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Reviews are a great source of information for anyone who is researching a product or service before making a purchase. If you manage a blog or website that offers reviews of books, you might find that getting all the book details into the blog post can be tedious.

Despite the many plugins available for WordPress, the ones designed specifically for reviewing books are few and far between.

That’s why Book Review plugin is a godsend for reviewers who have long wished for a way to automatically display all pertinent book information into a blog post.

This is what Book Review does, and so much more. Let’s take a look at its features.

After installing the plugin, you will need to configure the basic and advanced settings.

Step by Step Guide to Setup Book Review plugin:

Go to Settings>Book Review.

Under the Appearance tab, you can choose the position of the book display (top or bottom of post).

You can also customize the background and border color as well as border width.

Choose whether to enable the plugin on Posts, Pages or both. Check the boxes beside each option.

Click Save Changes when you’re done with the settings.

Go to the next tab, Rating Images.

You can check the box beside “Show the rating in excerpts” if you want ratings to appear in your post previews. Excerpts only apply if you use the “Read more” function in your posts so that the home page only displays previews of blog posts instead of the entire content.

Here you can customize the rating images or use the plugin default. Uncheck the box beside: “Use the default rating images” if you want to use custom rating images. You can upload images to your Media library and put the URL in the fields provided.

Click Save Changes when done.

Under the Links tab, you can set the link for the book to open in a new tab. To do this, check the box beside: “Open links in a new tab.”

You can also add images for links. Add the link text and image URL in the fields below (see example).

Click Save Changes when done.

The Advanced tab requires that you acquire a Google API key for the plugin to work. The plugin uses Google Books to generate book data, so you have to enable Google’s Book API by creating a project using the Google Developers Console.

It’s not too difficult to do, and you should be able to follow the steps provided by the plugin’s documentation.

Getting a Google API key

First, you need to log in to the Developer Console. Use your Google account to log in.

Click the Create a project button. Give a name for your project and type it below Project Name. The Project ID will be auto-generated.

On the left panel, click on APIs. A list of APIs should appear on the opposite side. Type “Books API” on the search bar.

Click the link on the Books API and click the Enable API button on the next window.

On the left panel again, click on Credentials. Click the drop-down for Add Credentials and select API key.

On the pop-up box that appears, select Server key.

In the next step, enter the IP address of your web hosting server. You can either check this under Shared IP address on the cPanel of your web host. You can also run the command prompt and type ping www.yourdomain.com. Take note of the IP address that appears. Fill this in the field as shown below.

Click Create when done.

A pop-up should appear with your API key.

Back to the Book Review configuration page, enter the API key in the field under the Advanced tab.

How to add Book Details in your Blog posts

Once the settings are in place, it’s time to create posts. Below the WordPress post editor, you’ll find the Book Review section for entering book details.

If you want to automate getting the book information, you need to enter the ISBN. You can use a site like ISBN Search to search for the ISBN of a certain book by title or author.

Enter the ISBN in the field of the same label then click Get Book Info.

The other fields should be filled in.

Note from the developer:

• It is possible that a particular ISBN will not be found. This is a limitation of the robustness of the Google Books database and is not indicative of a problem with the WordPress Book Review Plugin.
• The Series and Format fields will remain blank unless manually entered. Google Books does not retu this information as part of its API.

The only other detail to manually add is the rating.

You can then add your review on the text editor itself and hit publish when done.

Here’s what a finished review would look like. The text outside the box will be the actual review content.

Conclusion: Should you use book review plugin?

Despite the lengthy process, you need to take to automate getting book information, this plugin can save you more time once the one-time set-up is done. If you have a review site for books, then this plugin is great to have.

I would, however, not rely so much on the automation, as the developer did admit there are some books that might not be found using the ISBN search.

Either way, whether you enter book information manually or through search, the way it presents a book review when publishing the post is a welcome convenience. The design is quite nice and elegant, too.

Book Review is a plugin that needs a bit of elbow grease to start using, but the pay off of saving time on entering book information manually or formatting the post for every review is well worth the effort.

Are you running a book review blog? Do let us know what all WordPress plugins are you using?

Just for you, here are hand-picked WordPress plugins for you:

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There is no doubt that having a professional email address like [email protected] is a necessary thing & if you don’t have it until now, you are missing out a lot.

You might say, it’s just an email address & how does it matter?

Let me tell you; your domain email address creates a lot of impressions & if you use a generic email address to send or receive email, you may not be taken seriously until you are already super popular. I have already talked about setting up domain email address earlier. If you haven’t done that until now, you can refer to below tutorial for the same.

Today, I will talk about Google Apps domain alias feature which will help you to save a lot of money for your team or in your organization where you have multiple domains.

What is Domain Alias & How it works?

One common mistake a lot of webmasters make regarding using domain email address is, they sign up for a new account for all their domain to get the professional email address & pay separately per user per year.

This is the most common practice among new entrepreneurs & webmasters as even though domain alias being an old technique is not well-known to many.

If you have multiple domains with the similar organization structure, by not using domain alias feature, you are:

• Paying extra for each domain email address.
• Making it hard to maintain so many email address
• Extra work to maintain domain Google Apps administrator account

Let me quickly explain domain alias feature so that you would know how it will save your domain email address management headache.

Let’s say you have a domain name Work.com & you have setup Google apps to manage your domain email address. You have created following two domain email address:

After a while, your business started growing & you added a new domain name call alias.com. Instead of buying another account from Google Apps or any other service, appsYou login to work.com GooApps dashboard & add alias.com as a domain alias.

By doing this, what you are achieving is:

Any email which is coming to [email protected] will automatically be directed to [email protected] In short, you are giving users multiple email identities at domains other than the primary domain.

This is handy when you have multiple domains & you want to have all of them their branding. This is how I use it here on ShoutMeLoud.

So, I have email address as [email protected], [email protected] & [email protected]

Whenever I start a new blog, let’s say: shoutmetech.com

I add it as a domain alias & instantly I have domain email address as

[email protected], [email protected] & [email protected]

With just 5 minutes of work.

Benefits of domain alias feature:

• You don’t have to manage a separate email address
• You don’t have to create new email addresses. All existing domain email address will have the same email addresses on new domain alias.

To add a new domain as a domain alias in Google Apps, you need to login to your Google Apps admin dashboard.

