope this little experience of mine will really help you get your blog's Alexa rank to the best. I have written this post in great hurry so if any mistakes are there then please forgive me. I will surely publish the last post of the series as soon as time allows. Peace and Blessings to all! :)

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Blogger 13:41  6 comments

Ultimate Collection of SEO Tools To Optimize Blogs – All in One!

After sharing many SEO tips and tricks and also SEO template tweaks to let you improve SEO of your Blogger based blogs and increase your rankings and traffic, the time has now come to share my most preferred SEO Tools without which Search Engine Optimization for anyone is all boring. These are the ultimate tools for easily understanding your competitor’s strategies. There are definitely a lot of tools available online but every webmaster needs a single source that may provide him with everything he needs. The ultimate website containing all the webmaster needs, is Rapid Searchmetrics. SEO has never been this easy. From free to premium services, they simply make your job easy. I enjoy using them a lot as they have always helped me keep track of each and everything in my blog including CSS, JavaScript, HTML Structure, internal and external links, and much more.

Complete List of SEO Tools to Optimize a Blog

• Alexa Challenge
• Cloaking Detection
• Meta Tag Analyzer
• Multi PageRank
• PageRank Analysis
• SEO Challenge
• Social Bookmarks
• Spiderview
• Visual PageRank
• Website Speed Test
• Keyword Density
• Keyword Position
• Domain Age
• Domain Popularity
• Reverse IP
• Link Popularity, Backlinks
• Link Value
• Outbound Links
• Meta Tag Generator
• Sitemap Generator
• Text2Image
• Unix Time Convertor
• URL Rewrite
• Colibritool
• Linkody

Help Needed Regarding any Tool?

All these SEO tools are user friendly and very easy to use. But who doesn't have questions? :) You people may be having several questions regarding some particular SEO tools. I am more then pleased to help you with the use of a tool. For any SEO queries, kindly post your question in the comment box so that I could reply all of you individually.

For complete list of SEO Articles kindly visit this page,

• Complete Search Engine Optimization For Blogs and Websites

How did you find these SEO series?

I have always aimed to cover all topics series wise. This way the related tutorials are easily shared one after another and this helps in better understanding of our loyal readers. I think you can now easily Search Engine Optimize you blog but if you still have some questions in mind then don't hesitate to leave your precious comments. I would really like to know if I could live up to all of your expectations or not. I wish you all the best of luck with your Blogging Career and Goals in Life. Take care! :)

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Blogger 10:21  13 comments

PageRank is Not Important Says Google!

I like the way Matt Cutts, the head of Google's Webspam team gives detailed explanations and removes all the misconceptions between the SEOs. He has now given a detailed explanation on some of the misconceptions linked to Google's PageRank Algorithm. As more and more users turn into content every day, the quality drops down at huge degree because everyone these days discusses SEO tips even without any authority or influence! So it has become very important to adopt SEO tips only from the sites that give sources for their SEO claims. Recently over the years, Google is filtering such trusted websites based on their PageRank and giving more significance to them and thus sending them more traffic. The PageRank Algorithm has now opened a large series of Link building SEO companies and services. Almost everywhere today newbie bloggers are giving more importance to PageRank then to quality bright content.

PageRank and Alexa Rank Series

Part1: PageRank v.s Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

Part2: PageRank is Not Important Says Google!

Part3: Killer Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of your Blog!

Part4: 3 Reasons Why Your PageRank is not Increasing!

Is PageRank Important?

Yes it is unquestionably essential but not more than the quality content you put pen to paper. You can easily receive thousands of visitors per day with even PR0. I have many associates in my network that are full time bloggers and earning hell lot of money without absolutely having to worry about ranking algorithms such as their PR and Alexa. Because there authority tool is their post frequency. Because the more you write quality, the more you receive traffic. If you are destroying your precious hours in looking for exchanging links and not posting consistently, then you are close to ending your blogging career.

PageRank and Alexa are only and only important when you have both quality content and Traffic. Astonishingly both traffic and content are independent of solely rankings but depend a lot on what you publish.

