Monthly Archives: July 2008

How To Embed Video On Your Blog

I know that this might be a topic that will not be of much interest to experienced bloggers, but since I am trying to also cover newbie blogging topics, I wanted to make this step by step guide on how to embed a video on your blog. This will cover embedding a video on a wordpress blog, however it will help you with any other blog software as well. Let’s start. You have seen an interesting video on Youtube or some other video sharing site, and you wanted to embed it on your site or blog. Well the process is … Continue reading

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10 Best Places To Get Free RSS Icons And Buttons

Very often you find yourself in a position that you want to subscribe to someone’s feed, but you simply have trouble finding the RSS link. Well are you sure that is not happening with your blog too? Maybe your RSS button is buried among other buttons and links? Here are some tools and tips that will help you increase the visibility of your feed button and in the same time increase your feed subscribers count. Prominent and easily visible feed button is crucial to getting more subscribers to your feed these days. People simply don’t have time to look for … Continue reading

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Do Follow Blogs And How They Can Help Your Ranking

There’s been a lot of discussions on how can leaving comments improve your ranking all over the web recently, and many of those topics were explaining the techniques on posting comments on “Do Follow” blogs. I decided to give you some insider tips on what I found about this link (and Google pagerank) building technique. It’s all related to that famous “nofollow” (and “nofollow external”) tag that was introduced by Google in early 2005 and was implemented in many CMS and blogging platforms since then. Basically the purpose of the “nofollow” tag is to tell some search engine that a … Continue reading

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Make Your Blog Popular By Playing The Fool (Part 2)

This is the continued article that I posted here. Today I will give you some clear leads on what I was referring to in my past article. Although I must admit that this is a legitimate way to get visitors, I am somewhat worried to see that it become a worldwide obsession. It seems like people simply don’t care how they will get their piece of fame (reflected to website promotion fame =traffic) and they are prepared to do anything to get it. Ok, to be honest it’s not playing the fool all the way. It’s more like being different. … Continue reading

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WordPress 2.6 Released

If you haven’t heard already, WordPress 2.6 was released today and it has a lot of improvements and new features. Some of the most interesting are the ability to track changes to every post that you have on your blog (like archive), and easily post articles and news from any place on the web via small toolbar addon. You can learn more about this release here and there is also a nice video that will guide you trough changes in this new release:

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Google Loves You… Or They Don’t! (600% Google Traffic Increase!)

Thinking about the title of this post I was lead by emotion. This time my emotions are somewhat mixed and I must say that I am a bit uncomfortable when I realize the truth once again. And the truth is more real, more obvious than ever before. The truth is that without Google we can’s survive these days. It seems like their market share is so huge that they became the only stable source of quality and productive traffic on the internet. We all need some Google love these days to survive, and we are all fighting (or begging) for … Continue reading

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Money Links For July 14, 2008

Here are some interesting money links I prepared for you today: Our friend Stand Out Blogger is offering free blog reviews on his site. Second link is for people who need to learn the basics of php but don’t have much time. It’s Tizag.com PHP tutorial which is by far the best quick PHP tutorial I’ve found online. Popularity Contest is the great WordPress plugin “that keeps track of activity on your blog and calculates a popularity percentage for each post and page”. I will soon add it to my blog. Enjoy life and happy money making with your blog!

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Want Online Success? Play The Fool! (Part 1)

At least that is the feeling I got after reading some posts last week on the blogs I follow. Although this matter doesn’t look so serious, I feel that it is very important in terms of sociological and psychological background of online business and blogging if you like. What the hell am I talking about? I know that might seem a bit strange but last week it seems like I was bumping to those statements in each text or blog posts that I tried to read. It might be my personal feeling though, or something that I was looking for … Continue reading

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Google’s Amit Singhal’s Post About Google Rankings

It’s already old news but the buzz following it is very intensive. Google’s fellow Amit Singhal, who is in charge of ranking team at Google wrote a post on official google blog about google rankings. What is so special about it? Well Singhal certainly didn’t reveal anything revolutionary, and I must say I didn’t expect anyone from Google to do so. However what did cause some waves was his statement about human intervention at Google. Basically Amit stated that the main philosophies behind google ranking are: 1) Best locally relevant results served globally. 2) Keep it simple. 3) No manual … Continue reading

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Top 100 Make Money Online Blogs

I am sure that you all know about this page. It’s the one we’ve all been following and the one we all use to see who is the hottest online guru! It’s located on 45n5′s site – here. The reason I am writing this post is to let you all know that we’re officially on the list! Here is a snapshot: That is place 354. Here’s the deal – let’s watch this rank and see. If we are worth something in the internet marketing I guess that rank is supposed to rise, right? I will not predict anything, let;s just … Continue reading

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