On 21st of April 2015 Google's new algorithm, based on mobile friendliness of your website will take effect. In this article we will discuss the things like what is mobile friendly website? What is the need for a website to be mobile friendly? How Google's new algorithm aimed to improve search results for mobile users, will affect your site? What you could do to avoid the penalty from Google search engine and much more about this latest update to search engine algorithm by Google.

What is mobile friendly website?

Mobile friendly website is website which can be viewed and used efficiently in all types of mobile devices and tablets. Actually it means your website should be adoptive when it is being used on different devices with different screen sizes.

What is the need for website to be mobile friendly?

In today's world mobile devices and tablets are used mostly used for web browsing. Be it searching for particular information on the net or be it online shopping, users are intended to use mobile devices than traditional laptops and computers. So to reach every user you need to make your website responsive for all kinds of screen sizes. That said, Google might want to improve their overall search engine service by providing most relevant results to their users.

How Google's new algorithm aimed to improve search results for mobile users, will affect your site?

It is not guaranteed and it is not fixed how Google is going to penalize your site. As you can see in the attached image it is only saying that "Rankings in mobile search results will change..." and according to me the rankings for search results made from mobile devices will only change, though I am not sure about that! but those words can be interpreted in this way. As per Google's official blog it says "Starting April 21, we will be expanding our use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. This change will affect mobile searches in all languages worldwide and will have a significant impact in our search results. Consequently, users will find it easier to get relevant, high quality search results that are optimized for their devices."
So keeping in mind mobiles and tablet devices (or devices with different screen sizes!) are increasingly used to surf the internet it is the need to give some importance mobile friendly sites and it is also in the interest of all bloggers to reach the wide user base.
But as of now there is no official confirmation as to how Google will penalize the site which are not mobile friendly. They might not penalize the site for search results when it is made from the normal screen size devices like computers and laptops but they will change their ranking for mobile search results.

What you could do to avoid the penalty from Google search engine?

This is the latest update to Google's search engine update and you might be looking for ways to retain your traffic or your current page rank. Well there is simple way to do this and that is make your website more mobile friendly by different techniques available in the market like Bootstrap or HTML5/CSS3.
Well that might be problem for very large sites and it could be very difficult to make changes in those site. But If you consider Google's coverage of about 85% search engine market you have to do it for yourself!

How to check whether your website is mobile friendly?

Google has also provided a way to check whether your website is mobile friendly or not? Below are the two screenshots from the official link of Google to check the mobile friendliness of your website. If you are owner of blog and if you use Google Webmaster tools then you check the same in your Webmaster's dashboard.

So whether you like it or not you have to change your blog or website as per the Google make changes to its search engine algorithm. Google is very much dedicated to provide quality search results for its users and current changes are according to changes in users behaviour. As the use of mobile devices and tablets is increasing day by day and Google has made this changes to provide quality results for their users.

Moms Affiliate network: A review of online earning opportunity for blogger or website owner.

Hey guys you know there no. of ways to make money from your blog or website. One of the best way to make money through your blog is by using affiliate marketing networks, and of these affiliate network which provides unconventional ways to make money from your blog is Mom' affiliate networ. Mom's affiliate network is trusted and proven over the time. You can earn money from mom's affiliate in four ways: First is by publishing the review of product or service for some fixed handsome amount, but for this your blog or website should have minimum fixed amount of views per month. Second way to earn money using mom's affiliate is by reviewing product or website for commissions. You will get your referral link, images or banner adds containing your referral link to promote the product or website you are reviewing. Also you will get full reports that will tell you about the performance of your banner adds and links along with commissions you have earned. Third way is by referring other bloggers or website owners to mom's affiliate. And as a fourth option it also provides the wide range of products to promote on your blog or website. The commissions for these products is very high as compared to other affiliate networks. The products and services on mom's affiliate network as so wide that almost all bloggers will get some products definitely for their blog or website. But like all other networks it also has its own pros and cons: Pros of mom's affiliate networks:

1. Trusted and tested over the time.
2. Really wide range of products and services to promote.
3. Get paid per post' program along with conventional affiliate marketing products and services.
4. Payments are on time.
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5. Payments can be done either using check or paypal. So easiest and secure ways to payout.

Cons of mom's affiliate networks:

1. Difficult get approval for flat rate posts. But once you get approval there are no problems.
2. Their website take time to load sometimes though!

So it is one of the best affiliate marketing network.s There are lot of good advertising networks but they are capable of providing the high payouts per purchase. Even if you are using some of advertising networks you can combine your monetization policy to earn from advertising networks and affiliate marketing. As per my experience it will be the best policy to boos the income from your blog.

Tips to increase your Adsense earnings through your blog or website.

So you know the advertising networks to monetize your blog or website. I know there are many people who are trying to earn money through he blog and many of them are still struggling to make handsome income. I have been through those conditions (still am i in the same condition but now i know the secret!) and during my journey in blogging and article writing at various revenue sharing sites I was able to gain some good insights in this topic. So lets discuss about how to increase the adsense earnings?
In my opinion only three factors are of most important when we consider the earning through Adsense:

1. Uniqueness and originality of your content. Which boosts your page impressions. And if you have these two qualities in your blog you will retain the traffic.
2. Number and positions of advertisement placed on your blog or website.
3. Number of page impressions.

