This guide will help you to decide whether you need an SEO expert or not. Think thrice before hiring an SEO expert from anywhere, that may be your friend.

Are you a blogger? Obviously. Otherwise, you won't read this article.

We, blogger, are very talented, formerly said, multitalented. Really, you are multi-talented because you are a 1. blogger, 2. web designer, 3. Online marketer, 4. SEO expert (Really?) and so on. Hence we are multi-talented.

This lines are applicable for all of us but is it true? Sometime Yes when sometime No.
Anyway, I am writing something different from core point. But all of those lines are really thinkable for a newbie blogger.

We start blog for making money. To make money, we do whatever and nothing. (rare combination, isn't it?)

But this is absolutely true. We hire different experts like Designing expert, content writing expert and SEO expert to do some SEO on behalf of you.

Sometime we choose the right person or company to do essential SEO for your blog but most of the time we face different problems due to wrong SEO or Black Hat SEO.

Google loves SEO but not Black Hat SEO. This big "G" loves to show informative article instead of bad articles.

There are so many advantages as well as disadvantages of hiring a SEO expert.

Advantage:

There might have tons of advantages but today I will mention only those what I faced before or heard before from my friend bloggers.

You will surely have a great position in Google Search Engine Result Page which could bring more organic traffic towards your blog.

Disadvantage:

I know a critical disadvantage more than advantage of hiring a SEO expert. Few days back, I was with my friend in a conversation. He shared his story of his "SEO Expert".

He hired an expert from Fiverr by spending only $5. This is the one and only mistake that he did ever. The guy from Fiverr did black hat SEO for him and did something wrong with his blog. In this way, he almost lost his blog brutally.

Case No. 2:

I was again with another friend on Facebook and we were talking about creating more high PR backlink. Actually, we are good friend (Thanks blogging). I just got shocked after hearing his experience with a LINK building expert. He hired a guy who had to create backlink for his blog in exchange of $100. This is obvious that no one can create high PR backlink for only $100.

That guy made tons of backlink from some adult sites for his Telecommunication based blog. Then he spent almost 5 months to remove all those links.

So, be alert before hiring a SEO expert. Check the guy whom you want to hire.

What do you think about SEO EXPERT? Do share your opinion with us.

Don't read this article because today I am going to illustrate why do 60% newbie bloggers quit their blogging journey just after starting 3/4 months. Yes it is reality and I have seen so many bloggers in my little blogging journey.

I have been on this blogging field for almost 2 years and in this little journey, I have seen so many new bloggers who started their blog for one reason and quit their blog for another reason.

I am not kidding with you. In fact this is just the actual fact. So, do you ever think about quitting? If yes then I request you not to read my blog. Honestly, I just hate them. Anyway, I am not talking about all kind of stoppers but most of them are being hated by me.

So, why do people quit blogging?

There might have tons of reasons but today I will mention only known issues what I have seen with my few blogger friends. On the other end, blogging is all about experience and I am sharing my own experience.

Don't have time:

This is the first reason because of people don't want to blog. But believe me, you are thinking just wrong and nothing else. Maximum 2 hour requires to set up a blog on any platform. Mind it, I am talking about blog, not a forum or website. And you need maximum 1.5-2 hour daily to spend for your blog in order to do some SEO or content writing or commenting etc. Only 3-4 articles are just enough to be published on your in each week. So, my friend, please think about this. Everyday we spend our valuable time by watching cinemas, listening to songs etc., so why we can't do blog instead of cinema

Interest:

Everyone has interest on their favorite thing like football, fashion, gardening or any other. But I have a lot of interest on blogging and other blogging related stuffs. So, time is not a factor for me since I have interest. If you don't have interest on blogging, don't do that. I would say you are wasting your time. But you don't have interest on your current niche, leave it immediately and start doing blog on a topic on which you can write fluently. Don't go for 10 thousands topics, instead pick out only one topic from those 10 thousands topics what you most. It will help you by 100%.

