Technology Archives | Mostly Blogging

Google Maps Widget: How to Be a More Unique Blogger with This Free Plugin, 17 Tips

October 12, 2017 by Janice Wald 16 Comments

Are you a travel blogger?

Are you a lifestyle blogger who blogs about exotic locations?

Are you a restaurant reviewer?

Are you a news and current events blogger?

Then WordPress’s Google Maps Widget is for you.

The first three bloggers need to show the place they are describing. The news blogger needs to show the place the news event occurred.

All four bloggers could benefit from having maps on their sites.

How to get a map?

Simple! Use the free Google Maps Widget plugin.

This post will explain other advantages of the plugin and how to use the plugin for your WordPress site.

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ShortPixel Plugin Review: 22 Ways This Wonderful Free Plugin Will Help You

October 5, 2017 by Janice Wald 20 Comments

Are you aware a slow-loading site could seriously ruin your chances of getting search engine traffic to your blog or website?

You know you need graphics to capture the interest of potential visitors.

Are you aware this amounts to 65% of the population? It’s true. Most of the population consists of visual learners who learn by looking at pictures.

However, if you have pictures, they slow the loading speed of your site. These are the consequences:

Google won’t show your website to their search engine users.
People trying to access your site will hit the back arrow and go elsewhere due to impatience waiting for your site to load.
This will tell Google, even more, you have an undesirable site and again your visibility in the popular search engine will drop.

ShortPixel is your solution. This freemium WordPress plugin will make sure your site loading time isn’t affected by your website graphics.

This article will give you more information about ShortPixel, explain why it’s the right image compressor plugin for you, and offer a tutorial describing how to use this plugin.

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31 Best Free Time Management Tools: How to Be More Productive

September 24, 2017 by Janice Wald 31 Comments

Someone recently observed, “We are all time poor.”

Can you relate? I can.

That’s why I use the time management tools in this article.

I’ve used them, love them, and am recommending them to you.

In addition, this article will post testimonials so you can see how much other people believe these apps and websites are genuinely the best time management tools available today.

These free productivity tools are grouped by their functions:

Tools and websites which will help you save time with your

Emails
Headlines
Social Media Scheduling
Blog Promotion
Blog Post Research
Blog Post Composition
Collaboration
Organization
Overall Productivity

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Fotor Photo Editor: How to Quickly Make Your Images Shine: Update

August 27, 2017 by Janice Wald 36 Comments

A famous saying goes, “You can have too much of a good thing.”

Not in the case of Fotor.

Their website transforms your photos into gorgeous graphics.

The company has updated their graphic designer leaving you with even more perks of their tool to love.

This post explains all the new bells and whistles they’ve added to their original platform and will review the premium features as well as the free features of the amazing Fotor Photo Editor and graphic-design tool.

[Read: How to Quickly Make Your Images Shine with Fotor].

The Fotor Photo Editor is quick to use and user-friendly.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll be able to make eye-catching images that boost your traffic, engage your readers, and will have people wondering what magical effects you used.

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Why Should Bloggers Quickly Join the ChatBot Revolution?

August 12, 2017 by Janice Wald 38 Comments

By Nidhriti Bhowmik

When we think about how social media dictates who we vote for in the national elections, how Siri decides what we could have for dinner or how wearables keep track of our to-do lists, we have to acknowledge that we’ve given technology enough power to guide us, influence us and most importantly help us.

In fact, it’s not new for us bloggers and influencers to leverage emerging tools and technologies to stay on top of the game– whether it’s making the most of a new promotion platform or using scheduling and monitoring tools.

Off late, one such emerging tool has been generating a lot of buzz- chatbots!

In this article, I’m going to cover what chatbots are and how bloggers and influencers can make the most of a chatbot tool to grow and engage a large online following and ultimately build a unique blogger authority.

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How to Set Up Accelerated Mobile Pages for WordPress

August 10, 2017 by Janice Wald 28 Comments

Are you aware slow loading time is one of the main reasons readers get frustrated with your blog?

