Category — Blogging Tips

 

Dear readers,

I am excited to share few really wonderful and valuable eBooks for enriching your knowledge. They are absolutely free.

I have enriched my knowledge by reading most of them.

These books cover topics such as personal development, blogging tips , lifestyle.

Download these free eBooks and read them however you want (on PC, kindle, mobile or tablet).

Here are the 45 free downloadable eBooks.

1. Get More From Life – By Scott H Young
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here  and here

2. Focus – Leo Babauta
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

3. The Bold Living Guide – by Barrie Davenport
Category: Personal development
Download the book here

4. 92 Life Lessons – By Tiny Buddha
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here  (Check the right side of blog and enter your email to receive the eBook)

5. Value 101 – By Stuart Mills
Category: Personal development, interview series
Download the eBook here

6. Peace Love And Connection – By Tess Marshall
Category: Lifestyle development
Download the eBook here

7.  Seven Keys To Discover Your Passion – By Jonathan Mead
Category: Lifestyle development
Download the eBook here (You will also get 2 free guides as bonus)

8. Non verbal Website Intelligence – By DIYThemes
Category: Website intelligence
Download the eBook here

9. How To Live A Simple Life in 30 Days – By John Sherry
Category: Personal Development
Download the eBook here

10. eBooks The Smart Way- By Pat Fylnn
Category: eBook creating guide
Download the eBook here

11. Beginners Guide To SEO – By SEOMOZ
Category: Search Engine Optimization
Download the eBook here

12. Get Profitable Niche Ideas – By Glen Alsoop
Category: Niche website ideas
Download the eBook here (Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

13.  How I Grew My Subscribers To 10000 in 12 Months - By Glen Alsoop
Category: Blog traffic tips
Download the eBook here

14.  Make Money Blogging – By Daniel Scocco
Category: Blogging advice
Download the eBook here (See at the end of article where you can enter your email to get the eBook)

15.  Empower Your Writing – By Farnoosh Brook
Category: Content Writing Tips
Download the eBook here

16. Personal Success Blue Print – By Peter James Sinclair
Category: Personal Development
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17. Basic English Grammer – By Daily Writing Tips
Category: Content Writing
Download the eBook here

18. Keyword Research and Competition Analysis – By Tom Ewer
Category: Search Engine Optimization
Download the eBook here

19. Everything You Know About Traffic Is Wrong – By Martyn Chemberlin
Category: Content writing, blog traffic
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20. Getting Results The Agile Way - By J.D.Meier
Category:Blogging advice
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21. Impossible The Manifesto – By Joel Runyon
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

22. 8 Personal Development eBooks – By Celestine Chua from the personal excellence blog
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

23. How To Be Chosen One – By Amit Sodha
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

24. The Intuition Premier – By Angela Artemis
Category: Personal Development
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

25. Get A Life That Doesn’t Suck – By Benny Hsu
Category: Personal Development
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

26. Free Series Email Course – By Onibalusi
Category: Freelance Writing Guide
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

27. Info Product Idea Kit – By Tristan
Category: Guide on How To Come up With Great Idea eBooks and membership sites and more
Download the eBook here

28. Starting A Blog – By Peter Clemens
Category: Blogging advice foe beginners
Download the eBook here 

29. The Best Of Positive Provocations – By Zeenat Syal
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here 

 30. 101 Powerful Affirmations – Yee Shun Jian
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

 31. Best Of Change Your Thoughts – Volume 1 and 2 – By Steven Aitchison
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

 32. Your Guide To Creating A Powerful Life Vision – By Adrienne
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

33. 32 Most Powerful Conversion Triggers Of All Time – By Oliver Olsen
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

 34. 279 days to overnight success- By Chris Guillebeau
Category: Personal development
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 35. Blog Profit Blue Print – By Yaro Starak
Category: Blogging advice
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 36. 4 eBooks from Blogging Teacher – By Paul Cunningham
Category: -Email marketing, blog maintenance, WordPress plugins
Download the eBook here

 37. 101 Ways To Beat Bloggers Block – By Blogging Bookshelf
Category: Blogging advice
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 38. 52 Headline Hacks – A Cheat Sheet For Writing Blog Posts That Go Viral – By Jon Morrow of Copy Blogger
Category: Content writing
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 39. Self Love Stories Of Bloggers – By Evelyn Lim
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here ( Check the right side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

