Being a Blogger or solopreneur many times we face the difficulty in writing great content due to time being or sometimes we need the content that doesn't fall in my area of expertise.

Recently we have taken the contract from few companies for marketing and promotions and I needed around 10 articles to be delivered per day for around 10 days and definitely, those were not possible for me to write.

So, I tried searching people who can write for me on a different platforms like Facebook groups, Truelancer, and Fiverr. I found some writer but the kind of content I wanted and the delivery time, I didn’t find. One guy from my friend list delivered few article which was of average quality but I had to edit it again.

To continue this hunt, recently I came across a new content writing marketplace ContentMart which is an aggregate platform for both content writer and content seekers like me. I was impressed with the kind of quality they were providing and the response time.

Today I am going to share my personal ContentMart review which I have gathered after ordering one project and can say I am much satisfied with the quality and delivery and very soon I will post remaining tasks.

What is ContentMart?- ContentMart Review

ContentMart is an online marketplace to hire the quality content writer on the go. With over 33 746 writers and 32 296 clients, ContentMart is a leading content marketplace.

At ContentMart, you can not only get content for your blogs and websites but also you can get sales copy, ad copy or any other types of content you want!

Content writers from different geographic locations are listed here and you can choose to depend on the rating and feedback provided by their previous customers.

How to Join ContentMart & Start getting content delivered?

If you are impressed with the kind of service they are delivering or want to give a try like I did, join ContentMart.

Once you will register, you will get a link on your email id to verify your account. Verify your account and log in. Here you will get redirected to My Orders page.

So by now you are all set to place your first order. All you have to do is, click on new order button you are seeing and fill the required details.

Here you have 2 options while placing the order-

• Open Order- Here all the copywriter can bid on your project and then depending on your requirement you can select those with whom you would like to work. They will deliver you the content and then you can review and finalize. This is default process.

• Hassle Free- What if you are on a tight timeline like me? Then you should select Hassle Free option where you just need to define your requirement and rest will be done by the ContentMart team.

Here you just have to first post the requirement and at last, you will receive the final content and everything in between will be done by the ContentMart team.

Another thing you would like here is, you can order the content in different local Indian language like Hindi, Marathi etc.

Now select whether you want to pay per word basis or article basis, a number of the quantity needed and the words required.

Once done, it will show you the estimated price of your order and you can proceed to publish the order.

If you have already fed up your account that’s great else you will have to deposit that amount in your ContentMart account.

Now wait for some time while the content writers will bid on your project. You can also personally chat with those who have done bidding on your order and finalize the writer.

Next is, they will deliver the content in your time specified and agreed. You can review and finalize it.

Once done, payment will be delivered and you can give the feedback to the writer.

You can also directly hire the content writers from their platform if you don’t want to wait. Just search as per your criteria and finalize and assign work.

Conclusion

ContentMart is a great platform to hire talented writers. You can get any type of content from their platform in your time-frame without any hassle.

Join ContentMart and get quality content written
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Also, if you are a writer you can earn a lot from it by writing for others. To maintain the quality of their content writers’ profile, you will have to pass an initial test and once done you can bid on the project and start working on the project.

Also, you can earn from affiliate commission where you will get 10% of the amount your referred client will use for 1 year.

Now a days getting good Google page rank and ranking high in Google is very difficult. The very first thing that you have to do is to create quality content which will attract the visitor to read your post and after having content advertise it. Advertising is very important because if nobody is there to read your post, it’s of no use. You can advertise your content in many ways like spreading the post on social networking sites, writing guest posts and building backlinks. Today we’ll talk about the most famous and beneficial method- Backlinks building.

Tips to increase quality backlinks through commenting on other's blog

Backlink building is the key behind the success of any blog or website. The more number of backlinks a blog have the more will be the page rank and the number of traffic that blog will get. High PR (page rank) backlinks always play an important role in building the domain authority of the blog as well as attracting the traffic to the blog. So you want it, right?

Now the question is what is backlinks?

Backlinks are one blog’s link on some other places. It may be an internal link on your blog or any other link anywhere on the internet. It’s an incoming hyperlink from some other web page to your websites.

The more backlinks you have pointing back to your site, the more popular it will be.

When search engines calculate the relevance of a site to a keyword, they consider the number of QUALITY backlinks to that site. Here I have used the word ‘QUALITY’. Yes you heard it right. Quality backlinks are those which have some relevance. Suppose you have a technical blog and the backlink that you have is on a blog which write about movies. Does that worth? Of course not. So a relevant link is necessary to build a good traffic and brank in the online market.

How to build backlinks?

There are several ways using which you can build backlinks like-

You can write guest post and in return you will have 1-2 backlinks from that blog
Using advertisements. But I’ll say to avoid this, at least for a new blogger
You can use Social bookmarking sites like Reddit, Stumble Upon etc.
You can participate in forums and can include the link in signature
You can comments on other’s blog which is having Comment Luv enabled.

Today I’ll talk about building backlinks through commenting. This is one of the easiest ways to build backlinks. Just you have to visit the blog and comment on their posts. But simply visiting blogs/website and commenting won’t help you. You have to identify those blogs where you can get backlinks and that too Quality backlinks. Many blogger make backlinks disabled on their blog so it’s necessary to find links enabled blogs.

You need not to have worry about searching those blogs which have enabled backlinks. There is a great plugin called ‘Comment Luv’ which will help you in this. And coming to quality backlinks, target only those blogs which are having high page rank.

Note: Now Google has stopped increasing/decreasing Page Rank of websites so now a days it’s difficult to find that in new sites. But at the same time for new blogs you can check their Alexa ranking or DR.

High PR links will help you to have better rank in SERP. Now you must be thinking of what comment luv is and where to find such blogs. Right?

Also Read: Tips To Check Keywords Ranking on Google

What is CommentLuv?

CommentLuv is a Wordpress plugin (now can be integrated with blogger also) which was developed to grow the blogging community and encourages blog readers to leave a comment on the blog posts.

If you’ve enabled CommentLuv on blog, then a user who leaves a comment on your blog posts, the plugin automatically goes out and searches their blog (if user has given website name) for the latest post. Then CommentLuv will automatically include a link to latest or one of their top 10 blog posts at the end of their comment. By this way the readers who comments on the blog gets a backlink for their blog also.

But to find the comment enabled blogs are not easy and that too with high PR CommentLuv enabled blog. But nothing to worry, we have done that job for you. Below are the list of blogs which are having CommentLuv enabled commenting and also having good PR.

List of top high PR CommentLuv enabled websites: Tested

1. http://w3blog.dk/ PR 6

2. http://famousbloggers.net/ - PR 4

3. http://comluv.com/ - PR 4

4. http://growmap.com/ PR 4

5. http://bloggerspassion.com/ PR 3

6. http://www.inmarketingtips.com/ PR 1

7. http://www.betterbloggingways.com/ PR 1

8. http://freebloghelp.com/ PR 0

9. http://wassupblog.com/ PR 2

10. http://hotblogtips.com/ PR 3

11. http://www.techlila.com/ PR 3

12. http://collegefallout.com/ PR 3

13. http://infocarnivore.com/ PR 3

14. http://techpatio.com/ PR 3

15. http://thecozyreader.com/ PR 3

16. http://nopassiveincome.com/ PR 2

17. http://techiezlounge.com/ PR 3

18. http://bitsofpositivity.com/ PR 3

19. http://blogelina.com/ PR 3

20.http://www.techotalk.com/ PR 3

21. http://dakotapam.com/ PR 3

22.http://www.techtricksworld.com/ PR 3

23.http://marketingwithsergio.com/ PR 2

24.http://www.crunchyhub.com/ PR 3

25. http://techbugs.net/ PR 2

So that’s for today friends. These are most famous high PR CommentLuv enabled site. By commenting on these sites you can easily get the backlinks and you can increase you domain authority as well as ranking in Google. The best practice is whenever you write any post select at least 10 sites from above list and leave a valuable comment. But before commenting you should consider few points-

First read the article before commenting. This will help you to leave a good comment.
Most of the sites have comment moderation enabled, so don’t try to spam.
Try to leave valuable comments not a single word or couple of words comment.

Hope you enjoyed reading this post. If this post has helped you do share on your great social environment and let me know the ways you are using to get backlinks. Also let me know if you are using any other high PR CommentLuv enabled sites for commenting.

If you are frequent to marketing blogs then you must have read about the email signature. Even I wrote few posts on this as how to drive traffic using email signature and it really works.

You will hardly find any business person who doesn’t focus on the signature. It is not just the last part of your email but it shows the professionalism as well as the better signature you have, the more attention you can gather. People use the signature to attention the attraction of your reader as well as to add something that you want to convey them.

Why use professional Email Signature?

There are multiple reasons behind using a professional signature in your business emails. Below I am listing few really awesome benefits of using a professional email signature in your business emails or even in any email.

• You can promote your business with every email- Free promotion method
• You can get more customer for your business
• It makes easier for people to contact you
• You can mention social media profiles which increase your social media profile and followers
• It looks professional

And much more…

Now as you know why you should have a professional email signature, let me tell you few components those must have in the signature so that it can be more powerful.

Best Elements of a Good Professional Signature

Here are some of the basic elements those should have in an email signature. All of these are not compulsory but it is good to have.

• Name
• Your Company name and your designation in the company
• Contact details- this may include your address, contact number, email id and skype id
• Website Address
• Logo of the company- optional
• Your image- optional but good to have
• Responsive design
• Social media links
• Legal requirement texts- in some countries it’s required

These were some of the components of a professional email signature. Not all are required but it’s good to have. Considering the above data, here I have created one signature sample for myself-

How to Create Free Business Email Signature

5 Tips to create stunning Email Signature

Here are some basic yet very helpful tips to create a stunning email signature. Just keep in mind while designing the signature for you and it will come out excellent.

1. Keep it simple, like name, company details and contact information can also work. If your email signature is having too much content, there are great chance that your reader can get distracted and will notice the main thing you wanted to convey

2. Make sure to use your social media links. This is must to have. Adding social media links will not only help you to increase your social connections and followers but also will help your readers to believe that they are talking to some real person in the virtual world.

3. You can include images to make it even better. It again gives some personal touch to your professional signature as well as the relationship with who you are talking.

4. Try different options and select the best fit for you. To try different options you may take help of some email signature builder, I am going to explain one below and you can try out different options.

5. Be creative while designing the signature. While using the signature builder, you will have many options. So now it’s you who will make it awesome. So just be creative and design the best.

6. Also, do A/B testing. Testing doesn’t only apply to the ad campaign. You should do split testing everywhere.

Suppose you want your user to click on the link you have put in your signature or click on the banner you have added or anything. Now just be a bit creative and design 4-5 types of it and start using a different signature on a rotation basis and see which converts best for you and use that…is not it awesome?

How to create Free Business Email Signature?

By now you have come to know the basic stuff of email signature, what it should have and how it should look. Together with it how you should use email signature for bets use.

Now it’s time to show you how you can create a free business professional signature for bets benefits.

Newoldstamp is one such tool which helps you to create a free professional email signature. It helps you to save your designed work and later anytime if you want some changes, you can do it anytime by logging into your account.

What is Newoldstamp?

Newoldstamp is an online email signature generator which helps you to create professional looking business signature. The best thing about newoldstamp is that it is highly customizable and there are plenty of templates you can use to create a stunning design.

