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I'm trying to regularly blog – as this gives me a roadmap what I'm into and how I spent my time. When have free time, I blog almost daily except on weekends (as in weekends I'm trying to stay away from computers). So if you want to attract more readers to your blog the interesting question arises
What time is best to hit publish on your posts?
Now there are different angles from where you can extract conclusions on best timing to blog post.One major thing to consider always when posting is that highest percentage of users read blogs in the morning with their morning coffee. Here are some more facts on when web content is more red:
- 70% of users say they read blogs in the morning
- More men read blogs at night than woman
- Mondays are the highest traffic days for avarage blogs
- 11 a.m. is normally the highest traffic hour for blogs
- Usually most comments are put on Saturdays
- Blogs with more than one post a day has higher chance of inbound links and usually get more unique visitors
As my blog is more technical oriented most of my visitors are men and therefore posting my blogs at night doesn't interfere much with my readers.
However, I've noticed that for me personally posting in time interval from 13:00 to 17:00 influence positively the amount of unique visitors the blog gets.
According to research done by Social Fresh – Thursday is the best day to publish an article if you want to get more Social Shares
As a rule of thumb Thursday wins 10% more shares than all other days. In fact, 31% of the top 100 social share days in 2011 fell on Thursday.
My logical explanation on this phenomenon is that people tend to be more and more bored from their work and try to entertain more and more as the week progresses.
To get more attention on what I'm writting I use a bit of social networking but I prefer using only a micro blogging social networking. I use Twitter to share what I'm into. When I write a new article on my blog I tweet its title with a link to my article, because this drives people attention to what I have to say.
In overall I am skeptical about social siting like Facebook and MySpace because it has negative impact on how people use their time and especially negative on youngstersOther reason why I don't like Friends Networks is because sharing what you have to say on sites like FB, Google+ or "The Russian Facebook" – Vkontekte VK.com are not respecting privacy of your data.
You write free fresh content for their website for free and you get nothing!
Moreover by daily posting latest buzz you read / watched on Facebook etc. or simply saying what's happening with you, where you're situated now etc., you slowly get addicted to posting – yes for good or bad people tend to be maniacal).
By placing all of your pesronal or impersonal stuff online, you're making these sitesbetter index their sites into Google / Yahoo / Yandex search engines and therefore making them profitable and high ranked websites on the internet and giving out your personal time for Facebook profit? + you loose control over your data (your data is not physically on your side but situated on some remote server, somewhere on the internet).
Best avarage time to post on Tweet Facebook, Google+ and Linkedin
So What is Best Day timing to Post, Pin or Tweet?
Below is an infographic I fond on this blog (visual data is originalcompiled by SurePayRoll) and showing visualized results from some extensive research on the topic.
Here is most important facts this infographic reveals:
The avarage best time to post tweet and pin your new articles is about 15:00 h
- Best timing to post on Twitter is on Mondays to Thursdays from 13:00 to 15:00 h
- Best timing to post on facebook is between 13:00 and 16:00 h
- For Linkedin it is best to place your publish between Tuesdays to Thursdays
Peak times on Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin
- Peak times for use of Facebook is on Wednesdays about 15:00 h
- Peak times for use of Twitter is from Monday to Thursdays from 9:00 to 15:00 h
- Linkedin Peak time is from 17:00 to 18:00 h
- Including images to your articles increases traffic, tweets with images increase visits, favorites and leads
Worst time (when users will probably not view your content) on FB, Twitter and Linkedin
- Weekends before 08:00 and after 20:00 h
- Everyday after 20:00 and Fridays after 15:00 noon
- Mondays and Fridays from 22:00 to 06:00 morning
Facts about Google+
- Google+ is the fastest growing demographic social network for people aged 45 to 54
- Best time to share your posts on Google+ is from 09:00 to 10:00 in the morning
- Including images to your articles increases traffic, tweets with images increase visits, favorites and leads
Images generate more traffic and engagement
- Including images to your articles increases traffic, tweets with images increase visits, favorites and leads
I'm aware as every research above info on best time to tweet and post is just a generalization and according to field of information posted suggested time could be different from optiomal time for individual writer, however as a general direction, info is very useful and it gives you some idea.
Twitter engagement for brands is 17% higher on weekends according toDan Zarrella’s research.Tweets posted on Friday, Saturday and Sunday had higher CTR (Click Through Rate) than those posted in the rest of the week.
Other best day to tweet other than weekends is mid-week time Wednesday.
