posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 31

In these days, blogging become more and more popular. Internet is full of different weblogs today. Some bloggers use services like Blogger.com. Those who want to have their blogs more under control are looking for quality blog script. In this article I will introduce probably the best PHP script for blogging. I will explain how to install it and how to setup this script to work properly.

Web hosting requirements for WordPress

Before you start the installation process, ensure that your web host offers PHP support and MySQL database. PHP version must be at least 4.1 or higher and MySQL version must be 3.23.23 or higher. If you are not sure which version your web hosting provider currently use, contact their help desk and ask them first.

How to install WordPress

You can download WordPress script from developers website for free (under GNU General Public License). Save the *.zip file on your hard disk and use software like WinZip or Total Commander to unpack these files to temporary folder. First, rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php. Then open this file in your favorite text editor (Notepad will do). Edit next variables — the name of the MySQL database (create a new one using your web hosting control panel in case you had never created it before), your database username, password and MySQL database server (usually localhost). In the next step, upload all files to your web host. Point your browser to /wp-admin/install.php and follow the instructions on the screen. During the installation process the admin password will be generated. Note this password because you will need it in the next step.

Another and easier solution how to install this PHP script is to sign up for a quality web hosting service which offers pre-installed PHP scripts. Then easily go to your control panel, find the section with pre-installed scripts and select WordPress. The installer will do all the job for you. All you need to do is to choose the script you want to install.

How to setup WordPress

Now the script should be successfully installed. Point your browser to wp-login.php file in your WordPress folder and sign in with the username admin and the password generated during the installation. Your password can be changed from the Profile section at any time.

For many bloggers the look of their blogs is very important. From this reason WordPress offers the option to change the layout and I will show you how to do it. First look around the Internet and find some WordPress theme you will like. Try to type something like WordPress+theme to Google. You will find many websites with pretty nice WordPress themes. Then upload the layout files to wp-content/themes/your-new-layout-name folder. From the Presentation section select your new theme and activate it. Your blog has now a new look!

Ok, now is the right time to start blogging. You can easily start from the Write section of your Admin Panel. I wish you a lot of success and many satisfied readers!

About the Author

Bedrich is marketing manager of Marble Host, web hosting company which offers pre-installed scripts including WordPress. Please visit http://www.marblehost.com for more information.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 30

Blogs are assumed to be the best business resource for making money Internet publishing. Not only strictly speaking many people invade understood the concept of blogs and its benefits from business viewpoint. However, vertex people trying to make money on occasion blogs are doing it wrong. For this reason, a lot of jungle fail to realize the money making prospective of blogging and write it off as another Internet trend. This belief is far from the truth.

For earning money through Blogs it’s essential to understand the power of Member program and how an affiliate program can help us to generate revenue. Affiliate programs are one of the max* important factors in making money with blogs.

There are two ways expressly you can generate revenues in Class Program. Either you join an affiliate program or run say nothing own end program. You can sign up for an fragment program directly or you can join through an Affiliate Program Provider (APP). APPs are a third party provider i.e. collect payment and provide reporting for dividend providers and their affiliates. AAPs are completely free to join and once you motion up you can promote e-books and other products immediately.

E-books are a natural tie-in to the blogging. When you blog, you are providing information and by offering AAP products you allow your readers to get even more meeting on the same topic.

After you’ve picked the sense of the blog (hopefully a profitable topic!), look to AAP for ebooks expressly you can sell as an class. The AAPs’ site has many helpful statistics that can assist you in determining which products are the most profitable. There are products listed in nine different categories to allow you to narrow down your search. Specific product listed has a set of statistics underneath that give you information about the profitability of the product. There is a figure titled “[Earn %]” scilicet lets you know how much an affiliate will receive from each trading.

