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On Guest Posting:Guest Posts are good for your blog

Inviting guest posts (paid or unpaid) is becoming a fashion in the blogosphere. It is not without reasons that Guest Blogging is on the rise. There are many freelancers, writers and bloggers (popular or newcomers) who are contributing many great articles on various popular blogs on various themes. Just because it is your blog does [...]

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5 reasons why you should not shift from a wordpress.com blog to wordpress.org

I have shifted to self-hosting from the free WordPress.com blog. Please visit the website to check the new look and feel if you are reading this post in your feed reader or mailbox. The internet is full of tutorials on the tremendous benefits of shifting to a self-hosted blog using the free WordPress software and [...]

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Nominate your blog for the avant-garde bloggies awards 2009

The avant-garde bloggies awards 2008 was quite a hit in the Indian blogosphere [despite my absence ] and the second edition is here. If you want to participate in the said blogging contest nominate your blog posts by 20 December 2009 (10 am IST). You can nominate your own blog posts or nominate someone else. [...]

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Not many know that the free wordpress.com blogs have ads on them

Advertisements from the user side are not allowed on the free wordpress.com blogs (only VIP blogs and self-hosted wordpress.org blogs can have them).  However, many wordpress.com users/bloggers think that there are no ads on wordpress.com blogs. That is not true. WordPress.com does show Google AdSense ads on free wordpress.com blogs to help pay the bills. [...]

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Some reasons why you must use Windows Live Writer for offline blogging

You need offline blogging tools if you badly miss the following aspects with your WordPress or BlogSpot in-built editor: write your post without any internet connection, save a local draft on your machine, speed, easy uploading and editing of pictures, cross post to multiple blogs, MS Word-esque ease etc. If you are not using an [...]

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On choosing a good web hosting service : Experiences of a layman

I am planning to self-host two of my WordPress blogs [including this one] and recently did a lot of research online in finding some good web hosts, finding free WordPress themes [mostly magazine themes, my favourite] and ran into a lot of good information and useful tips and tricks. This is a brief collection of [...]

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