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Topmost blog design advice ever! When you think of design of your blog, or any other type of website, what comes to your mind? Its appeal? Colors, backgrounds and fonts? Columns and their content? Widgets and plugins? I think, the best web designing advice anyone can give you is that Your blog or website must have great navigation: visitors should be able to easily find what they are looking for. Its topmost content must come on top: it must show up at the first opportunity. In this post, I will deal with the second advice.  The design and layout of any website should be such that people are served this main content when they visit the website. On the web, visitors do not have the patience to visit the bottom of the web page to look for the content and then select the best.  It is the top 8-10 inches of space on your blog's desktop version and top 2-3 inches on its mobile version. During our review of blogs and compilation of blog directories, we look at thousands of blo...

When you start a blog, you do so either as a hobby - just to put your thoughts into it OR you make the blog to earn money out of it. Earlier, most people created blogs for the first reason, but now the trend is towards trying to make money out of blogging.  Bloggers and small website owners can make money with AdSense without knowing any tech, even with a free blog and without spending a penny on web hosting, web designing, etc. In this post, I have tried to simplify things for bloggers who don't know the subject of making money from AdSense. The tips given here will work well in 2021 and beyond.  Because the post is an all-in-one post on AdSense, it has become quite big. So, I have divided it into two parts. If you do not know how Google Ads work on blogs and websites, you would want to learn as much as you can: if so, continue reading the rest of the post. If you already have AdSense on your blog or are interested only in tips to make more money with Adsense ads, jump...

In March 2021, Google implements 100% mobile first indexing. Are you prepared? What all should you do to be up-to-date in terms of SEO? Just from a knowledge point of view too, a number of queries arise: Does ' mobile first indexing ' mean that Google now has two types of search bots and it maintains two types of search indexes of websites? Is mobile first indexing a sudden change? Does it impact our websites or blogs from SEO point of view? What happens to the desktop versions of websites on Google search? What is mobile first indexing? Mobile first indexing means this: F or ranking websites and web pages for search purposes,  Google (or any other search engine) gives precedence to the mobile version. When a mobile version is available, that one is assessed for indexing.  Does Google maintain a separate index for mobile websites? No. Google has clarified this recently: ... there isn't a separate mobile-first index; Google Search continues to use only one index. Google S...

We bring you the updated list of 40 useful websites, apps and tools for bloggers, web writers, authors, newspersons, photo and video editors - all those who create and modify content for the web or elsewhere. Some of these are excellent tools for other purposes such as Search Engine Optimization, web security, and checking whether someone has stolen your content. Each of these free tools/ apps have been used by me and my friends and blogger friends. I have only included websites and software when I find them safe, stable and really useful.  Tools that do not install well or are reported to install junk on your computer, those with useless features in their free versions, and tools/ apps that are not found totally safe in my and others' reviews have been rejected.   Some of the entries in this free tools' list are freemium tools - these have free as well as paid versions. Repeat: all these great tools/ sites/ apps are FREE! Free writing tools for bloggers, writers G rammarly...