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Host your blog on a subdirectory using Cloudflare Workers

Ishini Avindya — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 00:01:43 +0000

At Hyvor Blogs, we have been working on several different solutions to allow hosting a blog on a sub-directory. Out of all the solutions, Cloudflare Workers is by far the easiest solution if you are already using Cloudflare for DNS. It will only take about 10-15 minutes to complete the setup. No coding is required.

If this is the first time hearing about Hyvor Blogs, see our homepage for more details on how we make blogging easy!

How it works

Sub-directory hosting is handled by our hyvor/hyvor-blogs-cloudflare-workers script, which you can easily deploy to your own Cloudflare account as a Worker. Here's what it does under the hood (you don't have to understand any of this to use it 🙏)

It uses Cloudflare Workers to create a serverless application to serve your blog.
It uses Hyvor Blogs Delivery API to fetch serving instructions from Hyvor Blogs.
Then, it caches responses in Cloudflare KV (key-value storage). All resources in your blog (images, CSS, JS, and even HTML files) are cached in Cloudflare's global network. This means everything in your blog is served to end users from the nearest node in the network. Your blog will be blazingly fast!
Then, it uses Hyvor Blogs Webhooks to clear the cache when you update your blog posts. (Due to this, there can be a delay of a few seconds before you see updates in your blog after updating a post.)
Finally, we use Cloudflare Workers Routes of your domain to route all example.com/blog*requests to the worker.

Let's get started!

Prerequisites

A blog created on Hyvor Blogs.
A domain that uses Cloudflare for DNS. It must be proxied through Cloudflare (orange cloud turned on).
A GitHub account (free)

Step-by-step

Hyvor Blogs

-   [1.1 Hosting URL](https://hyvor.com/blog#hosting-url)

-   [1.2 Delivery API Key](https://hyvor.com/blog#delivery-api-key)

-   [1.3 Webhooks](https://hyvor.com/blog#webhooks)

Cloudflare Workers

-   [2.1 KV store](https://hyvor.com/blog#create-kv)

-   [2.2 Deployment](https://hyvor.com/blog#deployment)

-   [2.3 Variables](https://hyvor.com/blog#variables)

Cloudflare Workers Routes

-   [3.1 Set up Workers Routes](https://hyvor.com/blog#worker-routes)

Finalizing & Debugging

-   4.1 Verify Features


4.2 Cloudflare Worker Logs
4.3 Clear Cache

1. Hyvor Blogs

First, let's make your blog hostable on a sub-directory.

1.1 Hosting URL

Go to Hyvor Blogs Console → Settings → Hosting and set the following options.

Hosting URL

Then, save.

1.2 Delivery API Key

Go to Hyvor Blogs Console → Settings → API Keys and generate a Delivery API key.

Generate Delivery API Key

We'll need the generated API key in a later step, which you can copy from the API Keys section.

How to copy the Delivery API Key

1.3 Webhooks

Next, go to Hyvor Blogs Console → Settings → Webhooks and create a webhook with the following values.

Create Webhook

We'll need the webhook secret in a next step.

Copying Webhook Secret

2. Cloudflare Workers

Let's create our worker.

2.1 KV Store

Log into the Cloudflare Dashboard. Then, navigate to Workers & Pages → KV.

Cloudflare KV

Then, create a new namespace with a descriptive name.

Create KV Namespace

2.2 Deployment

Click the button below to initiate a new deployment to Cloudflare workers.

Next, we'll follow the steps shown on the deployment page.

First, authorize Github to use Workers. You will need a free GitHub account to do this.

Authorize GitHub with Workers

Next, select "I have an account"

For the next step, we will need your Cloudflare Account ID and an API token.

Account ID and API Token

The easiest way to find this is by going to the Overview section of your domain and finding the Account ID on the right. Copy and paste it in the deployment page.

Cloudflare Account ID

Then, click the "Get your API token" link below the account ID.

Create API Token

Use the Edit Cloudflare Workers template.

In the configuration, set the Account Resources to 'All accounts' and Zone resources to your domain name.

Create your API token.

Copy the API token and paste it on the deployment page.

Then, Connect your account.

Next, fork the github repository.

Go to the Github Actions page.

Enable Github Actions.

Click Workflows enabled.

Finally, DEPLOY!

It will take a couple of minutes to complete the deployment. You can refresh the page to see the deployment status.

2.3 Variables

Once the deployment is completed, go to your worker settings page.

Then, Settings → Variables → Edit Variables.

Click Save and Deploy.

Then, scroll down to the KV Namespace Bindings section, and add a new binding.

Now, our Worker is complete.

3. Cloudflare Workers Routes

The final step is to route traffic from your domain to the Worker we just created. To do that, we'll use Cloudflare Workers Routes.

3.1 Set up Workers Routes

Go to Cloudflare Dashboard → Your Domain → Workers Routes.

Add a route with the following values (make sure to replace example.com with your domain name. Also, /blog if you are using a different base path). Then, click Save.

Now, open your blog URL in your browser. You should see your blog perfectly rendered.

4. Finalizing & Debugging

4.1 Verify Features

Follow these steps to make sure everything is working.

Make sure /blog is loading
Make sure posts with images are loading
Update one of your posts from the Console. You should see the changes on your blog in a couple of seconds.
Open https://{yourdomain.com}/blog/_cache_health. You should see a "Healthy ✅" message. If not, make sure you have connected the KV store correctly as explain above.

4.2 Cloudflare Worker Logs

If the blog is not loading at all, if you see an error on your blog page, or if updates are not shown on your blog, use Worker Logs to debug.

4.3 Clear Cache

If you have any issues with styles or fonts in your blog, you can try to clear cache of your blog at Console → Settings → Danger Zone → Clear Cache. Select All as the Type.

The End

I hope this guide helped you set up your blog on a sub-directory using Cloudflare workers. If you need any help, feel free to comment below or contact Hyvor Blogs support. If you found anything confusing, please leave a comment below. It will help us make this guide better for future readers.

Resources:

Worker script: hyvor/hyvor-blogs-cloudflare-workers
Cloudflare Workers Homepage
Hyvor Blogs Docs

Navigating the Challenges of Marketing a Privacy-Focused CMS: My Journey with Hyvor Blogs

Ishini Avindya — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:52:10 +0000

I'm Ishini Senanayake, the gal wearing multiple hats at HYVOR – UI/UX designer and the one trying to crack the code on our digital marketing strategy. Today, I want to take you behind the scenes of my journey, particularly the hurdles I've been facing in getting the word out about Hyvor Blogs, a blogging platform.

