How to Install a FavIcon on a WordPress Blog
Caroline Middlebrook of http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/ explains how to install a FavIcon onto a WordPress blog using a cool new plugin.
Duration : 0:2:39
Blogs Don’t Make Money!
There are millions of people online seeking ways to make more money and are buying into the “Get rich quick,” or “Make a quick buck,” online scams. This is an epidemic. I see way too many blogs and products offering “Overnight success,” online.
Most of us know by now that there is no such thing unless you “Buy your income.” However, most people can’t afford to buy their incomes, especially in this economy. And even if you buy your income, you would still need money to do so.
Now there are many people who have been “Beaten badly” by the “Get rich quick online,” syndrome and are really ready to start a serious, long-term business online. Many have asked me about blogging. I want to let you know that blogs don’t make money, but businesses do. Businesses sell things. A blog is a platform for your business, or I should say, a tool that can help you make money when you sell things on it.
You can make good money with one blog. It requires lots of time and dedication. I personally own several blogs like my “Lip,” blog. I love blogging on different topics… topics that I can identify with.
I’ve been asked several questions about starting a home based baking business, writing article business, horse training, solar panel, etc. A blog would be a great tool to use to create long term success in any one of these businesses. You can blog about cats, organic food, bed wetting, dog training, weight loss, wigs, hair loss, cosmetics, dread locks, etc. The list goes on and on.
As long as you can write about your topic daily or even several times a week, and keep your audience engaged and coming back for more, then you’ve got a winner. You can monetize your blog in so many different ways and make money.
I don’t use all of my blogs to make money. Some blogs are just hobbies. Take Heather Armstrong for instance, her blog started off as a hobby blog and now it’s making her millions. You too can do the same. Children are doing it too.
I just installed a blog for my 10-year-old and we’re getting ready to get the ball rolling on his healthy kid recipes blog. Whether you want to make money, or use it as a hobby, anyone can do it. So if you’re ready, let me help you get started.
Following are some of the questions that I’m being asked on a weekly basis:
- How do I create a blog like yours?
- What WordPress theme are you using?
- Can you help me select a blog topic?
- How can I get traffic to my blog?
- Is there a step-by-step course that I can take on WordPress blogging?
- How to manage a blog
- How can I make money with a blog?
- How can I get started blogging for a living?
If you would love to install a blog and create a business online, but just don’t know where to start, I would love to hear from you.
Is there any questions that you have about starting a business online and using blogs as your platform for doing so?
If so, I would appreciate your feedback here. This would help me to help you and others who have the same questions, but are afraid to ask. I am getting ready to offer you a great blogging opportunity and need your feedback on the subject.
For your comments/feedback below, you will receive a free gift. Thanks.
Updated WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog
Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com.
Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration.
Become a blogger in less than and hour. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started.
Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy!
All of you have been asking me to update my step-by-step tutorial on how to use WordPress.com as a blogging platform — please check it out and please let me know what I have missed.
Duration : 0:51:4
Own Your Blog or Else! Easy WordPress Install
Watch this video tutorial and see how simple it is to get online with a blog today!
Create a blog using free software from wordpress.org and get tips on why, if you want to become a serious blogger, if you want to make money with your blog or, if you want to control your blog, then using free blogs such as blogger.com or wordpress.com is NOT an option … You must own your blog.
Here’s why …if you use hosted solutions such as blogger.com or wordpress.com, they can delete your site without your permission and there is nothing you can do about it. Also, using hosted sites to host your blog means that you have limited opportunities of monetizing your blog because some of them don’t allow you to make the most of advertising with say Google AdSense.
WordPress.com for example makes it very clear that it is against their terms of service to commercialize your WordPress.com hosted blog by hosting paid advertising and will result in your blog being deleted.
In fact, I’ve just been reading one forum where there is a reader called “Rainmaker” and he seems to have made it his job to report people who are commercializing their WordPress blogs and within no time, their sites have been deleted by WordPress. So don’t say you haven’t been warned.
What you need to do is go to WordPress.org and download their free software and then upload the software to the server where you have your own hosting account, using your own domain name. Alternatively, you can use the automated feature found in many control panel web hosts – fantastico.
So, whilst WordPress is the software I recommend for your blogs, you should not confuse this with their hosted solutions where you simply log into their control panel, create a user name and password and suddenly, you have a blog that in my view, you don’t own.
The software that you download from WordPress.org is quite simply powerful and, once I show you how, you’ll realize it’s also easy to use and in my opinion is unparalleled in the blog software world. WordPress is not only my software of choice it is used my many of the top Internet Marketers because it’s simple enough for the newbie to use, yet sophisticated enough for the pro blogger.
WordPress has a huge library of plugins that allows users to instantly add features, and functions to give it even more flexibility and, when you add up all these elements you end up with a program that is fully capable of creating highly attractive blogs that encourage people to visit the site and stay to read whatever is posted on it. If you ever wanted powerful blog software that was able to give you the opportunity of creating a more unique look and feel, WordPress is it.
To get Get Started With A WordPress Blog and assuming you’re going to go along with my recommendation of building a WordPress blog on your own hosting account, you’ll need a domain name which you can get from godaddy.com and a hosting account which you can get from hostgator.com.
Get online with a blog today!
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1 Ugly Secret To Getting Back Links To Your Blog
Many blogs like this blog offer “DoFollow” on comments. What this means is that you receive benefit from leaving a comment with a link back to your site in your name.
What really makes this special is that it will benefit your Search Engine Ranking Position (SERP). I don’t have a problem with this as long as the comments are genuine and it’s pretty much a way for me to say, “Thank you,” for visiting my blog.
On the other hand, when you place a sufficient number of comments on “NoFollow,” blogs in order to gain back links to your website or blog, you are pretty much wasting your time.
These links are ignored by the search engines. So make sure you post on “DoFollow,” blogs. However, don’t spam any blog whatsoever. Read the posts and be genuine in whatever you say in the comment box.
Now, posting comments on blogs just for gaining back links to your blog or website is so damn time-consuming that blog owners don’t want to do it. Some people actually or use software… what I consider, spam bots. Please don’t do this.
Now that’s not all. Here’s the ugly secret. To save the trouble of making hundreds of comments on various “DoFollow” blogs, and avoid getting caught in spam filters, there are companies that will make relevant comments on blog posts using your chosen anchor text.
They charge anywhere from $19 for 100 comments and even up to $199 for 1000 comments left on your behalf. Would I consider this BS? Maybe, maybe not. However, it’s not something I would do.
You know what, this can really become a problem for blog owners like me, because it makes the job of spotting spammy comments almost impossible. I do have the awful task of weeding through comments trying to decide whose comments are spam or not.
So let’s take this into consideration, would you consider this spam… comments that were not actually written by the stated author, but was paid for? Does the fact that the comments were paid for make it legitimate? What do you think?
How to Put Adsense on Your WordPress Blog
Video shows you two easy ways to put your Google Adsense code on your WordPress blog.
Duration : 0:8:11
WordPress.com – Step-by-Step Tutorial on How to Blog
Chris Abraham walks you through how to join the fastest-growing and most elegant free blogging services, WordPress.com. Go from the simple acts of joining all the way through set up and administration. Become a blogger in few than 45-minutes. Most folks only need the first 15 minutes to get you started. Chris is a professional blogging instructor. Enjoy!
Duration : 0:45:31