Features of Newoldstamp

Here are some of the amazing features of Newoldstamp which will help you to make even better email signatures.

• Easy user-friendly signature creating tool
• All your images, icons, banners, and signatures fast hosting
• Unlimited signature installations
• Professionally crafted signature templates
• Major email clients support
• All users signature and their status management
• Pictures/Logo manager
• Social media icons packages
• Easy access to all signature with preview and additional info
• Send access to all users for editing and installation from dashboard
• Green Messages
• Legal Disclaimers
• Signature installation guides and support

You can check the detailed Newoldstamp premium features here.

How to create a free email signature with Newoldstamp?

Here is a step by step guide to creating a free email signature with Newoldstamp-

Step1: Just visit the Newoldstamp site and click on the “create free signature link” available at the top of the menu bar

Step2: Now you will have to fill the details as I have shown below-

Step3: Once done, just save it and click on the email type you are using to generate the code. For example, I am using Gmail and so I will click Gmail and will get the code and add the code to your signature option.

There are much more templates available which you can have access to the premium version. Some of those are as below-

Also, the pricing of premium account is not that costly and depending on the number of signatures, you can choose from the below plans-

With all these plans, you will get 3 days trial period and also company provides 7 days money back guarantee.

Conclusion

Having a business email signature is very important and if you are doing business communication, you must use it. It is considered as a sign of professionalism and more important it helps you a lot, as I discussed above.

Also, creating a professional email signature is not a big job and using any email signature generator tool, you can create a free email signature quickly and no doubt Newoldstamp is helping you a lot in your journey to create a free business email signature.

I will love to hear what you think about having a professional signature and do you use any?

Qwaya is a technology enabled company focused on creating helpful tools for social media marketing, especially Facebook.

No doubt Facebook is currently the #1 social media site having 1.65 Billion active monthly users. As per the recent study by Statista, in the first quarter of 2016, Facebook crossed 1.65 B users and that too active. This is a great figure and companies should be happy that they are getting such a great audience at a single platform.

Facebook’s main source of revenue is also ads and Facebook earns over $1 Billion per quarter from ads and so you can think of how big this advertising market is.

Now you will see almost all the major companies promotes their products through Facebook and they are getting great benefits. Even solo marketers and affiliate marketers believe that Facebook is a great place to advertise and to get good ROI.

But sometime people don’t get good conversion due to many things like they don’t have much knowledge about the platform, they don’t know how to optimize the ads for best conversion and so on.

And here the tools like Qwaya helps you with their technology enabled solutions and expert teams. Here in this Qwaya Review, I will be taking you through all the details of it like features, pricing and most importantly how to start with Qwaya.

Qwaya Review- In a glance!

As stated above, Qwaya is a company which makes tools for social media marketing. This Swedish company is now expanding their operation geographically and helping the marketers to get good conversions.

TNW says fastest growing young tech companies in Europe and Tech Crunch says, it is opening a larger market for Facebook advertising. More importantly it is solving the real time problems.

It is a self-service Facebook advertising tool for performance marketers and other sophisticated advertisers.

Features of Qwaya

There are multiple features of Qwaya when it comes to Facebook advertising which makes them the first choice for advertisers.

Their powerful features and nice web interface helps you run Facebook campaigns more efficient with less effort. The pricing of the tool is also affordable which enables all kind of advertisers to use the platform for the best revenue and benefits.

Here are some of the amazing features of Qwaya which helps you to run a hassle free Facebook campaigns.

1. A/B Testing

Qwaya tool provides both kind of A/B testing for better conversion-

• Audience A/B Testing and
• Ads A/B Testing

Using Audience A/B testing, by auto splitting targeting in granular segments and get a side by side comparison. You can split your audience in multiple segments based on any targeting criteria.

While in Ads testing, you can find which font, color and size are working well for you. Qwaya gives you the ability to test all sorts of ad types and placements, including News Feed Ads for your website and Mobile App Install Ads.

2. Automatic Creation of Campaign structure

This is another excellent and helpful feature from their library. When publishing, ads and audiences are automatically combined and added into a campaign and ad set folder structure that lets you stay organized even when creating large scale campaigns.

3. Automate the campaign by Scheduling

There are some campaigns which should be run on some specific time and days. For example shopping kind of ads can be more profitable during weekend or on Friday and so you can schedule your ads to run on specific days and time to increase the ROI. This can be easily done on Qwaya dashboard.

4. Google Analytics Integration

Even though there are many analytics tools in the market but still Google Analytics is the top and probably will be in future due to many features and reliability.

You can integrate GA to Qwaya campaigns to track better and it lets you see the number of goals or e-commerce transactions generated by each campaign, ad set or ad.

5. Reporting

Reporting is something which helps the business to get the analytics in minutes and take the business decision. Qwaya’s smart dashboard enables you to get different kind of graphs easily and helps you to analyze those data as well as export those data in Excel.

You can get the graphical report on Qwaya dashboard and can also export the graph and campaign data for further custom reporting.

Apart from all these awesome features, there are many more features like-

6. You can access all the details of your Facebook page like events, likes etc.at one place by connecting to Qwaya.
7. You can work as a team as well on the same campaign by connecting multiple users there.
8. You can create templates of your existing campaigns and later you can reuse it
9. Using URL builder you can create a dedicated URL for your campaign for tracking purpose

And many more…

Currently Qwaya is targeting small and mid-size business as well as freelancers as their targeted audience and if you are among them, you must use it as their pricing plans are aligned to it.

Also, Qwaya runs their operation in the following locations- Asia, Australia, Canada, Europe, Germany, India, Japan, Latin America, Middle-East and Africa, United Kingdom, United States.

Qwaya Pricing

Qwaya has different pricing options for different kind of customers. But before going into the pricing details, let’s talk about the perks that Qwaya provides.

You will get 14 days of free trial period without any credit card. If you are satisfied with their service, go ahead else you can cancel your subscription any time.

Now, depending upon the number of users will be using the tool, they have following three kind of plans-

In the premium plan, you can add 1 user and is best for freelancers. This starts at just $149 per month. For small companies, they have Business plan which comes at $249 per month while for agencies or medium scale companies, Agency plan at $349 can work best.

Conclusion

Qwaya is an amazing platform which helps you to run your Facebook ads more precisely and helps you to get bets ROI.

If you are an individual marketer also, then you should use it for best profit. You can start with the Qwaya 14-days free trial and if you are satisfied, you can proceed further.

Which tool you use for your ad campaigns?

Blogging has become a business now and people earn many multiples of regular income in blogging. If you are frequent to social media, you must be seeing so many success stories people write about the success like they earn $10k/$20k per months. That’s true. But you will hardly find any stories of failure. No doubt the online industry has full of potential and money but it’s not that easy.

Many people who are not in online marketing/industry might be thinking what these guys do with just a laptop. But earning online is that easy? No.

In 2013, there were more than 152 Millions of Blogs online which is growing rapidly. But are all successful? No because there are something which stops those bloggers and so they are not. When it comes to successful bloggers there are hardly few..maybe thousands. You can check an interesting Infographic shared by BWHGeek on blogs.

Blogging is a platform which people choose to express their feeling and once they attract visitors, it starts making money. There are n number of examples where people from completely different professions have come to blogging and have done extraordinary.

But at the same time there are huge numbers who got failed. It’s not that people don’t want to or don’t try but there is something which stops them to peruse further. Today I will talk about the top 7 reasons those stop you to continue blogging.

Top 7 Reasons – Those stop you to Continue Blogging

1. You don’t have interest anymore

This is the main reason why bloggers leave blogging. It has been seen that majority of bloggers leave blogging as don’t find interest anymore.

And if you don’t have interest, you can’t do that thing. So now what? What should you do to make interest? Below are few points which you should consider-

• Blog only on the topic which you like

• Blog to the niche which admire you.

• Don’t simply blog! Do it passionately.

• Start selling from first day itself. Once money will come automatically you will find a reason to continue :)

Also Read:10 Things to Know Before Starting a Blog

2. Don’t find an Idea to Write

Again the same thing as above. If you don’t have enough knowledge and passion on some particular topic you can’t blog for more time. No doubt you can write 20-30 posts but what after that? So to overcome on this, you may follow the below-

• Blog only on those niches which you like and admire you.

• Suppose you like entertainment niche but don’t find enough earning (which is not the case) then you can start a blog on profitable niche but hire someone to write the content for that as that’s not your expertise.

• Participate on forums to get an idea about topic. You may write on the questions people ask. What can be better than that?

• Ask your followers about which topic they want you to write etc.

Also Read:How to Maintain growth of Blog when You're too busy?

3. Your Younger bloggers are doing better than you

This is human tendency to keep checking others. You may find many bloggers who are younger than you but are doing better. You may feel shame in front of them and get depressed. When I started blogging last year found there are many bloggers who are making thousands and are just in schools/colleges and I was college pass out. But I took that positively and thought if they why I can’t?

You should also remove such thoughts that your youngers are performing better. Take this in a positive way as if they can do why you can’t. They might be working harder than you and so you should too.

Also Read: Earn $25 right now!

4. Google Doesn’t Like you

I am mentioning Google here as Google has highest market share compare to other search engines. More than 70% of searches are done on Google. You can find the statistics below about the search engine market share-

Google - 70.23%

Bing 10.33%

Yahoo - 9.54%

Baidu- 7.06%

AOL - 1.11%

Ask - 0.19%

Lycos - 0.02%

Excite - 0.00%

So if your blog is performing well in Google means you are 90% successful and just you need to convert that traffic further to make sell.

To remove the spams and low quality contents, Google keep on bringing updates which gives benefits to good quality blogs where as low quality blogs get penalized. There may be several reason of this –

• You may be writing copied content

• Your content quality id very poor

• You don’t provide quality to the users

• Your SEO strategy is incorrect and many more

But remember one thing here- Goggle doesn’t bring updates (panda, penguin etc) to harm blogs rather they save themselves. Suppose spammers take their blogs at high ranking but doesn’t provide quality and when you search anything you visit that blog which doesn’t have quality at all and this is coming repeatedly..then whether you will search that term again in Google? May be not as you may think Google is not displaying good result and the business of Google will go down.

So to protect themselves and to maintain quality Google brings updates. You should blog in a way that should be to solve the issue of needy person as well as search engine friendly also. Got my point?

Also Read: List of Do's and Don'ts for Bloggers

5. Drop in Your Earning

Money is the top most motivational factor..agree?

When I started this blog in around Nov’14, I didn’t earn a single penny since Feb’15. My first earning was $35 through a sponsored post. Since that time I am growing. But it’s not that my earning has only increased. It has down graph as well but this doesn’t mean I will get demotivated.

Last month I lost more than $2k in CPA marketing as one of my CPA account got blocked due to some reason. It was my hard work of 6 months. I was learning CPA and implementing but was not earning much. Failed succeed and the journey begun. But due to one mistake I lost whole amount. Still I didn’t get demotivated and working to recover and even earn more.

So don’t think about down graph in earning. It may be but if you will work hard, you will get success for sure.

What you should do to maintain earning or increase?

• Don’t depend on single source of income. If you are doing blogging, just don’t only depend on sponsored posts or AdSense. Do other stuffs as well.

• You may offer services I which you are good. Like I provide these services as I am good in these.

• Invest money in small packets etc.

