Showing posts with label BLOGS. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BLOGS. Show all posts
Thursday, November 21, 2013
How To Increase Traffic To Your Blog Using Your RSS Feed: Part Two
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By Steve Shaw
In last week’s post, the first part of a tutorial on increasing traffic to your blog using your RSS feed, I showed you how to submit your RSS feed to RSS/blog directories, along with what I consider to be the top 15 RSS directories.
This week, I’ll be showing you a second way to put your RSS feed to work promoting and building visibility for your site. Again, it’s very easy to set up, only takes a few minutes, and once done works for you on auto-pilot on an ongoing basis … a.k.a. worth doing!
Presuming you’re on Twitter, this involves adding your RSS feed to software called Hootsuite … so that every time your blog is updated with a new post, your Twitter feed is automatically updated too.
Of course, the same information is not restricted to just the RSS feed of your blog – if you publish videos on YouTube regularly for example, they provide you with a RSS feed you can plug into this too. Other services or websites where you publish regularly will also likely provide you with a RSS feed you can use.
1. Sign Up With Hootsuite (It’s Free!)
Go to Hootsuite and sign up for an account – they do have paid options available which you may find useful at some point in the future, but you don’t need a paid account for this tutorial.
2. Add Your Twitter Account
Currently, in the second part of their sign up process, you can add your Twitter account:
After clicking the Twitter button as shown above, a new window pops up allowing you to then authorize Hootsuite to use your Twitter account.
Once done, you’re then all set to start using Hootsuite.
3. Add Your Blog’s RSS Feed To Hootsuite
Now you need to simply add your RSS feed to Hootsuite – from the menu on the left-hand side of the screen, go to Settings > RSS/Atom as shown:
Click the ‘+’ button to add a new feed:
Now you need to copy the URL of your blog’s RSS feed to your clipboard ready for pasting into Hootsuite. Assuming you have a WordPress blog, your feed will be at /feed, for example http://yourblog.com/feed – make sure it’s accessible and correct, and then paste it into Hootsuite in the Feed URL field:
You’ll see various other fields available which you’ll need to set accordingly:
- Network to send feed items to … Select your Twitter account that you just added
- Check this feed for new posts every … Unless you publish your blog more frequently, leave this set at 24 hours
- When new posts are found, send up to … Of course it’s personal preference, but for most purposes you’ll want to leave the 1 post at a time option set
- Include text from post in messages (checkbox) – Leaving this checked will mean Hootsuite will ‘fill’ the Tweet with text from your post, presuming your title hasn’t already used up the available characters (personally, I’m leaving this unchecked)
- Prepend text to each message … Something like [New Blog Post] can help differentiate these tweets from others you may make and can be more ‘user friendly’ for your followers
- URL shortener for links … Up to you, but personally I’m leaving the ow.ly option preset
Click the Save Feed button and you’re done!
Now every time you post something new on your blog, you’ll automatically be keeping your Twitter followers updated too, attracting click-throughs to your blog (including from new audiences via Retweets), and helping to build positive search engine signals for your site.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
7 Ways to Get More Comments on Your Blog Posts
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Getting lots of comments on your blog posts is a wonderful feeling and also great for business!
Not only do you feel good when someone writes an appreciative note, but having comments on your blog can also add credibility as it represents engagement, community and social proof.
Don’t be afraid of people commenting on your blog either, unless you have a complete troll who simply needs deleting, intelligent arguments can be a fantastic source of traffic and conversation!
Would you like to learn how to get more comments on your blog?
Then read the following 7 tips:-
1. Write thought provoking and helpful content:
If you get people thinking or in some way solve their problems, generally they will feel compelled to comment! Sometimes the more controversial you are, the more comments you’ll get, though please always be constructive and remember to Add Value!
2. Ask people questions at the end of blog posts:
Ask people if they found your post helpful? Have they got any other tips they would like to share with you? A call to action at the bottom of a blog post, similar to this one will increase your comments no end. People like direction so give it to them!
3. Make it easy to comment:
Sometimes people need to fill in a lot of details like, name, email, website address, etc. to leave comments. This is a big No No! Make it easy for people to respond to you! Use easy commenting software like DISQUS or CommentLuv.
4. Respond to comments:
We touched on engagement above, this is hugely important. The more you build a relationship with your commenters, the more they’ll come back to comment! Always respond when someone comments on your blog. People don’t have to read your information, there’s more than enough out there, so let them know how much you appreciate them!