Advertisers look for four things while buying an ad spot,

1. Readership (Subscribers)
2. Traffic
3. Alexa
4. Only 10% Advertisers look for PageRank. Also Google AdSense looks for just one thing and that is Traffic.

Unless you don’t have quality content, both your high PageRank and Alexa Rank is useless for you, Google and advertisers. With good rankings you are placed higher in search results but with quality content you get lifetime quality organic traffic. I have seen many blogs with even PageRank 6.0 in Buysellads directory yet not even earning a penny because they spent all their great skills on rankings alone and under-estimated the value of bright, quality posts, good content and social shares and as a result of which ended their careers with hopelessness and failed to survive online. My short personal blogging experience only says one thing that if there is anything that matters more, it is Traffic. I say only write quality content. Rankings will automatically follow up. Writing on fresh things that always attract people is what I actually call blogging. In the next post I will teach you the secrets to increase the Alexa Rank of your blog. Cheers.

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Blogger Help For General & Off-Topic Questions

This page is Dedicated to General Queries related to Blogger

Dear Readers,
Ask all queries and General or off-topic questions here. Off-topic questions on posts are really irritating and often result in comment deletion. So kindly try to ask whatever question you have related to Blogger, may it be SEO, template customization, widgets, plugins, copyright violation, adsense etc. in the comment form below. All questions will be answered in detail and as soon as time allows.

And yes kindly don’t flood me with too much questions :>> I am a student after all!

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How to Backup your Blogger Blog?

Your Blogger blog is not actually owned by you. If you blog on the Blogger platform, you may not realize that Google owns your blog. It is true. All your blog posts, pages, comments, and images are stored at Google servers. You would be thinking "Yeah it's good now I don't have to worry. Google is a huge company and its not going anywhere" Well if yes, then your wrong. If Chinese hackers can the hack the most secure systems of the Pentagon, then Google servers are nothing. They have even been compromised once by the Turkish. Also only if you violated Google's TOS, your blog will be deleted. So it is a good habit to backup your Blog at least twice a week no matter what platform you use.

Backup your Blogger Blog 

Backing up a Blogger blog is extremely easy. There are two parts. One is backing up your content, and the other is backing up your template. So lets start,

Backup The Content 

This includes all your posts, pages and comments.

1. Go to Blogger > Settings > Other
2. At the very top of the page, you will find Blog Tools.
3. Click on Export blog.
4. Save the file. Now you have all your content i.e, posts, pages, comments etc in one file.

Backup The Template 

You would have a template that you have carefully made for your blog and won't want to lose it, then hurry up and back it up,

1. Go to Blogger > Template 
2. On the upper right corner of the page, click on the button that says "Backup/Restore" 
3. Click on Download full template and save the file. 

No one would like to lose his blog. It's a good habit to daily backup your blog if you daily update it. Otherwise you should do it twice or thrice a week. Also keep copies of your backups elsewhere besides your computer also. In the cloud like DropBox, SkyDrive, Google Drive or on USB drives or other external drives. It's Better safe than sorry. I will also write on how to backup a WordPress blog. Till then stay tuned. Cheers.

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Lost AdSense Account or Got it Banned? How To Get it Back?

The most generous service with which I have came along is AdSense Ad servicewhen it comes to Web Marketing. Every blogger or web owner can easily apply for AdSense Ad Network without any hard conditions. Simply create need good content and and user friendly, compatible blog design. But almost no newbie has properly used this service according to AdSense TOS and misused this amazing opportunity by simply violating AdSense TOS in earning lust. As a result of which, they end their blogging careers with Permanent Adsense Account Ban! Because they know that it is the best and highest paying Ad Service. But people often under-estimate Adsense's tracking algorithm. But just think about it. Adsense pays highest of all because it earn highest of all. Just in the year 2011, Google earned $2.34 Billion dollars from AdSense alone which is 28% of their total Annual revenue! With so much earning, why can't Google spend some million dollars to increase its artificial intelligence and make its Ad network even more secure and beneficial to its clients. Just after the start of Adsense, Google struggled to get some of the best computer experts of the world and spent millions of dollars in this search. Even then how can someone still think he can fool Adsense's tracking system and make money with fraud clicks?

