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What is search engine? In simple words,  search engine is a tool that finds results when someone searches the web. There is a search engine within our computers, which searches files, images etc stored within the computer, but search engine  mostly refers to searches on the web.  How search engine works on the web? To make a search, you give an input (type a query or submit a photo or say a query to voice assistant) and you expect the results to come out within a second. It is not possible for any program or tool to search the entire web (=world wide web) real-time in a few seconds because the web is enormously big and millions of searches are made every minute.  So, what the search engine does is to make an index of webpages . It is like a list of webpage that the search engine believes are useful to answer search queries. For populating this index, a software (called search bot or web crawler ) keeps crawling the entire web all the time and whenever it finds som...

Do you know that websites are allowed to have 6 levels of heading tags , and that these tags help in improving blog SEO (search engine optimization)? If you are a new blogger or web content creator who is not familiar with HTML, this post will help you write content in a way that it helps readability as well as SEO by taking an HTML-based action without knowing HTML! What are HTML tags? Webpages are written in a language called HTML. A protocol or set of rules associated with this language makes a webpage available to us when we type its URL or link; that is why the URL of websites and their individual webpages starts with HTTP.  Even when other languages such as PHP and JavaScript are used for various functionalities on a webpage, the HTML makes its basic framework. HTML is written as a collection of tags. In simple terms, HTML tags tell how the element associated with the tag will render on the browser. For example, <p> tag is for making a paragraph and <b>  tag...

In this article, I comprehensively discuss different aspects of blogging on art and related subjects, and also share best practices in the industry.  Since this is a comprehensive article, you can jump to a section if you do not have time for the whole article. I will advise new bloggers to particularly pay attention to the section on starting an art blog . Contents What are art blogs? Why should an artist have a blog? How to start an art blog? As an art blogger, what is your audience? What should art bloggers blog about? What mistakes an art blogger should avoid? How to make money blogging on art subjects? Best practices for art blogging Useful resources on art blogging What are art blogs? Art blogs are the blogs that showcase and discuss art in different forms - usually visual arts (painting, drawing, photography, designing, computer graphics, folk art, street art, cartooning, etc.) Application of arts in different walks of life or commerce (e.g. fashion art, home dec...

If you are a new blogger, or you are a blogger for a long time but have not explored the features available on the post editor of your blogging platform, you will love this article because it tells you how to make your blog posts better looking and more readable. The small tips given here will also improve your blog's performance on search engines. Please make it a habit to use these simple tips and tricks whenever writing posts on the blog. Though the blog post examples given here are from Blogger platform, the tips are equally good for Wordpress platform. In fact, you will be wiser using them for writing on any website. Give the blog post an interesting title. The title not only tells what the article is about, but it also attracts readers. For writing headlines that stand out and help in SEO, you can visit this post: Writing blog post headlines that make an impact Use heading tags for better readability, good SEO. On top of the post editor (or page editor), you have a tool to ...

We have a number of articles on how to make money, mostly keeping the beginners or new bloggers in mind.  This article is different. In this one, I am sharing experiences of bloggers who earn handsomely from blogging . It is easy to see a common thread running across all of them - taking blogging as an enterprise, but all have different ways to make money blogging. You should go through each of them to find which type of monetization suits you. After that, you should also find the types of blogs that make money in your country and your blogging niche. At the end of this article, I give a summary list of how the established bloggers who have been reviewed here make money blogging. (If you want to jump to the end, click on the link: summary of experiences on how to make money from a blog .) So, here we go! Top bloggers with big incomes On some websites, we find lists of top-earning bloggers. Forget blogs that are now big portals than blogs (e.g. Huffpost, Viperchill), even some who ...

We have many articles on this blog on SEO or search engine optimization for beginners . You can go to the link if you are very new to SEO. The present article is also for new bloggers, beginners and small website owners but slightly advanced. If you want to go straight to tips rather than deeper discussion, go to the last section of the post (SEO tips/ takeaways for beginners). Though Bing is a big search engine and Yahoo!, DuckDuckGo, Baidu and some others are preferred search engines for some, Google dominates the web/ mobile search scene with 87% market share. So, if you are interested in constantly improving the search performance of your website or blog, you should keep updated about what Google does on the search front. Search engine optimization and Google algorithm changes Google regularly comes out with changes to its search algorithms and supporting actions for making search as user friendly as possible. Google has gone on record that it makes thousands of minor changes in a ...

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...