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Compliance with Quality Guidelines

Posted on June 8, 2009
Category: blogging | Leave a Comment

Here at BlogTides, we’re as concerned as anyone else that all blogs created on this host are of good standard and comply with Google’s quality guidelines. When everything is ship shape and orderly, then there can be no reason for getting your blog penalized or even de-indexed from the search engine’s pages. So here are some thing you can do to make sure your blog is clean:

Do’s:

Write good, readable and relevant content in your blog. This is probably one of Google’s main reasons for indexing your blog and placing it in the index, because their aim is to bring quality to the people searching their index. While we know having lots of quality backlinks is also a deciding factor in getting good placement in the SERPs, this is part of SEO and nothing to do with Google’s quality guidelines. So do your blog a favour and write some good articles!

Do link out to authority sites if you make a reference to information that can be found there.

Do make friends with other bloggers in social networks as this will bring you valuable links to increase the authority of your blog.

Do optimize your blog for its main and long tail keywords so that you’ll feature in the right place in Google’s index.

Don’t’s:

Don’t go linking to bad neighbourhood websites/blogs. This is one of the fastest ways of getting your blog de-indexed because Google hates spam as much as you do.

Don’t put up paid links. If you do, you’ll get found out and penalized for doing so.

Don’t keyword stuff your posts. Too high a density of keywords will trigger a flag that could prevent your post being indexed and could hurt the SERPs placement of your blog.

Don’t duplicate content from other blogs. This is plagiarizing and no one likes a thief. You could also be violating copyright laws so don’t do it. Write your own articles or at least re-write other peoples’ so the finished item will pass Copyscape. You could always get a ghost writer to write your content for you as well, as long as its original.

Ok, these are the main points that will keep your blog above board and legitimate. As long as you keep Google happy, they will be kind to you and your blog can go far with plenty of work from you. So don’t go and spoil it by doing something stupid!

Admin
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How to Make Money Online with Adsense

Posted on May 2, 2009
Category: make money online | Leave a Comment

Hi everyone, here’s a follow up to the last post where I outlined the basics of how to make money online with your free blog. This post deals specifically with the Adsense aspect as your blogs are equipped with a way to easily add Adsense code to them using the revenue sharing tab.

To ad Adsense to your free BlogTides blog, simply go to the Revenue Sharing tab in your Wordpress control panel and type in your own Adsense publisher id, check the “activate” box and you’re done! Yes, its that simple!

The hard part follows because that’s here you have to do this intelligently in order to convert the ad box that is displayed on the front page of your blog into clicks. Clicks then convert into cash, but not just any old clicks.

I talked before about optimizing your blog for the specific keywords its targeting in order to rank in the search engines to attract that all-important organic targeted traffic to your blog. Well, this is doubly true of attracting the best ads that pay the highest CPC (Cost Per Click).

If you don’t optimize your blog title, post titles post subtitles and content for your keywords, you will risk being served irrelevant ads, which visitors will not click on because they will not be related to the search terms they found yoru site for. Worse, is that the clicks you do get will also be irrelevant and lead to you getting PSA (Public Service Ads) which pay three cents a click.

So always use your keywords in your Blog title, post titles, post subtitles and liberally spread throughout the text of each post (but don’t exceed 5% keyword density or you may incur a drop in rankings). That way you ensure you get the best, most relevant ads served on your blog, which your targeted traffic are more likely to click on and most importantly are most likely to convert for the advertiser. When that happens a lot, you’ll get served the top paying ads, which will make you even more money.

So there it is in a very small nutshell, how to make money online with Adsense using your free BlogTides blog. So make sure its a good one!

Admin
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How Can I Make Money With a Blog?

Posted on April 4, 2009
Category: make money online | Leave a Comment

“How can I make money with a blog?” is a common question asked that cannot easily be answered in a straight “do this” type of post, as there are many deciding factors as to whether you will be in a position to make money from a blog or not. So lets, instead, look at some of the criteria necessary for a blog to have a chance at making money for its owner.

What niche does the blog occupy?

This is very important because some niches are way more competitive than others. If you are writing a blog about credit cards, for instance, then while you have chosen a niche where there are big bucks to be made, chances are you are not going to see any of it because the competition is way ahead of you. However, if you’re blog is about how to build wooden boats, then your competition will be a lot less difficult to outshine. The trade off is that in this niche your potential earnings will be considerably less than for credit cards. At the end of the scale, I heard about a guy who found a niche with exactly zero competition and he got a blog to the number one spot in Google’s index, but he didn’t make a dime from it. What was his niche? Greenland cuisine. Enough said about that.

