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How To Start Your Very Own Blog, Create Your Free Blog


I don t think people who want start with blogging totally know any step-by-step process that allow them to build a own blog. Building a blog or website from scratch, takes time, a good plan, and a solid foundation. Also, it may be very confusing at first.


Becomeablogger.com is become an amazing new teaching resource for those looking to build successful online businesses from scratch. This is a paid program that extends the ideas in the The Roadmap report.





A Good Way To Changing Your Boring Blogger Template: Take A Look At One Theme

The best thing of this premium Wordpress theme is that unlike most of the other Wordpress themes out there, developers offer you free upgrades for life, and one update at new versions every six months. “One Theme” has a lot of features. Here is something that may help you find out:

  • Five color schemes
  • Completely widget friendly
  • Adsense Ready
  • valid xHTML and CSS
  • Custom control panel with multiple-choice style options
  • SEO Optimized Code
  • Thumbnail Ready
  • FREE Support
  • Unique “Hot Conversation” plug-in
  • Featured YouTube video
  • Featured homepage article and categories

These are only some of features, but give an idea of the value of this product. If you want to know how “One Theme” really works, you can go to check out the follows live demo.

There are four color schemes choices to choose from. I’m sure more will be added in the future. However, to change color theme all you need to do is to go on the main “One Theme” homepage and clicking on “Change Color” in the navigation.

“One theme” lets you put the header image into two halves. You can upload your blog’s logo into the left half and another image into the right half. This second option is ideal if you want put a banner and make a bit money from it.

Design is an important part of business, and “One Theme” has all requirements to getting a strong platform to make money online. It’s nicely organized in a newspaper style. The main menu integrates a secondary menu when you hover your mouse pointer over certain links. Also the Rss subscription buttons offer a simple way for surfers to receive timely, news content directly from their browser windows. “One theme” is essentially a starting point for budding entrepreneurs to pitch their ideas.

 

Adsense

The theme has been developed to integrate Adsense Block directly from the Worpress control panel. All you need to do is to set your adsense block(color, size, etc), and insert your publisher ID and the theme make rest. You are also able to change your header background and logo, define the featured article and categories etc, in a simple and intuitive way.

Referall

When I’m on the lookout for an affiliate program, the first thing I look for is the commission. Once you get a sale an email notify you that payment is made. You Get a 25% commission that will be sent via PayPal every month. To be an affiliate you must join to the E-Junkie affiliate program.

Pricing

You can choose to opt for the $99 webmaster(load on one blog), $199 webmaster pro(Load on three blogs) and $299 web developer (load on five blogs) licenses. There is also the reseller license, but you need to contact them for more information. You won’t find a much better deal than that. Click here to view more details

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AlexKing s WordPress Mobile Edition And UBD Block Ad: Two Useful Wordpress Plugins You’re Stupid Not to Use

The3dtechnologies Is Now Mobile Compatibile

There’s a thing that almost every blogger want to have once built a website. That thing is a web site that is mobile device compatible. Fortunatly, a great many third-party solutions are launched up, allowing you to extend the capability of Wordpress.

In my case, I want to announce that the3dtechnologies is mobile device compatible today, thanks the AlexKing’s WordPress Mobile Edition plugin. The better thing of this plugin is that will redirect all mobile devices’ browsers to a mobile friendly version of your blog.

Installation

The first thing to do is to download this small plugin(about 12,7KB) on your computer and upload it on your server via FTP

  • Drop the wp-mobile.php file in your wp-content/plugins directory
  • Drop the wp-mobile directory in your wp-content/themes directory
  • Click the ‘Activate’ link for WordPress Mobile Edition on your Plugins page (in the WordPress admin interface)

As result, you will display content of the blog only in the mobile version. All the graphics and other excessive things will be removed. Unlike in RSS readers, in mobile version you can view/make comments too.

Make Money Online With USB Block Ad Plugin

Amazing many thing are made every day for Wordpress. Maybe UBD Block AdPlugin is the first that allows you to set up your 125×125 buttons you see on your right sidebar, because I do not know other way to do this. This is the plugin that serves all my block ads. It’s free and relatively non-intrusive to the browsing experience. You can view the plugin in action, below:

What you’ll can do when you using this plugin is:

  • You can either use one column or two columns to display your ads.
  • It allows to put a maximum of 10 ads at any given time.
  • It will also automatically rotate your advertisers with each page refreshed. For instance, if you have 6 button and 10 advertisers, the plugin will simple rotate 10 advetisers among 8 buttons.
  • This plugin allows to choose how many ads would you like to show. You don’t need to put any piece of code, the plugin edit the sidebar.php file automatically, in order to add the block ads to your page.

