Entries from February 2009 ↓

Titles for your blog post!

What is the significance of a title? This is not a very obvious question and I am sure that for even the newest of the bloggers, the significance of a “Title” is a known thing.

But there are certain other aspects to this question. When I say, “Significance” it could mean,  Read more... (513 words, 1 image, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)

1. the way a title influences the post,
2. the role that a title has to play in getting traffic,
3. the appearance of an ideal title.

Is tagging your post important?

As I was Stumbling upon a few blogs of interest to me I came across some very good blogs, that were especially new. The content was exceptionally good and so was the style of writing. I enjoyed reading the blog entries. As I dissected through them to find things of interest to me, I found one startling thing. These blogs had no tags. That made “Tagging” an interesting post to write on.

Do you think, tagging a post is important?  Read more... (576 words, 2 images, estimated 2:18 mins reading time)

The First Visitor to your blog

The first sip is always the difficult one. Similarly is the case with getting the first visitor to you blog. My first blog sat there for about 3 months before I could get my first visitor. I had no clue how to get one and I kept writing and writing. Then one day I realized that there was something that I was missing. i was not promoting my blog.

Blog promotion is a big thing today. There are people and consultants out there who do this for a charge. But I often wonder why you would want to hire a consultant or, a third party to promote you blog when it can be done by yourselves, without spending a dime.  Read more... (674 words, 1 image, estimated 2:42 mins reading time)