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SEO technique can be learned quickly but to become a master it needs a lot of experience and it even take many years to gain that knowledge. Search Engine Optimization is an important thing as far as your blog or website is concerned. If you use some good SEO keywords it will automatically gain you more traffic and earn lots from it. Most often your URL should contain the keywords which may be separated by hyphen, path etc… and should be relevant to the topic which you posted.

With the SEO Cheat Sheet one can understand how to work with URL and if you engage with more URL’s it will be easier for webmasters to get more traffic for their blogs or websites.  In general most of the webmasters never mind the URL but its important if no search engines crawl ugly URL’s.

Pay for your usage most of our internet providers are cheaters as they offer us a 1.0mbps line but we only get 512Kbps. It’s time to check your internet speed free online with speedtest and pingtest.

Speedtest : -

Speedtest is a broadband speed analysis tool that allows anyone to test their Internet connection. It helps to view all of your historical results, share them easily, and even compare them to others in your immediate area or around the globe. Speedtest uses a technology which performs over one million tests every day, making it the world-wide standard in bandwidth testing. You can use speedteas at no cost, anyone can use our World Results section to browse top bandwidth speed by country, or narrow down statistics to very specific locations.

Pingtest : -

Pingtest will show the specific packet loss, ping and jitter values that make up your grade. When it is unable to measure one or more of them you will see a grade of N/A. You test result will be indicated with grades like A, B, C, D, E & F…

A Indicates - An excellent result! Expect all Internet applications to work very well assuming you have sufficient bandwidth. Use Speedtest to see. MOS greater than 4.37 (Example - a ping below 50 ms with 0% packet loss)

B Indicates - Very good! Your connection should work well for any Internet application. Some online games may not perform optimally. MOS between 4.28 and 4.37 (Example - a ping around 90 ms with 0% packet loss)

C Indicates - Acceptable. Your VoIP quality will suffer some, and you will have a disadvantage in many online games. Most streaming media will be fine. You should try testing again to another server close to you. MOS between 4.00 and 4.27 (Example - a ping around 150 ms with 1% packet loss)

D Indicates - Concerning. Most online applications will not perform well but should function in some capacity. Try testing to other servers to verify the result. You might need to contact your ISP for help. MOS between 2.50 and 3.99 (Example - a ping around 300 ms with 3% packet loss)

F Indicates - Very Poor. Real-time Internet application performance will suffer greatly on such a connection. Test to other servers to confirm the result, but definitely talk to your ISP about troubleshooting the issue. MOS lower than 2.50 (Example - a ping above 500 ms with 20% packet loss).

Know more about Pinging test : -

Packet Loss is the percentage of data "packets" sent to a server that never arrive. Anything above 0% should cause concern since it could result in poor quality Voip and sluttering in online games.

Ping is how long it takes a "packet" of data to travel from your computer to a server and back.Delayed response in internet applications would be due to a higher than desired ping. A lower ping value is a preffered one.

Jitter is the variance in successive ping measurements. A perfectly stable connection would have no jitter. A lower value is the best results but some jitter is to be expected over the internet.

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2. Page Style: Garishly colored pages are put off; not many like to read red text off a bright yellow page. But if the mood of the blogger is happy one, using a gloomy grey would also make it difficult to connect with the reader.

3. Page Layout: The reading experience should not be marred by an obstructive layout. Inserting ads right in the middle of the post text is generally a bad idea, as is the practice of using a very narrow post column leading to lot of scrolling. Having links to important pages at the very bottom of a long page is as good as not having them at all.

4. Page Content: Extraneous content can be blighting. While ads are a conspicuous bloat, there are other less noticeable irritants. A blog can be blogged down by the number of comments posted by the visitors. A page containing two-sentence post followed by 100 comments will time to load, testing the visitor’s patience. Visitors to the site are more interested in what the blogger has to say. SPAM messages that are not promptly weeded out form the comments leave a bad impression. A page containing 10 posts will not only take time to load, but also will increase the time taken to dig down to the interesting post. Having one page per post would preclude this effort. Putting up large images or links to them without offering a preview is also a bad idea. It is better to put a smaller version of the original message on the blog page, with a link to the larger original image.

5. Visitor Ads: Visitors should have easy access to links to book mark the blog, for example to sites like del.icio.us. they should also be given a chance to subscribe to the blogs feeds so that they can remain updated about changes to it. Visitors appreciate the ability to voice their opinion about the blog through the comment box. They should not be made to wade through all the posts in search of a specific entry. Posts need to be tagged/categorized relevant to their content. A search box which saves a lot of effort for the visitor is a must, especially if there are a lot of posts. Easy access to previous posts or preferably a calendar showing the dates in which the blogger has made a post is also recommended.