In my view, it incredibly easy to use and one of the most useful plugins made for Wordpress to generate revenue from your blogs.

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11 Tools For The WordPress Admin

If you want to simplify everything you need to do with your Wordpress platform, below a collection of 11 WordPress Admin plugin. The following plugins may help you save time.

Live Spell Checker - Uses a combination of dictionaries to check your posts.

Auto-hyperlink text URLs - in post content and comment text to the URL they reference. Does NOT try to hyperlink already hyperlinked URLs. Improves upon WordPress’s default make_clickable function, along with adding some configuration options (such as link truncation).

AWSOM Pixgallery - Is an Image Gallery/Archive plugin designed to make it easier for Artists or Webcomic creators to set up a portfolio of their artwork.

Admin Panel Comment Reply - Modifies the comment page in the admin panel to include a “Reply to Comment” link among the options for each comment.

Domain Mirror - This Plugin allows multiple domains to be configured within Wordpress and updates the Weblog Title, Wordpress Address URL and Blog Address URL on-the-fly based on the value of $SERVER[’SERVERNAME’]

404 Notifier -  If you’ve decided to move things around on your site, you might overlook a few redirects and end up with some broken URLs. This will help you catch those so you can take care of them.

Batch Categories - It’s the ideal companion for large-scale post-import messy category work. List all posts belonging to a category or matching a keyword, and edit their categories, easily visible at a glace with a collection of sexy drop-down lists.

Custom Admin Menu for Wordpress - The Custom Admin Menu plugin gives you full control of your Wordpress administration section, without requiring any changes to any files! All customizations are done using a very intuitive graphical interface.

Custom Write Panel - It provides the functionality to create individual write panels similar to “Write Post” panel only with customized input fields. This plugin allows adding new input fields with a specific type. The following are the supported types.

Plugin DashBar English Version - Let admins have admin access while working in the frontend of the blog without having multiple windows open.

Digital Fingerprint - This plugin helps blog owners stay vigilant against unauthorized content use by the overwhelming majority of blogs that are splogs.

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How To Upgrade And Update Wordpress A Quick Guide

Finally, yesterday I decided to update my old cms Wordpress 2.3, and install the new Wordpress 2.5. I personally like the way that Wordpress is laid out. The new release changes the entire look of the dashboard Wordpress administration area.

But the Wordpress 2.5 has been significantly enhanced with key advantages in the area of Widget-Based Dashboard, Tag Management, and Built-in avatar support. To summarize the key features of this platform, check out below:

Photo credit: Otsukare

New Admin Interface. The Wordpress interface is its greates asset and it is evident that a lot of time and care has been put into making it as accessible and intuitive. There are yes a lot of other buttons and functions.

  • Widget-Based Dashboard. You should be able to have any number of any widget
  • Built-in avatar support. The avatar support in 2.5 does not attempt to add avatars into your existing themes.
  • Tag Management. It works like Flickr tags where tags can be added via a list of comma separated tags or via a “type, click, add” mantra.
  • Plugin Auto-upgrade. The system will try to upgrade plugins that are already in the WordPress plugin repository by writing the new files out to the existing plugins.

How Does To Update To Wordpress 2.5

The upgrade from Wordpress 2.3 to 2.5 went smoothly for me. With these, tips suggested here, you can start immediately to update your wrdpress platform to the new version.

Wordpress Database Backup. I recommend you to make a backup of your blog or website. The best way to do it is to install a Wordpress plugin and not by using phpMyAdmin, I’m using Wordpress Database Backup 1.7. It’s very hard to use for no expert.

Download Wordpress 2.5. All you need to do is point your browser on “Wordpress.org” and download the latest copy of Wordpress 2.5. Once de-compressed the zip file and extracts the folder to your desktop. Note. First to make the following operations, check up that all your plugins are compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and disactive it.

Upload Folders And Files. Open the folder called “Wordpress”, there are some files and folders you must copy on your directory of your website where your blog is installed. Ok, make attention! Login to your website using FTP(I’m personally using Filezilla) and upload on your root directory the following folders and files.

  • Folders: Admin and includes.
  • Files: Index.php, xmlrpc.php, wp-trackback.php, etc.

