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List of Blog Topics I Have Experimented and My Comments on Each

People close to me know very well how I frantically ‘build’ blogs than working on the existing ones. While I leave the maintenance part to my office staffs, I have always loved exploring potential niches to start blogs on. Some niches are quite fruitful, they drive huge amount of traffic and sufficient Adsense earnings. In [...]

How I Banked Five Figure Adsense Income using just a WordPress Plugin

Imagine how cool it would be if your 1 month old blog with just a couple of dozen articles drive in tens of thousands of visitors auto’magic’ally! That too for blog niches that you thought you’d never receive traffic even in your wildest dreams. It was really like a dream come true for me. To [...]

How to Add Star Rating in Search Results – Rich Snippets and Google Structured Data

So what are rich snippets? It is what Star Ratings, Authorship markup and other Structured Datas which appear on the search results are called. They help webmasters display additional elements along the search results, which obviously helps in gaining more Click-Through Rates. Google, with an intention of making search better for Googlers, introduced this feature [...]

Geographic Target in Google Webmaster Tools: See What Happened When I Changed It

This post is the result of my 7 day experiment to change ‘Geographic Target’ in GWT and to see whether it will make any impact on the search engine traffic. Experiment The average CPC (cost per click) of an Indian visitor is 8 cents in a tech blog I run. The same blog earns an [...]

Long vs Thin Content – About Length of Content Influencing Search Rankings

It was in the Google Panda update 2.2, Google officially stated that the update was focused on penalizing ‘shallow content’. Henceforth, webmasters seemed to be more concerned about the length of the content than anything else. Shallow content to be referred as ‘thin content’ is a popular misconception. “Webmasters consider the word ‘thin’ and ‘shallow’ [...]

What If You Hate Writing and Still Want to Make Money Blogging

They say the minimum requirement for a blogger is to write passionately about a topic. What if you are not passionate about writing at all and still wants to create a blog, publish, publicize and even make money? Actually it is not impossible as it seems. I’ll make a quick write-up on what else to [...]

Creating Google Adsense Account with Docstoc – Will it work?

It is not so difficult these days to get a fully approved Adsense Account. In fact, it takes only a day or two to register a Google Adsense account using 3rd party Adsense revenue sharing websites. But now the real concern is about the lasting of these kind of Google Adsense accounts. For those who [...]

5 Tips to Dramatically Increase Your Google Image Search Traffic

It was in my previous article about How to Make Money with Visitors from Google Image Search that I had promised to write about this topic and here you go for a quick read: 10 Ways to Massively Boost your Visitors from Google Image Search #1 Uniqueness How do you find an image to post [...]

How to Make Money with Visitors from Google Image Search – Monetizing Image Traffic

Monetizing visitors from Google images has always been a confusion for most of the bloggers and many of us consider such traffic to be useless. Whatsoever the fact is that 10-20% of search traffic of a typical weblog comes from Google Images. Still another fact is that none of the visitors either click ads or [...]

How Links from Twitter and Facebook Helps my Blog Rank Better?

So, you hear all the hype about how important Social Media Marketing is; and how much Google care about being your sites do good in these social networking sites. But considering the old-school SEO lectures you have read somewhere, you might be wondering how the hell a shortened URL (or a redirected one) with a [...]