Background

So, here's the deal. At HYVOR, we're all about user privacy. That's non-negotiable. Even when it comes to our marketing strategy, we steer clear of using Google Analytics to track user behavior. Sounds noble, right? Well, it's been both a blessing and a curse.

The Analytics Dilemma

The first product that we released was Hyvor Talk (a commenting platform). And all we did was content marketing for Hyvor Talk: no analytics, no ads, nothing else. We were able to make it and I am proud to say that we are doing good with Hyvor Talk.

Marketing Hyvor Blogs has been like trying to hit a moving target blindfolded.
I decided to go with content marketing as we did for Hyvor Talk makreting. But it seemed a shot in the dark for me. However as a digital marketer I clearly know that Hyvor Blogs' market is way to broad than Hyvor Talk's. But there must be something that works right?

So I decided to try Google Ads and analytics but we did not break our policy of users privacy: not tracking users and collecting their data. Therefore we decided to go with Splitbee, a less intrusive analytics tool: it is way too behind Google Analytics. But here's the catch – some users disable analytics, and we don't use tracking codes. So, while Splitbee gives us some insights, it's not the full picture.

And, we put up Hyvor Blogs in Appsumo for a one-time deal. From that, we got so many customers from Appsumo but all of them are one-time (They are only paying us one time per lifetime). They really loved the product. And still they are using Hyvor Blogs. We stopped the Appsumo deal within a very short time.

Google Ads Conundrum

Now, let's talk about Google Ads. As I told you earlier we gave it a shot to market HYVOR Blogs, but our commitment to privacy meant we didn't use tracking codes or parameters. Yeah, probably not the smartest move. It's a constant balancing act between marketing effectively and not compromising user privacy. But you know what, it did not go as I expected.

Content Marketing Strategies

(Now this is while I was using Google Ads) -> To tackle the keyword competition, I shifted gears to content marketing. Went for easy-to-rank keywords (Low KD), but guess what? Lower search volumes became the new challenge. I also reached out to other business blogs for genuine collaborations, steering clear of any paid partnerships. I'm not a fan of paying someone to say they love us. I really am not a fan of paying somebody's site to say "Product X is good" no matter it is good or not good for users out there.

So I decided to put a full-stop to Google Ads.

The Turning Point

After ditching Google Ads for a while and going all-in on content marketing, we hit a Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) of 200 euros. High-fives all around, right? Well, not so fast. We're still struggling to get the right people to notice HYVOR Blogs. But deep down I know Hyvor Blogs is a good blogging platform out there. The thing is it is not being seen by the right people. Only a very few has noticed our product and enjoy our services happily.

Seeking Insights from the Community

Recently, I spilled my guts on IndieHackers, celebrating our 200-euro MRR milestone but also sharing our struggles. Surprisingly, the celebration was short-lived as we haven't snagged any paid users since then. I'm scratching my head, wondering why what worked for Hyvor Talk isn't cutting it for Hyvor Blogs.

The Return to Google Ads

So, after a deep dive into contemplation, I decided to give Google Ads another shot while I am doing content marketing. Two ads – one pointing folks to the HYVOR Blogs homepage, and the other singing the praises of our "WordPress Alternatives" article. Spoiler alert: nada. Zilch. Now, I'm debating whether it's worth burning more money.

Moving Forward

Today, I'm hitting the pause button on Google Ads again. As I navigate these murky waters, I'm reaching out to you, for your insights, thoughts, and any experiences you might have had in a similar boat.

6 Tips to Write SEO Friendly Articles

Ishini Avindya — Fri, 06 Mar 2020 02:44:01 +0000

Content is the core of a blog. As the content becomes great, the blog becomes great. Posts/articles are the main part of creating great content. In that case, you need to write perfect SEO friendly articles. But, the problems are, most of the bloggers struggle when writing SEO friendly articles as they do not know how to go through it successfully. Are you one of them? If you are nodding your head just right now, do not worry! You will be smiling at the end of this article.

Firstly, let me explain why your articles should be SEO friendly. If you are a newbie in blogging, you need to earn the audience -- blog audience. If you want your blog to thrive, you need to make sure you write SEO-friendly content.

When writing an SEO friendly article, there are several things must be completed. The following tips have centered those essentials and you will find them extremely useful. Now, let's go for tips.

1. Readability

In an article, readability is important. If an article has bad readability, readers will not ever try to read it. So, how to improve the readability of an article? Here it is.

Use transition words
Avoid passive voice
Have varieties in sentences
Have a good distribution of subheadings
Short paragraphs
Short sentences

By following the above-mentioned tips, you will have good readability in your article.

2. Outbound Links

In improving the SEO of an article, outbound links play a huge role. Outbound links are the links chosen externally (from other sites) to mention in your articles linked to several words.

3. Inbound Links

Inbound links too play a massive role in the process of improving the SEO of an article. These are the links of your own articles in the same blog. When you link a certain word or a phrase to one of your articles published on the same blog itself, that link becomes an inbound link.

4. Focused Keyphrase

For an SEO friendly article, there must be a focused keyphrase. Remember, setting a focus keyphrase does not have to be done in a careless manner. As an example let's assume that you set "SEO friendly articles" as the keyphrase for this article's title. After setting that, you ought to have that focused keyphrase in the title, subheadings, meta description, slug, and in introduction text. Moreover, you have to mention the key phrase several times in the body of the article. Remember, to not to use a previously used keyphrase.

5. Title Width

Your SEO title will be the first thing potential visitors of your site see on the search results pages. And, if your title is not good enough, it'll also be the only thing they see. So, the purpose of your SEO title is to make people click on the snippet, come to your website and read your post or buy your product. To increase the odds of that happening, you want to make sure your title is compelling: enticing, not too short and not too long.

6. Meta Description

The meta description is an HTML attribute that provides a brief summary of a web page. Search engines such as Google often display the meta description in search results, which can influence click-through rates. Usually, this can be any length, but Google generally truncates snippets to ~155--160 characters. So, I recommend you to write meta descriptions between 50-160 characters.

Conclusion

Well, I hope you have a clear idea of how to write SEO friendly articles. If you still have any problems, feel free to comment below, and I will help you ASAP. Apart from given tips, if you have any other tips, do not be shy to share them with others through the comments section. Happy Blogging!✌

6 Awesome Tips to Encourage Reader Interaction of a Blog

Ishini Avindya — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:54:42 +0000

Today, in most of the blogs, bloggers build up quality content. But, they worry about not having much reader interaction. They say, that they do not have a good idea of how to encourage reader interaction of a blog. Let me tell you something. Strategies for encouraging reader interaction are not that hard and mysterious.

