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How to Optimize Your Images for Search Engines (Google Crawlers)

Whoever says learning and asking questions is not part of blogging then the person is joking. I’ve made it a point of duty to always ask questions ad I have been seeing the good result. Though many wanted to ask, likewise others wished. But the zeal and courage to go about it is what they don’t have. The tutorial that am going to share with you is going to blow your mind because many have been looking forward to getting this solution.

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I was actually thought the trick and I believe teachings you as well is a very good idea. I believe many times as a blogger we’ve heard about optimization of images for search engines. And in which we all know optimization of images enhances the increase in our blog traffic, and also give back a reasonable amount of backlink to our blog if the optimization are down in the right way.

I believe everybody wants to optimize his/ her images? But most people don’t know how to go about it like I was some few hours ago. Optimization of images is very necessary, if we plan to have a strong blog contending at the top of the search engines. I’ve said it several times that you need to know what others don’t before you can rise as a pro in blogging, and also be smart. You need to be smart because blogging is more than quality content only.

Now fasten your belt and sit tight because we are about to reach the exciting stage of the post. The question now on everybody’s lips is how they can optimize their images for search engine optimization. It’s very simple, just follow the steps I gave below and you are good to go.

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1. Go to your dash board
2. Go to create posts
3. Immediately you are ready to upload a picture, click the upload image icon

4. It’ll take you to browse photos in your device

5. Click the required picture and select it.

6. After selection, the picture will appear on a dialogues box.
7. Click the picture and it will get to the required destination which is in the post.
8. Immediate you right clicked on the image, you notice some features of it like
9. ‘Title, alt tag, caption, left, right, center, etc.

10. Then you fill the required spaces.
11. You will see properties and this is where you put the above features

Note: Now this is where image optimization comes in. in the space for “Title text” you put your post title and your “ALT text” you put your keywords. If you write a post with title “How to make money online faster and beat others” maybe your target keyword is “Make money online“, put that keyword in the alt area.

This optimization of images helps in two ways, it gives your article authority and also prepare your images for search engines, as Google crawler only recognizes text. I believe with this, I have done justice with the optimization of images for search engines, and if you have an additional information and probably comment.

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Learn From The Power Of Infographics

Having heard this word several times, but I never took my time to study more about the rudiments about infographics , guess maybe I was a little bit lazy then. When I realize that laziness will set me going from the back, that was when I changed my attitude towards what I love; and which is writing.

Infographics from the visual description of the word, mean information and graphics right? Info + graphics. This eventually means the presentation of information through graphical representation. Graphics in this sense also means images. I mean using of images to describe or illustration things.

Basically, texts and pictures or images are combined together to make up infographic and the end product of the combination brings solutions to problems or challenges. It’s an example of communication in a pictorial way.

Infographics have been for long anyway and few of the blogs have adapted the usefulness. It is now moving very fast in internet marketing as for those who know the usefulness are beginning to make use of it. I think justnaira even created a label for infographic on his blog.

It shows there are there still some bloggers out there, who knows what the usefulness. In internet marketing, infographics has risen to the point where it’s a must for some blogs to use it, in that it enhances the profitability of the businesses, and it also help in engaging the audiences.

You know some people really like something cartoonish, and most times infographics can be interesting. There are few things we need to check on it, like the importance and how do we use it. I believe as we proceed and you pay attention, you’ll definitely get what I’m saying.

The Advantages of Infographics

Like I said earlier in the introduction of infograghics, I mention some few things about solution to problems right?which info graphics is among the solution to some challemges.

Also infographics is made for branding. I believe we all know branding? Special features that is made only for your company, businesses or blog? There are few things that are not just common to other businesses, they are only meant for you: like you logo etc.

With this branding, your blog or business gain it’s authority in its particular area of specialization (which most of us call niche in blogging). Millions of blogs have been created in the last weeks in your niche, and how can you distinctly make yourself viral? Only the use of infographic will open the door for you. Below are other few advantages of representing your information, data and ideas graphically.

There are few things that are not just common to other businesses, they are only meant for you: like you logo etc. With this branding, your blog or business gain it’s authority in its particular area of specialization (which most of us call niche in blogging).

Millions of blogs have been created in the last weeks in your niche, and how can you distinctly make yourself viral? Only the use of infographic will open the door for you. Below are other few advantages of representing your information, data and ideas graphically.

