The Best Time to Post or Update your Blog

Now, this is a tricky one! I have seen a lot of posts on the blogosphere regarding this topic and most of them suggested that that many pro-bloggers actually pick a particular time to post their new content. Why? While it is widely believed that good content will always sell, the timing of your blog posts can sometime matter – especially if you want to create the maximum impact within minutes after updating your blog.

Just like the timing on a day, there are people who publish their important posts on certain ‘good’ days of the week as well. When I thought about this topic a bit, I figured out that there are a number of variables that decide the best time and date to post. Let us talk about these factors first.
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WP-Minify Plugin to improve your Blog Performance

A lot of us are familiar with the WordPress Super Cache plugin that can drastically improve the performance of self-hosted WordPress blogs. This plugin works well by caching a self-hosted WordPress blog’s PHP files on the server as static HTML pages that are ready to serve anytime.

Yet another blog performance optimization plug – that works a little differently as compared to the super-cache – is the wp-Minify Plugin. I just experimented with it on this blog and it ‘felt’ like the blog loads a little bit faster than it used to be.
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When to Turn off comments on your WordPress Blog and How?

Turning off comments on your blog is not something that you do very often. However, there are situations where comments are taken out completely or disabled per post or even turned off after a certain period. This post describes the situations when you take out comments and how to turn it off.

In a blog, the comments are turned off or avoided in the following scenarios.

#1 Autopilot affiliate sales blogs

Blogs that are meant to create autopilot income will typically have a handful of posts that are a bunch of landing pages themselves whose duty is to help convert the traffic. In such blogs are comments are either totally disabled or never approved.
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Factors that determine your Blogging Success

This might sound like grandma topic because you have heard it time and again from various sources. However, I am going compile the ingredients to your blogging success once more here – this time as a bullet list because that’s what I do whenever successful bloggingI am ill (been on leave for the whole week and hence not much online activities)

I am grouping the key success factors under four categories – viz blogger, blog and reader related parameters plus external entities. I request you to add other factors as one or two word comments (for a change) here:
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Blog Search Engines or Blog (RSS) Aggregators

Blog Search Engine is a little bit obsolete term these days because not many people really use blog search mechanisms to find information and updates from the blogosphere. blog-search For most practical purposes, a popular seach engine such as Google or Bing would be sufficient to get you what you are looking for. This is one reason why Yahoo’s blog search project was withdrawn some time back and Google blog search is not well used either.

However, these days, when you refer to blog search engines, you actually mean those popular blog & RSS aggregators. Unlike pure blog search mechanisms they add a lot of value to their search users as well as bloggers because of the following reasons.
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Pros and Cons of Posting several times a day

Recently, I had written a post on blog post frequency and its impact on traffic and blog ranks. In principle, more posts would mean more traffic (and certain other benefits as well) but there are also related issues if you post too frequently or more precisely several times a day.

In this short bullet list post, let me try to summarize the pros and cons of posting several times a day.
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