Click on domains & the next page click on Add/remove domain alias:

This is where everything starts as you need to do following things:

• Add a new domain as a domain alias
• Verify domain ownership
• Setup MX record

That’s it. Since you have already done creating a professional email address using Google apps, you must be aware of the whole process of domain verification & configure the MX record. You can again check out the tutorials using below link (Opens in new tab)

In the coming days, I will help you lea more about using & mastering your Google Apps account. If you haven’t setup Google Apps for your domain yet, you can sign up right away from the link given below.

Create domain email address on Google apps

Do let me know what else do you need to know about Google apps. Your queries & confusions. Selected questions will be featured & answered in upcoming posts in the Google Apps series.

Enjoyed leaing about Google Apps domain alias feature? Do share it with others on Facebook & Twitter. It might help your entrepreneur & blogger friend to save their hard eaed money.

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However many bloggers take it as passion and they may differ from my above statement. But you all will agree that sky is the limit for blogging Income. No doubt it takes time to ea decent money from blogging. But once you start eaing money, don’t forget that a portion of your online income belongs to govement. Yes! you need to pay taxes.

In this articleI have presented the detailed information on Online Income and Taxes in India.

Before going to the list of various taxes you need to pay on your blogging income, let us understand the Indian tax structure.

Taxes are classified in two categories:

1. Direct Taxes
2. Indirect Taxes

Direct Taxes are taxes which are levied on persons for the income eaed or activities conducted; they are to be boe by person himself.

Examples are Income Tax, wealth Tax, Estate Tax, Property Tax etc.

Indirect Taxes are taxes levied on a product or services and which is bo by the consumers, while the immediate liability to pay the tax may fall upon another person such as manufacturer or service provider.

Examples are Service Tax, Excise Duty, Custom Duty, Central Sales Tax, Value Added Tax etc.

List of taxes applicable on blogging income. (India only)

Income Tax

It is goveed by Income Tax Act, 1961.

It is the direct tax levied on total income of a person eaed during the year from various heads of income.

As per Income Tax Act, 1961 the total income is classified in five heads of income as follows:

• Income from the head salaries
• Income from the Head House Property
• Income from the Head Profit and Gains of Business or profession
• Income from the head Capital Gains
• Income from the Other Sources

Blogging income is taxable under the head “Income from Profit and Gains of Business or Profession” as business connotes some activity which is carried on by devoting time, attention and labour of a person either himself or through others normally with a motive to make profits.

Suppose a bloggers eas a gross income of Rs. 20 Lac during the year 2014-15 and his total expenses relating to blogging amounts to Rs. 5 Lac, then the net income taxable under income tax is Rs. 15 Lac.

• This income will be grossed up with income from other four heads. So the income tax will be paid on total income.
• The tax rates under income tax differs based on categories of persons like for individuals there is slab rate, for companies & firms there is flat rate.
• Income Tax rates changes every year by Finance Act (Budget) of relevant year.
• Find here the Income tax rates for financial year 2014-15 & 2015-16. (Assessment Year 2015-16 & 2016-17)

The due date of filing of income tax retu (ITR) for company and any person other than company which are subject to audit under any law is 30^th September of relevant assessment year. For other persons who are not subject to audit, the due date of filing ITR is 31^st July of relevant assessment year.

For example the relevant assessment year for financial year 2014-15 is 2015-16. So the due date filing ITR of a company for financial year 2014-15 was 30^th September 2015.

Please note that sometimes the above due dates are changed by income tax department by giving proper notification.

Service Tax

Service Tax is levied on blogging income at the rate of 14.5 %.

Service means any activity carried out by a person for another, for consideration and includes a declared service.

Service tax is levied on all services except the services mentioned in the negative list as per section 66D.

A blogger may have various types of income; service tax is levied on only that income which is in the nature of service.

Some important points relating to service tax are as follows:

• If the total receipts from services do not exceed Rs. 10 Lac, then a blogger can claim Small Scale Provider Exemption. There is no need for registration and payment of service tax for small scale service providers.
• If a blogger is selling goods online through his blog then the same will not be taxable under service tax.
• Service tax input can be claimed on service tax paid on input services used for providing blogging services. For example service tax paid on your inteet bills, which is used for providing blogging services can be set off against the service tax to be paid on service receipts.
• There is lot of views on taxability of Google Adsense income under service tax. According to my view, Google AdSense is an export service hence no service tax levied on this service.
• In case of Individual service tax is paid by 6^th day of month following the quarter in which service is provided but for last quarter the due date is 31st march.
• In other cases the service tax is paid by 6^th day of the month following the month in which service is provided but for march month the due date is 31st March.
• Service tax retu is filed half yearly by 25^th day of month following the half year( 25^th September and 25th April) .

Example: Suppose a blogger Receives Rs. 15 lac from various affiliates programs (income from affiliate program is like commission received) and Rs. 25 lacs from Google Adsense.

The blogger can claim small service provider exemption of Rs. 10 Lac (if the service receipt in the previous year does not exceeds Rs. 10 lac), export service exemption of Rs. 25 Lac (for adsense income) and for rest Rs. 5 Lac he will have to pay service tax.

Rs. (5 Lac/ 114.5 )*14.5 = Rs. 63,319/-

In the next year he cannot claim small service provider exemption of Rs. 10 lac (since service receipt in the previous exceeds Rs. 10 lac)

NOTE: From 1st June 2016 onward the rate of service tax will be 15% by introduction of Krishi Kalyan Cess @0.5%.

Value Added Tax (VAT)

I personally know one blogger who has a blog on Indian Astrology. In addition to AdSense income, he also make money by online sale of Astrological products through his bog. So in addition to Income Tax & Service Tax, he is also registered with VAT Laws and pays Value Added Tax on regular basis.

So if as a blogger you are selling goods, you must be aware of some important aspects of VAT laws which I have presented here.

VAT is a multi point tax on value addition i.e increase in value and it is another form of sale tax. It is collected at different stages of sale with a provision for set-off for tax paid at previous stage. So a manufacturer, wholesaler & retailer pay tax on the value added by them in the product.

Example:

Suppose a wholesaler purchased goods for Rs. 25,000 and pays VAT @1% i.e Rs. 250 on it. Later he sold the goods for Rs, 35,000 and collects Rs. 350 as VAT @1% on it. So finally he will pay to the govement only Rs. 100 as VAT. In other words, we can say he only paid VAT @1% on value added i.e Rs.10,000 X 1% = Rs. 100.

VAT is applicable on sale of goods within a state in which seller is registered.