5. Comment on other blogs:
If you comment on other blogs and let the blogger know that you like their website and their content, they will want to return the favour by commenting on your blog. The beautiful human law of reciprocity! So take just a few minutes every day to comment on other blogs that you find useful / helpful.
These are just a few tips to get you going. If you stick to them regularly, you should start seeing a lot of genuine people commenting on your blog posts.
Now it’s your turn. Do you get a lot of comments on your blog posts? Are there any tips on you would like to share with us? Please leave your comments in the comments box below.
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Monday, December 24, 2012
Could you survive on $2 a day?
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by: GABRIEL THOMPSON
Two years ago, Harvard professor Kathryn Edin was in Baltimore interviewing public housing residents about how they got by. As a sociologist who had spent a quarter century studying poverty, she was no stranger to the trappings of life on the edge: families doubling or tripling up in apartments, relying on handouts from friends and relatives, selling blood plasma for cash. But as her fieldwork progressed, Edin began to notice a disturbing pattern. "Nobody was working and nobody was getting welfare," she says. Her research subjects were always pretty strapped, but "this was different. These people had nothing coming in."
Edin shared her observations with H. Luke Shaefer, a colleague from the University of Michigan. While the income numbers weren't literally nothing, they were pretty darn close. Families were subsisting on just a few thousand bucks a year. "We pretty much assumed that incomes this low are really, really rare," Shaefer told me. "It hadn't occurred to us to even look."
"Deep poverty" to "extreme poverty"
Curious, they began pulling together detailed household Census data for the past 15 years. There was reason for pessimism. Welfare reform had placed strict time limits on general assistance and America's ongoing economic woes were demonstrating just how far the jobless could fall in the absence of a strong safety net. The researchers were already aware of a rise in "deep poverty," a term used to describe households living at less than half of the federal poverty threshold, or $11,000 a year for a family of four. Since 2000, the number of people in that category has grown to more than 20 million-a whopping 60 percent increase. And the rate has grown from 4.5 percent of the population to 6.6 percent in 2011, the highest in recent memory save 2010, which was just a tad worse (6.7 percent).
But Edin and Shaefer wanted to see just how deep that poverty went. In doing so, they relied on a World Bank marker used to study the poor in developing nations: This designation, which they dubbed "extreme" poverty, makes deep poverty look like a cakewalk. It means scraping by on less than $2 per person per day, or $2,920 per year for a family of four.
In a report published earlier this year by the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center, Edin and Shaefer estimated that nearly 1 in 5 low-income American households has been living in extreme poverty; since 1996, the number of households in that category had increased by about 130 percent. Among the truly destitute were 2.8 million children. Even if you counted food stamps as cash, half of those kids were still being raised in homes whose weekly take wasn't enough to cover a trip to Applebee's.
In the researchers' eyes, it was a bombshell. But the media barely noticed. "Nobody's talking about it," Edin gripes. Even during a presidential campaign focusing on the economy, only a few local and regional news outlets took note of their report on the plight of America's poorest families. Mitt Romney told CNN that he wasn't concerned about the "very poor," who, after all, could rely on the nation's "very ample safety net." Even President Obama was reticent to champion any constituent worse off than the middle class. As journalist Paul Tough noted in the New York Times Magazine this past August, the politician who cut his teeth as an organizer in inner-city Chicago hasn't made a single speech devoted to poverty as president of the United States. (Although Paul Ryan has.)
Fresno, California: Second poorest
If you want to explore the dire new landscape of American poverty, there's perhaps no better place to visit than Fresno, a sprawling, smoggy city in California's fertile Central Valley. Heading south on Highway 99, I pass acres of grapevines and newly constructed subdivisions before reaching the city limit, where a sign welcomes me to California's Frontier City. Ahead, no doubt, is a city, but all I see is brown haze. It's as if a giant dirt clod had been dropped from space. The frontier looks bleak.
In 2005, after Hurricane Katrina briefly focused the nation's attention on the plight of the poor, the Brookings Institution published a study looking at concentrated poverty. Only one city fared worse than New Orleans: You guessed it, Fresno. Earlier this year, the US Census identified Fresno County as the nation's second-poorest large metropolitan area. Its population has nearly doubled over the past three decades, which means more competition for minimum-wage farm and service-sector jobs, and a quarter of the county's residents fall below the federal poverty threshold. With fewer than 20 percent of adults 25 and up holding bachelors degrees, there's little prospect of better-paying industries flocking here.
