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Bloggers for Hire
2007-09-01 22:03:00 I found a blog that discusses the issues around people who want blogging jobs. They are even going to hold a blog business summit on September 17 through 19th this year. If you are interested in blogging for a living, visit the bloggers for hire blog here. More About: Hire , Bloggers
Backing Up Wordpress without using MySQL & PHPmyadmin
2007-08-31 20:51:00 When I originally created an article on Dollars Blog about moving wordpress blogs a while back, it was about using PHPmyadmin and MySQL. While you still need to know how to create databases and install things when moving hosts, the need for using MySQL is now less with wordpress. Moving wordpress data around ... More About: Wordpress , Webmaster , Blogging , Mysql , Backing
Blog Babysitter
2007-08-30 20:56:00 Can you believe it, there are now babysitters for blogs! How it works is you hire someone to do guest blogging while your on vacation. You can leave reviews through the site, so it works similiar to how scriptlance is for hired web programmers. To be honest, I’m thinking it’s probably ... More About: Webmaster , Blogging , Blog , Sitter
Shareware Software Affiliate
2007-08-29 22:55:00 If you have a computer product related type site, then a shareware software affiliate network is perfect for maximizing conversions(and hence profits). If you have a website dealing with computers information in general, you also might want to give Share It a try to see how it performs. Visit Share it More About: Software , Webmaster , Advertising , Affiliate , Blogging
Flexible Upload Wordpress Plugin
2007-08-28 21:19:00 If you want to run photos on your blog you may want to try the Flexible Upload plugin for wordpress blogs. It is only for versions 2.0 and above. It has a lot of features available including thumbnails, resizing, picture alignment, and more. This plugin is only if you are using ... More About: Wordpress , Webmaster , Blogging , Plugin
What Is Twitter?
2007-08-28 06:59:00 I seen a few prominent bloggers mention Twitter , mostly with good reviews. Personally the idea I think just is rather lame. Now I do some social networking on some of my sites, but twitter is where I draw the line. You can read more about how it works here. Definitely not a ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging
WP-Uploads Security Vulnerability
2007-08-27 02:23:00 I was going to use a WP-Uploads option for uploading pictures. This allows you to have a much easier time uploading pictures and linking to it on your blog posts. What I discovered was that you have to change the file permissions to 777 of the content folder, in order for wordpress to ... More About: Wordpress , Security , Webmaster , Blogging , Vulnerability
Import Export on Wordpress
2007-08-25 20:49:00 A couple days ago I talked about how the database backup plugin is no longer available for wordpress versions 2.1 and higher. Well I did some more research today and realized it has been changed to a new backup feature called import export. The import and export features are under the manage category ... More About: Wordpress , Webmaster , Blogging , Export , Import
BloggerWave
2007-08-24 22:43:00 Here is another “sponsored posts” advertising network. The minimum payout is at least $1 and there is no maximum. Payout will depend on the advertiser. You can add up to 5 blogs, but more can be added if your blogs are high quality. There is 3 types of paid ... More About: Webmaster , Advertising , Blogging , Wave
Wordpress Stats Plugins
2007-08-23 20:48:00 I found a group of plugins that are great for wordpress plugins. These only work for Wordpress versions 2.1 and above. The first one is WP Useronline 2.11 plugin. It will display inside your dashboard, the number of registered members, guests, and robots that are currently on your blog in the last 5 ... More About: Webmaster , Blogging , Plugins , Stats
Wordpress Database Plugin
2007-08-23 00:51:00 The older versions used to have a database plugin(like 2.05), but I noticed on new versions of Wordpress (2.1) it is no longer available with the package. I found a database plugin called WP-DB Manger 2.11 for wordpress versions 2.1 and above. With this plugin you can manage your Wordpress database conveniently. It allows you to ... More About: Plugin , Database , Base
How to use Referrals 2.0 Effectively
2007-08-21 21:15:00 Google came out with Adsense Referrals 2.0 3 months ago, yet many webmasters still don’t know much about it. Referrals 2.0 is CPA (Cost Per action) ads instead of PPC ads. CPA means that you get paid a fixed amount of money based on some kind of action the advertiser requires. ... More About: Google , Webmaster , Advertising , Affiliate , Blogging
Made for Adsense Blocker
2007-08-21 01:45:00 If you are a serious webmaster, who has Google adsense on your site, then eliminating made for adsense ads on your website is very critical. What are made for adsense websites? These are websites that advertise in Google Adsense . Their purpose is only to get you to click on their ads. The ads they want ... More About: Webmaster , Blogging , Made
Digg Clones
2007-08-20 01:34:00 With the success of the social networking site Digg , many websites out there are trying to be similiar to Digg. Yesterday I mentioned the Digg clone bumpzee.com. A couple others not well known are Plugim and Sphinn. Most social networking plugins for wordpress won’t include these newer less known sites, so you will ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging
Bumpzee
2007-08-18 23:23:00 If you are familiar with the social networking site Digg, then you will realize that Bumpzee is a Digg clone. Even the bumpzee button looks similiar to the Digg it button. Bumpzee is not as well known as Digg, so most wordpress plugins do not include it in the social networking icon bundle. You may not ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging
ProStores
2007-08-17 23:47:00 A lot of webmasters have thought of opening up their own professional online store. Complexity and cost keeps them from ever actually going through with it. E-bay now has a new company called ProStores, which lowers the bar for internet entrepreneurs. What is ProStores? With Prost ores you pay a small monthly fee and can ... More About: Webmaster , Blogging
MSN Adcenter
2007-08-16 23:08:00 MSN Adcenter is the PPC advertising network for their Live search engine and has been operating since 2005. It works similiar to Google Adwords and Yahoo’s Search Marketing. Earlier in 07 MSN added a lot of new features, so if you checked it out a couple years ago, you may want to rethink ... More About: Webmaster , Advertising , Blogging
Online Feed Bookmarking
2007-08-15 21:36:00 You may have noticed my feedburner link on my sidebar to the left. You may or may not have a RSS news aggregator to read feeds. Some don’t want to subscribe by email because they think it may be used for spam(it can’t because I use feedburner which is 3rd party site) or they ... More About: Online , Atom , Feed , Bookmarking
What is Reddit?
