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Introduction to Blogging:

• This Article Will Teach You Nothing About Blogging by Stephan Miller
• Introduction to Blogging by Miguel Wickert

Blogging Tools:

• WordPress as a Home Business Storefront by Stephan Miller

Traffic Building Tips:

• Blogs  Lift Up and Keep `Em by Louis Liem
• Blogging in Color: Choosing Colors to Target Your Niche and Audience by Ann Smarty

Search Engine Optimization(SEO):

• Keyword Research and Brainstorming Introduction by Ann Smarty

Business Blogging:

• Five Reasons to Start a Small Business Blog by Mert Erkal

Make Money Online:

• An Interview with Wendy Piersall, CEO and founder of Sparkplugging and Sparkplug by Anne Marie Nichols
• The Internet Cold Call by Stephan Miller
• Preparing Your Blog for Direct Advertising and Where to Find Advertisers by Louis Liem

Social Media & Social Networking:

• Don`t Gripe About PR Pitches by Anne Marie Nichols
• Eight Social Networking Reminders by Louis Liem
• I Scratch Your Post, You Scratch Mine by Stephan Miller

Microblogging:

• The Next Big: Lifestreaming with Microblogging by Mert Erkal

Video & Podcasting:

• The Complete Idiots Guide to Podcasting by Mert Erkal

Fitness for Bloggers:

• Fitness for Bloggers:Your Success Depends On It by Miguel Wickert

Entertainment:

• Redbelt by Prem Shashi
• Tom Cruise to Be A Serial Killer by Prem Shashi
• Transsiberian(2008) by Prem Shashi

Interviews with Top Bloggers:

• Yaro Starak
• Chris Garret
• Sam Clark
• Guy Kawasaki
• John Cow
• Mani Karthik
• Garry Conn

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Did you know that with every received comment your blog’s SEO is improving? How about you? How popular are your blog posts? Are you writing great articles everyday, yet getting only a few comments just like majority of the bloggers?

What a disappointment! No worries, I have a very good news for you.  You should immediately start using WordPress FriendFeed Comments plugin to increase your blog’s comments. Developed by a young Turkish developer Gurkan Oluc, the plugin automatically submits your WordPress blog posts URLs into FriendFeed, and in return shows all received FriendFeed comments under comments section of your blog posts. It allows you to show FriendFeed comments in your blog, and helps you increase your blog’s popularity.

Who is Gurkan Oluc?

Gurkan is a web developer from Turkey. He has been blogging since 2006, and he likes developing WordPress related software. He also likes developing Web applications using PHP and JS. He developed FrienFeed Comments plugin to help bloggers increase their popularity by increasing interactivity with their readers. Gurkan is only 19 years old, and he wants to be a software engineer in the future.

How the Plugin Works?

• Download FriendFeed Comments plugin
• Follow the instructions written by Gurkan, and watch the video by clicking FriendFeed Comments Instructions
• Start charming your readers with your ever-increasing blog comments and popularity!

I am glad to inform you that we now have a great logo designed for Bloghology Magazine. Special thanks to Ilker Yoldas from the Bloghology team who has delivered a great job. He is working on the new Bloghology buttons at the moment. I am sure another masterpiece from him is on the way!

• What is Next in Blogging? (WNIB)

We would like to thank you for all your support so far for spreading the word “Bloghology” and for that reason we have created a new website for you and your self promotion. On our new website WNIB (www.whatsnextinblogging.com) we will be highlighting our qualified supporters RSS Feeds, their links and comments.

We would like you to go to http://www.whatsnextinblogging.com/register.php and register an account with us so that we can add your  RSS Feeds at WhatsNextInBlogging.com. Having said that, our editorial team will give the last decision  whether your RSS feed is qualified for WNIB or not. We will revert you shortly.

• Spread the Word Blogholoy, win an iPhone 3G

Have you joined our contest? You may help us spread the word Bloghology, and in return become the lucky winner of one iPhone 3G. Interested? Last day to join is 14th September. Hurry up! Spread the Word Bloghology, Win an iPhone 3G!

• Bloghology Store Opened

We opened a Bloghology store. Do you want to buy something and support our project? Please visit Bloghology Store

• Subscribed to Bloghology?

There are three option to subscribe Bloghology:

• Print via Mail – 5 editions/year (Annually EUR 20  within Europe and EUR 30 for USA and rest of the world)
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• Both print and Interactive edition

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• Wanna join Bloghology Affiliate Program?

We have launched an affiliate program to promote Bloghology. If you are interested in having some extra income online, you may sign up through this link: Become a Bloghology Affiliate.

Thanks once again for your support so far and please stay TUNED for many more ways with TIPS and TRICKS and FREE Self Promotion ways. In Bloghology we trust, have a nice weekend!

It’s been one year since I launched SearchForBlogging. I have decided to have a custom blog design with the money I made online to celebrate one year anniversary. I was so lucky that I found Sahil Lavingia, the owner of Pixel Jig, as designer (Read my previous post on him Pixel Jig – Creativity That Inspires) Sahil has done a great job and delivered a great design. The good thing is Sahil is only 16 years old. I can not imagine him at my age. I will work with him on TechSuave‘s custom blog design soon. Special thanks goes to Ilker Yoldas who has designed a very remarkable logo(and favicon for me). If you are looking for a logo/favicon for your blog, there is no need to look for another alternative than Ilker.

