Content Marketing

51 Blogging And Publishing Platforms To Showcase Your Awesomeness

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 5, 2018

Blogging & Publishing Platforms

I first started creating web pages on Yahoo GeoCities, Tripod, etc. back in early 2000s. It was fun. Later, I tried blogging platforms like Blogger.com and WordPress.org and also started creating HTML web pages without any coding skills (thanks to Microsoft FrontPage). And that’s how I started web development.

Now with the advent of web 2.0 people want more. People no longer like static HTML web pages with dull designs. They want rich features with a great user experience. That’s how blogging platforms became massively popular.

I get a lot of emails (because of this Make Money Writing blog post) from my readers asking for a platform to share their articles or work online. And I used to recommend a blog — a WordPress blog to be more specific. But then I realized that a blog may not be relevant for everyone as things changes from one person to another.

If you’re a technology enthusiast then starting a blog makes sense. But if you’re a writer and want to contribute articles randomly, then publishing on Medium.com makes better sense — yeah, you don’t have to be a tech-savvy person for that! [Read more…] about 51 Blogging And Publishing Platforms To Showcase Your Awesomeness

Over 501 Blogging Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 3, 2018

Bloggers can’t live without tools! I mean, without their favorite blogging tools. And you probably know that there are hundreds of thousands of free and premium blogging tools on the web that lets you streamline your research, writing, and publishing process.

Over the past several months I have published a variety of tools lists: Productivity Tools 101, Social Media Tools 101, Internet Marketing Tools 101, Content Marketing Tools 101, Search Engine Optimization Tools 101, etc. But today, I just want to focus on only one thing — “Blogging”.

The idea is to list some of the best blogging tools out there. And the good thing….. most of them are free or freemium or at least comes with a free trial (there are exceptions too, btw).

Also, you almost definitely won’t need all the tools that are listed here but over time you will see yourself trying many of them (as they are all related in one way or the other). And that’s why I have perfectly organized all of them into categories and subcategories — to make the list easy to scan.

The Best Of The Best Blogging Tools — Curated!

A few years ago I tried to come up with a similar list, as a web directory for bloggers and marketers, but then I found it difficult to update as the list was not properly organized or categorized. And that’s how I started working on this list.

It’s your ultimate blogging tools and resources (or at least I think so). However, it’s very, very likely that I might have missed your favorite blogging tool as most of the tools that I have mentioned on this list are my personal favorites or something that I already knew existed. [Read more…] about Over 501 Blogging Tools (Free & Premium) You’ll Ever Need

Why 365 Blog Posts (Or Even Less) Is All You Need To Become A Successful Blogger

by MAHESH MOHAN on February 13, 2018

Why 365 Blog Posts (Or Even Less) Is All You Need To Become A Successful Blogger

Ever wondered how many blog posts you need to become a successful blogger? Well, I will show you why 365 blog posts is all you need for traffic, income, and probably fame.

If you’re planning to start a blog then people might have recommended you to write once weekly, twice weekly or maybe one daily. Yes, it’s true if you want to make your blog hyper-active, engaging, and would like to increase the number of subscribers.

But it’s also true that you can become a successful blogger and increase your blog traffic without following any publishing schedule.

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30 Things I Absolutely Love About Your Blog

by MAHESH MOHAN on February 11, 2018

I hate your blog. I love your blog.

I have already published 30 Things I Absolutely HATE About Your Blog — since then I have been thinking to come up with its reverse topic as well. That is, I wanted to publish a list of 30 things that I LOVE about a blog.

Once again, it’s just my personal view and hence there’s a good chance that you would disagree with me — with some or all of them. :D

And I also tried to cite other blogs and blog posts as examples for “things” wherever it’s possible.

Also, when I published the previous list, none of the “things” were actually technical in nature but on this list there are so many technical “things” that are not easily fixable (if it’s a problem).

However, it doesn’t really mean that I absolutely hate your blog. It’s just a perspective and I could be totally wrong.

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30 Things I Absolutely Hate About Your Blog

by MAHESH MOHAN on February 11, 2018

I love your blog. I hate your blog.

Whenever I visit a blog that I haven’t come across before, I try to find out how different it is from others or what makes it interesting. Not just that. I also notice things that I don’t like in it.

Your blog might be very popular. But it wouldn’t stop me from finding things I don’t like. I can’t stop myself from doing it.

Over the past few months I started curating such a list in my Evernote and I’m sharing it here.

And I believe most of them can be fixed (if you think it must be fixed) as none of them is technical in nature (if it’s a technical problem then it’s you who created it).

But hey, it’s just my personal view and hence there’s a good chance that you would disagree with me — with some or all of them. :D

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27 Things Before Starting A WordPress Blog

by MAHESH MOHAN on February 11, 2018

Starting A WordPress Blog

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So you want to be a blogger? That’s great! Blogging is simple and fun but not easy. Definitely not easy. Even though you can set up a WordPress blog in less than 10 minutes, it takes countless hours of focus and patience to make things look the way you want.

When I wrote the blog post You Can’t START A Blog In 10 Minutes. Period., I not only wanted to highlight that it’s not easy to start a blog but also wished to create a series of posts to list everything you need to take care of while starting a new WordPress blog.

First things first. What’s your story? Why do you want to start a blog?

Over the years, I have noticed that almost all full-time bloggers have published a “How To Start A Blog In 10 Minutes” kind of tutorial and they make the entire process sound so simple.

Since starting a blog seems easy, almost everyone today wants to have a blog without really thinking about its purpose. In reality, it doesn’t work that way.

So before you do anything else, think about why you want to start a blog.

(Do I see you putting on your thinking cap? :))

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Over 30 Handpicked Social Media (And Web 2.0) Sites To Drive Traffic To Your Blog

by MAHESH MOHAN on February 11, 2018

Social Media websites can drive insanely great traffic to your blog if you have a good social media marketing strategy. But it can drive fair amount of traffic if you just submit blog posts regularly to your social media profiles.

Social media traffic is as important as organic traffic from search engines as we can’t rely on Google alone. They continue to push algorithmic updates like Panda, Penguin and who knows the next could be Giraffe.

It means that we must diversify the way we get traffic. I’m going to list the top social media and other websites that you shouldn’t ignore or must use as part of your social media marketing strategy.

I’m NOT going to list all the stupid social media or the so called web 2.0 sites out there as I’m going to focus only on sites that can drive traffic to our websites in one way or the other and not for building backlinks.

Though the traffic quality of social media can’t be matched with that of organic traffic, it is still important. It helps us to keep the bounce rate low which is assumed to be one of the many ranking signals used by Google.

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