Blogging Is Tough Not a day goes by where you see a blogger getting views and likes in masses and ea ing a nice sum of money on the side. And all they have to do, to generate that audience and money, is talk about things they experience in life. You can’t even go through 3 pictures on your Instagram...

When it comes to monetizing your blog using contextual ad networks, there are very few high-quality publishers out there. Butxa0Media.net is one of them. (Media.net is Yahoo! and Bing’s network for contextual ads.) However, the higher the quality of thexa0ad network, the harder it isxa0to get approv...

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If you are one of those bloggers who is using a free WordPress theme, you are likely changing your theme around a lot. Two of the most commonly asked questions regarding changing a WordPress theme are: Will it affect myxa0blog’s SEO? Will it affect myxa0blog’s traffic? The answer to this question ch...

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 w...

You: I need urgent help? Customer support: We are looking into it after 10 minutes… You: Hey, Any update? My site is down Customer support:Sir/Mam, we are looking into it. I know how much it’s irritating and hard to imagine that someone has willingly ignored your request for support – Whether it is ...

Books are an amazing source of inspiration. Offering some insights into practical real-world survival tips, non-fiction books have always been at the helm as the source of inspiration for entrepreneurs. Even the busiest of the successful entrepreneurs like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates make sure th...

Howdy Shouter, Welcome to an another episode of ShoutMeLoud’s monthly transparency series! This is the place where I share everything that has happened in the last month, including my traffic & blogging income report. The goal here is to summarize all new ea ings and lea ings, and also share what we...

There comes a time when we want so badly to write something in our blogs, but our brains refuse to corporate with us. They tend to become stale without feeding us any idea on what topics to write and how to proceed with writing about them. This phenomenon is called as writer’s block in a general ter...

If you struggle to create eye-catching content for your audience, then consider going beyond boring images and text. They say a picture paints a thousand words. Well, animations might well paint a million. These days, you don’t have to study a course to become an expert in video animation. There are...

Elance was a great website, but then it merged with Odesk to form Upwork, and we have to agree – Upwork isn’t the same as Elance. It already had a lot of problems on its own, and now that its fee has gone up from 10% to 20%, people are leaving the sinking ship. Freelance writers are pretty clueless ...

Are you planning 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 lea ed after spending almost $6500 in last three years by hosting ShoutMeLoud on various managed WordPress hosting....

So you started blogging on WordPress our of passion & like million others you started your jou ey 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...

Are you planning 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 i...

We are living in the World where a lot of content is produced on every single day. And high-quality content isxa0trulyxa0the king Some content are good whereas some are not. People like good content and come back again and again to read. People don’t like to watch ads. Nowadays, people take informat...

This post is contributed by Sumit Ghosh .Read our submission guidelines. A founder’s jou ey includes daydreams of their company becoming colossal. When setting up your startup you may be quite nervous, but once you set your feet on the new field, you’ll eventually start enjoying it. With hardline gr...

Remote working and working from home is the flavor of inte ational business these days. Even here at ShoutMeLoud, we have a distributed remote tool. We use tools like Slack, Trello, Wunderlist & Skype for most of our work. xa0 Howeverxa0xa0one of the biggestxa0challenge which I personally face is re...

Remote working has become the norm because of the ubiquitousness of video communication software like Skype and Google hangout. Popular companyxa0Basecamp have 28 out of 40 employees working remotely. That is literally 70% of their workforce working outside. So most of their employees get on Video c...

Android platform is growing at a rapid rate globally. Android market is already flooded with more than 500K android apps for over 500 android devices. The android market consists mainly of free apps which is one of the main reason for its popularity. There are millions of apps downloads daily in and...

The time has arrived when every marketer, every business owner should buckle up themselves to face the shift from Text Based Search to Voice Search in the digital world. A study by none other than Google themselves showed that both teens and adults are using voice search more than once a day on thei...