25 Smart Things to Do When You Are Jobless

If you are looking for jobs and still facing failure in getting a decent one, then there are all possibilities that you might get frustrated some day. Being unemployed, is seriously a worst feeling, giving you illusions about how useless you are. However, it depends totally on you that how you utilize this time to either enhance your capabilities or to get into severe depression. If you are a freelancer by profession, you must be facing such situations in your contract intervals. I recently lost one of my contracts and thought of sharing the tips that I have been implementing I my life to keep it going smooth to ensure a positive change with everything coming its way.

Here are 50 tips to keep you engaged in productive things while still looking for a job.

1. Fix up Yourself

The thought of being unemployed is a disaster for sure. The first thing you need to do is to tell yourself that this is temporary and this time is a blessing for you to recover your personality that has been affected by continuous working. Start taking nutritious meals and sleep as much as you can to maintain your health and stay fresh. It will really help you by reducing your stress.

2. Pay Attention on Your Looks

Ok, now what you need to understand here is the difference in point number 1 and 2. Fixing yourself, giving a shape to your dull, stressed personality is what you need to do immediately as soon as you find yourself going in depression.

Now that you are satisfied with your health and feel all ready to start up with the next step, you need to concentrate on your personality. Don’t forget, that your first impression is the last impression. Take an appointment with a dermatologist and focus on how you can place a good impression on your potential boss in first place.

3. Explore Yourself

It is true that sometimes people spend their entire lives but never get to know what they wanted from themselves. Now that you are free these days, do what many people never did, that is, to understand your own personality. Search about your likes, your dislikes, your actions and reactions, in fact become your judge.

4. Honestly Answer Your Own Questions

There are things that we do not want others to know about us, that’s a natural thing. You know yourself the best; therefore, ask questions to yourself about things you can’t discuss with others. Be honest in answering them and analyze where do you stand and what should be done to overcome things that are somehow responsible for your failures.

5. Get a Hold on a New Skill

Keep on learning something you don’t know is always a constructive practice. The students who do extra courses in their vacations become twice intelligent as their other classmates on the basis of their additional skill. Being jobless is nothing other than having vacations, isn’t it? Join some institute to enhance your capabilities by adding a new star in your qualifications. This increases the chance of getting a better job than your previous one.

6. Learn from Your Failures

What happens most of the time is that you think of all the bad memories that made you lose your job but you hardly think about the reasons that brought such a situation. It is a real drawback that we cannot tolerate the fact that we have something missing. However, people who learn from their mistakes are the ones who succeed. Take a paper and pencil and write your weak points and start working on rectifying things.

7. Attend Trainings

Seminars and trainings are a good way to bring a change in the overall persona, as well as improving skills. Search for all interesting seminars and get yourself registered in them. Utilize your time.

8. Build connections

No one is going to come on your doorstep and offer you a job obviously, what you need to do side by side in your free days is to build your own connections. Join linkedin, tell everyone you meet, about your requirements for a job. Your connections work like magic for you, if not today then tomorrow, for sure!

9. Enjoy with Family

When you enjoy the title of being employed, the first side of your life that you start to neglect is your family. While searching for the next job, try to become more family oriented and spend time with your loved ones. They play a significant role in keeping you out of depression of being a jobless.

10. Stay Happy

So what that you lose one job, that is not the end, or is it? Obviously not! Enjoy this time of your life, realize the fact that the new job will ask for more time, more power and more efforts, you would hardly be able to take out time to enjoy then. Stay happy as it makes things easier.

11.Come out of your Comfort Zone

I read this tips somewhere and it took me months to apply on myself. You see, it’s never an ideal case. Not all the bosses are great, not all the colleagues are friendly, but in order to meet up your livings and raise your standards, you must bring some flexibility in your personality. This will help you in every aspect of your life.

12. Turn your Bad Habits into Good Ones

Point 11 is just as example of bringing a positive change in you. Nobody is perfect, but its always feasible to convert your VISIBLE bad habits in to good ones at first place, because your personality somehow reflect your habits and the more Good you would reflect, the more are chances to survive in this tough world of today.

13. Take Advice

Up till now all the tips require only your efforts, but taking an advice from a man of wisdom is highly recommended. Ask your mentor about what should be the next step in your career. How can you tackle things now; and discuss in detail about the issues that bothers you within.

14. Upgrade your Resume

Since you have learnt new things in your free days, you need to re frame your CV now to let your potential bosses know that you are a talent that never stops. Add the additional courses and seminars you attended.

