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Advantages and Disadvantages of Guest Blogging and Guest Posting

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Saturday, January 14, 2012 | 4:21 AM

Internet is now become the fastest mean of communication and source of information and every person who use internet must have knowledge about Blogging. Blogging is something which delivers individual ideas, thoughts and information to other persons. In today�s world Blogging is become the profession and many professional bloggers are contributing something to internet world and sharing and providing their experience to other needy persons and individuals.

Guest Blogging or Guest Posting is another term of Blogging in which an individual contribute and share his experience and content through someone else website or blog. Contributing content and experience from another source is called Guest Posting or Guest Blogging, but individual has to follow the guidelines and rules before starting Guest Post or become a Guest Blogger. Just write a content or post is not enough you must aware of basic principles of Guest Posting and Guest Blogging otherwise you may fall or waste your time and talent. The first rule of Guest Post is you must have full knowledge about the content which you're going to post or you must start some research before write any Guest Post or become Guest Blogger.

Guest Posting and Guest Blogging has some advantages and has some disadvantages, if you are a good Blogger than you can start Guest Blogging or Guest Posting and can gain benefits of Guest Post. Read following Advantages and Disadvantages of Guest Posting and Guest Blogging which helps you to better understand Guest Posting and Guest Blogging benefits.

Advantages of Guest Posting and Guest Blogging:

Increase in Traffic: When you post blogs to other sites you can gain traffic including relevant links that might lead to your own web site. The more attractive and useful your site is to the reader, the greater is the chance of getting public attention thus gaining popularity and visitors.

Helping other Blogger: Never lose a chance to help another blogger if you can possibly spare the time. Why? Because you�re building a blogging relationship, one that could pay off in the long run.

Gains Reputation: The greater you show your skills by writing posts to other sites, the greater is the chance that people will get your attention and admire your posts.

Reach to New Audiences: If you already have a readership, even a small one, it�s likely you�ve tapped into a portion of your potential audience.

Advertising and Marketing: You can pay to put an ad on another blog. You can beg for a link. You can get dug and get 40K visitors in a day. But those all pale as methods of advertising compared to a guest post. As your traffic increases due to your guest posting, the revenue for your income may increase due to the possible increase of customers.

Better Writing Experience and Skills: Practicing what you always do will make your work more polished and people will admire you for it.

High Quality Content for Your Blog: Guest bloggers always try to give their best work in the form of guest posts. So you can expect high quality content in the form of guest posts on your blog. And in case you feel, some bloggers content quality is not acceptable to you, you can simply refuse them.

Increase in Blog Exposure: Guest blogging increases the exposure of your blog. Guest blogging benefits the primary blogger and the guest blogger and mutually generates traffic for both individuals.

Disadvantages of Guest Posting and Guest Blogging:

Annoy Potential Readers: Guest Posts could annoy your regular readers. Regular visitors of your website visit because they like your opinions and wish to read more from you.

Low Grade Content: Some guests authors take your blog up for granted and often submit posts that are written with lack of attention and an uncaring attitude.

Irrelevant Posting and Blogging: Guest Posts can be unrelated to your blog's niche. This could not only frustrate your subscribers but also make Google think that your website is a content farm.

Time is Money: Guest Blogging needs time and resources. Writing for others will give you backlinks, but if you write for your own blog then you will get traffic for those articles.

Content Spamming: Opening your gates for guest posters means you should be ready for a lot of spam. It�s hard to tell what makes these spammers believe that the blog owner will even consider publishing the third rate promotional ads on their blog.

No True Identity: Some blogs that accept guest posts are running on revenue sharing program, and most of them have lots and lots of categories, where they accept guest posts on almost all topics which have lack of true identity or content and individual itself.

Follow Guest Blogger Rules: When you are accepting guest posts, you�re morally obligated to be generous and supportive to your guest authors. You have got to respond to their emails and at times requests regarding some minor edits after the post is published.
4:21 AM | 2 comments

Google Punishes Itself After SERP Terms Violation - Google's Positive Response

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, January 6, 2012 | 7:56 AM

Google has takes a positive step after getting various criticisms on internet over violation of its own Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP) Terms and Conditions to gain more popularity and ranking on its own Search Engine "Google" for one of its own product Google Chrome. According to the story unveiled from SEOBook about "Pay Per Post (PPP) Campaign" tactics from Google to market Google Chrome on various low end profile Blogs.


