Yes, I realize that I am addicted to blogging. So what? aren’t you one too? I suppose there is nothing wrong with that. After blogging for money for a while, I realize time management is a very important factor. Why? with so many tasks, if we have to allocate so much time for blogging, what would happen to our work and family? Everyday when I get back home and sit down on my chair, I tell myself [...]

Many blogger wrote very content-rich articles yet never really put in effort to market them. As a result, they never maximize their article exposure in the blogosphere. What’s the point of writing a good article yet very few people know about it? As you know, Stumble Upon is one social bookmarking site that may easily drive hundreds or even thousands of visitors to your blog easily whenever [...]

Sounds impossible? Well I guess not. Most people thought they may not be able to get any link juice from No Follow blogs which generally they are right because most blog owners (especially those high PRs) would not like to give out too many outbound links. But now, there is way you can do it. Look for blogs that have “Top Commentators” widget installed. Comment heavily (yet properly) so [...]

Finally, after working on it for some time, I have launched my own Do  Follow & Comment Luv Directory and Community. As I am starting to see more and more blogs embracing Do Follow & Comment Luv concept and displaying their logos, I thought of creating a community to gather all of them together for discussions, idea sharing & advertising etc. My first step is to have a Directory Listing [...]

It is always good to self-host your blog especially if you are seriously into blogging. There are several reasons why self-hosting are beneficial but the more important ones are because, 1. Certain features might be disabled by some free blogging service eg. java-script. 2. You have more flexibility and control over your blog which some free blogging service may not give you. Especially for WordPress [...]

As we move on to Web 2.0, blogging has become part of every online people’s life. We love to write and read blogs as well as leaving comments in other blogs too. But isn’t it fantastic if we can show our avatars in the comments column just like how a forum? Introducing Gravatars. A place where you can upload your avatar (or a 80×80 small photo) so that for every blog you visit (WordPress [...]

Have you ever wonder how much effort and work does it involve if you need to install a forum or bulletin board software that are typically slow, bloated and always got server hacked? Let me introduce you to a simple, smaller version, fast loading forum for your blog called “bbPress”. So what exactly is bbPress? Well, bbPress is focused on web standards, ease of use, ease of integration, [...]

Looking for a Word-Press plug-in that will do many of the SEO tweaks without spending the time, it’s called All-in-One SEO. It basically does all the hard work by building correct titles and search engine optimizations steps so you can focus on writing great content for your blog. Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this SEO plugin. 1. Titles 2. [...]

Are you looking for a way to display announcements on your blog main page? Eric from ericulous.com came up with a WordPress Plug-in that allows you to easily display Blog Status or Alert. Thanks to Eric for coming up with such a fantastic plug-in. Personally I like it very much as once a while, I hope to display a message for my readers at all times. Feature List easily switch on and off through [...]

RSS Feed (according to Wikipedia) – “…the user subscribes to a feed by entering the feed’s link into the reader or by clicking an RSS icon in a browser that initiates the subscription process. The reader checks the user’s subscribed feeds regularly for new content, downloading any updates that it finds.” There are many methods to increase the number of RSS subscribers [...]