Blogging

After purchasing a Website name /Domain name the most important thing you need to look for is a “good Web host”. To get a good web hosting service you definitely need some money. Many Website Hosting companies offers Free web hosting and newbies usually  get attracted towards them.  But should you really go for ” Free Hosting ” for your domain?, NO NO ! if you are serious about domain SEO. Hosting also plays an important role in Search Engine Optimization. If you want to make blogging as your profession ( WordPress, Drupal or Joomla ) or using your site for your business then you should pay attention while purchasing any hosting plan / service.

WHY FREE WEB HOSTING is not GOOD at all ?

Free Web hosting has several defects which some time are very harmful for your site and your online business. Free Hosts offers LOW Security and painful customer support. You will get limited support, service and Limited STORAGE. The company’s which offers free web hosting displays there own ads on your niche, BAD !.  You will not get much traffic because of limited resources and server memory.

• LOW DISK SPACE
• Limited Support
• Limited CPU / Server Memory
• Less SEO Optimized
• Frustrating
• LOW Security
• Less Monetiztaion and less money making opportunities
• Low on Traffic
• Site loading Time would be more
• LOW performance

Website Hosting Location and Server Latency

The Location of Web Host also matters a lot, especially when you are getting traffic from a specific country. Server Latency is also a matter of concern if you want to make you site more SEO and User friendly. Severer Latency simply means ” the time taken by the server to response “. For eg if you are from India, the Indian for Singapore server location would be the best for you. If you site is targeted to UK or the USA then you should go for best UK or the USA hosting.

Choosing a Good WEB Hosting : WordPress, Joomal, Drupal or HTML

Choosing a good web host for your niche is not a very difficult task. Before purchasing any hosting plan from any web hosting company, we recommend you to read user reviews for that company. WordPress is the most famous blogging platform and widely adopted nowadays. Several Hosting companies offers SEO WordPress Hosting at little more expense. First checkout the pricing and Server Type ( Shared , VPS or Dedicated ). Ask the website hosting company for IP address and then Check / PING the server latency and response time in different countries. You can use Ping Test and Traceroute  tool by Piongdom.

Things to look / consider before purchasing Web Hosting

• Price
• Functionality, Features and Hardware Specifications
• Server Speed
• Server Latency , Ping test
• Support, Email and via Phone
• FTP acess
• Disk Space
• Bandwidth
• No of MySQL
• SSL ( secure server )
• EMAIL, Pop3, Auto responder and Mail Forwarding
• Server Uptime guarantee
• Cpanel or any other Control panel, should be easy to use
• Multiple Domain and Subdomain
• Operating System
• Payment Plans : Monthly / Quarterly / Annual

Payment Options / via : Credit card, Debit Card , Visa Card, Check, EFT

Also check for the kind of payment method the company accepts, especially if you are from India. In India if you have credit card only then you can pay Internationally, other wise you have to use Paypal or look for the company which accepts payment in INR RS.

Some Best Hosting Companies in the Industry for WordPress

• BlueHOST
• Dream Host
• Softlayer
• Rackspace
• Codero Hosting
• Liquidweb
• iPage hosting
• iWEB
• TigerTech / TigerTech.net : Tiger Tech hosting plkan starts from $8 it provides Free Domain Name, Whois Privacy, Unlimited Bandwidth 99.9% uptime.
• JUSTHOST
• VPSHOST
• Web Hosting Hub
• Hostgator
• Siteground
• INMOTIONhosting
• RACKSPACE

Famous Shared / VPS hosting providers

• Hostgator : Hostgator is the most famous shared hosting provider. They offers Hatchling plan, Baby plan and business plan.
• Godaddy : Godaddy also provides VPS and shared hosting but you have to pay extra for Manged hosting plus for Backup. Goddady offers very less features with there hosting. They usually charge for each and every service.
• JustHost
• FATCOW Hosting
• WEBHOSTINGHUB / WEBHOSTING HUB
• iPage Hosting
• SiteGround Hostin
• GreenGeeks
• Codero : Codero provides dedicated servers , VPS and shared hosting at very right price.
• iweb Hosting
• Serverloft Hosting