Now Google has punishes itself by demoting its own ranking on search engine results. For the next 60 days users won't be able to see any kind of ads for Chrome when searching for keyword 'browser' on Google.com. This step has been taken from Google for its paid ads campaign; Google had been paying various bloggers to create what would be considered 'low quality content' against the company's terms of service. By paying bloggers to post hyperlinks to the Chrome download page, Google was able to drive itself to a higher position in its own search results. The only problem was that this violated its own terms of service for Paid Links.

Before browser SERP:
After browser SERP:

The issue was first highlighted by one of SEOBook author in which he mentioned that how come a keyword for �This post is sponsored by Google� brings back over 400 search pages on Google, but now Google has taken a serious and major step by demoting and removing all search results of itself and various other website which were involved in that "Pay Per Post" (PPP) campaign. Google have also dropped the PageRank value of the website http://www.google.com/chrome contain 9 (PR), remembered reducing the PageRank value is not the same as removing or banning the page from Google Search. however, a lower PageRank value will reduce its chances to get higher rank for certain keywords, not only this Google have also dropped the ranking position of the webpage from top to lower grade, previously http://www.google.com/chrome was ranking on top 10 search results but now you have to go to the fifth page of results to find it, ranked in position 55 and sometime we have also seen the page lower to as low at 93.


According to Google's official statement to Search Engine Land;
We�ve investigated and are taking manual action to demote www.google.com/chrome and lower the site�s PageRank for a period of at least 60 days.
We strive to enforce Google�s webmaster guidelines consistently in order to provide better search results for users.
While Google did not authorize this campaign, and we can find no remaining violations of our webmaster guidelines, we believe Google should be held to a higher standard, so we have taken stricter action than we would against a typical site.
I think it�s really a good and positive step from Google and its team to defend itself and to clean Search Engine from all these kind of approaches and campaign in near future and it will helps Google to maintain its reputation and to become and remain number one Search Engine of Internet for decades.
7:56 AM | 0 comments

Access Blogger Account by Hack Blogger Vulnerability

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, March 11, 2011 | 9:14 PM

A hacker with the name of Nir Goldshlager has posted the information and video showing how an attacker could quickly and easily gain administrative privileges to any Blogger account. The video show off some complex tricks and techniques. Goldshlager did mention that this was for the Google Reward Program, where someone who successfully finds and exploits vulnerabilities in Google software will win $1337.
The seven minute of video by Goldshlager shows how he successfully gained access to a blogger account by adding himself as an author (without the administrators approval), then sends himself a confirmation email, after which the attacker would become an author on the website. Following these steps, the attacker successfully modifies their permissions to become an administrator, allowing full access to add, edit, and delete all the content on the victims blog.

The blog doesn't mention if this vulnerability has been patched by Google or if Google is still unaware of the problem, as the exploit was only posted today.

9:14 PM | 0 comments

Installing DISQUS Comments Into Blogger Blog

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Friday, February 25, 2011 | 10:03 PM

When i first started blogging, Disqus used to provide lengthy and hard procedure of integrating Disqus Commenting System into blog. First you had to download and backup your whole blog and then upload it to disqus to integrate it into your blog, then disqus patched your file (to install new comment system) and give the file back to you and you upload it again to your blog. Seems to be very hard method to install disqus.
But now you won't have to worry about Installing Disqus Commenting System, Disqus is now providing very easy procedure to installing commenting system into blogger blog.

Recently they have made changes and now it�s much easier to integrate Disqus into blogger layout. Means you don�t have to go for that lengthy procedure to install disqus. Using the latest Gadget functionality you are now able to improve the time of integration, and now require no patching of your template.

