Mapping domain to your blogger blog

You might think that once you got a domain name for your blog, all your worries are allayed. Think again!

You need to understand that a domain name in mere existence is of no use. You have to map it to your blogger blog. Url forwarding is not the option here. Amateur bloggers get really excited to have their own dot com. But in the hurry they ignore the nuances involved. And when things don’t work their way, they feel cheated.

Look, getting a domain name is very easy. You just need to log on to the internet and check for the availability of your domain. Once you zeroed in on any one of the available names, register it with your domain registrar. Here, I’d suggest you to do a bit of research and check for genuine domain providers.

What do you do next? Start the mapping process.
Please note: If you are using a blogger account, you just need to buy a domain name. The web hosting is taken care by blogger.
Having done that, you now need someone to do the ‘DNS hosting’ for you.

Let us now summarize the mapping process:

1. Domain registration,
2. DNS Hosting, and
3. Blog settings.

1. Domain registration: Search the phrase “buy a domain” in google and you should be able to get top ten domain registrars. Select any credible domain registrar and buy a domain name.

2. DNS hosting: Configure NS records and manage your domain. In layman’s language visit any free DNS hosting website and follow the instructions.

3. Blog Settings: Point your blog to the domain name you just registered.

Once you are through, don’t expect to see the results instantaneously. Wait for a day or two to reflect it on your blog.

Happy Blogging!

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Don’t Blog for Money

In today’s fast paced age of technology and rising inflation, it is hard not to think money all the time. Very true! However one has to be careful not to mix creativity, passion and hobby with money. One should generate creative satisfaction from one’s hobby. Passion for hobby is a good thing. But passion for money through hobby is wrong. There are many other ways to generate revenue; like a full-time job.

It is advisable to strictly work at office and play or relax with a hobby at home. The moment one thinks of making money through blogging, the focus of attention drastically shifts; thus deviating from the art and fun with blogging. Blogging is an enjoyable phenomenon. One has to enjoy the various techniques it offers. There are campaigns available on the internet to affiliate with your blog. One should try it out. The intention should be to learn and enjoy the blogging phenomenon.

Blogging offers varied features and services to its publishers and readers. Through Blogging the publisher can voice his opinion to the readers. The views can be put forth to a large audience. A global exposure can be achieved through web blogging. Once famous the blogger succeeds in creating a brand for the blog.

For the blogger to be successful, he should continue to focus on improving and building a better blog. The other materialistic things will follow automatically. Blogging is in! It is simple and updating it is very easy. However it requires a lot of patience and hard work. Consistency is the key. Never lose hope. Keep Blogging!

For more on blogging, find out Why Bloggers stop Blogging?

Build upon a Blog community

Often most newbie bloggers face a common dilemma of diverting traffic to their blogs. They get visibly disappointed; thereby losing interest in blogging. I’ve personally come across many such bloggers. The common complaint I get is that of less traffic.

When I asked a few bloggers about their blogging experience, they said that they regularly published their posts, at least once in two days; sometimes even every day. But still fell short of expectations. After about 2 months of hard work, they said the visitor count on their blogs didn’t show any noticeable change.

The common mistake the newbie bloggers today do is that they do not build upon a community. They fail to understand that building online relationships with fellow bloggers is the most viable option. Being a regular poster is a good thing. However when the posts are not shared or commented upon, they do not receive a higher google ranking.

Diverting traffic to the blogs is in the bloggers’ hands. Just as new posts are published on ones blogs, bloggers need to post comments on other blogs too. The comment should not be a random one or hastily written. One should post a relevant comment to a blogpost. A wise blogger would first read a blogpost, understand its contents and then post a comment relevant to the blogpost. If a blogger would consistently comment on other blogs for at least 2 months, he would start receiving comments on his own blog; thus building a community of his own.

Commenting is no doubt a good approach for building a relationship. However it may not be the only option.

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Why Bloggers stop blogging?

Blogging is certainly not an easy thing to do. It is serious stuff. It needs patience and a lot of hard work especially when you are on your own. While blogging you need to focus your mind at the subject of your blog. Any deviation from the subject would affect your blog readership. New posts should arrive at regular intervals of time. A proper study would help you research more on the subject you are posting on your blog.

