I hardly published any articles on CompuWorld during January, February and March. This did bring down the traffic a little and hence my major goal was to restore the traffic when the blogging bug re-bit me some 2 weeks back. I tried every possible way that I could in this short span of time which I had. I published multiple posts in a day, I started to tweet regularly (follow me in twitter), published some list articles, tried to cash in using the StumbleUpon traffic and what not? But, it didn’t take much time when the 2.5 years of my blogging experience started to kick my brain. It started to pinch me regularly and once again I was forced to stick to the basics. Content Is The King! I agree that proper marketing is necessary to publicize your quality articles but only marketing isn’t necessary to drag more and more traffic to your website.

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We have read so many times about experts trying to break the StumbleUpon algorithm so as to grab exponential traffic from this mesmerizing service but hardly did anybody succeed. [Read more]

Google Analytics might be a crazy tracking system for some webmasters but those who understand the basics of Google Analytics will be aware of the importance of Google Analytics for their blog/website. Polaris has created an awesome Google Analytics API using which you can enjoy the awesome Google Analytics report on your desktop on the fly. Polaris uses the freely available Adobe AIR so firstly you will have to install Adobe AIR for Polaris to start working.

Download Adobe AIR

Download Polaris

Once you are done downloading and installation of Adobe AIR and Polaris then all you need to do is study your Google Analytics Report from your desktop itself. Double click on the Polaris shortcut and you will be greeted with the medium sized Polaris Window which will ask for some of your details. Do opt for the free version as that is all what you will require. Once you are done with the basic info then you need to enter your Google Analytics login ID and password. Give this final detail and you will be greeted with the Google Analytics report for the very first website that is listed in your Google Analytics login account.

If you have multiple websites in your Google Analytics Login account and you want to get the Google Analytics report for the other website then just click on the currently shown website name as shown by the black arrow in the image above. You will be taken to the list of websites that you have listed in your Google Analytics account.

Select the website that you wish to track and click on select. Voila! You are now tracking another website which is listed in the same Google Analytics Login account. Enjoy the use of the Google Analytics API which will surely eat least time of yours. Lastly, if you have multiple Google Analytics Login accounts then you will have to pay the nominal fee of $15/year so as to use Polaris for multiple Google Analytics Login accounts.

Do you run a blog which is controlled by many authors? Are many writers writing for your blog? Do you feel like sharing your adsense revenue with them as per the impressions their articles are getting? Well, here we have a list of adsense revenue sharing plugins (and we will keep updating this post as we get to know about more such plugins) using which you can share adsense revenue with your multiple authors.

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Check the mobile version of my two blogs before you start rejoicing that I am about to tell you some secret. It is simple trick which I saw Amit using for Digital Inspiration. Thanks Amit.

CompuWorld goes mobile: m.nofullstop.com

theSenorita goes mobile: m.theSenorita.com

All you need to do is append your full feed URL next to the URL given below

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/YourFeed

Got the idea? Like for this blog I will use the URL:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/webtechlog

And for my relationship management blog the Senorita I will use the URL:

http://www.google.com/reader/m/view/feed/http://feeds.feedburner.com/theSenorita

Now all you need to do is redirect your mobile URL to the above URL. So for this blog I redirected m.nofullstop.com to http://www.google.com/ reader/m/view/feed/ http://feeds.feedburner.com/webtechlog

Similar step applies for theSenorita.

Try it, it’s simple and helps those who read your blog in their mobiles.

I found a great article on OneMansGoal where Rosanne Lim (isn’t that a beautiful name?) points how bloggers commit the biggest mistake of assuming blogging to be their hobby and later on convert this hobby into their full time job. Avoid This!

Definition of hobby as per Google is:

avocation: an auxiliary activity

So you know what I want to point out? Hobby is something which you perform while you have some free time. You won’t ever be able to become a full time blogger IF you do not follow a time table. You will have to follow a scheduled path once you think you are ready to be a full time blogger just like you used to while you were working for some company.

You will be surprised how blogging becomes easy for you and you start saving lots of time which you can later be dedicate for publicity of your blog. All you need to do is do not make blogging as your hobby but as your profession. Be professional and you will be successful!

Otherwise all you will have in hands are promotional pens to make profits. Be a little serious.