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Why use WordPress?
Written by Jai on April 19, 2008 – 11:45 pm - 1,456 views
If you are new to WordPress and looking for reasons to use WordPress as a CMS (content management system) in your new website, let me give you some.
Open Source Software
WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.
User Friendly
You don’t really have to be experienced to use WordPress on your website. Nowadays most of the hosting companies provide the ability to install WordPress on your site at a single click of the mouse. The administration section is easy to navigate and its even easy to add articles/content to your website.
Themes Support
You will never run short of templates when using WordPress. If you don’t like the themes that come with the default installation of WordPress, you can hunt on the Internet and you will find thousands of free themes that you can download and use for your website. There are themes which can even make your website look like a regular site instead of a blog.
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Written by Jai on January 28, 2008 – 1:58 pm - 4,467 views 
Here is a list of some very creative ways which can help you make your blog popular. If not popular, at least it will give you some ideas of what to post on your blog if you are running out of topics to write about.
- Start a controversy. Just remember not to cross the line.
- Start a contest. Make sure to end it too.
- Give away free goodies. People love them.
- Write about other bloggers to interest their visitors to read your blog. Keep it positive.
- Dress up your blog often (By dress-up I mean tweaking the design)
- Interview other bloggers and post the interview.
- Write about your personal life sometimes.
- Ask questions to your visitors.
- Share some secrets.
- Celebrate your birthday with your visitors. Think of innovative ways for doing this.
- Celebrate your blog’s birthday too.
- Write something funny or disgusting. (Don’t make it a habit)
- Make a bumper sticker with your blog’s name and stick it on your car. (Just make sure you drive often)
- Write an e-book and distribute it to your visitors for free.
- Introduce a commission based affiliate program.
- Tell your visitors about your latest fad or obsession.
- Post interesting pictures of your pets.
- Congratulate the top commentators occasionally.
- Encourage sharing of opinions.
- Donate for a cause or become a volunteer for a non-profit organization. Ask your visitors to join you.
- Put your blog’s ad in the local newspaper or the yellow pages.
- Hold blog competitions.
- Create polls.
- Hold an auction and let people bid for something useful (For example, advertising space on your blog).
- Write about your blog achievements.
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Written by Jai on January 23, 2008 – 10:39 am - 1,478 views
Our favorite blogging CMS, WordPress, has received a whopping $29.5 million as funding from four companies, to buffer as it invests in other services, including an antispam filter and an online-identity product. These companies did not reveal the size of each firm’s investment, although The New York Times Company’s stake is the smallest one.
The Times Company had previously maintained a business relationship with Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular WordPress publishing platform. The About.com guide site, which was purchased by the Times Company in 2005, is published using the WordPress platform. The New York Times has also produced more than 50 blogs using the platform.
I am really proud to be a WordPress user and so are many other bloggers around the world. What about you?
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Written by Jai on December 28, 2007 – 4:37 pm - 1,735 views
This time of the year is really special because everybody looks back and analyzes what they have done throughout the year, and also make resolutions for the upcoming year. I have prepared this interesting little report on the progress of this website, so that all you readers can judge the quality of Blogohblog dot com. Here it is :-
Internet Stats
Alexa Traffic Rank : 26,813
Google Pagerank : 6
Yahoo Back links : 8,25,000
Google Back links : 4,76,870 (Source : Google webmaster tools)
Technorati : Rank » 8 | Authority » 14,591
Compete Rank : 40,077
Most traffic from : USA
Other Stats
WordPress Themes Built : 32
Total no. of People using our themes : 16,000+ (This is an approximate figure derived from Technorati)
Dashboard Statistics : 94 Posts & 1,836 Comments
Money Earned so far : $4,000 + (This figure is after Bob sold this blog to me on 5th November)
I am sure we have done well so far and also hope to continue progressing in the year 2008 with better pace. Free themes will continue to flow and lots of innovations are on the way (which include a new look for this site).
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Written by Jai on December 12, 2007 – 3:51 pm - 1,889 viewsWe all love our blogs, nurturing it day in day out with unique, beautifully structured content only to discover that unfortunately that isn’t enough. What good is a blog if no one visits it, right? Today I have a little something that will get you hopping with joy, and traffic. Yes, I am talking about none other than Twitter.
Twitter is a cool community driven social networking site that provides an amazing tool for friends family and even strangers to keep in touch with each other while on the go. Unlike most normal social networks, Twitter doesn’t require the use of a computer seeing as updates can be sent using a normal mobile phone. You might be asking yourself how is this going to help your blog, read on and I’ll answer that question.
The system is really simple. A user creates an account on twitter which can be accessed by anyone from around the world. Individuals then write short messages, known as twits, which may contain a maximum of 140 characters, the same as in a standard text message. Twits can be on any topic desired and can include links to sites, other members or anything you find interesting. Can you start to see the potentials here?
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Written by Jai on December 5, 2007 – 2:45 am - 2,381 views
After the release of my e-book on Wordpress SEO, it will be a long time before I release another e-book. So, to provide you all with some more fresh content, I am writing about an e-book written by one of my friends, Althaf Ahmed. He runs the website called Blogrepreneur.com and has recently released his e-book on Google Analytics. The e-book is called “ABC of Google Analytics”. This e-book comes as a relief for all those webmasters who have been banking on Google’s Help for understanding and implementing Google Analytics. Althaf has de-mystified the Google Analytics concept in his quality e-book.The e-book is 35 pages long and is well written. It begins with a basic “How to Sign up” and moves on to the setup and the deeper concepts in Google Analytics. He has taken good care to explain the different features. One element missing in the book is the use of screenshots. There are a few, but they are inadequate. Althaf, I am sure you can do something about this.
Althaf hails from the same country I reside in, India. He lives in the city of Bangalore and holds a Business and marketing background. Read more »
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Written by Jai on November 21, 2007 – 10:33 pm - 1,358 viewsI checked my Technorati Ranking and was amazed to see Blogohblog.com at Rank 12. I would say a world record has been broken for the fastest climb on Technorati rankings!!
DIGG THIS!
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Written by Jai on November 12, 2007 – 12:01 pm - 2,069 viewsToday, I was going through my daily news and came across something which I had to share with all of you. The news mentioned about the rocketing number of online blogs and the accelerated spread of bloggers. I just made this graphic from the statistics that were provided as per Technorati. Count yourself in if you are a blogger ! 
I would like every blogger to DIGG this for us!
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