Happy New Year! Okay, I know it’s a bit late, but I missed last week due to illness and I didn’t want to miss spreading the cheer. Did you make resolutions? Have you broken them yet?
I don’t believe in new year’s resolutions. I prefer to consider establishing new habits. That way I’m looking at ways I can improve by adding things to my life rather than focusing on negatives that I want to remove. Sort of a “glass is half full” way of improving myself.
Anyway, last July I quit smoking…
Frustrated with your blog? While blogging platforms are easy to use - a blog is the easiest Web site you’ll ever create - blogging platforms also have limitations if you’re set on building a major authoritative Web site using a blog.
The biggest limitation is the chronological format of a blog. As you post to your blog, older posts slip off the radar, and you’ve got to make a conscious decision to bring your older material to the attention of new readers.
If you blog several times a day, older posts vanish…
There is no secret to successful blogging. It’s all hard work and patience that finally pays off. It’s very easy to get bored blogging, especially if you are writing on a very narrow subject. Let me share with you some factors I found interesting that will increase your productivity while at blogging.
PLUGINS
Contact form - This is a very handy plugin that adds a small contact form to your sidebar. Perfect for those who wants some feedback from readers.
Short Permalinks - This plugin creates a short permalink for every post using the service abbrr and displays the permalink whereever you want to.
Hide Email - This plugin hides your email addresses frok bots. They look the same to the visitor but they are hidden from the spam bots.
Highlights - Highlight anything that’s searched on your blog. Easy for readers to find out the information.
Bot Tracker - This plugin…
Anyone can target keywords, but there is a lot more to it than that. If you write a blog on laptops, do you want people visiting who are seeking information on parenting? Probably not. Sure, it’s a page view. But it isn’t a quality page view, and it could result in a bad bounce rate (or the percentage of people who visit your site, only to bounce right back out).
Follow these steps to ensure you are targeting the right keywords for your blog.
List Your Blog’s Appropriate Keywords
First off, you need…
6 Questions to Really Ask Before You Start a (Craft) Blog - Good questions to ask yourself when you are thinking about starting a blog.
7 Reasons you Should be Advertising on Blogs - A quick post from Chad Randall which tells you why you should advertise on blogs.
Video Embedder for Wordpress - Kristoffer Forsgren has released a great little plugin which allows you to add videos to your blog easily.
MoFuse - A new site service that allows you to create a mobile-friendly version of your blog so your readers can follow you on the…
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