Funds:

Money is everything. Everyone's motto is to make money anyway. Why are you studying? For Job. Why are you doing job? For making money. In these present days, I you don't have money, you are nothing. On the other end, how much you invest in your business, your profit will be increased according to the ratio. This is an universal truth that self-hosted WordPress is the best CMS to start a blog. Even my each blog (except this) is running on WordPress. But if you don't have much funds, you can't buy hosting or a theme which is SEO friendly. Otherwise these, you will feel alone.

Knowledge:

Your knowledge matters. You don't have to be a MCA student or IITan in order to do blog. Rather than this, you need to learn SEO, online marketing strategies and so on to keep running a blog smoothly. But if you don't want to learn from other blog, you are making a big mistake. Everyone is learner. Every top bloggers also learn from other blogs. So, why are you hesitating to learn?

Your Goal:

Everyone starts blogging with a motto or after making a target to reach.
SUCCESS IS NOT A DESTINATION, SUCCESS IS A JOURNEY.
Everyone does blog for making living. But that should not be your first goal at all. This aim is very harmful for bloggers, webmasters, online marketers and everyone else. People start blogging for making money which doesn't help them to make money and thus they quit their blogging journey. Don't blog for money or search engine. Do blog for helping others. It will help you to credit dollars in your bank account.

I think you should avoid all the things what I mentioned here. So, stay foolish, stay hungry. Learn new things, forget about money, do promotions and that's all.

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Are you looking for a tool which could analyse your keyword effectively? Long Tail Pro/ Platinum will be the best one ever for bloggers, online marketers and everyone.

You know that Google is very strict in order to show search result to the user. There are tons of facts and myths to get ranked one in Google SERP and the first step is Keyword Research. Whenever you write a post, you should be aware of the main keyword of your blog post.

I think you know what keyword is. If no, here is a quick recap. In a single line, Keyword is what people type in google and other search engines in order to find a solution of their problem.

So, what will happen if you don't write a post what people don't search on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.? The result of your entire effort will be a big zero and nothing else. You will still get only few visitor on your blog even when you have 1000 posts. It is true. Real phenomenon. I have a total 1 year of experience of this same issue.

So, what is the solution? The only solution is "Keyword Research". previously most of the bloggers used to open Google Keyword Tool to research on their keywords. But after major changes, it became useless for bloggers.

There are also so many paid tools like Semrush (Cloud App), Market Samurai etc. which are available for cross-platforms but I am a big fan of Long Tail Pro.

Introducing Long Tail Pro:

Long Tail Pro is not a free app after 10-days trial period. You can easily download a free copy of trial version from the official website of Long Tail Pro.

This is very easy to use as well. You just need an AdWords account in order to use all features (I recommend you to use this since deprived of AdWords account, it is useless).

After opening it, you need to create a campaign and enter seed keyword. Seed keyword means the actual keyword on which you would like to write your next post. Then press the "generate Keywords" button. You will get a screen something like the following as a result;

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Press on any keyword to analyse that effectively. 

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You will get Domain Authority, Site Age, Page Links, mozrank and many other of the site for which the site is ranking on the the first page of Google.

You know that everyone does blog for money, even me myself too. So, there is also another reason for researching on keywords. That is finding high CPC keyword so that we can make more revenue. To find high CPC keyword, just back to the from page of LTP and navigate through "Apply Filters". Then add a thinkable price for that keyword. I am from India, that's why I have to add CPC in INR. I think you have to add this in USD if you are from USA.

You can also add other conditions like global search volume, title competition etc.

So, I think now you should start keyword research to make a next level blog. Except keyword research, don't write a post. In 90% of time, it won't be helpful for you.

This is a million dollar question. But really do you have any answer? I think no since there are so many advantage as well as disadvantage of enabling guest blogging on your blog.

You know that blogging means not only writing, instead there are so many facts/myths behind blogging. People start blogging on their favorite subject to update their friends, office stuffs or any other people.

There should have more than 2/3 billions blogs and 50% of them accept guest blogging. You may say, the percentage is very low. Yes, but after a few seconds, your thought will be changed.

