Blog Maintenance

There are many things that all blogger must do on a regular basis to ensure that their blog remain useful and functional. Some of the tasks you should be performing are listed below.

1. People expect your blog homepage changing. If your blog is static and unchanging there is no reason for someone to come back again - after all, they've already seen it so why return? One major way to get them to come back is to change the content constantly and to be sure that your visitors know it is changing.

2. Occasionally review your blog. When you look over a page, check your grammar, spelling and accuracy.

3. Subscribe to a service which monitor your blog on a regular basis. This is important, as if your blog is constantly "bouncing" you will find it being removed from search engines and your visitor levels will drop.

4. Learn as much as you can about internet security, and ensure that, to the best of your abilities and knowledge, that your blog is secure. This ensures that your visitors information remains confidential and safe. It also protects you and your blog host from harm.

5. Promote your blog constantly. Every single day you should do something, anything, which attempts to get people to your blog. This is extraordinarily critical in order to ensure that people continue to visit your blog day after day. You can leave a comment on another blog or use any advertising programs like adsense, adbrite, etc, to increase your blog visitors.

6. Another task that must be performed on a regular basis is checking for a "broken link". It is most common with external links (sites move, are abandoned or are modified all of the time) but can occur occasionally with internal links.

7. You need to stay up-to-date on new technologies which can use to improve your blog. In addition, getting certified, joining community is essential to staying current and active.

8. A task you should be performing on a regular basis is to review your statistics. At a minimum, you should check your page counts to be sure that your blog is being viewed. At best, you need to know where people are coming from, which browsers they are using and what they visited while they were at your blog.

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Monetize your blog

As long as your blog have a visitors, you can easily get the benefits from monetizing your blog. Adding the advertising scripts from ad companies like Google AdSense, Adbrite, Bidvertiser, etc, can help you generate money from what you like best, typing into your blog. Why not? Many people are using blogs to make money.

You don’t need to have a blog that’s talk about making money, SEO, or computers. There are many people making money from their favourite topics. Sit back and imagine how many people in common with you.

With the many choices for advertising on your blog, along with the infinite possibilities for keywords, you can make money from what you may consider ramblings. The only downfall is that your blog cannot be about sex, drugs, guns as most advertising companies will not allow their ads to be shown on these types of sites.

Keep up blogging, and with a little added ad script, you can get the benefit from your blog like so many other people already have. While the other read your shared information, you will receive money from clicks or impressions.

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Silly mistakes that you can make with text

Even in today's world of Flash animation, animated GIFs, sound files, and other special effects, the basic reason why people surf the internet is to read. Yes, the pictures and the animations are wonderful, but what people really care about is what you've got to say. That being said, it's so very important that you don't destroy your message by presenting your text in ways that discourage people from reading.

One of the most classic mistakes is to make your text very small. After all, you've got a lot to say and you want it to fit on one screen, right? So why not make it as small as you can?

There are times when you want to make a small text. A link at the bottom of your page to your privacy policy is a good example. If someone wants to see this they will find it. Otherwise, it's just something that you have to put there.

On the other hand, a very common problem is to make your text a similar color to your background. If I run into a page with everything like this I hit the back button fast.

Another mistake is to type all word in upper case. People soon learn that all caps does not mean "give me your attention" on the web - it means shout in your face. It's also a good way to get people to hit the back key on their browser.

Sometimes I see a sites which use non-standard fonts. I know that the special font which you paid a hundred dollars for is awesome, but believe me I'm not going to pay a hundred dollars just to see your web site display correctly. You can use downloadable fonts, but be aware that browser support and standards are spotty at best. Even if you do include downloadable fonts, be sure and specify alternates in your tags just in case the browser did not processing it.

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Plan Your Blog Navigation

Good navigation is the good way to keep your visitors coming back or staying very long on their first visit. You must provide a way for your visitors to find out what you've got. It's no use if no one can see it.

You want to make it difficult for your blog to succeed? Then make your navigational system difficult to understand and use. Bury your hyperlinks in a complex image map that's not obvious to the user. That's a great way to stop people from looking around your blog.

Some other things you can do to prevent users from enjoying your site:
* Put your menus only at the bottom of every page
* Scatter your links all over the page haphazardly
* Make the hyperlinks the same color as the rest of the text
* Make the menu actually move around the screen
* Make the text very, very small or in a strange font

Another huge mistake that many webmasters forgot to linking every page back to their home page. It's important to remember that search engines typically spider your entire site. This means that visitors can land literally anywhere in your site. If you are smart you will accept this fact and place a link back to the home page. And remember, this is a good way to increase your home page pagerank.

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How to avoid Adsense PSA?

How to avoid Google Adsense Public Service Ads?

Ensure that META tags like ‘title’ & ‘description’ and the headings tags like h1, h2 etc. have content which matches the rest of your site. They are main ways google judges your pages content.

Add specific keywords in your text which will help the google bot to determine and understand the content of your website. Repeat related keywords which will better help to understand site content. Do not fill your page with similar keywords, it might work against your favour.

Develop sufficient good content with keywords on your webpage related to the topic of interest. Google is a great fan of good content websites.

Try to keep the entire website focussed on a particular theme, so that even if the content on a particular page is lesser, the ads wil show.

Do not place multiple ad units if there are not sufficient ads to display on all of them. Also Google TOS do not allow placing more than 3 ad units on a page.

Use section targeting - you can target an ad unit to a specific section of your blog, as well as block out irrelevant sections like navigational links. Useful to get more targeted ads.

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