February 6, 2012

What blogging platform should you use?

What blogging platform should I use?

There are so many different options for new bloggers that it can make you dizzy trying to choose the right platform. If you are looking for a solution, you’re probably asking questions like: ‘Should I host my blog with Blogger.com or use WordPress?’ ‘What is the difference between a hosted blog platform and a self [...]

Get a custom URL for your blog – It’s your brand

get a custom url for your blog

Your website is part of your brand. Make sure you own it! It is easy to use a custom URL on Blogger so there is no reason to be using companyname.blogspot.com for your web address. Make the web address www.companyname.com/ca/net/etc…If your company name is unavailable, get creative by adding something to the address.

When you own your web address, you can take it with you if you decide to change systems. If you use a Blogger address or another providers, you become tied to them because they own the URL.

Add Adsense in Between Blogger Posts

You are more likely to generate revenue with Google Adsense if your advertisements stand out. With Blogger, you can place Adsense between your blog posts as a Blogger gadget. This is called inline ads. Having inline advertisements is a great way to make them stand out to your readers. To set up inline Google Ads [...]

Wrapping Text Around Adsense in Your Blogger Posts

One of the most effective ways to generate Adsense revenue is to place ads into the content of your blog posts. by wrapping text around your Adsense, they’ll stand out while a post is being read. To embed adsense in your content and wrap text around it: Login to your Adsense account Click Adsense Setup [...]

Organizing Blogger Content Using Labels

By attaching labels to your blog posts, you can group relevant content both on the dashboard of your Blogger account, and on your blog. Here are a few ways to add labels and make them show up on your site: Add labels to posts in the “edit posts” section of Blogger: tick the blog posts [...]

Add a Blogger site to Google Webmaster Tools

Google’s Webmaster Tools application allows you to see how Google crawls and views your blog. With Google Webmaster Tools you can: analyze your blogs internal and external links upload a blogger sitemap to help Google find all of your pages review the keyword terms that your blog shows in Because Google owns Blogger, you can [...]

Adding Google Analytics to Blogger

Driving traffic to your blog is the key to earning revenue from adsense. In order to understand the success of your efforts, it’s important to be able to analyze the traffic that visits your blog. To do that, set up a Google Analytics account and I’ll show you how to add it to your blogger [...]