8 Tips For New Bloggers
It’s been 8 months since I first started blogging. I’m not a pro-blogger, but still I have come up with a few tips that I think will be found useful by the new bloggers. This is my first attempt in giving out tips. :) And that also with a bunch of links from some of my favorite blogs.
1. Own Domain: Your domain should be small (10-12 characters are enough) one and easy-to-remember. For more tips on choosing domain names, read Shaun’s article.
2. Good Host: If you have a self-hosted blog, then host it on a reliable host. Make sure your is a reliable one, has no downtimes and has 24/7 support. (If anyone has written a good article on importance of good web-hosting, please let me know below. I’ll add the link here.)
August 07 Roundup
From this month onwards, I’ll also post my blog statistics every month and so that everyone can know about the ups and downs of my blog. I’ll be posting the best posts of the month, traffic statistics and my total earnings. I might include other things in my next round-up post.
Blog Posts:
- How to delete an undeleteable files
- Free Domains: Top-Level Domains (Part Two)
- How To View Gmail Messages with Feed Aggregator (Guest blogged by DJ Flush)
- Services You Can Safetly Disable in XP
- 10 Ways to increase traffic (Guest blogged by Shaun)
- Top 5 Animated Movies Of All Time
- Kill Tasks from Command Prompt
- 25+18=43 Hidden Applications in Windows XP (The most popular post – 37,000+ hits)
- How to restore Recycle Bin after deleting
Blog Traffic:
Unique Visitors: 32,516
Pageviews: 64,868
Pages/Visits: 1.99
Earnings:
Google Adsense: $97.65
Kontera: $19.22
That makes a total of $116.87.
My feed readers increased from 44 to 90-104 :) The maximum readers I had this month were 104. So c’mon everyone, subscribe now and help me incresase my feed reader count 
10 Ways to increase traffic
This post has been guest blogged by Shaun Low from Shaunlow.com, a blog about blogging!
Blogging is all about communication. If you are a shy person in the internet world then blogging might not be your cup of tea. You have to be able to communicate a valuable point to your readers, read other blogs and participate in online discussions. If you expect any form of traffic to your site your going to have to do a bit of blog promotion. Here are some important tips that will help drive some traffic to your site!
1. Create quality and meaningful content
Everyone always says backlinks are queen but quality content is king. You should provide useful information which will cause your readers to return to your blog. No matter what niche you cover you will have something to say but make sure you present your information well to your readers.
2. Visit other blogs in the same niche
Reading other blogs in your niche will not only give you extra knowledge and experience, but you should comment on articles that interest you. If you say something interesting in the comments section on other blogs your readers might want to check out your blog to see what else you have to offer. Also signing up with MyBlogLog and visiting other blogs will leave your picture left in the MyBlogLog space that is on the blog you are visiting. This will bring in a few extra visitors.
Finally, back to original rank on Technorati
by Haris on August 5, 2007
in Blogging, Humour, Internet, Social Networks
Last night, I opened my WordPress Dashboard to check out all the comments and link backs. I clicked the more button, and went to the Technorati page to check my authority. And there, to my surprise my authority was only 25 and my rank was 1 :D
I refreshed the page several times to see if there’s a problem at my side. But the rank remained the same. I even took a picture :)
The Geek Train – Get aboard now!
Choo Choo… It’s here folks! Yes, I’m talking about The Geek Link train. Yesterday, while reading Shaun Low‘s blog, I came across his post on this train and I was glad to find my link in there :D . As I’m in now, I’ll make sure that none of my friends get left behind!
So, continue reading below to see how any have joined the train yet. I’ll be looking forward to meet you in there :) .
Geek Train – All aboard!
Sunday Linking #1
Hello readers once again :) . Time for a new set of links. This week I don’t have as many links as before. Actually I had very busy week so didn’t got much time to read other blogs. But still I have managed to come with some interesting posts. I’m soon going to start a Gmail Signature Generator. I’m still trying to integrate it into WordPress. If it works, I’ll start it somewhere within this week :) .
And yeah, I have also changed the title of my links post from Speed Linking to Sunday Linking, because I always post links on Sundays :D .
Shankar explains how you can change your XP’s start menu to look like Vista’s.
Glock tells us how can we make our old/dead CD’s back to work.
Madhur introduced a new site analysis service called RobotReplay. I’m sure if it’s new or old, but it’s definitely new for me :) .
Shashank tells us 22 reasons why we should shift to WordPress.
Rishi explains some rules for good commenting on other blogs.
And in the last, Jake has come up with the best 10 Blogger themes that are better than the original.
I hope you have a nice time reading them. I’d be glad if you add me in your Technorati favourites :) . Have a nice day!
Stop Thinking About Tomorrow
by Haris on July 18, 2007
in Blogging, Uncategorized
It’s better not to think about what to blog from before. I always get a lot of things to blog about when I start my PC. :)
Essential SEO Plugins for WordPress
I have been using WordPress for 5 months now. I have come across many plugins and I have even tried most of them. It included all types of plugins. With my experience with WordPress and with the help of my friends, I have finally been able to compile a list of the essential plugins needed for optimizing WordPress (your blog) for search engines.
So the list goes like this…
Google Sitemap WordPress Plugin – The most important! Get your blog posts indexed on Google with this plugin.
Optimal Title WordPress Plugin – You hate long titles,right? Even search engines do. This plugin will display the page title before the blog name. That’s saves a lot of time and helps you get more hits!
Ultimate Tag Warrior – It is a tagging system that helps search engines crawl your site in a better way. You can even make tag clouds and play with many other customizing features.
Permalink Redirect – It does a permanent 301 redirect. Saves your post from being copied :)
All-in-One SEO Pack – Yup, the title says it all. You can easily set your page title, tags, description from this one plugin!.
If you have liked this post, then you would also like to know how to reduce spam by 99.9%.
Have I left out any plugin? Feel free to add it.
Speed Linking – July 15, 2007
I have found these articles very interesting and would recommend every one else to read them too :) .
Tools to print blog posts – Shankar Ganesh
Boost Streaming Videos SpeedBit Video Accelerator – DJ Flush
How to Change the Default Icon for Removable Drives – Nirmal
Move From Blogger To WordPress and Maintain Permalinks And Traffic – Arpit
How to use Firefox as Windows Explorer or File Manager? – Mr. Byte
Batman’s Bat vehicles – Rishi
50 places to store your photos – A very nice collection by Jake