Imagine this scenario, readers start flocking into your blog, reading each and every article, leaving comments after comment, and they do not want to go away. Want to make it so real instead of imagination? Let's get started!

Encourage Reader Interaction -- Tips

As you know, for a blogger, the reader is the treasure. Moreover, more reader interaction could be defined as the success of a blog. So, how should you encourage reader interaction?

1. Respect Your Reader

Respect is very important as everyone loves to be respected. So do readers. Firstly, when you write articles or blog posts, your way of writing matters. It should be a respectful way.

Secondly, do not disturb your reader or annoy them with ads while reading. Readers really hate that. When they are being disturbed, they go away from your blog. Yeah, I know showing ads is somehow important for financial matters. But, there must be readers for your blogs to show ads. Isn't it? So, minimize the popping ads while readers are reading in your blog. Trust me, you will encourage reader interaction through this strategy like nothing else.

2. Consistency

To make your readers feel cheered and to maintain consistency in your blog, several strategies exist. Firstly, you need to make them feel expected in your next article. This is called "blogging on a consistent schedule".

The second way of maintaining consistency is all over to you. But, let me give you some valuable tips. Write your article in a manner like you and the reader having a conversation. Do not let the reader feel that you are from a different era, or you are someone else. This helps to build up the trust between you and your reader. That encourages reader interaction with your blog.

3. Always Consider Readers' Purposes

When you start writing, think about how much your reader will expect from you or what are their intention is. Always try to write what they search for or the problems they suffer: give them solutions.

4. Ask for Feedback

Anne of Modern Mrs. Darcy does a great job of asking her readers for feedback at the end of each post. She has a great reader interaction in her posts with comments, feedback.

She uses things like "What do you think about this? How do you handle that situation? Have you ever done this?" So, I recommend you to use phrases like Anne of Modern Mrs. Darcy uses. Instead of her phrases, use the following.

Have you ever faced this situation?
How do you feel about this?
Do you have any ideas?
What are your thoughts?
Feel free to share your ideas with others
Do you mind sharing your thoughts? etc.

5. Build an Audience with Comments

This is very important. Comments are the pitch that readers and bloggers build their relationship with each other. Blogs without comments are totally useless. There is no excuse for not creating an environment for comments. Then, you will have a big audience for your blog. I highly recommend you to create a good environment for comments.

How do you create a good environment for comments? In this case, you have to choose a good commenting system. Readers will love to interact through it. Make them busy interacting with your blog through comments. As it grows, the comment pitch starts automatically encouraging new readers to interact with your blog. Do not forget to be kindly, politely responsive to the readers' comments. Choosing a user-friendly commenting system such as Hyvor Talk matters too.😉

6. Build an Audience with Email Newsletter

Imagine that the readers who used to do reading in your blog, now do not come often or they do not come at all. There might be different reasons such as they are not informed about new articles and new things have come up in your blog or they are busy not having time to check up your blog. That is why the email newsletter is for. Use this technique to attract readers with emails regarding recent updates. These emails make readers rush to your blog for reading.

Conclusion

Going through the above-mentioned tips, you will experience long-lasting results in reader interaction. Enjoyed reading this article? Feel free to leave a comment if you have anything to say or share. Happy Blogging!✌

Originally published on Hyvor Talk Blog.

How to Write a Perfect Article for a Blog

Ishini Avindya — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 16:04:22 +0000

Articles/posts are the heart of a blog. Quality and perfect articles have the power of giving success to a blog. When it comes to thinking that how you should improve your blog, the first and the very thing is the content. The content is the most important part of a blog. In addition, remember that it is what makes your audience bad or good. Most of the bloggers these days struggle with the problem "how to write a perfect article"? Hey, do not worry anymore. I am here to help you to write perfect articles. Yay! Let's dive in!

PRO TIP: If you are a newbie, take a look at Hyvor Talk Blog's other articles written for beginner bloggers.

In this case, you have to go step by step skipping nothing. Writing a perfect article is not that tough than bloggers think. It needs good knowledge, quality, and reliable information, and lastly, a good focus.

Tips to Write a Perfect Article

I hereby give you a quintuplet of tips to write a perfect article.

PRO TIP: Have good knowledge about what you are writing.

1. Catch a Great Title

When a reader comes to read your article, the title is the very first thing that he/she sees as soon as they come. Not only that but also when they are searching for reading that your articles resonate their need too. When they see a great, eye-catching title, they choose your articles instead of others. So, remind the first impression here is useful.

Five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar.

David Ogilvy

Consider the following titles.

EssayPro

A great title/headline must be,

Attention-grabbing -- Use catchy words to grab the attention of the readers. Instead of writing in a boring way, try to reader convincing words.
Coherent
Written in the active voice -- Use active voice instead of passive voice. Because titles are written in an active voice always are attention-grabbing.
Credible
Concise -- Make the titles short, no longer than 10 words.
Accurate -- Use accurate words and grammar.
Numbered -- Sometimes it can be a good idea to offer a certain number of tips in your title like *Five Summer Fashion Tips That Will Turn Heads. *This shows the reader that they can expect five tips. It encourages the reader to read the article because they know that in just a few steps they will be able to overhaul their summer wardrobes
Motivative -- Show how the reader will be able to change their life for the better by reading your article. Instead of merely saying they can learn how to eat healthier, write that they can eat their way to better health

2. Write Clearly -- Short and Sweet

Now do not get this wrong as to write a tiny piece of article. This means to write an article clearly. To write clearly, shorties sounds perfect. When you write about something short and sweet, I mean make your writing divided into many subheadings, paragraphs with 50 or 40 words, etc. That makes your readers find your article more readable. Remember, readability matters a lot. You can use transition words to improve readability

3. Use Evidence to Make it Reliable

When you are writing, try to present proofs to your reader to make the information is given in your article more reliable. Give the links to the resources you went through in case of it.

As an example: Assume that you have to mention in your article that there are lots of webpages exits in the WWW. But, instead of saying like that, try to give the exact number of webpages that exist in WWW. For that purpose, refer to researches done about that and mention them in your article.

