Some 5-6 years back feeds were the ‘in’ thing in Blogging. Feed readers were in abundance. And Statistics were of prime importance. Every one was in the race to get more feed subscribers. But things have changed now. Feed readers still exist but we don’t use them much. I don’t remember when I last logged… Continue reading You still use Feedburner?
Category: Blogging
Tackling Comment Spam
Commenting is a great way to connect with your blog readers. Your readers can question, suggest and offer feedback on your writing in a simple manner. But Spammers have turned a blog commenting area into a literal war zone. And its a problem which has no fool-proof solution. Every blog face the problem of Comment… Continue reading Tackling Comment Spam
Any sense in Hiding Dates on Blog Posts?
Recently WeblogToolsCollection came out with a post asking whether you should hide dates on your blog posts or not. Not only a poll but it also had a complete guide on how to remove post dates from your blog completely. Not only they mentioned on how to remove dates from posts but from comments as… Continue reading Any sense in Hiding Dates on Blog Posts?
Posts to be avoided by a Blogger
From my own 2 Years of Blogging experience and of reading hundreds of such articles, I can say that there are certain category of posts which no reader would like to read. Here is a list of such post types so that you can avoid writing such type of posts which will make readers go… Continue reading Posts to be avoided by a Blogger
Subscribe to your own feed
You have started a new blog and are seeing no feed readers at the moment. Don’t feel depressed. There are some ways to get started. You should definitely subscribe to your own blog. There is no harm in this. Subscribing to your own blog has multiple benefits. Listed below are some of the benefits of… Continue reading Subscribe to your own feed
Don’t Write Blog Posts on Your PC
Many Times I keep getting distracted by other activities that I tend to forget to contribute something to my own blogs. No matter how hard I try, something or the other keeps coming in between. There are many ways of switching off distractions like not using Firefox(makes you stay away from lots of tabs and… Continue reading Don’t Write Blog Posts on Your PC
100 Followers on Twitter
Wow…I finally broke the record of 100 Followers on Twitter. If you want to say what’s great about it, Wait then. Twitter is a essential tool for new bloggers to get connected and find like minded people. It can be a great networking tool. One of my friend has dumped all IM activities and jumped… Continue reading 100 Followers on Twitter
50+ Things I have learnt from Blogging
Its almost 2.5 years (only 1.5 year on NSpeaks) since I have been blogging. I learned lots of things about blogging more by reading other blogs and even more when I experimented them and failed in most of them, succeeded in few of them and left the remaining. Here I want to summarise what I … Continue reading 50+ Things I have learnt from Blogging