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The Cheapest Android Phone Yet

2012-04-25T20:35:00.000-07:00

With the onset of the Android season since the last two years a number of significant takedowns and turnarounds have taken place in the cell phone world. Symbian is dead, Blackberrys have lost their charm and elegance, iOS is being threatened while cheap JAVA phones are just ridiculed. Gone are the days when the only use of one's cell phone was to make a call and send a text. Today, the platform markets are thriving with millions of applications which are being downloaded and becoming an addiction. The frequency of an app being launched in the market is so high you're gonna spend your lifetime in trying each and every app available.

The Android market boasts and delivers some of the best applications and games that have been developed which even the iPhone's market lacks. You're gonna agree with me on the fact that India is a country where a product can be sold with the help of cunning advertisement. The teen mob is so huge you're never gonna fail in selling a product which is appealing to them. Hundreds of Android phones have already been launched and sold so far but we're here to talk about a particular handset which I think might be the cheapest Android phone yet.

we're talking about the recently launched Vodafone (858) Smart by none other than the biggest service provider company themselves. It's cute, trendy, can be easily pocketed and flaunted about for running Android and the biggest advantage, it doesn't even burn a big hole in your pocket. Let's first go through the basic specifications of the phone.

Runs on Android OS v2.2 (Froyo)
CPU: 528 MHz ARM 11
Accelerator, proximity and compass sensors
Snapdragon S1 processor
2.8 inch capacitive touchscreen
2MP camera
Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth 2.1
130MB of internal storage
2GB card included, extended upto 32GB

When tested with some of the well known apps from the market, the phone performed good except some sluggishness during high physics. It's not bulky and has a nice matte finish which becomes handy to use and hold. Apart from the above mentioned advantages, the mobile also comes with some drawbacks.

Camera quality is not up to the mark with 2MP and no flash
No multi touch. You're gonna miss the pinch and zoom
Processor is slow, not a smooth UI experience
Takes time to download Apps from the market
Text is not extremely sharp

And comes the most important point for which you've kept up the pace with me till here. Vodafone released SMART in India for just Rs 4,995 . A perfect entry level phone for some start up person who wants to taste Android. The inclusion of a capacitive touchscreen which gives a smooth touch experience is a plus point for a mobile phone in under 5,000 price range. Make up your mind to go for it or not.

Add An Animated Search Capsule To Blogger

2012-04-25T20:22:00.001-07:00

Hey there guys, I guess this is my first 'how to' guide for bloggers which should be easy to follow and implement. You might have seen the Twenty Eleven theme released by Wordpress during it's third iteration release. You might also have noticed a sweet sliding search box which animatedly expands on being clicked upon and contracts back when moused out. Therefore we can design a similar but more gorgeous search box and add it quite easily to blogspot oriented blogs.

1. We're gonna design a not so complicated input field in an elliptical shape which retracts a bit and expands on being focused upon while on being blurred it widens just a little bit and comes back to its original state. You can check out how it works in this blog's sidebar.

2. Don't worry, there's no actual designing involved using Photoshop but we shall achieve this using HTML, CSS3 and jQuery only. Let's start with the basic HTML markup.

<form method="get" action="/search" id="search">
     <input name="q" type="text" size="40" class="search1" value="Search..." />
</form>

We've added a simple input box with no button because you'll expect the searcher to hit enter and get their results. Note that we've also declared a class named search1 to which we'll later add CSS.

#search input[type="text"] {
    background: url(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJ8G7WLl1U8/T2xgdl1jK9I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/WBsH0YmWTVE/s1600/search-white.png) no-repeat 10px 6px #fcfcfc;
    border: 1px solid #d1d1d1;
    font-size: 14px;
    color: #bebebe;
    width: 150px;
    padding: 6px 15px 6px 35px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 25px;
    -moz-border-radius: 25px;
    border-radius: 25px;
    text-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    outline: none;
    }

There's a small magnifying glass icon depicting the search action with a light grey background.
A thin border to add a slight contrast.
Note that we've specified a width of 150px which shall vary on focus & blur.
Now, the CSS3 part includes a border radius of 25px (-moz and -webkit suffixes are for Firefox and Chrome respectively).
And a subtle text shadow of just 0.1 opacity.
Plus a slight box shadow to add some flair.
Lastly, removing the ugly yellow/blue outline on focusing the search input.

