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Should You Quit Your Job for Your Passion?
By: Squeeze The Avocado
Tags: Freelancing, Work, Side Hustle, Personal Finance, Jobs

Should You Quit Your Job for Your Passion?

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Some time ago, I was watching YouTube when I encountered a video Struthless named Before you “quit your job and follow your passion” watch this. In the video, he argues that despite himself quitting his job to pursue his passions, it is not for everyone. I agree. But it also got me thinking about it, so I would like to add to the conversation.

The Self-Help industry makes millions telling you to follow your dreams

How to work only 4 hours a week, quit the 9–5 rat race, live in Bali and be an instagrammer. I wish! And you know, it may be in fact possible for a small number of people to just take the advice, run with it, and succeed.

A small number of people. Now, I don’t mean that we should not follow our passions and stay in jobs we don’t like. However, the self-help industry (influencers, writers, scammers, and so on) makes millions telling you just what you want to hear. No judgment! I too research on google “how to make money from home working 1 hour a day”, or stuff like that. In fact, it may very well be what started me on this blogging journey too.

Just keep in mind, that “they” will always tell you that you can have what is desired by most, but feasible only for some.

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Not everyone can afford to quit

This subtitle made me immediately think about my mother. She just turned 50, she loves that she works (when she was with my father, she “couldn't”. Long story for another day), but she does not love her job.

Unfortunately, my mother, like many others, is single, has a teenage daughter (not me, I’m almost 30, sigh), grandsons, and not much in her retirement account. Would I be able to tell her — or anyone in a difficult position — to just quit her job and do something she likes? Nope. I don’t think so.

Just to start moving into the “solutions” part of this post, I was thinking that onw option could be to start by downsizing. When viable.

Taking less hours, search for a part-time so that you can have time to follow your entrepreneur spirit, or just ask one more day off.

Photo by Done By Alex on Unsplash

Side-Hustles could be the solution to the dilemma

What dilemma? The conundrum of doing something you don’t like for money, or risking it all for your passion.

Energy permitting, nothing stops us from starting a passion-project while working our daily jobs.

Take the weekends, or the hours you got back to go around and take photos for your photography website. Use nights and morning to write in your blog, or book. Train people in the park on a sunny Sunday. Open your Esty shop with just a few-manageable items.

See how you go.

Then, if it all goes well:

Quit your job and follow your passion!

See what I’ve done there?

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INSECURITY 💔
By: Odekoya Enitan
Tags: Sidehustle Internship, Side Hustle, Life Lessons, Temispire, Life

INSECURITY 💔

Chapter One

Introduction

Hmmmm, looking at the word insecurity could be in diverse ways, e.g low self-esteem, marital insecurity where either of the spouse feel that his or partner is cheating, it can also be the one we are facing as a nation in Nigeria.

The low self-esteem part has to do with not being confident in one's abilities and capabilities, which breeds uncertainty in one's mind. Everyone at a point in our lives have faced this, be it our place of work, school- inability to face the crowd ( this is so me😢), and so on.

The marital part, I don't know much cause I'm not married and that's not the main body of this work but the national insecurity faced in Nigeria.

Keywords: Insecurity, sovereignty, sovereign

Chapter Two

What is Insecurity?

Insecurity is the act of not being sure or confident about one's self and abilities. Since we would be talking about national Insecurity, we won't be using this definition.

National Insecurity is when a country is in chaos and it's vulnerable to threats and danger from external forces e.g Boko Haram. To me, sovereignty law is broken here, it's not a sovereign state any longer.

Sovereignty is when a state has the ability and capability to exercise authority and power and also maintain law and order within its state without external interference. So from this definition, you can see that the country is not a sovereign one. When there's Insecurity in a country, be it within or outside, then it's not a sovereign state, because there must be law and order within a state before you can call it a sovereign one.

Keywords: conflicts, terrorism, Boko Haram sect.

Chapter Three

Conflict and Terrorism as major factors of insecurity.

It can start as a conflict when not settled, can escalate into insecurity where lives and properties are not safe; conflict could be within a country or a state or between two different states or country.

In the case of Nigeria, we have tribal conflict e.g the Nnamdi Kanu followers fighting for the emergence of Biafra and also the Sunday Igboho followers fighting for the Oduduwa emergence; this is happening within the country.

Terrorism is a form of manipulation involving threats, chaos and violence. Example is the Boko Haram sect in Nigeria.

We also have the religion differences, this is where the Boko Haram sect comes in, they are terrorist, they said they are fighting their religion belief and also against the westernization. They have terrorized us severally, even till date, have you heard of this saying on the news the unknown gunmen, yes they are the ones.

For Nigeria, we are facing both inter and intra type of conflicts, which as now resulted in insecurity in the country.

Conflict and terrorism are the major factors of insecurity. We also have the Niger Delta militants, though theirs is for a good cause but they have allowed their anger to take over, so it has become bloody.

This factors have resulted in the increase of IDPs in the country, most especially the northern part.
How Creative Tim generated tons of traffic using Reddit
Tags: Side Hustle, Startup, Indiehackers, Marketing

How Creative Tim generated tons of traffic using Reddit Karim Jul 2·1 min read

Creative Tim, a place where you can buy UI Kits, boosted their growth by posting in different communities. Reddit has over 130k subreddits (niche communities on Reddit). Creative Tim started posting content on subreddits where their target audience would hang out like /r/web_design, /r/html5, /r/frontend and others. By posting something the community loves to see their content got upvoted to the top. Resulting in a ton of highly targeted and free traffic.

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In which subreddit is your target audience hanging out, right now? Which posts seem to do well within those subreddits? How can you create a post that adds value to the community and link back to your product/service?

💡 Here’s how

1 — Go to https://www.reddit.com/subreddits/ and start typing keywords related to your business.

2 — Make a list of a few subreddits where your target audience is conversing

3 — Check out the top posts within those subreddits to get a better understanding of the type of posts that seem to work well

4 — Start contributing to the subreddit. Spamming will backbite you. Be helpful and engage in the community with helpful posts & comments. You’ll gradually build up a super targeted, free traffic channel back to your product or service.

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Is Botting Sneakers Right for You in 2021?
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Side Hustle, Finance, Sneakers, Juiced Io

Is Botting Sneakers Right for You in 2021?

What you need to know about botting sneakers in 2021 Juiced Jul 2·4 min read

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Botting sneakers in 2021 is different from botting sneakers in 2020 or literally any other year. Sneaker botting has become a huge part of the sneaker culture, whether people like it or not.

Sneaker resellers and sneaker botters are helping to push the sneaker market forward and anyone looking to start botting will need a rundown on what to expect.

Unlike what many people believe, sneaker botting isn’t as simple as it sounds. You don’t just log onto your computer and start botting sites like Nike and Foot Locker. It takes time, energy, and resources to become a good sneaker botter.

When I say resources, I don’t mean basic things like a computer and internet connection. I mean proxies, bots, servers, and more. If you have the right combination of all of these things and a dash of luck, you might be able to bot a couple pairs of sneakers to resell on the weekends. Just maybe.

Botting sneakers has come a long way since the days of installing a Google Chrome extension that automatically adds items to your cart. Unless you take the time to really understand what’s going on in the world of sneaker bots then you’re going to get left behind by other botters.

Members of Juiced IO receive free weekly access to top-tier bots and sneaker resources. Additionally, they receive guides on how to use the bots they get in the best ways possible.

Unless you’re a member of Juiced IO, here are some things to keep in mind when debating whether or not you should bot sneakers in 2021.
#1 Strategy For Effective Social Media Marketing
By: Jacob Morgan
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Social Media Marketing, Future Of Work, Side Hustle, Business Marketing

Image by Hello I’m Nik on Unsplash

No matter what type of business you own, chances are a lot of it happens online.

In today’s ultra-connected world, social media is a crucial tool for building your personal brand and your business.

It can be tempting for entrepreneurs to post whatever they want, whenever they want. Take a cool picture? Post it on Instagram. Have something to say in a video? Post it on YouTube. It’s a trap I fell into when I first started using social media, but it soon became messy and chaotic.

In this video, I share the most important strategy for effective social media marketing.

If you want more content like this then make sure to subscribe to the Be Your Own Boss Podcast Youtube Channel where Blake and I teach you how you can be your own boss.

Using this strategy helps you identify the voice you want to have and the channels you want to use. It creates a consistent, strategic approach to social media. As you grow your brand online, consistency is key.

Social media is one of the best tools for building your business. Don’t leave it up to chance. Take it seriously and spend time following this top social media strategy. Your effort will pay off with effective social media marketing and incredible opportunities to build your brand and business.

Now more than ever, people are moving from full-time employment to entrepreneurship. We are collectively realizing that the only job security that exists is the one that you create for yourself, but how? My wife Blake and I are successful entrepreneurs who both made the transition while we had full-time jobs. You can learn how here.

Download our new guide on 5 Tips For How To Become An Entrepreneurs While You Have A Full Time Job.
Sohit the college student seeks advice about getting into business quickly
By: David Barnett
Tags: Small Business, Student, College, Conversations, Side Hustle

Are you sitting in Economics 101 and just itching to begin your entrepreneurial journey?

This week, one of my college viewers, Sohit, writes to ask me what he can do to get started right away to get into business.

It’s an interesting case. Sohit needs to focus on his studies but is there an opportunity for him?

What kind of opportunity?

Watch as I give Sohit advice that I don’t often share.

Also — an important piece of advice for young people who are part of today’s college crowd.

Watch the amazingly awesome video presented here in Beard-o-Vision HD. The latest in video technology.: https://youtu.be/IgGKAT7BFUw

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Book a call with me at https://www.clarity.fm/davidbarnett

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I bet my father that I could pay off $60,000 in student loans in the next 9 months.
By: Bralyn Wolfstein
Tags: Small Business, Entrepreneurship, Challenge, Student Loans, Side Hustle

I bet my father that I could pay off $60,000 in student loans in the next 9 months. Bralyn Wolfstein Nov 16, 2019·3 min read

Hello Medium,

Today is November 16th. Welcome to the first thing I have written apart from facebook posts written during the undergrad years about sportzball games. I am writing this blog for two purposes — to document my life as I sweat, bleed, and cry my way through a bet I have made with my father, and to find my writing voice. More on the second point later.

Right before I finished graduate school, I had about $60,000 in student loans. I was being flippant with my father one afternoon while we joked around about how long it would take me to pay off the student loans. I got smart with him and told him that I would find a way to pay off the loans by August of 2020, specifically on the eve of my sister’s birthday. I bet him two tickets to Hawaii that I would have every cent of my student loans paid off by then; if I win, I can take one other person with me to America’s most tropical state. If I lose, those tickets will go to my parents.

I work at a technology company in New York City. I make decent money, but not enough to make this accomplishment feasible with my income alone. As such, this blog will chronicle my journey as I push myself to be more resourceful than I thought possible. I will document my experience cold calling people to sell insurance, I will reflect on the products I receive from affiliate market offers, and I will express my honest, open thoughts as I work to establish a functional passive stream of income aside from my daily job. I will be frank with you, my dear reader. I don’t know if I will be able to pull this off. So far, I have paid off around $10,000 since graduation (last December). This blog will document my own struggles, successes, reflections on reading that I have done, interviews with small business owners, and thoughts on digital marketing, insurance, whatever insights I discover while scrambling harder than an egg in a frying pan to pull this off.

Two noteworthy things — Bralyn Wolfstein is not my real name. The company I work for gets nauseous when they find workers who have side projects, so to be on the safe side, I won’t be revealing personal information because I have this fear that should my employer find out, I would get screwed over in multiple orifices.

Another noteworthy thing. I am doing this all to push myself further than I am comfortable. Running a blog is one of the things that has always made me about as comfortable as a MAGA hat at the Democratic National Convention, so I am using this to develop my own speaking voice and eventually build my own brand with it.

Here’s to many more entries, good and bad, dear reader. Onward.
3 Ways to Make an Extra Income as a Developer
By: Mehdi Aoussiad
Tags: Technology, Programming, Work, Money, Side Hustle

3 Ways to Make an Extra Income as a Developer

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Introduction

There are times when a little extra money on the side is much appreciated. Most of the junior developers find it hard to monetize their coding skills. They have the potentials, but they don’t know how to generate an income from their skills. Sometimes, they know but they don’t have the courage, or they just underestimate themselves.

In this article, we will cover some ways that will help you make an extra income as a developer. Let’s get right into it.

1. Freelance Work

There are hundreds of projects on freelancing websites where many easy jobs are being listed for beginner developers. The problem is that there is a lot of competition. However, don’t let this be an excuse for you, just go ahead and apply for jobs there. But make sure to have a good portfolio that represents you with projects that you have worked on. It might take longer for you to get your first client, but keep trying until you reach your goal.

Platforms like Upwork or Fiverr seem to offer a lot of opportunities, especially for doing things on the sidelines but be aware of the competition over there as I said.

2. Writing

Building software is not the only way to make money from coding. There are so many ways, such as blogging and writing about technology. Most of the developers today have their own blog where they write articles. As a result, many people can access those articles which can help you as a developer to market for yourself and generate an income from your writings at the same time.

There are also some great platforms that help you to easily set up your own blog and start making money from your blog posts. Medium is a good example of that, you can monetize your blog posts by joining their partner program.

3. Record and Sell Online Courses

The ability to teach people online is one of the best skills that are in high demand these days. If you have the skills and you love teaching people, you can create courses and sell them online. There are many platforms available for your courses to be published on. Udemy, for example, has about 75 million visitors a month and anyone can join them.

And even if it seems appealing that once a course has been recorded and people start buying it, it will create passive income for you, that is only true to some extent. The best teachers constantly update their courses because technology changes all the time. Keep that in mind.

Conclusion

There other ways to make an extra income with your skills, but I decided to give you only the ways that I have experienced and I saw people doing them. Keep in mind that things won’t work overnight. It is hard work, you have to invest your time and energy. I believe you can do it if you have the mindset to never quit no matter what obstacles come into your way.

“You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.” Ted Turner.

Thank you for reading this article, I hope you found it useful.
Pixela’s subscription billing is built with Patreon webhook
By: Dino A.K.A. A-Know
Tags: Monetization, Crowdfunding, Patreon, Side Project, Side Hustle

I introduced in the article I wrote the other day, Pixela has a few features that only work with Patreon Patron.

Pixela’s Patron is a very small $1 monthly subscription, but it needs still a billing system. I think it’s normal to build a billing system using stripe, etc., but I want Pixela to be easy to use and continue to be easy to develop.

So I used Patreon’s webhook function to easily implement a billing system. In this article, I’ll go into a bit more detail on how to do this.

Integrate Patreon subscriptions into own service

Do you already know Patreon? Patreon is a crowdfunding platform.

My interest in Patreon started when I learned that I could get monthly subscription support from patrons. I wondered if I could take advantage of Patreon, I first read Patreon’s API Reference. It turns out that Patreon can make a Webhook request when Patron is newly registered and unregistered.

I thought that if Pixela had the following mechanism to take advantage of webhook, it would be able to hand over the handling of charges to Patreon’s platform;

There is a new Patron registration. Webhook request is generated for Pixela. Pixela gets Patreon user information in the request’s payload when it receives a Webhook request. Generate registration code and record Pixela database. Send the registration code to Patron’s e-mail address in Payload. When Patron registers registration code with Pixela, it checks its validity.

I’ve done this, and so far it works fine as a billing system. If Patron leaves, just do the opposite. Isn’t it easy?

pros/cons

The advantage of this method is that it’s easy to build and I don’t have to worry about billing failures, refund processing, or withdrawal. I just want to focus on developing Pixela.

I also feel that the advantage is that Patrons can’t buy Pixela service directly. I love the people who support Pixela.

There are also disadvantages. There is no transaction management in this process flow (just only a simple retry), so if something goes wrong, the user should contact me. Now I allow it.

And the fee. I understand that Patreon is a great platform, but I may find this fee burdensome.

Conclusion

I found that Patreon can be used effectively in the creative activities of developing Web services (instead of YouTube and podcasts). I hope it will spread to many people.
3 Ways to Make Money on the Sneaker Market While It’s Rebounding From a Dip
Tags: Entrepreneurship, Side Hustle, Finance, Sneakers, Business

Become a member of Juiced IO

Members of Juiced IO most likely already have pairs they are able to sell for a profit. It’s because they were informed by Juiced IO months ago about what sneakers to invest in and hold.

This means the sneakers they were holding in the back of their closets and letting collect dust are now being sold for a profit.

You can become a member of Juiced IO by registering and start making money immediately.

You’ll receive daily information about the most profitable flips on the sneaker market and other collectibles. From cards to Funko Pops and more, Juiced IO members make money reselling items each day.

Long-term hold

Holding almost any pair of Jordans or Adidas Yeezys for the long term will almost always pay off. The long term can be anywhere from 6 months or more.

