The A to Z Guide for Beginner Bloggers:

The following is a guideline that will help you in becoming a better around beginner blogger. Hope you like it!


Aim to be a better blogger every day. Always try to learn something different and new. Here is a great site that will help you build your site by personally developing yourself along with your blog. Either you keep up with the times/technology or your blog will eventually fade into the black-hole of the blogosphere and be but a forgotten memory.

Be yourself! Don’t try to be someone that you’re not. People will see right through it. Readers of your blog will be able to connect easier and relate to you in many ways. Being yourself lets the readers know that you are sincere and helpful at the same time. Your personality will show through your blogging and the people will love you for just being yourself!

Caring about what you blog will make you a more sincere blogger to your cause. Whether it may be helping people with HTML or fixing cars, you will be able to write better articles and will be knowledgeable in your field.

Don’t ever copy anyone else’s works on the net. Plagiarism is frowned upon and you will never live it down if you are found to have copied another person’s works. Not only that but you might find yourself in a legal battle that you don’t need.

Entertain your readers! Entertaining your readers with great articles, tips and free stuff will always keep them coming back for more. People love a site they can have fun with and learn at the same time. Use your imagination, when we were kids we were able to do anything right (at least in our minds)? That imagination will help connect you to your inner-self and let you grow freely with your blog.

Find your niche carefully. Finding a niche where you fit in is critical as this will help you as a starting blogger. Your knowledge of course will depend on your experiences and how much you care to expand your knowledge of that subject. We are all experts in our field, but can still master new ways of approaching problems and fixing them.

Great articles. Great articles are the gateway to your massive traffic building. Write great authoritative articles and share information with your readers. They in turn will keep coming back for your advice and share their information with you that they think might help you.

Help out new bloggers. Helping out new bloggers and inexperienced persons will build you great character. Your readers will know deep down in their hearts that you are willing to take time to help them and are once again, sincere about it. Helping out other people also makes a world of difference; you might even need help from one of them in the future!

Implement all the learning and plans that you have made for your blog. Find that “master plan”, gather all the advice you have read and tips given to you and IMPLEMENT them. If you don’t your success rate will drop dramatically.

Join articles submission sites. If you are a great writer, let the world know about it. Submitting to article submission sites will drive massive traffic to your site and earn you a reputation as a knowledgeable author in your field. Use sites like EzineArticles, Stumble and the other article directories.

Knowledge on the blogosphere. Keep up to date with your knowledge from the blogosphere. Always find new methods that will save you time and money. Know how to work with all the aspects of blogging, from traffic building, readership, RSS feeds, link building etc.

Limitations are nothing on the web. There are no limitations on the web. You can always get help from other like minded individuals and experts in your field. If you don’t know how to do something, just ask. Most bloggers are willing to help you or will point you in the right direction. Link building is one of those areas where there are no limitations, with over 50 million sites and more being made everyday, there are no shortages of links!

Make friends with the top-bloggers. Making friends with the popular bloggers will help you get an inner perspective on their workings and how they achieve the things they did with their blog. Brainstorming with these experts gives you a lot of advantages and in time maybe you can contribute to their sites also, earning you authority and links for your own site! Imagine what ideas you could come up with if you had Steve Pavlina and Darren Rowse just to name a couple, in your corner.

Network with as many people as you can. Even if the person you are networking with is just beginning their blog, they might eventually become a PR 5 or higher blog. Networking is a great way to increase your rankings and PR for your blog. Networking can be done “on” and “off” line.

Offer great tips, free advice and other free stuff that your users/readers will be able to take with them and that makes a difference to them. Offering material that they cannot get from another site will have you one up on the other sites. They will love you for it and as a bonus come back often to see what they can get again.

Page rank. Your page rank will not increase unless you have useful links, hundreds and/or thousands of them pointing to your page. Page rank can be obtained by having an informative blog. A blog where people can keep coming back for more and refer other people to your site. Page rank should come second to writing great articles for your readers. Always put your readers first, PR will come eventually if you have a great blog.

Question everything about your blog. Are you using an easy layout that people can easily navigate through? Is your color scheme easy on the eyes and not blinding people or make people wonder what happened to the text when they scroll through your site. Are all your links working? Is ad placement optimal, if that’s the way you’re going with your blog. There are many aspects to blogging that you must always question to yourself.

Read other peoples blogs! Reading other peoples blogs will increase your knowledge and you might learn something that you didn’t know before. Reading also gives you great ideas, maybe you can out-do someone or write an even better article on the subject. Reading forums, how to’s and personal development sites are a great way to answer some of your questions also.

Special style of your blog. You got to have your own style. That’s what makes your blog unique. Your writing style and layout of your page will be remembered easier by people if it’s not in the “norm” of other bloggers. Have a great looking graphic on your home page, write with passion and sincerity. Great first impressions last a long time. Slim-lining your blog will also create a more user friendly site and get rid of the stuff that just clutters your site making for a more eye-pleasing site.

