The first confession It took a sizable amount of time for me to understand the gravity of the words, ‘WordPress rivaled’. I know these are very much powerful at the same time the most challenged though. Factually, WordPress has been the benchmark for the bloggers of this world, but it will not be till the

I keep getting questions in my email where people ask me random things about blogging, making money online, blogging as a career option. If you are a blogger yourself, you might be familiar with these questions but if you are not, here are some example questions which people often ask Are you a full time

Procrastination is an inherent part of our lives. No matter who you are and what you do, you can’t escape Procrastination. Its a state of mind and you have to learn how to manage that state and be productive. Back in 2010, when I was a full time blogger and web worker, I was extremely

I am a big fan of minimalism. By minimalism, I don’t mean cutting down on features that are necessary. By minimalism, what I mean is keeping the bare minimum of bells and whistles so that the accessories don’t get in the way of the core of a product. You might have noticed that this website

Ever since Google launched their infamous Panda and Penguin algorithmic updates, the search playground has been pretty shaky. We have seen much turbulence in these two years, big websites, small websites, blogs, forums and anyone depending on content is not “safe” anymore (traffic wise). Its synonymous to a mob war where noone knows whats happening

When you create quality content on your website, sometimes you may notice that the page ranks on the first page of Google right away. If you are a blogger, a content curator or a webmaster, I am sure you have the habit of Googling your own posts, to check to see whether they are ranked

Since the advent of the internet owning a website, either for Personal use or for Business, is a norm in today’s world. You can learn to develop your own site  using the various tools to host your website on the net, or use content management services (CMS) like WordPress, Drupal, etc that help you easily

When it comes to content curation, relevancy is of utmost importance. Relevant content goes a long way and can bring in more qualified traffic to your website, when compared to irrelevant traffic that is not targeted. Relevancy also depends on the context, nature and the audience of a website, so you have to be careful

Getting your website indexed at Google is not a very difficult thing but a lot of webmasters often find it difficult to ensure that their websites are Google friendly, indexable or can be crawled by search engines. There can be a whole host of issues with indexing a site on Google, if you are not

Managing a website or a blog is not so easy, as it may seem from the surface. There are a lot of background work which every webmaster has to worry about, in order to provide a good user experience and make sure the search bots can “find” and chew the content of the site. One

This is a very common question which worries a lot of bloggers and webmasters. Some webmasters are clueless on how to treat junk links from spam sites and whether spam links to 404 pages would have any effect on the rankings of existing pages. The short answer is a No,  Spam links to 404 pages

Online plagiarism or duplicate content is a curse for every blogger or webmaster, who works hard and produces original content on his own. Spam sites use a lot of different methods to plagiarize content from legitimate sources and as the owner of your content, it is your responsibility to knock away the imposters and make

The appearance and layout of an Adsense ad is one of the several factors that greatly influences its performance. Link color, text color, font size, font type and background color of an Adsense unit must work together or that specific ad unit wont perform according to your expectations. Contextually relevant content is important but placement

Do you want to move your WordPress image upload directory to a new address? Do you want to host images in a subdomain and want to update all the old posts with new URL’s? Here is a step by step guide which will help you migrate your WordPress Image upload directory to any folder within your domain.

You might know that Google has recently launched an authorship markup tag which attempts to recognize original authors writing a piece of content. By using authorship markup on your blog, you can tell Google that you are the original author who has written this content. This helps cut the clutter from spammers, auto posters and