23
July
2008

Share your favourite post from your blog

How many of you have a blog? Today I invite you to share your most popular or favorite post. Go into your blog’s archive and take your pick. If there was a post that clicked, provide a link here. If there was a post you worked very hard upon but didn’t get the exposure, link it here.

I have been in the process of composing a 10 part series on power blogging - something that can in the true sense change the paradigm of blogging. And I want this to be a prelude, a preface to the series.

As you share your posts, I’d also like you to share your views about your pick. Here are a few points you may want to talk about.

  • What is special about this post?
  • Tell us how you got the idea to write this post. Was it an accidental vision that you had? Or had you been planning this for long?
  • Why do you consider it your pick? Why did it click or didn’t?

Pour your heart out. we are all ears ;)

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22
July
2008

5 design tips to empower your blog and readers

Design must serve the purpose

A clean and elegant design can have a direct impact on your readership. You must have noticed how some of the popular belongs out there have an elegant and beautiful layout. But they say that one size doesn’t fit all. What gives? You have a header, a sidebar, a footer and content (of course else what brings the readers in) -But how effectively is all this laid out? Is your layout aiding the visitors or standing as a barrier? Here are some power-points to let you decide.

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21
July
2008

How to Choose a Niche Topic for your Blog

Niche blogging has its pros and cons. Effectively sustained, the pros of niche bragging outweigh the cons. The important decision to make here is what to blog about. Once you get down to it you may be bombarded with tens of things to blog about. At other times you may even run short of an idea.

The first step in the direction is to blog on a subject that you

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17
July
2008

Adsense: The Art of Blending And The Outstanding

I recently wrote a detail article about Adsense on BloggingBits.com. I just want to take a minute to mention this article to you so that you don’t miss out on this nice article that I wrote. Go, give it a read and leave your comments and let me know what you think about it Adsense: The Art of Blending And The Outstanding.

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16
July
2008

Automattic announces Wordpress 2.6

To everyone’s surprise, Matt announced the release of Wordpress 2.6. It boasts of a number of new features. Wordpress 2.6 steps into a new paradigm and announces support for Google Gears. Though at a very nascent stage, I’m very hopeful of wordpress bring able to leverage many of the features of Google Gears in the future releases.

WP 2.6 now has a version control system or a feature where it will keep a track of changes to a post. This is basically the revisions of a post - a major feature I missed when I moved to WP from Drupal. WP 2.6 supports posting from a bookmarklet feature that was only provided by external plugins or software like ScribeFire. You can add this bookmarklet to your Firefox bookmarks toolbar and post any page. Additionally, the bookmarklet will automatically extract any images or videos on the site and incorporate them into the post.

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