How much traffic can you attract?

This is another important factor you have to consider. Without traffic to your blog, you will not be able to convert you blog into a money maker. That’s because a blog with some great ads and occupying a low competition niche will earn nothing if no one goes to visit. But there is traffic and there is traffic and not all traffic is made equal.

What kind of traffic are you attracting?

There are two main categories of traffic that we are concerned with here. The first is social traffic which you can attract to your blog by virtue of sites like Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, Twitter, Entrecard etc. There are tons of social sites that you can leverage to easily attract a ton of traffic to your blog. But that traffic will not convert into dollars.

That’s because that traffic are bloggers just like you.

They all know what ads are and all have their own affiliate ids with Clickbank, CJ, etc so they’re not going to give you commission on something they want to buy when they can use their own affiliate link and keep the commission for themselves.

Equally, they rarely click adsense ads, because the also serve adsense on their blogs and they are already trained not to click on their own ads, so why would they want to click on yours?

That brings us to the other kind of traffic - targeted search traffic.

This is the traffic that shows up from clicking a link in the search engines index. For that to happen, your blog must occupy a prominent position in the search engine results page (SERPs) and preferably that of Google, as they are by far the biggest search engine in terms of traffic generated. To achieve that, you need to know some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) techniques, many of which y9ou can pick up for free here: SEO to Make Money Online. Incidentally, when you’ve read that post, there is a newer one on the same site that deals with how to make money with adsense.

Ok, I have the niche and I have the traffic. Now, how can I turn that into dollars?

Well, I think I’ve written enough for this post, so I’ll save that subject for a whole new post all on its own, because it’ll take some explaining. See you again soon folks!

Admin
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Creating New Blogs

Posted on January 27, 2009
Category: blogging | Leave a Comment

Hi everyone, we’re posting to let you all know that thanks to the damaging effects of spammers getting in here and trying to create a load of their crap blogs full of bad neighbourhood links, we’ve had to take drastic action to stop it happening.

So we’ve closed the door on anyone just signing up and creating blogs.

To get your free blog now, we’ve decided that its best to keep things within the community, so if you want a user account please PM admin in the forum and we’ll set you up with one. Then you can log in and create your free blogs.

We hope this is a satisfactory move and that you will understand why it has to be this way. The alternative is a host full of spam blogs linking to crap sites that will merely get us all penalized by the search engines. This is something we want to avoid by only hosting legitimate, relevant and informative blogs that conform to Google’s terms and conditions and are acceptable to be read by all age groups.

Thanks,

Admin
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Welcome to BlogTides

Posted on September 30, 2008
Category: blogging | 1 Comment

Welcome to Blogtides.com!

This is a special kind of blog in that it is powered by Wordpress MU (Multi User) which allows people to create user ids and then create their own free blogs.

By Using the Wordpress platform, users are able to set up fantastic looking blogs by using the great selection of Wordpress themes that are available, as well as a full set of specialized plugins for further personalizing your blog.

Here, we allow you do do pretty much whatever you want with your blog as long as you don’t use it for anything you wouldn’t want your grandmother to see, which includes racial or religious hate, p0rnography, sp6m, rip offs and con tricks, terrorism, or anything else that could be construed to be anti-social and downright not very nice!

How Do I Set Up My Free Blog?

This is as easy as anything. First you’ll need a user name, which you can create yourself simply by clicking the “Create a New Blog” button on the main page for the first time. You’ll be asked to type in your user name, so make it one that you can easily remember and please make it a real word or name.

Note: If admin sees usernames created with a nonsensical jumble of letters and/or numbers, it will be deleted as sp6m along with any blogs that user sets up.

You’ll also be asked to provide a valid email address, because this is where your login password will be sent, so make sure you have access to it and your email filters won’t blog anything coming from blogtides.com.

Your first blog will also be created with your user name as its URL, so if you don’t want that, simply create a user name only by checking the appropriate button.

Once you get your password, you can log in. Then you can open the BlogTides homepage and click the “Create a New Blog” button to create your new blog. You’ll be asked for a URL you’d like to use. Type in a name that is relevant to the blog you are setting up, so if you want a blog about making money, call it “makemoney”, or something similar if that name has already been taken by someone else. You can also give the blog a title, so in this example it would be “Make Money”. Your finished URL will look like this:

makemoney.blogtides.com

If you want to create another blog, no problem. Make sure you’re logged in and repeat the process! Simple.

Admin
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