Blogosphere also known as the Blogging World, which is growing very rapidly and helping us to explore more bloggers and their blogs.

Blogging in one of way of expressing yourself, either by writing about your own life or by writing your views on your interest. Blogging is being adapted as both part-time and full-time job by many bloggers and are successfully maintinaing different types of blogs.

According to BlogPulse and Technorati, there are 164 million blogs as per July 2011 and these numbers are increasing due to the urge to beat the static websites.

Suggested : Top 10+ Reasons To Never Quit Blogging

 

Here are some quick facts about Blogging from the below Infographic :

• 64% of Bloggers are Hobbyists and 27% of Bloggers are Full-Time Bloggers
• 21% of Bloggers are Blogging for more than 6 years
• 25% of Bloggers are using mobile devices for Blogging
• Search Engines (48%) and Social Media (28%) are the two major traffic sources for blogs
• 40% of Bloggers are using WordPress as their blogging paltform
• 30% of Bloggers lie in the age group of 25-34 years and 27% are of age group 35-44 years
•  11% of Bloggers earn their Primary Income from Blogging
• 40% of Bloggers are earning by displaying ads on their blogs

Let’s not the list all the facts here , below is an Infographic by Invesp which covers some of the interesting facts about Blogging World which is also known as Blogosphere :

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So friends, which fact did you find more interesting and why ?? Hit the Comments Section.

Thanks for Reading

WordPress, an ultimate blogging platform which has helped many bloggers to blog and create a community out of it. While blogging we always tend to search for tools and plugins which helps us to clutter free our blogging style and hence increasing our productivity.

For any blogger, it is very much important to keep track of their blog stats using various tools and plugins. The most two important and widely used plugins for WordPress Stats are WordPress.com Stats and Google Anlaytics, although there are many but most of the bloggers depend on these two services.

It’s a burden for any blogger (using WordPress.com Stats ) to always sign into the WordPress Dashboard again and again to check the stats of the blog, So here is a tiny chrome extension WordPress Stats using which we can access our blog stats without signing into the Dashboard.

WordPress Stats provides us 4 major stats of our blog :

1. Referrers – It includes the sites which has sent us the most number of visitors.
2. Top Posts – It includes the most viewed pages of the blog.
3. Search Terms – They are the set of  keywords queried in Google and redirected to our blog.
4. Most Clicks – It is the list of links which most users have clicked on our blog.

Step 1 : Install the Extension

Download link

Step 2 : Configure the Extension

Step 3 : Access Real Time Stats

So now we can easily check our blog stats without having to sign into our Dashboard. This extension also supports free hosted WordPress blogs

Note : To use this extension we have to install WordPress.com Stats Plugin to our self hosted blogs.

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If writing is an art, then Blogging is one way of expressing this art. Every blogger would like to blog about his/her own interests. There are many ups and downs in a blogger’s life and at some point he/she might feel low and wanting to quit Blogging for various reasons.

So I thought of listing out Top 10 reasons why you should never think of quitting Blogging :

1. Flexibility

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The first and foremost reason for which you can never ever think of quitting Blogging . When it comes to flexibility in terms of time and place, Blogging has an upper hand when compared to any other field of job: It can be done anywhere, any place and whenever time permits.

2. Self Employed

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You are self employed, which means you are responsible for your own work and you are not working for anyone but yourselves . Being self employed gives you a chance to determine your own strengths and weakness. Meanwhile you can plan your own vacation and take a coffee break whenever you need .

3. Adaptive

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Bloggers can adapt to any situation and continue with their blogging journey. While blogging you tend to be concentrating more on your work than other disturbing things. Although you do get distracted, still you are able to give your best and work intelligently.

4. Social Networking

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Socially engaging with people gives you the opportunity to meet new friends and influence your audience which can never be done in any other job field. Open Networking can only be done in Blogging and if you’re serious about it then you’ll start with Niche Networking, where you follow like minded people and engage with them on your niche topics.

5. Multitasking

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If you are comfortable at your blogging workspace, then you try to do different things simultaneously without any pressure and stress, while in other fields of job you’ll have to work continuously without having the freedom to work on what you like at the same time. Understandably, one might concentrate on one thing only while working, but you can enjoy doing blogging with other works.

