From the monthly archives:

June 2009

7 Alternative Blogging Tools (Mac-Supported too!)

I can’t help but feel that many of our read­ers found WLW either inad­e­quate, not suited or per­haps even com­pletely use­less. For­tu­nately, the com­ments writ­ten for my first post on Win­dows Live Writer sug­gested that either it’s not worth­while (because WP’s Edi­tor is pretty solid) or it wasn’t Mac-supported. So, I’ve spent some time research­ing for dif­fer­ent (and per­haps bet­ter) alter­na­tives to Win­dows Live Writer.

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8 Excellent Extensions to Further Expand Your Windows Live Writer

8 Excellent Extensions to Further Expand Your Windows Live Writer

by Janith

Fol­low­ing up my rec­om­men­da­tion post on Win­dows Live Writer, I promised to deliver with some of the best exten­sions (or plu­g­ins) that are avail­able for WLW. Hence, I’ve spent the last week or so, research­ing the depths of the WLW Plu­gin archives (7 pages); in search of the most use­ful add-ons and I found cou­ple of absolute […]

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Social Marketing: Bloggers Networking with Facebook

Social Marketing: Bloggers Networking with Facebook

by Janith

Face­book has been around for quite some time and we have all seen its growth from a small local net­work to a dom­i­nate fig­ure in today’s inter­net. The diver­sity of mem­bers that use Face­book is stag­ger­ing; peo­ple from all over the world are a part of it. So, how can us blog­gers come to uti­lize this ever-growing social-networking […]

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Twitter Marketing

7 Simple Tips for Effectively Marketing Your Blog on Twitter

by Alex

Twit­ter is amaz­ing for gen­er­at­ing viral traf­fic, and will even help you increase com­ments on your blog. How­ever, you have to know how to use twit­ter effec­tively to reap the rewards. Con­trary to pop­u­lar belief, sim­ply set­ting up a feed for your blog and let­ting your account run itself will not cre­ate a notice­able effect. Instead, you […]

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How to Promote Your Blog Over Instant Messaging

How to Promote Your Blog Over Instant Messaging

by Alex

Every­body on the inter­net instant mes­sages. Whether you have a Skype account or an MSN pass­port, you most likely talk to peo­ple via chat. How­ever, few peo­ple real­ize how effec­tive instant mes­sag­ing clients can be for pro­mot­ing your blog.

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How Has Your Blog Changed You Offline?

Personal Reflection: How Has Your Blog Changed You Offline?

by Alex

Whet­her you are really aware of it or not, becom­ing a seri­ous blog­ger for a long time leaves some kind of affect on you even when you’re not actu­ally doing it. I think it’s nor­mal too, because when we blog we are so con­cen­trated that it just opens our mind up to a lot of dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives of things.

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How to Build a Community Around Your Blog

How to Build a Community Around Your Blog

by Alex

Your blog is more than a col­lec­tion of arti­cles  —  it’s a com­mu­nity of read­ers, com­men­ta­tors, vis­i­tors, adver­tis­ers, and you, the blog­ger. Learn­ing how to con­nect every­one who sees your blog in some way is impor­tant if you want to excel above and beyond the typ­i­cal blog. When it comes to build­ing a com­mu­nity, you have to be pre­pared to […]

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Google eliminates the use of NoFollow by changing search-algorithms!

Google Eliminates the use of NoFollow by Changing Search Algorithms

by Janith

Ear­lier this week, Matt Cutts announced that the search algo­rithms have been changed and that the use of Rel=nofollow will have a neg­a­tive impact on your web­sites that ever before.

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Windows Live Writer: The Next Step In Blogging

Windows Live Writer: The Next Step In Blogging

by Janith

I recently upgraded my MSN Mes­sen­ger to the new Win­dows Live Mes­sen­ger (I waited a while for them to release a more sta­ble ver­sion, because know­ing Microsoft they prob­a­bly for­got half the code they were meant to include.)

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