What is blogosphere? – How to become a member of blogosphere.

 

Before starting a blog you need to know what is a blogosphere, lets see what wikipedia think about it.

“The blogosphere is made up of all blogs and their interconnections. The term implies that blogs exist together as a connected community (or as a collection of connected communities) or as a social network in which everyday authors can publish their opinions.” - Wikipedia

A blogosphere is an online blogging community, when you start a blog, you automatically become a member of this community. The blogosphere is very huge, in 2009 technorati (a blog search engine and directory) has registered 1180997 blogs, this mean a lot of people from all around the world are blogging and are members of blogosphere.

Blogosphere is a kind of social media on web, which help us to interact with others and in building relationships with others who like us or who we like.

Who is blogosphere?

There are millions of people in blogosphere. The number of people is growing and growing very quickly. There are many members, who you might know in blogsphere like Jennifer love Hewitt, Barack Obama and John Kerry. Some big companies like Google and dell are also members of this community.

Do you want to become a member?

Before becoming a member of this community one must decide that what role he wants to play in that community. It is very easy to become a member of this community. For this you have to choose a blogging platform and you have to start your very own blog. Some platforms are free and some charge you fee. The most popular blogging platform blogger, which is owned by Google, is completely free. You can register and make your blog for free with blogger.

If you want my help I am ready to help you, to interact with me, please post comment and wait for my reply. I will reply very soon, thanks.

Five popular blogging platforms – which one is the best for you.

Unlike the old age of blogging there are hundreds of blogging softwares (CMS) and platforms are available now days. It’s not difficult to choose your blogging software, it totally depends upon what is your going to do with your blog. If you want to make a video blog there is a different software and platform available for video blogging, just like this there are many different types of software available for every blog type.
Without going in too much detail I am going to state some popular blogging softwares and comparing them with each other.

Blogger.

Blogger is owned by Google in 2003 since then it has been becoming popular and popular. It is the most popular blogging platform available for free now days. Its very easy to use, flexible, versatile and customizable. It has lots of features. The big advantage and plus point of blogger is that you can monetize (can make money by the blog) it easily even its completely free.
Blogger is the leader of market, it is continuously improving with updates and new technologies that ensure it to retain as a leader in market. There are several other softwares and platforms of blogging which can help you to start a blog. The comparison between them is given below.

Wordpress.

Wordpress is the biggest competitor of blogger. It is very powerful CMS that has hundreds of features available. It has a free version and a paid one. The biggest drawback of Wordpress is that its free version does not support monetization, which means you can’t make money by its free version.
Wordpress is the winner in the race of customization(tools and plugins) and features. If you want to make a blog with too many customizations I suggest you Wordpress. It works with hosted and non-hosted both the types of blogs.

Typepad.

It is another blogging platform popular now a day. It is easy to use, compatible and customizable. It has many tools by not more than Wordpress. It is not free at all you have to pay monthly fee for this CMS.

Movabletype.

It is a popular platform for team blogging, because it is very easy to setup multiple authors in the same account. It is non-hosted type of platform. Just like Typepad is also not free for use, you have to pay for the license, that is the biggest problem of this blogging platform. Its installation process is also not simple as others.

Joomla.

Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build blog. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
There are hundreds of CMS available now on Internet. Some are free and some charge you fee. A new trend is growing on the web which is social networking + blogging like myspace, facebook and xanga. Choosing a blogging platform and software is completely depends upon the question that what you are going do with your blog, why you want to make your blog and what role will your blog performs in the blogosphere so, take your time and think about it before starting you blog.
If you have any problem or question please post comment.

What is a blog, why n what to blog? – The pros and cons of blogs.

 

“A blog (a contraction of the term "web log") is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” – wikipedia

A blog is a short form of “weblog” that refers to an online diary, which is visible to everyone on the Internet, but now a blog is much bigger than its early days. A blog is just like a personal diary that you write regularly but the big difference between a blog and personal diary is that a blog is visible to every one unlike a diary, any one can read it with the help of Internet. A common thing between blog and diary is that both the things are sorted by date but blogs are usually sorted reverse by date.