Tools and training. Suggest web tools like SiteMeter and Google Web Tools etc. that users can use for free when checking their links, traffic, ranking or site building. Train other people in your field that are just getting started. You will have a loyal following and can do site sessions/reviews of each others’ blogs on what needs to be overhauled with blogs, what can be done better and so forth. As you are the more experienced person in your group, you will be responsible for being a leader to the others.

Understand the needs of your readers. Understanding the needs and what they crave will help you to build a better site for your readers. User friendly, easy to navigate pages and TONS of informative articles will do wonders for your blog! Understanding your readers will also help to maintain your reader author relationship in the long run and you will have loyal subscribers that keep coming back. Don’t be afraid to ask your readers what they want more of.

Verify all sources used in article writing. Verifying your sources will help you keep from “looking like a fool” and “looking like a liar”. Be sure of your sources first before publishing your article. No one likes to read one thing and it turns out to be the total opposite of what you published! Author expertise is a must for blogging. If you are not sure about it, don’t even publish it.

Who, what, where, when and why. Ok, I’m having a 6th grade flashback to my English creative writing labs, oh no! Actually, these are the 5 points that you should cover for any article written by you. If there is anything that pertains to these 5 points about the subject you are covering, then you should include it in your article. This basic guideline will help you also cover the basics of the articles, insert your interesting facts after the basics are done!

X-ray your blog. Yep, that’s exactly what I suggested. Just like we use x-rays to find broken bones in our body, x-raying your blog is just taking time out to find broken links and URL’s that don’t work. Nothing is more frustrating than clicking a link and going nowhere! It only takes a little time, but will show your readers that great care goes into your blog maintenance.

Your blog is your soul. What you write about will give people/readers their personal assessment of you. It’s like meeting a complete stranger through your blog and seeing if you can connect with that person. Have an outstanding and caring blog, and the people will come back.

“Zone” out in a place where you can get ideas. Zoning out can be daydreaming, or just sitting by yourself with a pad and pen and writing/jotting down ideas or articles you would like to incorporate into your blog. The best ideas come to us when we have no distractions and our minds are free to flow with ideas and imagination!

By following this list, you will have an alliance when Traffic Building, SEO (Search Eng!ne Optimization), Article Writing, PR (Page Rank) building and Monetizing. Just follow these tips and they will open doors to the above mentioned site elements that will help you achieve your goals. I wish you the best success!

Help With Online Car Insurance...

Have you ever tried to shop for online car insurance? Ever been confused and didn’t know where to start or what questions to ask? Here is a good website where you can start your exploration for just the right insurance coverage, whether it’s for your used or new car. It also has lots of quality information that you may want or need to know, like what are the top ten stolen cars, or how hard is your car to get insured and other fascinating facts. Whatever the reasons may be, their website offers various help articles pertaining to car insurance and is easy to navigate giving you an easy way to figure out your online car insurance needs. If you have any questions, you can speak to one of their representatives who are more than glad to help you and best of all it’s toll free.

There are 5 main categories on their website as follows:

Home Page- Brings you to their Home Page where you can get started reading their articles or navigate to the category of your choice.

Guide- Frequently brought up questions about various topics of car insurance and some good to know facts.

Questions and Answers- Nice set-up to where you can actually ask a personal question in regards to your car insurance experiences or if you just want to find something out.

State by State- Gives you a guide on what the insurance coverages are in your state. Great helpful tool to gain you more knowledge on insurance policies.

Get a Quote- Get an on-line quote instantly with this easy to use tool. All you have to do is fill out the form and it takes so little time!

So there you have it. Now you can start on your way to getting the online car insurance that you need. Armed with this knowledge, it will make you savvy shopper when it comes to car insurance and will make the whole process a little easier, after all you know what kind of questions to ask and have a good outlook on what you are dealing with. Good luck!

Using Credit Cards Wisely for Your Future...

If you ever thought about applying for a credit card or just wanted some information on them, here are a few tips to keep in mind as you are searching. First of all, don’t just pick any credit card. You would do yourself a great favor by looking at the type (i.e. Visa, Mastercard, American Express etc.). Visa and Mastercard are the more widely accepted ones for almost every business. They also have secure (needs collateral-usually in from your savings or checking) and unsecured (no collateral for using it) credit cards. It will just depend on what kind of credit history you have.

Look at the interest rates for purchases or cash advances made on the card. The lower the rates are the better. If you already own a credit card and want to transfer your outstanding to balance to another card, take advantage of that opportunity, most balance transfers have a really low interest rate. Don’t use more than your allotted budget when using your credit card. Budget wisely and make sure you can afford to pay back the amount that you spent. Credit cards can help you start building your credit history that you will need if you want to buy a house or car or even apply for a loan. Here is a site that will greatly improve your knowledge of credit cards. Their site is layed out particularly well, has good categories for easy navigation and the information provided will greatly improve your understanding of credit cards and their use.

Protecting your content and yourself.

