How to Increase Blog Traffic

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Traffic is one of the most important parameters for your blog; the more people who find your blog, the people who will read your ideas. If you're ready and willing to have your blog admired in the online community, then try a few different methods of increasing blog traffic. You'll create better content in the end, and probably have dozens of new viewers each day.

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Choose a catchy and descriptive title. The title of your blog is one of the first things that readers will see and one of the factors that search engines use to determine what your blog is about. The title of your blog should let readers know right away what your blog is about. It should be easy to remember, not too long, and not too similar to another website's name.

• Keep this in mind when selecting a domain name as well. Oddly spelt words will throw people off, and make it more difficult for your blog to become memorable.

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Focus on your design. The  first thing people notice when they visit your blog, is the way it looks. And although the old adage goes that one shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, the same isn’t always true for a blog. If you want people to stay on your blog, you’ve got to hook them with an eye catching design; once they’re interested in the appearance, they’ll start reading to see what you’re all about.

• Create a title/header that matches the theme and content of your blog. A clean, well designed header will tell readers a lot about your blog, and hopefully have them sticking around.
• Keep your color scheme to a maximum of three hues. Too many colors can appear overwhelming, and distract readers from content. Choose at least one or two neutral colors, and one or two bright/bolder colors.
• Create a small logo or image to represent your blog, if applicable. Having a ‘brand’ will make your blog memorable, and help others to recognize it when they see the logo around the internet.

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Organize your content. If you have a great design and content, you have to be sure to have great organization to match. If readers can’t find what they’re looking for easily, they’ll be much less likely to visit again in the future or to recommend your blog to others. Create a navigation bar at the top of the page or in a column, with links to common articles. Furthermore, set up a ‘tag’ system in which you can tag articles with keywords or phrases that will make it easier for readers to search.

• If you’re coding-savvy enough, add a search bar to your blog. This will allow your readers to search from within your blog content without scrolling through pages of titles or links they’re not interested in.
• Create general categories/links for your nav bar, with more specific sub-categories for each general link. This will make searching your blog easier.

4

Focus on your target audience. Although you likely want anyone and everyone to start reading your blog, typically only a specific target audience will make up the primary readership. Look at popular blogs that are similar to yours or how you want your to be, and emulate the ways in which they hook their audience on content. By creating specific, detailed content rather than general, vague content, your target audience will be more likely to become repeat readers, and to share your blog on a regular basis.

• If you’re creating a fashion/beauty blog, make sure that the general appearance and content of your blog easily shows this.
• If you’re covering a broad subject, consider writing multiple posts in order to get more detailed content about each part you’ll be discussing.

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Add interesting images. People  are visual, and they’re more likely to read an article or blog post if there are images to accompany it. If you’re a photographer or graphic designer, use your creative know-how to prepare images that fit the content of each individual blog post you create. If you’re not so artsy, use images from the web (with permission/linked sources) interspersed throughout your writing.

• If you add your own images, add a small watermark with your blog’s name or URL on the bottom. That way, if your images get circulated around the web, people will see that they came from you and make a stop by your blog.
• Write a small disclaimer on your blog that notes that people can share your images as much as they want, so long as they source them back to your article/home page.

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Enhance your writing. So now people are hooked on the appearance of your blog, but now you’ve got to provide stellar content to keep them around. In general, blogs should be written with a light-hearted tone and easy to understand vocabulary (unless it’s an academic or otherwise specific blog). Get your blog optimized for search engines (SEO optimized) by using common search queries throughout your writing. This will move your blog closer to the top of search engine result pages, and make people more likely to read your posts.

• Always check your writing for proper grammar and spelling.
• Avoid writing long paragraphs with no breaks. People have a hard time keeping their place on the page when reading block text, so break your writing into small sections, phrases, and short paragraphs.
• Use a recognizable tone when you’re writing; readers gravitate towards someone whose writing is memorable and creative.

