Many bloggers try to measure his / her blog's success based on the amount of traffic. So, they measure the bulk of unique visitors or pageviews, some even every hour! This idea that more the visitors, greater the success is actually biased. Valuable visitors are more important than this traffic madness. Many bloggers quit early just because of not getting traffic. Definitely, it feels good when … [Read more...]
Long or short posts : Which works better for a blog
Just few days ago, we got an email from a regular visitor asking about what should be the ideal word count for a perfect blog post. We replied in short there; " it depends and we will write more later in details" . This is the introduction how the idea came to write this post on whether a long post or a short blog post works better for getting better search engine positioning. How long … [Read more...]
Group psychology and the blog phenomenon
In a group of people, each people influence the thought of others. If you are not aware of how group psychology controls the way we behave; you can read this nice topic before going in this article. Broadly, we are dividing the whole Internet users in to two subgroups : Those who write blog and those who read blog. Obviously, intermingling will happen; but to discuss the topic Group psychology … [Read more...]
Best features of WordPress
This article Best features of Wordpress describes the features which has established Wordpress in the top position in search engine war. Today, WordPress is the best and open source CMS platform for blogging. Here are some nifty features which most bloggers like and most importantly, Google likes : there is no doubt, Wordpress has the most SEO optimization features. Best feature of … [Read more...]
Successful Blog : Going beyond SEO
A successful blog not only consists of search engine optimization (SEO), good written content or a great design. Yes, definitely, these are major factors behind a successful blog; but there are more things that must be evaluated and thought out well. So, here is a dedicated article on planning for a successful blog. Whimsical writings can not stand the test of time as a successful blog. In … [Read more...]
Dabble.in : what is this new thing?
The person responsible for making us attentive about Dabble.in is no one but Matt. We saw in the sidebar of Matt's blog saying: Reserve your username at Dabble.in (@wedabble) and help me get dabble.in/matt by signing up here - http://t.co/lb5B60T about 8 hours ago We found quite interesting as Matt means something new idea! So we headed to Dabble's page. We tried /Abhishek, but Dabble said its a … [Read more...]
Facebook fan box widget that loads faster on your blog
Most of us use the Facebook fan box widget for our blogs, the default iframe or xFBML is slower to load. Here is a trick to create your own widget. Most of the blogger uses the code for Facebook fan box widget copy-pasting from the official page blindly, either the iframe code or the xFBML code from there. Prerequisite is only your existent Face book page. Just copy the code page id from there … [Read more...]
Advertising on website: factors to be considered
Using advertising on a website or blog has some things to think about. Here is a brief guideline on how and what to look while using the advertising. This a matter of fact that bloggers and webmasters need to earn money through advertising and maybe a nice extra income can come out of it. Legal issues with using advertising When you are using advertising on your blog or website, … [Read more...]
Changing your plans of blogging according to the need
You created a blog primary for writing software reviews. This was your plan in 2009. Your plan went well and at around mid 2010, your blog had an average visitors of 10,000 per day with average pageviews of 2.05 translating the daily pageviews to 20,000 (roughly). You made $ 1000 (arbitrary) per month out of it. It was quite successful in the terms of return of investments. Suddenly, after the … [Read more...]
Roman numerals for wordpress ordered list
Here is the way to make the Wordpress ordered list using Roman numerals. For scientific, official, legal publications Roman numerals are still used. It is quite easy than you are thinking. An ordered list of upper case Roman numerals Switch to HTML mode and copy paste the following : <ol style="list-style-type:upper-roman;"> <li> Roman </ li> <li> … [Read more...]
Ideas for writing good blog posts
The major differences between writing an article for offline print media publications and blog post are numerous. Firstly, reading on computer screen is more difficult and fatigues the reader easily than a print media. Secondly, unlike a magazine, your each blog post is going on a "virtual auction" on the search engine result page. It does not matter the first result whether contains less … [Read more...]