I think, “It will be good blogging practice, if we could sum-up previous posts of our blog into one post”.

Why? Because, it gives room to readers to browse previous posts from one single post and not browsing around different categorized posts.

Soon, Espreson is going to publish an e-book on Good-Blogging-Practice and on that e-book you will find all the posts categorized under Good-Blogging-Practice.

By the way, till date Espreson has completed its 30th post, so, the sum-up begins here,

1. Good Blogging Practice Part-21 (Choosing the right topic for blog is important task)
2. Good Blogging Practice Part-22 (How to write grammatical error free blog posts)
3. Good Blogging Practice Part-23 (Sticking into one blog theme)
4. Good Blogging Practice Part-24 (How maintain healthy blogging practice)
5. Good Blogging Practice Part-25 (Good blog posting practice why and how)
6. Good Blogging Practice Part-26 (SEO Title Tag, a wordpress plugin, helps blog optimization a lot)
7. Good Blogging Practice Part-27 (Utilizing the power of Google Analytics)
8. Good Blogging Practice Part-28 (Ways of disclosing your blogging practice)
9. Good Blogging Practice Part-29 (How natural recommendation helps you promote blog)
10. Good Blogging Practice Part-30 (Necessity of “contact form” can be solved by a wordpress plugin)
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With this post Espreson is going to complete its 30th milestone on “Good Blogging practice“. Espreson had summed up its previous posts, when it completed 20th post. So, this trend will be continued definitely. But before that, Espreson need to add another review on Helpful-Wordpress-Plugin.

“Contact Me”, this phrase is well know to us. Through this gateway we contact other person. When someone need to contact you via your blog, then how come he can contact you? There are different ways, like,

1. Putting email-address on your blog sidebar
2. Via your blog comment form
3. Through Contact form

If I have been told to choose the contact way, then I would have jumped to 3rd option. Because 3rd option is more professional, customizable and convenient. Now the question comes, how?

Answer is so simple; with wordpress plugin you can do this easily.

Cforms is a fantastic and useful wordpress plugin I have ever experienced. With this plugin you can add multiple contact forms throughout your blog and you need not be expert to deploy Cforms.

Do you need to start? Just follow this steps,

• Download & unzip the plugin
• Upload the plugin directory to the wordpress /wp-content/plugins/
• Activate it from your wordpress administrations ‘Plugins’ menu
• Customize the “form settings”, “styling”, etc. from “cforms” menu
• Create a “Page” from “Manage” and give “page title” as per your choice
• Put a simple code, <!–cforms–>, in the page content by turning on “code view”.
• Publish it

Thats all, and your blog is now equipped with contact form. Lets check out its features at a glance,

• Built in CSS theme selector and CSS editor
• Ajax supported form submission
• Fully customizable Look & Feel
• Backup & Restore
• Database based tracking of submitted data
• SPAM protection using Q &A and CAPTCHA(as per choice)
• Submission status (success/failure) optionally via Alert Box
• Cloning / duplication of forms
• Form validation & regular expressions

and lots more.

You can also feel the reality of cform in Espreson also. Just go to contact in menu bar, you will find it.

Having contact form can be considered as Good Blogging Practice, because, it is the gateway through which someone can communicate with you; whether the communication purpose is for negotiation or help or whatever. It puts professional touch in your blog.

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Soon, Good Blogging Practice is going to touch its 30th post. In Good Blogging Practice Part-27, Espreson has discussed on SEO Title Tag. Title tag optimization is one of the important part of “search engine optimization“. So, in this part Espreson is going to talk about another good and useful wordpress plugin called, “Link To Me Textbox“.

Do you know natural recommendation or word-of-mouth recommendation is the best way to promote something. Just take an example, When we plan to buy something, most of the time we prefer to buy it from the store, recommended by our friends, relatives or colleagues. This is word-of-mouth recommendation. And it is been found that around 60% of total sale of a product/service comes from word-of-mouth recommendation.

In my experience it is the strongest media to promote/advertise something and you could have this experience too.

Link To Me Textbox, helps you to promote your blog posts. It can be considered as natural recommendation, because, you, as a blog owner recommending the post directly. And this recommendation looks as,

If you found this page useful, consider linking to it.
Simply copy and paste the code below into your web site (Ctrl+C to copy)
It will look like this: Good Blogging Practice Part-27

<a href=”http://espreson.com/2007/05/17/good-blogging-practice-part-27/”>Good Blogging Practice Part-27</a>

And this appears after the blog posts. So, to install and use this plugin you can visit http://www.jimwestergren.com/link-to-me-textbox-wordpess-plugin/ and there you will get all details. You can check out how this plugin works in my blog also.

