4 Mistakes New Bloggers Make

If you’re interested in starting a blog, first check out this post on ’10 Things to do Before Making a Blog‘ and then have a look at these top mistakes new bloggers make. After all, you want to make sure you do everything right as you embark on your new blogging journey. Don’t fall in the trap that others fall into; Read more

Benefits of a Blog for Small Business Owners

Small businesses operate on shoestring budgets but do need to undertake marketing initiatives to gain a larger clientele. A presence on the web is important and hence they often hire web design companies to create a website for them. The problem arises when these web designing firms complete their task and the site goes live, these small businesses do not take the steps needed to update their site or post the latest information on them to keep their customers informed. Read more

Guest Blogging Contest on Blogengage and I am on it

This is the first time am going to enter in a blogging contest. The contest is being hosted at blogengage. In the last 7+ years of my blogging career, I have never dared to enter in a blogging content, something always pulls me back. Perhaps the fear of losing or perhaps not being able to put my best feet foreword at the right time… I don’t know. But this time I really want to enter, just for the fun of it. Read more

10 Things to do Before Making a Blog

Its great that you planned to start blogging, but before you begin you should know a few things which will play a major role in making your blogging career successful or result in a failure. Planning is very important and so is to have a successful start. You sure don’t want to start something, which will stop to interest you later. Here are 10 such things that will help you make a better blog from the first day. Read more

4 Ways to Backup your WordPress Database

WordPress is the leading CMS for blogs and is used by most self-hosted blogs on the Internet these days. Today in this article, am going to talk about a few ways to back up your wordpress database so that if something went bad, you will have sufficient backup files to restore your blog to a previous safe and secure state. Read more

Tips to be a Better Niche Blogger

Niche blogging helps in many ways for example getting related links from related blogs and sites, networking with the specific niche, on topic readers and commentators and rss feed readers that do not get bored with off topic information and most of all you can settle yourself an expert and your blog as an authority on your selected niche. Read more

5 Things to do after Installing WordPress

Its great that you have setup your blog using wordpress, if you haven’t already, then its time to know about the things that you should do before installing wordpress. Now is the time to take the second step. Its time to customize your wordpress installation and set it up, once and for all. Once all the set up is done, feeds and other things are customized then there is nothing more to worry about and you can keep blogging all day long and make an active and popular blog. So, following are the steps that are required to take after a wordpress installation is complete. Read more