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Its good to be back. today when I switched my laptop on, I was taken to iGoogle, my homepage. A beautiful article by Yoast got my attention.

Joost De Valk discusses a list of 11 WordPress plugins to improve your blog performance. I happen to use few of them whereas others were a revelation.

Here is the article

http://yoast.com/top-wordpress-plugins

What Are The Things That Make You Successful Blogger?

A blog is reflection of your personality and the kind of efforts you are putting in. There are millions of blogs and a similar number of bloggers over there but the ones those are successful are just a percentage of that.

There are certain traits and habits that would help you become successful. Not only they would help you to be effective and successful blogger but also help to achieve other goals in your life.

Here are the habits that you should practice and develop if you are not doing them already.

Be A Prolific Writer

A blog is nothing if you do not write. Many a blogs suffer this death of neglect. People install, throw welcome posts or fw more and then once in a while.

Do not follow that route. Write as much as your time allows and maintain a consistency.

Remember! More you write, the better your writing gets.

It needs hard work, resistance to temptation and patience to be prolific. Keep pounding those keys, no matter what!
Focus

Have a focus and blog around that. It is worthless to describe the colors of your suit or of your cat if you have a business blog. Look it from angle of business. Your reader is not interested in all the decorative stuff like that. They want the information and if your blog is not doing that, you stand to loose a reader.

If you provide value instead, your blog would be rewarded with line of loyal readers.

Learn

Most of the people who come to your blog would not cross check. Only very advanced readers do that. Naive readers would perceive you as an expert and you should not be in business if you are not up to the mark. Therefore keep learning and improving. Do not bluff or misrepresent the facts.

Learning makes you knowledge enriched and a knowledge enriched person is treated with respect and followed.

Moreover, things change quite fast over the internet. Therefore, as  an expert it is your obligation to learn the new changes and apply to your business.

Persevere

The word persevere means to continue in a course of action even in the face of difficulty or with little or no indication of success. The success does not come over night. It demands input and patience. You need to persist to be successful. Continue even if you fail to see any success sign.

It would surely arrive.

Proactive

Take charge. Plan ahead and chart a course for your success. Innovate whenever you can. Go to other people’s blog and make comments. Discuss in forums. Make friends and create industry links.

Slowly, this would build a tide that would result in huge leap

What Do You Follow?

How do you approach becoming successful. What habits would you advise?

List of topmost 42 content marketing blogs

Fast loading is now a demand of users as well as search engines. A site that loads faster is ranked better and provides a better user experience.

One of the main reasons for slower loading of the website is loading of external files. More external files you have to load, more time it would take.

In other words more HTTP request you have , slower is the loading time.

How To Reduce HTTP Requests?

Everything points to reduction. You can reduce HTTP request by

• Reducing Javascripts
• Reducing number of images to load
• Reducing CSS files

These points are discussed in detail by Josst De Valk at his blog. Here is a complete reading on How to reduce HTTP requests for your WordPress site.

He also discusses about content distribution, a feature I always have found interesting.

John Chow has come with nice seven tips to make your WordPress blog load faster.

Posting when you get maximum exposure and maximum response in the particular part of the day is a very good strategy. Being short on time I have never done this so far. But it does make sense.

Dan Zarrella has a good article on time of publishing.

Jack has important ideas to share here

After I did my meta review on Authority Pro WordPress Theme, I decided to purchase it and use for my review website Internet Marketing Meta Reviews.

And I am very happy that I did.

There are features that I wanted to add to that website but could not because I needed to purchase few scripts, go through hassles of installing them.

Authority Pro Theme is very professional theme for internet marketer. It builds Sales pages, squeeze pages, affiliate links, has good SEO options, and allows easy drag and drop laypout for content or advertisement. In fact it is good for any blog which intends to monetize.

The theme is well crafted and clean & loaded with features.

If you want to know the features in detail, you can read the review here

I came across this theme when I was looking for products for meta review. I was very impressed with the product.

Socrates is a very affordable and customizable theme which allow you customization and ad placement with just few clicks.

It seems perfect for affiliate and WordPress blogs.

It is a theme which is socially tuned. It has an inbuilt slider that allows you to put social links on the fly.

I did a detailed meta review of Socrates theme here.

If you want to check it for yourself you can directly go to website of Socrates theme.

Please do give your input.

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There is a different kind of spam or unwanted communication which is filling the inboxes of webmasters. It is about guest blogging and looking at the discussions around it, I am reminded of  “Link Building” or “Link Exchange” spams that use to stuff my inbox.

I have not ventures into guest blogging. Neither I have posted as a guest blogger nor I have invited {or approached} any blogger to post on my blog.

But there are people who do it on regular basis. It was within small circles till now but there seem professional services built for this purposes which charge from the bloggers to make guest posts on other blogs.

While the blogger pays money, other bloggers get spammed.

Ann Smarty has made a detailed post on this and discusses tell tale signs of guest post spams

No personalization

Boring cliches

Evident lies

Here is the actual article.

Do not forget the discussion part. It brings up many points to think about.