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Should You Copy Content From Other Blogs Without Giving Credit ?

By Arbaz Khan / Blogging, Blogging Tips, How To

Blogging is not that easy as it looks from outside. Once you explore it yourself you will come to know that it is one of the most difficult jobs in the world. But if you blog with a proper approach then you won’t face much problems. But if you start a blog just by reading some fancy story of “How I made $10k from blogging”, your blog and even you will reach nowhere. This has become like a trend today. Thousands of blogs are being created on a daily basis of which only 2-3 blogs are worth reading. And in this madness of ‘earning $10k per month’ they are left short of ideas. This is the point where all this copy content from other blogs take place. Today I will tell you about some unseen aspects of this very topic.

Why a Blogger Copies ? What Happens After That ??

Some dumb people, just for the sake of posting on their blogs, copy full articles from others blogs. They don’t think that the owner of the host blog might have done some serious work to just create that post. Such people think that copying the most popular article from the successful blogs will give them high traffic and some search engine ranking. But they don’t know that search engines are much more smarter than such copy-cats. Search engines are able to differentiate between what’s original and what’s duplicate. Even if a blog gets some high amount of traffic, then also he won’t be able to earn a good amount of money. All the biggest monetizing programs demand quality content and don’t accept blogs not fitting in this criteria. Thus the dream of making “$10k per month” is shattered.

A different Perspective of Plagiarism (Copying From other Blogs)

Now let’s see upon it in a different way. A blogger, no matter how successful he is, at last he is a human. And we all know humans are not perfect. Our brains cannot produce new ideas everytime. And if you are the only author of your blog, this will be the greatest hurdle between you and your success. At this time, impatient people are bound to make mistakes like copying from other blogs. If a blogger wants to embrace the success than he should not produce content that is already posted somewhere else. So what he should do at such crucial time?? Simple, give the due credits. If you have liked some post on other blogs and want to share it then you should give the credits to its original author. Any author would never object to this thing. Make this as a habit. It will never harm you, it has never harmed anyone.

I will tell you something. A few days back, I was reading an article on Problogger and I saw that Darren Rowse has used a quote from a post on other blog. He even gave credits of a simple quote to its original author. And I am telling you to give the credits of a post. See around the biggest blogs, you will always find the credit links in the posts, maybe in the beginning or at the end. Some great bloggers are also providing credit links to even the images used. This is not possible if you are using Google images as you won’t know which one is original. Even I use Google for images as it is easy. But I emphasize on using Flickr or anything similar for images.

Final Words

Always give the credits to the original author. You will take a few minutes to copy the article which might have been produced after some serious researching and hard work. So never copy. If you like the idea of the post, write it on your blog in your own words and don’t forget to provide the credit link. I hope that this might have proved helpful to you guys. Happy Blogging :D

Arbaz Khan is a passionate blogger who loves to write about technology updates, social media, blogging and computers on his own blog TechBreach.net

Best Tips to Keep Up Going with Google Panda Changes

By prav / Blogging, Free Traffic

Since the arrival of Google Panda update, the days of Black Hat SEO companies have come to an end. Post Panda world is Ethical SEO services era. The aftermath of Google panda updates may bring in unprecedented fluctuations in the rankings and it might have even make your traffic downward slide. But the algorithm updates by Google are designed to increase the quality of the sites.

Google algorithm now only accepts high quality content. Keyword jamming, irrelevant back linking will result in instant ‘ Panda Slapped’. They will be banned from search engine results instantly and permanently. Fortunately, there are ways to avoid this situation entirely. The solution is simple and straightforward. If Google Panda update is your nightmare, following SEO strategies lend you a hand to satisfy the Panda and doing this properly will make your blog Panda proof.

Quality and Fresh Content

The primary pillar of all White Hat SEO strategies is quality content. With good content that has been written maintaining the keyword density rules, your blog optimization will be organic and under no fear of getting ‘Panda Slapped’. Read Also: How to make each post fresh?

Substantial Content

Google expects substantial content. Although, sometimes 300 words is enough to convey your message adequately, at the times that’s barely enough to get past your introduction to the subject. For example, if you are writing a blog post about “how to create a hyperlink in html”, 300 words are more than enough. However, if you title is “how to make a living with affiliated marketing”, 300 words is insufficient. Ensure to write above 400 words.