6. Self Coach

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Yeah, not only are you self employed, but you also learn on your own many things of your niche. Through self evaluation you hone yourself to become a genius in what you blog!

7. Good Learner

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Every blogger has a learning attitude and once you are a coach for yourself, you’ll definitely enhance your knowledge and become a Good Learner.

8. Sharing is Caring

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In Blogging, your readers will listen to you and show their love by sharing your blog posts. Not only me, but everyone believes that “Sharing is Caring”.

9. Team Work

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If you’re working in a Multi-Author blog, you’ll always get a chance to improve your soft skills and work more on your weaknesses. Blogging with 2 or 3 others will make your work easier. And if you’re a team leader like myself, then lots of leadership qualities can be practiced while blogging .

10. Improving Skills

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Last but not least, blogging will improve both your writing and communication skills. Your readers or blog friends may provide you feedback on your writings.It doesn’t matter whether those feedbacks are positive or negative, just remember you’re at least being given feedback in blogging, while in other fields there are usually no guidance or feedback unless it’s directly from the approval or disapproval of a boss!

11. Now it’s your Turn

Yeah friends, I would love to hear a strong reason from you for not quitting blogging and the best one will be added here with proper credits . Happy Blogging

Thanks to Ellen (@mochiface)

Hello friends , I’m very much glad to say that today WordPress completes 8 years of Blogging service and hence all it’s users are enlightened with regular use of this open source web application.

WordPress, the ultimate blogging platform which has turned many bloggers ( both part-time and full-time) enhance their blogging skills and hence earning $$ to quit their daily job.

Before blog was used as only personal dairy and hence was limited to access to only those persons who wants to share their personal information, but things have changed now, now bloggers blog to earn money  through various channels like Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing and more services and hence improvise their writing skills.

WordPress was first released by Matt Mullenweg in May 27,2003 as a fork of b2/cafelog. [via: Wikipedia ]

Matt Mullenweg : WordPress Founder

Matt Mullenweg started blogging in 2000 and was very much frustrated with the existing blogging  standards and hence started with his own idea of creating a blogging platform using the b2 codebase which was used by his current blog. Later in the year 2003 on May 27,2003 he released his own blogging platform “WordPress” and below is the screenshot of the WordPress.org site which allowed users to download the first release of WordPress 0.7 and WordPress 0.71 Gold is still available for Download in WordPress Release Archive.

Matt recently posted in his blog that he’ll be on his soapbox on Friday, May 27th 2011 (Today) at 12:00 noon to chat about the following points :

• WordPress Redesigning Journey of 7 years
• His views on Advertising and how it is employed with WordPress
• His philosophy on the decision making process when adding, removing or changing the functionality of WordPress
• His effort to fight against spam and the recent incident which WordPress experineced
• His thoughts and excitements towards HTML5 and Twitter

[via : Zurb]

To catch the live stream of the event you can subscribe to http://justin.tv/zurb

You can still know more about Matt Mullenweg from his own blog => Ma.tt

Thanks to WordPress

I would love to thank Matt Mullenweg for creating such a fabulous blogging platform and hence enabling us to express ourselves in the form of variant blogs.

Now I feel it’s time to show some Love to WordPress, here are few ways to show your true love to WordPress :

1. Add WordPress badges to your Twitter/Facebook Profile using Twibbon , as I’ve done with my Twitter profile => @gupshupblog
2. Cast your votes to WordPress for being the most free web application here.
3. You can create your own free blog at WordPress, by signing up at WordPress.com
4. Last but not least you can share this post with your friends and hence spread it

HAPPY BLOGGING

Many of the Internet users might know what a blog is but, not legion of members might be aware of proper and profession marketing of the blog. A blog is just similar to a normal site. You can load your blog with your very own matter. Many people govern their blogs to distribute their own entries.

It is an absolute thing to admit your posts released on the World Wide Web, enabling your work to be viewed by everyone. So you get hands on a blog or website together and like to market them, moreover turn it into an advantageous blog. Accordingly how will you drag viewers and have every element in your blog to make them coming back for additional information?

You are instantly an amateur blogger, but you choose to use your blog to make it to reach the further step. Weblog Marketing is the next point towards turning each blog into a blooming weblog.

Marketing your blog properly in all respects is the key to win your web marketing race as having an immediate online channel, which you call it as A Blog.