15. Do an Internship

Doing an internship is one of the best utilization of time when you are jobless. Internships always place a good impression on your boss when added in your resume. Moreover, you get to learn a lot of new things too.

16. Own a Business Card

Create a business card for yourself and hand it over to people you meet, to make new connections.

17. Stay updated about your Domain

The world is a subject to change with every single minute passing by. When you are actually out of your field, you often miss a lot of latest happenings of your niche, which takes you behind than your competitors.

18. Refresh Your Goals

Do you know where you really desire to be in five years? The answer might not be what you idea it would be five years in the past, particularly in light of your unemployment. Get a hard look at your life and figure out what you really want from your career and your personal relationships.

19. Become disciplined

try to bring evident changes in your personality. Discipline is the key to success; work really hard on adopting it.

20. Take Help from Books

Books are your best companion if you do not have to give an exam after reading them.:) on a serious note, if you are jobless and staying back at home, then don’t sit idle. Start reading books of your taste. The reading habit keeps you occupied and moreover improves your reading, speaking and writing abilities.

21. Join Clubs or Gym

Keep yourself busy, engage yourself in a nearby gym or join a club where your friends go to pass some good time with them.

22. Keep Practicing your skills

If you are programmer like me, for example, your programming would suffer greatly if you stay out of touch to your niche. You need to keep this point clear in your mind that you are having vacations from going to office physically but your mind has to perform its duty to keep utilizing what you have learnt throughout your academic life

23. Socialize

It’s really sad that jobless people often start a social boycott which is an added feature in ruining their professional lives completely. If you are doing the same, you need to change this isolation of yours as soon as possible. Socialize with friends, use social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, etc., to grow your network and thus opportunities.

24. Become an Entrepreneur

Do you really think you need to search jobs, visiting offices, applying for posts that are not matching your standards still when you can be your own boss? With today’s online learning opportunities, you can always switch your career and becomes an entrepreneur and can earn more than what you would have got from your job. Start a blog, learn from professional bloggers, search more about online money making businesses and choose one that suits you the most. Nobody is going to help you till you are not ready to help yourself.

25. keep your spirits high

keep your hopes high and motivate yourself for the above stated tips. Start believing that whatever has happened, it happened due to a reason and it was better for you. Learn from past and move on. Sticking with it will not give you anything. There are thousands of opportunities waiting for you, all you have to do is to pick the right one for you!

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7 effective Tips To Keep You Focused While Blogging

Blogging, when chosen as a profession, requires you to stay focused at all times in order to ensure steady earnings. However, today when one can surely not stop himself from socializing, writing a post for your blog without getting been distracted is impossible. The fact still persists that when you claim to your readers that your blog offers content free of flaws, you need to make sure that you meet up the promises and declarations you have made. The posts you write for your blog need only two things, one- you must know the basic ethics of blogging to attract traffic, and second, your Concentration!

Being a blogger myself, it is easy to relate with my readers on this topic. There are thousands of things to distract while you are working on your post; however only one thing that keeps you motivating is the charm of money being generated from your work.

Therefore, here are 7 simple tips to keep you focused and make your blogging career more productive!

1) Turn Your Phone Silent and maintain distance!

This is not something new for you, right? Turning your cell phones to silent mode is an ethical thing to do and the first instruction given in any conference, seminar or meeting that you attend elsewhere. There is no need to tell you how your cell phone distracts you from everything you are doing, but your blog is a serious business as you earn with it. Keeping your phone on silent mode is extremely necessary when you are engaged in writing your articles because the unwanted beeps of your messages and the unexpected calls can always make you forget the points that you just had in your mind.

Making it silent doesn’t work only. Not at least for me! Even if the beeps are off, the frustrating vibrations of texts also play an equal role in distracting you. It’s a productive practice to keep your cell phone some distance away from you with a silent mode. However checking it after, let us say, an hour to know about urgent updates is a genuine thing and can be accepted.

2) Boycott Social Networks

I have been a victim here too. In my last post, I did mention that I do switch to my Facebook very often while I feel irritated with continuous hours of typing. I am working myself to get rid of it and would suggest the same to you, while you are writing for your blog. The reason behind this is obvious, there is no point of checking your Facebook Notifications or Your Twitter updates when your post is incomplete. The power of social media is inevitable, take the example of Facebook, it diverts your mind in no time, creating a spell for you where its highly difficult to come out of it soon. You can always comment on your pictures later, but you cannot publish your post after the time that is decided as your blog’s policy. Therefore boycott your Facebook, Twitter, Google+ accounts and use them constructively AFTER publishing your post to promote your articles!

