9 Tips to Get Listed over Yahoo News

Who don’t want to get featured over the most popular and high traffic News Aggregator like Yahoo News? Just think your blog articles are listed on such a huge traffic News Aggregator, where millions of readers visits.

You might be thinking that its very difficult and costly process to get listed over Yahoo News but it’s not that… You can get listed over there by following the below basic tips or steps:
Step to Get Listed over Yahoo News:
1. Submit Your Site to Yahoo : First you needed to get indexed properly by Yahoo. If your blog is not yet indexed then simply submit it.
2. Submit to Yahoo! Site Explorer : Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.
3. Yahoo Directories Submission: You can also submit your blog to this large web directory. This helps your blog little bit, so better try it..
4. Yahoo! News Source Form : Now suggest an “News Site” (Your Blog) to Yahoo along with your opinions.
Tips For Getting Listed..
The above were the basic submitting process of getting listed over Yahoo News! But here below are few tips that are needed for effective listing…
5. Quality Content : Yahoo wants the Quality and Long articles.. So, keep your blog readers friendly! This is the most important one.
6. Trendy Topic : As it is News Aggregator, so it loves to share the most trendy topic. Make your headline trendy, which can list you to the topic million readers.
7. Frequent Updated Blog : Keep your blog updated daily, so that Yahoo can expect updated and latest news from you daily.
Related : [10 Ways to Make Yourself a Blogger]
8. Multi Authored Blog : Multi Authored blog is the best idea because you can get some handsome number of posts daily.
9. Fast Loading Blog : Make your blog load fast with some fast and light weight themes or templates. Actually, none of the readers like to wait… And Yahoo too wants the fast loading blogs to be displayed on their featured list.

10 Ways Increase your Typing Speed

If you are a blogger or anyone who loves to chat then typing speed is very essential, you can use your valuable typing time in other works. It is said that if a person types faster than he can save upto 290 hours in a year. Its that great? ya!

Here i added the 10 ways to increase the typing speed…

1. Put yourself in a comfortable place where your keyboard is kept below your waist and you are sitting in a chair. This makes your fingers easy to type.

2. Use Both of your hands while typing.

3. Place your Thumbs on the Spacebar so that you can reach the other keys easily. You can check this visual tutorial for understanding placement of the fingers.

4. Don’t see the keyboard while typing because this breaks your concentration. Just go on typing without disturbing your concentration. Do we see our paddle while riding a bicycle? we go on riding my looking the front view..

5. Always use Emoticons while typing – this increases your feelings in the text and it also helps to remember the position of the symbols in our keyboard.

6. Make Real-Time typing – for eg. if someone is dictating, you go on writing or write  down of live conversation. It works Great!!

7. Don’t go on checking the spellings while typing… First Complete the Writing work and then go for Re-Check. Checking while typing disturbs the mind and even you could forget the things which you are going to write.

8. Play the typing Multiplayer Online Games like TypeRacer.

9. Use the typing Software for Practice and to check the typing speed.

10. Last but not least, nothing can be done without practicing. Practice as much as possible. Do it regularly with extreme patience. But don’t practice if your fingers become tired. Leave some gap.

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7 Tips to make you a Better Twitterer

You recently joined twitter but you found it quite inactive for you… But in the same time you are little bit jealous of other users whom you found tweeting & chatting over their Tweet Streams. Why you are not Getting any Attention? What to do?

The Reason your are not getting any attention…

This is not your fault because there’s huge number of users tweeting at a time, so it’s not possible to get noticed in front of other tweeters. Even many Twitterers chat with selected users who are having a good number of followers but you don’t have because you are quite new to it.

Here are few tips to get yourself highlighted in front of other Twitterers.

1. Put maximum of your Tweets in Text and less of your tweets with links. Actually maximum tweeting of links makes you look like a Spammers.

2. Whenever you share a Link.. Share the most valuable one from the well known sites.

3. Its one of the Most important: Share “Quotes” along with a Harsh tag #quote and users may retweet your tweet.

4. Also try to share the “Fact” in your Tweet. You can also ReTweet the Facts of “OMGFacts” to show off how interesting you are..

5. ReTweet the interesting Tweets of the Other Users.. This sometime works as a hands for friendship.

6. Always try to engage yourself in the online discussion of other users.

7. Follow Back those who follow you.. This Sometime works great for making followers and friends over Twitter.

I think these above tweets can help you to become a better Twitterer…

10 Ways to Make Yourself a Blogger

These are the basic ways of converting yourself to bloggers. Put Yourself in the most prestigious place of the web, after becoming a blogger.

1. Choose your free or paid blogging platform – Blogspot, Wordpress.com, etc for free platform & wordpress.org, Typepad, etc are paid platform.

2. Choose the topic in which you have greater knowledge, so that you can continue with it.

3. Read the Successful Blogger’s Blog like Problogger, Copyblogger, etc for knowing the better use of blog.

4. Practice writing to increase your writing skill before publishing it in your blog.

5. Make a Cool looking Header to make your blog professional.

6. Ask your friends to visit your blog and read your post and comment on it.

7. Comment on other’s blog to drive them to your blog.

8. Create quality content with the personal touch.

9. Show your Authority on your subject.

10. Gain the Trust of your Readers and make them subscribe to your blog’s RSS feed.