That’s the question every new blogger thinks about. If you ask me why Alexa Rankings? its simply because of the Money and Search Engine listings.
* Advertisers who want to advertise on your site look at Alexa ranking before bidding for the CPC rate Ads. Lower the ranking, more advertisers would flock to advertise on your

Ping or Update Services are tools that you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog (or in simple words, its just notifying sites, and letting them know that you have new content on your Website).
WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each

There was a bug with Wordpress 2.9, where scheduled posts and pingbacks were not not processed correctly due to incompatibilities issues. So this new Wordpress patch, version Wordpress 2.9.1 would fix all those minor bugs.
Download 2.9.1 or upgrade automatically from the Tools->Upgrade menu in your blog’s admin area.

Did you update your Blog’s footer copyright notice with the new year? Here is 2 simple ways to let your footer auto-update itself with the new year .
If you’re running Wordpress like me, then all you need to:
* Open the footer.php in your theme folder
* Paste “<?php echo date(“Y”); ?>” instead of the copyright

After the release of WordPress 2.8.6, WordPress engineers started working on a newer version of WordPress and they had made up their mind that they would launch a newer version of WordPress within this year (2009)…. And they kept their words by launching it yesterday!! Congrats to the WordPress team .
Let me discuss some

One of my friend who got inspired by my tips started blogging recently. Although, he wasn’t a geek like me and didn’t know more about web hosting\costs\privacy and stuff. His other friend helped him setting up a website for a cheap cost with minimum bandwidth\space and he finally kick started his blog. When I checked

More security patches for your Wordpress. Wordpress 2.8.6 fixes two security problems that can be exploited by registered, logged in users who have posting privileges. If you have untrusted authors on your blog, upgrading to 2.8.6 is recommended.
The first problem is an XSS vulnerability in Press. The second problem, is an issue with

Wordpress 2.9 beta testing starts shortly, and today wordpress has released a hardening patch (getting us ready) for the new 2.9 release.

Somethings to notice in the release of Wordpress 2.8.5:

A fix for the Trackback Denial-of-Service attack that is currently being seen.
Removal of areas within the code where php code in variables was evaluated.
Switched the file

I know most beginner bloggers really think if we need to use a HTML or an XML sitemap for the site? It is really confusing which one to use too. Here is a video of Matt Cutts (head of Google webspam) answered a question about HTML and XML sitemaps and what is preferred.
If you use

Passion leads to Blogging and when all the passion is gone, it leads to depression and death of the blog. Many people start blogging with the hope to reach the top but there are only few who make it to the TOP with their blogging career.  When blogging, the focus needs