Smart Blog Tips

How to choose a Blog Title

Pranab — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 18:32:24 +0000

The first most important task in blogging world is choosing a proper and attractive blog name, as it helps in marketing and branding of our blog. Search engine like Google, Bing and Yahoo also looks at the blog title for ranking. Beyond this, good and attractive title always helps in drive traffic from search engine.

Choosing blog names is simple and easy task, but it may require some time as it requires idea generation, a lot of research, proper selection and finally finalizing the title.

So before choosing your blog name, simple rules need to be followed-

1) Describing your blog: It’s quite obvious that lots of people will see your link in your blog before reading in search engines, for instance. If they can get an idea on what the blog is all about only just by looking at the name they will surely visit it. A good and attractive blog name can help you to get a lot of visitors attracted toward your blog to read it at the first instant.

Factors essential while selecting a blog name are attractiveness, how good is it for search engines, is it keyword stuffed, etc.

2) Simple, Easy to type and remembered: If your blog advice something in general about fitness, cycling and health. So adding heading as “The Fitness, Cycling and General Health Advice Blog” would offer quite an comprehensive description of the blog, but would it also be easy to remember? It’s better to stick with simple and short names and not making your title too restrictive.

3) Blog name equal to the domain name: This point is often not considered by people, just because finding a suitable domain that has not been registered yet is a difficult task. Still if your domain name does not match the blog name, it may result in losing some readers along the way. Whenever people visit your blog via link they will only read the name of the blog. If they decide to revisit the site after some days they will just type that name followed by a dot com and in that case if they are unable to find your blog they will go to somewhere else.

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WordPress 3.3 version codename Sonny update available

Pranab — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:11:36 +0000

WordPress came out with a new version 3.3 recently. It boasts of lots of new features like new admin bar, refined media uploader, more responsive, new layout, sidebar improvements etc. Some of the same are highlighted below:

Drag and drop uploader
Navigation menus (hover)
Improve co-editing support
New backend toolbar
refined Tumblr importer
Freindly greeting for first time users
Improved dashboard for iPad users
New editor API
Help screen hooks
Post slug only permalinks

Source: http://wordpress.org/download/

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Retro-fitted – free theme based on Hybrid Framework

Jayant — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:39:39 +0000

Justin has added another beautiful parent theme named “Retro fitted” under the Hybrid Theme Framework. Retro fitted is a full fledge parent theme build on the Hybrid Core Framework. It is completely free and uses the rock solid Hybrid which is among the most popular WordPress Theme Frameworks available out there.

Features of the Retro-fitted Theme:

Per-post/page layouts (one-column, two-column, and three-column layouts).
Art direction (the ability to add custom, per-post stylesheets).
Custom widgets (overwrites the default WordPress widgets with better alternatives).
Several sidebars (you can add widgets in many places).
Built-in pagination (no need for a plug-in to handle page numbers).
Breadcrumbs, thumbnails, and much more!

Links

Download Retro-fitted Theme

Retro-fitted Theme Live Demo

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Find perfect blog name and matching social network accounts using Namechecklist.com

Jayant — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 19:23:19 +0000

Name Check List helps you check if a domain name and matching social user accounts/vanity URLs are available. It quickly scans through various top level domains, popular social networking sites and return the results in minutes.

Link: Name check List

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Hybrid Core: WordPress theme framework by Justin Tadlock

Jayant — Sun, 31 Oct 2010 10:41:27 +0000

Hybrid core is a free WordPress theme framework developed by Justin Tadlock. It will help developers make their own parent themes by using a set of conventions and PHP scripts for handling common functionality within themes.

Hybrid core is not a WordPress theme. Its a Theme Framework. What does it means? As a theme user, you can not put the theme in your Themes Folder and start using it. It is for Theme developers to build solid parent themes quickly.

Confused..??

Let me clear it.. WordPress themes are a nice way of customizing the front end of your blog. However, every time a change was required, the user has to wither modify the theme or switch to a new theme. It became had not only for the blog owners but also for the theme developers, as with every iterations, they have to remember exactly what needs to be changed in the code.

Enter Parent Theme to the rescue. Parent Theme were developed to address this issue. So, the theme developers made a generic theme with all the features packed into a parent theme. Now all they need to do was to extend the Parent Theme into child theme to satisfy each of Blog owner’s needs.

Child theme are nothing more than CSS file plus functions.php file which basically tell the WordPress how to display the theme plus any small modifications. However, there were some modifications which were not possible by just editing the functions.php file / CSS code. Even if they were possible, the changes done made the child theme very complex. Another approach was to handle it by editing the Parent Theme file (which basically killed the whole purpose of using Child themes).

For Developers it became difficult to keep building more and more Parent Theme with new functionalities. To counter this limitations, Theme Framework like Hybrid core was developed. Hybrid Core helps theme developers to quickly build Parent Theme as per their requirements and then pack them with Child themes of your choice.

It is a win-win situation. Framework developers can concentrate on the Theme Framework, theme developers can focus on extending the Framework in their Parent Themes, while Blog Owners can restrict themselves to the Child Themes (which if deployed properly should consist of only basic CSS code and functions.php file only).

Thank you Justin.

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Open Graph API will help Facebook to reach wider Userbase including Corporates

Jayant — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:58:18 +0000

Facebook would soon open up new set of API called “Open Graph API”. Although the details as of now are sketchy, the basic idea is to reach a larger Audience compare to Facebook Connect. Couple of important points that Facebook needs to accomplish using Open Graph API are as follows:

Reach a wider audience. Special focus on Corporates and Bbusiness Users
Give Website Owner the ability to wrap their websites witha Facebook blanket
Include sites which do not have a Facebook Fan page or Do not wishes to ahve a Facbook Fan Page
Collect data / statistics from traffic flowing through this services

Seems interesting. How the service will work and what features can be accessed via the API, only time wil. tell. Although we can feel rivalry building up here between Google’s Open Social vs Facebook’s Open Graph already.

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Arnold says "Fuck You" to California Legislature (Funny)

Jayant — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:23:47 +0000

This is really funny. I just stumbled across this post at Techcrunch and thought, I have to show it to my Blog Readers. Thank you Techcrunch for noting.

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Small change by Twitter killed Tweleted

Jayant — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:32:16 +0000

Tweleted is a nice little service which has only one purpose. Find your deleted Tweets for you. But since now Twitter is removing User deleted Tweets from its Search Index and API also, Tweleted is a dead scoop.

It is said that the change is been done by Twitter in order to avoid having User Deleted Tweets in the Search Result, now that both Google and Bing have done a deal with Twitter to add Realtime Twitter updates in its Search Result.

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Deleted Tweets would be removed from Twitter Search Index

Jayant — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:24:12 +0000

Twitter has now decided to remove deleted Tweets from Twitter Search Index. It is a little known bug which no one ever notices, but the point is uptill now Twitter used to keep your deleted Tweets in its Search Index even after you have deleted it.

The problem arises when you mistakenly tweet something and later regret saying it. Good news is that, the bug has been rectified. now Twitter Search Index and all other Programs using Twitter API would remove any deleted tweet from its Search Index. *Smile*

Thanks Techcrunch for the update.

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Critical WordPress Theme: Hybrid Child Theme by Justin

Jayant — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:41:24 +0000

Theme Hybrid added another Child Theme in their Arsenal. Critical Child Theme uses custom taxonomy in WordPress to help create a database of movies (as seen in the demo). This can in turn be modified to create any database you want and display the content accordingly. Give it a try, if you are looking out for something similiar.

Links:

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