Creating a Blog Tutorials - Part Four: Customizing Your Blog
Once you have your wordpress blog installed, you can start blogging immediately, But you must first customize your blog to make it unique, professional and to suit your needs.
In this post we are going to talk about customizing your wordpress blog, this includes install some plugins and installing wordpress theme.
Why You Need Plugins for Wordpress
plugins are small extensions that add more feature to your wordpress blog, and to increase functionality, almost all wordpress users use plugins.
a Must Have plugins
There are Many wordpress plugins but only few you must have, so i’v listed here must have plugins, you should install these plugins to your blog.
1.Akismet
Aksimet is most popula spam filter, it catch 98% of spam comment on your blog, and trust me you will get many spam comment on your blog, so this is a time saver plugin you must have.
google index websites faster if they have a sitemap, this plugin will automatically create sitemap for and any also it will update this sitemap when you post news posts, pages, categories.
This plugin is also must have truelly it does what it says, we all know how important is seo to your blog, this plugin will help you create titles, keywords, description and more to your blog.
4. CommentLuv
Everytime someone leave a comment on your blog, this plugin will create link to commentor’s latest blog posts, it engorie people to leave a comments on your blog
Recommended plugins
wordpress stats help you track post, page views, and referrers
6. ShareThis
this plugin place icon on eves post to help you and your visitors to quickly submit your posts to social bookmarking sites, there are many plugins that do this job but this one is my favorite.
All links in wordpress comments are NoFollow by default some bloggers want to change that to help them get more comment and to encourage visitors to leave a comment, if you decide to do that beware that you will get Many Spam and useless comments so make sure you ready for this.
This one actually place list of Top commenters on your sidebar this one too encourage people to leave comment as they have chance to get link on your blog.
If you run multiple website and blogs then you know how its like to backup your sites database, so this plugin will backup your blog database and mail it to you everyday or every week as you specify.
This on will create a list of related posts on every post on your blog, its a good way to build internal links as well as give your visitors chance to see other related post with less navagation.
Choosing and Installing Wordpress Theme
One of the reasons why wordpress is the most powerful and popular blogging platform is Theme, there are hundreds if not thousands of wordpress themes, you can make your own theme if you know how to or hire someone to do it for you.
When we talk about wordpress theme there are two options here, one is to choose FREE wordpress theme, and two buy premium theme or hire someone to make theme for you.
as i said there are thousands of FREE wordpress theme you can go ahead and choose one then you can customize and modify it.
Many blogger recommend that you but unique wordpress theme, this can cost you about 200$ especially if you want to make money blogging, this will give you blog unique design, if you can’t afford that you can start with FREE wordpress theme then when you make enough money you hire someone to make you unique wordpress theme.
Where to get Free wordpress themes
There are many wordpress themes directory just google for it , here is some of these.
Google Keyword Tool Is Getting Better
One of the annoying problem with Google keyword tool, is that you can’t see the search volume data and how man searcher, and i never understood why google didn’t added this feature just like other keyword tool?
Anyway Google today finally add this feature to its keyword tool, and now is just better.
Why You Should Start a Blog Now
Don’t you have a blog yet?, then you should start a blog now stop wasting time, why you should start a blog now? blogs becoming more popular everyday, it doesn’t matter whether you planning to make money or not.
I’v listed below the top reasons why you should start a blog now.
Make Money
I know the first thing you think about is making money by blogging, yes its true making money by blogging is one of the easiest ways to make money online.
Learn More
Blogging itself is just leaning, just by doing mistakes and then learn from mistakes is more than enough, imagine yourself going to learn something everyday, for example ever since i started blogging i learned alot about web development especially PHP, even though I’m certified ASP.NET web developer, i used to hate PHP before that , everything i know about PHP i learned it from blogging How? like most of bloggers i use WordPress as blogplatform and i always want to modify, edit and create my own PHP scripts and plugins, blogging made me improve my self and read more about PHP.
This is just an example to show you how blogging can make you lean new things.
Improve Your Self
One of the most annoying problems i had since i started my first website 5 years ago is writing content. im kind lazy person when it comes to writing articles and content, blogging helped me improve my writing skills, i learned alot about writing articles and still there is more to learn,
Express Your Opinions
Do you have something you want to say? blogging is the good place to share your opinions with other peoples, this include friends and family too.