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Avoid overwhelming your readers. When you’re full of inspiration or you have a lot to say, it can be easy to create blog posts, designs, images, and content that are overwhelming to viewers. Try to keep each individual post relatively short, breaking up broad topics into multiple, concise articles. Additionally, avoid having tons of contrasting ads, images, and links spread around the borders of your page.

• Keep in mind that the longer it takes for your page to load, the lower on the search results page it will appear. Therefore, it is in your best interest to keep your posts relatively brief.
• The old saying ‘less is more’ certainly applies to writing blogs.

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Choose content that will last for a while. This can be difficult depending on the style of your blog, but if you focus on writing articles that aren’t ‘trendy’, you’ll likely have many more readers in the long run. If you’re writing about a fad, insert it into an article that will likely stay popular for more than a few months. In this way, you can almost guarantee future readership, especially if your page gets plenty of hits to start. Writing about things that are popular in the moment may give you a short burst of readers, but after a few weeks the number will likely dwindle significantly.

• ’What’s hot now’ articles are certainly appropriate in moderation, but if you want to have regular, consistent blog traffic, try to keep them to a minimum.
• Writing for the future pertains mainly to blogs which are covering current trends, such as fashion, beauty, technology, and pop culture.

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Link to yourself. If you have a stockpile of blog posts you’ve already published, don’t hesitate to give them a shout-out in your new posts! Readers will be drawn deeper into your blog with each link, and be more likely to stick around and explore a bit if you provide plenty of links to your other posts. Insert them inconspicuously into your writing by turning words or phrases in a sentence into colored hyperlinks that don’t detract/distract from the rest of your content.

10

Post regularly. If you have great content but only post once a month, even the most loyal followers will eventually get burnt out on waiting for an update from you. Try to set up a regular blogging schedule, so that you’re posting at least once a week. Keep in mind, the more you post, the more chances you have to get readers.

• Avoid the pitfall of posting even when you don’t have quality content. It’s ok to go a little extra time between posts if it means building up for writing that is more meaningful.

How to Bring More Readers:

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Use social media platforms to promote your blog.  Possibly the most effective way to promote readership outside your friends and family is to promote your blog on social media. Although it can be difficult to manage multiple accounts, if you’re able to juggle your presence between a few different sites, you’ll likely notice a significant increase in viewers. Consider using social media platforms such as:

• Facebook
• Twitter
• Pinterest
• Instagram
• Reddit
• LinkedIn
• Google+
• Tumblr

2

Participate in other blog communities. If you’re an avid reader of other blogs in your genre, you’ve probably noticed that people will comment with links to their own blogs at the end of popular posts. Commenting alone is a great way to get your name and ideas out in the world, but if you’re able to add a link to your blog as well, you’ll likely grab a few attentive readers. This is good, because the people who click through to your blog are likely some of the most loyal, possibly gaining you a solid following.

• Add creative, insightful comments to blog posts. Writing meager, boring, or irrelevant comments and linking to your blog will drive people away.
• Comment often and on a variety of different blogs. After a while, the authors of the blogs you comment on will begin to take notice and might contact you for collaborations.

3

Consider having a guest blogger. If you’re able to link up with a fellow blogger in your community, contact them to guest blog on your site. They’ll post the link to your site on theirs, bringing in a whole slew of new readers who otherwise might not have discovered you. Further, they might return the favor and ask you to guest blog for them. Before you decide to ask someone to be featured on your blog, create a rubric or set of questions you plan on asking them. Having a blog post outlined for them will make them much more likely to accept your offer.

• If you’re good friends with another blogger, consider simply offering to do a guest post on their blog. They might happily give you free reign to create something for them.
• Interview-style guest posts are typically the easiest, but if you’re clear about what you’re looking for, another blogger may be able to generate entirely new content for you.

