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Blogger vs. WordPress: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

@maheshoneFebruary 9, 2015By

Blogger.com (or simply Blogger) and WordPress are the two most popular blogging platforms on the web. Of course, there are tons of other free blogging platforms like Tumblr, LiveJournal, Medium, Blog.com, etc. but I'm going to focus only on Blogger and WordPress. Blogger.com is also known as BlogSpot as all the Blogger.com blogs are hosted as a subdomain of blogspot.com. For example, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com (it's an unofficial blog about Google). The best thing about Blogger is that it's absolutely free and is owned by Google. WordPress is the most loved Content Management System (CMS). In fact, 20% of the web or 48% of all CMS sites are powered by WordPress. It's a software that lets you create, manage and publish your content seamlessly. WordPress has two flavors, namely: WordPress.com (the free hosted version --- like example.wordpress.com) and WordPress.org (self-hosted version --- like my blog).

Read: Over 51 Blogging Platforms To Showcase Your Awesomeness

The Definitive Guide To Writing A Perfectly Optimized Blog Post

@maheshoneFebruary 3, 2015By

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First Published: March 18, 2014; Last Updated: February 3, 2015

Over the past several months I have collected a ton of good resources about how to write a perfect blog post. And I thought it’s better to do a mashup than simply rewriting/reposting what’s already said in the blogosphere.

So, I will be focusing on writing a blog post that’s well optimized and that attracts search engine and social media love.

As you probably know, there are a lot of bloggers who write really awesome content but the problem is their blog posts are not so optimized. The reason could be they don’t care about SEO much or they are not so tech-savvy so they don’t know how to optimize their blog posts.

Hence I believe that this blog post will also help the not so tech-savvy bloggers (food blogs, personal blogs) so that they can optimize their existing and future blog posts to skyrocket the traffic.

Don't Miss: 15 Blogging Tips To Supercharge Your Next Blog Post

37 Content Discovery Tools To Find Great Social Media Content

@maheshoneDecember 13, 2014By

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If you're a newbie blogger then it may be difficult to come up with a new topic each day (especially when you want to blog daily). As you probably know blogging is all about quality content and you really don't have to blog everyday just to keep your blog active. When you publish a post you have to make sure that there's something unique in your content and you’re adding some value to your posts.

Read: Why 365 Blog Posts (Or Less) Is All You Need To Become A Super-Blogger

And if you're active on social media then it's almost impossible to share only your own content all the time. Even if you can, you shouldn't be doing that because your audience must be interested in other content related to your niche.

Be A Content Curator

If you want to become a good blogger then you have to become a good content curator. Like FastCompany has mentioned Content Curators are the new superheroes of the web. They say:

Curation is the act of individuals with a passion for a content area to find, contextualize, and organize information. Curators provide a consistent update regarding what's interesting, happening, and cool in their focus.

The good thing is… when you read, curate, and share more industry specific content you’ll get topic ideas naturally and you’ll know exactly what your audience want.

Read: Over 101 Social Media Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

Over 101 Content Marketing Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

@maheshoneNovember 3, 2014By

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If you're a blogger or an Internet marketer, you would probably know that there are hundreds of thousands of marketing tools online that makes Internet Marketing much easier. A good percentage of the content that resides in my Evernote are actually "tools" -- for almost anything.

Read: Why Evernote Is My (And Probably Your) Perfect Blogging Companion

And that's how I recently came up with a list of 101 Productivity Tools and 101 Social Media Tools (with over 30 Image Tools). Today I'm going to focus on Content Marketing -- just content marketing -- and want to feature some of the best content marketing tools to streamline your marketing efforts.

7 Blogging Years. 7 Blogging Lessons. 7 Blogging Tips.

@maheshoneAugust 13, 2014By

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Yes, that's right! It's the 7th Blogoversary of Minterest. I started Minterest (maheshone.com) as a personal finance blog back in 2006 and later in August 2007 I started blogging about "Money, Internet, Investing" (yes, that was the first tagline of Minterest and now as you can see it's -- tech. marketing. mashups.). To be honest it was "Just another WordPress site" literally and I was simply rehashing topics that were of "My interest". But there is one thing... I was learning. I loved WordPress and that experience from Blogger.com to WordPress.org was awesome.

Read: WordPress vs. Blogger.com

I started creating blogs on Blogger.com back in 2004 and was treating it like a simple publishing tool. I guess the reason why it didn't impress or motivate me much was its inability to customize things the way I wanted. And when I tried WordPress I started loving almost all of its aspects and started liking coding as well. Yes, I'm a software engineer by education but it was not the coding that inspired me - it's the magic in "technology". Thanks to Microsoft. Coming back... I'm going to feature here 7 blogging lessons and tips that I have... learned, realized, or experienced in one way or the other over the past several years.

15 Blogging Tips To Supercharge Your Next Blog Post

@maheshoneMarch 19, 2014By

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I’ve highlighted over 18 surefire tips to write a perfectly optimized blog post in my last blog post. It was all about how to make your blog post more user and search engine friendly so as to leverage search engine optimization. And today I’m going to feature 15 blogging tips to make you a better blogger. Whether you’re a beginner or a professional wouldn’t matter, these tips will supercharge your next blog post. Guaranteed!

Over 30 Reliable Blogs That Pay $50+ For Your Guest Posts

@maheshoneNovember 6, 2013By

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UPDATE: Please go here for an updated list of websites that pays up to $300 (or more) for your guest posts.

Are you a freelance writer who’s tired of websites offering $1 for 100 words or $10 for 1,000 words? Well, there’s good new for you. I have a list of some good quality blogs and websites that pay you to contribute content.

I have already featured around 10 websites that pay you to write articles. But the problem is... they're either networks or big publishers so their acceptance rate is low and a good percentage of them accept only U.S./U.K. writers. That’s not all, you’ve to be an established writer to get into their network. And then I recently featured over 90 random websites to make money online for anyone and everyone.

Now today I’m going to focus on specific blogs or websites that pay you to blog. This time I’m going to exclude networks so you can contribute your content directly and get paid. In other words, these blogs will pay you for contributing guest posts and may even hire you as one of their in-house writer.

You do have to offer extremely high quality content to match their publishing standard but you don’t have to be an established writer. Some websites may give preference to writers who have an active social media presence.

Read: Kick-start Your Writing Career By Showcasing Yourself As An Expert

Blogger vs. WordPress: The Ultimate Comparison With Pros & Cons

The Definitive Guide To Writing A Perfectly Optimized Blog Post

7 Blogging Years. 7 Blogging Lessons. 7 Blogging Tips.

15 Blogging Tips To Supercharge Your Next Blog Post

Over 30 Reliable Blogs That Pay $50+ For Your Guest Posts

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