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4 Simple Steps to Create a Blog that attracts Clients

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<img align="left" alt="blog that attracts clients" border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdr_8oVeorDYoXjNoaG6vGtotUBotkaPi-6WEulwXKMhT93MD7gfA5uUdkkVulVL5NwtsBmYQICKORqR1Pq28qIYAY63ntJK0teqWKRaJ82OXG1179s1NuuQJ2EjYn0TQ5xphccR_AzQ4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 9px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="blog that attracts clients" width="300" />Do you want to <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/09/how-to-find-sponsors-for-your-blog.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">get more clients</a> that are willing to work with you? Do you want to make 10,000$+ monthly? Then you need to make a blog that can attract clients who pay you what you want. To do this, you need to follow the next 4 steps and you will soon make six figures from the internet every six months.</div>
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1- Be different:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">Do you want your blog to stand out from the crowd? Then you need to be different. You have to be different in:</span><h5 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(40, 151, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #289728; font-family: 'bold sans-serif', arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding: 3px;">
a) Design:</h5>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">Your blog design will </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/12/how-to-force-blog-visitors-to-subscribe.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">give your readers the first impression</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;"> about your blog. You must take care of it. And to be different, your design must be different from other designs in your niche, How? If the blogs in your niche choose colors like blue, red and orange you can use purple, and if the blogs are in magazine style you can make your blog more traditional. What I would like to say is that you need to do a quick research about the most popular blogs in your niche, and then try to be different from them all.</span><h5 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(40, 151, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #289728; font-family: 'bold sans-serif', arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding: 3px;">
b) Content style:</h5>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">You must have a unique style than all the other bloggers. You have to check where do they put images, what is the fonts that they use, what is the formula that they use to craft their post. After you do this simple research, now start to think about your unique content style.</span><h5 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(40, 151, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #289728; font-family: 'bold sans-serif', arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding: 3px;">
c) Content format:</h5>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">What I mean by content format is the type of the post, is it audio or video or webinar or articles etc. You must use a one that is not popular in your niche, so if they use articles, use video, and if they use videos use audio and so on.</span><h5 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(40, 151, 40); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #289728; font-family: 'bold sans-serif', arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; padding: 3px;">
d) Blog Topic:</h5>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">It's very difficult to have a unique topic, so how to have one? Here's a simple trick that Copyblogger used to have a unique topic. You can combine 2-3 related topics to build your unique topic. As an example: Copyblogger is blogging about Copywriting+blogging "now it post about more than these". So do a quick research to make your own unique topic. Of course, you will think that all this is silly. But try it. You must be remarkable, make readers remember you from your design or content format or even your blog topic.</span><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px;">
2- Create compelling unique content:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">Now, it’s time to create some unique content using the design and the format that you had chosen before. It must be related to your topic that you chose. Try to focus on creating content that is not found everywhere. Make your post informative. Make it evergreen. Also, try to use some SEO tips, so that your post ranks higher in search engines and get you more traffic. To create posts that attract clients focus on these types:</span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; list-style: none;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">Of course, you will ask why these? The only answer for this is that it makes you as a professional in your niche, it shows to your clients that you know what you do. So try to focus on these types in the beginning.</span><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px;">
3- Design the perfect hire me page:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">Now you have created your content, you need to create your hire me page. This is the page that you show your services. You can provide the following in it:</span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; list-style: none;">
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">A headline that attracts attention as (Do you want to take your business to the second level)</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Describe that you care about quality.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Show them your services that you can do.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Provide a contact form.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Provide a simple P.S. at the bottom of your page: in this P.S., you will tell your clients that you accept clients with a good budget.</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">You don't need to follow this formula, but I think it’s the best out there.</span><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px;">
