1. Social Sharing

Starting on a personal level is the secret to social sharing success and includes engaging with your networks via publishing, sharing, commenting and/or promotion. The biggest advantage you’ll have is the relationships you’ve built on your social platforms through your own unique personal touch. Put yourself out there through your social profiles, benefiting from all of them, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, Google + and Facebook. It’s important to note that about 100% of the content you see on Facebook these days is shared

2. Join Groups

Joining the right groups is one of today’s most important, but underrated content promotion strategies. Marketers should definitely be joining groups on LinkedIn for relationship building, to utilize targeted content promotion and take advantage the ability to create direct lines of communication with industry influencers. LinkedIn has evolved and today is much more than a site for job seekers. Facebook is another great place to join groups and nurture relationships.

3. Weekly Link Roundups

Here’s another underrated content promotion strategy – weekly link roundups, basically blog posts that are linked to the week’s very best content. Roundup posts help you gain the attention of influencers who can increase the reach of your content. The crucial element here is finding roundups with a substantial readership and that receive a lot of social engagement. The first step is to find popular roundups related to your industry and to do this you’ll need to select a subject for your post, researching popular topics covered by your competitors. There are tools available that will also help you find their most successful content, identifying a common topic to feature in a curated post.

4. Promote On Bookmarketing Sites

Bookmarketing sites are aggregates of the very best content relevant to a given community. It’s also the community that decides what is considered to be the “best” content. If you end up being an active contributor, besides having a clearer understanding of what works online, you’ll also have found a great way to promote your content and increase traffic. Some of the top bookmarking sites include Inbound, Hack News, Reddit and GrowthHackers.

5. Repurposing Content

If your content includes engaging, valuable information it should be shared in a variety of ways. Repurposing content is an excellent way to broaden the promotion of your most popular posts, underexposed post and evergreen content that you’re wanting to revitalize. Think infographics, slideshows on Slideshare, used in your email campaigns, create videos, create a PDF and post it on LinkedIn. LinkedIn even has a fantastic publishing platform that you can use and entering and submitting a post is even easier than placing one on your blog.

6. Build Backlinks

The most successful way to build links to,and promote content is to find other marketers who are already linking to similar content. Once you find them, introduce them to your fresh, superior content. There are several excellent backlink checkers online, including Open Site Explorer and Ahrefs. Once you’ve found some sites that you feel might be a good fit, the next, and one of the most important step is to determine if it’s worth your time by figuring out how the sites rank on search engines using sites like MozBar.

7. Blog Aggregators

Using blog aggregators, you can collect the best blog content from all over the web and build quality backlinks. The reason these platforms work so well is that they pull content from your RSS feed, which links (and are usually followed) back to your website. Backlinks created by blog aggregators typically create impressive amounts of page rank to a website via relevant categories that receive incredible amounts of traffic. One of the most respected blog aggregators on the web is AllTop which ash millions of monthly, active readers.

8. Consider Paid Advertising for Content Promotion

Even though a lot of marketers are moving away from paid advertising, it actually works extremely well for some organizations. If you have had success PPC advertising results in the past, paid content promotion might be worth testing in this case as well. Other forms of paid content promotion can include Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter ads.

Successful content promotion requires creativity, determination and commitment to consistently try new things. The good news is that if you invest in trending and innovative ways to promote your content, the potential is there to significantly increase the chances of boosting your traffic and achieving successful end results.

In this article I tried to bring tips and tricks about WordPress. You will see tips on where to get the information you need and still some interesting tricks to improve your WordPress site.

USE THE WORDPRESS CODEX SCRIPTS

WordPress already comes with a ton of scripts inserted into your Codex. There are several lines of code built in JQuery that you can use with functions such as wp_enqueue_script () and wp_enqueue_style (), which can save your work of customizing your WordPress site, are options that may even prevent you from installing plugins unnecessarily.

You’ll find some very useful tips from the WordPress Codex right here at the WP School or you’re interested in learning more about using the functions on the official WordPress Codex page.

DEFINE JPG IMAGE QUALITY

You can create a function in WordPress to set a quality standard for JPEG images, which by default are leveled to 90%. It is not possible for an average user to notice a difference of 100% up to 80%, so I advise you to use the smallest amount in order to conserve space, bandwidth and not to damage the loading of your pages.

