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30 Things I Absolutely Love About Your Blog

@maheshoneFebruary 11, 2018By

I have already published 30 Things I Absolutely HATE About Your Blog --- since then I have been thinking to come up with its reverse topic as well. That is, I wanted to publish a list of 30 things that I LOVE about a blog. Once again, it’s just my personal view and hence there’s a good chance that you would disagree with me — with some or all of them. :D And I also tried to cite other blogs and blog posts as examples for "things" wherever it's possible. Also, when I published the previous list, none of the "things" were actually technical in nature but on this list there are so many technical "things" that are not easily fixable (if it's a problem). However, it doesn't really mean that I absolutely hate your blog. It's just a perspective and I could be totally wrong.

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Over 30 Handpicked Social Media (And Web 2.0) Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

@maheshoneFebruary 11, 2018By

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Social Media websites can drive insanely great traffic to your blog if you have a good social media marketing strategy. But it can drive fair amount of traffic if you just submit blog posts regularly to your social media profiles.

Social media traffic is as important as organic traffic from search engines as we can’t rely on Google alone. They continue to push algorithmic updates like Panda, Penguin and who knows the next could be Giraffe.

It means that we must diversify the way we get traffic. I’m going to list the top social media and other websites that you shouldn’t ignore or must use as part of your social media marketing strategy.

I’m NOT going to list all the stupid social media or the so called web 2.0 sites out there as I’m going to focus only on sites that can drive traffic to our websites in one way or the other and not for building backlinks.

Though the traffic quality of social media can’t be matched with that of organic traffic, it is still important. It helps us to keep the bounce rate low which is assumed to be one of the many ranking signals used by Google.

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The 100 Best Tech & Marketing Blogs You Should Be Following

money.February 1, 2018By

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I have always wanted to create a list of blogs that I love to read, share and link to because I think it'd be nice to see them in a listicle rather than just adding them to Feedly (my favorite RSS reader). Moreover, I didn't want to add tons of blogs to my RSS reader as I hate to see hundreds of unread items. And hey, you should also have a list of your favorite blogs. You know why? Because if you are a blogger, or marketer, or whatever you are supposed to stay updated about what's happening in your industry. The idea is to stay focused all the time. By the way, you DO NOT have to follow hundreds of blogs in your niche. Just a dozen of them is pretty enough. Because you will see yourself landing on more and more related blogs and blog posts as you go. For instance, it's been a month since I checked my Feedly feeds and now it's got over 600 unread items (and counting). The problem is I was reading less and less all these days and weeks as I already had enough research stuff in my Evernote and saved for later articles in my Pocket. And yet, I was landing on a lot of interesting blogs and blog posts and whatnot. In fact, that's what inspired me to write this very blog post.

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Top 25 Google Chrome Extensions I Can’t Live Without

@maheshoneJanuary 2, 2018By

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First published: 2012; Last updated: January, 2014

Unlike Internet Explorer, Google Chrome is not just a web browser it’s a super productive tool. Some of the Chrome features that I like the most are Chrome Sync (as it can backup passwords, auto fill form, history, bookmarks, preferences, extensions, apps automatically on the Google servers), Multiple Users, ability to “Open link in incognito window” and much more. Also, there are tons of apps and extensions on Chrome Web Store and that makes Chrome addictive.

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How To — Start A Food Blog — Setup Essential Blogging Tools

@maheshoneOctober 9, 2017By

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How To — Start A Food Blog — Setup Essential Blogging Tools

Now that you have configured your food blog with all the essential WordPress plugins and have customized it as well, there's one last thing. You need blogging tools. There are hundreds of blogging tools on the web but you don't have to try all of them. I'm focusing only on 3 tools: Yoast SEO Plugin, Google Webmaster Tools, and Google Analytics. Everything else is optional and subjective as it entirely depends on your blogging/personal preferences.

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1. Yoast SEO

Yoast SEO is not exactly a blogging tool but a WordPress plugin. It’s the ultimate SEO plugin for WordPress that allows you to optimize almost all the SEO aspects of your WordPress site.

Some of the features offered by WordPress SEO plugin are:

It checks whether a page is search engine optimized or not.
It enables XML Sitemaps, Breadcrumbs, RSS Optimization.
It lets you edit your .htaccess and robots.txt file from within WordPress dashboard.
It allows you to no-follow or no-index pages.
It allows you to define a canonical URL.
It offers Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ integration.
It’s multi-site compatible.
…and many other features.

How To — Start A Food Blog — Install & Configure Essential WordPress Plugins

@maheshoneOctober 8, 2017By

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How To — Start A Food Blog — Install & Configure Essential WordPress Plugins

Plugins extend the functionality of your WordPress site (just like we add new features and functions to a web browser like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) with custom features. WordPress Plugins are independently developed by third-party developers across the world. There are over 40,000 plugins in the official WordPress Plugin Directory and you can install any of them using the plugin browser or the installer available in your WordPress dashboard. If you know what you want then you can use the Search to find it. Or, you can browse the Featured, Popular, Recommended, or Favorites (favorite plugins of a particular WordPress.org user) to get an idea of what’s possible.

How To — Start A Food Blog — Change WordPress Profile & Settings

@maheshoneOctober 8, 2017By

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How To — Start A Food Blog — Add Users & Change WordPress Settings

Now let's get to know the various settings and configuration of WordPress. The good thing is, most of them are set and forget kind of settings.

1. WordPress Users

“Users” lists all the existing users of your WordPress site. WordPress users can be Administrators, Editors Authors, Contributors, or Subscribers — depending upon the roles and permissions associated with each one. When you create new users, you can define their roles as well. Simply click the “Add New” submenu to create a new users and you can set their user roles, password, and email id when you do so. Here’s a quick glance of user roles:

Administrators have access to all administration features in the site and can manage other users as well.
Editors can write and publish their own posts as well as manage those of other users.
Authors can write and publish their own posts, and are able to upload files as well.
Contributors can write and manage their posts but cannot publish them or upload files.
Subscribers can only manage their own profiles in the system.

30 Things I Absolutely Love About Your Blog

The 100 Best Tech & Marketing Blogs You Should Be Following

Top 25 Google Chrome Extensions I Can’t Live Without

How To — Start A Food Blog — Setup Essential Blogging Tools

1. Yoast SEO

How To — Start A Food Blog — Install & Configure Essential WordPress Plugins

How To — Start A Food Blog — Change WordPress Profile & Settings

1. WordPress Users

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