Social signal for Your SEO Strategy

According to Matt Cutts, SEO strategy list for Panda is the creation of great content spread via social media. Yes, including social media in SEO campaign is one of the important strategies. This not only brings in organic, targeted backlinks but also could result in better rankings and introduces potential visitors and customers.

A social media profile that has an effective SEO strategy has the ability to give authority to your blog.

The more people who ‘like’, Follow’ your post share and re-post your content, the more relevant and helpful the search engine spiders consider it. The number of time that it is actually shared is important for SEO. The more people share your information, the more influential and helpful your content is considered by the search engine spiders.

Strong website structure and optimizing

Design your site to engage the reader. Good website structure means happy humans, satisfied spiders and the much stronger SEO. It has become necessary that besides getting indexed the important pages of your blog, your pages might land into supplement pages as well. Using noindex tag is one good way to achieve this.

Define the relevance between pages by category. Sitemaps, breadcrumbs, semantic relationship between on-page content components, are some important aspects of successful web structure. Quality inbound links .appropriate outbound links, plagiarism free content are some of the other key factors to consider.

Follow these SEO strategies and best tips and I am sure you can easily beat Google Panda and stay ahead in the race.

This post is written by Prav. Prav is an article writer and marketer and loves to write for his clients all over the world.

5 Reasons Why Your Blog Sucks

By Kimberly / Blogging Tips

Guest post contributed for Name.com by Kimberly Myers. Kimberly is a freelance writer and contributes to a number of blogging communities. She also buys and sells domains and websites.

Everyone can have a blog, but not everyone is good at blogging. Let’s face it – a lot of blogs suck.

What makes a blog suck? Some of the factors depend on your niche. However, there are five common reasons many blogs of all categories are subpar. If they describe your blog, it might suck, but only for now! Luckily, they are easy to fix.

Lacking a common theme

It can be challenging for an unfocused blog to gain readers. That is not to say every post should be exactly the same, but it’s often good for them to have something in common. That way, readers have an idea what to expect, and they can look forward to your posts.

If you feel like your blog is getting scattered, think back to the past. Most people were moved to start blogging because they wanted to communicate something to people outside of their current limits, be it geographical or social. Perhaps they had a strong interest in a subject, so they wanted to share what they knew, or what they had taken the time to discover. Reflect on why you started blogging in the first place and consider returning to that general idea, or something you’re equally passionate about now.

Neglecting your content

Most people visit a blog for content that adds value to their lives. They don’t want to feel duped into selecting a page with nothing more than poor content propped up by search engine optimization tricks. The tricks may have got readers there, but it won’t make them stay, and it certainly won’t compel them to return. Be sure your content is solid. As soon as you neglect content, your blog begins to suck.

Not updating regularly

You should always be offering readers new material. Once your updates drop to less than once a week, you’re probably not updating frequently enough. After you have established a workable time frame for updates, stick to it. Your readers will begin to expect posts at certain intervals, and if you skip out on posts often, it will likely turn people off. If you know that your updates will suffer in the days ahead because of scheduling conflicts, complete posts early. Then, schedule them to be posted around the date most readers would expect it.

Failing to hold conversations with your readers and fellow bloggers

Blogs are not one-way lectures – they’re dialogues. Just as they allow you to broadcast your ideas rapidly, they are designed for quick reader responses, too. The best blogs have space for comments. Sometimes, they even have questions in the posts to get the conversation going in the comment section. Bloggers can then hop in the conversation and keep the discussions going.

Not only should you communicate with your readers, but you should reach out to other bloggers, especially those who write on topics similar to yours. These conversations can help enrich your segment of the blogosphere, leading to better blogs all around. They could also possibly direct traffic to your site.

Being afraid to take risks

You shouldn’t forget that, when it comes to social media, little is set in stone. Blogs are a great way to show creativity and ingenuity, and sometimes you have to break a few rules to stay true to those traits. If you have faith in a blogging project, don’t let fear stop you from trying it out.

Even if your blog sucks now, it has the potential to be great, especially if you’re dedicated to improving it. A few changes can really turn your blog around.