And now for the jQuery magic. For the ones now knowing, jQuery is a Javascript library which includes inbuilt classes and functions which we can directly call with the hellp of CSS selectors to avoid writing raw vanilla JavaScript.

If you don't have the jQuery library linked to your blog, you need to copy the above link before </head> and include the below code.

$(document).ready(function(){

$('.search1').focus(function(){
 $(this).stop().animate({width:'140px'}).animate({width:'200px'}, 200);
});

$('.search1').blur(function(){
 $(this).stop().animate({width:'210px'}).animate({width:'150px'}, 200);
}); 

});

The above jQuery code is quite self explanatory, when the search box is focused (clicked in) it goes in and out and on being blurred (clicked out) it goes a little bit out and comes back to its normal state. You need to add this code exactly above </head>.

And we're done, the good news is you don't need to add the HTML and CSS3 in your template directly. In the 'layout', go to the sidebar and 'add a widget'. Now select the HTML/JAVASCRIPT widget and paste the below final code. Save it and voilla.

<style type="text/css">

#search input[type="text"] {
    background: url(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hJ8G7WLl1U8/T2xgdl1jK9I/AAAAAAAAAIQ/WBsH0YmWTVE/s1600/search-white.png) no-repeat 10px 6px #fcfcfc;
    border: 1px solid #d1d1d1;
    font-family: 'Ropa Sans', sans-serif;
    font-size: 14px;
    color: #bebebe;
    width: 150px;
    padding: 6px 15px 6px 35px;
    -webkit-border-radius: 20px;
    -moz-border-radius: 20px;
    border-radius: 20px;
    text-shadow: 0 2px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1);
    -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.15) inset;
    outline: none;
    }

</style>

<form method="get" action="/search" id="search">
     <input name="q" type="text" size="40" class="search1" value="Search..." />
</form>

Alright, I hope you've successfully incorporated the search capsule in your blog. However, if you face any problems, shoot your queries in the comments.

Drop Down Menu

2012-04-25T19:31:00.003-07:00

A drop down menu is needed when you have too much content on your blog or you love keeping things organized. To add a drop down menu to your blogger blogs do this:

Go To Blogger > Design > Page Elements
Select a HTML/JavaScript Widget just under the header and paste the following code inside it,

Copy Below Codes & Past

<ul>

<li><h2>CSS Drop Down Menus</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://owlthemes.blogspot.com/

" title="SEO Consultants Directory">CSS Hover Navigation</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="../css-dropdown-menus.html" title="tanfa Introduction">Intro for CSS Enthusiasts</a></li>

<li><a href="index.html" title="Plain HTML Code">Demonstration HTML</a></li>

<li><a href="http://www.xs4all.nl/~peterned/csshover.html" title="whatever:hover file">csshover.htc file</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><h2>Vertical CSS Pop-Out Menu</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/vertical/" title="SEO Consultants Vertical Example">SEO Consultants Sample</a></li>

<li><a href="vs7.html" title="Complete Example">tanfa Demo example</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="index.html#">tanfa Tutorial</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="vs1.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 1">Stage 1</a></li>

<li><a href="vs2.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 2">Stage 2</a></li>

<li><a href="vs3.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 3">Stage 3</a></li>

<li><a href="vs4.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 4">Stage 4</a></li>

<li><a href="vs5.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 5">Stage 5</a></li>

<li><a href="vs6.html" title="Vertical Menu - Page 6">Stage 6</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

