4 Basic Tips To Improve And Profit From Your Blog

1) Traffic

It's no secret. You must have traffic to profit from blogs. There are numerous ways to build traffic.
Paid advertising, free advertising, viral marketing, search engine marketing, RSS/XML feeds, and word-of-mouth. 

 

 You should always use your blog URL address in the signature of your email, forum discussions, message boards, or any other communication media. You should submit your blog URL address to search engines and blog directories.  

 

You should submit your RSS/XML URL feed to blog ping services like Ping-O-Matic and TotalPing. You should confidently share your blog with family, friends, co-workers, associates, and business professionals when it relates.  

 

Many blogs can be considered as a collection of articles, for this purpose you should submit your blog entries (those that are valuable and lengthy articles) to content syndicators like GoArticles.com or ArticleCity.com. Once submitted your articles can be picked up and published by others.

 

The trick is to make sure you include your Blog URL address in the "About the Author" passage.  

 

 

 

 

 

What this does is create link popularity and backlinks for your blog, when someone picks up your article from the syndication then publish the article on their website the "About the Author" passage is included with each publication and the link you included is followed, crawled, and indexed by search engines. 

 
Imagine if your article is popular enough or controversial enough to produce 10,000 publications across the web. 

 

 The search engines is bound to find your blog in no time with that many publications and credit you a authority on the topic, in return increasing your rank on search engines. The small effort of writing a well written article is rewarding. You should try to write at least 1 full length article every week for syndication and submit your article to at least 10 article syndicators.

2) Track Your Blog
How do you know if your blog has traffic? Just because no one is leaving comments doesn't mean your blog isn't growing. Many visitors do not leave comments but they are returning visitors.
I know it sounds crazy but with blogs people are more interested in what "you" have to say! Many visitors do not comment their 1st, 2nd, or 3rd time. Some do not comment at all, but are active daily visitors. 

 

Tracking your blog does not have to be overly sophisticated usually a simple free page counter or Google Stats will do the trick. Install (copy/paste) the code into the html of your blog template and start tracking your visitors. 

 

Its better to use a service which gives you advanced traffic analysis, such as keyword tracking information, referral information, and search engine information. Visitors, returning visitors, and unique visitors should be standard for any page counter service you choose.

3) Listen to Your Audience
When using the proper page counter you should begin to see how others are finding your blog and if through search engines then which keywords are being used to find your blog.  

 

If constantly your blog is being found by 1 or more keywords then focus your blog around those keywords to make it even more powerful. When writing entry titles and entries use the keywords as often as possible while keeping the blog legible and interesting.

4) Short & Concise

Aside from the lengthy article a week for syndication and publication your blog entries should be short & concise (if you can help it). Sometimes there are exceptions to the rule and you have no choice but to blog lengthy entries, but try to avoid this as much as possible. 

 

 You do not want your blog entries to become hours of reading. Visitors like to easily find information and skim through your entries. It is good to be detailed and provide useful information, but do not include useless information or run away sentences that veer away from your topic. 

 

Stay keyword-focused. Following these blogging techniques should make your blogging experience much more rewarding.  

 

There is no guarantee that your blog will become popular or a household name, but the effort should at least put you one step closer. Making money online is not an overnight experience like many may think, but making money online is definitely a foreseeable possibility. 

 

 As well, growing popularity on the web is not an overnight experience, but through time, dedication, and persistence you will be rewarded with all the royalties of blogging.

Branches And Areas Of Specialization In Agriculture

1.   CROP PRODUCTION




2.   ANIMAL PRODUCTION

3.   SOIL SCIENCE

4.   AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

5.   AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION






6.   FISHERY

7.   FORESTRY

8.   AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS

9.   HORTICULTURE

 

TYPES OF AGRICULTURE

There are two types of agriculture:

1. SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE

Subsistence agriculture is a form of agriculture where the farmer cultivates mainly for the consumption of himself and his immediate family with little or nothing for sale.