4. Write in a Motivative and Friendly way

Write in a motivative way. That motivates your readers to go further in your artocles and find exact the solutions, ideas given by you. When they feel motivated just by your writing, they start engaging more or read more in your blog. I recommend you to write in a friendly way also. It makes your readers that your have written just for them. That makes them feel comfortable too.

Try the following phrases.

I am going to tell you....
Yay! Let's dive in
Wanna/ Want to know more?
Don't you/ Do you?

And theres more than above mentioned phrases. You will get to know them with the experience.

5. Write a Summary / Conclusion

At the end of your post or your articles, try to finish with a summary or a conclusion. It helps the readers to recall everything that they read in your articles briefly.

The Bright Side of Summaries...

If writing an article pitch makes you fret, bear in mind the benefits. Summaries enable you to submit a paragraph or two on your idea instead of wasting time writing an entire article that gets put on the back burner because it was not what the publication had in mind.

Summaries are a way to show off your writing skills while giving your editor a better idea of what you want to write. Added to this, summaries also benefit* you *as the writer. They give you a chance to formulate the crux of what you will tackle in the article, which creates a much clearer outline. Should your idea be accepted, a pristine summary will make writing your article much easier. Remember, planning is half the work done!

Extracted from Freelancer Writing.

Conclusion

I hope you get a clear idea of how to write a perfect article for blogs. If you have any questions, suggestions, and ideas, feel free to comment below.

Originally published on Hyvor Talk Blog.

How to Choose a Potential Blog Niche

Ishini Avindya — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:05:58 +0000

The success of a blog relies on the niche. No doubt, no arguments!😊 However, most of the beginner bloggers/bloggers suffer from the problem of choosing a potential blog niche. Are you one of those who are struggling? If you are nodding your head, just know that you are not alone. I am here to help you from A to Z.

I am writing this article specially for newbies in blogging. But, if you have get stuck somewhere with a pain in the neck of blog niches, say "Yay!" Because you are in the best place right now.

Firstly, let's see what actually a blog niche is.

What is a Blog Niche?

In the case of assigning a definition for a blog niche, a simple definition would be safe and sound.😉

A blog niche is a specific topic you'll write (or create other types of content) about on your blog

Adam Cornell -- bloggingwizard

A blog niche is the backbone of your blog. If you fail in choosing a potential blog niche, that is where the disaster begins. So, what you should do for a perfect blog niche?

When deciding on a niche, you need to think about one very important thing:

If you're blogging for profit, you don't want to choose a topic that gets tons of traffic but gets no money.

Topic like:

Free SMS
Free wallpaper
WhatsApp tips
Free movie downloads
etc.

These niches will get you a lot of traffic but probably won't get you very much money. At the same time, you don't want to pick a niche that is too tough for you to write about.

What's a good blog niche?

Potential and a good niche is one that is related to what you like, has good traffic, and also has a monetary value. More than that, your niche should have a future.

Generally, when choosing a potential niche for your blog, save these keys for you.

Your interests.
Business value (CPC).
Monthly/yearly searches
Trend & future of the topic

Firstly, before choosing a blog niche, you have to have the passion, motivation. If you choose a niche that you are not interested in, it will be a disaster. Moreover, you have to have good knowledge of the blog niche you choose. Because, people these days look for reliable facts, information, and news. You also have to consider the business value, a number of searches per month or per year, and the future of the niche. I will explain more about these tips later in the article.

Let's do this!

Now, I hope the previous paragraph gave you a simple idea of choosing a blog niche.

Choosing a potential blog niche requires more work though starting a blog is just a piece of cake. Don't spill the milk as the rug is far away! *I'm just kidding! *I know you can do this! Now let me explain to you further about choosing a potential blog niche. Are you ready? Let's dive in.

1. Find where your passion is

First of all, list down some blog topics that you have in your mind. If you do not have already any topic, go to a quiet place and start a discussion with yourself (your mind); you will have ideas like water flows from a stream.

After that, take a look at the list of blog topics (niches) you have chosen. Ask the following questions from yourselves regarding each and every niche you have listed.

Do I have a passion to blog about this topic?
Do I have good knowledge about this topic or am I willing to learn more about this topic?
Am I ready to work hard to achieve blog goals with this niche?
Do people interested in this topic?

After that, consider what topic you have given 3 yeses and with what topic you feel more comfortable. Then, not down brainstormed topics/niches for the next steps. Moreover, plug brainstormed niches into Google Trends as a start: just to get an idea of the users' behavior with those brainstormed niches.

Congratulations! You successfully finished the first step in choosing a potential blog niche.

2. Do a little keyword research

Well, now you have a rough idea of your niche's popularity and momentum from Google Trends. However, as Google Trends uses relative numbers, it doesn't tell you exactly how many people are searching for terms in your niche right now.

That is why you need to go a little further with keyword research. This is what you need to do.

First, collect some keyword ideas regarding each brainstormed niches. For example, let's imagine that you have chosen healthy diets. According to that niche idea, you can have keywords like this:

Healthy diet
Healthy diet recipies, etc

Then, take those ideas and plug them into a keyword research tool such as MOZ Keyword Explorer. When you do this, those keyword tools suggest other keyword ideas. The purpose of doing this little keyword research is this. If you do not have a good number of searches per month, there is no worth of blogging about such a niche, you will definitely find it hard with blaudience and SEO.

3. Make sure it is potential and profitable

If you are planning to earn money from blogging, you need to consider both potential and profitable niches. However, if you do not expect to earn money, looking for a potential blog will be enough.

I will tell you about both. However, choosing these two factors is up to your choice.

While some blogs do manage to succeed while focusing on ephemeral trends, it takes time to build a popular blog. Ask yourself "Is this niche likely to be around for years to come?". If the answer is yes, your chosen niche is potential. A potential blog niche has a quality of development step by step.

Now, it's time to figure out whether you can actually make money from this thing.

If you're creative, it's possible to make at least some money from pretty much any niche, as long as you have an audience.

Some blog niches are always going to make more money than others.

So how do you figure out if, and how, you can make money with your niche?

You guessed it -- more research!

To make sure that your chosen niche is profitable, your first stop should always be to see how other blogs in your niche are making money.

Go open a few tabs with popular blogs in your niche.

Then, go through them and see if they:

Display banner ads or other advertisements on their site
Write about certain products with links to where people can buy
Sell their own information product

If they do, you can search more about those techniques and collect and try them for your success. PS: Avoid Copying, make those techniques yours.