From your root directory don’t touch the follow folder and files:

  • Folders: Wp-content (It contains your themes and plugins).
  • Files: Wp-config.php, .htaccess, robots.txt, sitemap, etc.

Check Up

Now point your browser to “www.my-site-url.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php”. For example, if your site is www.mysite.com, than digits “www.mysite.com/wp-admin/upgrade” and automatically access to the wordpress upgrade page. Once upgraded you can re-activate the plugins. Below, is a short list of plug-ins that I presonalmente tested and that they work:

  • All in One SEO Pack. Out-of-the-box SEO for your Wordpress blog.
  • Auto Social.. Automatic post tagging with delicio.us and the like.
  • Blog Metrics Provides blog metrics based on the blog metrics Avinash Kaushik proposed in this post.
  • Comment Relish. Increases your readership and RSS subscription rate by simply sending a short ‘thank you’ relishing type message to users when they first comment on your weblog.
  • Crawl Rate Tracker. This is a plugin to log every visit by search engine robots, and show the results in different reports.
  • Defensio Anti-Spam. Defensio is an advanced spam filtering web service that learns and adapts to your behaviors and those of your readers. To use this plugin, you need to obtain a free API Key. Tell the world how many spam Defensio caught! Just put in your template.
  • EmbedIt. A simple plugin that allows you to embed any HTML code (Youtube, UStream or whatever) in a post.
  • FeedBurner FeedSmith. Originally authored by Steve Smith, this plugin detects all ways to access your original WordPress feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner feed so you can track every possible subscriber.
  • reCAPTCHA. Integrates a reCAPTCHA with wordpress.
  • Twitter Tools. A complete integration between your WordPress blog and Twitter. Bring your tweets into your blog and pass your blog posts to Twitter.
     

 

 

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12 Adsense Wordpress Plugins

Hey Nick, I wanted to tell my favorite Wordpress plugin for Adsese is Adsense-deluxe. Adsense is one of the better ways to monetize your blog. But many bloggers have difficulties to integrate ads banners on their blog. Here are my top 12recommended plugins, in no particular order. With these plugins, users have a great amount of control on how advertisements must be positioned.

Shylock-adsense-plugin. Shylock Adsense is a WordPress plugin that allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. More then that, you can set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then X days (x is the number of days you decide).

Adsense-attachment. This is plugin for WordPress from 2.0 to 2.1 version. It will show your attachments (best for Images) in new page rounded with ads. This great way to earn some money and show large images in new window. This plugin show attachments with thumbnail image, and when you click on it will show image in full size. You can setup plugin not to show image in full size if you want.

Adsense-widget. This is a Google AdSense widget I designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in. The Color, size and h2 title of your AdSense widget are all fully customizable from within the WordPress Presentations tab. No joke!

Adsense Injection. Adsense Injection plugin just takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code.

Adsense-deluxe. AdSense-Deluxe is a WordPress plugin offering advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts.

AdMan. There are two ad-codes to enter here. The first will appear right before your post content. For the second, AdMan will make sure that this ad code will appear in the middle of your posts, without disturbing your post layout.

Adsense-manager. AdSense Manager is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.

Author-adsense-plugin. This plugin has been made redundant by my Author Advertising Plugin which is very similar to this only it’s not Google Adsense specific.

Google-ad-wrap. Section Targeting is a way of embedding special tags inside HTML to give Google’s omnipresent spider a better idea of what’s important on your page. This is a really simple plugin that wraps posts and comments inside these tags, in the hope that they’ll lead to better search rankings.

Mightyadsense. It will allow you to host the code in wordpress without having to modify the templates. Google ads is displayed in post item and you can specify how many block its going to show up in a page. Ads preview tool included in control panel.

Adsense-beautifier. Is a plugin available for Wordpress to make your Adsense look beautiful in order to increase you Adsense earnings. Images adjacent to ads can help increase click through rate (CTR).

Wordpress-Blog-Posts. another plugin that makes inserting AdSense into your blog posts really easy.

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Wordpress Plugin: A New Way To Automatically Update Your Twitter Account

Do you have a twitter account? Yes? Well, wheter you haven’t noticed this already, a new Wordpress plugin, allows anyone to promote their blog every time their post a new article on blog.

It can be explained better: When you publish a new post on you blog, this plugin will login to your Twitter account and you receive a message in this format: “New Blog Post: Title of th Post comes here”.

