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This is a guest post by Veronica Clyde. You may be new to the world of eBooks and perhaps slightly confused at all of the eBook options out here.  However, this is clearly where the publishing industry is headed.  It’s time to take a crash course in eBook publishing 101 and how you can read eBooks using your Smartphones and Apple devices. The eBook World and Big Names in Publishing For starters

This is a guest post by Sarah Brooks. Nowadays, it seems like just about everybody has a blog. Whether you’re a stay-at-home mom looking to document your kids’ lives, a crafter creating the latest do-it-yourself projects, or a business owner looking to market and make a name for your brand, blogging could be the answer to doing what you love and making an income from it. That’s right, it’s

This is a guest post by Jessy Troy. I always say that of any blogging platform out there, Wordpress is the simplest. It has many advanced features, but even a complete novice can quickly learn to build their own site. Everything from themes to coding is laid out in the simplest way, many user friendly features made automated or guided, while still being accessible for experienced users. Plugins

You can now display your latest (Pinterest) pins on your blog. This widget  lets you choose whether to display your general pins or pins from a specific board. All you need is your profile or board URL and use that in the Pinterest widget builder.  Step 1: Building the widget Go to Pinterest widget builder page.  Select Profile Widget if you want to display general pins, or select Board

This is a guest post by Andrew Kennedy. As with any other talent or skill, creative writing varies from author to author in terms of their opinions, thoughts and definitions regarding excellent writing style. In college, one of my professors would continually dock my grade for using “but” or “and” at the beginning of a sentence. My sister-in-law however, had a professor that thoroughly loved the

This is the latest version of our original popular Pin It button tutorial. This Pin It button allows your readers to share your posts without having to leave your blog. It pulls all available images from a post and lets them choose which image to pin. It also comes with an optional counter that displays how many times a blog post has been pinned. Adding Pin It button to Blogger post This Pin It

This is a guest post by Marty Reardon. If  you're the owner of a blog, whatever topic it might be on, some of your biggest questions will probably revolve around whether to allow comments or not and how to manage them if you do. This is no small issue consider and you need to carefully weigh the benefits and costs of allowing comments before making any choices either way. Here, to help you out

People can learn a lot about you from the internet. What you say, do, who you hang out with and what others say about you online is out in the open on the web. All this information can have an impact on how you are perceived by others. This infographic shows how online reputation can affect your real life and what you can do about it. Click on image for a larger version. This infographic is

This is a guest post by Harshit Singhal. Blogging is not just a mere hobby these days, it is more like a full fledged business, for there is a good amount of money to be made but a lot of competition to go along with it as well. To stand out among the rest of the pack, you need serious dedication, patience and hard work, all of which can end up taking a lot of energy and making you feel exhausted

The ability to create tables is a feature that is lacking in Blogger post editor. To add a table you not only have to know the required HTML tags, but also have to painstakingly construct the table by arranging the tags manually in post HTML. That’s not very appealing if you ask me. That’s why I use Windows Live Writer as my post editor. That said, if you prefer to stick with Blogger post editor

Thank you for all of the participants of our giveaway for three 14-day subscriptions to Depositphotos.com, a site that provides premium royalty-free stock photos, illustrations and vector images at affordable prices. Here are the three winners: Shannon Flora-Johnson Kunmi oni Piotr Kasperczyk Congratulations to all the winners! They will be contacted by Depositphotos team regarding their

This is a guest post by Mark Dwayne. Blogs typically have their own commenting section in their pages. However, for some reasons, it is common for some blogs to deactivate their commenting section due to some strategic reasons. It is always a good practice to have a vibrant commenting section to initiate conversation amongst users. After all that is the purpose of having a blog. This can be more

This is a guest post by Sonia Jackson. This article is a great little tool to use, to judge whether your blog is scaring readers away. Each numbered item contains a number of criticisms that a person reading your blog may make. Read each paragraph and pay attention to each comment made in each sentence, and ask yourself, “Could someone make this comment about my blog?” Some paragraphs may only

When a user goes to a nonexistent URL on your blog, Blogger will display this Error 404 (Page Not Found) message at the top of your blog post area: "Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist." Hmm… probably not the best first impression you’d want to give a potential reader. Before  the user hits the Back button or closes the browser’s window/tab and disappears forever,

Having the right images certainly adds to the quality of your blog post. However, finding top quality free images is not easy. But then comes Depositphotos … with three free subscriptions to their site. Yes, the kind people over at Depositphotos has agreed to give away three 14-day free subscriptions to their site. Depositphotos.com is a stock photo agency engaged in selling photographs and

This is a guest post by Ruben Corbo. Search Engine Optimization is usually one of the first lessons inculcated among entrepreneurs who operate in the World Wide Web. They have been taught about the importance of establishing online presence and accessibility. As such, merchants battle each other in the quest to earn high ranks on search results. While this is not necessarily incorrect, it is not

This is a guest post by Michel. An iPhone is full of features and functionalities, which makes it an ideal device for carrying out a number of tasks. For instance, if you want to reserve a table at your favorite restaurant or book a ticket, all that you have to do is install the relevant app such as Yelp or OpenTable on your iPhone and do the needful. But, many users don’t know how to tap into

This is a guest post by David Lazar. So you have successfully begun writing for your own blog and you are starting to gain a lot of contacts with fellow bloggers in similar niches – do you create a blogroll on your blog or not? It is a question that does not have a definitive answer. Some people believe that a blogroll is beneficial to any blogger, while others think that it is completely

This is a guest post by Chris. Blogger has already introduced custom domain name. If you purchase a domain name through Blogger, there’s no issue in setting it up because Blogger automatically configures CNAME. However if you purchased the domain name separately, you have to manually configure it. This post I’m going to show you how to host your own domain name on Blogger. Mainly you have to