There are considerable tactics for enabling your blog to get promoted, moreover accepted by rest of people around the world. This is frequently bewildering for someone together with, instead easy for rest. If you initially had an advantageous blog then you appreciate the techniques wanted. You get on hands to familiarize your blog. This is the location where weblog marketing reflects in.

1. Strong interest plus enthusiasm

Your weblog quality content must be concentrated on the needs of your element category or the focussed niche which can serve the best. Because we all are aware of the fact that information is king. That is the only thing maximum visitors are willing to visit your blog again.

Enjoyable, concentrated content handed over with strong interest plus enthusiasm. All your weblog entries will hold on a certain field, thereby consistently communicating with your weblog users.

Alternatively, you shall deliver effective quality content in your blog on matter in which your prospective users will be interested.

2. Advance Vivid Control of SEO

Understanding what Search engine optimization is, along with the fact that how you may employ it will lead to awesome achievement. If you don’t have enough content with respect to constitute your weblog and it is not possible to dream about a great successful. Confirm as legion SEO tips and logics as attainable.

3. Focussed On Your Niche Blog

My Next suggestion could be easily entertaining. As long as you are functioning on your fans base, plus looking to learn traffic, you will particularly find out that allocation words on websites which are focussed niche to your own will assuredly avail.

Choose a blog that is favourably other to the matter thesis of your weblog or coordinated to it and leave comments. Number people viewed these comments moreover kick on who wrote it, moreover then they will then be connected advice to your weblog.

4. Bookmarking

Other chief channel is to bookmark your weblog in barely some of the most demanded social networking websites. For instance consider social bookmarking sites like, delicious.com, stumbleupon.com, digg.com etc.

Note that, you do not spend your duration in networking your blog in legion of these networking websites. You barely rely on Social bookmarking sites, to submit your blog to some of the top acting bookmarking websites to admit in extremely large users to your blog.

Thus these 4 were considered as most useful tips to Market your blog.

If you have anymore to share please hit the comment box now We respect your view!

We all know that whatever we tweet on twitter will get indexed and is displayed in Google search engine results pages. The individual tweets can now be viewed as a unique listing in Google search engine which can affect your rankings by sending visitors to your website.

The outbound tweets to be promoted must be SEO optimized by adding niche keywords to these tweets. These tweets can be crafted to be unique until and unless it is not considered as spam from other users. If you are able to get visitors to your blog from Twitter which is indeed an SEO advantage that you cannot afford to miss.

Tech Link: Top 40+ Twitterrific Google Chrome Extensions

Twitter adds many advantages to your blog if you use in right way and proper manner. Well here are the few killer tips which can make your Tweets popular and SEO friendly.

1. User Name / ID

While choosing a twitter username, make sure it is relevant to your blog or website and  easy to remember as it is the part of the SEO title for the tweets appearing in Google search engine. You should handle Twitter name strategically. This is the first and most important step to make your tweets SEO friendly.

Tech Tip: For example, Our blog is Tech18 so the twitter name is @Tech18Blog . What if we had some asdf as twitter ID? Will it make sense?

2. Twitter Bio

Your Twitter “bio”, is actually your meta description. Make sure to include keywords as compared to meta description of your website/blog. Twitter bio acts as best source for SEO.

3. Show URL

Do not forget to display URL of your blog /website prominently on your twitter profile page. This will eventually increase the organic traffic as people often click the URL for seeking more information. It is important to note that this link does not provide any SEO link juice due to a “No follow” attribute in twitter.

4. Twitter Page Description

Use target keywords on your profile page and make sure to use keywords in your Tweets. Do not forget to use “#” key in front of the important keywords in your tweets as it acts as a SEO keyword in Twitter.

5. Inbound Links

Just post articles with an anchor text link to your Twitter profile on article syndication sites. This strategy helps in boosting your profile’s page rank.

Tech Tip: Increase in your profile page rank will indirectly have a effect on your blog ranking as your profile linked to it

6. Followers

If you have lots of quality or loyal followers you will be popular among the twitter users, which will eventually boost page rank of your profile page.

Tech Tip: More the number of  quality users, the more RT’s

7. Twitter Link in your site

Place Twitter profile Link in footer or sidebar, which is accessible via every page. If any of your blog visitor likes your blog, they may like to follow you on twitter as well. This will increase your online identity and hence increases number of followers on Twitter.