VAT is a state subject and it vary from state to state. Every state has its own list of taxable and exempted goods. For example if your business is registered in Delhi then you will have to follow DVAT provisions for sale of goods in that state.

It is common in every state’s VAT Laws that there is a minimum amount of sales tuover which is exempted from VAT. For example, in Delhi sales of goods up to Rs. 10 Lac are exempt from DVAT whereas in UP the limit is Rs. 5 Lac for UPVAT. It i also optional if your tuover does not exceed this minimum monetary limit.

The VAT retu/Payment in most of the states is filed & paid on monthly/quarterly basis. The rate of taxes can also be broadly categorized in four parts as listed below:

• Nil rate:These includes Exempted goods from unorganized sector, items which are legally barred from taxation, goods having social implications.
• 1% rate: Precious Stones, Bullion, Gold & Silver Oaments.
• 4% rate: It comprises of items of basic necessities, agricultural & industrial input, capital goods and declared goods.
• 12.50% rate: This includes the remaining commodities.

Please refer your state VAT laws for more information on it.

Central Sales Tax (CST)

As I mentioned under VAT regarding selling of goods by a blogger I would like to add that if the blogger is selling goods to the other states then he liable for CST.

CST is applicable on sale of goods in course of inter-State trade or commerce.

Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 gove the provisions of CST in India. Unlike VAT laws, CST is same all over India.

For example If Mr. A sales residing in Delhi and selling goods to Uttrakhand, then he will pay CST on such sales.

The rate of CST is 2 % or VAT rate of that state from where goods are sold, whichever is lower, only if sale is made to a registered dealer and form C is obtained by seller from purchaser.

Custom Act 1962

The blogger whom I mentioned above also sell Astrological goods to various parts of the world through his blog. When he approached me regarding the tax aspects of these transactions, I immediately asked him to get his Import Export Code (IEC) which is required as per Customs Laws. Custom Laws includes Customs Act, 1962 and Customs Tariff Act, 1975.

Custom Act, 1962 provides for levy of import and export duties of customs on goods imported into or exported from India through sea, air or land.

Customs Tariff Act 1975 has been enacted for classification of imported or exported goods. It also provides for various types of custom duties to be levied on importation and exportation of the goods.

So if a blogger is importing or exporting goods through his blog then he will have to comply with the provisions of Customs Act 1962.

I hope you all have got the basic understanding of Indian taxes applicable on online income. So Guys pay your taxes timely and file all your tax retus within due date. Please comment for any query on Online Income and Taxes in India.

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The social media giant, Facebook, is making many better promotional ways for digital marketers. Facebook’s Business Pages, Ads, and Events help the online marketers with their business promotions and lead generation activities. Recently, one more extraordinary feature of Facebook, Facebook Live, was rolled out for better user interaction.

This feature is helpful for celebrity stars, and public figures. Looking into it, marketers can also leverage this beautiful feature for social media marketing. Initially, this feature was available only for iOS users in the U.S., but now it has reached out to many countries for both iOS as well as Android users. And very soon, it would be made available for users all across the globe. So, there is a great chance of using this feature effectively for marketers.

So let us see the Live feature and why marketers should use this.

What is Facebook Live?

Facebook Live is a feature that allows you to stream a live video on Facebook through your mobile gadget. This is just like apps such as Meerkat and Periscope. So if someone misses an event, you can make them watch it live.

To start your live stream, just go to your home page and go to the Status option. There you can find a Live Video icon. Just tap on it to start your live streaming. You can write a description of the event you are going to stream. So your audience can get to know what it is about.

What are the features of Facebook Live?

The live streaming can be done through a Facebook personal account or a Facebook page. Just like a status update, you can select who can watch it. You have options like the public, friends, or your specific groups only. You can select any of them.

You can get to know who are watching the video during the live streaming. The viewers can give Idea and hit likes to the video. You can also give replies to the Idea of your viewers.

Reactions are also available with this Live feature making your streaming funnier. The emotions of your viewers can be seen on the display, just for a short while during the live.

After the streaming is over, the video will be saved on your timeline just like any normal video. So, your friends and followers can watch it whenever they want to. Besides, you can share the video, embed it on other social platforms or websites or blogs.

Facebook is trying to make live filters for the live feature. So if they are available, you can make more funny and beautiful video streaming on Facebook.

Why is it better than other apps?

There are some other apps like Periscope and Meerkat, which give you the live streaming feature. But the problem with Periscope and Meerkat is that your video can be seen by anyone who is following. There is no such choice of selecting your viewers. But on Facebook Live, you can choose your viewers among your friends and followers. So, you can create a network of your friends and family which is the primary goal of Facebook.

Unlike the other apps, the video would not disappear from your timeline on Facebook after 24 hours. So, you can use the video for your multiple purposes whenever you want.

One more important thing that you need not search for any other app to use this feature. You can simply use it on your Facebook homepage itself.

You can also broadcast any conferences, concerts or any event you are organizing. You can give prior notification about such broadcasts so that your audience can watch that. This way you can reach a maximum number of users and create a great engagement.

Moreover, Facebook is the biggest social media network with 1. 4 Billion users. Where else you can get such a big community where you can hang-out with your maximum targeted users.

Why should Marketers Leverage Facebook Live?

With the earlier features of Facebook like business pages and Ads, you might have created a huge fan base for your Facebook presence. Online presence of business needs continuous engagement with the users and need to build credibility. Live streaming is a better way to interact with your audience in real time.

A picture is worth a thousand words. But I would say, A video is worth a million words. Suppose, you read a document of a demo and watch a video of the same. Which one do you remember the most? Obviously, the one that you watched, right? Now, why is that?

It’s because the time to prepare a document or anything else is more than that of sharing it on a live video. You can convey your content better through a video indeed. This saves a lot of time and energy besides building a good relationship with the users.

Moreover, people are always interested in knowing something new. So, you can show them how you make a product in your industry. Also, they always want to interact with real people and want to know the facts. Live Video gives you a great chance to build credibility. This kind of stuff will easily go viral.

With no cuts and edits, live streaming shows what exactly the users want to know. Is there anything as genuine as a live video?

Conclusion:

Live streaming is the best way to share knowledge with social users, interact with the targeted community, building trust and most importantly showing the reality which users are looking for. It gives you a great chance where you can have a lively conversation with your users and get closer to them. And this is not confined to Facebook only. You can embed those videos on the other social media platforms as well.

Citing all its features and advantages, I can strongly suggest that marketers should use Facebook Live Streaming for enhancing their social media marketing.