3) No Chats- You are Busy, Remember?

Although I never do this, I have seen my colleagues in office that throughout the time their machine is on, their IM messengers are always running at backend. Keeping yourself connected to your loved ones is definitely a good thing, but life is all about managing time. There is n sense of getting being poked by your friend who is sitting at home, looking for people to keep him entertained, when you still have a lot of tasks and deadlines to meet. Isn’t it frustrating enough when a nudge sent by your friend, brings an earthquake on your screen, hindering your typing and bringing the chat box at front? Certainly it is! You see, it’s your mistake that you have given people a chance to distract you from your work, and in the end, no one suffers, but you only!

Keep yourself signed out while you are working.

4) Say No to Email Notifications!

Keeping a check of your emails is extremely important in your blogging profession. Many bloggers find it difficult to stay away from their email clients and notifications, keeping a check on every single move of their career. Fair enough! But the point here is still the same; your minds get diverted badly to other things when the screen in front of you changes. The tabs of your browsers are different worlds for you. Switching in between them takes you to different worlds too, making you forget what you were previously up to.

If checking your inbox is too important for you, then better do so maintaining a fixed interval.

5) Make a time table-FOLLOW IT!

It’s a pity that most of us either do not schedule our lives, if someone is smart enough to understand its importance and makes a time plan, he doesn’t follow it. Make it your habit to plan your day at its start. No matter whether you are a school going fellow are a business man, you need to decide things for your day. It’s only possible to manage your time if you know your engagements of that day. When it comes to your blogging time table, you know that your publishing time is your deadline and the post has to be done at least an hour before it. It’s always recommended by professional bloggers to make a schedule to keep the things in control.

6) Take Help to keep yourself Turned ON

Distracting from tasks, feeling down and bored from continuous working and having severe headaches is something natural. It happens with all of us. Now, when everything around you is mobilizing, you can take your laptops along with you everywhere you go, whether it’s your college, university, office, etc. to ensure you give your best, accurately! The day I turned into an author, I started taking 2-3 cups of tea while writing the articles. This helps a lot in keeping things smooth. Being a human, you need tranquilizers to keep your mind refresh and let you produce your work with full efficiency.

7) Make Yourself understand- get Motivated

No one can do a better job than you here when it comes to motivating yourself for your work. You decided yourself to choose blogging as your career. Now that it starts working for you, you need an internal force to keep you stick to your decisions. All the above stated tips will become easy to follow if you work on this one only. Tell yourself about how important your blog is for you. Cherish your business as it is one of your best decisions. I am sure a blog is the only passion, a blogger have, then why not to respect it? Once you understand how important your focus on your blog is, you will see, there would hardly be anything distracting you.

Here comes an end, one thing if you’d have noticed, all the above stated things that become a source of distraction are given the authority to do so, by you only. Start loving your blog, you will see, your blog will reciprocate in same way by bringing you a huge readership and a great inflow of revenue!

All the best

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Importance of Reputation Management for Your Blog and Online Business

Thanks to the power of search results, the internet is an interactive space and your blog or website is a part of it. Businesses and blogs that are just starting out have to consider all sorts of different content strategies to ensure their success. Search results are an important factor in yoursite’s popularity and the successes you will see with it. Search results are awarded to websites for a number of different measurements. One of those is “off-site content” and it accounts for a major portion of your site’s reputation.

Having positive off-site content pointing back to your website—like social media shares and citations in other blogs—will send your website to the top. Having negative off-site content can actually hurt your webpage, and even drop it in search results. Anyone can hop on the internet and post negative content about your business or your blog and you have to protect yourself from these attacks.

Internet Reputation Management Protects Your Website

Online reputation management is an important new practice that focuses on the quality of off-site content pointing back to your blog or business webpage. Managing your online reputation means that you are proactively keeping tabs on your search results, social media mentions, and how people share and repurpose your content across the internet. Sometimes, internet reputation managers find that their website is doing just fine, and that there is lots of positive content and supportive sentiment behind their brand. 

Other times, reputation managers find the opposite: negative content is being directly associated with their website through other websites and services. Whether your business receives a bad review online, a social media user hits your blog with a public complaint, or someone is actively starting an online campaign to make you and your business look bad, negative content is reflected in search results. The impact of negative content can damage your website in a number of ways. Negative, reputation-damaging information can rank immediately above your own website, making your business or blog look even worse. It can also make Google’s algorithms reduce your overall page ranking. 

