Archive for April, 2008
There seems to be a huge craze lately with everyone trying to blog and ping to get their websites indexed into the search engines. Although this can be a great tool, all marketers should first understand exactly what they’re getting themselves into before starting.This article is to serve as a beginners guide to getting started with blogging and pinging.
strong>1. What Is A Blog?
A “blog” is short for “web log.” A web log is an online diary or journal. The main aspect blog is that it is frequently updated – at least once a week, sometimes every day or even more. Since blogs are regularly updated, they te
Apr, 18 2008 The Basics Of Customizing WordPress Templates
Do you want to change the look of your WordPress site or maybe to put something like a banner or adsense code on your blog? In order to do this you need to know about three important things: template files, functions and CSS.
Template Files
These files are stored in a directory (wp-content/themes/template-name/). So if you are using “default theme”, you need to access the files that are stored in “wp-content/themes/default/” directory.
There are several common WordPress template files you should know:
1.header.php
This file is responsible for the appearance of the top section of your blog. If you want to
Apr, 15 2008 How to Evaluate and Promote Affiliate Marketing
What is affiliate marketing about and how can you best get involved? Here it is for you…
Which Affiliate Networks To Look Out For When Promoting
You’ve probably heard the many horror stories about affiliate programs and networks. They are so common that many people have become wary of joining one. Most of these stories are those related to illegal programs or pyramid schemes. Basically, this kind of marketing is illegal because it does not sell a real, bona fide and valuable product. Indeed, you should stay away from these schemes. Obviously, you want to be affiliated with a program that has a high-quality product you can reall
Apr, 08 2008 Optimizing WordPress blogs
When using WordPress Blogs, you need to use the proper elements. Headings are always at the top. Paragraphs need to have the right structure. Make sure your lists are actual List and not some gibberish. The theme should be constructed properly, if you use Images make sure there is text to back it up. Keep your content up to date and good, great of course would be better. Let you creativity flow. Use the permalink structure.
When setting up each of these you need to keep the following content and styles in the forefront of your mind. For Page titles, it should mean and say exactly what the content on the page is. Alt tags are where yo
Apr, 04 2008 How to add Keywords in WordPress Blog
I am a website designer and also a site promoter, due to my line of work, I often get asked by my clients who started to adopt blogging on how to optimize their blog page.
They look behind the admin pages and realize that there are many PHP files within a single blog theme. Most of them are familiar with HTML coding but not PHP so, when they look around the files, they don’t really know where to add their keywords. They usually search around and look for the “meta keywords†tag but can’t seem to find them.
Unfortunately, meta tags are not something that WordPress installs just because they are too many parameters t
Apr, 01 2008 5 Ways To Improve Your Adsense Earnings
The ones who have been there and done it have quite some useful tips to help those who would want to venture into this field. Some of these tips have boosted quite a lot of earnings in the past and is continuously doing so.
Here are some 5 proven ways on how best to improve your Adsense earnings.
1. Concentrating on one format of Adsense ad. The one format that worked well for the majority is the Large Rectangle (336X280). This same format has the tendency to result in higher CTR, or the click-through rates. Why choose this format out of the many you can use? Basically because the ads will look like normal web links, and people, being use
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