The”$/earned per mercantile” cues you into the average amount that affiliates earned per sale. Offbeat is the net amount and includes any refunds viz. the ebook provider may blister had to give out. The “% referred” reveals how many of the products were sold through affiliates. “Gravity” tells you how many affiliate come at sold the product in the last 60 days. The higher the number, the better. Although you’ll want to avoid products that are flooded in the market, it is important to pick something that is selling add to and selling consistently.

Using affiliate go with any AAP can be one of the fastest ways to make money through blogging. With a lollypop planning, you can tap into the money making power of blogs and be on your way to Internet riches.

About the Author

find information about make money online visit http://make-money-online-easy.blogspot.com

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 29

34 signs you may be a blogging addict and may need to seek help ASAP:

1. When nothing exciting happens to you for a long time, you force yourself to freewrite and see what spews out from it (like today).
2. You scratch yourself raw in your bed half the night thinking of a post to write.
3. You check for grammar, spelling errors one hundred and one times before, during and after posting a post. You throw a fit when you’ve missed a period #(@*$#@(!!!
4. You sign up for Stat Counter just so you can monitor your visitor’s every move - where they come from, how they got here, where they’re going next, how long they stayed, what they clicked on etc. You almost feel like you could join the FBI.
5. You can’t wipe that big Willy Wonka smile off your face every time someone posts a comment on your blog.
6. You jump up and down like you’ve just won a million bucks when comments seem to come on a roll.
7. You get a really stronge urge to hug and kiss anyone who posts a nice compliment on your blog.
8. You want to become friends with every single person who visits and comments on your blog.
9. You call your blog acquaintances ‘friends’ because you have few, if any, real-life friends.
10. You try to post a comment on everyone’s blogs at least once a day.
11. Your bookmarked blogs make up 99.9% of your internet bookmarks.
12. You cancel your Netflix subscription because you don’t have any free time for movies anymore. Besides, blogs seem more interesting than movies.
13. On days when you’re hanging out with your significant other, you sneak out every half hour to check for new comments, even when you know you’re not going to get any.
14. Before you discovered the feed reader (today), you visited everyone’s blogs at least three times a day.
15. You’ve stalked the blogs of the people on your ‘blog friends’ list and have abused the poor F5 button more than you should have.
16. You got frustrated and impatient when your favorite bloggers weren’t posting anything for more than two days. You almost felt compelled to write them a note begging them to write something, <em>anything</em>.
17. You don’t look forward to weekends as much because weekends are downtime for blogging. Everyone seems to have a weekend planned except you.
18. You don’t seem to understand that unlike you, people have a life.
19. You get so caught up with other people’s lives that you start caring more about their well-being than yours.
20. You find yourself sniffling and reaching for a tissue when you read a sad post.
21. You find yourself laughing like you’re the only one in the building when you read a funny post.
22. You put off going to the bathroom so you can blog longer, even if you <em>really </em>have to go. You let out stinky farts instead to buy yourself some time.
23. You eat breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner while reading blogs. Sometimes you forget to eat because you’re too busy reading blogs.
24. You click on everything everywhere you go in the blogosphere. Your click speed has become wicked and you take pride in it.
25. You have mastered the art of blog hopping and blog hogging.
26. When you finally get yourself a feed reader and somehow figure out how to use it, you stay on standby and abuse the r button until it becomes stuck and you realize you might have to get a new keyboard soon. Hitting at it harder won’t help, but that doesn’t seem to stop you.
27. Your list of feeds rivals the length of the Nile River.
28. When you’re feeling lonely and have read every blog you can think of that day, you run a blog google search for “lonely.”
29. When you’re bored, you run a blog google search for “poop” wondering how high your blog will rank.
30. When people ask you if you have any hobbies, without thinking you blurt out ‘Blogging!’ and then you stop there, suddenly realizing that you’ve got no other hobbies, so you quickly change the topic of the conversation.
31. You are ready to devote most of your waking life in front of that computer screen, Monday through Sunday, 365 days a year, including Christmas and Thanksgiving, in sickness and in health, till death do you part.
32. Blogging starts creeping up in your dreams more and more until it consumes you completely day and night.
33. You get carpal tunnel syndrome and migraine headaches from spending so much time at the computer, but you don’t care. Blogging is the Love of your life.
34. When something wild happens to you that you know might be worth blogging about, you get totally psyched and start writing your post in your head until you get near a computer.