So, natural recommendation can be considered as Good Blogging Practice

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Disclosure on “Good Blogging Practice” :-

“Thoughts, ideas, perceptions, technologies are changing in a progressive manner. And it varies human to human. Being in touch with blogging I have gathered various knowledge on it. Am sharing those knowledge with others through Espreson. And “Good Blogging Practice” is created by me. But the “Good Blogging Practice” is defined as,

VARIOUS POSTS UNDER “Good Blogging Practice“, “MAY” HELP YOU FIND THE WAYS OF EFFECTIVE BLOGGING PRACTICES

Espreson is not making any commitment that “Good Blogging Practice“ is the one and only way of good blogging practice.

Espreson. ”

This type disclosure not only gives better impression but also shows your genuineness over your blogging practices. If you need your own disclosure policy then you can visit Disclosurepolicy.org or you can write your own as I have written.

Blogging is a beautiful platform and keeping it transparent is our responsibility.

It can be considered as Good Blogging Practice if you hold “Disclosure” on your blog.

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Previously Espreson has discussed about Title Tag optimization. This can be achieved with wordpress plugin named SEO Title Tag. In this part we will not discuss about any optimization. Till date we have discussed lots on optimization. Lets change the taste. Of course we will discuss about another useful wordpress plugin.

Do you think, you need a tool which can track your blog visitors. If not then don’t go through rest of the topic. But if yes then continue.

Espreson is talking about Google Analytics. Google Analytics helps you to track, who are your blog visitors, how well is your advertising campaign working and lots more.

So, to start tracking with Google Analytics you need a Google Account and from there you can access Google Analytics. You can also access Google Analytics from this link also, http://www.google.com/analytics/. Just Sign in with your Google Account email and password . To start tracking your blog add your blog URL. After giving details of your blog URL, Google Analytics will ask you to install a tracking code.

Installation of tracking code can be done in two ways,

1. Put that code just before the </body> tag of each page you are planning to track.
2. Using plugin

I think using plugin is the best option because, you may change your blog theme later and that time you need to add this tracking code again in your new theme. So using plugin can solve this problem. Here is that link to Google Analytics plugin for wordpress.

How to use that plugin? Here is the guideline,

1. Install the plugin in your wp-content/plugin blog directory
2. Activate the plugin
3. Go to option menu and under that you will find Google Analytics, go there.
4. Paste the tracking code on the box
5. Don’t forget to click Update Options button
6. Click Done on your Google Analytics sites Tracking Status page.

Thats all.

Whats more..No more…See you next on Good Blogging Practice..

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So, we have started writing as per our own style. Writing and posting is not the end show of Good Blogging Practice. Lot of things are left like driving website traffic or optimizing blog for more reader. Now lets discuss one by one on them.

GBP(Good Blogging Practice Part) in its Part-11 has discussed on useful plugin(Google Sitemap Generator for Wordpress) which helps you to optimize your blog. Google sitemap is a most important for SEO.

Optimization of TITLE tag is one of the most important part of SEO. Title tag can be optimized manually or through a good wordpress plugin also. Espreson is using SEO Title Tag as a title tag optimizer. With the help of this plugin you can customize your blogs title tag for any Post, Static Page, Category Page, UltimateTagWarrior tag page and also any URL.

In my experience this plugin helped a lot to optimize title tag of Espreson.

So, to download and install this plugin go to SEO Title Tag and there you will get detail on how to install this plugin at Installation instructions.

Although I am adding some extra optimization tips,

• Login to your wordpress admin.
• Go to Manage.
• There you will find Title Tags.
• Go there and you will find Pages, Posts, Categories, URL’s.
• So as per your choice you can add eyecatching custom title.
• This custom title tells the type of Pages, Posts, Categories, URL’s.

Because title tag is one of the most important aspect when we consider Search Engine Optimization.

Title Tag Optimization can also be considered as Good Blooging Practice

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Good Blogging practice has previously discussed on choosing the topics and writing on it. So, writing on something is not a big deal.

But consistency in posting should be maintained.

As Espreson has choosen Good Blogging Practice as the main topic. And I try my best to write on it. It is been seemed that we fail to maintain consistency. The very reason is too much posts writing. You can say, saturation in posting. And I have that experience too. Thats why I have choosen a gap of 2 to 3 days or sometime 4 days in Espreson’s Good Blogging Practice posts. Because I don’t want to finish it in a day.

So, maintaining a gap between posts can be considered as a Good Blogging Practice!

But this methodology may vary person to person. It is upto the bloggers capacity.

Previously I used to have 6 blog. But, as the time passed I failed to maintain consistency in posts in my 6 blog. And gradually I have closed them one by one. Its my personal message, that

Too much always creates pressure in mind

We get puzzled on what to write, how to write, where to end etc etc..

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