The feature that most of us have been so willing to have, is finally here. The possibility to add more than one blog to a single account has just been announced by Entrecard.

This feature should have already been here since day 1. Having to make another account per blog, was really a stupid thing if they at least took time to get things right from the beginning.

Anyway, this feature is here at last, so enjoy!

Entrecard Official E-Book

EC has also just released their so called official E-book and it’s free to download it - Click Here!

Read More on Entrecard Blog..

Recommended Reading:

=> EntreCard As A Niche Discovery Tool ?

It’s been so long that I see and hear Twitter, Twitter and Twitter. It seems like everyone has been twittered since its arrival. So i decided to give Twitter a go - Follow Me!.

What Twitter is

- A micro blogging system, you can only write a maximum of 140 charactors with no formatting. It’s just plain text messages, like an SMS.
- A place to let others know “what you are doing“. You can update others on anything you want, or about things you are doing in real time.
- Modes of interaction with Twitter can be done in several ways:
1) Your mobile phones
2) Gtalk
3) 3rd Party Twitter clients
4) Facebook Apps
5) Other apps created by so called “Twitter Fans”..etc

The Creator Of Twitter Are Smart Guys

At first, I thought Twitter was just another piece of crap. But as I tried to understand it, I saw some incredible ingenuity behind it. It has been devised with much thoughts and it will produce a great impact in the marketing world and the alikes. It is a platform nourishing and growing potential clients for financial gains, just as facebook (who is already a big honeycomb for advertisers). And there are so many other things which will amaze us very soon as the community grows, trust me on that! Hats-off to the creators.. There’s so many good lessons to learn from Twitter.

Twitter Better Than Facebook

I will say that the “technology” and the “philosophy” behind Twitter excels that of facebook in many ways. We will not explore all these facets in this article, but may be in a future posts soon..
Twitter does only one thing, it just asks you a simple question “What are you doing?“. And this question is enough to create an addiction and an urge of communication from people.
One thing which strikes me is that, Twitter has documented cleanly and openly its API. This is a tremendous thing. Meaning along with it, anyone truely interested with working closely with Twitter, will benefit along the surge, as it goes..

How Does Twitter Work

You just need to be followed and to follow. The “Follow Me” means that anyone “following” you, will see your updates and messages. And in turn you can see their updates by following them. It’s basically a one-to-one, one-to-many or many-to-many relationship which can develop. Another thing is that, unlike an email, you will not be bogged down with spams, junks or any such things. You just select who to follow and when not too..etc. If you want to follow, it’s cool, if you don’t want to follow no one will urge you.. Just Chill!

How Is Wakish Doing On Twitter

For the time being, I don’t have anything planned as to how Twitter can benefit or help me. But so far, I see most people posting updates of their blogs, some doing sales, advertising while others just updating their “followers” about their real life actions.

But one thing is for sure, don’t sell on Twitter! It’s not meant for this as far as I have observed the interface and the aim behind. If you are going to sell, good bye to your audience!

Follow me on Twitter, and I will be very happy to follow you as well. Let’s see how things will turn out

Some Of The Best Videos I Found Concerning Twitter:

Twitter on CBS News

Thirty Day Challenge - The Tao Of Twitter

What Are Your Experiences And Opinion?

Are you already using Twitter? What is your point of view and experiences?
Will be fun to hear yours..

I recently read a thoughful and insightful article on Problogger where Darren Rowse explains: “A Secret to Blogging Success - Build Upon What You Build“.

I was very touched by this article. It is something which is so simple and effective and which we fail to take time to think about. Not because we are not sensible, but due to the fact that we are so taken by the pace of our life and objectives. It often takes the advice of someone else to revive your motivations, aspirations and to rise stronger.

What I read on Problogger, kept hitting my mind this weekend. It is something which I need to focus more on because I tend to do so many things at the same time; I blog, I code, I design, I read, I work..etc, etc. But at times I think I just fail to build upon what I have already built. So I want to say a BIG thanks to Darren for this “push“.

While Darren applies this technique for blogging, I believe this is very fruitful if you also apply it to any of your daily challenging nitty gritty.

And I’m sure you too might benefit from what Darren said and that’s why I wanted to draw this article to your attention - you’ll thank me later!

Have a nice week!

Suggested Reading:

=> Bloggers Should Polish Their Old Posts - Old Is Gold!
=> Content Is King, But The Queen Remains Uniqueness! - (Blogging)
=> Enhance Your Blog Posts With Line Jump And Page Jump
=> EntreCard As A Niche Discovery Tool ?
=> Wonderful Blogging Ideas - How To Maximize And Boost Your Ideas? => PART 4 (Final)

As part of your blogging activities, you should take some time to maintain your blog. Everything needs a special consideration to be productive in the long run.
The most common mistake that some bloggers do, is to neglect old posts. Once written, we get a feeling that “this” post is now the past and we are yet eager and preoccupied by “how to come up with new wonderful ideas” for the incoming days, months, years..

