Are you making use of the FREE Toolset that Google is giving away for everyone? If not, it’s high time that you did. It can significantly improve the whole process of your blog’s/web’s integration with the search engine that is responsible for most of the search engine traffic in the world – Google! It’s feature include;

• Extensive use of sitemaps
  

  Now you can directly upload your XML sitemap on Google. Once uploaded, Google checks the sitemap out and indexes the links. This is a great way for making sure that all of your pages on that 1000 page blog get indexed by Google.

  I use a Wordpress plug-in called ‘Google-sitemap-generator‘ for this.

Did you ever wonder what future has in store for you and your blog? Of course, you want to be a successful blogger, have a dedicated audience, live in the spotlight, and earn some descent money. So how do other people do it? Today I’ll share some things they all have in common – according to the things that they’ve disclosed.

• Don’t leave everything to fate – Don’t think that it’s luck or the way that someone’s fate had been written that indeed make that blogger reach the skies. The story of my life – you write your own fate.

When I was doing my final year high school exams, I came across these two resources quite by accident. And these two resources by two top bloggers – Steve Pavlina and John Chow – convinced me to be a blogger and today here I am.

And whoever who’s starting to blog or currently is a blogger really shouldn’t miss these two things; since both has hell a lot great tips, tricks and blogging insights. Even if you’re the most experienced blogger, I believe you can learn a thing or two with them.

The most difficult process of blogging – good blogging – is coming up with good ideas for new blog posts. Once you have a good idea, the next hardest thing is brainstorming for good content engineering. And this whole brainstorming thing - we will take a closer look on it today – and we’ll also pay some mind to psychology-at-work.

Tip 1 – Have a specific time to brainstorm.

I guess you know what your optimum time to brainstorm. The optimum time your brain is filled with ideas. Well, if you don’t know, just experiment around it.

This is the final part of the “Your complete guide to RSS” series. Today we’ll look at some common and un-common mistakes that bloggers make and discuss ways in eliminating it.

Do you hide your subscription options?

Some bloggers tend to give that AdSense skyscraper all the room in the sidebar and tend to literally hide their subscription options. Although I accept the fact that anyone really interested in subscribing to your feed will take the trouble in finding that ‘hidden’ button, I think having that option at the readers face will give you that edge in influencing them to subscribe.

Again; a million dollar question! Many believe that a blog post should be filed under one category and a lesser number believes that it causes no harm to file it under multiple categories. What’s my stance? Well, if you take a look at my blog, you’ll see that I’m on the middle of the road.Benefits of filing a blog post under single categories.

• Would not create duplicate entries in your categories
  When a reader browses through your categories, that one wouldn’t be frustrated to see the same article titled “Gavin DeGraw’s Jealous Guy” featured in “songs for the heart” category and “my all time favorite soundtracks” category. (Hey!