Crossing the tracks, I find myself in a virtual shantytown, with structures of pallets, plywood, and upended shopping carts
For those living on the margins here, daily life can be a long string of emergencies. "There's this whole roiling of folks," says Edie Jessup, a longtime local anti-poverty activist. "They are homeless, move in someplace else, lose their jobs and are evicted, maybe end up in motels."
If I want to see how bad things are, Jessup advises, I should check out the area southwest of downtown. She gives me directions, and after crossing some train tracks near a pristine minor-league baseball stadium, I find myself in a virtual shantytown. Amid boarded up warehouses and vacant lots, the streets begin to narrow. They are filled with structures made of pallets, plywood, and upended shopping carts. A truck pulls up filled with bottles of water, and a long line of thirsty people forms.
Amid the makeshift shelters, one section of pavement has been cleaned up, fenced off, and filled with more than 60 Tuff Sheds-prefab tool sheds brought in to provide emergency housing for Fresno's growing street population. "It's not ideal," concedes Kathryn Weakland of the Poverello House, the nonprofit that oversees the encampment and doles out 1,200 hot meals a day. "But like one of the homeless told me, it beats sleeping in a cardboard box."
The collection of sheds even has a name: "Village of Hope."
Working poor
In the wee hours of the following morning, I pay a visit to Josefa, a 37-year-old single mother from Mexico who lives in a low-slung apartment complex just north of downtown. She's awake and ready by 3 a.m. when the first family knocks on her door. A Latino couple hands off two children and a sleeping baby and then disappears into the dark, heading for fields outside of town. Over the next half hour, two more farmworker families do the same. The small living room is soon filled with kids in various states of somnolence. Some nestle together on couches; others spread out on blankets on the floor. Josefa heads down the hallway to her bedroom, cradling the baby girl and walking quietly to avoid waking her 10-year-old daughter in the next room.
Four hours later, she has accomplished the morning's major chores: Five of the six kids are awake, fed, and dressed. The only holdout is a feisty toddler who is waging a mighty fuss over the prospect of wearing a t-shirt. Josefa gives the edges of the boy's shirt a sharp downward tug and smiles, winning a small but important battle. After pulling her curly black hair into a ponytail she looks at her watch. "Let's go!" she calls, waving her hands toward the door. "We're going to be late."
The group heads down a dirt alleyway, led by a tiny girl wearing a pink Dora the Explorer backpack that looks big enough to double as a pup tent. The school is three blocks away. Along the way, we pass modest but tidy single-family homes, a few shoddy apartment complexes, and two boarded-up buildings. On the surface, there's little to distinguish this neighborhood-known as Lowell-from other hardscrabble sections of Fresno. But Lowell is, in fact, the poorest tract in the city and among the poorest stretches of real estate in America. More than half of its residents, including nearly two-thirds of its children, live in poverty. One in four families earns less than $10,000 a year.
In a county where unemployment now hovers around 14 percent, Josefa is lucky to have work. Even better, she loves her job, and 10 minutes in her company is enough to realize she's got a gift with children. "They run up on the street and hug me," she says, beaming. "What could be better?"
What she lacks is money. Her farmworker clients are barely scraping by, so she only charges them $10 a day per child. At the moment it's late September, the heart of the grape season, so she's got a full house. But at times when there's less demand for farm work, or the weather is wet, she gets by largely on her monthly $200 allotment of food stamps. "I don't even have enough to pay for a childcare license," Josefa says. (Because of this, I've agreed to change her name for this story.)
Josefa estimates that her childcare business brings in $7,000 a year. She visits local churches for donated food and clothes, and has taken in relatives to help cover her $600 rent. Until earlier this year, Josefa and her daughter shared their small apartment with her niece's family. It was hardly ideal-some days, there were 12 people sardined in there. "Of course I need more money," Josefa tells me, pushing a stroller and holding the toddler's hand as we arrive back at her place. "But how can I charge more when no one has any more to give?"
Her niece, Guillermina Ramirez, is sitting in the apartment complex's small courtyard and overhears Josefa's last comment. "The key is to learn English," she announces. Guillermina, like Josefa, is undocumented, but she's married to a US citizen and says she will be a legal resident soon. She recently enrolled in English classes and anticipates securing "a really good job" once she's done. "That's what you need to get ahead."
Gary Villa and Jim Harper speak English and both are American citizens-as a member of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, Harper's lineage goes way back-but neither would say he's getting ahead. I run into the two men outside a temp agency three miles from Josefa's apartment. They've been waiting around since well before sunrise in hopes of finding something.