Without internet reputation management, negative online content can be hard to recover from. 

The Best Defense against Online Reputation Damage is Better Preparation

If you are entering a competitive space online, you should prepare your blog and your livelihood with a good protection plan against negative content online. Negativity can come from many unexpected places, but if you have a general plan of action and mitigation strategy to deal with it, the impact won’t be nearly as severe. Many established blogs and businesses understand the power and value of adequate internet reputation management, but only after realizing they needed it.Businesses and bloggers typically do not prepare themselves to monitor and fix damage to their reputation until a crisis happens. A major campaign can backfire, an upset visitor can cause problems among the greater internet community, and even outside occurrences like staff arrests and high-profile public incidents can have a negative impact on your website. Waiting until a problem arises can put your website at risk, so your best solution is to prepare yourself and your website for these incidents before they happen. 

Protecting Your Website with Simple Reputation Management Techniques

You can take charge of your online reputation management with a few simple tricks.
First, if you have a physical business, claim it on social review websites. Fill out your business’s information on websites like Yelp.com, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and any other sites that feature social or community interaction. By claiming ownership online, you can fully control how people view your company in search results. Bloggers can also benefit from this by establishing social media profiles for themselves that help share blog posts and interact with your community. 

Searching for your business or blog name online is another good way to see what people are saying about you. If someone online addresses your blog or you personally online, even if it isn’t directly to you, you can find it with a few simple searches. Searching for your brand name can show you how visitors see your blog, and can even open up new opportunities for outreach and growth. Searching for yourself can also reveal negative content that may potentially be turning people away from you.

Google’s new “Me on the Web” feature of Google Dashboard is an excellent tool for anyone that wants to track their online reputation quickly and easily.

These may sound like simple suggestions, but they are the foundation for a successfully monitored and managed internet reputation. Frequent monitoring can protect you from almost any negative content.

Internet Reputation Services Support Personal and Professional Success

There are many situations where negative content is simply out of your control. A post on a review site cannot be responded to or taken down, or an upset visitor cannot be appeased. Leaving these negative contents online can severely damage your good name in the long-term. Fortunately, there are online services that can provide your blog or business with excellent reputation management strategies that can repair any problematic content.

These companies understand how search engines work and how to contact webmasters and content producers to remove negative content from the internet. They use proven methods and techniques that can remove or displace negative content from the internet, and they can even replace it with positive content that reinforces your message. 

Many successful corporations have practiced reputation management for years. Thanks to the internet, reputation management is much more valuable than ever before and it is also easier for individuals to practice for themselves. With these guidelines, you can startmanaging your online reputation today. If a crisis comes your way and you need serious help, internet reputation management experts are ready for you.

How far do you think your online content, no matter personal or business (blog or website) is safe and do you think your information is safe? Would love to hear your thoughts on this. Peace.

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10 Popular Blog Topics that will Make you More Money in 2012

The thought of becoming an entrepreneur and building your own empire in no time was a dream few years back, but with online money making opportunities today, it is all possible. The urge to start a blog and becoming rich and popular at the same time is increasing day by day, resulting in producing thousands of Newbie Bloggers each week. However, it greatly disappoints them when soon they realize that their blog would hardly generate any revenue for them, forcing them to leave this domain to earn money.

It’s important to figure out about the most productive niches that generate maximum revenue, even before planning to start a blog. What happens for example is, a person might be a good painter and plans to share his painting techniques and his creations on his blog. The idea is appreciable if we talk in terms of talent, but such a blog would hardly attract any traffic. The reason behind this is, the global change is making lives busy where people do not have time to read about your skills, but are in search of fulfilling their own thirst.

Many of our readers have been complaining since a long time that their blogs are not paying them anything, so here is something they need to check about their blogs.

If you are looking forward to high profits in return of easy blogging, you must first know which niche to choose as your blog topic.

10.Health

As the world going online, people are now interested to find solutions for their health related matters online. This blogging niche enjoys an open traffic where there are no barriers of culture, state or society. A person from Pakistan would be equally interested to know about the remedy for losing his weight as a person from USA. If you have a command on medicine and fitness related issues and think you have the potentials to provide people worth-reading and then worth-following tips regarding fitness and Health, then you will see a huge traffic following your blog in no time.

