Source of Inspiration Club

by  MARKO SARIC T oday’s blog audience is a lot more savvy than when blogging first started catching fire. These days you have to grab your audience and keep them, and it’s not an easy task. You want your blog to be amusing, entertaining, informative and a place people want to visit often. The following list of suggestions will help you take your blog up a notch and accomplish all those things. Quality content.  I know it sounds like your mother nagging you incessantly, and if you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a million times. Still, it bears repeating – quality content counts. Think about the reasons why you visit a blog and why you want people to visit yours. This means choosing dynamic topics and writing well. Relative content.  If your blog is about marketing or SEO, it’s probably not the place to write posts about how to plan a wedding or detailing personal problems. People are searching out your blog for a particular reason, and may...

by  MARKO SARIC S tephen King’s  book On Writing  is a very good read. It is targeted towards writers and wanna-be writers, but it is a very inspiring book for anyone. As bloggers are writers, this book can teach you several lessons and can inspire you to  start blogging . Here are the 13 lessons I have picked up from reading Stephen King’s On Writing. Just start it.  Whatever you plan or wish to do, just start doing it. Take the first step. Start chasing your dream. When you’re brave enough to start, you will be able to succeed and you will make it happen. Follow your passion.  No matter what people say, always do what you like to do. Stephen King’s family, teachers etc all said that he was wasting his time writing, but he kept going on as he believed in it himself. Do it for joy.  If there is no joy in it, it’s just no good. Writing is not about making money, getting famous, or making friends. Writing blog posts should be insp...

by  MARKO SARIC T witter is one of the best social media platforms for  driving traffic to your blog . If you are new to Twitter it might be hard to get started. Keep reading for my simple tips on how to get your first 500 Twitter followers. Getting your first Twitter followers Be an active user Join Twitter and explore it. Build your own profile bio, include a picture and start tweeting educational, entertaining and/or behind-the-scenes information. Kind of like you create the content for your blog, you must give people a reason to follow you. Follow people first Conversations and followers will not come to you automatically unless you are a big name and have an established audience. You must proactively seek the engagement. One of the easiest way to get followers is to follow people you want to follow you first. Many people check who follows them and in case you have an interesting and relevant profile a large percentage will follow...

by  DANIELA DIAMARE W hen you visit  Passionate About Baking  you may strongly wish you could grab a cake or biscuit from the computer screen. Deeba Rajpal, the author of this “tasty” food blog, can indeed induce the reader to think for a moment that this would be possible. How? Maybe because of the pictures, so beautifully composed with vibrant colors, where even the kitchen utensils are in tune with the recipe. Maybe because everything looks extremely real and appetizing at the same time. Whatever the secret, you can figure something more out by reading this interview. How and why did you start a blog? Armed with a new digital camera, I began blogging in 2007 in an attempt to record recipes I was trying at home. At the time, it was just a personal blog, something I was too intimidated to share. A handful of beautiful food blogs were my constant source of inspiration. How much time do you spend working on it and what are the usual tasks? I s...

by  MARKO SARIC T o keep you up-to-date with blogging, here are the most important news that caught my attention this week. Link building bloggers de-indexed Google has been making more changes in the way they rank sites. They have gone after sites that use link building tools to game their way up the rankings. Some bloggers choose an easy way out when creating their sites and pay for tools that automatically build thousands of links for them. Building links means getting other sites to link to you. This is important as Google sees external links as a big factor in deciding the rankings. Bloggers who went for these easy methods paid quiet a lot money building the links but now their sites are no longer ranking in Google. If you financially depend on your blog, having it de-indexed from Google might kill a major part of your traffic and that can be catastrophic. I don’t mention link building much because of the reason that I don’t d...

M att Mullenweg, the founder of WordPress, has said that 1,000+ bloggers migrate each day from Google’s Blogger Blogspot to WordPress. Google plans to change the name of Blogger to Google Blogs and integrate it with Google+, so this might be the time for you to transfer your Blogger blog to WordPress as well. WordPress – biggest blog platform WordPress is the most popular blogging software. Over 50 million people have chosen WordPress to power their blogs and use it to create beautiful and professional blogs. WordPress is free and it is built by hundreds of community volunteers. WordPress features thousands of  free plugins  and  design themes  to help you make your blog stand out. WordPress is ready to welcome the Google Blogspot bloggers. A free tool has been developed to import posts and comments from your Blogger account into your WordPress site. “Blogger Importer” WordPress plugin has been used by more than 100,000 bloggers...

H aving your own domain name makes your blog stand out and look more professional. It brands and represents your blog. It is one of the things people recognise, and a very important factor in the success of your blog. Naming your blog correctly is vital in having a successful blog. When choosing a domain name think long-term. Spend some time researching the possibilities and make sure to choose the domain name that fits. The last thing you want is make a bad decision and after some time want to change the domain name. That will negatively affect what you have built in terms of search engines and branding. Your domain should be… Unique Catchy Easy to remember Short Simple (one word, no hyphens) Easy to spell Use keywords in the domain name Some bloggers make the mistake in using their own name as the domain name. It can work if you are a celebrity but if you have to establish a brand from scratch, you should have keywords in the domain name. Ke...

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By  Tony Bradley ,  PCWorld AT&T is at it again. In June of 2010, AT&T pulled the plug on its unlimited data plans and switched to tiered bandwidth plans . Now, AT&T is switching things up again – giving customers more megabytes per dollar , but charging more money in the process. So, which AT&T data plan is right for you? Currently, AT&T offers basically three data plan options. You can get 200MB per month for $15, 2GB per month for $25, or add the ability to do hotspot tethering from a smartphone with an additional 2GB of bandwidth to bring it to 4GB for $45 per month. If you exceed the 200MB plan, you will be charged an additional $15 for another 200MB, while going over the limit on the 2GB plan results in an additional 1GB of bandwidth for $10. Some AT&T customers may benefit with more megabytes per dollar on the new data plans. At the time that AT&T rolled out these plans, it framed it as an altruistic move designed ...