If you want to increase your blog’s audience, whether you are making money online or just want more readers, you might already know from numerous blogger tips spread over the net that there are some golden rules. You also might know already that there are two different visitor flows. One is formed by visitors coming from search engines and another one is formed by those who follow external links to your site. Sure there is third one, loyal readers - those who return, and mainly dependant on first two flows, so I will not discuss it here. Both, search engine and external links visitors flows highly depend on three holly cows of web publishing (or blogging) - Freshness of content, Original content, and Regular posting. (more…)

TG Daily:

The Internet added 4.4 million new hostnames during July - the single largest gain of new sites in a single month, according to Internet services firm Netcraft. The growth surpassed the previous records set in June of this year, which saw a 3.96 million site gain.

The main reason for the quick growth, Netcraft said, is the battle between Microsoft and Google to attract users to their blog services. Both firms contributed significantly to drive the Internet to a new record number of websites, which now stands at 92,615,362 websites. According to the firm, Microsoft added about 858,000 new sites, while Google gained about 568,000 during the month.

Small Initiatives jokes, “And I’ll bet 80 percent of them contain one ‘Hello, World!’ post apiece.” (more…)

One of the Biggest advantages of a free blogging platform is its huge community and army of third party code delelopers. Writing plugin is extremely easy in WordPress and I think that causes (together with extreme popularity) the tendency of growing number of problems when using plugins. Bad coding habits of inexperienced coders multiply the mess.

These problems include cases when two plugins just wont work together, or bad coding causes php engine errors/warnings which may not be noticed until you check your error logs through cpanel. In latter case if errors/warnings generated become a substantial flaw, your hosting provider may even suspend your acc. Also, keep in mind that if php generated warnings are rare in your case, they may dramatically increase in number with grow in traffic flow. So my first tip and recommendation: (more…)

I already posted my thoughts about Mambo/Joomla CMS compared to Wordpress. I think the picture will not be full if I’ll not tell a story of how I came to blogging. So, let me share the background of my blogging.

One friend of mine two years ago offered me to join his business and work on a project of web presence for his company. We both graduated elite physics institute in Moscow. He thinks that if you graduated this institute then you should be able to do anything in just one click. All his “assumptions” always luck one thing - time required for such “clicks”. I explained him that never set up a single web site or a page. He insisted: “Common, you can do this, I’ve heard about one software application - DreamWeaver, - you do not have to know web or php - it’s like using word processing software - type and click and all content automatically goes to the web server.” (more…)

There is a discussion on the web of importance of original content on your blog pages vs. syndication (small excerpts from other site posts with link, there is also problem of reprinting material.) I think to understand what is what here first we should divide niche blogging into two categories based on what particular blog offer to visitors: 1.Opinions and thoughts on some Subject(s). 2. focusing on Products like cameras, cars, software etc. Here I assume that either subjects not invented or products not produced by blogger. (It is evident that problem of original content doesn’t arise if blogger is himself producing products he talking about) Main assumption I make here is that you want to attract audience. (more…)

With this article I start a new topic covering blogging issues. Walking around on the net I found some publications on blogging issues. I think any blogger - whether he is running small site for expressing himself on the net or publisher whose goal is to develop business is interested in what is better for increasing audience. One of the topics covering blogging issues focus on this. And question is: what is better - to have one blog covering several topics or divide it and have a portfolio of blogs and focuse each blog on one topic (niche blogging)? (more…)