Remember how publishers used to place images next to AdSense ads to increase its CTR? It worked as the images used to help capture the visitor’s attention.

You can apply the same technique to get visitors to read your posts too. Placing photos related to your posts not only makes your posts more attractive to [...]

One year back I had listed out the best plugins to optimize a WordPress blog for Search Engines, but now I would like to replace three plugins in the list with one new plugin as it does all that they do and much more.
The plugin I would like to recommend is All in One SEO [...]

This post is to reward regular commenters of this blog by linking good posts from their blogs and sending them some traffic. If you would like to get rewarded too, all you have to do is join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.
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Those of you who missed the good news, WordPress 2.3 was released a few hours ago with lots of exciting new features including tagging, plugin update notification, URL handling improvements and much more.
What I liked the most of this version is the new feature to notify users of WordPress and plugin updates, but I [...]

To get your blog read by a lot of people you need to write original and quality content that interests them and to produce the content you will need to relax your mind and stay away from the things that will distract you while writing a post.
Here are the things I do before writing [...]

BlogRush has updated the dashboard and gave members statistics on how things are performing. I checked out mine and was really disappointed at the click through rate.
Though I have referred some bloggers and get around 14,000 pageviews a day on this blog, all I have got is 20 clicks!
But I am not the only [...]

A new free service called BlogRush has been recently launched to help bloggers get more traffic for their blog from other relevant blogs. This is made possible with a widget that should be placed on your blog.
Once placed on your blog the widget will display 5 blog post titles from other related blogs based on [...]

Displaying AdSense or any other Pay Per Click (PPC) advertising programs in your latest posts are not of much use as they are visited mostly by only your regular readers who are mostly adblind, that is they know exactly where your ad is placed and so they will just skip it and read your content.
Hence [...]

Besides this blog being inactive for some time, the RSS subscribers thankfully still kept increasing and today reached over 2000 subscribers for the first time.
I want to thank all the subscribers for reading my blog, and if you are not a subscriber yet please make sure to grab the RSS feed.

Besides breaking the 2000 mark, [...]

Have you ever been in a situation where you didn’t want certain pages in your WordPress blog from showing up in the main menu? By default all pages and sub-pages you create will automatically display in your menu.
To remove certain pages, find the wp_list_pages() template tag in your blog’s theme and customize it to display [...]