Monthly Archives: January 2008
27 Ways to be a Smarter Writer in 2008
Writing 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 ...
Continue readingBig, Bigger, Biggest – Simple Blog or CMS?
Blogging 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 ...
Continue reading10 ways to increase your blogging productivity
Blogging 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. Stay updated with feeds Subscribing to feeds of related websites is a good way to make sure that you don’t run out of ideas. ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Plugins 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 ...
Continue readingThe Right SEO Keywords for Your Blog
Search Engine Optimisation 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 ...
Continue readingLinks Roundup – January 8th 2008
Links 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 ...
Continue readingWhat Kind of Blog Content is Google Looking For?
Promote your blog Since Google is the king of all search engines, they are dictating the exact keywords you need in your article or blog that will get you the thousands of hits per week required to really succeed in the world of the internet. Google is constantly searching for blog content that contains not only the most popular keywords and keyword phrases that Google’s users are most interested in, but also the web pages that are linked to other ...
Continue readingYou Say Impression Management, I Say Branding
Promote your blog What image do you portray in the blogosphere and online as a whole? In marketing, we call it branding, but in psychology and sociology, they call it impression management. In fact, there is a whole network of psychologists and sociologists who have been studying impression management online, particularly as part of social media, for years. In an article from the New York Times this week, it was suggested that people strategize their online ...
Continue readingBeing Happy in Blogging
Blogging For me, happiness in blogging is next to being successful in blogging. If you are not happy blogging, there are is a big possibility that you would only view blogging as a means to an ends and would eventually end up in failure. I am not going to feature a list or a set of “things to do” in order to be happy in blogging. This satisfaction or feeling should come within you as a blogger, writer and as an individual. There is no such ...
Continue readingBalancing Blogging With Work / Studies
Blogging Making of a successful-and-outstanding Blog does not always require you to be a full time blogger. Though blogging is a career, many people who do blog are people who work, study or are just at home doing nothing. This list is infinite. Unless you work for Google your not lucky since they allow you 10% of your time to do whatever you want. At a point of time I did not have proper guidance to manage both and had to go away from blogging for a ...
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