Thank you all for giving such a tremendous response to our Premium WordPress Themes- Contest/Giveaway. The contest got a massive 56 participants with 96 entries. Many people helped this contest by promoting in their blog and in social media. Thanks to all.

It’s time to announce the winner. And the winner is,

RRH (Raza Rahil Hussain)

The important thing to notice here is that the winner is the last participant in this contest. He is too lucky to win here. Congrats Raza Rahil Hussain.

Winner has been contacted already. Another contest will be announced within a week. Keep watching.

Happy New Year to all. On these days, I have lot of works related to my career and hence I am not concentrating much on blogging and all. Hence, I will not be available for some days in BlogrPro.

In the meantime, I would like to announce some contests for you all with some good prizes. Here, I am announcing the first contest on this new year.

Prizes

• Only one winner will be selected from the participants. The winner can get Elegant Themes Membership for 1 year worth $19.95.

Participation

Participating in this contest is very simple.

• Tweet this post. (1 Point).
• Comment on this point (1 Point).
• A participant with at least 1 point is eligible for being in the final list. More points mean more luck to win.

Timeline

• Contest starts now itself and will end on January 17,2010 at 11:59 PM IST.

Note

Some more prizes may be announced on this contest. Kindly stay tuned by subscribing to our RSS feeds via email.

This is the first guest post to be featured in BlogrPro.

We all know not everything works out as planned. But have you ever imagined why your plan fails while others is a success. The main reason your plan fails is because you are not planning things properly.

“But I followed all the advices, I did what other successful blogger are doing”.

That is where you failed. You just copied a plan and tired to make it work for your own blog. What you needed to do was make your own unique plan for you blog. You should have studied the already successful plan, taken its blueprint and build a plan considering the points similar to your own blog.

Planning is not a very easy task. You first need to understand it properly before trying to make a plan yourself. There are two types of Planning.

Pre-Planning – Simple Planning

Pre-planning is the starting point. Pre-planning means creating a plan before you start something. Most of you know it a simple planning. Most people already do this stuff while making a blog plan. You plan out what niche you will be blogging, what types of post you will be posting, what will be your posting frequency and many other stuffs. Pre-planning is easier task as everything is almost theoretical.

Post-Planning – Complex Planning

Post-planning is rapidly evolving planning. It is complex and deals with practical side of your work. It evolves with time and every new result. Think that you posted a post which got a tremendous response. You search for the reason why it became successful. And make a plan to create similar posts in future. This is post-planning. But this does not stop here. You wait for the result and modify the plan, may be adding additional promotion methods etc. Your plan undergoes many changes with time.

Both Pre-Planning and Post-Planning are equally necessary for your blog plan to become a success. While Pre-planning is done by almost everyone, not many people are aware of the fact that there is something called a post-planning as well. The reason that your blog plan is not a success lies here. You need to consider post-planning as well. At first it will be difficult to do post-planning but eventually you will be able to do it easily. One thing you always need to remember is that post-planning always evolve, so a plan which worked months ago will not necessarily give the same results. You will need to make changes according to the current situations.

After a long one month break from blogging, I am back to the war. In this one month break, I missed you all very much and sorry for this sudden break without conveying you anything about this.

Meanwhile, I am so glad to see many emails and messages in my inbox. I personally thank you all for such a wonderful gesture to me. I am glad to meet you all in a pleasant surprise mood.

So what’s the surprise?

There are some big things to be announced in BlogrPro on the New year day. They are:

• A New year special contest for you all.
• A WordPress theme which is one of our best product is to be launched.
• Some more services to the community.

Need your help

• I need your help to name my WordPress theme. The name should be in one word. The person who is going to give the best name will get a surprise gift from the BlogrPro team.
• I need testers for my WordPress theme.
• I need some genuine reviews about the WordPress theme after its launch. The best review will get a surprise gift worth $100.
• Also share what kind of features can be added in a WordPress theme so that I will be happy to add so in my theme.

I am waiting for all of your feedbacks. So why are you waiting!

Oh no! What the hell are you asking? Is this what do you want to ask after seeing this post title? If yes, then please wait for few more minutes to ask me after reading this post.

