Thanks to Jason, Blogging For Novice is featured in Blogger’s Hideout! This is a chance for this blog to expose to more readers.
Blogger’s Hideout is a brand new blog that acts like a blog directory, but with pseronal reviews done by the admin. This is a good start for promoting your blog and also gain traffic to your blog, specially amatuer / part time bloggers like us. [...more]
Tags: trafficBe friend and get close to your readers. Let them be able to contact you easily. Your readers want your feedback, so do follow the comments left by your readers. If your readers are asking question, make sure you get back to them (replying their comments). People need information and that is why they go to your blog to search for answers. Be honest with your readers, try to offer help when applicable.
Posting up your email for readers to contact you is the most basic way of letting your readers contact you besides leaving comments/feedback in your blog (comment section or chatbox widget). However, it will be much more easier if you can provide a “contact form” feature in your blog.
This will facilitates your readers to contact you just by filling the contact form.
Why Contact Form?
[1] Readers can contact you easily.
[2] Ensure the message is successfully delivered to you.
[3] Having a more professional feel (impression wise).
Adding a contact form nowadays is not difficult at all. You don’t need to have HTML knowledge to have this done. There are free services or plugins available to help you add a contact form to your blog. [...more]
Tags: Blogger, plugins, WordpressDo you notice something like this at the end of each post? Many other blogs do have similar icons too. The colorful icons look stylish and cool, but they are not only for decorating the blog.
These little icons are known as “social bookmarks”. There are plenty of social bookmarking sites which you may or already are a member. Today, I’m going to talk about the Facebook bookmarking feature.
When you click on the 
icon below a blog post, provided you are signed in to your Facebook account, that particular blog post link will be added to your Facebook Mini-Feed. Now, everyone in your network will be able to see your posted link. If they are interested and click on the link, you gain traffic to your blog!
Yes, of course you can click on the icon at your own blog post. Haven’t got the social bookmarking icons / buttons? Try Sociable for own hosted WordPress or AddThis for other blogging platforms. If you don’t implement such social bookmarking buttons, you will have to post the link to Facebook manually.
Sometimes when I visit some blogs, I encounter the problem of “long” home page (index of the blog). Which means I have to scroll a long way down from the top of the home page before reaching the bottom of the home page. First impression wise, the outcome of such long home page giving the audience a very “imbalance” feel of the entire page layout, in other words, “ugly”.
The “long” home page phenomenon occurs when:
(1) Too many long posts appear on the first page.
(2) Too many widgets along the sidebar.
Such problems can be solved by implementing suitable blog theme / template and arrangement of the blog contents.
For long sidebar content, keep only the essential widgets as too many widgets can also affect the loading speed of your blog. If you must include all the existing widgets that make your home page “long”, it’s time for you to pick another blog theme / template. For instance, switching from 2 columns layout to 3 columns.
For long posts, you can set the number of posts to be displayed in the front page, say 5 to 7 posts per page. Another method is to use the “Read More” or “Click to continue” feature. [...more]
If you have your own domain, most likely you will have to deal with uploading files to your host. Using control panel such as CPanel, DirectAdmin, etc is going to be tedious if you have plenty of files to upload. For instance, uploading new release of WordPress.org package or plugins. An FTP (File Transfer Protocol) will be a better choice in this case. You can install any FTP software like Filezilla, CuteFTP and many more.
If you don’t wish to download any FTP program and want to use a web-base FTP instead, you can install FireFTP. FireFTP is a free FTP client for Mozilla Firefox. Means, you will have to use Mozilla Firefox browser.
Note: The current FireFTP version is not supported in Firefox 3 yet, by the time I’m writing this.
This post will guide you on how to use FireFTP to transfer files to your host. First go to FireFTP Firefox Add-on site to install FireFTP. Click on the “Add to Firefox”.
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