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Are ‘How to blog?’ ebooks really worth it?

Raman — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:09:29 +0000

Now this is a recent trend seen, may established bloggers are now writing ebooks on ‘How to blog?’ and sell them at high cost.Whenever you visit their blog you may see this banner, asking you to buy their book and earn more from your blogs. You may also seen their banner on other sites which get share for every sale.

I once bought such ‘How to blog?’ ebook and checked out what it really contains. Though I will not disclose here, who was the author of that book.

It was having total 34 pages. The book started with the introduction about author. Then it explained what is blogging, what are different blogging platforms etc. etc…. But it was no different from what I’ve read so many times over internet.

Next was importance of good content and how to write good content. Again nothing new,you may get same tips on the authors own blog, about how to write good content.

Next was traffic. Here also I got disappointed because the methods listed were outdated and I myself know more methods on how to get more traffic. After that keyword research, PPC campaigning etc.

After reading that ‘How to blog?’ ebook I think that why shall anybody spend money on such thing when you can get more usful and practical information by reading blogs and doing some reasearch yourself. May be other such ebooks are not like this one or some ebooks may be really helpful. But I myself will neiteher buy any such ebook in future nor will attemt to write one .

Final advice - try to read as many reviews as possible about the book before buying it. But again many of these review writers may be getting share from sale of that book, so try to find it out in some forums like Digital Point etc.

If you think that I am wrong at any part of my post and want to correct me you are always welcome.

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5 Amazing Premium Wordpress Themes for FREE.

Raman — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:42:25 +0000

The design and look of your blog plays a very important role in building some loyal readers and also getting Advertisers for youe blog. Many Advertisers are interested in advertising on blogs having Professional design.

There are many free wordpress themes available but most of them are not professionally designed. Premium themes can satisfy all your blog designing needs in terms of quality. But most of the Premium Themes are Paid themes i.e. you cannot use them unless you shed some money.

But here are some Premium Themes which can be used for free.

The Morning After

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IndoMagz

Forte

Mimbo Magazine

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If you like these themes, don’t forget to leave a comment.

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Adsense Revenue Sharing Plugin for Wordpress.

Raman — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 07:32:52 +0000

You may have seen lots of forums having Adsense Revenue sharing feature, i.e. they share their Adsense revenue with active users by displaying the user’s Adsense ads on posts and threads created by user.

Now similar features are available for Wordpress as a plugin named - Author Advertising Plugin.

With this plugin you can share your Adsense revenue with your blog authors by displaying their Adsense ads on posts made by them.

By sharing your Adsense revenue you do not violate any Google Adsense terms.So there is no reason to be afraid that Adsense may terminate your account.

This plugin can also be used with other advertising programmes like Yahoo, Amazon, Allposters etc. or you can also use it as a banner manager, author photo/website widgets etc.

Compatibility -

This plugin is compatible with Wordpress 2.5 and higher versions.

Advantages of this Plugin -

Encourage your blog authors to write regular and quality content.
Get more visitors to your blog.
Get more loyal readers for your blog because of quality posts with regular updates.
Ultimately getting more revenue from your blog.

This plugin will be really helpful for those who cannot update their blog regularly.

Download this Plugin from here - Author Advertising Plugin.

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How to increase traffic to your new blog?

Raman — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:14:20 +0000

Now this a very common and important question before most of the bloggers after they start blogging.These days its really difficult to increase traffic to your blog because of increase in competition.

Some common things that everybody including myself will suggest are -

Unique and quality content.
Building backlinks for your blog.
Submitting blog to various search engines.
Advertising.

All the above options except the last one are free, but they will get you visitors in long term , i.e. they will not bring visitors to your blogs instantly. If you have some good budget you can try various ad networks to get quality visitors for your blog, though I’ll suggest Google Adwords.

You can also use traffic exchange or auto-surf methods to increase traffic to your blog.

One such site is BlogExplosion. Here you surf the members blogs for which you get credits which can be used to get traffic for your blog. But one controversy that surrounds BlogExplosion is it’s compatibility with Google Adsense. Adsense considers traffic referred from blogexplosion as invalid and may send you warnings or permanently terminate your account. So if you are using Google Adsense to monetize your blog I would suggest you to stay away from BlogExplosion.

