5 Methods To Increase Your Alexa Rank

Alexa is a website that provides traffic details about various websites. Alexa rank is based on the amount of users who visit a particular website with the Alexa tool bar installed. It might look silly, if you look at the definition provided by Alexa site but how ever, it has become an important factor for advertisers and web masters in evaluating a website. For example, Text Link Ads and Sponsored Reviews are few websites that determine the quality of a blog with Alexa Rank.

1.Quality Content- I feel this is the key to success for your blog. I don't mean to say you should write posts that are very rich in content. I simply want to convey that be genuine in what you write. Don't copy, paste a content from some other site.

2.Alexa Toolbar- Get the Alexa Toolbar, install it on your computer. Later, set your blog or site as the home page. Adopt this method to as many computers as possible. I mean on your office computers, friend's PC and so on.

3.Spread Your Article- Once your write a post about topics that interests your friend, then make sure you spread that post through forums, twitter,digg, and through other social networking sites. Moreover, make sure you submitted your site to all the search engines. If not, click here.

4.Alexa Sparky- This method is quite simple and similar to the method two. Install Alexa sparky (A Firefox add on) on your computer. Every time you visit your own blog, information about your blog is quickly sent to Alexa including the hits to your site which, in turn, will vastly improve your rank with Alexa.

5.Alexa Widgets- Install the Alexa Rank widget(Get this widget) on every web page of your blog. I found through a website that each click on "Alexa Rank" widget installed web page counts as a visit even if the visitor does not use the Alexa tool bar.

I am very sure that the above methods will make your rank better in Alexa simply because they worked well for me and I am not an expertise by any means. There might be several other methods that worked well for your site, please do share them here.

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Increase Traffic To Your Blog With Meta Tag and SEO

The response to my previous posts namely, increasing your Alexa rank, increasing traffic to your blog and so on was very good. So, I felt why not, do some more research on the net and get some information about these stuff and help my fellow bloggers improve their site traffic. Basically, this post tells you, how important it is to optimize your site for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in order to improve your traffic and explains you one simple method out of that namely, proper placement of Meta Tag in your site.

It is very important that you optimize your site to reach very good heights with respect to your Page Rank, Alexa Rank and so on. Will you spend lots of money in driving traffic to your blog when the same is available for free?? I don't think so.

Now, let me tell you one simple method using Meta Tags to generate more traffic to your blog. So, What is a Meta Tag? It is a piece of HTML, that is usually inserted at the top of the template of every site, to provide information about the contents of the web page to the search engines. Few people say it of no use while few recommend it. How ever, there is no harm in adding them. So, It is better we add them. Let me straight away tell you how to include this.

1. Login to your blogger account and navigate to "Layout>>Edit HTML" from your dashboard. Back up your template before making any changes to it by clicking on "Download Full Template".
2. Find the code below. You may use "CTRL + F" to do so.

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

3. Add the following Meta Tag below it:

<meta content='Your blog description here' name='description'/>

<meta content='Your keywords here' name='keywords'/>

4. You need to change "Your blog description here" to describe your blog. For example, if your blog is related to money making, then you may write a short description say, "Get all the tips you require to make money online" and replace "Your keywords here" with keywords that you feel will drive traffic to your blog.
5. Click Save Template. Congrats!! You have now optimized your site.

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Tweetbucks Review

I recently came across this site while surfing through EasyHits4U. The site name is "Tweetbucks". I went through this site and thought this will be useful for my readers to make some money online while they tweet through Twitter.

What should I do to make money with Tweetbucks? Very Simple!! Just shorten any URL that you going to tweet using Tweetbucks and then tweet them. So, when a follower of yours click on that particular link, you make money for that click. It is similar to Pay Per Click but not exactly the same. You also get a commission in every successful purchase made on the advertisements.

Though I have not yet tried Tweetbucks personally, I think this site looks promising and in the future, I will give this one also a try. I think you can earn money with this site provided, you either tweet a lot or have a large followers following you. You can cash out your payments through PayPal once you reach $25 and they clear the payouts the end of the month. It is mentioned on their FAQ's page, that they clear the payments on the last business day of the month.

Moreover, they offer a affiliate program where you earn 10% of the referral earnings from your referrals for 6 months. I think this site is constantly on the path of growth and I expect this site will bring out more methods to make money online. Overall, there is nothing to lose with this site. If you feel you can make money with your blog, then I assure you that your blog will be your gold mine. Try to find out which program suits your blog. Who knows?? Tweetbucks may be the one for you!! So, what you waiting for?? Give it a try!!!

