The Investment Blog Directory
Article by IBD
Welcome to the Investment Blog Directory!
If you are a reader or author of online investing content we are glad you stopped by!
The Investment Blog Directory focuses on the vast number of online personal finance blogs, investor networks, investor information sites and professional investment blogs on the web and compiles them all into one single convenient location for all readers to access.
The Investment Blog Directory has a goal to bring together the largest group of high quality authors and content that today is found fragmented and scattered on the web. These blogs are brought to one location exclusively for readers so they can better locate blogs that contain investment grade content, advice, stock analysis and information they wish to find with the intention of increasing the blog readership of our members.
Why choose The Investment Blog Directory?
For each site and author we list the blog title, a brief description of the sites’ content and focus, list each blog in categories for easy location and offer our services free to all bloggers who wish to join the directory.
We also offer an exclusive Top Post section for each individual blog for a very specific reason:
We know that new readers do not have the time to search every post made by an author and that often the highest quality posts are difficult to locate. A reader may be searching for information on a specific investment, style or educational tool and instead find the process continuously frustrating. We believe that this process should be both quicker and easier for readers.
Our market research has shown that new readers find it difficult and time consuming to search a blogs’ archives for their highest quality posts or to gain a sense of the authors relevance to their needs. Our Top Post section allows each blog and blog author to present their 3 best quality articles for readers to preview to get a better sense of what a site is all about!
Readers can now continue to visit and search the archives of the site when they have better evaluated the blog’s potential for their readership. Our hope is that readers will become RSS subscribers of the blogs that interest them and be updated on all new and relevant information they are seeking.
Our commitment is that The Investment Blog Directory will become the newest destination for tracking and exploring the growing number of new and established personal finance blogs, investment networks, investor information sites and investment blogs on the web.
Here at The Investment Blog Directory we remain focused on bringing online readers and blog authors together to better improve readership and connectivity. If we don’t have what you are looking for, please feel free to contact us and we will be happy to accept and consider changes or additions to our site.
On behalf of the Investment Blog Directory team, our blog authors and readers like you we would like to thank you for being a part of this important experience.
From novice investors to investment professionals we hope that our site will continue to grow and prosper by meeting the needs of all those involved.
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Top 10 Benefits of Having a Self-Hosted WordPress Blog
Blogs are an excellent medium for marketing a business and getting your point across. No wonder almost one in every five individuals has a blog. Free blogging platforms like Blogspot and WordPress.com make it all the more easier to get your blog up and running. These platforms offer bloggers the bare minimum they need to publish their blog posts. But why settle for the bare minimum when you can have much more? Self-hosted blogs like WordPress.org give you everything that you get with a free blog along with plenty of useful tools and resources which can help put your blog ahead of your competitors.
Following are the top ten advantages that a self-hosted WordPress blog has over any freebie blogging platform:
A self-hosted WordPress blog is completely under your control. You own your blog and nobody can interfere with what you post to it. Full control over your self-hosted blog means that nobody can shut it down unlike a Blogspot blog which can get shut down at any time without notice. This is biggest drawback of using a free blogging service. Your blog is owned by the blogging platform and the owner can delete your blog for a variety of reasons.
Self-hosted blogs like WordPress allow you to choose and use your own domain name, for instance yourblog.com. This gives you an opportunity to promote your brand identity. It projects an image of authority and professionalism. With a free blogging service, you are restricted to a subdomain such as yourblog.blogspot.com which doesn’t appear too professional as it gives visitors the impression that you’re not interested in investing in your own brand.
With a self-hosted WordPress blog, you are not limited to a single hosting provider. You have the freedom to pack up and move your blog to another host which allows you to choose a pricing plan that fits your budget. On free blogging platforms such as Blogspot, you’re stuck with the server your blog is hosted on which can be quite problematic. Because of the large numbers of free blogs that are hosted, your blog could experience slowness and downtime on a regular basis. Self-hosted WordPress gives you the option to select from the finest shared hosting servers which offer maximum uptime and fast page loading times.
