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The blog you write is an expression of your personality. It has been formed through the choices you have made throughout your life. These choices shape you into the person you become today. Your choices to blog may have started with the desire to express yourself. You may have been drawn to writing blogs to share your experiences with like minded people. It may appear that you are sharing your passion with the world. It is not. The truth is you’re writing a way to earn a living! The blog you write needs great content and a web host with C-panel control panel and Fantastico installed. It is a requirement to have these tools to be a successful blogger. Now here’s the tough truth here. Unless your are willing to spend hundreds of dollars for a domain name and hosting, no one will read your blog! You’re just wasting your time writing a web site! You can find many alternatives available online that offer great content for a fraction of the cost. The real reason to write a ...

Given the huge variety of plugins available for WordPress I thought it would make sense to discuss my top WordPress plugins which I believe you should install right away. A plug-in is, simply put, a small software add-on with a specific functionality which will make building your site much easier and, not unimportant, optimize your money-making opportunities as well (often free of charge). Here are some my key picks: * Easy Privacy Policy – In case you want to benefit from Google AdSense and make money, one of the requirements is having a Privacy Policy page. This plug-in will automatically create one for you! * Google XML Sitemap – This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. A must have plugin in my view! * All in one seo Pack – Optim...

I just finished reading “WordPress for Dummies” As a blogging professional and owner of several blog directories; I read as many books about blogging as I can. I had high expectations for this book because it was part of the famous “Dummies” series. I can say that this book exceeded my lofty expectations. As the title suggests, the book is a complete guide to using the WordPress software to power your blog. WordPress had quickly become the top blogging platform and this book will walk you through everything you need to know from the first installation to the blog posting and everything else in between. What I like best about the book is how comprehensive it is. There are many books out there on this topic, but this is by far the most thorough as well as the easiest to follow. Although this book is written for beginner bloggers, there was a lot of information that was useful for a pro blogger like me. Especially, the section that covers customizing the theme, I ac...

You have just completed the installation and configuration of your new WordPress blog–by the book. You proudly log into the dashboard and select a customized permalink (I use /%postname%/) and then hit the “Save Changes” button to save your configuration. Your blog now–goes crazy. When you try to access your blog, your browser returns nasty error pages instead of your blog’s content. You recheck everything again, but can’t find any problem with your installation procedure. Using your FTP program or the WebShell utility at your web-host’s control panel, you verify that all of the necessary WordPress files and folders are in place and that the permissions are set correctly. In desperation, and using the control panel’s phpMyAdmin interface, you also verify that the MySQL database has been installed correctly and that the installer has configured the database tables. What could be wrong? Before deleting your WordPress files and folders and ze...

After writing or recording a great blog post the next step is to promote it using social bookmarking. These accounts include digg, propeller, furl, bebo, delicious and tumblr, among many others. The problem is finding time to bookmark your content across dozens of accounts. Fortunately, services such as Onlywire can automate social bookmarking to dozens of the leading websites, and including plugins or buttons on your WordPress blog will facilitate blog syndication. Onlywire is the leading online software for syndicating media to the major social bookmarking sites. Professional bloggers, publishers and webmasters rely on it for marketing their and their clients online businesses. Best of all the service is very cost-effective for paid users, and easy to implement for promoting users. Follow the step by step directions in these videos to promote the service on a WordPress blog and capture the same benefits of paid users. Here are some helpful bookmarking tips when using Onlywire: 1) Mak...

The WordPress design is a publishing system that makes starting any blog a piece of cake. All you really need is a hosting account, domain name, some type of FTP client software that permits you to upload files directly to a server, and the WordPress application will make the rest easy. For the sake of argument I will assume you have a Hostgator account. This is not the only hosting company out there but they are reliable, very customer service oriented, and inexpensive. Any hosting service that uses a cPanel Linux Control Panel is fine as well. I will also assume that you know how to go to GoDaddy, Namescheap, or any other internet domain registrar and get a domain name. Once you do that all you have to do it set your nameservers and point it to your hosting account. If you need to be walked step by step on how to do this call your hosting company and ask them. This is what I did and they are good at guiding anyone through this seemingly daunting yet really in fact very easy process. ...

The importance of search engine traffic cannot be over emphasized. The results in engines are taken to be more authentic than paid listings, and hence it is the key to build a brand, to have more traffic and more revenue. The following are the 9 most important seo WordPress pluggins that WordPress blogs might do with: 1. All in One seo Pack This WordPress plugin helps you to prepare the basics of seo for your blog. You can have metatags for your entire blog or different sets for each different page. 2. Redirection There may be changes to your permalink URL of a particular page of a blog. You may have updated it, may have shifted hosts, or have renamed the link URL. What happens is the user comes to the URL which was there before, but doesn’t find it, resulting in loss of traffic and goodwill. Redirection takes care of this and automatically redirects the user to the Updated page resulting in lower loss of traffic, it is a very useful WordPress plugin for seo . 3. Robots Meta Se...

Using social media to increase WordPress blog traffic should be a part from your day by day web small business activities because numerous folks utilize these web sites such as their major resource from news additionally gossip. A well-liked social news website such as Digg gets a lot of traffic. Individuals go to see to Digg to discover out what is new furthermore to share subject matter of the world broad web, together with their own blog posts. If visitors this sort of what they read, they can vote for the article, and if an article is popular enough, it will reach the greatest worldweb web pages of Digg also be noticed by millions from site visitors. Other social on line-web-sites make use from a similar voting system. If the WordPress blog posts you submit to Digg what’s more other social online world webpages don’t acquire any votes, you’re still getting the benefit of building one-way backlinks to your blog, such as a result it will be well worth the time in mak...

What is Google Analytics? Google Analytics is a service provided by Google to help you track the traffic that your wordpress blog is drawing. All Bloggers want to know how many daily visitors they get to their blog. It’s a lonely feeling to be blogging away and have no idea if anyone is reading what you are writing or not. Google Analytics is a free tool that is easy to use and install. Once you have signed up with Google and opened your account, Google Analytics provides you with a piece of code which you need to add to every page on your site. You can even use the one account to track multiple domain names. How do I add Google Analytics to my WordPress Blog? Adding the Google Analytics code to a wordpress blog this is a simple thing to do. All you need to do is paste the HTML code that is provided to you by Google Analytics into the footer section of your WordPress blog and you can track the traffic statistics for every page and post on your blog. This section is found in the st...