Tag "Blogger"
The “Exceptional” Blogger – Are You One Of Them?
Blogger How do you differentiate passionate bloggers from the heap of dollar-chasers around? These days, it seems as if laziness has crept into our business lives. A lot of bloggers no longer research the topic before jamming the keyboard. How pathetic? They prefer the easy route. They can write 2,000 words article without studying the market. But doing this has its negative effects. It doesn’t make you exceptional – the content you put out on your ...
Continue readingThe Most Essential Blogging Tips That You Must Know
Blogger, Blogging, Making Money, Productivity, Promote your blog These days, many people are trying to make money online with their blogs. However, not everyone knows that a blogger can become successful if he or she applies some specific – and in most cases unwritten – rules that relate to blog posting. Thus, if you intend to brand yourself as an expert within your niche, you must comprehend a few important details that can help you to become a very successfully blogger. This indirectly means that ...
Continue readingSecurity Update: WordPress and Google Both Launch Improvements
Blogging News, WordPress It’s been a busy week for security buffs as both WordPress and Google Accounts are both receiving major security improvements that their users should definitely scoop up as quickly as possible. For WordPress users, they need to see about upgrading their installation to version 3.0.5, which fixes several security bugs that are most dangerous to those who have authors with limited permissions on their blog. Google, on the other hand, is ...
Continue readingWork with the TV On
Blogging For bloggers and other fields that allow for home office bases, self-discipline is a necessity. There are tons of books and articles that will give you tips and tricks for how to streamline your work day and become more efficient with your time. I’ve read a couple of them, and they can be helpful. But they often give very broad ways in which you can organize your time. For bloggers in particular, I’ve found that there is a unique ...
Continue readingNegotiating Your Worth as a Blogger
Blogging What is your worth as a blogger? It’s a sometimes tricky question to answer, and for the self-introspective necessity of going through this process, it’s a tough call to make when we’re talking about ourselves. Yet bloggers need to have a good sense of what they are worth in order to be successful if they write for publications that are owned by others. Even bloggers that write only for their own publications could benefit from ...
Continue reading5 Biggest Understatements from New Bloggers
Blogging A lot of people want to blog, and many of these people think that starting a new blog is simple stuff. If you’re doing your due research prior to launching your own blog, then please read on as I address some of the biggest misconceptions around blogging. I discuss these misconceptions not to ward off any potential bloggers, but to help them understand the process behind blogging. Knowing the information beforehand will help a great deal ...
Continue readingPostRank Integrates your Blog Analytics
Software & Programs Figuring out the complete picture of how your blog is doing involves analyze your visitors, your RSS readers, your email recipients, your Twitter followers and nay other social media site where your blog is discussed or linked with. Figuring out the analytics for any one of these systems can be a challenge, but getting all of this information in one place has extremely difficult. PostRank has launched PostRank Analytics as a way to help ...
Continue readingHelp A Reporter Out – Blog Publicity
Blogging Every blogger is always looking for ways to get publicity and links to their blog or website. Help a Reporter Out (HARO) is a great example of a site that might just get you on the “publicity” map. Each day, Peter Shankman the founder of HARO, sends our 2-3 emails with a list of reporters who are looking for experts and stories about specific subjects. If you fit the bill and reply quickly – you might get the publicity that ...
Continue readingTwo Weeks With Echo
Blogging With a tagline like ‘the next generating commenting system’ how could I resist trying out JS-Kit Echo? I’d been thinking about a comment upgrade for a while, as I liked the easy options I’d seen on other sites for logging in with different social media accounts. But what sold Echo to me in the end was the comment synchronization feature – all my comments would stay in WordPress even if I later uninstalled it. Echo ...
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Why IntenseDebate Beats Echo
Blogging I’ve changed the commenting system on my WordPress blog again, and this time I’ve chosen IntenseDebate. In the end the niggles in JS-Kit Echo proved too much, though I still think it has a lot of potential. So, after a couple of weeks with ID, how does it stack up? Let’s start at the beginning. First of all, here’s a quick roundup of the main features of IntenseDebate: It works with WordPress, Blogger, TypePad and Tumblr ...
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