Did you hear? Blogging is all the rage these days! (sarcasm) Seriously, as a major part of the “new media”, blogs provide an outlet for anyone who has an idea, point-of-view or quirky obsession to hold forth for all to hear, er, read. Thinking of starting a blog? Great, but remember, no one will read you if you don’t cultivate a solid online reputation. It’s as simple as that. No rep, no traffic.
Well respected, high-traffic blogs can make money for their creators as well as giving them a place to vent their spleens. But whether a prospective blogger is in it for the social value or to make a buck, there are some rules building a good online reputation. As the blog’s reputation builds, it can take on a life of its own, but the rules still apply, to wit: [click to continue...]
Got a blog? Looking for an easy way to make extra money from it? Then you should read this post.
Affiliate Marketing is one of the best methods that bloggers use to make money online. Just like any other bloggers who monetize their blogs, I use various affiliate marketing programs to optimize my blog revenue. I tried experimenting with several affiliate marketing programs and Thesis Affiliate Program proves to be one of the easiest and most effective. [click to continue...]
Finally, the long wait is over! Wordpress 2.7 has just been released. I’m just done upgrading TheWeblogZone and I have to say that the changes are impressive. I encourage you to update your Wordpress blog to experience the new features and options waiting for you.
Tour Wordpress 2.7 with this short video and get a grip of what’s in the latest update.
There are innumerable websites bustling on the internet that offer you with professional, flawless and impressive content for your blogs. These content providers are available for almost any type of blog. The growth in demand for ready made content is evidently due to the demanding tasks of bloggers to regularly update.
Blogging is not only about creating content. Bloggers also need to network with fellow bloggers, promote their blogs and optimize them for search engines, which are daunting tasks that consume so much time. While creating content for your blog is equally important as networking, promotion and search engine optimization, some bloggers choose to buy content for their blog instead of creating it themselves.
Getting the attention of Darren Rowse, Brian Clark or John Chow may lead to a lot of benefits. A simple link could result in a spike in traffic, which has the potential of boosting your blog earnings. For these reasons, I can’t blame other bloggers for worshipping them. What’s depressing, however, is to see some bloggers limiting their networks only to Probloggers. [click to continue...]
Three weeks after joining Blogging Idol, my feed subscriber has grown from 308 to 606. That’s an increase of 298 in as short as 3 weeks. For blogs like TheWeblogZone, which is only 7 months old, that’s a great feat.
In the past few days, I’ve been receiving questions from TheWeblogZone readers who are curious about how I managed to grow my feed subscriber in such a little time. Some are even skeptical to the point of asking whether I’m using blackhat strategies. Instead of replying to all their emails, I decided to make a post about it. So here it goes… [click to continue...]
Wordpress 2.6.5 has just been released. The latest version fixes a security issue with XSS and three more bugs related to the XSS issue. In case you haven’t noticed, Wordpress upgraded to 2.6.5 skipping 2.6.4 to avoid confusion of the fake Wordpress 2.6.4.
The security issue is an XSS exploit discovered by Jeremias Reith that fortunately only affects IP-based virtual servers running on Apache 2.x. If you are interested only in the security fix, copy wp-includes/feed.php and wp-includes/version.php from the 2.6.5 release package.
2.6.5 contains three other small fixes in addition to the XSS fix. The first prevents accidentally saving post meta information to a revision. The second prevents XML-RPC from fetching incorrect post types. The third adds some user ID sanitization during bulk delete requests.
Upgrading to the latest version of Wordpress is time consuming to the less techie blogger but with Automatic Wordpress Upgrade Plugin, you should the the job in less than one minute without the aid of ftp. It took me less than 1 minute to upgrade TheWeblogZone to the latest Wordpress version.
If you constantly read alot of blogs and you want an easy way to stay updated with all of them, RSS is the way to go. What is RSS and how can you use RSS feed? Here’s a short video that tells you everything you need to know about RSS. While you’re here, don’t forget to subscribe to my feed to receive blogging tips, SEO and online marketing strategies sent directly to your email.
Here are more posts on RSS if you like more information:
Blog flipping is the latest craze to hit the Blogosphere. Right now, it is still a fairly new trend; so new that not even Wikipedia has an entry for it yet. So, some of you may be unsure what blog flipping is.
Blog flipping works much like the real estate flipping market. A blog site is purchased, value is added, and then the site is sold at a higher price. Essentially, the premise is buying and selling “blog property.” Blog flipping generally takes three courses: [click to continue...]