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Set up an alert system. You’ve probably done this yourself - found a blog you love, forget to write down the URL, and never visit again. Don’t allow this to happen to your readers! On your own blog, you can create an email newsletter or update system to let readers know when you’ve created a new post. Want an easier way to do it? Join a program like Bloglovin.com; this site allows other users to ‘follow’ you, and receive an alert every time you post something new.

• Rather than creating a newsletter that is sent out with every blog post, think about having a monthly update to send to viewers who comment or subscribe. This way, you don’t bog your readers down with unwanted emails or messages.

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Create an advertisement exchange. Many blogs create a column for ads solely from other bloggers in their genre. Start a space on your blog where other blogs can post an advertisement; they’ll likely link to your page as well. Do the opposite too; look for free or cheap monthly ad spaces through other blogs. In the end, you both end up with more readers, so it’s a win-win situation.

• If you’ve never had ads on your blog before, consider having a ‘first month free!’ type deal in order to draw in other bloggers.
• The more popular a blog is, the more it will cost to host an ad. Start small and work your way up to larger blogs as you gain popularity.
• You can pay to have your blog advertised on other popular sites, but this can be very expensive and not the best option for beginning bloggers.

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Write about other bloggers, and then them. Sometimes when you read other blogs, you’ll notice they give a shout-out to a blog post or blog author they admire. When this is done, the author being recognized will typically repost the original in which they were cited, as a sort of badge of honor. If you are truly inspired by a particular person or blog, link to it on your own blog, and send an email or comment to the author. They’ll be flattered you noticed them, and if nothing else you’ll have at least one new follower.

• Consider compiling a list of your favorite blogs, and linking to them. This increases the chances of the authors mentioning you and your list on their own blog.
• If you don’t feel comfortable publicly posting about a blog you like, try contacting the author and telling them privately. They’ll still appreciate your contact, and will probably start reading your blog too.

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Post at the right time. If your target audience is adult males over the age of 50, it probably won’t be good to always post new content at midnight. Similarly, it’s not incredibly helpful if you post about how to make the perfect ‘New Year’s Eve’ decorations for a party, the day of/after New Year’s Eve. Keep your target audience and your content in mind when you choose a date and time to post an update.

• Posts that relate to a specific date should be planned several weeks in advance. This will give readers plenty of time to stumble upon your post, before the date has arrived.
• If you post on a regular basis, try to post at the same time each day. This way, followers of your blog will know around what time to expect an update from you, and can hop over to your blog without a reminder that you’ve updated it.

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Today's Reality

Few lines about 5th Sept, the Teachers Day

Forgive me if I hurt anyone, especially with due respect to all my teachers, it’s about Teacher’s Day, few lines, which is in my mind from a long long days, maybe I’m wrong, I don’t know, why should I celebrate a special day for teachers, why? I do not find any specific reason,  For torturing me the whole students life for no reason, I rewind my whole life but I do not find any teacher who is teaching free, he is paid somehow for his duty, so why should I celebrate a special day for someone who are doing their duty that too a paid service, instead if there any day it should be Student Day, according to me, a teacher should thankful to his students coz, student is the only “bechara” (helpless) who does his duty free of cost without any interest, goes to teacher just to obey his parent, nothing else.

If duty is the case then, there should be many more days like teachers day, company day, boss day, toilet day, etc.. there is a long list of days. I do not find anything in my life that any teacher ever teaches me any fruitful lesson that works in real life, they are distributing knowledge among students which once they have inherited from their teachers, which is continuing decades after decades, no single change, and the chain is started during the time of “Baba Adam”, not even a single change of coma or full stop.

According to me, the top most lazy profession, useless creature I mean “Kaam Chor” (Drone/lubber) in our country after our MPs/Ministers both central and state and police force is teacher and most irritating profession that irritates people is the news reader in TV news channel.

I’m not going in detail, really sorry again if I hurt anyone, to clarify, I’m sure you understand that my points don’t mean all the MPs, Polices, and teachers are “Kaam Chor” (Drone/lubber). 

Life is All....About......

