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.

Tweak Your Blog (6/10)

A fun part of blog­ging is tweak­ing and cus­tomiz­ing your blog. Not only you will be able to trans­form a default template/ theme into a unique piece of art­work, but you will also get a chance to catch read­ers’ eyes. And that’s priceless!

We’ve already cov­ered what you needed to put on your blog, and for Word­Press users, what were the best plu­g­ins. Now, let’s have a lot at what you can do to tweak and cus­tomize your blog.

Must Have On Your Blog (5/10)

We’ve already cov­ered a few sub­jects in this series, and today, I wanted to high­light how impor­tant it is to have a few basic infor­ma­tions on your blog.

The Art Of Promoting A Blog (4/10)

What most peo­ple (includ­ing me when I first started) don’t real­ize, is no mat­ter how great your blog is, chances are that if you don’t pro­mote it, peo­ple won’t find it. There are appar­ently over 50–60 mil­lions blogs world­wide and your blog could be lost in a dark cor­ner of the inter­net for­ever if you don’t “hunt” for readers.

Be The Blogger People Read (3/10)

Do you have a blog? Yes? Good. Cause I’m a pretty curi­ous woman (some would say it’s an euphemism…) and I love to browse blogs. Chances are that if you ever left a com­ment at my blog, ever sent me an email or just showed up here, I vis­ited you. I have plenty of feed in my RSS Reader and I’m pretty quick to click on the magic “sub­scribe” but­ton. But I’m human too — not all blogs attract me.

The Best Plugins (2/10)

In my first few months as a Word­Press user, I was a vic­tim of the well-known “download’em all” syn­drom — that’s how you end of with 50 plu­g­ins, half of them being bro­ken or not in use. Took me a while to down­size my impres­sive plu­gin list and keep all the best, but I think I got it now.

Blogger Vs. WordPress (1/10)

To start this series, I’d like to answer a much asked ques­tion: what is the dif­fer­ence between Blogger/ Blogspot and self-hosted WordPress?

Indeed, it’s some­times hard to make a deci­sion, whether you are new to blog­ging or are look­ing for the best plat­form. So here is my com­par­i­son chart: