Use Social Bookmarks to get traffic for your blog

Social Bookmarks site are used by many around the word, so if you give you readers the opportunity to add Social Bookmark to you posts, then you can get a lot of traffic by doing that.

A lot of Social Bookmarks sites out there.

How do you choose which Social Bookmarks sites to add to you site? There is not one answer to that question because if you ask some bloggers then they will tell you about the Social Bookmarks sites they have had a success with. But maybe you won’t have the same success with them.

But a good place is to start using the big ones, because they have a lot of reader, but the disadvantage of using them is that you blog maybe don't get noticed there. But I will say if you have some good topic of you blog and write often then you have a good chance of getting noticed there.

Another advantage of using Social Bookmarks sites is that you may get some inbound links that can help improve you search engine ranking and thereby getting more readers from search engines.

Which Social Bookmarks sites to start with.

I will recomand the following Social Bookmarks sites to start with, but as I described before there are many more Social Bookmarks sites you can use.

• Digg
• Reddit.com
• del.icio.us
• Technorati

Over the next period I will tell about how you add these links to Social Bookmarks sites in you post so they are automatically is created for both the old blogger and the new blogger. So stay tuned for more information about that.

If you know some better Social Bookmarks sites to use then fell free to add a comment and tell about them.

Optimizing what the reader sees

Optimizing the text in your posts so it targets a maximum of 3 search phrases is a really good thing to do because by optimizing for maximum of 3 search phrases you are likely to get a higher search engine ranking and thereby a better chance to get readers to your blog.

How do you optimise the text

Headlines are importent

By using the H1 ... H6 html tags for important headlines before paragraphs you are automatic optimizing you blog, because these tags have a special relevancy weight in SEO. You can look at it as if a hole paragraphs have a headline then this part must be important, nothing strange about that.

If you use your keywords in the headlines it is a good thing to do, but you don’t have to go extreme and for the most important keyword use a H1 and a H2 for secondary keywords and so on. It's just a good thing to have a keyword or two in the headlines. For the H4, H5 and H6 don't spend time to considering how to use them because they have so little influence it's not worth considering.

Main keyword phrases to be in the first line

Another good idea is to get your main keyword phrases in the first line of your post or as high up in the post you can get them. The logic here is that words in the top of the post must be more important then words longer down in the post.

So try to get your main keyword or keyword phrases in the first or second line of your post or as high as you can get it. I know that it's not always as easy as it sound, but try.

Consider the frequency of your keyword

By considering the frequency of your keyword in your post, you can also optimize by doing that. When there is a good frequency for your keywords 4 - 8 % of the total words in your post, the search engines also gives you a better ranking by doing this, but remember as always don't overdo it. Remember that your text in html anchors also counts when you are looking at the frequency.

Upgrade to WordPress 2.1.2 - important update

If you have downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 in the past 3-4 days, you have to upgrad to WordPress 2.1.2 immediately, becaurse 2.1.1 have a security flaw allowing hackers or bad people to compromise you blog.

The security flaw have been added to the WordPress 2.1.1 download file when a cracker have gained access to one of WordPress servers and altered to download file to contain modified code that can be used to compromise you blog.

Get the new version of WordPress over at the WordPress.org Downloads page now and read more about the problem here WordPress 2.1.1 dangerous, Upgrade to 2.1.2

How to get reader for your blog

Everyone who has a blog would like to have a lot of readers so their content get read and also make some money by writing on the blog.

The best way is to get well known but how do you do that fast? It's not easy but you can start by using a service like Ping-O-Matic to add your blog posts to different search engines for blogs, so other people will find your posts or blog.

One other good method is to add your blog to real search engines like Google, yahoo and msn, but remember to just add the blog one time, because adding it more times may result in getting your blog removed from the search engine. Also add you blog to dmoz.org (Open Directory Project) which many of the big search engines uses to index homepages and blogs.

Another good idea is to post on forums and have a link to your blog in your forum avatar, so other reader can go to you blog. You can also quote other people's blogs and provide Trackback links to your blogs.

Furthermore it’s a good idea to post on forums and blogs which have the same topics as your blog and when people see you post often they may start reading on your blog.

Don't use automatic services that add your blog too many search engines because you can be unlucky to add your blog more times and get banned from a search engine and some of these small search engines can be bad for your placement on the big search engines which is the most important ones to have a good placement at.

Remember that it is easier to promote a blog than it is to promote a product because you are not trying to sell something, you are just promoting some good content that may have some value for the potential reader.

Where to place AdSense ads on your blog

On the internet you can find a lot of information about where the best places are to put your AdSense Ads and much of this information is based on how the person have had success by placing the Ads on their blog.

This is also good information but you have to be aware that if they have success at placing ads there it not certainly that you will have success by placing ads the same place. That can be you have to find a better color theme or the ads is not matching you contend or the place is not a ideal place in you blog design.

When this is told I will also say you can always try to use the same places as other have had success with and you can always change the place if you don't get clicks on your ads.

The people at AdSense have at their blog written about good places to place you ads and I believe they have found some good places to place your ads, so you can always try to place them there and if it's not working try other places or trying to change the color theme.

Below you can see where they say the best places are to place AdSense ads on you can read all about it here: Blogtimize.I have myself have success by placing a 160 x 600 AdSense unit in the right column and also placing a Search unit there.
I have also had some good click on a link unit just below the top logo on some of my blogs but it is hard to say just one place is the best place.

So my best advise is to try some places an be willing to change again if it to working where you have tried them.

How to place AdSense in New Blogger

Now that you have created you blog and started to writing on it is time to add AdSense to the blog so you can earn some money.

First you log into your blogger account and go to the layout page of the blog you what to place AdSense on.

There are 2 ways to place AdSense on you blog the easy method or the manual method witch take a bit more time but by use this way you can add channels to you AdSense so it is easier to track how good this AdSense code is.

Method 1 - easy method:
Click on "Add a Page Element" where you want to place the AdSense ads. Now you have to click on "AdSense" see picture below number 1 and then you have to style you AdSense ads to look how you would like it to look and then click "Save".

Method 2 - manul method:
First login to your AdSense account and create your AdSense code. When you have created your desired code then log into your blogger account and go to the layout page and click on "Add a Page Element". Now you have to choose "HTML/JavaScript" in the new window you paste your AdSense code and click save and then the AdSense ads are placed on your blog.

After this you can move the ads where you would like it to be placed and when this is done you have placed AdSense ads on your blog.

Google to offer click-fraud protection

In the start of the next month Google will offer advertisers to prevent there ads will be showed to their competitors, so they can't click them.

In some cases competitors are suspect for hiring people to click ads or have program to click tem so the price for the ad is going to be high.

To stop this Google will offer its advertisers to specify witch IP addresses, ads can’t bee showed to. Furthermore Google will show how much the advertisers can save by filtering click-fraud.

Google will also offer a standard interface where advertisers can report click-fraud and request an investigation.

Both Google and Yahoo have made agreements in trials about this.

Read more here: Google to offer click-fraud protection