There is a lot of information on what you can do to enhance your wordpress blog. Also at the same time there are a few things which you should be aware of what not do with your wordpress blog if you into blogging to make money.
As a matter of fact no one would like to see their blog been hacked or taken down by any miscellaneous problem or anything which will have negative impact on your blog. Below are some of the deadly mistakes which can really kill your blog if you are one of the victim of any of these. Things may have been fine till now but if you login to any popular forum you can easily find lots of people who have faced issues just because of knowingly or unknowingly they didn't bother about the outcome in the long run.
Using Pirated Wordpress Theme
It's not difficult to find a pirated wordpress theme on torrents and download it for use but the thing to ask is are those themes really worth using. Mostly these files contain some Malware or virus in it or link to some bad network which may be hidden from you. These malwares are designed to harm your website and leech unnecessary bandwidth or cause some other kind of malfunctioning to your website. If your web hosting company notices any malware in your hosting account they terminate your account instantly and in many cases without any notice. Trying to save a few bucks can really cause a big damage to your blog. I hope you are not making this mistake.
Running Your Blog On Old Wordpress Version
It's never safe to run a blog on outdated wordpress versions as it's a delight for hackers because they know the loopholes in the old wordpress versions and can use them to harm your blog. It's always smart thing to keep your wordpress blog updated to latest version.
Ignoring Basic Wordpress Security Measures
If you are much aware on how to secure your wordpress blog then read here: Wordpress Security Tips And Hacks .
Here you will find all the information on what you need to do to secure your wordpress blog. It's important that you prevent your wordpress blog from any future mishap.
Using Unnecessary Wordpress Plugins
Don't fill up your plugins section with lots and lots of plugins which may not be useful to you. Using a plugin just because someone else is using is not really a thing to follow this applies for plugins apart from security plugins but also don't be too obsessed with collecting security plugins and installing each and every plugin blindly.
Revise your blog needs and choose your plugins according to that. More the plugins run on your blog more number of process will run which will put extra load on the server.
Making Maintenance Changes To Your Live Blog
If you making changes to your blog while it's live and you have a decent blog traffic then it really irritate your readers due to any interruption or frequent changes to page which can effect a user's navigation. There is a maintenance wordpress plugin which you can use while your blog is undergoing maintenance. Your readers will read a message that will tell them that the site is down for maintenance, please check back in few minutes, which is think is far better than a user seeing different things every time the page is refreshed.
Being Scared Of Experimenting On Your Wordpress Blog
Wordpress is one the simplest CMS platforms available. Technology is changing everyday and you cannot be stagnant with your blog. If you are new to wordpress then I would suggest you to learn more about wordpress and start applying those things which you read, this will help you in understanding wordpress better. When you will try new things with your blog it will help you only make your blog better.
Using The Default Wordpress Theme
Too lazy to use a custom theme for your blog. Well people won't be too exited either in visiting a blog where a blogger can't even use a custom theme for his blog. There are hundreds of free wordpress themes out there and it only takes few minutes to upload and apply the theme.
"A stitch in time saves nine", if you have heard of this proverb then you will very well know what this post is all about. Things may work fine initially but they will never workout in long run and considering that only this post have been compiled.
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40 Splendid Mist Photographs
Mist is a mass of fine droplets of water suspended in air. This phenomena is commonly seen during winters and early morning. Capturing mist in photos is mist photography. Due to water droplets suspended in thin air a beam of light is visible from the side due to refraction of light from the water particles. This creates a beautiful light ray scene in nature and you can see that in some photographs below.
This post showcases photographs of morning mist, evening mist, forest, sea, landscape, snow and other mist during the day. Mesmerizing nature covered in mist and captured so beautifully by the photographers is a real inspiration.
How to Brand Your Blog and Establish Yourself as a Blogger?
Starting a blog and making money online seems very exciting and to make money online most of the people choose starting a blog and it is a good way to make money online undoubtedly but starting a blog on any topic won’t make you any money. To start a blog that will make you money you need to do a proper market research and write according to your target audinece.Once you get the niche research done now its time to market your blog and make some money. But most of the newbie overlooked the most important element of blogging that is branding your blog an and establishing yourself as blogger in blogosphere.
Following are the ways that will surely help you in creating the brand of your blog:
Guest Post
Writing for already established blog will increase the visibility of your blog and will help you in connecting with establish bloggers, if you constantly write for other popular blogs into your niche you will definitely increase the quality readership of your blog, also it will increase your network in blogosphere. The idea behind constantly writing for other popular blog is that when your provide any valuable information on any established blog which is getting huge traffic there is good chances of getting high number of comments and that will increase your communication level with your target audience nonetheless you will also get the link to your blog and those user that like your writing style will surely visit your blog.
