How many times has it happened that you are occupied with a lot of work which prevents you from being regular at blogging? It is an extremely tough situation to be in if you are a passionate blogger. Keeping away from blogging not only means that your readership can possibly get affected but also could mean that slowly you would start losing the pulse of the kind of content that you desire to produce. It is really not about money or anything else – it is about the whole effort….. Read More
Bulk Following On Twitter? – Don’t!!
By On September 9, 2010 1 Comment 4,648 views
Bulk following on twitter trend is becoming popular today. A large number of websites and services have emerged which provide you with the required tools to do it. However, my view on this trend is that doing bulk follow should be avoided. Before I get to core of it, let me explain you how I look at twitter and what is my criteria to follow anyone. Twitter – The Powerful Tool No one can deny the power of twitter today. From individuals to small/medium/large businesses, everyone is striving for their….. Read More
Google FeedBurner Socialize : A TwitterFeed Alternative
By On August 2, 2010 3 Comments 838 views
I had been using the twitterfeed service for sending updates about my blog postings to twitter. The service had been working well for about 6 months now. However, I had been facing a few problems where occasionally I was finding the some posts were getting skipped while others never got published on to my twitter account. So first I checked my settings on twitterfeed and suspected that possibly the reason for failure was one of the settings. Essentially I had told twitterfeed to scan feeds every one hour and update….. Read More
Check Brand Name Availability For Domain And Social Media
By On July 19, 2010 2 Comments 926 views
If you are planning to launch a new business on the web, it is extremely important to have a unique brand name that identifies you over the web. The domain name that you use as well as your identity ( username ) on the social media like twitter, facebook should be concurrent with this name. This helps your potential customers as well as peers and friends to connect and identify with you seamlessly. One option is to go to check for each individual name ( eg check domain name availability….. Read More
Most Popular WordPress Plugins – The Dreamhost Way
By On July 16, 2010 Leave a Comment 132 views
As you would be aware, dreamhost recently crossed 1 million website hosting landmark. This is a huge achievement and also highlights how users across the world have endorsed dreamhost as their preferred hosting company. WordPress is one of the most popular blogging/website platform these days. No wonder a large majority of the above domains do run on WordPress. Dreamhost has revealed that nearly 500,000 of their hosted domains run on wordpress. Additionally, they have tried to gather data about the most used/popular plugins across all these wordpress instances. From a….. Read More
How To Add Floating Social Media Buttons In WordPress
By On July 15, 2010 12 Comments 1,375 views
As a blogger, it is extremely important not only to write good content but at the same time also create a convenient post sharing mechanism on your blog using which it becomes extremely easy and intuitive for any visitor to be able to share any article on your website with their friends using social media. As a blogger, the objective is to write good content and increase loyal readership for your blog. This involves a lot of hard work not only for building the content but also for creating awareness….. Read More
Shorten Multiple URLs into One using Fur.ly
By On June 1, 2010 Leave a Comment 52 views
There are many services available today that provide URL shortening and have gained increased importance with the advent of services like twitter which put a restriction on number of characters in your message. In addition to shortening a given URL, how about a service which enables you to create a shortened URL from a set of input URLs? If this sounds interesting, read on. An an example, lets say, you want to share 10 URLs with your friend over twitter. One option is to shorten them and tweet them one….. Read More
Disqus Comments WordPress Plugin: Problem In RSS Feed
Disqus is a comment management system that can be used for your wordpress blog. It aims to help you manage any comments based discussions on your blog and enable a seamless integration with social media. To further elaborate, a typical wordpress comments section would ask for a user name user email user website url and comment text that the user wants to make Entering all this information might feel tedious and cumbersome. Lets assume that majority of the website visitors would be active users on twitter and facebook. Disqus enables….. Read More