Also Read:21 Proven Methods to Make Money from Blog

6. You’ve less engagement on your blog

This is another depressing factor. You’ll find many blog’s which gets hundreds of comments and shares on each blog posts and some which even none. But you can’t compare both and decide the success.

No doubt it’s play role in ranking and all but this is not something that should be given much importance especially Comments.

As per Neil Patel, if you have more number of loyal subscribers, you will get more number of comments. So if you manage to get good social engagement, it’s fine.

In my case also, you may find good comments on some blog posts whereas even none on some. So comments more likely also depends on how frequent you comment on other’s blog unless you are not superstar like Neil.

But if still you want to get more comments on blog posts, start building email list and start commenting on fellow blogs. You will find instant result.

Also Read:How to Convert your Visitors into Loyal Readers

7. Controversy

Few people want to be in news and to be in news they can do anything. They get involve in lots of controversies. At the same time some people don’t like. You may be the one which lie in second categories but sometime a situation comes when you get tapped in it even though you don’t like. It can even ruin your online reputation for some time.

But if you are correct then you should not be worrying as everything would be fine soon and you will learn a lot from such stuffs.

Also Read:11 Tips to Take your Blog to Next Level

Conclusion

In my view, if you’re following your passion and you’re right, you will come out of any situation. No matter how bad it is.

So follow your dreams and work hard. Stay calm and cool and don’t get irritated with small issues. Better fight with it and overcome.

I hope you will agree to my points. What you think about these?

All of us mainly start blogging for mainly three reasons. The first is Money and the second is fame and the third is satisfaction. And of course it can be all.

If I talk about my case, I started blogging because I liked it and later I started earning money and I can say this is one of the best career options available. I have seen multiple people who started blogging just as hobby or passion but later they choose this as full time career and they are doing great this time.

So if you are already in blogging you know such situation and if you are planning to start your brand new blog I would suggest you to first go through the article 10 things to know before starting a blog. This guide will show you the real situation of blogging and if you answer the mentioned questions well you are all set to start a new blog which will rock!!

Once you have started a blog the very next thing that comes to mind is how to earn money from it. So today I am going to talk about the 5 best ways to monetize a blog.

How to monetize a blog

There are several ways to monetize a blog. It depends on niche to niche as which will work best. Earlier I wrote a complete blog post on how to make money from blog. If you have not gone through that blog post, I would suggest you to have a look at that.

How to Make Money from Blog- 21 Proven Methods

Today I am going to discuss 5 different ways to monetize a blog. I have tried all of these 5 and got success as well with few. So it depends. If you are not getting expected result from some particular methods, don’t worry try other and I am sure anyone will definitely click and will give the best.

So below are the 5 different ways on how to monetize a website.

How to Monetize a Blog with AdSense: AdSense

I mention AdSense first because it is one of the best known and most popular ad networks. Whenever any new blogger enters into the blogosphere AdSense is the first way they apply to monetize their blog. AdSense is a very trusted Ad network from Google and getting approval is very easy for it. I received approval for AdSense in the very first step. You can check my guide on how to get AdSense approval.

How I got AdSense approval in First Attempt and how you can get too

But you can find several people complaining about AdSense that they have decent traffic but still unable to earn good from it. This can be due to multiple reasons like bad ad placement, allowing all the ads etc. You can read the below article to increase your earning from AdSense.

12 Tips to Get Best AdSense Earning from Blog

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing is the process of advertising some other’s product and if anyone buys that product through your link you will get some part of the sell. This commission can be from 3% to 70-80 % as well depending upon the product and affiliate company. I hope most of you must know about this. If not, just register to any affiliate site depending upon your niche and get the affiliate link.

This site can be any like Amazon, Click Bank, ShareASale etc. Register on these sites and select the product you want to promote. Once done you will get an affiliate url. You have to promote that URL. Once a person buys something from your link you will make money. You can also read my experience about affiliate sell in the below article.

How I made $100 from 1 Post: How to make Affiliate Sell

Build Email List

Building an email list is the best part of blogging. This shows you have these many loyal readers who read your blog regularly. As this is not the direct method of earning but make a great help in affiliate sales or any other CPA marketing.

Building an email list is not difficult work. If you are posting quality content and offering good value to your readers you can get good number of subscriber. Once you have subscribers you can promote your affiliate links in the email and believe me this gives the best conversion. Read the below article to know how you can get more subscriber.

How to Convert your Visitors into Loyal Readers

Text Ads

Text ads also play a very important role in the earning. If you have good page views you can earn much from text ads. The best thing with text ad is these ads don’t require extra spaces. It will be shown within your content itself. Infolinks, Kontera are the best text ad networks. You can check the below article to know more about Inline Text ads and networks.

One thing here is important to note is sometime your visitor gets irritated with rolling text ads. So first decide whether you should use it or not and then only proceed.

5 Best Text Ad Networks for Bloggers

Write reviews & Direct Ads

Once you feel you have grown and you are getting decent traffic then you can try for the direct advertisement. Also you can write reviews about the products and companies.

Once you will get good traffic people will start coming to you and will offer you the advertisements and can ask to write review about their companies/products etc. Here you can charge them depending upon the status of your blog.

Also, you can apply to some direct advertising networks like BuySellAds for the direct advertisements. Remember that these networks only approve once you have good traffic but once approved you will get lots of money.

Over to You

These are the 5 best ways to monetize a blog. There are many more ways to monetize a blog but depending upon my experience I have listed these five. Which method do you use to monetize your blog? Do share your experience with it in comments.

Also, if you liked the post, please share it and subscribe us for the latest tips & trick of Blogging directly in your Inbox. Happy Blogging!

If you are looking for a premium and the affordable hosting solution then UniHost is for you. In this UniHost review, I will take you through all the features, pricing and specifications of this premium hosting provider.

Usually, whenever anyone is starting a website or blog, Hosting is one of the very few things which plays a very important role and decides the success of your online venture. Your hosting solution defines the success like how much time your site will be up and running, the speed of your website, loading speed and many others.

Although every hosting company claims to have 99.9% of uptime but do all really provide?

Of course, not and so you should be very careful while selecting the web hosting for your next online venture.

In this UniHost Hosting Review, I am going to share the true review and will also talk about the pros and cons of UniHost and why you should select UniHost for your next startup!

UniHost at a Glance: UniHost Review

UniHost is a professional and premium hosting provider for all range of users. They are working to provide the highest quality and convenient service.

Providing the wide ranges of internet solutions, UniHost is developing itself as in all in one place for all your website needs like domain, hosting and SSLs including high-quality servers.

All of their hosting plans and solutions worth for every penny and you won’t regret by moving to UniHost. In the next section, I am going to share UniHost Hosting plans.

Advantages of UniHost.com

Here are the few major qualities provided by UniHost which makes them ahead of their competitors and has helped them to become the top choice in Hosting services.

• A wide range of services: As explained they are providing complete service a website may require like Hosting, Servers, Domains, and SSLs.

• Automation and Performance: Once you will order and register your hosting with UniHost, it won’t take more than 10 minutes to start your site and make it live.

• Stable and fast hosting: Their hosting servers are based on Intel® Xeon® E3-1270 v3 Quadcore Haswell with Hyper-Threading technology, and equipped with 32 GB ECC RAM and 2х2 TB SATA3 Enterprise-class HDDs, united in a RAID 1 array. Our hosting databases are located on separate dedicated servers with high-performance Enterprise-class SSD hard drives Samsung 843T (41000 IOPS) for the maximum performance.

• Support for the latest CMS: You will get one click installation features for all the latest CMS like WordPress, Drupal etc. which makes your work very easy.

• Excellent Support: UniHost dedicated support team ensures that all your query can be solved as quickly as possible 24x7. You can contact their award winning support team via live chat on the website, phone or by simply sending us an e-mail through our ticket system.

And many other such features which make your work easy so that you can focus on the growth of your site.

UniHost Hosting Plans

UniHost has wide ranges of Hosting plans and depending on your requirement you can select one which fits you best.

CPanel Web Hosting with Anti DDoS

If you are working on custom sites you may require web hosting enabled with CPanel. So this plan is for you. But if you are working on CMS, you can try their CMS specific hosting which I will explain in next section.

Here is the web hosting plans and all these comes with an Anti DDOS features which help you to keep your site secure.

Apart from the features I discussed above, below are some of the specific features of UniHost Web hosting plans-

WordPress Hosting with Anti DDos

Well, if you are working on a WordPress blog then UniHost has special and dedicated hosting for you. Below are the UniHost WordPress Hosting plans which have been dedicatedly designed considering the features a WP blog should have.

There are many advantages that the company has incorporated considering a blog and the best WordPress CMS platform. Below are some dedicated features-

Similarly, if you are using Joomla then they have dedicated hosting plans for Joomla which is similar to WP hosting plans.

VPS Hosting Plans

UniHost Provides a wide number of VPS plans depending on the operating systems and the hardware requirements. You can choose which suits you. VPS is the mix up of shared hosting and dedicated servers.

Their VPS plans just start at $5.0 per month and every penny of it worth.

Dedicated Servers

Depending on the data centers UniHost has, there are different dedicated server plans. You can choose as per the location you want.

Below are the locations where UniHost has their data centers-

• Germany
• France
• Canada
• Ukraine

UniHost Domains

You can register all the domains extensions at UniHost very easily. Their prices are very competitive and there are no hidden charges.

The best thing I found with UniHost domain registration is, you can write all the domains you need and can search at once to check the availability. This will save your lots of time.

SSL Certificates

SSLs are a very important component in website security. It makes the data transfer encrypted and so the chances of data hack gets reduced. If you are maintaining a site which has either data transfer or payment solutions, SSLs are a must for those.

There are multiple types of SSLs and depending on your requirement, you can select from the below available plans-

Money Back Guarantee

With all these amazing services, premium hosting, and low prices, UniHost also provides 30-days money back guarantee. You can ask for your money back if you are not satisfied with their services at any time without any questions being asked.

Conclusion

UniHost is one of the premier hosting provider currently serving since 2001 in different geographic locations.

The company is performing really well which you can estimate from its growth and the feedback received from customers.

So, if you are looking for a reliable, premium and affordable hosting, you must try UniHost. It can be an ideal place to start with.

If you will ask 10 people like how much satisfy you are with your system then the majority of it will say some issues which they want to resolve at the earliest possible.

Until last year, I was working on a laptop which was having only 2GB of RAM and every time I was experiencing the slowness issue and so bought another HP laptop with 8 GB RAM and 1TB of the hard disk. It was working awesome but since a month I have started working on Big Data which is again a heavy software and require lots of memory and so again I am finding lots of memory crunches.

To avoid this, very frequently I am deleting the temp files etc. to get some free spaces but this has become hectic.

Note: I have started writing my Big Data Knowledge on a site HDFS Tutorial which will be the best platform to learn Big Data. Very soon we are launching it.

So I was searching for a tool which can do such jobs for me and I can work freely. After trying a couple of software, I installed Kerish Doctor 2016 and can say this is one of the best Windows Maintenance tools to use.

After using around a week here is my detailed Kerish Doctor 2016 review based on my experience.

Earlier I started with their trial plan which is for 15 days and yesterday itself I bought the key for 3 systems to use permanently.

Kerish Doctor 2016 Review in a Glance

Kerish Doctor 2016 is a complete solution for the automatic maintenance of computers running Windows. The program will prevent crashes, fix system errors, clear away digital "trash", optimize and protect your computer.

