Nov 27, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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Images are great way to spice up your blog posts, eBooks and other websites. Using attention capturing image on a blog post can greatly increase the chances of your visitors to check out that post. The usual options to get images, like stock photos or shared images from services like Flickr are great, but occasionally you might want something different.
Let me introduce you to Wordle.
Wordle is a tool that you can use to create “word clouds” from text that you provide, either by typing or copy-pasting text to the tool or inserting an URL address. You can use Wordle to create UNIQUE images for your blog, blog posts, eBooks or even T-Shirts.
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Nov 26, 2009
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Guest Blogger
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This is a guest post by Nicholas Cardot. If you are interested in writing a guest post to Zemalf.com, go ahead and contact me.
So you want to start a blog? That’s great. You should. They’re fun. They’re rewarding. They can be profitable and they’re a great way to express your passions to the world. So there you go. You’re off to start a blog.
Not so fast. Before you jump in and start publishing article after amazing article on a brand new blog, let me give you some sagely advice to help you really get started on the right foot. If you want more than just your mom to read your articles then you want to take these tips and put them into practice before you start your blog.
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Oct 23, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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As I wrote in the previous post, blog commenting is very effective tactic to build your personal brand, get some back links and drive traffic back to your blog while at it.
Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2009 study showed, bloggers use approximately 3 hours a week commenting on blogs, which is quite substantial. As you are blog commenting “anyway”, it is worth it to make the most out of those 3 hours, right? Or if you like, use the strategies to spend less time on commenting and achieve the same or better results.
With this article, you’ll be able to take your blog commenting to the next level and make the most out of your blog comments. I’ll show you a blog commenting strategy, techniques you can use and a couple of services you can utilize to leverage your blog comments even further.
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Sep 21, 2009
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Antti Kokkonen
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This essential .htaccess rules article is a part of the blog optimization techniques I’ve implemented lately and taken the loading times of my blog from 12-18 seconds to 4-7 seconds. As a bonus, these .htaccess rules improved the blog security at the same time.
Here’s the thing. Many blogs have a .htaccess file that only has the rules WordPress (or any other blogging platform) install places there and possibly rules a plugin has created too. If you don’t add these rules to your root .htaccess file, you’re missing out easy performance improvements any blogger can have. So don’t count on your hosting provider’s default rules (if there even is any) and make your blog better with these simple .htaccess rules.
As a part of general optimizing a blog for both fast page loading and securing the site, the .htaccess -file at the root of your domain is an easy way to do web page optimization on a site level. Putting these rules into use won’t alone cut your page loading times to half, but they do provide the foundation for further optimization and speed improvements for your blog, or any website for that matter.
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How to get more blog comments and discussion
On this post I will show 15 tips you can use to encourage discussion on your blog. The first step is to setup your blog in a way that it encourages the right kind of comments and when the platform is in order, it is building a discussion culture to your blog and start building a community.
If you are looking to encourage interaction between the readers, a bit like in forums, you need to encourage comments and replies as well. The number of comments in itself doesn’t do anything. The purpose of this post is not only to get more blog comments, but to get the right kind of blog comments.
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Topic: Blogging