Blogging Toolkit of Whoismadhur
By Madhur Kapoor on Apr 10, 2007 in Blogging, General, Humour
Blogging Toolkit is a set of tools that a blogger uses to create , manage and optimize his website . Basically the tools used by a blogger to run his blog . I have been tagged by Sizlopedia to reveal my Blogging toolkit and so here i go .
Blogging Platform
When i first started blogging a year ago , i created my first blog at blogspot but shifted to Wordpress within a week as i found it much better than blogger . I dont think anyone will disagree with me on this one .
Blogging Client
I have used Windows Live Writer in the past but after the launch of WP 2.1 i use the rich text editor of Wordpress as it has been enhanced greatly from the previous version.
Statistics Software
I use Google Analytics along with awstats to measure my site stats
Blog Promotion
I have employed a few SEO plugins in my blog which i think are doing there job.
Blog Feeds
Although i learned the concept of feeds a bit late , i am using Feedburner for it and it sure rocks .
Browser
It will raise a few eyebrows but my choice is IE7 . I have been using IE ever since i started surfing so i dont feel like changing it .
Blog Graphics
Though i am not much of a graphics person but i am starting to learn a bit of Adobe Photoshop now as i feel it is essential for every blogger .
So that wraps it up . And now its my turn to tag somebody and i tag Eches , Ashish and John to share there Toolkit with us .
Madhur,
I was surprised to see yourself using IE7, many complain about it.
I too think its ok, but firefox rocks!
Nirmal | Apr 11, 2007 | Reply
Nice little write up there Madhur. It’s good to see what setups fellow bloggers are running.
Qwerty_ | Apr 11, 2007 | Reply
Madhur,thanks for the info, can you elaborate on SEO plugins you use?
Gili
Web 2.0 | Apr 11, 2007 | Reply
It is clearly evident these days most of the bloggers had started with blogger platform and then moved into WordPress blogging platform.
Benedict Herold | Apr 11, 2007 | Reply
I use even Notepad and paper to write my posts.
Whenever I want to write, I write.. so I always carry a piece of paper with me.
Don’t ask me abt stats tracking software! I have all the possible junk that one can have.
Ashwin | Apr 12, 2007 | Reply
Wordpress has some cooler functionality and definitely better support.
Carmelo Lisciotto
Carmelo Lisciotto | Apr 12, 2007 | Reply
@Ashwin
Yeah thats a good technique for remembering things .
Madhur Kapoor | Apr 12, 2007 | Reply
you have been answered madhur
Ashish Mohta | Apr 13, 2007 | Reply
IE7??? :-O
What Web2.0 said about the SEO plugins…..
Shouldn’t you move off of WP 2.1.1 Madhur, I though that one was compromised?
Chris | Apr 13, 2007 | Reply
@ Gili , Chris
The plugins i am using are “Add Meta Tags ” and “Head Meta Description” .
Madhur Kapoor | Apr 14, 2007 | Reply
Some tips for SEOing the WP site:
* instead of going for the Permalink structure as /2007/04/10/, its better to use /20070410/. This way, we reduced the nesting by 2 levels.
* Sitemap plugin is a must.
* Related Posts - It is another must. Most of the time, we never really crosslink our old posts, and the related posts can save us some trouble.
Somu | Apr 15, 2007 | Reply
@Somu
Thanks for the tip .
Madhur Kapoor | Apr 15, 2007 | Reply
IE certainly hasn’t got my fancy and probably never will. Guess I am another guy on the FF bandwagon
Vijay | Apr 17, 2007 | Reply