Tag: blogging
- Common sense keyword research: The quickest way to find niche ideas for free (08 Dec 2022)
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 is...
- Title case headlines are highly overrated (11 Feb 2022)
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....
- How to organize your research for blog posts in 2022: A comprehensive guide (07 Feb 2022)
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...
- Dealing with writer's block: The ultimate checklist (24 Jan 2022)
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...
- How to generate a never ending supply of blog posts (15 Jan 2022)
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...
- How to set your blogspot blog for twitter card validation (18 Jan 2021)
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...
- DIY Keyword research for small bloggers using absolutely free tools (06 Dec 2020)
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...
- Is it good SEO or good content that drives traffic to your blog? - A causal analysis (16 Aug 2020)
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...
- Migrating Disqus comments into Wordpress (11 Mar 2020)
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 as...
- How to import Disqus comments into Wordpress (07 Sep 2017)
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 at that...
- How to know whether my blog post will attract traffic or not (10 Jun 2015)
One of the evergreen topics for discussions in the blogging world is SEO, and especially the various ways of attracting bless of the all-pervading search engines to one’s own site or blog. There are various ways to approach this problem, some of the popular ones are: Using meta tags like...