FEEDBURNER REDIRECT

FeedBurner is used in almost every blog as a complementary tool in the loyalty strategy of your site’s content readers. Until recently, I used a plugin to redirect the feed from WordPress sites to FeedBurner, until I found the code below to create a simple function that accomplishes this task with ease:

add_action( ‘template_redirect’ , ‘rss_redirect’);

function rss_redirect() {

if ( is_feed() AND !preg_match( ‘/feedburner|feedvalidator/i’, $_SERVER[‘HTTP_USER_AGENT’] ) ){

header( ‘Location: http://feeds.feedburner.com/feed_seu_site’ );

header( ‘HTTP/1.1 302 Temporary Redirect’ );

}

}

ADD CUSTOMIZED FIELDS IN THE USER PROFILE

WordPress does not yet have the ability to add custom fields to your users’ profiles. This task is easily solved as a series of plugins, but also with a simple function as the code below demonstrates:

<?php

add_action( ‘show_user_profile’, ‘wp_profile_fields’ );

add_action( ‘edit_user_profile’, ‘wp_profile_fields’ );

function wp_profile_fields( $user ) {

?>

<h3>Redes Sociais</h3>

<table>

<tr>

<th><label for=&twitter&>Twitter</label></th>

<td>

<input type=&text& name=&twitter& id=&twitter& value=&<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘twitter’, $user->ID ) ); ?>& /><br />

<span>Seu Twitter </span>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<th><label for=&twitter&>Facebook</label></th>

<td>

<input type=&text& name=&facebook& id=&facebook& value=&<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘facebook’, $user->ID ) ); ?>& /><br />

<span>Seu Facebook </span>

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<th><label for=&twitter&>Linkedin</label></th>

<td>

<input type=&text& name=&linkedin& id=&linkedin& value=&<?php echo esc_attr( get_the_author_meta( ‘linkedin’, $user->ID ) ); ?>& /><br />

<span>Seu Linkedin </span>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

<?php

}

add_action( ‘personal_options_update’, ‘wp_save_profile_fields’ );

add_action( ‘edit_user_profile_update’, ‘wp_save_profile_fields’ );

function wp_save_profile_fields( $user_id ) {

if ( !current_user_can( ‘edit_user’, $user_id ) )

return false;

update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘twitter’, $_POST[‘twitter’] );

update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘facebook’, $_POST[‘facebook’] );

update_user_meta( $user_id, ‘linkedin’, $_POST[‘linkedin’] );

}

ADD POST TYPES PERSONALIZED ON YOUR FEED RSS

It is not uncommon to see the use of Post Types for content segmentation of WordPress sites, an excellent tactic by the way. But this content is not available to anyone who subscribes to your site Feed, the function below solves this problem:

add_filter(‘request’, ‘wp_custom_feed’);

function wp_custom_feed( $vars ) {

if ( isset( $vars[‘feed’] ) ) {

$vars[‘post_type’] = get_post_types();

}

return $vars;

}

PERSONALIZED QUERIES TO THE DATABASE

If you need more information than WordPress functions offer you, you can use the wpdb class to query the database directly. Here’s how to use the class in the code below:

$recent_users= $wpdb->get_results( &SELECT display_name, user_registered FROM $wpdb->users ORDER BY user_registered DESC LIMIT 0,10&);

So you want to make money through your blogging. To monetize your blog is a Great decision!!

Most of the professional bloggers generate handsome income from their blogs.

There are lots of different ways to monetize your blog.

Here I am sharing few best and easy ways of monetizing your blog from them with you.

Many people think that advertising on your blog is the only way that a blogger can earn.

But it’s not true. Professional bloggers generate income from diversified ways.

That means they do not depend only on one income source.

So which are the different sources to earn money from a blog?

Let’s see other interesting and easy ways to monetize your blog.

Best Ways To Monetize Your Blog

#1. Sell Ad Blocks On Your Blog – A good way of making money from your blog. You can sell different sizes ad space from your blog like 125 X 125 ad block, 468 X 60 ad block, 300 X 250 ad block, etc. It depends on you. You will decide prices of all ad blocks and manage advertising.

#2. Go With Ad Networks – If you don’t prefer to manage to advertise on your blog yourself, then join a good ad network which manages your advertisement. You just have to sign up to them, set your preferences and all done. Leave all the work on them. I think BuySellAds is the best choice.

#3. Earn Money Through Affiliate Marketing – Another best way to make living from blog. Affiliate marketing, if done right way, you can be very successful. And you can earn a lot from your blog. You can start affiliate marketing by joining clickbank. Just sign up for clickbank, choose any product of your niche, get your affiliate code and start promoting your product.

#4. Write Paid Reviews – If you are great at writing and your blog receives good amount of visitors, you can monetize by writing paid reviews on your blog. This is a great way to earn good money by simply giving your own honest reviews about product related to your blog and audience.