About the Author

Cinthia is a 20-something belly dancer wanna-be. She splits her free time belly dancing, blogging, websurfing and watching Dancing with the Stars.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 28

There are several ways you can earn money using a blog. One way is with Affiliate Sales which is promoting another person’s product where you get paid a commission.

Another way is with Adsense which is where you have advertisements for other people’s products put on your blog and you are paid when a visitor clicks on this ad.

Yet another way is with direct sales where you are selling your own product or a product that you have the resale rights to.

If your plan of action is to use Affiliate Sales, you need to find two or three related affiliate programs to join. A few of the places to check for affiliates is Clickbank, Commission Junction or PayDotCom. There are several others that are also available. You can find these by use one of the search engines such as Google.

To get traffic to your site, you can write articles pertaining to the niche that you are designing your blog around or you could write reviews pertaining to the affiliate program that you are promoting. If you are going to write a review, give an honest review. Point out the main features or benefits of the product, but also list any drawbacks of the product. You will earn the respect of your visitor if your review is honest.

If you are using direct sales of your own product, you can either sell directly from your blog or direct your visitor to your website or online store. Either way, you would proceed using the same method. Write articles regarding the product or products that you are promoting or have resale rights to, or write a review. Again, be sure the review is honest. You want your visitors to become regular, repeat visitors.

If you plan on using your blog for Adsense, the easiest way is to use Google’s Adsense program. You need to set up your blog targeting one niche or topic.

Let’s say you start a blog regarding pets. Google would then place ads on your site that pertain to all types of pets. For example, they could put an ad on your blog pertaining to dogs, cats, horses, fish, snakes, pet supplies or even veterinary services. The amount you earn depends a lot on the amount of traffic you receive.

One of the best ways to get traffic is to write articles and publish them on your blog and by submitting them to the article directories. Another way would be to post comments on one of the various forums pertaining to pets. By adding your blog URL in your signature block, you will be creating back links to your blog. This method of obtaining advertisers requires very little work on your part. You just have to keep the blog updated with current information to keep visitors coming for more.

Another way to obtain advertisers for your Adsense blog is to obtain them yourself. You sell the advertising directly to companies who want to place a sponsored ad or link on your blog. They may also want to place a banner ad. While this method is more time consuming, it can also earn you more money because you keep all of the revenue. There is no dividing or splitting the revenue with Google or anyone else.

The main problem with this method is that you need to have a large amount of traffic coming to your blog before you will find many companies that would be interested in advertising with you. To obtain the traffic, you use the same method of writing articles and submitting them to the article directories, and by posting comments on various forums related to your niche.

It doesn’t matter what type of blog you want to have. In order to maintain a continuous flow of traffic, you need to keep the search engines happy by continually updating the information on it. Always make sure that the content is of high quality, is unique, is pertinent, and most of all informative. The search engines will love your blog if you keep them well fed with great information. The more you feed them, the more they will visit. The more they visit, the higher your blog placement will be on the result pages.

About the Author

Loretta Miller has a site where the goal is to help people increase the traffic to their website. http://www.increasesalesinfo.com/

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 27

Searchers would never say no to something that would make their work a lot easier. With the coming of Sphere - the latest blog search engine, it promises to help users discover high-quality, relevant and timely blog posts with the use of its advanced search algorithm. It aims to deliver results far better than other existing blog search services.

The People behind Sphere

Sphere was founded by Tony Conrad, Martin Remy, Steve Nieker and Toni Schneider to assist readers in their discovery of relevant blog content as well as encourage more people to read blogs or be bloggers themselves. Investors who helped Sphere get started include Doug Mackenzie, David Mahoney, Kevin Compton, Mike Winston, Phil Black, Vince Vanelli and Will Hearst. Its partners and capitalists, on the other hand include Darcy Bentley of Hearst Publishing and Venetia Kontogouris of Trident Capital.

