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The Ultimate WordPress Theme Change Checklist!

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:48:48 +0000

As I mentioned in the last post, this blog is now powered by the Genesis framework. The Theme installation – although not as difficult or troublesome as WordPress upgrade itself – can still land you in many unforeseen and difficult situations. For example, I ran into a compatibility issue between WordPress and the Genesis framework [...]

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Google Analytics Bounce Rate – Is it your Actual Bounce Rate?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:48:58 +0000

We have talked a lot about bounce rate in the past (Bounce Rate = % of Single page visits, Read What is bounce rate and how to reduce it?). Many times, I have referred to bounce rate in the context of blog design, mobile device support, landing page optimization etc. This time, we are going [...]

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ManageWP Review – Manage All Your WordPress Blogs in One Place

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:34:59 +0000

Managing the lifecycle and day to day maintenance of a WordPress blog can be a very tedious job. It is really a technically challenging job for even bloggers with some technical background and you can imagine the plight of non-technical bloggers. And what if you have to manage several WordPress blogs that you own? Well, [...]

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TimThumb and WordPress Blog Performance

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:42:22 +0000

There is no doubt that Timthumb is an awesome piece of PHP script to help with on-the-fly resizing of images for websites and blogs. Originally written for a WordPress theme, it’s been already exploited by 1000s of magazine style WordPress themes. However, many theme designers are using the timthumb script quite negligently that the blog [...]

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How Photography can Help Bloggers?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:40:13 +0000

I finally decided to go for a DSLR (in fact bought one earlier this month) after realizing that I have been spending a lot of money on purchasing stock images for my content publishing purpose. The idea behind this investment is to check whether I get to take some good images that are worth publishing [...]

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Do Social Networks affect Your Blogging?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 11:01:55 +0000

Social networks like Facebook are excellent channels – only next to Search Engines – to promote your content and network with fellow bloggers, readers and other prospects. However, overdose of anything can harm your main goals and Facebook for example is a great time killer whereby your productive time for your main activities is eaten [...]

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AdSense Affiliate Themes – ClickBump Engine Review

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:20:02 +0000

In the past few weeks, I had several reader queries – on Facebook and via Email – as how to build those Google Sniper sites or a 4-5 page WordPress blog pretty quickly and run it for life without any further maintenance effort. It is time to reveal all those secrets and this post is [...]

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Google Analytics Async & Google Plusone Async: Make your blog Load Superfast!

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 09:46:16 +0000

Have you recently taken your blog for a performance test with Pingdom tools? If not, I suggest that you do it right now and focus on those javascript social widgets that contribute to the increased page load time. The main culprits typically are: Google Plusone widget Google Analytics code (older one) Facebook like button … [...]

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Page Speed Optimization of your Website

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 20:17:21 +0000

I am a person who is obsessed with application performance – be it web applications, desktop or mobile apps, I really get frustrated if screen refreshes take longer especially due to bulky code written by web developers and non-optimized images getting included in web pages. When it comes to tuning my blogs or websites for [...]

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How to Exclude WordPress Logged in User Page Views from Google Analytics?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:08:16 +0000

Active bloggers keep publishing several blog posts a month. During the process of drafting, editing, publishing, previewing and even modifying it later, a number of page views are recorded by Google Analytics as if an actual blog visitor is browsing your site. For a small time blog with only a few hundred visits per month, [...]

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WordPress chmod Settings

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:40:16 +0000

Having the right chmod settings for your WordPress files and folders not only makes your WordPress blog secure but also allows smooth functioning of its features. This includes the right permission for search engine bots, proper generation and updation of sitemaps etc. One of my blogs suddenly stopped working following a couple FTP uploads day [...]

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Foolish ways to go about Blog Promotion & Marketing

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 10 May 2011 13:56:52 +0000

This post is not about blog marketing mistakes as such but on some of those silly blog promotion methods that an inexperienced blogger would go about in the beginning. To be frank, I would have done a couple of these tricks in the past when I didn’t have any clue on promoting my content and [...]

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Does your Blog have any Viral Content at all?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 10:31:54 +0000

A couple of years back I had written a post about the need to have some amount of timeless content on blogs in order to sustain traffic and readership. That was mainly in the context of search engine traffic which was probably the only source (almost) of visitors to a website then. Several things have [...]

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Write 30 minutes a day

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 11:46:03 +0000

I have probably mentioned here many times that I work with SAP. Last week, we had our DKOM (Developer Kick-Off Meeting) which is an annual event that set and share the objectives, guidance, vision and strategy for the development community. One of the guest speeches for the event was by Dr. Deepak B. Phatak, a [...]

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WordPress Plugin Ideas

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 18:25:50 +0000

As I have spoken of in the past, I have been after some WordPress plugin projects for many months now. Unfortunately due to lack of time I could not really work on all those ideas nor complete the ones I already started with. Till date, the Contact Commenters plugin is the only one that I [...]

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Why Mobile handset support is a MUST for your blog?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 18:55:24 +0000

In 2010, I had only about 900 visitors that browsed this blog via mobile devices with iPhone and iPad leading the pack followed by Android, iPod and Symbian respectively. 900 is not a very big number as compared to the overall traffic over a year but the recent trend shows steady growth in terms mobile [...]

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Blogging is like…like what?

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 10:04:55 +0000

I have been reading a number of posts on ‘what blogging is like‘ for bloggers. There have been a number of disciplines and activities that people have been comparing blogging with – some being really crazy ideas though some make you believe that blogging is really what they are comparing it with. For some bloggers, [...]

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Top Bloggers are excellent Copywriters too

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:21:41 +0000

Imagine that you are searching for some information on the Internet and happened to hit a blog that contains exactly what you wanted. As you start scanning, you see that the content has a lot of typos, lack of proper punctuation, complicated sentence formations or grammatical errors. What will you do? If I was in [...]

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Guest Blogging v/s Multi-Blogger Blogging

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:54:44 +0000

I have been getting guest blogging requests ever since I set up this blog. Although I am not against concept guest posting, I have not really written for any other blog thus far nor have I accepted any guest posts on my blogs. However, the idea behind guest posting seems to have changed from a [...]

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WP Robot Control Center – Manage all your AutoBlogs at one place

Ajith Prasad Edassery — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 11:04:17 +0000

I had recently reviewed the WP Robot Autoblogging plugin where you learned how easy it is to setup an autoblog and make money out of it via its powerful autoposting features. Many autobloggers, however, will have 5 or 10 or more such auto-blogs to manage and the administration process of logging into multiple WP control [...]

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