<ul>

<li><h2>Horizontal Drop & Pop Menu</h2>

<ul>

<li><a href="http://www.seoconsultants.com/css/menus/horizontal/" title="SEO Consultants Directory Example">SEO Consultants Sample</a></li>

<li><a href="hs7.html">tanfa Demo example</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="index.html#">tanfa Tutorial</a>

<ul>

<li><a href="hs1.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 1">Stage 1</a></li>

<li><a href="hs2.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 2">Stage 2</a></li>

<li><a href="hs3.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 3">Stage 3</a></li>

<li><a href="hs4.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 4">Stage 4</a></li>

<li><a href="hs5.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 5">Stage 5</a></li>

<li><a href="hs6.html" title="Horizontal Menu - Page 6">Stage 6</a></li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</li>

</ul>

</div>

Should You Drop Out Of School For Blogging ?

2012-04-25T09:15:00.001-07:00

Blogging provides people with the opportunity to share their thoughts and opinions with the world, and earn something out of it. Recent trends have shown that the young generation is taking more of an interest in blogging than ever. But blogging is a time-consuming and effort-intensive job. And in today's fast-paced life, it often becomes difficult to take time out of daily life to do something extra. As a result, many of you who are bloggers may be finding it hard to juggle your blogging career along with your academic / professional life. Does that mean you should drop out of your school? Is blogging really worth it?

In simple words, no. Blogging isn't worth it. In this post, we'll discuss why, and also, how to manage your blogging career along with your normal life.

Why People Quit School ?

Well, there can be many reasons for that. People quit school because studies are boring! What you study in school usually has little relevance to what's out there in professional life. Not only that, studies studies are long as well! It seems one never stops studying, until he enters professional life. This makes a man too busy to do much else.

Secondly, as expertise is growing globally, so is the competition with respect to jobs. It's hard to get a decent job, especially in developing countries. So why study when there won't be any jobs available? Such is the mentality of people who quit academics. They choose to go into other technical fields instead. I personally have a friend who quit academics after high school, and is now a self-taught freelance web developer!

Then, there are examples that so many people like to quote. And they make for excellent examples. Taking a look at history, we find some very famous people who quit school. And despite that, they went on to become rich or renowned. Albert Einstein is a good example. So is Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb and motion picture camera etc, and Benjamin Franklin, the former American president. If you want more recent examples, then Bill Gates is a perfect one. Then, there is Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and so on. All these men quit school / college / grad school and went on to become internationally famous and/or rich. People often quote such examples to support their reasons for quitting school.

Why Schooling Is Important ?

No matter what reasons you have for quitting school, the fact remains that your school is your Alma-mater, i.e. your "nourishing mother". proper schooling teaches you lessons in life, and grooms you for what is to come. It also shapes your character, and you build your own reserve of knowledge.

Grooming aside, you need to have a decent degree in your hand to survive in these times. A degree is the world's way of recognizing your abilities. If you apply for a job without a degree, you will be laughed at! Having knowledge at your side can help you redefine the limits you can reach.

Exceptions are always there though. Bill Gates is an exception. So was Steve Jobs. But not every drop-out can become a Mark Zuckerberg, mind you. Schooling is important for the rest of us mortals.

What Is Next ?

At the end of the day, it's all a matter of perspective. Blogging alongside schooling is only as hard as you perceive it to be. I am a student too, yet I can easily write one post per day, even though these are some of the busiest days of my life. I think it's all about time-management. If you can manage your time, then there is no reason for you to give up either blogging or school.

How To Manage Time ?

Posting Frequency

First of all, you need to decide how frequently you want to write blog posts. For a good blog, one post per day is enough. But if you don't get the time, then three or four posts per week are fine as well. Don't push your schedule every day.

Make a schedule

Making a schedule can be very helpful. You don't need to sit down and make a crazy time-table that no one cares follow. Just make a mental template and reserve a general time for blogging.

