If you’ve been wondering why your blog hasn’t ranked high or why your readership has declined, it may be due to a lack of SEO optimization. Sure, you may have quality content and eye-catching titles, but unless you’ve taken the necessary steps to choose the right keywords for your articles, you may not see much improvement. Keywords have an extremely important role in search engine optimization and the success of your blog. Along with having current, quality content, bloggers also want to have specific keywords that draw in readers and, hopefully, earn you some money. Here are some helpful tips to choosing and implementing the right keywords for your blog:

Brainstorm a Few Keywords

Before or after your article has been published online, you’ll want to spend some quality time brainstorming a few keywords that will get your blog indexed in major search engines. While you’re brainstorming, it’s a good idea to go to a popular search engine, such as Google or Yahoo, and type in keywords that relate to the topic you’re writing about. This will help you see what results come up and what other keywords your competitors are using. The best way for bloggers to choose their keywords is to think like their potential readers and search as they would.

Use Two or Three Keyword Combinations

Now that you know what keywords are popular, you’ve got to tweak your keywords to make them stand out among your competitors. It’s highly unlikely that single-word keywords will get you high rankings for very long, or at all. Non-specific one-word keywords are used by thousands of bloggers every day, and using them will only make it harder for your blog to get ranked high. The most effective keywords typically contain two to three words. You should think about common and highly specific words or phrases that readers are most likely to type into a search engine. In other words, don’t simply choose “cooking” as one of your keywords; try “cooking for one” or “organic cooking” to narrow your focus.

Utilize Online SEO Tools

In your pursuit to find the best keywords for your blog, it’s a good idea to take advantage of the awesome SEO tools that are right at your fingertips. Google AdWords is a terrific tool for researching the competition and global and local monthly searches for certain words or phrases. This keyword tool will help you tweak your current keywords to include less competitive words and better word arrangements. While on this site, check out the price of individual keywords. If you have a Google Adsense campaign, this will give you a better understanding of how much or how little you’ll earn. It can be enticing to choose keywords that are worth more money, but you may not notice a difference in your ranks if the keyword competition is high. Niche subjects with less competitive keywords are still a better bet for your blog.

By-line:

Mariana Ashley is a freelance writer who particularly enjoys writing about online college. She loves receiving reader feedback, which can be directed to mariana.ashley031 @gmail.com.

Daiv Mowbray has developed new wordpress plugin superSlider-image.SuperSlider-image lets you to add images in your blog posts with short code.It Provides an easy way to change image properties globally.

Changing any default option in the admin/settings/superslider-image page will change that property for all images inserted with the [image] short code.

Features of SuperSlider-image WordPress Plugin:

• SuperSlider-image provides the shortcode [image] to insert an image into your posts / page. This allows you to set a default image code setup.
• It  Avoids the hard coded image in your post.
• Each inserted [image] shortcode can be customized with properties which stay fixed.
• Changing a default option in the admin/settings/superslider-image page will change that property for all images inserted with the [image] shortcode.
• This works for one or more images attached to this post, or any image id from your media library. ie: [image which_image="129"] where 129 is the image id.

View Demo of the Plugin or Download it.

Google has released a demonstration video of Chrome Speed Test.Google recently launched new beta of its web browser Chrome.Firefox,Internet Explorer and other web browsers were popular before Chrome but Chrome has gained the market within few months of its launching.

How the Speed Test Video Was Made

Chrome Developers says:

Today’s release contains the goodness of some new HTML5 features, namely Geolocation APIs, App Cache, web sockets, and file drag-and-drop capabilities. Additionally, this is the first Chrome beta that features initial integration of the Adobe Flash Player plug-in with Chrome, so that you can browse a rich, dynamic web with added security and stability — you’ll automatically receive security and feature updates for Flash Player with Chrome’s auto-update mechanism.
To try out all these new features, download Chrome on the Windows beta channel, or download the Mac or Linux betas.
Lastly, with this beta’s crazy speed improvements, we designed a series of equally unconventional speed tests for the browser. While the V8 and SunSpider benchmarks have their strengths, we felt that more could be done to measure speed on the browser. Here’s an early preview of how we designed, built, and implemented these speed tests.

What do you think of the new Chrome beta? What do you think of Google’s speed test video? Let us know!

Google Docs is one of the best Document creation tools on the web.Recently Google has introduced new tool called Drawing in Google Docs.

You can use Google Docs drawings to make charts, diagrams, designs, and more.Google workers have been using this tool at Google to create everything from project timelines to launch plans. Here are some examples of what you could make:

The new drawing editor lets you share drawings just like you share spreadsheets, documents, and presentations. You can also simultaneously edit drawings with your friends and chat with them right in the editor. Here’s what we mean:

With drawings, you can insert text, shapes, arrows, scribbles, and add images from your hard drive or from the Web. You can also use alignment guides, snap to grid, and auto distribution to lay out drawings with precision.

Once you’ve perfected your drawing, use it pretty much anywhere — copy and paste your drawings into other document types using the web clipboard and then make edits with the embedded drawing editor, publish them as images hosted by Google, insert them into other web pages, or download them as PNGs, JPGs, PDFs, and SVG.

Please note that if you want to edit your drawings in the new editor, you need a browser that supports the SVG standard, like the latest versions of Safari, Firefox, or Chrome, or to install Chrome Frame if you are using Internet Explorer.

Blogging with Windows Live Writer is really very interesting and innovative.You can write the content for your blog with Window Live Writer even if your internet connection has lost while writing the content.Window live writer has many awesome tools for drafting the content dynamically.It has number of powerful plugins to customize your blog posts and pages.I am sharing one of the plugins you might be like to download.

This plugin helps you to manage comments on Your WordPress Blog from inside of Windows Live Writer.

You need to install  this comment management plugin in your Window Live Writer.

Follow the steps to install this plugin:

Step: #1

Download the WordPress Plugin to your desktop and then copy it to the plug-ins folder in your Live Writer installation directory.

Step: # 2

Move the Plugin DLL File into    :\Program Files—Windows Live—Writer–Plugins

Check the sidebar of your Window Live Writer dashboard and find the link “Comment Management”.You can moderate the comments of your blog under the link “Comment Management” and can delete,edit or approve the comments.

Note:If you have another tip of Window Live Writer,pl share with others.

Ever wanted to send a message to your blog commenter individually or in a group ? Whether it’s blog update info or a note, here’s a new WordPress plugin you might want to consider.

Contact Commenter

Contact Commenter lets you send email messages to individual or a group of commenters. It lets Administrator to see who has wrote more comments on his post and mail to commenters.

Here is the massage form view.

You can manage the commenter massaging settings in your WordPress dashboard under the plugin link.

It required sender name and email id and you need to select the commenter to whom you want to send massage.Even you can send a massage at once  to your all commenters in a single click.

I would like to say big thanks to Reza Moallemi for developing this awesome plugin.

If you are using Contact Commenter,I would like to hear from you about this plugin.