You are writing something worth reading everyday and also spend a lot of time gathering traffic for your blog but you are not getting much appreciation for you work! This means that not all the visitors are reading those texts on your blogs which you spend hours to write. Simply bringing visitors but getting no real response is just like winning that race but not getting the prize and acknowledgement. If you are facing this problem then do one thing, open your blog right now and look at some old post which you might have forgot and then for time being forget that you are the owner of the blog. Now try to read your blog as a visitor just like you read other blogs. Notice how user friendly your blog is, note down everything like font site, are they comfortable enough to read or not, any kind of flashy advertisement that may be distracting (or annoying), background color too bight or too dull causing eye strain (headache?) etc.

After you have done your research and complied a report, start fixing those issues and take a look again. Repeat until you are satisfied. You can also look at top blogs and take some hint from there. Ask some of your online friends (tell them to be honest) to check for you if they are experiencing the difference. Enjoy the better blogging (and rewarding) experience!

There are people who consider blog as a blog and some think it as a website with categories, achieves listed on side. But just like you cannot use a bike engine to run a car (well it may be but it will be a bad idea), similarly a blog is a blog. What I mean to say that if you need a company website for official use, make it a proper website with the html, PHP or whatever language you want to use in it and not simply install wordpress and use a free template to save time. You will say, why not do that when it’s simpler, look nice and saves money. You never know how many people are going to get a bad image about your company. There are two kinds of people, one who know what a blog is and others who are completely unaware. So people who know blog will at once sat, “oh this guy is so lazy and cheap that he installed blog and showing it as a website” and other who don’t know must have seen many blogs and they must have an image that this is something easy (maybe they know its free) as everyone is having it. So overall, it’s better to have a true website when there is a need of website and not a blog. At this point you will say that you can find some template or customize it to look just like any other website! But if you are doing so much, what’s wrong is making a normal CSS design? You will have better control over its layout and it will be lighter on system too. it doesn’t take long to XHTML a template psd. Having a /blog with a proper website is a plus point and I always favor that. Its good SEO wise too.

Soon after the very late release of Windows Vista, there were rumors of new operating system from Microsoft called Windows 7. Vista being a biggest flop, it looks like even Microsoft is now not considering worth spending time on it for improving it. People are usually scared of installing service packs and they have an image in mind since early days of XP that service packs makes operating system even slower. With the team working hard on Windows 7 now, it was not possible to remain quiet and Microsoft launched a Blog on Windows 7. The Windows 7 blog is maintained by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product.

I feel very happy to announce that we have successfully completed one year in blogging. It started with a not so serious intention and main focus was given on developing a web agency site but then I got into blogging and started this blog. I made other blogs too like my personal blog hashim.110mb.com which is freely hosted at 110mb free hosting. Other blogs include Gadget5.com which is purely for my gadgets love. Seeing the success in blogging, I made two new blogs recently. One is on jokes and I got a nice domain for it called jokesboy.com and other on entertainment called cieze.com. Cieze.com looks short and sweet name but it doesn’t have any meaning actually. I selected it mainly because its short, memorable and its an expired domain. Expired means it has got some age and even decent alexa ranking!

Bloggers do their best to write interesting post in their blog but if there are no readers of it, its all waste of time. It like peacock dancing in jungle where no one is there to watch it! Buzzfuse.com has been a revolution in bringing the much needed buzz to every post in your blog and bringing in a good traffic. I have been using it in my other blogs and very happy with the results, thinking of adding in every blog that I run. If you have a blog, take out few seconds to signup at Buzzfuse and start creating a buzz about your blog articles from today!

Recently many blogs noticed a drop in their Google page rank and was becoming difficult to judge the quality of blog just from its page rank. A new system of RealRank from Izea is very helpful here as it show the rank of blogs according to the amount of traffic it receive. Now bloggers don not need to worry about Google dance anymore and keep their good work up. Google search engine algorithm of giving rank changes and certain blogs get effected but now with real rank, there will be no misjudgment and this is good for advertisers also who are interested in advertising in blogs. They can just look at IZEARanks.com and know how much traffic a blog gets etc. RealRank is really makes the true judgment of blogs and both bloggers and advertisers benefit from it. The site is still in Alpha stage but it looks great. You will be impressed with the graphics of this site and with the style with which it display the reports. The graph lets you know the realrank, page views and unique hits of more than one blog at a time and it’s a great way of comparing data one all your blog at once. The auto complete blog feature in blog search field is also very helpful. Signup with Izea and see your blog rank today!