Now all these things depend on each other. That said, uniqueness and originality of content will give you good traffic thereby increasing your page impressions. At this point you need to choose correct add formats and place them at proper places. Because even if you have considerable number of visitors and if they can not see your adds then there are very less chances of them to click any of your adds. So here is list of tips that should be followed to increase your adsense earnings:

1. First of all try to get good traffic to your blog. That be can be achieved by creating unique and original content along with using proper keywords in proper density inside your article. So keyword research and some SEO tips will definitely help you.
2. Use the combination of image and text adds. You know one image is equal to thousand words. Also remember only image adds might give your blog unprofessional look. So just balance them.
3. Try to use standard add units in standard format. They looks professional and are not irretating.
4. Use the tool 'above the fold' which tells you how better your placement is. If your adds above the fold indicated by this tool then you have highest chances of earning through them.
5. Test your adds as being normal user to your site. If you can find them easily then it is good. If you can not find them then try to change the placement of adds.
6. Use appropriate and clear theme for your blog.
7. Try one horizantal add unit inside the navbar or above the post.
8. Adsense has started ranking sites based on their pur adsense performance. You can find your blog's performance score by logging in your adsense account and if it is very low then try to increase the performance score by using the tips provided by Adsense.
9. 3 to 4 units per page is always best. But beyond that you will loose professional look and feel of your blog.
10. Sometimes you should experiment with your add placement and add types. That will give you some performance data.
11. Do not block too much adds. That might prevent adsense from displaying some very relevant adds.

There is trick or any rocket science to increase. Best formula is increase the traffic to your blog by creating good content; even that can not guarantees you some fixed income. Also it is not possible to compare the adsense income of two blogs even if they have same traffic amount, because adsense earnings depends upon many factors including visitors path.
There are some other options like affiliate marketing and using some other online advertising network to monetize your blog along with Adsense. So as said earlier there are no particular steps that can be taken to increase your adsense earnings; though the only one way is to keep trying and keep experimenting until you start earning some good income from your blog.

Blogger or Wordpress which is best an: insight review

One of the most important step while starting blogging is choosingbest blog hosting service for your blog or website or if you are opting for free blog hosting services then you might wonder which is better to opt for Blogger or Wordpress. Actually you will many free as well as paid blog hosting services with specific set of features. Still Blogger and Wordpress are always in the first two choice of any blogger while starting their blog. Both have retained their top position in blogging platforms with unbeatable quality of service they offer for their blogger. Being two different services owned by two different companies representing two different cultures they have much differences. And if you are quite a newbie then these differences matters a lot to you.
So you have decided the niche as described in the article about how to start your own blog. now you are in position to decide the best web hosting or cheapest blog hosting service for your blog. Despite of knowing the disadvantages of hosting your blog on free blog hosting services if you need to opt for free blog hosting service then Blogger or Wordpress might be on your mind. But how to choose between these Blogger or Wordpress? So here is the comparison between Blogger and Wordpress for you:

Blogger Vs Wordpress which is best?

Blogger:


Blogger is owned by Google and like all the other services of Google Blogger is simple and efficient. You have lot of advantages using blogger as your blogging platform. As it is hosted by Google on their server across the world you will rarely experience the downtime. It is free gives you 99.99% of uptime! To start blogging using blogger you will required only 10 minutes since your previous google account is enough to start blogging. Just go to blogger.com and sign with your google account, choose the domain name (which will be yourname.blogspot.com/in/pk/ or whatever is for your country!),choose the theme and click on 'New Post' option thats it and it requires only these steps to start blogging. Though it is best service here some advantages and disadvantages of using blogger: Advantages of using blogger:
1. As it is owned by your blog might be indexed faster!
2. Very simple to use; anyone who knows about graphical user interface can use it.
3. Adsense approval is fast if you are creating unique and original content.
4. Support for multi-screens which is very important in these days since we have more mobile devices than pcs/laptop running internet
5. Can be customized and not much restrictions on customization.
6. You can have your own domain while using free web hosting!
Disadvantages of using blogger:
1. No direct customer support. You have to depend upon their support forums.
2. No help in customization and design. You have to do it yourself.
3. Your blog might be deleted without any notification.
4. It doesn't as much widgets as Wordpress.

Wordpress:


Wordpress is CMS (Content Management System like Joomla or Drupal) which widely used to design almost any type of site ranging from a personal blog to e-commerce store. Well that provides you lot of advantages and customization but for that either you have to pay a professional or you should have knowledge of coding. Wordpress also provides very good blog hosting services as well as professional site hosting services and it claims that 23% of internet is powered Wordpress CMS. That means it is trusted and used widely. Though it is very good service it also have its pros and cons as discussed below: Advantages of using Wordpress:
1. Very large number of themes and customization options.
2. Very efficient and customizable widgets.Paid and free both types of widgets are available at Wordpress.
3. You are the owner of your content.
4. Provides great support if you are using premium service. But such service is not available for free users.
5. It is reliable and widely used, trusted service in past years and still it is growing.
Disadvantages of using Wordpress:
1. It is not easy to use, if you don't know technical aspects.
2. You will be given some services as free and then for using another good services like plugins and themes you have to pay.
3. You can earn using free wordpress service. You are not allowed to put any kind of adds on free hosted wordpress blog.
4. On the contrary Wordpress might put some adds and they will earn money from your free hosted blog on wordpress.
5. You might feel lazy to customize your template since its not much easy and takes time.
6. Blog loading is slower as compared to blogger.

