Quick Tips for Increasing Your Alexa Score Fast

When it comes to building a successful web site or blog there are many ways to track how well you are doing. Some people will focus on traffic, revenue or even Google PageRank, but many people also like to look at the Alexa ranking. Alexa is the service that tracks all of the web sites on the internet and assigns them a ranking based on various factors such as traffic, incoming links, social sharing and many other stats you might be looking at as site owners.

Alexa is currently ranking over 30 million web sites world wide from over 125 different countries. For most web site owners, it’s usually a big deal when you break into the top 1,000,000 on Alexa, but the real treasure is when you get in the top 100,000 sites.

When I first acquiredBloggingTips.com a few years back it was in the 12,000 range, then I found myself not being able to dedicate as much time to the site as I would have like. At the high point it fell to around 18,000 on Alexa.

Once you get in the top 25,000 rankings of Alexa, it’s much harder to rank higher and very easy to fall back. In 2013 I made it a goal to get back into the top 10,000 Alexa (for whatever it’s worth), but it’s more of a personal goal than anything else. The best way to do this is through quality articles that get shared, linked and commented on.

You can see an Alexa ranking chart for BloggingTips.com to the right over the past two weeks. It’s nice to see that the blog is continuing to rank higher every single day. Special thanks toSiteRankHistory.com for the stats.

Through March the blog was able to jump another 1,000+ up in the Alexa rankings. It will be interesting to see how quickly the site continues to rank, as it will continually be harder to rank among authority sites and blog.

Does Alexa Score Matter?

Before we jump into the tips for how to get better Alexa score rankings, let’s first ask the question of does Alexa really even matter? In so many words… no, it’s doesn’t matter! While it’s an awesome way to keep track of your site performance, it really doesn’t mean much. Alexa is just a score and at the end of the day it doesn’t mean much. I actually have a few sites in the 1 million+ and few hundred thousand on Alexa and they are making almost more money than BloggingTips.com, so it’s definitely not a good way to measure the financial value of a site.

However… metrics are king and ad companies and businesses love stats. If your site is ranking in the top 10,000 on Alexa, you will probably get a lot more notice from ad companies and services looking to advertise or work with your site. Alexa is a fun way to rank and track the performance of your site, but at the end of the day it really doesn’t mean much.

Quick Tips to Improve Your Alexa Score

Now that I’ve upset everyone by saying Alexa doesn’t matter, let’s talk about how we can increase your score anyway! (haha).

Below is a list of some of the most well known and effective ways to improve the overall traffic, quality and growth of your site while improving your Alexa rank at the same time. I’m not doing anything special or amazing to continually increase the BloggingTips.com score, it’s all based off growing the site and my audience.

Install the Alexa Toolbar

I personally don’t use the Alexa toolbar, but there has always been a lot of talk about how effective it is to get people using the Alexa toolbar to browse your site. Obviously since you are visiting your site the most, and if you have the Alexa toolbar installed, then the toolbar will track a lot of visits to your site. This is one of the many reasons why tech and webmaster related sitesrank so well, many of the site visitors have the Alexa toolbar already installed since they are interested in the stats it can provide.

Claim Your Web Site or Blog

Over the years Alexa has grown into much more than a ranking system, they now offer advertising through their site, toolbar and advanced tracking for paid members. Another great way to increase your Alexa score is to claim your site using their system. Doing so will allow you to:

• Easily update your site’s contact information
• Update your site’s title and description
• Respond to user reviews of your site

Place the Alexa Badge on Your Site

Again, Alexa loves getting all the attention. If you use their toolbar it will help your rankings… claiming your site will also help, and so will pushing their badge on your site. There isn’t much detail on how much this will actually help, but if you love Alexa and want to show your ranking to the world, you might enjoy using this feature anyway.

Get Reviews for Your Site on Alexa

Again, not sure of the importance or value, but having reviews for your web site does go a long way with many directories and services. When logging into your Alexa account you can leave reviews for other web sites and blogs on the internet. You can see in the screenshot below you can see the Alexa review option.

Click here if you’d like to leave a review for BloggingTips.com.

Link to Alexa within Your Blog Posts

It never hurts to link back to Alexa within your content, as this will lead to more people finding out about their toolbar, downloading it and visiting your site, while also allowing Alexa to see that they are getting backlinks from your site.

The Biggest Alexa Score Ranking Factors

Update Your Blog Often with Quality Content

As mentioned, I’m not worrying about any of the methods used above, all I really care about is growing out the site with quality content that provides value to my audience, gets them to share the content and link to it from their site.