CHARACTERISTICS OF SUBSISTENCE AGRICULTURE

1.   Small area/size of land is required

2.   Labour is supplied by farmer and his family

3.   It involves little capital

4.   Simple farm tools are used for cultivation

5.   The yield/harvest is low






2. COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE

This is a type of agriculture where the farmer cultivates mainly for sale and to make profit








CHARACTERISTICS OF COMMERCIAL AGRICULTURE

1.   It requires large areas /size of farm land

2.   The farmer makes use of hired and skilled labour

3.   Output /yield is very high

4.   It involves a lot of money

5.   Modern implements are used.

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8 CEOs And The Pictures Of The First Jobs Of 10 Famous CEOs!

1. Michael Dell – Dishwasher



2. Warren Buffet – Paper Boy



3. Jeff Bezos – Camp Leader



4. Marissa Mayer – Grocery Clerk



5. Doug McMillon – Warehouse Worker



6. Clarence Otis – Waiter



7. Indra Nooyi – Receptionist



8. Reed Hashtings – Salesman

You Can Learn Many Subjects Like HTML, PHP, CSS, Android And Many More.

1. Learn HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) is the standard markup language for creating web pages and web applications.

With Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript it forms a triad of cornerstone technologies for the World Wide Web.

HTML Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<title>Your HTML Title</title>
<body>

<h1>Your heading</h1>
<p>Your paragraph.</p>

</body>
</html>


2. Learn CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language.

CSS Example

body {
    background-color: red;
}
h1 {
    color: white;
    text-align: left;
}
p {
    font-family: verdana;
    font-size: 15px;
}


3. Learn JavaScript
JavaScript

JavaScript is a high-level, dynamic, untyped, and interpreted run-time language. It has been standardized in the ECMAScript language specification.

<script>
function yourFunction() {
    var y = document.getElementById("test");
    y.style.fontSize = "30px";
    y.style.color = "blue";
}
</script>

<button onclick="yourFunction()">Click Here!</button>


4. Learn PHP

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML.

PHP Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
        <html>
        <body>
                <?php
                echo  "<h2>PHP is Fun!</h2>";
                echo  "Hello world!<br>";
                echo  "I'm about to learn PHP!<br>";
                echo  "This ", "string ", "was ", "made ", "with multiple parameters.";
                ?>
        </body>
        </html>


5. SQL

SQL (Structured Query Language) is a domain-specific language used in programming and designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS), or for stream processing in a relational data stream management system (RDSMS).

6. jQuery

jQuery is a fast, small, and feature-rich JavaScript library. It makes things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler with an easy-to-use API that works across a multitude of browsers.


7. Bootstrap

Bootstrap is a free and open-source front-end web framework for designing websites and web applications.

It contains HTML- and CSS-based design templates for typography, forms, buttons, navigation and other interface components, as well as optional JavaScript extensions.

 Unlike many web frameworks, it concerns itself with front-end development only.

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Here you will be given freedom to express yourself, your thoughts and views in the form of blogs.

The Importance Of Insurance In Business

 Insurance is a wise decision taken by a wise businessman to protect or secure his business against hazard or unforeseen occurrence that may cause damage or loss of his business. 

Insurance companies have protected many business against lost or damage of their business. The aim of this article is to give clear insight why insurance is paramount your business.

About four (4) years a man opened a departmental store where wines of different brand were sold.

In fact, the business was doing fantastically well.

One faithful day someone came to him and advised him to insure his business. He accepted but, could not do it immediately. Your guess is as good as mine! 

Then in next one week, there was a fire out break which consumed everything he had labored for many years.

With this little tragic explanation, you will understand the importance of insuring your business.

Business owners should not under-estimate important of insuring your business. I am very sure that the premium paid for business makes your business very secure. 

However, it might be expensive but it worth it. If you can recall the example mentioned earlier, you may conclude that the man would have insured the business immediately as he was advised.

Therefore, what the prudent businessmen do is to insure their business in case of any unforeseen occurrence. Have a wonderful time and Best Wishes.

Banish All Fear

It is on such considerations, written here, that I have come to hold that all real fear-feeling should and may be banished from our life, and that what we call "normal fear" should be substituted in our language by "instinct" or by "reason," the element of fear being dropped altogether.

"Everyone can testify that the psychical state called fear consists of mental representations of certain painful results" (James).