List of SOME Dedicated Servers Hosting Providers in the World

• SOFTLAYER : Softlayer is the best premium dedicated hosting servers ( Bare Metal Servers ) and VPS provider. It also offers cloud hosting. You can try cloud hosting free for a month. Softlayer is an IBM company.
• RACKSPACE : Rackspace is another very popular Managed VPS, Dedicated and Cloud hosting provider. There are well know for there customer support like SOFTLAYER.
• LiquidWeb : Liquid web servers are very fast. Liquid-web provides Virtual private servers, Shared hosting and Managed Dedicated servers.
• Inmotionhosting : inmotionhosting is our favorite hosting provider when it comes to price and performance.  Inmotion-hosting offers VPS, Dedicated servers and Shared hosting at affordable prices. There customers are served with high performance hosting and support.
• BlueHost : BlueHost is another popular Managed hosting provider. Bluehost provides some stunning features like CDN even in shared hosting. Like others Bluehost also provides Dedcated website hosting, Virtual private servers and shared servers.
• Dream Hosting : Dream Host is highly recommended by WordPress. Dream Host runs more than 600,000 websites globally. Dream, host proved VPS servers at reliable prices and also offers Dedicated and shared hosting.

SEO and Hosting

Hosting plays an important role in site SEO. If you choose a good Webhost then the server latency, ping time and response time would be less, which is highly liked by all major Search engines including Google , Bing, yandex , Aol and Yahoo.

We hope this article helps you a lot while choosing the best web host for your Niche / Domain.

Nowadays online traffic has huge importance in online Business and money making. The most important thing that you need to choose before you become online is search, choose and buy a perfect domain name / names. The DOMAIN name is not just the niche of your blog , but also represents you , your blog and importantly your BRAND. You should search of good niche for your blog / site. Many peoples has confusions about WordPress, bloggers and other blogging or HTML platforms. The Site Name is free from all above software, site name has now relation with software that you want to use to build your software.

Domain Name Search

Domain Name Search is very important, this makes sure that the domain name is available for purchase. There are many site to search for domain names, like Godaddy.com. There are several online tools as well to search for a domain.

Best Domain Registrars

• Namecheap.com
• 1&1.com
• Godaddy.com
• Name.com
• Gandi.net

SEO FOR DOMAIN NAME (URL)

SEO for your Domain Name is very very important, if you want to become a successful Blogger or in online Buisness. First decide the name of your site and remember to keep the main keyword of your site in your domain name. So, make your Domain name Keyword Rich.

For example your site is based on “Camera Tips and Tricks”, then your domain should be “camera… / cameratips…  / cameratipstricks… / tipscameratricks…. “.

Country based domains

Country Based Domain are also very Important, especially when you are writing for a particular country. For example, you are content is based on “Indian Culture” then the “.in” extension will be  right for you. But if your content is not just for a specific country but also for other counties or Global the you should go for Global Extensions Like “.com”.

Popular Domain Extensions

Domain Price : BUY Cheap or Expensive ?

Domain Pricing is also important factor, especially for beginners. Usually country based domains are cheaper than .com / Global domains. There are some extensions which are very cheap and Some search engines hates such domains usually because  they are well know for spamming Internet.

COUPON CODES for Domains

Also While Buying a Domains , especially when you apply some CUPON CODES DO REMEMBER TO CHECK THE PRIVACY POLICY AND RENEW PRICE. Some times for first year the Registration price or Charge would be less, but the Domain Renew Price would be much more than expected. So do remember to check this out.

SUBMIT YOU SITE TO SEARCH ENGINE

After You purchased your Domain, do remember to Submit Your Site to Search Engines. Write Some Content, if not more at least 1 article is a must for Better SEO. Submit your Domain Name to Google Webmaster Tool , Bing site URL Submitter , Baidu , Yandex, ASK.COM and AOL search.

Lately, I have been thinking a lot about how to name a business. I’ve been thinking a lot about what a business name should represent.

For instance, I have found the answers to the following questions; what does the name Yahoo mean, and what does Google mean? I had never heard the words before I started using their search engines. And what about Zappos? The name is awesome, but I have no idea what it means or represents.

Looking at those name, I’ve been thinking that I just want a really cool name. But, is that how to name a business?

How to name a business when you are all alone

I have not only been thinking about how to name a business in general, but what if you’re all by yourself, and your business is you? Should the name of the business be your name?

I have been thinking about John Falchetto’s brand new website. He is using his name, and that’s it. It seems like the right thing to do when you have an awesome name like John Falchetto, but what if your name is something boring?

I have also been thinking about using a last name and then adding something to it, like a word that explains what your business is all about. If you add words like Marketing or Media, the name of the business could be regular names like Smith Media or Anderson Consulting.

But, maybe you don’t want to use your name at all, what should you think about when you’re thinking about how to name your business?

Are there any rules to how to name a business?

Let me just tell you what I’m thinking about when it comes to how to name a business.

The name should be fairly short, easy to remember and easy to spell. To me, that’s the easy part. But, the name should also have a visual element. This way it will be a lot easier to remember. The visual element can be whatever, as long as you can visualize the name. That’s hard, especially if you add the parts where the name should be short, easy to remember and easy to spell. And finally, there are two things that makes it even harder to find the “perfect” name for a business. The name should have a positive connotation. I’d love a name that makes people smile when they think of it. And, the name should include information about what our business does.

How to name a business by using a name generator

During my quest to find an answer to how to name a business, I have tried various business name generators. What I discovered was interesting. I found some really creative names by just pressing a button. Some of the business name generators will just list lots of creative, short and (more or less) cool words that you can use for your business, while others will ask you for some words that describes your business and will combine the information you add into a new name for your business.

Here are 10 free business name generators I’ve tested:

• Elertify: business name generator
• BizNameWiz
• Name5Fish
• Web 2.0 Name Generator
• NetSubstance
• Company Name Generator
• My Brand New Brand
• Free Online Naming
• Free Latin Company Name Generator
• Business Name Generator
• Company Name Generator
• Guru Business Name Generator
• Rolling Names

To me, using a name generator is how to name a business when you have absolutely no ideas. But is it the right thing to do?

Your tips on how to name a business

I am still not sure if there’s a perfect answer to how to name a business. And there are laws that regulate how to name a business (I don’t know much about these laws, other than the obvious).

I’ve listed some options. And now it’s your turn.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on this. Do you own a business? What’s the name, and why did you use that specific name? And are there any really cool business names that you like?

One of my favorite business names is Razorfish. I don’t know why, but it’s a cool name.

When you want to market your blog to drive more traffic on it, you need to know some few tips which I will discuss here. If your blog lacks around 10,000 unique visitors every month, you are less likely to make much money from it though ads.

That is why it is important to increase your readership through marketing techniques and quality content. Below are various tips on how to market your blog to improve its readership.

Post appropriate comments on other related blogs for publicity to those readers

Start registering as a member to related blogs with your blog URL as your username and post comments on those blogs.  This process will bring traffic to your blog.

• Create links to your blog by commenting on other favorite blogs, which will make search engines to index your links.
• Make sure you do not spam your blog link on your comments. This strategy is not acceptable and will make blog owners to delete your comments. Ensure your comments are interesting and thoughtful to the readers. Bear in mind that you will be displaying your first impact in the comment.

Contribute guest posts on other blogs

If you are an excellent writer with something to talk about, posting a guest post on other popular blogs can be a beneficial way to advertise your name. Many popular blogs are available with guest posts options in your genre, so always check them.

Ask the blogger whether you can mention your blog on your guest post, after all, most of them will allow. By doing so, you will even have a backlink to your blog, which can increase traffic to your blog.

If there is no information about guest posting, do not lose hope. Peruse the blog to find out whether it may have guest posts contributed by others. If they are available, contact the blogger and introduce yourself and pitch the idea that you have for approval.

You may also communicate with the blogger to ask him/her your interests to write a guest post.