 40. The Authentic Dreaming Worksheet – By Danielle LaPorte
Category: Personal development
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41. How To Create Our 1st Website - By Income Diary
Category: Website creation
Download the eBook here

 42. 7 Timeless Habits Of Happiness – By Henrik Edberg
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here ( Check the left side of the blog where you can enter your email for getting eBook)

 43. The Guide To Being Human – By Justin Mazza
Category: Personal development
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 44. 8 Pillars Of Lasting Happiness- By Rahul Singh
Category: Personal development
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 45. The Five Secrets Of Happiness – By Fred Tracy
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

As a bonus, here is another inspiring eBook

Small Ways To Make A Big Difference – By Raam Dev
Category: Personal development
Download the eBook here

I hope you enjoyed this collection of free eBooks.

I have also created a PDF of above list which can be easily shared with others. Download the PDF here.

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I am so excited to tell you that I have launched my new blog on blogging advice. It is called Expert Blog Tips

Lot’s of interesting stuff will be available there as I progress my writing there. Right now, you will find few articles and an awesome offer if you are blogger or website owner. I will design your blog header image for Free.

That’s right.

I am keeping this post short. Please go and check it out and let me know what you think about it.

Dear reader,
It has been over an year since I started this blog and I am so excited to share that it has been a wonderful and fulfilling experience to me.I am also delighted to share with you that planetnaveen.com is now a PR2 blog.

I might not have posted large number of articles (since I am a full time employee who writes lots of code at day job in software), but what’s delighting for me is, through this part time blogging, I am able to connect with so many new people and it feels really good to see their emails, comments. Another set of people have subscribed to my mailing list and this is a incredible beginning.

For a change, I tried to write an off-topic post today. I thought , let me share my blog tools and a picture of my work station with the most important part of my blog. You, the reader.

So here I go. Below are some of the blog tools and software that I use.

Hardware and Accessories

Desktop Computer – Un-branded and 11 Years old. This one never going to retire
I am amazed by this PC since I am using this since last 11 years and it has well tolerated my numerous experiments whether its software installations or disk partitioning or playing with heavy applications. Though some times its RAM crashed, this PC still rocks. Though currently it has become my secondary computer, I still love to work on it whenever I travel back to India.

Laptop - Acer Core2Duo – 320Gig and 2 GB Ram
I bought this very recently since I relocated to Dubai and badly needed computer to continue my blogging.Acer was good choice since it fit nicely into my budget . I am not one of those who spend lots of money on getting the latest version in everything. I just need basic features.

A Kindle – Kindle has been very useful to me since I love reading. Kindle helped me to read lots of great books especially while I am traveling. You may want to know more about how kindle can change your reading habits here.

Olympus SP600Uz – This medium range camera has been a latest addition to my blog army. Not very sure how much this would be useful but my main idea while buying this was to use it as a tool for capturing creative pictures and use them for my blog posts.

A Notebook – Paper still rules. I scribble ideas onto this.

Software Tools

Adobe Photo Shop : This tool helps me in various ways such as for creating headers and eBook covers.

FileZilla : File upload tool. If you are searching for file upload tool, you can freely download it here.

Adobe Dreamweaver : Excellent tool for editing HTML and php files. I create custom HTML pages using these. It helps in tweaking php code as well. Check, how I created a squeeze page using Dreamweaver.

Open Office : Document creating tool. It also helps in creating eBook since it has save as PDF capabilities.

Image Converter: Image resizing made easy.

Word Web online dictionary : This helps me in improving my vocabulary.

WordPress platform : An amazing content management software. I love WordPress. planetnaveen.com runs on this. Undoubtedly this is the best blog tool available.

Programming Tools

Some of the programming I learned exclusively after I started blogging: CSS, php,FBML, Adobe Photoshop. Check my facebook page which I created using FBML. Simple, yet works for me.

Email Subscription Management

Google feedburner manages my mailing list very well. I did experiment with mailchimp for a while but again back to feedburner because of its simplicity. I have customized feedburner email subscription form a bit so that it includes my free eBook image as well.

Traffic Tracking Tool

Google analytics.

What’s plan for future

An i-Pad (since Dubai has lots of WiFi spots) and a large screen desktop in hardware side. In software side, upgrading to aweber email subscription management tool once my subscriber base reaches large numbers.Another strong reason for switching to aweber would be utilizing the feature of automatic delivery of ebook when someone subscribes to my blog.

