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Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

Are you stock piling?

By Mohnish On January 20, 2009 1 Comment

I have never talked about this but today I just thought this was the right time about talking on this topic.

What does “Stock Piling” mean?
Stock piling means keeping your content/posts ready as drafts so that you can just post them whenever you can’t think of anything new or you are just out of content!

Benefits of Stock Piling?
The benefit of stock piling is that your blog is always active and you don’t lose your readers attention.

I have been extremely busy these days with Affiliate Marketing and a new website coming up.. I will post later on about what is the new website about, but for now.. let me just stock pile some posts for you guys 😉

Follow me on Twitter to have a chat with me. Leave your comments and views on Stock Piling below



WordPress 2.7 released!

By Mohnish On December 11, 2008 6 Comments

I’m Blogging this from WordPress 2.7 and its fantastic! I was one of the 1st 1000 users who upgraded to WordPress 2.7 and I’m so glad about it! 😀 The first thing you’ll notice about 2.7 is its new interface. From the top down, we’ve listened to our feedback and thought deeply about the design and the result is a WordPress that’s just plain faster. Nearly every task you do on your blog will take fewer clicks and be faster in 2.7 than it did in a previous version. (Download it now or Mirror, or read on for more.)

Next you’ll begin to notice the new features subtly sprinkled through the new interface: the new dashboard that you can arrange with drag and drop to put the things most important to you on top, QuickPress, comment threading, paging, and the ability to reply to comments from your dashboard, the ability to install any plugin directly from WordPress.org with a single click, and sticky posts.

Digging in further you might notice that every screen is customizable. Let’s say you never care about author on your post listings — just click “Screen Options” and uncheck it and it’s instantly gone from the page. The same for any module on the dashboard or write screen. If your screen is narrow and the menu is taking up too much horizontal room, click the arrow to minimize it to be icon-only, and then go to the write page and drag and drop everything from the right column into the main one, so your posting area is full-screen. (For example I like hiding everything except categories, tags, and publish. I put categories and tags on the right, and publish under the post box.)

For a visual introduction to what 2.7 is, check out this video (available in HD, and full screen):

Sources: WordPress Blog

P.S – This is my 100th post and I’m so glad I made it with WP 2.7! 😀



Tagging your articles

By Mohnish On November 5, 2008 No Comments

Tagging plays an important role in blogging. If there were no tags, blogs wouldn’t have been listed that fast on search engines.

How does tagging help?
When an article is tagged it gets a virtual identity on search engines which helps them list your articles. If you tag a horse as a donkey on your blog, its displayed when you search for a “horse” on Google. Google or any other search engine virtually identifies images/articles. So, tagging your images and articles helps Search Engines to virtually identify your articles and images. It also helps you increase your in links on google 😉
<— Here is a funny example which inspired me to write this article, lol

How do you get your tags in an article?
Tagging isn’t easy, nor is it so difficult that it can’t be done 😉 I’m using a WordPress Auto Tagger to tag all the articles posted so that Sensonize gets huge inlinks on Google + Traffic from search engines 🙂 Auto Taggers might make your blog look ugly but if your lazy like me, you can use it 😀 Download Auto Tagger

Tips:
– Make sure you add ATLEAST 5 tags per article
– Add the title of the article as a tag
– Each tag should be atleast 5 characters
– Tag the images (alt=”your tag”)
– Use accurate tags
– Tag more to get more in links 😉
– Adding a sentence as a tag is always the best!



What are you waiting for? Go Tagging ! 😀



How do you write an About Me page?

By Mohnish On August 12, 2008 No Comments

There are four main questions that readers want answered on your About Me page:

  1. who you are…
  2. your expertise and how it addresses…
  3. their problem or goal, and how they can…
  4. contact you

Here is a sample “About Me” page that answers these questions:

Hi, I’m Jane Smith and I write TransitionMomBlog (who Jane is) to help women make the transition from full-time mom to successful entrepreneur (the reader’s problem or goal). I started TransitionMomBlog in 2004 (Jane’s expertise – shows she has been blogging for two years) to help other women deal with the sometimes overwhelming prospect of starting a new business while still running a household (how Jane helps them overcome their problem or achieve their goal). Prior to raising my family, I spent over ten years as a teacher, corporate trainer and workshop leader (Jane’s expertise, both as a mom and a business person). To contact me, please email XXX (how to contact Jane).



What is a Blog?

By Mohnish On August 12, 2008 2 Comments

This is a group writing project. If you want to take part, read on!

It is 2008; do we still need to ask ourselves what a blog is? I think so, and for two reasons. First of all we still have many misconceptions about blogging floating around the web. Pretty much every week I get at least one email from someone asking if I believe blogging has a future. My answer is always “as long as the Internet has a future, blogs do too.” You will see why I answer that below.

You also have countless articles being published every week where the author suggests that blogs are obsolete, and that the next big thing is micro blogging, or lifestreaming or something else. Again I don’t agree with any of those predicted trends.

The second reason for trying to define what a blog is in 2008 (many people have already done that in the past after all) is because blogging is a social phenomenon. As such, it is constantly evolving, and what was true two years ago might not be anymore.

Blogs Aren’t Necessarily Personal

The main misconception regarding the definition of blogs comes from people that associate blogs with their content. More specifically from people that associate blogs with the content from one particular type of blog: personal blogs.

In other words, those people think that blogs are online diaries where people share their opinions, ramblings and personal events.

Wrong!

That is just one of the things that you could do with a blog.

Today blogs are being used for all sorts of purposes. You have companies that use blogs to communicate and interact with customers and other stake holders. Newspapers that incorporated blogs to their main website to offer a new channel for their writers. Individuals that created a blog to share with the world their expertise on specific topics. And so on.

Separate The Content

If you separate the content from the website, it becomes much easier to work with the definitions.

Consider a person that wants to publish a Questions & Answers column online. She could use several types of websites for that purpose.

She could create an online forum, for example, where each thread would be an answer to a specific question. She could create a static HTML website and publish all the questions and answers on a single page. She could create a wiki where users would be able to edit the questions and answers directly. Finally, she could also create a blog where each post would contain a question and its answer.

As you can see, the content is not attached to the website. The picture below illustrates that (note that only four types of websites were used, but there are many more).

Obviously one type of website will be more suitable for a certain purpose than others. It would be easier for a company to use an online forum on its customer support section, for instance.

So What Is A Blog?

A blog is basically a type of website, like a forum or a social bookmarking site. As such it is defined by the technical aspects and features around it, and not by the content published inside it.

The features that make blogs different from other websites are:

  • content is published in a chronological fashion
  • content is updated regularly
  • readers have the possibility to leave comments
  • other blog authors can interact via trackbacks and pingbacks
  • content is syndicated via RSS feeds

Keep in mind that it is the bundle of those features that should define a blog. An online forum could also offer an RSS feed for example, but that would not make it a blog.