Mention other popular bloggers as a way to market your blog

Mentioning famous bloggers in your genre can achieve several things. First, it tells your readers you are well-informed about the significant people in your field of blogging. It may also encourage the famous bloggers to notice your blog, and persuade them to promote it to their followers.

Points to note include:

• Never just show off, but ensure you include their names in a natural, purposeful way. For instance, if your niche or post involves mommy blogging, talk about a blogger who has interested you, or whose blog you find remarkable.
• Include other bloggers links that you appreciate in your posts. Many bloggers trace or get alerts about new visits and may even visit or link your blog in reply as appreciation.

Use social media to market your blog

Currently, if you are not active on social media, then you tend to lose out on the main readership. You can post a link to your post to your public Facebook page or tweet it on your Twitter bio and ask your followers to spread it.

You should also avoid replicating the same content repeatedly. Include social media buttons for quick, eye-catching posts and tell your readers to like and distribute them to their friends. The following is a list of most popular social media sites that you can integrate on your blog.

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Pinterest
• LinkedIn
• Reddit
• StumbleUpon
• Digg

Market your blog through host promotions

Favorite web-hosting sites such as HostGator and Bluehost provide promotion codes or coupons to readers who sign with them from their regular clients. Host promotion offers an excellent way of driving traffic to your blog. Readers enjoy getting free things.

Also, host promotions for products from some companies provide free advertising. Therefore, contact such companies, which are related to your blog and determine whether they’d be interested in sponsoring a promotion.

You can also decide to write to other bloggers who sponsors significant promotions or giveaways and ask for their contacts.

Also tell your readers you will reward them promotions or giveaways to particular products if they republish your posts on social media. Most companies that advertise give promotions that you can use on your site if you advertise for them.

Drive traffic or market your blog with direct marketing

The newsletter may look like an old strategy, but in reality, it is a powerful marketing tool. I have realized that almost all successful bloggers include newsletters on their blogs. Using newsletters is a powerful tool for connecting with people directly.

Other methods to consider with direct marketing include:

• Adding a link to your email signature then inviting your audience to look into your latest posts.
• Sending your blog posts to people who will have the interest in reading it without spamming your contacts. Sending links to your posts to people or other blogs that are interested in your content can bring new followers. This option mainly happens if you offer to reciprocate by reblogging or reading their content.
• Join a LinkedIn group. Do so especially when you are writing an industry-based or more professional blog. Posting your posts in a targeted LinkedIn group can provide a valuable exposure.
• Involving yourself in blog carnivals by searching online for them or just check out BlogCarnival.com for more information.

Optimize your site for search engines

Search engine optimization abbreviated SEO is very crucial, which involves tactics of repeating intended keywords. Introduce a search-engine friendly title such as “How to.”

Replicate relevant keywords in your post making sure your post does not appear stuffed with them.

Google, Bing, and other search engines do not strictly operate on SEO. Normally, they prioritize quality content, which implies that providing the well-written, clear, and valuable post that links to other reliable sources is your best bet.

I hope you have found a new way to market your blog. Kindly leave a comment on any other way you use on your blog that I have not mentioned that promotes its readership.

Understanding the fundamentals for professional bloggers is crucial for the development and success of your blog. In the past, blogs appeared on the Internet as private diaries where bloggers would express their personal experiences and day-to-day activities.

Later through advancement, bloggers began to concentrate on niches, giving services or valuable information to readers, disguising the connection between blogs and traditional websites.

Currently, very specialized blogs such as Lifehacker and MakeUseOf compete directly with conventional media, and the individuals behind such projects earn thousands of dollars monthly.

However, regardless of those success stories, creating money from a blog is not easy and it will perhaps require more hard work, whether it is offline or online.

This post consists of checklist to assess whether you have the fundamentals for a professional blogger. Keep in mind that most of the points can be established; therefore the list should also function as an action strategy to progress your blogging career.

Get enough time for your blog

The first point to consider is time; it becomes difficult to create a profitable blog that generates a better monthly income without enough time. The importance of time is not only for writing content but also for networking with other bloggers, being updated, collecting information, and so on.

