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A platform for those who want to give themself an identity on web | Write for Inforids

Posted by on September 12, 2011 No comments

Yes its true, We are giving writers/bloggers/journalists, opportunities to show off their blogs by writing on Inforids.com

By this, We aim to Seek some of the best writers/bloggers/freelancers/journalists who can become regular authors for Inforids.com

After getting mails asking for writing guest posts on Inforids, we finally decided to go for this. You can share your ideas or can write about how to & tutorials as an guest author, that would be published on the main blog mentioning contributer’s name & website link. Those who write for Inforids regularly can become regular authors here.

We invite bloggers/freelancers/writers/journalists who can write good quality posts in the these categories:

  1. Technology
  2. Blogging
  3. SEO
  4. How to
  5. Gadgets
  6. Tutorials

Simply write an excellent post &  just send an email to riddhi@inforids.com  with some writing samples or include links to any of your previously published work on the Internet. Also write a little bit about your background, a list of topics that you want to cover and how often can you contribute to the site.

See complete details here.

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10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power

Posted by on September 3, 2011 4 comments

We think that its blogging, but its more than that, Its Power.

In the early 1990’s people started to set up their own websites known as web logs, a term which has been colloquially evolved into the term blog. What is a blog? These days every 1.5 seconds a new blog is created! Putting that in  another way:

• 7.4 Million blogs were created in the last 120 days

• 1.5 Million blogs were created in the past 7 days

• 900,000 blogs created in the last 24 hours

• 37,500 blogs created every hour

It means blogging is becoming more and more popular everyday. Should you join the blogosphere?

Yes you should , but lets see why do people blog?


Your Thoughts and Opinions are Important

Publish your thoughts & notions through blogging. You have something to say, and blogs provide a place to say it and be heard.

Take Out Your Inner Expert

Why hide your inner expert? Put the beauty to the world. Blogs are wonderful tools to help bloggers establish themselves as experts in a field or topic.

To Make a Difference

Encourage people to go for things which you think is right. Many blogs are issue-based meaning the blogger is trying to provide information to sway people’s thinking in a certain direction.

There are People Like You. Connect to Them

Build a like-minded community. Listen to those who think like you. Blogging brings like-minded people together. Starting a blog can help you find those people and share your opinions and thoughts.

You can Help Many

You can be the a source of great help for someone. Many blogs are written to help people who may be going through similar situations that the blogger has experienced.

Echo your Voice to Turn into Billions

Take your business, company & voice to billions. Blogging is a great way to help market or promote yourself or your business, product or service.

Stay Updated & Increase your Knowledge

You will get something that you don’t know yet, through blogging. Since successful blogging is partially dependent on posting frequency and providing updated, fresh information, it’s a perfect way to help a blogger stay abreast of the events in a specific field or topic.

You Love to make Money

Open doors for making money. It’s important to point out that most bloggers don’t make a lot of money blogging, but the potential does exist to generate revenue from your blog with hard work and commitment.

To Have Fun and Be Creative

Doing blogging for just fun is common. If writing interests you, certainly it will become your passion. One of the most important keys to successful blogging is having a passion about your blog’s topic, so you can write prolifically about it. Some of the best and most interesting blogs started out as blogs that were written just for fun and to give the blogger a creative outlet.

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Posted by on August 21, 2011 18 comments

Article content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you start a blog (Don’t have a blog yet,  See 10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power, create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.

Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.

1. Knowing & attracting your Audience

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Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.

2. Decide on an identified, focused subject

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Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.

3. The Power of Titles

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.

4. Good Images conveys it All

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot – use them.

5. Be Original & Creative

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Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.

6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work

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Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.

See also: Top 8 Website Killer & Common Blog Design Mistakes | Dont Let them Go

7. Work on content organization & structure

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.

8. Style of your writing

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There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.

9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.

10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers.

One of the positive impact can be Decrease in the Visitors Bounce rate on your website & can yield high traffic to you blog.

See Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.

What do you think now? Share your views with us & comments below.

20 Free SEO Link Building Tips for your Blog

Posted by on August 14, 2009 32 comments

Writing a blog means writing about what you know and then making sure it is keyword analyzed. None of these tips cost me money, only time. If you’ve got the time, you can optimize your blog into a substantial income generating machine. The following tactics are what I do to give the search engines something to crawl about as well as to make money. Here are 20 Free Tools that will increase your traffic, give you higher page rankings in the search engines and convert readers into customers.