After that time, restocks don’t happen and you can expect to make more money because there will be fewer deadstock pairs of that specific shoe on the market.

In general, if you’re looking to make money on the sneaker market and you’re not sure which sneakers to buy in, setting aside enough money to comfortably hold a pair for 6 months without having to sell it will almost guarantee you a profit.

Quick flip

The recent release of the Air Jordan 4 Tech White Oreo has proven that sneakers being released these days can still be immediately profitable. At the time of writing this story, prices are sitting between $250 and $300.

Yes, prices will drop once more people start getting their pairs in hand but Jordan 4s have proven to hold up on the aftermarket over time.

Plus, you can always sell pre-orders on eBay for the market value right now and get paid before you even get the sneakers in hand. It’s all about you decide to sell the sneakers.

Selling pre-orders is one of the best ways to go about quickly flipping a product. You can get your money in hand before ever even touching the sneaker and you don’t have to worry about what happens to the sneaker market once prices fall.

Conclusion: There is money to be made

At the end of the day, there is still money to be made on the sneaker market. It just took a slight dip just like every other market did.

You can still buy and resell shoes for a nice profit at the time of writing this story.

Looking to start reselling? Sign up now at https://juicedio.com
Easy Internet Money
Tags: Twitter Marketing, Powerless2powerful, Side Hustle, Growth, Business

What’s the secret?

Well if I am truthful you have to copy the people you want to be. Of course that might not work for creating a Facebook or Microsoft because they did have advantages you probably don’t have, but to create a following we know a lot of people that have a following.

You can study how they did it and try to replicate it. The richest and most successful people are always looking for an advantage and asking every question they can. We know this from real life case study like “MrBeast” on YouTube. He put in the work doing stuff no one would have done or have thought of and one day he got a hit (check out his old stuff to see what I am talking about). Then he took advantage of what he had and since he actually had amazing ideas it only continued to propel him into who he is today.

That is the recipe be consistent and be almost obnoxious at how well you respond and post on your platform of choice/choices. For me I schedule my post on twitter and go for every two hours on the cycle during the working day. Once you get a couple weeks stacked up start adding in more. Ideas, jokes, statements and, satire all work well on most platforms. Be real or don’t, although being real is much more popular if you wanna fake it till you make it make sure you have the brains and guts to back it up when pressured on your thoughts.

Now to the making part. You are going to have to be good at something if you are going for the real aspect. Got years of job experiences then focus on those course/programs. Have real teaching ability get you some training programs ready. Really creative? Start posting and selling your art. Maybe you even got lucky on a viral tweet and you could make it a product from a shirt or a poster. You want to start a movement maybe a slogan you could turn into multiple products. The ideas are endless and if you have been on the internet long enough you know that money can be mad from all the craziest ideas.
How I Made $60,000 in My Spare Time by Selling Motorcycle and Car Parts
By: Erik Mcdonel
Tags: Do It Yourself, Money, Side Hustle, eBay, Business

Step 2: Buy the Motorcycle

At this point, you’ll be contacting the seller. If he’s asking $500 and you tell him “I’m ready to come NOW with cash in hand,” he’ll probably take less, maybe $400 or even $350.

Obviously, if you own your own pickup truck and some (ideally four) ratchet tie-down straps (for big, heavy motorcycles, you’ll also need a ramp of some kind), that’s easiest. But I didn’t have a truck when I started and found that many of the sellers have their own pickup trucks and will deliver. However, that might cost you more (You might have to say something like, “I’ll give you an extra $100 if you deliver the motorcycle to me”).

Once you’re on-site with the motorcycle, look it over, and try to get the best price you can. Whatever you do, DO NOT tell the owner that you’re going to part the motorcycle out! Many of the sellers have fond memories of their motorcycle and they do not want to hear that you’re going to take it apart. It doesn’t matter that the motorcycle will cost a fortune to get running again, and parting out the motorcycle will keep other motorcycles on the road. Don’t tell them you’re parting it out!

The motorcycle might have a title, or it might not. It doesn’t make much of a difference. It is nice if the motorcycle has a key, though, because you can hook a power source up to the battery terminals and see if the electrical parts work, if the motor turns over, or even if the motorcycle starts (unlikely). Also, parts that include locks are worthless without a key (such as ignition, helmet lock, luggage, etc). Don’t be bothered by the fact that the paint is dull or there’s some light surface rust here or there.