Why AdSense Accounts Get Banned?

There are several answers behind this question. The major reason is that when a newbie blogger starts web marketing, he enjoys seeing the digits in his adsense account. He starts making fraud clicks for the digits to increase. He manages to get his earnings from $10 to even $99 if he thinks he is smart but in the end receivs this letter from Adsense:

"Hello,
After reviewing our records, we've determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we've found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google's share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.
Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the
effectiveness of Google's advertising system, particularly the
advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the inconvenience that
this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and
cooperation.
If you have any questions or concerns about the actions we've taken, how
you can appeal this decision, or invalid activity in general, you can find
more information by visiting
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team"

It also happens without your knowing or you don't doing anything. Sometimes it is not your fault at all. Your competitors attack ads on your site with auto clicks using a software out of jealousy without you knowing. For example look what happened to this woman and also read the nice answer given in the thread by StevenG.

Personally speaking, i know that it really hurts when you receive such an email from Google. It can shatter all your Online Income dreams in a second, end your online business and leave you hopeless but I ask you that should you cry all day and night for being banned and start begging Google to accept you back? I say Of course not! There are tons of solutions for your problem because you are not alone. I have shared two different solutions. First one for newbie bloggers or young web owners and second for firmly established web owners.

Solution to Newbie Bloggers or Web owners:

Who is a new blogger or web owner?

1. Your Blog or website is just one year old or even younger.
2. Your Blog has a Google PR less than 2.
3. Your Alexa Rank is > 100,000 or less.
4. You receive 100-300 visitors daily.
5. Total number of your posts are less than 60-50.

If you fit into this category and you lost your adsense account, then why are you getting worried? You honestly haven't lost anything! You all know that without 1000-10,000 daily blog visitors, Adsense or any other Ad service is meaning less as you get almost nothing except some cents in a month :P It will take 5-6 months for you to make just $20-50 if you fit in the above category.
So what should be the best solution for you?

You still can make your dream come true and earn a happy living online by taking these steps:

1. Make a new Gmail Account with different Name and Info.
2. Setup a new blogger account with the new Gmail.
3. Import all your Blog Posts. Rewrite all the posts with serious editing. Do not republish those same posts with the same titles and paragraphs. Shuffle all the paragraphs. The best idea is to rewrite the posts in different words. It will only take a week if your posts are no more than 50.  Now delete your Old Blog.
4. If your Gmail is not very old and not crowded, then the best idea is to delete both of them and make a new fresh start. This will hurt you first, but believe me Don't worry this step is smart long term one, it will hurt you at first but you will be in a much better state later.
5. If you want to keep your blogger account and Gmail, then you better set up a upgraded WordPress blog.
6. Don't ever even think of linking to your old blog after you have set up the new one. This will again cause the termination of your new adsense account.

How am I so sure of these steps? 

My own closest friend lost his Adsense Account. He received 16k daily visitors by blogging and online earning articles. He then kept his blog but also set up a blog on WordPress and now he is receiving 2000-3000 visitors on the new blog with $2-4 per day, which is not a bad start up. Hope you give this solution a good thought with a cool mind.