A unique domain name makes your blog appear more reliable than something which ends up in blogspot.com or wordpress.com. This comes in handy particularly if you’re running a blog for business purposes, but also if you have a personal blog. The aspect of reliability generates more interest and adds greater value to your opinions and content published on your blog.
The single most important thing for any blogger is the amount of traffic their blog attracts. Self-hosted WordPress blogs come with a range of useful tools and features to help you optimize your blog to get better rankings in search engine results. Apart from the in-built SEO features that self-hosted blogs offer, you can choose to further enhance your SEO capabilities by adding a number of third-party SEO plugins.
Free blogging platforms have little to offer in terms of tools and features to enhance the usability of your blog. The major reason behind this limitation is that you cannot install third-party plugins and utilities. With a self-hosted WordPress blog you have access to thousands of third-party plugins and tools add functionality to your blog and enhance your blogging experience. Much like the apps that you install on your iPhone or Android handset, these plugins add value by making tedious tasks easier to perform and saving you a lot of time and effort.
While free blog hosting platforms do give users the option to switch their blog’s theme, they are quite limited in this arena as well. You can only choose from a limited set of themes and do not have the option to use a custom theme or one that you purchase. In contrast, self-hosted blogs like WordPress give you the freedom to choose from the thousands of freely available themes and templates, to buy a premium theme or design and use your own custom WordPress theme. This helps boost your blog’s appearance and helps make it look even more unique, features which go a long way in attracting more visitors to your blog.
Adsense ads allow bloggers to place various ads on their blogs. By using Adsense ads, blog owners can generate revenue from their blogs. Most, if not all, free blogging platforms deny users this feature. With a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can register an Adsense account and start making money through ads posted on your blog.
When you get a self-hosted WordPress blog, you can create as many unique users as you like and allow other users to post on your blog or even create separate, sub blogs for them. This feature can also be used as a great way to make money from your blog as it enables you to sell blogging space off your blog. Unfortunately, free blogging platform do not allow the creation of multiple users, or for that matter, reselling blog space.
Self-hosted WordPress blogs let you choose the amount of disk space and bandwidth you wish to use. This means you have access to all the resources you need and have the option to add more at any point in time. As a result, you can post as much content – including pictures, text, sound and video – as you like. On the other hand, free blogs can limit you in terms of the number of blog posts you can have and the resources you can use.
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SEO Blog Builder – A Review
If you operate one or many websites or blogs, SEOBlogBuilder can easily become an invaluable part of your efforts to achieve higher traffic results. SEOBlogBuilder is an automated blogging software that automatically creates content for the blogs on your sites that are search engine optimized.
Since blogs and search engine optimized web content are considered among experts to be the most effective ways to achieve the highest possible search engine ranking, the faster and better you can add this type of content to your own website, the sooner you will dramatically raise the amount of traffic that your site receives.
This product leads its users to the simplest, fastest, and cheapest method for attaining inbound links. The reason behind the success of SEOBlogBuilder is the efficacy of using keywords within your blog content because it registers among search engines that the site is frequently being updated, and they will therefore send their indexing spiders to crawl it more frequently; indexing your content more often, using precisely the keywords you want and need.
The more your website is crawled by search engine spiders, the better your chances of achieving high ranking in searches from prospective visitors to your site. Furthermore, with more blog pages on your site, there will be more one-way links for the different pages of your site. One way links are a vital part of today’s strategies for attaining the best ranking on search engines.
Blogs are special among the different kinds of web content as have a pinging system built into them so that they automatically notify search engines and RSS services that the content of your site has been changed.
Of course, there are other automated blogging softwares out there, however, they are flawed in that they rapidly consume the resources of your server, shutting down your account. Furthermore, they are able to manage only one blog at a time. Additionally, the ability to search engine optimize the content within these automated blogs is quite limited.
