Is blog marketing enough?

One of the very common questions that I get when I tell people that I do training in blog marketing, is that - “You mean you don’t need a website? Just a blog will do?” Well, unfortunately, blogging and blog marketing is more often than not only part of a marketing strategy. Any business [...]

Breaking the next barrier on Technorati

Just today, I was checking out the links coming in to this blog (using the WordPress dashboard) and I realised that these two days marked a milestone achieved for this blog, well, at least, in terms of Technorati authority. Technorati measures the rankings of a blog in terms of the number of incoming links from other [...]

Content is king, context is the palace

As I checked my blog stats today, I realised that there was a spike in my traffic. Upon further investigation, I realised one of my previous posts “Who should not blog” was submitted by a fellow blogger to a popular bulletin for Singapore bloggers, Tomorrow.sg While I was happy to know that the blog post [...]

Relationships puts you on the priority list

For bloggers who read a lot of other blogs, I’m sure that once in a while you face the same challenge as I do - your feed subscriptions are in a bloody mess! Sometimes, you need to take 2 or 3 hours to really look at each feed that you have subscribed and ask [...]

Who should not blog?

I was thinking, there has been so much encouragement for businesses and individuals alike to start blogging - and after reading several books, blogs and articles, it is no doubt that blogging is the current wave of user generated content, and virtually anyone who has or has not used a computer can blog. Take a peek [...]

A thinking process to get you writing a good blog post when you have absolutely nothing in mind

If you have been blogging consistently for at least two months, you must have experienced this before. After a busy day in business or at work, you barely have the time to think of what you want to put up on your blog to keep your readers entertained for the day, but nevertheless, you [...]

Use of blogging in business: its all about trust

There has been a lot going on about corporate blogging and business blogging, but what exactly are the uses of blogs in business? How can blogs help business and produce measurable results? The fact is that blogs are just another tool - a tool that enables a non-technically trained person to publish on the Internet! [...]

3 main reasons why readers unsubscribe from your feeds and how you can combat that

Problogger revealed another great survey done recently, with regard to why people unsubscribe from blog feeds, and it seems that the three most important factors involve the frequency of posting, partial feeds, and focus. Let’s go deeper into each one. Frequency of Posting In his survey, “too many posts” was in fact the most popular reason why people [...]

WordPress Include Tags

The WordPress documentation on Include Tags listed four different functions which template developers can use to in their templates: <?php get_header(); ?> <?php get_footer(); ?> <?php get_sidebar(); ?> <?php comments_template(); ?> Most templates in the WordPress themes directory use these set of functions, simply because they are used with the default Kubrick template, and according to the documentation, these functions provide the additional functionality [...]

Optimal HTML Headings for Proper Information Hierarchy in WordPress Blogs

I was back tweaking my blog templates these days, and I learned that many of the WordPress Plug-Ins for the sidebar use the HTML header H2, for sidebar headers. For example, in order to generate the list of links from your blogroll automatically (with the headers), one would normally use <?php get_links_list(); ?>. This, however [...]
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