Wednesday, March 28, 2012

BlogWorld 2011 Recap

BlogWorld 2011 Recap: As we mentioned last week, some members of the Blogger team from Google HQ in Mountain View, Tokyo, Dublin, and Sydney (see group photo below) headed to Los Angeles to attend the 2011 BlogWorld & New Media Expo.





One of the primary reasons we attended the expo was to meet Blogger users 1:1, and to gain a better understanding of what we can do to improve the product to better meet your needs.


In addition to these discussions, we conducted surveys with many conference attendees to collect more in-depth feedback. Thank you! We really appreciate the valuable and candid responses.


In the survey results and our 1:1 discussions with you we heard a few common themes:

  • You’re hoping to widen your audience with Google+
  • You’d like more opportunities to customize and use gadgets with Dynamic Views
  • You’re looking for tips and best practices for how to make more money from your blog with AdSense
Your requests have been shared with the broader team and we’re hard at work making them happen for you. Stay tuned to the Buzz Blog in the coming weeks for follow ups, and in the meantime, check out some other photos from the expo below.

Bruce and Mara of MlovesM
Sabrina and Michael in the Blogger photo booth
Sabine and Lisa host a Google+ Hangout with bloggers from around the world

Posted by Michael Bolognino, Product Marketing Manager

Google AdSense & Blogger: An introduction

Google AdSense & Blogger: An introduction: Hi, my name is Andy Chung. I work on the Google AdSense team helping online publishers, specifically Blogger users like you, ensure your blogs are optimized to generate as much income for you as possible.


A few weeks ago we met with many of you at the 2011 BlogWorld & New Media Expo. One of the consistent themes we heard was: "please provide me with more tips on how to make money with my blog.”


At your request, we’re happy to bring you a series of posts with some helpful tips on how to configure AdSense to give you the highest possible return from your blog.


If you've been thinking about monetizing your blog and are unfamiliar with how Google AdSense works, here are the three things you need to know:


1. AdSense is built into Blogger:

You can easily sign up and start showing ads on your blog, without having to leave Blogger, by clicking on the "Earnings" tab in your dashboard. After completing the AdSense application, the next step is to designate where you want the ads to appear on your blog. Once your application is approved, we’ll start serving ads and you’ll start making money. And unlike many other blogging platforms, Blogger doesn’t take a cut of your revenue.



2. AdSense serves relevant ads on your blogs:

AdSense works by matching text and image ads to your blog based on your content and the types of users that visit your site. For example, if you write about running, your readers may see ads next to your post about running shoes and equipment. Ads are created and paid for by advertisers who want to promote their products.


3. Great content is key:

Posting high quality content is the best way to maximize your returns with AdSense. It’s important to take a little extra time defining your topic, creating a post that is engaging and matters to your readers. The more interesting and appealing your content is, the more likely your readers will be to click on the ads on your blog.

This short video will also give you a quick overview of AdSense and how it works with Blogger:

Stay tuned to the Blogger Buzz blog for more tips and tricks about monetization in the coming weeks.


Posted by Andy Chung, AdSense

Customize your search preferences

Customize your search preferences: Hi Bloggers.

Ensuring that your blog, posts, and images are accurately indexed so they appear correctly in search results is valuable. Today we introduced a suite of new features that enable you to more effectively customize your search preferences. Managing how your blog is viewed by search engines is an important aspect of maintaining a healthy blog, regardless of whether you’re new to blogging, or a seasoned veteran.

Here’s an overview of what we added:

The first thing you’ll notice is a new “Search preferences” option under the “Settings” tab.


Clicking it will display three sub-sections: Meta Tags, Errors and Redirections, and Crawlers and Indexing. When enabled, some of these features, such as Search Description and Custom robots header tags will also appear in the “Post settings” area of Blogger's post editor as well. For example, if you elect to create a Search Description, you may do so for your blog, and/or individual posts.