Solution To Well Established Web Owners and Bloggers

Well established web owners and bloggers would never do fraud with Google Adsense. They actually know what this really means. The only reason why they lose their account is the thousands of clicks made on their Ads by their fellow bloggers. We all unfortunately still live in a world of anger, envy and the worst thing i.e, jealousy. But you still have a hope that you can do way better if you give preference to alternatives. Adsense is only the 20% revenue of a blogger. You earn more by direct ads, affiliate ads, offering services and more. Adsense is gone and its not precious. The hours of sweat and tears you shed in bringing your website to a bigger stage will go in vain if you restart. If you will make a fresh start now, you will surely perish in the online world as there are more giants ahead of you. Below I have made the list of 10 best alternatives to Adsense that you can try to expect a more satisfying flow of Income:

1. Chitika
2. AdBrite
3. Infolinks
4. Bidvertiser
5. Pocket Cents
6. Kontera
7. Clicksor
8. Exit Junction
9. Dynamic Oxygen
10. AdBull

My own personal recommendations would be AdBrite, Clicksor and Bidvertiser. But you can choose anyone you like.

So what have you Decided?

Which category do you fit in, established or newbie? I guess it's always better to take a step then not doing anything. What you think of the solutions shared above. If you also have any more solutions then you are most welcome to share it with us. There are always alternatives and solutions behind every problem, what matters the most is that how you face the problem and how much positive you act. Peace and blessings be upon you all and you may be successful.

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PageRank v.s Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

Google has a effective way of ranking the pages present in its index. Google uses this algorithm to rank quality posts first and low quality posts last. But Alexa Ranking is a lot different. Alexa tells how much traffic a site receives and ranks them on this basis. It helps advertisers a lot and a site receives sponsors if it has a low Alexa Rank (Alexa Rank lower means better). A lot of people often mistake that PageRank is better than Alexa and start building links to their sites and forget about Alexa. You won't even believe that some of my fellow bloggers don't even know what Alexa Ranking is!!!! Now this will really affect a site's performance and minimize the earnings of the blogger which then even causes to leave the blog and all thus all their hard work goes in vain.

PageRank and Alexa Rank Series

Part1: PageRank v.s Alexa Rank? Which One Is Important?

Part2: PageRank is Not Important Says Google!

Part3: Killer Tips to Improve Alexa Rank of your Blog!

Part4: 3 Reasons Why Your PageRank is not Increasing!

Google Page Rank

Google PageRank is a page ranking algorithm by Google. PageRank is the backbone of Google and it's one of the major functionality that differentiates Google from other major giants like Yahoo! and Bing. It is a really effective Page Popularity algorithm that keeps track of all incoming and outgoing links to and from a page. Whenever Google Spiders (search robots) crawl your pages, they count the number of incoming and outgoing links. Based only and only on the quality and not quantity of links, the PR algorithm scales sites between values starting from 0 to 10.

SEO Importance of PageRank

Websites and blogs that are recommended to Google via backlinks rank higher in the PR scale and get the benefit of faster crawl and index rate. Sites with higher PR are crawled faster by spiders compared to those with lower PR. For instance a PR 6 page is crawled several times per minute as compared to a PR 4 one.

How it helps Google and Webmasters?

1. It helps Google do justice with authors and ranks pages in Google Search according to their rank.
2. Can help to penalize websites/blogs with duplicate content.
3. Differentiates Google from other major giants like Yahoo! and Bing.
4. Mostly Page Rank is considered a major factor when buying or selling a site.
5. Calculated by Google itself. 
6. Offers a toolbar named 'Google Toolbar' to check the Alexa ranking of a site
7. Helps hard working webmasters receive much traffic by ranking higher and getting indexed faster.

Negative Aspects

1. Updated quite late. To understand when it is updated, read: Google PageRank Update Schedule 2013   
2. People can buy quality backlinks and get good Page Rank.
3. They do not provide a toolbar for even their own Browser i.e, Google Chrome.

Alexa Ranking

Alexa is a web directory and  provides free traffic metrics, search analytics, demographics, and more. Alexa ranking depends upon how many visitors a blog/website gets daily. The lower the Alexa, the better. Because for instance MBT right now has an Alexa Rank of 482,368 which means that 482,367 websites/blogs receive more traffic than MBT. You should never rely on PageRank because its readership what counts first, then rankings come second.

A always aim to share something that is unique and working. If anyone compares ALEXA and PR, then your vote should always favor ALEXA as I do.

How is it helpful?

