Domain market have come to invade bloggers. Short and English word domain name with high traffic are sold at a high price. Since good blogs generates heavy traffic, domain marketeers buy blogs for a decent amount of money. There have been some notable blog sales, and one of the primary way of evaluating the price [...]
I encourage every blogger writing on popular blogging sites, free or paid, to make a blog that not only could make you money, but could make your blogging experience a success.
People think they have to spend thousands of dollars and weeks of development time to have a functional web blog. But this is an outdated way to think about it. These days, there are a variety of content-management tools available to simplify website creation and management. WordPress is one of those tools. Yes, WordPress, the blogging system. You can create a highly functional, easy-to-manage web blog using only WordPress and a just bit of technical skills.
For the the past three years, I follow this step-by-step approach every time I create a blog from scratch.
The domain registry costs around $10 per year, and the hosting will cost you between $7 to $ 100 per year, depending on the web hosting options. Add the two and that’s the total cost for web domain and web hosting for one year of blogging. Popular domain registrars like GoDaddy, and 1and1 can give you this in about one hour. So far, the fastest domain registration I had was when I bought at Dynadot, my domain is up the soon as I checked out.
If you don’t have the money to shell out that much, you can opt for free web hosting services. Be reminded though, read reviews and pick the one that you think suites you.
This sounds complicated, but it’s a five-minute operation. If you don’t know how to do it, I’m sure your web host has a quick and easy guide for it. Normally, you need to go to the database section of the hosting control panel, select create, and then give it a name and password.
In case you’re not aware, WordPress is free. Download the WordPress files, open wp-config.php and insert the database name and password you created in the previous step, and then upload the entire WordPress files onto the web host.
Fourth step. Launch and Configure WordPress
When all the WordPress files are uploaded to the web host, you’re ready to run the installation process. Go to your web address (the domain) and follow the steps for installation.
Log in using your admin account and customize the appearance and behavior of your blog to your liking.
The most important part. The reason why you are doing this. Content. Start with a few pages of content telling your readers on what to expect on your blog.
Enjoy blogging!
In line with the Philippine Independence Day, Google Philippines‘ web site shows a unique doodle design that displays a sun and its eight rays as the first ‘O’ in the Google logo.
“This is the first-ever Google doodle for the Philippines so we wanted to make it very classic and meaningful for Filipinos. We created a special doodle on the Google Philippines homepage for June 12, 2009 to commemorate the Philippines’ Independence Day,” said Jay Trinidad, Regional Product Marketing Manager, Consumer Products, Google Asia Pacific.
“We also used red, white, and blue, the Philippines’ national colors, which stand for patriotism, equality, and justice, respectively. We also incorporated the flag’s three stars in the design, symbolizing the three major geographic regions of the country,” he said.
On June 12, 1898, Philippines daclared it’s independence from Spanish rule that lasted almost 400 years. Making this day the 111th anniversary of its declaration of independence.
80% of WordPress bloggers use free themes. That’s mainly because they’re free and they’re easy to install. But, do you know that free themes use PHP tags? That every time your site is loaded, these tags are loaded too to get your blog’s information? Replace these tags and make your blog load faster.
Open your theme editor and open your site’s page source. When you compare the codes of both sources, look for the following tags in your theme editor and replace it with the codes found on your page source.
Save the changes and reload your page.
How do you choose the right web host?
It’s been asked a million times already yet still, every webmasters or future webmasters asks how to choose the right web host. I hope this article will help you answer your question.
Examine what you need. The first thing to do before choosing the right web host for you is to examine what your needs are. Do you have a small web site or a large one? Does your site require huge amount of CPU processing? Does your site require high bandwidth?
Features. You’re done listing your needs. This time, find the web host that offers what you’re looking for in a web host and make a list of the companies.
Support. Ask around the Web, from bloggers and some forums and get some feedback on the companies you’ve listed, shoot a message to the companies you think you consider hosting your site to and see how fast they respond. By doing these things, you may have a bit of an idea of how good their support is.
Price. From the list you’ve made,do away with the web hosts that offer less than impressive support and keep the ones you think will offer you their service whenever the need arise. Weigh in their prices and determine which web hosts offer the best value for your money.
WordPress released it’s latest version, codenamed Baker, the 2.8. What do we expect from this release?
The major difference of this version from the precious releases is that 2.8 have the following features:
Features that didn’t make it into version 2.8
There are many paid to click campaigns out there. And by the minute, they’re growing. If you have a time to spare, I suggest you join these campaigns and start earning money instead of just surfing around.
To join, you should have an Alert Pay Account or a Paypal Account. Most of them pays when you reached ten (10) Dollars.
Click, join and start earning money online!
World Clix
Inbox Dollars
07 BUX
5 BUX
BUX Plus
My Clix
Fox Cash
X Click
BUX.TO
Pinoy BUX
Calling all web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators! Search engine optimize your Microsoft-based systems by installing the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta in your IIS 7.0 or IIS 7.5.
The IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit helps improve sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly.
The SEO Toolkit informs search engines about locations that are available for indexing, provides site Analysis module, the Robots Exclusion module, and the Sitemaps and Site Indexes module, which let’s you manage your Robots and Sitemap.
The site analysis module allows users to analyze local and external Web sites with the purpose of optimizing the site’s content, structure, and URLs for search engine crawlers.
The Sitemaps and Site Indexes module enables you to manage the sitemap files and sitemap indexes on the site, application, and folder level to help keep search engines up to date with your content.
