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11 Blogging Years. 11 Blogging Lessons. 11 Blogging Tips.

by MAHESH MOHAN on August 13, 2018

Note: This blog post is an updated version of 7 Blogging Years. 7 Blogging Lessons. 7 Blogging Tips. (published 4 years and 100 blog posts ago).

Yes, that’s right! It’s the 11th Blogoversary of Minterest. I started Minterest (minterest.com) as a personal finance blog in 2006, and later in August 2007, I started blogging about “Money, Internet, Investing” (yes, that was the first tagline of Minterest and now it’s — tech. marketing. mashups.).

To be honest it was literally “Just another WordPress site” and I was simply rehashing topics that were of “My interest“. But there was one thing… I was learning. And the transition from Blogger.com to WordPress.org is simply amazing.

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I started creating blogs on Blogger.com back in 2004 and was treating it like a simple publishing tool. I guess the reason why it didn’t impress or motivate me much was its inability to customize things the way I wanted.

When I tried WordPress I liked almost all of its aspects and found out that I liked coding as well. Oh yeah, I’m a software engineer by education but it is not the coding that inspired me — it’s the magic in “technology”. Thanks to Microsoft.

Coming back…

I’m going to feature here 11 blogging lessons and tips that I have… learned, realized, or experienced in one way or the other over the past many, many years.

The 101 Best Ever Stock Market Quotes To Make You A Better Trader/Investor

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 20, 2018

101 Stock Market Quotes

Are you a stock market trader or investor looking for some inspiration to take your trades to the next level? Look no further — I’ve compiled some of the finest stock market quotes for traders and investors just like you.

But hey, I haven’t included any investing quotes by Warren Buffett as it’s already published as a dedicated blog post.

101 Investing & Trading Quotes & Sayings For Success

Here are the top investing and trading quotes that I like the most. And I would say these are not just quotable quotes. It tells you the story of successful (oh yeah, failed too) traders or investors from across the globe. [Read more…] about The 101 Best Ever Stock Market Quotes To Make You A Better Trader/Investor

How To Create Custom Search Engines In Google Chrome To Boost Productivity

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 15, 2018

Google Chrome’s Omnibox (or the address bar) is not something new to you and me.It allows us to navigate to a webpage or search the web from the address bar. And yeah, it even acts as a search engine to browse your own search and Chrome browsing history.

But did you know that it’s much more than just an address bar? That it can easily boost your productivity by helping you create and add your own custom search engines?

If you’re a Web 2.0 fanatic then I’m pretty sure that you often use the search engines by the popular (and biggest) web 2.0 sites like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. But the problem is, every time you want to use its search feature, you have to actually visit those websites and then use its search function.

Of course, Google Chrome automatically adds all those custom search engines when you visit those websites (even if you don’t want to). That is, when you visit Amazon.com and uses its search engine, Chrome automatically adds a custom Amazon search to its list of search engines.

Like this:

Google Chrome Custom Search Engines (Auto Generated)

It’s a nice feature, right? Well, not necessarily. The problem arises when you need tailored search results and a custom shortcut key (or known as the keyword in Google Chrome’s custom search engines).

Over 61 Amazon Products & Services You Probably Don’t Know

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 14, 2018

First Published: September 26, 2016; Last Updated: Wednesday, March 14, 2018.

Amazon is the largest retailer on the web. I’m not an Amazon fanatic but I like to shop online (or on Amazon). And I believe Amazon will become a lot more bigger than what it is today.

For me Amazon was all about online shopping and shopping only until a few years go, and then I came to know about its dominance in the cloud computing space.

That’s how I became curious and made a plan to list all its products and services and app (or this very blog post).

So today, I’m listing all the products and services and apps by Amazon. And I will be updating this article as they launch more products and services.

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Over 61 Elon Musk Quotes That’ll Inspire You To Dream Big

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 4, 2018

Elon Musk

Elon Musk. Tesla. SpaceX. The future.

Future thinker Elon Musk is undoubtedly one of the best inventors of our times. He dreams big, invest his own money in whatever he builds and accepts failure too. He rules the tech space by thinking out of the box just like Henry Ford once did with motor cars.

These are the companies founded/co-founded by Elon Musk

PayPal
SpaceX
Tesla
SolarCity
Hyperloop
OpenAI
Neuralink
The Boring Company

I’m a hardcore user of PayPal but I didn’t know anything about Elon Musk until I come across the term “PayPal Mafia”. “PayPal Mafia” is a term used to indicate a group of former PayPal employees and founders who have since founded and developed additional technology companies.

I was super-impressed, when I realized that some of the best dot com companies were in one way or the other founded/co-founded by the “PayPal Mafia”. It includes YouTube, LinkedIn, Yammer, Yelp, Facebook, Digg, Flickr, Technorati, Reddit, Xoom, and so on. In fact, the PayPal Mafia plays an important role in the rise of Web 2.0.

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The 100+ Most Useful Websites For (Almost) Anyone And Everyone

by MAHESH MOHAN on March 4, 2018

Google search, Bing search, or Yahoo search. But have you ever tried the DuckDuckGo search? It’s a search engine that doesn’t track you and has everything (like suggestions, image search, video search, etc.) you expect from a search engine.

There’s a very good chance that we end up using only the most popular websites on the web because they are just everywhere. However, it doesn’t really mean that they’re the best websites on the Internet.

Needless to say, “popular” isn’t necessarily the best. And that’s how I decided to come up with a list of extremely useful (and probably less-known) websites on the web.

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The Fantastic Hundred Websites

Whether you’re a student, a professional, or a homemaker, I have hand-picked one hundred most useful websites for you — to get things done, or to spend time with, or to find something interesting. And no, it doesn’t include the Facebooks and Amazons of the world. [Read more…] about The 100+ Most Useful Websites For (Almost) Anyone And Everyone

How To Start A Premium WordPress Blog (Step-by-Step Guide)

by MAHESH MOHAN on January 11, 2018

How To Start A WordPress Blog (Step by Step)

So you want to start a blog? That’s fantastic! 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. So my aim is to help you set up a blog from scratch on the world’s most awesome blogging platform – WordPress.org.

First things first.

Why WordPress?

Because it’s a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress started as just a blogging system, but has evolved to be used as full content management system and so much more through the thousands of plugins and widgets and themes, WordPress is limited only by your imagination and tech chops.

If you have already started a WordPress blog in the past then you have some edge, and if you are also willing to spend some money on marketing and promotion then you are even better placed to start a WordPress blog than another beginner.

Just a friendly reminder, as a newbie blogger no one will be aware of your blog, no one might read your blog posts. It will be just another blog. Well, it’s a start. A beginning. And yes, in time, you can make all the difference.

So let’s get started!
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