RSS subscribers are very important when it comes to build a loyal readership. A lot of blogs will have an RSS feed icon somewhere in their sidebar, which is great, but today we’re going to show you how you can utilise that valuable space at the end of your articles to boost the amount of people who subscribe…Google+

Many bloggers have the difficult task of writing for a blog, maintaining the blog and developing its social media presence without help. This can be quite a demanding workload, especially if you are running a blog with a full-time job. So what do you do when you go on your summer vacation? Why not automate your WordPress blog this summer, so you can enjoy your vacation!

You could always ‘take your blog with you’ – find a Wi-Fi spot and carry on writing, but unless you are a travel blogger – that kinda defeats the purpose of a holiday.

In this article, we are going to be taking a look at how you can automate your wordpress blog and social media accounts whilst still engaging with your community. Some of these techniques you’ll be able to apply to other blogging platforms too, such as Blogger. We’ll also be taking at look at how professional blogger Darren Rowse managed to maintain his blog, Problogger during his vacation to the gorgeous, Queensland. …Google+

We all notice it when someone floods our Twitter timeline with multiple tweets over a short time period. This isn’t in any way malicious on their part, it is just how some people use Twitter – they log on, reply, tweet and retweet then log off. Unfortunately, often is the case that people will see four or five tweets in a row from the same person and just skip them all – not good news!

We may notice this when browsing through our own Twitter streams, but how do we know other people aren’t thinking exactly the same thing about our tweets? How do we know that we aren’t clogging up another user’s timeline and losing their interest?

Often we don’t. But there is a tool we can use to spread out our bursts of Twitter activity and that tool is Buffer. …Google+

Imagine two restaurants. One has average food, and is located in the beautiful country. The food isn’t the best, but the quiet environment and relaxing atmosphere make up for that. Now, imagine a gourmet restaurant. The food is top-notch, the best in the country. However, this restaurant is located right next to the city dump. Although the food…Google+

If you’ve got the design skills to create your own custom social icons, adding a hover effect can really add to their impact. All this is quite possible from within WordPress using the standard text widget and a little CSS magic!

A hover effect is that simple, yet effective transition between two images you see when you hover over an image. It is achieved by telling an internet browser to display a different image when a user hovers over the original image. You’ve probably seen this effect all over the internet as it is quite commonly used with icons and buttons – today we are going to show you how you can achieve it on your own blog. …Google+

If you’re not familiar with ifttt, allow me to explain – ifttt (or, ‘if this then that’) is a web automation tool. As daunting as that may sound, it is actually very user friendly.

With ifttt you can automate a lot of how you work on the web, take a look at this post showing some of the most useful ifttt recipes – a recipe simply being an automated task that someone else has already created and made public.

In this post, I’m going to show you how you can put ifttt to work for you and generate a list on twitter users. I’ll also explain why this is useful and how it can help grow your blog! So first, you’d better go sign up with ifttt. …Google+

Productivity is something you are probably starting to realise is very important when it comes to blogging – which is why not being productive is such a problem, and the reason that posts detailing how to be productive are always popular.

There are so many tips and tricks you can try to get productive and get down to writing, some work better than others and some just aren’t suited to you as an individual.

Productivity’s main foes are procrastination and distraction, which is why you need to do everything you can to eliminate them if you want to stay productive! Do you know one place that is filled with distractions and potential procrastination? Your own home. …Google+