Jot Down Points

This is my favorite technique. I like to jot down points whenever they occur to me. This way, I can easily structure my posts , and add content to them whenever I get time.

Use your spare time

This is another useful technique that you might find useful. Use your spare time to think of points to write in your posts. For example, while traveling, I think of points and write down points. I can then easily transform them into a fully fledged post.

Get a smartphone!

If you have an adequate budget, then get a smartphone if don't already have one. With the wide range of smart-phones available these days, they are no longer than expensive. They make your life much easier! You can blog on the go! They can come in real handy for taking notes and writing posts.

Be patient!

And last, but not the least, be patient. Blogging is all about patience. Once does not simply 'get rich' through a blog. It takes time, and effort to build a blog. I'd recommend you start thinking along those lines if you are to succeed at all.

Some people set out goals in life to achieve. Some do, while others keep trying. In the end, it all boils down to the path they take. It does not matter whether you get what you want or not. You have failed if you have compromised other important things in achieving your goals. After all, life is all about balance, so live it to its fullest and don't complain.

"Circle Me On Google Plus" Gadget For Blogger

2012-04-23T04:12:00.002-07:00

Here Are The Steps :

Sign In To Your Blogger Account >> Go To Design (Page Elements) Then Click Add Gadget >> Html / Java Script Then Copy Below Cods & Do Changers Shown Below...

<center>Circle me on Google Plus!</center>

</div>

<a href="https://profiles.google.com/Profile ID"><img

src="Youe Google Plus Profile Picture Link Here"

alt="OWL THEMES N” TRICKS on Google Plus" width="140" height="140" border="0" /></a>

<br />

Blogger, speaker, film critic...

</div>

<a href="https://profiles.google.com/Add Profile ID"

style="color:#fff;text-decoration:none;">

Add to circles</a>

</div>

This Is The View After You Add This Codes

Earn Money By Using Google Affiliate

2012-04-19T19:25:00.003-07:00

Blogger is one of the most popular publishing platforms available for anyone who wants to voice their thoughts and opinions on the internet. You can also use blogs to earn money online. If you are a Blogger users, then here is a brand new opportunity for you to earn some extra cash right from your Blogger blog! Google has very recently announced another monetization option for Blogger blogs, i.e. the brand new Affiliate Ads!

The Google Affiliate Ads is a new Affiliate Marketing concept by Google, and a positive initiative towards benefiting publishers who are passionate about certain brands or products. Google says, "We believe your recommendation (about products and services) is valuable, and want you to benefit from it". Therefore, here is your chance to try out your hands at this latest Affiliate Marketing tool!

What Is Affiliate Marketing ?

In the most simplest terms, Affiliate Marketing refers to the promotion of services or products through customers. It works like this: I buy a certain product, and then recommend it to you. Then you buy that product too through my 'referral'. In that case, the product's company will pay me, an 'affiliate', a certain amount of your purchase, as a 'commission'. If you refer other people, then you will get the commission, and so on.

Most popular affiliate ad marketing companies include BuySellAds, ClickBank, Amazon etc. In fact, most of the companies nowadays are offering affiliate programs to anyone willing to join. It's high time that Google do the same. This was a much awaited feature among bloggers.

About Google Affiliate Ads

This great new feature has been introduced in the form of a widget, which you can easily add to your blog posts to earn money. Whenever you write a new post about a product or service from a featured advertiser, this Google Affiliate Ad widget will help you display an affiliate ad on your post. You can choose a relevant ad from the widget. This ad can be a text-link ad, an image or a fully fledged banner.

This feature is different from the pay-per-click model for AdSense Ads. Since Affiliate Marketing is all about the performance of the affiliates, this scheme pays on a par-per-action basis. Thus, you get a greater commission for a larger number of referrals that you make.

Get Started

Before getting started, you need to make sure that you have an AdSense account. If you don't have one, Google AdSense. You do not need to set up AdSense Ads for this program. Just sign in using your AdSense account.

