Top 10 Misspelled words in Blogs

The Probabilist blog has a nice article with the most misspelled words in blogs. Those words are tricky because most of the times people are not actually misspelling but rather misusing them, and spell checkers can not detect those mistakes. Below you will find the 10 words, make sure to pay attention when you use them again:

Top 10 Misspelled words in Blogs

1. Your – You’re
2. Then – Than
3. Its – It’s
4. To – Too – Two
5. Were – Where – We’re
6. There – Their – They’re
7. A – An – And
8. Off – Of
9. Here – Hear
10. Lose – Loose
You can read the article with explanations for each word here.

Always preview before publishing

Always preview before publishing

I confess I used to do that mistake, after writing a certain post I would proofread quickly and hit the publish button straight way, only to discover seconds later a couple of errors and misaligned pictures… and by the time some readers had already received the messed post through the RSS feed.
The preview is a simple yet valuable feature, when you get the chance to read the post on a different context, that is on the preview image as opposed to the text editor, you free your mind from certain blind spots and recognize errors more easily. It also gives you a better idea of the overall layout of the post.
Summing up, the next time you finish writing a post on the text editor HIT THE PREVIEW button!

Write Pillar Articles

Some time ago I wrote the post “101 Blog Tips I learned in 2006“. It received a lot of attention and positive feedback, but since the tips included are short phrases going straight to the point many people asked whether I could expand and explain a little bit better some of them. “Write pillar articles” is one of the 101 tips, and below I will try to describe what are pillar articles and how your blog could benefit from them:

Write Pillar Articles

Characteristics of pillar articles:

• they are longer posts
• usually above 750 words
• they offer a clear value to the reader
• their content is timeless
• their content is original and unique
• they outline the expertise of the writer around a specific topic
• they attract links from other bloggers

Pillar articles obviously consume more time and energy than traditional posts, they might require additional research around a certain subject or even the maturation of some ideas over longer periods (sometimes I will spend one week or more writing a pillar article as opposed to the 30-60 minutes I use for daily posts).
This extra work, however, is worth while. Pillar articles will give credibility to your blog and they will also contribute to increase traffic over the long term. When a reader comes across a well-written, informative and interesting article it is very likely that he will bookmark the website, subscribe to the feed or simply remember the site address to visit it again in the near future. If that was not enough pillar articles also have a higher probability of attracting links from other bloggers.
What are you waiting for? Start writing your next pillar article right now

5 tips for writing timeless content

Some time ago I wrote that bloggers should focus on timeless content. Quoting the post “Blogs that are focused on news or current events die as soon as the articles stop coming on a consistent basis. If you write timeless content, on the other hand, people will still be reading your blog for months or years after you stop writing as long as the content has some value for them.”

5 tips for writing timeless content

Below you will find 5 practical tips for making your content more timeless, regardless of the topic you are writing about:
1. Avoid words that bring the idea of time: whenever you are writing about a particular topic try to avoid words like today, yesterday, recently or expressions like this week or this month. If someone comes across those words while reading your blog posts it is very likely that he will associate the article with a specific time frame, say “the summer of 2005″. The problem is that the reader might think that the content is not fresh and therefore no longer valuable.
2. Put dates at the bottom of posts: the standard design of many blog templates and WordPress themes feature the date at which the post was published right below the title. Many readers get discouraged to read a certain post if they see that it was written long ago. A good way to prevent this is to move the date to the end of the post. Do not remove the date altogether because a minimum time reference is useful.
3. Get rid of the calendar: if you wander through the blogosphere you will notice the enormous quantity of calendars on the sidebars. This feature could be useful if you write content that is dependent on time. Someone writing about his journey across the Sahara desert, for instance, would need to have a calendar so that readers would be able to track posts in a chronological order and find posts of a specific day. Most bloggers, however, write about topics that are not dependent on time. The first question you need to ask yourself is: “Will my readers benefit from having a calendar where they can click on a particular day and check what I have written on that day?”
4. Get rid of the monthly archives: the same reasoning of the calendar applies to the monthly archives. Unless it makes sense for your readers to search blog posts by month (for example if you are blogging about a long journey or about the World Cup) you should avoid using monthly archives.
5. When blogging about news or current events make sure to add value: every blog will mention a certain news or an interesting event once in a while. When you do post something that could not be relevant a couple of months ahead make sure to add some value to it so that a future reader will not lose his time completely by reading it. Value could be added through your opinion on the matter, a deeper analysis, a cross reference and the like.