Majority of the blogs that I visit rely on advertisements to make money, they haven’t realized the great opportunity they’re missing by not using affiliate programs. Simply put, an affiliate program is a system that pays you a portion of the total cost of the trade when people buy a product having found that product via your web site.
Joining Affiliate Programs may be the easiest way Bloggers (even non-bloggers) make money online. Aside from not having the need to write a blog to earn, you also don’t have to spend anything just to be an affiliate. It may also improve your search rankings.
You earn at no cost.
All you have to do is show the products and services that your affiliate programs offer in your web site. Leave it there. Earn money.
In this post, I listed some of the popular affiliate programs that most bloggers find useful mainly because they offer a wide range of products and services.
Linkshare. LinkShare is a leading provider of online marketing solutions that offers some of the most recognized brands in the world.
Commission Junction. Commission Junction is a global leader in Affiliate Marketing, Online Marketing, and Search Engine Marketing.
Click Bank. Online retail outlet for over 10000 digital product vendors and their 100000 active affiliates.
e-junkie. Shopping cart for selling downloads and tangible goods with PayPal, Google Checkout and Authorize.Net.
Amazon Affiliate. Online retailer of books, movies, music and games along with electronics, toys, apparel, sports, tools, groceries and general home and garden items.
Sounds too easy? Yes. But if you’re just going to put it there and leave it, the conversion rate will be too little or nothing at all. Don’t worry, here’s things that can help you have excellent conversion rate.
Affiliate must be related within your niche. Pharmaceuticals don’t sell jewelries. Jewelry shops don’t sell drugs. It goes without saying that people go to a specific place looking for a specific thing, and if you’re going to give them something not related to what they’re interested in then almost always you’re not going to sell.
Position of advertisements. You don’t just grab the code and paste it on your site. That’s a big no. Carefully position your ads at a convenient place where readers can easily distinguish that it’s a great product that they would love to have.
Traffic. This one’s a major factor and almost any web site needs it. A site without traffic is not going to give you money. No one will click your ads because no one is looking at them to start with.
Personal endorsement works. Readers buy products that are useful and that really works. Because your readers have a certain level of trust and respect for you, if you recommend something that is going to be of use for them and benefit from it then they will buy it. The key thing is, be honest. Tell your readers what is it for and what it is not for. The good and the bad things that they’ll get from it.
Keep records of the results. Keeping records of what sells and what doesn’t help you determine what’s going to bring you commission. At the end of the day, stick with the programs that brings in more revenue and do away with the others to avoid putting too much advertising in your site.
What affiliate program are you using today? Does it work for you? Share them below.
We are living in exceptional times. Scientists tell us that we have 10 years to change the way we live, avert the depletion of natural resources and the catastrophic evolution of the Earth‘s climate.
You’re like me, a homo sapiens, a wise human. Life – a miracle in the universe, appeared around 4 billion years ago and we humans only 200,000 years ago yet we have succeeded in disrupting the balance that is so essential to life. Listen carefully to this extraordinary story, which is yours. And decide what you want to do with it.
One mammal in 4, one bird in 8, one amphibian in 3 are threatened with extinction. Species are dying out at a rhythm 1,000 times faster than the natural rate.
Three quarters of fishing grounds are exhausted, depleted or in dangerous decline. The average temperature of the last 15 years have been the highest ever recorded. The ice cap is 40% thinner than 40 years ago.
We are destroying the cycle of a life that was given to us. Question is – to change or not to change?
Every time you go online, you visit some of the popular blogs that talks about your interests. Be it sports, technology, web development, entertainment, career or whatnot, you visit bloggers that knows what they write. When you read your mail, you receive a blog promotion that let’s you visit a blogs popular post. You heard people spreading the word that you actually could earn money just by blogging.
Now, you’ve heard so much about blogging and you want to blog, too.
Not too soon.
If you’re too amped up about blogging already and you want to join the bandwagon and start your own blog, be among the 112 million blogger, and growing, then there’s some few things you need to consider. The quickest things that comes to my mind that a start-up blogger needs to consider are domains, hosting service, blog platform, blog design, and some blog tools.
Domains. Bloggers build identity, it’s one of the main reason why you blog and people remember you for that. If you’re going to ask me how can you easily build an identity in the blogosphere then there’s no easier way than getting the right domain name. Actually, having the right domain name brings so much more than just identity. For example, depending on how good your domain name is, it could bring a certain amount of traffic without doing anything.
Now there’s a tricky part. Your desired domain name may be gone forever if you don’t act now. Valuable domain names, especially those short dot com names are already registered. So before everything else runs out, I suggest you register yours now.
If you have decided already on what domain name you want, you may want to register it on the following affordable and reliable registrars: GoDaddy, 1 and 1, Impressive Domains, Domains PH.
Hosting service. If you plan to be a serious blogger, I suggest you do away with free blogging sites like blogger and wordpres.com. It’s cool to be free, yes, but you won’t have the level of control you need and want. With free blogging sites, you’re limited to what they offer you. But by owning a personal web space, you are in total control. Just Host, Fat Cow, 1 and 1, and IX Web hosting are just some of the popular web hosting companies with affordable services. If you can’t shell out money yet, I can help you.
Blog platform. With more than half of the bloggers in the blogosphere using WordPress, you can’t go wrong if you decided to go with it. But if you want to think it over, take a look at this post – 3 Best Blogging Software.
Blog design. You don’t really need it when you’re just starting but if you have the money to spend, then by all means, have it personalized. A personalized blog design could only do you better. Identity. Identity. Identity.
Have some other things in mind? Share them below.
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