Once signed up, go over to your blogger homepage, and click on the Earnings tab. There, you will find an option Get Started. You will be guided through the rest of the process. It's that simple really! Browse through available ad categories to pick an ad for your blog.

Here is a preview of the Google Affiliate Ads

Limitation

Since Google Affiliate Ads is a brand new program, it is still in its initial stages. Currently, the number of ad categories is limited. So if you don't see the select ad option, the maybe it's because your blog content does not match the ad categories. Google is working on expanding their reaches, so be patient please!

Secondly, this service is currently limited to the U.S. People outside of U.S. can't use this feature as yet. But then again, it's fresh feature, and will take time to mature. We are expecting Google to extend this limit to more countries in the near future.

If this feature is not available to you, don't worry. It will be made available very soon. We will notify you of any updates that Google makes.

Conclusion

Overall, we think that this is a great new initiative by Google that not only allows people to earn more money through Blogger, but also allows them to connect with their audience by selling products, as affiliate marketing is all about connecting with people and performance-based marketing. Do let us know about what you think about this exciting new feature. And for those who have this advertising option available, good luck with it :). For others, stay tuned :D

Follow By E Mail Gedget

2012-04-15T23:27:00.002-07:00

Today in early time, blogger released an important gadget, “Follow by Email”, this gadget allow your readers to subscribe to your blogs updates by e-mail and get the latest updates and posts delivered to their Inbox.
What is this gadget features

The New Gadget Features.

Simple to add and use with only few clicks.
Delivering your blog’s posts and updated to your readers mail inbox.
Detailed stats about your number of subscribers and daily views.

How To Add It.

Just log into your blogger dashboard >>> design >>>and in page elements click Add A Gadget, and you will find the new “Follow by Email” gadget listed at the top of the gadgets page.when you click on “Follow by Email” link, you’ll see a new window like the above image,

Give it your prefered title, and leave the Feedburner as it is. then click Save,
and you can enjoy your new gadget,

Top Web Statistics Tools

2012-04-15T23:19:00.004-07:00

My guess is each webmaster or blogger use at least one web service to keep track & monitor web traffics. There are tones of free web traffic checkers out there, each a unique of its own. Most of them have something in common though; installation of script is required to generate traffic reports. Installing too many tends to slow the site down and cause inaccuracy in overall results. It’s better to stick with one or two which matches your requirements the most. Here’s by far 14 most used web statistics tools I’ve come to known.

AWStats

AWStats is probably one of the few good ones that don’t require client side script installation. It’s installed on the server side and provides comprehensive logs of traffics accessing particular websites. It’s free and if your web host doesn’t have, request them to install.

StatsCounter

StatCounter is widely used among most tech non-savvy web owners. It gives real time statistics of your web traffic but the drawback of it is, you will need to pay if your traffics exceed 1,500,000 pagviews a month. Well, if you have that much of traffic you wouldn’t mind paying to continue don’t you?

SiteMeter

SiteMeter is another very popular traffic tracking provider. It’s used by a lot of notable websites such as lifehacker, read/write web, gawker, gizmodo, kotaku, etc. And like StatsCounter provides 2 different charges of services; the free and the paid premium. Free services get all basic statistics a webmaster could possibly need but in case you want more comprehensive analysis on your traffics, you will need to get the premium account.

Google Analytics

This is perhaps the most commonly used and most famous web traffic tractor every build. It’s free with functions I’ll take me pages to describe. Google Analytics gives very accurate statistics on not only traffics but also keep track of almost everything a cookie can store (browsers, type of OS, plugins installed, etc) on each unique visitors. It is also used to keep track of Google Adwords performance. And with the new look recently upgraded, it’s certainly better in terms user friendliness and navigation.