Whether your site or blog is using retweet to generate more traffic to website best time to retweet is said to be around 5 pm. CTR is higher
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I've installed Avira (AntiVirus) as I usually do on new PCs and downloaded a bunch of anti-malware (<em>MalwareBytes / Rfkill / Zemanta</em>) to make sure that the old upgraded WIndows was not already infected before the upgrade and I've found a bunch of malware, that got quickly cleared up.</strong><br /> <br /> Anyways I've tried also another tool called <a href="http://www.reimageplus.com"><strong>ReimagePlus - Online Computer Repair</strong> </a>in <strong>order to check whether there are no some broken WIndows system files after the upgrade </strong><br /> <br /> <img alt="Reimage_Repair-Windows-fix-windows-failing-services-and-broken-windows-installations-clear-up-malware" src="https://pc-freak.net/images/Reimage_Repair-Windows-fix-windows-failing-services-and-broken-windows-installations-clear-up-malware.png" style="width: 600px; height: 406px;" /><br /> (here I have to say I've done that besides <em>running in an Administrator command prompt</em> (<strong>cmd.exe</strong>) and running<br /> </p> <blockquote> <strong>sfc /scannow </strong> </blockquote> <p> <br /> <strong>command to check base system files integrity, which luckily showed no problems with the Win base system files.</strong><br /> <br /> <strong>ReimagePlus </strong>however showed some failed services and some failed programs that were previously installed from Windows 7 before the upgrade and even it showed indication for Trojan present on computer but since ReImagePlus is a payed software and I didn't have the money to spend on it, I just proceeded to clean up what was found manually.<br /> <br /> After that the computer ran fine, with the only strange thing that some data was from hard drive was red a bit too frequently, after a short call with a close friend (<strong>Nomen</strong>) - thx man, he suggested that the frequenty hdd usage might be related to <em><strong>Windows Search Indexing service database rebuilt</strong></em> and he adviced me to disable it which I did following <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/speed-up-or-disable-windows-search-indexing-in-vista/">this article How to speed up Windows by disabling Search Index Service.</a><br /> <br /> <br /> One issue worthy to mention <strong>stumbled upon after the upgrade was problems with Windows Explorer which was frequently crashing and "restarting the Desktop"</strong>, but once, I've enabled all <strong>upgrades from Microsoft and Applied them after some update failures and restarts</strong>, once all was up2date to all latest from Microsoft, Explorer started working normally. </p> <p> In the mean time while Windows Explorer was crashing in order to browse my file system I used the <a href="https://www.winnc.com/download/">good old Win Total Command or Norton Commander for Windows - WinNC (with its most cool bizzarre own File Explorer tool)</a>.<br /> <br /> <img alt="Windows-Total-commander-tool-running-on-MS-Windows-10" src="https://pc-freak.net/images/Windows-Total-commander-tool-running-on-MS-Windows-10.png" style="width: 500px; height: 374px;" /><br /> <br /> As I wanted to run a MalwareBytes scan and Antivirus under Windows Safe-Mode, I tried entering it by restarting the Computer and <strong>pressing F8 a number of times before the Windows boot screen but this didn't work </strong>as Safe-Mode boot was changed in Windows 10 to be callable in another way because of <strong>some extra Windows Boot speed up optimizations</strong>, in short<span style="font-size:16px;"><strong> the easiest way I found to enter Windows 10 Safe Mode was to Hit Start Button -> Choose Restart PC and keep pressed SHIFT button simultaneously</strong></span><br /> that calls a menu that gives you some restore options, along with safe mode options for those who want to read more on <a href="http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10">How to Enter Safe mode (Command Prompt) on Windows 10 - please read this article.</a><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <img alt="Windows-10-enable-Safe-Mode-options-screen" src="https://pc-freak.net/images/Windows-10-enable-Safe-Mode-options-screen.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 300px;" /> </p> <p> Once the upgrade was over and all below done unfortunately I've realized her previously installed <em>WIndows 7 is x86 (32 bit) version</em> and the <strong>Acer notebook 5736Z where it is being installed is actually X64 (64 bit), hence I've decided to upgrade my dear sis computer to a 64 Bit Windows 10 and researched online whether, there is some tool that is capable to upgrade WIndows 10 from 32 bit to Windows 10 64 bit just to find out the only option is to either use some program to creaty a backup of files on the PC or to manually copy files to external hard drive and reinstall with a Windows 10 64 bit bootable USB Flash or CD / DVD image, so I took my USB flash and used again Windows Media Creation Tool to burn Windows and re-install with the 64 bit iso.<br /> <br /> If you're wonder about why I choose to re-install finally<em> Win 10 32 bit with Win 64 bit</em>, because you might think performance difference might be not really so dramatic, then I have to say the Acer notebook is equipped with 4 Gigabytes of RAM Memory and Windows 10 32bit (Pro) could recognize a maximum of 3 Gigabytes (2.9 GB if I have to be precise) and 1 Gigabyte of memory stayes totally unusued with <em>Winblows 10 32 bit</em>.<br /> <br /> <em>Well that's all folks, the rest I did was to just boot from the USB drive just burned and re-install WIndows and copy my files from User profile / Downloads / Pictures / Music etc. to the same locations on the new installed Windows 10 professional 64 bit and enjoy the better performance.</em></strong> </p>){kind=link}
A must have collection of WordPress plugins that enpowers your blog and improves SEO
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Reading Time: 3minutes
Since I’m using wordpress as a blogging platform for about two years now and I’m constantly experimenting with valueable wordpress plugins.
