Have you ever suffered with the breakdown of your internet connection while writing your blog post online ? Have you lost everything which you have created with online blog post editor? Don’t worry,you can reduce the stress by using an offline blog editor like Window Live Writer to write your blog posts offline.

I like an offline blog editor due to following reasons :

Write Offline

You can write your blog posts offline without having an internet connection.Your hardwork never goes into the hell if you work offline.Sometimes your hosting provider can go down or your connection can break while you writing  blog post online.If you write offline,your blog post won’t be lost because it lives on your hard drive until you hit the publish button within the offline blog editor.

Speed Matters

An offline blog editor is best tool for writing blog posts offline without any interruption like browser loading time delay etc.

Upload Video and Images Easily

While writing my blog posts online,I suffered many times to upload images or videos easily.Online editor takes time to upload an image or video clipping but if you write your blog post using offline blog post editor like Window Live Writer,you can insert an image or a web clipping easily without any loading delay.

Manage Multiple Blogs

An offline editor provides the option to manage your one or many blogs at single place.You can write your blog post for your multi blogs,your posts saves in your hard disk.When you want to publish your any blog post,you need to login into your related blog account.

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If your blog is under construction then you can display a Customized Coming Soon Page or Under Construction page to normal visitors or regular members of your WordPress based Blog while the Site Administrators see the fully functional website with the applied theme and active plugins as well as a fully functional Dashboard.

Custom Coming Soon Pages WordPress Plugin will enable you to perform upgrades, fix nasty bugs or preview jazzy enhancements to your design live on your WordPress based blog without letting your users and normal visitors see crappy error messages or changes to the design until you really want them to.

Some features of the plugins are:

1. Controlled Access:
   Only Normal Visitors and Regular Members will see the Custom Coming Soon Page. If the Site Administrators are logged in, they will not see the Custom Coming Soon Page but will be able to view the fully functional blog with the current applied theme and active plugins as well as full access to the WordPress Dashboard.
2. Customizable Content:
   Customize the Title of the Coming Soon page as well as the coming soon message that is displayed from the Plugin Settings in your Dashboard.
3. Customizable Backgrounds:
   Specify any color for the background or use an image of your choice from the Plugin Settings in your WordPress dashboard.
4. Create your own Custom Coming Soon Page templates:
   You can create your own Custom Coming Soon Page templates using XHTML / CSS / PHP and plug them into the plugin for use.
5. Countdown Timer:
   Going to launch your website on a Specific Date? Specify it in the Plugin Settings and Display a cool Count Down Timer on your Custom Coming Soon Page.
6. Know-When-We-Launch:
   Let your users subscribe to your website and get notified via email when you launch.
7. Social Networks:
   Integrated Twitter and Facebook features lets your visitors follow you on these social networks until you launch. Just specify your user ID in the plugin settings in your WordPress Dashboard.

Get it Now

If your blog does not create a sense of trust in your readers, all your efforts will be in vain. Your blogging journey will

never succeed. That’s the bad news. The good news is that it is very easy to create and build trust in your blog readers. Below, I have listed all the techniques used by the hundreds of bloggers to build the trust . If you know additional techniques, please add them in the comment section.

1. Professional design of your blog is the first impression. Make sure it is professional and relevant to your niche. Don’t forget to put unique logo on the header of your blog.

2. Make your blog personal by giving it its own tone and voice. Develop your own voice of your niche.

3. Create the content in which you are more interested.Because you can write everything about your interested topic heartily.

4. Use language that is appropriate to the audience. It will build empathy.

5. Good grammar and spelling matter. Errors give the impression of carelessness.

6. Keep your blog alive by publishing posts informative and regularly. You can select scheduling for your post like, daily basis or weekly bases.

7. Allow people to comment on your blog. Interactivity and an exchange of views build community and a sense of involvement.

8. If people provide constructive criticism or comments about any topic of your blog, don’t delete them, but respond them with your point of view.

9. Moderate comments on your blog regularly and respond your readers and commentators with appropriately answers.

10. Never request your blog readers like “Read this blog and you’ll be a millionaire by the end of the week.” People are used to scams, get-rich-quick schemes and rip-offs.

11. Try to  use your real names and link to your blog where possible.

12. Try to use your branded Gravatar while commenting on other blogs instead of your cartoonist images.

13. Focus on building your long-term reputation, not on making quick results.

14. Write your blog posts for human like me,but not for search engines.

15. Try to avoid too much advertisements on your blog.

16. “About Us” page plays an important part in making readers feel comfortable that real people are behind the blog.It can build more trust on you and in your blog.