1. It is memorable: there is a say that what you see most often goes a long way in your memory, because it keeps coming on daily basis. That is very advisable to check what we watch. Television advertisement is a very good example of this.

2. It easily creates interest: several times I’ve heard commendations of people on a graphical display. Most especially those graphics designers, every one of us love it because most times it cut our eyes and we are easily attracted to a clean and perfect designs, which in turn we’ll want to appreciate them.

3. It reduces boredom: Many of us get tired when we read some articles on some blogs. Most times I’ve fell into that condition whereby I just have to close the tab because I was bored. But infographics have the power to reduce that, because every time you come across graphics, it keeps you alive.

4. It is easier to comprehend: guess I won’t dwell much into this, because we all know the power of what we see. It sticks for a long period of time, because the information has been simplified with graphics, therefore you understand better.

5. It catches our attention: just like from the second point that I made that it easily creates interest. We all know that a perfectly designed art work easily caught our eyes, and we’ll want to know more about it. Also, you would be curious as to what are those lines, charts and graphs for. There could even be images in it that will immediately make you turn your head towards it. We have more than enough advantages of infographics, but for those that I discussed above, I believe you enjoyed them?

Creation of Infographics

I know this is the aspect most people will concentrate more for them to know how to create it. Everybody has a gene of creativity, in which the making of infographics requires. Like I said, you can create it, also I can, but you need to have some qualities like the knowledge of a designer, web development. I think professional graphics designers make these infographics, which is the first skilled aspect of it. But the major aspect of it is the stream flowing of information on the graphics.

Not anyhow person can do that, a talented and a skilled person needs to be assigned for the purpose, because the contents need to be informative and interactive. Anyway, I’ve never come across a boring infographics, because it mustn’t turn off your audiences if it’s a good one and the colors must be very moderate and reasonable.

The most cogent aspect of infographics is for you to be able to pass across your message and people should get solutions to their problems. Impacting of knowledge is not left out. Any graphical representation which does not pass across well-equipped message is not worth it. Remember your conclusion and a catchy ending. A very good example is making an infographics for the history of Facebook, which I believe you can get on net.

Get people to Know about Infographics Online

Getting infographics across to the net is so easy because it should be a product of your work. A lot of business owners and most companies deals with the use of graphics to display their products. It’s exactly as if you are presenting a seminar, I mean for those who know how to create and chart the stream flow of information on the infographics.

There are different sites that take perfectly made materials. In such a way, you display your products and promote your site over the net. It’s a simple way of marketing techniques.

Social Medias are not also left out of this, because you can as well use it to describe am event or a situation if you have followers or subscribers.
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How To Optimize Your Blog for Mobile view

In this present day where virtually everybody is using smartphones, and the high rise in the technology. Everybody uses their smartphones to access most blogs now, so therefore most bloggers have decided to optimize their blog for a better view on mobile accessories, which is most times called “mobile optimized website” . I was actually pointed to the fact that I wasn’t using my custom template for my mobile, but was using blogger default mobile view which in most cases doesn’t bring out the real template of your blog.

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Every of your readers wanted and would also like to feel the perfect design they see on the desktop view also showing on the mobile. I have received several complements concerning my blog template this week. So I now decided to optimized my website for mobile view , immediately one of my blog readers told me. So how did I go about doing this? I know some people really want to learn this, but you don’t have to rush, sit tight and fasten your belt.*smile*.

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Mobile optimized website is not something difficult to build, but am so sure few bloggers out there don’t know how to do it, which was why the question was raised from my blog reader. Just follow the steps I’ll be describing below:

1. Go to www.blogger.com

2. Click on “template”

3. Click on the mobile setting icon

4. Click on “Yes. Show mobile template on mobile devices.”

5. Choose custom from the drop- down arrow on space.

6. Then you can check preview to check how it looks, if you’re okay with it.

7. Click on save.

I believe with this simple tutorial, you should be able to get your own optimization ready anytime.

