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A week in blogging Feb 16th – 23rd
Around The Blogosphere So, what’s happening in the blogsphere this week? Daniel from DailyBlogTips has a nice article (the usual face off) where he’s interviewed two popular bloggers Patrick Altoft and David Airey. They have some interesting questions answered, so do check out. Maki from Dosh Dosh has a motivational article (really) on the importance of empowering your audience. Josh Spaulding released his free easy SEO report, you might want to give it a ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS MyFTP Plugin for WordPressUsing this plugin the admin can FTP in files to the server from within the administration panel. Related posts from the same categoriesThis plugin will find and display posts from the same category as the main post. Very good to increase page views and keep the user glued to the site. RSS FooterAllows you to add a footer text in your RSS feed. You can either customize a footer text for a single post or use ...
Continue readingHave you checked if your readers are still with you?
Blogging Blogging can easily make you blind. With all that respect, popularity and celebrity status you think you have, it’s easy to get carried away. You slowly migrate from interesting things to personal things, move away from the purpose of your blog while you still think that you are doing a great job. Quite possible isn’t it? There are blogs that started off with one topic, then later on more user participation, moved to another and ...
Continue readingA week in blogging Feb 10-17th
Around The Blogosphere MyblogLog has released it’s brand new widget, the Recent readers widget which is very web 2.0 with gloss and curves. These guys have been continuously evolving and this is the latest weapon from their armory. Google webmaster central has posted the 7 must read articles from Google. It’s worth bookmarking and a nice read. There is a nice link exchange program released this week (with a nice puppy ) - Spottt. It offer free ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS Automatic WordPress meta tags and technorati tag generator This plugin will automatically generate and include HTML Meta Keywords and Technorati Tags based on the full text of your post. Automatic keywords generator This little plugin will scan your pages and find keywords that are used a lot on that particular page. It will then place them in the title tag. You can easily modify to place in your meta data as well. IMM Keywords The ...
Continue readingSo what’s all this Social media hype about?
Around The Blogosphere Digg, Mixx, Stumble Upon, Twitter, Tumblr…phew the list just goes on. Social Media is happening guys! In fact, it’s quite likely that, while I’m writing this, an outsourced development team in India or Romania is sketching up a new social media product. Such is the buzz. Have you wondered, you don’t get time to manage one single blog, but then how do you manage all these social media sites? Agreed, it’s micro ...
Continue readingHow to increase the number of people commenting on your blog
Blogging First off, take away all those misconceptions from your mind about commenting. - You can’t make every single visitor comment. - You can’t expect everyone who’s commenting to praise you or your blog. - You are not responsible for the comments. - You can’t expect legitimate comments. Feeling a bit like a boring topic isn’t it? Well, in fact it is. Commenting is something that’s looked upon by every blogger. We ...
Continue readingA week in blogging
Around The Blogosphere Darren writes an interesting post on How to use humor in your blog to bring about a change. Remember that open letter to Google AdSense team he wrote after they deciding to pull down the referrals? This post will give you insight on how to use a similar strategy on your blog. Michael thinks that blogs bridge the gap between business and social media. I very much agree and urge you to read this post(in fact a video).Good insights there. ...
Continue readingWordPress themes and plugins for the week
WordPress Themes PLUGINS Listdown CategoriesAn extension that will display the categories as a list or dropdown list, to show the number of posts per category or hide empty categories and more. Good for bloggers who have lot of categories arranged in stacks.(Most of us do -right?) Socialize MeA nice plugin that gives custom messages for visitors from different social medias like Digg and StumbleUpon. It identifies them as to which site they are from and ...
Continue reading10 ways to kill your readership
Blogging Hey, have you tried to kill your readership base? It would be fun, why not try it? Listen carefully, and implement the following step by step. Now don’t skip any step, go according to the order. Don’t blog for three weeks in a row.Do absolutely nothing on your blog for three weeks. Moderate no comments, post no new articles. Write nothing innovative, instead write about the same things you’ve written already. Don’t ...
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