The better the quality content on your site and as long as you are posting on a consistent basis, this will greatly help in your mission to increase your alexa score. Don’t forget to always link to other content from within your articles and don’t spin articles or create garbage backlinks… this doesn’t help anyone at the end of the day and could also get your tossed out of the Google search engine.

Increase Your Social Reach and RSS Syndication

As less more are using the search engines and more people are relying on social networks, this should also be a major focus of yours. Make sure your blog content is being spread across Twitter, Facebook and Google+. You should also create a fan page for your blog if you haven’t already.

Even though Google Reader is going away, rss syndication and your blog update feeds are still going to be an important method for distribution and link building to your site.

Any more Alexa Score increasing tips?

There are many ways to increase your Alexa score and some work better than others. Be sure to share your opinion and tips in the comments section below.

OptimalHosting Review – An Upcoming Cloud Hosting Service

If you are looking for an innovative and energetic hosting service that understands the demands and requirements of the internet era, then trying Optimal Hosting wouldn’t be such a bad option. Optimal Hosting is a young hosting services company providing cloud based hosting services. Established with the sole purpose of meeting the challenges of emerging internet businesses, Optimal Hosting has quickly become a reliable name and the preferred option for many webmasters. Their packages are flexible and their rates are quite affordable as well. Moreover, the one thing you can be sure, about any young start up, is energetic customer support.

Hosting Plans & Features

Optimal Hosting primarily offers a Cloud Hosting plan that can be customized according to the customer’s needs. They also have a special Online Marketing Package that includes additional marketing features, tools and coupons. However, these can also be availed with the standard hosting package.

With an Optimal Hosting account you will get unlimited disk space and monthly bandwidth, unlimited domain names, unlimited emails and databases. You will also get the standard Linux based cpanel to manage your account and hosting features. The user interface is friendly and easy to use where most of the necessary options are available on one screen. The famous statistics and logging applications Awstats and Webalizer are also available to monitor the traffic and bandwidth usage details of your account.

Emails & Connectivity

Optimal Hosting gives you the freedom of creating as many email addresses as you want with unlimited email storage. Emails can be configured on POP3 and IMAP as well. All the major mobile platforms like Android, iOS and Blackberry are also supported. There’s also a list of Webmail applications through which the emails can be accessed online.

Software & Scripts – Single Click Installations

You can install a huge variety of software, web applications and scripts on your Optimal Hosting account using Fantastico. All the major blogging and website management systems like WordPress and Joomla are available at single click installations. Other useful customer interaction features, such as Bulletin Board Forum, are also there for free.

e-Commerce Integration

In case you want to start selling through your website, you can choose from a number of secure ecommerce plugins like OS Commerce, Agora Shopping etc. that can smoothly be integrated in your website to start selling immediately. Paypal and merchant account support is also available that can be used to facilitate secure payments through your website.

Internet Marketing Features

Optimal Hosting seems to put a lot of focus on promoting its internet marketing and online business features. With a standard Optimal Hosting account, you will get free internet marketing coupons on all major marketing platforms including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Facebook. These coupons can be used once your account is active and running. There’s also a separate internet marketing package on Optimal Hosting that can be purchased to get a more comprehensive set of marketing and promotional tools and freebies.

Reliable Servers and Technology

Optimal Hosting works on the latest Cloud Hosting model. Its servers are based across two continents in various cities of Europe and North America. This reduces the chances of any major break downs or major scale failures since the servers are located at completely different locations. The company guarantees 99.99% uptime and claims to manage downtime much more effectively because of its cloud set up and smart load management mechanisms. However, we do not have any third party data to verify this.

In terms of security, Optimal Hosting gives a Hack-Free guarantee to all its customers. Keeping theincreasing online security threats in mind, this is a pretty useful reassurance.

Energetic Customer Support

As expected of any young start up, Optimal Hosting employs an energetic and proactive customer support staff that is available 24×7 to resolve any customer issues. They can be approached any time of the day at their main support telephone number where a knowledgeable and professional staff representative will be available to help you. There’s also a pretty decent knowledgebase that contains articles and answers to the most frequently asked questions. You may also use the well maintained video library that has video tutorials on many features and aspects of the Optimal Hosting account. The standard email ticketing system is also in place and they usually do not take a lot of time to respond to customer emails either.