The mental representations may be very faint as such, but the idea of hurt to self is surely present.

If, then, it can be profoundly believed that the real self cannot be hurt; if the reason can be brought to consider vividly and believingly all quieting considerations; if the self can be held consciously in the assurance that the White Life surrounds the true self, and is surely within that self, and will suffer "no evil to come nigh," while all the instincts of self preservation may be perfectly active, fear itself must be removed "as far as the east is from the west."

These are the ways, then, in which any occasion for fear may be divided:

As a warning and as a maker of panic.

But let us say that the warning should be understood as given to reason, that fear need not appear at all, and that the panic is perfectly useless pain.

With these discrimination in mind, we may now go on to a preliminary study of fear.

preliminary study of fear.              

Fear is (a) an impulse, (b) a habit, (c) a disease.

Fear, as it exists in man, is a make-believe of sanity, a creature of the imagination, a state of insanity.

Furthermore, fear is, now of the nerves, now of the mind, now of the moral consciousness.

The division depends upon the point of view. What is commonly called normal fear should give place to reason, using the word to cover instinct as well as thought.

From the correct point of view all fear is an evil so long as entertained.

Whatever its manifestations, wherever its apparent location, fear is a psychic state, of course, reacting upon the individual in several ways: as, in the nerves, in mental moods, in a single impulse, in a chronic habit, in a totally unbalanced condition.

The reaction has always a good intention, meaning, in each case, "Take care! Danger!"

You will see that this is so if you will look for a moment at three comprehensive kinds of fear fear of self, fear for self, fear for others. Fear of self is indirectly fear for self danger.

Fear for others signifies fore-sensed or fore-pictured distress to self because of anticipated misfortune to others.

I often wonder whether, when we fear for others, it is distress to self or hurt to them that is most emphatically in our thought.

Fear, then, is usually regarded as the soul's danger signal.

But the true signal is instinctive and thoughtful reason.

Even instinct and reason, acting as warning, may perform their duty abnormally, or assume abnormal proportions.

And then we have the feeling of fear.

The normal warning is induced by actual danger apprehended by mind in a state of balance and self-control.

Normal mind is always capable of such warning.

There are but two ways in which so-called normal fear, acting in the guise of reason, may be annihilated: by the substitution of reason for fear, and by the assurance of the white life.

Let it be understood, now, that by normal fear is here meant normal reason real fear being denied place and function altogether.

Then we may say that such action of reason is a benefactor to man. It is, with pain and weariness, the philanthropy of the nature of things within us.

One person said: "Tired? No such word in my house!"

Now this cannot be a sound and healthy attitude.

Weariness, at a certain stage of effort, is a signal to stop work.

When one becomes so absorbed in labor as to lose consciousness of the feeling of weariness, he has issued a "hurry call" on death.

I do not deny that the soul may cultivate a sublime sense of buoyancy and power; rather do I urge you to seek that beautiful condition; but I hold that when a belief or a hallucination refuses to permit you to hear the warning of nerves and muscles, Nature will work disaster inevitably.

Let us stand for the larger liberty which is joyously free to take advantage of everything Nature may offer for true well-being.

There is a partial liberty which tries to realize itself by denying various realities as real; there is a higher liberty which really realizes itself by conceding such realities as real and by using or disusing them as occasion may require in the interest of the self at its best.

I hold this to be true wisdom: to take advantage of everything which evidently promises good to the self, without regard to this or that theory, and freely to use all things, material or immaterial, reasonable or spiritual.

I embrace your science or your method; but I beg to ignore your bondage to philosophy or to consistency.

So I say that to normal health the weary-sense is a rational command to replenish exhausted nerves and muscles.

It is not liberty, it is not healthful, to declare, "There is no pain!"

Pain does exist, whatever you affirm, and your affirmation that it does not is proof that it does exist, for why (and how) declare the non-existence of that which actually is non-existent?

But if you say, "As a matter of fact I have pain, but I am earnestly striving to ignore it, and to cultivate thought-health so that the cause of pain may be removed," that is sane and beautiful.

This is the commendable attitude of the Bible character who cried: "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief."

To undertake swamping pain with a cloud of psychological fog that is to turn anarchist against the good government of Nature.

