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5 Reasons to show excerpt in front page

Nile Flo­res had an issue. She was rejected by BlogDis­trib­u­tor because her front page showed only the excerpt. You must pull the whole post for them. But, do blog­gers love to rele­lease whole post on front page? Should they? Here goes five rea­sons why you should pub­lish only excerpt of the post on your home page. Con­tinue read­ing

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Which is the best WordPress theme?

As I said, I speak out my expe­ri­ences and learn­ing. This is what I learned when try­ing to switch to a new theme.
Every­body has dif­fer­ent taste. You are inher­ently dif­fer­ent than me in terms of likes and dis­likes. The same look and feel is never suit­able for all occa­sions and times. How should your blog look?
Here comes the role of a theme. It is the theme that deter­mines every­thing about the look and feel of your blog includ­ing func­tion­al­ity. And I’m afraid, this is the most dif­fi­cult stage in cre­at­ing a new blog.

Its dif­fi­cult to choose the best theme because there are innu­mer­able, each one slightly bet­ter than the other. It is dif­fi­cult because your likes and dis­likes does not count here. You need to think about what your read­ers will like or dis­like. You have just estab­lished a new blog, can you iden­tify your blog read­ers? Great, it is not as dif­fi­cult as choos­ing new theme for your Word­Press blog.
This post describes the dif­fer­ent aspects you need to con­sider such as Bud­get, Pur­pose of your blog, Search Engine Opti­miza­tion, Fea­tures and Secu­rity. If you could make your­self clear about these fac­tors, you will be able to choose best theme for your blog. Con­tinue read­ing

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Domain Names — Longer the better

Many peo­ple are reg­is­ter­ing long domain names in order to get their web­sites ranked on top of the search engines. It is another way to gen­er­ate traf­fic for a min­i­mal cost.
Search engines tend to like words that are sep­a­rated by dashes (lit­tle known secret!). Peo­ple have been reg­is­ter­ing key­words as domain names to tar­get search engine results but now you can reg­is­ter mul­ti­ple key­words using this method. Mind you, you still need to be selec­tive and do your research. This lat­est inter­net mar­ket­ing tech­nique is already being used by thou­sands of peo­ple Con­tinue read­ing

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How to add related posts in my blog?

This is a good way to refer your pre­vi­ous posts to your read­ers as their exten­sive read­ing. If you are inter­ested to point them to the posts from other blogs in Inter­net, use Zemanta. This plu­gin will look for related posts, images and tags that are related to your post and sug­gest you. It will be much more con­ve­nient and fun blog­ging. I’ll be talk­ing about ‘How to’ of Zemanta some other time. For now be happy with YARPP! Con­tinue read­ing

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How to create sticky post for Joomla blog

Ever won­dered how posts are made sticky in Joomla plat­form? Its sim­ple and useful too!

Some­times, you might wish to show off a post for longer times or some­times for ever. You can con­vert your nor­mal post into sticky with a sim­ple trick. Joomla assigns an order to each post you pub­lish. Depend­ing upon your con­fig­u­ra­tion the lat­est posts are dis­played at the top or the old­est posts are dis­played. Here lies the secret. You just need to break the order of posts for the post that you wish to make sticky.

Because the posts are ordered 0 to the…

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The First Step of Blogging – How to Start?

Today, I liked to remem­ber those days. The days when I was so new and shin­ing. New and shin­ing because, domain names, host­ing, scripts, CMS and most impor­tantly SEO, all  sounded like strange and too tech­ni­cal to under­stand.  I don’t know how, but come to know that it is pos­si­ble to earn some money through blog­ging. Because every­thing was so new, I was not less skep­ti­cal than any­one of you who has never earned online money.
Its been so long. Today, I liked to remem­ber those days. I liked to

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Sexy Share Plug-in or Widget for Blogger Blogs

You might have noticed a book­mark­ing or shar­ing bar that looked some­thing like the fig­ure below:
sexy_sharing widget for blogger blogs
Yes this is Shar­ing is Sexy book­mark­ing and shar­ing plu­gin. Its mouseOver effect and cool design made it attrac­tive for blog­gers to imple­ment. Word­Press users are always lucky enough when new plug-ins and wid­gets are required, but now blog­ger plat­form too is not lag­ging behind. I’ll show you how to imple­ment it for your blog­ger blog. Did you notice this wid­get on my blog ICT Trends too? Its in blog­ger plat­form.

Before we start talk­ing about how to implement…

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Reader-friendly Blog Design – Checklist.

Plain designs are suit­able for pow­er­ful con­tent based sites. Look at wikipedia.com, google.com and so on. It’s sim­ple, clean and neat. On the other hand there are a lot of sites with heavy design, flashy col­ors and lur­ing images and they are suc­cess­ful. Check those cnn.com, cnet.com, t3.com and so on. They used mul­ti­ple columns, ani­mated head­ers, multi-tabbed pages, mar­quee text, lav­ish and lux­u­ri­ous imagery. So, what should be the ideal design for your blog? Its up to you. Try dif­fer­ent designs and get viewer’s responses. Look how Ms. Ileane gets the respons for her recent theme with

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Add Socialize Buttons – Digg, Twitter, Reddit, Facebook on Your Blogger Post

I believe you can’t ignore the impor­tance of social net­works for pro­mo­tions of blogs and web­sites nor should be stay behind to reap entire pos­si­ble ben­e­fits of uti­liz­ing them. If peo­ple like your post they will got to their favorite social net­work like Face­book, Twit­ter, Digg, Red­dit etc and add a link to your site and share. You can expect that but not rely on. You must facil­i­tate the read­ers an easy access to book­mark your site to get max­i­mum pos­si­bil­ity of being dugg and shared! For this pur­pose, how about adding a few but­tons with icons on

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Are you using blog editor?

I was igno­rant of blog edi­tor or always over­looked its uses and ben­e­fit or over-satisfied with the browser edi­tor or might be any­thing else – I was not using any of the blog edi­tor. When blog­ging is so pop­u­lar and being used by innu­mer­able blog­gers, cer­tainly there should be some solu­tions exist­ing.
Just after some Googling and read­ing some reviews I imme­di­ately down­loaded Win­dows Live Writer because:
1. It is free
2. Sup­ports all major blog­ger plat­form includ­ing blog­ger!
3. Is extend­able. You can install addi­tional plu­g­ins such as polaroid pic­ture, face­book pho­tos, video and many other very…

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