Focus on timeless content

Unless you are blogging about news-related topics you should focus your writing on timeless content. This means that what you write should be useful today, tomorrow, 1 year from now and possibly 5 years from now.
Blogs that are focused on news or current events die as soon as the articles stop coming on a consistent basis. If you write timeless content, on the other hand, people will still be reading your blog for months or years after you stop writing as long as the content has some value for them.

Keyword Optimization for your Landing Page Tips for selecting Trending Keywords

In front of latest changes in Google Search Algorithms that all sites in all over the web will be crawled on the base of relevant factors "that how much a site's data or contents relate to the keyword search queries, more the sites will be ranked better in SERPs gradually".There for becarefull and analyze deeply for your search queries in accordance with your site's content that how much they are relevant to keywords typing in google search box as your site visit as early as first.So if you are serious for ranking better in search results it is essential for you to make a deep research to find out the latest trending keywords for selecting the right keyword phrases about your contents description and you can wisely use them for enormous impact on whether your landing page is found.

Whats the Impact of your used Keyword Phrases on Search Engines.It is understood that some phrases are used to find the keyword related web contents by typing them in search box, as keyword optimization is process of  letting the search engines briefing about the focus of your landing page is, so they can return it in search results by understanding the exact meanings of search queries.But it depends upon your keyword research that how they help search engines to crawl your contents.

Whats the benefits of using Long Tail Keyword phrases.Now usually people type more 10 to 15 words for exact search terms.Now the strategy of long tail keywords is fixed to get the maximum benefits especially in case of organic targitted traffic as

     Long Tail Keywords have authority to target the specific sub traffic
     To produce significant search volume for high impression
     Long Tail Keywords have less competition so cause in increase of  CTR
     More specific in their requirements that direct click on your site link in search result
         
So after the analysis keyword optimization for selecting the right key word phrases you need to use them in your landing page in different terms like Headings H1,H2, H3, title tag, meta description tag, body text in limited ratio from avoiding the over optimization.

How Google Analytics Works for Trending and Targeting Content Optimization.Google analytics can really help you in keeping an eye on the latest key phrases that can attract more and more visitors to your site.Google analytics is great tool for your keyword campaigns and have some extra potentialities to save the site's content data by tracking them where in content section you can get the information about most visiting pages and search queries  for our further references and analysis so you can get the full graphical report for the paid and unpaid search queries and trends while also using Google Adword account.

Use the information for Google analytics and divide the search terms that you find into

   Those which match Current contents
   Those for which you do not yet have any content
Then you can make informed decision for your further content strategies based on already visiting contents.

Protect all images in your Blog jquery trick

Here is a most important trick every blogger need. This trick is about how to protect all your images in your blog with a transparent image covered on it. I recently posted an article about How to protect images? .This article about to protect all images.

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How to protect images in your blog?
Do you want to see demo? Try to save picture in this blog.
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What's inside this article

• 1. Protect only First image in every Post
• 2. Protect all images in every post

 Step 1: Add jQuery plugin (if your blog have a jquery plugin,ignore this step)

• Go to Template->Edit HTML [A dialog box appears click Proceed]
• Copy and paste the below code <head> and save it

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/>

• Go to Blogger Account
• Template->Edit HTML [Click Proceed]
• Copy the code above </head>

Protect only First image in every Post

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$(function(){
$(".post-body img:nth-child(1)").after("<img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-lQW7QlMoz10\/T8yL_5IPF6I\/AAAAAAAAAQU\/5R8ngq17xzw\/s1600\/transparent.png\" alt=\"NetOopsblog protected image\" style=\"margin-left: -212px; opacity: 0; position: relative; top: 0;\" \/>");
});
//]]>
</script>

Protect all images in every post

<script type='text/javascript'>
//<![CDATA[
$(function(){
$(".post-body img").after("<img src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-lQW7QlMoz10\/T8yL_5IPF6I\/AAAAAAAAAQU\/5R8ngq17xzw\/s1600\/transparent.png\" alt=\"NetOopsblog protected image\" style=\"margin-left: -212px; opacity: 0; position: relative; top: 0;\" \/>");
});
//]]>
</script>

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