Villa, a stocky 23-year-old with a shaved head and goatee, tells me that he was pulling in a decent paycheck installing phone boxes for an AT&T subcontractor before he got laid off in 2008. He was evicted from his apartment and now lives with his mother-"It's kind of embarrassing," he mutters-while his girlfriend and two kids moved in with a relative. "You can't pay $800 in rent making $8 an hour."
Villa peers inside the job office, trying to discern any movement.
"At least we have family to fall back on," says Harper, 33, who keeps his long brown hair tucked beneath a red-and-blue Fresno State cap. After being let go from his job delivering radiators, he tried starting a handyman business called Jim's Everything Service. It didn't work out, so now he now begins each day by calling seven temp agencies. But Fresno was slammed hard by the housing bust, and it remains a tough place for unemployed blue-collar workers. Harper, who is staying with his stepfather, says he's lucky to pull in more than $200 a month. His monthly food stamp allotment tacks on another $200, for an annual income of $4,800.
By now the sun is well above the horizon and it's shaping up to be yet another day without a paycheck. "The working class isn't the working class if there's no work, right?" says Harper, who is wearing paint-stained Dickies and a faded t-shirt. "We're getting pretty desperate out here."
"I like to joke that I'll take any job short of being a male whore," he adds.
True enough, when the temp office clerk announces that there's a job available, Harper leaps at it even though the gig starts at 2 a.m. and he knows he'll have to arrive at the work site in the early evening, thanks to Fresno's limited bus service. He shrugs off the six hours he'll waste "twiddling his thumbs." What matters, Harper says, is to keep knocking on doors and making the calls, because "you never know when you might get your foot in the door."
Fleeing Fresno's hostile job market might seem like the logical solution, but it's never that simple. As frequently happens with the very poor-especially in light of the restrictions put in place with welfare reform-the informal safety nets that help keep people afloat also tend to keep them rooted in place. Losing his delivery job left Harper homeless. For a few months he lived out of his car or in a room in Fresno's "motel row," notorious for drugs and prostitution. But since moving into his stepfather's house, he's been able to use food stamps in lieu of rent. Leaving town would mean running the risk of being homeless again. And given Harper's income, there's no room for error.
Neither is there a clear path out of deep poverty for Josefa. She puts in twelve-hour days six days a week, so there's not much room to increase her workload. By allowing six other families to work, she plays a small but key role in making Fresno an agriculture powerhouse, but her cut is miniscule. "That's why it's so important for my daughter to study," she says.
The last time I speak to Harper, he tells me he's landed a stint working overnight at a series of grocery stores that are overhauling their freezer compartments. "It looks like it will be a 10-day job," he says, excited. In Fresno, that counts as a big success. I ask where he hopes to find himself in five years. He pauses and takes a deep breath. "Best case scenario, as sad as it sounds, is to be no worse off than I am right now," he says. "That's about all I can hope for."
Reposted from Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Photo by benjaminbarnett on Flickr
Monday, December 17, 2012
7 Tips to Increase Your Click Rate on enzineArticles.com?
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What gets the click?
Yesterday, we discussed analyzing your articles’ traffic and activity metrics, which briefly touched on your Total Click Rate. This is the total ratio of URL clicks to article views in a given amount of time and it’s a key indicator of your connection with your audience as well as your ability to drive traffic to your website or blog.
There are tons of factors that affect your click rate, but one of the most critical (if not THE most critical) factors is your ability to project a meaningful message that resonates with your readers.
Have you ever heard the phrase “tell, not sell”?
No one likes to be sold to, nor are they inclined to share or read a piece that doesn’t serve their purposes. No matter the quality of the writing, readers want to feel like they have gained knowledge, skills, or confidence. “Tell” readers what they want and need to know to satisfy their need to grow more confidently and trust in your credibility.
With confidence in mind, use these 7 tips to increase your total click rate:
1. Internet readers want information as quickly as possible and they like articles served with brevity. Target article length between 400-700 words.
2. Good grammar and spelling are critical. One blunder and your readers will either be so focused on your error, nothing will induce a click or they’ll be gone faster than you can say “click here.”
3. Upload your author photo! Readers can confidently trust someone they can visualize behind the article and your author photo creates that visual connection.
4. Supply one call-to-action that benefits the reader and prompts the reader to act. Use clear, descriptive, and active language in the reader’s terms relevant to the links you’re providing.
5. Provide two highly relevant, self-serving links (one URL-based link and one text-based link) for increased transparency and relevance reassurance.
6. Forget cheap tricks and tactics to get the click. Always use specific and descriptive anchor text that’s relevant to the linked URL’s page and interesting to readers.
