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As a blogger, you’re probably always worried about writing interesting blog posts that your readers care about. But you can’t just spend time on blog posts – there’s another type of content that you need to focus on: Landing pages. If you ever want your readers to complete an action – like joining your newsletter or buying a product – you need a good landing page to convince them. In the past, you used to have to hire designers to create good landing pages. Luckily, you don’t have to do that any more thanks to some awesome services and WordPress plugins. There are now some great landing page creators that helpyou create beautiful landing pages for WordPress without the help of a designer. So...

Are you looking to move to managed WordPress hosting?If you’ve been using shared hosting but find it no longer powerful enough for you site, this post is for you. I’ve talked before about how shared hosting is best for a new blog. But as your blog traffic grows, you need to think about upgrading your hosting. Shared hosts can’t handle really high traffic sites, which means you’ll have to move up. All the way back in 2008, I started ShoutMeLoud on cheapshared DreamHost hosting. But as ShoutMeLoud grew, I knew I needed to upgrade my blog’s hosting to keep everything ruing smoothly. That’s why I eventually made the switch to managed WordPress hosting. I moved through a few managed hosts until ...

On 15th August 2016,India celebrates its 70th Independence Day &being an Indian, here is how we are celebrating this day with our readers around the globe. This year celebration is going to be different for ShoutMeLoud readers around the globe, as we are offering Up to50% discountfrom 13th-16th August. The discount is on all of our products & I have listed the discount offer, coupon that you can avail right now. 70Th Independence day Discount from ShoutMeLoud Affiliate marketing eBook -50% flat discount ShoutMeLoud’s affiliate marketing eBook is the most desired & popular product from our store. We are offering 50% discount on Affiliate marketing eBook until 16th August 24.00 I...

What is SSL? SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. It protects sensitive data between a server & a client. In simple words, the transmitted information between you anda website is encrypted & remains safe. Having an SSL is amust for those who have an e-commerce site. It not only makes your site trustworthy, using an SSL on your website is a positive search engine ranking signal. Many bloggers argue that they don’t need an SSL certificate as they are only offering information & not selling anything. This logic looks valid, butone should know that blogging is not just a hobby & people make decisions based on information they read in blogs. Using SSL encryption will prevent ...

Online courses started a couple of years back, but they arenowbecoming the primary way many people are leaing and getting proficient in various fields. It is: The Rise of the Autodidact and DIY’ers “Autodidact” is a person who teaches themselves. “DIY”means “Do It Yourself”. When I started my first web development business, I had no idea how tocodeand I knew nothing of web development. Armed with a few courses and some online content, I taught myself Python. With this knowledge, I approached a client and closed my first $3,000 e-commerce website project.(I was a commerce major in school.) More and more people are picking up money making skills through online courses and content. A person ma...

Let’s start this article with a story about Steve Jobs and Mac. Many years back, during testing, the Mac took a few minutes to start up. Steve Jobs was furious that it took so long. He had this to say: “Well, let’s say you can shave 10 seconds off of the boot time. Multiply that by five million users and that’s 50 million seconds, every single day. Over a year, that’s probably dozens of lifetimes. So if you make it boot ten seconds faster, you’ve saved a dozen lives. That’s really worth it, don’t you think?” The Mac series of laptops are definitely some of the most solid devices out there compared to their numerous competitors. Compared to Windows, the Mac is: Blazingly fast Not prone to vi...

Keywords are one of the most critical and important parts of SEO. The basic foundation of SEO is keyword research. Afterwards,other factors like on-page optimization, quality of content, a good site UI, and some other factors come into the picture. Many companies invest thousands of dollars to pay for keyword research toget such targeted content. But you don’t need to do that. Just follow this guide… The keywords you choose to focus on for your search engine optimization (SEO) efforts are critical to the success of your website’s rank. Choosing the right keywords isn’t always easy or intuitive and you need a lot of data to know whether a given keyword will work for you. If you are completel...

Optimizing images & using aCDN has become essential for online publishing. A few days back, I talked about thebest image compression WordPress pluginswhere I highlighted some great solutions for compressing images on your blog. Butnot everyone is using the WordPress platform for their website. Many of us are blogging on various other platforms like BlogSpot, Tumblr, orsomething else. What’s the best image compression solution for these users? Well, this is whereonline image compression tools come into the picture. Whenyou search online for photo compressor tools, you will be awestruck bythe sheer number of tools available. To make your work easier andsave you some time, I’m listing some...

For me, traveling is freedom. If you are a travel blogger, Igive you a standing ovation. Being a digital nomad, I understand how tough it is to blog while traveling. I also know that it’s even tougher tomonetize your travel blog. There are many travel bloggers who often get sponsorship for traveling (like free tripswithall expenses covered), but not everyone is so lucky at the begiing of their blogging career. Travel blogging is a popular & profitable niche that can generategreat amounts of revenue using various monetization methods. Some of the most popular monetization methods are: *** Today I will be telling you aboutsome of the best affiliate programs that you can use for your travel...