So what blogging service will you choose? Depending on your needs and knowledge, I would recommend Blogger for newbies and Wordpress for people with some technical and coding knowledge. Both services are free to use as well as they provide you some paid services also! But finally you are the decision maker and you have to choose the service that suits you best. Though I would not recommend the free blogging platforms due to some disadvantages of free blogging platform, if you are beginner and if you want to test yourself then these are the best options.
My personal experience with Wordpress is not that good. Despite of good technical and coding knowledge I find myself somewhere lost in big sea with lot of types and number of fishes but don't know what to do and what will happen. Hence for me blogger is my favorite platform and thats true for most of the blogger!

Top five independent affiliate marketing programs for indian bloggers.

In last post about top 5 ways to make money from your blog I have mentioned affiliate marketing as one of the way to make money from your blog. In this article we will review the india's best affiliate sites which are also e-commerce sites. Now we will review the top e-commerce affiliate sites in India:

Flipkart:


Flipkart is the number one e-commerce site in India (though there are serious glitches in their service!). When it comes to online shopping Indian customers will definitely move towards flipkart site. So you will good chances of earning. Still Indian customers are not too open about Amazon and ebay when it comes to online shopping. They prefer their own version of Amazon. Flipkart affiliate program is trusted and tested over the times. It has great tools to add banners and links in your website. But flipkart's commission rates are slightly lower. They will pay the commission of 1% for products in the category home & kitchen, personal health care, audio, gaming devices and consoles while commission rate for computers and laptops is only 0.5% but you will get 10% commission on books! So products with high value have very less percentage but due it's high price you will make handsome income using flipkart's affiliate program. You can payout in the form of flipkart coupens as well as you can payout as cash in your bank account also.

Snapdeal:


Snapdeal is another trusted and valued e-commerce site in India. Snapdeal also offers wide range of products and good opportunity for their affiliates to make some handsome income using their affiliate program. Snapdeal pays flat 10% commission for every electronic product purchased on their website using affiliate link but their is one glitch. The glitch is that you can earn a maximum of Rs.1250 of commission per sale! For other products snapdeal pays 20% flat commissions and you earn maximum of 1250 Rs. per sale in this category also. So maximum you can earn for a sale Rs.1250, no matter what is the price of product. As declared on their affiliate page your commissions will be show as per the rate of 10% of every purchase for categories other than electronics products it will be adjusted to 20% at the time of validations. So it is also one of the best affiliate programs for Indian bloggers.

Amazon India:


Amazon is the big boss in e-commerce category, and we can not deny that. Though in India their journey has been very difficult and they are getting steady in their business. Amazon has the worldwide presence and it can definitely offer some extra services and tools to their affiliate marketers. It is also tested and trusted affiliate program which is definitely not a scam. Amazon pays higher commission rate for their affiliate partners. For ex.As an affiliate partner of amazon you can earn 4% on electronics (Which is more than flipkart and snapdeal!), 15% on shoes and clothing, and 10% on all other products. It pays definitely higher than its competitors but please go through the conclusion paragraph before you decide which to join and which to avoid.

ebay india:


eBay may prove to be good option for Indian bloggers to make some money online through their blog. But there some glitches and difficulties in their program. You can read the problem faced by India's one of the top blogger Mr. Amit Bhawani here. Though we don't know the actual matter, I feel that these sites should help their problems by discussing instead of banning of accounts. But if you leave such matters as they arise only sometimes, it is good option tomake money from your blog. Sometimes you can earn upto 200% of commission rates as explained on their site. For this you have direct reactivated customer (customer who has not bought anything since last 12 months as per their site.). I tried to find their commission rate but I could not find them in detail. But if sum up all the opinions around the web ebay is good affiliate marketing choice. Along with that ebay has good tools to promote their product on your blog or website.

Jabong:


Jabong has very less number of trusted customers and they working hard to grow it. But if we think about trustability factor then it lags. Trustability in sense of customers only! It is also paying and guanine affiliate marketing program for Indian bloggers but if their customer base is not good then customers will tend to buy their goods from other sites. Jabong offers commission rate of upto 10% per sale but they don't provide detailed information about commission rates. Still it is good affiliate marketing program.

Affiliate marketing is among the best ways to make money online. If your site has hight to moderate traffic then you can earn good income through it but for blog eith low traffic it will difficult to convert those less users in users. To get success in affiliate marketing you need to have your blog dedicated for specific niche, which will give you higher conversion rates.
While choosing affiliate networks make sure you are choosing more than two. Because when it comes to users they might like to purchase from one site while they hate purchasing from other sites. Another reason for choosing more than two affiliate programs is that sometimes same item may have different prices and you can show users the price comparison there by helping them to buy the item more efficiently. Also there is not limit on joining of affiliate programs and most of these are programs are very easy to get approval.
Although you might join one of these networks but there is always an open option to make money from your blog. Here is the list of top ten advertising networks for your blog and you might want to checkout these
top five ways to make money from your blog..

Top ten advertising networks to make money from your blog online.

In the last article we discussed the how to earn money from your blog. In this article we will review the top ten advertising networks to make money online from your blog; along with their advantages and disadvantages.

