Archive for March, 2009

Mar
26

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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Mar
22

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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Mar
15

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.

 

Blog Ads Spot

 

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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Mar
9

Everyday people come to ask me which program that can make hundred to thousand dollar from internet . Finally I made decision to write this post just to answer which ad program that makes thousand dollar by blogging.

If you search on the net you will find hundred of ad network that offer you potential income just for blogging, but not all of them are worth to try. I have seen many ad network but only few on them can really make money. Here are few money maker list I got from successful bloger.

 

Text Link Ads

Text Link Ads is an ads network that’s allow you to sell link to other. You need to spare ads spot for Text Link Ads Link on your blog. This link can be placed on your sidebar with a widget or on your blog footer. Widget can be used for this ads like featured link, recommended link or friend link. Just make sure not to use sponsored link or paid link prevent penalties from search engine. Text Link Ads are using Alexa Rank, Google PageRank, numbers of RSS subscribers and other factors to set price your link price.

Sign Up For Text Link Ads

 

Google AdSense

The most favorite moneymaker for blogger is Google Adsense. Most of blog publisher use Google Adsense to make money, not only its easy to use , Google display simple text and image ads on your blog match with your content. Don’t waste your time experimenting other ads network. You must have this awesome moneymaker on your blog.

Sign Up For Google Adsense.

 

Bidvertiser

Another CPC ad network like google adsense. The interesting is bidvertiser has low payout at $10. When your account has reach $10, you can ask for payout. Its very benefit for new or small blog, you don’t have to earn $50-$100 to be…




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Mar
4

Bored with your Wordpress theme? Hard finding way to customize your theme? Don’t waste your time if you not expert on creating Wordpress theme. All you have to do is find a website that provides free Wordpress theme match your blog. There are hundreds out there that provide good Wordpress theme. Why bother creating if many of them free to use.

 

Theme is very important thing of your blog. It represents your blog personality, your blog design quality and most important is, it can drive you lot of traffic. Imagine if your blog design has poor quality, people who comes to your blog will never come back again or not reading your entire blog. The worst part is you won’t have loyal reader on your blog.

 

Don’t be wary experiment your blog theme, if you find theme fit with your blog niche, why not change your blog theme. Remember that reader like to see not only information on your blog but design that’s make them comfort.

 

I have search around few website that’s provide high quality Wordpress theme. And it’s all free to download. Spent few time to looking around, maybe you find best quality Wordpress theme match your blog niche. Here is some few list website that provide free good quality Wordpress theme. You can find more on search engine by typing “free Wordpress theme”. Good luck finding your new theme.

 

http://www.freewptheme.net

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/08/100-excellent-free-high-quality-wordpress-theme

http://topwptheme.com

http://www.blogohblog.com/category/wordpress-theme

http://www.templatesbrowser.com/wordpress-theme

http://www.wpskins.org

http://www.themelab.com/category/free-wordpress-theme-releases

http://theme.rock-kitty.net

http://wordpresstemplates.name




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