FeedBurner

What makes Feedburner different from the rest is that it keeps track of traffic coming from feed readers. Feedburner users can show off how many people are currently subscribing to them by displaying a chiklet on websites. Feedburner’s FAN is also the only traffic counter that offers publishers to make a profit from their traffic. With the recent acquisition of Feedburner by Google, it could have just helped Google to strengthen their domination on traffic counter. Google AdSense on Feedburner is what many AdSense publishers looking forward to see after this acquisition.

103Bees

103bees started off earlier this year but already gain much reputation because they are one among few that concentrates on search engine traffic analyzation. It is one of my favorite tool to measure and check my daily traffic. Check out my reviews on 103bees.

Performancing Metrics

Performancing gives you real time readings of your web traffics however if you want to use it for free for long run, your pageviews/day must not exceed 1000. Upon sign up, Performancing gives you 21days full premium access, after that you will have to pay ($2/month) to continue. If you have high traffic, try using Performancing metrics. If your traffics are among the Top 20, you will earn yourself a PR7 link back from Performancing.com main page.

Reinvigorate

I feel in love with reinvigorate the first time I encounter it. ReInvigorate has nice interface design with traffic charts nicely placed. It makes charts very understandable, very easy for comparison and analysis. However, it’s currently a beta and only available through invitations. Send in a e-mail and let’s hope they will send you an invitation to try it out.

Spotplex

Spotplex shows you not only real time traffic stats, but also how you rank among bloggers of your niche that use Spotplex plugin. Head over to Spotplex website to check the most popular articles of the day, most popular within specific niche or your Spotplex rank today.

Automattic Statistics For WordPress

Automattic Statistics calculates your traffic within WordPress. However Automattic Statistics resides on WordPress.com’s Dashboard. After installing the plugin, there will be an extra button call Blog Stats that will lead you to your statistics in WordPress.com.

OneStats

By putting one small OneStats banner on your website, you not only get to see your web traffic but also get to compete against websites from your country in the OneStats chart. OneStats chart is a very good place to gain publicity and its monitor by many webmasters. It’s ranked based on pageviews so it’s a bit unfair as forums and photo albums have a higher pageview rate.

Counterized II For WordPress

Counterize II upgrades from its previous version to give more traffic data. It embedded inside your WordPress Dashboard, giving you traffic information like IP, timestamp, visited URI, referring URI, total hits, unique hits, etc. All you need to do is install the plugin and view your stats inside Dashboard.

MyBlogLog

MyBlogLog stats shows you where your visitors come from, what they read and where they go, but the most interesting thing about MBL is, it includes the statistics of Google AdSense clicked and their sizes.

CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg tells you where in your page people are likely to click and the most interesting part is, it gives you a heat map display. Install and test it out yourself.

GoStats

GoStats provides not only the normal stats we want to see, it also comes with a prediction figure. The tab navigation from text view to graphic view comes simply in handy. Another good visitors tracking system worth checking out

Buy A Custom Domain

2012-04-15T23:09:00.002-07:00

many of us using blogger blogspot blog for blogging, because it is easy to use and editable.
but after a while you want to your blog look more professional and more credible by Publish on a custom domain .

because some people think that yourblogname.blogspot.com used by newbies only, That’s not always true, of course.

there is 2 ways to do it,

1- Point your already owned and registered domain name to your blog.
2- buy new domain name via your blogger account.

we’ll now talk about number 2.

buy new domain name via your blogger account.

now blogger makes it easier to convert your Blogspot Account Into A .com Domain

when you register a domain name via blogger account your Domain will be registered through a Google partner and cost $10 (USD) for one year.and as part of registration, you will also get a Google Apps account for your new domain.

and the great deal here is that YourBlogName.blogspot.com will redirect to your new custom domain. so you won’t leave your readers behind!

the first thing to to is to log into your blogger account,
Then got to Settings >>> Publishing

