One big mistake from a blogger is not managing their blog well. Blogging management maybe sound over reacted. But lot of blogger fall because of this. One of the worst blogging management mistakes is forgetting to manage their blog post. New blogger as example, most of them are rushing their post when they start a new blog. They are eager to make more post, their objective is to make their blog fill with rich content. I’m not blaming them for this, but many of them forget that blogging is not about having rich content but to serving your reader with valuable post. The worst part is when they start to know that they don’t have nothing to post with. When this happen, you will see lots of dead blog on the internet.

Ok, we know our problem, so help us fix this problem. Actually, every blogger have their answer. All you have to do is ask your self what the best way to solve this problem. Then you will know that the cure of this disease is management. With management, everything you hope can be done smoothly. Management is all about planning, acting and evaluate. With this simple method you can measure your success and you have ability to improve your work even better. Now, let’s talk about managing your blog post. There are many way to manage your blog, but for now I just want to share few important points how to manage your blog post. Afterwards you can improvise your own blog post management.

Preparing Your Post

First thing to do is to find an idea for your post. Once you find one, you need to gather relevant info and reference for your idea. This can be done be conducting small research on the net. When all resource has been gathered,…

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Most of affiliate guru’s use this technique to hide their affiliate link. This method allows you to hide your affiliate link. With this technique, customer will not know that you actually offering the product and you receive money when someone buys the product. But not all affiliate program allow you to hide your affiliate, again it’s depend on affiliate TOS.

There is few technique how to hide your affiliate link, I will show you some sample how to hide it.

.httaccess

This file allows you to redirect to any URL you want to go. This file only works on Linux operating system. You can find this file on your hosting server, usually on public_html or htdocs directory. If your hosting doesn’t have this file, you need to create one. Use notepad to create this file.

How its work? All you have to do is open .httaccess file and put some code like this bellow.

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^more_info_affiliate_name.php$ http://affiliate_site.com/?ref=your_affiliate_id [R]

With this code “RewriteEngine on”, you activated mod rewrite program on your hosting. When user clicks on www.your-url.com/more_info_affiliate_name.php it will redirect to affiliate site with your affiliate code included.

PHP Redirect

Easy way to hide your affiliate link is with PHP technique. Most of blogger use Wordpress for their blog. Wordpress are build under PHP technology, so it will be easier to use this technique. To hide your affiliate link with PHP, just create new PHP file and add this code on PHP file you just created.

Create a file more_info_affiliate_name.php and add this code on it.

<?

Header (“Location: http://affiliate_site.com/?ref=your_affiliate_id”);

?>

Save your new file and upload to your server. This file works if someone accesses your URL “www.your-url.com/more_info_affiliate_name.php” and redirect it to your affiliate site with your affiliate code included.

HTML Redirect

Another technique using html refresh function. This technique works on every kind of server. You just need to create an html file…

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Make Your Blog Eye Catching With Favicon

Favicon is an icon for your blog. You can see icon on your browser address bar line. With this icon, your blog sound like pro. More benefit using this favicon is when your reader has lot of feeds, your blog will stand out from the crowd.

Having favicon on your blog is easy, you just need to create image file gif/jpg/png and save it as icon file (.ico) then upload it on your root server. Root server usually on public_html or htdocs directory. Once you have uploaded it, go to your Wordpress admin, and choose theme editor. Find a file with name header.php and add this code bellow between <head> </head> tags.

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>

<link rel=”icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>

www.site.com or site.com

Blog can be accessed on two different ways with www.yourblog.com or yourblog.com. Both ways are good but you need to choose one of them as preferred domain which make search engine easy to recognize your blog. To set preferred domain for your blog, you need to register at www.google.com/webmaster/ and add your blog URL. After you add your blog URL, you need to set up which domain you prefer to be preferred domain on Google webmaster.

One you setup your preferred domain on Google webmaster, now you need to add 301 redirect on your blog. This is important coz you need to redirect your URL to preferred domain URL. To redirect your blog you need to add this code bellow on your .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.yourblogname\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourblogname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

Use Permalinks to Improve Your SEO

Wordpress has default setting how to show your blog URL. Permalinks is one of function that allows you to setup your URL link style. If your permalinks setting still on default value, your post URL will be like this.

http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=number

Permalinks setting need to be…

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People often talk about blog and ping, but what exactly ping mean? Ping is a program that send small package to another computer/server over a network or the Internet to see if the remote computer was responding. That same program is now used as a method to informing others that your blog exists and also let’s them know when a new post has been made.

If you have any experience trying to get a site indexed and listed in the major search engines, then you know that it is frustrating and very difficult to get done in a reasonable amount of time. After working hard to get your site together, collecting and writing content, worrying about keywords and keyword densities, you are not even close to finished. Now comes the hard part! Now you have to submit, by hand, your site to all the major search engines. And finally, you get to wait. That’s right, you have to wait for the spiders to come index your site. This could take weeks or this could take months. There are some methods that will help bring along the spiders a bit faster, but these take lots of time and effort and money. And still, you can’t be sure that the spiders will come fast enough.

Blogging and pinging solves this problem. You can guarantee that spiders will come to your site and that you will get listed in all the major search engines with minimal effort and no money – in about 48 hours!!! The easy way using ping service is by adding ping list service to your blog. By adding this ping list service on your Wordpress, you automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated and also let’s them know when a new post has been made.…

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Know your Blog! Study every inch of your blog design. You cannot make money if you don’t know every inch of your blog. I’m gonna tell you most important word you must remember to monetize your blog. Its call “Ads Spot”, its like an area on your blog that can make hundred to thousand dollar every month. By knowing your ads spot, will make you easier to manage what ads that fit your blog themes.

Why this ads spot so important? One thing you should know is, if you make wrong adjustment placing your ads, people who came to your blog will say “what the heck, this blog full with ads crap.” That’s mean that no one will ever come again to your blog, no one will read your valuable post and the worst is, no one will come to make money for you.

Before I’m going to tell you how to knowing your ads spot, spare some time to check google ads format here. By knowing what kind of ads format, I’m sure your head will fill hundred and tons of idea how to manage your ads spot.

Knowing your ads spot.

Four Ads Spot you need to know in order to manage your ads become more natural with your theme, not flooding your blog and improving your Click Through Rate (CTR). This four ads spot are the most important to monetize your blog. What are they? here bellow are four ads spot I have mentioned above.

1. Header Spot

2. Sidebar Spot

3. Post Spot

4. Footer Spot

Header Spot

Header Spot is on your top area of your blog. This area usually fill with banner, blog menu, blog slogan, blog title and etc. On this area, possible text or image ads you can fill is leaderboard ads, banner ads, half banner ads. If you force to fill…

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