How to get your (first) Guest Post published?

September 13, 2009

Guest Posts are one of the best ways to build your network of readers.  But how do you get started with guest blogging?  How to make sure that the Publisher says ‘Yes’ to your guest blog request, right away?  This post talks about the step-by-step process to get your (first) guest post published Make a [...]

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Create Powerful Contact Forms using 123ContactForm.com

September 12, 2009

Contact forms are an essential component of any website or blog – as they provide an interface for your readers to get in touch with you.  123ContactForm gives you the flexibility to create HTML forms, style them to match your website or blog design, install them and get notified when someone fills it.  Read on [...]

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7 FREE and Essential Tools for Freelancers

September 6, 2009

To a freelancer, tools greatly improve productivity and much better if they are available for free.  Here is a list of simple, highly productive and FREE tools that I have been using in my various projects.  I am sure these will help you too. 1.  Skype Skype is very commonplace nowadays, but I am surprised [...]

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Create a Killer Services and Portfolio Page with Thesis Theme

September 2, 2009
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Been a while since I created a Thesis tutorial.  Here you go!  I will show you how to create a “killer” Services and Portfolio Page using Thesis Theme.  In the portfolio section, you can even add the snapshots of the sites you created, testimonials and more.  Read on how to do it!

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What to do with your Old Blog Posts that Died without Readers?

August 31, 2009
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I have many blog posts in my archives, that are good to read but unfortunately failed without any visits.  I am sure you too have a few of them, that were deprived of attention they deserve.  So are they really dead?  What can you do with such posts?

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5 Success Tips to start making money from affiliate marketing

August 29, 2009

Affiliate Marketing is one of main sources of income for Professional bloggers.  If Affiliate Marketing is a jargon to you, I would recommend the following sources of knowledge to learn more about it – What is Affiliate Marketing? (by Problogger) and Make Money Online eBook by John Chow.  But unfortunately, many Bloggers fail with Affiliate [...]

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Control Home Page Post Excerpt Content in Thesis Theme

August 22, 2009
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Thesis theme provides an option to display only post excerpts in the home page – but the problem I found was it shows very little content that might not entice the reader.  Also the post header images were gone from the home page. Then I found a very neat option available with Thesis to control [...]

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