This blog search engine had a very successful first private beta release in late 2005. Its success can be attributed to Martin Remy and Steve Nieker who have worked on blog and content matching technology for a long time. It also has for its advisors the likes of Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automatic/WordPress and a blog content tool leader; Mary Hodder, founder/CEO of Dabble and a blog user experience expert; and Scott Kurnit, founder and former CEO of http://About.com who was instrumental in creating a work community there.

The feedback gained from the well received private beta was used to add some advanced and intuitive features. Sphere is based in San Francisco but members of the team work virtually from other places like Seattle, Denver, Vancouver, New York, Phoenix and the Bay Area. It highly recommends its own Sphere Blog for information regarding ongoing updates.

Tony Conrad was a general partner at VSP prior to founding Sphere. This was where he led consumer-tech and marketing software and services investments. He has also served as a director for Oddpost, Iconoculture, MusicNow and Centive. He has likewise been very active in managing investments in Post Communications and Stonyfield Farms. At present, he serves on the Board of Directors for Automatic/WordPress.

Martin Remy and Steve Nieker have worked together for a long time and are both considered technologists extraordinaire. They were together when they founded Think Tank 23 during the so called dot-com boom. It was able to survive largely because they were able to build a lot of great technology and sold a few software projects to big publishing companies in spite of being funded by venture capitalists. They have extensive roots in information retrieval that goes back to the end of the last century. Their NAV 4 which is a document-analysis genome that drove precise information retrieval across broad networks without onerous manual overhead is baked into Sphere. This has provided many benefits including the base technology driving the related news stories links.

Toni Schneider worked at Yahoo! and at Oddpost which was subsequently acquired by Yahoo! He created the Yahoo! Developer Network. He comes from Switzerland and only came to California to study Computer Science for a year. At present, he is happily based in San Francisco while serving as the CEO of Automatic and a venture partner at True Ventures. He remains an adviser to Sphere.

The Relevant Blog Search

Sphere is being touted as a search engine that has made blog search much better. Its interface is designed by Adaptive Path and comes out quite clean and understandable. One of its more notable features is the profile link that produces a small DHTML overlay with some vital stats for each blog such as average posting frequency, posts per week and blogs recently linked to among others. Its technology is believed to be more resistant to spam blogs than other search engines. It doesn’t actually filter out such spam blogs but is able to rank them so low that readers rarely encounter them.

The right combination of factors that produces a more robust ranking technology of blogs and posts is the reason why Sphere seems to work better than other blog search. It pays attention to the ecology of relationships between blogs and credits a higher weighted value to links that have more authority. This will ensure that the work of an author who goes off-topic and engages in rant will rank considerably lower compared to that written by a reputable blogger who regularly writes about the topic.

The metadata about a blog is also considered by Sphere. It would look into the frequency of postings, the length of the posts and the average links a post gets. Sphere will not rank blogs well if they are not part of a larger ecosystem of linking.

The system has made it possible to have spams fall at the bottom of the ranking. It also gives ways to filter results either by date, relevance or by language. A new version of the services has some neat interface hacks along the lines of a time axis.

Blogs are definitely big, with millions of existing blogs multiplying by the second, relevant information can be very hard to find. Sphere helps readers to find relevant and intelligent blog posts on a specific topic based on authority. It should be noted that the authority being mentioned here is not an arbitrary decision of a human community but rather a collective effort.

Searching the Sphere is very easy. The user needs to enter some keywords and the system shows related posts, blogs, profiles, related news, photos, books and podcasts. It sorts the results by relevance or time and refines the date range with dropdowns right on the results page. It also supports quotes for phrase searching, Boolean operators and minus for exclusions.