7. Natural and contextual variation is essential. Don’t repeat the same keyword text over and over again, either within the same article or across multiple articles.
Bonus: Approach your Resource Box like a short biography to reinforce yourself as a credible source. Write a brief description of the following in the third person: your name, your current title, relevant credentials (for that “awe” factor), and then provide your succinct call-to-action.
For example:
- [Insert your name] is a [insert your occupation title] with [insert time amount in your occupation, e.g. over 20 years] of professional experience. [Insert your first name]‘s methods [testimony or praise awarded to you and your services]. Find out more about how to [relevant keyword topic] with [insert benefit] at [insert hyperlinked website name] or [insert hyperlinked URL].
Approach is everything in gaining reader confidence and trust. There are dozens of techniques to increase your click rate! Which of the above techniques stand out to you? Are there any that you felt should have made it to this list? Do you think your click rate matters? If you have questions, comments, or just want to say hello, I’d like to hear from you.
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Thursday, November 8, 2012
President Obama Gangnam Style
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President Obama also affected Gangnam Style
In his second term, to make sure that President Obama will have to face a lot of questions about the myriad issues are pressing, but for fans of K-Pop, nothing weighted by the U.S. President said he could dance "dancing Horses" "Gangnam Style".
It seems that Obama really was thinking about dancing horse when he answered the questions in a quick interview on the radio recently. November 6, in a radio interview in New Hampshire, the President was asked either he or Michelle will like PSY dance "Gangnam Style."
"I only watch it once." I think I can dance. But I'm not sure that this is the appropriate time to do, "Obama said. Then he continued:" Perhaps ... I'll just jump secrets for Michelle. "
However, the a clip online community of self-nature humor transplant
has passed hands. It is the image of the President
Obama dancing "dancing horses". Let's enjoy!
Presidential Clippings: Obama Gangnam Style, Romney 47%
Mitt Romney Style'
College Humor brings us this ode to Romney's supposed penchant for the finest things in life. Sample lyric: "I got distinguished hair, and a private jet that flies me way up in the air."
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
The crying of New Jersey lady: the pain behind Sandy typhoon
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When I look at this picture, I raise up the pain which have no any words can express. The super typhoon Sandy has left many losses.
Sandy's aftermath: 33 dead, millions without power
The devastation of New York behindSandy typhoon moves
Super typhoon Sandy "sweep" the U.S. - Many states submerged in floodwaters
Sandy Hits Coast, Floods New York
Hurricane Sandy Leaves Behind Death and Devastation in Haiti
New York has being flooded because of Sandy Super typhoon eastern US
Video: Sandy typhoon
Typhoon sandy: "The Wind is Insane"
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Best E-Commerce Wordpress Plugins
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List of Best Shopping Cart Plugins:
1. WP E-Commerce Plugin
Wp E-Commerce is the most popular plugin shopping cart plugin for wordpress till date. It has been downloaded by more than 6 lakhs+ wordpress users and is a highly functional. It’s reviews are mixed,rated 3/5, some people claims the plugin is not functioning well while some says its excellent. You can download this plugin from the link given below and test it. Its a fully featured e-commerce plugin which can serve the demand of selling products/services using wordpress blog.
Download – Wp-E-commerce Plugin
2. Quick Shop
Second plugin I list here is Quick Shop. First of all it requires PHP 5 so if check this with your hosting. A main advantage with this plugin is you can integrate a shopping cart within your posts and pages. In addition it adds a widget indicating the cart of the shopper and its wordpress MU compatible. quickshop has got a good rating of 4/5 and has been downloaded by 50K+ users. It’s got good positive reviews and is worth your download time.
3. Shopperpress E-Commerce plugin
Its the professional shopping cart plugin for wordpress. It has been downloaded by 20000 users so far and got a good rating of 3.5/5. An advantage of this plugin is it has got a good professional support, a good community to discuss your installation problems and doubts,and they release updated versions of the plugin frequently. So lets conclude this as a reliable plugin source. Authors of this plugin sells a professional premium wordpress theme which is exclusively for shopping carts. This premium theme comes with a reasonable price and life time free support. Try that too if you are a serious business man.
4. EcWid Shopping Cart Plugin
Its not a highly popular plugin but it has got a good rating of 4.5/5, which gives it a place here. Downloaded by 14k+ happy users. Specialties of this plugin are it uses AJAX, you can integrate it with Facebook profile,Integration with social networks, very fast and has got updates.