Help Other People
Are you kind of person who can help other people?, Blogs are good place where you can help other people, i’v seen many blogs like these, some moms have their own blog where they share their experience with other people in parenting and kids stuff.
Connect With Other People
Starting a blog can help you a alot to find people like you to start share your opinions and your experience.
WorldNiche Affiliate Program Review
Last month i wrote review on MoreNiche affiliate program, today i’m going to review samiliar program to MoreNiche, actually it used to be part of MoreNiche until they split into two different program.
WordlNiche is very profitable program, you can make up to 240$ per sale, and let’s not forget to mention what WordlNiche offer.
Just like MoreNiche they also provide you with FREE websites templates, free products banners, free articles, and also they have support forum.
With average 80$ per sale i can say that WorldNiche is very profitable program , you can make decent income monthly just by promoting their products, Join WorldNiche Affiliate program.
Making Money With Proxy Sites
Making money with proxy sites is good for beginners, why?, because proxies doesn’t have a real content and doesn’t require you to add new content every few days, so we can say its all about marketing, yes all you have to do in order to make money with proxy sites is to get MORE traffic.
In this post I’m going to show you how to make your own proxy site and how to make money from it, and how to promote it.
of course the first thing you need to do is to get domain name and hosting
Registering a Domain Name
most proxy owner prefer to register the .info domains because its cheaper, but you can always get .com extension or whatever you want there are no rules here, but the important thing here is you need to make sure that you don’t get domain name contains any of these words proxy, anonymous,unblock, it’s for pretty obvious reason some filters will automatically block any domain has any of these word in it, and you don’t want that to happened.
Choosing web hosting
Choosing web hosting for proxy is kind hard acutely, why? because most web hosting companies doesn’t allow you to run web proxy , proxies known’s as hungry for bandwidth and system resources, so you have to fins web hosting that allow proxies , now it’s not that hard you can go to Digital forums there are many people offer web hosting for proxies.
Installing your Proxy Site
You’ v got your domain and web hosting now you need to install your proxy site, there are many free proxy scripts you can use the most popular is PHPProxy scripts many proxy owners use it these days, you can go to freeproxytemplates.com and download it, customizing phproxy is really easy all you have to do it edit config.php file and enter your site details and your adsense pub, then upload it to your web hosting account, and you ready to go.
Driving Traffic To Your Proxy Site
After you’ve got your proxy site up and running now comes the hard part well it’s not too hard, but you going to spend a lot of time here to drive traffic to your proxy sites.
Yahoo and Google Groups: these groups can drive a decent amount of traffic to your proxy everyday, all you have to do is post messages to all these groups twice a day, here is some of yahoo and google groups
http://groups.google.com/group/all-for-proxy?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/daily_ip?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/daily-proxy-list?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/daily-web-proxy-posts?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/free-proxy-list?msg=subscribe&hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/Free-Web-Proxies?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/freshproxyunblockers?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/got-proxies?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-group
http://groups.google.com/group/proxy-rank
http://groups.google.com/group/Proxy-Web
http://groups.google.com/group/proxyrank?hl=en
http://groups.google.com/group/yourproxy?hl=en
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/BLACK_PROXY/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/brandnewproxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bypass_filter_by_proxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dailyproxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/everyday_proxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free_proxys_list/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/free-proxy-lists/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/free-proxy-server/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/fresh-web-proxies/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/hiddenzone/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/mygmproxy/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/onefake/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxies/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxiesandcensorship/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PROXY_LISTS/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/PROXY_PROXY/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ProxyMaster/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/proxy-sharing/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ProxyUnblock/
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/unblocker/
Post in Large Forums: posting in large forums also can drive a decent amount of traffic, find popular forums and post your proxy site there when answering people questions, and don’t forget to put your proxy url in your signature.
Yahoo Answer: yahoo answer is pretty active people keep asking new questions every minutes, and the best part is there are always people asking for new proxy sites, search for these questions and post your proxy url.
Myspace : myspace is great place to promote your proxy site, start sending Myspace bulletin to your friends telling them about your proxy and they can use it to access blocked web sites, and don’t worry if you don’t have enough friends many people at digital point forum offer Myspace bulletin to a alot of people.