Blogging – one of the passionate work for many netizens is certainly an addiction and I can try my level best to prove it so.

What is Blogging?

Blogging is a method of expressing your thoughts in a platform which is supposed to be the internet.

How Blogging is going on now?

• Blogging is an easy method to call anyone as writer or blogger.
• Blogging is an easy method to earn rather than to learn.
• Blogging is an easy method to cheat.
• Blogging is an easy method to make people so lazy than before.
• Blogging is an easy method to waste anyone’s time.
• Blogging is easy method to over act or over expose.

Why Blogging is an addiction?

It’s simple. Everything is for money and fame. When one of my friend launched his blog, I did ask him about his motive for the launch. He told this. “I need to act smart and make money”. So I again asked him, “What do you know about blogging?”. He told this. “Blogging is what I supposed to make others to believe me”.

This clearly shows one thing. Blogging is now like a top most followed bad karma like so. Even though I love to be a self controlled blogger in every aspect, I still need you to know how blogging can addict anyone.

I forget to say this. My friend’s age is just 12 years and 5 months.

I still need to contribute my words here to make you believe that blogging is an addictive practice. Will be covered in upcoming posts.

Ever tried and tired of being a good blogger? If yes, you are also tired of following all those articles that you have read to be so. Here, I am presenting you some article lists which will help you to follow certain but best practices to be a best blogger.

• 12 Steps to your Blog’s Failure

  Well this post is especially for many new comers who want to succeed in this wonderful blogging environment. I am presenting you 12 steps to fail in this blogging world.

• 10 Design Practices to follow in your Website / Blog

  Are you tired of changing so many designs in your website? If yes, you should have a look on this article to make sure that you will never change the design again and again.

• 8 Easy Steps to Slow Down your Website / Blog’s Speed

  Let’s start slowing down our website or blog’s loading speed. Well you definitely will hate the points that I have mentioned. Make your blog fast as much as you can now.

• Get more Visitors for your Blog with 2 Simple Techniques

  Well you have started a new website/blog. Then the next major thing to achieve is getting traffic/visitors to your website/blog through various marketing techniques.

• Uniqueness in Blogging! How to do with Comments

  How to be a unique person in blogging with the help of comments? This article analyzes that.

• Uniqueness in Blogging! How to do with blog design?

  How a blog should be designed? How to be unique with your blog design? Here is the tip.

• Uniqueness in Blogging! How to do with blog content?

  How well a blog content should be? Is the blog content helps in making you a unique person. Look at this article then.

• Uniqueness in Blogging! How to do with Marketing?

  How should we market our blog? Learn the simple marketing methodology to be unique forever as a blogger.

This list is a part only. Well there are various tips and tricks for being a best blogger. Will be updated later. I hope these practices in blogging will be in your favorite list.

Are you a freelancer or an employer who wants to enjoy the power of freelancing through Internet? We always have a choice in the vast Internet and here I am presenting you a free market for freelancers and employer which proves something very good for both the freelancers and the employers.

TaskCity with the caption of “Outsourcing Redefined” actually sounds pretty good when we saw its design at first. Some of the features of TaskCity are:

Design

A simple but elegant design with plenty of options for both the freelancer experts and the employers. Registration process is as simple as it is with a single form.

Options

TaskCity offer various categories to feature the new projects as an employer as well as various categories to search and bid for new projects as a freelancer. TaskCity has wide categories like Web Development, Software Development, Networking & Informtion Systems and Graphics Arts & Design which are further divided into sub categories.

One of the best thing in TaskCity is that we can search for Freelancing Experts based upon their credit ratings given by their employers before. Through this it is easy for the employers to call some very good freelancers for their project.It also offers advanced search option for new projects based on the currency type, budget, keywords and so on.

TaskCity right now has the support of two languages, English and Chinese and they have the currency support for US Dollars (USD) and Renminbi (RMB).

TaskCity allow the members to upload their portfolios so that they can showcase their project details to all others including both the freelancers and the employers. It also offers to upload the team picture to feature in the profile page.

