The Blogger's Trail: Blog Tips and Tricks

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Google Page Rank Button PR

PageRank is a link analysis algorithm that assigns a numerical weighting to each
element of a hyperlinked set of documents, such as the World Wide Web, with the
purpose of "measuring" its relative importance within the set. The algorithm may
be applied to any collection of entities with reciprocal quotations and
references. The numerical weight that it assigns to any given element E is also
called the PageRank of E and denoted by PR(E). - Wikipedia

PageRank is Google's way of deciding a page's importance. It matters because it is one of the factors that determines a page's ranking in the search results. It isn't the only factor that Google uses to rank pages, but it is an important one. Google Page Rank is also known as PR.

Some blog advertising sites like requires to have have higher PR. Google Page Rank ranges from 1-10.

To know the PR of your blog and copy its widget or button, try following the instructions below.

Add your site url click in Submit button , the code are generated from you , choose the style and cut and paste in your pages !

Enter the URL of any website or web page to get its Google PageRank. Remember, "www.domain.com" and "domain.com" may have different results.

SocialSpark: Stages in Taking an Opportunity

When you are qualified to take an opportunity in SocialSpark (all green boxes), on the upper right corner of the web page, you can see a Take this Opportunity button, click it. It will lead to you the advertiser's description and requirements, especially the links or images to be included in your post and the number of words.

Here are the stages in taking an opp. You will received an email in your account in SocialSpark under message center and in your personal email with the following subject: (will show real sample from my opp)

Reservation Created - "You've successfully reserved the Opportunity My Suit II at the $11.00 offer amount. Now I'm not saying you have do it right. this. second. However, remember that you have 12 hours to complete and submit a Post on this Opp! So, now that it's in reservation, feel free to take a stretch or even a shower. Don't forget to wash behind those ears! (Then, make your post!)"
Post Created - "You have successfully submitted your post!
Your post will be reviewed by Customer Love. You will be notified if the post passes or is rejected. If rejected you will be instructed on what to do next."
Post has Passed Automated Review - "Your post, Custom Suits at MY.SUIT, has been scanned to ensure that certain requirements have been met. It is now eligible for auto approval or manual review."
Your Post was Approved! - "Your post, Custom Suits at MY.SUIT, is now available for payment in 30 days."

A sample of this sponsored post can be found in Aloha GEMS site.

How to Install Shoutbox in your Site

Create an Account
Choose Style.
Place it in your Site.

Another question for new bloggers, "How to place the code in my site?"

Click Get Codes under Quick Start in your account.
Choose Place shoutbox on webpage.
Scroll down and Copy Generated Codes.
Login to your website (e.x. blogger)
Under Layout, choose Add a Gadget -> HTML/Javascript
Paste and Save
View your Blog. Done!

SocialSpark: Your Blog Has Been Approved, What's Next?

That was my questions before, What's next?

Look for marketplace button -> browse opportunities

Under POST , look for GREEN (OPEN) and GREEN (QUAL) boxes, it means that the opp is open and you are qualified to take that opp.

Now it is up to you which opp you will choose.

Take the biggest qualified offer first.

Click the icon of the advertiser and it will lead you to opp descriptions and requirements. Read and Read.

Got it?

SocialSparks: We were Unable to Approve your Blog

Costumer Love from SocialSparks sent me emails that they were unable to approve my blog due to the following reasons:

September 29, 2008 - "Unfortunately we are unable to accept your blog at this time. We require that a blog be active at least 90 days before we can approve it. Feel free to resubmit your blog when it meets this requirement."
October 10, 2008 - "However, we cannot approve it at this time due to its grammar.
Please take some time to adjust the grammar in the posts to read more clearly. This will benefit your Opportunities in the Marketplace in the future. Once this is done, please resubmit your blog to us."
October 13, 2008 - "Your blog, Aloha Gems, is now available to all qualified users in the marketplace". Yeheey!