8. Follow Related Theme Profiles Only

Search engines increases your twitter profile link juice when you are able to get followers from good PR twitter profiles. Make sure that you add only those twitter users that are related to your blog content or  tweets on similar interest. This will increase number of RT’s and thereby traffic of your blog.

Tech Tip: Try to RT the tweets related to your theme. This may force your followers to RT your own post

9. URL Shortening

TinyURL, bit.ly, tr.im, su.pr are some of the popular URL shortening services that redirect users to the real URL via 301 (permanent redirect) and provide backlinks to your content. Search engines do not index these url shorteners, but index and pass PageRank to the actual URL’s instead.

10. Tweet Title

The most important SEO aspect  of your post for consideration is the first 27 characters. It’s this first part that becomes part of the <TITLE> on your Twitter static pages. Twitter uses the following <TITLE> format:

Twitter / Your Username: 27 Characters..

Tech Example: Google Chrome version 6, 7 and 8 by this year end! http://su.pr/24kdMC

In the above example, the main SEO keywords are “Google”, “Chrome” and “Version”. If you count the letters, all these three words comes within 27 characters.

The same SEO rules that you apply to write optimized titles for the post must be used for twitter tweets as well. The only difference is that you have a restriction of 27 Characters as compared to 65 Characters in Blog Posts. For optimized tweets use keyword rich Titles within first 27 characters.

11. Keywords in Tweet content

Twitter does not allow you to tweet for more than 140 characters. Instead of automatically shortening the links on twitter.com, it is strongly advised to use URL shortening service like bit.ly (as said in above point). Once your URL is shortened, you have much more space to include more target keyword into twitter content.

Tech Tip: again! DO NOT forget to use “#” key in-front of the important keywords.

12. Hashtags

Hashtags are similar to keyword meta-data. Basically, these are tags that  help those who seek similar content and  discover your Tweets. They’re like tags on Blog, only added inline to your post. Hashtags are created by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. This will help the visitors to view your tweet around a particular topic.

13. Re-Tweet strategy

An indexed tweet provides 27 characters or so for title post excluding twitter username. Make sure your tweet’s character limits allow for optimal re-tweets. It is important to keep the tweet under 100 characters, allowing your followers to add “RT @Tech18Blog” in front of the tweet.

14. RT username deletion

If your post starts getting many number RT’s in chain, it may exceed twitter rule(140 characters). Many a times link will only get deleted. To show link some of us delete all the “RT @Tech18Blog”  text before re-tweeting into the Twitter Network. But it is not advisable, as the strategy could have adverse impact on your twitter profile pagerank. Instead you can add the RT @Tech18Blog at the end of the Retweeted content.

15. RT others posts

This is the most important part for getting huge twitter traffic. In order to get more traffic and relevance to your tweet make sure that you re-tweet other blog articles and encourage your followers to share (re-tweet) your Twitter content. Keep in mind the Re-tweet strategy discussed above.

16. Direct Messages

Many of your followers may not be subscribed for RSS feeds in your blog. So they may not be knowing whether you published any new post. So its advised to send DM’s / Direct Messages to your loyal followers, which can get more views and RT’s of your post.

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These are the best tips which each and every twitter user as well as blog owners should follow to SEO optimize your tweet. Personally we advice everyone to follow these tips.

Are you following all these tips? What you feel? Anything missing here? Please let us and everyone know about it. Have a tweeting day ahead

Before we start,  ”Happy Independence day” to all our fellow Indians. 63 years back on August 15th, 1947 we got our independence. From then Indian saw lots of changes in Technology field. India has raised from under developed country to developed country. If we start telling about India our post has to be divided into thousands of sub-posts!

On the occasion of Great Indian Independence day, we thought of recognizing the top bloggers who have taken an oath to make India better and see India on top of the bloggers list.

According to us “Blogging is a way of sharing your knowledge to others and make them know about what you know!”

