Online Blogging as a Career in India – Look A Complete Review !!

In India, With increase in population and lack of employment these days, lots of youngsters have been starting their career as a professional blogger.Engineering students, medical professionals, MBAs, law students, bored housewives…you name it. The reasons more and more people are adopting blogging as a profession are mainly scope, job satisfaction and money.

Who don’t want to be his own boss? Working on your own time and leading an independent life. In the age of high speed internet, gone are the days where people work from 9 to 5.

I’m going to throw some light on few important points about pursuing a successful blogging career in India.

Scope of blogging in India

You must have heard that blogosphere is an already saturated field, scope of earning is very low, rate of failure is very high and bla..bla..bla..But, the reality is completely opposite. I can say confidently, the scope for professional blogging in India is tremendous. In every ages 2000 – 2005 – 2010, you will find people with half baked knowledge who spreads negative things about blogging.There is still a big gap between demand and supply of online contents in different niches. Subjects like photography, finance, self developments, fashion and education blogs are in great demand in India and abroad.

Yes, the technology space like gadgets, web-designing and SEO is quite saturated. That’s the reason quite a lot of technology bloggers rejected for AdSense ads by Google recently.

What is professional blogging

Bloggers, who blog or publish blog posts in a way which is thoroughly researched, well edited and presented in such an interesting way that adds value to the readers or blog visitors.One thing I want to clear – a Professional Blogger needn’t be a full-timer. A part-time blogger who blogs in a professional way also falls in this bracket. So, professional blogging can be full-time or part-time.

Yes. Name, fame and money is usually an intent or part of professional blogging.

Investments

Unlike other careers, professional blogging needs very less investment, in terms of money.For registering a domain name, buying web-space  may cost somewhere between Rs. 2,500 to Rs. 5,000 ( US$ 50 to 100).Your principal amount may be small, but you can generate a great revenue by leveraging your blogging career.

Requirements

Besides the technical requirements, a blogger needs the following things for success -

1. Passion

2. Hard work

3. Expertise in your niche or subject

In reality, professional blogging requires high level of commitment and hard work. It is almost same as a 4 yrs of engineering degree or a 5 and 1/2 yrs of medical degree.If you are thinking, blogging is an easy way to earn money, because you failed in other professional fields, then you are absolutely wrong.You should atleast spend 6 to 8 hours daily for you blogging activities.

Earnings

Now, the interesting part! Earning money is what motivates a blogger to become a professional, irrespective of part-time or full-time blogging.I can assure you, if you work hard for 2 to 3 yrs and make your blog authoritative, you can earn between Rs. 50,000 to Rs. 1,00,000 ( US$ 1000 to 2000) easily.Here I’m talking about single author blog, with or without accepting guest blogging. The earnings of multi-author blogs are always high.

5 Tips for blogging success

1. Produce well researched and unique contents.

2. Never publish copied or duplicate content from online or offline sources. You blog may be penalized by Google panda for this.

3. In the initial period, concentrate more on content to build a large reader base, instead of money.

4. You blogging niche or subject should be your passion or hobby. It helps you to enjoy your work and go a long way.

5. Learn a lot to know the tricks of the trade.

If you want to know something else about blogging career in India, you can ask your question in the comment section. I’m ready to help you. Wish you BEST OF LUCK !!

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How to Remove Attribution Widget on Blogger

How to remove attribution on Blogger? How to remove copyright widget on Blogspot? How to remove line at the bottom of blog? If you're using a template by Blogger's Template Designer, most of them have an attribution widget at the bottom of the blog. Take a look and it's something like this...




You're able to modify only the "Copyright" statement from the widget. If you want to remove this Attribution widget at Design > Page Elements, you see that it can be edited...
But unlike the other normal widgets, you won't be able to remove the Attribution widget because it doesn't have a "Remove" button.