1. ARTICLE MARKETING: There are hundreds of article directories that need articles on almost any subject you can think of. In addition, article writing is a great way to drive targeted, highly responsive traffic to your blog. I turn every blog post into a keyword dense, promotional information piece guaranteed to create traffic. Doing this will not only strengthen your search engine visibility, it has been known to increase sales. But, best of all, it’s absolutely free.

2. BACK-LINKS: These are links that link back to your blog. I make it a practice of reading at least 1-2 blogs a day that my peers create. When I read something I’m interested in, I comment on it then follow up on the comment with an email to the Blogger requesting a link exchange. The theory is, if a blog has enough relevant links linking back to it, your search engine page rank will increase, therefore causing more traffic sent your way, as well as it boosts credibility to your blog.

3. SIGNATURE ON EMAILS: I know this is old, but it works. Each time I send an email, I include my blog link under my name. Most email programs allow you to include signatures. Great promotional tool to use when you are forwarding those wacky emails to all your friends.

4. PUBLISH A NEWSLETTER: Your subscribers are loyal to you and will be more likely to buy the things you recommend to them because they trust you. Use your built in list to market your favorite products and services.

5. SOCIAL BOOKMARKING: DIGG, SPIN, SCOOP, DE.LICIO.US, TWITTER, DROPJACK, REDDIT, SIMPY, etc.

Social Bookmarking is becoming the new method for surfers to find information on the internet. Make your blog posts easy to find by submitting your posts to as many social bookmarking sites as you can and watch your traffic grow.

6. FORUMS: Answer questions in forums and discussion groups. Yahoo! Answers has a wonderful method to publicize your blog by allowing you to present your advice to people posing serious (and not so serious) questions on a variety of topics. They even allow you to include your link in your answer.

7. LINK REFERRAL: A traffic magnet that I use daily. I review other business websites, give honest opinions, and in turn I receive targeted traffic. Tip: Use your forum to post and respond to questions. This gives you an added bonus.

8. MY BLOGLOG: Kind of a social bookmarking-blog-traffic enhancer site. I just signed up yesterday and I received 20 visitors in the first 30 minutes. Join Inforids on MyBlogLog

9. SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION: Using Web CEO, I submit my site to all the major and minor search engines. There is a free version as well as a paid version. However, I find that the free version suits my professional needs.

10. BLOG OPTIMIZATION: Again, Web CEO comes in handy. I use it to correct errors that my eyes can not see. It is the program to use that will remedy the nuts and bolts of any website or blog.

11. KEYWORD DENSITY: Should be at least 3% in order for the search engines to crawl your site.

12. BLOG DESIGN: Having a clean site design that is uncluttered and easy to navigate doesn’t hurt. Don’t ‘crowd’ your site with an over abundance of advertising, the search engine spiders might consider your blog to be spam if you do.

13. CONSISTENT BLOG POSTING: The recommendation is to post at least 3-4 times per week. Personally, I post Monday – Friday, treating my blog like a job. It helps cure any procrastination urgings I might feel.

14. RELEVANT CONTENT: It is imperative that you create relevant content. Don’t mix a potpourri of information on a blog that is supposed to be about digital cameras. Resist that temptation to step outside of the box, instead contain your flow of information as it relates to your niche subject.

15. RELEVANT ADS: This is also true for the type of advertising you allow on your blog. Health and vitamin supplements don’t belong on a blog about video email software.

16. DEEP LINKING: Create strong internal links to other blog articles in other postings. The search engine spiders love this. It allows them and your readers to crawl around your blog longer and deeper.

17. RSS FEEDS: Use FeedBurner to help distribute your blog to the rest of the blog reading world. RSS Feeds are like hungry virtual Venus fly traps waiting for your information to satisfy its information craving. Use it to your advantage and create strong backlinks as well as free distribution of all your content.

18. USE KEYWORDS, TAGS AND LABELS: Tagging creates a point of reference for your reader as well as the search engines. Remember when we were children and we played the game of tag? Getting tagged then was bad; however having tags for your blog posting helps to categorize your work; it helps readers find what they are looking for.

19. BLOG POPULAR: Give your audience what they are looking for. There are times when I go to what’s popular on Yahoo! or I will just use Web CEO to tell me what all the search engines are showing as popular for the day and write an article or blog about that (I keep the topic relevant to my content though.)

20. COMMENTING: Yes, Comments are the great source of traffic to your blog. So, comment on high page rank blogs like mad, also pay some attention on your comment writing style & its relevancy to the topic.

Ok, these are just 20 Free SEO Link Building Tips (by LaTease Rikard). Let us know if you have more, put comments below, the list is always free to grow!

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