Cover of the Novel

This is a sweet and simple Novel named “Life is All About”, written by me, plot and sentences are short so that everybody can understand easily, possible easy and simple words are used. Satirical representation and criticize of many situation of life that comes on the way of an individual and effects common man like social imbalances, injustice, dirty politics etc. Small and short comedy dialogs are the main characteristics which anyone can enjoy.

Novel starts suddenly because the author’s life is not planed itself; he is thinking to write something but does not know what.. One day one of his friend presents a gift “2 states” of Chetan Bhagat, which inspires him to write this novel.

Inayat, the main character of this novel, a simple boy belongs to middle class family and by religion Islam, hailed from a remote village of North East region Assam, starts his life with boarding school and indulges in sex at his very early stage and it becomes a passion of his life, joins students politics at class 9^th standard and then leaves study and actively joins politics, his mother is a dominant character in his life, compels him to leave sex and politics and restart study, sends him away from his home where he meets his childhood friend Farhana another character of this novel, he falls in love with her but she does not accept due to his bad character, finally accepts him very emotionally and dramatically after an incident takes place on the way which is the climax of this novel.

There is a twist in the novel, protagonist goes Aligarh for higher study where he finds many friends but during his MBA suddenly Farhana dies due to brain tumor and he becomes alone in life but his friends and Family helps him to overcome the situation. And this is the main tragedy of his life, although he is continuously struggling in different situation as a common man.

After completion of his MBA joins a job in Hyderabad but again he could not sustain there because he finds the lady boss is a cheater and leaves the job then again joins a job where he starts favoring a girl to give her justice who is a rape victim over there, when her mother comes to know the matter he calls him again to home.

As a simple person he never compromises himself with injustice prevailing in the society, he does everything whatever is possible for him to make justice in the society.

Then the main character comes to Delhi where he struggles to find a job but could not manage due to over target, target is something now a days in corporate world which he dislikes very much, suddenly his father dies but he could not go on time due to strike, who is a role model in his life, due to this loss he becomes again alone and family burden comes to his shoulder.

Finally he starts his own business and everything is going smooth but after two years, business is no more going well and suddenly hear the news through his friend that the girl whose single gift makes him writer has suicide herself which makes him shocked.

He leaves the hope to print the novel because he does not know anyone and not sure if there is any publisher who can publish his novel but for this friend he again wants to publish his novel and trying to get a publisher.

And this novel is his final ray of hope if it publishes then maybe his economic problem will solve for few days.

By this book he is trying to make the reader understand especially the young generation that problems of life is a part and parcel, if one solved then another will takes its place, so we have to manage and move forward, this is our life.

I’m sure that anyone can read this book will enjoy it definitely…..

If you want to purchase it, eBook is available in different store, hard copy will be published soon In Sha Allah as its queued for its turn.

Flipkart link: 

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Pothi.com: http://pothi.com/pothi/book/ebook-zubair-choudhury-life-all-about

Amazon Kindle Store link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N6S3Z28

Smashword: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/469582

And if you want to read it online, here goes the link: https://www.smashwords.com/extreader/read/469582/1/life-is-all-about

A Question to Everyone, Please Answer or Comment Your Opinion…

I think it’s a well known fact that, riot is a politics, casteism is a politics, and most of the terror attacks are the fruit of dirty politics, world war is also the result of politics, civil war is a politics, war between countries are also some sort of politics, I’m sure you all agree with me in these points mentioned above, no peace wanted people want it, we all do know these things then why do all these things happen in our society.

Why do people hear and act as politician wants? Can’t we decide and put our common sense?

An open letter to newly elected Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi.

"Dear Sir,

First of all I would like to congratulate you for your massive success of last Election, to introduce myself, I am, MD ZUBAIR, hailed from a very remote village of Hailakandi Dist. Assam, a common citizen of India, nobody cares who I’m like other common citizens so you too ignore who I’m!

