If you are planning to start a new blog, the first decision you need to make is about hosting. For a long time, I have been an advocate of using shared-hosting to start a new blog. If you are just starting and this is your first blog, shared hosting provides a cost effective way to test and see if you can actually sustain your blogging enthusiasm. But there are other choices out there to explore including VPS, dedicated servers and something new from Amazon. Let’s take a look at all of these options and decide which one is right for your new blog.
How To Get More Than 140 Characters In Tweets With Twitter Cards
Twitter is one of the world’s biggest social networks and it’s a powerful platform that can be leveraged to send your blog a lot of highly targeted traffic. But there’s always been a limitation of using only 140 characters in your Tweets. The 140 character limit doesn’t give enough of the space we often need to promote our blog posts. You can only enter a line or two and a link to promote your content. We are allowed a lot more characters for Facebook, and Google+, to share a longer snippet of our content which provides a lot more information to our potential readers. Twitter users have needed more space for a long time and now Twitter has finally responded by introducing Twitter Cards.
What Are You Getting From Your Blog Comments?
Comments are an integral part of a successful blog and it’s also one of the tools which can add a lot of dimension to your blog. So what are you getting from your comments? What, you are not sure…Ok, let’s see what all you can get from the comments. It all depends on commenting strategy, first you need to decide what do you want to get from your comments. Since the first step is to decide what you want to gain from your comments. Your strategy can be based on any of the following commenting strategies
Engaging Community with the Help of Forum Marketing
I have just started Makewebworld Forums at my blog and I am making the transition towards the forum marketing, it’s a place to join and engage with fellow bloggers and share your ideas. So come and join me on Makewebworld Forums. One unique proposition on Makewebworld forums is that there is a board for Deals on online products. You are allowed to use your affiliate links in the forum, which can generate some extra income for you.…continue reading…
Guest Posts – Are You Doing it Correctly
I have seen many people sending guest posts but it is only with an intent to get a backlink. Most of the blog owner who accepts guest posts knows what I am talking about. I know that there are millions of blogs and a place for every article, so each article ends up finding its place. But I would assume you are not one of the those who are just giving low quality post, you write good quality articles and send those to other blog owners as guest posts. Writing a good article does take its time and effort, are you getting all the milk it is worth for?…continue reading…
Facebook Timeline – Is Time Running Out
Facebook Timeline is a new way to show you profile and as the name suggest it changes your profile in a time driven series. It shows activities from when you join Facebook to till now on a time scale (it can show activities for your whole life, you just need to go back and add these to your timeline). To create an app your account needs to be verified either through mobile or credit card. Click on Create app and give an name and namespace for your new app.…continue reading…