9.Fashion

Health and fitness blogs are mostly visited only by those who are either going through some disease or are way to curious to learn tips for their fitness. But above health blogs, comes Fashion. Knowing about health is need but learning all about fashion is addiction. If you have got that glamorous side of yours and enjoy learning and sharing about Fashion trends leading the society, you can really earn huge money with it. People all over the world find internet as the most easiest access to know about fashion and follow it.

8.Relationships

Recent statistics have shown that 90% of the people have an emotional part in their personalities that leaves an effect on the entire life per fifteen hours a day as an average. People find internet as the most secure way to improve their relationships, believing in the idea of self-aiding learning online about professional working relationships, love relationships and getting advises from people around the globe. According to the latest reveals, blogs with this domain enjoy huge traffic.

7.Finance

Man’s love for Money will last till the end of this world. This common nature of people to learn ways to double their money forces them to search about such methods. Blogs having a domain related to ways of improving their finances and helping them setting up their own business, telling ways to manage their money always appeal them, further generating good traffic for a blog.

6. Question and Answer Blogs

Let us go back to school to make the concept clear. Which teacher you preferred to visit the most in times of need, the one who always had a solution for your problems or the one who used to tell you to “come later”? We all have same views about it I hope. Similarly, starting a blog with a niche of active question and answer session will soon generate considerable revenue for you. People look forward to places where they can be listened and can get their queries been answered. Just like answer.com, you can start a question and answer blog and make real dollars with it!

5. Celebrities

The easiest- yet the most interesting niche to adopt in a blogging career is undoubtedly to start writing reviews, updates, latest photos and everything associated with them, is the celebrities. The best part about this domain is, all you need to have as your qualifications to rule is your interest in entertainment world

4. Buy and sell

Online shopping has taken up the physical market with a great pace. Now you choose all what you want to buy from your living room and get it delivered at your doorsteps. If you have the ability to work like a middle man, establishing a forum similar to olx.com, you can attract bulk of visitors each day.

3. Social Media

This post will be too less to describe the power of social media at this time of life where one might not have a bank account but must be having three or four accounts on different social networking websites. Due to the huge number of Social media users, the sites that write about every single happening on Social media get the most of the benefit. Take an example ofMashable.com. What do you think is the reason for the success of this site? It can’t be uniqueness, there are much better unique sites available than it, it can’t also be a good grammar, as even I have been noticing grammatical mistakes in the posts plenty of times. Then what makes it a hit? It’s the domain of the blog! People want to know each and everything about their social media. Therefore, picking this niche to start a blog is one of the best choices available among the most productive niches.

2. Technology

Techcrunch.com has been making Millions of Dollars each year by simply cashing its niche. In this Hi-tech world, staying up to date with the latest technology been revealed in the market is mandatory. Moreover, the biggest benefit of choosing this niche as your blogging topic is , when a new gadget/device is launched in to the market, it automatically creates a hype, big enough to bring visitors to your blog to know more about it. This happens every time-little too often, ensuring a continuous inflow of money.

1. Blogging Tips

Blogging has recently become too popular even in the developing countries. The best sources to learn for the new bloggers are the blogs themselves. Just like MBT, blogs having a domain of sharing tips and tricks, making blogging easy with tutorials and everything related to blogging world are earning considerably large at this time. However, such domains require you to have the capability and knowledge about web designing and web development so that whatever content you share, it gains reliability for you from your readers.

The decisions you take on initial stages while starting a business, decides the future of it, therefore always play it safe and think about your potentials and pick the domain that goes most smooth with it.

All the best

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How do I keep the blog Alive

To maintain the freshness of blogs is one of the hardest things to do. If you are interested in a lot of traffic, hardcore fans and readers should make sure that your blog continues to offer not only new but very exciting. It is not sufficient to provide good content. The presentation of the contents and the whole blog should be a fresh way. If visitors find the blog to be the same every time, not going back to it. This will result in losing a lot of readers and page views. All that work to create this content quality will be lost. So what to do to keep your blog fresh at all times? Well, the answer is pretty simple: Be creative participation and use.

Commitment to use the blog can do great things in the blog make money online. Use the media engagement to allow sufficient time to read and study the best blog posts and even blog content. You can read and most recommended blogs and identify the reasons for its success. Always focus on learning your presentation and how to attract readers. This will make the resources to decide what to do to your blog. You can browse through different materials to revitalize their creativity. And keep in mind these tips to update your blog:

*) The reader comments must be: there is no better way to understand this blog will attract more traffic and keep readers who only ask. Remember that web readers are very sensitive and acquire information and opinions they would not be too difficult. They let you know the subjects they repel and the issues they like to talk. This makes it easier for you to decide on the choice of his subject by examining the number of users that offers the subject. It is a simple and effective way to determine their content based on popularity.

