Addition of the digg button to blogger

Why did I make so much importance for Digg while I can include it with the
Add this social book marking button?

First Digg isn’t like other book marking site: Digg is the largest, most popular
and famous.

Second, the Digg button will allow you not only to submit your post but also to
increase the number of dugs so it will become more popular.

Now let me show you how to add this button. The idea is simple and if you
understand it you’ll be able to add any script or text you like.

Direct to the ‘Edit HTML’ page. Now check the ‘Expand widget templates’
checkbox. You’ll notice that the text become so long, don’t worry you don’t have
to understand it!

Now let’s make a search in this text. Search for
‘<p><data:post.body></data:post.body></p>’ then simply replace it with

‘<p>

<!--My Digg Button -->

</p><div style="float: right; margin-left: 10px;">

<script type="text/javascript"><br />digg_url = '<data:post.url/>';<br
/></script>

<script src="http://digg.com/tools/diggthis.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

</div>

<data:post.body>

</data:post.body><p></p>’

Save the template and get a look at your blog, the Digg button shows, no?

Permalink : Free traffic to your blog

First let’s explain what a Permalink is.
It’s a simple link that comes under each post and that allow the user to post an article in its blog containing a link that link to your blog.
This will drive free and easy traffic for your blog.
By another way, you give traffic for those sites or blog. Your blog will make a list of sites linking to you. So you can use this service in two ways. You can for example (as I’m doing in the www.howtosuccesswithblogging.blogspot.com). Create a category named ‘Permalinking’ and post unlimited posts in it.
But try to link only for blogs which receive good and enough traffic so they can send to you from this small link. Like the Google Blog. If you posts 500 links, then you may receive 2,000 visitors in the first 5 days!
If you have setup the blog as I mentioned in the third chapter, then Permalink is working for you!

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Google Analytics : Analyse your visitors

This is another gift brought to you from Google. Google Analytics is the best (but need so much time to refresh its data).
What makes Google analytics the best?
This is a question that everyone must ask it. But first let’s know what an analytics application need to have to be in the right way with our needs.
1- Analyse our visitors (Platform, navigator, Java, Flash, language, countries and states, Internet connection)
2- Analyse how visitor behaves (Page Views/visit, Visit/visitor, Time on the website, depth of each visit)
3- Where people come from (Other sites, Search engines, Paid links, Keywords used)
4- Comparison between the past and the future (increase or decrease)
5- Goals (with this feature, you can know how much of you visitor had attended a sensible page on your site, a payment page fort example, and Google will calculate how much earnings you’ll make)
Google Analytics have all those features included, plus of a map to know where your visitors comes from and very animated tools made with Flash. So I recommend you to use Google Analytics.
But the question: If Adsense tell me how impression I made, what’s the aim of analyzing my traffic?
First, you can know where people come from and then the most interested people. You can make hypothesis because sometimes server don’t run in some countries.
Second, know you visitor features like browsers. For example if 95% of your visitors use Fire Fox so you have to test your site with Fire Fox and not with IE or Opera.
Third, you know how search engines drive traffic to you, what are the keywords that help you more traffic and let you know how people choose their keyword and how they write.
Forth, where interested people come from? For example if you are being for an ad service, and the traffic coming from this ad service don’t browse your site then you must be suspicious of this service perhaps it makes fraudulent clicks!
Fifth, comparing between past and present is so important. Google Analytics allow you to make a comparison between sites that drives traffic.
Is analyzing traffic important know for you?

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Add this social bookmarking button

The steps that we’ll take to install this tool don’t differ than what we have
done with the Digg button.

First we get the code of the tool from www.addthis.com



<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button BEGIN -->

<div><a expr:href='"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=omarabid&amp;url=" +
data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Bookmark
using any bookmark manager!'><img src='http://s9.addthis.com/button2-bm.png'
width='160' height='24' style='border: 0px; padding: 0px' alt='AddThis Social
Bookmark Button' /></a></div>

<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button END -->



As you see it’s necessary to register so you get your own code 

But registration isn’t too long so be patient. Follow the instruction until you
get the code and then let’s move on to the integration.

I think you have understand what we have did with the Digg button so add this
code



<div style='float:bottom; margin-left:10px;'>

<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button BEGIN -->

<div><a expr:href='"http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php?pub=omarabid&amp;url=" +
data:post.url + "&amp;title=" + data:post.title' target='_blank' title='Bookmark
using any bookmark manager!'><img src='http://s9.addthis.com/button2-bm.png'
width='160' height='24' style='border: 0px; padding: 0px' alt='AddThis Social
Bookmark Button' /></a></div>

<!-- AddThis Bookmark Post Button END -->

</div>

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Feed Burner you mustn’t miss it out!

