New Year, Great Look and Big Plans – Hello 2012!

Blogging Goals And Resolutions

New Look - 2012I’m pretty excited to post our first article of 2012. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone! We’re starting the year with a brand new look. I spent the better part of yesterday setting up this new theme by wplook($) and all of the work involved with this type of project. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with the look. If it performs as expected, I think we’ll be set for a while. Let me know what you think.

I debated whether or not to write a New Year’s Resolution type post or not but I got caught up in the excitement and decided to share our plans for Hot Blog Tips. I’ll limit it to just a handful of goals for now, we all have work to do, right? Continue reading

4 Simple Yet Effective Ways To Improve Alexa Ranking

Four Ways to Decrease Your Alexa Ranking Plus a Word of Warning!

image - improve Alexa rankI’m sure you’ve heard of Alexa. It’s a company owned by Amazon.com that ranks popularity, traffic and publishes reports on over 30 million websites. I’ll show you four legitimate and common sense steps to improve Alexa rank without risky practices.

If you go to Alexa.com, you’ll be able to see how much in demand, and therefore how well respected a website is. All you need is a URL and you’ll be ready to roll.

So, how do you decrease your site’s Alexa ranking? It’s simple. Continue reading

How Should I Monetize My Blog?

When And How To Monetize A Blog

image - blogging moneyToday’s Quick Blogging Tip Thursday comes from a question from one of our subscribers.

image - quoteQuestion from Michael: How should I start to monetize my blog and begin earning money from it?

Hi Michael, I’m not sure how popular your blog is or in which niche so it’s hard to frame an exact answer. AdSense is always a common answer but you can do better than give away hard-earned traffic for pennies. Continue reading

Use Google Alerts To Improve Your Alexa Ranking

Three Reasons To Use Google Alerts For Improving Your Alexa Rank

image - Google AlertsAlexa ranking can be a pretty controversial issue, especially among bloggers, but it’s still one of the most popular website ranking tools on the net. Many people still use Alexa rank as a way to judge website traffic at a glance even though the numbers can be manipulated pretty easily.

We know that traffic volume is a huge factor in improving our Alexa rank but few people pay attention to the “links in” number. Alexa uses a more restrictive criteria for determining inbound links than Google does. For example, if you comment on this blog 100 times, and you absolutely should :) , Google may count each comment as an inbound link back to your blog. In fact, since we use CommentLuv Premium$, Google may count that that as 200 links! Now I’m just generalizing here and that’s not written in stone but it should do for this comparison. Alexa, however, will count those 200 links back to your blog (100 to your home page and 100 to your last blog posts) as ONE link. Continue reading

How To Blog On Controversial Topics

Controversial Blogging Tips & Tricks

image - toxsickBlogging is an independent platform where people can put forward their personal thoughts and exchange ideas with others having similar interests. You might remember the days of last US elections and how big role social media played in it. Many bloggers at that time rode the tide of controversy and presented the facts to their audience that were never known before and became popular writers. Controversy is a way of blogging where you don’t fear to present your ideas that are contrary to the general public belief. You know what you are speaking about and have enough facts and insights to support your view. Continue reading

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