2007-08-14 20:05:00 Reddit is another social bookmarking site, similiar to Digg in structure, that allows webmasters to promote their site. How Reddit works: If you see a webpage you like, you bookmark it or submit it for others to see. The Reddit site has a search engine that allows you to find popular submitted links. People ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging , Reddit
What is Delicious?
2007-08-13 20:50:00 Delicious is a social bookmarking site, which ultimately helps promotes your website. How Delicious works: After registering for an account, when you see a website you like, you can bookmark it online at Delicious. As you bookmark it you give it a title and tags. The tags are ways to categorize your bookmarks. ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging , Delicious
Why Do People Pay for Traffic?
2007-08-12 20:22:00 I’m sure you have heard the saying “there is no such thing as a free lunch”. I think this mindset, has made people think that the only way they can promote a website, is if they spend lots money. However, there is literally hundreds of methods you can do that don’t cost anything. ... More About: People , Webmaster , Advertising , Promotion , Traffic
Netscape for Social Networking
2007-08-12 20:18:00 Most people think of Netscape as a antiquated browser. Netscape’s website is actually a online social bookmarking community, that could be used to help promote your site. It works very similiar to Digg, in that you submit stories and they can get bumped up by your peers to get more visible. Netscape I ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Networking
What is Digg?
2007-08-11 21:03:00 Digg is a powerful online social networking community to promote your site. How does Digg Work? Someone will submit a specific url to digg. Once this is done it has been dugg. Other users can then digg it(positive vote) or bury it(negative). A new submission will stay on digg in the submitted category ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging , Digg
Technorati Wordpress Plugins
2007-08-11 20:54:00 Technorati is a blog (and anything else with a feed) search engine. It also allows you to bookmark sites online and find out how many other blogs are linking to you. You can search blogs by “tags” or keywords. Technorati plugins will allow you with ease, to insert tags at the ... More About: Wordpress , Web Design , Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion
Website Competitiveness
2007-08-10 20:17:00 In some of my past articles, I have talked about most popular keywords, writing content, SEO optimization, social networking, all ways to get your site on your way to the top in a methodical fashion. Unfortunately, you will find certain website industries are usually non-starters, or tough to get to high traffic sites. SEO Challenged: The ... More About: Website , Webmaster , Promotion , Blogging , Competitive
BlogPolls
2007-08-10 19:36:00 I found a good site called BlogPolls, that requires no installation into the database of a poll in your blog. This is great for people who are on free blog host sites who don’t have databases. Just cut n paste a block of HTML and you have a poll on your site. ... More About: Web Design , Webmaster , Blogging
What is SMO(Social Media Optimization)?
2007-08-09 21:00:00 SMO stands for Social Media Optimization. The term was coined by Rohit Bhargava, for using social networking methods on the internet for promoting websites. Gone are the days of looking at website promotion just as a analytical linear method like SEO(Search engine optimization). Just like SEO is formal term for search engine optimization, ... More About: Social Networking , Webmaster , Promotion
Blog Post Rating Wordpress Plugin
2007-08-09 20:56:00 If you have a photo or product blog, then you may want to try out this plugin. It puts a 5 star rating system inside each blog post. Users don’t have to register, it rates at the click of a button. It tracks by unique I.P in the database, to help protect against ... More About: Wordpress , Web Design , Webmaster , Blogging , Post
Web Based RSS Feed Reader
2007-08-08 21:23:00 I noticed some bloggers had the blogline bookmark button on their blogs, so I decided to check it out. Bloglines is a free web based RSS feed reader. Unlike most other software feed readers, you don’t have to pay a one time or monthly fee. You also don’t need to download any ... More About: Webmaster , Blogging , Reader , Feed , Base
Email Feed Subscriptions
More articles from this author:2007-08-08 19:39:00 Bloggers are now often just putting up a feedburner(or some other network) link to their feed for just the feed readers. In the process, they are neglecting people who still don’t understand or use feed readers. It wasn’t until I ran my blog a few months, before I even fully understood RSS feeds ... More About: Email , Webmaster , Blogging , Feed , Subs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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