4- Borrow some authority:</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">After you have created compelling content, you need to borrow some authority, The best way to do this is guest blogging. By guest blogging you will:</span><ul style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; list-style: none;">
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Get some blog traffic.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Get clients.</li>
<li style="background-attachment: scroll; background-color: transparent; background-image: url(https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqD54qDTW-JoPkf22nIoTEqHVLGQCI9RRFKtSZFIg2TqGa6UOGziXjTySQ1kU8T3c726UERKSjwAZqQA0y_08wUiAlsU5k03eIjdmb4IQDOIEdXQy1MH0udWq_iD59v9x5F5U993Hr-bo/s400/255.gif); background-position: 0px 4px; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0.8em 20px;">Show your work to your clients "you can put all your guest posts in your portfolio".</li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px;">So when they visit your blog and see the compelling content in your blog, they will think to hire  you. The best thing about guest blogging is that it can bring you traffic forever.</span><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px;">
Last words:</h3>
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These were the main 4 steps that you need to follow to make your blog attractive for new clients. You can also check this <a href="http://www.slideshare.net/OnibalusiBamidele/how-to-use-blogging-to-fuel-your-freelance-writing-business-13476149" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">presentation</a> that is created by Onibalusai "the guy behind this blog", I am sure you will like it. Now, you need to take action, start following these steps, and the first action that you can do is to tell us what do you think of this post? What other steps that can be added here?</div>
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Blogger Tricks 4 Simple Steps to Create a Blog that attracts Clients

Do you want to get more clients that are willing to work with you? Do you want to make 10,000$+ monthly? Then you need to make a blog t...

Why Breadcrumbs are not SEO Friendly for your Blog?

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<img alt="are breadcrumbs good for blogs" border="0" height="88" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWQ7JokgzR2IaZyEHl1BBhDhbm1XUnMrk8l9nTz-_t3T5kE1wOP1K4n1TSiiWFQ3QJOaM0wnV9lbgRnQobNozekKzm7CcftC2epANaO8D2Mh1ZA5wMIFGYMnWJ0g3VnhAY4xEgU1j2_Zo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="are breadcrumbs good for blogs" width="601" />No one knew that a simple Breadcrumb used in the fairyTale of "<b>Hansel and Gretel</b>" would become a website element one day. Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a<a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2009/09/stylized-page-navigation-widget-for.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">navigation system</a> used in websites that offer more usability to the visitor. They appear horizontally above Post titles or below headers. They show user location and tells him what post and which section of the blog category he is on. Breadcrumb provides links back to the pages the user already visited in hierarchical order. Often a colon ( : )or slash ( / ) or even a greater-than sign ( > ) is used as hierarchy separator.  These are now widely used by blog owners in both Wordpress and Blogger platforms. Unfortunately Breadcrumbs destroy the advantages of Permalinks which play great role in targeting rich keywords. Blogger Team has introduced permalinks on all blogspot blogs and we already discussed several ways of <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/09/mmatt-cutts-seo-tips.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">optimizing permalinks</a>, now it's the right time to realize how Trailing links effect permalink display in SERPs.</div>
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Examples:</h3>
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Typical breadcrumbs may look like this:</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial;"><i>Homepage > Category Page > Sub Category Page</i></span></b></div>
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How BreadCrums Effect SERP Display?</h3>
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Carefully look at the snapshot below. The first link pointed by red arrow is of our second blog (SEM) and the second link pointed by green is of our current blog (MBT). We are using Breadcrumb in SEM for the past few months  just as experimentation and the results I obtained were not satisfactory. Breadcrumbs is only replacing the permalink which contains our rich keywords and replaces it with the category/label name. As you can see in the snapshot below, instead of displaying keywords in the permalink, Googlebot is instead picking the category title ( i.e.<b> Social Media</b>)  and displaying it instead of the keywords used in URL structure.</div>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Note:</span> <i>I will surely delete Breadcrumb plugin from SEM as soon as I get time.</i></div>
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In MBT Googlebot is displaying the permalink (i.e. <b>google-crawling</b>...) instead of a label or category title because we use no Breadcrumb plugin in our blog. As a result we are getting extra benefit of exposing more keywords on Google search page, thus leading to a higher rank on search engine pages.</div>
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If you view any URL of Mashable or even SEOMoz in Google you will find that Google spiders are picking and displaying the permalink instead of the Category or tag title, because both these blogs are using no Breadcrumb plugins anywhere on there platforms.</div>