Kerish Doctor 2016 is completely easy to use and can operate fully on autopilot. It is suitable for both beginners and experienced users.

This tool will regularly perform the safe cleaning of the unwanted files and the files from trash thus by increasing the performance of your system.

In the next section, I will be taking you through different features of this amazing PC maintenance tool Kerish Doctor 2016.

Why you need Kerish Doctor 2016?

There are a number of reasons as why you need this software. Below I am listing few of those features which will help you most-

o It will boost your computer's speed up to 50%: you will notice a marked acceleration in the speed of your computer and its response time.

o Cleaning up to 500 MB of garbage per day: it is the most advanced way to clean your computer of all sorts of accumulated digital trash.

o Reduce the risk of crashes by up to 30%: our system registry error correction and crash prevention system reduce the likelihood of problems.

o It provides High-quality maintenance for your computer in real time 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no need for user intervention.

o Ability to utilize cloud technologies as well as to download regular updates for error correction and computer cleaning algorithms over the Internet.

Features of Kerish Doctor 2016

Kerish Doctor 2016 is an all in one tool for all your PC needs. All you need is to just install and use the features of it wisely. Here I am going to share some of the best features of Kerish Doctor 2016 software.

1. Monitoring computer health: Due to real-time monitoring, this tool keeps on checking the health of your system and report instantly for any issue and also take quick action on that.

2. Cleaning digital trash: It keeps on cleaning the computer’s trash including system and software cache files. Their Intelligent PC Clean considers the date when each file was last accessed. This prevents the accidental deletion of all temporary system and software files that are still needed. Unlike other products, this method ensures the most accurate and safe cleaning of files.

3. Performance Improvement: This Kerish Doctor 2016 software will review your system and will make recommendations for the best operation of your system. For example, the Game Booster technology helps to increase games performance.

4. Protecting against threats and vulnerabilities: This software keeps on checking malicious and potentially unwanted programs, and it also secures vulnerable Windows settings. It also intimates you timely if it finds any issues.

5. Obtaining Complete Control: This tool also keeps on maintaining the control over the important files and programs.

Here are some of the other advantages of the Kerish Doctor software apart from what we discussed above-

How to Install Kerish Doctor 2016

Well, to start with Kerish software, first of all, download the software from their website. You can download Kerish Doctor 2016 from this link.

Please note that this software is available for Windows operating system only and will work perfectly fine on all Windows version.

The tool’s size is around 34 MB which you can easily download in a minute. The company provides 15-days of trial period so that you can test and if you like, can buy it.

Once the software is downloaded, just double click on it and the installation wizard will start functioning. Here take care of the language. For example, I use English and so I will leave the default option.

If you are using another language, please select accordingly. Now just keep on clicking Next buttons and once installed, it will open the Kerish Doctor software and it will look something like below-

Just click on Next button and it will show you the quick status of your system. For me, see what it found-

If it will find any issue, it will ask you to fix and just click on Ok. The rest will be done by the software. You can also do a full check of your system through different options.

Kerish Doctor 2016 Key: Pricing

You can buy the tool after using the trial period of 15 days and can get the Kerish Doctor 2016 key to use permanently.

Below are the pricing options available here. Once bought you can use this tool on 3 PCs at the same price.

The license keys can be bought for 1 to 3 years. Just choose for how many years you want to buy and pay. You will get the key and name to register the product for unlimited use.

Once done click on About link and activate your software.

Awards & Recognition

Kerish Doctor 2016 has received more than 50 TOP awards from independent experts and software reviewers. This shows how valuable and reliable this tool is.

Conclusion

Due to consistent use of computers, we generate many logs, temp, and unwanted files and these should be cleaned on regular basis. This helps you to keep your system fast and safe.

Also, you should do check for virus regularly. Kerish Doctor 2016 helps you with all these. This is a top PC maintenance tool to use. Try this first for free and then buy as per your convenience.

Generally what we do while writing blog posts?

• Find an idea to write a blog post
• Find keywords to target for that post
• Research for the content
• Make few suitable Images
• Draft the blog posts
• Finally publish

But have you thought, are above steps sufficient? If you will ask me, I'll directly say no (till the time you are not a superstar). Writing and publishing the blog posts is a very common thing that lac of bloggers do. But are all successful? NO.

The main thing that matters with the content is the TRAFFIC. If you don't have traffic, no matter how evergreen content you write, it doesn't mean anything. So to let you potential readers know that you have written something that will help them, you need to take your blog posts to those audiences. And for this you have to promote it well.

Now the question is where to promote blog posts after publishing? If you're not aware of where to promote blog posts, don't worry just in this posts I am going to share all the details about Where to promote blog posts after publishing. This is exactly what I do and I am sure if you will follow, you will be able to drive traffic, engagement and good money for sure.

Where to Promote Blog Posts after publishing?

First of all think why you will promote your blog posts? There can be many reasons behind it like for traffic, for engagements, for visibility or all. So you have to target the places where people visit, where people come to get the thing you will share. Got my point? Ok. So let's start with some of the best places to promote blog posts after publishing.

1. Social Media

Social Media is the best places to share blog posts. As per Wikipedia, there are more than 200 social media on the internet and a total number of social networks users are around 1.96 billion in 2015.

Just think of the number around 2.0 Billion users. It is expected to have 2.44 billion users by 2018. Now the question is can you target all 200 social networks? Of course NO. You can target top 5 social networking sites or more which drives more traffic like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ etc. These are the leaders in Social Media. You can check our posts on driving traffic through social media below-

Top 5 Social Networking Sites to Boost Traffic and Create Brand
11 Effective Tips to Increase Traffic from Facebook
How to use Reddit to Drive Massive Traffic

But be aware! Use social media sites very carefully else it may give you a negative result as well. You should avoid common social media mistakes.

2. Email Newsletter

You must have heard that subscribers are your real strength in Blogging or any online business. BUT WHY?

Because anybody simply can't join your list if they don't like you. Be sure if I have joined your list means I liked what you share. I liked the way you write, inspire and promote. So your email subscribers are the best traffic anyone can get.

As soon as you hit the publish button, send them the update writing some lines about the post that you have written something new and they must check it out. Also, you should focus on converting your visitors into loyal readers and increasing your email list.

3. Questions & Answers Sites

Why anybody comes to your site? Because they need the solution. What if you directly go there where people are seeking solutions? Whether anything can be better than this?

Question and Answer sites are the best way to drive valuable traffic. Because you are providing the thing they actually need. There are numbers of Q&A site but for now I will suggest you to focus on mainly two sites.

a) Yahoo Q&A

Yahoo is the second best and largest questions-answers site after answers.com in the world having more than 2 Million visitors a day and more than 1 Million questions are asked per day. If you are able to answer even 15-20 answers with a link back to your site also, you would be able to pull a large amount of traffic.

b) Quora

Quora is also one of the leading Q&A sites having 1.5 Million traffic a day. Similar to yahoo Q&A, Quora also has a large database of questions. You can work on Quora in the similar way as you do on Yahoo.

Few things you should note about these Q& A sites are -
• Don't spam these sites else you will be banned
• Answer only those questions which you know
• Provide meaningful links in the answers. If you don't have any article related to it, better first write and then comment
• Answer according to your niche. Don't try to enter all the niche
• Keep an eye on the trending topics on these sites and accordingly write the blog posts

4. SlideShare

SlideShare is a visual content marketing platform driving more than 60 Million visitors a month. You can just make a PPT on the topic you have written and post on SlideShare and add links back to your site. Now just sit back and see how much traffic it drive to your blog. Below are the things you should take care while publishing a PPT on SlideShare.

• Use eye catchy images
• Write only required text on each slides with decent fonts and color
• Provide a link of your blog post on every slide and in description
• Have good Title and Description

5. YouTube

YouTube (also a product of Google) is the second most used search engine after Google. Per month, YouTube receives more than 5 Billion searches. Now just think of the potential it has.

Now what you will have to do is, make a 30-60 seconds of a video about your blog post and publish it. Be sure to do proper optimization of video and include links on video as well as in the description.

You can also monetize your video and so now you have a dual source of income. You don't have worked hard in creating videos. Just use few graphics and texts and mix up in a better way.

6. Bloggers Outreach Campaign

Bloggers outreach is also one of the best ways to take your article where it can get lots of popularity. If you are an active blogger and have a good blog, I am sure you must have received emails similar to below.

What is in this mail? This guy first told that he read my blog and liked it. Then he explains he has written some content similar to what I have and then he asked if I can add his article's link in my blog post for reference.

You should also do like this. There are a couple of benefits of it like, if the blogger whom you have mailed will agree to add your link as a reference then you are getting traffic as well as a backlink also. You can read more about blogger outreach campaign in top methods to promote blog posts article.

7. Social Bookmarking sites

Social bookmarking sites are also a great source of traffic and engagement. These sites can give you more and instant traffic on your blog posts. You can target few major social bookmarking sites like-
• Biz Sugar
• Kingged
• Dig
• Inbound etc.

Wrapping It Up

These were some of the places where you should promote blog posts after publishing. I use these and I get quite interesting results. Do try and share your stats with me.

If you are already using these, let me know your experience.

If you are a freelancer or a business owner then many times you have come across a situation where your clients demand the invoice for the payment?

I am sure your answer will be YES. Even I send it multiple times. So what I used to do is, I search any site and create the invoice. But the issue is next time when my client asks for some edit, I don’t find the original site where I created and so I create it again.

To avoid such issues, I was searching for a good online invoice generator and a day I landed on InvoiceBerry and I can say this site has got much more than just creating invoices online.

In this post, I will be taking you through InvoiceBerry as per my experience with the site since one and half month and InvoiceBerry features.

InvoiceBerry Review

InvoiceBerry is an online tool to create superb Invoices & Track Business Expenses. Using this tool, you can create business invoices online in minutes and track expenses. This tool is very much beneficial for freelancers and small business owners.

With this tool, you can save time, create an attractive invoice and track your bills in a better way and hence manage cash flow.

Benefits of using InvoiceBerry

Here are some of the benefits of using InvoiceBerry for your personal and business works.

• save time creating invoices and quotes on the go
• add payment terms on your invoices and quotes
• send invoices in different languages
• choose from 15 different invoice templates
• set up recurring invoices
• customize invoices by adding your logo
• keep track of all expenses no matter how big or small
• the online software enables you to track expenses on the go
• sort expenses by categories
• tracking expenses help you to spend money more carefully
• create expenses reports to see where you spend the most money
• See billed invoices and received payments, expenses and cash flow in one table
• Check unpaid invoices and send invoice reminders or add payments
• View recent activities

And much more…

Is InvoiceBerry for you?

InvoiceBerry is for everyone who needs to create invoices and wants to manage their expenses. Mainly InvoiceBerry is for the below two major categories-

• Freelancers
• Small business owner

But this doesn’t mean if you need it and you are not from the above two categories, you can’t use.

Features of InvoiceBerry

There are a number of features that InvoiceBerry provides to use. I will take about InvoiceBerry features in details in this section.

Customized Dashboard

The dashboard is something that a company needs badly as it depicts the summarized and graphical view of all the stuff running. It may be a campaign dashboard or a financial dashboard. Using these data, company’ business leaders make a decision about the growth and plans.