Also available is the ability to add a custom “Page Not Found” (eg. a “404”) message, and Custom Redirects for pages on your blog.

While most of the new features are located in the Settings tab, a few others can be found in the post editor. For example, we’ve introduced the ability to incorporate “alt” and “title” tags to images in your post.




Last but not least, you’ll also find a “rel=nofollow” link attribute in the link tool. Checking this box means that you don’t want this link to be considered when web crawlers are searching for information they’ll use to index your page.

While most of these features are easy to understand and use, others, such as custom robots header tags are geared toward advanced users only, hence the warning message:

Before diving in, I would encourage a quick read through the Help Center articles. They’re comprehensive, and do a great job translating some technical concepts to the layperson.




We hope you enjoy the new features. It’s all part of our effort to bring you a much improved and modernized Blogger. Next week, we’ll be holding a Hangout on our Google+ page to talk with you about your experience with these features and answer your questions. Follow us on +Blogger for details.




Happy blogging!






Bruce Polderman, Product Manager

Dynamic Views: Update #3 - Gadgets!

Dynamic Views: Update #3 - Gadgets!:

Hi Bloggers.



Have you been contemplating a new design for your blog? Are you ready to spruce up your pages with a fresh, modern, and new look? Then you may want to check out Dynamic Views - which now include gadget support.



Dynamic Views are a set of templates that make it easy and fun to explore a blog. As you might expect, we’ve made the gadgets interactive too. Instead of appearing in a panel that consumes valuable real estate on your blog, gadgets now appear in a dock that slides in and out as you move your cursor over them.


Gadgets supported in Dynamic Views currently include: Blog Archive, Followers, Labels, Profile, Subscribe (a new gadget - automatically present if either Follow By Email or Subscription installed), and Link List. These gadgets make it easier for your readers to navigate your blog (archive, labels), and to follow it (followers and RSS).



If you are currently using a traditional template and change to Dynamic Views, supported gadgets will automatically appear on your blog. Gadgets can be added, removed, or customized from the Layouts tab the same as with any other template.



If you’re one of the millions of people who have adopted Dynamic Views since we launched them in September 2011, we encourage you to head on over to our Google+ page and tell us what you like about them!



Happy blogging.



Bruce Polderman, Product Manager

Engage with your readers through threaded commenting

Engage with your readers through threaded commenting: You may have noticed that we’ve rolled out a number of improvements to Blogger recently. The folks over at Technorati referred to it as a “rampage”. Call it what you like, we’re definitely having fun giving Blogger the makeover it’s long deserved, and we appreciate all the positive feedback we received at the recent BlogWorld expo.



If you follow us on our Buzz blog, you’re aware that we publish surveys from time to time. They are one of several methods that we use to collect your feedback about what we can do to make your blogging experience better. A top request on the wishlist is improving Blogger’s commenting system, so we’re happy to announce that we’ve done just that.



Blogger now supports threaded commenting, which means that it is now much easier to differentiate between whether someone is making a general comment on the thread, or responding to another comment on the thread.





What do you have to do to enable this on your blog? Nothing! If you have Blogger’s commenting feature enabled, “Blog Feed” set to “Full”, and are using “Embedded” comments, then you’re ready to start a discussion with your readers. To check, or change your feed settings, select: “Settings > Other >, and then “Full” from the “Allow Blog Feed” dropdown:





To check your current form setting, select: “Settings > Posts and Comments, and select “Embedded” from the “Comment Location” dropdown:





Visit the Blogger Help Center for additional information.



Happy blogging!


Posted by Pat Coleman, Software Engineer

Improving Your Contextual Ads With Infolinks

Improving Your Contextual Ads With Infolinks:

Improving Your Contextual Ads With InfolinksAre you a content writer & you have your own blog? Then what are you thinking? Start making money with Infolinks - Contextual Network. If Are you trying to find a Adsense alternative or some other advertising and publishing network to make more money by improving your contextual ads from your blog or website? Then this might be the guide you have been looking for.

