Whatever your reason for blogging, be it to be heard by the people around you, or be it for money - the popularity of your blog is important. There is always an exception though - if your blog is private - then again the very fact that you are reading this post, means that you want a popular blog. If you are hoping to make some money by blogging for cash, you will find the most success by having a large readership. This is the very reason why you should make your blog more popular and grow your readership - else what's the use of monetizing your blog?

When creating a blog, it is always better to have a clear picture in your mind about your target audience. Suppose you are blogging about trends in fashion, then your target audience will of course be teenagers and the young adults. Having a clear picture about your target audience will make you think in the way your would be audience thinks. You will start writing your matter in a similar manner, which can be read by your target audience and liked by them. After all, without a good audience that is loyal to you, what you right may not be important and your blog might as well not exist at all.

As we know, most of us blogging on the free platform provided by blogger, yearn for the easy usability and customization associated with Wordpress.org . So here is a chance for all of us to request the Blogger team to introduce some of our favourite features in to Blogger. This is what the blogger team is requesting from us -
Just as we did last year, we’re asking for your input on our Product Ideas page. As always, our ears are open to your feedback and your input has been invaluable over the years in helping us figure out where to put our time and energy.

 Acronyms are useful when used in large documents as they save the time of repeatedly typing the same words over and over again. However, when using acronyms in a blog, Google Adsense bot, being an unintelligent computer program, might misunderstand the same and start directing ads that are not relevant to your content.
One great example is the acronym "PPC". PPC means "pay-per-click" in blogging parlance, as it turns out, “PPC” also stands for “PowerPC”, Apple’s line of Power Macintosh computers. So, you might be surprised one fine day to find ads related to computers on a page you expected to have blogging and Search Engine optimization ads.

Have you blogged about your favourite topic but the Google Adsense advertisements are about a totally unrelated topic? This is a common question on Google Adsense forums and often left unanswered.
So how can you set this right? First of all, have patience as it takes time for the Adsense bot to scan your pages and understand what your blog/website is all about. Okay! You waited for quite a bit of time, yet, the ads are still irrelevant, now what?

A few days ago I blogged about a giveaway - Self-Hosted blog with a domain for 1 year for free. The giveaway was run by WPWebHost and was worth around $30 dollars and the the contest closed on the 30th of September. After doing the required tweets and posting about the contest, I had given up hope of winning.

Two weeks back BloggerStop turned 2 (two) and to celebrate this Divya Sai, the administrator of this great blog is giving away 3 domains!
The contest will run for two weeks, starting from today (5th October) to 19th October. After the two weeks, 3 winners will be selected randomly (Draw at Random), and the results will be announced on 20th October, 2010.
Winner #1 will get a .com domain
Winner #2 will get a .me domain

While search engines are still evolving, a new breed of recommendation engines have emerged to keep you hooked to the Internet.
WHEN you begin moving beyond the default home page (MSN, Yahoo, Google etc) and start seeing more uses for the net, you will at some point or the other stumble upon StumbleUpon.com!
http://www.stumbleupon.com/ StumbleUpon StumbleUpon can be, depending on how you look at it, labeled as either the biggest time waster out there or the most useful way to find new and interesting sites. In any case, when you are fed up with work and want a quick escape use StumbleUpon. This site falls into the category of what is known as a recommendation engine. Go to StumbleUpon and register for a new account (Yes, there is no other way! You do need to register - tedious as it is).

Now, coming after the post where I said that too much content bad for Google Adsense earnings?,this post might be a little contradictory to my readers. However if you continue reading you will realise what I mean by saying that the more content you have i the post. the more relevant will be the Google Adsense advertisements displayed on your pages.

The goal of every blogger using Google Adsense is to make lots of money with as little investment as possible. This is especially true of the hundreds and thousands of blogger blogs which sprout up every day. Most of them are run by individuals who have heard that Google Adsense offers a good opportunity to make money online.
However they err because though their blogs may be properly optimized for Google Adsense there might be a problem with the content. Now you might have heard that the key to successful Google Adsense monetization is producing top quality content day in and day out. However, in this process there are many blogs which copy content from various sources and present it as their own. This is a surefire way to lose traffic because Google Search gives such places low rankings.

Make sure you're getting the best ads: Opting into text and image ads increases the competition amongst the ad inventory available to appear on your site, as both text and rich media ads (image, flash, video and gadget) will compete in the ad auction. Rich media ads generally result in higher eCPMs than text ads. AdSense will automatically display the ads that will yield the highest earnings for you.

I have been on blogger for sometime now. The problem with blogger is that it is not self hosted and apparently this makes it unlikely that my blog will be of much value unless it has very good content. Now while browsing through facebook, I clicked on an advertisement which claimed to giveaway a Self-Hosted blog with a domain for 1 year for free. I believe this is a great opportunity to grab one for myself and if you want you can get one too.

Has anyone seen this advertisement panel by Google adsense? I was browsing through one of my favourite sites on blogger template designs - Simplex design blog,when i came across this particular adsense panel . It shows vertically linked text from anywhere between 3- 5 links.
New 728X90 Google Adsense Panel with vertical ads.
I initially thought it is a problem with my browser cache, but even after clearing it , the ad panel persisted. I wonder whether this a new type of advertisement setting by Google Adsense. Have you come across this before?

Podcasting is a blending of two words, ‘iPod’ and ‘broadcasting’. It represents a method of (1) publishing online content such as audio, video, images, or text files, and (2) allowing users to receive the content in an automated fashion. This last feature distinguishes podcasting from the traditional method of acquiring online information. The traditional method requires users to locate the desired online information and ‘pull’ it to their computer every time. The newer model only requires users to seek out the information, in the form of a podcast, one time only, where a user can subscribe to an RSS feed. Future additions to the podcast, or ‘episodes,’ will be ‘pushed’ to the user’s computer. This model is similar to subscribing to listservs, journals, magazines or newspapers in that the subscriber automatically receives materials.

A blog is a type of website that includes entries made in the same fashion as a diary or journal in reverse chronological order.
Web logs, more commonly referred to as blogs, have become commonplace for online communication. A blog is a type of Web site that includes entries made in the same fashion as a diary or journal in reverse chronological order. The individual posting to the blog (aka: “blogger”) is able to quickly make new entries without any advanced knowledge of HTML scripting. Blog posts can be configured to permit comments, whereby readers are able to respond to the content of the postings. In early 2006, over 50 million blogs are reported to be in existence, with at least one new blog created every second of every day. A study by Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 8% of current U.S. Internet users are actively using blogs as a means of creative, personal expression (Pew Internet & American Life Project, 2006).