Blog commenting
It is the second best way to increase your and your blog visibility in blogosphere .Commenting on the popular blog will not only help you in networking but also get you backlinks ;-) that will surely increase the visibility of your blog in search engines but you need to make sure that you wont become a comment spammer, whenever you write a comment on a blog you need to make sure that you are adding the value into their blog, always try to abstain your self writing “hey dude you gotta nice blog” such comments, while commenting on the blogosphere you need to remember that your trying to establish yourself as a blogger into that niche so you should always write the comment that will add the value to the content.
Tip: Subscribe to the some of the popular blogs into your niche and make sure to comment on those blog on regular basis that will not increase your presence but also provide you good quality traffic ;-)
Article marketing
Article marketing is the best sort of free marketing available. When you submit a article to article directories, your article will remain there for years, that increase the visibility of your site and create a brand out of it also for certain keywords your site might not rank but your article that you have submit to high PR article directory would rank and this way you will dominate the search engine rankings for a very competitive keyword and you could also able to drive that traffic to your site ;-)
Video marketing
This is the new way of creating the awareness about your blog and building a regular readership of your blog. As you might have heard of that “a picture is worth of 1000 words”, so in my opinion when you create a short informative video about your niche and submit to all the popular video sites that would definitely worth of 1 lakh words, also video marketing is a very good way to do viral marketing and if you make a viral video it would automatically get distributed in social media and increase the visibility of your blog.
Networking using social network and social media
Networking is very important for brand building, you need to be friend with people who are into your niche or willing to get into your niche, this will open up many hidden opportunities for you that you might could not seen otherwise. When you increase your network and get connected with more and more people you will probably learn many hidden things and surely increase the visibility of your blog among the people who are into your niche.
Content
It is the most important part of blogging, if you don’t provide the quality content to your readers than it would be impossible for you to create the brand out of your blog and you should also forget the idea of becoming a blogger, you have to provide the informative articles to your readers that solve their problem or that helps them in learning new things, if you don’t do this correctly than it doesn’t matter how perfectly you would do all the above things that I have mentioned.
If you think I have missed any point than do let me know via your comment.
Wishing success to all the SmashApps readers Happy Blogging!
10 Best Online Web Design Tools
If you are new to designing concept and don't have the resources and software's for web designing purpose then there are some very useful online web designing tools which can help you do all your web designing work easily and efficiently. You don't need to be an expert to work on these tools, just a basic idea the working of tools and you can get started with it.
DoTemplates: Pick a favorite template from the website and customize it to your requirement and then download it for free to use it on your website.
You can customize the header image, change the color of the navigation bar and the color of body text and links in your template. It's simple and easy and you will love it for sure.
Wordpress Theme Generator: If you are unable to find your favorite theme online then this is a great tool to create your own wordpress theme. In the left section of the website there is a panel which helps you to customize each and every part of the theme as per your likings and requirements. You can create a two or three column theme and change the background of theme easily and customize the text color and navigation colors and much more. You can do so much with this amazing theme generator.
CSSTypeset: If you don't know anything about creating style sheet or you want a quick style sheet editor then this tool will save lot of time for you. All you have to do is just enter your text in the left section of the box and edit the styles as you would like it to appear and the CSS code will be generated automatically, copy paste the CSS code in your style sheet and you are done.
Web 2.0 Button Generator: Easily create stylish looking web 2.0 buttons to give your website a web 2.0 feel. You can customize the color, text, shape of your buttons and save it by just one click.
Form Style Generator: Customize the look and feel of your comment or any other forms by generating the style sheet with the help of this online form styling tool. You can customize the text, text fields and buttons with ease with this tool and then save and apply the styles to your form.
SplashUp: It's a great real time image editing tool and a good alternative to photoshop. It is capable of doing most of the things which you can do in your photoshop software. Splashup is easy to use and also you can edit multiple images at once.
Favicon Generator: Create a favicon for your website in just few secs, upload the image which you want as your favicon and it will turn that image into favicon for your website.
Color Wizard: It's an amazing tool and probably one of the very rare and useful tools online. If you are having trouble finding a right color match for a portion of your website then just insert the base color of your website and it will give you the best matching colors which you can use.
Email me Form: Get a contact query form for your website for free, no programming skills needed. Just customize your form and copy the code and past it on your contact page of your website.
LogoEase: A free online tool to create stunning professional looking logos for your website or company. It's easier then you can imagine. Select your category of website and choose an icon if you want, write your company name and select your colors and save it.
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