Ten Bulletproof Strategies for Promoting Your Blog
1. Write fresh, qualitative and unique content to make visitors read, comment and refer to your articles. Not only will worth-reading content keep visitors coming back, but it will make others come at your blog through referring links. Good articles will rise the authority of your blog and will make you a well-known author.
2. Post at regular bases to keep the interest of the visitors active and make them come back to get more form your blog. This will find it worthy to subscribe by email or get the RSS feed of your blog to stay tuned. And the most they subscribe and come back to your blog, the greater will your blog grow and so will your fame and revenue.
3. Interact with your visitors through fanatically responding to their comments. They will translate this into a welcome and will feel comfortable at your blog. Once you give them pleasure and make them feel important, you will have them come back, if not for your posts, for your good company. This is a good way to make keyboard (the time of pen is done) friends; remember. friends are there in good and bad times.
What do you thing about my new design?
Color Combination: I would like to be discussed is the color combination. How do you find it? Is it eye-friendly? What about the background, do you think it should have a color, or it is alright?
Images: What do you thing about the images? Is there something that needs to be removed or something that needs to be there and is not? what about the actual images design, how do you like them?
Sidebar: I do not like the sidebar myself, however I need some suggestion how to get it better as I cannot do much now that I am tired. A good question would be: what needs to be there and what needs to be removed? but this is not the only topic to suggest about.
Monetization: As you can see a have monetized the blog. How do you find the placement of the ads? Do you have any suggestion?
Voilà, first improvements of WP 2.5 are here with WP 2.5.1
The most important fixes seems to have been made at the security sector of WordPress. The the WP 2.5 version’s vulnerability is not yet made public to let time to the WP 2.5 guys to upgrade to 2.5.1, but it will be public soon, so hurry up.
Another step ahead for WordPress is the introduction of the secret and unique key that every WordPresser can have a put it i.e. paste it in his or her wp-config.php file. This gives the blog cookies more randomness and makes the life of the hackers more difficult, if any decides to hack into your blog. Go and get the key here. Have a good day.
Minimalist WordPress Theme Development
When I began to explore the WordPress theme code at my beginnings with WordPress, I came across a problem that I could solve only after a while. At that time I had no idea of minimalist web design, yet I wanted to stick to a minimalist web development habit, i.e. code less and have less files. While coding less can be grasped immediately as a saver of time, bugs and nerves, minimalist design is harder to understand in nature as it has to do more with arts. Even though now I am able to color some pixels on the screen about minimalist web design, it is not what I intend to discuss here. I want to share with you what I kept for a invention at the time my PHP grasp was very immature.
Why I’m Against Selling Established Personal Blogs
When I finished this article (without this paragraph) and decided to take the sixth advice of the Super Blogging Tips article 8 Ways to Write a High Quality Post about at least proofreading once a least, the article I chose to share with you at this week’s article of my weekly series 5 Articles a Week, I found this advice very helpful again. But this time I put proofreading off for later. As I was walking down the street and thinking of my draft article, a wonderful idea came to my mind. so you don’t have enough time to spend on your blog. Wright? Than you can rent it for a while, can’t you? This while can be as long or short as you want. As for the renting terms I would suggest to it can be a share of revenue between the renter and the borrower, it this is the right term. Other conditions can be sat, such as publishing frequency and topic nature. I find this a great way to spare time and still keep your blog up and running.
Five Articles a Week Can Make You a Geek (1)
Well, I know a geek is not really a very sociable person, but I had to find something to rhyme. Moreover, they say that geeks are born, not made. This was for the title. As for the article, I chose to share with you 5 articles a week, I to help myself to read more and in detail, not just browse through articles. Thanks!
1.Tomorrow’s CSS Today: 8 Techniques They Don’t Want You To Know
This is a great article on eight powerful, yet not widely-known CSS techniques by Tim Wright. This techniques are not CSS hacks but very useful features that can help every web designer to improve his/her or their clients’ web presence. Why should one employ these techniques? The author answers:
I’m Sad to See WordPress Themes Using Tables
When I decided to begin a new project of mine, Open Book Critic, for time reasons, I just browsed the WordPress Themes Directory, typed ‘book’ in the search and some four or five themes appeared in the results. I chose one, NoteBook 1.0 theme. Well, my intention was that this would be a temporary theme, until I would find some time to design and code one myself. That is why I was not interested in retouching the code. Well, this did not change until my fiancee had a look at Open Book Critic and decided to have that same template for the site of her new English teaching center ‘Smart Center’. And here begins the sad story.