All About Blogging: 8 Neat WordPress Plugins

One of the perks of WordPress.org is the plu­g­ins, these mostly free and easy-to-use pro­grams that enable you to enhance or cus­tomize your web­site. The choice is almost too vast, so I decided to make your life eas­ier. Here are ten neat Word­Press plu­g­ins you should test!

All About Blogging: Building a Community

One of the main dif­fer­ences between a blog and a sta­tic web­site is the inter­ac­tion with the com­mu­nity. But this kind of inter­ac­tion takes months or even years to build and must be con­stantly addressed and redefined.

All About Blogging: 5 Ways to Promote your Blog

I can’t stress enough how many blogs and web­sites there are on the Web, and how impor­tant pro­mot­ing your blog is. “In space, no one hears you scream”, and in the cyber world, no one will find you if you don’t adopt a proac­tive approach.

All About Blogging: The Evolution of a Blog

Wel­come to the new 10 posts series, All About Blog­ging! Each Sat­ur­day for 10 weeks, I’ll inves­ti­gate an aspect of blog­ging. I hope you will enjoy the new series and that you will find it use­ful. Don’t hes­i­tate to give me some feed­back and to share your experience!

At War Against Spam

You wouldn’t believe how much spam this blog is get­ting. Every time I log in and go to my Word­Press dash­board, I do a double-take at the num­ber: “Akismet has pro­tected your site from 74,191 spam com­ments already.”

5 Photography Tips For Bloggers (VII)

When I first started blog­ging 5 years ago, I was more of a writer than a pho­tog­ra­pher. Most of my posts were text-only and I didn’t even have a pro­file pic­ture.
And then came magazine-style blog themes, with thumb­nails pic­tures. They quickly became pop­u­lar and enabled a lot of blog­gers to add pic­tures eas­ily to their posts.

Blogging Etiquette (10/10)

This is the tenth and last post of the “How To Blog” series and I’d like to close it with some advice on blog­ging etiquette.

20+ Tools For Your Blog (9/10)

Today, I’d like to share some­thing even more per­sonal than clothes, make-up or a tooth­brush: book­marks. We all have our favorite sites or tools to make blog­ging eas­ier… here are mine: a col­lec­tion of links to online tools, great blogs and gen­er­a­tors for the geeks impaired.

Note that all these tools are free and none of these links are sponsored!

Ranking A Blog (8/10)

Who loves you? Yeah, prob­a­bly a bunch of real life peo­ple. But blog-wise, who is you friend and who isn’t?

Today, we will explore the dif­fer­ent tools you can use to assess your blog rank­ing. Is your blog pop­u­lar? Easy to find? High-ranked? Fol­lowed by reg­u­lar read­ers or one-time visitors?

Making Money With Your Blog (7/10)

Mon­e­tiz­ing a blog takes time. First, you have to build good con­tent. Yes, just sign­ing up for a blog isn’t enough. These two days old blogs full of ads but still with the default “wel­come” mes­sage always makes me laugh. Yeah, I wish it was that easy.…! You also have to some­how mas­ter the basic of SEO (Search Engine Opti­miza­tion) to be found on search engines. And finally, you have to inves­ti­gate the best ways to make money on your blog.