FIND : Switch to: • Custom Domain

and click Custom Domain

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Post Writing

2012-04-15T22:52:00.003-07:00

Blogging, with no doubt, has revolutionized our lifestyle today and the possibilities and effects of blogs seems endless. Blogs have become our medium of expression and it looks as there is nothing we can’t do without blog. Blog have not left even minor aspects of our life to be changed and it’s effects are seen to be limitless. Most interesting, you do not even require any technical knowledge for getting and running up a blog in no no time and the best part of it, vitally anyone can do it at ease. With some basic blogging framework sketched on your mind and with original qualitative and unique information published in your blogs, you can even make some extra cash out of it with very less effort. But to make most out of it, it requires your true enthusiasm to blog and your ability to carve some engaging content out there. If it is a problem for you, that’s where I’m going to make a breakthrough today and teach you how to enhance your art of writing best content ever!

If you are already running a blog by now, you must have known that your content is the best traffic generator for your blog and traffic is the blood of your blog. It is the information people are looking for in your blog, and if you are able to provide them with it, you can have a successful blog running up out there. But writing a better content is not an easy job every time and you have to keep several things in mind while writing the article for your blog. I’m sure the following tips or hints will be a great help for you to increase your blogging quality. Make sure to check them out:

1.Research, Research and research

If you are not well known or not confident enough to carve your posts smartly, research a lot. In such cases, what I usually do is I find out several articles about my topic in internet and download and print them. I then sped my time reading all of them carefully and highlighting the important part of them. I sketch a rough article or draft. Then when I start my actual writing, I keep all those articles spread around me and I try to include the highlighted points. Try this trick. It is very easy, effective and not much time consuming. This is the best trick I use myself to write down the posts.

2. Personal, engaging and straight

While writing posts, consider making them more personal engaging and straight. While you write your posts, add your personal touch and tone. This encourages the reader to continue reading and it makes them feel that somebody personally is teaching themselves. Make your post engaging, by trying to involve interesting facts, examples and blueprints. But always remember to put your thoughts in a straight manner so the readers aren’t distracted. Writing in points and help you doing this. Try your best to make your posts reader friendly too!

3.The KISS technique

I did not invent this term but at least, this is my one of the favorite abbreviation in blogging. It is the short form of KEEP IT SHORT AND SIMPLE. Yes, always keep your post simple and short and meaningful. Long posts may get your readers bored so make your post compact while also interesting because people nowadays want a lot of things very fast. You blog will be appreciated if you keep your blog post short and simple.

4. The title of your post

As Daniel Socosso said, Until you carve out your title smartly it will be the first and last thing that your reader will read on your blog. Title summaries your post and encourages to read the rest of the article. A catchy and unique post title makes your half business done and it is equally important as your post’s body. No matter how nicely you write your post body, if your title is bulky and boring, nobody would want to read your post. So don’t ever hesitate to spend as much time you can with your headline and come up with the best matching title for your post. Take suggestion from family and friends, do some research and use suspicious and staggering words that can easily drive the attention of the reader of your blog and have the best title you can ever think of.

5.The more you edit the better the content gets.

If you try this one, I’m sure you’ll really have a nice article with you. What I do to all of my posts is when I prepare a finished copy of my post, I do not publish it straight away. I keep it for a while (about 2-3 days) and work on other posts. Meanwhile I often have look on that post, read it and edit my the post. I do it many times and more I edit my article, consequently the better it gets. It helps you to have better content than the time you wrote it.

6.Final Proofreading.

Grammatical, informational, spelling and other types of blunders in your post can hamper it’s quality a lot. It can also decrease the reputation of the blog and blogger himself. So don”t rush to hit that Publish button just yet. Try to check for every kinds of errors and if there are any, correct them immediately.

Remember that the popularity, reputation, traffic’s volume and your success as a blogger depends upon how you write and carve your content.These steps are really very very effective and they help you to come up always with better content. So be consistent towards your content of your blog and watch the success coming your way.