By pain Nature informs the individual that he is somewhere out of order. This warning is normal.

The feeling becomes abnormal in the mind when imagination twangs the nerves with reiterated irritation, and Will, confused by the discord and the psychic chaos, cowers and shivers with fear.

I do not say there is no such thing as fear. Fear does exist. But it exists in your life by your permission only, not because it is needful as a warning against "evil."

Fear is induced by unduly magnifying actual danger, or by conjuring up fictitious dangers through excessive and misdirected psychical reactions.

This also may be taken as a signal of danger, but it is a falsely intentioned witness, for it is not needed, is hostile to the individual because it threatens self-control and it absorbs life's forces in useless and destructive work when they ought to be engaged in creating values.

Love And Faith In Relatioships And Then In Marriage

No woman is worthy to be a wife who on the day of her marriage is not lost absolutely and entirely in an atmosphere of love and perfect trust; the supreme sacredness of the relation is the only thing which, at the time, should possess her soul.

Women should "obey" the men as the men should also obey women.

There are important requisites in every happy marriage; the first is Faith, and the remaining is Confidence.

Nothing so compliments a man as for a woman to believe in him nothing, so pleases a woman as for a man to place confidence in her.
 

Obey? God help me! Yes, if I loved a woman, my whole heart's desire would be to obey her slightest wish.

And how could I love her unless I had perfect confidence that she would only aspire to what was beautiful, true and right?

And to enable her to realize this ideal, her wish would be to me a sacred command; and her attitude of mind toward me I know would be the same.

And the only rivalry between us would be as to who could love the most; and the desire to obey would be the one controlling impulse of our lives.

We gain freedom by giving it, and he who bestows faith gets it back with interest.

To bargain and stipulate in love is to lose.

Perfect faith implies perfect love; and perfect love casteth out fear.

It is always the fear of imposition, and a lurking intent to rule, that causes the woman to haggle over a word it is absence of love, a limitation, an incapacity.

The price of a perfect love is an absolute and complete surrender.

To give a man something for nothing tends to make the individual dissatisfied with himself.

Your enemies are the ones you have helped.

And when an individual is dissatisfied with himself he is dissatisfied with the whole world and with you.

A man's quarrel with the world is only a quarrel with himself.

But so strong is this inclination to lay blame elsewhere and take credit to ourselves, that when we are unhappy we say it is the fault of this woman or that man.

Especially do women attribute their misery to That Man.

And often the trouble is he has given her too much for nothing.

This truth is a reversible, back-action one, well lubricated by use, working both ways as the case may be.

That form of affection which drives sharp bargains and makes demands, gets a check on the bank in which there is no balance.

There is nothing so costly as something you get for nothing.

Some Roles And List Of Science And Technology Institutions In Agricultural Development

The knowledge of science and technology plays an important role in the development and improvement of agriculture in Nigeria.

The basic knowledge acquired from the study of science and technology can be applied to solve agricultural problems and improve on the various activities involved in agricultural production such as:

1.   Provision farm tools and machinery such as

Research institutes and location

1.   IITA ( International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. Ibadan

2.   NSS (National Seed Services – Ibadan

3.   NCRI (National Cereals research Institute – Badegi and Ibadan

4.   NRCRI (National Root Crop research Institute – Umudike

5.   FURO (Federal Institute of Industrial Research – Oshodi

NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

1.   FAO (Food and agricultural Organisation – Rome

2.   PASCON (Pan – African striga control network – Accra

3.   WARDA (West African Rice Development Agency – Ivory  Coast




4.   ILCA (International livestock Centre for Africa  - Addis Ababa

5.   IFAD (International Fund For Agricultural Development – Rome 


Agric Programmes

1.   ALS             -        Agric Loan Scheme

2.   RBDA         -        River Basin Development Scheme

3.   NAIS           -         National Agricultural Insurance Scheme

4.   GR              -        Green Revolution

5.   OFN            -       Operation Feed the Nation

6.   NALDA        -        National Agricultural Land Development Agency

7.   ADP            -        Agricultural Development Project

8.   DFRRI         -        Directorate of Food, Road and Rural Infrastructure

9.   NAICPS       -        National Accelerated Industrial Crop Production Programme

10.  NADPP        -        National Accelerated Food Production Programme  

Fighting Off Viruses: Advancements In Antivirus Software Suites

Protecting your computer from a virus is getting harder and harder each day.  

