Archive for Blog Tips

Sprucing your blog with print plugin

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Wow!

Time flies so fast. I just realized I have been blogging for almost a year now! Well, I started back in August and it is June now. There are two more months before the first anniversary of being a blogger for The Trendsetter.

While blogging mostly about writing, I admit I’ve neglected the technical side of blogging – yet again.

Sigh…

Well, I’m just lazy to update my blog template or even spruce it up a little bit until I want to display the printable version of each of my individual posts and print it. When I “print preview” one of my posts it just doesn’t look good.
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Blogging and its challenges: How to get through it and still blog happily

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Do you enjoy blogging? Or has it become like a burden since you are so busy with your other priorities that your focus on creating high quality content gets difficult? If you are in this predicament, you are not alone. Blogging comes with responsibility and you should be aware of it from the very start.

I am a newbie when it comes to blogging, yet I already feel overwhelmed by the responsibility of owning a blog. I write everyday and I strive for high quality content.

So what do you do? How are you going to make sure that you are able to produce the best content possible and at the same time tended to your other priorities?
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Resources for Bloggers: Only a click away

Resources for blogger: only a click away
Other than visiting sites of writers online, I am also checking out other bloggers’ sites to read their tips about blogging as well as to seek advice on how to maintain and take care of the technical side of blogging. Since I am using the wordpress.org green widgetize template, I seek blogs that explain how to customize the template to suit my purpose as well as for plugins to simplify the task. I’m also seeking other blog tips in general.

So far I’ve found the following sites to help with the technical side of blogging:
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How to turn your blog to be more reader friendly

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I am so busy writing my blog five days out of every week since August that I’ve neglected to dress my blog for success. Since I started blogging on writing, writing tips, reviewing books and more, I have always become entangled on the technical side of setting up the wordpress theme to make sure it will be more presentable to you – the reader. If it was a house, I must admit it is still a mess, and I’m unable to tidy-up the guest room.

Now that readers have stumbled upon my site I still haven’t spruced-up the layout so they will be comfortable and enjoy their visit. Please forgive me, but even if I am familiar with the computer scripts, the technical sides of blogging just wears my brain out. There are so many themes; so many plugins and widgets to chose, yet so little time to peruse them all.

Do I have a choice? Can I just blog without taking care of the technical issues? The answer is a big fat NO! I forgot that when I decided to set up my blog, I am also responsible for the layout, the widgets and security so that when my guests come for a visit they feel safe and don’t receive a big fat pulsing headache when viewing the layout. So, I have to drag myself to tidy-up the layout.

In order to make the blog more reader friendly, I have installed several plugins for my wordpress green theme. Here are several of the tasks recently performed:
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5 tips how find out who your target audience are for your blog

When you just started to write for your blog, did you ever think about the audience or online visitors reading your blog?
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For those who’ve already been blogging for quite a while, maybe they eventually figured out who are their visitors through the statistics on their blog or through the list of subscribers.

Why is it important to know my audience you may ask? I think by knowing who are your readers, you can become better prepared to write the best content. So, for those who just started to blog, like me, here are five tips to find-out or predict your audience.
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Sprucing my blog site with social media and RSS

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Since I officially opened my blog online, it is time to getting it out to the social media like del.ici.ous, digg, reddit, stumble upon, squidoo and more.
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