Don’t let WordPress intimidate you. WordPress 24-Hour Trainer is a unique lesson-based book that walks you through the essential parts of WordPress. Each lesson is streamlined to teach a specific aspect of WordPress, helping you to focus on just what you need in order to get the task accomplished. If you learn better visually, this [...]
To submit your blog to Google, simply go to the online submission form, shown below, and enter your blog’s main URL. It’s usually your blog’s home page, and you should include the http:// part of your blog’s URL (for example, http://www.myblogdomain.com). You can enter any additional information or keywords that you want to provide, but [...]
A blog post can be just a few sentences or many paragraphs. Some blog posts include an image and no text, whereas others might contain a complete tutorial or an online lesson teaching readers how to accomplish a task. Think about your audience (or at least the audience you want to have read your blog [...]
If you’re serious about search engine optimization and prepared to invest some money into keyword analysis, you can open an account with a keyword research Web site like Wordtracker. Simply go to the Wordtracker home page and click the Sign Up link (see below). Wordtracker offers a wide variety of tools and reports to help [...]
I have some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into Adsense. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past. Here are 5 proven ways on how best to improve your earnings. 1.Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for [...]
Blogging has truly revolutionized the way one experiences the digital age. There is, it seems, no limit to what one can do with the help of blogs. Even the smallest aspect of your daily personal life like recording journal entries has been given an entirely new dimension. Going on from there, there is a lot [...]
Creating a blog is nothing that you need to be afraid of. There is no elaborate planning required either. However, there are a few things you would need to decide. Since these blogging service providers give you a lot of choice in terms of template and color themes, would be require to take those decisions [...]
The Slashdot slogan says it all: “News for nerds and stuff that matters.” Slashdot (shown below) has a reputation for being an outstanding social bookmarking site for people looking to find and share content related to technology, science, or science fiction. Slashdot works slightly differently from other social bookmarking sites in that submissions are reviewed [...]
Diigo (see below) is a unique social bookmarking site because it lets users save, for later access, a copy of any page online as it appears at that moment. Each member can store as much as 5 gigabytes of data. Users can also search and share saved pages with each other. Share and Enjoy:
Reddit (shown in the figure below) is a popular social bookmarking site known for its “no frills” appearance. To use Reddit, you create a free account and begin submitting content by clicking the Submit button on the Reddit site. As users vote content up and down, the most popular content makes it to the home [...]
Members of Orkut, a social networking site owned by Google, can communicate, connect, and share information, pictures, and videos. Although Orkut isn’t one of the most popular social networking sites, it has a strong Brazilian user base. You can sign in to Orkut by using the Google Account information you set up when you created [...]
The BlogHer social networking site is unique in that its intended audience is women bloggers. BlogHer (shown below) offers a directory of female bloggers, advertising, forums, and conferences. Additionally, members can create their own blogs on BlogHer to share thoughts, ideas, and news so female bloggers can communicate, network, and grow. Share and Enjoy:
The popular Friendster site is very similar to other popular social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. Friendster (shown below), which is open to anyone over the age of 16, invites its more than 75 million members from around the world to connect, share information, and communicate in a common space. The site offers [...]
Link popularity is the number of relevant quality inbound links pointing to your website. Most major search engines use link popularity as part of their algorithm which helps to determine the relevance of your website. If you don’t have inbound links, you won’t rank well for competitive keywords. Ways to build link popularity Link exchange [...]
6. Keyword Proximity – some engines, such as Google, use the concept of “keyword proximity” as part of their ranking formulas. As suggested by the name, “keyword proximity” means the how close keywords are to each other. Put your keywords as close together as possible and make sure your sentences are clear. Here’s an example: [...]
1. Title Tag The title tag is one of the most important factors in achieving high rankings. A title tag is essentially an HTML code that creates the words that appear in the top bar of your Web browser. Usually, the Title Tag is the first element in the <Head> area of your site, followed [...]