*) Select blogs to study (carefully): You found the syndrome of a blog is angry? Just to be sure to stay away from blogs, which tend to be critical of almost anything. These blogs are not useful in the construction of creativity. Actually, "angry" blogs influence their thinking so that your posts will also begin to show them. You need to stay away from these sites. You have to train to explore, decide what blogs are good and which are not. It gives you an excellent opportunity to learn what is good and important.

*) Ask others invited to post on the blog: If you do not have ideas or you just are not in the mood to write, to have someone show guest on the blog. This builds rapport with your readers. Feature one of the users and get them to do a post of their own. In fact, it will build a lifeline to your blog. Readers feel more emotionally involved with your blog. For them, it feels like it's their own blog.

And finally, you can keep your writing momentum simply by typing over and over again. Note all the new ideas and just write whatever comes to mind. In due time it will be easier to write about any subject of any kind. Once you get into the flow of writing will be easy to make money online.

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15 Useful Tips To Write Killer Headlines

It has been said that a book is judged by its cover and the proverb completely fits when it comes to choosing a heading for a post in blogging. I researched on this topic myself when I started off as a blogger, as from the very first day in this niche; I had been facing a lot of trouble in deciding how to choose effective Headings for my posts. It was soon that I realized that no matter how great content you produce, you still need to learn the art of writing headlines for it. Headlines play a real important role in bringing readers to your blog by selecting your blog out of many others that the search engines display.

Here are 15 Must follow tips to make your headings fruitful for your blog and make your blog a hit.

1. Headlines are FUN to write- Do Not Panic!

It is a pity that the thing which works the most in attracting traffic to a blog is given the least time to be framed by most of the bloggers. You need to understand that writing catchy headlines is the basic requirement of your business, therefore do not consider it a hassle and keep your spirits high and enjoy your work. Once you change your views about it, you will see how easy things will become.

2. Do Not limit yourself

It happens sometime that mind gets completely blank where no idea clicks other than only one. No matter how much you try to make it better, it hardly works. It’s natural. Take some time, Go through the content idea again and come up with something else. Sticking to one wrong headline and not letting your brain to find an better alternate can seriously ruin the entire post. Always try to come up with at least two headings and pick the best.

3. Decide Your Post title FIRST!

It is a good practice to choose your post title first, before starting off with the actual content. The reason why professional bloggers frame their headlines first is that deciding the title in beginning, maintains the entire flow of the content in one direction. The author relates every part of the post with the headline making it easy to avoid writing useless content.

4. Develop Reader’s interest

The better the headline, the more the readers would like to read about the story behind it. you need to be creative here in constructing your headlines and giving it an attractive look.

5. Persuade readers to follow you

Your headlines are the first thing that your readers notice. Try to pass a hidden persuasive message to your readers via your post title with catchy lines, encouraging them to read your article.

6. Capitalization of the words

Another effective tip that really works in dragging your potential readers’ attention towards your existence is to capitalize the First Alphabet of every word of your Headline. This gives an equal importance to not only the sentence itself , but also to every single word of it.

7. Avoid a cliché in  Headlines

Although most of bloggers take care of this, but its still important to mention that adding clichés in your headlines make them boring, giving a reason to the readers t switch to some other blog.

8. Follow standard tenses

Important of all, you should always take care of using right tenses in your headings. When talking about present or immediate past, use Present tense, similarly use past tense and Future tense for respective scenarios.

9. Write in Active voice

Your headline should be as concise as possible, consisting of not more than 7 words. Adopting an active voice to frame a sentence makes it shorter. This way you can add more key words in your headlines, which further increases your post’s weightage. 

10. Do not Add Unnecessary Breaks

It’s important to differentiate between a headline of an article and its content. Even I use breaks and pauses in the content which is an added feature increasing the charm of the post-if-used, keeping in mind the fair use policy. However, giving unnecessary pauses in the headlines leave adverse affect on the entire post.

11. Be Simple yet effective

There is no point of using difficult words in your headings. In fact, use simple words that can be easily understood by your potential readers while they search about the topic. Phrase your heading in a direct way, avoiding vague sentences.

12. Write SEO Friendly Headline

As stated above, construct your heading in such a way that it only consists of important keywords that users will likely to search for. Writing a SEO friendly heading drives huge traffic to your blog.