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Each one of us experiences a low-phase at some point of time. We place the blame on our circumstances, health or emotional proclivities. The truth is that there is only one person accountable for such bouts of grief, boredom, or depression: YOU!

Whenever I ask depressed acquaintances about their low-phase, I receive mixed responses such as:

• They are sad/bored/depressed because that’s the natural response they should display to the particular situation.
• They feel low because nothing remarkable is happening in their lives.
• They are feeling down because their feelings are hurt, and feeling hurt is the obvious reaction after getting hurt, isn’t it?
• They just want to be left alone in their misery. The only logical conclusion being that they somehow want to feel low.

Melodramatic television, depressing music, unhealthy eating habits, and minimal exercise are directly linked to a person’s mood. The effects of these habits may not be clear immediately, but let them run for a course of time, and they will begin to affect your emotional stability.

Most of the readers of Harsh’s blog (or as he likes to call them – Shouters) are people looking for online marketing guides, blog development ideas, and motivation to do those tasks. I am here to offer a little motivation –

motivation to the folks trapped in emotions which directly affect their productivity and working attitude.

Without further introduction, let us go over the five primary and necessary tips you can use in your low moments. They are simple and executable. I will not boast about their effectiveness, you can experience the results yourself.

How to Uplift your mood when you are Depressed:

1) Be Sad

Now that might have come as a surprise. The task of emotions is to display what you feel.

If you are feeling happy, display it. If you are feeling low, display it. What you need to understand is that the more you suppress your emotional energy, the more different ways it will find to escape through your body. In order to prevent sudden fits of emotions, you should allow yourself to feel your feelings.

So what’s the point of finding a solution to this issue?

The point of this first tip is to bring to your attention that you should always time your sadness, like timing your daily routine or timing your moing jog. Allow yourself to feel sad, but only for a few minutes. That’s it. No more.

When you give control to your mind, it will automatically start throwing positive thoughts into your conscience.

For the first two or three times, it will not occur naturally, but soon, you will begin to see that the moment you tell yourself: “I’ve been low for too long. It’s time to kick ass”, your brain will push you into optimism. This will positively affect your productivity!

2) Movement

This is another simple trick to get you out of that horribly depressing state. This might also be the easiest trick for some of you. Movement or motion distracts the brain from trivial moodiness.

Whenever you are feeling lethargic, bored, sad, or low – simply start walking. This is especially beneficial for those who are at a stationary job or in a stationary home environment. Sitting in one place for too long can cause a hindrance in blood and oxygen circulation, which, in tu, disturbs hormonal chemistry in the brain leading to bad moods and irritability.

Start walking.

If you’re up to it, go for a run or do a few quick exercises which will increase your heart rate.

Soon, you will feel a positive difference in your situation.

3) Activity

When you feel low, distract yourself. This trick will be tougher to implement because when you are down, that is where you are: down.

You don’t want to do anything.

Do something anyway.

Just force yourself into an activity that you know will uplift you. Watch television, play a game, call a friend, read a book, listen to music, take a walk, do those damned crunches.

DO something!

However, indulge in uplifting activities. Most of us misunderstand this step. I will talk more about the misunderstandings in the last two tips.

Just remember to push yourself against the lethargy to break free from your state. This is an important trick to gain control of your raucous emotions.

4) Watch a Funny Episode

You may have heard that depressed people use television as a distraction. Well, we are not talking exclusively about depression, but television can aid in boosting your happy hormones all the same.

Sadly, some of the most loved programmes on television (Indian Tele) are often melodramatic. Melodrama is pumped and pressed without restriction – right from soap operas to popular reality shows.

The key here is to uplift your mood, which can only be done by switching to a comic episode. Pick out your favourite series. Watch it for some time.

Allow Indravadan Sarabhai, Baey Stinson, Sheldon Cooper, and Joey Tribbiani to dilute your bitter thoughts. Laugh with them. Laughter will ease your tension. You will attain clarity!

5) Listen to Upbeat Music

There is nothing worse than listening to depressing music during low moments. Some years ago, a friend had advised that listening to Rohan Rathore’s Emptiness would be beneficial in a sad situation. Only a fool would believe that listening to sad songs when sad and angry songs when angry helps one move on.

According to a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, sad music is emotionally damaging in depressing conditions. Remember, our aim is to get OUT of the low phase, not sucked into one. That is what sad songs do – they keep us ruminating about our sadness without offering a way out.

Yes, you might feel lonely and use sad music as a harmonious buddy. But it’s a trap. Literally!

Instead, listen to upbeat music. Listen to tunes that make you want to dance, that make you want to move around. Such songs will immediately transport you into a trance (doing the TV’s work), they will make your brain shoot more happy hormones, and they will boost your morale.

Everything is well when the morale is well.

Closing Thoughts

It all boils down to what you want: do you want to take charge of your occasional storms, or do you want to be like the ones who indirectly say that they “like” to be sad? I hope these tips come in handy in your situation. You don’t have to follow them all. If you can, at the least, follow only one method and I can guarantee the results.

For further reading:

What do you have to say about these tips? Do you follow any of them? Do you think these methods will be any good for you? I am waiting for you in the Idea. Let’s share!

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Reviews play a very important role in our everyday life. Whether we are buying a new WordPress theme, looking for a reliable hosting package, getting a new smartphone or even going to a restaurant, the first thing we do is to search for reviews. In most cases, our decisions are heavily influenced by the reviews we read.

Due to the high popularity, many people want to create their own review sites. If you are one of them, you have come to the right place. In today’s post, I will introduce you to the 10 best WordPress review themes and plugins for creating high-quality review sites. Let’s start with the best review themes first.

5 Best WordPress review themes to make a profitable review site:

1. REHub – Directory, Shop, Coupon, Affiliate Theme [$58]

REHub is a professionally designed WordPress theme for creating a review, magazine or blog sites. The theme is provided with 3 custom widgets and 15-page templates. As REHub is fully compatible with WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads and Ecwid Store, you can sell the products in your review site.

An interesting feature of the theme is its top list creator facility. By using this feature, you can create top offers, or create list of top posts. The enhanced ads options will be useful for eaing some extra money from your review site. You can display the comparison in three different styles. And the home page builder comes with 13 content blocks.

Lea more / Download

2. Inreview [$69 All themes]

Developed by Elegant Themes, Inreview is a simple but feature-rich review theme. The large product slider on the home page could be useful to focus on some of the top-rated or most popular reviews of your site. Below, you can display the regular product reviews as grids and/or in the sidebar.