Pricing – Have a Closer Look

The monthly charges of Optimal Hosting fall in the higher category when compared with other hosting services. The standard hosting package is available for $6.96/month for a 3 year contract. However, Optimal hosting is offering 6 months of free hosting services on the purchase of any of its hosting plans. So you can use these 6 months to judge the quality of services Optimal Hosting provides. As a new customer, you will also get 1 free domain registration that will be valid for one year. However, you will need to pay for the renewal of this domain name once it gets expired.

Optimal Hosting Review Summary

In our opinion, Optimal Hosting is worth a try. They are a relatively new company when compared with the established names such as Hostgator and Bluehost. However, their standard of services seems pretty similar and they seem to be improving quickly as well. Their customer support is very proactive and the technology they use reduces chances of any major downtimes. The only downside seems to be the higher price tag, but even that can be acceptable once you consider the reliability of their services.

How To Display Events On WordPress

For professionals that use WordPress for their business, adding an event calendar could prove to be a most usefulproductivity tool. Display timely information to customers or website visitors to promote your events with a calendar WordPress plugin. This article features the capabilities of the plugin Calendar developed and supported by Kieran O’Shea which features a monthly view of events, mouse-over details for the events, multi-author capabilities, recurring events, sidebar functionality, modifiable CSS, and more.

Installation and Set-up

Search for Calendar by Kieran O’Shea in the WordPress Plugins dashboard. Install and activate according to the installation directions in the WordPress details window. A Calendar tab will be added to the admin panel below the Settings tab to the left sidebar. From there you can configure the settings for Calendar.

Calendar Options

Choose your calendar display options here. Select the lowest user group that can manage events, toggle if you want to display author names on events they create, toggle if you want a jump-box to easily change the month and year when adding events, toggle for the day’s events and upcoming events (can decide how many days in the future to display), enable event categories and configure the stylesheet if you wish to make changes to match a particular theme.

Manage Categories

Users can create custom categories in the Manage Categories set up area. Add a name and color (in Hex format) for ease of visibility by event types (for example: one day, weekly events, monthly events, all day events, etc.).

Manage Events

Manage Events includes all the detail for one time and recurring events. Add an event title, event description, a category, a URL associated with the event if needed, a start and end date, the time, and recurring detail if needed.

Add to blog

Calendar offers a number of options to add event information to your blog. Short code can be added to create a calendar page or to add a day’s events to a post. Users can also add widgets to the WordPress blog sidebars to displace recent events. You have the ability to filter by categories to display what you want which is helpful to highlight what is relevant by topic area.

After installation and editing the setup options, add a couple test categories and test events to see how the calendar looks on your site. Make sure things are working the way you want before you add a year’s worth of events.

A calendar plugin is useful for any number of niche blogs and businesses. It is a great marketing tool to advertise upcoming webinars, online chats, product or service announcements and trade shows. On your custom calendar page, in addition to the shortcode for the calendar, it is a good area to add a contact form or a way for visitors to your site to contact you and inquire after more information. You can also add post event information to show visitors what they could be missing out on. Don’t forget to take advantage of the URL field for each event to draw visitors to a relevant article or to your contact form as well.

4 Quick Video Blogging Tips

Everyone likes videos and everyone likes quick tips… so when we combine them, we get this quick video blogging tips post!

In all honesty, video is huge and it’s crucial for all aspects of online business and blogging. Not everyone likes to read thousand word blog posts and sometime a short video can quickly provide more detail than a 500 word post. Even more important is that video goes viral and once you create it, new people will be watching it all the time.

Video Blog Tips & Crazy YouTube Stats

Before we get started with some quick video blog tips, let’s first show some crazy stats from Youtube and how many videos are being watched online.

• 800+ million monthly unique visitors
• 72+ hours of video uploaded every minute
• 1 million partner program members
• #2 search engine (bigger than aol, yahoo, bing combined!
• 4 billion hours of video viewed every month

If those numbers aren’t enough to get you excited, I’m not sure what will!

Quick Video Blogging Tips You Must Implement

The hardest part about doing video is actually getting yourself started. You no longer need a great camera and fancy equipment. Most iPhones and mobile devices are better than you average camera now a days and many of them have one click upload to YouTube which makes the process extremely easy.

Now for some quick tips to make your videos work better for you.

Videos on Landing Pages

If you’ve ever done anything in the world of online marketing, you will already know how importantvideos are for landing pages and getting people to take action. The majority of the top products andoffers on clickbank.com are using video to drive a massive amount of leads and new customers through their sites, and you should too!