• Tips to Monetize Your Blog Rather Selling It On Flippa

#5. Sell Products From Your Blog – Your blog is your identity and money. You can sell products related to your blogging topic. Products related to your reader’s interest are beneficial for you to sell on your blog. You can put a widget on your blog post or sidebar.

#6. Create Your Own Products To Monetize Blog – Another best way to make money blogging is to make your own products to sell i.e. ebooks. Write about the topic you are master in it and sell your own ebook from your blog. Same you can create any other useful products like WordPress themes, WordPress plugins or any other tools which your loyal visitors want.

#7. Show Ads In Your Videos – If you are good at video blogging and you like to create videos, then you can also monetize your blog videos. Create a video and start showing related ads in your video footer / sides / header. For a live example, you can see youtube videos which show Adsense ads in video footer and other paid ads before the video starts.

#8. Start Paid Classes Teaching Your Expertise Topic – If you are great at something, start teaching it to others. Open online and/or offline classes for those who want classes from you. If you are really good, then it can become a major source of blog income.

#9. Offer Paid Services From Your Blog – Many authority blogs make their earnings this way. They are selling their best services to others. For example, writers sell their writing (blog posts/articles), WordPress SEO experts sell their WordPress SEO service, web designers sell their theme customization service, etc. So, you can also start monetizing your blog by offering your best services.

#10. Start Accepting Donation – Finally, if you are doing something great free of cost for your blog readers, then this is the best way to say to them ‘You Also Want Money For Living’. If you are providing free WordPress themes, WordPress plugins, any other services or you are doing some social activities for humankind, then obviously you can ask for DONATION. You may use PayPal to create your own donate button. Put a donate button on your blog. If anyone wants to donate you, they can simply do this by clicking on that button.

These are the best and easy ways to monetize your blog that I know. If there is other best way to make money from a new blog, let me know. How do you earn from your blog? I want to hear from you, share your make money blogging ideas via comments below.

3 Steps Tutorial For How To Do Keyword Research Using Traffic Travis. Stop Asking How Do I Find Keywords is a part of how to start blogging series. Read how to start blogging series or read previous step:Find a profitable Niche or next step: Register a domain name.

Keyword research is a part of on site search engine optimization. Here I am not talking about complete SEO, I will show you only How to do keyword research carried out exactly. I want you to stop asking more how to find keywords? Because here is your detailed answer for complete keyword research understanding.

How to keyword research contents:

• Step 1: Understanding keyword research
• Step 2: Get tools for keyword research
• Step 3: Step by step keyword research using traffic travis

Understanding keyword research

The main question is what is keyword and what is keyword research? and why we need to do keyword research.

a keyword is a ‘single word’ or ‘phrase’ (more than one word) which people type in the search engine to search a particular information or product or anything. In short, keywords are the words which people like us write in the search engines like google, yahoo, bing etc. for what they are looking for.

keyword research is the process to find the best keywords. Best keywords mean keywords which meets our criteria to start blogging about. Best keyword means it has a high search volume and low competition.

• Search volume: is a number of people searching for a particular keyword.
• Competition: it is the number of pages indexed in search engine for a particular keyword.

In this process, we are going to find keywords with high search volume and low competition. So that we can rank high.

Get ready with tools for keyword research

1. Please always keep a pen and diary with you to write important points in it.
2. Google AdWords account. If you don’t have, go and get Google adwords account now.
3. A free best keyword research tool traffic Travis. Download traffic travis free version. Don’t worry its best and gives everything that we need for this level.

Go to traffic travis and download latest free version of traffic Travis. After downloading, install it on your computer. That’s  all you need to find your keywords.

Please Read: Free keyword research tools- An alternatives To Google adwords Keywod tool

How To Do keyword research step by step using traffic Travis

You have a pen, diary and traffic Travis installed on your computer. When you start your traffic Travis for the first time it will ask for some details like your email id, a registration code (sent by traffic Travis in your email) and Google AdWords account details.

OK. Let’s start keyword research. I am sure you have already decided your niche. So your first step is to think which is your seed keyword.

Seed keyword: Seed keyword is a very closely related keyword to your niche which we will use to find our best and profitable keywords in traffic Travis. If you don’t understand, don’t worry. Let’s start with an example.

Think that you want to start a blog teaching salsa dance. It means teaching salsa is your niche. So consider the phrase ‘salsa dance’ your seed keyword. Now I think you completely understand up to this. Start traffic, Travis.

