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How to get traffic for your blog

How to get traffic for your blog Be topical... write posts that need to be read right now. Learn enough to become the expert in your field. Break news. Be timeless... write posts that will be readable in a year. Be among the first with a great blog on your topic, then encourage others to blog on the same topic. Share your expertise generously so people recognize it and depend on you. Announce news. Write short, pithy posts. Encourage your readers to help you manipulate the technorati top blog list. Don't write about your cat, your boyfriend or your kids. Write long, definitive posts. Write about your kids. Be snarky. Write nearly libelous things about fellow bloggers, daring them to respond (with links back to you) on their blog. Be sycophantic. Share linklove and expect some back. Include polls, meters and other eye candy. Tag your posts. Use del.ico.us . Coin a term or two. Do email interviews with the well-known. Answe

WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Avoid

WordPress Security Tips You Most Likely Avoid WordPress is very popular platform for blogging that we all know, but very few of us know that it's open source software. You may wonder, "What open source means?" Open source software means that the source code of software is freely available for edits, modification. And people are free to do some new experiments with codes to learn cracking or hacking. Don't get me wrong, WordPress is a secure piece of software if we take some steps to make it secure. Besides find a secured WordPress hosting for it, below we list out some more steps that will make your WordPress securer: Never Ever Use "Admin" As Username The default WordPress user account that gets created automatically with every installation of WordPress is the admin account. Unfortunately, the whole world knows this, including hackers, and can easily hack your blog by lunching dictionary attack to guess your password.

WordPress Plugins for Adsense

WordPress Plugins for Adsense Which are the best plugins for inserting Google Adsense? If your blog runs on WordPress then it's very easy to add Adsense ads wherever you want to add in your blog. All you've to do is just install Adsense plugin that suits your needs and you are ready to put your ads. Currently, almost every blogger uses Adsense as a primary or secondary source of income, because Adsense is the best and easiest way to make good amount of money online if you keep your eyes open. If you don't have Adsense accounts then its right time apply for one. But make sure your site is genuine and serve best content to readers. If yes, then I'm sure you'll get your account. And after that you've to integrate Adsense ads to your blog. Here are some plugins which will reduce your effort and make adding Adsense ads to your blog very easy. Adsense Injection Insert Adsense ads code randomly into pre-existing pages. Pick a rando

10 Essential First Steps When Starting A WordPress Blog

10 Essential First Steps When Starting A WordPress Blog Having created quite a few blogs, I'd like to think that I have a good system down for those essential first steps, and I hope it can be of use to you too. By following these you'll get a good head start in the world of blogging and hopefully an influx of traffic to give you the motivation to carry on. If you've already started, think of this as a checklist as I'm sure there's a few you haven't done yet. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-essential-steps-starting-wordpress-blog/ If you have any questions or comments please contact me. Regards Gerald Website: http://www.webcraft.ws E-mail: gerald@webcraft.ws Twitter: WebcraftGuru Facebook: Webcraft Guru I'm protected by SpamBrave http://www.spambrave.com/

How To Back Up Your WordPress Blog Online

Blogging and blogs have been on the forefront for quite some time now. With millions of blogs out there, covering a variety of topics, you can most likely find one that appeals to your tastes. No wonder, weblogs are assets to the readers and owners alike. That being said, this is the Internet we are talking about here. Hacking and cracking attempts on popular blogs is common. We have had our share of not so pleasant experiences as well. Imagine losing control of your site and/or its contents. So much hard work, so much time you put into it, all put at risk. No one would like to lose such an asset. Surely there has to be something that can be done to safeguard one's content and hard work against such attempts. Well yes, indeed there are preventive measures that you can take like enhancing security. Choosing strong passwords, changing them often, adding additional security plugins, etc. However, as is so often the case, ironically, the only thing certa

The Basic About Internet Marketing: Keyword Positioning

The Basic About Internet Marketing: Keyword Positioning Hit the Bull's Eye in Internet Marketing. How? Simply do your homework: Perform proper keyword research. Building up an online business is tricky. It is when you think you have the perfect formula for any real- time business to succeed, that you begin to realize your concept of traditional marketing does not work in online setting. While traditional marketing uses the gift of gab, Internet marketing utilizes the perfect combination of words or terms, unique for a particular website. In fact, the written word plays a pivotal role in online success. On the internet, keyword positioning is strategic step: it can make or unmake your dream of hitting it big in a realm, where making money has limitless boundaries and anybody, sans MBA can challenge the masters. Search Engine Optimization, where keyword positioning is a primary factor, is the vessel that takes you to your destination. By definition,

Grabbing the Best Keywords for your Website Using Google's Keyword Research Tool

Grabbing the Best Keywords for your Website Using Google's Keyword Research Tool Step 1 - Put your keyword phrase or root keyword into the tool. I suggest one phrase at a time, 1-4 words in length. Click: Get Keyword ideas and wait for the results. Another option is to click Website Content and let Google pull suggestions from your website content. Step 2 - IMPORTANT, change the Match Type to Phrase, which adds quotes to the keyword results. This makes the tool's impressions more closely match organic search, ignoring the "loosey-goosey" broad match phrases for AdWords. And under the Show/Hide Columns make sure your settings display Approx Avg Search Volume. (If you're marketing a seasonal product or service you might change to a different setting.) Step 3 - Analyze the results. What we're all trying to find is the low hanging fruit: the best balance of traffic volume, ease to perform SEO and traffic that will likely conver

What Google+ can be used for.

Here are some tips: 1. Interact with Your Clients and Customers Without Having to Meet with Them in Person Sometimes, it just isn't convenient for you to meet with clients and customers in person. Exchanging emails and even talking over the phone seem to be too impersonal, so why not use Google+ Hangouts so you can interact with them virtually face to face? This is a great idea especially if you plan on talking to numerous people at the same time because you won't have to repeat instructions to multiple people over and over again. Video chatting lets people get a real glimpse of you too, which helps you connect better with them. 2. Organize a Meeting If you want to meet with your business partners or employees, but there's just no time for everyone to gather in the office or meet in a certain place, then why not organize a meeting using Hangouts? It allows up to 10 people to have a private video chat, so you can talk, shop, and discuss th

WordPress Tutorial Sites To Brush Up Your Blogging Skills

WordPress Tutorial Sites To Brush Up Your Blogging Skills WordPress TV - http://wordpress.tv/ The video blog is a visual how-to on things that are WordPress. It is also an official resource from WordPress. Along with the line up of videos in A-W categories, you have interviews and discussions related around the WordPress platform. You also get to watch a lot of highlights from WordCamp, the international WordPress event for the WordPress community. WPCandy - http://wpcandy.com/ WPCandy covers WordPress from all possible angles - news, editorials, reviews, podcasts, interviews, and of course WordPress tutorials. Then, you have a section which reviews WP tools and themes. The tutorials section is a mish-mash of quick tips and detailed how-tos. If you prefer listening, there's an entire podcasts directory to tap into. You can also send WPCandy your story ideas and even write for them when openings come up. WpRecipes - http://www.wprecipes.com/