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Many Blogger try to get links in order to generate traffic, but there are many more methods, some are free and some are paid. I am writing few

1. The First method is recycle your blog posts into new articles and submit to article directory. There article directories receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day. When you submit your articles to these directories, your name and your blog name are shown to thousands of visitors. On most article directories, you are also permitted to include a “resource box” where you can include your contact details, a simple biography and so on. This is where you can truly leverage the traffic of the said article directories. Some good article directories to get you started:
   • http://www.ezinearticles.com/
   • http://www.ultimatearticledirectory.com/
   • http://www.submityourarticle.com/

2. Second method to get traffic is to join internet forums that is based on your niche. To find these kind of forums, just go to any search engine and enter “ +forum”, without the quotes. You would want the most focused forum with a substantial number of active members, and preferably always bustling with activity. Just check the dates of the threads posted on the forum. You can find my previous article on getting traffic from message board useful.
3. blog and ping technique is also a useful technique to generate traffic. Basically, when you update your blog, you can let blog portals such as www.technorati.com know by pinging them. You can ping a lot of portals at once by using the free http://www.pingomatic.com/.
4. Besides the techniques described here, there are also paid methods like buying links from high-ranking pages or buying banner advertisement space. A thing to keep in mind when buying paid traffic is to always weigh your profits generated from the paid ads. If your profits do no offset the expense, you will end up losing money, so choose wisely.

Nowadays many bloggers from blogspot are not using default templates. But still if you like and want to use them without showing blogspot navigation bar follow these simple steps given below…

Those who don’t know what Blogger Navigation Bar is…

Blogger navbar allows users to easily navigate to other random blogs and it also has a feauture to search the blogs ,and mark any blog as Spam or Flag it.

So,now you have a clear idea of what really a blogger navbar is. So, why so many people prefer to just remove the navbar inspite of the feautures it has like search,etc. Many people think that, it spoils the look of the blog,especially if your blog has differnet subtitle layout which looks too obvious to see for a visitor. Well, let me come to the actual point on how to disable or hide your blogger navbar.

Below is the step-by-step procedure on how to do it with photos to make it easy to understand.

1.Sign in to your blogger account and click the layout button next to your blog name

2.Next, click the edit html tab as shown in the below picture.

3.Add the below html code as specified in the below picture.

#navbar {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}

4. Save the changes.

Now, you can see your blog without that navbar(this tip can only hides the navbar, it doesn’t completely delete it). If you want the navbar to appear again,just remove that code and save the changes.
If you have any doubts,regarding this post, don’t hesitate to ask. You can ask your doubts via comments to this post.

If you are in doubt for choosing your blog as 2 column blog or 3 column blog, here is good and useful tips for you.

Advantage of two column blog-
1. It is very neat and clean.
2. Very easy to navigate.
3. Downloading time of page is less.

Disadvantage two column blog-
1. Less space for widget
2. Less space for advertisement
3. Your content should be large to fill more space.

Advantage of three column blog
1. More space for widget.
2. More space for advertisement.
3. More information about blog at side widget

Disadvantage of three column blog-
1. Difficult to find useful widget
2. Three column blogs are not looks very clean and neat.

So on the above basis the conclusion is- If you are new blogger and want to earn money from small traffic, you should use 3 column blog, If you are not using any ad network or more widget, you should use 2 column blog.

If you are a popular blogger, and you are generating money from your content or affiliate marketing, you should use 2 column blog. So that reader have more concentration on the content of your blog. If you have permanent readers, by 2 column blog you will present your content in clean way. You will not annoy your readers by lots of widget and Ads.

If your main source of traffic is from Google, you should use 3 column blog, so that you can make more money from non-returning visitors. You can give much information about your blog in side widget, so that non-retuning visitors can view other links of your blog and they may find your blog useful and will become regular reader of your blog.

My RSS feeds started to act weird this evening. The FireFox browser gave this error when I tried to view the feed.

“XML Parsing Error: xml declaration not at start of external entity … Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>”

The problem was caused by one of my plugins that inserted a blank line at the top of the RSS feeds.

The solution is to find that offensive plugin and remove any leading or trailing lines before and after the <?php and ?> PHP code respectively.

Solution

I hope this helps you if you’ve faced a similar problem.

‘Set up/Create Blog for free – Start earning without Investment’ – Yes, I know title looks spammy. But it is very true. You can start Blogging using two ways. Self hosted blogging software and free webhosting account or using free blog publishing systems.

Method 1:

You can start or set up blog by using self hosted blogging software and free web hosting account.

• I recommend these softwares – WordPress (PHP), b2evolution (PHP/MySQL), Movable Type (Perl).
• For free hosting you can use FreeHostia.com or search on Google.

Method 2:

Use free blog publishing systems. Nowadays many people are providing this service using WordPress MU. But I recommend to use Blogger also known as Blogspot or WordPress.com

• Blogger is a blog publishing system. It was created by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The service itself is located at www.blogger.com, and blogs that do not publish to their own websites are hosted by Google at subdomains of blogspot.com.
• WordPress.com is a WordPress MU-powered weblog hosting provider which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It runs proprietary code and WordPress MU. It is financially supported via paid upgrades, “VIP” services and limited Google Adsense advertising.

I hope this information helps to clear all doubts about Blogging!