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3rd Anniversary Celebration

by Shanker Bakshi 29 August 2010 Blogging

I am celebrating “Shanker Bakshi dot Com” third birthday today, 29th August 2010. Yes , you guessed it right, I am a big fan of Michael Jackson so I started it on his birthday exactly three years back. He is not here but we can always found his presence through his music.
How about distributing some free stuff as my birthday treat?
I am giving you following stuff for FREE!!!
1. eBook “WordPress Websites Secrets” (if you have .....

Blogging is fun, Isn’t it?

by Shanker Bakshi 15 July 2010 Blogging

So guys whats up, How you doing. Doing great.
A frustrated blogger called me up yesterday, sounding down and out, was very sad, not getting the kind of success he was wishing. He was disappointed because he was not making any money out of blogging. I asked him since how long he is blogging he told me that he started his blogging five or six months back and wrote about 38 blog .....

Weekly Roundup – Best of BlogSphere

by Shanker Bakshi 10 July 2010 Blogging

Its a prime responsibility on a blogger to keep updating the blog every day or every alternate day it is equally important to brush up knowledge by reading blogs in his niche to know whats happening around, the third important aspact of blogging is to be atcive on social media sites like facebook and Twitter. Well thats a huge task for a part time blogger but somehow these are the prime requirement if you really want to do .....

Blogger Introduces Template Designer

by Shanker Bakshi 12 June 2010 Blogging

Good News for those who are blogging at Big Daddy’s blogging platform blogger.com. They can now choose theme they like and change it with the click of a button.
Since the launch, we fixed many bugs and added even more themes and background images. But the Blogger Template Designer has only been available on Blogger in Draft, which is why we’re excited to announce that the Blogger Template Designer is now available to everyone.
I started my .....

Top 5 Blogging Software for Self Hosted Blogs

by Shanker Bakshi 2 June 2010 Blogging

When its comes to self Hosted blogging the only thing which comes to our mind is WordPress. This is the most popular self hosted blogging tool no doubt but the fact is that this is not the only blogging software available, let me give you a list of my top Blogging software here;
WordPress
Our Blue Eyed boy, Bread and butter WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress .....

How To Get Traffic For Your New Blog?

by Shanker Bakshi 14 May 2010 Blogging

You create a blog site, fill it with some really good articles, check your site traffic stats and soon you find that you and your mama are the only readers of your new blog. the bad thing is that if you do not get enough traffic to your blog you may decide to shut it down thinking that it is some unproductive thing that you are doing?
Hang on, if you are going through a .....

Those Bastard

by Shanker Bakshi 13 May 2010 Blogging

See this complete interview of Cory Doctorow, popular science fiction author and blogger at Boing Boing to understand why this post has a weird and ugly title. He says about blog post titles “Write headlines as though you are a wire service writer”.
Write your opinion which factors you keep in mind while assigning a title to your blog post.

Content That Ranks Well in Search Engines

by Shanker Bakshi 10 May 2010 Blogging

This blog is now run on much talked about ” Thesis Theme” now. Its co-incidence that i am writing first post after successful installation on this theme on my blog about a new eBook released today which is from Copyblogger founder Brian Clark and who is also responsible for making Thesis WordPress Theme a big hit. He provides you in the FREE !!! ebook about step-by-step strategy for creating content that scores links, is highly readable and .....

Matt Mullenweg Talks About WordPress Foundation and Future Plans

by Shanker Bakshi 3 May 2010 Blogging

Few days back i talked about the future plans of Facebook as explained by Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg, now here is a sort video of Matt Mullenweg, founder of AutoMattic, a company which runs WordPress blogging Software ( Which most of you uses) about the future of WordPress Platform. He also Talk about the WordPress Foundation.
WordPress Foundation:
The WordPress Foundation is a charitable organization founded by Matt Mullenweg to further the mission of the WordPress open source .....