So here are the top or best 64 Bloggers who has to be recognized by whole world for their achievements in Blogging world,

1. A.R.Karthick

URL: www.Arkarthick.com

Twitter: @arkarthick

2. Aditya

URL: www.Techravings.info

Twitter: @techravings

3. Amit Banerjee and Soumen Halder

URL: www.Ampercent.com

Twitter: @ampercent

4. Amit Agarwal

URL: www.labnol.org

Twitter: @labnol

5. Amith Bhawani

URL: www.Amitbhawani.com

Twitter: @amitbhawani

6. Arafat H. Piyada

URL: www.WorthyTips.com

Twitter: @worthytips

7. Arun Basil Lal

URL: www.Millionclues.com

Twitter: @arunbasillal

8. Binoy Xavier

URL: www.Compixels.com

Twitter: @binoyxj

9. Chetan Gole

URL: www.Thechetan.com

Twitter: @_techie

10. Chethan R

URL: www.Chethstudios.net

Twitter: @cheth

11. Davinder

URL: www.Tothepc.com

Twitter: @iDavinder

12. Deepak Jain

URL: www.MobileGyaan.com

Twitter: @mobilegyaan

13. Devang Vibhakar

URL: www.SpeakBindas.com

Twitter: @speakbindas

14. Ganesh

URL: www.Animhut.com

Twitter: @animhut

15. Gautam Hans

URL: www.BlogGodown.com

Twitter: @virtuosoblogger

16. Harsh Agarwal

URL: www.Shoutmeloud.com

Twitter: @denharsh

17. Harsh Ajmera

URL: www.HarshAjmera.com/blog

Twitter: @Harsh_Ajmera

18. Harshad Sawant

URL: www.Tech-exclusive.com

Twitter: @Harsh4d

19. Himanhsu

URL: www.Blogtechnika.com

Twitter: @techim

20. Honey Singh

URL: www.Honeytechblog.com

Twitter: @honeytech

21. Jaspal Singh, Yogesh Mankani & Vikas Panwar

URL: www.SaveDelete.com

Twitter: @iliketocollect

22. Kamal

URL: www.NPXP.com

Twitter: @npxpcom

23. Karthikeyan Ravichandran

URL: www.BlogrPro.com

Twitter: @BlogrProDotCom

24. Keith Dsouza

URL: www.Techie-Buzz.com

Twitter: @keithdsouza

25. Laxman

URL: www.TechZoomin.com

Twitter: @TechZoomIn

26. Mani Karthik

URL: www.Dailybloggr.com

Twitter: @manikarthik

27.Mani Viswanathan

URL: www.dailyblogging.org

Twitter: @mani0993

28. Neeraj Kumar

URL: www.Bloggerdomain.net

Twitter: @NeerajKumar_

29. Nicky

URL: TheNickyBlog.blogspot.com

Twitter: @Rocksstar10

30. Nischal Shetty

URL: www.Twi5.com

Twitter: @twi5

31. P.K.Arun kumar

URL: www.Ashout.com

Twitter: @pkarunkumar

32. Pavan Kumar

URL: www.Techpavan.com

Twitter: @pavankumar

33. Pramit J Nathan

Twitter: @pramitjnathan

34. Pradeep

URL: www.Hellboundbloggers.com

Twitter: @HellBlog

35. Provamsi

URL: www.India365.org

Twitter: @mnvamsi

36. R. Bhavesh

URL: www.CSSAce.com

Twitter: @rbhavesh

37. Rahul Banker

URL: www.TheCopyPasteBlog.com

Twitter: @bankerrahul

38. Rahul Bansal

URL: www.Devilworkshops.com

Twitter: @rahul286

39. Raj

URL: www.Technobuzz.net

Twitter: @Raj_R

40. Rajeev Edmonds

URL: www.MintBlogger.com

Twitter: @mintblogger

41. Raju PP

URL: www.Techpp.com

Twitter: @rajupp

42. Richie Thimmaiah

URL: www.Richworks.in

Twitter: @richbugger

43. Ricky Shah

URL: www.Geniusgeeks.com

Twitter: @geniusgeeks

44. Rohit Langde

URL: www.BlogSolute.com

Twitter: @blogsolute / @rohitweet

45. Rohith Sane

URL: www.techfreakstuff.com

Twitter: @techfreaks

46. Ruchi Parikh

URL : www.CallingAllGeeks.org

Twitter: @whiztechy

47. Sahil Malhan

URL: www.Techtickle.com

Twitter: @SahilMalhan

48. Saket

URL: www.Techsplurge.com

Twitter: @techsplurge

49. Samrat P

URL: www.Techhail.com

Twitter: @samratp

50. Sandip Dedhia

URL: www.BlogsDNA.com

Twitter: @Blogsdna

51. Sanjeev

URL: www.Clickonf5.org

Twitter: @clickonf5

52. Shabnam Sultan

URL: www.Techiezlounge.com

Twitter: @shabnamsultan

53. Shakthi

URL: www.Shakthisoft.net

Twitter: @v_shakthi

54. Shanker Bakshi

URL: www.ShankerBakshi.com

Twitter: @Shankerbakshi

55. Shivendu Madhava

URL: www.Technozeast.com

Twitter: @techshivendu