1. Updated quite sooner.
2. Algorithm and rank calculation is based on a dependable factor i.e Traffic.
3. Offers a toolbar named 'Alexa Toolbar' to check the Alexa ranking of a site.
4. Helps advertisers a lot on selecting the right site for advertising.

Negative Aspects

1. Anyone can use bots to increase Alexa Rank.
2. People become a victim of the false belief i.e. "High PR Means High Traffic and Revenue!"

Conclusion

Observing both the two factors, I guess Alexa Rank is almost a perfect way to describe the success of a blog. I recommend all of you to install the Alexa Toolbar. Actually both are very important to receive handsome sponsorship, attract tons of Advertisers and earn a handsome revenue from your blogs. But your priority should be Readership and Traffic. Then automatically good traffic will help to get a good Alexa Rank as the whole algorithm is based in traffic and with a huge list of subscribers, your PageRank will also boost. I will write the second part of this series tomorrow. Till then Take Care! :)

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Underscores v.s dashes in URLs | Which is Better?

I really like the way Matt Cutts (head of Google Webspam team) discusses all the SEO Tips that apply to Google and removes each and every misconception and myth that is being wrongly propagated by both the online and offline SEO agencies. I am really proud to say it out loud that Google surely has a great customer service. You and I all write titles while writing any post. You should know that these titles are 88% responsible for driving the traffic towards your blog from the search engines.

Many bloggers don't actually realize that every character in the post title has its own significance and plays a good role in attracting a decent bunch of traffic if chosen wisely. Titles are surely known as the king in SEO terminology no doubt but only if it is highly optimized in terms of its keyword choice, word count limit and use of Special Characters that is our today's topic.

What is an Optimized Title?

A title can only be known as an optimized title only if it has the features stated below,

• Title should only contain 66 characters. For that use: MBT Character Count Tool
• Title should containing simple daily used words. You don't need to use complex Vocabulary and no need to consult a Thesaurus for writing titles. Average internet user always go for words that sound familiar in search results page. 
• Select choice of words from Google Keyword Tool. Ignore the word Tracker
• You can use the following symbols frequently:     -  :   !  ? 
• Use the following symbols rarely:  . &  %  # |
• Never use the long Dash or Underscore i.e.  _
• To write a perfect post title, read this tutorial: How To Write Search Engine Friendly Blog Post Titles?

What Does Google Say About This?

Matt Cutts, the Head of  Google Web spam team and webmaster help suggests that Underscores should always be avoided because the Underscores are normally used by programmers while they are writing algorithms and it often confuses the search robots. He suggested that dashes are much better to act as separators.

What do you think about this? Feel free to post a comment :)

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Why People Actually Quit Blogging?

There is no need to say that Blogging has really become very popular and 'hot' way of earning money online. While many people keep making a fortune from their blogs just from their living room, a lot of others get discouraged, and really quit blogging. The major reason behind this is that some people actually don't know how to avoid the pitfalls that accompany the field of blogging. Blogging jusr doesn't mean creating content, posting links to Google and earning money in return. There's a lot more to blogging. Take a look at the following reasons why people quit blogging. I hope this will help you to better learn to avoid those obstacles.

No Proper SEO Optimization

A lot of bloggers don't know about how to properly SEO optimize their blogs for users as well as search engines. They fail to increase user experience, reduce load time and make the blog search engine friendly. This results in very little or almost null traffic from search engines. At this point their blog stalls. Hence, most get discouraged. Such people should learn about how to optimize their blog. For better ranking. Keep a close eye on the SEO tutorials published here at MBT as we publish everything that is needed to build a successful blog for yourself. Recommended articles:

• Publish Several Posts Per Day To Increase Traffic!
• Make Homepage Title Appear After Post Title in Blogger
• How To Write Search Engine Friendly Blog Post Titles?
• Optimize Blog Post Title for Better SEO and Increased Traffic

Underestimating the Power of Social Networks

Literally a lot of bloggers underestimate the real power of social media in building blog traffic. They don't know how much beneficial these can prove to be. You can simply can't build a blog by just posting links to Google. They simply just don't use the social channels at all or don't use them properly. Some don't share their content at all via Social Media, whereas others excessively promote their blogs almost to the effect of spamming. Both of these should learn to properly make use of social media for promotion, or all their progress might stall as they will have no fans, regular readers, subscribers etc. which will ultimately lead to quitting of blogging and leaving their blog.