Conclusion

I hope you got a clear idea about how to choose a potential niche. But, remember, your creativity, your decisions really matter no matter what. So, just be awarded if you are a beginner. Following guides and reading more about choosing a niche is better. If you are stuck still, do not worry, I am here to help. Just leave a comment below. Enjoyed reading? If you have any questions, suggestions, and ideas, please feel free to comment below. Happy Blogging!✌

Originally published on Hyvor Talk Blog

How Transition Words Improve Readability and SEO

Ishini Avindya — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:02:51 +0000

Can search engines actually filter articles that are easy and natural to read from bad ones? However, the search engines don't have a feature to rank articles based on their readability. But how? This is how it goes!

How does readability affect SEO?

The common direct things that search engines can rank your article for are:

Keyword density
Keyword decorations
Meta tags
Image alt tags
Grammar of your article
Page title
URL

In this case, writers consider most about the above mentioned fact instead of how indirectly readability improve SEO. User behaviour, Typography,Content readability, and Style of Writing are the factors that search engines use to rank articles indirectly.

Content Readability

Content readability of any of your articles represents how easy can your visitors understand your written content.

The important thing that you should always keep in mind when writing any of your content is that you are making it primarily for your visitors. As important as it is to rank good for particular keywords on search engines, if your articles can't be understood with ease by your audience, they won't have the informational value your visitors deserve. When your articles can be easily understood by readers, they would often come to read and spend a lot of time reading articles. It is how user behavior fluctuates. According to user behavior, these are the factors that search engines consider in improving SEO.

Time on page
Exit rate
Bounce rate
Social sharing rate
Conversion rate
Total number of sessions

You can see those things clearly lined up in Google anaylitics.

In typography, using charm fonts, writing short sentences, writing short paragraphs, avoiding passive voice improves readability too. Conversational writing helps to improve readability and SEO. Readers would love when the article is written in a conversational way. Typography and style of writing cause good user behavior too.

What are Transition Words?

Transition words are words or phrases used to link ideas together. They help the reader to see more than one point is important and both should be taken into consideration. They also indicate different ideas in the same paragraph or sentence are related.

Let's get into the different types of transitions to make the concept clearer. This won't give you the full list of transition words but will make it possible to easily recognize them. There are different types of transition words that you can use such as,

Additive Transitions: Use to show addition, introduction, similarity to other ideas.
Adversative Transitions: Use to signal conflict, contradiction concession, dismissal.
Causal Transitions: Use to signal cause/effect and reason/result, etc.
Sequential Transitions: Use these transitions to signal a chronological or logical sequence.

Word list extracted from msu.edu.

How Transition Words Improve Readability

Readers' ease is everything. When readers feel comfortable and interested in reading articles, they prefer engaging more in readable articles. When using transition words, the exact idea that you are trying to say is clearly could be emphasized: so you ought to do nothing more with the reader's mentality and understanding, transition words already there! Transitions make your writing well structured. It creates a good readable environment for the readers. And therefore they contribute to SEO in the long run, by attracting more traffic and visitors to your website. Moreover, using transition words makes your articles clearer and more logical. Also, it contributes to making the meaning more intuitive and the text more engaging.

Now let's see an example with transition words and without transition words.
Without transitions

The above is not easy to understand. Now, check the next one.

With transitions

Yoast suggests that transition words highlight the relationship between phrases, sentences or even paragraphs. Transition words make it easier for your readers to understand how thoughts and ideas are connected. They also prepare your readers for what's coming. You may have or you can experience transition optimizing in WordPress. WordPress convince WordPress bloggers to use transition words in writing with the help of Yoast.

Improving readability and SEO is not that hard if you learn and apply them in writing articles. Do not waste time searching for transition words, just use the list given in this article. If you have any questions, suggestions please feel free to comment below. Happy Writing!✌

Originally published on Hyvor Talk Blog. Hyvor Talk is a commenting platform for blogs. We also help our users to grow by sharing tips and blog posts.

10 Tips for Beginner Bloggers

Ishini Avindya — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 09:32:18 +0000

Blogging has become a major trend and it is highly beneficial. According to Susan Gunelius at Lifewire, there are many reasons why people prefer blogging. Such as financial purposes, hobbies, educational purposes, etc. Consequently, this situation has caused many people to drag towards blogging from anywhere. Starting a blog is not as easy as it seems unless you follow the right tips at the beginning. It is bloggers' responsibility not to mess at the beginning. This article wraps 10 Tips for Beginner Bloggers. This will help you to start your own blog more confidently.

1. Choose a perfect niche

Having a broad idea about your upcoming blog is important. The success of your blog depends on this matter as it is all about how people engage with your blog. While some bloggers simply write about whatever pops into their minds, that's not a great strategy for long-term success. As a beginner blogger, you have to think more and more about your blog niche.

How to choose a perfect niche

What is a niche ?

A blog niche is a specific topic you'll write (or create other types of content) about on your blog

A few of the popular niches are,

Food
Fashion
Personal Finance
Lifestyle
Programming
Health
Dating and relationships

On many websites, many writers explain the process of choosing a perfect niche in different ways.

According to Entrepreneur,

1. Pick a topic you enjoy talking about
2. Do market research
3. Pick a smaller niche
4. Make sure it is profitable/perfect

Whatever idea you have, you need to have a good plan on it. Imagine you decided to start a blog on programming. You ought to think about it more and more. You ought to research the current status of other existing blogs too. In short, try doing something new for people. It makes them rush towards your blog and you will experience success.

Tip: Try to make your blog social.

2. Identify your precious blog audience-Blaudience

**What does Blog Audience (Blaudience) mean?**

A blog audience is the group of people who visits and returns to a blogger's site. Developing a true audience- as opposed to gaining unique visits through search engine optimization- is a tall order for bloggers as Internet users tend to have variable tastes.

techopedia

The audience of your blog is gold. Try jotting down the appropriate kinds of audiences according to the main theme of your blog. However, targetting the audience is something to talk about. It requires a good knowledge of audience behavior. In contrast, that does not mean without good knowledge about audience behavior fails you. Moreover, knowing how to interact with audiences is pretty safe and sound. That will also help you in promoting your blogs too.

It is important too to decide how you may present content to your blog audience. This is just a simple method used by bloggers and there you go!

How old are they?
Where do they live?
Are they primarily male or female?
How educated is your audience?
What does your audience do for a living?

Asking yourself these questions will help give you a better understanding of how to approach certain subjects with your readers. In many cases, the category of your blog will affect the demographics of your audience.