56. Siddartha Thota

URL: www.Gadgetcage.com

Twitter: @gadgetcage

57. Siddharth R

URL: www.Tech4world.net

Twitter: @siddharth_in

58. Sidharth Bhansali

URL: www.Blogote.com

Twitter: @Rockstar_Sid

59. Simrandeep

URL: www.Tricksdaddy.com

Twitter: @Tricksdaddy

60. Srivathsan G.K

URL: www.MadrasGeek.com

Twitter: @dangerdiabolick

61. Sudharshan

URL: www.Technoskillonline.com

Twitter: @sudharsanece

62. Surender Sharma

URL: www.Technogati.com

Twitter: @Technogati

63. Sushant Risodkar

URL: www.SmartBloggerz.com

Twitter: @smartbloggerz

64. Vaibhav Kanwal

URL: www.ProgrammingKid.com

Twitter: @vaibhavkanwal

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Here is the short list of bloggers who has to be recognized by all over the world. These bloggers have helped India to make it popular in Blogging World.

Update:

Sorry for missing out following bloggers in our list. And we are very thankful to bloggers who has helped us in finding out them

65. Chethan Thimmappa

URL: www.chaaps.com

Twitter: @Chaaps

66. Varun Krishnan

URL: www.fonearena.com

Twitter: @fonearena

67. Nabeel Ahmed

URL: www.mushive.com

Twitter: @mushive

68. Prateek Rathod / Arpit kumar

URL: blog.arpitnext.com

Twitter: @TechRaga

69. Siraj

URL: lovemynokia.com

Twitter: @sirajsoft

70. Devesh

URL: technshare.com/

Twitter: @tnsblog

Tech Note: The list is not rated and not ranked. The list is in alphabetic order and not as per ranking. These are the best bloggers who have contributed a lot in blogging world from India

Sorry if we have missed out anyone here and do let us know If any blogger needs to be added, we will definitely add after analyzing his/her blog. Thanks for reading the post. Hope you followed these bloggers in twitter as well Jai Hind

Twitter, a Social Networking and micro-blogging service, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., has finally taken one more step ahead by introducing its new feature. Twitter introduced much awaited official Tweet button earlier today and almost all famous bloggers have added. We can say “a 5 year old Twitter gave birth to Tweet button today”:-P

Earlier today readwriteweb wrote “The button has gone live on a number of major websites, including entire the entire WordPress blogging network, sharing widget ShareThis and YouTube, and the company expects that “more than a few sites will join the above in the hours to come.”

Tech Tip: Twitter is in partnership with Tweetmeme, the company responsible for the majority of retweet buttons on the Web for the past year and a half.

Today I am going to tell you how to add Twitter’s official Tweet button on WordPress . WordPress, a major blogging platform has two kinds of blogs:

1. Self-Hosted blogs : These are the blogs which must be installed and maintained separately in your own server through your Web Hosting.
2. Free-Hosted blogs: These blogs are hosted and maintained by WordPress itself and can be created at WordPress.com

So here are the steps to be followed to add Twitter’s Tweet Button to your self hosted WordPress blogs :

1. Browse to Twitter’s Tweet button page

2. There are 3 display options among which you have to chose one as shown below

3. After choosing the preferred button , move to the next option that is the “Recommended people to Follow“

As you can see above there are two fields and surprisingly  both should be filled with twitter user id’s.

The 1st field must have twitter id which will be mentioned in the tweet and the 2nd field needs to be filled with another twitter id of whom you would recommend  to twitter users to follow after they have share the tweet with few words of description.

