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Internet Marketing: Tag, You’re It!
Now that you have your second post available, you can do a little bit more to help your effort. On the right side of your creation page for your posts, there are tools that will help you: the Tags category and the Categories category. This will be a way to help sort your blogs when you have a number of them accumulated. Not everybody uses these, but this is more for your convenience. Right now, I have over 150 posts to my blog about eliminating credit card debt called moneyformylife. Since I have quite a few there, as the blogs get written, they are tagged and categorized so that it is organized more for me.
Now, for your Wordpress blog, it should now be set up to automatically ping your posts every time that you post to the Wordpress blog on your own site. Your blogger.com site, however, is not. Don’t get lazy and forget to ping that one because it is not set up to do it for you. You want to have the search engines find your site, and pinging your blog is one of the easiest ways to get that to happen.
Remember, traffic = $$. Tomorrow, we will look at ways to monetize your blogs.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing: Pinging Your Blogger.com Blog
You need to “ping” your blog. This is just a simple way of telling the world about your blog. I like using the site Ping-O-Matic. Your Wordpress blog already has a ping list set up, but your blogger.com blog does not. This may seem intimidating and scary, but it is relatively simple to set up and use.
You will need your blog URL, which you should already have saved on a file, but it you don’t log into your blog and click on the View Blog link. Notice the URL at the top of the page and copy it. You will put in the name of your blog, and the URL for the home page of your blog. Then,select the services that you want to ping your blog, and then Send Pings.
It is that simple.
Have a GREAT Day!!
Internet Marketing: The Use of a FREE Blog!
We have talked about setting up a blog on your own website, but there is another, free, service available to you. It is at blogger.com. The blog can be set up in three simple steps, but it is free. There is no cost involved. I personally have 7 blogs set up through blogger.com, but only a handful are updated on a daily basis.
You will need a web site title or what you want the title of your web site to be. At blogger.com, the website address will end in blogspot.com. Blogger.com is where you set up your account, but the location of the blog (which is short for web log) will be xxxxx.blogspot.com. Once you enter your information, you can then create your first post. It can be something simple such as “Welcome to my blog about [whatever you choose your blog to be about]“.
You will then click publish (please use the spell-check feature because even the best of us make mistakes, and mistakes will often make people not want to return) and Viola! You are now pulished on the world wide web.
I have kept today simple because I do realize that this is a Monday and sometimes it is difficult to get going in full gear early in the week!
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing: Installing Your Theme On Your Wordpress Blog
You want to unzip the theme that you downloaded from the Wordpress theme catalog (sometimes referred to as the them viewer). This folder has to be unzipped. The way to unzip the theme is to right-click the theme folder and choose “extract all”. Then you have to FTP all the files from your computer to your server. When you connect to the FTP server of your web site, you will find that there is a folder that says “Wpcontent”. Within that folder, there is a folder called “Themes”. There will already be two themes in there: “Default” and “classic”. Now, just upload the entire folder that you unipped to this directory. You need to be sure that you upload the entire folder.
When you have finished uploading, go back and log into your blog, and find the “design” or “Appearance” tab and choose themes sub tab. Now just select the theme that you want and choose to activate the theme. It is that simple. Just go back to the blog, hit “refresh” (or F5) and you will see the theme now on your blog.
Whew!
It is a lot harder than you think it is, at least it reads as more difficult.
Tomorrow, let’s discuss posting to your blog. Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Finding a Theme For Your Wordpress Blog
In the early days of the Internet, blogs and discussions were text only and that was in just the standard green and black of the CRT. Boring by today’s standards, especially with the increase use of video, music, and graphics. You want a theme that is all about your product. Don’t make it too “busy” because people will be less likely to follow the content of your blog. Your blog needs to be a source of information to which people will return again and again to find that trusted information. When they trust you enough, they will reward you by referring others to your site and by purchasing things.