Adsense:

Only two are enough to describe this program:simple and unbeatable! Yes this advertising network has changed the nature and culture of online advertising. Simple, clean, relevant and efficient adds are the most important features of Adsense. Adsense does not allow you to cheat your users. It simply implies let the users choose what they want! It puts label 'sponsored links' wherever you are placing adds so the users will be aware those are paid links and 99.99% of times those links will be relevant so users will not feel they are cheated or misled. It is the first choice of every blogger or website owner. For Google, it is the most of important product since Google makes most of it's money through Adsense. Here are some advantages and disadvantages of Adsense: Advantages of using Adsense:
1. The most trusted and most reputed program in online advertising category.
2. Highest rates for publisher. Actually Adsense shares 68% percent with publisher for content and 51% for search.
3. Most relevant and efficient adds.
4. Very detailed reports of everything that is happening on your blog or website.
5. Very good support after Adsense approval.
Disadvantages of using Adsense:
1. It is best in this category but it is the most difficult to get Adsense approval.
2. If they found your being involved in something fishing then will disprove your account without any warning and no support except 'You have violated our terms and conditions' will be provided.
3. Once banned means you can not use Adsense for lifetime but they will use this step at last point.
4. Very strict about their rules and policies.
5. You can not click your own adds by mistake also! You will be banned!

Infolinks:

Infolinks is another best in category which has different concept of advertising and can be used comfortably to increase the earning from your blog. Infolinks will scan your content from a article and discovers some keywords and it will make those keywords different in appearance from rest. So whenever user visits your blogs he/she may likely move their pointer and when the pointer counters those identified keywords it will display adds in small square box. Another ways used by infolinks are placing some aggregated keywords in some specified place in your blog or inframe, infold etc. This is best option to combine to increase your online earning through blog. Advantages of using Infolinks:
1. Very easy and instance approval.
2. Completely different concept from mainstream advertising networks.
3. Adds served are mostly relevant.
4. On time payment and trusted.
5. Very simple integration techniques. You integrate infolinks with blogger, wordpress, drupal and other CMS with one click only.
6. Provides detailed reports and adds are not annoying.
Disadvantages of using Infolinks:
1. Sometimes irrelevant adds may be served.
2. You really need millions of page impressions to earn handsome income.
3. May slower the loading of your blog.
4. Very less CPCs and CPMs.

Chitika:

Chitika is again alternative to Adsense. It has been trying to prove their since long time but they still much behind than Adsense or infolinks or kontera. Chitika provides many types of adds to publish on your blog but they have less number of advertisers so very narrow range of adds they can provide. But thing is that if you are not still approved by Adsense and you don't want to waste your time then Chitika can be very helpful. Chitika approves publisher sites instantly and you can start placing adds from the moment you open an account with them. Advantages of using Chitika:
1. Easy and instant approval.
2. Pop up adds if you like but your users may hate them.
3. Detailed reports for every block of add your placing on your website.
4. Good support.
5. Mostly they won't ban their publishers.
Disadvantages of using Chitika:
1. Irrelevant adds.
2. Pop adds may be annoying.
3. Less number of advertisers and narrow range of advertisement.


Bidvertiser:

Bidvertiser is another good tool to monetize your blog or website. It has hassel free approval and less restrictive rules and regulations for their publishers.It has good number of advertisers and publisher over the world so it can provide you with wide range of adds to be served on your blog. It can also be used as Adsense alternative if you have some problem in getting approval from Adsense. Advantages of using Bidvertiser:
1. Large no of advertisers and wide range of advertisements.
2. High PPC (Pay per click).
3. Much less payouts. You require to earn $10 to payout.
4. Simple and easy to use UI.
5. Generates efficient and detailed reports about performance of your adds.
Disadvantages of using Bidvertiser:
1. They are not CPM, means they will only pay you someone click on your adds.
2. Sometimes problem in add serving.
3. Irrelevant adds may be served though rarely!

Kontera:

Kontera is advertising network which is much like infolinks! It takes the concept of 'intext' adds to serve you adds based on identified keywords.Kontera is not much efficient network in my opinion and they don't provide you with very good reports about performance of your adds. It is also difficult to your total income at any point of time and for this simple task you need to raise a support ticket and keep waiting for their reply. But good thing is that they answer your support withing 24 hours most of the times. Advantages of using Kontera:
1. Simple and easy to get approval.
2. Easy integration almost all the blogging platforms like Wordpress and blogger and CMS like drupal etc.
3. Very good support.
Disadvantages of using Kontera:
1. They do not provide you complete reports and you have to generate them. Still you need to raise to know your total earning.
2. You really need to have millions and billions of page views to earn money from them.
3. CPC is also very less.
4. Pop adds may be annoying.

Clicksor:

Clicksor is advertising network which both annoying and efficient and times.It can prove the best alternative to Adsense sometimes because due to nature somewhat aggressive advertisements it can prove to be best alternative advertising network for your blog to get some handsome income. Clicksor pays you 85% of revenue share that can be highest in online advertising category and helps you to boost your online income rapidly. Advantages of using Clicksor:
1. Aggressive advertising than its competitors.
2. Simple and detailed reports
3. Reports will be sent to your email per week or per month or even per day depending upon your subscription.
4. Many types of advertisements like pop up adds, in-page adds etc.
5. Easy approval process and easy to integrate.
Disadvantages of using Clicksor
1. Some users may feel these adds annoying.
2. Irrelevant adds served often.
3. Mostly useful for forums and entertainment sites due their nature of adds.