You might be asking, “how do I know if this motorcycle is stolen?” Sometimes the seller has the title. If the bike is newer, they almost always do. If that’s the case, you’re in the clear. If the bike is very old, and obviously very nonfunctional, the sellers don’t always have the title. However, they almost certainly aren’t stolen. Nobody is going to steal a big, heavy, rusty, nonfunctional paperweight from 40 years ago that’s worth pocket change. There are too many shiny, $20,000 Harleys for them to target.

Once you’ve got the motorcycle loaded, you’re ready to go home! Here are some photos of motorcycles I’ve personally picked up.
How to make money online with your skills
By: Mohamed Shajith
Tags: Freelancing, Work From Home, Side Hustle, How To Make Money, Passive Income

Everybody has some skill in something so why don’t you monetize your skills and make it as a passive income.

That's right..!!

Start your business today with your skills on Fiverr. Fiverr is the freelancing marketplace where business outsources temporary staff for the particular short term projects. It is one of the leading marketplaces connecting businesses to freelancers all over the world. This is one of the best platforms for beginners to start their online business without any investment. There are billions of entrepreneurs and big firms looking for freelancers every single day. Don’t be worried, Everything is a skill like editing, teaching, reading, typing, writing, etc. Still confused, let me show you some example

Everybody knows how to make PowerPoint slides in Microsoft PowerPoint. It is also considered a skill. Honestly, this is my first Gig (Gig workers are online independent workers or on-call workers and temporary workers). I started my first gig in Fiverr as creating presentations. I will show you how to get started

Create a GiG on Fiverr ( Can create up to 7 gigs) Make your profile ready. Check other gigs and get some good keywords to keep your profile on top. Do not copy just have a look and see how they using the words to keep them in higher ranking. Set your prices according to your work (i.e) Fiverr has three plans Basic, standard, and premium. Each has individual prices like you can offer 5 slides for $5 in the basic plan, 10 slides for $10 in the standard plan, and 15 slides for $20 in the premium plan. complete the description and make your point clear. play by your strength and never do anything for free. Making PowerPoint slides will take 1 hour for you but you have learned to do that in 1 hour. So never put yourself down. Publish and share your Gig on your social media or any other platform to get more clients. Never get disappointed I got my first client after 2 months.

Honestly, I started my freelancing career in making PowerPoint slides. This is one example to get started freelancing. If you are good at writing you can be a writer, or if you are good at talking you can give voice-over to some youtube channels there are millions of YouTubers looking for voices for their videos. There is no certification is required to become a freelancer. It’s the place for skills not for book warmers. It is not going to replace your 9–5 jobs but once you start getting more orders you will figure out how to manage orders.

Signup Fiverr for free and change your life completely as an entrepreneur

Learn everything at home for free. I have learned about my online businesses through skillshare.

Nothing to lose in trying something new. So never be afraid to try, it's okay failure is a stepping stone for success. Keep Smiling always :)
5 of the Best Pinging Sites to Increase Your Blog Traffic
By: Too Santo
Tags: Seo Tips, Blogging Tips, Internet, SEO, Seo Services

One effective way that bloggers can do to increase organic traffic is to ping the blog. The ping action aims to inform the search engine of content updates that occur on a web or blog. Usually bloggers ping when they post new articles.

In simple mechanism the ping process is done by writing the URL and RSS of our blog to the ping provider site, after that the ping site will send a signal to search engines to crawl our blog or website automatically. Thus we will get increased traffic from many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing and Yandex.

To find out what ping sites are effective in increasing our blog traffic, please refer to the 5 best ping sites that we can use to increase organic blog traffic quickly and safely for SEO

Ping O Matic

Pingomatic is a popular ping site that we can use to ping blogs to search engines safely, quickly, efficiently and absolutely free. Pingomatic has a simple and minimalist face so it is very easy to use. With PingOmatic, we can inform page URLs and web RSS to Search Engines in one click.

Domain Authority: 70

Alexa Rank: 5,726

Twingly

As a leading independent supplier, Twingly offers effective ways to increase website or blog traffic. Twingly has quite a lot of data that can be used as a primary key to call the robot crawler to explore the entire page on a web or blog.

Domain Authority: 68

Alexa Rank: 31,696

Pingler

Pingler is a special tool that we can use to call a crawler robot to crawl an entire web page or blog. By using Pingler, users can easily place their sites into search engine directories effectively and of course SEO friendly.

