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Feeling lazy? Stuck in a blogging rut? Need some help with motivation, inspiration, or organization? Instead of throwing your hands in the air, use these tools to help with each step of the process. From coming up with solid blogging ideas, to creating headlines, and managing your time, there’s something on this list that can help you increase your blogging abilities and create terrific content. So here's the list of 20 ultimate tools that can help you to manage things up in your lazy times. Coming Up With Creative Content Feedly - Feedly is a collection of news articles all on one place. The site lets you personalize your content so you only see articles that are relevant to your interests. Pocket - Pocket is a handy tool for when you find an article that you really want to read, but you don’t have time to read it. Use Pocket to store it for later. The app can store websites, tweets, videos, or anything else you find online. Alltop - Alltop is a collection of new...

When it comes to the issue of online marketing, there is one notion that is more underrated yet at the same time more cost-effective than anything else. We are of course talking about the notion of landing page. A landing page is most often a standalone page, connected or unconnected to your main site with the purpose of promoting your business. Still, its success depends on your ability to optimize it properly. Why does the landing page matter? Well, the answer to this question is really an easy one, first things first, as we mentioned before, there is nothing as cost-effective as a well-organized and optimized landing page. The most serious investment that you have here is to put some time aside to do it carefully and gain enough knowledge and skill to compose your landing page successfully. Because this way, instead of chasing after your target population, your plan is to make them follow you, landing page is also one of the most efficient and most sophisticated means o...

When any search engines, say, Google crawls yours site, it scans your site depending upon many ranking factors, as per written in its algorithm. Backlink is one of the major factors amongst them. The basic rule is pretty clear – the more backlinks your site has, the higher it will rank in search results. So to gain higher position in SERP ( S earch E ngine R esults P age ), you’ve gotta understand what backlink is, how it works & how to get backlinks to your blog, so that you can stand out in this heavy crowd. So let’s get started. What is a Backlink? Backlink as its name suggests itself, is a link thrown back to your blog. Let’s make it simpler. Suppose our friend Harry has a website. Now I asked him to put a link, say techabrel.com/blah-blah , in his site. And also I took him to the local restaurant and fed him tuna-salad to make sure he does so. And when he puts the link in his site, I receive a backlink. Tada. Why are backlinks so important? As I sa...

As a local SEO marketer, one requires to learn the ways to handle the targeted information on the internet. This acts as a major constituent of local search engine optimization as when one obtains information, especially for other sites, this will give them the edge. Link building is an extremely crucial part of SEO. This is a process that is time consuming, thus often is quite frustrating. Following the constant algorithm changes the concept of link building for some can be little confusing. The fact remains, regardless of which way one spins search engine optimization, the process of link building remains at the mainstay of augmenting one’s position in the online search results. And this is very much applicable to local SEO as well. Local SEO gaining recognition: Local search engine optimization is gaining good recognition these days. In fact a majority of the local or small businesses are giving their 100% and putting in all their efforts for dominating their local market....

So you have created a blog. Submitted it to major search engines. Put some posts on it. Played around SEO. Now what? Would you just wait for s-o-m-e-o-n-e to come and see your masterpiece and hope that they come back again later!! Sounds horrible right? Relax buddy. For a blog and a blogger, traffic is everything. No matter how read worthy content your blog has, it’s totally a piece of crap if you don’t have a group of readers (called traffic) to read it. Sorry to say but it is the truth. But how can you actually drive traffic to your blog? You can’t actually send them an invitation card, can you? So basically what you’re gonna learn today is how to increase your blog traffic . It’s no rocket science. It’s not a ‘wow-I-got-result-in-a-day’ kinda skim either. These are the steps that you’ve to deal with all the time – today, as well as tomorrow . And even after getting a decent amount of regular traffic, you have to keep doing it. So without wasting time let’s bounce in. Here a...

Now since that we’ve learnt what Blogging & Search Engine Optimization is, it’s time for you to write your first blog post. While writing a blog post, you can’t simply paste it from your brain, you’ve gotta work out a few more things. Even if you’re a pro blogger, a pure post can’t come out until you connect your brain with the heart. And no one can tell you how to do that literally. The only way to do that is keep writing and let the flow blow automatically. When you’re crafting a post, keep in mind that you ain’t writing it for yourself, it’s the readers, who will read it. So you have to make sure that they remain connected throughout the post. Ask yourself, when do you hit the back button after landing on a webpage? Obviously when you don’t find it interesting or helpful enough. That’s the same thing your visitors do. Suppose you’re having a dinner in some restaurant. There you’re never given a bunch of foods altogether. At first you’re served with a starter followed ...

Everyday billions of people surf the net. There are billions of websites on the net. For a particular topic there are thousands of webpages to help the internet users. For bloggers it’s nothing but a race to reach the top of the rankings. The only thing that can help you survive the race is SEO or Search Engine Optimization . Without proper optimization, your blog is nothing but a bundle of wastages. Sorry to say, but that’s the harsh truth. There are several factors that defines the SEO or Search Engine Optimization. Amongst them one of the most important measure is image optimization. Previously I explained how you can optimize an image for better SEO of your blog. Google’s recent Panda algorithm update has emphasized on image sizes to rank pages. So besides those classic optimizations, you’ve to now care about the image size as well. Never forget that you’re in competition with thousands of other websites providing the same sort of stuff to the internet users. So if a v...

In my last article I tried to elaborate what SEO is . But that was just a beginner's stuff and written for the basic knowledge about Search Engine Optimization. Now the real question is — how exactly can you perform SEO? Many bloggers keep saying that SEO is really complex thing, it's not a piece of cake and stuffs. Chillax guys! I admit that it isn't a piece of cake, but it's nothing more than 2 pieces of cake, lol. And if you can eat 1 piece of cake, eating 2 pieces of cakes is just a piece of cake for you, right? Anyway, I'm gonna write a series of articles to help you optimizing your blog for better search engine performance. So just stick to TAB. And today in this article you're going to learn how to search engine optimize your blog's images, or say, Seofy the images . So let's dive in. Why optimize images? The first question that might arise in your mind is why the heck should I optimize the pictures? But buddy, the problem is that the Se...

If you are blogging from several months, you might have heard the term SEO for thousands of times, right? It's really fascinating to gawk at others SEOfying there blog while you can do nothing about it. And that is the moment you go mad about it, hunt for it everywhere and after some repeated failures your frustration turns into anger — Chillax!! TAB is here. Believe me, all bloggers go through this same phase of life. It's the key ingredient of success. I have posted many articles on blogging, but all of them were mainly concentrated on the basic designing of your blog. But the actual fact is that to make a popular blog, you gotta weave many things out by yourselves. And SEO is one of those things. No doubt you can hire an expert to build the SEO for your blog, but that's not what I recommend. If you want to be a real blogger, you must lasso the crafts in your finger tips. So all you have to do is calm down, take a drink and start reading this post out. SEO canno...

Writing tons of posts? Yet not getting desired amount of traffic? Your posts ain't coming to the search results due to lack of sitemap? If the answers are yes, then probably I got you covered, I have the solution to your blood boiling problem. So today in this article I'm gonna tell you how to generate a sitemap of your blog or website and easily submit it to Google's Webmaster tools so that your high quality content gets the perfect exposure through the search results. But first of all let me clarify the concept of sitemap to ya. Must Read: Powered by Blogger Attribution — How to Remove it From Your Blog? So what's a sitemap? You read books (the real ones with pages in it)? If you remember that kinda books you must remember the table of contents at the starting of the book. Right? In case of your blog, that page of contents is known as sitemap. To define it " blogologically " — A sitemap is the list of your blog posts (often a XML file), that ...