6. Optionals: A blog is best known by the blogroll it keeps (just as a person is best known by the company he keeps). Linking to other blogs also keeps the visitor exploring the blogosphere. But caution needs to be exercised when it comes to linking to other blogs in the post – in some cases, the habit could lead to a frustrating experience to the reader, if the actual source of the information is one click too far away. So rather than add one more link to an already long chain of blog links, it is better to link to the actual source of information-even if you were led to it through another blog. Besides bookmarking sites, easy posting to community editing sites like Digg.com is also a plus. Offering a link that allows the post to be e-mailed is recommended. An “About me” page offering information about the blogger would offer a face to the content.
From the above we can conclude about the features that a blogging platform should support.
These are:
1. Range of Template options: The template controls the page color, page layout, and font characteristics. The default template need not be everyone’s taste, but having a range of options ensures some level of customization.

2. Ease of template modifications: Bloggers conversant with HTML/CSS should have the freedom to tweak the code of a template to create a unique layout.

3. Ease of layout modification: The position of various items on the page-calendar, search box, comment box, blogroll, etc. – should be easily customizable.

4. Comment regulation: Regulating comments ensures that only those approved by the blogger are displayed, comments should be held in abeyance till the blogger reviews them. Some bloggers may not be keen to have any comments-in such cases disabling comments should be possible.

5. Ease of uploading pictures (at least): it is much easier to describe the fun of a picnic with a picture rather than a page of full of verbosity. Pictures should not be displayed as is on the main page, rather an optimized version which acts as a link to the original image should be included.

6. Tagging/Categorizing Capability, Search Utility: Both will help visitors get visitors get to relevant posts fast.

7. RSS/Atom Feeds: To allow visitors to be updated of changes without visiting the site.

8. Posting Parameters: The numbers of posts to put on a page, allocating a permalink per post, etc. are all the aspects that influence a visitor’s experience.

9. Ability to add external code: The most popular way to make money on the net is to have visitors to a site click on ads. If the platform does not allow to insertion of additional code in the form ads, you won’t be making any money.
It is essential for a net businessperson to be able to classify the visitors. Site tracking scripts need not be inserted in the template code so that visitors’ actions on the site can be observed. This information would be useful to improve the site layout. External code also includes that which makes it possible to post the link to dig.com or del.iciou.us

10. Pinging Blog Trackers: Unless tracing sites are pinged with every new post, they will not turn up in search results.
Needless to say, a professional blogger should invest in learning at least the basics of relevant coding languages or have someone with the required knowledge at his disposal. This would come in handy to make modifications to the template code. While dedicated blog hosts would be willing to extend support, it would sometimes be necessary to make modifications to the platform yourself.

Additionally, in case where the blogger intends to use one of the free platforms with a paid or free Web Host, it is expected of the blogger to upload and configure the platform on the server, besides handling any glitches that occur from time to time. Since most platforms are coded in PHP/Perl and use some form of database like MySQL in the backend to store the site contents, knowledge of how to integrate the modules of the blog to work seamlessly will be critical to its proper functioning.

WRITING BLOGS:
Be on a constant run to improve your writing skills. Form is as important as content. You don’t need to be able to write a gripping thriller but everyone like to read a well written blog. Grammar and punctuation is one thing-which we’ve already mentioned; maintaining a style is one thing-which also we’ve already mentioned; but the bottom-line is, to be famous (which, we’re assuming, is your idealistic ultimate goal), you need to write well.
We can’t teach you how to write well. But when we say “writing well” we are referring to such things as twisting phrases to make them a more interesting; using language to make a dull topic more approachable; making your posts gripping enough to hold your readers’ attention for at least the span of the post; avoiding clinches and clinched phrases; not going into “lyrical digression” – where the writer increases word count and wastes bandwidth by avoiding the central topic and beating round the bush and only then coming back to the point at hand, as we have done with this phrase.

Good writing is an art, nothing less-“it is as much of an art and skill as playing a musical instrument is. There are several resources on the Internet on how to improve your language and writing skills; a good place to start is www.poynter.org. It’s meant specifically for journalists, but you’ll find there more than a couple of tips on good writing.
We did say form is as important as content, but it works the other way round too-content is as important as form! If you do write well, don’t be under the delusion that, that can be your selling point. Not true. No-one these days have the time to read just for pleasure-reading a post of yours should be worth your readers’ while.

A final touch: fonts are important. Choose a font in keeping with your content. Avoid horrible fonts like comic sans in any situation.