There are lot of great online contextual adverting companies found online all with fair per click (CPC/PPC) and Cost per action (CPA) for publishers.But according to me Infolinks is the wonderful contextual advertising platform for bloggers. Start Making Extra Money Today. Learn How You Can Master The Power Of InfoLinks and Contextual Advertising.Infolinks is a every growing online advertising network that gives advertisers new ways to advertise across the Internet and a new way for publishers to make new ways of making more revenue, even with existing ads such as Google Adsense.

For Infolinks ads you have to make your own blog. Write some articles for your blog and wait for them all to get fully indexed. Make sure that you have 9-10 articles in your blog before indexing takes place. After few days you will see your blog in Google or other search engines. Make some natural links to your blog. Back links will help you to get traffic for your blog.

Always write powerful content for your blog. Because your readers will like only useful content. Now, its time for earning money from Infolinks. Go to Infolinks.com and sign up as a publisher. Submit your and blog information in the form. They will give you 2- 3 days time for approval. If you get a mail for approval then you can easily add Infolinks ad code to your blog. Go here & make money

5 Common Mistakes In SEO and 6 Useful Tips

5 Common Mistakes In SEO and 6 Useful Tips:
5 Common Mistakes In SEO and 6 Useful Tips
If you are new blogger or webmaster then you will do some mistakes in your blog or website's SEO. Here I am sharing the video regarding common SEO mistakes and six useful tips regarding your SEO. Here in this video you will see five common SEO mistakes.

If you will follow these six tips regarding your blog or website's SEO. You will get more traffic from your website or blog.

5 Common Mistakes In SEO - HD Video Guide


Discussion About Five Common SEO Mistakes - 
1. Having no value proposition: If you want that your blog or website will get 1# ranking in Google search, then its wrong without knowing why it's helpful to searches.

2. Segmented approach: Be wary of setting SEO-related goals without making sure they’re aligned with your company’s overall objectives and the goals of other departments. For example, in tandem with your work optimizing product pages (and the full user experience once they come to your site), also contribute your expertise to your Marketing team’s upcoming campaign. So if Marketing is launching new videos or a more interactive site, be sure that searchers can find their content, too.

3. Time-consuming workarounds: Avoid implementing a hack rather than researching new features or best practices that could simplify development (e.g., changing the timestamp on an updated URL so it’s crawled more quickly instead of easily submitting the URL through Fetch as Googlebot).

4. Caught in SEO trends: Consider spending less time obsessing about the latest “trick” to boost your rankings and instead focus on the fundamental tasks/efforts that will bring lasting visitors.

5. Slow iteration: Aim to be agile rather than promote an environment where the infrastructure and/or processes make improving your site, or even testing possible improvements, difficult.

6 Useful Tips SEO Tips
1. Do something fantastic: Always use good way and make sure that your blog stands out from competition.

2. Include relevant words in your copy: Try to put something your hand work in search results. What would they query to find you? Your name/business name, location, products, etc., are important. It's also helpful to use the same terms in your site that your users might type (e.g., you might be a trained “home designer” but most searchers might type [architecture]), and to answer the questions they might have (e.g., store hours, product specs, reviews). It helps to know your customers.

3. Be smart about your tags and site architecture: Unique title and description will help you to get more traffic; include Rich Snippets markup from schema.org where appropriate. Have intuitive navigation and good internal links.

4. Sign up for email forwarding in Webmaster Tools: Help Google communicate with you, especially when they notice something awry with your blog.

5. Attract buzz: Natural links, +1s, likes, follows... In every business there's something compelling, interesting, entertaining, or surprising that you can offer or share with your users. Provide a helpful service, tell fun stories, paint a vivid picture and users will share and reshare your content.

6. Stay fresh and relevant: Keep content up-to-date and consider options such as building a social media presence (if that’s where a potential audience exists) or creating an ideal mobile experience if your users are often on-the-go.

