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Wishing all of you a Happy Independence Day! Let’s celebrate the 60 Yrs. of Independence and lets keep this feeling of patriotism in our hearts at all the time, at each moment and not just keep it safe for this very day.

Let’s celebrate each day as Independence day but still keeping a special place in our hearts for this day!

I salute all the freedom fighters who took all the pain and fought for our country and fought for us. I wish belated Happy Independence to my Pakistani brothers too. I only know Saad (aka DJ Flush from sizlopedia) who’s from Pakistan in the blogosphere. Wish you Happy Independence Day my friend.

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Now, that we have a blog and we know how to get the traffic to the blog using various ways but there is another source of traffic and that accounts to the most of the traffic you can ever get on your blogs and that is Search Engines and in that also, we can specifically talk about Google. Most of the bloggers will agree that their major portion of traffic comes from search engines (for some it goes up to 50 % too) and it will be foolish to let that traffic go away.

In this post we’ll talk about some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) (the practice which helps in bringing the posts to the top of the queries run on search engines) tricks, so that you can get the maximum traffic like others from various search engines.

Before we start I would like to drag your attention towards this post where, I got my blog indexed in just 1 day by Google using simple tricks. I’m sure you’ll find that useful too, if you don’t follow any of those tips, then do it right now and it will surely help. Now, lets look at other simple tips which will help you for sure :

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Zoho has launched another quick app which will help you in quickly uploading the office document files to their servers and then with the help of this app you’ll be able to see that document without the need of any software. The app is Zoho Viewer and the name justifies what it does. The good thing is that you don’t need to register for this service and is available for everyone and that too for free.

Zoho viewer allows you to upload the office document files and then gives you the link so that you can send that link to others and others can view the file without worrying about having an office application. You can also embed the document in the web pages.

Now, the important thing is that if this viewer can attract users or not. Well, I’ll say that this is to give the direct competition to Google Docs as Google docs has been integrated in GMail and it allows you to view the document files directly.

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Now, that you know what is a blog and what is blogging and that you’ve started a blog, then the real question comes in and that will be what are the ways of generating the traffic ? Now, that’s a valid question, if you’ve got your ideas published then what’s the use of publishing if there is no one to read about it!

Well, there is just one rule which you need to follow and that is do what you want others to do! Now, I’ll give you some detailed information on that and you’ll come to know that how you can generate the traffic on your blog -

Ok I know this post is going to be real long, so for experienced bloggers I’ll just mention the main points and if you just want to read a particular point (because you already know about others) then scroll down to read more about it and skip the others but I’ve tried to make it real meaningful, so I’ll suggest to go through it completely. Here are the points I’m going to elaborate in this post :-

• Leave Comments.
• Use Trackbacks.
• Use Social news networks.
• Taking part in contests.
• Hosting blog contests.
• Group writing projects.
• Email is your best friend.

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Nirmal has written a post on 7 blogging tips for beginners and that provoked me to write a series where I’ll be discussing about blogging and various tricks I learnt from my experience. In this post, I’ll start with the basic and then I’ll move further to the tips and tricks. So lets find out what is a blog and blogging :

The technical definition of a blog :

I’m a big fan of Darren Rowse and he has already written a post where he explains that what is a blog and he has covered the technical definition of the blog and explained the terms like blogging, archives, comments.

Here’s is the technical definition of blog given by Darren :

Blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

I know this may not be clear but go through the post written by Darren and you’ll get the exact idea of what exactly blog is all about.

My definition of a blog (not technical) :

Well, this is strange for me too but yes I’m writing some thing non-technical over here. Here’s what I think about a blog :

A blog is a platform where you have the option of expressing your ideas & views and you are ready to accept the views of the visitors through comments.

My definition of what is not a blog (I hope that most of the people will agree to this):

If we go by the technical definition then any website which has some posts arranged in chronological order can be called a blog but that won’t be a real blog. For e.g. if you copy and paste the posts of other people in a blog platform then it will not be your blog. A blog is your reflection and it reflects your ideology. It’s a way of communicating your thoughts to others in written format (it can have images too).

What is blogging :

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