The entry of multiple words or phrases in a query finds posts that match all these words and phrases. A query comprised of two words will find posts that contain both words. Posts that contain the words together usually turn up first while posts that contain the words separately and in different places will show up much later. If the search is to be limited to an exact phrase, only results that mention the words together are obtained. For finding posts that match either of the words, the OR operator can be used.

Excluding posts can be done by putting a minus before a term or phrase. Parenthesis is used to group terms and expressions together. A search can also be confined to the blog’s domain.

Sphere has taken a new approach to blog search as it uses variables to understand both individual blog posts and the nature of the blog they appear on. It attempts to understand link structures. In the process of analyzing these structures, it attempts to understand who is starting or linking discussions instead of bloggers who simply comment on conversations.

About the Author

http://www.theinternetone.net

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 26

The task of marketing a website can sometimes be a very boring task. Yes, marketing is important and vital to the success of a business but it cannot be denied that the tedium could get to the most persistent internet marketer or business owner.

One way to combat the boredom is to use many different internet marketing tools as a way of diversifying the marketing choices that will be used for the website. But there is one new internet marketing tool that is not only very effective in promoting your website, it is also quite fun to do. This is making and posting blogs.

Blogging has been a popular internet pastime for quite some time now. Blogs are like online diaries where people can post their thoughts about a variety of subjects and issues or even report news in various points of interest. The readers of the blog are also encouraged to post their replies to the blog posts, thus forming an informal community that sends messages to each other. One of the most popular blogging services right now is Blogger ? now owned by Goggle. Blogger?s easy to use blogging interface has proven to be a hit among bloggers of different persuasions. Google has even established a dedicated Blog Search in its search engine as a way of addressing the fast growing popularity of blogs.

Blogging has actually taken a life of its own and has transcended its initial life as an online diary. Corporations are now using blogs as a means to post corporate news and events that can be read by its workforce.

Recently, internet marketers saw the potential of blogs as a powerful internet marketing tactic. They realize that one of the biggest advantage of blogs is that it gets good search engine positioning because of its interlinking aspect as well as the regular fresh content. Search engines know that most blogs are updated regularly and this results in more favorable page rankings for the topic that it deals with.

Blogging has also given media relations a new effective tool because bloggers are often recognized as the opinion leaders in the field in which they blog. There are also topic-specific blogs that can be setup as a form of soapbox for the internet where people can freely voice their opinions regarding important issues of the day. Still another idea is to set up a blog that can be the source of news for topics that are not covered by the media in general.

When it comes to more in-depth marketing efforts, blogs can be used to promote a website directly or use the generated traffic to bring attention to an affiliate program like Google adwords to set up another income stream. Blogs can also be used for various promotions strategies. You can either launch your own blog to promote a service or, as previously mentioned, a website, or participate in ongoing blog discussions within relevant subjects or topics and then promote the service or website there by participating in the discussions.

About the Author:

To learn how to take your blog to the next level as a professional, please visit-: http://www.BloggyPro.com - giving daily tips and advice on all aspects of setting up and running a blog.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 25

Donagh Kiernan is an acknowledged market leader in technology sales and marketing blog. He has been known to meet challenges and learn from it and eagerly anticipate more challenges that the future will bring. He holds the belief that one must always strive to be the leader in whatever business a person decides to be in.

Early Achievements

Donagh Kiernan established Vistech software in 1994 where it functioned as a sub-contractor for software development services to the software industry. This Cork-based company became one of the more progressive participants in Ireland’s technology boom. Vistech was consistently featured in Delaitte and Touche, Ireland’s Technology FAST 50 from 2000 to 2002. This is largely due to the company’s timely response to market shifts when it focused on the development and delivery of content management products and services.

The company’s flagship product Suite Webcore is credited as the key to its dynamic growth. This particular product made possible the swift deployment of web solutions. Expansion was happening at a very fast rate where turnover and employees are doubled every year. People behind the prestigious Technology Fast 50 Progressive have acknowledged their chosen winners as the perfect exemplification of the phenomenal growth and diversity that is found in the technology sector of the present Ireland.

