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WordPress 3.0 Custom Menus Hidden Settings

October 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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The other day, I was playing around with the new WordPress menus that came with version 3.0 and up; I created a new menu and throwed some pages and posts in the same menu, which was a cool and an easy task. I figure out that  you can create a custom link with whatever you like in it, so I added all my social networks in a sub-menu, which was an easy task too, until I find out that when you click one of this external links on the menu, it opened on the same page, and since I didn’t want my visitors to leave my blog but to open the external link in a new window, it got me thinking that this was worthless. I started looking into the code which took me a lot of time and no results, then I started browsing the web and stumble upon a thread at wordpress.org that had the answer to my problem. While reading it, I felt so stupid because the answer was just standing in front of me all this time. I found out that day that WordPress is becoming extremely friendly and easy to manipulate, We … [Read more...]

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Giving an article a private members only feature

October 4, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Do you want certain articles from your Wordpress Blog to be accessed only by logged-in members? You don't have to install a plugin to turn your Wordpress Blog into a membership site, you just have to unlock some features that Wordpress comes with out of the box, but many users simply doesn't know about. You can use this feature for: Online education centers where registered students can access their learning material Share download links or information for member only visitors A place to gather ideas for a project restricted to team members only. Valuable Information worth sharing to subscribers You can password protect it so that only the users that are logged in to your blog are allowed the access to your post. This option is available on your ‘add new post’ under the publish box. You have to click on ‘edit’ next to ‘visibility public’, change the settings and add a password if you want it protected and then click publish. Giving an article a … [Read more...]

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Define your Keyword Strategy

October 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
How to setup a keyword strategy before starting a blog

First of all , what is a Keyword? Well a keyword is a word or phrase a person enters in a search engine like Google, Yahoo or Bing. You must learn how to develop a Keyword Strategy before starting your blog or website, by following this simple rules, and chances are you are going to attract a lot of visitors from the start by ranking high with your predifine keywords. More and more consumers are finding online business through search engines. These companies can be found through their keywords. Fortunately, you can optimize your blog or site around the keywords that relate to your business. This increases the opportunities for people to discover your blog or site by searching with those keywords, which drives more and better quality leads for your business. Even if you do not know exactly which keywords will get the best people to find your business, there are ways to determine the popularity and competitiveness of some keywords, like Google Adwords Tools, where you can also … [Read more...]

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What are you waiting | Start a blog today

June 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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Consider this, about 70 million blogs existed in 2005 a 6% of the U.S. population had created a blog and 16% of the population reads blogs, now as of February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence, 13% of the U.S. population. I t has become one of the most popular way to make money from the comfort of your home or the nearest Starbucks. As for creating a blog, despite the millions who have already started one, millions more don´t know where to begin. You may hear its easy, but nothing is easy without you aiming to the right direction. It's no to late to start a blog, you are just in time, it's all about your uniqueness, you see a blog is the one place you can be yourself and earn money from it. It doesn't matter if you are an expert on shaving, just look at this guy http://www.shavingstuff.com/ he has a page rank 5 , get tones of visits just talking about razors, shaving, and facial hair… First of all, you should know that  a blog is a web site. Don’t let … [Read more...]

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HOW DO I START A BLOG

June 24, 2010 By 2 Comments
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Blogging is no longer only for the techno geek if you use wordpress. Wordpress has made it so simple that anyone can create a blog using it. Wordpress has so many options that it is possible to make a unique web log without having to know anything about the codes that are working behind the whole process. All the background stuff has been done by the wordpress programmers. Wordpress blog services let you start your blog easily and quickly, but don’t let that distract you from going along a planned strategy; you should at least know the outcome that you want, so that you can plan accordingly. Starting a blog with the correct strategy is very necessary if you don’t want your blog to end as one of the abandoned ones. POINTS TO BE KEPT IN MIND WHILE CREATING YOUR BLOG Decide on the type of blog you want and the target niche. Knowing your niche will help you to use your blog to communicate specifically about that topic. Create your strategy keeping in mind … [Read more...]

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What is a blog

June 23, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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A Blog is like any website, build under the same platforms and programing code languages such as PHP, AJAX, JQUERY, HTML, etc with some differences and features, such as: A Blog is updated regularly A blog is an expression of an individual or group of individuals A Blog is usually arranged in chronological order A Blog uses Categories and Tags to ease the search process A Blog often evolves around a certain theme or niche A Blog is the just a website that connects with users in such a way that they become part of it. A Blog lets the users interact with the author by leaving comments and joining the conversation. If you have a look at some of the entries of a blog you would get an idea what that person likes to write about. Now a days a blog is not used only by individuals with a point of view but are used by almost every major company in the world, which is great by the way since with a blog they can finally listen to their customers,  help them, and improve their … [Read more...]

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Blogging – Everyone Else Is Doing It – So Why Can’t I

April 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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The Internet and the software which has been developed to run on it have made it extremely easy for anyone to publish content and have it accessible to millions of people. In effect, consumers have been given a voice to air their views to a massive audience. Something which before the Internet, they could never have done. In recent years one of the biggest examples of this has been the massive growth of weblogs (blogs), wiki's, podcasts, vlogs and moblogs - together they form what is loosely known as social media; the ability for anyone to publish almost any content without the typical costs and hindrances associated with traditional media. This new publishing freedom has resulted in an explosion of new content. However the term social media, or citizen journalism as it is sometimes called, may be a misnomer as many companies can do it as well! What is Blogging? Blogging is currently the most common form of social media, in fact as of October 2006, about 100 000 … [Read more...]

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How To Be A Blogging Idol Instead Of An Idle Blogger

April 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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To be successful at Search Engine Optimization, it's important that you continually test out new theories and ideas. Before I use new SEO techniques on a client's website, I always test them on one of my own. In order to better understand the application of SEO to blogs, I decided to implement the following experiment: I would create a blog for each American Idol contestant. Using a pseudonym, I would blog each candidate until they got booted off the show. Once the final 12 candidates were decided, I would step up my posting pace. Being that this was an SEO project, I didn't aim to provide any valuable insights into the candidates...I only planned to "blurb" news articles that mentioned each contestant. The goal at the end of the project (besides gaining useful knowledge) was to have 1-2 "sustainable" blogs in place, while generating massive traffic the week of the final show. Several weeks into the project, I discovered two things: The Bo Bice Blog received considerably more … [Read more...]

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24 Tips and Strategies on How Everyone Can Blog Right and Get Everybody to Read

April 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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By the end of 2004 blogs had established themselves as a key part of online culture. "Blog readership shoots up 58% in 2004 6 million Americans get news and information fed to them through RSS aggregators But 62% of online Americans do not know what a blog is." - Pew Internet & American Life Project Tip #1 - How and Where Should I Start? You should begin your blog with a free blog hosting service such as Blogger (http://www.blogger.com), or other similar free services such as JournalHome.com, LiveJournal.com or Blog-City.com. The learning curve for using such free services allow you to spend more on developing your content rather than worrying about the advanced areas of scripting, hosting, or programming. Tip #2 - The Things You Should Decide to Write About Although not a required prerequisite for you in order to write a blog, it is highly recommended to try to find a topic to write about based on your level of interest and knowledge. The higher your level of interest, the … [Read more...]

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