In InvoiceBerry dashboard also, you would be able to see all your invoices, paid, unpaid and much more as shown below-

Invoice & Quotes

The invoice page is the most important page in InvoiceBerry. Here you create, edit and send your invoices. You can email or post your invoices directly from InvoiceBerry on this page.

There are much more options available here like-

• You can set recurring invoices
• You can add payments
• They provide many templates and from that, you can choose which suits your business
• Convert quotes into invoice easily and much more.

Expenses

Using this feature, you can keep track of your expenses. On the expenses page, you can add new expenses, suppliers and expense categories to keep track of your expenses and see what vendors or categories you could make savings on.

Reporting

Well, another needed and excellent feature from InvoiceBerry is Reporting. You can create powerful report depending on your requirements.

You can also download these reports or can send to someone through email from InvoiceBerry dashboard itself.

Multiple Users

If you are working in a team or you have your team then this feature will help you a lot. Multiple users function allows you to save time that you used to spend sending invoices and quotes or tracking expenses because now your team can do that for you while you can spend that time working on other important parts of your business.

Also, you can store your client details and items in your InvoiceBerry dashboard and so next time you won’t have to check in the notepad or in your system folder.

InvoiceBerry Pricing

InvoiceBerry is a fermium tool which means you can use it for free also and paid version is also available. Definitely free will have limitation. Below are the plans of InvoiceBerry-

With all the account plan, you will have below benefits-

What other say about InvoiceBerry?

Here are some feedback received from the users who are already using InvoiceBerry. It seems they are quite satisfied and happy with the service company provides.

Over to you

InvoiceBerry is definitely a must have tool and subscription for all freelancers and small business owners. You can manage your bills and invoices at the same place with many other features.

Do try InvoiceBerry and share your experience as InvoiceBerry review with us as well.

Sign up for InvoiceBerry Free and create unlimited Invoices now

Recently, I was working on some news kind of thing on one of my blogger sites and I needed to have a full-width page. But as you know Blogger is not as customizable as WordPress and so I was unable to do.

I tried a lot and after so many coding tweaks found a simple way through which we can remove blogger sidebar and create full-width pages.

Also, removing sidebar becomes necessary when you want to use it as a landing page or if you need to remove or hide blogger sidebar for obvious reasons.

Here in this tutorial, how to remove blogger sidebar, I will show you step by step methods to hide/remove blogger sidebar easily. This is just a game of a couple of minutes.

How to remove/hide blogger sidebar- Easy Method!

The steps to remove or hide the blogger sidebar and create full-width page or site is quite simple. Just follow the below steps and get a clean full-width site in a just a couple of minutes.

Step 1: Login to your blogger dashboard and move to Template tab.

Step 2: In template tab, you will have two options- Customize & Edit HTML. Click on Edit HTML option as shown in above image.

Note:As a best practice, it is recommended to take the backup of the template to avoid any issue.

Step 3: Now use ctrl+F and search for </head> In a template, there will be only one </head> tag and so you don’t have to worry.

Step 4: Now paste the below code just above the tag and save the template code.

<style>

#rsidebar-wrapper { display: none; }

#main-wrapper { width: 1000px!important; }

</style>

Step 5: Now just save the template code using “Save Template” button available at the top left a corner of the window and you are done.

You can adjust the width of the layout as per your need. Here I have taken it as 1000 PX but you adjust as per your need.

Now just view your site and you will find sidebar removed from your site and also the width increased as you mentioned. I have done this on one of my blogs and here is the result.

When you may want to hide/remove the blogger sidebar?

Well, if you are thinking why to remove blogger sidebar, then here are some reasons and scenarios where you may want to remove it completely or on a subdomain like me.

• You want to show news kind of thing on subdomain like me

• You want to use it as landing page

• Your requirement is to have wider area

• You may need much clean design and much more.

Conclusion

This was the simplest way to remove blogger sidebar and create full-width blogger site. I hope this will help you to create a full-width blogger page.

Please note WordPress is definitely a best alternative with lots of customization but if you are using Blogger then this how to remove/hide blogger sidebar will be a great help.

If you liked this tutorial, please consider it for sharing.

Website flipping is not new and recently a website ViralNova.com was sold for $100 million. Similar to website flipping, domain flipping business is also getting on high demand and being sold for millions. Today we are going to list 21 most expensive domain names ever sold.

Most of the people who are in the domain brokering business buy domains, made those live and wait for the good opportunity to sell those. They treat the domains as an investment and sell those at many times higher price. Recently one of my friend had a LLL.com domain which he bought around 10 years ago for around $200 and this year he sold that domain in $$$$$. Here in this post, I am going to share the list of 21 most expensive domain names ever sold.

Also Read:How to Choose a Good Domain Name

Also, the price of most expensive domain names depends on many factor like
• How short it is e.g. LL/LLL/LLLL etc
• TLD gets higher bid compared to other extension domains
• Easily pronounced domain gets good price compared to other. E.g. toy.com will get much higher price than yot.com even though both are LLL.com
• There are many other factors like DA/PR/TF/PA and many others.

21 Most Expensive Domain Names Ever Sold

Here are the 21 most expensive domain names ever sold. Though giving the exact figure is difficult due to the mode of transaction done and other constraint but these are the most expensive domain names sold with known transactions.

1. VacationRentals.com - $35 M

This is the most expensive domain ever sold in the history. VacationRentals.com was sold back in 2007 for $35 million. The most expensive sale, however, actually wasn’t for a gambling or porn site. Instead, it was the purchase of VacationRentals.com in 2007 for a cool $35m. Brain Sharples, the founder of HomeAway, is new owner of this domain and accepted that he purchased it, as he did not want his competitor Expedia to acquire it.

2. PrivateJet.com $30.18 M

This deal was also very close to being most expensive domain names but lacked by a margin of little lesser than $5M. This was sold in 2012 for around $30.18 Million.

3. 360.com $17 M

This is the most recent deal happened for $17 million this year (2015) itself when Beijing Qihoo Technology Company Limited acquired 360.com from Vodafone in January 2015 for an estimated USD. The security software and mobile services company has used 360.cn until now, but the .com domain was needed to drive their global strategy.

4. Insure.com - $16 M

Insure.com was purchased by QuinStreet, an online marketing services and technology company in 2009. The website now provides life, car and health insurance quotes among others.

5. Fund.com - $14.9

Fund.com is owned by Gentile Philip. Gentile Philip bought this domain for £9.9 million in March 2008, which amounted to about $14.9 Million. However, this domain is not yet live and you will find a line written “Please come back later to check FUND.com” while visiting this site. It seems this has just been parked for resale.

6. Sex.com - $13 M

The story of sex.com should have been adapted for the big screen. In 1994 Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com, registered Sex.com. In 1995 Network Solutions, the registrar, got tricked by a man named Stephen M. Cohen, who managed to get ownership of the domain name by falsifying letters and faxes. Kremen took Cohen to court and only got back the domain name after five years legal battle getting on top of this a compensation of $40 Million for lost earnings.

Also Read:Top 5 Domain Registrar Companies with Doscounts

Cohen had made an estimated $500.000 per month in traffic from the site during its heyday. He managed to flee the US and was later arrested in Tijuana, Mexico.

Kremen sold the domain to Escom in 2006 for $11.5 Million and it was later resold in 2010 for $13 Million to Clover Holdings. Currently Clover Holdings holds the right of sex.com

7. Hotels.com- $11 M

This domain was sold for $ 11 million in 2001, however, new owner David Roche of this domain couldn’t actually confirm at what price the domain has been purchased, in a TV interview to BBC.

8. Porn.com- $9.5 M

Another adult domain which was sold in millions. This site is doing well in its category and no wonder why the buyer MXN Limited in 2007 bought this domain for $9.5 Million.

9. Porno.com- $8.88 M

Another adult domain which sold in million. Porno.com bought in August 1997 by Rick Schwarz for $42 from a student that bought it the week before for $5. Sold in January 2015 to Czech Adult industry player WGCZ for $8.88M.

10. FB.com $8.5 M

Facebook managed to buy fb.com in $8.5 million in November 2010 from American Farm Bureau Federation who are using fb.org as their primary domain and announced they have raised $8.5 million by selling fb.com. Currently fb.com is redirected to facebook.com

11. Business.com - $7.5 M

Business.com was sold in $7.5 million in December 1999 to Jake Winebaum, former chairman of the Walt Disney Internet Group.

12. Diamond.com - $7.5 M

Diamond.com was also sold in $7.5 million in 2006. This was acquired by ice.com

13. Beer.com - $7 M

Interbrew acquired this domain for $7 million in 1999. This domain is again listed for resales on aftermarket.com

14. Z.com - $6.8 M

A single letter domain z.com was sold in $6.8 million in 2014 to GMO Internet

15. Israel.com - $5.88 M

This domain was bought in 1994 by Joel Noel Friedman, a 46-year-old Jewish American in $5.88 million. Even Google don’t have much information about this domain.

16. Casino.com - $5.5 M

Casino.com was sold for $5.5 in 2007 to Mansion Limited of GIbraltar

17. Slots.com - $5.5 M

Slots.com was also sold for $5.5 in 2010 to Bodog

18. Toys.com - $5.1 M

ToysRUs bought this domain in $5.1 million in 2009

19. Asseenontv.com - $5.1 M

This domain was purchased by LA Group in 2000 for a price of $ 5.1 million. This domain was used to protect brand name “asseenattv.com” of LA Group. This is biggest domain deal made for defense purpose.

20. Korea.com - $5 M

Korea.com deal was done at price of $ 5 million in 2004. New owner of this domain is Korea.com Communications. It was first registered in 1995 and resold in 2004. It is the most expensive country domain. England.com was sold for $2 Million.

21. SEO.com - $5 M

This deal took place in 2007 and is considered to be a wiser one. Michael Mann, owner of BuyDomains understood the importance of having a good domain name; therefore, he sold his company and invested in SEO.com. The deal was closed for $5 million.

By looking at the above deals, domain flipping is certainly a great investment and business where you can make great income. If you are seeing any good domain, grab that right now before one can do so.

I hope you enjoyed these 21 most expensive domain names. Do you know any other? Or do you own any premium domain? Do let us know in comments :)

Whenever you have to buy a new gadget like smartphone/laptop etc., how much time you take to decide?

Well, if you will ask me, then it can be several days. With a lot of options available in the market, people usually become confused to choose between those.

Different people have different need and it should be chosen very wisely. Recently I have come across a site AspectWise which will help you to choose the best phone available as per your requirement.

AspectWise at a glance!

AspectWise is a startup which enables you to find the best available products as per your need in the below categories-

• Mobile
• Headphone
• Speaker
• Laptop
• Tablet

You can select the above gadgets as per your requirements. Your requirements may be the best experience or hardware or price or may be designed and so it enables you to select what you want. Below are the different categories of needs you can select in smartphone section-

You can set your preference from the above and can get the best fits available for your selection. In the next section, I will show you how you can find the best product of your match at AspectWise.

How to use AspectWise to get Best Product

Using AspectWise is very simple and anyone can find the best product easily. For example, we have to find Best Selfie Phones under 20000 and so I will first visit their page which will look something like below-

By default, Mobile category will be selected. Here you will have to define your price range. As we have taken it to max INR 20k and so I will drag that to 20k and as I am looking for best selfie phone and so will select my choice as “Camera Lover”.

So once you have done the settings, it’s time to unlock the magic of AspectWise and click on Find Best Mobile button.

