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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Convert your Wordpress blog into Social Networking Website

By Ashok Maruthi On 7:23 PM with 0 Comment

Hai blogie 's,

About Wordpress:

I think everyone knows about a wordpress.org blog.If not,the blog you are currently reading this post www.blogiemania.com is developed in wordpress.org software. Wordpress.org is a Content Management Software(CMS) i.e., we can create a blog and update posts. Today,Wordpress is the most popular content management software among its competitors like Joomla,Drupal,blogger and Magento.

So,Nearly 20.9% of whole internet websites is made up of wordpress sites and they hold the market share of 59.8%. [Source :w3techs.com].From the following data,Everybody can understand the power,importance of wordpress CMS software in Internet world. Wordpress is supported by a huge community of designers,developers,bloggers and web masters.

Transform into Social Networking site:

Yes,we can transform a wordpress CMS blog into Social Networking website by using a Stunning Plugin called " BUDDYPRESS " developed by the wordpress developers team.With the help of buddypress plugin,you can build a social networking site for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.

[Link 1] [Link 2]

Buddypress plugin consists of 10 components like Extended Profiles,Account Settings,Friend Connections,Private Messaging,Activity Streams,Notifications,User Groups,Site Tracking,Community Members and buddypress core. In this 2 components buddypress core and Community members are must to run a buddypress social networking site. Forum Software doesn't comes with buddypress plugin.You can install forum also in your buddypress social networking site and wordpress.org blog with the bbpress plugin,forum plugin developed by the wordpress.org team.bbpress plugin integrates very easily with wordpress and buddypress sites.

Buddypress pros:

Fully customizable and editable profile fields for all members in the site.

Make connections with the other members and track eachother activities.

Activity Stream to Show NewsFeed from all members.

Private Messaging between members.

User Groups Creation for all members .

Works best in Wordpress multisite too :) .

Tons of Features :) At the Same time itz FREE :) . { It creates an edge among the competitors}.

Cons:

Suitable for Small and Medium Niche Social networking sites.

Not EveryMuch Lively and interactively like other social networking scripts like PHPFox.

Not All Wordpress themes are very much compatible for buddypress social networking sites.

Best Useful Tools to Analyze your Website

By Ashok Maruthi On 5:56 PM with 0 Comment

1.www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Google snippets can be used to highlight the rich keywords in your blog and it automatically adds the specific unique keywords as meta data and schema,which helps to rank better in google search an SERP.Structured Data testing tool is also used to Assign and check the authorship of the webpage.This concept is more or less near to semantic web content.So,Google Schema optimization stands first in your website analysis.

2.tools.pingdom.com/fpt/

Pingdom tests your website's load time,Page size,Grade of your Webpage,Requests,DNS Health,Ping and Traceroute.It also analysis the Performance grade and page analysis.Pingom tests any website's performance with a server located at Dallas,Texas,USA.

3.http://www.woorank.com/

A Complete Website Analysis is provided by WOORANK.It provides a clear cut analysis on Visitors,Social Monitoring,Mobile,SEO Basics,SEO Content,SEO Links,SEO Keywors,SEO Authority,SEO Backlinks ,Authority and Technologies.WooRank also provides FREE ONLINE MARKETING TRAINING for 30 weeks :) :) :).Really a great oppertunity.All bloggers and Website owners must avail this stuff to improve their site's performance.Woorank also provides great tools for bloggers and Website developers.

4.http://www.analyzemyseo.com/

Analyzemyseo.com provides a brief report on the Search Engine optimization compatiblity with search Engines.Analysis about the Meta Description,Meta Keywords and Meta Datas are provided by the Analyzemyseo.com

5.http://gtmetrix.com/

Another best website analysis tool which mainly focuses on the Design,Loading Speed and SEO compatibility with Google Search Engine. Gtmetrix provides analysis on the factos like PageSpeed,Specific Image Dimensions,Server Scaled images,Optimize images,Leverage browser caching,Defer Parsing of javascript.Minimize redirects,Minify CSS,Prefer Asynchronous resources,Enable gzip compression,Remove query strings from static resources,Serve resources from a consistent URL,Encoding Header,Minify HTML,Specify a cache validator,minify Javasript,Avoid bad requests,Avoid a character set in the meta tag,Avoid landing page redirects,Inline small CSS,Inline small javasript,Minimize request size,Put CSS in the document header,Combine images using CSS sprites.

6.http://nibbler.silktide.com/

Nibbler from silktide is another good tool for website analysis.

7.https://www.google.com/webmasters/markup-helper/

Google Webmaster markup helper does the function of marking up of the important tags,keywords like AUTHOR,CATEGORY,PAGES.This google webmaster markup tool help you to add the different datatypes of structured data markup to the webpages of your website.

8.http://www.webpagetest.org/

9.http://www.freewebsitescore.com/

FreeWebsiteScore.com provides free website analysis,which states the Page score of Google,Yahoo and bing.This analysis also includes the SiteMetris like Sitemap,Robot.txt,HTTP Errors and broken links.Free website score also provides analysis on your nearest keyword competitors and give a good comparison with Alexa Ranking,Page Rank and much more.

Best Useful Tools to Improve your Website SEO

By Ashok Maruthi On 5:53 PM with 0 Comment

Dear Blogie Reader,

SEO or Search Engine Optimization is one of the most important and crucial element in the Website construction.For a fully fledged and well established blogs like Labnol and ShoutMeLoud, Search engines like google,bing and yahoo brings most of the traffic to their posts. i.e., Top Tech blogs get nearly 75% of the traffic from Search Engines only,remaining come from Social media websites like Facebook,Twitter and Linkedin. There are lots of FREE and paid Search Engine optimization tools are available in Internet.Good number of peoples take advantage of it and improve their Traffic Visitors through SEO(Organic Traffic). Getting Organic Traffic from search engines is a very slow and tough process,which can be achieved by the usage of good,accurate and health keywords,which are popular with Low competition. Research in Google Adwords to find out those keywords.

It would be perfect if i organize all SEO tools in one place for SEO beginner and webmasters.So,Created this post to bring in all SEO tools for webmasters and bloggers to improve their Website SEO.

1. www.majesticseo.com

2.www.moz.com

3.www.seoquake.com

4.www.google.com/webmasters

5.www.xml-sitemaps.com

6.www.seositecheckup.com

7.www.adobe.com/solutions/digital-analytics/marketing-reports-analytics.html

8.www.google.com/analytics

9.www.semrush.com

10.www.seotoolset.com/tools/free_tools.html

11.www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/search-engine-optimization-toolkit

How to Design a Logo for Your Business Website

By Ashok Maruthi On 5:47 PM with 0 Comment

To Start a new online business,the first thing that comes to my mind is the creation of effective logo design for the brand new business.

A Logo is an Icon for representing your business and getting a fast recognition in the internet world.

The first step you need to do is to make a proper research in the field of your blog niche logos.You must ensure that your brand logo is not similar to other brand businesses.Avoid copying the design of other brands as this can let your brand value down in the minds of your valued customers.

"Simple and Best design is preferable for Effective logo design"

Another factors to be considered in the logo design is the usage of fonts and color in logo.Color acts a crucial element in effective logo design.Usage of stunning color matters a lot in logos.Usage of more than two different typefaces fonts in logo should be avoided ,as this increases the readability of the logo design.

The most important factor in logo design is the flexibility of the logo as the designed logo must have the flexibility to be printed from small business cards to bigger multiplex screens.