Feed Burner is like a newsletter. It will burn your feed (your new posts) and send them to the subscribers.
How this is done?
You need to include a widget in your blog that let visitors subscribe. Then when you make new posts Feed Burner will send those posts by mail to subscribed visitors. Feed Burner is the best ever and the most customizable plus it’s free so don’t try to find other service any where.
Setup feed burner at: www.feedburner.com, after setting it up you’ll need just to add some widgets to your Blogger. You don’t have to copy the HTML code and to create new script widget in Blogger in order to integrate it, but simply feed burner can do this for you and will automatically add the widget to Blogger. In Word press this operation is not available. It’s Only for Blogger and type pad.
So we are lucky for being using Blogger.

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Think about Keywords when you write

First what are keywords?
Now let's suppose that you are making a search with Google. You search for article about "How to make money online with Adsense". You won't type "I want to make money online with adsense please help me»! That's sure. You'll type short expressive words "money adsense" and you Google it!
The two words that you typed are called keywords in this moment.
Google Search engine will search for pages that contain those Keywords.
The problem now will be: How Google or other search engines will know what your blog talk about or what keywords describe the best your blog?
Suppose you have an article titled "Make money online with your blog" and you want to include the keywords "money” and “online” in your article.
A search engine calculates words density on your article and with this method they extract the best keywords describing your post.
But be careful it will be bad to repeat the keyword so much, in this case the search engine will reject your content.
I have collected some useful sites to help you to check keywords density on your site; you may have a look at them.
Word Counter http://www.wordcounter.com/
Keyword Density and Prominence http://www.ranks.nl/tools/spider.html
Keyword density checker http://www.keyworddensity.com/
Keywords counter http://www.keywordcount.com/

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Optimize your blog

There are 6 things that you must not miss out in your Blogger, let’s go one by one.

Thinking about Keywords
Feed Burner : Burn your feeds
Addition of the digg button
Add this social bookmarking button
Google analytics to analyze your visitors
Permalink : Free Traffic

What to write

This is the most important part: What to write?
Have you thought about this question before starting blogging or you was just blended with the words “earn money earn money”.
It’s important what you write, especially when thinking about traffic and earning. There are things that attract a huge numbers of visitors and make them addictive to your blog. And there are articles which will make them never return.
So you have to think about quality posts.
What do I mean?
There are two ways (different) of blogging.

The first: Fast building and aggressive posting:
You quickly build your blog, you don't care about the design and you put your ads on!
You start aggressive posting and you accumulate information from different sources on the net and you post many posts.
You add your posts to Digg, Reddit, Go Articles...
Result: People will access your blog, and read your first article. As your first article was bad made, they won't think of visiting other pages on this blog and will immediately exit the blog in short time (They won't spend even 1 minute in the blog)
You'll still have low traffic from Digg and Go articles and other sites
Google will still direct traffic to you.
People will also remember your blog and won't return it again if they search other things and topics.
Suppose you get 100 visitor per day, after 1 year 35'600 will know your blog and then won't return to it in later search. Then the traffic will decrease day by day.

The second: slow building but quality content
This will need you at least:
+ One week searching for a good template, installing it on your blog and configuring it as well with Google Adsense and other gadget like Feed Burner, digg…
+ You'll need to post for interesting original and high quality things. For example you are a programmer and you want to make a tutorial how to make your first program for beginners, then don't make it only on two words, or don't search the web and get other information with/ or without reading it. Try to make your own original tutorial. Try to make it appear good with your blog design. For example include special style for Code and special frame for picture. And also don't forget to include a source of the tutorial that users can download...
+ You must pay attention for your language and you grammatical errors and bad syntax. Good appearance will attract readers and make them love your site.
+ Your content must be effective; if you made a tutorial about something then it must be complete and correct. This will make readers more interested to see others tutorial on your blog.
Result: People will seek all your blog! Your page / visit will increase up to 50%! And this will give you a huge income as Google pay a small amount of money for Page Impression. You'll have a high PI, suppose you have only 50 visitors and each visitor load 25 page of 60 pages in total in the blog you'll then have1250 page impression! Google will give you more money on clicks. (The total that Google pay for a click with 100 impressions is quite less that the total for 300 impressions). This will even double your click pay.
By time (and this need very long time) you'll have visitors that return to your site, as they have a good idea about it and find it amazing! Other people will bookmark it in social book marking sites (but don't forget to include the widget!). Suppose a visitor that bookmarks a post in a social book marking site and this visitor have more than 500 friends and many relations. Then he'll share this post with them and.... at least 300 visitor will come to this bookmark. This can be imaginary for you that a person has 500 friends, ha-ha but in Gmail I have more than 15.000 contacts so it isn't for me ;)
Other Sources: There can be also other sources, like forums we’ll talk about those methods later. But don't forget only quality sites or blog are the winner. Because also people exchange links and even link to other sites and it may be YOUR site!

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