Adhitz:

Adhitz is another good Adsense alternative and is in market for quite long time. Adhitz provides you many ways to monetize your site with different size of adds and banners. It's clickthrough is also good. Using adhitz you can also sell your space for advertisements.It has proved itself by providing wide range of advertisements with large number of advertisers using their network. Advantages of using Adhitz:
1. Again it is very easy to get approval. Less restrictive rules for approval.
2. You can create customized reports.
3. Less payouts compared to its competitors. You have to earn 25$ for payout.
4. You can set your own price for displaying advertisements.
5. Easy integration of adds with generated HTML code.
Disadvantages of using Adhitz:
1. Can not provide wide range of advertisements.
2. Need good amount traffic to earn good money.

Media.net Adds:

Media.net is advertising network from biggies in the internet technology:Bing and Yahoo. They tried their best to provide alternative to Adsense but they are much behind! But it is also true they can be good alternative for Adsense. Again their approval process is difficult and you will get easy approval if you are from UK or US. Most of the advertisements are served through the US and UK advertisers so it is not that suitable for bloggers or website owners in other countries. Advantages of using Media.net Adds:
1. Good CPC and CPM rates.
2. Wide range of advertiser from UK and US.
3. Payments are on time and can be trusted.
Disadvantages of using Media.net Adds:
1. As mentioned earlier they do not have advertisers across the world.
2. Mainly serves add relevant to specific countries like US, UK and Canada.
3. Approval process is strict.

Revenue Hits:

RevenueHits can prove to be good alternative to the Adsense and it is newcomer in the online advertising category. Revenuehits is product of company based in Israel and started in the year 2008. But since it's starting days has proved to be good adsense alternative and provided ways to monetize blog or website around the world. Along with website or blog monetizing; revenuehits provides ways to monetize toolbars, widgets, search, IM application for developers around the world. Some of advantages and disadvantages of using revenue its are: Advantages of using RevenueHits:
1. Provide more ways and tools to for monetization.
2. Provides all kinds of adds such as slider adds, pop up adds and banner adds.
3. Easy and hassel free approval process.
4. Good customer support.
Disadvantages of using RevenueHits:
1. Pop and slider adds can be annoying. Sometimes users may click on such adds by mistake and directed to other web pages.
2. Aggressive than it's competitors so annoying again.

Affinity Adds:

Affinity adds has been in the online advertising business since quiet a long time time and they have been successful in building their own network of publishers and advertisers. It is the product of Chicago based company. Affinity adds has enough number of advertisers throughout the world so they can provide you with wide range of adds to serve. Affinity adds also provides wide range of services and tools for both publishers and advertisers. Advantages of using Affinity Adds:
1. Easy approval. Less restrictive rules.
2. Detailed reports and analysis.
3. Easy to use user interface.
4. Special advertisement for mobile and tablets.
Disadvantages of using Affinity Adds:
1. Sometimes difficult to find adds due to lot of customizations for publishers and advertisements.
2. You may experience irrelevant and annoying add units.
3. Only PPC network which you will get paid only if user clicks on add. It doe not support the CPM which is the way to count add impressions and publishers will get paid for this.

These are reviews of advertising networks which I have mentioned in my last article top five ways to earn money from your blog. There are really lot of such networks available today. Also you can combine two or at most three of them if you want to earn more money but always keep in mind that your adds are not annoying the users after all if users are not satisfied then everything is vain. In next article we will review top ten affiliate marketing networks for Indian blogger or website owners.

Top five ways to earn money from your blog or website.

After creating a blog of your own, you might want to earn some money from it. So, how a blog or website can earn money? What are the some ways to make money online using your blog or website? How much can I earn from a blog or website? Well you will get answers to these questions in this blog post.
So how much money can you earn from your blog? Answer to this question is not specific and anyone in the world is not in position to tell you this. Because it depends upon many factors such number daily and monthly page impressions, the ways you are using to monetize your blog, monetizing networks you are using, your niche and also path of users to your website. For ex. a user who comes to your site through search engine can earn you more money than a users who directly clicks your blog link from somewhere on the internet. So it depends upon lots of factors and motivating thing in this is that many people are earning about a 1,00,000 Rs. and more per month from blogging itself. So it is best way to earn second income in your spare time.
In this article we will see some ways to monetize your blog or website to make money online.

Top five ways to earn money from your blog:

1. Using advertising networks:
Using advertising networks to monetize your blog is the best way to earn money from your blog. You don't have to worry about much things in this case. Just you have to create quality and unique content and the advertising networks will do the remaining job. For ex:if you have written your review about some restaurant in your city and some users have landed on this page. Then these advertising networks will automatically choose the advertisements related to restaurants and food. So you do not need to worry about other things and these will be the best adds related to of your article. Another way these advertising networks use to decide the types of adds to be shown is by using the cookies on users browser. Browser stores some data in form cookie (cookie is information in form of key and related data) so if you have previously searched for Domino's outlet then these advertising networks will choose those related adds for your users. The relevance of adds is most important factor while it comes to the online advertising business. It is beneficial for all publishers, advertisers and users also even if they click on some adds they will be redirected to another page relevance, so they will not feel like they are betrayed or cheated. The top online advertising networks are:
1. Adsense
2. Infolinks
3. Chitika
4. Bidvertiser
5. Kontera
6. Clicksor
7. Media.net
8. RevenueHitz
9. Adhitz
10. Affinity Addz
2. Selling space from your blog to advertisers:
It is the second best way to make money online from your blog, in my opinion. If you some good number of daily page impressions (like minimum 100 page impressions daily) then you can use this way to earn money from your blog. The best of part of this option is that you never have to worry about click through rate, eCPM which matters when you use either advertising network or affiliate marketing for monetizing your blog or website. The main disadvantage selling your space for adds is sometimes your users may feel that these advertisements are irrelevant to what they are looking for. But one most important advantage is that if your daily impressions is in few thousands then you can earn some fix income per month. List of top five add space selling websites:
1. BuySellAdds
2. BlogAds
3. PublicityClerks
4. Project Wonderful
5. AdEngage
3. Affiliate marketing:
Affiliate marketing is placing some kind of links or advertisements on your website and help (or force?) your users to buy some products or online service. Here are also two types of affiliate networks:one that pays you per click as well as per sell generated by your link and others which pays only for sells generated through your links. Choice is yours as both have their pros and cons. For ex. affiliate networks which pays per click and per sell will give you somewhat less commission and affiliate networks which pays you for only sells generated will pay you somewhat higher commissions per sell. The most important thing to note about this type monetizing service is that you must join the affiliate networks which are related to your niche. If you are writing blog on one topics and placing affiliate products from another subject then you might not never earn from these kind of monetizing. Just remember the relevancy factor here. For ex. if you are writing reviews of books or if you have blog on some programming language then you can put products like books or online courses as your affiliate marketing products. List of top ten Indian affiliate market networks:
1. Tyroo Media pvt ltd
2. OMG Network
3. Payoom
4. Vcommissions
5. DGM
6. True trac
7. Pennyful
8. Cashkaro
9. iCubes
10. Clickzoot
4. By writing product reviews:
The next way to earn money from your blog is by writing reviews of products. Yes there are some websites which are listed after this paragraph which pays you to review their products and write articles about them. But for this your website blog must have some pagerank. They will list some task about writing articles and you have to choose and apply for particular task. So if your blog or website belong to that particular niche then your task will be approved and you will get after submitting the written article on your blog. Sometimes you may not get the appropriate task to write articles on you might have to wait for some time. But this option will increase your number of articles and your article might feature in product website giving you valuable backlinks along with money. Also this option won't block your other add space it is must to use option for online earning along with above options. List of paid to review websites:
1. Blogvertise
2. Pay Per Post
3. Review Me
5. Selling your own services:
Yes it is also one of the to make money for blogger. Being a blogger you are earning some reputation by writing different articles on one niche. Meanwhile you will also get the practical knowledge about many things like online promotions, Search Engine Optimization, Online advertising networks etc. So once you have established yourself as professional blogger you can earn handsome money by giving your services to other persons. But remember you need to spend time and you need to be perfect in services you are providing. Along with these ways you there are also more ways like you can charge for public speaking or you can write your own book (because after having some good reputation in particular niche it will be easier for you to sell your book) or you can start your online news letter dedicated to particular and subscription for which will be paid.

Actually there are lot of ways to earn money after you become successful blogger like these! You will get many chances as your online reputation increases. But for building this reputation and your own online user base you need to dedicate yourself at least some hours for week for this purpose! Again there is no definite period for doing or achieving anything of above, well it depends on many things which I have described while answering to question how much can I make from my blog in second paragraph above!

Top 5 best web hosting services for your blog.

In last article we reviewed the cheapest web hosting services for your blog along with their plans. The criteria in that article was their cheaper service in terms of money! But in this article you will see top 5 best web or blog hosting services for you. So in this article the criteria is not the money but the quality of service. You always have an option to use free blog hosting services but you might not want to use free blog hosting services due the disadvantages of using free blog hosting services. So lets start our journey into the world of web hosting service providers for your blog in India:

1. BigRock:
BigRock is the best hosting service for your blog. With great features and lot of products! It is also the listed in cheapest blog hosting service providers in India due to fairly low rate services like you register your own domain name from Rs. 99 and cheapest web hosting plan starts from Rs. 59 per month. Pros:
• Provides all types of web hosting services.
• You can connect with professional web designer from your city using their service 'Designxchange Program'; also you will WYSIWYG website builder with great features.
• Support for all types of web development programming languages and frameworks.
• You can easily include apps in your blog.
Cons:
• As per review of some customers their support service is not that good!
• Sudden termination of your accounts may occur, rarely though!
2. Hostgator:
Hostgator provides you the unbeatable service! It has proved itself in the market since long time and has great features and supports wide range of services. It's simplicity makes it easier for the newbies to use its services and products efficiently and effectively. Pros:
• 45 days money back gurantee, if you are not satisfied with their services.
• Great uptime; which means your site will be never down!
• Provides unlimited bandwidth with most of it's plans.
• Has own many awards for its quality of service and features many computer magazines! So it can be trusted.
Cons:
• Again they claim 24*7/365 support but some customers are still not satisfied with them.
• Problems in database side and panels.
• Lack proper and effective notifications.
3. BlueHost:
Bluehost is also among the best blog hosting service providers in India along with their own pros and cons. But you can trust them for good quality service. Most of the times you will get good discounts on your service due to availablity of great coupen round the year. It also provides hosting services in all categories like Shared Hosting, VPS hosting, Dedicated hosting and Reseller hosting. The pros and cons of Bluehost are as follows: Pros:
• Easy to create and manage web pages.
• Low cost plans than it's competitors.
• You will get anytime money back gurantee.
• Domains registered with bluehost can be transfered to other hosting service providers easily.
Cons:
• Problem in server resources.
• You may not get good bandwidth so not good for streaming photos and videos which requires higher bandwidths.
4. Hostmonster:
In this paragraph we review the main advantages and disadvantages of Hostmonster which is one of the best web/blog hosting service providers in India. hostmonster is popular for their professional service and pricing. Hostmonster provides reliable and affordable blog hosting service at the same time. Some of the pros and cons of hostmonster are: Pros:
• Use of multiple channels for customer support provides them ability solve the customer problems quickly and easily.
• Provides free submission of your website into different search engines and Adsense and other suitable credits for promoting your website online.
• Free site builders and cPanel with support.
• Trusted in the market with thousands of online websites since 2002.
Cons:
• You may get some problem while getting your full bandwidth, though sometimes!
• Sometimes problems with customer support executives due to language barriers.
5. JustHost:
JustHost is the last blog hosting service in India that we will review in this article. Like it's competitors it also gurantees 99.99% uptime, unlimited bandwidth etc. And Yes, it has proved itself over the time. It has great features like unlimited file transfer which is unique among this category and free and instant setup. Some of pros and cons about Justhost are: Pros:
• Free domain with web hosting plans.
• Unlimited email accounts and file transfer service.
• Free add credits to promote your website.
• Integrated e-commerce carts and site builder with some free templates.
Cons:
• It is relatively new to the market so lags in infrastructure.
• Customer support may not responsive and effective some times!
• Difficulty for large websites which contains more than 50,000 files!

In this article we have reviewed some of the best hosting service providers for your website or blog. Actually it is always better to choose best paid hosting service for your blog due to limitations of free web hosting service providers. I have tried my best to point out the pros and cons along with their features and users are advised to choose the web hosting service that suits your requirements! After creating a blog this is the important step to choose your website/blog hosting service as your users may face problem reaching your blog if your servers are not working properly!

Cheapest web hosting service providers for your blog.

In last article we learnt how to create your own blog? In that I have recommended to use the self hosted blog service due to advantages of self blog hosting services over free blog hosting services like Wordpress and blogger. So as new blogger you might not want to invest much money at the starting phase of your blogging career. So in this article we will review top 5 cheapest hosting service providers in India:
And just remember these web hosting service providers are chosen for only their cheapest rates along with their quality of service. So if you are interested in best web hosting service providers in india and if you are ready to invest some extra money then you can check my new article best web hosting service providers for your blog.

1. HostingRaja:
Hosting Raja is one of the best hosting services in terms of money and quality. It provides both cheapest rates as well as quality of service simultaneously. It is simple to use and it does provide very fast and efficient customer service support. You can start registering your domain names from Rs.99 only and the another best thing from this web hosting service provider is that you can avail the free domain service with any hosting plan you choose. The cheapest web hosting plan currently offered by Hosting Raja is starter plan with just Rs. 69 per month! It includes 1000 MB (1 GB) of web space, 5GB bandwidth and 10 emails (with your customized domain name like @yourdoaminname) along with 1 sub domain! If you want avail these services then please click here
2. BigRock:
BigRock provides you unbeatable web hosting service with some moderate rates. It is the quality of service they provide that keeps them at top in best hosting services in India. BigRock is popular and trusted web hosting service provider with cheap web hosting plans.BigRock is consistently in best web hosting service providers and it has maintained its position since last many years. It also provides 24*7 round the year service support for its customers, with lots of additional features like best templates for your sites, customization to your templates, security services for your sites, unlimited emails, 30 days money back gurantee and lot more. You can register your own domain name starting from just Rs. 99 and hosting plans starts with Rs. 59 per month. If you want to avail their services at best rates then please click here.
3. Hosting India:
Hosting.india.to is the one of the best cheapest web service providers in India. You can start their service using their free web hosting service. But in free web hosting service you will get limited features and might not be suitable for everyone. If your blog is only specific to some persons then you can use this service. Their plans are also not customizable and you have start at Rs.375 per year (Rs. 31.25 per month). If you want use this service with lowest rates and offers please click here. The best features provided by them ae cPanel and site management tools, already installed antivirus, SPAM protection, tutorials to help you manage your site, auto-installation of nearly 50 scripts to add new features to your websites.
4. HoixIndia:
HoisxIndia provides cheapest web hosting in this category. They many web hosting services like shared web hosting, VPS Hosting, Apps Hosting and cloud hosting. But it is costlier than above three web hosting service providers in the sense they are providing .in domain for Rs. 199 and .com domain for Rs. 499. The best way to take this web service is by using their combo offers which offers you great discounts on domain name and hosting services at once. But for this you have to buy domain name and hosting services at the same time form them. Help and support for their existing customer is available round the clock.
5. eWebguru:
eWebguru is another simple and cheapest web hosting service provider without which this list can not be completed. eWebguru is in the business since 2005 and they more than 25000 happy customers. The plans and pricing of eWebguru are somewhat costlier than above web hosting service providers but it has some extra features too. It provides you full control of you web hosting space and full control of your domain name with free domain control panel and domain locking service. The best plan includes unlimited domain, unlimited email accounts, 100 GB bandwidth (Which is very good) for Rs.995 per year.