Payment

You can deposit money in TaskCity using the Paypal transaction method which is a proven secured transaction method. Also, it is easy to withdraw any amount that you have in your TaskCity into your Paypal account at any time provided you have a paypal account.

Rewards

TaskCity pays you a 5% of the project fee when one of your friend have joined using your invitation and have done their first project. This will be very useful when you have lot of freelancer friends.

As a Buyer of the projects, TaskCity rewards you a maximum of $100 or 20% of their first project’s value and it will be deposited into the buyer’s account once their first project is completed. Buyers can get redeemed of that amount for future use in their future project postings.

Value for Money

TaskCity offers everything for free but they also have premium offers which are very cheaper than any other at present.

Do you get newsletters in your email inbox? Or do you subscribe often to newsletters? Then you should be careful from now. Do you know how much problem will you get into when subscribing/unsubscribing to/from a newsletter without knowing anything about it really?

Here I am presenting you the dangers behind any newsletter subscription or unsubscription.

Problems from Newsletter Subscription

After subscribing to a newsletter, certain things may happen in background without your knowledge. They are :

• Most common thing is that the person/website who offers newsletter subscription will sell your email address to others for money.
• You may get more newsletters than what they have promised actually.
• They may send affiliate promotion emails to you at anytime.
• You can’t unsubscribe from them and they will just send you spam emails as much as they can.

Problems from Newsletter Unsubscription

After unsubscribing from a newsletter, certain things may happen in background without your knowledge. They are :

• You may not be unsubscribed from the newsletter subscription actually.
• You may get more spam emails than usual.

Solution

The best thing to get relieved of these things is simple.

• Don’t subscribe to any newsletter without knowing anything about the person/website who actually offers it.
• If you are getting any newsletter without your subscription and it has an Unsubscribe link, then don’t try to unsubscribe using that link. Actually what happens here is that the link will lead to your subscription rather than your unsubscription. They actually trying to know whether you are actively using your email id and if you made a click on that, then they will be sure to know that you are eligible to disturb.
• Read their Privacy policy to know their policies on newsletters.

Well, sorry for the late announcement about the Winners of Custom theme for your WordPress blog worth $111 Contest. The contest really went good with lot of participants and some buzz in the blogosphere. We got a large number of participants with multiple entries through their blog posts.

Winners

Winners were selected through Random.org site and here is the winners list.

• Winner – Kar have won the massive $111 worth prize.
• Runners up – Arun Basil Lal and Indo Contest have won 250 x 50 pixel sized advertisement spot in this blog.

I congratulate all those winners for being a lucky person among other participants. I will contact all those winners through mail and they don’t need to contact me for prize claim.

Scoop

From Sunday onwards, there will be one more contest with some good prizes. I wish all of you a good luck to win the upcoming contest.

Do you love this blog’s comment subscription manager? My blogger friend Klaus love it and asked me about the steps to create as like as for his WordPress blog too.

Here is the detailed procedure on creating a Comment Subscription Manager in your WordPress blog.

Requirements

You need

• A WordPress blog
• Subscribe To Comments plugin for WordPress.

How to

• Install and activate the Subscribe To Comments plugin in your WordPress blog.
• Go to Settings -> Subscribe To Comments in your WordPress Dashboard.
• Set the value for “From” name for notifications column. Example: “BlogrPro.Com”
• Set the value for “From” e-mail addresss for notifications column. Example: noreply@blogrpro.com
• Set the value of Path to header as [theme_path]/header.php
• Set the value of Path to sidebar as [theme_path]/sidebar.php
• Set the value of Path to footer as [theme_path]/footer.php
• Update the options.

Result

Following this article will integrate your WordPress blog theme with the Comment Subscription Manager in your WordPress blog. The integrated Comment Subscription Manager will look like the following screenshot.

Benefits

• A much better Comment Subscription Manager integrated with your blog theme.
• Facilitates you to change the email address that you have used for subscription.
• You can block any further notifications.
• Can unsubscribe from selected article subscriptions.

If you have any queries or facing any problems in following this article, you can contact me at anytime so that I can rectify your problem.