Domain Authority: 53

Alexa Rank: 14,901

Addurl.nu

Addurl.nu is the best pinging tool site we have to use to increase blog traffic quickly and efficiently. As with previous ping sites, Addurl.nu sends signals to crawler robots to crawl entire pages and RRS on the web or blog. This makes the website or blog faster indexed by search engines.

Domain Auhority: 52

Alexa Rank: 13.612

Pingoat

Pingoat is a free tool that can help you get more traffic from search engines. By pinging, you notify the service that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site, publish your blog content, thus increasing the popularity of your blog in the eyes of search engines.

Domain Authority: 30

Alexa Rank: 43,598
10 Best Fashion Blogs in India: Top Fashion Bloggers
By: Harpreet Singh
Tags: Bloggingtips, Blogging, Bloggingideas

“You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.” — Edith Head

Being normal is always boring.

Enjoying fashion is art. When we wear new clothes every day and do a new fashion with a new age, then we feel a new energy in us.

There are two ways to become more stylish: hire a professional fashion designer or do it yourself.

In this post, I am making simple ways to become fashionable.

In this post, I am giving information about 10 fashion bloggers, who are also successful fashion bloggers and are earning good money from blogging.

You can also become good fashion bloggers by looking at their blogs.

They not only help you learn the best ways to wear what you have or that helps you look more confident with your dress or lifestyle.

So let’s start…

10 Best Indian Fashion Blogs from top Fashion Bloggers

1. Akanksha Redhu: Fashion & Lifestyle Blogger

Akanksha Redhu is the owner of this blog. She launched it in 2010 sharing lifestyle and fashion tips.

2. Fashion Oomph

Tanya Mahendra is the owner of Fashion Oomph. It’s one of the best fashion and lifestyle-related blogs in India. She follows the latest fashion trends and gives you tutorials on fashion and lifestyle.

3. Vanity No Apologies: Beauty and Makeup Blog

Anshita Juneja is the owner of this blog. This was launched in 2010. This blog has over 25,000 social media followers.

4. Purushu

Purushu is the owner of this blog. He starts this blog in 2009.

5. Guilty Bytes

Devina Malhotra, the owner of this blog that discusses mostly the latest fashion trends. This is a trendsetter blog in the Indian fashion industry with whooping 60K+ followers on Facebook.

6. Gia Says That

Gia Kashyap is the founder of this blog. She was launched in 2010. She’s a fashion enthusiast from her childhood, started her own t-shirt business when she was 18.

7. Let’s Expresso

Tanya Virmani is the owner of this blog. She was launched in 2011. It is one of the top blogs in India that’s partnered up with some of the biggest fashion brands like Dove, Lakme, Veet, Kaya, etc.

8. Shalini Mehta

Shalini Mehta, a Mumbai based fashion stylist the owner of this blog. She was graduated from the National Institute of Design. She has a wide range of expertise in fashion, styling, Cinema, TV, etc.

9. Beauty n Best

Shreya is the owner of this blog. She mostly talks about all your style and beauty needs. Her blog is popular for most people where they search for beauty, fashion, and skincare related advice.

10. India Fashion Blogger

Kajal Mishra is the owner of this blog. She has collaborated with top Indian brands like Alberto Torresi, Asus Zenfone, Celebrity Face, CouponDunia, Fgali, Goa Tourism, Gionee, IML Jeans, Jabong, Rena Love and so on.

Kajal spent the last 5 years in banking with the IDBI bank. She started her blogging career in 2012 initially as a hobbyist blogger later to become a full-time blogger from India.
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 2021 — TRICKS ADVISORY
By: Md. Shakil Ahamed
Tags: Blogging Tips, Software, Adobe Photoshop, Blogger Template, Blogger

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My Passion and Its Journey How Am I Here Today
By: Raagavi Shanmugam
Tags: Blogging Tips, Uma Madhavi, Content Writing

Perhaps I am stronger to learn and explore things!

“If you feel like there’s something out there that you’re supposed to be doing and if you have a passion for it, then stop wishing and just do it.” — Wanda Sykes

Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash

COVID-19 is not just any pandemic that is rolling over on each of our lives. It is indeed has given us a lot to learn on how to tackle so far. The first month of this pandemic incertitude was teaching me how to spend more time at home, being a working woman. It was a Tom & Jerry show indeed. The flip teaching method was quite a challenge but still, we had the classes going on.