Yesterday I thought about the things I accomplished during my blog’s first year:

• 250 posts are delivered. If we assume 3 hours spent in average per post, it makes 750 hours for one year. In other words, 31 days spent only for writing posts and promoting them! What a dedication!
• I finished Blog Mastermind Blog Mentoring program by Yaro Starak
• I invented the term Bloghology.Similar to an anthology, Bloghology was a collection of bloggers, their profiles, photos, and links to their best posts. It was a PDF e-book which can be easily circulated throughout the blogosphere for personal branding and marketing of start-up bloggers. It was evolved and became a magazine when I met Vasilis Pasparas, the owner of IGM Interactive. Have you joined our contest by the way? Spread the Word Bloghology, Win an iPhone 3G!
• My blog’s Alexa hit 69,168. RSS readers are almost 300, and up!
• In average 400$ per month was generated through my blog which encouraged me to leave my full time job by the end of July 2008.
• I signed a contract with a media company in USA to let them use my RSS feeds for the magazine they are building for mobile phone users mainly in USA. I will tell you more about this as soon as I get the media kit from them.

All in all, it was a very fruitful year for me. Next year will be a lot better than this year. This new blog design will help me get more attention, thanks to Sahil Lavingia!

How do you find my new custom blog design? I am looking forward to hear your thoughts and suggestions.

Microsoft has recently recently released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 for Windows.  I have reviewed it from a blogger’s point of view.

First Impression: Not so Good, Not so Bad

If you are a Firefox fan like me, you may not be interested in Internet Explorer.  This time I am quite interested in Internet Explorer 8 because it comes with a lot of new features. Not sure at this moment, whether Internet Explorer 8 will deliver what Microsoft promises, but let me share some of  its cool new features with you:

• Accelerators: The most interesting part for me is the “Map with Live Maps” accelerator. You can get an in-place view of a map displayed directly on the page. Somewhat similar to Firefox Ubiquity
• Web Slices: I like this one very much. Using Web Slices, you can keep up with frequently updated sites directly from your Favorites Bar. A green Web Slices icon will appear in the upper-right hand corner of the browser if a web slice is available on a page. Then you can  easily subscribe and add them to the Favorites Bar.
• Search Suggestions: You can search with detailed suggestions from Internet Explorer using Instant Search Box. Not a big difference when compared to Firefox actually. But still a very good improvement for Internet Explorer.
• SmartScreen Filter: When the SmartScreen Filter is active and you visit a website that is unsafe, you will see a screen prompting you not to visit that site. This is a good protection against Phishing and Malware.

Conclusion:
Even though there are some nice improvements  in Internet Explorer, I will still be using Mozilla Firefox as a blogger. It is much more compatible for a blogger. Even with its new functionalities, Internet Explorer is still clumsy when compared to Firefox. If you are interested in testing Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, you may download it from here: InternetExplorer 8 Beta 2

Why should we pay so much money to software packages like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, or Norton Antivirus where there are already very good and free alternatives? Today I would like to share my top 5 free software with you:

• Avast! 4 Home Edition – Free Antivirus Software:

According to recent security and privacy researches almost 50% of the PC’s do not have an installed antivirus software. There are a lot of reasons to this. High costs of antivirus software, facing with a lot of problems when installing such a software. It is not a good idea to keep your PC vulnerable where there are thousands of PCs are attacked by viruses every single day.You can use Avast!4 Home Edition antivirus software and keep your PC secure against the latest virus attacks. The only weakness of a free antivirus software is that you download the latest updates a few hours later than the paid subscribers. A few hours delay is not a serious problem when your PC’s security is concerned.

• jZip – a Free WinZiP Alternative:

Are you get bored of using zip softwares like WinZip and WinRar due to being interrupted by a lot of registration notifications? Then you better start using jZip. It is only 2.7 MB long, and takes up little space in your hard drive. Yet still capable of doing every tasks that WinZip and WinRar can do. Why should you use them anymore? You can download it from here: Jzip

• Foxit Reader -an Adobe Reader Alternative:

I get sick of downloading Adobe Reader updates almost every now and then. Since long time I have been looking for a good quality alternative, and I found Foxit Reader. It is capable of doing what Adobe Reader does and takes little space in your hard drive. Why should you bother yourself with never-ending updates of Adobe Reader?

• Paint.Net -a Photoshop Alternative:

Paint.net was started as a .NET improvement project for Windows Paint. Then the project went so well that even Microsoft supported. The final version (v3.36) is a very good alternative of Adobe Photoshop with its filtering and layering capabilities. No need to pay so much money for Adobe Photoshop. This free software is more than enough for most of the PC users. Download PaintNet v3.36

• Open Office Writer – A Microsoft Word Alternative:

Open Office Writer looks very similar to Microsoft  Word. Yet writing an ebook, and converting it to PDF format is a lot easier with this software. Why should you pay for Microsoft Word where there is a free alternative? You may download Open Office by now.

Please share your past experiences with above listed softwares. What are your favorite free applications?