Underestimating the Worth of Readership and Subscribers

Readership and subscribers are the most powerful thing a blog can ever have. If a blogger chooses to ignore his subscribers by not answering their queries, or answering their comments, they will ultimately leave his blog. Hence, the traffic and engagement between the readers and the admin will drop, and the blog will go back to as it was when it was started.

Earning Lust

This is a real trap that everyone even the pros should avoid. This trap can badly ruin any Blogging career. The Blogger gets dreams about making really large sums of money from his new blogs. Now will either steal the focus of the Blogger from his blog itself, or it will induce the blogger to use each and every trick that he can find on the internet to boost his revenue, and this will include stuff like black-hatting, spam back linking, keyword stuffing, hidden text etc. Now you might get away with it for some time and even earn some 500-1000$ but Google eventually will deliver the penalty, from which it is really very hard to recover. Some holes for webmasters made by the Google Panda aren't recovered till today! Hence, a lot of people will quit in such circumstances.

Lack of Original and Quality Content

This is a really becoming a major issue these days. The quality and originality of blogs is reducing and copyright violators are increasing rapidly. Out of 250 million blogs today on the internet, even less than 1 millions blogs have unique, quality content. The two most important ingredients in a blog are originality and then the quality. Lacking even one of these means that a visitor has little interest in the blog. This is main reason behind a lot of bloggers not getting traffic and readership and hence quitting.

Valuing PageRank over Alexa

We have emphasized a lot on how we give more value to Alexa that to PR. Because PageRank just indicates the trust of Google on a website. But Alexa is a more accurate indicator of readership and traffic. But a lot of people keep their focus on PR, and building backlinking and all that kind of stuff, but actually ignore the important part that is building readership, traffic and most importantly Alexa.

Ignoring Trending Topics

One of the basic rules in blogging is to talk about hot stuff. Always post about fresh and hot topics. It is one of the best ways to get traffic and engage your blog readers. Like for instance this post on Google PageRank Update Schedule 2013 got us on total 290 page views in just 4 days which really counts a lot. A lot of blogs simply fail in attracting good traffic from search engines because they don't discuss hot topics and latest news, and readers on that blog always find outdated content. We have talked to our readers about this as well. We got complains from a few readers about covering latest news on Google. This is the answer to them right here. Latest news are a must for any blog.

Act as a Journalist

This is point is from a competitors' stand-point. Try to act like a journalist and try to deliver the news as soon as you heard it. If you deliver the fresh news fast and before your competitors, you will get the maximum effect of your hard work. You will ten attract a decent bunch of traffic. But reality is that a lot of bloggers don't realize this thing which which most of the time makes their posts go just simply unnoticed.

No Goals

As a blogger, you should almost set up monthly goals for your blog that you have to achieve. For example, according to your niche, concentrate on one topic for at least a week, and write about it on all aspects. Or just set a goal to achieve this much subscribers, likes, posts etc. This will develop your blog little by little on all fronts relevant to your niche.

No Six-Month Targets

Another mistake a lot of bloggers make is that they don't have any six-month, or a long-term strategy in mind. If you have taken blogging as more that a hobby, than its important for you to decide where you're going, and where you actually want to go. Creating a strategy or some targets is important, otherwise a blog will surely fail, and this is one of the major reasons why many blogs shutdown.

These days I had been working on making the MBT layout as much compatible with IE and other browsers and also improve the Notification Bar and developing some premium widgets for you people :> So, about this post, are you making any of the above mistakes? And have we missed anything? Do not hesitate to give your suggestions via comments. Cheers :)

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