Old Is Gold

The best thing to do, is to polish your old posts which get the most number of hits. To deduce your elite posts, use your Awstats, sitemeter or any tool that you use to monitor traffic on your blog. This is one of the important reason of why you should use such a traffic monitoring tool.

Why Should You Bother To Polish Your Old Posts?

Some of you might be wondering why to waste your free time doing such a time consuming activity when you could just concentrate your energy on new posts. Well, let’s try to make you change your mind

1) From my own experience, I have observed that now I write in a better and improved “style” from what I used to do in my early blogging days. It’s all normal, since early days are the most uncertain, shy, weak and experimenting moments. As you persevere with time, you should be doing much better, at least to a level with which you are satisfied with yourself. (Set some goals!)

So, this “may” mean that some of my old posts are not to the level which I’m breeding now. It might not be to the same presentable fashion. Further, my readers might have some ambiguities and frustrations to read them. Do you want this to happen?

2) Polishing your post also means to fix broken anchor texts, removing non-existing links, remove and update videos and fixing grammars..etc

Did You Know?
The Google Spider is excited when it sees you are updating your blog, old posts and repairing dead links.

It’s time to dig that old archives to polish those diamonds and make them shine brighter than ever!

And How About Your Approach?

I did this activity myself for a couple of my old post, but I’m still not satisfied with some. So I think I will take some time with my archive this week.
And how about you, what is your approach?

Here’s another breaking news from the Wordpress development community:

Version 2.5.1 of WordPress is now available. It includes a number of bug fixes, performance enhancements, and one very important security fix. We recommend everyone update immediately, particularly if your blog has open registration.

By the first line, it may sound (for newbies) as if a new version of Wordpress is out. But no! It’s another “fix” and a fix is there to solve bugs which are present in the main version, namely 2.5
I have been observing the trend of each release of the Wordpress package. When a version, lets say A.B is out, there is bound to have other “fix” releases in this family, like A.B.1, A.B.2, A.B.3..etc, so in general it’s A.B.x
When they have enough of this bug fixing, they release a new family, more precisely a new “species”, A.C, just like the example of 2.5

(on blogcatalog, when 2.5 was released, I said to someone that you will see such fix release soon enough, but i guess at that time some people might have just laughed.. that’s cool!)

Now, if you have understood what I mean, prepare youself for other releases like, 2.5.2, 2.5.3, 2.5.4…etc This means you will need to update and upgrade your package “x” times per year!

[..] In addition to the security fix, 2.5.1 contains many bug fixes [..]
[..] If you download the entire 2.5.1 release, you will be getting over 70 other fixes. 2.5.1 focuses on fixing the most annoying bugs and improving performance. [..]

For those of you who keep an eye on these frequent releases, you will find certain common things mentioned each time:
1) important security fix
2) many other bug fixes solved (here about 70!)

As per the Wordpress team, it’s the culmination of 6 months of work to release the 2.5 species. Then again, they come back with 2.5.1 fix.
But this is getting so stupid and frustrating to each time having to upgrade like this - it’s basically like 3 to 4 updates per year for bloggers using self-hosted wordpress package. Does the development team not care for all this hastle for us?
Why the hell can’t they just take one full year, test it fully and then bring to the world a robust and strong package!!! I starting to be fed up with wordpress..

Anyway, I let you see some more fix releases soon.. enjoy it if you are a big Wordpress fanatic!

Content is King…
Content is King…
Content is King…

Content is The king and your blog is its castle, right? Well, at least this is what you must have been reading around. While this is true, there is a further deep meaning down the valley, which you need to understand. Since the medieval time, a King never lives without his Queen, in his Castle.

In other words, your blog will not bloom success in the long run without unique content.
King + Queen = A wonderful Castle (lets forget soldiers for the sake of this discussion )

Queen always played a pivotal role. Even in chess, the Queen is the most powerful piece on the board. So, in blogging the Queen plays an important aspect as well.
I name this Queen “unique” content.

What Does Uniqueness Mean In Blogging?

=> Unique content means that you are not reproducing the exact copy or framework of another author. It should not be a duplicate. Write your own work and in your own words.

=> Do not say exactly what others are saying. Say it differently.

How To Make Your Content Unique?

=> The best thing is to always write an article from your own knowledge, experience and observations. An example is this article itself which I’m just writing without any googling or reading. It is just about how I see things and I trust it is good!

But this approach might not always be sustainable. You cannot write such unique content every time, simply because no one knows everything. There will be moments when you will need to make some references.

=> Read what others are saying and write it in a completely different approach - will require creativity from your part.

This can be a very nice approach, because I believe that there is more than a hundred ways of expressing and explaining something. May be someone among them may come up with a more intelligible and pertinent way of explaining it. So why not make your article be that special one?

Wakish Encourages..

With some good techniques, observation and experience, it is all possible to breed wonderful ideas in your garden to shape unique contents. It just need a bit of motivation and creativity from your side!