How to Display Number of Views Against Each Post in Wordpress

March 5th, 2009

You must have come across sections on blogs, listing their most popular posts. Have you ever wished that each post on your site showing the number of views against it?

Here’s how you do it: Read more…

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Ten “Must Sign Ups” For A Serious Blogger

February 21st, 2009

If you are a serious blogger, you can not afford to skip these sign ups. After you read these tips, I urge you to go to each of the link provided and start reading about them.

The ten “Must Sign Ups” that I highly recommend are as follows (in no order). Read more…

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How To Write A Well Structured Article?

February 21st, 2009

So how should the article structure be ? There is no definite answer to this. Sometimes a 3 paragraph article is probably much better than a 7 paragraph one….or vice-versa. It all depends how effectively you deliver the message.

Having said that this is the guideline that I typically follow Read more…

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Eight Blogging Mistakes You Should Avoid

February 21st, 2009

It took me quite a while to write this one, but I mean every bit of it.  Here are the eight mistakes that you can happily avoid. Read more…

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Get Active On Social Networking Sites

February 21st, 2009

Facebook, Orkut, MySpace, LinkedIn, Twitter etc (there are a dozen more…) are the names most of us know.

How many of us actually use it to the fullest extent ? Very rarely, right ?…

Well, if you are a blogger and you write well and you are seeking traffic to the articles you publish, you simply can NOT ignore Social Networking sites. If you’ve never done, here is the time. You will do a world of good to yourself, believe me ! Read more…

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How Important Is Commenting ?

February 21st, 2009

For your post to get attention that it requires, here are the few suggestions that I have. This will also form a part of the traffic generation strategies

Comments – Giving and Receiving

All of us, after we write an article, wake up each day to check if we have received any feedback– whether good or bad. Sometimes we are lucky, other times not. The fact is that most of the comments are given by people who know us. The beauty lies in getting honest
feedback from people who do not know us. Read more…

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How to include images in RSS Feed of the Wordpress Blog

February 21st, 2009

Many times you must have seen that images relevant to the articles are displayed in your RSS feeds from various sites. If you are running a blog that runs Wordpress, here’s how you can setup images to be included in the RSS. Read more…

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The Art of Writing Article Title

February 16th, 2009

I found this interesting piece of advice on writing articles and I thought I will share it with you folks.

The article title should be able to deliver the promise that has been made to the reader. The title is a snapshot of your article in one small sentence. Below are the five key aspects of choosing the right title Read more…

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What Is Writing For You?

February 16th, 2009

Is it pure passion? Or is it your source for daily bread-n-butter ? Or is it that you want to earn some additional income by doing what you love most i.e. writing ?

Irrespective of what writing for you is, as you live the journey with us you will realize that you will also start earning additionally. How much and how often, we can not tell - totally depends on you.

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Branding Yourself

February 16th, 2009

It is quite common to have an opinion on many subjects e.g. cricket, entertainment, politics etc. Instead of trying your hand at everything, try and develop an area of expertise. This will help you gain high readership and brand loyalty.

Readers come to a website for a specific interest – could be you, your choice of topic, your writing style etc. Now, if you write on subjects which are not your areas of expertise, your loyal readers might shy away.

That said, should you shy away from writing other subjects where you think you have an opinion ?

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