To understand this much better have a look at below image :

4. After filling the twitter id fields , now move towards the next option where we can see the preview of the button and the code as well.

5. Copy the code which is shown in the previous image.

6. Now go to your WordPress Dashboard->Appearance->Editor-> Select single.php file and paste the below code as shown below :

• Search for “<div class=”entry content>” [without quotes] within the single.php file and paste the copied code

7. Finally you could see a Tweet Share button exactly below the Post-title and above the post content.

Add Twitter’s Tweet Button on WordPress.com Free Blogs

One of our techie friend “Harsh Agarwal” has explained how to add Twitter Share Button to free WordPress Blogs.

Have a check here =>Free WordPress.com blogs added Tweet Button

You can also have a look at this below by Twitter which demonstrates the use of Twitter’s Tweet Button

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So friends how did you like our tutorial ? Share it with others if you like it and do comment If you get stuck anywhere

Happy Blogging Thanks for reading

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Last week, we posted an article on the “9 Must-Do’s of Professional Blogging”. Well, we can’t just talk about what to do, without talking about what Not to do, can we? So here it is “9 Do-Not’s of Professional Blogging” =D

1) Don’t Steal

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The actual word is “plagiarize”. This is something we have to emphasize on. Stealing of content is a definite No-No! If you did your research, and obtained a part of your content from elsewhere, make sure you give credit accordingly.

Tech tip: when you use images from Flickr or other sites give credit just below the image as we give in < credit > tag

2) Don’t Spam

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If you’re going to send your readers updates on your blog via their emails/selected medium, make sure that they are expecting it. (On a side note, make sure you make it easy for them to unsubscribe too.)

Sometimes when your users comment on the post, check are they provided proper mail ID with gmail, yahoo or other well known mail ID providers. Some one can simply comment with abc@abc.com. These are spams. Be alert and move them to spam list as soon as possible

Tech Tip: have a look at the commenter’s blog as well. They may add non-existing  url’s.

3) Don’t Neglect your Readers

If you don’t want to engage, Don’t. Engaging your audience takes time and effort. If you’re not going to be there, don’t encourage your readers to leave comments that you don’t intend to reply to.

If you are getting comments on your post, its better to reply to that on same day or with-in 2 days. This makes your readers feel that you are genuine author who respects the readers.

Tech Tip: reply to comments with-in 2 days

4) Don’t Confuse your Readers

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Your blog has a theme. All blogs do. And the reason readers come to your blog is because they are interested in what you have to say regarding the said theme. Make sure your message is relevant to that theme. Don’t confuse your readers by giving them content which they didn’t expect. (Likewise with misleading titles)

5) Don’t be Mean

No matter how strongly you feel against something/someone, don’t vent your anger or displeasure on your blog. Understand that if your blog is a professional one, it is a part of the company’s or the brand’s image. If you have an opinion, it’s okay to voice it out and stay opinionated. But make sure you don’t come across as intentionally hurtful.

Tech Tip: DO NOT give link to other blog in negative way! Better leave a comment in professional way by asking “if i am correct me” Makes good sense right?

6) Don’t do “Me Too” posts (Not too Often)

People come to your blog because you hold content that can’t be obtained anywhere else. If most of your posts are complementing other posts and just agreeing with them, without the slightest hint of having a unique perspective, then you’re not very interesting.

Tech Tip: Explore about the topic before posting!! Make unique post and get visitors!

7) Don’t be a Hypocrite

Practice what you preach. Or at least, really try to. Showing people that you walk the talk can often be the most convincing way to prove your point.

Tech Tip: write a post such a way that readers feel like chatting with friend

Don’t “Over-sell” your Blog

Okay, so you have written a post that you feel good about. You post it. Then what? You advertise it via the mediums available to you (E.g. on Twitter and on Facebook.) So far so good. But when your stream starts showing the same post over and over again, it starts to annoy. Try to moderate your “selling”.

9) Don’t include a background tune

Have you ever visited a blog where a tune starts playing in the background? I have, and it catches me off-guard. My ears don’t expect to be invaded by pleasant tunes all the time! Also, the songs that one person enjoys may not appeal to others. It can really deter your readers from spending more time on your blog.

