6 Tips for Better Blogging Success – Avoiding the Pitfalls

Blogging has long been a vital component to building a successful online presence and cementing your role as a leader in your industry. While it has gone in and out of vogue in terms of big companies, successful small and medium businesses have long known that having a blog gives them access to tremendous advantages found nowhere else. 

However, you can’t just build a blog and expect success to materialize. This isn’t Field of Dreams – if you build it, they will NOT necessarily come. In order to see real success with blogging, you have to know a few things. Here are six vital tips for ensuring success no matter what your industry or niche.

Simple Web Development Tips for Your Site - A Guest Post

The main goal of every website is to attract visitors towards it and this is possible only through the appealing and unique design of a website. 

With the increase in online business there are countless people accessing the internet world each day and in this tough competition it is very important to be unique in order to grab the attraction of internet users. 

The visitors have so many options available that a small mistake will make you lose a customer and they will visit another available website. 

Perfecting Effects on Paint.net - Similar on Photoshop as well

I'd be covering all the important effects that you're going to need to perfect Paint.net in this post. It's just going to be a series of different pictures showing you what each effect does. So, rather than wasting time let's begin:

Re-sizing images:

The first thing I did was opened a new tab and went to Pixabay.com and searched for a picture of a flame - Here's the link to the Picture.

However, I've not added the original picture below, instead I've re-sized it to fit the blog well and I've chosen to make them all squares which are 400X400.

Here's what you do:

Open Paint.net and go to File>Open (Pick out the file you wish to open).

OR

Right click on a image and say Open with > Paint.net

Now that you've got the image open, the next thing you would need to do is re-size the image.

Go to: Image > Resize

This is what you'd see:

I've made this small else it's going into the sidebar

5 Ways Brands Utilize Instagram to Increase Engagement - A Guest Post

Since we’re focusing on increasing your traffic using effective photos, this guest post by Steve would be a great addition to the series. Take a look at how you could use Pictures to increase visitor engagement on your website.

If you are a regular internet user, you must have come across or at least heard about the popular photo tool known as Instagram. It is a smartphone app that makes it possible for users to incorporate visual effects to their photographs, before sharing them with their friends and followers on the various social media websites.

In recent times, Instagram has proven to be an effective tool for engaging and conducting business.

This is because it has an incredible digital PR potential, which helps in giving your business the much needed exposure. The following are five of the most significant ways brands and other businesses in general can utilize the Instagram app to boost their engagements:

Photo Contests

One of the most excellent ways brands can make use of Instagram is by setting up photo contests, and encouraging users to participate in them. Since the app is very simple to use and millions of people across the globe have access to it, there is always a great chance that a good number of people will show interest in participating in your photo contest. 

To heighten their interest further, promise to offer attractive rewards for the winning contestants. Such competitions greatly assist in giving your brand better coverage, especially if you are able to attract a huge number of participants to the competition and they share their photos on various social media pages.

Brand Marketing

Business enterprises can also make use of Instagram photographs for the purposes of marketing their brands. For instance, apart from seeking the services of a SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to make certain that your brand can be seen and ranks as high as possible in search engine results such as Google, a business enterprise could also spice up their marketing campaigns by posting and sharing attractive Instagram photographs of the products they are trying to promote. 

How to Design an Effective Website without Coding Skills - A Guest Post

Today, small and medium businesses are keeping up with Fortune 500 companies as they delve into the world of e-commerce and setting up their very own professional websites. Micro enterprises, homeowners and even teenagers are able to run their online businesses through websites. 

What’s amazing is that such small-scale businesses are able to have professional looking websites without the huge budget for a web designer. How do they do it?

CMS Platforms:

CMS stands for content management system. It allows you to design and edit your websites in an ongoing basis. You only have to login and edit your website in a browser window without even knowing PHP, XHTML, CSS, HTML and other coding languages. 

There are so many CMS platforms available today, which you can use to design beautiful websites no matter your coding background. Wordpress is by far the leading CMS Platform today.