No traffic on the blog: Most new bloggers check the hits on the blog everyday. It is a motivating factor that will lead to more quality posts from you, only if the numbers are increasing. However if the numbers are not encouraging then it leads to depression and distractions.

Nothing new to write: After a few easy posts suddenly the new blogger runs out of ideas. He even lazes to even research or google on the subject.

No revenue generated: Most bloggers are under the impression that blogging generates revenue. When they find out that the account balance is yet to open, they feel depressed. This takes away their interest in blogging.

Technical incompetent: When trying to unearth the search engine optimization tools, new bloggers tend to find it difficult to understand and implement the webmaster tools. They eventually give up with dismay.

Lack of peer group containing bloggers: When a new blogger has a query, he would reach out to the internet and try to exploit the resources available. However when he is not able to understand the jargon involved in the solutions, he misses his blogger peer group. He finds no friends who would help him with his queries.

Not enough resources: A new blogger would typically write new posts and update his blog regularly. By doing so, he would expect visitors on his blog. To get visitors, the blogger has to spend more time not blogging than blogging. What needs to be done to get visitors is also something the new blogger needs to be aware of.

Lack of marketing: Marketing your blog is the next step after publishing every new post. No one would know about the existence of your blog unless you market it online.

For more Read What to Blog about? to allay your inhibitions about Blogging

AIDS Campaigner Damaria

AIDS Campaigner
Blogging is truly the gift of new age technology. Blogging is a tool which when used positively can do wonders to our lives. It is up to us as to how we would like to harness its energy. Damaria Senne is a blogger who would like to bring about a global change through her blog. Damaraia is a writer based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She says, “Currently I’m working on my biggest project called the OneLove Regional Campaign.”

She further adds, “The OneLove Regional Campaign targets Southern African countries such as Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.”

The OneLove Regional Campaign is an initiative to make people aware about the Acquired immune deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) virus. The project aims to get the people of southern Africa thinking and talking about their sexual behaviour in this time of HIV and AIDS. Through the blog, Damaria is doing a commendable job of spreading AIDS awareness in the countries of South Africa. “As a blogger, my job is to liaise with the campaign partners in these nine countries to develop and publish content on the blog that will meet their campaign agenda,” says Damaria.

Aware of blogging since 2002, Damaria took 3 years to get hooked on to it. “I learnt about blogging back in 2002, when an old writer friend of mine, Janet Pieterse, launched one. At that time I thought it was a waste of her time. Then in 2005, I decided to start a blog about my adventures as a creative writer and mother,” She says.

Like any other blogger, Damaria is well aware about the current marketing techniques available online. She visits forums, regularly comments on similar blogs as hers; submits articles to blog festivals, ezine; uses twitter, YouTube, etc, etc. Apart from these marketing tools, Damaria invites campaign partners like the NGOs and campaign supporters to do a reciprocal link exchange, and promote the blog to their own partners and client base. As a result she receives an incredible 4000 hits on her blog everyday. Damaria regularly updates her blog. She publishes 2 posts per day.

Passionate about the OneLove Regional Campaign blog, Damaria plans to grow a big online audience from all nine countries. She says, “We would like people to talk openly about sexuality and HIV. The blog also plans to empower its offline communities to help make healthier sexual choices so HIV infection can be reduced.”

The key people treading the path of success together with Damaria are:
Harriet Perlman – Senior Executive; Regional Programme, Soul City (heading the coordination of the OneLove regional campaign)
John Phillip – Independent web designer
Caroline Kruger – Project Manager, Intrinsic Media

Damaria is a full time writer by profession. She was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Digital Citizen Indaba. The event was organized to bring together bloggers, podcasters, mobile journalists, citizen reporters, new media practitioners, online industry experts, and civil society representatives from all over Africa to discuss the use of new media for development.

The iW2K team wishes this award-winning writer all the luck to bring a new ray of hope to the Southern African continent.