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How To Improve Your Blog’s Traffic

Have you ever experience something like this? I mean having this kind of questions on your lips, once or twice in your blogging carrier?” How can I improve my blog traffic, or what am I not doing right to get good traffic? Honestly, this is a normal song for most bloggers especially beginners, guess are you with me? I’ve been in this kind of dilemma before, that I almost abandon my blog because it was so frustrating… imagining someone having 20 blog posts and you’ve not started cracking 1000 unique page views per month.

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But when I made researches and seek the advice of other bloggers, I was given some tips that really worked and booted my page views to something like 10,000 page views per day, interesting right? This was how I felt that very morning when I woke up from my bed and I logged in to my dashboard and I met 10,089, I screamed as if it was something else. So, I just thought its of paramount importance to share with you people the tips I used that worked for me when i started blogging as a novice.

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Many new bloggers have sent so many emails to my box and asking me, that do I know any magic or strategies for them to use so they could get a reasonable traffic, all I did was to laugh because all it takes about blogging is patient which most bloggers don’t have… you can’t create a blog today and you want to hit 5000 page views in a day, never.

You need to be patient and you must follow some commandments of blogosphere, which I obeyed and really worked for me… so the tips am about to share with you is what I personally have called the 7 commandments of blog traffic, when you follow this tips/commandment , it is gonna be a wow! Aftermath .Below are the tips:

1. Commenting:

Blog commenting has since been a very good method of getting traffic to one’s blog. Not only getting traffic, it does more than just traffic because it has been researched that blog commenting goes a long way in what we called back- linking.

Everybody wants a high page rank blog, but never knew the rudiments for it. When take time to comment on other people’s blog, they’ll repay you by visiting your blog and eventually increase your page rank.

Another thing about commenting about people’s blog is that it builds relationship between readers and blog owners. Several times that I have visited some sites and I noticed some readers are just so constant, and the way they rapport with blog owners shows the level of intimacy.

Also concerning to the way some people do comment, some people can be annoying by the way they comment. Commenting should be acknowledgement, sharing your views and probably adding to the particular topic if you have a versed knowledge there, for other people to learn.

2. Social Media :

Social media nowadays has been a great source of medium for traffic. there are a lot of forums, platforms in which you can join to promote yourself and your blog. Never you think that you’ve nothing to offer, you have so many things that the next 1000 persons are not having.

i bet you, everyday people are waiting for you to post, and this is where you find faithful readers on your blog. Social Site like Facebook ,Twitter,Pinterest, linkedin many more.

3.Set up a Facebook Fan Page :

Mandatory, this is one of the major ways to get attention of readers or probably your friends on facebook about your blog. Like the page i have for my first website. If you are good at promoting stuffs, then facebook page is a very good platform to get traffic.

4.Your Blog Content:

I often tell some people that your content speaks for you in Google’s court of law, and probably search engine. There was a time I applied for AdSense on my first blog, I got reject by AdSense anyway, but I learnt something. In the message sent to my box, I was made to know that your blog contents are not for you, they are for your readers.

How many bloggers are thinking in this direction today? Guess few, because everybody wants to make money so you just write and go. There are differences between readers and visitors, I guess you know that? Your blog contents are what make visitors; readers on your blog. Though both parties come around to check out the stuffs you are made of, but the quality of what you have and the solution in which you can provide makes a visitor, a reader.

Readers are the people that subscribe due to the fact that you got solutions to their problems, and they believe in you while visitors are those that came, check and couldn’t get what they want. Therefore, endeavor to write your contents with easy, a good and comprehend able vocabulary. Nobody needs your vocabs; all we need is for you to meet people’s need in
every way.

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5. Sign up For Twitter Account:

I noticed nowadays that people only follow you on twitter when they realize you are a celebrity, or probably the number of followers you have. You don’t have to bother yourself about that, because your great content is still in play. There is one thing we called connection linking.

Guess I gave that name myself, but am going to explain that. What I mean by connection linking is that when you open a twitter account, you should try and tweet all your post for the day, there are some sites that has feeds that post automatically for some blogs. In case you are posting yourself or anyhow, just make sure you tweet your post for the day.

When people read your tweets with the link back to your blog and eventually they read your great stuffs there, they’ll automatically tweet it on there on account , when others from their end sees it, it tweeted again, and that is how it keeps going which is what I mean by connection linking. Your blog gets enough traffic from this kind of process, which is while twitter is another source of getting traffic, likewise Facebook.