Tip: Do attractive things to reach your audience goals.

3. Create an eye-catching blog

An eye-catching blog is something that attracts and keeps a good audience silently. Psychologists say, mostly, people prefer beautiful, charm, eye-catching websites and blogs. You need to create your blog to make the audience's eyes not to go away.

Finding and developing great content to have a successful creative blog and website will bring in traffic, increase your search engine rankings, and make you money not to mention engage your readers so they keep coming back. But there are two areas that all bloggers struggle with, even the pros:

Finding something to write about
Having the motivation to write

And... sometimes it's both.

Regardless of your blogging experience, it's important that you set yourself up for success by choosing content that is fun to research, write about, and explore. Here are a few ways to feed your inspiration so that blogging continues to be enjoyable, rewarding and effective

A creative blog depends totally on your creativity and your own decisions. So, it is up to you.

4. Have a great content

Super-duper content is the core of your blog. The content of your new blog will be the bait that attracts your readers. Without great content, even the most well-designed, tightly-structured blogs will ultimately fail. There are two blocks you need to worry about, pre-launch and post-launch contents.

Pre-launch content

Static pages: such as "About," "Contact," etc
Sidebar content: content that appears on the sidebar of your blog (if you are going to have one)
Blog category pages: content (around 100 words) for category pages on your blog (plus pick categories to divide your content)
SEO meta tags: content for the SEO title and description tags of each page (not seen on the actual page but you need to have it ready)

Post-launch content

48% of Technorati's Top 100 Blogs are managed with WordPress

Blog posts: regular articles you are going to write
Cornerstone content: this will be the base of your blog

Extracted from firstsiteguide.com

As beginner bloggers, you need to thrive to create good content. For that purpose, research and learn facts relating to the blog's theme. Although you have a good knowledge of a certain theme, do not ever stop, just search and learn more. Great content includes a lot of things such as images, videos, creative headlines, essential links, animations, interesting posts, and facts, etc.

Tip: Pay attention to create great content in your blog posts.

5. Get to know your competitors: bloggers

You have to keep an eye on what other bloggers are doing. That does not mean phishing or spying. It means that you have to study their styles, stories: inspirational -- how they started blogging. You can learn more from other's experiences. Be competitive with them. But, do not harm any other for your own success. Good policies for a blogger is important. Knowing about your competitors gives you motivation and helps you to create goals and achieve them. Moreover, have a self compare with your competitors' blogs and yours. It might help you to identify your own mistakes and grow fast.

How to Find Your Competitors

Finding your competitors doesn't have to be taxing or complicated. The first step to finding your competitors is to differentiate between your direct and indirect competition.

Direct Competition

Direct competition is a term that refers to the companies or publishers who sell or market the same products as your business. Your customers will often evaluate both you and your direct competitors before making a purchase decision or converting.

Conductor, Spotlight

Indirect Competition

Indirect competition is a term that refers to the companies or publishers that don't sell or market the same products but are in competition with your business digitally. They may write the same type of content as you and be competing for the same keywords. In short, they are competing for your customers' attention.

Conductor, Spotlight

To learn more about getting know your competitors, search web on your own

6. Create goals

In the beginning, creating goals leads you to success. Aims and goals maketh a person work hard without giving up. You can use to-do lists or any other method to write them up. Then you won't miss anything. Once you have a goal, you will definitely work hard to achieve it.

7. Choose a good host for your blog

At very first, you need to choose a good host for your blog. That is the most important thing. There are many hosting services for your choice. As you are at the beginning of starting a blog, it is better to look for free hosting services. However, you can go for paid services if you have piles of bills. According to HostingAdvice.com, Free blog hosting sites are great for beginners to get their feet wet in the blogosphere, but they may not be the best bet --- especially if you're looking for complete customization and a brand-specific site.

Tip: Surf web freely looking for free hosting services. You will find many. Carefully choose one of them, newbie!

8. Decide how you would promote your blog

After starting your blog, you need to promote your blog. For that purpose, you need to decide how you would promote your blog. Deciding it after creating the blog is not safe and sound. As it is the beginning, zero messes are better. You can use promoted posts, ads, videos, emails, etc.

9. Be perfect in SEO

When building an audience, traffic plays a major role. Do you know how to get traffic to your blog? That is why SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) comes for. There are two main sources of getting more readers/ audience to your blog. They are Paid Traffic and Organic Traffic. Paid traffic and Organic traffic both sources are great. Paid traffic, when targeted perfectly, will generate more sales. On the other hand, to get organic traffic, you need to optimize your website search engines with the help of SEO. Now you know why you should have a good knowledge of SEO.

10. Build an audience

Building an audience is the most challenging task that beginner bloggers have to complete. This requires pretty much work. But, it does not require a lot than you think. Generally, there are several methods that bloggers use to build up an audience for themselves.

How to build an audience

Create a Twitter page for the blog
Create a Facebook page the blog
Set up emails for targetted recipients
Choose a commenting system

Social media pages -- Twitter, Facebook...

In the process of building an audience, social media pages highly matter. Most of the bloggers use Twitter as their official page of their blogs. However, they use Facebook pages too.

Building up an audience through e-mails

As you have identifies what targetted audience is, you can find relevant email addresses from email directories, websites, articles. Collect a good number of email addresses from the above-mentioned sources. Moreover, write an email with an attractive layout informing the recipients about your blog. Send it to all the recipients you have chosen.

Commenting system

Choosing the right comment system can make or break your blog. In a blog, the commenting system really matters. Commenting plugin is where the audience expresses their ideas, suggestions and carries discussions. If you want your audience to actively interact with your blog, you should especially consider the attractiveness and user-friendliness of the commenting system. People like eye-catching and charm interfaces. They would like to deal with user-friendly commenting plugins.

When choosing a good commenting system, consider the following aspects.

User-friendliness
Attractiveness -- commenting interface

PRO TIP: You can use Hyvor Talk as the commenting system. It's free!😊

Follow these things before you start your blog. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to comment below. Happy Blogging!✌

Originally Published on Hyvor Talk Blog. Hyvor Talk is a commenting platform for blogs. We also help our users to grow by sharing tips and blog posts

8 Tips For A Good Eye Health For Developers

Ishini Avindya — Wed, 18 Dec 2019 13:47:53 +0000

Eyes are the most important part of the human body. You know how important they are. It is important to know what makes your eye health bad and how to prevent it. Most of the people have eye problems, diseases such as Nearsightedness, Farsightedness, Glaucoma, Cataracts, Conjunctivitis, Macular Degeneration, Red eye, etc.

