I’ve been reading a lot of diatribes against Digg lately. I’m not much of a fan myself, to be honest. I think too many bloggers write for Digg rather than their readers, but that’s not what this is about. This week it was further cemented in my mind that Digg isn’t necessary for traffic building.

Let me explain.

A few days ago, I posted 45 Things You Can Learn for Free Online at Simply Thrifty. I didn’t ask for anyone to Stumble or Digg the piece because I didn’t write it to be linkbait. I wrote…

Often, when I read the probloggers articles, I get this feeling - “Man, why didn’t I write about this article earlier, after all it’s something that I knew already ? “

But you can’t stop it there, You end up writing a comment - “Awesome article, never read anything like that earlier!”

Well, that indeed is the power of pro bloggers. You write about the smallest of things but it turns out to be a great article. Worry not, if you practice certain tips and tricks, you too can write like the…

The number one new years resolution is to lose weight. Weather it be through exercise or eating habits people are trying to slim down, but while focusing on their physical appearance the same desire to “lose the fat” escapes other parts of their lives.

One such area is the fat in websites and blogs. Using space well eludes a lot of people when designing websites, often creating visual clutter. Even behind the curtain plugin clutter exists on some sites, some entirely unnecessary. So consider these easy ways to cut clutter and…

It is always important to increase relationship with your blog readers. I wrote a post few days back on How to increase interactivity in your blog. In that post, I wrote on how you can make your visitors to take any action in your blog. This post will be on how to build good relationship with your blog readers and what you can do to make the relationship better.

Blogging is a good way to get friends and to tell the truth, I have got many friends. The best people who…

Typogrify actually began life as a set of Django templates crafted by Christian Metts to improve web typography. It was the ported over to WordPress by Hamish Macpherson. As Jeff Croft puts it:

Typogrify: almost certainly the best thing to happen to web typography since Georgia.

The beauty of Typogrify is it’s simplicity. You will benefit from it just by plugging it in an turning it on, but there are a bunch of more advanced features if you wish to take it further. I’ll cover all the features here.

Adds a unique class to your…