You might have been reading a lot of tips, tricks and advice on how to become a better blogger. Even better bloggers read about how to create appealing content, how to promote your blog at social networking websites, how to first make friends and after that bore them with continuous shouting about what you have to offer at your blog, how a simple tweet can bring your more traffic, how to become a better blogger in 30 days, how to not sound like a stupid when you do not have a clue about exactly what you are writing, how to copy RSS from bigger sites and make their content your own, how to be a rock star blogger over night etc etc... Done reading? Here is a genuine trick of being better blogger right now. You won't even hear this piece of advice from Darren Rowse. Its about your own hands and your PC keyboard.
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I have been experimenting with ads networks as a blogger and I have to share this with you that the following three ads networks have been completely useless for me. I will give you reasons. Your opinion might not be like mine and I might not have been using those ads correctly but read it. Perhaps it will help you to get some where. If you are a blogger or a webmaster, you are sure to put ads on your websites. Choose carefully what ads you use. There are many ad networks which will disappoint you and you can loose your interest in this area.
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Blogger now has a home on the iPhone. The team behind BlogPress built a free version of BlogPress just for Blogger users. BlogPress Lite contains many of the great Blogger features you have come to know into a simple yet powerful mobile application for blogging on the go.
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Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics on any WordPress blog. Google Analyticator also includes several widgets for displaying Analytics data in the admin side and on your blog front side. Place Analytics code in footer without changing actual template files of theme, view Google Analytics data and track visitors right from the blog admin. Display stats to your visitors. This will save your from visiting Google Analytics for stats info again and again.
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Here are some images of ladies who like to blog and love their blogs. Too many shirts are out for bloggers to show off their craze about blogging.
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Give your subscribers easy ways to share and act on the content you publish by including 'Twit This' in the feed items so that they can publish your post at Twitter. FeedFlare places a simple footer at the bottom of each content item (post and feed), helping you to distribute, inform and create a community around your content. 'Twit this' is also a service you can use, but its kind of hidden in the feeds account. Here is how you can do it.
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You are just on Dreamhost PS. It means that you spent some quality time and your website made some progress. You faced some problems with the website performance and turned to support and they told you to move to Dreamhost PS. You did. Good enough. You have got cool graphs and all these bars which scare you now by showing some quality rise in the RAM and CPU usage. Here you want to customize and change things a little bit to keep the RAM usage for your server down to save some bucks every month. Some stuff relating to plugins here can apply to any other web host also.
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Plugins are cool. Every WordPress powered blog uses different plugins. They give your blog wings. There are few things you must be aware of before using plugins. What I do, I just test the plugin before I actually use it. All the plugins out there are not trustworthy. Even if any plugin comes by a trusted source, it can have bugs which will make your blogging life a bit complicated. I regularly check plugins, update plugins whenever any update is available and remove the plugin which contain any bug. Here are few popular WPplugins I noticed some bugs in them recently.
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Darren Rowse from Melbourne Australia first discovered blogging in 2002, and initially thought he'd turn it into a hobby to supplement his full-time job. These days, Darren runs a handful of successful blogs, his most popular being Digital Photography School, and has co-authored a book. He also posts regular tips and advice on ProBlogger.net, a respected and successful resource for bloggers around the world.
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Matt Mullenweg (A founding developer of WordPress) talks about how blogs can change reading habits of a blog reader and blogger himself at WorldCamp 2008.
I find it true by myself that a blogger/blog reader has to digest much information in short time and he/she just tries to scan the whole thing whatever he is reading and gets the material of his interest. So the attention span for reading decreases in this way. When some one has been blogging for a while or has been reading blogs for a while, he will find it difficult to read the whole thing also in case of reading books.
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