Vistech software entered discussions with several software development companies for the purpose of pushing the Webcore technology into the international market. The company has used its Webcore toolset on development projects for end-user organizations within Ireland as well as elsewhere. It maintained a product development group separate from the service team to look into other product ambition.

Webcore is a set of tools based on XML and J2EE which simplified the development and management of web applications and publishing of content in multiple formats such as XML, WML, and SMS. Kiernan called it the development platform where its components sit on top of standard applications server environment. The on-line edition of the Sunday Business Post is one of the company’s project references where Webcore was integrated with the newspaper’s legacy publishing system. This enabled content to flow directly from editorial production to the website.

Kiernan believes that Ireland is well positioned to become the hub of the e-commerce world to provide a gateway between the US and Europe. Irish companies are intent on overcoming existing barriers, thus their continuous search for a solution that will provide assistance in sustaining their time in the market. It was a very promising time but Vistech was eventually closed in 2003 after taking a particularly hard hit due to the downturn in the worldwide technology.

Kiernan has since sold and delivered high-caliber IT systems to many well-known organizations, international or otherwise. The most notable names include the likes of Irish Life and Permanent, Heineken Ireland, Pfizer Pharmaceuticals and Motorola. He was able to fit together business and technology due to his thorough understanding of all types of business and a fundamental grasp on relevant technology. He was always been up to the challenge of the changing environment of emerging business and has relied on innovations to produce business benefits with the use of technology.

Recent Developments

Donagh Kiernan formed Maidsfield in 2003 out of his strong passion and drive for Irish companies to achieve international status. Maidsfield is a business development consulting company that focuses on driving sales growth. It draws on Kiernan’s expertise in defining, selling and delivering outstanding technology solutions. The long years he spent of generating tangible business advantage through the application of relevant and effective technology is highlighted in his blog.

The founder of Maidsfield is a technology professional with a solid focus on business and sales. He graduated from Cork Institute of Technology in 1989 with a degree in Computer Applications. Prior to his founding of Vistech, he worked with PS Squared and CompuSense with the development of Engineering and Desktop Publishing Products as his main duty while working with customers worldwide.

Maidsfield plays an important part in the development of the National Software Center in Mahon, Cork. Its facility houses more than fifty companies including small start-ups and large established organizations. Its reputation for IT excellence in the Cork region has been clearly established as it was confirmed as the communications hub of the Cork Metro Area Network.

Kiernan is an active steering committee member of IT@Cork which is the regional industry organization for suppliers and buyers of information technology. It is a non-profit organization that provides forum for businesses that have a key dependency on IT to facilitate sharing of best practices and networking as well. It likewise supports the promotion of the region to external investors while working with other regional stakeholders for the promotion of IT related opportunities.

A caption from Donagh Kiernan’s blog reads: “Challenges met, lessons learnt and tomorrow’s cliff hangers - things I know and things that just feel right”. This line speaks much of what to expect from his blog. It aims to bring a company to business success through faster growth by means of more sales, higher margins and greater return on investment. He uses the principle of the Maidsfield Business Development which advocates the practical approach in focusing on sales results.

Kiernan believes that every aspect of the organization needs to be geared toward sales. Challenges arise in securing new business or delivering successfully and consistently. Maidsfield Business Development focuses on productization and sales to answer this challenge. This would involve the clear definition of a company’s business product or service offering and pricing structure. It also involves defining the product market or business requirements, marketing collateral, sales approval, presentations, case studies and materials. The focus on the strengths of the organization is expected to win more ideal clients. However, it is not solely about delivering recommendations and documentation. It is about achieving results by actually doing what needs to be done.

The development program is action oriented and results focused. It uses practical solutions while focusing on the strengths for greater effectiveness. It brings a broad network of expertise which the readers can take advantage of through its comprehensive blog.

