Self Hosted WordPress Blog vs Free Blogging Sites

This is part 1 of my WordPress & Blogging series. In this post i will share with you the basic concept of blogging & also explain in brief to frequently asked questions that i receive in emails, on twitter & via comments such as: What is a blog? What is a self hosted blog? What is WordPress? What are the advantages of Self hosted wordpress blog vs free blogging sites? How can i get a...

Google to remove Page Rank?

Is Google Page rank a part of your website SEO priority? Google Page rank has been a topic of discussion for a long time. It is believed that page rank directly or indirectly affects your search engine rankings. A few years back Google told most webmasters that page rank is in fact 1 of the 200 different elements of a site that they use to calculate the search engine rankings. But unlike...

how to gain traffic ‘from’ alexa

Did i read that title correctly? well yes you read it correct. Till now people keep talking about alexa ranking, alexa traffic ranks, etc etc but no one ever told you that there is actually a way to get traffic from alexa. But before i come to that let me tell you a bit about alexa. Alexa is a ‘site monitoring’ service that monitors your site statistics, such as traffic, geo-analysis,...

10 Must Have Plugins for WordPress bloggers

What’s a blog without plugins? Its almost the same thing as a artist without imagination, a road without cars or a job without payment. Many blog owners who are successful knows the power of these small little files known as plugins and usually those who fail at blogging are the ones that never experimented with plugins. Which is why you must know about your possibilities and expansion into...

How i made $97k in 1 month with AdSense & How the AdSense Gurus Rip you off!

I made $97k + in AdSense This Month! Seriously! Not kidding i did! and for those of you who have a hard time digesting this, then here’s the screen shot of my AdSense account, that’s 97k in just 1 month – I am now officially the king of AdSense ! Now that i have your attention, want to know my secret? Unlike all other gurus i am not going to make a ebook about this and sell,...

The interactive toolbar from wibiya!

How to interact with your visitors without annoying them? If that’s your worry, then have a look at what i discovered recently which i would like to share. What if you could use the viral powers of toolbar? without having your visitors to download and install anything?? how amazing would that be! Well you can do that with wibiya – a very interactive free toolbar from wibiya but wait...

5 killer twitter apps which will save you lots of time

Is managing your twitter account time consuming? For me twitter is very time consuming and after twitter made few updates a while ago, we are no longer able to see the ‘mutual’ or those people who we follow that do not follow us back and worse of all you can no longer remove them directly via twitter in bulk. This made it very hectic for me recently and i slowly started losing...

Moola Review – Get paid to play?

This is my personal review of Moola.com, a program that pays you to play games with a potential to win up to $10 million by risking it all – SJ Get paid to play? Is that really possible? well if it was any other gambling site then i won’t write about it, but ‘get paid to play’ is turning out to be a very hot concept currently with many sites turning up, inspired by the...

Hunch Review – Innovation in decision making

This is my personal review of Hunch.com, a recommendation engine that helps you make good & informed decisions – SJ Can’t decide where you should go for summer holidays? Or what jobs to apply for? Which new car would you buy? Where to invest that money you have been saving for awhile? What gift to buy for your relations? So many questions but hard to decide, right? There are...

WordPress releases v2.8 ‘baker’ & How to stay upto date with wordpress

V 2.8 out! WordPress just announced the release of v2.8 which they officially call as ‘baker’ named after chet baker, the new version if out and beta testing is over so you can download it now and upgrade your wordpress blog. The new version has around 790 bug fixes!, themes and widgets have also been improved along with new features and improved speed! One of the new features include...