Hello guys,

Its been a while I havent updated the blog, Had couple of hours on my hand today, so today I am gonna talk about How to create a decent blog. I will try to cover as much  as possible. Lets start with the Domain Name

Domain Name

A blog without a good domain is in vain, You should always try to go for keyword rich domains. For example if you blog is about Blogging, Include blogging word in your domain name also. If you are starting off with blogging, You can go on with subdomains from wordpress.com or blogspot.com but it does look odd to have long subdomains. Its always better to buy a Good Domain name.

I register all my domains from Namecheap, GoDaddy is also good but I prefer Namecheap much more. You can get a domain on Namecheap for $8.44 by using coupon codes (FIRSTSNOW)

Web Hosting

After domain its time to get Web Hosting, Hostgator is one of the best web host around these days, I have my own servers and I run all my websites on my owner servers, so if you are in interested in Free WebHosting you are most welcome to contact me anytime, I would be more than glad to host your website. You may even try hostgator, Its just $0.01 for first month if you use coupon code: wordpress.

Setting up blog

Well, there are tons of blog scripts available but wordpress is one of the best! and I would recommend you also to go with WordPress! You can download wordpress from wordpress.org or If you are hosted with Hostgator or me, You can login got your cPanel then click on Fantastico and with a click of mouse you can install wordpress.

Customizing your blog

After you are done setting up your blog, now its time to install some good themes and plugins. If you can afford to get a unique theme it would be great but if you cant then you can go for free themes, There are whole lot of websites which provide free themes for wordpress. One of best I know is wpthemedesigner.com.

After you are done with theme, its now turn for the plugins.. I will list here the ones I am using:

All in One SEO Pack – Its a great plugin which helps you setup your meta tags, meta description, keywords and a lot more things.

Google XML Sitemaps – This plugin you will find on almost every blog, It helps you to generate a sitemap for your blog and then you can submit it to Google, Yahoo and other search engines.

Top Commentators Widget – This plugin helps you to get more visitors as well as comments on your blog, It gives sitewide backlink to top commentator of your blog.

Subscribe Remind – This plugin displayes a short line on each post of yours “Subscribe to my RSS feed” it can help you increasing your RSS subscribers.

Buy Me A Beer – You can ask people to donate on your blog if they find information on your blog every good using plugin.

After plugins its turn to setup your Permalinks,

To setup your Permalinks follow these steps

1. Login to your WordPress account.
2. Navigate to the dashboard.
3. Options > Permalinks.
4. Check the “Custom” structure
5. Insert – /%postname%/

Monetization

Google Adsense, Adbrite and TextLinkads are best options if you want to earn from your blog, Place your ads nicely, blend them into your blog and you can start earning al lot depending on your niche. If you update your blog daily with nice information you will get good amount of traffic and if you get good amount of traafic you can get nice earnings from your blog too.

Promoting Your Blog

You can find forums having having relevant niche of your blog and put a link to your blog in signature(If the forum rules allows it) Be active on the forum and post there regularly.

Using social bookmarking websites may also help you getting lots of traffic, like digg and stumbleupon. Digg each post you make on your blog and you can get good amount of traffic with it

I am running out of time, for more tips related to promoting you blog and how to get more traffic you can read my blog

Thats all I have on How to create a decent blog right now, will be back with more stuff soon

Rishabh Sood

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Okay so, I don’t care what others say about me. I know I haven’t done anything! so the contest continues again!

What you have to do is Just subscribe to my feeds by email and After a month that is on 15th November I will randomly choose someone from my feedburner list and send him $50!

The contest is not hoax, If you think it is stay away from it!

Once I announce winner, I will show him on the feedburner list and screenshot of transaction id and amount.

Thanks,

Rishabh Sood

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Hello guys,

I am not able to sleep its 5 AM here Thought of writing something. So today I am going to help you Optimizing Permalinks Of Your WordPress Blog for better traffic!

I have seen many people asking questions like

Why my SERP ranking is low?

Why I get less traffic on my blog?

If you haven’t optimized permalinks of your wordpress blog you are surely going to face these sort of problems.

When users or SE’s check your link they see old link structure p=1 p=2 etc. If you make them good you will surely get better SERP rankings and you will fetch more traffic too!

Example of a poor link is

domain.com/p=2 – You cant see whats the link about

Example of a good link is

domain.com/title-of-the-post/ this includes your keywords also and we can determine whats the url about

So how to change your linking structure?

1. Login to your WordPress account.
2. Navigate to the dashboard.
3. Options > Permalinks.
4. Check the “Custom” structure
5. Insert – /%postname%/

6. Update your .htacess file

So thats all I have for you guys today on Optimizing Permalinks Of Your WordPress Blog! I think now I will be able to sleep. bye guys, Take care

Rishabh Sood

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Hello guys,

I have been getting a lot of emails regarding my Alexa rank a lot of readers ask me how I was able to hit 105k Alexa within 2 months. So here I’m posting 10 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank

Okay lets start,

1.) Install Alexa Toolbar on your firefox and set your website as Home Page.

