Posts Tagged ‘blog’

New App For Bloggers To Write Without Complex Coding

September 13th, 2011

A highly anticipated new iPad blogger app will be released later this month. DraftCraft(TM) will change the way that bloggers compose and post their work to most any platform without complex coding issues.

Developed by the Ministry of Application(TM), a mobile app developer based in Russia, the DraftCraft blogger app works with WordPress, Blogger, LiveJournal, Chinese sina.com.cn or blog.163.com.

This is the first blogger app that is not affected by the HTML-code and the particular properties of a blogging platform, and it has its own simple-text editor.

DraftCraft’s carefully designed user interface keeps the entire writing process as simple as possible, allowing bloggers to concentrate solely on results. » Read more: New App For Bloggers To Write Without Complex Coding

Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

August 19th, 2011

Research by IronMonk, a New York based social marketing agency, reveals the results of a study focusing on business blogging mistakes. The study’s results, called Top 10 Business Blogging Mistakes, highlights the importance of authority, relevance, consistency, and quantity to attract prospective clients and retain and nurture existing clients.

The top 10 business blogging mistakes include poor quality content, lack of social marketing integration, inconsistent posting schedule, uninteresting or irrelevant headlines or titles, missing opportunities for search engine optimization, self-promoting blog posts as opposed to blog posts that establish your company’s authority. The results include details about each mistake and how to correct them. » Read more: Top 10 Blogging Mistakes

Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

April 27th, 2010

Alexa rank was developed by Amazon.com. It measures the traffic to a site for the last three months and one month simultaneously.

The assigning of a particular Alexa rank to a website or a blog  is based on the number of surfers(visitors) to your website. The surfers to the website must have the Alexa toolbar installed on their browsers otherwise they will not be counted. The Alexa rank counts the number of visitors and page views for all the websites on a daily basis.

This specific visitor counting also limit the actual measurement of popularity of a particular website or blog. Visitors not having installed Alexa toolbar will not add to the ranking and therefore the overall ranking results will not reflect a true picture. » Read more: Alexa Ranking:It Adds to Your Blog Value

How to Get Your Blog Indexed

April 24th, 2010

If you have created your blog recently and wish more have visitors, you must get it indexed in the search engines.

If it is not indexed, it will not appear in the search result.

You may have shared your blog link with other sites and blogs but if you do not get it indexed on the search engine it will cause you to lose a large portion of traffic. The sitemap can help the search engine to crawl your site more easily.

You can create a sitemap for your blog by using online sitemap generator. There are umpteen of such free online sitemap generators that will generate up to 500 pages. » Read more: How to Get Your Blog Indexed

Business Blog Optimization(BBO)Helps Grow Online Business

April 19th, 2010

Business blogging is all about establishing a direct line of communication with the customers through the internet and websites. Business blogging is considered as one of the most effective and powerful tool to strengthen your web marketing portfolio.

Across the borders competition among companies is getting more fierce and sharp each day and this poses great many challenges to the small and medium business (SMB) that keep trying to make a big impact on the web through search engine optimization (SEO) of their websites.

Creation of a business blog and attaching it to the main business website is one of the potent SEO techniques available in the armory of optimizers. It is in fact an essential component of organic SEO marketing campaign of a website. » Read more: Business Blog Optimization(BBO)Helps Grow Online Business

Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

April 16th, 2010

Women are nearly twice as likely to use blogs than social networking sites as a source of information (64%), advice and recommendations (43%) and opinion-sharing (55%), while they are 50 percent more likely to turn to social networking sites as a means of keeping in touch with friends and family (75%), BlogHer announced today.

The 2009 Women in Social Media Study by BlogHer, iVillage and Compass Partners, which will be released today, found that while women who use social media platforms share a strong desire to connect and to entertain themselves, there are also ways in which the motivations for using various social media platforms differ. » Read more: Women Who Blog are the Most Actively Engaged Social Media Participants

Surprise Blog Marketing:Little Things Make a Huge Difference

April 15th, 2010

Blogs by and large all look alike as far as the structure is concerned and regular visitors and blog readers find nothing new except the design and content of a blog. Content is the most important distinguishing feature of a blog differentiating it from other competitive blogs.

An element of surprise may hit anyone’s eyes and prompt saying “Wow, I never expected this! “. This would help the blogger cutting through the clutter and make people generate “word of mouth” and say “You need to see this, it is incredible indeed”.

Among the big shifts that you can select for your blog would be switching over the blog marketing from a “riding-shotgun” approach to a well planned strategically designed surprise oriented campaign. » Read more: Surprise Blog Marketing:Little Things Make a Huge Difference

Scheduled Backups Help Secure Your Blog

April 14th, 2010

You must have read or heard that “no website can ever be made 100% secure”. No matter how well the site is designed and made secure with all possible security measures in place, it takes only the time and determination for an expert hacker to create a hole in to it. 

So what you should do with your wordpress blog to ensure its prolonged safety and security from such mishappenings?

Backup is the best measure to minimize the losses. Backups will certainly serve you as the first line of defence. With pre-scheduled functional backups you can easily erase everything in your server and you would be back online in a matter of hours. » Read more: Scheduled Backups Help Secure Your Blog

The Power of Blogging for Business

April 7th, 2010

New Perspectives on Blogging

April 7th, 2010

Understanding WordPress

April 6th, 2010

I was almost getting zeroed in on the topic and was just finding the right time slot to write down a detailed post about wordpress blogging. It may be a chance but a good one certainly that this lovely post flashed in today.  Chuck Tomasi and Kreg Steppe have written this detailed lesson with wonderful style of illustrations and examples that I simply could not resist myself but to share the same with you all.

This long post is in fact just a lesson of their co-authored book.

In this lesson, you learn the basics of WordPress, different ways you can run WordPress, and ways to create your account on WordPress.com. » Read more: Understanding WordPress

9 Business Blogging Techniques and Skills to Boost Your Online Business

April 4th, 2010

Blogging, business blogging, social networking, search engine optimization (SEO), twitter, facebook, and social media, and social bookmarking are some of the most popular buzzwords and key phrases we often come across with. Do you really know how to use all these concepts along with other web based media tools that can boost your business? Do you understand that specifically identified skills with these concepts will augment to your online presence and will act as a driving marketing vehicle helping your business grow faster?

It is important to acquire some of the necessary internet marketing insider techniques and skills. You must know about automation software for specific purposes and how these could help in your business. You would be at the edge of advantage if you know how to analyze the search engine rankings of your competitor’s and arch rivals. » Read more: 9 Business Blogging Techniques and Skills to Boost Your Online Business