Just don’t choose the standard setting because some services consider it to be a spam blog or “Splog”. You can get some excellent themes for your blog by going to the following site: http://themes.wordpress.net. When you first arrive you will be given over 900 themes from which to choose. It is advised to use a theme with two columns. More than two columns can be distracting for the reader. You can choose whatever color you like, but keep in mind that black with white text doesn’t work well on all computers, and you will lose readers if you choose that color scheme.
You also have a choice on whether you want a fixed width or not. Choose the fixed width. Have consistency in your blog and people will consistently visit. The nice thing is that if you don’t like how a blog is working out for your, you can always change it. You will choose a theme and download it to your local hard drive. Tomorrow we will look at how to install this theme.
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - The Final Step To Configuring Your Wordpress Blog
The final step that you need to fulfill in order to fully get your Wordpress blog up and running on your website is a fairly simple one. Click on the tab “writing” sub tab on your blog. You should already be in settings from setting up your permalinks. Scroll to the bottom of the page to where it says “Update Services”.
This field should already have one pinging service listed. Copy and paste the following service into that section. Once you are pasted in, click “save changes” and you are finished,
Here is the list to copy and paste:
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - More Blogroll Configuration
For the contact information, you will want to put the URL for your website. Putting in the other contact information is an alright option. There is an option, though, that you will want to pay particular attention to. It is the “about yourself” option. Write two or three lines about why you are an expert in the area in which your website is all about, or why you are so excited to be involved in this area. Then you select “Update Profile”. It should then say that changes to your profile is complete.
Almost.
You still need to set up your permalinks, and again you will go to the upper right corner and click on the “settings” tab. Choose the sub tab, “permalinks”. Choose the very last option that says “custom structure”. Type in the following line exactly as it is:
/%postname%.html
Once that custom structure is entered, click “save changes” . Now your permalink is updated. There is one last step to setting up your blog.
That will be covered tomorrow. Have a GREAT day!
Internet Marketing - Clearing the Blogroll
Today, we are going to set up your Wordpress blog to clear the blogroll.
What you need to do is click on the tab that says “Manage” , and the sub tab for “Links”. Once you have clicked on the “Links” tab, it will list a bunch of other web sites that are related to Wordpress. The simplest thing is to just select each and every one of those links and click on “delete”. It is that simple, because now you have cleared your blogroll.
You will now move to set up your profile. You will find what you need to do in the far right corner in a link called “users”. You will find your admin name and click it, which will give your several options. You will have the ability to change the color scheme for the admin control panel and other actions. The most important thing is putting in your first and last name as well as your nickname. This will be the name that will display every time you post to your blog, so it is important that you choose your nickname wisely.
Tomorrow we will finish exploring the setup for your blog.
Have a GREAT day!!
Internet Marketing - Installing a Wordpress Blog On Your Website, part III
The next bit that you have to do is to click on the button that says “Install Wordpress”. You will then have some information provided about your blog, like that a data base was created, what your username and password is, and other bits of information. You could write all that information down, but look instead for the button that says “Email Wordpress installation to” or “Email installation details to”. Just enter your email address to that screen, save your email to a file that you can find at a later time.
That’s all that is required, and now you will have your very own blog installed on your very own website. That’s a great first step to having success with your Internet Marketing. Now you can begin writing a post on your blog. You will be able to set it up so that it will “ping” your website each time that you update it and make it available to the search engines and the whole World Wide Web will be able to find you. Of course, there are a few small steps that you have to take that make sure that your blog is properly configured, but we will cover that in the next few days.
Have a GREAT day!
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Different content. For those of you following, you notice that this website is a mirror of my blog . That will soon change and check back here for updates. The two sites will be different, and the blog will be geared mainly toward money saving and lifestyle changes that will help you to live a life in which there is less credit card debt.
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- blog
- blog design
- blog post
- blog theme
- choosing a domain name
- credit scores
- Debt reduction
- financial independence
- FTP program
- goals
- happiness
- installing a blog
- internet marketing
- internet traffic
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- positive mental attitude
- private label rights
- saving
- success
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