Each review has two rating points – one from the author and another from the users. The single product page has rating points for more fields. Besides the default fields, it is also possible to create custom fields according to the product type. The WPML-compatible theme also comes with multiple color schemes and affiliate integration. By joining Elegant Themes for $69 per year, you can enjoy access to all of their themes.

Lea more / Download Get Hosting

3. Gauge: Multi-Purpose Review Theme [$58]

With a built-in review and rating system, Gauge is an excellent multi-purpose WordPress theme. As the fully responsive theme comes with Visual Composer plugin, you can create unique layouts for the pages of your review site. The theme allows the users to submit their reviews and ratings from the front-end by using the review form.

The AJAX-powered filtering option of the theme lets the visitor search for their desired content without reloading the page. In order to make your pages unique, you can add video backgrounds in the header section of your pages. The theme also supports WooCommerce, BuddyPress, bbPress and icon fonts.

Lea more / Download Demo

4. Steam – Responsive Retina Review Magazine Theme [$58]

Featuring a unique design for the home page, Steam is another popular review theme for WordPress. The WooCommerce-compatible theme is provided with a powerful page builder system which lets you create dynamic pages with versatile content. The mega menu section on top allows you to include popular posts along with the links.

The fully automated like, view counts and customizable award icons and labels will help the visitors to find out the most popular posts. As Steam also supports BuddyPress, you can easily create a community for the regular users of your review site. The theme package also includes several custom widgets and 600+ Google Fonts.

Lea more / Download Demo

5. Gonzo – Clean, Responsive WP Magazine [$48]

Gonzo is a simple, clean magazine WordPress theme with a fully featured rating system. Powered by Twitter Bootstrap, the theme works perfectly in all screen resolutions. It also makes sure that the visitors are getting the magazine feel even in their mobile devices. The flexible layout system of the plugin lets you create attractive pages within a short period of time.

The dynamic review system of Gonzo comes with both percentage and star rating support. You can choose to place the rating on top or bottom of the post. The review posts could also be categorized according to the product type. The theme lets you display ads in various locations of your site.

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Well, these were some of the best review themes for WordPress. Now, let’s see which are the best plugins for developing a review site.

Best WordPress plugin to Develop Review sites

6. WP Review [Free]

WP Review is a premium quality WordPress review plugin which is available for free. The simple but powerful plugin lets you create review posts by following some easy steps. You can choose any of the star, percentage or point based rating system for your reviews. The WPMU-compatible plugin is provided with full support for Google rich snippet too.

The fully responsive review could be customized with unlimited colors. It is also possible to customize the review by applying custom CSS. Besides editing the default review fields, you can add additional fields. The lightweight plugin lets you add the reviews before or after the post content. It is also possible to display the review on the sidebar by using the dedicated shortcode.

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7. WP Customer Reviews [Free]

If you want a reliable method to receive review from your visitors, you should check out the WP Customer Reviews plugin. This unique plugin lets you create a dedicated page for getting reviews or testimonials from your customers. As the plugin is fully compatible with WP Multisite, you can get customer reviews in all the sites of your network.

The reviews and/or testimonials submitted by your customers will need admin approval before they are displayed in the website. The plugin also has multi-step anti-spam system to prevent spam reviews. The completely customizable plugin also comes with multiple shortcodes, custom field and hReview microformat support.

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8. Reviewer WordPress Plugin [$24]

Reviewer WordPress Plugin comes with a simple way of adding product reviews and/or comparison tables in your posts and pages. You can create review templates to use the same design in multiple places. The plugin also comes with 9 beautiful themes. You can use any of them or edit them according to your requirements.

The plugin supports several rating display system – standard stars, slider rating or criteria-based rating points. You can display the review and ratings by using the custom widgets too. It is possible to enable email notifications when a visitor submits reviews. The fully localized plugin is also provided with Google’s rich snippet support and a retina-ready layout. The plugin is priced at $24.

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9. Taqyeem – WordPress Review Plugin [$16]

Weird name! Huh?

Taqyeem is a professionally developed WordPress plugin for publishing beautiful rating and review posts. The flexible plugin lets you customize the font, color, image and other styles for each review. Besides the default review criteria, you can also add custom review criteria depending on the product and your requirement.

The RTL-supported plugin also comes with several custom widgets including recent reviews, best reviews and random review. As the plugin is provided with both the po and mo files, you can easily translate the plugin into other supported languages. There are also several add-ons available for extending the features of the plugin. You can get the plugin for $16.

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What’s your Choice?

As review sites are becoming an integral part of mode life, the necessary tools for creating these sites are also becoming more available. If you are planning to create a review site anytime in the future, you can always get back to this list as a starting point.

Let me know which theme(s) and plugin(s) of this list have impressed you the most. And if you are using any of them already, don’t forget to share your experience with us by leaving a comment below.

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As we know, heading tags are imperative for every web document to structure the content. By using Heading Tags, we differentiate our web page content. Use heading tags for headings only not for making Text Large or Bold.

Note: At the end of the article I have outlined 2 common heading tags mistakes by bloggers. Don’t miss reading it!

Definition of Heading Tags

Heading Tags are well-defined by W3Schools that:

<h1> to <h6> tags are used to define Heading on a web document.

“According to W3Schools – <h1> </h1> is the first heading which is critical for any web document and <h6></h6> is the least important heading that holds very less importance in a web document as compared to other heading tags. ”

Defined Heading Tags are:

<h1>some text here</h1>

<h2> some text here </h2>

<h3> some text here </h3>

<h4> some text here </h4>

<h5> some text here </h5>

<h6> some text here </h6>

h1 tag should be main headings which if followed by further h2, h3 and so on. The h1 is usually the boldest one whereas h6 font size is smallest.

Don’t get confuse yourself and stop thinking that Heading Tags as merely formatting for the web pages and Search Engines Heading Tags are for just categorization of content on web page.

Heading Tags come with various attributes to make user-friendly websites but Search Engines use these defined headings solely to index the structure and content of web documents including blog posts.

In other words, you can say that Heading Tags are used to show the web document structure.

How to use Heading Tags for SEO?

Apart from the web designing point of view, there are a few more things that you should know about Heading Tags.

– Purpose of using Heading Tags

The main purpose of categorizing your content with different headings so that your design become more user-friendly and people will get a notion about your website more easily by just reading the Sub-headings.

