Finally – WordPress 3.3 is here, ready to download from WordPress.org or from inside your WP-powered blog’s dashboard. The latest WordPress release is nicknamed “Sonny” in honor of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt. There are a number of updates that make me wanna go “YAY!” My favourite new development is the drag and drop…
As long as I can remember, the almighty link bait was a great piece of content going viral and causing mass linkage. Free reports, e-books, awesome articles….all of it; an effort to grab more vital backlinks to your site. A new trend has emerged over the last couple years; the infograhic. An easy to read…
Here’s one question for you: Are blogs dead? A-list bloggers are still not so sure – Copyblogger, Problogger, etc. are still unsure about which sides to choose. As of for me, I observe “the sign of times” to learn whether blogs will be dead (or not.) Blogging trends I observe: If you visit Google+ and…
When things go wrong in real life there is one big consolation which bloggers can take from it. As that button finally pops on your trousers and you stand in the office showing off your knobbly knees, or the door on the manure truck swings open as you bend down to tie your shoelace next…
Having taken you through some basic steps leading up to smart blogging in the Smart Blogger’s Checklist Part 1, it is now time to tell you a little bit about the practicalities of building a blog, growing your readership, building visibility as a blogger and developing quality content for your blog. Here’s how…. Post, Publish…
It’s no secret Ivan brings the goods here and often. Huge amounts of information, fun and facts. But now, from me, a confession. Why I like to blog. Here is My Confession I will bet there are a ton of you out there with the same confession. We don’t need priest absolution here either. It’s okay now…
Do you blog hard or blog smart? To enjoy anything, one must not and should never regard it as a chore and this applies to blogging too. So if you blog hard then stop!!!! You need to start blogging smart! Smart blogging is an extension of the 80/20 rule wherein 80% of results that you…
Did you know the much-talk-about cloud computing? What is cloud computing and why bloggers should be aware of it? Learn more from this blog post… A brief on cloud computing Cloud computing, in essence is computing done by accessing a shared computing resources (the cloud) in electricity-like manner (you pay what you use) and can…