The purpose of writing this letter is, although I’m not sure whether it’ll reach to you or not but anyway, we are a family of 7/8 people stay in a place where our (neighbors) majority people are non muslim, and this kind of situation is with many people of this country, all the surrounding neighbors are either the members of BJP or RSS, we too support you but the fact is no one believe us, so my neighbors are openly challenge us to send either in Bangladesh or Pakistan, sometimes they tell us to leave India immediately otherwise one day they will force to make it Gujrat 2012 (means riot 2012 in Gujrat), hope you understand my concern, so my point is if BJP Govt. rules India, all muslims should leave India immediately. We are very much worried about our lives and this is not my case only, millions of people like us worried about their lives.

So my question is to you if some day you hear that any part of this country is burning like Gujrat 2012, how will you react? And what is the guarantee and safety measures of common citizen’s lives like us, kindly note this point.

Thanking you,

Yours faithfully
A Common Citizen of India"

Untold Stories that Causes Rapes with Solution.

From a long time I wanted to write something on the basic causes of rapes why do it happens in our society which is increasing like cancer and the possible solution

In our society so far my personal experience goes there are some strange stories available in our society like myths regarding sex that each and every boy come across like the stories of 'Ali baba and 40 thieves', and 'the thirsty crow' etc. Which instinct boys towards rape.

I'm sure everyone I mean boys must know or heard the story that –

1. Girls are being for sex only, they are always remain hungry for sex, just need to keep hand on them and they are ready for penetration. The fact is its a bull shit nothing else.  

2. It's a birth right for a boy/male to have sex with any girl or woman either she is agree or not. What a dirty opinion! 

3. Boys are always indulges in the gossip surrounding sex and think girls also remain busy in the same gossip.

4. Supporting (above mentioned) stories are also available in the market in the form of small book with and without pictures. And can be arranged easily as it is available in every corner. 

5. And nowadays porn sites are working like fuel in the burning fire.

6. All are male dominated and influenced by these dirty thoughts. 

7. Also mobile is working as vcd player for showing porn.

8. It's a painful truth that 95 % even more boys aged 9 to 25 are addicted towards porn and then the percent is decreases but not finishes.

10. It's natural that boys easily aroused sexually after watching porn or reading porn stories now they need to exercise what they see, read or heard so ultimately it opens the door of rape sometimes they inclined with incest or homo. 

11. The fact is that girls are neither hungry for sex nor they aroused easily if .001 percent arouse I don't know then they have a strong control on it in contrary to boys, as they have no control. 

12. Girls are very very protective towards sex and choosy in accepting partner unlikely boys, they only need to exercise it hardly matters or bother about partner. 

13. Girls are mostly interested in romance but boys are mostly interested in sex.

14. It's a fact that girls can satisfy herself orally but boys can never be.

15. Respect for girls attract them more. And last but not least, 

16. There is a huge gap between the meaning of sex in both the sexes what boys need and girls expect.

These are some myths available in the society which I think are the root causes of increasing nos of rapes and the most important part is girls are ignorant about it.

Now what we need to to do 1st of all we need to change these myths and present the fact before the society so that our coming generation can know the facts not the myths which entails the change of mentality of coming generation. I think without change of mentality of the society rapes cannot be stopped.

How-

In the school especially in class 9th and 10th standard there must be a lesson containing sexual differences between boys and girls,  facts of sex, what girls want and what should a boy expect from girl,  respect for woman, consequences of rapes, rape harm the manhood. In short ins and outs of rape.

NGOs and media house can play an important role by taking part creating awareness in the society.

Central and State Govt. should take strict action in inclusion of a compulsory lesson in schools, colleges and universities,  apart from compulsory lesson there should be a lecture or seminar in school, colleges and universities from time to time on rapes.

And finally by reading, commenting and sharing this article and asking others to share so that a chain should formed and every individual should read this article once, know these facts and a strong feeling of respect for women should come into existence. Thus and only strong consensus can stop rape.