13. Use ‘How to’ and Let people Explore

Think like common users of internet with no expertise in the field, they usually search about ‘How’ they can solve their problems. Using this ‘How to’ in your headings increase the chances that your post appears in the search, persuading people to know more about t the solution you are offering to the problem they were looking for.

14) Meet Your Readers’ expectations

The readers whom the search engine redirects to your page on their click, start expecting from your blog to offer the information that has been told or referred in the headline. Always try to keep your readers satisfied by meeting their expectations. Always judge your post correctly in order to choose the most appropriate headline for it.

15. Preview Before Publishing

It often happens that either the heading doesn’t suit the entire post after publishing or there are some grammatical, punctuation and spelling errors in it. Make it a practice to re-check your headings, that is, the most sensitive element of your entire post, before publishing it.

If you have been thinking why your blog is still not attracting readers though you did try all other tips to give your blog’s traffic a boost, then This is what you must try now. An Effective post title will not only increase your popularity but will also generate a good revenue for you.

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How to add Blogger Share Buttons to Custom Blogger Templates

Recently, Blogger released their new Share Buttons feature which makes it easier for your Blog visitors to bookmark, tweet, fshare, email ,etc your post.

But, if you're using any custom blogger template.. you may not see the widget appearing in blog..even though you activate it.

So, if you have that problem. here is how to fix it.
(before making any changes..first backup your template)

1. Sign into Blogger > Design > Edit html
(tick the expand widget templates)

2. Add this line anywhere you want the widget to appear

<b:include data='post' name='shareButtons'/>

Normally, in most templates, you can add it after this line..

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-1'>

If you don't find that above line in your template....
Find this one.

<p><data:post.body/></p>

and add this code after that line..


<p><data:post.body/></p>
<div style='clear:both; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px;'> <b:include data='post' name='shareButtons'/> </div>


Note: If you're using Magazine style blogger template, You can find the data:post.body line TWO TIMES.. So, try in both ways and find out which one is working..and remove the other one.

Finally..Save the template!

If you still don't see it in your Blog, Make sure..you activated it by going to
Blogger dashboard > Design > Click the 'edit' button of the Blog post section.

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35 Tips to make your Blog Successful

It is true that the decisions you take in abusiness initially, decide the future of the entire set up. Talking about blogging specifically, there are certain tips that you must know, understanding their significance in boosting your blog’s popularity. It is obvious that once you plan to be a blogger, you look forward to a huge traffic following you along with a considerably great revenue been generated. However, what makes your blog a hit is your attitude towards adopting the basic requirements of this domain. The Tips might differ person to person, but after researching for days and days about what were the magic ingredients that professional bloggers added in their blogs that are earning in Billions today, Here is a list of 35 Must follow tips that you need to add in your blogging career.

1) Attractive Blog Name

Choose an eye-catching blog name that makes sense enough to let people know about your domain and follow it.

2) Blog Layout

The better the blog layout would be, the more traffic it would attract. Keep background colors light, giving it a decent look? Make things easier to understand for your readers.

3) An Exclusive Logo

You have chosen blogging as your business, right? You need to have an exclusive logo that will become your blog’s identity.

4) Post Regularly

Good Blogs show regularity in posting their articles. This keeps your visitor attached to you and ensures consistent traffic.

5) Share Quality Content

There are thousands of sites having same niche as yours, what makes you better than them is the quality content. Give your writing, your own shade with an interesting touch.

6) Post Length

An ideal length of a post is in between 700- 1500 words, depending on the nature of post. Do not write lesser than 700, as Google penalize blogs for that severely. The post can be as long as you wish to, but lengthy posts make readers lose their interest in it.

7) Choose a Good Intro Image

An effective, self-explanatory image is essential for your post to become a hit. Choose high quality, relevant images.

8) Your own Screenshots Only

Many bloggers copy paste images in tutorial posts, which is a disaster thing to do. Always use your own screenshots while telling your viewers how to do something. This increases your credibility.

9) Recheck Your post

Being a human, it’s natural to make mistakes while typing. Check your articles before publishing for grammatical and spelling mistakes. This is what we call proofreading.

10) Easy navigation

Keep your blog simple for your visitors, providing them a simple navigation on your blog.

11) Show Your Creativity

Having many blogs in same niche, you need to add your creativity in your articles so that it takes you a level ahead than other bloggers.

12) Keep your Readers Involved

It is interrelated to point 11, the more creative you’d be, and the more interest your readers would show in your articles, decreasing the bounce rate of your blog.