Now we know H1 tag is most important tag so whenever you going to use it for your webpage heading just try to make it like that people get an idea about your website just reading your heading. So that h1 tag should be in that way which describes everything about your web page just in one shot.

– Hierarchy

Hierarchy on your web page should be like <h1> comes first which is followed by <h2>, <h2> followed by <h3>, <h3> followed by <h4>, <h4> followed by <h5> and <h5> followed by <h6>. For better SEO of your web page, one should have to follow the hierarchy in this way.

– Headings Tags with Keywords

Keywords are first and foremost priority of any SEO Expert. In the matter, we first do the research of best keywords according to the web page and then categorize these keywords into focus keyword, primary keyword, secondary keyword and tertiary keyword. Focus Keyword is always one for the web page. It’s better to include your focus keyword into the title, Meta tags, and h1 of the webpage.

– Frequency of Using the Heading Tags especially h1 tag

It is recommended that one should have to use h1 tag per web page because h1 tag should be like a newspaper heading and other content should be structured with subheadings by following the hierarchy of heading tags. Using of subheadings depend on the way your content is structured.

H1 Tag In Latest HTML5

In the previous versions of HTML, only one H1 tag is allowed to designers to use per web document and what people do that time – they just used H1 tag to wrap the business logo on the web page which is important for any business web page and start the main heading of the web page with the H2 tag. But with the help of updated version of Html i.e. HTML5 which allows the designer to have multiple h1 tags on a web page according to the requirements of the web page design.

Ex: Single page websites.

Well, Heading tags are crucial for the proper On page SEO of your blog posts. One mistake which is common among newbie bloggers is excessive use of H2 or H3 tags & at times skipping H2 tags & only using H3 tags.

This kind of practice is not good & might hamper your On-page SEO score. To lea more about On-Page SEO, read this guide.

Do let me know your leaing & understanding about Heading tags for SEO. How do you use Heading tags & why?

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It’s been long that we have talked about Twitter. Twitter being one of the top social networking sites, we can’t afford to use it for personal contact and marketing. Like any other network, it’s important to

Like any other network, it’s important to get more followers on Twitter, as this will make your tweets reachable to more people. Of course, we will be using Hashtag along to make it more reachable. Though, this post is not about making your tweet viral but in simple how you can grow your followers on Twitter.

There are many networks like Addmefast, which will let you do the follow-unfollow game. But our goal is not just to increase the number count but to get real people to follow you. This will ensure more interaction on your tweets and more re-tweets by the real human.

Big brands are using Twitter to keep monitoring what people are discussing about them, and they are responding to their tweets. If a user appreciates their service, they retweet and show appreciation to the user and similarly if a customer is shouting about bad service on Twitter, their Twitter rep will get in touch and will try to solve the issue. In fact, many brands are using Twitter as complete marketing and sales tunnel, provided you are using it wisely.

Depending upon your strategy, you can use Twitter for marketing only, or you can use it to stay in touch with close pals. I usually, stay in touch with other bloggers via Twitter DM. I use Tweetdeck on the desktop, Socialoomph for sending automated direct message, Bufferapp for being less annoying and Twitter iOS app to tweet while traveling. Along with it, I make sure my favorite feed readers like Feedly, Flipboard, Pocket is linked with my Twitter account, so I keep tweeting interesting stuff. You can see my profile here @denharsh.

I’m not sure about you, but I still prefer to use Twitter and highly recommend every businesses and blogger to have their presence on Twitter. Twitter is not only about marketing, but it also helps in connecting with new people, keeping a track of person updates and spreading the word about your brand.

Simple tips to get more followers on Twitter:

These are some simple but most effective tips that you can utilize to increase Twitter follower count. As I keep saying, like the quality traffic you need quality followers everywhere. They should be the people who are in your niche, use your product or keep a keen interest in stuff you are offering and tweeting about.

Your Avatar & Cover picture

Yes, the word Avatar does make you remember that the film about the tall, blue aliens right? Anyway, you need to create or have a nice avatar for your Twitter account. Many of you think that uploading a picture to your Twitter account isn’t that much of a big deal. Believe it when I say that the picture you upload plays a very important role.

So, stop yourself from uploading a picture that doesn’t show your face. People on Twitter want to know what you look like, and that is why having a good picture of you can help a lot in making people know what you look like and who you are. If you are working for a brand, use your brand avatar as the Twitter profile picture. This will make your tweets noticeable from the huge cloud of tweets. Make sure; your avatar stands out from the long list of other profile avatars.

Read: 10 Websites to Create Custom Twitter background

Right time to Tweet

Another tip is to analyze your Twitter profile & find out the best time to tweet. There are many free & paid tools which scan your follower’s list & based on their activeness; it suggests you the most optimum time to send out a tweet.

For example, I have followers from around the globe but mostly my effective time to send a tweet is in Evening my time, as I have most of the followers from my country. If I tweet at the different time, my tweet doesn’t perform well, and I miss out on Traffic and retweets.

That is why I would recommend you to tweet at peak hours. Try tweeting when you know your friends or other people would be signed in on Twitter. These peak hours are different for different users, so, you’ll need to use the tools listed below to find the best time for your profileHere are some tools that will help you here:

The Profile Bio

Profile Bio is the first and most important thing to get more followers on Twitter. Your bio talks about who are you and what do you talk about on Twitter. So, unless you are someone very famous, it is a very important that you write a good bio of yourself. Be creative and intelligent when you write your bio as it will provide people and idea about yourself, and it will surely make them follow you. Try putting in a good quote that tells about you as a person. Remember, be creative! You can also link to your about page or a landing page, where Twitter users can lea more about you or your brand.

The @Messages game

Tweet with @mention. When you are tweeting from a reputable site, you can always use Twitter buttons in the page. This will make sure that tweet will get noticed by the website owner and in most of the cases, blog owners like to follow people who tweet or retweet them. If you happen to get a re-tweet by top influencers, it would mean that your tweet has been read by the thousands, etc. of followers which the top user has and people will be interested in knowing who you are.

If you happen to get a re-tweet by top influencers, it would mean that your tweet has been read by the thousands, etc. of followers which the top user has and people will be interested in knowing who you are.

Another tip, which you should keep in mind is given room for retweets. Twitter limit tweet length to 140 characters but try to send the tweet in 120 characters, as users can Retweet your tweet. You can use these tools to compress lengthy tweets. Though, better limit your tweet to 120 characters.