While it may border on the paranoid, it goes without saying that you can’t leave your guard down for one second. 

 
Even corporate giant Microsoft has found its own systems compromised on more than one occasion.

Remember the “good old days”, before the advent of the Internet and downloadable programs? 





 


Life was simple then in terms of computer viruses.  

With the primary way in which a virus could be transmitted being limited to floppy disks, the ability to catch and eradicate the virus was a lot easier.    

By today’s standards, it used to take quite a while before a virus was able to infect a computer and slow down the system. 

 The antivirus software of that time was typically able to identify and eradicate viruses before they caused too much damage.  

Additionally, computer users were pretty savvy on how to protect themselves in terms of scanning all Flash disks before copying them to our desktop.

The Internet helped change all that.

 The Internet provided a conduit by which viruses could move from host to host with lightening speed.  

No longer could a computer user just worry about flash disks as points of entry, but they now had to worry about email, email attachments, peer-to-peer file sharing, instant messaging, and software downloads.  

Today’s viruses can attack through multiple entry points, spread without human intervention, and take full advantage of vulnerabilities within a system or program. 

 With technology advancing everyday, and the convergence of computers with other mobile devices, the potential of new types of threats also increase.

Protecting Your Computer

Luckily, the advancement of antivirus software has kept pace with current virus threats. 

Antivirus software is essential to a computer’s ability to fend off viruses and other malicious programs.

These products are designed to protect against the ability of a virus to enter a computer through email, web browsers, file servers and desktops. 

 Additionally, these programs offer a centralized control feature that handle deployment, configuration and updating.

A computer user should remain diligent and follow a few simple steps to protect against the threat of a virus:

1.         Evaluate your current computer security system.

With the threat of a new generation of viruses able to attack in a multitude of ways, the approach of having just one antivirus software version has become outdated. 

 You need to be confident that you have protected all aspects of your computer system from the desktop to the network, and from the gateway to the server.

Consider a more comprehensive security system which includes several features including antivirus, firewall, content filtering, and intrusion detection. 

 This type of system will make it more difficult for the virus to penetrate your system.

2.         Only install antivirus software created by a well-known, reputable company. 

Because new viruses erupt daily, it is important that you regularly update your antivirus software.

 Become familiar with the software’s real-time scan feature and configure it to start automatically each time you boot your computer.

This will protect your system by automatically checking your computer each time it is powered up.

3.         Make it a habit to always scan all new programs or files no matter from where they originate.

4.         Exercise caution when opening binary, Word, or Excel documents of unknown sources especially if they were received during an online chat or as an attachment to an email. 

5.         Perform regular backups in case your system is corrupted.  It may be the only way to recover your data if infected.

Recommended Antivirus Software

There are numerous applications available to consumers.  With a little research, you can pick the program that is right for you.  

Many programs provide a trial version which allows you to download the program and test its abilities. 

 However, be aware that some anti-virus programs can be difficult to uninstall. 

 As a precaution make sure to set up a System Restore point before installing. 

You should set your computer to update viruses weekly and run a complete virus scan.

Some good Antivirus Programs provides antivirus protection, as well as Peer-2-Peer Applications protection, full email protection, and heuristics in a virtual environment. 

 This provides a new security layer that keeps the operating system safe from unknown viruses by detecting malicious pieces of code for which signatures have not been released yet.

It also detects and removes spyware and blocks spam. It even guards against identity theft by blocking phishing attacks.

Avast Anti-Virus Free Edition  is a free downloadable antivirus program that has received high marks for its reliability. 

 In the past, free downloadable antivirus programs have been viewed skeptically because of issues relating to its reliability. 

 However, Avast remains one of the best-known free anti-virus programs available. 

 While Avast can be installed on an operating system and there is really no technical support, it still makes a good choice for many home computer users. 

 The best part is that since it is free, you can try it with no further obligation necessary.

Have a Wonderful Day!