These areas are where SEOBlogBuilder really stands out. It’s advantages include the following:
* Automated blog content creation (everything from content to inbound links)
* Back linking
* Posting to as many blogs as you want
* Build merchant data feed sites
* Add supplementary content to your posts to eliminate duplicate content filters
* Search engine optimized content, using proper keywording techniques
* Use of WordPress and Blogger blogs
* And much, much more
The SEOBlogBuilder turnkey solution is well priced, with everything that you need for all of the features that you can possibly want, and it comes with a list of useful additional bonuses, free, that sweeten an already great deal.
How I Redirected My Bloggers Blog Traffic
It was May 31, when I finally bought a domain for RealTimeTricks and shifted my blog to WordPress. It was tough; it took thousands of minutes to settle down the whole blog into WordPress but when everything was almost over, I was wondering how to redirect my blogger’s blog traffic to my new wordpress blog.
I asked few successful bloggers on social networking sites to teach me how to do so, but this wasn’t help. Finally, I thought to do by myself. I started Google to find my needs and here I tell you how I did.
If you recently have moved to wordpress and done with all importing stuff but unable to import traffic of your previous BlogSpot blog. Try to follow these steps. 34JWEU93R24P
How To Redirect Blogspot Traffic To WordPress?
Go to – Blogger To WordPress Redirection
1. Install the above plug-in in your wordpress blog. After installation and activation of the plug-in. Go to ‘’ you will find a new menu name , click on the menu.
2. Now you’re on the plug-in page, click the button to generate code of your previous BlogSpot blog, your previous blog name will display automatically.
3. Click on the button to generate the redirection code.
4. Once it appears on the screen, open a new tab for your BlogSpot blog. Now go to your blogger account and select ‘classic template’ for your BlogSpot blog. Dashboard>Design>Edit HTML, you will find the classic template link at the bottom of the page.
5. Copy the code you generated before (step-3) and past it here, hit ‘Save Template’. You are done! You can test by clicking any of the BlogSpot link from your blog. It will automatically redirect your new wordpress blog.
Once you moved to your, self hosted WordPress blog the only thing you will miss about your previous blog is the traffic and the popularity you left with your previous blog. And it is not so easy to gain everything you had on your previous blog immediately, it takes time. Hope my journey of BlogSpot to Word Press migration helps you and your traffic.
Start Your Own Blogging Business, Second Edition
Start Your Own Blogging Business, Second Edition
Turn Your Blog into Big Bucks
Blog’s are still one of the internet’s fastest-growing phenomena – and one of the best and easiest ways to make money online. Packed with the latest blog tools, tricks, and up-and-coming trends, this fully revised edition teaches you the ins and outs of creating an eye-catching blog that captures millions of eyeballs and reaps huge financial rewards—all within hours and with little to no financial investment!
We’ll reveal:
- The latest forms of blogging including Twitter/micro-blogging, mobile blogging, and video blogging.
- How you can make money as a YouTube partner and develop a YouTube Channel
- 10 proven ways to promote your blog
- How to avoid the most common blogging mistakes
- Priceless advice from successful bloggers for maximizing profits.
- How to create new and original content to attract new followers
Now you can create your own incredible platform to showcase your thoughts, knowledge, expertise and opinions to millions of web surfers and make money doing it!
How to Move Your Blog from Blogspot to Your Own Hosting?
Moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting is undeniably a clever decision of time, but before that you might be looking for the right Web Hosting Plans that will fulfill your current and future needs. If you are seeking for an option that can let you bring all your Blogspot entries, comments and of course your blog traffic to your own hosted blog then, WordPress is the right choice for you.