There may have 2 billion blogs but half of them are useless. Means, some people created a blog but haven’t done anything with that. Only the blog name is blocked but actually, the blog is blank. So, now there are 1 billion blog.

In those 1 billion blogs, half of them are not so user friendly. So, they are on the way to stop their blog. Means, now there are 1 million blog.

Now count the number of blogs where you can submit guest posts. It is only 5 lakh.  But most of them have no PR. That’s why people don’t want to submit guest posts to there.

Anyway, there should have tons of reasons why bloggers should enable or disable guest posts but today I am going to tell you the advantages of enabling guest posts on your blog.

Advantage of enabling guest post on your blog:

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Community:

You are doing blog for money and for money, you need high quality content and readership with great relationship. If you have enabled guest blogging on your blog, there is a chance to build a great relationship with other blogger friends.

Content:

Guest blogging is all about writing a great content to submit. For money, you need great posts on high CPC keywords and you will get some free content (may be written on high CPC keyword) for your blog from guest authors.

Get Traffic:

If you have published a guest post on your blog, I am sure that the particular guest author will share his/her post from his/her end on different social networking websites i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc. In this way, you will able to get more traffic for your blog.

These are the core advantages of enabling guest blogging on your blog when there are also some disadvantages.

Few days back, one of my friends lost his AdSense account due to Copyright Material which was posted by a guest author. I know that the problem is from my friend’s side. So, be aware when you are going to publish a guest post. Try to check that post manually using different search engines like Google, Bing etc. whether that was published before on anywhere else or not.

If you want to make money from your blog, don’t accept guest posts which are written on low CPC keywords.

Don’t give the Author profile to your guest bloggers. Instead of that, you should give Contributor profile. I am talking about WordPress (self-hosted).

Other fellow bloggers submit guest posts for getting high PR backlink. If you have a great PR and don’t want to lose link juice, there is no need to enable guest posts.

What do you think about guest blogging? Did you ever submit a guest post on any blog? Do share your opinion with us.

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This tiny tutorial will help you to check page loading time of your blog so that you can give your readers a better user experience.

You know that starting a blog is as simple as said. You can easily start your blog/business within seconds on different platforms like Google Blogger, Self-Hosted WordPress, Tumblr etc. But this is much difficult to keep running a blog for a long time.

You will get tons of up and downs in your blogging journey. You will get penalized by Google Panda, visitors will be reduced and so many difficulties.

Page Speed is one of the biggest issue with most of the bloggers because they are not take care of it and this habit is totally against of Google. Google always try to give better result to their users and “Page Speed” is one of them which cause less readership/visitor.

This is a common fact that you don’t want to open a site which is taking a lot of times. May be the site is giving correct result but due to high page loading time, you won’t open the site again. Isn’t it?

The same matter happens with your own blog reader too. So, you need to check page loading time of your blogand reduce page loading time as well. But this is not possible to determine which is taking more time to load. That’s where page loading time checkers come in.

How to check page loading time of your blog?

There are so many tools those assist us to improve page loading time of our blog. But today I am going to introduce some of them.

GTMetrix:

GTmetrix is a great tool and my first preference ever. You can surely improve page loading time of your blog. Just go to the homepage of GTmetrix and enter your URL before hitting enter. It will give you a detailed information by which you can certainly improve your loading time.

Pingdom:

Pingdom is another great tool just like GTmetrix. But it provides more data. It will show specific line of code which is taking more time to load. It is simpler than GTmetrix in terms of using. You could get server error details, redirection etc.

Google Page Speed Insights:

This is something different tool which is produced by Google Developers to check page loading time of your blog. You will get two different results; one for mobile users and last one for desktop users. Go to Google Page Speed Insights. 

That’s it! Although I have mentioned only four tools to check page loading time of your blog but you can also use other tools like WebToolHub etc. to do the similar thing.

Which page loading time checker is the best? What do you think about the impact of page loading time in SEO? Do share your opinion with us.

People are staring their own blog on different niche i.e. tech, blogging, money making idea, gardening, medicine and so on. But do you know that Blogging niche is not for you?

