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This is a guest post by Lucas Clum. Blogging can be a lonely business. You write and publish post after post in the hope of attracting more traffic, and in turn more revenue, but with little or no information as to who is reading your blog, how they are finding you and most importantly how you can generate more visits. Free to use, Google Analytics is undoubtedly one of the best performing web

Images usually are the largest component of a web page as they on average make up 62% of a web page size. Larger images correlate with slower web page load time; it creates a bad user experience and will drive them away from your blog. If you intend to keep your readers, you would want to reduce the file size of images you post on your blog. You can do that in two ways: By shrinking the image

This is a guest post by Emma-Julie Fox. There are thousands of articles discussing which blogging strategies have worked wonderfully in the past, which ones are effective at present, and which ones are likely to remain valuable in the future. It’s easy to get lost in the sea of information unless you seek answers to one question at a time. So, here’s a list that cuts out the noise and gives a

Introducing two free online tools from Blogger Sentral. The two tools are a character counter and a HTML escape tool. These tools can simplify your day to day tasks as a blogger. I personally use the character counter to optimize the post title whenever I’m publishing a new post. As for the escape tool, it is a must-use when I need to post codes in the comments. Character counter This free

This is a guest post by Erin Steiner. Whatever business you are in, making sure you know what people are saying about you online is key to your professional survival. You need to monitor and protect your online reputation just as closely as you would monitor your offline reputation. Here are nine ways that you can do that. How many avenues do people use to talk about you? 1. Hire a

This is a guest post by Sharon Robinson. Welcome to the blogosphere! You can now join 145 million (86 million Tumblr1 users and 59 million WordPress2 users) other bloggers give or take in trying to make a name, and a living, in the rapidly evolving world of blogging. And talk about rapidly evolving; the first blog was created in 1997 and we are already at 145 million blogs – sure is getting