Tech Tip: Don’t add annoying graphics or songs that may end up irritating your readers when they visit! There may not be a next time~

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Here’s you go, the 9 Do-Not’s of professional blogging.. If you’re guilty of any of the above, time to stop. Like.. Now. Hope this helps~

Do you have any points to add to the list? Leave a comment! We would love to hear from you Cheers!

Blogging is a great way to share your views with people. However, what are the rules? What is acceptable and what isn’t? What violations should we avoid and what can we do to effectively broadcast our views?

The truth is there really aren’t any rules. What we can say, however, is what we personally observe as effective. On that note, here are our “9 Must-Do’s of Professional Blogging” *Mouths swishing noise for added effect*

1. Include Links

Try to include links to interesting/relevant content. It helps new readers to your blog keep up with the progress of your content! It makes it easier for people to navigate around your blog and at the same time, URL’s are extremely useful for  SEO (Search-Engine Optimization).

2. Give Credit

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If you get some of your resources from another person/location, give credit accordingly; it is just common etiquette.

If someone has helped you out in your blogging career, say thank you. Let people know that you appreciate them.  (On that note, I’d like to thank Sunil (@gupshupblog) for allowing me the honor of blogging on Tech18)

3. Be Transparent

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Blog from your own perspective; your views are what people are reading for. Your honest thoughts can be the best of contents. As my friend, Jason Viglione (@jayvig) puts it, “Build relationships. It starts with trust. Trust starts with the transparency.”

4. Make it Easy for Readers to Share Your Posts

Okay. So you have wrote a great post. It is attracting lots of readers. But when it comes to sharing the post, we are forced to realize a cruel fact; that there is no “retweet button”!

Making it easier to share your posts on different platforms is definitely a plus. Many a time, whenever I come across an interesting post, and when my RT senses are tingling, I get turned off by the fact that the only way I can share the content, is by doing so manually.

If your blog doesn’t have those features yet, it’s time to get them. Really.

5. Ask Questions

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could hear from your audience? Engaging your audience can help you identify them and understand what they think about your content. In the long run, it can also help build up a loyal fan base!

But how would you accomplish that lofty goal? Here is what I do, at the end of every blog post, I ask my audience a question related to the post. I’ve had cases where these engagements end up sparking off more interesting topics!

Communication is a two way street. Both sides need to have a voice. Ask a question. Spark off that conversation. And listen to what your readers have to say.

6. Research

There are two sides to this; research for content and research for inspiration.

People need to know that the content they get from you, is reliable and of quality! Do your research. Make sure that the info on your blog is as true as the Sun. =D

On the other hand, do your research beforehand. Read from other blogs and talk to people. I’ve found that my greatest arsenal against the writer’s block, are often gotten through plain, solid research.

7. Illustrate Your Content

Employ the use of pictures and videos to help illustrate your point. Let’s face it; a sea of words can be extremely depressing and boring. With the help of relevant, preferably colourful pictures, and captivating videos, you can capture your audience’s attention and relay your message more effectively! And that, my friend, is a “WIN”.

8. Check for Errors

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Read and re-read your posts for spelling and grammatical errors. It may just be me, but the grammar/spelling-nazi in me will never condone such atrocities.

Tech tip: For an easier time, I use Microsoft Word’s grammar and spelling check.

9. Have a Catchy Title

They say that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. I ask, “then what can we judge it by?”

The fact remains that people will always judge a book by its cover; especially today when there are so many to choose from! There are many factors that contribute to whether or not a post is read; and amongst them, ranking at the top, is the title.

A good title effectively tells the potential reader what the post is about. It also provokes the potential reader and forces him/her to raise an eyebrow uncontrollably due to an intrigue so intense that it can trigger the said response.

Tech Tip: I have also noticed that good titles that have a quantifying factor, like “9 Must-Do’s of Professional Blogging” often attract more attention. =D

10. Point Forms!

This point is proposed by @whiztechy. It is important that your posts are easy to read. Having point forms to simplify the layout can be a great idea!

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Well, there you go. I hope you find this useful in your quest for blogging greatness! I will be posting on “9+ Don’ts of Professional Blogging”! Be sure to check back then~ =D

Do you have anything to add to the list? If so, please post a comment! we will add it to the list under your name~ (we would love to hear from you!)