How Tos

Nothing is more frustrating than waking up one day and realizing that your blog has been successfully defaced. That’s if you get lucky. In most cases, hackers go after blogs and add malicious code to them that is hard to find and get rid of. Sometimes, they may even lock you out of your own [...]

Almost all bloggers that I know have had trouble coming up with new ideas for their blogs from time to time. Newbies have to deal with this issue more than experienced bloggers. These days, there are just so many tools that one can use to come up with new blogging ideas. You just have to [...]

In order to become a successful blogger, bloggers need to focus more on providing value to their readers. People come to a blog to learn new things, stay on the top of the latest news, and communicate with their blog community members. As a blogger, you may not be able to track every single piece [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you have to meet a couple of deadlines in one day and can’t possibly get it done without doing things faster? We have all been there before. Maybe you have 5 blogs that you need to write posts for in one day and just do not have [...]

Owning a blog and working hard to make it popular should not be your only focus as a blogger. If you take a look at what top bloggers have done with their sites and how their business has evolved, it’s easy to see that they have gone from writing content to selling their own products [...]

Bloggers need to pay taxes as well. In fact, if you are a professional blogger, you are going to have a more complicated tax process than someone who’s working as a blogger for another company. The self-employment tax process can be a bit more complicated, so you want to make sure you do everything possible [...]

SpyFu is one of the most powerful and most affordable spying tools on the market. Many bloggers make the mistake of not watching what their competitors are doing. While I am not suggesting that bloggers should copy what others are doing in their niche, it’s always nice to know what your competitors are working towards. [...]

So how do you measure success when it comes to your blog? One way to do that is by determining whether you are reaching out to people and getting them to engage in conversations on your blog. A weblog that does not get any comments is not necessarily a failure, but it’s certainly not a [...]

Google Wave is the latest sensation by Google that is destined to change the way we communicate and collaborate with others. Think of Google Wave as e-mail on steroids. While there are still a lot of people who are getting used to e-mail technology, e-mail has been around for a while and has its own [...]