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This post is in Hindi. If you are looking for posts in English on how to make a blog, how to earn money from blogging, which blogging platform to choose, etc, please visit ITB home page . You can also start with this link: Start a blog .   अपना ब्लॉग कैसे बनाएं? [How to make your own blog?] यह प्रश्न वेब (वेबसाइटों/ फोरम आदि) पर पूछा जाता रहा है. हमारे अपने  ब्लॉग, IndianTopBlogs, पर, सोशल मीडिया पर या फिर ईमेल पर भी यदा-कदा इस प्रश्न से हम दो-चार हो जाते हैं..  सच पूछिये तो दो प्रश्न  साथ  चलते हैं:  ब्लॉग कैसे बनाएं (How do I create a blog) तथा ब्लॉग को कैसे संजोएं (How do I maintain my blog) क्योंकि ब्लॉग बना देना तो बहुत मुश्किल नहीं है, और हम नीचे बता रहे हैं कि कैसे बिना किसी खर्च के और बिना टेक्नोलॉजी के ज्ञान के करीब 30 मिनट में ही एक ठीक-ठाक ब्लॉग बनाया जा  सकता  है. बात रही ब्लॉग को खूबसूरत बनाने की, उसे ठीक से आगे बढ़ाने की, ब्लॉगिंग से धन कमाने की - इन सब  के लिए समय देना होता है, अनुशासन में रहकर काम करना होता है और बिना धैर्य खोए...

Affiliate programs help bloggers earn money, that's common knowledge. There are some big companies that aggregate advertisements from a large number of paying brands and serve them on affiliate websites and blogs, that too is well known.  Yet, most bloggers do not earn enough from affiliate ads. That is a matter of serious concern. Let's tackle the issue in two parts: How to get the best out of affiliation. Looking at the best-reported affiliate companies for bloggers. The present post deals with the tips and tricks on how to start affiliation and how to get the best out of affiliate marketing. Before we get into the best practices for success in affiliate marketing, let us start with the basics, for the beginners. In this post, the word blogger has been used for all types of content creators. Similarly, the expression website would also mean blog .  What is affiliate marketing?  Companies want their products to be advertised on the web. As a blogger or a we...

The 2020 edition of the Directory of Best Hindi Blogs came out on 30th September. We have been in the job of finding out the best blogs in Hindi for the last 2 months. We have also received dozens of submissions from bloggers. We take pride in saying that we are perhaps the only people who so painstakingly compile directories - in English and Hindi - by manually visiting each blog many times and applying mind as to whether a blog may be added or not. This, without any fee or other consideration. In doing so, we get a lot of insight into the Indian blogging scene. After two years, we are again sharing our experiences of Hindi blogging in detail. Kindly visit this link If you like to visit our earlier observations on Hindi blogging . This time, we have also looked deeply at video blogging in Hindi. जाने कहाँ गए वो दिन...  Visitors of Hindi blogs are sad that the top Hindi blogs of the past are either no more or have deteriorated badly. New Hindi bloggers have chosen social netw...

Blogger update 2020: more problems than it solves The new Blogger interface, on which work started in early 2020, still remains work in progress . Some bloggers have criticized Google for this hasty and irreversible change in Blogger without making it comparable with its direct competitor, Wordpress. After updating Blogger in May 2020 as an upgrade to the old 'legacy Blogger', Google kept making changes and it is still doing that after months. The good part is that it invited feedback and based on that, it has rolled back some features and removed some problems that were new to this version. But the problem with the 2020 Blogger update is that the changes refuse to stabilize. That is creating confusion among bloggers who are not too comfortable with online tools. Google should realize that majority of bloggers on this platform are hobby bloggers/ personal bloggers and they are not tech-savvy. Take, for example, the way the new Blogger treats images . Bloggers have...

A blog is known by its  posts , not  pages , right?  Yes, but pages have their own special role in blogs. While  posts  are the life-blood of a blog, standalone  pages  give the blog the required background support. Their content is more permanent than posts and therefore need not be updated too often. Yet, blog design tutorials often miss this point. They give web page design ideas relating to the overall website and then posts , seldom giving importance to pages . If you have not yet created static pages on your blog or not considered them important, take action now so that your blog becomes more valuable for readers and optimizes your blog for search engine visibility. How to use standalone pages on the blog to get to the top of Google search results? Posts and pages both are technically web pages and have a URL or web address of their own.  Pages  are those web pages that are not pushed down like posts when new...

There are thousands of book review blogs and websites on the web. In addition, major newspapers and magazines regularly publish book reviews. So, if you are a book blogger, why will someone come to your blog for reading book reviews and why will he give importance to your book reviews as compared to those on established websites and blogs - and sites like Goodreads? The short answer is: You should know how to write a book review like a professional. Of course, you will have to promote the blog among readers so that they know that your book review blog exists. But that answer does not solve the problem of book reviewers whose blogs are yet to reach a big reputation and a big audience. Let me tell you step by step how to write good book reviews and what makes a good book review, starting with the basics of reviewing books:      How to write a book review: the basics Though a book review is nothing but exposing good or bad points of a book, it has to follow some basic...

When it comes to search engine optimization, who can tell you better than the daddy of search engines and guru of SEO - that is Google? Towards improving search results, Google has engaged thousands of Search Quality Raters throughout the world. Their task is to evaluate sample web pages and search results on the basis of quality parameters fixed by Google. So, Google has issued a document called Search Quality Rater Guidelines . Google first issued this doc in 2015 and has brought out the latest revision in 2019. The ratings given by Raters do not directly affect search but give valuable feedback on what Google considers as useful, relevant, trust-worthy search results - and tries to master the science of serving the best possible results to searchers. The Search Quality Rater Guidelines feel boring to the lay reader as they are slightly technical and are specifically meant to guide individuals involved in website evaluation work. I give here the distilled takeaways from ...