I will continue to use free theme Neoclassical theme on this blog since it looks clean and meets my requirement in terms of blog’s look and feel very much.

Above are some of the blog tools I use for blogging.

I would like to hear from you, what blog tools you use for blogging. I would be very much interested to know

Comment.

Happy to share that my article titled “5 Questions You Got to Answer Before Blogging Full Time” has been published on Daily Blog Tips. You can read the full post here.

DailyBlogTips.com is one of the top “How-To-Blog” resource with more than 50000 subscribers.

See you in the next post

You were having lots of enthusiasm when you started your blog. However it has been quite sometime, you find that your blog is not receiving much traffic. You are clueless about why your efforts are not getting rewarded. You are now discouraged and disappointed. In short, your blog is not well.

Dear new blogger, what you are experiencing is normal. Give a break to your disappointment and take a look at below checklist to see that whether you are making below 9 mistakes? If so, then rectify them and witness the results yourselves.

1. Your writing is not interesting
   Though you might have written good numbers of articles on your blog but if it is not written in an interesting manner, it won’t appeal to the visitors. Remember, retaining visitors is equally important as attracting visitors. Write in such a way that it converts casual visitors into subscribers. It’s time to brush up your writing skills. Create irresistible headlines, put images, and use bullets points where ever required. Let your writing be interesting. I think you got my point
2. Most of your time is spent in Design and Dressing up your Blog
   My dear, there is no doubt that your blog should look good and appealing. However blogs are read not seen. Even search engines will not see the design of your blog, they read your blog as a plain text. You decide where you should focus. My advice is chose a design and incorporate few basic widgets and stick to it. Just focus on writing quality articles.
3. You write a post but discard it thinking that it is not unique
   Let’s imagine that your friend uses a great software utility and recommends the same to you. You also try the same and find that it’s really great. This inspires you to create a blog article reviewing this tool. You now create the blog article nicely and before clicking the publish button, you do search in Google about this new utility to find out whether somebody else has written a post about it. To your horror, there are hundreds of blog posts already about this tool. You now discard your blog post thinking that why should you again write about this utility since there are already so many entries on the internet. You are afraid that you won’t be adding any value and instead duplicating the content. Hold on. Please don’t do this mistake .I advice you to continue writing about the utility. It’s you who is reviewing this utility now. Write your own opinion and benefit experiences about this product in your own manner. Reveal your views on this. You are NOT duplicating the content.
   Now, if it so happens that for every article of yours, you find thousands of blog entries already on the Internet, then I would like to put a quick question to you. Have you selected your blog niche properly? It seems to be very broad to me.
4. You have not put subscription form and social sharing buttons on your blog
   How did you miss this basic step? Put subscription forms enabling readers to subscribe via Email and RSS. You can create a page for Subscribing and keep all subscriptions options right there in the page.
   Regarding social sharing, add social sharing options for each one of your posts. You can utilize wordpress plugins to do this task. People definitely share the good stuff. That’s why web has been a great success. Never underestimate the power of sharing. You can use a great plugin called ShareThis. It’s very easy to create an account and put the code in your blog template.
5. You are not guest blogging
   Guest posting on other blogs is very important strategy for driving traffic to your blog. Submit quality articles to high authority blogs in your niche. If published, it will result in good amount of traffic back to your blog. I do guest blogging for couple of blogs. It has been a great experience and my referral traffic from those blogs has been awesome.
6. You are not harnessing the power of blog commenting
   Commenting on other blogs is easiest way of getting quality backlinks. However, don’t spam other blogs but leave quality comments.
7. You are not an active player on social networks
   Social networks are great places to boost your blog traffic. Promote your blog actively on these social networks.
8. You are not utilizing the power of email marketing
   Email still rules and its here to stay. Send your blog updates through emails to friends and relatives. They will share your article via social tools if they like it. You can also use Aweber for great Email marketing tools.
9. You want overnight traffic and a quick success
   This will not happen, believe me. Remember, it needs hard work and consistent efforts. Things will take time and be patient.
   Patience is a virtue. With above tips and hard work I am sure soon you will see great traffic flooding your blog.

All the best for your blog. Time for you to implement point 6 now.

 

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