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logHow To Write Effective Blog
By: Joy Maria Ancy J
Tags: Blogging Tips, Blogging, Blog

How To Select The Content

✔Find the purpose of your Blog

✔Choose your Target Audience

✔Choose your niche

How To Market Your Blog

⁠Choose some social media platforms to promote your blog. Make some free webinar and e- material for your blog.

⁠Technology Values

Host Your blog on right platform. Use Blog SEO strategies for your blog. Use all the technical specifications to get your blog up and running.

Things For Good Blog

Title Speaks

Your title speaks before your content speaks. Your title will motivate the reader to see what is inside. Use these words as Titles “How To” or “Top 5 ways” or “Why” to attract more people.

Use important keyword of your blog in the title that will help your blog to reach for high rank in Google.

First Impression

If the first paragraph was too good, it will tempt them to read the whole document. So You have to more concentrate on the open paragraph. You can achieve this by asking a question that the blog post will answer, sharing interesting statistics, telling a personal story that your readers can relate to, or showing readers that you understand their biggest challenges.

Bullet Points & Headers

Everyone don’t have patience to read full content of your blog. They will just skim or scan your content. So use sub-headers, bullet points, numbered lists and short paragraphs. That will help them to understand the main content easily.

Images

Use quality images related to the blog content. Don’t use high quality images it will take more time for loading. So use normal images.

Categories And Tags

Assign each post with the appropriate category and tag it with relevant keywords. This will make it easier to find posts on your blog. Don’t use too many categories for a single blog. Find the five or fewer core topics and tag with it.
How to Setup Google Amp On A WordPress Site | GarimaShares
By: Garima Bhaskar
Tags: Blogging Tips, Blog, WordPress, Google, Blogger

Google AMP is an open framework that makes your posts more readable on smartphone devices. Think of it as a lighter and simplified version of your post.

It strips the content of its major styling elements and displays it in a simplified manner.

AMP in the Google AMP stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages Project. It was launched in October 2015. So, if you don’t have it activated on your site yet, better do it ASAP.

Why do you need Google AMP-activated on your WordPress site?

AMP improves your page’s speed. And we already that a page’s loading speed is a factor that determines the search rankings of your content.

Google Search is using mobile speed as a ranking factor, but sites can be fast by using a variety of techniques, including AMP.

Google Search applies the same standard to all pages.

Increased CTR. When you have an AMP-enabled post indexed, it is more likely to earn a featured snippet. It was found in a case study that pages with Google AMP earn 600% more clicks.

With AMP, your images get optimized automatically. It converts JPEG to WebP for supported browsers.

Also, if the reader has a slow network connection, a byte-reduction in the images is done by AMP so that it can load faster.

When a page is shown as an AMP in search results, the AMP symbol is shown next to it. At the top of the page, you can see that the URL has google.com/amp in front of the post’s link.

Also Read: How To Add Facebook Comments To WordPress Blog posts

How to Setup Google AMP in WordPress

There are 2 WordPress plugins that can help you do this, AMP and AMP for WP.

The second one is a more advanced plugin, it provides you with more customization options.

Keep in mind that your site must follow Google’s guidelines first. Though a plugin creates an AMP version of your posts, its Google who decides whether to show them or not.

When AMP is activated, your post gets a new URL assigned to it. This is handled by the plugin itself. For example,

Original blog post: https://yoursite.com/article

AMP blog post: https://yoursite.com/article/amp

Install any of the two plugins from your WordPress dashboard. Go to plugins> add new> search for AMP.

AMP WordPress Plugin

I have the AMP WordPress plugin installed. After the installation, you’ll see the AMP plugin show up in your dashboard like in the image below.

Under the general settings, you can select the type of theme you want on your AMP version.

You can choose the content types on which the AMP should be enabled: posts, pages, media or portfolios.
Two Years of Data Science Blogging: Here Are 5 Key Lessons I Learned
By: Dario Radečić
Tags: Blogging Tips, Towards Data Science, Programming, Blogging, Data Science

You Don’t Have To Be an Expert, Just One Step Ahead

Writing blog posts isn’t the same as writing scientific papers. Yet, many fail to distinguish between the two.

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