Getting an Intro Video Made

An excellent way to brand your videos is to have a quick intro at the beginning. Nothing too long that it becomes annoying for the viewer if they are to watch multiple videos of yours. Something short that shows your logo and delivers a message. My friend Kevin did a great write up on places where you can get custom video intros designs.

Include You in Your Videos

I started making my own videos earlier this year and plan to get into it more, but I wanted to make sure I was able to connect with my audience and not just show them a power point presentation or screenshots of different sites. Instead I included a video within the video of myself talking. This not only allows the person to better relate with your video and content, but it also helps grow your brand and awareness of who you are.

Creating an End Call to the Action

One of the best tips that you will need to take action on is to put an “call to action” at the end of your video. This can be something you can click on, a url to display or telling your audience to do something or ask them a question. No matter what you do, don’t end your video with nothing. You have the viewer engaged and they are already waiting to take action and move on from your video. Tell them what to do next!

Using These Video Blogging Tips, How Can You Improve Your Site?

There you have it… four quick video blogging tips!

The funny thing is that many people will already know about these tips and realize they work, but for some reason they will never take the time to implement them or actually get started with incorporating videos into their blogs. Hopefully you will explore the world of video and see how it can improve your online business and blogging exposure!

Gamification for Blogs: How to Create and Direct Reader Engagement

If you read the whole of this blog post, I’ll give you a gold star.

How do you feel about that?

Happy? Bemused? Maybe a bit annoyed – gold stars and reward charts are for little kids, after all.

Well, why do you think people use rewards to encourage good behaviour in their children?

Because it works. And it works on adults, too.

A reward, even a small one, literally changes people’s minds. When you get praise and recognition for something you’ve done, it alters the chemistry and electrical activity of your brain.

People get addicted to scoring points and winning prizes.

And that means if they can get that kind of recognition on your blog, they’ll keep coming back for more.

Here’s how it works:

Success is an Addiction

A little win gives you a jolt of testosterone, the hormone of competition and adventure. That makes you feel three things:

1. More competitive – you want to keep winning
2. More open to risk – you’re ahead of the game so your confidence is high
3. More generous to others – you’re doing so well, you can afford to help out

Those are the feelings you want your readers to have on your blog, right? If you’re not sure, let’s break it down:

1. Competitive – your readers will work extra hard to do well at whatever task you’ve set
2. Open to risk – they’re prepared to try something new or take a leap of faith
3. Generous – your readers become a community when they start to help each other

Make sense? All you need to do is give your audience a sweet testosterone boost when they answer your call to action, and they’ll love it so much they return to your blog again and again.

Not only that, they’ll make an effort to act on what you’re saying to them.

To encourage deep interaction between your audience and your blog, find ways to hand out rewards.

Gamification Ideas for Bloggers

Here are just 2 examples of how gamification can improve your blog:

1. Comments – If you want to encourage thoughtful comments on your blog posts, start rewarding the readers who leave the best comments.

How? Well, that depends on your blog. You could thank them on Twitter and Facebook, use a comment voting system to let other readers reward the best commenters, or create a regular “Comment of the Month” post on your blog to highlight their contribution.

2. Evergreen Content – If you want people to start at a certain blog post and work their way through your evergreen content in the optimum order, make a game of it.

Award points for finishing each post and acting on it, with bonuses for extra tasks, and a digital certificate of completion at the end. Now you’ve got a mini-course or challenge series that’s fun and engaging – you could even use it as a free giveaway in exchange for email subscriptions or social media shares.

Whatever you want to see on your blog, create the framework of reward and recognition that will encourage readers to participate. Gamification works. Make it work for you.

Oh, and I haven’t forgotten my promise.

Here you go: one gold star. You’re a winner!

Thanks for reading this post, and I hope you’ll share your thoughts in the comments box.

Meet Michael Kwan from MichaelKwan.com

I first met Michael Kwan a few years back through my good friend John Chow. It’s funny because we’ve been working together for a few years now and Michael does a lot of writing on this blog for me, but we have yet to actually meet up with each other yet. Seems like that’s how the majority of internet business and blogging is done these days, and is yet another reason why it’s important that we continue to learn more about each other through these “meet the blogger” interview series!

1.) Please tell us about yourself and how you got into blogging?

My name is Michael Kwan and I am a professional freelance writer. You might have seen some of my articles here on Blogging Tips. I got started with blogging even before blogging was really a thing. Way back in 1999, I started an e-mail newsletter with my musings, sending it out to a small distribution list consisting of mostly my friends. That evolved into a Geocities website a few years later and I eventually launched Beyond the Rhetoric in 2006 as my first “true” blog running on a true blog CMS. I’ve always had an interest in writing, so falling into a career as a writer and having my own blog felt like a natural fit.

