While searching for a web hosting service we have two basic options Free web hosting and Paid web hosting. Of course they depend on the budget and resources available which can be dedicated towards the web hosting be it money or manpower or technical abilities. Again depending on what kind of server you want to deploy your website there can be options like Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting which obviously the options to choose from Free or Paid versions. In this post we will be discussing the benefits and drawbacks of Linux web hosting (Free Version) since this blog is basically about WordPress and it is mostly hosted on Linux platforms. This means we will be analyzing the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP based servers). Let us begin with the analysis of the most appealing web hosting – Free web hosting. What is Free Web Hosting? As the name suggests Free web hosting offers web space and other resources required such as bandwidth, databases and other associated … [Read more...] about Free Web Hosting: Benefits and Drawbacks
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Unverified Subscribers: How To Get Them On Board
Home » Blogging » How To Get Unverified Subscribers To Confirm Their Email Subscriptions Engaging subscribers to your blog is important but more important is the technique that you employ to achieve this objective. Getting subscribers to register with your blog via email is an innovative approach to an otherwise bland method. It is true that RSS feeds started the trend of subscription; but they are based on numbers. Offering email subscriptions are not only profitable but they can be inexpensive too. Feedburner is one of the services that you can use to offer free subscriptions via email. Other options such as Feedblitz offer similar services at a nominal cost. The point is; this is entirely a doable task. Note that both Feedburner and Feedblitz help you deliver your blog’s content to reader’s inbox. However you cannot set up email lists and broadcast or do email marketing with these services. These services can only deliver your feed’s content by … [Read more...] about Unverified Subscribers: How To Get Them On Board
An Engineer Turned Blogger Earned 23 Lakh Indian Rupee (34k USD) in a Month
Welcome to the ShoutMeLoud transparency report. This is the time of the month when I analyze how & what we did in the previous month to grow our blogging business. Along with this, I share our complete income & expense report to help you learn how we are making money from the blog & what expenditures we incurred while running and maintaining ShoutMeLoud (and one of the best blog networks -ShoutDreams). For newcomers, you should read this post to understand our philosophy of sharing a transparency report like this. And if you feel such insider stuff helps you to grow your online business, you should check out all of our earlier reports over here. Hello, October 2016! October was a busy month for all of our team. We have been working day & night to add a lot of stuff, brainstorming new ideas, and also implementing many of our existing ideas. Here are some of the major highlights from last month’s work: WPSutra: Newly branded WordPress niche blog It was … [Read more...] about An Engineer Turned Blogger Earned 23 Lakh Indian Rupee (34k USD) in a Month
Why & How To Create Blog Style Guide Like Top Media Houses
Why do you even bother writing? More than 2 million blog posts are written every single day. How will people find out your blog in this noise? Even if they do, will they remember you? Will they come back to read more posts on your blog? There is no guarantee. But: You can ensure a top-notch reading experience to increase chances of retaining your visitors. Creating well-researched high-quality content is only the start. Subtle things like the capitalization of words in the title of your posts, acronyms and image credits affect the reader’s experience. Having a strong and consistent voice across your website (including your privacy policy and terms and conditions pages) is vital to form an exquisite brand image. All established print media have a typical “house style.” Even in the online environment, creating a style guide is important for carving out a distinct brand image for your blog. As per Wikipedia, “A style guide establishes and enforces … [Read more...] about Why & How To Create Blog Style Guide Like Top Media Houses
Instamojo- Simplest Way To Sell & Collect Payment Online
Have you ever wanted to sell an eBook online? Or needed to collect payment for your Workshop, event or a membership course online? Even if you are ready with your product, the biggest challenge is to integrate a payment collection system. Most of us make a mistake by offering net-banking or direct deposit as a payment option, which increases the chances of last minute change of mind. In the past few months, I have been trying out many services that let me sell my eBook. Earlier I have talked about E-Junkie, Google play store, and today I will talking about one service that I’m using from the last two months. I discovered Instamojo around March 2015, and I find it hard to believe that book-selling could be so easier. Before I move ahead & share my experience Instamojo, I want you to know that this service currently operates inIndia only, and users outside India needs to wait for a while before they can also enjoy it’s services. Let’s move on & learn more … [Read more...] about Instamojo- Simplest Way To Sell & Collect Payment Online