Do you have a mobile app in Google play store but you are not getting enough downloads? or Are you plaing to have a mobile app in the future? If yes, this article is for you. Creating an app and the process of uploading it and optimizing it to get the best results are equally important tasks. Here are the best ways to optimize yourmobile app to get best results. Table of Contents Getting Discovered – Understanding App store Optimization How are Apps Ranked in Google play? Optimize Mobile Appfor better store search Importance of Screenshots, Videos and Graphics Reviews, Rating and User experience Social Factors and Benefits Targeting Potential and correct Users Other Important Factors ASO – ...

Marketing is one of those things in life that can be a mystery if you don’t dive deep. Even the self-portrayed marketing gurus do not know an ounce of marketing. People think marketing is about putting in money somewhere and seeing people come to your website or application in droves. If this was true then everybody would be successful. I would actually like you to do an experiment on Facebook marketing and see how that works for you. By the time you get the hang of it, it will take a lot of time. It’s a guarantee. Why is marketing hard? Let’s rephrase that. Why is marketing challenging? Marketing is challenging because it’s constantly changing. That’s the truth. Platforms of marketing chan...

Our lives are becoming addicted to our laptops, mobiles, tablets and other gadgets. Smart technologies get smarter, and a new IT certainty must grow with technological designs and stages to sustain the iovation of a digitally associated world. One of the paramount means for those conceed with technology to progress their careers is to attend world-class technology conferences. It provides leading figures with the opportunity to lea from world-class speakers, and to link with business influencers. But finding exactly the right tech event to attend can be difficult, so is a description presenting only the top of the top tech events happening in 2016. Top Tech Events of 2016 1. Digital Publishi...

Every year many of the startups come roaring in the market with plenty of new ideas, passion, and energy. Being an entrepreneur is not easy. With the launch of the business, comes many responsibilities and an ever growing ‘to-do’ list. One of the high priority items on your list would be managing your books. Bookkeeping or accounting is the lifeblood of the business and poor accounting ethics can damage the company’s reputation and the trust of their clients. Not every entrepreneur or small business owner can handle the accounting of their business despite how important it is. So what do they do? They hire an accountant and pay them a huge amount of money to get things done. For start-ups,...

When it comes to monetizing your blog using contextual ad networks, there are very few high-quality publishers out there. ButMedia.net is one of them. (Media.net is Yahoo! and Bing’s network for contextual ads.) However, the higher the quality of thead network, the harder it isto get approval. We have seen the same for AdSense approval & BuySellAds Approval. Last time, when I wrote a detailed review of Media.net, many users talked about not getting approval for the Media.net ad network. Most of the applications were rejected & let me tell you, rejection is always disappointing. Well, it would be wrong to blame bloggers or even Media.net for rejection, as Media.net doesn’t limit itse...

I remember a time when compressing images on this blog used to be free. Thanks to developer of the Smush.it plugin, we got very spoiled and became used to free image compression. In the last few months, everything we know about free image compression has changed. Now, most of the WordPress plugins which are available online offer a small quota of free compressions & then you have to pay. So in this post, I though it would be a good idea to look at all the existing image compression tools out there (free & paid). Those who have a small or medium sized WordPress blog can use multiple WordPress plugins to optimize all of their existing/future uploads for free. It might be time-consuming...

Are you plaing to shift your WordPress site to managed WordPress hosting?.. .. Want to evaluate & understand the good & bad side of Managed WP Hosting? Well, let me share what I have leaed after spending almost $6500 in last three years by hosting ShoutMeLoud on various managed WordPress hosting. If you are new to this not so new form of hosting, start by leaingwhat is managed WordPress hosting. You will also lea about features and advantages you will get with them. Now, as we all know there are two sides of coins and same goes with managed WP hosting. However, there is no as such limitations or bad thing about Managed WP hosting, but there is few downside, especially for tech-savvy ...

So you started blogging on WordPress our of passion & like million others you started your jouey with entry-level shared hosting. Now your blog is getting great traffic & it’s becoming a source of your bread butter, just like mine. One fine day, your existing hosting company emails you to “Buzz off” as they can’t handle your website load.In most of the cases, a non-technical blogger would feel dishearten, dissatisfied & helpless. I had been that situation when ShoutMeLoud traffic grew from hundred of page views a day to 10k+ pageviews a day. Have you ever felt the similar situation? If your answer is “No”, then you are probably already on a hosting company that can handle high t...

Are you plaing on launching your own blog sometime soon? Or You have a blog & wondering how to maintain your blogging routine while keeping your day job? Blogging for full-time is the coveted for many first-time bloggers and it is rightly due to the flexibility it has to offer. If you have taken into account the pressures and scheduling issues of maintaining a successful blog ran full-time, there is something else to consider prior to the same. If you do not happen to have a decent amount of blog readers from your previous venture, which is in most cases, you might rethinkof giving up your day job on optimistic fantasies of becoming a full-time blogger. If the above-said words have put ...

Are you one of those people who does not like to read books because it’s very lengthy? Or do you have a lot of books to read but got no time? Remember few days back I posted about this video chael call Fight Mediocrity. No? Check that out here. Wondering what this has to do with Book reading & What the hell is Blinkist? Boy, then you are going to love this post. We have reached a point in life where attention spans are the least. Web sites just have seconds to convince a user if their product is good or not. This fast-paced world requires a new form of leaing that is fast paced as well. Blinkist is here to help you lea faster through books, but with a twist. Blinkist is an application ...

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:...