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<b><u>Mashable:</u></b></div>
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<img alt="seomoz search display" border="0" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCCjBCdQrEd_BQ7CGmRRuQXNnCOmjfyq4tVB05Kn41oSF5qQhOToKOLEarR3wPJ0-kCQg6w6leBNygUXTxA8UERqEl6t4yZ2d-TASda8ofvsIq6Zv12WNT9ZRmzYnETEfWuwi4UjexQ74/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="seomoz search display" width="528" /></div>
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Both these two great blogs are making best possible use of keywords to rank higher on search pages to drive organic traffic. They both use no BreadCrum plugin for reasons we already discussed. Therefore you may avoid installing any such widget on your blogger blogs or any WP plugin at your wordpress blogs. Blogs have simple structure and the pages are not sorted too deep (<i>can go to a maximum of two-three trails</i>) so such a plugin serves less in terms of both usability and Optimization.</div>
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When can you use Breadcrumbs?</h3>
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If you have an Ecommerce site where you sell merchandise and the number of pages or categories are heavily tagged then you will for sure use breadcrumb to serve your visitors more. This is one reason why you see this plugin on Ecommerce sites like Ebay. Since Ebay has dozens of pages that are linked to one another via tags therefore a breadcrumb is necessary to keep the user informed about his location on the site.</div>
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Though breadcrumb serves no logic in case of blogs but still if you like these trailing links then you can use the <span style="background-color: yellow;">rel="noindex" </span>  attribute to inform the robots not to index or <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/10/google-crawling-and-indexing-tips.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">crawl the links</a>. This is one way the links will not be indexed and thus wont appear at all in search results page. This is the same logic applied by ebay folks:</div>
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Need Help?</h3>
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If I sounded too technical then please post your queries so that I could help more precisely. I hope this post clears many doubts linked to this Rootline trails and might have given you enough help in deciding what is best for your blog. Peace and blessings pals! :)</div>
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Are you using Breadcrumbs on your blog? If yes then what action have you decided after reading todays tutorial? </div>
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<a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/07/find-guest-authors-publish-guest-posts.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Guest blogging</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;"> is a very popular way of getting backlinks for a site. It is an effective marketing strategy for a blog, and allows you to publicize you content to places beyond your reach. In short, </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/04/how-guest-posting-can-boost-your.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">guest blogging</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;"> is when you write for another website, free of charge, in return for a backlink (or two). And we have already talked about how </span><a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/04/how-guest-posting-can-boost-your.html" style="background-color: white; color: #289728; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; outline: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">linking</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">is important for your website. But doesn't it all look a bit convenient? As in, anyone can write (or spin) articles, and get them published on other websites and get more links to rank higher in Google? Here is Google's take on the subject, along with some best practices.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><a href="" name="more" style="background-color: white; color: #0084ce; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; outline: none; text-align: justify;"></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px; text-align: justify;">
Is guest blogging worth it?</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">So, is guest blogging is worth it, and is it beneficial for a site or site owner? Well, there is no simple one-line answer to that. First, think about what are the best case and the worst case scenarios in guest logging?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">The best case scenario would be when you are a good quality writer, and have something valuable to contribute to a website. From Google's viewpoint, it's all about quality. In the case of the top bloggers out there, they can post as many guest posts as they want, and the host websites should be glad of gaining something useful. Even if you're not a well known bloggers, but you can write well and create new and unique content, then it's your opportunity to get known in the world out there while making links. In such cases, you can dish out as many guest posts as possible, and build links to your heart's content.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">But some people obviously don't know where the line exists...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IMxC3wQZOyc" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" width="560"></iframe><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><h3 style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 128, 255); border-top-style: dotted; border-top-width: 1px; color: #0080ff; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; padding: 3px; text-align: justify;">
Knowing when to stop</h3>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">Sadly, this in no Utopia, and when there's an advantage, it's bound to be exploited. Sure, guest posting is a great way to build your links and traffic. But a lot of bloggers out there have started exploiting this to their advantage,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">A guest post is only good as long as it's valuable, and has something to contribute. People often write one blog post, and submit it to multiple blogs as "unique" posts. When more than one blog accepts those posts, they become duplicated, hence putting the blog's integrity at stake. While this may not harm the guest blogger directly, it will effect his reputation.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">Article spinning is a very popular practice as well. People write one article, and rewrite it multiple times and change the wording so it won't be picked up in a plagiarism checker. This might be smarter than submitting the exact same article to multiple blogs, but it still is dumb, and a noob's way out of things. And this is where Google steps in.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">If Google detects that you have submitted similar guest posts then all those backlinks might be discarded. So far from proving useful to your website, it'll only be considered as spam, and will be a waste of your time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.333333969116211px; line-height: 20.796297073364258px; text-align: justify;">So, it's important to know the line, and when to stop, because pushing it too far could have adverse consequences. Follow this basic ethic in guest blogging, and spread it to others too! Cheers :)</span></div>

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<img align="left" alt="design blogger template" border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkIznksyC3UqdmDKu9p1hJnLZQvMkEelBMghFJANnU2yPS_k8jE73lcze7D3X8VxynBmANnAanNu9oXAin33pfYx6fbjr5O_4TQ6V34bmqkHy0lXVm5fK0kv8z_xcVb1Zz55WQSo1M8VI/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="design blogger template" width="334" />This is part 2 of our series "<strong><span style="color: #008040;">XHTML to HTML</span></strong>" . We have already learned how to turn blogspot's layout into blank HTML page but we have no yet shared how to remove the dynamic XML tags alone leaving behind the stylesheet, scripts and html design. In today's tutorial I will try to share the basic way of understanding a websites core structure by identifying the important div sections that make up the structure. I hope you have followed part one of the series and have downloaded your blogspot template. I also assume you have Dreamweaver or <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/06/codelobster-perfect-php-development.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Codelobster</a> installed on your desktop computers or laptops.</div>
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Part1: <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2012/10/xhtml-to-html-blogger-template.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">XHTML To HTML: Blogger Template Conversion</a></div>
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Part2:<em> </em><strong>Create a HTML Design Of your Blogger Template</strong></div>
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Part3: <em>In progress</em></div>
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Identify the Div Sections</h3>
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Div sections are division blocks or containers that hold elements inside it to layout a web page. The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML page. It starts with a <div> tag and ends with a </div> tag.  When a div section is styled, we add the CSS ID or class to it as follows:</div>
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<strong>If you want to introduce a class in Div, do this:</strong></div>
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In CSS code a class always starts with a dot at its beginning and Id starts with a hash sign as shown below:</div>
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<strong>For class:</strong></div>
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.class-name {</div>
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---</div>
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-</div>
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}</div>
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<strong>For Id:</strong></div>
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#id-name {</div>
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----</div>
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--</div>
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--</div>
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}</div>
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Now when you have understood what a Div section is, you will be able to identify these slices (div) that define your overall blog layout.</div>
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<li>View your blog either in Firefox or Chrome. I prefer Firefox</li>
<li>On an empty section (<em>the background</em>) of your blog right click and choose "Inspect Element"</li>
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<img alt="inspect element" border="0" height="495" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS0GMnyG_do9nHnRomYQMhUJMlUMLlbMGxUf1lx1JFFfBU-5OiRwDrpgYoMf7Li6e8OvzppONjqVQxzSy-2aoaXxSlVhpobfKoaF6_BqzhoFIItVQYkVSqcz6m2U8mv70C_pBOU76FZyo/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="inspect element" width="249" /></div>
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    3. Two windows will open. The bottom window will highlight the core HTML of the blog and the area on your right highlights the CSS.</div>
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<img alt="firefox inspect element" border="0" height="327" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1HIoAkvMysa1Pxknou8U_p0f6wQsS3aCO6AlRLzWommhppH0MPhAg1VW1T6CCPFtSBHUvG_9Tj4ORNPF8nXxiSFSlETmM2wNI79lMV1DFYbR6L5_0GGZ3kJgZwb6goCQSS-4tdmEomtQ/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="firefox inspect element" width="596" /></div>