You know that people are doing to blog on numerous niche what they like. But there are also so many people who are doing blog only for making money or for search engine without having any idea.

This is a collective circumstance that people are doing blog on Blogging and Tech niche more than other niche like fitness, cooking, fashion etc. because this is very easy to get content creation idea as well as the payout is good enough.

But most of the people are starting blog without having any knowledge about SEO, advance tactics, social media promotion etc. Even I also did so on my second blog. But after considering few things, I left blogging niche and start writing on how-to guides and other latest technology stuffs.

But if you are thinking that you can start a blog/business what you don’t know, just leave it. You won’t be satisfied with that unknown topic.

Do you want to contribute on a music competition when you don’t have any acquaintance about songs and how to sing a song or so on? Perceptibly, your answer will be NO.

So, why are you participating on a blog competition when you don’t have any knowledge about blogging? Just ask this question yourself. Make sure that you have sufficient information on blogging, Adsense etc. to start your blog on “Blogging” niche.

I have also seen that some new bloggers start blogging on “How to Make Money from Blogging” but they haven’t made even a cent from his/her blog. I just hate them and nothing else. If you are doing the similar thing, I indorse you to stop that immediately. Actually, you are not doing anything. You are deteriorating your time.

Now you may ask that why am I doing blog on blogging? Yes, after doing blog for almost two years, now I have much info and I can knob some problems. That’s why I am now doing blog on Blogging niche.

Hope you have enjoyed this article. I just want to know your opinion. What do you think about present newbies who are starting blog on blogging? 

This comprehensive guide would assist you to adopt which money making method will be working best for you. People earn money either for his blog or from his blog.

Do you want to earn money? I think this is the funniest line ever. Everyone wants to make money from his/her business. Blog is also a business. If you are thinking so, you are not making money from your blog.

You know that now blogging becomes the most popular home-based business but it is not yet so easy to keep on. Isn’t it?

If you have just started a blog on any platform, then I would like to say that this guide is not for you. Honestly, this is not for you because making money from a blog takes time. This is not an overnight money maker.

You should consider doing blog for at least 6 months to seven months before staring monetization. Really! Only one week or one month old blog is not yet enough to earn money.

Top ways to make money from your blog:

Anyway, there is a lot of tactics which might be helpful for you. But you should choose the best one from the initial days of monetization.

Ad Network:

This is however the easiest way when your blog is at least six months old. There is a lot of ad networks like Google AdSense, Technorati Media Portal etc. which pays decent money. On the other end, it is also easy to get approved.

Affiliate Programs:

There are numerous affiliate programs from where you can earn money by referring your readers. But this is much difficult to choose the perfect affiliate product according to your blog niche.

Bonus Tips: If you are on blogging niche, you should consider using hosting affiliate programs i.e. Hostgator, DreamHost, BlueHost etc.

Direct Advertising:

Direct Advertising is another great method to make money from your blog. But you must have a good PR, DA and traffic to attract advertisers. If you have got advertisers, you may use Google DFP to serve them accordingly.

Paid Service:

Did you even get a page of different blog where they describes about their services like host migration, SEO service, article writing etc? I would say that it is great when you are developer. Make sure that you have a great knowledge on them. Otherwise, site crashing may be harmful for you as well as your client.

Sale eBook:

If you are doing blog on blogging niche, you can write an eBook on “Top 50 guest blog sites” or “How to earn $1k/month” etc. Also try to design an attractive eBook cover and great call to action button. Otherwise, you cannot motivate your readers to your customer.

Verdict:

There are also so many ways to make money from your blog but before implementing anything, you should consider building a great relationship and readership with other bloggers and on your blog respectively. How much good trust your readers have on you, the better it is to earn money from your blog.

What do you think about this? Which monetization method is working for you? Do share your opinion with us. We will surely try to help you with our own view.

This illustration will assist you to learn SEO aka Search Engine Optimization if you have just started blogging either on Google Blogger or on Self-hosted WordPress or anything else.