6. Adding Images To Your Posts:

Another good source of traffic is adding images to your blog post, what does this images do right? It has been confirmed and researched that Blogs with Good rank for keyword in image search often get a lots of traffic, and mostly maybe could as well customize your images like this below.

7. Answering Questions on Web:

There are lots of ways you can drive traffic the net, and which answering questions on net is also among. There are some popular sites online like yahoo and Quora that are often need answers to Queries asked by different people on web, and link to your websites are always included.

I know many people are not aware of this, but this exactly while learning is important and which is what you are doing from reading this blog post today. If your answer is well accepted, then you definitely have lots of traffic back to you blog and good page rank awaits you.

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Can Publishing Many Post Per day, Boost Traffic?

Honestly, it was a frustrating time for me when i started my blog in 2011. I was so concerned about my traffic, i.e visitors on my blog per day because i was having just 200 visitors per day. So i made enquiries and i got advised from people, because i wasn’t posting too much articles per day, just like 2-3 and i always have the believe that have tried.

But when i was put to the light by a friend on traffic issues and i got a good result of having like 12000 page views per day in less than one month of the application of the method given to me by my friend.

I’ll like you to pay very much attention to today’s post, because it could turn out to give you the turn-around youv’ve been seeking for on the traffic issues you are having. Obiviously, traffic is the only issue that comes with two blessings of both success and revenue, and lookig around today, you will see several tutorials written on traffic tips and strategies, and still cuts short of bringing traffic to some people.

Same is true about today’s post but then how come our post today is exceptional? With my little experience of blogging internet, i have observed some guys like justnaira and gistmode receiving thousands of visitors within the first few months of their blog release. Neither do they advertise their blog or promote it in any such ways but both have come up with just a single sentence that keeps driving the forward which is “Write More to Get More!”

Of course, it’s just like the issue of been hard working, the more you work, the more you reap. So therefore, the effective way to make success in blogging industry goes a long way with the number of article you post every day. Though I have read it in a place that I was said you can post as many as 5-7 posts per day. But for those who never made blogging a working, never take laziness as a friend.

You might not have the time to post up to that, because having a unique content is more than what most blogger writes about, unless you want to stat coping others stuffs. But make sure you are not lazy about it, because the more you post, the better the result you get.

Can Good Post Frequently Increase Blog Traffic?
Many a times I wonder how some mega blogs like Tech Crunch and Mashable does their work, in which they post up to like many article in the space of 3-5 hours. I now had a thought within me that most of these blogs are now big companies, where they have people working for them and most of them had already make blogging a calling because of the achievement already made in blogging.

Nevertheless, you can always walk your way to success by inviting or requesting for guest post , or many of your friends you think he/she knows about blogging, tell the person to share his/her opinions on what she knows and may be by doing that, she can be typing it inside her PC and later give it to you.

Great number of post fetches reasonable traffic, it’s just as if the more you can go, the more you can get. Though I have always observed my traffic increments whenever I post more article than usual. All you just have to do Is to keep posting unique and high quality post. It works for me, my traffic percentage got transformed when I started posting unique article and frequently.

10 Reasons why you must Post Frequently!

This is how this simple yet most effective strategies works:

Robots visit blogs periodically depending on how often the blog is updated

The faster a blog updates the faster it is crawled and indexed by Search Engines

Since there is big competition amongst search engines themselves so they always look into more updated content and try their best to provide the searchers with the most up to date content

By posting more your blog becomes an encyclopedia for Google where it can find variety of topics

The smaller your number of posts and posting frequency, the smaller you get in the eyes of search engine robots.

Robots are more like school teachers they love you when you provide them with complete homework on time and they penalize you (lower your ranking) when you turn lazy.

When you post more, your readers will remain active and would often visit your blog and read your feeds. Thus you multiply Pageviews and page impressions. As a result revenue through Ads blossom.

The only thing with which you can beat any competitor is by turning your blog into an Encyclopedia of your selected Topic. Remember the weakest point on a competitors side is always laziness so make his dumbness your strength and burst him with tonnes of articles and grab all his readers and traffic. That is surely legal!

When you update more, your readership would increase because readers would often check back to see if you have something new to share. Subscribers mean a lot!

Frequent updates when shared on Twitter and Facebook will surely expand your followers/ fans list.