They say the eyes are the windows to the soul. We don't know if that's true, but what we do know that having perfectly healthy eyes—excellent vision and clear eyes, free of pain or other symptoms—are crucial to your health and well-being. The good news is that it's easy to learn more about eye problems, symptoms, and the treatments that will keep you in tip-top shape ~Health.com~

Good eye health is not only about how you are about your eyes. It is all about your overall health. As eye problems could start at any age, these 8 tips will be very useful for everyone.

Have a healthy diet

A healthy diet is not just important or your eyes, it is important for your whole body. When you maintain a healthy diet, you will not have diabetes, obesity, etc. These diseases damage your eyes. You have to eat food with Vitamin A, C, E, B- especially green vegetables, yellow vegetables and fruits. omega-3 fish- etc.
An inadequate intake of antioxidants, consumption of alcohol or saturated fats may create free-radical reactions that can harm the macula – the central part of the retina. High-fat diets can also cause deposits that constrict blood flow in the arteries. The eyes are especially sensitive to this, given the small size of the blood vessels that feed them.

Meet your eye doctor

Your eyes are unique. Each person has different eye situations. Their vision, health are different from each other. Though you follow super duper tips, it doesn't worth if they do not suit your situation. So, it is important to meet your eye doctor and have an eye exam; he/she will give you advice for your eye health.

Exercise

Exercise improves blood circulation, which improves oxygen levels to the eyes and the removal of toxins.

Get a good night's sleep

You’ll feel the difference when you get the sleep you need. You’ll look great, you’ll perform at home or work—and good rest will support the health of your eyes.

Wash your hands

Keeping your hands clean is so important when it comes to your eyes, especially if you’re a contact lens wearer. Before you touch your eye—and before you put in or remove a contact lens—wash your hands with mild soap and dry with a lint-free towel. Some germs and bacteria that come from your hands can cause eye infections, like bacterial conjunctivitis (pink eye). When you touch your eye, whatever is on your fingers goes right onto your eye’s surface. This is one way that people catch colds—rubbing their eyes while they have cold virus germs on their hands.

Don't Smoke

Smoking exposes your eyes to high levels of oxidative stress. While the connection has not been clearly identified, it is known that smoking increases your risk for a variety of health conditions affecting the eye.

Wear Sunglasses

To protect your eyes from harmful ultraviolet (UV) light, choose sunglasses with both UVA and UVB protection. Also, wearing a hat with a brim will greatly reduce the amount of UV radiation slipping around the side of your sunglasses. You can also use photochromic glasses as your doctor prescribes.

Devices and Blue Light

You're probably using digital devices for hours each day at work and at home. These devices are exposing your eyes to high energy blue light. It's called blue light because the wavelengths emitted are near the bluer part of the spectrum. This causes you to have eye strain, eye fatigue, dry eyes, etc.

Through these tips, you will be able to have good eye health. Please feel free to comment below if you have any questions or suggestions

How Aesthetics Help Developers/Programmers

Ishini Avindya — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 15:39:39 +0000

Developers, Programmers are work so hard: they work hard using their brains. According to researches, people who work using their brains and work physically both need to care about themselves. When the brain gets tired, our body simultaneously gets tired because the mental situation matters everything.

Your Brain at Work

Your brain is the most significant part of your body. You cannot work without it. When you are working, all the command is given by your brain. Your thinking process is much t complicated than you think. Your brain does loads of work while you are working. It gets tired than you think, It causes you to get distracted, bored, and lose productivity.
So, it is important to concern these situations.

Why aesthetical things?

The above-mentioned situations are common among developers and programmers. They get distracted, get bored while they are working. These problems lead to losing their productivity.
That is why aesthetical things are for.

What are aesthetical things?

There are many aesthetical things that exist. Among them, below things help you to get rid of the above-mentioned problems.

Music
Illustrations

Music

Music is the best cure. You can use light music, baroque music, modern music: you can use any kind of music you prefer.
Neurologists say, listening to light music or baroque music is good for brain efficiency and health. Music interacts with your beta, theta and alpha waves in a very good manner. It helps you to improve productivity, get rid of stress, to be energetic. It also helps you to bring the best in you. You will be able to work per day more than you did. Many developers and programmers say that music helps them to concentrate while coding or developing. Music helps to keep concentrated. People all over the world use music to concentrate.

Illustrations

Illustrations are one of the aesthetical things people use for their needs. As developers and programmers, you can choose illustrations you like and paste or hang them on your wall. Whenever you get distracted, bored, you can stare at these illustrations and get back to work. There are especially drawn illustrations for concentration, mind healing, etc. Staring at illustrations helps you to improve productivity, get rid of stress. You will not get bored while working as you have illustrations with you.

Enjoyed reading? Please feel free to comment if you have any questions or suggestions. And, I suggest you to share your personal experience of this topic through comments.

Ways To Practice Meditation And How Meditation Helps Developers

Ishini Avindya — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 04:33:10 +0000

This is the second article I am writing just after "Meditation and You". I hope that you have got an idea about meditation reading "Meditation and You".
In Buddhism, meditation was used by monks for the purposes of attaining Nibbana and the enlightenment. Most of the people use this as a definition of mediation. Meditation is a technique for training your mind as exercises for fitness training your body. Meditation is not just for monks and hippies. It is for all of us. Mediation plays a major role in training minds though it was mostly used by monks for ages.

“In the Buddhist tradition, the word ‘meditation’ is equivalent to a word like ‘sports’ in the U.S. It’s a family of activities, not a single thing,” University of Wisconsin neuroscience lab director Richard J. Davidson, Ph.D.

Meditation is extremely different for beginners; sit for hours stationary and concentrate their mind think nothing: to have an empty mind. But if you follow the right tips and steps for practicing the meditation, you won't feel difficult. Starting from the simplest method to meditate
will help you to take an approach for great meditation practice. If you aren't a beginner, you can continue yourself with step by steps to fo further.