If you insist on removing the widget, here are the steps to remove the attribution widget on Blogger. It's pretty easy and understandable. 1) First, go to Design > Edit HTML > Tick "Expand Widget Templates". Search for the word "attribution".







2) When you see the Attribution widget code (refer to image above), change the "true" on locked to "false".
3) Go back to Design > Page Elements.

4) Since the lock function is disabled (by changing the code to "false"), it's movable and can be removed as well. Click on "Edit" on the Attribution element.

5) And now with the "Remove" button available, you can finally remove the Attribution widget for good.








Done!

How to add a horizontal navigation bar or menu to Blogger?

We have seen a horizontal menu or a navigation bar on many websites and blogs especially the wordpress blogs.But very few Blogger blogs have a horizontal navigation bar in their blog.







Here are some simple steps for setting up a Horizontal Navigation Bar -

Step 1.-Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML. Here find this - /* Header */

Step 2.- Add this code below that -

#menu ul li{
font-size:100%;
list-style-type: none;
display:inline;
padding:0px;
margin:10px;
border:0px solid;
}

#menu li a{
color:#dfffed;
}

#menu li a:visited {
color: #57E964;
}

#menu li a:hover {
color: #F88017;
background: #ffff66;
}

You should edit this code after step 6,so that you could know how does it looks like.

(Edit margin values for placement,and various html color values below for respective colours.)

Step 3.- Find this -

b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'

Step 4.- Change -

1. showaddelement='no' to showaddelement='yes'
2. maxwidgets='1' to maxwidgets='4'

Save template and go to Page Elements.

Step 5.- In the Header , Add Page Element > Add HTML .

Step 6.- Leave the title Blank and add the following code in text field -

• Your URL
">Home

• Your URL
">Advertise

• Your URL
">About Me

• YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS
">Contact

Add your desired values in above code marked red. Save it.

Now you can edit the code in Step 2.

How to disable right click in blogger(blogspot) or any webpage

This post explains how to disable right click on blogger(blogspot) or any other webpage using a html(javascript) code. It is so annoying if someone copies(thefts) your blog posts,articles,images and another kind of information owned by you saying that they are the original owners of the content. But,I think 'disabling right click' is not the right solution for that. Most people come to your site to read information and very small percentage of people come to your site to steal your work,images,etc.So,most people feel it insulting and I think it's very unprofessional thing to do,

If you want to protect your images,my suggestion is to add a Watermark(logo) of your sitename,or your name on the images,pictures,etc. Note:Using this javascript code,you only disable the right click by warning the visitors that the content is copyrighted.

That's all my personal opinion,However if you desperately want to add this feauture,You can get this code here.

Where to paste it in blogger ? Sign in to your blogger dashboad>layout>Add a Pageelement>html/javascript(look at the screenshot below)

and paste the javascript code and Save the changes.

How it works?
If you right click on the webpage,a message will pop up on screen saying "function disabled".If you want to change the message to you own one like "sorry....the work is copyrighted" or something like that,replace the "funtion disabled" text with your own message in the Javascript code.

How to add Favicon to blogger(blogspot) blog

Favicon is 'Favicon is a small icon(image) displayed at the beginning of the address bar of the browser.It is also called Favourite Icon,Pageicon and urlicon.

The main advantage of creating and using favicon is ,it makes it easy to find your blog or site when someone favourited or bookmarked your site/blog among several other sites.

Most of the people use 16*16 pixel favicon(you can also use 32*32 pixel favicon) with ".ico" format.But,you can also use gif,png(image formats) aswell.

you need to do a quick google search free hosts available to host .ico files and with hotlinking enabled, there create an account which is totally free and then upload any image file (JPG or GIF or PNG or BTM) and it will automatically convert it to icon file, after converting they will provide a hotlink enabled to your icon file.

Now,go to your blogger dashboard>layout>Edit html
and look for this code(it is at the top the template)
and add the given code which is given by your icon host just after the above one[as shown in the below screenshot]


That's it! Now you can see a beautiful favicon in your blog.