Zookoda - A Free and Powerful Alternative to Feedburner

[Zookoda] is a nice and powerful (blog) tool that lets bloggers like us send email newsletters to subscribers. It lets you schedule the delivery of newsletter such that you can send email newsletters daily, weekly or on a monthly basis. This is a very nice feature for some bloggers who do not write very often [...]

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6 Things that Every Blogger Must Know and Do for Success

When I was new to blogging, I didn’t knew much about anything related to blogging, tools required, how to publicize my blog site etc etc.. Each day was a great learning experience and with every passing week there was tons of information that I had to grind to derive some actionable items from. I then [...]

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WordPress: Keep a Track of Every Possible Feed Subscriber

When I started blogging on this site, I had not begun to use Feedburner for managing the feed subscription for my site. By the time I started to use Feedburner’s feed subscription service, there were plenty of users already using the direct feed from my site. The direct feeds on my sites can be accessed [...]

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How To: Get your Blog indexed in Search Engines in less than One Month!

I spent over an year working on getting the pages of my other websites indexed in search engines, and in process I discovered many tricks and techniques to get most out of search engine optimization and get my pages indexed in search engines in a short time. [I launched this website on 1st Nov'06, and [...]

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Conditional Display of AdSense and other Ads in WordPress - Part II

In the previous post on Conditional Display of AdSense in WordPress, we had learnt to display Ads in sidebar and depending on which page is being called, the Ad will either display just once or more than once. In this post, we will learn about displaying ads on the main page but selectively.
We will learn [...]

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Effective Search Engine Optimization (SEO) of WordPress Blogs

Let’s first look at a list of items of some proven to work SEO tips for blogs. These are required for effective search engine optimization of your WordPress. After which we will see the steps to achieve all of these.

Search engine friendly URLs [also known as SEF]
Unique title for all the pages [also posts] in [...]

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Google Blog Search Pinging Service

Did you know that you can now ping Google blogsearch from your WordPress and many other blogging softwares to keep Google updated about changes that you make in your blogs?
For blogs with XML-RPC ping support
If your blogging software (WordPress does! ;-)) supports XML-RPC based pinging, then use the following URL in your software for automatic [...]

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