There are particular kinds of mediation.
1. Concentration Meditation
2. Mindfulness Meditation
3. Other Meditation Techniques

1. Concentration Meditation

In general, the simplest way to go through meditation is Concentration Meditation. Concentration meditation is focusing on something for a period of time you choose for meditation. This entails following breathe, chanting a single word: manthra, counting beads of a neckless/mala calmly, staring at a candle flame, listening only to a repetitive Gong and staring at any object you like. As focusing/ concentrating the mind is challenging, beginners might meditate for minutes and continue meditating for hours. Although concentrating is challenging, once you practice, you will love it! In concentration meditation, you have to continuously focus on an object or anything you choose. As your mind tries to get away from it, you have to refocus on your chosen object/sound. Unwanted thoughts might come into your mind; you have to let them go away, do not grant permission them to meet your conscious/ subconscious mind. Do not let your mind meander. You might fail - that is okay. Start again and this incessant procedure improves your ability of concentration.

"Meditation and Concentration are the way to a life of serenity" - Baba Ram Das

2. Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulnessmeditation exhorts the practitioner to observe wandering thoughts as they drift through the mind. This makes the practitioner aware as a thought arises in lieu of judging them. Mindfulness meditation is not just a piece of cake: taking a seat, concentrate on the breath. You can do this while you are eating, brushing teeth, bathing, walking, sleeping. Through mindfulness meditation, you can see how your thoughts and feelings tend to move in particular patterns. Over time, you can become more aware of the human tendency to quickly judge an experience as good or bad, pleasant or unpleasant. With practice, an inner balance develops.
Through mindfulness meditation, you can control your own thoughts within just a snap of fingers.
The practice of mindfulness and mindful meditation in itself isn’t difficult, once you are shown the technique, but continuing to remain present in any moment does require awareness – of when your thoughts are not present or when you are being judgemental of your situation or surroundings, or your mind is elsewhere.

3. Other Meditation Techniques

There are various other meditation techniques. For example, a daily meditation practice among Buddhist monks focuses directly on the cultivation of compassion. This involves envisioning negative events and recasting them in a positive light by transforming them through compassion. There are also moving meditation techniques, such as tai chi, qigong, and walking meditation. Walking meditation was initially used by Buddhist monks. It still remains among them; they say that it helps them a lot for their daily process of meditation.

How to meditate

I hereby give you a simple set of meditation steps. You can follow this up and wax your procedure of meditation advanced.

1. Sit, lie, or stand as you prefer
You can choose any way among sitting, lying, and standing. But you have to choose a quiet, calm place. This is very important to get rid of the distraction. Distraction kills your concentration.

2. Close your eyes
I recommend you to close your eyes as it helps you to concentrate. Closing eyes is essential for beginners: you feel bored and give up as your mind tries to meander often. If you are a guru of meditation, you can either close your eyes or keep them opened. You can use Cooling Eye Masks or Restorative Eye Pillows if you lie down.

3. Make no effort to breathe in & out
Do not try to make an effort to breathe. Just do it as usual.

4. Focus your attention on breathing
Notice your movement of the body as you breathe. Notice the sense you feel when you inhale in and out - you feel as air passes through your nose. Try only to focus on your breathing, do not let your mind wander here and there. If you get distracted, just start again.

You can choose an object, a sound clip, a mala with beads, a chant or mantra instead of choosing to focus on breathing.

Follow this meditation process for 2-5 minutes. Sequentially you can try it for longer periods of time. Good luck with that!

How Meditation Helps You - Benefits of Meditation

1. Stress reduction
2. Controls anxiety
3. Promotes emotional health
4. Improves productivity
5. Enhances self - awareness
6. Lengthens attention span
7. May reduced age-related memory loss: such as Dementia
8. May help to fight addictions
9. Helps to have a good sleep
10. Decreases blood pressure
11. Lower blood cortisol levels

I hope this article will help you to go through meditation and have a healthy, happy life. If you have any questions and suggestions, please comment below. Share this article among your friends to help them with meditation

How To Improve Productivity With A Healthy Life For Developers

Ishini Avindya — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 05:50:52 +0000

Today, none of the people are free of work. We all thrive to fulfill our desires. Developers are the same. They work so hard. Most of the developers forget to concern about their health. Not only developers, but most of the people in the world are also the same. That should not happen. There is nothing worth more than our health. If we are down with illnesses, every other thing is useless.

Researchers have pointed out that 95% percent of the people do not concern about their health unless they found that they are sick. Most of the people have diabetes, cholesterol, heart diseases, etc. There are several reasons which cause those illnesses. Most of those reasons' epicenter is carelessness.

Bad health definitely kills productivity. Now can you understand why health is much important in improving productivity?

What Can Developers Do?

There are lots of strategies to improve productivity while maintaining a healthy life.

Do not miss the breakfast
Have a healthy lunch
Do exercises
Use time managing techniques
Avoid junk food - prepare your meals at home
Have healthy snacks
Meet your doctor

1. Do not miss the breakfast

Breakfast is the most important part of your diet. If you miss your breakfast, you will suffer from gastritis. Most of the developers skip their breakfast often. Breakfast makes you feel energized and it helps you to improve productivity.

2. Have a healthy lunch

This is also important to get rid of diseases. Skipping your meals causes you to have diabetes and gastritis too. It also helps you to improve productivity as you feel boosted and fulfilled.

3. Do exercises

Exercises are very important in maintaining a healthy life. Because a body without exercise is useless. Exercises are the way to have a healthy life. As developers, you might be busy. You can schedule your exercises fir 15 -20 minutes. Doing it daily is more than enough.

4. Use time managing techniques

Following this tip makes your life with work easy peacy that you can work with full of energy and enthusiasm. We all get stuck with time managing and most of the people give up themselves. Such a waste isn't it? Start using time managing steps - 2-minute rule, POMODORO - when working. It will reduce your stress levels and helps to work efficiently. As it reduces stress, you can have a healthy life - mentally - while improving productivity. This will also give you time to do physical activities - you can do exercises using that time period.

5. Avoid junk food

As you are much busy with work, you prefer to have junk food such a hamburger, short eats, soft drinks, etc. This causes obesity, diabetes, cholesterol, cancers, etc. Having homemade meals is the best.

6. Have a healthy snack

You may prefer to have a snack while you are working during the breaks. Most of the developers, programmers have a bias to artificial snacks such as chips, coca-cola drinks. These snacks are the way to death. Have healthy snacks concerning your own health.

7. Meet your doctor

Meeting your doctor once per month or 3 weeks is better. You can check how healthy you are and decide what to do next to have a healthy life. You can take advice from your doctor too.

8. Have a good sleep

This is very important because sleep is essential for everyone. Especially for people who work 90% using their brain. This also reduces stress levels, anxiety and improve your productivity

With all of these tips, I am sure that developers, programmers can improve their productivity with a healthy life. If you have questions, suggestions, please comment below.