So, you’ve been racking your brains out with ideas, thoughts and grammar usage for your new article. You end up contributing your free time and slaving away all hours of the day and into the darkness of night so you can submit your article in time just to find it copied by someone else the very next day! This is an article on how to protect yourself from having your content stolen and posted on someone else’s site without your permission. Albeit, this will happen whether you like it or not, you do have a choice in protecting your articles and your site. These are just a few tips to help you.


Find out where your stolen content is being displayed. You can find out here.

Contact the person directly. Email them and ask them to either take your content off of their site, or add your credits. This is one of the simplest and more civilized way of doing things. You can also send a cease and desist letter, but you have to be careful in wording this one. You can get a reference for that here.

Contact their service provider and explain to them about your stolen content. They will eventually contact the owner of the site hopefully!

If they have ads displayed on their site, contact those advertisers. Advertisers don’t want to deal with a site that may be held liable for copyright infringements.

You can usually find the authors name and other personal information in the about section of their site. If their site is hosted on a free sub-domain site like Blogger or Wordpress, using the whois.com site is practically useless. Hopefully they have an e-mail address somewhere on the page.

You can write an article about them! This is what I had to resort to after two of my articles had been plagiarized. I wrote about the site and what they did, at least the world knows now what kind of site that is. It worked though, I took a look at the same site two weeks after I had written about them and my works are now off of their site.

Copy and save images of your stolen content, go to the site that has the stolen content, press the PrntScrn button on your keyboard and save the image. These are important documentations for you if it really has to go to down to the nitty gritty. Hopefully it doesn't have to go there.

You can visit this page to make a free copyright if you’re in kind of in a bind or if you just prefer a free service. This site will provide you with the following free services:

1. Registers date and time of your site.
2. Registers title for your blog / site.
3. Description of your site.
4. Registers text from your site.
5. Registers a digital fingerprint for your articles.
6. MCN (My Copyright Number) number assigned to all copyright users.

A digital fingerprint is easiest explained is a hash value created by a hash algorithm. Now what this means is, the software used to create a fingerprint takes your article / graphics and mixes them up to create your unique alphanumeric string (containing letters and numbers) specifically assigned for that piece. A date and time stamp is put on this piece so you can identify it easily for your reference. Just a note, if you do change your content in the future, you will have to make another fingerprint of the new content.

All your content that you publish should be copyrighted since it will be viewed on a public domain (internet). Everyone will see this content and this can be way of protecting yourself from the very start. One thing to remember is, just because the content is on a free domain (internet) that does not give any person the right to claim the content as their own. Plagiarism occurs often especially when you have a great article.

You can simply put a note on your site. This is an example of one you can use. “The works expressed here are the sole creation of the author and cannot be reproduced without the author’s express consent. If you would like to use any works from this page, a backlink to this page is necessary along with credit to the author. Copyright infringement will not be tolerated in any manner.” It sets a firm but acceptable tone to anyone that reads it. It is not offensive and gives the person an idea that you mean business but are also willing to share your content with everyone else.

You can also put a logo on your website showing indisputable proof that your content is copyrighted. Content thieves will think twice before claiming it as their own. There are other cases though when they will just blatantly disregard your warnings and steal your content anyways.

This is in no means legal advice on what to do if you have your content stolen. Protect yourself and your content, you have the right to do so. This article also in no means covers everything on plagiarism and protecting your content. That will be up to you, research everything you can. It will also depend on where you are located at. Free services such as the one listed above can and will hold up in a court of law if your documentation is complete! Hope this helped in some small way. Happy blogging!

5 more free directories that you can submit to!!

My fellow bloggers and readers. Another gift for you to help you in your blogging adventure. PR update on my blog-as of today, May 06 2008 I have achieved a PR of 2 and hopefully to keep raising it. I was able to achieve this PR in a time frame of about 3 1/2 months. I am actually trying to raise it for a multitude of purposes for my blog. Here are five more free directories that you can submit to to build up your links from higher PR sites. Remember, building your backlinks from sites higher than yours will always help, as long as it has a higher PR than your page. So without further adieu here are five more to add to your list.

Dramba.com PR ranking 4

Illumirate.com PR ranking 5

busybits.com PR ranking 6

cyber-find.net PR ranking 2

topblogarea.com PR ranking 4

I will try to provide some more for your use and references. Remember, choose first the category that your blog will belong to and then find the submit site/link button. Have fun and good luck with your PR and backlinks building.

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When I just started out in the world of blogging, I wasn't exactly sure of how to make money from the internet and if when I did, how would I withdraw this money?

Well, Paypal actually solved that problem for me. It's a great and secure way to transfer or withdraw your money. You can get up to 1,000.00 for referring a merchant and has other perks like money transfer bonuses and so forth. I just received mine today!! So if you would like to sign up, you can do it right here. Sign up today and you can withdraw that money and make money from referrals you just made from your blog!!! Good luck with your blogging and always be a true blogger and you will succeed in your blogging endeavors.

Want to make more money and write at the same time?

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