Archive for Blogging
10 Plugins To Improve Your WordPress Blog Experience
WordPress is a blog publishing application that is used by millions of people worldwide. It started off as a mere platform for writing stuff, but now is a full fledged business tool, that has more than half of the world’s blogs depending on it. It offers many plugins and widgets that can be downloaded for making the blogs look attractive.
There is one problem here. These plugins affect the performance of our blogs. They make it slow by bloating the blogs. We need to make our blogs user-friendly so that many peoply can read it without having any problem.
TOP 10 Plugins for WordPress:
Many of us download free plugins for our site. But these make our site work slow thus less people visit our site and read blogs. Here are the top 10 wordpress plugins that you can download to your wordpress blog and let your readers enjoy reading blogs, without affecting the speed of the blog.
1) Light Box 2:
- This effective plugin helps in overlaying images by using Colorbox.
- You can view clear and large images without opening the picture on a new tab.
- You can also auto-lightbox all the images. Read More
How To Make Your Blog Successful
Blogging is now an integral mode of communication in the online world. People not only interact with each other, but also share views, experiences, news, stories and many other such things. Now, not only is blogging a mode of communication, it can also be used as a source to earn money albeit the hard way. In this digital age, with the internet being a giant world, getting your blog to be on the top searches as well as getting it to earn money is not such an easy job.
Just like every real life business, there has to be lots of hard work, patience, time and resource investment, networks to be created, dedication and determination required. When you have all these with the right stroke of luck, you may get to be earning quite an amount. However, it must not be taken as a light job, because it’s very hard to build viewership and it’s equally hard to maintain those readers. To get you started, here are a few points that you could take into consideration for a successful, money earning blog.
1). A Good Plan
A blog, like a business strategy needs a good plan. You need to figure out, draw out what you would want to share or want people to read about. Look up online market trends and catch that topic that is needed. There are thousands of blogs out there, but what is that one factor that could make your blog stand out? After the initial thought, you need to know the processes of blogging, for example, the domain required, the SEO words required, the keywords, internal how to of a blog and many other such aspects.
2). Get A Good Domain Name
Companies have unique names that can give them the right identification needed. Same is with a blog.
Top Technological Trends Of 2009
Here are some of the top technological trends that remained in focus during 2009.
1. Smartphones
These recently launched mobile phones have the capability to work as a computer as well, allowing users to plug in anywhere. Smartphone sales increased 24% worldwide in 2009, irrespective of the poor economic conditions.
2. Facebook
Facebook went through a significant demographic shift, becoming the most favorite social networking website for all age groups.
3. Blogging
Blogging gained much popularity in 2009 with the help of Twitter. This helped people to publicize certain issues, such as the protests in Iranian elections, which cause significant turbulence in the politics.
E-textbooks vs. Kindle DX: What will college kids pick?
This week, Amazon made public its latest Kindle device, the Kindle DX. The new device is similar to the original Kindle and it’s designed to read textbooks and periodicals.
Although, Amazon is marketing this as a more practical solution for the college students, but there is a possibility that the pupil might reject the new tool.
What most students do; they buy their books on campus, where they get new and used copies. Also, the more economic of us go to Web sites like Amazon.com or eBay’s Half.com.
When the semester ends, students can also dispose of the books at the campus or even can get to the online buyback services, where they collect a check for about 15 percent of the original price. Students have been practicing this for decades.
R. MAK. says goodbye to ixibo! A Technology Blog
Last night I, finally handed over the passwords for ixibo along with its hosting account to Maria. She will be the new owner and administrator for www.ixibo.com. It has been a great ride from founding this blog to Google Page Rank 3. Since May, 2008, I along with Henry, Paul, Sara and others worked very hard to make this blog a success. we achieved part of it together.
But I have some other big projects in pipeline so, I thought it would be a good idea to handover the keys of this blog to someone who is really passionate about technology and a great team player. I will keep contributing as a guest writer occasionally but now it’s Maria’s show.
Finally, I would like to say good luck and thank you to all my readers. Your feedback and comments have been the single largest source of inspiration that led me to success as a professional blogger. I will keep on doing what I do best… blogging and tweeting on twitter.
here are some of the projects I am currently involved in. hope you will like to take a look at what will be working on doing.
- Renewable Energy Blog (Taking over from Sara as she is getting very busy in her study)
- Outsource to Pakistan (A Business Process Outsourcing Startup)
- I travel to work! Do you? A Travel Blog
- Live Chat Providers (Another Initiative for Small Businesses)
- Fair Loan Rate! A Personal Finance Blog (My newly discovered passion)
- DWI Laywer’s Blog (Helping My Brother get his law blog running)
- Best Things in Life and Cheap and Inexpensive (Starting an Online Store)
- Bee For Beelog! A Blog Network ( A place where people can start new blogs)
- AsiaSat 3S A Satellite TV Blog (My favorite satellite)
- A Recruiter’s Blog (My Headhunting side of career)
You see, I am doing all this so in order to focus better I have to shed some weight. but I will remain a guest writer and extend my help whenever needed.
Have a nice day and subscribe to RSS Feed which is now showing 0 for strange reason :p
How One Hour Can Make A Difference: A Social Media Marketing Experiment
Yesterday I was sitting with a few friends discussing traffic trends of my blogs. Following idea came up and I thought it would be great if I could share it with you over here. Idea is very simple. Its very similar to creating a traffic club but on a smaller scale. Let me explain this in detail.
If you are still interested you are very likely to be a fellow blogger like me, striving to create original content, submitting it religiously submitting it to social bookmarking sites like Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Mangolia, Mixx to name a few, only to watch it going down and off the pages after few hours. It breaks my heart to see the articles and posts sinking see deep inside these pages that after few days they bring no more than a few clicks a day and that too if the post is really interesting.
