What is better? : Reciprocal Link or Backlink?

October 16, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, General, Link Building, Traffic Generation · 11 Comments 
Many of my readers who are little new to blogging world asked me a very important question. “What is better? Reciprocal Link or Backlink?”. Yes this is really an interesting question and before giving an answer to this question lets first see the difference between reciprocal link and backlink.
 
Reciprocal Link : These links are two way. That means your link on some blog in return to that blog’s link on your blog.
 
Backlink : Backlink is the link on the other blog pointing to your blog. It can be reciprocal or one way link.
 
Now the answer to the question:
 
In my opinion I would prefer a backlink instead of reciprocal. (Yes, I would never ignore the good reciprocal link.)
Let say if my blog has a page with PR3 and i have 1 link of other page of my blog on this page. So my current page’s PR is now transferable to the link of other page.
 
So that link will get 100% of the transferrable PR. Now let say if I put one reciprocal link on the page with PR3, so now there are 2 links on that page and the transferable PR will be shared among those two. So now both have 50% share in the transferable PR. And I am loosing the share of 50%. Here note that you have not altered your share it is grabbed by some other link.
 
So what I suggest is if you are offered a one way link and a reciprocal link go for a one way link. Yes you can also go for a reciprocal link if it is really a good reciprocal.
 
Do not hessitate to share your views on this and also correct me if I am wrong somewhere.
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Blog Action Day 2008 : Poverty

October 15, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, General · 3 Comments 
My dear readers, Today is blog action day of year 2008 - a day on which bloggers all over the world commit to write on the topic decided by the organization. The topic for this year is Poverty.
 
We all know that there are so many parts of the world where people are poor and they don’t have foods to survive. So for this reason i have decided to give my one day income from this blog to the any organization which works to fight the poverty. I will repeat this action every month. I will be happy if my income will help a poor family to survive.
 
So I request you all to join this great cause and publish it on your blog.
 
Please post your suggestions in the way to help them.
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Google adsense placement tips – Increase Profit

October 13, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, General, Google Adsense, Make Money Online · 12 Comments 

Have you ever imagine that google adsense placement can drastically increase your profit from it? It is important that how you do adsense ad placement on your page. The adsense placement should be different depending on the page type. That means that the adsense ad placement will be according to the type of the page that is website or blog. Here I will explain you some basic ad placement tips which are basically suggested by the google itself.

Though there are so many writings describing where to place adsense ads. But google has developed heat maps after so much research on the highest earning adsense placement.

Ad placement suggested for websites :

Ad placement for websites

Ad placement for websites

Ad placement suggested for blogs :

Ad placement suggested for blogs

Ad placement suggested for blogs

Google says, This heat map illustrates these ideal placements on a sample page layout. The colors fade from dark orange (strongest performance) to light yellow (weakest performance). All other things being equal, ad placements above the fold tend to perform better than those below the fold. Ads placed near rich content and navigational aids usually do well because users are focused on those areas of a page.

Similarly for blogs red color has the highest interaction with the users and then blue. Generally search box should be put on the top left area of the blog.

There are so many sites or blogs who have changed their layout after google has released this heat map, and they have seen incredible change in their click through means they are earning more online from google adsense than they were before. ;)

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Introducing the “Sponsored Links” section. Win – Win for all

Hello Readers. Thank you for your tremendous response to my blog. I never expected this kind of response.

You have created so much traffic on my blog and as a result I earned my first $100 within just 26 days of this blog started.

Now I thought that if my readers are giving me so much, I must do something which is in benefit of them also. Something like win-win for both me and you the readers. So I have introduced a “Sponsored Links” section to this blog.

How can your blog listed in this section?
Simple, as it is for both of us profit, it is working in the following manner.

  1. Put my blog’s link www.skyxavier.com to any part of your blog. That can be a Post, a blog roll or a similar links section of your blog. Please put the display text “Make money online” or “Make money online with Sky Xavier”.
  2. Send me the email containing the link where you have listed my blog, your name, your link and the display text for your link. put “Sponsored Links” in a subject line of the mail. You can email me on sky [at] skyxavier_dot_com.
  3. Join My Community on mybloglog on this link http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/community/skyxavier. (Current members are in benefit).

Thats it, you will be listed here in my “Sponsored Links” section within 24 hours you send me the e-mail.

Note: Please do not send adult or offensive link.

You can email me on sky [at] skyxavier_dot_com.

I promise I will never use your email for any other pupose. It will be only use for communication between us.

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Google adsense tips for blogs – Make money using Adsense

Many of the bloggers are using google adsense to monetize their blogs. There are some new users who are using adsense, but they are not earning effectively from the adsense. So after using adsense for some time they just remove adsense from their blogs and try to find out other similar programs. Though there are some good alternatives to Google adsense, I would suggest bloggers not to leave adsense as if you have good and unique content on your blog, adsense will definitely give you great rewards. Here are some tips to get maximum from adsense in your blog.
 
 
 
  • Unique Content – In this matter I would say “Unique content is the key to success”. Always try to put unique content on your blog. Never copy from others. By Creating unique content for your blog you will surely see an increase in earnings from adsense as well as from any other alternative you are using. This will also help you to rank well in the search engines.

 

  • Concentrate on Niche – When you plan to create a blog, first decide the niche in which you have expertise or you can write on different topics. Be sure that you don’t diverse from your original niche. Try to make your blog an authority blog in selected niche.

 

  • Regular updates – This is where generally bloggers lack. It happens to me also that what should I write every day? and I also find it difficult to find good and unique content regularly. But this is the basic need to get success and earn more money online from blogging.

 

  • Keyword research – I have found so many bloggers searching high paying keywords. I don’t think this will work in much effective way. What I believe and I suggest is try to make your blog authority for the niche you have selected. If you have not done so and you compete with some highly competitive keywords then there are fewer chances to compete with them. So try to build an authority blog in your niche.

 

  • Link Building – Link building affects most of the areas of successful Blogging. Try to build back links for your blog by registering your blog to different social bookmarking sites. Submit your blog to different blog directories. Find similar bloggers who are writing on the same or similar niche and exchange links with them. Good link building will surely give you long term profit from google adsense.
 
These tips are based on my own experience and some tips I have found while searching the internet. There are some major points which I never forget to follow whenever I create a new blog or even updating an existing blog.
I believe that these are the most basic things to do to make your blog popular and monetize it from Google Adsense in better manner. If you have any other great tips please share with me.
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