Entries for the ‘2. How Do I? (2-min help)’ Category

Whenever I see a new comment or a MyBlogLog visitor on my blog, the very first thing I do is to check out his/her blog. After quickly scanning through a couple of posts there, I head for some nosey activities like checking this blog’s popularity in terms of traffic ranks, feed subscriber count etc. Further I would definitely subscribe to the RSS feed, right then, if the blog is interesting.

Talking about feeds, there are a number of bloggers out there who opt for not displaying their feed count or FeedBurner chicklets for whatever reasons. However, there are a number of ways to see their feed count via some free tools and tricks. I would explain three such methods here [Read on...]

Syndicating your blog’s content is one of the bare minimum requirements to attract more readers. Usually, your blog theme or template by default takes care of exposing your RSS or ATOM feeds to the readers. However, most of us opt to serve the feed via free services like FeedBurner so that a number of features can be added to your feed and the subscription and traffic received via feed can be tracked.

Most bloggers, though, forget to optimize their feeds for the best results in terms of look and feel as well as to promote their content. Further, the additional nice features that come free with FeedBurner also are forgotten. Let us take a look at some of the easy to do optimizations that make your feed looks cleaner, potentially fetches more traffic for you and can be used as a powerful mechanism to promote your offers. [Read on...]

A lot of us want to monetize our websites or blogs pretty much at the time of starting itself. However, there are so many ad programs in the market that we will end up in a state of confusion as to which program to subscribe. Unfortunately there is no Sherlock Holmes out there who could potentially identify the right brand from its appearance and offerings, if not from ashes. The following are some tips for you to pick as well as maintain an ad program :-

General tips
. Pick programs that are successful over a period of time and established a few years back. [Read on...]

A lof of us create good blogs, maintain it regularly with good content and may be great at writing as well. But many times, these efforts go wasted, as we don’t necessarily get a good number of readers. Here are a number of basic tips related to increasing the ‘presence’ of your blog on the Internet as well as make it easier to be spotted by search engines and surfers.

Organise your content
Manytimes once the article is written, we tend to post it in a hurry [Read on...]

Though I am not an extremely experienced blogger I have the following tips for beginners on how you go about improving your blog in terms of looks, contents and your way of communicating and interacting with your readers.

Basic building blocks
A blog must provide its readers and easy way of navigating around the contents. So the minimum expectations include [Read on...]