From past few years blogs have became bigger and stronger than a personal diary. It has changed the entire web. It has changed the entire scenario of Internet to quickly, because it has became a product now days that can make money.

A blog generally uses software that makes it like a diary, this software is called CMS (content management systems). This system helps us to manage our content, which we writes in it, this content are called posts in blogs.

Why to blog?

There are several reasons of starting a blog, it can be your hobby or a way to connect with peoples and friends, and it can be for your business. Some answers of this question are given below.

• Blog to start a new hobby
• For sharing your idea and experience
• To help others in a field
• To expend your business
• To connect with other like you
• To make money

Take your time and think on it that why you want to make a blog, this question can also help you in starting your blog.

What to blog?

The answer of this question is very simple but also very deep, because it’s easy to make a blog but it’s difficult to run a blog.

Blogging is nothing but your idea, knowledge and experience about a topic, therefore it is very important to think about your topic hundreds of times before starting it. In my opinion you should always write a blog about your passion or about a topic in which your expert, because you have to write a lot on your topic, don’t write a blog about a topic that you don’t know. Not sure what your blog should be about? Here are some suggestions.

• Animals and pets
• Art
• Business
• Career Guide
• Celebrities
• Crafts
• Computers
• Hobbies
• Education
• Entertainment
• Environment
• Fashion
• Music
• News and events
• Personal diary
• Politics
• Religion
• Sports
• Technology
• Travel
• Video games
• Women’s problems
• Work
• About your experience
• Writing

I hope this post will clear your concepts about a blog. If you have any problem, please post a comment, thanks.

Feedburner on blogger - How to setup feedburner on blogger blog.

Feedburner is one of the most popular feed site. You can setup feedburner to your blogger blog easily. This can help you to increase your traffic, in fact feedburner is my 5^th largest traffic source. Feedburner has so many options that can help to promote you blog, publicize your blog and can also monetize you blog feeds by feedburner.
To setup feedburner on your blogger blog follow simple steps given below.

• First of all go to feedburner.com and make an account if you don’t have one, if you have an active Google account so you can sign in by that Google account in feedburner.
• Now enter your blog URL in burn a feed right this instant textbox and click on next.

• After this select atom feed and click on next again.

• After this step again click on next if you don’t want to change title and URL of you feedburner feeds. And click the next button once again.

• Now check all the options and click on next.

• After all these go to blogger.com and sign in by your account and go to setting => site feed.

• Select full from allow blog feeds, and enter your feedburner URL in post feed redirect URL textbox as in figure.

• Click on save button.

Wow! You have setuped feedburner on your blogger blog, now go and check how it works. please comment if you have any problem, thanks.

Blog Optimization – 12 Blog Optimization tips for your blogs SEO and Design.

 

Blog optimization is very important for new blogs, it helps you to increase your blog explorer, make it search engine friendly, increase your page rank and helps it to load quickly. Here are 12 blog optimization tips to build your blog better. Please try my tips practically in your blog design.

 

 

 

• Write keywords in your title tag, use two or more keywords in title and limit your title to 65 characters.
• Put your keywords in keyword meta tags in you HTML codes, put at least 3 or 4 keywords in it separated by (,) commas.
• Write separate description Meta tags for each page of your blog, write it attractive and limit your description Meta tags to 155 characters.
• Put no follow, no index Meta tags i.e. <meta name=”robots” content=”noindex,nofollow” > to your pages that you don’t want to index or which are unnecessary.
• Link your same looking and similar pages with each other.
• Write text body naturally as you think, don’t be artificial.
• Use your most important keywords in first paragraph, try vast keywords in your posts.
• Use all the keywords at least one time in your post, use clusters, modifiers, phrases and single keywords in post body.
• Remove unnecessary link, HTML codes, java scripts and other widgets from your blog home page.
• Put rel=”nofollow,noindex” codes in unnecessary link that you don’t want to follow.
• Search engines can’t handle frames, flash, QuickTime, java scripts and image maps so, try to don’t use these things.
• Make a circle in your post i.e. link your post together with keywords, using related post in your blog can do this.

Don’t forget to validate your template HTML codes by HTML validate. If you have any problem or suggestions please post a comment, Thanks.