These are some of the cheapest web service providers in India and you can choose any of them depending upon your requirements. Most of them claims to 99.99% uptime and many happy customers. But until we do not use any service we can not conclude which is best among others. This article is only to provide you some insights to the cheapest web hosting service providers in India, and you may need more consultation before taking final decision. Well the consultation is provided by every web hosting company for their potential customers, and you can choose which is best for you!

How to start your own blog-a step by step guide to start your own blog.

Blog is just a personal website! Not more not less! There are lots of uses of blog. Having a blog of your own also gives you some credibility in some areas. People use their blog to share their knowledge, to share their ideas and views and yes, people use their blog to make money also! Earning from blog is second income for many people in world and it is the best way to earn from home. Well, in initial stages you do not need to pay a penny to start your own blog. You might want to take paid services after you start earning some money from it. Many women are also earning handsome income (in some cases this income might be greater than what their husband from a day job!). And believe me there are some peoples who make their five star living just by blogging (For instance Amit Agarwal whi blogs at labnol.com earn 15-20 Lakhs INR per month from adsense!). Isn't it a great thing to start!
Now many people know these facts and they want to start their own blog but million dollar question where and how? Yes it is the big question for new bloggers who wants to start their own blog. Actually I also have wasted a considerable amount of time for knowing the how and where to start blogging. In last 3-4 years I have learnt many things started many blogs with one or two posts then applied for Adsense and got rejected! You might not believe but my Adsense application is got rejected more than 100 times literally before I got finally approval. And the reason behind that was because I was not following the simple terms and conditions for Adsense approval. So lets see where and how to start your own blog:

1. Choose your niche topic for blogging:
   
What does it mean? Choosing a niche topic might not be difficult but it is the first and most important thing while you are starting your own blog.This is the subject you are going to write thousands of article at one place. You have to write on different topic but the topic must from your selected niche. If you find difficult to write on only one niche you might want combine them. For ex: if you are writing a blog on computer tricks and tips you can include another niche topics like internet tips and tricks, websites, social media tips and tricks. You must remember two things:One is to choose the niche on which you have command and you are very good at that and second is if you are combining the two niches then try combine Only related niches in blog.
2. Choose the host:
If you are starting a blog you need a host to host your blog on web of internet 24*7, 365 days. There are lot of free services like Blogger (From google), Wordpress and many more. If you are confident about making money from your blog then you can choose one of the top 5 web hosting service provider in india. Even if you don't have much money then here is the list of top 5 cheapest web hosting service providers in india. Hosting provider are very important part your blog. Depending upon their service and quality your blog can reach maximum users. In my opinion if you are beginner and if you want to make money then using blogger is best option. After getting some success in earning money through your blog you can move to other private web hosting service providers with backing up all of your content from blogger blog. Also wit a free account on blogger you can apply adsense adds on your blog. Here is the comparison between blogger and wordpress. But remember owning your blog on paid hosting service is always better than using free hosting services.
3. Keyword research:
   
Before writing any post you need to do some keyword research. Keywords are the words or phrases which we type in text box of search engine to get results of particular websites containing the information about words or phrase we entered in search engine. Keyword research will provide you information about how many times a particular keyword is being entered in search engines with its demographics. There are lot of keyword research tools available on the internet. Some of them are free and some are paid tools. You will find information top free keyword research tools here. Depending upon the keyword data you can define suitable title for your post and you can construct sentences so as include that particular keyword in your blog post.
4. Never copy from other websites:
If you have not followed step one properly then after writing some posts you might stuck at particular point. If you do not have enough knowledge in the subject on which you are blogging this condition will definitely arise! And in this case you might try to copy the content from other websites which may create lot of trouble for you. First your Adsense account may be terminated! Secondly the original owner of content may sue for copying his/her content. There are lot of tools on internet which can find exactly (With line numbers!) from where you have copied the content. So if you are looking for some long term reputation and earning from your blog then avoid copying content from any other website. Although you may refer sometimes the content on other websites but copying should be completely avoided and remember it is legal offense to copy content from other websites if you do not have written permission from the owner.
5. Get some information about blogging resources:
There are some blogging resources available on the internet and are free! Like keyword research tools, blog directories, blog promotional tools etc. If you want to reach to the maximum audience then you should use these resources so as to make your blog more popular. You can join 3-4 blog communities which will give some valuable feedback as well as some promotion.
6. Give attention to your blog design:
Your blog's design should be as simple as possible. Users should be able to navigate between your posts easily and color scheme should not be annoying. Also even if you want to make money from your blog keeping to much advertisements and too much pop adds will also distract your users and they might not return to your blog the next time they see your blog's url. Actually one pop up and 3-5 add units are enough to earn handsome income from your blog. Remember ultimate users are the mainly responsible generating revenue and your goal should be to keep them happy forever!

Blogging is not the one or few day's task! You have to be committed and you should be ready to spend enough amount of time for blogging. It takes time to display your blog in search engines and you have to be patient. Also keeping your blog updated in your niche also important to get some traffic. You need to spend at least six months to start earning good income from your blog. So if you have patient, if you are ready to dedicate some time and if you are willing to give the quality information then you can start blogging and earn an handsome income!