One of the ways of marketing your blog is to write guest blog posts on various blogs. It’s a different thing that there are few bloggers who just don’t like the idea of guest blogging and think that it’s a waste of time and that one should concentrate on posting better posts on their own blogs. Although, I’m not from that category of bloggers and I think that it makes more sense to publish guest posts on various blogs. It’s a different things that you will need to play the right cards at the right moment, when it comes to guest blogging (we’ll discuss that later in a future post).

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Similar posts is a wonderful plugin which helps you display related/similar posts after or before your blog posts, however it works only for you blog posts. Although, you may also want to display related content from various other websites and help reach your readers to the right places.

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People who know me personally would know that I’m a firm believer of the fact that videos and screencasts are going to be pretty huge on the internet and that they will play important role in the success of any blog. I was fortunate enough to conduct an e-mail interview with Michael Pick. Michael recently joined Automattic(the company behind WordPress, bbPress, BuddyPress, Akismet etc.) as a LightBulb Engineer (Michael has explained the idea behind this enlightening position in this interview itself) and his job is to create Screencasts for WordPress. Prior to taking up the job at Automattic, Michael used to run Smash Cut Media – where he offered professional screencasting services.

I would like to thank Michael, for taking time from his busy schedule and answering these questions for our readers and I hope that this will encourage more and more people to start screencasts or create videos on their blogs.

1. Which software do you use or recommend for creating screencasts ?

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Podcasts are the upcoming or to an extent one of the essential part of the blogs. Not only it helps you in reaching a wider audience, which doesn’t prefer to read stuff, it also helps in getting more personal to your readers. Podcasts are generally classified in to section - Audio Podcasts & Video Podcasts (referred as VideoCasts). In this post we are specifically working on Audio Podcasts.

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I know only two languages; Hindi (my mother tongue) & English (I’m not the best in it). Just like that there are thousands of other languages in the world and not everyone knows English. So the big question is that is it worth to provide the content in those languages to attract the readers of those countries or not ?

Let’s see how the world is distributed amongst the netizens & which language prevails :

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Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Bloggers has crafted a creative marketing idea, where the good lady has asked people to send her their blog address along with couple of sentences – why some one should visit your blog ? & what’s the first blogging tip you’ll give to anyone ? and they will be showcased on her blog!

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Yesterday, Google launched Knol , which has been seen as WikiPedia Killer and the big reason for that is, that it allows publishers or content writers to link their Adsense accounts along with it. Darren Rowse has asked an interesting question over his uber blog that is Google Knol – A Wikipedia killer or a blog killer?

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