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List of important Blogging tools
A blog can be made more advanced, complex and better using some blogging tools, I have tested most of the famous blogging tools that are around in the market. I tried out some of the most popular, tools, plugins that are available in the marked which work well with wordpress and on your computer. This post will have details of blogging tools which you can use with wordpress. All the blogging tools mentioned here need a computer (must) and some of them require wordpress to work along with. The blogging tools which are mentioned here are meant only for use with wordpress. Some tools which work offline will work with any blogging software. This post includes the set of important plugins for newbies and offline tools which will help you blog better.
Yet Another Related Posts plugin for Wordpress
YARPP is a related posts finder plugin. It finds all the related posts in your blog. The match can be made more strict by increasing the match threshold. More the match threshold means more related the posts will be. To make my posts highly related, my match threshold is set to 14. The posts can be made more related by increasing the match threshold. It can auto insert related posts to the blog post. By selecting the auto insert option, the related posts will be automatically inserted into your blog posts. The auto insert option reduces your work by adding related posts without any theme modification.
All in one SEO pack for Wordpress
All in One SEO Pack is another important blogging tool. It does all the search engine optimization and is an important blogging tool for any blog. It has been rated as one of the most popular blogging tools in the wordpress plugin community. It is a popular blogging tool as it was the most downloaded blogging tool for sometime. All the search engine optimization is done by it. The search engine optimization of the blogs, which is very important is handled by this tool, although you have to set the title etc. of your blog posts. You can set how titles of pages, posts, archives and categories should be. Using All in one seo pack, you can change the default title of different pages on wordpress. Due to its SEO blog visitors increase. My blogs visitors from Google has increased due to All in one SEO pack combined with my blog posts. It is a must have tool for all blogs.
Statpress for Wordpress
StatPress tells where the visitors are coming from. Using statpress you can see how many visitors have visited. It allows you to see the search queries via which users have come to your website. Statpress generates graphs showing the amount of visitors. Graphs generated by this allow the blog owners to analyze their traffic. Using these graph analysis, blog owners can make more strategies to increase the amount of visitors that come to their blog. It shows the maximum number of visitors for a blog post too. Blog owners can see which blog post is popular and can concentrate on making it better and better. Statpress is also a must have for a blog if the owners are concerned about the visitors that they get. Using statpress they can track the visitor activity.
Post Ideas for your computer
Post Ideas is a tool developed by Canober. It is a tool to store ideas of your blog posts. Using this tool you can store small snippets or ideas of yout blog post on your computer. You can store your blog post ideas all day and in the night you can easily read all the post ideas and then write good posts on them. This is a highly recommended blogging tool for all bloggers. Everyone who is involved in blogging should download this tool.
5 reasons why you should start a blog
Are you wondering if you should start a blog? Lets see some of the reasons why you should go ahead and start the blog. The points given here will make you ask questions to yourself on weather what you are doing is correct. This will show you the advantages of running a blog. There are tips on how to start a blog on other posts here. This is a motivational post, motivating you to run a blog. This post is mainly intended to help you discover yourself via the art to expressive writing and creative writing. Communication as we all know is the most important part of our life and how we communicate makes all the difference. From history books we can take examples of how communication is essential, we can take examples from Shakespearean novels on how communication is important. A simple example is that of Mark Anthony from Julius Caesar.
Spreading your knowledge
Old Indian wisdom says that spreading knowledge will help you remember it more. Helping others with something helps you feel good about yourself. You can share your wisdom on something with others using a blog. A great geek will write a blog on physics/maths and help students, make a fan following. Ideas can be shared. Your point of view can be supported by people who read.
Others can express on your blog too
Blogs have a great feature called as comments. Comments are the most important part of a blog as it keeps discussions going on. People talk with you, its a good time pass for you too. People come and comment for various reasons. If you are famous, comments are made to get in touch with you or to know you better. If you ask a question, it will be answered. Comments can also correct errors that you have made. If you spark a engaging discussion by saying something very controversial, people come and comment on that, putting forward their opinions. The writer should make a point to engage people in the conversation. A interesting blog post always gets lots of attention. People comment, even lazy ones, when the blog post is interesting. Touching their emotions is all that matters. If you are able to make them happy, angry, sad then your blog will become popular. Its all about the emotions… Entire World runs of emotions of human beings… Its up to you, can you touch the emotions of people? Some bloggers are a bit forward and touch another emotional part of their users by posting spicy hot images, whatever works I guess. Comments you get depend on the type of emotions you spark.
To communicate with the world
You can do this on IRC and Yahoo messenger chat rooms, but it won’t take much time for them to boot you if you write a 600 word post there. To make a point to the world, blogs are the best. In my blog, I am the leader, read and comment. In your blog, you are the leader. As the free country gives freedom of speech, do whatever you want. People who share common ideas will come to you. As far as I know, if you have patience and go on making good blog posts, people will find you. Keep posting long and interesting blog posts, the length is very important. Blog posts have to be real long. Its my principle, that blog posts have to be really, really long, people come to read long articles, short stints are a No No. Even if it takes a while, write long blog posts, the longer the better. I stick to the six hundred word mark if I have to make a point, the six hundred word idea has worked out well, there are many bloggers who have used this six hundred word method, the six hundred word blog post method is good only for blogs. Did you notice something? I hope you noticed it, you need to have a good observational skill to notice it, I am using a technique called parroting to make my point. Write your point in different ways, in many other ways, in so many ways that it sticks on to the mind of the reader.
Join the league of superstars
Ever noticed that celebs write blogs. If they do, then so should you. When celebs are writing blogs, you should write them too. Celebs write it to stay in touch with fans, you write it to make new fans. Small difference. There are so many blog celebs, I can name a few blog celebs myself. People have reached fame by writing blogs, non-existent people are not getting jobs on commercials and to endorse products. Write a blog and you will one day too, maybe, depends on the number of fans you make.
To make money?
Ok, this can sound a bit sarcastic. I blog to engage readers, I blog so that people can read my opinion, I blog so that people can understand what I am thinking, although there are bloggers who mainly intend to make money. My ethics allow me to blog to communicate, but it can be a profession too. I am a wanna be engineer, I blog to share ideas. There are professional bloggers, many of them doing very well, some millionaires too (wow!). Yup, there are people who milk blogs too.
GO ahead start a blog. Comment here to ask questions.
Add Yahoo messenger status to Blogger
It will be nice if you could add your Yahoo messenger status to blogger, it would allow your blog readers to contact you whenever they want to, may be to ask for your advise. A fellow blogger has written the best way to do that here.