2.) What is the focus of your blog and why did you choose that niche?

Beyond the Rhetoric approaches a number of different topics, but many of these have to do with the business of freelancing. They might talk about how to best manage client preferences or about some of the best strategies for maintaining a healthy life-work balance when working from home. I recently wrote on what freelancers can learn from Abraham Lincoln, for example. There are also posts about finances and money management, as well as grammar tips, memorable quotes and personal development advice.

The focus of the blog is two-fold. First, I want to provide a platform where I could provide advice for entrepreneurs, freelancers and home-based business owners, but I also want to get them thinking. Perhaps I’m just a philosopher at heart. The second goal was to provide some variety to the content. This way, it wouldn’t feel so serious all the time. That’s why I mix things up with restaurant and movie reviews from time to time too.

3.) How are you currently monetizing your blog traffic?

The traffic is being monetized primarily through Google AdSense and Text Link Ads, as well as some display advertising in the form of banners. There are also some Amazon affiliate links in certain posts, but that’s fairly minimal. Indirectly, the blog serves as passive marketing for my freelance writing services, as it gives potential clients some insight into my general writing style.

4.) What do you know now that you wish you knew when you first started blogging?

The platform is important. When I first started with Geocities, I was manually updating every page by manually editing the HTML. When Beyond the Rhetoric first launched, I was using some proprietary CMS from GoDaddy that was hardly adaptive or flexible. If I had known back then, I would have started with WordPress right from the beginning. Migrating the posts from the GoDaddy CMS to WordPress was an exercise in frustration and it’s not something I would wish on anyone.

5.) What are three blogs that you visit almost daily?

Aside from the blogs where I contribute regularly, most of the blogs that I read on a daily basis are related to the work that I do. I keep up with the world of consumer electronics and gadgets by reading blogs like The Verge. Outside of that, I read Miss 604 for local Vancouver coverage and xkcd for insightful giggles.

6.) Can you give us three recommended tools/services that you use with your blogging?

WordPress, for sure, as it’s one of the most flexible and versatile content management systems that you can use. It’s also free. Hootsuite is my favorite social media dashboard, allowing me to manage multiple social media profiles from a single web interface, as well as through the mobile app. And third, RSS Graffiti is a great way to syndicate your RSS feed onto your Facebook page.

7.) What advice would you have for someone who is just starting with their first blog?

Write about what you love and stick with it. You will experience tremendous growing pains in the beginning and when you see that you’ve only earn 30 cents from AdSense in that first month, it’s easy to get disheartened. Growing a blog is a long process and you need to love writing about your niche to continue with it, even when the numbers don’t really back it up.

8.) What’s the best advice or tip you’ve discovered about blogging since getting started?

Metrics are important. When I first started, I didn’t really do much in terms of tracking my traffic or my audience, but that kind of information is incredibly useful for so many reasons. Use those Insights on Facebook, implement Analytics on you blog, and so on. Advertisers want this data and you should have it available to you.

9.) If you only had $100 to start a new blog, how would you use it?

Of course, your costs may vary and you may be able to find some better deals, but there are some basics you’ll want to cover. A domain will be about $10 and basic shared hosting will run you about $80 for the year. It’s important to have your own domain right from the get-go. Hire a designer to create a header image and a logo for your blog; you can go on Fiverr to get those done for $5 each.

10.) How can readers of the blog get in touch with you?

Site: http://michaelkwan.com
Blog: http://btr.michaelkwan.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/michaelkwan
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mkfreelanceand https://www.facebook.com/beyondtherhetoric

Thanks again Michael for taking the time to share your advice and story with the Blogging Tips community. If you would like to learn about other bloggers and how they are finding success online, be sure to read through our blogger interview series.

Backup Your Blog on World Backup Day!

World Backup Dayis just around the corner – March 31st. On this special day, I was reminded of the Toy Story tragedy. Who can ever forget Pixar’s tryst with disaster when the second installation of the Toy Story trilogy was completely deleted? What? You haven’t heard of it? Watch this, I tell you!

When you’re done watching, if you are half as spooked as the guys at Pixar were, then it is high time you checked your backups, and if you don’t have one, get yourself a backup service NOW!

