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...

Search Engines Vs Social Media : Is SEO dead?

This is my reply to the most common question asked ‘ Is SEO dead?’ I am basing my reply on the recent discussion on DP forums. What they say: Search engine volume declining. Google dying out. Facebook and other social media sites are now the most valuable sites for marketing, including Viral and word of mouth marketing. No point of doing SEO No point of affiliate marketing via...

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...

Stress is bad for blogging!

Don’t kill yourself and your blog Many of us are victims of stress. Stress is common among all working class people, regardless of age or sex. This is one reason why stress is prevalent everywhere in the world. Medically speaking stress is bad for your health, i.e it can give severe damage to your brain or nervous system, no i am not a doctor but i can safely say stress is bad for health....

Word of mouth Advertising – How it works

What is ‘Word of mouth Advertising’ ? ‘Word of mouth’ advertising simply means spreading the words about a site, product or anything via humans. In other words, it is the most easiest, super performing and cheapest forms of advertising and/or marketing method. In our daily life, word of mouth is everywhere. Remember when your friend suggests you a song? Or a favorite...

Reputation matters? or Only money?

What is online reputation? We all know that every company, person and brand seeks reputation. Reputation, respect, popularity, domination all go hand in hand. Without reputation no company can get good clients or sell any of there products. But in the online scenario this might be different a bit. No questioning the fact that online giants such as Google, Microsoft, yahoo,etc are all about...

The advantages of blogging

Do you blog? That is the first most question i will ask before you go further. Blogging as you know is very popular and almost every day there are around 50,000 new blogs born. This makes blogging a very popular activity among people. However most people blog only for a purpose. Mostly for personal reasons. While on the other hand some blog for earning a income. There are also blogs from...

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,...

30+ free premium wordpress themes – part 2

Free Premium themes? Yes free premium wordpress themes. In case you missed part one then here is the link once again : 30+ FREE premium wordpress themes This is part 2 as promised by me to my readers with more new free premium wordpress themes which you might be  needing. Have fun! Notice: None of the themes belong to me, and none of them are hosted by me, all credit goes to the original...

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...