Daniel at Daily Blog Tips floated an interesting idea to create a blogger’s union or association. His logic is that by creating a union bloggers can help each other to face-off legal challenges, content scraping, spams and other similar issues. I think this is a great idea. Although I am little skeptical about [...]
Should we declare the traditional book as an endangered specie? Current trends show that e-book popularity is growing and it may become the format of choice for most people in the near future. Publishers and books sellers are reporting that the e-book sales are up by as much as four or five times over last [...]
If you are looking for ways to improve your blogging you can start by using some of tools mentioned at Lifehacker.
Mosts of the tools on this list are Firefox extensions, but the list also have few stand alone applications that may help you in your blogging. My favorite tool on that list is Foxmarks that [...]
Twitter provides an excellent platform to bloggers to promote their blogs. Because of its popularity several third-party tools and services were created to help Tweeter users. Following is a list of the tools and services that I think make Twitter lot more easier and fun to use.
Quotably
Tweet Scan
Ping.fm
TwitterFox
TwitterLocal
Twobile
TwitterFeed:
Twitterbar
Share and Enjoy:
These icons link to social [...]
To me the key to productivity lies in simplicity and avoiding distraction.
I am glad that last month I found out about Dark Room at DoshDosh.com.
Dark Room is a no-frill, minimalistic full-screen text editor. Its main purpose is to let you focus on your writing and kill all distractions that come with other full-featured editors.
Share and [...]
Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see my Alexa rank became145,792. The night before it was some where in 233,00 range. My first thought was something is not right. So I went to Alexa.com and found out that they have changed their ranking system. And that new system is the cause of this [...]
Want to find out how much does your blog worth? Just go to DNScoop.com and get your answer. DNScoop.com estimates the dollar value of an established domain name. Its estimation is based on several factors including
Links pointing to the domain
Popularity of the domain
Age of the domain
Pagerank of the domain
Traffic [...]
Today I stumbled upon an excellent WordPress plugin. It is called CommentLuv. This plugin rewards the visitors who leave comments on your posts with backlinks to their recent posts. This is an excellent way to encourage your visitors to leave comments on your post. It is a win-win situation for you and the visitors. You [...]
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To become a successful blogger is not difficult but the success does not come overnight. You have to be patient and persistent. Remember the 3Ds for success. Desire, determination and dedication. If you have the desire, dedication and the determination to be a good and successful blogger then you have nothing [...]
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Ever since I started placing AdSense units in my posts I have been getting emails from readers asking me how I position my ads in the right hand corner of my posts. So I decided to share this information in a post rather than explaining it over and over in individual emails.
To position [...]