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Recent Posts Widget For Blogger With Thumbnails

I received few comments in my blog and one of my readers requested a "Recent Posts" widget. To start off there are 2 methods to include this widget in your blog. One method will use the feed of your blog, just like the "Recent Comments" Widget explained in my previous posts. Since, the first method is very simple and self explanatory. I would like to skip this method and move on to the second method. This method includes a thumbnail of your recent posts and also displays the number of comments for that particular post as shown in the demo - Indian Food Recipes.

This post basically features about adding this type of widget to your blog. Follow these simple steps to install this widget on your blog.
1. Login to your blogger account and navigate to "Layout>>Page Elements". Click on "Add a Gadget" and select "HTML/JavaScript".
2. Copy the following code and paste in the pop up window that appears.

<center>
<script language="JavaScript">
imgr = new Array();
imgr[0] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";
imgr[1] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";
imgr[2] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";
imgr[3] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";
imgr[4] = "http://i43.tinypic.com/orpg0m.jpg";
showRandomImg = true;
boxwidth = 298;
cellspacing = 8;
borderColor = "#ffffff";
bgTD = "#000000";
thumbwidth = 40;
thumbheight = 40;
fntsize = 12;
acolor = "#666";
aBold = true;
icon = " ";
text = "comments";
showPostDate = false;
summaryPost = 40;
summaryFontsize = 10;
summaryColor = "#666";
icon2 = " ";
numposts = 5;
home_page = "http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/";
</script>
<script src="http://xrl.us/bezqwo" type="text/javascript">
</script>
</center>

3. Change the code highlighted in green. That is, replace "YOURBLOGNAME" with the URL name of your blog. After you change the name, simply save the changes. Have a look at your blog with this cool widget installed in it!!!

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Make Money with Smowtion

I recently joined a new site namely Smowtion. This is a new blog monetization opportunity for all new bloggers. I recommend every blogger to install this on their site. Not only the newbies, even sites that get very good traffic. Simply because, Smowtion pays every blogger per impression. Basically, it works with CPM, CPC and CPA ad types. All put together will lead to eCPM which is Effective Cost Per Mile.

There is no need to confuse with all the technical terms mentioned above. It just means you get paid for every 1000 impressions. In fact, the main advantage of this site is easy installation and once installed, you will find banner ads running in your site. More over, they offer PayPal as a mode of payment. This is another advantage when compared to Adbrite.

Some of the best features about this site includes revenue per page view. I mean every page view of your site counts. Since, every page view counts even the slightest amount of traffic that your blog gets will earn money for you. Secondly, the customer service is really very good. The service includes live chat, email, etc... Thirdly, they offer a referral plan where you earn 5% of the revenue earned by your referral for the first six months. Lastly, they have got a user friendly panel that will help you navigate easily throughout the site.

The site clearly says that it is compatible with Google and you may run these ads in parallel with your Google Adsense Ads. The only disadvantage with this site is that we cannot personalize the advertisements and this company is fairly in the new stage. Overall, I feel Smowtion seems like a very good opportunity for all new bloggers. Join now and start making money with your blog now.

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Recent Comments Widget For Blogger

One method to show off the power of your blog is by displaying the recent comments. I said to show off the power because only when you have some loyal readers, they will comment on your posts genuinely and by that way, you show the power of your blog. This post basically features on how to add recent comments widget for blogger blogs. There are 2 methods to include this widget to your blog. Both the methods are very simple and are explained below.

The first method is using the feed. Follow these simple steps to include this method of recent comments to your blog.
1. Login to your blogger account and navigate to "Layout>>Page Elements". Click on "Add a Gadget" and select "Feed". The picture below will explain you this step more clearly.

2. Paste the following code in the window that pops out.

http://YourBlogName.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default

Note: Replace "YourBlogName" with the URL name of your blog. Example: For my blog, it is "newbloggingtipz"
3. Select the "Save Changes" button and view your blog.

The second method is using the HTML code. Follow these simple steps to include this method of recent comments to your blog.

1. Login to your blogger account and navigate to "Layout>>Page Elements". Click on "Add a Gadget" and select "HTML/JavaScript". Take a preview of what I am saying below.2. Download this text document. Open the text file and copy the code in it and paste in the pop up window, that appeared in step one.

3. Scroll to the end of the code in it. Find the following line in that code.

src="http://YourBlogName.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default?

4. Replace the code highlighted in green with the URL name of your blog as explained in the previous method(Refer Step 2).

5. Select the "Save Changes" button and view your blog.

The first method will allow you to display only the comments and will show dates and other stuff while the second method will show all such details. Moreover, you can customize the way the comments are displayed in the second method if you know HTML to some extent while the first method offers no customization. So, enjoy this recent comments widget. See you later in the next post.

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