Best practices in blogging business.

 Let’s say you’ve done everything right as a blogger, and you managed to build yourself (through sweat, hard work and dedication) a shiny blog, with lots and lots of traffic. Congratulations! But, you surely must have noticed something: this blogging thing takes an awful lot of time. And as we all know, time is money. So it would make sense to… compensate yourself for all the hours you put into this.

 Hell, if you compensate yourself enough, and do things right, you could enter the ever growing ranks of the pro-bloggers, and forever say goodbye to the 9 to 5 job. In the next few bullets, I’ll try to show you the things I learned in my one year of blogging experience.

5 Tips for Writing Quality Blog Content.

As a blogger, the content of your blog is the most vital piece of your site. You ought to write unique content, use keywords that can make your site get indexed easily by search engines; increase your page rank and draw more traffic. Here are the five tips to guide you in creating quality content for your blog to make you stand out from the crowd: 

What is a “blog” and “blogging”?

This post is meant to help newbie bloggers or those interested in starting a blog and wish to know exactly what it means, and to an extent, understand what blogging is all about.

 A blog (shortened from the phrase “weblog”) is known as many things—a digital magazine, diary, newscast, collector’s meeting place, a showcase for your art, information sharing, teaching hub, place to learn and...well, almost anything you want it to be. A typical blog combines text, images, videos and links to relevant pages and media on the web. Blog readers can leave comments and communicate with the author. In fact, dialogue and interaction are a popular part of a blog’s success.

How to insert a “Read more” tag to blogger posts.

 Having a choice of making your blogger posts on your home page have a "Read more" text or button is an awesome element that makes your blog entries basic, more appealing and professional. Envision every one of your posts stacking up the entire home page, it is disgusting. I encountered this issue the very day I began blogging and I chose to share how I handled the issue.

The "Read more" component or "Jump Break" is an element which gives you a chance to make expandable post summaries in your blog entries; configuring longer posts to appear as an introduction on the home page with a link to Read More. With Jump Breaks you can just show a snippet of your posts on the home page of your blog as blogger will embed a "Read More" connection to the full post where your readers can continue reading.

 A few people say it generates more traffic to your blog; it doesn't only do that, It additionally helps in keeping your blog's interface extremely basic and valuable.

How to modify blogger blog template, background and layout.

Yesterday I explained how you can change your blogger blog template. That post was centred on changing new custom blogger templates obtained from third party websites. Today, I will focus mainly on how you can modify and change the pre-installed templates from your blogger dashboard; modify the background and the layout of your
blog.

Here we go:

Click “Template” on the left menu,

Then click on “Customise” button as seen below. This will open up the “Template Designer” where you can change the template, background, adjust widths, layout of

How to change your Blogger blog template.

 Blogger has numerous default blog templates for bloggers to choose from. For those bloggers who have a taste for more attractive templates, you can easily download custom blogger templates and upload to your blog. Some of these default blogger templates are not search engine optimized because, they were designed many years ago and were not updated thereafter. Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing have updated their search algorithms many times and they are always updating to improve search results and users’ experience.

This is the more reason why, it is very imperative for bloggers to use  SEO friendly templates for their blogs. You can change the default template of your blog with any third party templates which can be purchased online or downloaded free of charge.

For this reason, I bring a simple tutorial to help newbie bloggers to learn how they can change their 

How to set up a free blogger account.

Blogger is one of the most popular blog creation tools found online to date. It is also one of the easiest to use with little worry about learning a whole new scripting language. Almost everything is handled automatically for you. Follow these simple steps to create your free blogger account and start blogging instantly:

Step 1: Go to http://www.blogger.com or http://www.blogspot.com

 Step 2: If you have a Gmail account, enter your Gmail address and password, then click the “Sign in” button on the page. If you don’t have a Google account, click on the “Sign Up” button. You will

see a page where you will create a Google account which you will use for your blog and other Google services. Fill the form accordingly. If you sign in successfully or succeeded in creating your new Google account, you will