You’ve carefully chosen a niche market that appeals to your blog readers. It doesn’t matter if you’re blogging directly to consumers or to other businesses in and out of your niche. You faithfully and consistently post new, interesting blogs complemented with high-quality images. You know a little bit about search engine optimization (SEO) and are on the fast track to monetizing your blog. That’s great news, but if you’re not incorporating social media into your blog, you’re missing out on a huge market. You’d be surprised at the number of blogs who do not optimize their blogs for social media….

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Blogging may have started as a novelty with online diarists achieving “celebrity” status and entertainment gossip bloggers finding internet fame. However, blogging began to move into the mainstream with the popularity of news blogs such as The Huffington Post and The Onion. Now, blogging has matured and is a low-cost yet effective tool which should be a part of every company’s marketing strategy for the 21st century. Small businesses can take advantage of this low-cost method of marketing without a lot of time and effort. Making a blogging plan for 2013 can push you towards your business goals and help…

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Creating content for the Internet is a challenge. On the one hand, without constant content creation, websites lose traffic and become irrelevant. On the other side of the equation, some unscrupulous webmasters and bloggers regularly seek fresh content from other sites, recycling it on their own pages. Not only is this blatantly unfair, but it could be costing the copyright owner lost revenue from advertising and sales. Fortunately, there are a few different steps that content owners can take to make certain their material is not used without permission. Taking a Proactive Approach “With the size of the Internet ever…

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So you’re worried about spam bots attacking your site. You must have heard of CAPTCHA. Maybe even implemented it with the hope that it will stop those spam bots. Unfortunately, this isn’t the fool proof solution, because spam bots are known to break these. So, CAPTCHAs tend to become even more confusion, with distorted lines and text and more. Confident CAPTCHA™ is an easy to use, clickable picture CAPTCHA that stops spam and bots on websites by asking visitors to simply click on images, rather than decipher the warped and distorted text used in most CAPTCHA tests. Confident CAPTCHA stops…

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The mobile is taking over the world. Today, almost all mobile phones come equipped with browsers, not to forget the whole host of mobile devices out there. While most mobile browsers can easily support your normal blog theme, you might want to create a better experience for users by offering a custom look for mobile devices. You can manually do this or use one of the many services that allow you to do so. MobStac is one such powerful service that helps you get the job done. Creating your mobile blog is extremely easy and you’ll be done in 20-30…

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Not really a big fan of desktop blog editors but I think they can be really helpful if you seriously want to save your time and get things done quickly. Following are some of the best Blog Editors you can use if you’re machine is running on Linux. Gnome Blog: A free blog editor for Linux that allows you to write and publish quick posts without putting much effort to it. It comes with a very clean interface and doesn’t really get in the way of what you’re writing. It features WYSIWYG styled text support Entries can be written gradually…

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Yep, we’re back again with another post on WordPress. As far as any blogging platform or CMS is concerned, WordPress has the largest community to back it up. And if there’s one thing that this community has done, is that it’s allowed WordPress to be more than just a blog. Anyone who’s used WordPress will bear testimony to the fact that it is by far one of the most powerful Content Management Systems out there and can be made to do almost anything from running a small blog to a large website. Here are a few examples of large sites…

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I dropped in at the White House today because a friend asked if the White House has a site. Ok, not the White House, but at WhiteHouse.gov and I must say it is one of the most pleasing looking professional sites I’ve ever come across. During his campaign Barack Obama harnessed the power of social networking like Twitter and the internet in general. We know how that turned out and everyone wondered if he would continue his tryst with technology. Well, he isn’t disappointing anyone there as the post on the new White House Blog says: Change has come to…

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I came across a new service called Apture a few days ago and had decided to blog about it. Many bloggers may be aware of Snap Shots. Snap Shots launched a few years back and took the web by storm. Apture is similar in this respect, though I must say, their popup window is better looking. Getting started with Apture is rather easy. You first need to register on their site and add your blog(s). Apture currently supports the following platforms: Blogger Typepad WordPress (Self Hosted) Movable Type Expression Engine Drupal Squarespace Tumblr Ning Wikispaces Blogsome The following platforms are…

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I’ve been using Windows Live Writer to write posts for several months now. This has primarily been for my blog posts at Weblog Tools Collection. I decided to start using WLW for Techtites and AjayDSouza.com. I was able to add both the blogs properly and made my first blog post. Uploaded the post to my website and noticed gibberish. On closer observation, I realized that the < and > were stripped out completely. As a result, code like <p><a href=”http://techtites.com/”>Techtites</a></p> became pa href=”http://techtites.com/”Techtites/a/p. I manually had to edit the post to correct this post. I noticed the problem at both…

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