Web Design and Online Marketing Combined for Online Business Success

Web Design and Online Marketing Combined for Online Business Success:




Have you ever thought about becoming the next internet millionaire? Or maybe you’d just like to be in control of your life supporting yourself financially entirely online? In this day and age where technology is king, many people from all around the world share your dream. Sadly, for most people a dream is all it ever amounts to. Most people don’t ever pursue their dream of working for themselves online.
They are too afraid to leave the security of their 9 to 5 jobs. Of the few who aren’t afraid to go after their dream, many people dabble and simply give up. Some find a small amount of success, but not nearly enough to live off of. But for a precious few, the very few who do what it takes and who have the guts and the drive to achieve their goals, their dream of being an internet millionaire is realized.
Before you read any further, you have to ask yourself a simple question. Which type of person are you? To be successful online, you don’t have to be a computer whiz, genius, or young pup. Most kids who grew up with a computer since childhood give up on making money online very quickly. No, you don’t need extreme smarts or youth to achieve online success you simply need two things: the knowledge and tools required for successful internet marking, and the determination to succeed.
A solid understanding of internet marketing and web design will help you go far in your online money-making goal. It also doesn’t hurt to have a good idea of what’s trending online and what has been successful in the past and what is currently successful.
Here are some tips to transform your life and help you achieve your online success.
Web designs convert
When considering your web design, think of it from a visitor’s point of view. What catches the eye when the page loads? Where are you directing them to go? Is the product you’re selling or the file you want them to download easy to access? Is what you want them to do, the conversion, easy to do? Whatever your conversion goal is, you must have it in mind while you design your website. Here are some elements of design that will help you with your conversion rates:
1- Make it easy to get to the page where your conversion will take place. The fewer the clicks, the fewer the page hops, the smaller the effort for your customer to buy, the better.
2- Be very clear and upfront with your customers. Tell them what you have, what you do, and what a great value you are offering them.
3- Don’t be afraid to tell your potential customers that you are in fact targeting them, and that you can help with their dilemmas.
4- Get rid of the junk! If it’s on your website and it only distracts prospective buyers from what your site is really all about, and takes away from what it is that you do, it will not be doing you any favors.
With Internet Marketing, it’s all about driving traffic
One of the single most important elements involved in online success is internet marketing. Internet marketing is, simply put, the ability to move traffic to your website. You could have the best, most well laid out web site on the market, but if you have no one coming to it, it simply won’t matter. Getting traffic to your website can be done in a variety of ways. You can choose to pay for traffic, or get traffic through un-paid methods.
Either way, some easy ways to get traffic to your site are blog and article marketing, PPC (pay per click) campaigns, email and offline advertising (such as newspapers, television commercials, so on). Be creative! There are many ways to get traffic to your site, and they are in no way limited to the few mentioned above. These are just a baseline to get you started. As long as you are diligent and follow these few tips, you will have all you need to be a huge online success!
Online marketing Big Island is a place where you will find all elements under one roof required to be embedded into your online business structure for its success and stability in a long run.



20 Interesting Pinterest Profiles That You Should Follow

20 Interesting Pinterest Profiles That You Should Follow:



Pinterest is the newest social network that made it in the same spot with the big guys from this industry. For those who don’t know what Pinterest is, well it’s a place in which you can post or search for cool stuff, mostly images.
In this article you can see a list of 20 interesting Pinterest profiles that you should follow if you are interested in everything which is related to design.

Top Design Magazine(that’s us)


Neat Designs


Bogdan Sandu


Design Rulz


Design Lovers


Shelby White


Ashley Burrough


Dvora Levy


Ryan Linstrom


Erin Griffiths


Elizabeth Goodman


Megan Matsuoka


Nicholas Villalva


Elizabeth Luttrell


Tara Stewart


Jennifer Pace


Carina Reis


Lachlan Widdison


Greg Phipps


Merrilee Larson