17. Use social media like Twitter,Facebook,Youtube or any other for your social presence in the social sphere.

18. Publish your own photo or avatar on social media sites and share with friends and your blog readers.This reinforces the fact that you are the real person behind the blog.

19. Provide an email form,Your social network links like Twitter.com,Facebook.com etc so your blog readers can contact with you easily.

20. Be present on other blogs related your niche by commenting regularly.It shows that your are present as a active member in the meeting.

Did you know that you can tweet your blog posts automatically on Twitter without login on Twitter?

You can send your blog posts on Twitter automatically.Previously I have discussed about “How to publish your blog posts on Facebook automatically” but today I am sharing my own experience about Twitter.

Twitter has become the best networking tool for business promotion as well as blog promotion. It allows us to say anything in 140 characters to the world.

For bloggers Twitter is really best and easily operated networking tool. Nowadays many Twitter applications are available in the market, allow us to tweet from our browser, computer or from our mobile phone. But as a blogger we need the application which allows us to tweet our blog posts on Twitter when they published or edited.TwitMe allows us the same.

TwitMe is a WordPress plugin which allows us to Tweet our blog posts on Twitter automatically even without pressing any button.Your blog posts will arrive to people while they are walking the streets.

Some of the features I have noticed on TwitMe are:

• It allows us to tweet blog posts on Twitter automatically when they published.
• It gives us the opportunity to tweet blog posts when they edited.
• It allows us to integrate Twitter account with Google Map. With this we can analyze our followers with geographical location.
• TwitMe allows us to send the automatic direct massage(DM) to the new followers when they follow us.
• No need to login on Twitter in future.TwitMe allows operating Twitter account from the admin panel of your Blog. This feature works like all the features on Twitter account.

TwitMe is really an awesome WordPress plugin for Twitter users.

I know that  you are working on your blog day and night. You are putting all the efforts behind your blog; obviously you want to secure and active your blog. Sometimes broken links, spamming or server failure can break the security and your blog can crash. Even, if  your blog is facing the problem with broken links and internal errors, it can also lead to blog failure.

Remember, your blog is your digital asset so its security and activeness is more necessary.

These 5 Word Press plugins can secure your blog and keep it active.

1. Broken Link Checker: Sometimes, links get broken. A page is deleted or a site is moved to a different domain, mostly your blog contains links. Sometime these links broken and broken links lead to ‘404 Not Found’ error page. Broken link checker WP plugin takes the care of this problem.

2. WP www Redirect: This WP plugin help you to redirect all urls to the setting of your choice (www or not)

3. WP Database Backup: Keep your blog safe. Take a backup of your blog and save on your hard drive.You can set scheduled backup of your blog on Database Backup plugin admin panel.

WP Security Scan: WP Security scan is the best WordPress plugin.You can check the password strength, database security etc. with help of WP security scan plugin.

Akismet: Spammers attacks on the blog using spamming massages, comments on your blog and it takes lot of time to manage the deletion of these spamming comments. Akismet is the best plugin for your blog defense from the spammers.

If you have any other options, write in the comment section.

Writing your blog should be a fun way to stretch your mind and stay connected to trends, friends, and the greater world, not another computer task that takes far too long to get done.
I found some Tools these are more useful for your Blog or Website.

1.Social Bookmark Tool:

Adding social bookmark links to your blog or web site makes it easy for readers to save and share your content.

This social bookmarks tool provides you with several easy to implement options to encourage visitors to your blog to bookmark your posts

 on the most popular social bookmark and news sites. You can decide how many or how few bookmaring services to display on your blog.

2.Poll or Voting Tool:

With Poll Tool you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.Find out what your visitors are thinking today. Create your surveys and polls using custom templates or create your own.

I found PollDaddy.com for this tool.

 

3.Snap Shots:

Snap Shots is the world’s most popular way to give your users a more fun and interactive experience on your site or blog. It’s a complete system designed to help you get more from your site.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snap Shots uses your links to bring the most appropriate information about the sites you’re pointing to. Your audience doesn’t even have to leave your site to get the best of other sites.

 

 

4.Feedburner Link Icon:

How many times have you heard that RSS doesn’t scale or that your feed is broken. Headache? Give your headaches to FeedBurner.

Let them manage your feed,  so you can focus on blogging.

 

 

 

5.Contact Form:

We always want to get rid of the spamming. But the main difficulty we face normally is creating Contact Option for getting pure responses from readers. But main hurdle is creating a contact form.

As we know many free blog hosting services such as Blogger does not support email-form scripting, so we can’t create a Email form directly using Blogger. But some of the site such as http://kontactr.com gives us nice option to host the contact form externally and all we have to do is to put this contact form in your blog post or Html widget box.

 

These are best and free tools for your blog.With them you can put extra flavour on your blog.