Some professional bloggers manage to generate money despite using few hours. These bloggers already had a lot of time searching for online knowledge at first. If you plan to create a full-time income blogging, then you will need to commit most of your time or full-time developing it.

Expertise on a topic is one of the main fundamentals for professional bloggers

Apart from dedicating time to blog you will also require something or topics to blog about every time you write. You should also have some expertise in the selected topic, or else the blog will be unreliable.

Do not misunderstand me here, but you must have a minimum background and be updated with the modern developments in the topic you choose.

Passion for the topic

Even though you understand a particular subject or topic, fully you will require writing about it in an engaging and convincing way. In simpler words, if you hope to create money through your writing, its better you write interesting articles.

Your audience can appreciate whether you enjoy what you write about or not, and if they love your posts, most likely they will become your faithful readers.

Technical Knowledge

Whether you like it or not blogs are developed using content management software (CMS) such as WordPress, which is supported by databases, found on web servers. Free hosted blogging platforms such as Blogger or WordPress lack advanced features and complete customization.

However, if you plan to develop a professional blog, you will need to buy a domain name and run it on a paid hosting service. This process implies that you will require some basic knowledge of DNS servers, MySQL database (mainly for backup and server transfer issues), plugins and scripts.

These features are very easy to learn and only require few hours to master them. I will write a detailed article on steps required to set your blog and make it available online that you will surely enjoy.

Blogging Knowledge

Besides the technical expertise to maintain and run your blog, you will need to understand the structure of a blog. You will also need to know how you can include certain blog features to enhance the visibility of your blog online.

These features include learning how to use ping services, trackbacks, social bookmarking sites, blog carnivals, and so forth. The good news is that all the required information is available online especially from advanced bloggers who give step by step guidelines on how to include these features.

Moreover, you will also need to have a basic knowledge of search engine optimization (SEO) and how to use keywords to rank better on Google.

Some successful blogs obtain most of their incoming traffic from search engines, so ensure your blog is optimized right from the beginning. There are plugin tools available on a self-hosted platform such as Yoast SEO, which can quickly help you to use and include SEO and keywords effectively.

Writing skills

There are some questions you can ask yourself if you intend to make a living blogging. Questions such as whether you can write without grammatical mistakes, or if you have the ability to communicate concepts or ideas through words are great.

Some bloggers lack remarkable writing skills but have compelling content. Normally, if you keep on writing, you will perfect your skill naturally with time.

Business/Marketing Knowledge

If you plan to generate a full-time income from your blog, you will have to consider it as a business entity. Each productive project, whether it is personal or professional, relies on carefully produced strategies.

Professional bloggers usually have objectives and action plans to their blog so you should emulate them. Secondly, you also need to know basic understanding of marketing skills and how specific techniques can promote and advertise your blog across the Internet.

Web Design Skills

Web design contributes a significant role in the authority and success of blogs industry. Content is absolutely king, but an enticing design will make your audience remember your site and make it prominent from the crowd.

If you are willing to invest money on your blog right from the beginning, you could outsource the web design skills, but this is not the usually the case with most experienced bloggers. Most fulltime professional bloggers research on some knowledge such as HTML, CSS, and accessibility of a website.

Innovative and creative Ideas

Being creative involves how you can think out of the box and developing ideas that your audience will find interesting to follow. Creativity includes coming up with a niche or a topic that interests most readers which most professional bloggers had before they started.

Once you establish your niche, you can create interesting topics and publish articles that will attract your readers. If you find you are stuck on innovative ideas, research on how professional bloggers excel on similar niche and you will always have creative ideas to write.

I frequently find ideas to write by studying how experienced bloggers excel on niches similar to mine. Innovative and creative ideas will help you to write quality and interesting posts, find out new methods of promoting your blog, and discover new monetization opportunities.

Network of contacts

When you have a network of online contacts, it makes the difference between your cash generating blog that attracts a hand full of visitors. Contacts include bloggers on your niche, bloggers on complementary niches, web designers, web developers, advertisers and the like.

