Of late, I've found that a lot of unnecessary time and effort is being wasted on keyword-research activity by most new bloggers. Most bloggers do keyword research primarily for finding a niche i.e. they try to find a (relatively low-competition) topic related to their own where opportunity to rank … Read More

There are various misconceptions in the blogging world surrounding title cases these days and there are many who advocate putting all your headlines in title case, some of them are: "It Looks Good": The most commonly thrown argument is that title cases are somehow aesthetically pleasing or they look good … Read More

One of the most challenging aspects of blogging is how to perform research and more importantly, organizing your research. As a technology blogger, I face this problem too, so some days ago, I did some research on... guess what? Yep, on how to organize research for writing articles or blog … Read More

Writer's Block is something that even the best among us struggle with occasionally and there is no easy answer to it. I've been following techniques such as the 10 content-types method to brainstorm and come up with ideas but all such techniques have a limit, eventually the block finds some … Read More

If you're suffering from writer's block or don't know what to write about or how to research content for your next blog post, this guide will help you. There are just about 10 basic content-types or patterns around which weblog articles are written these days, and by creatively combining them … Read More

One of the first things you want to do after publishing your blog is to share it with rest of the world and twitter is how most of you folks do it, right? But when you share your link in a tweet, you want it to expand into a proper … Read More

There are a plethora of keyword research tools available in the market such as SEMRush, ahrefs, KWFinder, etc. and while a subscription to them makes sense if you are a small company or startup, it definitely doesn't for small bloggers who work with a limited budget. But even if you … Read More

When it comes to content publishing, there are basically two camps in the blogging world: The "Content is King" camp The "SEO" camp The first camp insists that it's good content that entirely drives traffic to your blog or website. The second camp insists that it's good Search Engine Optimization … Read More

Further to my earlier blog post about How to Import Disqus comments into Wordpress, I've found that script solution to be a bit trickier for first time users who want to migrate disqus comments from their earlier blog to the new wordpress blog. The disqus_parse.php is exactly the same … Read More

**Update** Also check out this recent post which has further fixes and refactoring done to the console.php script Some time ago, I had switched from a self-hosted wordpress blog to a statically generated (Jekyll) blog hosted on Github Pages. For a commenting system, Disqus was quite an easy choice … Read More