So you will be shown all the available smartphone as per your defined criteria. Now you can click on the result and see the details and the link to stores those have this phone on the left side.

You can also click on the link under “read user reviews about” links to know what they felt about the product.

I have clicked on Camera of Asus Zenfone Selfie and it showed me a pop-up window showing the reviews from the seller sites.

You can also click on the link given below the review to check on original site.

The similar analysis you can do with the other products as well.

Benefits of Using AspectWise

As you can see there are several benefits of using AspectWise. Let me summarize those here for a quick notice-

• Choose from various product from different brand
• It’s free to use
• Get the suggestion based on your criteria
• Will show the prices from different stores
• Shows the feedback from the trusted buyers
• It also shows the top products from different categories-

Conclusion

AspectWise is doing n awesome job and making our work easy while shopping? Using the suggestion you can easily define your need and as per need can get the product.

So before buying any of these goods online, you must visit AspectWise once to get the best suggestion for you.

Do share your feedback with us if you have used AspectWise while finding your smartphone online.

As quality article should be error free. For this, you can use some proofreading tools like Grammarly or others. But if you are not much satisfied with Grammarly than this Grammarly alternative post is for you. Here in this post, I am going to list few top Grammarly alternatives which you can use to write a quality article.

Grammarly is an online proofreading tool using which you can write error free article and can make a quality content that will be loved by the reader and search engine both. You can check my Grammarly review here.

But there are a large amount of people who don’t like Grammarly may be due to some factors like-

• The cost is high. The monthly cost is $29.95
• Maybe not satisfied with the quality they produce

So, if you are looking for some other options of proofreading tool, then here are some top Grammarly alternatives to writing high-quality articles.

Grammarly Alternative: Top 5

Here are the 5 software like Grammarly which you can use in daily practice for error free content. Some of these are free Grammarly alternatives while others are paid. So let’s start with software like Grammarly.

1. Ginger

Ginger is a software like Grammarly and is a solid competitive of Grammarly in terms of market and features.

Ginger is a free online proofreading tool to check the grammars and spelling and help you to write error free articles for websites and blogs. Below are some of the features of Ginger.

Basic features of Ginger is completely free while if you want to use their advanced features like “Text Reader” and “Personal Trainer” then you can go with their premium plan which just starts at $4.10 per month which is far much less than Grammarly.

2. GrammarBase

GrammarBase is another solid alternative of Grammarly which is a premium tool and checks the following stuff while scanning your articles for error-

• Grammar
• Punctuation
• Style
• Plagiarism
• Contextual Spelling

So as you can see from the above feature, it not only check for the error in the content but also for plagiarism which ensures your content is unique and will not affect by any search engines updates.

The cost of GrammarBase is $15 per page which can’t be good for those who are looking for the cheap Grammarly alternative.

3. PaperRater

If you will talk about best Grammarly alternative, I would prefer PaperRater due to many reasons-

• Basic plan is completely free for up to 5 pages
• Premium plan just comes at $7.95 per month which is far less than Grammarly.

Here are some of the features of PaperRater-

• Plagiarism Detection
• Auto Grader
• Spelling and Grammar Check
• Style and Word Choice Analysis
• Readability Statistics
• Title Validation
• Vocabulary Builder tool

4. SpellCheckPlus

This web-based tool allows you to put your text in their content check box and then it will highlight all the mistakes like spellings, grammar and many other things which you can correct in order to make a better article.

Spell Check Plus is a free online tool with the limit of 250 words; however, the full access can be had by registering.

5. Slick Write

Slick Write is also one of my favorite tools to check grammar and spelling online. It is a powerful, free tool that makes it easy to check your writing for grammar errors, potential stylistic mistakes, and other features of interest. Below are some of the features of Slick Write-

• The grammar checker is lightning fast
• It provides customizable feedback to suit your audience and style
• Add impact to reports
• Improve your grades
• It's free

Conclusion These were some of the best Grammarly alternatives. You can use any of these tools if you are looking for software like Grammarly. Some of these are a free Grammarly alternative while others are paid.

Which Grammarly alternative you liked most? Which one you use to write error free articles?

If you are thinking to start a blog on DreamHost hosting, then this guide is for you. Recently I have moved some of my sites on DreamHost and found it very interesting and a good host.

There are plenty of reasons as why you should start a blog on DreamHost-

• It won’t take more than 5 minutes to start a blog with DreamHost

• It is reasonable – Total cost only $69

• You will get a free domain for lifetime (not necessarily to choose at the time you buy hosting. You can select anytime)

• Their support team is quite helpful and quick

• It offers SSD hosting for Shared hosting without any extra cost

• You can host unlimited websites

This is complete guide designed for the newbie who is just going to start a blog with DreamHost. I will show you from scratch and for this, I have bought one new domain as well.

For TricksRoad readers, I have one special flat discount of $50. Just buy from this link and get unlimited shared hosting just at $69 (inclusive all cost).

They also provide 97 days money back guarantee and so if in this 3 months of time, if you think you are not satisfied with their service, feel free to ask for a refund.

Buy Unlimited DreamHost hosting at just $69 (Flat $50 off)

I think this is enough information to get you started and so far I am considering that you have bought the hosting and ready for WordPress installation on Dreamhost server.

As I have already used the free domain provided by Dreamhost and so I will use one other domain which I bought recently from one BigRock sale.

Also Check: 5 Cheap & Best Domain Name Registrar

Subscribe to our newsletter to get updated about the deals. This .com domain just cost me around $1.

How to Install WordPress on Dreamhost Hosting?

It’s time to start a blog on Dreamhost in just 5 minutes.

Step1: Login to your domain register (in my case it is BigRock), in case it is different from DreamHost (else jump to Step 4). Move towards your DNS management and add the below three name server under NS records and save it.

• ns1.dreamhost.com

• ns2.dreamhost.com

Usually, it will get reflected soon but if not, then wait for few minutes and your domain will be pointing to Dreamhost server.

Step 2: Now login to your DreamHost account and Click on Domain option.

Here you will find a link called “Manage Domain”. Click on that and a new page will be available. The new page will be something like below-

Just click on the 1st tab, Add Hosting to a Domain/Sub-domain and you will be taken to a new page where you will have to enter the details of your new domain which you want to host on DreamHost.

Step 3: Here add the details of your new domain and at the end of this section, one button will be there called, “Fully Host this Domain”. Just click on it.

Once done, you will receive a success message something like below. This indicates that your new domain has been added with Dreamhost successfully.

Now it’s time to install WordPress on Dreamhost hosting. Continue to follow the steps to start a blog on Dreamhost hosting.

Step 4: Just follow the three steps given in the below figure. Go to your dashboard, choose goodies option. Inside that select One-click installs and a new page will appear. There you will have to select WordPress.

Step 5: A new popup will appear. There you will have to select the domain name on which you want to install WordPress and click on the button to install.

Leave the deluxe install option auto-checked as it will install the default plugins like Jetpack, Akismet, WP Super cache etc.

Once done, it will show you the success message like below-

Now, just wait for few minutes as it takes around 2-3 minutes to install WordPress. Once done, you will receive an email to create the user and start with the WordPress. Hope you are getting my points and steps to install WordPress on DreamHost hosting. Just comment below if you are facing any issue.

Step 6: You will receive an email saying the details of the install and how to proceed further. Just click on the link that says, create a user. The link will be something like below-

http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin/install.php

Once you will click this, it will ask you to select the language. Choose your default language and move forward. You will find a screen like below. Here Provide the details like your site title, username (this will be username while logging into WP dashboard), password (will be your WP dashboard password) and admin email.

Once all done just click on Install WordPress. Don’t worry you can change these details later on as well.

Step 7: After installing it, you will be asked to log in to your dashboard. Use the same credentials you used in the last step and you will be redirected to your WordPress dashboard.

Done done done!!!

Yes, that was all the steps to install WordPress on Dreamhost hosting and start a blog on DreamHost in 5 minutes.

I am sure, all these steps won’t even take 5 minutes. So just follow this guide and start a blog on DreamHost hosting quickly.

Do try and share your comment with me. Also, let me know if you are facing any issue while installation.

This guide is all about how to optimize ads on your website and blogs for maximum earning. I will share some of the best methods and practice to optimize the ads on your website so that you can earn more and some tools which help you to optimize the ads on your website.

How many times have you heard that one guy earning $500+ from 100k visitors while other earning just around $100 from the same amount of visitors? (Considering other factors same)

I am sure many a time we come across this situation. There are multiple factors on which the ad performance depends.

Here are some of the factors on which earning from ads depends on.

Factors on which your Ad revenue on website depends

• Niche of your site
• Ad placement –location, color etc.
• Ad Size
• Traffic location
• Ad Format
• Content Type
• Ad Types and much more

There are N number of different factors on which your earnings from display ads depend.

Here is a simple image showing data as how ad size impacts the visibility to your visitors. As you can see the most visible ads are vertical unit followed by square ad units.

But hold on…ad size is not just the only factor which affects the ad revenue from your website but there are much more.

I will talk about some of the awesome tools which will help you to optimize your both display and text ads on your site and will help you to increase more than 100% revenue.

But before looking into the tools, let me share some best techniques to optimize Your Website for Faster Ad Serving.

Best Techniques to optimize Your Website for Faster Ad Serving

There are again a lot of factors which you should consider to optimize your website for faster ad serving. These are very common factors and you can take care of these while uploading or posting anything on your site like blog posts or adding any new page etc.

In this section, I will be sharing some best ways to optimize Your Website for Faster Ad Serving.

1. Reduce the size of Images

It is always a best practice to reduce the blog load time as it helps your site to load quickly and users won’t get irritated.

Keeping your image size less will help your web page to load faster. It is advisable to keep all your image size to be less than 600 KB. The less it is, the better will be the performance.

2. Avoid Slower Ad Network

There are many ad networks available currently and all of those usually claims to be the best. But you should not blindly start with any ad network as there are many networks which don't provide the optimize ads and so their ad takes a lot of time to load.

If after using an ad network, your pages have started loading slow, it’s time to think and avoid such slow networks.

3. Use Asynchronous Ad Codes

Asynchronous ad units are better for the websites. If your ad network allows you to choose between synchronous and asynchronous, then just go for the asynchronous as it loads separately from the page and so won’t contribute to the page load.

4. Limit number of Ad Units

Just for the sake of earning, don’t bombard your webpage with the ad units. It won’t help you in the long run as your readers will get annoyed and will stop visiting you again.

So just to maintain the balance between your reader and earning, try to keep the number of ad units between 2 to 4. This figure is considered to be ideal.

5. A VPS or Dedicated server can work better

A dedicated server or VPS hosting can definitely add more flavor than the shared hosting as they are highly optimized for best performance and has greater bandwidth.

Usually, shared hosting is overloaded causing the delay in page load and so VPS/dedicated can be a better option considering you have good traffic and your site is generating some decent income.

There are many other methods as well which will help you to make your site perfection terms of ad serving like page element optimization etc.

In recent years, many companies have come forward and have started providing the ad optimization services.

Let me here list 3 best Ad Optimization platforms. I have personally used a couple of these and third being my friend and so can tell they are dominating the ad optimization platform industry nowadays.

3 Best Ad Optimization platforms- For Better Revenue

Here are the top 3 Ad Optimization platforms which will help you even more than double your ad revenue with same traffic.

All you have to do is, join any of these and start your revenue climbing and being multiple folds.