Lessons:

Blog should be 90 days with at least 20 original posts.
Always Check Spelling and your GRAMMAR.
Re-read your post.

Adding Chat Box and ShoutBox in your Site

The benefits of adding either a Cbox or ShoutBox in your website are:

It can add traffic to your site. - people will keep coming back to your site, if they can see you in another blog chat or shout box, they will drop by, ask for exchange links, and you will gain much and much friends all around the world!

It can use to communicate the readers with the readers of your blog.

Blogging is much each when you add this widget.

PayperPost: Your Post has been Approved

Since I have just started my Payperpost blogging, I loved to share my experiences of my present approved blogs in ppp.

October 21, 2008 - This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost post, Collier Lap Band Surgery, has been approved. Tell your friends how quick and easy that was! -50 words

October 22, 2008 - This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost post, Cydcor for Community, has been approved. Tell your friends how quick and easy that was! - 200 words

October 28, 2008 - This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost post, The Promises Treatment Center, has been approved. Tell your friends how quick and easy that was! - 50 words

Note that I linked it my main blog for payperpost. Once your blog will be accepted in PayperPost, you can browse for qualified opportunities. When the opp is

white - means you are qualified

gray - means you are qualified but that opp was already taken and reserved by other bloggers

pink - means that you are not qualified to take the opportunity.

PayperPost: We are Unable to Approve your Blog

I signed up to PayperPost last July 5, 2008. I received emails from Costumer Love tha they were unable to approve my blog... sooo sad.... Below are the reasons:

July 6, 2008 - "Unfortunately, at this time we cannot approve your blog into the Marketplace because it is hosted at wordpress.com. Wordpress.com's Terms of Service do not allow paid posts on their hosted blogs. For this reason, we cannot approve the blog because at anytime wordpress.com can suspend or delete your account (if doing paid posts) and this will decrease our advertiser's campaign results. Please feel free to join a different blog hosting community, and resubmit your blog. If you have any questions please contact us at any time. Thanks!"
July 12, 2008 - "Unfortunately, blogs must be at least 30 days old in order to participate, as per our terms of service. Blog age is counted from the blog's first post. Also, a blog must have at least 10 pre-existing original quality posts (at least 3-5 sentences) in the last 30 days prior to using our service. Please refer to our Terms at http://payperpost.com/company/tos.html section 3. Please re-submit when the requirements are met. In the meantime, feel free to use PPP Direct and Affiliate tools while you work on meeting the requirements of our Marketplace!"
October 6, 2008 - "Unfortunately, we are unable to accept your entry because your blog is not being indexed by search engines. There may be a setting somewhere that you need to change with your host. If not, below are web sites our users have used to help them in the process. http://blogsearch.google.com/pin or http://www.google.com/addurl/After trying this, periodically go to Google and type "site:" Once your site appears in the search results, please re-submit your blog for review.
October 10, 2008 -YOUR BLOG HAVE BEEN APPROVED. YEHEEY! - This is a notification letting you know that your PayPerPost blog, Aloha Gems, has been approved and is now available.You can now take opportunities and write about them on your blog.

Lesson:

Just keep trying. Experience is the best teacher. If you have questions or comments, I'l be glad to answer or other concerned bloggers will help us figure out the simpliest way.

Submit your URL to Different Search Engines

Add your URL to the different search engines. Submitting to Google, Yahoo and MSN are quiet great enough because they have a large share in the marketing but if you want to more try adding your URL to any of the following websites:

Blog Criteria Tips and Tricks

Bloggers need to take note that even if your blog was already approved, anytime when reviewed by the blog marketing company, your blog will be suspended or cut off.

A blog wiil get cut if it contains three or more of the following offenses:

No post in the last 30 days.
Incomprehensible.
Comprised entirely of sponsored content.
Poor grammar.
Having a cluttered template full of flashes, widgets and automatic music.
Infrequent posts.
Majority of posts that barely meet the content minimums.

Novice bloggers this is a great post for you to take note while blogging

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