Other such site is Entrecard. Here also you get credits for visiting other members sites which can be used to advertise on other members site. I don’t know whether Adsense accepts such traffic from Entrecard or not.

There may be other methods, which I may have missed, to increase traffic to your blog.

In the end I will suggest you Unique content and Link building as these will really help you in getting good traffic to your blog in long term.

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Successfully added Arne Brachold’s Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

Raman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:29:09 +0000

Actually I tried this plugin earlier for one of my blogs. Though it was installed successfully,I was not able to build sitemaps with it. I don’t know what was the problem that time. Whenever I click on build sitemap link I use to get some fatal errors. I checked whats worng, but everything was ok,also I changed the permissions of files - ’sitemap.xml’ and ’sitemap.xml.gz’ successfully but still no use. But now on this blog everything is fine.

What does this plugin do ?

This plugin creates the sitemap for your blog and submits it to major search engines - Google,Yahoo,MSN and ASK .This way helps getting more pages from your blog to get indexed in these search engines, thus more chances of getting traffic through these search engines.

Does this plugin improves your Search Engine Ranking ?

I don’t think it can help you get higher ranks in search engine results page.I only indexes more pages from your blog.

Where to get it ?

You can get this plugin from Wordpress here.

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Shifted this blog to Bluehost.

Raman — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 09:49:54 +0000

I was previously hosting this blog on a small webhost - 2gbhosting,because it was cheap. But I decided to move this blog and my other sites to Bluehost as soon as my hosting plan at 2gbhosting is completed which was due in May’09.

But have to move it a lot earlier.The main reason being my forum - webmasters-forum.org .I recently purchased the license for vbseo script for my forum which cost me $149. But after installing it on my forum,there were some redirecting errors. I contacted my webhost about this,they said their do not support url redirection. I had no option other than to change my host.

I chose Bluehost for hosting both this blog and my forum. Though it have many features, the main reason I chose it was - host multiple domains on one hosting plan.This feature was in addition to unlimited diskspace( it’s 1500 GB) and also unmetered bandwidth (it’s also 1500 GB). I also did some research about Bluehost - its support,its uptime, etc. And found that everything is fine with Bluehost.

But one thing I didnt like Bluehost while purchasing a hosting plan, that they have raised their prices. I checked a few days earlier(15 days), it was $7.95/month for one year and $6.95/month for 2 years. But now they have made it - $8.95/mo. for 1year , $7.95/mo. for 2 years and $6.95/mo. for 3 years. But I still found it reasonable as compared to its competitors.

Now as I have shifted to another host with Apache mod_rewrite enabled server, I got rid of 404 permalink error , and from now I’ll make regular posts.

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At last permalink 404 error problem solved……..

Raman — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:14:04 +0000

In my last post I mentioned that after upgrading to Wordpress 2.6 I got this permalink problem.

I did some research and found that you need to have Apache server with rewrite_mod enabled for the permalink structure to work. I enquired my host about the server type - which was IIS which was not supporting the rewrite function. That was the main reason for permalink 404 error in my case.

Now I changed my host (to Apache server) and also upgraded to Wordpress 2.6.1 version, and now my premalinks are working fine now.

Don’t know whether it’s because of changing host or upgrade to higher version,but I got rid of this permalink 404 error at last.

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Still no solution for permalink 404 error on Wordpress 2.6 version

Raman — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:37:45 +0000

When I thought of creating this blog and using wordpress as a Blogging Platform, the latest version of Wordpress i.e. 2.6 was out.I had used 2.5version of Wordpress earlier on my previous blog and was more than happy with that.So I had same expectations with this version also.

After installing it and and writing my first post,I thought of changing my permalink structure to make it Search-Engine Friendly.

But after saving the custom permalink structure - /%postname%/ ,I got “404 Page Not Found” error.Then I tried every option available there,but none were of help.When I kept it back to default i.e. “/?p=123", my blog was ok,no 404 errors.