#WordPress Vs #Blogger : What Bloggers Think is The Best? https://t.co/8JAIwOPAJk pic.twitter.com/DF9gNrb3vK

— Harsh Agrawal (@denharsh) May 13, 2016

Bonus Tip: Always add an image with your tweets. It performs better than normal text-based tweet.

Ask Questions

Make people interested in re-tweeting you. Ask questions on your Twitter account and see whether people will try to answer them or if you get a response. Try asking questions about trending topics or hot topic in your niche. If you pick the right question, it can greatly increase the interaction on your profile.

If you are working on being a niche influencer, keep talking about latest happening in your niche. This will help you to get niche followers and moreover an active and a profile which interact (reply to all tweets & DM) is surely loved by others.

What to Tweet

Keep a decent mix of personal and professional updates. Talk about your brand, what are you doing, share interesting pictures and share links to top articles and from top blogs in your niche. The idea is to increasing interaction to your tweets, and people should not only retweet but quote it. Your tweet should be influential and credible enough, that people will come and love to retweet it. I, use Bufferapp, Pocket app, and Nuzzel to keep finding and sharing interesting and hottest topic in my niche and keep my Twitter profile updated.

You can follow any strategy which you are comfortable with, this includes sharing interesting quotes, pictures, talk about trending topic and so on, but the idea doesn’t let your Twitter profile die or keep it inactive. Remember, social media is all about interaction and communication.

Stick to Niche

Decide what you want to tweet about so that people can get an idea about what kind of user you are. Yes, tweeting about different things along with hashtag may get you more followers on Twitter. However, it is better that you have a specific audience in mind. If you think, you know about cooking, or painting or sports, etc., then start tweeting about that and become one of the leading Twitterer on that subject. Respond to what others ask you, and you will be getting followers on Twitter with ease.

For a business brand, you need to work on specific strategy and share content which will help you to get niche audience and also top niche users. You should talk about interesting thing related to your niche, for example, if you are an SEO expert or social media maven, you should not only tweet about your brand but also find the top content in your niche and share it.

Repeating yourself

Try tweeting yourself more than once. It can happen that not all people could read your tweets, and so it is a good idea that you send the interesting tweets again. However, don’t use this strategy too much, as people will not be interested in something which always repeats things he or she has already tweeted about.

Linking your Account

Another way to get more followers on twitter is by linking your Twitter account to your Facebook page, your blog, etc. You have to promote your Twitter account in every way.

Include your Twitter account information in your e-mail signatures. For Email signature, you can use service like Wisestamp and for the blog you can get official Twitter follow button from here. Also, if you are using Official twitter tweet button on your blog or webpages, you can enter your profile apart from brand Twitter profile and user will get that profile as suggested user to follow. Something, which works most of the time to get more followers to any specific profile.

Brands, can use this feature to grow the follower count of CEO or public figures of brand or a company.

Twitter Directories:

Listing yourself in Twitter directories, helps other users to find you. You can always your self in any particular category, as I often list myself under #WordPress #SEO and #Blogging category. This is not the most effective, but still it works to get targeted people and users. I don’t have list of directories for now, but you can find one such huge list here.

Follow other Top users in your niche:

Another tip is to keep an eye on updates from top twitter users in your list. Follow them and retweet when a tweet make sense to you. Before you retweet, always edit and add a quote to it to make your share more meaningful. Like I mentioned above, use Twitter directories, you can use the same to find top people in your niche. Here is an interesting article on 3 tools to find like minded people.

People often suggest that you should autofollow other followers but I would recommend to stop doing such things to get followers on Twitter, instead of just following random people, follow people who tweet meaningful stuff. You will be amazed to see how people will start trusting you by seeing your follow/follower ratio.

Well, these are certainly not the only tips but for anyone (Social media person or an individual Twitter user), these pointers will certainly help you to get more followers in time. There are many services that will let you buy twitter followers such as Fiverr.

Just to let you know, it doesn’t take a day or week to get thousands of genuine followers but it takes a complete strategic planning, if your target audience is set to Twitter. I hope this tips will help you and if you have any other suggestion which worked for you, feel free to share. If you find this post useful, do share it on Twitter and join us at @ShoutMeLoud.

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It’s no longer news that Facebook has launched the free basic inteet.org in 40 countries across Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America partnering with Mobile Operators in to provide the Free Basics program. The Program is aimed at connecting people who hitherto do not have access to the inteet and as a Blogger or content producers, there’s goldmine yet untapped which will propel your Website/blog to a greater audience globally.

About Free Basic:

Free Basics by Facebook provides people with access to useful services on their mobile phones in markets where inteet access may be less affordable. The websites are available for free without data charges and include content on things like news, employment, health, education and local information. By introducing people to the benefits of the inteet through these websites, we hope to bring more people online and help improve their lives.

For list of countries where Free basics are available and partner, operators visit INTERNET.ORG by FACEBOOK. To connect to the inteet using Free Basics all you need to do is walk into a partner Mobile Operator shop in your native country to get a SIM card or if you’re already on the network visit Free Basics by FACEBOOK to get started today.

How do I benefit as a Content Producer?

Imagine getting your Blog audience from 0 to 100,000 in just one month, with little effort and not having to spend through your nose on advertising, traffic exchange software/programs or even the famed SEO tricks. Facebook is providing you a platform to reach millions of newbie inteet users through her inteet.org Free Basics Program. Now here’s how:

If you own a website/Blog you can join the Free Basics Platform by adding your app, website, or service to Free Basics, which provides people free access to a range of basic services in markets where inteet access may be less affordable and reach new-to-inteet users across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and make a social impact by adapting your mobile app or website for the Free Basics platform.

Anyone can add their website, Applications or services to Free Basics because it’s an open platform, but there are a set of participation guidelines to adhere to, this guideline exists to optimize for performance on older phones and slower networks connections in countries where the services are to be provided.

Benefits of adding your website to Facebook Free Basics:

1. Grow your audience by providing affordable access to your services: Growing your services and reaching a new height and audience have never been this easy and here is an opportunity of a lifetime to key into the program now and watch your audience cum income sky-rocket in just a matter of days.
2. Scale your social impact: As you well know by not that you can only underestimate the power and potentials of the social media at your peril. Fulfill your dreams of becoming a social media giant and become an authority in the social media space through the services you provide online.
3. Establish your brand early in the fastest-growing mobile markets: With well over 1 billion people accessing the inteet each day with their mobiles device, you cannot afford to lag behind in this era of the fast growing mobile market. Key in today and start raking in retus in no time.