It’s such a problem, plugins are made to try to speed up a blog’s loading time.

I actually participated in a guest post where participants were interviewed as to how they were dealing with the problem of slow loading time.

Are you dealing with it or are you sticking your head in the sand?

Today’s guest author Pankaj Dhawan is here to tell you how to solve the problem by accelerating your blog’s loading time on mobile devices.

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Meet IntellaMeet: Your New Favorite Collaboration Tool

July 19, 2017 by Janice Wald 26 Comments

Do you know the most important factor in any relationship is communication?

This holds true for business relationships as well as personal relationships.

When asked the most important way to build trust in a relationship, the ability to communicate is of paramount importance.

Due to technological advancements, people have relationships with people all over the world, especially in business.

Today, someone in New York conducting business with someone in Tokyo is commonplace.

Imagine how much greater trust in business dealings would be if you could look people in the eye with whom you were communicating.

IntellaMeet has developed a platform that is a video conferencing tool that does the work of a secretary.

The platform uses State-of-the-Art technology, is user-friendly, and is affordably priced.

Are you a virtual assistant who meets with bloggers?
Are you a blogger who meets with virtual assistants?
Are you a marketer or business person who meets with clients all over the world?
Are you a marketer who meets with bloggers?
If any of these describe you, IntellaMeet is your ideal meeting tool.

Whether you are a blogger, marketer, business person, or virtual assistant, you need IntellaMeet.

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How to Easily Make Facebook Videos

July 15, 2017 by Janice Wald 42 Comments

Today, everyone is jumping on the popular trend to produce videos.

Facebook videos are called Facebook Live.

Twitter has Live Video powered by Periscope, a live streaming app.

YouTube has always been the king of the video market until Facebook and Twitter decided to compete for their share.

Facebook Live has proven to be a decent competitor. After becoming available to the public, just last year, according to recent statistics, interest in Facebook videos has risen over 330%.

Guest author Cathy Lawdanski is here to offer tips on how you, too, can take advantage of the surging interest in Facebook Live to produce your own live streaming videos.

By the end of this post, you will know how to get started and what to talk about in your live streaming videos.

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This Is How to Use WhatsApp to Get Blog Traffic: 12 Quick Ways

July 1, 2017 by Janice Wald 35 Comments

by Janice Wald and Sheeba Elsy

Have you ever seen the WhatsApp icon pictured among social share buttons?

I have.

Apps are all the rage today and continuing to gain in popularity.

Actually, according to a recent study, smartphone use is more popular than watching television.

How exciting: WhatsApp has developed an app for your smartphone that will enable you to generate blog traffic.

Clearly, if you want people to learn about your blog, you need to share it.

This article will offer a review of the tool and a tutorial explaining how to use WhatsApp to promote your blog posts.

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How to Easily Conquer Lost Space on an iPhone with iMyfone Umate

June 14, 2017 by Janice Wald 23 Comments

Have you ever run out of space on your phone?

I’ve often spent my summers deleting data to free up space.

Clearing data off my phone is so time-consuming, I need to do it during summer vacation when I’m home from school and don’t have papers to grade.

Even if I wanted to spend my vacation clearing unwanted data off my phone, apps that used to be on my phone leave a residue that takes up space and accumulates over time.

Data is taking up more space than ever before.

If you have a 16 GB iPhone, you need to watch your free space like a hawk. Even iPhones with a 32 GB can lose space quickly if you’re not careful.

Too much data can cause your iPhone to run slowly or freeze up. Clearly, you will have trouble adding new data to an iPhone without free space.

As the amount of space on an iPhone increases so does the cost.

I know first-hand how laborious deleting data to free up space can be.

After taking the time to delete data, it seems to come back quickly as I fill my phone with new apps, songs, videos, and photos.

A little-known fact about me: I save everything. Clutter is my enemy.

If you can relate, you’ll be happy to know you have a solution: iMyfone Umate.

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