Posted by Yogesh on Jun 24, 2010 in Blogging tips

5 reasons why you should use Feedburner!

I use Feedburner to serve RSS feed of this blog and so do almost all the professional and amateur bloggers. Yet at times I come across bloggers, who aren’t leveraging feedburner and are instead relying upon the stock RSS feed built into wordpress, to reach out to their readers. While there is nothing wrong with the stock RSS feed WordPress generates, Feedburner offers much more than just a simple RSS feed and can actually help you in your blogging endeavors, here is how: 1. Email subscriptions: With...

Finally giving Affiliate M...

Affiliate marketing is something which I have mostly avoided on my content websites till now (barring this blog), in fact I had only tried couple of them for a short period and then stopped using them altogether, due to what I had believed was false reporting by the affiliate network. However I have recently signed up with another affiliate network, targeted towards Indian Publishers and I am hoping that...

One dollar domain name cou...

I just came across this wonderful domain name coupon from Godaddy, where you can register a brand new domain name at US$ 0.99 + ICANN fee (1.17 total) for the first year! The only caveat is that this is a limited time offer (so hurry) and you will need a credit card to order the domain, Paypal isn’t even presented as an option, when you are in the checkout phase! Process to get the 99 cent dollar domain...

Paid links do work!

Just went through Whiteboard Friday – We Bought Links and It Worked!! on SEOmoz and according to Rand, who recently did a sort of a case study on whether or not paid links work, buying links can still influence search engine rankings and that too quite easily! While this might be nothing new for online marketers and SEOs, the fact is, it just goes on to prove that as long as you have deep pockets,...

Not all wordpress updates ...

I have almost always believed in running the latest version of software to ensure that there are as few vulnerabilities and bugs as possible. However things do not always go according to the plan/hope, something which I kind of learned the hard way. While updating my personal blog to WordPress 3.0, I decided to update the configuration file as recommended in the upgrade process to ensure that everything...

AWS causing duplicate cont...

Just came across this interesting post on SEOmoz, where the author has come across duplicate content issue, while using Amazon Web Service to serve their website and Google bot ended up not only crawling and indexing their domain, but also the sub domains of Amazon Web Service which are automatically created, once a new server is created on it. This lead to several version of the same file being available...

How to resurrect a blog

Today is the day when I officially relaunch ContentPays.net blog, resurrecting it from the dead after almost one and a half years! And what better way to start off posting here (officially), then to go ahead and share my experience on how to resurrect an abandoned blog. History Around a year and a half ago, I decided to abandon this blog and deleted the domain name, as I wasn’t able to update it on a...