13) Interact with your Readers

Keep a check of all the comments made by your visitors. Appreciate them for staying connected and answer their queries, if any.

14) Comment on other blogs

It’s no more a matter of prestige; you need to mingle well within other social circles to increase your traffic. Visit different blogs and tell on that platform about your existence.

15) Get Advertisements

In order to survive, getting advertisements is necessary. Use Google adwords to earn via pay per click advertising options.

16) List posts

This is what we have been doing on SEM, create list posts, it brings huge traffic!

17) Contests

Value your readers always. Start contests, polls and such activities on your blog to keep your readers active.

18) RSS feeds

Always give an option on your blog to get subscribed via mails. People who are busy to visit your blog daily, can subscribe for its RSS feeds and can still stay connected.

19) Newsletter

Issue monthly newspapers to your visitors; sharing all the latest happenings on the blog with them.

20) Write SEO Friendly Content

Researching on how to write a SEO friendly article can really help in making your blog popular.

21) Make Your Blog your Identity

I’m sure all of you are well aware of e-mail signature. Write your blog name and url of your blog in email signatures.

22) Correct Your Fellow Bloggers

Be a good observer on different blogs and let the owner know about any mistake or error that might occur on a blog. Keep your tone polite and do not try to act smart.

23) Share on Facebook

Sharing your posts on Facebook Groups and Pages can make your posts, a hit. 

24) Share it on Twitter

Twitter is a great social networking site to attract traffic from western countries. Majority of the users are from west and publicizing your post in twitter can attract those users to become your readers.

25) Allow Links in Comments

The real bloggers have actually got no interest in coming to your blog all the way and read your articles only out of good will. In fact, they are themselves looking for opportunities on your blog to introduce their work. Allowing bloggers to leave their links in their comments will give them a reason to come to your blog again and again, increasing your traffic.

26) Maintain decency

It is a pity that sometimes bloggers fail badly to respect their profession and use their blog more than an informative platform and use it unethically. As a blogger, you need to earn some respect through the way you address your readers, and its only then that people actually start respecting your blog.

27)Use Keywords

Using keywords in your posts keeps you and Search engines happy at the same time. Always try to play with keywords of the post to get more page views, further increasing your earnings.

28) Give Value to your Headlines

Your selection for titles of the post is the most important thing when it comes to your creativity. This was one of those things that I used to find really difficult, initially. Your readers Judge the entire post with the title; always try to keep simple and straight forward titles.

29) Keep Updating the Blog

If you aim high for your blog and do not want it to become outdated just like iGoogle, then keep upgrading it to ensure that your blog meets up the changing demands of readers. Changing blog design once in six months can also be a good decision.

30) Keep Drafts ready

As a blogger its your responsibility to ensure the regular posting on your blog. However as blogging is an entrepreneurship business, where you are answerable to nobody, there are wide chances that you might skip your postings due to some other engagements. Therefore keep your 5 posts saved in drafts at minimum always. Make sure that the posts you choose to save as drafts have a timeless effect in them, the posts that can be published in all scenarios, like How-to posts, Best tips, etc.

31) Easy to read Fonts.

Blogs owning a lucida Handwriting font might give it an unprofessional look for sure. Keep your Font style and size readable for your readers.

32) Give a strong competition

There is always an unsaid war going on in between you and bloggers, writing for same niche. Try to give a tough time to them with your skills that are needed to be polished further with your each post!

33) Set an Inspiration

Having an inspiration in life is really a motivating thing and if you have no ideal personalities, then better start searching them. Reading about great people, here, blogs will always create a feeling to follow similar footsteps to reach on similar levels of success.

34) Be Yourself

This tip is given by almost all the bloggers who share tutorials on similar topics, that is the reason; I have listed this too common tip here. Being yourself mean that you should never place a wrong impact on your readers about either you or your knowledge. Become the master of your domain and do not fake about things you hardly know!

35) Never Give Up

Your one post cannot decide about your efficiency, it is just like some days are not meant for you. As a blogger, I m a living witness of it! What happen actually is the frequency of your readers and yours do not match at times; your readers, having a complete freedom of speech do not think once giving you a bad comment. But this is the point you need to check your post views. The post itself made it in attracting enough traffic that few of them dislike it. Although that feeling is pathetic, still keep your spirits high and start working on the next post, hoping to have some better results. You will see, soon things will start working out.

That was all for now, hope that these tips turn out to beneficial for you in your blogging career.

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