How to beat blogger's block?

How to beat blogger's block?

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Imagine a situation. You are about to write your next post on your blog. You prepare yourself and place yourself in front of your computer.And suddenly you experience a total mind block. You have no idea what and how to write. You try hard to write something only to make situation worse. You start banging your head on the wall but this doesn't help as well. You have no clue what has gone wrong with you and how to combat it. And then after sometime (usually after 2-3 days) everything becomes fine.

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How to blog without getting sued?

How to blog without getting sued?

Internet used to be the playground of a few handful of people a few years ago. But now everyone has their say, thanks to blogs and social media sites. Social media sites in general and blogs in particular has transformed internet into a democratic media. The 'freedom of speech' that everybody talks about can now be seen on virtual world of internet as well.

Although this advancement has been quite exceptional but the so called 'freedom of speech' has also created situations where bloggers got sued because of it (mostly due to misuse of it). The fine line between being critical and being defamatory is obscure and has added to the plight of bloggers. As a result, the cases of bloggers getting sued has been on rise since last couple of years.

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Basic SEO tips for blogging beginners

Basic SEO tips for blogging beginners

SEO is quite a favorite topic between internet marketers and bloggers alike and many websites are in place focusing only on SEO. So, it won't be possible to discuss it all in one post. In this post, I will deal about very basic of SEO. I will not dive into advanced things and craft this post with a newbie in mind.

With this said, let us now jump off to know some basic SEO.

What is SEO and how a blogger can benefit from it?
Although this might not be a difficult question to answer for many of you but let me answer this for someone who has just joined the internet world and has no idea about it.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. In its simplest form it is the things you do on your site and off it to get high search engine rankings. Search engines rank websites by taking certain factors into account. SEO is just knowing those factors and applying that knowledge to attain a high search engine rankings.

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How to get traffic to your blog through Stumble Upon [Video post]

How to get traffic to your blog through Stumble Upon [Video post]

One of the challenges , most of the bloggers face is, getting traffic to a new blog (sometimes even old blog if you are not doing things right). You try hard and hard writing useful content , do some SEO and comment in forums and other blogs.

Still you wonder why the traffic is not coming .Here is the solution.One of the easiest way to get traffic to blog is through Stumble Upon. The traffic from StumbleUpon is quick and unlike other social media sites you don't require a lot of votes to get visitors.


You just submit your blog or blog posts and manage to get some votes and see visitors coming to your blog. Another good thing with stumbleUpon is traffic is sustained.This means you will get traffic as long as people keep on giving thumbs up to your posts.

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Getting started with Stumble Upon [Video post]

Getting started with Stumble Upon [Video post]

I am posting two videos here in this post for someone who is a beginner and joined the internet world just a few days ago. These first videos shows how you sign up and submit a page to stumble upon and the other one shows how you use the Stumble Upon toolbar.

But before you watch these videos let me give you some basic ideas about Stumble Upon.

Stumble Upon is a social bookmarking site and a way to randomly discover and surf col websites on the net.The site has a virtual community behind it who discover ,vote and review the pages and based upon votings and reviews the websites are presented to an user.

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How your Tweets and Twitter followers are correlated? [Case Study]

How your Tweets and Twitter followers are correlated? [Case Study]

It has been a week since I became active on Twitter and I have devoted this time in learning the etiquette of this social media site. This also allowed me some time to observe some correlation between the tweets and followers you get subsequent to those tweets.

First let me give you some stats of my Twitter usage during the week. At the time of writing this post , I had made 170 updates (tweets) ,I have 57 people following me and I am following 32 people. I got 12 @ replies and sent 17 . I got 4 DMs (direct messages) and sent out 4 to others.These numbers are not great but since I have been there only for a week and mostly as bystander, so, these numbers are all expected.

During these one week I noticed some specific type of tweets getting me more followers than others. Furthermore, this has been a repetitive phenomenon ,meaning this phenomenon has been reproducible time and again. This led me to think that there certainly is some correlation between tweets and follower number.

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8 reasons why a blogger should be on Twitter?

8 reasons why a blogger should be on Twitter?

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I came to know about Twitter last year in March through some of the posts on Problogger. But for some strange reasons those 140 characters appeared less to me and I decided not to tweet. I can tell you, I was such a dumb ass to make such a decision and deserved to be kicked on my backside.
Anyways ,it is better to be late than never.

Twitter has shown tremendous growth last year and tweeting phenomena has taken over every other social media site. I have become a part of Twitter community only recently and I have discovered some areas where Twitter can be beneficial from a blogger's perspective. This is what I am going to deal in here today.( I have also posted a video at the end of the post on the topic and hope you would enoy watching this.)

OK, then, let's discover the 8 reasons why a blogger should be on Twitter?

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How to drive traffic to a very new blog?

How to drive traffic to a very new blog?

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I started my first blog back in 2006 about two and half years ago from now.The blog was about 'Tourist places in India".This was followed by two other blogs, one on 'Medical studies' and another one on 'Hill-stations in India". Although I have abandoned these blogs now but I learnt a lot from them.Particularly the first one.One thing that was common to all these three blogs was there were no visitors until a few months of starting these blogs.

While running those blogs I learnt a lot about driving traffic to new blog and this is what I am going to discuss in this post.I have learnt these tips from my earlier experiences as well as by taking a look at activities of other bloggers in the blogosphere.

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