Follow these simple steps to install Disqus in your Blogger Blog:
  1. Login to your Disqus Account.
  2. Go to http://disqus.com/admin/blogger/ (make sure you�re already logged in)
  3. Click �Add Site to Blogger� button.
  4. On next page, Authorize Disqus, add a Gadget with your sites Disqus code, and you�re good to go.
Now open any post and see the disqus comment form instead of blogger�s default one.
10:03 PM | 0 comments

Windows Live Space Powered by WordPress Now

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Wednesday, September 29, 2010 | 11:33 AM

Rather than continuing to push its currently limited blogging platform, Spaces, Microsoft has partnered with Automattic to provide WordPress.com blogs to all Live Spaces users.

Craving expandability and better spam protection, the Live team chose WordPress as its ideal platform partner due to WordPress� impressive track record. Powering 8.5% of the web, almost 26 million sites, WordPress and WordPress.com serve over 250 million unique visitors every month. By developing this partnership, Microsoft has not only provided a solid service to their users but also has gained a large share of the personal blogging space.
Utilizing Messenger Connect, WordPress.com is changing as well. All blogs can be linked to a Live account, serving updates and media to the users� news feed for full Messenger integration. This will not affect current RSS feed sharing, yet adds another avenue for connectivity.
If new Windows Live users, or those with out a blog, choose to create one, they will automatically be redirected to the cross-branded WordPress.com/Windows Live site. A new blog will be created like normal, but just as migrated pages, will be linked to the user�s Live account..

By choosing an established platform rather than attempting to develop their own, Microsoft has made a smart move, both financially and from the users� standpoint. Many Spaces users may be familiar with WordPress already, and if they aren�t, it provides an avenue to learn and expand into a very robust platform. Also, by integrating WordPress.com�s currently impressive userbase, Microsoft will gain significantly from the potential increase in advertising revenue. This looks to be a win for all parties involved.
11:33 AM | 0 comments

Drive more traffic to your website

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Tuesday, February 9, 2010 | 11:15 AM

If you are really concern about your website traffic then you should focus on driving more traffic in different ways. Internet is a bunch of a website and every minute there is new website published and every new website needs a customer and visitors, because without any traffic or visitors there is no reason of making a website. The best possible way to get more traffic to a website is to build back links to your website or you can say the links which locate your website.

Google and other search engines only consider a quality back links. So you have to focus on quality and do-follow back links. There are two types of back links which are counted. One is Do-Follow and other is No-Follow. Many people says that there is no used of No-Follow links but in my opinion No-Follow links have potential also as like Do-Follow. But the main thing that Do-Follow links can do for your website is to build strong back links on the eye of search engines. Which really helps your website to get more traffic? Many websites are providing opportunity for a webmasters to build back links on their websites. You can find many of them on Google. Just type �Do-Follow Directories�. You will find many website directories, do-follow blogs, social bookmarking websites, Do-follow articles, forums etc.

Another yet important factor to drive traffic is Social Networking websites. Social networking websites are now one of the best and effective ways of providing traffic in time to time. Almost every person today using every social networking websites, some of the famous one is Facebook, Twitter, Friendsfeed etc. You can contact with people live and keep them update with your content then they will follow your website and you can get some potential customers from that social networking websites.

11:15 AM | 0 comments

Create Static Pages for Blogger

Written By Lingkar Dunia on Monday, February 8, 2010 | 6:54 AM

After the long and hard work Blogger has now introduced Static Pages for their blogspot users. Yes finally blogger is comes up with their most awaited feature in blogger like Wordpress. Now users can add upto 10 pages in their blog like a normal website pages. Mostly people were thinking that it�s impossible in blogspot, but blogger make them wrong. People not only add pages in their blog but also add widgets and other content on it. I personally like it that blogger is now moves to another step towards changes.

It�s quite easy to add pages in blogger blog. You just have to go on your blogger dashboard and click on edit post and then upward you will see new option of �Edit Pages�. Their you can add upto 10 more pages in your blog like about me page, contact me page, services page or any other pages you need in your blog and you can also config your pages setting according to your choice. That�s it. Don�t you think blogger is making it quite easy?

If you like it then comments. Thank you
6:54 AM | 0 comments

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