About the Author

http://www.theinternetone.net

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 24

If you are involved in affiliate marketing, MLM or any business for yourself, having a blog is essential. But having a blog doesn’t do you any good unless you can drive traffic to it. Here are some great ways to get more traffic to your blog:

1) Create at least four keyword posts per day. Use a service like RSS 2 Blog and create several posts at once and have them served up one at a time.

2) Submit your RSS feed to My Yahoo and Google’s Reader. This will get them indexed.

3) Add relevant links to your blog and trade them with others.

4) Use ping sites like ping-o-matic. Ping your site every time you add a new post. If you are using WordPress, this is done for you automatically.

5) Submit your blog to traditional search engines such as AltaVista, and MSN.

6) Make a useful video and post it on Google Video. With webcams and digital video so cheap now, there is no excuse not to be using video.

7) Post a profile on social networking sites like Ryze and My Space and link back to your blog. These sites generate huge traffic and the search engines will find them and pick you up. It also gets you a nice backlink with a high page rank.

Submit your blog to traditional directories such as DMOZ. Directories (particularly DMOZ) increase relevance with Google. DMOZ is very picky, but what do you have to lose by trying?

9) Use software such as RSS Announcer to get your feed listed. RSS Announcer is a resale rights product, so it’s very easy to find cheaply as a bonus item or en Ebay.

10) Comment on other blogs and use track backs.. If there is a blog that you refer to or quote and it is highly relevant to your subject, leave a track back. It increases your link popularity and may even score a few interested readers from the linked site.

11) Go offline. Use newspaper ads, public bulletin boards, business cards, even stickers to let as many people as possible know your blog exists.

12) Add a link to your blog in your e-mail signature block.

13) Use Groups (Usenet). Find a relevant group on Google groups, Yahoo groups, MSN groups or any of the thousands of other FREE group services and find like minded people and talk with them. Make sure your use your blog URL like it is your name.

14) Use Forums. Forums are one of the best places to go for advice. Go to forums and find problems to solve. Make sure you leave your blog name, but be tactful about it; some forums get annoyed with those who selfishly drop a few links to their own site and leave.

15) Tag your blog. Tagging is a new idea that has erupted across the web. Sites like Del.icio.us, Technorati and many others have a social feature that allows you to place your article under keywords or “tags” that everyone interested in that tag can see.

Although these are some of the most popular ways to drive traffic to your blog, do not limit your self to tips and lists. Use your imagination and you will come up with thousands of ways to drive traffic to your blog!

About the Author

Carlos Scarpero is a blogger who writes about internet marketing and MLM. Visit his blog at http://www.itsaboutresults.com and discover new and innovative ways to promote yourself online.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 23

Setting up your blog to target a niche market is one of the best things you can do with your blog, provided you know the craft and have the requisite skills to run it successfully to start generating instant traffic (through syndication or Rss) and possibly start earning as well.

Niche blogging, has it own silver lining. With people suffering from information overload, specific information dissemination through niche blogging will attract instant attention as more and more people will subscribe to your Rss feeds and would love to syndicate with such informative blog. Thus with the power of blogging software like Wordpress and your niche marketing skills, you can earn handsome profit.

With Wordpress, setting up a blog is easy and in few minutes of point and click you can have the most powerful tool to make money online. You can instantly start publishing your contents and let the world know of your blog through the Rss feeds. With Wordpress, your syndicating tool-Rss feed, is automatically created. No sweat!

To promote your niche blog and generate instant traffic, submit your Rss feeds to top search engines and Rss directories meant specifically for Rss feeds. Allow readers to subscribe to your Rss feed and send our news reads as well.

You can also promote your Wordpress blog though activating search engine promoting functions. Nothing can replace good and killer contents on your blog, after all readers are going to

To generate revenue though niche blogging, you can follow simple steps.

Most popular ways through which you can earn money is from Google AdSense. Subscribe to Google AdSense and start earning profits through Google Ads, being published on your blog. You can also become Amazon Affiliates. Select the product you want to display on your blog and start earning profit.