WordPress as it’s the most famous blogging software on Paid hosting. Well, here’s the step by step guideline for moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting using WordPress. There may be two situations for this:
1. You’ve yourblog.blogspot.com
2. You’ve yourblog.com hosted by WordPress
In first situation you’ll be moving like:
* Prepare for the migration by uploading few .php and .html test pages
* Install WordPress on your server
* Go to WordPress Dashboard > Manage > Posts, and delete “Hello World”
* Now go to Manage > Import > Select Blogger and follow the instructions. All your entries and comments are there now.
Now go to your Blogspot blog and download all images, and upload them on your own server and enter them in the posts manually. (This is a hectic job, but you’ll have to do it.)
In second situation, you’ll have to:
* First get back to yourblog.blogspot.com from your Blogspot account. For this go to Setting > Publishing > Switch to Blogspot.
* Now change the name servers of your domain from your domain panel. You’ll have to give new name servers, i.e. as prescribed by the new hosting company.
* And now follow all the steps as described in case 1.
Your Blogspot blog is now completely moved and set on your own hosting. Experience the new interface and better customization.
How to Move Your Blog from Blogspot to Your Own Hosting?
Article by Robin Dale
Moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting is undeniably a clever decision of time, but before that you might be looking for the right Web Hosting Plans that will fulfill your current and future needs. If you are seeking for an option that can let you bring all your Blogspot entries, comments and of course your blog traffic to your own hosted blog then, WordPress is the right choice for you.
WordPress as it’s the most famous blogging software on Paid hosting. Well, here’s the step by step guideline for moving your Blogspot blog to your own hosting using WordPress. There may be two situations for this:
1. You’ve yourblog.blogspot.com 2. You’ve yourblog.com hosted by WordPress
In first situation you’ll be moving like:
* Prepare for the migration by uploading few.php and.html test pages * Install WordPress on your server * Go to WordPress Dashboard > Manage > Posts, and delete “Hello World” * Now go to Manage > Import > Select Blogger and follow the instructions. All your entries and comments are there now.
Now go to your Blogspot blog and download all images, and upload them on your own server and enter them in the posts manually. (This is a hectic job, but you’ll have to do it.)
In second situation, you’ll have to:
* First get back to yourblog.blogspot.com from your Blogspot account. For this go to Setting > Publishing > Switch to Blogspot. * Now change the name servers of your domain from your domain panel. You’ll have to give new name servers, i.e. as prescribed by the new hosting company. * And now follow all the steps as described in case 1.
Your Blogspot blog is now completely moved and set on your own hosting. Experience the new interface and better customization.
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Make Money Online Using a Blogspot Blog?
Article by Dwayne Morrison
Out on the net, you’ll see a whole bunch of different websites out there. Many of them, people will pay hundreds of dollars for just to arrive to the top of the search engines. Very unnecessary don’t you agree? If you’ve ever checked out Blogger.com, you’ll see that you can create your own blogs for free. You’re thinking, “oh no you didnt Dwayne, you didnt just say free!!”. Yeah, I said free. Using a Blogspot blog(from Blogger), you can talk about whatever you want, whenever you want – just dont spam, nobody likes taking in too much spam; it’s not even healthy for your body.
Okay, so how exactly can you go about making money online using a Blogger blog? Simple. I’ll break it down for you and expound upon it a bit. Find a niche you like talking about, create the blog (try and make the name based around your niche of course), add content, get ranked high into the search engines, then finally monetize it all. As I always state in a lot of my content, you want to get traffic first before you monetize, otherwise you’ll look like a blatant salesman, or saleswoman for you ladies out there. All the content you create should be based around quality, and not necessarily on quantity. I can’t stress this enough. When you’re viewers read you’re content, if they see that its a long boring article, then they’re going to just walk away and shake their heads, BUT, if they see that you have quality content that is concise, and straight to the point, then you’ve just got yourself a loyal viewer my friend!
So, can you make money online using a Blogspot blog? For sure! Obviously it’s going to take time and patience, but the catch here, is that you’re not spending a dime – or a penny for those of you who’d rather spend less than that. Be sure to check out my next article to learn about gaining traffic in general.