“Redesign your blog/website” contest

The guys over at Buy Templates are nice enough to sponsor prizes for this contest. I know a few of you have just started a blog or a website, so I’m sure it’ll be great if you can win some good quality templates, logo, and banners for your new blog/site. Everyone who participates will also [...]

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Blogging

Wanna be a great blogger? Be a turtle!

March 11, 2009 | 36 comments

Does being persistent help you to be a great blogger? Maybe. One thing I know for sure, being persistent is one of the “must-to-do” thing for a serious blogger. You’ve probably heard everywhere that writing good contents is THE king. Well in order to write good contents, you need to have persistence.
Yesterday on the church, [...]

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How to be a good commentator

February 12, 2009 | 30 comments

Some of you probably spend minutes (or hours) commenting on other blogs either to connect with the blog’s owner, for a link back, or hoping for a free traffic to your blog/site.
Here are my tips on how to be a good commentator from my personal experience.
PS: There’s also a debate on the web whether to [...]

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Top bloggers sharing their secrets

January 30, 2009 | 2 comments

“How important do you think are the headlines of your blog articles?”
“What’s your biggest tip on writing a successful blog post ever?”
“What’s your best tip for writing a successful blog post?”
These are some interview questions that were asked to 40 top bloggers around the world by Stephane Grenier in his book, Blog Blazers.
Blog Blazers is [...]

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Fight against spam – Round IV, AntiSpam Bee enters the war

January 29, 2009 | 24 comments

Recently, I saw a new anti spam plug-in listed on WordPress’ plug-in repository called “AntiSpam Bee”. Although the name of the plug-in was kinda cute, it didn’t make me feel like trying it, at first. I thought this is just another “the-ultimate-anti-spam” wannabe but today, I decided to try it out anyway.
To my surprise, this [...]

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15 Minute SEO List

January 22, 2009 | 8 comments

If you are a blogger spending hours and hours trying to understand SEO (Search Engine Optimization) basics, I’ve found a great page on webconfs.com listing stuffs that you should or shouldn’t be doing as a blogger (or a webmaster).
It provides you the basic of SEO points that you need to know.
Check the 15-minute SEO list out.

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Fight against Spam – Round III, with Defensio

January 13, 2009 | 13 comments

 
On the last round, the spam comments were making a come back to this blog. So I decided to install a new plug-in called Defensio (a similar but claimed to be more powerful than Akismet). I’ve also taken out my captcha commenting system completely afterwards.
The result: the spams were as tough as ever, even when [...]

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Fight Against Spam – Round II

December 16, 2008 | 15 comments

Starting from a week ago, I noticed something different on my blog. Spam!  They’ve decided to make a come back! It’s the problem to every blogger on the blogosphere and it’s one of the biggest time wasters that we are all facing.
This blog has gone a long way too in combating spam. I used [...]

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Beware of fake subscriber counts

December 10, 2008 | 44 comments

I recently visited a blog (when I was doing some Entrecard drops) and saw that the blog had 28,259 feedburner subscribers. I’m not saying that I don’t believe a blog can get that many subscribers (because many great blogs really do), but seeing the blog’s number of comments and the layout of the blog, I [...]

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Know and eliminate your blogging barriers

November 6, 2008 | 28 comments

As there are barriers in life, there are also barriers in blogging. I’ve actually got this post idea from my church’s sermon last Sunday, about “How to finish well by starting well“. We were taught on how to focus on the goal and eliminate the barriers in our life. As far as practicality, this goes [...]

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