These contacts are available easily especially if you have business related social sites like LinkedIn.com. Simply follow and get contacts from bloggers related to your niche from social sites and ask them a question on the productivity of a blog in case you get stuck, or you need assistance on something.

In conclusion, following these fundamentals for professional bloggers will boost your blog to excellence and reach a large audience that will convert the traffic into cash.

Involving yourself in the blogging world can be irresistible at first. All over the internet, professional bloggers are available to guide you into blogging for free. The fact is that there is no right or wrong approach to get involved.

There are various methods of progressing online without getting stressed as most bloggers make it out to be. Most new bloggers, (including me) appear clueless when they start blogging.

For instance, I had no idea how to start, and where to get more traffic. At least, I am progressing well. I am starting to realize how professional bloggers have succeeded. I trust that it won’t take long before I also excel blogging.

At least now I am focusing on the principles of blogging that will make me shine soon. I will continue giving you valuable information on how to prosper as a blogger too.

Having said so, below are some top 4 valuable tips for new bloggers that I want to share with you. The tips will just give you confidence and hope for your success along the way.

Create Useful Content

Content is king is a phrase I know you are well familiar with. Well, assuming you have already done the steps to create your blog such as buying host, domain and WordPress installation.

Creating and publishing content more often is the next step you have to do before you think of anything else. You don’t want to promote your blog if you lack information for your audience once they get to your blog. Focus on creating good content that will be valuable to your targeted readers.

If you always give you readers lots of useful information and interesting content, you will convince them to come back. One of the most important goals as a new blogger is to get returning visitors.

Gaining Readers is an Essential Tip for New Bloggers

It can be worthless to post content on your blog if no one is reading it unless you are a new blogger gaining readership. Skilled bloggers know that traffic numbers count, especially if they plan to monetize their blog along the way.

The greater the traffic, the more you can generate from your hard work. Also, real bloggers do not just blog for money, but they do so because they love blogging. Having said this, making money blogging enable them to keep working hard and give valuable information to their readers.

There are various methods of promoting your blog to get visitors. The first and most recognized method is to promote it on social media. Ensure you remember to share your posts on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and any other platforms you might be using. Also, visit other blogs in your niche and leave a comment on their posts. This process will help your visitors to come back to your blog, as well as establishing some loyal ones.

Create and Maintain Your Brand as a New Blogger

As you begin to progress in your blog, you should take action and brand yourself. This action involves being consistent throughout every platform you use. You can achieve this by concentrating on a particular “niche,” and keeping your blog posts related to that particular niche.

Suppose you use a color scheme and a logo on your blog, ensure that you maintain that consistency with the social media posts and content too. The intention is to make your readers know the format of your posts.

As soon as you create a brand for yourself ensure that you maintain it. This process is what emphasizes consistency and excellent blogging skills. Inconsistent branding will tend to confuse your audience.

When you attain an authority and name for your brand, you will get recognized by some of your regular followers. Eventually, getting devoted readers who trust you is one of the best achievement to have as a new blogger.

Create a Call to Action

You would not want readers to visit your blog, read your posts, and then leave without a trace or doing anything. To avoid this happening, you should always have a call to action on your blog posts. It can be as easy as inquiring a few questions connected to the post for your audience to reply in the comments. The more you get readers to engage with your posts, the better the results.

Alternatively, your call to action can also include giving free offers for anybody who joins your newsletter or subscribes to your blog. Some blogging professionals reveal that growing your email list is a must priority when blogging. To do this process, you have to give a call to action or a good reason why your readers should sign up for your newsletter. Most professional bloggers achieve this by providing free offers. It can be a free eBook or a free challenge that solves the problems your readers might have.

As I stated earlier, there is no right method of starting and growing a blog. Your direction may differ entirely from other bloggers, and it should. Setting up your unique blog is what you require standing out from the rest.

In my opinion, these four valuable tips for new bloggers are important to do at some point. Always bear in mind the reason you are doing so, and focus on the end prize and results.

If you have loved reading this post, kindly like and share it on your social media platforms. Also, leave a comment on any other valuable tips new bloggers you know.