I’ve decided to publish a compilation of wordpress plugins that empowers my blog
The plugins included in the compilation are quite various, some of the plugins aims at easy post sharing via the general social networks and main websites used by users today, others significantly helps in increasing the blog ranking in major search engines, there are some that adds like button to the blog.
These plugins also strenghthen the easy blog RSS file sharing, some post straight to twitter all your blog posts, generate tags automatically, puts a better features to the default wordpress commenting mechanism, prevent from spam comments, add features for easily adding Google adsense to the wordpress installation to help you advertise on your blog.
There are also plugins which delete duplicate posts (if you have such), puts better wordpress blog search bar, generates a sitemap to the blog, add an option to include php codes straight into your posts, adds wordpress an option to easily put mod rewrite rules straight from the wordpress interface, boost wordpress speed by adding static html generation cache, boost performance etc. etc.
Here is the complete list of wordpress plugins which I have currently installed on my wordpress blog:
ad-squares-widgetadd-to-any-subscribe
advertising-manager
ajax-comments
akismet
all-in-one-adsense-and-ypn
all-in-one-seo-pack
askapache-google-404
auto-tag
bm-custom-login
commentluv
comments-statistics
cyr2lat-slugs
delete-duplicate-posts
easy-adsenser
extended-search-plugin
facebook-share-new
favourite-bible-verse
feedburner-plugin
feedburner-widget
feedburner_feedsmith_plugin_2.3
feedlist
force-publish-schedule
google-analytics-for-wordpress
google-sitemap-generator
headspace2
my-link-order
php-code-widget
platinum-seo-pack
post-plugin-library
post-to-twitter
profile-pic
profile-pics
redirection
rss-atom-avatar
seo-automatic-links
seo-slugs
share-on-facebook
share-this
similar-posts
simple-tags
subscribe-to-comments-reloaded
subscribe-to-comments
subscribe2
text-control
tidy-up
tinymce-advanced
what-would-seth-godin-do
wordbook
wordpress-23-related-posts-plugin
wordpress-mobile-edition
wordpress-thread-comment
wp-codebox
wp-keiths-easy-rss
wp-likes
wp-o-matic
wp-postviews
wp-super-cache
wp-syntax
yourls-wordpress-to-twitter
I do have enabled most of the plugins, though some are disabled but still might be helpful somewhere in the close-future thus I still keep them installed.
I would skip the time to describe one by one what each of the above list of plugins will do for your wordpress, since the list is quite long.
However I defnitely think this is a list of plugins you might want to have installed in a newly established wordpress blog for sure.
Note that the versions of the plugins which are included in this must have wordpress plugins collection might not be the latest as the included ones are the ones I do have installed at the time of writting of this article.
Also be aware that some of the plugins might create some issues with newer versions of wordpress (your blog might beak up!), however most of the plugins should work out of the box by just enabling each one of them from the wordpress interface via the menus:
Settings -> Plugins -> InactiveTo straight install my bundled package of plugins you have to issue the commands:
linux:~# cd /var/www/blog/wp-content/pluginslinux:/var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins# wget https://pc-freak.net/files/a_must_have_wordpress_plugins_collection.tar.gz
linux:/var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins# tar -zxvf a_must_have_wordpress_plugins_collection.tar.gz
...
linux:/var/www/blog/wp-content/plugins# unzip *.zip
Now as they should be installed under the plugins directory go and enable the plugins.
Further on many of the plugins will require configuration from the menus:
Settingsor in the menu
Tools
After being setup up your new wordpress installation will look significantly better, you will notice a tons of useful features which you might have previously missing and desperately needed 😉
Most of the bundled package of wordpress plugins works fine with wordpress version 3.1, if you’re trying to install enable and configure the plugins on some other versions of wordpress, there might be problems!
If you experience problems by trying out my bunch of wordpress plugins please drop me a comment.
I hope you enjoyed this improvised article, if these bunch of plugins are useful to you please give me a thanks 🙂
Thanks!
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