I searched the wordpress.org forums for this and found this - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/189058 . I tried the suggestions mentioned here,but still same error.

I also Googled it but there also no help.

I guess the programmers/bug fixers of the Wordpress are either sleeping or are on long leave,as they have not fixed this bug yet which has been reported since such long period.

Still I am looking for the fix,donno whether I am going to fix it or not.

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Various ways of making money online on Internet.

Raman — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:43:18 +0000

Now-a-days there have been a great increase in people looking internet as their source of income.There are guys who have left their jobs and took blogging as their profession making a good livelihood from internet.

But there have been a lots of Make Online Money scams like earn by clicking ads,reading emails,receiving sms on your mobile etc. I haven’t found any guy paid for this.(If you have,plz tell me wid proof and I’ll update this post.)

Here I would like to tell you the various “genuine” and “legal” methods of making money over the internet.

1.Blogging-

This is the most popular method of making money over internet.You can start with some free blogging platforms like Blogger,Wordpress etc.(Get complete list of free blogging platforms here.)

If you want you can host your blog on your server using Wordpress.

Various ways of earning from your blog -

Showing contextual ads like Google Adsense.
Showing CPM ads.
Selling text-links on your blog.(your blog sholud have PR3 or above for this.)
Posting reviews about different sites or products.
By Affiliate Marketing.

Though it requires a lot of hard work and patience ,but it pays after some time.Average bloggers make $10 per day easily,and for professional bloggers,there’s no limit.They can earn 5-figure or even 6-figure amount per month.

Some Inspiring examples-

John Chow - http://www.johnchow.com/
Jeremy Schoemaker - http://www.shoemoney.com
Darren Rowse - http://www.problogger.net/

2.Writing Articles -

If you are good at writing and have good knowledge of English then you can try this.There is a huge demand for the content writers these days.

You can write articles for blog, make posts for forums, write content for websites.

But you should write on niche of which you have good knowledge.Because of great competition quality of your articles matters a lot.

If you are good at your work you can easily get $10 per 300 words article.Some experienced quality writers charge above $100 per 300 words post.

3.Buying and Selling Domains -

This is becoming a lot popular these days.

What you have to do is buy any domain related to some keywords like make money,blog etc. for just $6 per yr. do some seo (comment spam) to get some backlinks for this domain and after its 1 yr old sell it anywhere between $20 - $2000 even more depending on the backlinks your domain have and keywords it have.

4.Providing SEO services -

If you have some knowledge of SEO which stands for Search Engine Optimization,you can make good money with your skills.

What you have to do is get some clients and post their site’s URL to various directories.Also you can do comment spam to get the backlinks to that URL.

Your ultimate aim is to get as many backlinks s possible to your clents url.

Usually these SEO experts charge like $25 for 1000 directory submissions.

5.Reseller Hosting -

If you have some good amount to invest then you can try this.

What you have to do is buy some reseller hosting plan and start selling smaller hosting packages.

Cheap reseller hosting plan may cost you upto $90 per year and you can make $240 per year from selling one account for standard rate of $20/mo.

But this requires some manpower also,as it’s not easy to handle it alone.I also don’t have much knowledge about it,hence I’ll not talk much.

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So here I start with posting.

Raman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:49:06 +0000

Hi everybody,it’s Raman here.

I am part-time blogger.(and a full-time medical student).Well I started blogging one year back with Google’s Blogger.After making some good money from my Blogger blogs I thought hosting my blog on my own domain.

Thogh Blogger provides you the option of having your own domain I preferred host it on private server rather and installed a Wordpress Blog.

It’s for the first time that I am hosting a wordpress blog and was quiet worried about it installation procedure.But everything happened smoothly.After uploading the wordpress to my server the later process took less than 3 minutes and my blog was ready.

The Webmaster’s Blog is my effort to share the experiences that I had while blogging and website monetization and seo and so on…… with you guys and also learn about your experiences.I know how difficult it’s for a new webmaster to start earning from your blog/site.So here I want to help them to earn better from internet in general and websites in particular.

Tha’s it with my first post.

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