1. Ezoic- Loved it
2. and pushup
3. AdEspresso

Ezoic

Ezoic is a service which helps you in a way so that your ads can generate maximum possible revenue from your site with the same traffic.

Started by Dwayne Lafleur, the former Founder & CEO of the first Facebook advertising network, Cubics, currently, Ezoic is a venture-backed multivariate testing platform that automatically improves a site's layout based on users' actions - on mobile, tablet and desktop.

Currently, Ezoic technology is used by over 20 Million people every month and this itself tells the story of Ezoic.

Why use Ezoic?

Nowadays we usually heard the term A/B testing or split testing…what it is and why this is being done?

Results of A/B testing done on ad spots on your site helps us to find the better performing ad space and so you can use that space more efficiently. Everybody knows this but how many of us implement.

This is where Ezoic helps us. It tests your site by trying different ad spaces on your site and based on their tool’s result, it will give you the best performing one.

Features of Ezoic

There are a number of features of Ezoic which helps you to earn more. Here are some of their excellent features of Ezoic which will help you in the long run.

1. Test Ad Position

Here it will test thousands of ads position based on the pages and location and will give you the result. Now looking at the result you can find which is best for you. They mainly test these 5 options-

• The position of ads on each page
• The size of each ad
• The colors (background, text color, etc) of each ad
• How many ads to show
• When to show the user ads in their session (first page, later pages, etc)

Here are a simple calculation were done which will show you the difference in earning-

2. Mobile & Tablet Layout

Recently mobile users have increased a lot and so if you are a serious business owner then you must monetize mobile and tablet traffic efficiently. And so Ezoic will automatically create tablet and mobile versions of your site and test layouts on all devices to find the best.

3. Layout Testing

It’s true that all the ad position doesn’t perform equally and so finding the best performing space is necessary. This tool will help you to find the best performing layout for you.

4. Check location, Color & Size

Color and size affects the earning a lot and so you should focus on these factors as much as possible.

It will test the site by placing the ad code in different color, location and size and then with the help of a tool, it will analyze all the combination and will suggest you the best and so increase your revenue.

Impressed with their services? Sign up now…

You will see a boost of at least 50% in your revenue after joining them. Here are the plans those Ezoic offers-

Ezoic Plans

First of all, you can try 30 days free trial and see the effect and after 30 days you can upgrade yourself to any of the below plans.

• Free plan- Here Ezoic will place one ad unit at the bottom of your site

• In the second professional plan, they will charge depending upon the revenue you are generating from your site. If you are generating up to $5000 per month then they will charge your $249 per month.

• 3rd plan is for business or corporate site where they take $19 per month.

So, you should definitely try Ezoic if you are going with CPM ads and aim to earn maximum out of it.

Adpushup

Adpushup is another ad optimization tool helping you to increase your ad revenue. It mainly optimizes the layout of ads and increases revenue.

Currently, they are helping over 1300+ publishers to increase the earning.

Here are their main products to help the publishers-

• Ad Layout Optimization
• In-content Auto Optimization
• Visual Ad Management
• User Experience Optimization
• Intelligent Continuous Optimization Engine
• Segmentation & Personalization
• Analytics & Reporting
• Ad Delivery Optimization
• Integrations with Google AdSense/AdX

In ad optimization, they take care of all the options like color optimization, size optimization etc.

• Ad Layout Optimization: Create ad layout experiments instantly. Automatically optimize ad sizes, placements, types, and colors.

• In-content Auto Optimization Technology: Save time and effort while In-content auto optimization scans and intelligently inserts ads in your content without affecting UX.

• Visual Ad Management: Use the unique and powerful point-and-select visual editor to control multiple ad properties and set up experiments.

• User Experience Optimization: Increase revenue without compromising your website’s visitor experience or modifying its design template.

Pricing

Here is the detailed pricing of the and pushup-

You can choose the one which suits your business better.

AdEspresso

AdEspresso is mainly to optimize your social media ads and not especially for the optimization of ads available on your site. I have included them here as social media especially Facebook are in craze these days and it’s a better option to reach the target audience.

It is a powerful Facebook ad manager helping you to customize and optimize your Facebook ads.

Here are some of the features of AdEspresso-

• Create thousands of variants of your Facebook Ads with only 3 clicks.

• Have multiple target audiences? Easily test all the versions of your creatives across all your target audiences, building powerful Ads that convert.

• Save your preferences, for audience demographics instantly to be reused for any campaign.

• They store all your media so you don’t have to keep uploading that same picture.

• Clean And Powerful Analytics
• Optimize Campaign Returns easily

Pricing of AdEspresso

They too have different pricing options and you can choose depending on the size of your campaigns. They also provide 14 days trial.

All these plans include the below features-

• Pixel conversion tracking
• Personalized suggestions
• Excel export functionality
• Import existing campaigns
• Advanced options for experts
• Google analytics integration
• Best practices' templates
• Email notification system

Conclusion

Optimizing your site for the better ad and optimizing ads for better revenue both are equally important and if you have both, you will be able to earn great money from the same traffic.

I hope these tips will help you to optimize your site in a better way and you can subscribe to any of these tools to increase your ad revenue multiple folds.

Many times you would be hearing that somebody has a good influence in the industry and due to their name they are doing amazing. Even I have seen some internet marketer with just few thousand traffic in a month earning good money through an affiliate or by selling their own products/service. But how?

Well, they are quite established in their field, people value and believe what they say and buy what they recommend. But this doesn’t happen in a day, month or year. It takes years of hard working to create such an amazing image in the industry. They are now leaders in their industry.

You can take examples of Neil Patel, Blair Evan, John Chow and much more such people. Today, I am going to discuss how to establish yourself as an industry thought leader by blogging.

So are you ready to be the next industry thought leader by blogging? Go on…

7 ways to establish yourself as an industry thought leader by blogging

So let’s start with the top 10 ways using which one can be the next industry thought leader by blogging.

Here I am continuously mentioning the word BLOGGING because it is an effective way to create influence and reach to the people easily.

As per the study by think creative team, Small businesses that embrace blogging see 126% more growth in terms of leads than those that don’t blog.

At the end of this article, I have also, shared a beautiful infographic on Blog power by ResearchNow and it will show you how blogging help to become influential.

Before moving ahead, I just want to share few facts as why blogging is so much influential. These have been taken from the tweets and blogs of Weber Shandwick.

• 74% search online for consumer electronic reviews before buying
• 28% ask social network friends or followers about a product they’re considering
• 79% of online shoppers spend 50% of shopping time researching products online
• 23% of total Internet usage time is devoted to social networks or blogs
• 57% of companies with a blog have acquired a customer from their blog
• 81% of U.S. online consumers trust information and advice from blogs

And many such data supports why blogging and blog are one of the most influential ways to get the market and customer.

Now let’s start with the top 7 methods to establish yourself as an industry leader.

1. Create a blog

If you don’t have a blog then do it now! It won’t take much time to create and start a new blog. There are several tool using which you can start a new blog like Wix or you can use templates to start a blog on blogger or WordPress.

Either way, it is very easy to start and you can create in minutes. I would suggest you to use Wix as you will have to just drag and drop the required stuff and done if you are not much in the technical field.

Let me show you how to start a blog using Wix here-

• Just create your account on Wix and select the category in which you want to start. I have selected Blog as my main category.
• Now you can select the template which you want to keep from a variety of templates available.

• Now just make changes in the template you have chosen and done. You can make changes like background, color, menu, files, image and many other things. You need not be technical or coder to make the template make like you need and just by dragging and dropping you can get it done.

• Once done, just publish it and it will ask you where to host? Either you can choose the Wix subdomain or if you have your domain you can provide the details and get started.

Done, you are ready with your blog. Now just start posting your influencing thought or whatever you think will be beneficial for your reader.

you can also check more about how to design a website using Wix quickly in the below video-

2. Publish plenty of free content initially

Once you are done with your blog, it’s time to start doing for what you have created the blog. Start posting as much meaningful content as possible. These contents can include-

• Blog posts
• E-Books
• Videos
• Podcasts
• Influencer interviews
• Case study
• White papers or whatever you think will be beneficial

Make sure these are free initially so that you can get initial authority. If you are giving what a reader may need, then, believe me, you won’t have to think again as they will easily follow you and subscribe you which will later make you plenty of money.

The more quality content you will create, the better it will be. Around 60% of the well-known marketers create at least one new content per week.

3. Make it easily accessible

Here I mean to say that whatever you are providing on your blog, make it easily accessible. You must have seen many blogs asking your complete details like email id, phone number, name and so on to have access to the content or video.

I am not saying don’t collect the email ids or other details but initially, let it be easily accessible. There are chances that your reader may get annoyed and will leave your site.

If you are doing such things then keep it in limit and also first ask the question-

Whether it is so much valuable that someone will share their personal details?

4. Don’t Miss Social Media

You must have heard of the power of social media like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and others. As per Statista, over 2.22 Billion users are using social media and so being a business owner or a person who want to be the industry thought leader can’t ignore such a huge presence.

You should have an account and good presence on all the major social media like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn etc. Also, recently Snapchat has become one of the major places for teens and is getting very popular day by day.

Here is the latest statistics on social media-

Also, just don’t share your posts and thoughts on this social platform. Do some activities like-

• Answer the comments on your posts
• Appreciate who has commented/liked/followed to give a personal touch
• Share other’s posts which you may think will be beneficial for your readers
• Participate in forums and tries to solve queries which you can!

5. Contribute Guest Posts

It is the topic of debate whether guest blogging is dead or not? But if you will ask me then I will say a big NO. Just the perspective has been changed.

Earlier people used to do it for links and SEO but now it is done for popularity, authority, traffic and to build brand and image.

So if you want to increase your user base and popularity, make a good and convincing guest posts on some good blogs in your niche.

Believe me, if you are not asking for any links, more than 90% of the bloggers will allow you to do the guest post on their blog.

Also, once your post will get published, don’t simply forget it. Share with your audience, reply to the comments and be polite to negative comments.

Here are some common benefits of guest blogging-

6. Get out there and speak

Don’t miss a single chance to speak in events/seminars or in any forum. Rather than hiding your face behind the computer, get out of your comfort zone and start speaking in events, forums, and seminars.

Believe me, this will help you in all the ways and will give you a solid platform to become the next industry thought leader.

There are multiple ways through which you can get an opportunity to speak in an event-

• Mention on your blog that you are ready to speak in public forums
• Mention the same on your social profiles
• You may contact PR agency to get the list of such events and then approach the organizer. Even PR agency can help you to find
• Join local toastmaster club to get opportunity
• Join the groups on social media related to conferences
• Get in touch with those who have spoken earlier on some public forums

And once you will get the opportunity, don’t simply let it go. Use that in a way so that it will help you further.

7. Promotion works well

Well, initially you won’t be able to rank your content, promotion is the only way through which you can get initial traffic, success, and publicity.

But the big thing is you should know how to promote your website? There are multiple methods to do so and believe me very easily you can drive initial traffic which is very much necessary.

Below I am mentioning some amazing methods to promote your blog and content-

• Send regular updates to your email subscribers
• Don’t forget to share on social media with catchy headlines
• Bookmark your article on social bookmarking sites
• Participate in forum discussion and leave the link if required
• Share on content sharing sites like BuzzFeed
• Ask your friends to share with their network
• Do content outreach campaign
• You may do paid promotions and much more…

Here is a beautiful image showing the top category of promotion by relevance-

These were some of the amazing methods to establish yourself as an industry thought leaders. Here is the infographic, I was talking about at the start.

