Posts Tagged ‘Blogging Tips’

So, you want to be a super blogger?

Who are super bloggers?

While I ask you this question, several faces might flash through in your mind. Pause a moment, freeze them. Who are these faces ? These folks are the most popular bloggers as we know it. I’m sure we’ll have some common faces but let’s figure out who or what makes a super star blogger.

What makes a super star blogger?
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5 Characteristics of high traffic blogs you should copy

This one is from experience. Sometimes, when I come across that blog I never saw, I tend to dig up it’s metrics. You know when you are on a successful blog right? Within just a few seconds of your visit, you can identify if this is an MFA, a passion blog or a high value traffic one. And believe me digging into the metrics can really help and appearances can… Continue reading

Google AdSense integrates with Google Analytics

Vineesha Malkani, through a post today at the official Adsense blog announced that some publishers have the privilege of enjoying AdSense and their Analytics accounts integrated, from today on. Now, that means more in depth reports and page by page analysis of your AdSense reports. For instance, what pages gave you more clicks on the square ad ? And what pages did well for the rectangle ad etc? I haven’t… Continue reading

WordPress plugin that lists other websites linking to you

Why you ask ? Well….as a thanks may be. I know trackbacks does the same job but we need something more flexible and “configurable” I thought. This is a wordpress plugin that lists down all the blogs that are linking to the current posts in a neat list below the post. It basically uses the Google backlinks feature on Blog Search. I like this plugin for the following features. It… Continue reading

The “real” reason why Google Page Rank dropped for your blog

That’s an often repeated question, is it not ? Soon after the Google Page Rank updates, probably this is what most bloggers talk about. Why did my Google Page Rank drop? Well, the seo’s have their own algorithm to explain, but for the rest of us, there are the usual answers, which is far from satisfactory –Link value drain, Bad neighborhood and all that. But here is a better explanation… Continue reading

Get geared up for WordPress 2.7

  From the buzz around, we can sense that Wordpress 2.7 is going to be one of the best upgrades ever. Bigger with all new interface and packed with all new features. Many bloggers are even holding back the current upgrade waiting for the 2.7 upgrade. That means, this is going to be very interesting. Let’s see what the wordpress community has to offer in Wordpress 2.7 What’s new in… Continue reading

Create a slideshow box on WordPress blog featuring selected articles

You would’ve seen those cool “flash boxes” on certain sites that slides away featured articles and images with custom text on it right ? I think they are pretty good to show off your content to the five second visitor who may not otherwise notice it. It’s in fact a good way to increase page views all the while giving your blog that cool modern look. If you’re wondering… Continue reading

How to get rid of broken links – 404 errors from your website

Please keep the number of 404 errors and broken links on your site to the minimum, or none if possible, says Google. The basic idea is to help the robots index content more efficiently from websites and help index relevant information. Both you and me would have number of 404 errors on your blogs and websites, now in order to align yourself more towards the league of good guys who… Continue reading

The hidden traffic in long tail keywords

Alright, this is for all those who are complaining of low traffic and bleak revenues from their websites and will do anything to get the top three ranks for their keywords. Read on… Well, somehow most of us have the “notion” that SEO is all about getting top ranks for the first three/five keywords for their websites. And we all know about – a) Keyword Research Tools b) Keyword Analysis… Continue reading

WordPress plugin to replace post titles with fancy fonts

Dinu, a fellow blogger from Cochin is pretty impressed with Amy Mahon’s  wordpress theme over here, and was wondering what’s that funky text doing at the post titles ? Watch closely and you’ll find that the post titles are replaced with cool text effects rather than the plain text. Right click on the title and you’ll find that it’s an image instead of text. Well, this can be accomplished by… Continue reading