What you need to know before considering submitting your Website to Free Basics:

Compatibility check

The goal of the Free Basics Platform is to provide people with a set of free basic services that will serve as an onramp to bringing them online. More people will want to connect to the inteet and ultimately become paying users if they first experience the benefits of being online. To do this effectively for people who are new to the inteet, it’s important to have content and services available that are useful and easy to use, to enable as many developers and entrepreneurs as possible to participate in Free Basics, and to offer services that encourage the exploration of the broader inteet. For your site compatibility for listing within Free, Basics see: Free basic guidelines.

This is some of the services not supported on Free Basics video files, VoIP, file transfers, and high-resolution photos (which will be truncated if larger than 1 MB). You can help your service pass this stage of review by limiting your service’s bandwidth usage.

How will I submit my Website/Blog to Free Basics:

Submitting your services to Free Basics is very easy, but you have been sure your Website/Blog does not rely on JavaScript (Get a working CSS script to ensure easy navigation), Build your service to be mobile compatible and Optimize for feature phones.

To begin, follow the step-by-step guide to preparing and submitting your service at FREE BASICS SUBMISSION

After Submitting, Facebook will review your entry, and if approved, your content will be live on Free Basics for millions of people to access world over.

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Meeting new people could be awkward for some of us. While some of us bask in the glory of meeting new people, it is difficult for many people to get out there and make a first impression that has a positive impact with whom they’ve met.

Some people might be of the opinion that a person’s true motives and intentions couldn’t be figured out in the first meeting itself, but it does help to communicate your credibility non-verbally, through your body language. The way you present yourself in your first meet could make or break your long-term relationship with that person.

Once you’ve taken care of your personal hygiene and dressed for the part, next up is how you communicate non-verbally. Your body language communicates your confidence and credibility and this is something that could be easily developed through practice.

7 Body Language tricks to become Instantly likeable

Everyone wants people to genuinely like them since the moment they meet someone new. There are certain tricks of this trade to help you establish your credibility and a good first impression. Here are 7 of the best Body Language tricks to become more likeable.

Greet with your best Smile

A smile does work wonders during your initial meet. A genuine smile delivered properly signifies that you truly care for the person. As author Leil Lowndes writes in her book ‘How to talk to anyone‘, a slow and big, warm flood of smile adds more richness and depth to the way a person perceives you.

Also, do not flash your smile when the person is approaching you, but still a bit far away. Hold it till he is in your line of vision and then unleash your smile. This is one way to acknowledge that the greeting was sincere and especially for them, giving them a feeling of being important. A smile also between your conversation signifies your intent of paying attention to what they have to say and that you are agreeing with them.

Embrace the power of touch

Image credits: Wikihow

Gentle touches on the forearm or on the shoulder of the other person while greeting them is another way to impart your genuineness and a cordial approach. If you look at The meet of Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela,

You will understand how importance a bit of touch plays in meeting and greeting a new person. Notice how in the video, Bill Clinton shakes hands with Nelson Mandela, while later placing his left hand over his forearm. A tap on the shoulder will also give away a feeling of warmth and friendliness.

This shows that your care is genuine and it breaks down the barriers of communication, letting you up and close with the person. The other person would also like you for your show of affection and genuine care for them, making you instantly likeable.

Keep your posture upright, not rigid

The secret to maintaining confidence while speaking is to have your spinal cord completely straight. A straight and firm back lets you articulate your thoughts properly and gives you further confidence while speaking to someone new. Just one thing to be taken care of while doing so is that you must not get too rigid or fixated. Try to keep your body loose and your back straight.

A Harvard study concluded that people who hold expansive poses and take up larger area exhibit better levels of confidence as compared to those who don’t. Never shrink yourself in or you would imparting a lack of confidence. Chest out, straight back and relaxed body is the sign of a confident person.

Pivot completely towards them

This is something that should be taken care of the most. In environments where multiple people meet and greet, your attention should be towards the one you want to make an impact upon. Once this person approaches you, try to completely pivot yourself towards that person and not just your face. Doing otherwise would convey a negative message that you don’t care much about the person and will only be conversing with him as a formality.

Give the person your undivided attention and completely tu towards them. To further improve it, try leaning just slightly towards that person giving an impression that you are eager to listen their thoughts. We only like people who respect us and show them that you truly care for them by being completely attentive.

Try and maintain eye contact throughout

This is another most important act of your initial conversation to impart confidence and credibility to your speech. Try to maintain eye contact with your target person throughout the time. If you ever need to break eye contact for some reason, do it slowly and not in a jerk, abruptly breaking contact with the person. You would seem more uninterested if you break away eye contact whenever permits.

Beware of rapid eye blinking and staring completely blank at a person throughout the conversation, you might come out as creepy. Take little breaks of eye contact while coming up with your answers and blink normally while maintaining eye contact with the other person.

Gesticulate when you speak

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Not using articulated movement of arms and fingers while speaking is a bad way to communicate with someone. You will feel more rigid like a structure and come off completely insincere due to a lack of movement of your arms while talking. Gesticulation is completely normal and illustrates your enthusiasm and interest regarding the said topic. You must also try to show your thumbs in the front while talking, forming a teepee-like structure and not fold your hands while talking to someone.

Gesturing while talking also helps you in your thought process and establishes your credibility and interest in the topic. But care must be taken that you do not end up gesturing a lot, which will make them perceive you as an exaggerating lunatic.

Totally avoid fidgeting

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Another important factor which sub-consciously everyone ends up doing during their first meet – Fidgeting. It just doesn’t get any worse than fidgeting when you meet someone for the first time. Fidgeting is a sign of nervousness and is often called into play to control nervousness by diverting it into another physical activity. For some it may be frequently bending of their knees, tapping of feet, fidgeting with fingers and anything as such.

All the above changes should be a part of your habit. It should be same as brushing your teeth, like you never consciously pay attention while brushing your teeth. All the mentioned steps are part of effective communication, and you should practice them with your friends, family & anywhere else. Do try it for few days, and you would notice how significantly people starts liking you.

Now since you know the trick, you should ensure not to use it to judge others. Rather, if somebody is Fidgeting or have his arms crossed (Which is a sign of closeness), you should take command & encourage other person to engage with you in the conversation. All the leaders use these body language tricks in their day to day activity, and this is one of many reasons we all like them. So why not use these tricks to improve ourselves?

So, what did you make of these Body language tricks for meeting someone for the first time and being likeable? Shout out your thoughts and Idea below.

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