Wrapping it up!

These were some of the practical approaches to establish yourself as an industry thought leader by blogging. This is not that easy as it sounds too but also not that difficult. If it can be done regularly and if you will take care of your people and business, you will be the one.

What do you think on this? What a person should be to become an industry leader?

When it comes to readability, Website and blog fonts along with font size and line height play very important role.

There are many best Google Fonts for blogs and websites which can increase the readability and user experience a lot.

You may find many sites those have excellent content and design but as they are not decorating their fonts and text and so the whole site looks ugly.

Below are some of the things which you should consider apart from the blog design to have a good user experience in terms of text-

• Good and easily readable fonts
• Spacing between words and lines
• Font colors

For a better user experience and readability, you must work on all these above factors and believe me these are not hard at all. You just have to spend a couple of more minutes to all these.

How Fonts affects the user reading experience?

Some time ago, a study was done on Wikipedia user on the different font size and below is the result. This graph shows how font-size impact the accuracy of reading. They also checked the line spacing but fount it not impacting big.

Choosing the best fonts for your blogs and website is bit tricky and you should think about it before finalizing. The best way is, think from a user perspective or ask your friends how they feel by looking at your web page.

In an another research by Hyunjin Song and Norbet Schwartz, it was found that if you have to take action or have to complete some work, simple fonts are far better than the fancy fonts.

Let’s see what they did-

Two groups of people were given set of directions to complete. One group received directions in a simple font and the other group received direction in a fancy font.

The experiments reveal that the group which was given the directions in simple fonts just took 8.2 minutes to complete the work compared to 15.1 minutes taken by another group who had fancy fonts. So the group with fancy fonts took 86% longer than the group with simple fonts.

So while reading simple fonts works better compared to fancy fonts.

Again they conducted a research on the printed card. The first card was having simple fonts while the other one was having fancy fonts.

People thought that the designer who designed the card with simple fonts are lazy or less skilled compared to the designer who designed with fancy fonts.

So what’s the conclusion?

From the above two experiments, it is clear that-

• Different situation has different need of fonts
• If it is a text just for reading purpose, Simple fonts work better
• If you are designing any card or menu etc. fancy font works better

So now let’s start with some best Google Fonts for blogs and websites. Also, you should not change the fonts very frequently and so while deciding any font, stick to it.

5 Best Google Fonts for Blogs and Websites

All these fonts can be easily found on Google Fonts and can be used on any site just by incorporating a single line of code. These fonts are free to use.

I have incorporated both heading and body text in the example so that you can get an idea what you want exactly.

So let’s start with the best Google Fonts for blogs-

1. Lato Bold + Lora

I personally love this font and am using it at multiple places. Let’s have a quick look at the heading and body font design using this font-

2. Bitter + Muli

3. Playfair Display Bold + Droid Serif

4. Oswald + Cabin

5. Raleway Semi-bold + Roboto Light

Wrapping it up!

These were some of the best Google fonts for blogs and websites and you should use these for better user reading experience.

Just give a try and let me know how your blog turned out after using these awesome Google fonts.

Visuals help to reach the people’s brain faster than any other way of communication. During a PowerPoint presentation, using visual elements such as figures, graphics or illustrations, you can convey a message clearly and maximize the impact of your presentation.

You can think of how important is the presentation design from the fact that companies are now having a dedicated creative & marketing team which only deals with such kind of visuals like posters, banners, presentations, etc.

Do you really need to spend hours to design great PowerPoint slides?

Well, you must be thinking how much time it takes to prepare a stunning and converting PowerPoint slide for your next meeting.

So to answer that, it depends on you. But the best thing is why you need to design those from scratch?

Why don’t you take help of something called, TEMPLATES?

Like you have website templates and themes, you too have PowerPoint templates to fulfill the presentation design needs and finish the presentations on time, producing a visually appealing result.

Let’s suppose you have created or edited a presentation using the default theme in PowerPoint for your today’s presentation in say 5 hrs. but what about next?

Are you going to spend another 5 hours to prepare your next slide?

This might not be the most optimal solution. I was also in the same situation some days ago when I needed to finish an IT presentation. I have finished the content but the overall presentation design didn’t look well with the default white background in PowerPoint. Then, I started to search for abstract backgrounds for PowerPoint and found Free PowerPoint Templates (FPPT) which offers you free and best PowerPoint Templates for all your need.

In this blog post, I am going to write about FPPT.com review and their features with how to use FPPT.com for maximum benefit.

FPPT.com Review at a glance

FPPT is the acronym for Free PowerPoint Templates and is one of the largest sites having huge, trendy and unique collections of PowerPoint templates for use and that too free (yes, it is completely free, visitors can download the content even without registering).

It hosts thousands of pre-designed slide deck with presentation themes, templates and diagram designs which are ready to be used in major versions of Microsoft PowerPoint. It offers you the largest design patterns in different color and categories to make your work damn easier. Here you can get PowerPoint illustrations, 3D designs, animated presentations and much more for free.

Although FPPT is not the only site which offers the PowerPoint templates (there are other such as PPTtemplate.net or SlideHunter.com) but this is the place where you can get the best PowerPoint backgrounds to fit your presentation needs. But wait, FPPT can be a good resource for the enthusiast presenter, students, teachers, who want to download a presentation theme. For more sophisticated users there are other professional services requiring a premium subscription, like SlideModel.

Why Free PowerPoint Templates (FPPT)?

Currently, FPPT hosts over thousands of free PowerPoint templates for your use instantly. This also includes PowerPoint pictures, animations, and illustrations which can be downloaded instantly and used.

FPPT also provides presentation templates, PowerPoint themes, PowerPoint backgrounds, 3D PowerPoint templates, animations for PowerPoint, and PPT PowerPoint which are completely free to use. Using these designs you can easily turn your ordinary presentations into stunning presentations and can get most out of it. A good move to impress your clients and audience.

These templates are suitable for business and classroom presentations on education, health, trading, as well as general-purpose designs including seasonal PowerPoint themes and templates PowerPoint that you can use to make presentations and then share PowerPoint online in services such as SlideShare.net, SlideOnline or even using PowerPoint online.

Here are some specific benefits of using FPPT-

Focus on your presentation content and save time with pre-designed themes.
Ensure compatibility across different versions of PowerPoint.
Impress your audience with catchy slides & photos and PowerPoint themes with great backgrounds.
It’s completely free to download and use.

Features of Free PowerPoint Templates

There are multiple features and benefits of FPPT apart from the fact that it is completely free to use.

Another important thing you will find at FPPT is, they have arranged all the thousands of templates in such a way that anyone can find what they want. All templates have been categories depending on their niche, color etc. for best user experience.

You can browse the themes in the following ways:

1. Categories- As per niche

Suppose you want business PowerPoint templates or education related, just browse through the category you want and get access to hundreds of themes available which are ready to be used.

2. Top Rated PowerPoint Templates & Slide designs

If you don’t have much time to find which are the best design for your next presentation then this category will help you the most.

They have arranged the top rated templates and slide design at one place so that you can have a glance quickly. These ratings are from the users who have already used and have voted and so you can trust these.

3. Themes

Using this section, you can get immediate access to the latest presentation designs. Here you can browse our PowerPoint backgrounds and PPT designs for presentations and Microsoft Office templates. As a side note, it is interesting to see how the recent designs are superior to the older designs in terms of quality.

4. Browse through Tag

The content is organized by relevant tags. You can browse the presentation themes by tags and then show all the themes with that particular content. It is similar to the way we organize the content in a blog, tagging each article or blog post with relevant tags. FPPT has also done the similar thing.

You can browse through the hundreds of different categories through tag here.

5. Colors

If your presentation or slide is specific to a company which has some specific color then this section can help you a lot as you can find presentation templates by color and find the themes based on the same colors used by your corporate visual identity.

For example, you are going to present for a company to get a deal and that company’s main color (logo/wall etc.) is orange then you can prepare the slide based on that color background just to add some personal feel.

How to search for the best template as per keyword?

Now suppose you have one specific keyword in your mind and want to get the best PowerPoint templates related to that particular keyword.

You can do this simply by using the search box. Just type the keyword and you will get all the available templates in the search result. You can browse any kind of presentation design, including PowerPoint diagrams, figures and other graphics for presentations.

At the time of preparing this blog post, I have searched for the keyword “Technology” and see the result it showed-

Now all you have to do is, click on the link shown and download it. On every template page, you will find a button asking your download it. Just click on it and it will be downloaded to your system as a zip file. Just open it and double click on the file with extension .ppt or .pptx. You can ignore rest all.

Another good thing I found with FPPT is, under each category of templates, at the end of the page they list few best templates under that category. You can take help of that as well.

Conclusion

This was all about the FPPT.com review. Hope this article will help you to find the best templates for your next PowerPoint slides and other designs. Generating a visual impact seems to have better results than any other way of communication, and FPPT.com can help you finding the right visuals for your presentations.

It is one of the largest free resources for PowerPoint templates. You should check it if you are going to design any presentation. Ultimately it’s free.

Creating a logo is always a challenge. Your brand should be friendly, approachable and communicate for itself to make people remember and have a good impression.

The easiest way to design a perfect visual identity that will represent your company is to use an online tool that will save lots of effort and time. The success of your business begins with a professional and unique logo.

How to create a free professional logo by yourself

The easiest way to create a logo is to use LogotypeMaker.com - an online tool for creating logos even if you don’t have any designer skills. It is very simple so let's get started!

I will show you the whole process step by step.

Step 1. Write your company name in the text box and hit Enter.

Step 2.LogotypeMaker generates a bunch of logos randomly so all you have to do is pick the one you like from the list below.

The nice thing about LogotypeMaker is that they have free and customizable logos. I’ve highlighted the list of free logos on the left side with green color - the remaining 3 columns are for customizable ones. Click the Select button to personalize your logo.

Step 3. In this section, we'll be editing our Logo Shape using the Personalize Logo button.

Step 4. Go to Select a shape here. Next, from the drop down menu select the shape you want to change. The other way to select a shape is just clicked directly on the logo.

Step 5. Use Shape Color to change the fill colors or add a gradient if that's your preference. Also, there is a Random button to experiment with the color palette and every time you click on it, the gradient changes automatically.

Step 6. I've chosen dark blue gradient for the stars around the rocket: from #212170 to #55a3dd.

Step 7. Let's add some clipart. Click on Add Clipart button.

Step 8. This is a simple and easy step. What you need to do is write in the text box “star”, then select the clipart you like. Experiment, come up with different variations and find what’s best for you.

Step 9. Next, you can repeat Step 6 to change the color of the clipart. Then use the controls to rotate, move and resize your star.

Step 10. If you want your logo to have a high resolution (for printing), you can click the Settings tab and increase the width and height. You can also make the background transparent, filled with one solid color, radial or linear gradient.

Conclusion

My opinion is that an online editor is probably the handiest and convenient thing when creating a logo. You don’t have to search for a designer to do the job and worry about the result. Buying a customizable logo, you will also get:

• Unlimited Modifications
• 300 dpi files for Printing
• Multiple logos sizes

I hope this article made your logo design process a little easier, and you’ll save a whole lot of time. Why not try it for yourself?

http://logotypemaker.com