2.) Try to get listed on as many Search Engines as you can.

3.) Encourage your readers to install Alexa toolbar.

4.) Install Alexa on your office computer and friend’s computer and set your website as Home Page

5.) Write or blog about alexa. People are very much interested in having good alexa rank few of them may even blog about your post in their site.

6.) Use Social Bookmarking sites like Diig, Delicious and Stumbleupon which will fetch you nice traffic.

7.) Put Alexa widget on your website.

8.) Submit your website to Free and Paid Directories.

9.) Writing good content on your blog can also help you fetching traffic which will result in good alexa rank.

10.) Participate in relevant forums and keep a link to your website in signature.

Thats all I have for today on 10 Ways To Increase Your Alexa Rank

Thanks and have a good day

Rishabh Sood

This is a guest post by Rahul. Rahul is a web publisher and a casual photographer. He currently blogs about home interior design ideas and Kraft cheese coupons.

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Hello guys,

Today I am gonna tell you 10 Ways to improve your website I just got an email from one of my friend asking me to give him some tips so I am writing this article here

Lets start

1.) Extend registration of your domain to atleast 5 years so that SE’s don’t think you just setup’d the site to spam around.

2.) Keep your font BIG, If you think the font on your font is very small and colour is giving pain to readers eyes Change it.

3.) Add Alternative text to all images you have on your website.

4.) If you are using iframes on your blog remove them.

5.) Create a sitemap for your website and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools.

6.) Don’t make your website in Flash, If you want to make it in Flash then include a HTML version of your website too.

7.) Make sure logo on top of your website redirects to your Home Page.

8.) Create a favicon for your website.

9.) Create an About Us Page and put it on every page of your website.

10.) Fix all links on your website (External and Internal)

Thats all I have right now on 10 Ways to improve your website

Thanks,

Rishabh Sood

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Hey guys,

Google is updating PR right now and my blog just hit PR3 Comment here what PR you got.. I am very sorry for people who had their PR dropped, I know how it feels I can just say one thing work more harder and get your PR back!

If I have any other news on PR  I will update you guys

Thanks guy,

Rishabh Sood

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Hello guys,

One of my reader emailed me and asked “How can I increase my RSS subscribers” so I am writing an article on it. You can also contact me if you need any advice or you have any problem..

Okay lets start now on How to increase your RSS Subscribers

Tip 1) Installing the “What Would Seth Godin Do” on your wordpress blog

This is one of my favorite plugin for wordpress it adds a text under all your blog post “If you are new here, you may subscribe to my RSS feed!” so basically it helps a lot in increasing your subscriber. I have it here on my blog too.

Tip 2) Contests

Contests help a lot in increasing your RSS subscribers. Just start a simple contest and keep a condition to subscribe your RSS feed to be in the contest. This is another trick which many bloggers use.

Tip 3) Catchy RSS Buttons

I’m sure you must have seen many cool RSS feed buttons using them pull attention of visitors and they subscribe to your blog.

Here is an example of what I mean

RSS Feeds

These are few tips I have in my mind right now for increasing your RSS subscriber

Thats all for today guys on topic How to increase your RSS Subscribers. I hope you enjoyed it..Thanks for reading

Rishabh Sood

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Hello guys,

I just found the Namecheap September 2008 Coupon so I’m sharing it with you guys

BACK2SCHOOL

Use it for new registrations @ $8.41!!

Rishabh Sood

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Hello,

Today I’m gonna show you guys How to find .gov and .edu backlinks. This has been proven by few guys that google gives much more importance to .gov and .edu backlinks! so here is a little trick you guys can use to find .gov and .edu blogs to comment on! and  increase your PR. Its a very simple trick so here we go,

Step 1) Open Google.com

Step 2) For .edu blogs search

site:.edu inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “The Niche you want the blog to be on”

For .gov search you can do same thing

site:.gov inurl:blog “post a comment” -”comments closed” -”you must be logged in” “The Niche you want the blog to be on”

Hope you like this little trick

That’s all for today guys on How to find .gov and .edu backlinks

This is a guest post by Rahul. Rahul is a web publisher and a casual photographer. He currently blogs about Office interior design ideas and Kraft coupons.

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Hey guys,

The new web browser Chrome by Google is now out! Its fine but nothing as compared to firefox but yes its fast if compared to IE!

There are few bugs which I and my friends discovered and have reported it to Google!

Here you can see the screenshots of the new browser!

Chrome Browser

Google Chrome

One more thing you can import settings from other browsers also! Thats make it pretty cool but I’ll say again its not as good as firefox is

Download Now and give it a shot right away : http://www.google.com/chrome

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