XarJ Blog and Podcast

I cannot stumble upon my own blog posts anymore!

What is going on? Has the world gone crazy?
One morning I woke up and felt like stumbling my latest blog post. The previous night, I had spent 3 hours researching, preparing and writing a great blog post, that post deserved to appear on stumbleupon!
I navigate to my [...]

How to add extra line breaks and spaces in your Wordpress Posts

You are writing a new post in wordpress and are desperately trying to add multiple line breaks and spaces to make your post look nicer and easier to read?
You tried adding manual line breaks with the <br /> tag but wordpress visual editor automatically [...]

Link Exchange

How to Trade Links with those Great Blogs - Find and Exchange

In my article, I will focus on finding the right blogs to trade links with and the best way to contact the webmasters with your request, by email. But firstly, let me just remind you that creating worthy backlinks from other websites pointing [...]

I’ve been adding music and videos on my blog for almost two years now. The original idea for my blog was to create and publish a podcast with my latest creations; music and video. Over time, I decided to add posts not related to my creations and that’s when my blog left it’s semi-niche category [...]

I wrote this article cause I’m pissed and disappointed. I’m not the type of person who will ever spend more than 1-2 hours per week on social news sites and because of that I am doomed never to get a submitted story made popular. Hopefully I’m wrong and the next story I submit will get 2000 diggs, 200 stumbles, 50 Stirs, 100 Reddits and 30 mixx!

Let’s not forget that if an “addicted” power user submits your story from his profile, you’ll have a lot more chances to get featured. But it did not get popular from your own puny account! You need help!

I re-read my blog post and I’m quite happy with it! I’m teaching myself to spend more time working on my articles. Quality not Quantity. You’ll be a lot more successful with great blog posts not so often than lots of mediocre blog posts.

One last word of advice, if you want to succeed on social news sites, do not bash them like I’m doing!

Internet Explorer IE compatibility issues when embeding Youtube videos into Wordpress
A week ago I inserted some Youtube videos into my blog posts and only a few days later did I notice that the videos were not displaying in Internet Explorer (IE). No problems in Firefox and Opera but once again, Internet Explorer did not understand [...]

Social Media

Where to submit your Blog Posts for more visibility?
This is your ultimate list to all the worthwhile Social Media sites. I have spent and will continue to spend hours to keep this list updated so Bookmark this Page!
All you need for success is this list, some good articles you have written and lots of [...]

Incredible or Crap : Story of Banalization
To all you webmasters and blog writers, have you ever noticed that if your article is not incredible, it’s crap?
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Incredible or Crap
Don’t get offended! I say crap because even if it’s not, it will get the same results as if it was crap. By results, I mean the activity [...]

Writing the Perfect Wordpress Blog Post
The Best SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Secret Tips and Tricks

Wordpress offers many useful ways of optimizing your blog posts to help rank higher in the SERPS (Search Engine Results Pages). Higher ranking in the SERPS equals more visitors to your site and more income (if that’s your objective).
I have compiled the [...]

I spend a lot of time working on my Blog & Podcast and it’s working pretty well. I get between 1000 and 2000 unique visitors everyday but most of them come from images which are very well indexed in Google. Those visitors don’t really care about topics which do not relate to Photos and Images [...]