How To Get Maximum Benefit From Your Guest Post

By Jafar Dhada / Blogging, Blogging Tips, Free Traffic, Guest Blogging, How To

Getting more and more traffic is a dream of all bloggers. This dream comes true only when you do hard work properly. Blogging is not an easy job to do. Well it’s not so hard when you do it properly. Guest posting is really a superb way to get maximum traffic to your blog. But if you don’t know how to guest post and where to guest post than your guest post will not generate a good number of traffic to you. There are some secret tips and some guidelines which you have to follow and you will absolutely get a good number of traffic towards your blog. Get Maximum From Your Guest Post

1. Choose A Right Blog

This is most important part to get maximum benefit from your guest post. The blog must have PR (Google PageRank) Must be 3 or greater. Alexa rank must be less than 1 lack. This blog (ComLuv) is a heaven of guest blogger and you will get a huge lot of traffic from here so this is a highly recommended blog for guest posting. If you choose a worst blog which have no traffic then definitely you are not getting even a single visitor to your blog from it so be safe that the blog you choosen for guest post is right and it will bring you a good traffic.

2. Content Is King

I think you heard this sentence at least 20 times before you started blogging and now again. Why it’s so important? It’s because readers read the blog for getting knowledge not for wasting their time. Why the content of a guest post must be quality? It’s because you have to get approval for the post to be live on that blog. Its not the only reason but there is a more. If you will write superb content then the post will be popular on that blog for sure. It will be in light and more people will attract to it. They will read your post and will be impressed from it. They would like to read more posts by you and your blog have them so readers will go to your blog.

Content Is King

3. Building Backlinks

Backlinks give you help in two ways. They attract new readers to your blog and they also help in Search Engine Optimization. To rank first in search engines, High PR backlinks are necessary to have and they are also hard to build. So choose a blog which gives you minimum 2 backlinks in author bio and 1 in article.

4. Author Bio

“First impression is last impression.” Your bio must be spectacular and your blog’s link must be there. If people like your post then they will surely like to know more about you and connect with you and your blog to get such unique articles daily so try to make an author bio which attracts people use catchy words in it. You are about to get maximum so you also have to do maximum. Make the author bio blossom so people will surely like to visit your blog.

My Final Words

In every job you have to work hard and in blogging you also have to do so. No one can lead success without hard work. Do as more as you can for your blog and one day you will be in top. Yes, never lose hope. “Try and try but don’t cry.” Here is another small tip that before you put your post for review, Do read it as a visitor of a blog not like you who wrote the post. Check the post as someone else written it and you are reading it. Do change where you think its need to be changed and that’s it. So now do the guest post and get maximum benefit from it.

3 Best Tips To Know If Blogging Is Right For You

By Rajkumar Jonnala / Blogging Tips

With the growing field of technology, internet is getting popular day by day. There are many people who are making their livings by doing some kind of work on the internet. One of the best and popular ways to make money from the internet is by blogging. Blogging is one of the most popular ways to earn as well as to get famous. Blogging is not an easy task and it requires lot of passion and hard work to make money with the blog. The blogging is not for every one as well. Many people start the blogging and either due to the lack of interest or passion, they leave it after some time. Well, leaving the blogging from in between can put you into pressure and upset from the life. So you must know that whether the Blogging Is Right For You?? Well, there is not any person who is going to guide you. You will have to take decision yourself. Well, I am going to post some tips, by which you can easily make the decision that whether the blogging is right for you or not.

1. Do You Enjoy Communicating With Others?

Well, as you know you come across the different people from all over the world via the blogging. You must ask yourself that whether you like the communication with other people or not? If Yes, is the answer, then blogging is for you by which you can communicate with people from all over the globe. And if No is the answer then there is not any bigger enemy of your than the Blogging.

2. Do You Interest Falls Under Any Topic?

The second question needs to be asked is that whether your interest falls in any particular topic. The interest is the only thing that will create new ideas in your mind. Blogging about the topics, that you do not know about will not help you at all. Such topics can allow you to taste the success for short period of time, but not for the whole life.

3. Do You Like Spending Time On Internet?

I know your answer will be Yes for sure. But wait, I am not talking about spending time on Facebook or any other social networking site. I am talking about surfing the internet to find new blog post ideas. Well, this is not as simple as sounds. Finding the right stuff and then creating links by visiting other blogs requires lots of time to be spent in the front of internet. And only those people can survive in this environment, who love to surf the internet.

Rajkumar is an enthusiatic blogger from Andhra Pradesh, who works on Andhra Pradesh exam results website by providing the information of ap 10th class results and AP Intermediate 2nd year results 2012.