Making Money
Now comes the best part making money from your proxy sites, simple answer is adsense about 99% of proxy owners uses adsense on the home page of their proxy sites to make money (make sure you use adsense only on the home page), on the proxified page you can use Adbrite it’s really good always worked for me.
Congregations, now you have proxy site and you ready to make money, i hop you got all information you need to start , and if you have any other questions or need and help leave comment or contact me and i’ll answer it.
4 SEO Tips For The New Websites
After you launch a new website the first thing you should think about is SEO, it’s the best time to think about SEO, you have the chance to optimize your pages so you can increase your chance to get batter organic traffic from search engines.
There are some few tips that you should follow for better and easy indexing by search engines.
1-Always make sure that you have meta tags and Robots.txt tag, Although meta tags won’t improve search engines rank , it’ create display text that display on search engines results, and if you have the right meta tags it help will help users to click on you site and visit it.
2-Don’t forget to use H1, H2, H3, And strong tags on your pages, these tags help you get visitors attention to your content.
3-Make it simple as possible , don’t make your site design complex, it may become difficult for search engine spiders to read your content and index it.
4-Make sure you you have created xml sitemap , Including a sitemap on you site makes it easy for search engines to access all of your website pages and index it, so make sure to submit xml sitemap to Google’s Webmasters Tools.
Top Ways to Make Money Online Without Blog or Website
As the title say you can make money online without website or blog, Actually there are many ways like pay to click, pay to read paid survey, but i’m not going to talk about all of them in this post i’ll talk about just the best ways to make money without website or blog.
Coding
Do you have any programming experience ? can you code web pages, write scripts for web sites, customize current scripts. if the answer is yes then you should be happy people always looking for coders and programmers to do some jobs, so how can you offer you services? Freelance websites there are many freelance sites like getfreelance.com when you can charge per hour, in the beginning you need to start low as possible until you build reputation and people start to hire you, also find webmaster forums like digitalpoint where you can offer your services its good place to start too.
Graphic Design
Can you make banners, logos , web pages with Photoshop or any other program? people are always looking for graphics designers to make banners, logos and these can make you easily $50 per logo or banner, web pages can make you $200 and more.
again you can start with webmaster forums to offer your services.
Writing
The easiest way to make money online, yes it doesn’t require any skills just ability to write good articles. People always looking for new and unique content for their websites, and the easiest way is to hire writer.
Just all you need to do is to find the topic that you can write about, but remember you must able to write unique and good articles without mistakes.
Offer Data Entry Service
I’m not talking about normal data entry jobs here, i’m talking about directories, social bookmaking sites submission take look at DigitalPoint forums and see how many people are offering these services and there are always webmasters need these services.
Directory Submission make list of top web directories PR, Alexa and then offer this serivce it’s like filling forms when you register for any website
Do-Follow Blog commenting service lately i noticed that some people made over $1000 a week by just doing this service , basically you need to find blogs that doesn’t have the nofollow tag and make comment on these blogs , jason from the the university kid wrote very nice guide to show you how to make money by commenting.
Forums Posting
The hardest part for every forum owner is the beginning you have no members no posts, what makes people start using your forum, well most of forums owners will pay for forums posting as it help them to make their forum more active and more popular.
They will pay you to post new topics and posts on their forum, easy money that what i call it.
MoreNiche Affiliate Program Review
MoreNiche is one of the best affiliate program, i’v been with them since 7 months and i’m really impressed, they have have unique products and services to promote with highest payout.
But that it not why im impressed, when we talk about affiliate marketing we have to mention if you want to be successful you need to build website or landing page , many people ask me how to make landing page, how to write content for websites, especially people with little or no experience in affiliate marketing.
MorNiche solve this problem they provide you with websites templates, free articles, pictures, for every product and service they have.
And that is not all they also provide you with:
- Forum: Only few affiliate programs have that you can ask any questions and they will help you, also you will noticed that even the administrator or the people who run MoreNiche are active members there and they helping and answering other members questions.
- Video Training: recently MoreNiche team added a new video training , these videos will help you to understand and lean how to promote their products and services.
- Free eBooks: Beside what they offer for each product and services they also provide you with FREE eBooks that almost cover everything in affiliates.
If you beginner in affiliates marketing then MoreNiche is the right choice for you you will get FREE $15 bonus if you sign up now, So now you see why MoreNiche is awesome , why you waste money on buying websites, landingpages, ebooks when they already give it to you for free.