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In the HTML section you will see important div sections. If you click any div tag, all html inside it will expand and when you click back it will contract. The important thing to note is what section is highlighted on your blog when you click a div. Note down that section for that particular div and save it in a notepad. Start from Divs at the top to divs at bottom. Go in sequential order.</div>
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For example if I click on the div tag for mbt highlighted below as <strong><div id="wrap"></strong>  the entire container holding all the blog contents except the <a href="http://www.mybloggertricks.com/2011/12/stickybar-with-facebook-like-and-google.html" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">top-sticky-bar</a> are highlighted. That's how I identified what this div does and what sections can be styled using it.</div>
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<img alt="highlighted div section" border="0" height="697" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNUs6KWUFNqX2XW0kYEqjvRYIi_NvuL5n4CW-X04vbHclhnag4JPTwTSZahXzb4LKrZbP-mzl0bYKkS0CzzLI-63N-tfdBkYxMLypahY6CYpCLZMkVxk8Qgc2iG5cFSnOIceYfb6H1ZgE/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="highlighted div section" width="503" /></div>
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Use the same method to identify the divs for Header, Navigation, Post container, Sidebar Container and finally the footer. The divs must go in order and keep track of which div is nested under another div. For example in my case the navigation, header, post body and sidebar all comes under the wrap div. So I will insert the remaining divs inside it.</div>
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This may sound a little techy for people not familay with HTML tag priorities but for developers who wish to understand how to create a clone design the method above can't be more clear than this.</div>
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Remove the Dynamic Tags</h3>
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<li>Use Dreamweaver or Codelobster to open the xml file you downloaded</li>
<li>Find each div tag and edit the code inside each one of them.</li>
<li>For example for the outer-wrapper div tag I delete the div tags for post body and sidebar leaving the entire area vacant and then I add the contact form inside it. Visit our <a href="http://contact.mybloggertricks.com/" style="color: #289728; outline: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">contact page</a> to see the wide area with no sidebars and post-section.</li>
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<img alt="identify the nested div containers" border="0" height="439" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJh2QxTng58NwU224G3hwWVJeHnEoIZUAY9rFnryK_MjT18-xLtvWOKjqtQQ5lE7wVqYXkWXMz5fToV1I-jx9y9KWfXU1Zzl2Ftg2BhFYm83v1p-Wy51_1CkG3jFRUtlZ6g2VftLMF5dw/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 10px;" title="identify the nested div containers" width="600" /></div>
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The dynamic code is easy to identify because all widgets have this basic structure:</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f79646;"><b:section ........................></span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;"><b:widget ......................................../></span></div>
<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b:widget ......................................../> </span><span style="background-color: yellow;"></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;"><b:widget ......................................../> <div style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;">
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<span style="background-color: #f79646;"></b:section></span></span><div style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;">
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A widget container is initiated using the b:section tag and widget content is initiated using the b:widget tag. Find them all and replace the b:section tags with static div tags like the following:</div>
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<span style="background-color: #f79646;"><div ........................></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f79646;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: yellow;">Delete all code inside B:widget tags found here</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #f79646;"></div></span></span><div style="padding: 0px 0px 15px;">
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Once you are done with this, you will find your template looking neater and getting in shape if you are using code lobster or dreamweaver. It took me 4 hours to clean up MBT's code so it should not take you long. Its lengthy process but extremely interesting and worth trying. Once you have learnt how to do this, in our next part, I will teach you how to add a PHP contact form inside the Cloned Blogger template that looks exactly like the original blog, giving the user a great experience. </div>
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I know you have tons of questions!</h3>
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Of course this method is a little techy for newbies and would have given a headache to most of you but you may not panic and just post me a comment. I will be at your service. I reply late but I do reply! =)</div>
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I wish this tutorial may help you better understand the possibilities of customizing the Google hosted free blogs. There is no end to Blogger customization and you must try every possible tutorial that comes along your way because only Blogspot layouts can turn you into a brilliant web developer. Peace and blessings buddies. :)</div>
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