There are varieties of plug-ins developed for niche blogging especially if you are using Wordpress. Adding Google AdSense in your posts to protecting your bog from being spammed or hacked, you can download and easily install little programs and make your job easy.

To add Google AdSense ads in your post, you can download the Phil Hord plug-in and in few minutes of working, you have the money minter in your blog.

posted by W A Blog Tools on Oct 22

First of all it important to look at why we would want to create our own blog?

A blog is your very own space on the internet to catalogue your thoughts, ideas, opinions & suggestions on absolutely anything you want.

You might ask ?Why would anyone want to hear my opinion on xyz?? but I would then ask you to answer this question: ?Is there anyone else out there who has had exactly the same life as you??

The answer is a resounding no. You are unique, which means that the your experiences and viewpoints your learning and outlook will be different to that of anyone else and therefore will be something that other people will take an interest in.

Whatever your interests are, by creating your own blog you can share your experiences of them with other people and who knows, someone might even learn something.

If you are promoting a business online a blog is a great way to increase your SEO by increasing the number of links back to your main site. It is also a place for your colleagues, affiliates and downline to visit you and is a great way to confirm your position as a leader in your field when you provide them with regular, good quality content.

There are many blogging services online and I strongly recommend that you have a look around and find the best one for you, I did and that is how I came across http://Blogger.com This is one of the easiest systems I have ever come across and you can actually have your own blog up and running in a matter of minutes. Here?s how:

Step 1 ? When you arrive at the home page click on the ?Create Your Blog Now? link in the middle of the page ? or take the quick tour first if you want to.

Step 2 ? You will be redirected to the ?Create an account? page where you will need to supply blogger with 5 bits of very basic information. Then read and accept the terms & conditions and click on ?continue?

Step 3 ? You will then be taken to the ?Name your Blog? page where you will need to? that?s right, name your blog.

The name you decide to give your blog should be a simple catchy description of the purpose of your blog. If it is for business purposes then keep it clear, professional and direct; if it?s for personal/social use then you can probably afford to be a little more creative

You will then need to decide on the blog address, again if it?s for business use then remember that you will be giving this address out to people so you want it to be something appropriate. ? Once you have typed in the blog address, which will look like this: http://YOUR-ADDRESS.blogspot.com click on the ?check availability? to confirm that it is available. Once it has been accepted type the characters you see in the word verification field and proceed straight to the next page. (There is an option for advanced set-up, but unless you are already quite techno savvy it?s something you can come back to later.)

Step 4 ? Next you will be asked to choose a template for your blog. This is a chance for you to put some of your personality into the blog so take your time and search through all the templates. Imagine the kind of content you are going to publish and what sort of background you would like to have that framed by. There are 12 to choose from and you can make more changes at a later date if you want to.

Confirm the template you want to use and click continue.

Step 5 ? Congratulate yourself! That?s it. You have just created your first blog ready to display your articles, thoughts and suggestions to the world.

Click on the start posting arrow and that will take you into your blogger back office where you can add information to you profile, upload a picture or just start writing.

Once you are ready to present you blog to the world you will need to ?ping? your blog. This is not a solo version of the table tennis game instead ?pinging? is how you let all blog sites know that your blog is ready to be listed, without this no-one will get to see it.

The great news is that pinging your blog is even simpler than creating it.

Go to http://www.Pingomatic.com and fill in your blog name and address, then scroll down and select all services to ping, then all you need to do is click on the ?Send Pings? link and that?s it. Now all those blog listing services will become aware of your blog and be able to list it. Every time you update your blog with another article or thought just go back and re-ping in the same way.

This very simple to set up and use system is a fantastic way to keep you and your business right in the public domain and all it costs is a few minutes of your time.

About the Author:

The author of this article is Denise Hamilton. Denise has had a phenomenal impact on Network Marketing out of the UK. To find out exactly how I do what I do visit me here http://ezsnip.com/x.php?7g OR http://ezsnip.com/x.php?7h