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This 22-year old blogger is an engineer with specialization in Biotechnology. At the age of 14 he launched his first website by the name of NaramCheez (a dialect in Hindi which means software). Through this venture, he showcased utility softwares for both personal and professional use. The business did well and very soon the youngest CEO of India emerged by the name of Paras Chopra.
As a child, Paras would always question ‘How’ and ‘Why’; the questions that make a successful entrepreneur. He is truly unique as his post suggests. Having dabbled in varied topics such as online business, science, philosophy, technology, cosmology, Artificial Intelligence; the list is endless, Paras has now shifted his focus of attention towards online marketing. He calls it Wingify. Wingify aims at providing the readers the cost-effective ways of targeted online marketing through behavioural targeting and multivariate optimization.

Paras Chopra is truly the new age entrepreneur. His past start-ups include Kroomsa, MyJugaad.in and Precimark. A confident yet aggressive statesman Paras always graduates with a scope of improvement after his every start-up. When the iW2K team asked Paras as to why he chose blogging as his passion, he succinctly replied, “Why not Blogging?” He further adds, “I mostly blog about entrepreneurship, start-ups and a bit of philosophy and science. I have inclination towards blogging about topics such as conundrums faced by entrepreneurs and myths around web start-ups. At other times I blog about evolution, physics and human biases.”

Paras firmly prefers in having a dot com for a prospective business venture. He says, “Having a dot com gives you the credibility and lets your visitors know that you have invested into your blog, and are not just blogging about your cats and dogs. They get to know that you do serious blogging.”

The Weblog mogul is a true gentleman. He boldly confesses that he made many mistakes in the past. He says, “I had tried to do many so-called businesses online. None of them survived or earned me even a single dollar. I lacked certain skills. The most important among them being marketing. I now understand how important marketing is for a business to succeed. All the failures I had suffered made me a strong and knowledgeable person. And, for your benefit I have compiled all that knowledge into this guide. You need not face numerous hurdles and failures to discover what I already know.”

An ardent entrepreneur, Paras regularly updates his blogs and receives as many as 100 visitors reading his blogs everyday.

Paras is an R&D engineer working on machine learning and statistics. He also dabbles in his other technology projects. Praiseworthy Paras has also won a third prize (a book: How Innovators Connect) for his post on ‘What makes me unique’ from TechTribe.


The iW2K team wishes this commendable entrepreneur success all the way.

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Thinking Blogger Aditya

love horoscopesBlogging has truly come of age. The young generation believes that it would certainly be used as a medium of mass communication. They feel that blogging is catching up with the orthodox means of communication i.e. the print medium. Some even think that Blogging would replace it. Aditya Bhadra is one such blogger who thinks that voicing an opinion on the blog is much simpler. “Readers can comment about the topics in real-time and get feedback,” says the young blogger. Mr. Bhadra calls his blog Soul Intoxicated.


Mr. Bhadra is a student who likes to keep a diary online. “I used to keep a hardback diary but it was hard to keep it a secret. So I thought there’s no point in hiding what I write, and blogging was a medium to let others know while staying anonymous at the same time,” says he. “I usually post my poetry and sometimes short stories or paragraphs on the topic close to my heart, LOVE. I write about my life, my thoughts and sensitive relationships.”

Aditya is not interested to go commercial with his blog at the moment. Speaking of making money online he says, “I am not interested in making money online and I do not have any issues against those who want to until they don’t bug people to click on their ads. I think very soon making money online would be considered a profession.”

Unlike other bloggers who would like to flaunt their achievements and awards in the field of blogging, this young lad likes to underplay it. He was recently awarded the Thinking Blogger award which he humbly accepted. Besides, he is also the recipient of the Flogger award and the Best Blog of the day award. “I do not blog so that people can read what I have to say; I blog because I like doing it. So it doesn’t really matter if I get a hundred visitors a day or just one, until I am creatively satisfied,” says the star blogger.

Speaking of dot com, Aditya believes that a blog with its own domain name receives more traffic. “When I got a good deal over the internet to buy a domain name, I took advantage of it and changed my blog to a dot com,” says the young achiever. “As a result I’m able to receive about 200 hits on my blog everyday.”

The star blogger is currently doing his bachelors in CS and business administration from Saint Mary’s University in Canada. He is an indoor person and an introvert by nature. He relentlessly cares about his near and dear ones. Not surprisingly, Aditya would certainly like to dedicate his blog to his lovely girlfriend Aeshna.


The iW2K team wishes this blogger all the creative satisfaction and LOVE he deserves.

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