Entries for June, 2008

Your Wordpress blog has a great feature called Update Services that basically alert a number of blog directories, content aggregators and social media sites whenever your update your blog. This is an extremely useful stuff as your new posts will be reaching millions of web users worldwide much faster than the search engine (search engines spiders will take some more time to crawl & index) route.

By default, Wordpress provides the update service provided by Ping-O-Matic which is a very reliable service. The option to alert the Ping-O-Matic service, is available via Settings->Writing->Update Services section in your Wordpress admin panel Click Here to Continue Reading

Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips recently wrote a very good article titled When Should I Put Advertising on My Blog? at ProBlogger. Basically it was more of a survey post where he wanted to get readers’ opinion on when to monetize a blog.

In this post, I would like to touch upon the monetization possibilities at various stages of your blog’s life. Here, we are talking about money making options other than advertising as well.

When to start monetizing?

When I started this blog I actually had some ads in the form of CPM banners, content links as well as Pay-Per-click advertisements. However, the income generated was not up to my expectations - some of them not even crossing a dollar mark. Click Here to Continue Reading

After launching your blog, you may not be still in a position to attract traffic, improve your blog’s visibility and be part of an echo system of similar blogs and blogger communities. In this post, I would like to talk about a number of things that I personally did to improve the visibility of my own blog.

Phase 10. Post launch exercises
I would categorize the essential regular activities after launch into three:

• Improving social media presence
• Link building and improving ranks
• Regular update & monitoring

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After a month long hard work your blog is now ready to go public. By now, you would have fine-tuned it as per the review/preview feedback received from multiple parties. And you must be ready with your logo, branding and a good blog structure with minimum number of plugins and widgets. If you need some more plugins for your blog, you may check out this post viz. Top 30 wordpress plugins that are actually useful.

Phase 8. Pre-launch validation
Before you could make your blog really public, please make sure that the following checklist items are validated against the current state of your blog and its web presence.

Your blog launch checklist Click Here to Continue Reading