It will look like this:

Traffic Travis includes Dashboard, My site,  Research, SEO and PPC in its menu. Further, it includes keyword research and domain research under research tab and Ranking, Competition, Backlinks and Link finder features under SEO tab. But for this purpose, we only want keyword research under research tab and competition feature under SEO tab. Go to keyword research. It will look like this:

Now Enter your seed keyword in the keyword box. You can add upto 5 such similar seed keywords in this free version. After entering your seed keyword, set search 100 keywords and click on FETCH button. For example, I am writing here ‘salsa dance’ and set a search option to 100 keywords. It will look like this:

The result of keyword research by traffic travis will look like this:

You can download this results to your PC as PDF and CSV file from the left side bottom.

Now the real game starts. I am sure you are thinking now what? how to choose best and profitable keywords from these 100 keywords? Don’t worry. I am giving you criteria’s to select the best keywords for you. First, you do one thing, write down 30-40 best keywords you like related to your niche from this 100 keywords list. Done? Fine.

TIPS: Try to find long tail keywords because for long tail keywords you can rank high with less efforts as compared to short tail keywords.

Long tail keywords: Generally long tail keyword considered as keywords with more than three words.

Important Note: There is a great tool to find profitable long tail keywords named long tail pro, click here to visit Long tail pro tool.

Short tail keywords: short tail keyword are keywords up to three words.

Alright, now I have prepared a list containing 40 keywords related to ‘salsa dance’ from this 100 keywords list. Next task is to shorten this 40 keywords list as per our requirement. Our goal is to rank high for the specific niche. For that, we have to find keywords with high search volume and low competition.

Now, go to Competition under SEO tab. You have to check your these keywords for Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Simply write your keywords in the keywords box. You have to write 5 keywords because in free trial version traffic Travis permits maximum of 5 keywords for each time. So you have to repeat this for about 8 times. After writing your keywords in the box, click on fetch button. Observe the results.

You can also download these results in PDF or CSV format. From your 40 keywords list, cancel all keywords that have result under difficulty field ‘medium difficulty’ or ’difficult’. For remaining keywords, go to ‘report’ field and click on ‘view details’.

SEO Competition Report For Other KeywordFor your keywords there must be atleast 2 website or blog which have page rank 2 or less. If any keyword does not fulfill this criteria, remove it from your list. Check this for all remaining keywords. Your list is now about half means 15-20 keywords.

Moving to the next step, open your browser and go to google. Type allintitle:keyword (write your keyword in place of word keyword from your 15-20 keywords list one after one) and note down the search result for every keywords.

Allintitle: What is salsa has 4,460 pages, allintitle: how to dance salsa has 17,200 pages, allintitle: how to do salsa has 2,950 pages, allintitle:how to do salsa dance has 1,080 pages, allintitle: free salsa lessons has 72,800 pages and so on…

Now cancel all keyword which has above 15,000 pages. I think your list will become half and it will be around 7-10. My list now contains 08 keywords which include keywords like what is salsa, how to do salsa, how to do salsa dance, etc. These keywords are our perfect keywords to start blogging about now. When you start blogging using this optimized keywords, it is my guarantee that you will not fail again.

Our selected keywords must meet following criteria’s:

1. Competition for that keyword should be ‘Relatively Easy’ in traffic travis difficulty field.
2. Under SEO > Competition > Report > View details. See the details atleast 2 out of the 10 website should have a page rank 2 or less.
3. Allintitle:keyword search results should not be more than 10,000 to 15,000 for beginners and 35,000 to 50,000 for intermediates.

How simple is to do keyword research? Here I have explained a detailed step by step guide on how to do keyword research. So that you have to never ask again that how can you find keywords. Is there anything that I forgot to write? Is there any suggestion from you? Do you want to ask anything related to keyword research? Feel free to ask in the below comment section. Your comments will work as a word of appreciation for me. And yes don’t forget to subscribe for newsletters.

What Is Niche Blogging? Tips For How To Find Your Niche To Start Blogging

You may have notice techigyaan has been offline these last few months. Partly this has been down to some neglect on my part.

The real reason though is the hosting provider I used actually terminated my hosting plan. I was shocked to find this out and it was only when I tried to log in that I realised the website was down.

My hosting company could not explain why the website’s hosting plan was terminated. They have lost all of my website data from their servers.

It’s actually a bit of a perfect storm because I also lost my computer with all the backup website files for techigyaan.

I will over the next few weeks and months look to rebuild the website as best as I can. There is certainly a good lesson to learn here when it comes to making sure your website to suitably backed up.

This is the start of the rebuild project. Techigyaan has been online for the last 5 years and many regular readers have contacted me so I would like to apologise. I will be accepting guest post over the next few months and I will update the requirements for them