In this high-tech life, data can vanish into thin air, without a trace, breaking not just your back and heart, but also the bank. Ironic isn’t it, that destruction is always so much quicker than construction. And, as the old adage goes, “Prevention is better than cure.” So keep backups of all the data you own. It never hurts!

Who rescued Buzz?

I was and am a huge Pixar fan. For years, Buzz, Woody and gang played with me every single night after the lights went out. Even now, they drop in once in a while and zoom me back to my carefree childhood. When I first read that Toy Story 2 was lost, I was distraught. How could they have been so careless? I would have missed out on half my childhood! Didn’t the guys at Pixar realize it? I ranted and raved. Then I got curious. Who rescued Toy Story 2? I wondered.

Guess who? A wee babe! Supervising Technical Director Garyl Susman was often working from homeas she wanted to care for her newborn baby. And her’s was the only copy of the movie that wasn’t deleted! I am sure that baby will grow up hearing how he/she was responsible for saving Toy Story 2. For me, that baby (and the mother of course) is the true hero of this story.

Just think… If not for that baby and loving mother, if not for gender equality, if not for maternity benefits, if not for childcare concerns, this film would be lost forever. If women stayed home and only blokes went to work (as they still do in many parts of the world), there would be no Toy Story 2. Shudder!

Of course, if Pixar had taken little more care and subscribed to a third-party backup service likeblogVault, Carbonite or Dropbox, such near disasters could have been avoided. The world cannot afford to lose another Woody or Buzz, so don’t think twice. Get your data a backup. Who knows? Someone might just sell your hard disk to Al’s Toy Barn. Hurry and get backed up!

G Veda Vyass is with blogVault, a Premium WordPress Backup Service. When he’s not playing with WP, he is playing with Buzz, and once in a while, he is Buzz.

5 Little-Known Benefits of Social Networking For Bloggers

This blogosphere is becoming Social with amazing speed and everyone is realizing the benefits of social networking instead of just blindly running behind the things that take a longer time to work like Google and other search engines.

More and more people are using social media and enjoying the benefits of social networking, but its is not just because this has become a trend.

It has numerous legitimate benefits that we are going to unfold today. But before we get started you need to realize one thing. Social media websites are filled with all kinds of people from young to old, from black to white and most importantly from good to bad too. Social media can give you as much harms as much benefits so be careful while choosing your path.

Let’s talk about the benefits of social networking.

1. New Relations:

The biggest benefit and the reasons and purpose social platforms stand for is unlimited options to start new relationships. As a matter of fact this was the reason that social networks gained such immense and immediate exposure and became what they are today.

These relationships involve friendship, love and many other kinds, but as bloggers we don’t really care more about anything than business relations. 

You see such relations are beneficial to unbelievable extents. You can have people who can give you high class benefits like sharing your content, linking to you, etc with love.

2. Solutions of Problems:

This world is filled up with different kinds of problems and there is not even one person in the world that can solve every problem that here to be solved. Just like no one in blogosphere can solve every problem.

Even the experts who have been in this business for over decade claim that they are still learning countless things on a daily basis. Hence, you have to go around and hire people for solving issues or simply ask someone for help.

If you use Social media to find someone who knows the solution, this is highly likely that you would be out of your problem very soon even without spending a penny. That’s social networking friend.

3. New Ideas:

Its really hard to count how many times bloggers run out of ideas or are looking for something new and fresh for feeding their readers something different. The easiest way to do just that is to explore around social media.

As I said before that there are so many different kinds of people with different interests who share and say what they love. Which makes it totally logical that a place with such community would be filled of ideas.

You just have to look around with a creative mind and I’m sure there would be plenty of new things to try for your blogs and websites.

4. Products Promotion:

Social media has made it so simple and easy to promote anything and everything quickly and effectively. You don’t always need a blog to enjoy the benefits of social networking and you can simply make a living through promoting products.

Those products can include anything and everything from hosting and domain to gadget and tablets, from fashion to medicines and from sports goods to household items. In simple words, social media has made the life of those people a haven that are willing to make money online.

5. Online Presence:

How do you show someone that you are an expert?

Your blog has amazing reputation? And, there are people out there who love your work? Will you send the snaps of your earnings? Or even your traffic?

Hell no. Having a social fan base and presence is the key to show the world what kind of person you are and what you have done so far. In other words, social media is a proof of your success and readership. The more followers and fans etc you have the better you are and your blog.

There are a lot more benefits of social networking, but it is not wise to waste your time in knowing all those minor things, which is why I covered these simple facts.