From the monthly archives:

February 2010

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I’m writing this post as a way answer the popular question: which is better self hosted wordpress blog or free blogs created on Blogger.com, Wordpress.com. If you are new to blogging and want to start a new blog, I would suggest you to create a free blog on blogger.com or wordpress.com and once you get some level of confidence in using them, switch to the self hosted domain on Wordpress. I have created blogs on both blogger as well as on Wordpress.

How to Transform Your Blog to Look More Professional?

Posted in Blog Tips on February 23, 2010 by Anil Gupta

This post focuses on some ways in which you can make your blog look professional. You blog can be two days old or two years old, if you are looking for credibility then it is important that you focus on the fact that your blog needs to look professional. It must look like it is run seriously and with an intention to help its readers. Most blogs now days give off the impression that they are just interested in making money without providing any value.

Should You Buy a Premium WordPress theme?

Posted in Blog Tips,Seo Tips,Wordpress Help on February 20, 2010 by Anil Gupta

Wordpress themes are in big demand on the internet. There are many Wordpress theme providers online, some are quite popular. Thesis Theme for Wordpress, WooThemes are all websites that provide you with premium Wordpress themes. However, the most popular option for most bloggers who are beginners is the free Wordpress themes that are offered. There are thousands of free Wordpress themes available on the internet. There is an array of Magazine styled, Photography styled blog themes available in plenty. It kind of eliminates the need for a premium Wordpress theme. But the advantages offered may be distinct. At the same time, premium Wordpress themes may not be the best option for everyone.

Affiliate marketing is where you use your website to promote the products of an online merchant, by putting the merchant’s ads in your site. However, this alone is not going to get you money, you have to convince the visitor that the product will be useful for them. Let’s take a look at some affiliate marketing tips that will give you the kind of success that you want through affiliate marketing with your blog.

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In today’s post, I’m going to talk about internal link building and how to use it effectively for higher search engine rankings, higher page rank and for better user experience on our websites and blogs. Most of the time when we talk about getting quality links for our website, we always aims at getting links from external websites whether they came from discussion forums, guest posts on blogs, blog commenting, link exchange, directory submission, Ezine publishing etc and also underestimate the power of internal link building. Your scope of doing internal linking keeps on increasing as the number of pages on your website increase as in that case you will have more pages to link to.

We can get top rankings for our website internal pages by creating links within our website and by linking them using proper anchor texts. One of the biggest reasons behind the success of big portals like Wikipedia and Answers.com is their strong internal linking system. Here I’m going to discuss some of internal link building strategies we can implement on our websites and blogs for better search engine rankings and higher page rank from Google: