Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blog. Show all posts

Thursday, July 16, 2009

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Tricks To Increase The Loading Speed Of Wordpress Blog

It's very hard to find a better roadmap for any new blogger to follow. For example, if you make a search on the keyword "blog tips", millions of pages will appear on Google or other search engines.

From all of these, which will be best for your? For any new blogger it will be very tough to find out some suitable, easy tips for him.

But all fellow bloggers writes about some basic criteria or needs which are common. So, it’s very important for any newbie to follow just one or two fellow bloggers blogs.

Start reading several blogs today, you will find that no one is writing anything wrong. There are lots of ways to create a better blog, you can choose any of those. Everybody is writing with their own experiences and views.

Dear readers,

Keep your main focus to build a strong basic in blogging field. In my previous post I gave some tips for beginner blogger, which was a little bit theoretical. After choosing a better and unique topic it’s time to do something practical.

In this post I am giving some tips you should keep in mind during create your first blog with blogger, wordpress or other blog hosting services.


Sign up with blogger.com


Signup with wordpress.com



1. Choose a Blogging Platform:


Since you are interested in blogging, probably you already hear about some well-known blogging platform. There are many like bogger.com, wordpress.org, today.com and so on. You can start with any of those. But for a novice blogger, the most easy and suitable platform is blogger.com, second wordpress.org.


Why blogger.com is first I will describe these in my later post. If you start blogging with this, you will find the answer.

If you want to build a nice looking blog, you can start with wordpress.org. You can give your blog a nice design; your readers will get really impressed with that.


There is another option, called self hosted blog. At the beginning it will be very tough for you to build a better and optimized self hosted blog. So start first with blogger.com, gather some experiences than you can jump to your own blog like a real professional blogger.

2. Creation of Blog:

After choosing your blogging platform it’s time to create your first blog. This process will 5 to 10 minutes to be done.

The basic requirement to open account is an email address. With blogger.com or wordpress.org it will take steps to complete the registration. Enter correct information in all the fields step by step. During registration give special attention to your domain name and blog title.

3. Domain Name:

Try to include one or two keywords in your domain name and that related to your blogging subject. It’s very important if you want to apply some search engine optimization techniques to your blog.

When a search engine start searching for any specific keyword, first it start looking searching in the domain name for that keyword and 2nd time it start searching in the title or description and others parts.

4. Blog Title and Description:

After choosing a suitable domain name, give an attractive title and description of your blog. Give a nice and easy understandable description of your blog below the title. Describe what is your blog about, your blogging purpose etc.

Don’t provide anything that is not related to your subject.

The title and description will appear on the opening page, so when your readers will not find something they are looking for, they will leave.


5. Choosing a Template:


For any beginner blogger I will recommend to work with the default template at first. The classic and other available templates in blogger.com are easy to optimize for any new blogger. There are lots of free wonderful templates for blogs on the internet. After gathering some well experiences it will be very easy to optimize blog with any template. Choose a template that always reflects your blogging theme. If your blogging topic is about motorbike than you must not use an airplane template!


6. Write Great Content for your Blog:


You have completed above 5 steps, which means you are half way done. Now start to creating post, its easy to create a post but hard to create a great post. Your blogging post must be related with your blog title. If your blog is about computer tips than you should not write anything about Hollywood!


Always write quality content. The quality of your posts is the main key of your blog traffic.

Give special attention for inside or outside links in your posts. Make sure there is no dead or error link in your blog.

7. Start posting regularly:

Great! You are done!
No, this is just the beginning. A lot of hard works you have to do, so prepare yourself for this.
Make posts regularly in your blog. Try to do it once or twice a day. After some successful great posting (5-10), start searching for how to increase your blog traffic. Success in blogging mainly depends on traffic; you need lots of traffic, traffic and traffic to achieve your goal.

Source: Hidden Secrets Online Money

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How to add gadgets to Blogger blog?

For many reasons we need to add gadgets to the blog. Here you will get step by step process to add gadgets . One think you should remember, it may differ from one template to another template.

Step 1: Login to Blogger and go to Layout Tab.


Step 2: Click on Add Gadgets or Add page element Tab.






Step 3: Search for HTML/Javascript . Then click on it.







Step 4: Now paste your code there. Then save it.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

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How to Make Money on the Internet - Blogging

The internet is full of ways to make money and there are a lot of different approaches you can take to make money on the internet. Let me introduce you to blogging - more specifically let me explain to you how people make money on the internet with this fairly new method (think back 5 years, not 5 months).

What Exactly Is Blogging Anyway?

According to Wikipedia:

A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

In plainer English, a blog is a website that shows the newest entries at the beginning, usually on the homepage. This website is a blog, and for that reason you will always find my newest writing on the homepage, at the top. As you scroll down, you will find the other entries I have written, newest to oldest.

What Are Blogs About?

There are blogs about everything! This blog teaches people how to make money on the internet. There are blogs about sports, news, fitness, cooking, humor, teaching, parenting, celebrities, and everything else you can imagine.

Blogs are a great format for news sites. Since blogs show the newest entries first, readers can easily find the most recent news stories. Bloggers (those who blog) post news about every industry, and provide their own opinions on the subject matter.

When blogs first started, they were created primarily to be online journals, but have now evolved into websites about anything and everything.

How To People Make Money Blogging?

The simple answer to that question is that blogs get traffic and convert it into money. Getting traffic is very possible with a blog, in fact it’s much easier to get traffic to a blog than it is to get traffic on traditional websites. I’ve created an entire series of posts on why blogs are the easiest way to get traffic and covert it into money. The method is called ‘Keyword Sniping’. In a nutshell, Keyword Sniping is the fastest and most direct way for people to pull search engine traffic to their websites and create a steady, low maintenance income.

Because of the immense popularity of the Keyword Sniping posts, I’ve created a free, downloadable report called “Introduction to Keyword Sniping: Your Shortest Path to $1,000 Per Month Online” that breaks down the entire philosophy. You can grab your copy of the book by filling out the easy form below (obviously I’ll never share or sell your information - it’s completely safe with me). The report will take you through all the steps for getting your first Keyword Sniper sites off the ground.


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Blogs can develop quite a following by people interested in the blog’s industry. Popular blogs can get thousands of hits per day. Gizmodo, Engadget, and Perez Hilton are three mega popular blogs which all get hundreds of thousands of visitors per day.

The traffic of most blogs is converted to money through advertising. That probably sounds difficult to you if you’re new, but it’s actually really easy. The primary revenue streams of most blogs are:

  • Ad-Boxes
    • Google Adsense - Anyone can sign up for this service and it’s 100% free to use. Google will display ads on your blog and pay you when they get clicked on. This is by far the easiest way to make money with your blog. If you look closely at my pages you will find ad units labeled ‘Ads by Google’.
    • Yahoo! Publishing - Yahoo’s version of Adsense. Yahoo’s version is also free to use.
  • Contextual Ads - These are ads that are displayed throughout the text of your blog. If you look closely through my pages you will see links that are double underlined. These are actually ads and if you hover over them, a little ad-box will pop up. The contextual ad company will pay for clicks on the links or the ad-box.
    • Intelitxt - The first major company to offer this type of advertising. It’s quite difficult to get an account with them unless you have over 500,000 hits per month.
    • Kontera - Another player in the contextual ad game. Kontera is easier to sign up for when you’re still small.
  • Affiliate Programs - Many bloggers sell products and services for other sites and receive appropriate commissions. There are tons of sites out there that offer free, affiliate programs including:
  • Text Links - Bloggers can sell links from there pages to other websites. Most bloggers that use this kind of revenue stream use a company called text-link-ads.com. Their service is free to use and their company will sell the ads for you. The sites that purchase them pay monthly, and you get paid monthly.
  • Direct Sales - Some bloggers sell their own products and services.

How Much Can A Person Make Blogging?

That’s really tough question to answer. Some blogs create $500,000 per year and some make $0. The amount a person can make with a blog depend on a lot of factors including:

  • Blogger’s Knowledge and Experience
  • Quality and Quantity of Blog’s Information
  • Marketing
  • Determination
  • Longevity
  • Luck (This isn’t a joke but it is of course possible to create luck.)

I think that it’s very possible to create an income in the high five and even six figures for individuals that posses the right talent and determination. If you are thinking about becoming a blogger, you should visit this article: Making Money Online - Is This Business For You?

In my opinion, blogging is the easiest of all the methods of making money online, at least for beginners. It is also a stepping stone for those wishing to move onto more difficult online, money-making methods. If you’re interested in starting a blog, you should read this: 5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog. It provides the basics of getting a blog set up to make money on the internet.

Making Money On The Internet Rules
Update: It has now been almost four years that I have been making money on the internet and I can tell you that it’s probably the funnest way to make money ever. I have to say that I freaking love it!

Friday, August 1, 2008

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12 Steps To Convert Your Blog From Blogger To Wordpress

First and foremost, know the benefits of converting your blog from Blogger to Wordpress. See if the benefits worth the conversion for your blog.

  1. If you’ve decided to convert your blog or go for Wordpress, signup to have one. If you host your own blog, install the Wordpress blog
    into a directory other than your existing blog through the Fantastico
    feature of your web host. If you opt to install Wordpress manually,
    here is the Wordpress installation guide.
  2. After installation, sign in and access your Wordpress admin page. Select the Wordpress template you prefer. The popular templates are those with 2-column and 3-column designs. But, there are so many Wordpress themes or templates that will surely capture your heart.
  3. Choose the Wordpress widgets you love. Popular Wordpress widgets include Popular Posts, Recent posts, Recent Comments, Related Posts, Top Commentators, and also the money making widgets. These are only few of the Wordpress widgets that attract readers and make them navigate or participate in your blog discussions.
  4. Identify the Wordpress widgets and other blog sections you wanted to appear in your blog. Map these widgets and blog sections in your Wordpress template.
  5. Edit the Wordpress template to implement the
    widgets and other sections in your Wordpress blog. Choose the URL
    structure your prefer as discussed in my previous post, Top 5 Reasons to Convert Your Blog From Blogger to Wordpress. Test if your final template and design are working properly by clicking the links or navigating it.
  6. Before you may import your Blogger blog posts with
    externally-hosted Wordpress blog, edit first the blogger.php file in
    /wp-admin/import/. Delete the “2″ in www2.blogger.com.
  7. Convert your self-hosted Blogger blog into blogspot
    in Blogger Admin Settings with any available name. Better do it during
    the non-peak hours of your blog. When there are less visitors accessing
    your blog. Then, click Formatting in the Blogger Setting and change the post timestamp into mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss AM/PM, the first option in drop-down menu. After that, click Archiving and set Archive Frequency to “monthly”. Then, import your Blogger blog posts and comments
    through the import link in your Wordpress blog Admin page. After
    importing, immediately convert your blogspot blog to its original
    state. This will minimize the inaccessibility of your original blog.
  8. Test your Wordpress blog again but having your own
    blog posts. Don’t forget to delete the sample post if you’ve not yet
    done so. Navigate your blog to ensure that everything is fine.
  9. If all are OK, backup your old Blogger blog and the new Wordpress blog. Then, edit your Wordpress blog base URL at Options in Admin page. Replace it with your original blog URL, either root or subdirectory. Here’s the details of moving Wordpress blog to another directory.
  10. If you original blog is in subdirectory, just
    change the name of that directory with a new one. Then, rename your
    Wordpress blog directory with your original blog directory. Then, type
    your blog URL in your web browser address window. You must be directed
    to your Wordpress blog.If your original blog is in the root directory,
    you need to delete your original blog files. To minimize or prevent
    your original blog being inaccessible, implement a temporary
    redirection to your Wordpress blog directory prior to deletion. Then,
    upload your Wordpress blog to the root directory where your original
    blog is located.
  11. Now, type your original blog URL in your web browser address bar
    and your Wordpress blog should appear. If everything is fine, you may
    delete or disable your Blogger blog permanently. Search engine robot
    access to your blog backup directory in your server must be disallowed
    using robots.txt to prevent duplicate content.

Sunday, December 30, 2007

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How to make money from blogs - Indirect income

Management consultant Ghosh feels that the best way to monetise your blog is to use it to "get visibility". Shankar says visibility can mean good business for a company or an individual. The image he has built through his blog helps him to get more clients for his business. "CEOs can use blogs to have a two-way communication with the stakeholders; politicians too can build their brand image through blogs," he says.

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How to make money from blogs - Other sources

Paid subscription, donations, venture capital funding and selling your blog are other moneymaking options that can be worked out. But these are extremely unlikely and cannot be banked on.

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How to make money from blogs - Jobs as a blogger

Once you have become a blogebrity, a whole host of earning options arise. Mainstream media or blogs offer editorial roles. Since your contribution will increase their readership, they will pay you for it.

When blognation, a blog about budding entrepreneurs in the technology and mobile space came to India, they were looking for a person with passion and experience. Shankar fitted the bill. At present, he is the editor-in-chief of blognation India. Juneja is a guest blogger for Channel V's show My India Report. However, she says that she takes up such "offline offers" only when it interests her.

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How to make money from blogs - Pay per post

There are various companies and websites who pay bloggers to post details of their product or service on the blog and add a link to their website. "Bloggers can sign up with websites like www.payperpost.com for this purpose. It is important that your blog is focused on specific niche.

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How to make money from blogs - Content syndication

If you are a specialist, somebody might want to use your content on their website as that brings them ads and share a part of the revenue with you.

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How to make money from blogs - Affiliate programmes

Here companies, like amazon.com put up links for their products on your blog. Whenever a reader makes a purchase, through such a link, you get a portion of the sales revenue. "Sign up as affiliate partners with companies that sell some product or service related to your topic of discussion.

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How to make money from blogs - Direct advertising

Blog owners who write on a particular niche can approach companies selling similar products or services for ads. For example, Shankar sells ad space to corporates as a part of video podcasts on his blog

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How to make money from blogs - Contextual advertising

Here ads relevant to your topic appear on the page and you get paid every time someone clicks on the ad, also called cost per click. Google AdSense is the leading network, but there are others like Chitika or Tyroo. "You can sign up free and then integrate a given code to the page where you want the ads to appear," says SEO expert and Internet marketing professional Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury, who blogs at www.seo-kolkata.blogspot.com.

Manish Vij, co-founder, Tyroo, says, "Selecting the right ad network that suits you and using those words for which advertisers pay more per click will help increase your earnings. You can find which words make more money through trial and error testings."

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How to make money from blogs

There are many moneymaking options from your blog. While you can use contextual advertising (ads relevant to your topic) from day one, other revenue streams can be implemented only after you have a substantial audience, for which you need to concentrate on content for the first one or two years. The benchmark is 10,000 readers (both direct and indirect) per day.

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How to make money from blogs - Keywords

Use search-engine friendly keywords. Ensure that the titles of the posts are search engine-friendly. Try to be more specific and gauge what category of readers you are targeting and what keywords they are likely to use.

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How to make money from blogs - Link to other bloggers

If you find interesting content on any other blog, you can provide a link to it, hoping that they would link back to you. Inbound links improve your Google PR. "Let other people know what you are talking about," says Gautam Ghosh, management consultant, who blogs at www.gauteg.blogspot.com. Having a Google PR of 4 or above can also help you earn some bucks through selling links, but it is not encouraged as Google does not encourage link exchange.

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How to make money from blogs - Subscribe to RSS

Subscribing to really simple syndication (RSS) ensures that others can read your content in their mail whenever there is a new post without having to visit your blog.

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How to make money from blogs - Update regularly

Blogathy or apathy to post regularly can ruin your chances as a blogger. "You do not want people to come and find out that there is no new post. Once you lose a reader it is very difficult to get her back," says Juneja, who posts every day except on weekends. Not surprisingly, the Technorati report says that the blogging elite, constituting about 4,000 blogs "post nearly twice a day".

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How to make money from blogs - Content is king

Content remains the first and the last mantra of a successful blogger. "Write good content which is unique, or provides a value-add if you are saying similar things," says Aggarwal. Aaman Lamba, publisher, desicritics.org, warns against being a doppleblogger.

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How to make money from blogs - Heavy Traffic is good

There are several ways of creating, sustaining and increasing a steady flow of traffic, a prerequisite when you start harbouring money-making dreams.

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How to make money from blogs - Designing your blog

"Your blog should be easy to navigate, have a clutter free interface, and no deadlinks," says Sharma. Shankar recommends taking specialised help if you are blogging seriously.

Mumbai-based Sakshi Juneja's blog is called To Each Its Own, on which she writes about Bollywood and gender-related issues. She got Chugs Design, a design studio to lay out the blog for her when it started earning money.