Key Features

  • Twitter Tools integrates with Twitter by giving you the following functionality:
  • Archive your Twitter tweets (downloaded every 15 minutes)
  • Create a blog post from each of your tweets
  • Create a daily digest post of your tweets
  • Create a tweet on Twitter whenever you post in your blog, with a link to the blog post
  • Post a tweet from your sidebar
  • Post a tweet from the WP Admin screens
  • Pass your tweets along to another service (via API hook)

How Does To Start

1. To download the plugin for Wordpress, point your browser to http://alexking.org.

2. Put the ‘twitter-tools.php’ file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

3. Go to the Plugins page in your WordPress Administration area and click ‘Activate’ for Twitter Tools.

4. Go to the Twitter Tools Options page (Options > Twitter Tools) to set your Twitter account information and preferences.

Configuration

There are a number of configuration options for Twitter Tools. You can find these in Options > Twitter Tools.

Twitter Wordpress plugin allows you to save your time, by updating your Twitter page, without must add you any single post manually. The plugin is absolutely free, so if you want to try out this new Twitter Wordpress plugin what better opportunity than this?

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Embed HTML Code In Wordpress Without Problems

Many user always ask me how to resolve the same problem. How embed HTML code in Wordpress without problems. It was happened also to me when I tried for more than twice(Unnecessarily) to add a you tube video on my blog. And you?

Fortunately a great third-part solution allow you to help to resolve this issue by extending the capabilities of Wordpress. Embedit is one of the most useful plugins made for Wordpress because allows to publishers to put all pieces of embeddable code, (widget, javascript, adsense) inside their blog post, by allowing to overcome any number of obstacles about this problem.

Has been developed by Matteo Lonescu and to give you an idea of how it work you can check out the following short video below.

This truly simple plugin resolves what for many has been a frustrating problem for any type of “embeddable” objects to add to any post. I’m sure, is happened to many of you to add an youtube embed code to your blog post and once edited the post, discover that the code there was no more.

Instead, EmbedIt allows you to embed any html code in a post, by deciding precisely where you want to put it, allowing you freedom of coding your html without being annoyed by the wysiwyg editor.

How To Use It

I immediately realized just how simple it was to use when I installed it. Once installed, go on Your Wordpress control panel (manage/post/code) place your cursor where you want your video to appear and just type es. HTML3. You can also add more codes at the same page HTML3, HTML4, HTML5, etc.

On the same page on custom field option, add the key HTML1,2,3, etc and paste the embed code into the value field. Follow like the image below.

Key Features:

  • embed Youtube videos into wordpress
  • embed ustream into wordpress
  • embed a custom Google Map into wordpress
  • embed whatever html code into wordpress
  • embed specific Adsense code into wordpress posts deciding WHERE it should go inside an article

In this video, Matteo Ionescu, shows to you how to install and use that plugin.

Conclusion

To download Embedit Wordpress plugin, poin your web browser to “http://www.matteoionescu.com/wordpress/embed-html/“. The application is free.

I think, this plugin is unique because give an hand at all publisher that want embed on their blog post, video, script, adsense etc in a way easy and fast.

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Scheduled Backup Plugin - A Pratical Application To save Your Data

How much time you really have in a day? I hope for you. One thing I’ve learned in my work as bloggers is to save a little time to making a copy of every data I’ve archived. This data can be simply your work, your own PC files, your own blog’s database, etc. These additional copies are typically called “backups.”

You need to “backup” these data regularity. This is just for your own protection, folks. Ever wonder what may happen to websites when they comes hit by an hacker? You can risk to lose all your data.

An instance for all, recently RIAA Website has been cleaned by “Hackers”. It started out on the social news website Reddit, where a link to a really slow SQL query was posted. While the Reddit users were trying to kill the RIAA server, someone allegedly decided to up the ante and wipe the site’s entire database.

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The recipes to keep your work protected from possible intrusion or crash, are various. Please take these as suggestions to keep your backup data always updated and far by unknown people.

  • Keep one or more copy of the backup. The second solution is adviced because can happen your CD is scratched or your hard disk crashed.
  • Keep more copies in different places. Many company have many websites placed on different server.

Is possible to make use of a vast range of web applications straight from the browser Windows to get a automated data backup of your own important documents. Fortunately, to simplify the process, a great many third-party solutions have developed some plug-in, allowing you to extend the capabilities of Wordpress, or to interact with it in new and interesting ways.

