Blogging Tutorials

Tips and tutorials to help increase your proficiency with free blogging software from Wordpress.com and Blogger.

Secret Blog Traffic Strategy That Gives You More Leads and Higher Conversions

Often, when you think of your blog traffic strategy, you think of guest posting, blog commenting or SEO. Perhaps some of you might even think of video marketing if you are into youtube, or perhaps like Ms. Ileane (and myself lately…) you might think about your podcasting as a traffic source. However, for over a year and a half, NONE of these was my primary source of traffic, leads, or sales for my blog. In fact, my biggest blog traffic strategy is one that many people fail to even consider: Forum Marketing! …continue reading…

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Blogging Industry in India – An Overview

My first association with blogging happened in 2003 when my mom bought the ‘Google Cash Cow’ CDs out of curiosity. Marketed as the ultimate money making machine with free hosting and free website that supposedly let’s you make millions in a short span of time, the Indian blogging industry has gone beyond the Google Cash Cow’s and evolved as a strong publishable medium, with the number of professional tech bloggers, personal bloggers and business bloggers on the rise…continue reading…

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Take Your Small Biz Videos to the Next Level with Viewbix

Now that you’ve started recording YouTube videos to promote your website or small business, you can take it to the next level and by enhancing those videos with interactive applications powered by Viewbix. For those of you who haven’t heard about it yet, here’s the description of Viewbix taken from their website: Viewbix lets you add interactive apps and calls-to-action to your videos. The apps put dynamic content on top of your YouTube, Vimeo or Facebook videos to create a rich viewing experience that engages viewers and can be shared across the web, social and mobile platforms.

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Zombie Email list subscribers

Why Zombie Subscribers Are Killing Your Email List

By now you’ve probably read at least three dozen out the thousands of articles written on why collecting email subscribers is so important to the growth and success of your blog. And to a certain extent this is going to be another one… as I agree completely. Email subscribers are of the utmost importance… Truly the only non-revenue counting stat I care about. If you are like me and you constantly tweak your newsletter to produce the best product then feedback is very important. You could be writing killer content but see increasingly diminished results because of Zombie subscribers inaction…continue reading…

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How to Stop WordPress Trackback Spam Completely

If you are an owner of a WordPress blog, then most probably you might be facing some WordPress trackback related spam in your blog and if your blog has some good amount of blog posts then this problem escalates and it’s quite difficult to control the problem.
Although this problem maybe solved by using some wordpress plugin, but using wordpress plugin for every small problem simply bloats your wordpress and your blog becomes quite slow. So, use as few plugins as you can.…continue reading…

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Get more traffic

How To Increase The Flow Of Traffic Coming To Your Blog

Have you ever had a burst of traffic and wish that traffic would go higher and higher each day? I have had that feeling lots of times and I just wish my traffic would continue to rise each day. Well in order for me, you or anybody else who want to increase their traffic then we have to put out the extra effort and work in order to do so. We have to be at it each and everyday if we want to increase our blog traffic. In this post I will give you tips on how you can build up your blog traffic.

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Remove all Sidebar Distractions

Better Sidebars for Better Conversion – How Does Yours Look?

The video in this post is all about optimizing your sidebars for getting better results. We’ll cover: Customizing your widget titles for astonishment – Conversion by astonishing is something that we all can do. We need to astonish our readers by being different and then convince them (it will be easier for you to do is if you are able to astonish) to subscribe or do whatever you want them to do. And removing sidebars from the post pages for better conversion. We will talk about how your sidebars can act as a distracting mechanism to your readers and how you can change that.…continue reading…

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