WP-DB-Backup is one of these. It allows you easily to backup your core WordPress database tables. This backup assistant is one of the most useful plugins made for Wordpress. This is the plugin that serves all my backup.

How Does To Install It

1: Copy the wp-db-backup.php file to /wp-content/plugins/

2: Activate the plugin at your blog’s Admin -> Plugins screen

3: The plugin will attempt to create a directory /wp-content/backup-*/ inside your WordPress directory.

4: You may need to make /wp-content writable (at least temporarily) for it to create this directory.

For example:
`$ cd /wordpress/`
`$ chgrp www-data wp-content` (where “`www-data`” is the group your FTP client uses)
`$ chmod g+w backup`

You can adjust plugin to make backup on any hours, but I think if you set it to make one or two posts a day daily backup will be sufficient.

Please note: For security reasons, WP-DB-Backup requires that you use WordPress version 2.0.3 or newer.

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Starting To Blogging With BecomeABlogger.com

I was browsing on one of my favorite website “entrepreneurs-journey.com“, when I noticed that affiliate guru Yaro Starak is experimenting a new project called “becomeABlogger.com“.

For anyone who doesn’t know Yaro, it’s a well respected internet “Guru” who is behind entrepreneurs-journey.com. When I’ve started think to open a Blog, I began with some things in mind. Buy a Domain, use Wordpress, etc. But not many people start this way becouse there are so many uncertainties on as to do.

BecomeABlogger, comes in the just moment for those who want to learn to starting with blogging. Many people write mini tutorials on how to get starting with a blog, but people who are good with words are poor with numbers.

The Yaro aim is that to give an important resource to bloggers, through a complete and professional collection of video clips, that allows to newcomers to open a personal blog in a short period of time.

The list of videos have had a long time to compile by Yaro. Below is a collection of the Yaro video divided in topics.

  • Why You Should Use WordPress
  • How To Get Your Own Domain Name
  • How To Get A Web Host
  • How To Install WordPress With One Click
  • How To Upload Files To Your Webhost Using FTP
  • Choosing A WordPress Theme For Your New Blog
  • How To Install And Use WordPress Plugins
  • How To Create Your First Blog Post And Blog Page
  • What RSS Is And Why You Need It
  • How To Use Feedburner For Supercharging Your RSS Capabilities

How Does Make Money

The best things for web publishers is that the service is totally free, which amazes me. Yaro has decide to doing all this from the kindness of his heart, and he only will benefit from the traffic the site gets.

I’m sure Yaro knows about the way to make money through the traffic site. Entrepreneurs-journey.com get thousand of subscribers a day and I think will no so hard for getting more page views also with BecomeABlogger.com.

Conclusion

In the end, I feel that BecomeABlogger.com has a lot of potential to become a prime internet destination for blogging entusiast. Yaro has made an excellent job on this site providing many resources to learn to starting with blogging. If you haven’t made, I think it’s a good time to join.

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Caroline ebook: How To Develop Money-Making Niche Sites With Wordpress

You know I am an expert in finding any thing in order to take your blog to an high level.
Normally, every bloggers has one or two blogs in his/her mind that’s want to build. I personally have the3dtechnologies.com and my new 76newsalways.com web2.0 service.

Open Source culture has played an integral role in the blogosphere, with success stories such as Wordpress. Wordpress is an open-source code software known in the blogosphere for her simplicity and functionality. It’s a good way to start to learn how build a own site and making money it.

Many bloggers have welcomed Wordpress with enthusiasm, but, as you say Wordpress can be intimidating for new folk. so Caroline she happy to take you on a brief tour on how use it.

Well, if you want to build a blog that is a success, than you need to consider to read the Caroline ebook titled: “How to develop Money-Making Niche sites with Wordpress“. Caroline started blogging about internet Marketing in August 2007 and has since built up a loyal following on her blog www.Caroline-middlebrook.com.

The ebook is 41 pages long, an useful step by step guide for the beginners who are migrating to wordpress. I haven’t finished, I throught I should list the seven book chapter.

  • Chapter1: Getting and installing Wordpress
  • Chapter 2: Basic Wordpress Administration
  • Chapter3: Installing a New theme
  • Chapter4: Setting up Adsense on your site
  • Chapter5:
  • Chapter6: Creating your site content
  • Chapter: Final throughts

Caroline e-book is a definitely an idea whose time has come. Especially for those who increasingly want to making money with Wordpress. Caroline did a great job on this ebook. There is enough content in this guide to encounter anyone.

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