5. EShop Plugin
Eshop is a highly popular plugin with over 1 lakh downloads and a very good rating of 4.2/5. This plugin is packed with many new features like merchant integration, eshortcode integration, WPMU compatible, Custom email messages, Download and montor sales data, basic statistics of sales, stock data and reports etc. In addition you can provide discount coupons and integrate different shipping rates. This plugin is really worth a try.
6. Simple Paypal ShoppingCart
Here comes a plugin for integrating Paypal payment system to your wordpress blog. Its quiet simple and can added to your pages,posts and sidebar. Its a widely used plugin and can be used for selling both products and services. In addition this plugin has multiple currency support, a customizable “Add to Cart” button and Payment page redirection is available.
Download Paypal shopping cart plugin
7. Wp-Auctions
So at last here’s a plugin exclusively for auctions. This plugin allows a user to create multiple auctions and all for free. This plugin uses Ajax and a Pop-Up system for better user experience. You can integrate paypal as a payment option for this plugin. It comes with good admin backend support and you can easily manage auctions from you admin panel. A moderately popular plugin worth a try for auctions in wordpress.
8. Easy Donation plugin
A plugin dedicated to collect donations. Its easy to install and integrate. You can add buttons like “Make a donation” or “Buy me a Beer” etc. This plugin is nothing greater than any of the plugins listed above. I have listed it here just because its enough for simple needs like collecting a donation.
9.Wp-Live Shopping cart plugin
This time its a widget style plugin. This plugin enables you to list all your active products within a single widget, that’s it. This widget is a customizable one and certainly you can integrate it to your wordpress blogs sidebar. Its an easy installation and you require a wordpress version higher that 2.2.
10.Google Checkout Pluginp
Third is exclusively for Google Checkout. If you are in need of a plugin just to integrate Google Chekout alone, here’s it. Its a recent release and I am not sure about its performance. You may try it and tell me your opinions.
Download Google Checkout plugin
These plugins can help you manager your shop easily on paying and selling of your customers. Wanna shopping on your Wordpress now? Don’t wait!
More information on here http://getshopped.org
From jojojoson.com
Friday, September 23, 2011
Create the Wordpress site with own domain total FREE!
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Have you ever wanna created the own site? Then you think about blogspot, wordpress.. and choose one of them. Every platform has the strong point. But today I will guide to you who wanna create the own site how to creat one with own domain and own host total FREE with Wordpress!
1. Get your own domain:
There are so many site can do it for you. So here I want to introduce us.cydots.com.
This site has many domains you can get free: yourdomain.us.ms, yourdomain.net.ms…
For example you want to get the domain dot net.ms:
You have to check your domain. Then, if your domain still available, you will must register for it:
So, when you finished steps after that, you got the domain free. Now we register for your free host!
2. Get free host:
There are some the free host provider which you can choose: 000webhost, byethost…
Now I get the free host with byethost.
Frist, you mus sign up to creat account byethost.
When you finish, this will send to your email the activation. You check your mail and click to the activation link. Then, they will send to your mail the information of you host account. So now you have a free host with byethost.
3. Apply your domain to your host:
You had the domain and hosting. Then, you need to apply your domain to your host:
Come back your account us.cydots.com. You click on Domain as this:
Then you click on Nameserver like this:
After that, you type the DNS of byethost and click to submit:
Then, we come back to your cpanel of your host:
Click on "Addon Domain" for add your domain to host. After that, come back cpanel and creat name of your database:
4. Create your Wordpress site:
Frist, you need to download the Wordpress Platform here.
Then you use winrar or winzip program to unzip this package to your computer.
Open file wp-config-sample.php and rename to wp-config.php then find this below and fill in the value (red text):
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'replace by your name of database which your created in step 3');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'replace by your username which used for sign in your host cpanel ');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'replace by your password which used for sign in your host cpanel');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'replace by your host name');
If you don't know how to do it correctly, this is the example:
// ** MySQL settings - You can get this info from your web host ** //
/** The name of the database for WordPress */
define('DB_NAME', 'b10_9063603_technews');
/** MySQL database username */
define('DB_USER', 'b10_9063603 ');
/** MySQL database password */
define('DB_PASSWORD', 'abcdef02');
/** MySQL hostname */
define('DB_HOST', 'sql24.byethost2.com');
Then you save it.
OK. Now we upload all of these files and folders in this package to host.
Byethost provided us the tool File Manager for uploading to host. But I think you should use FireFTP - an addon of Firefox, running on Firefox browser. You can download this addon here.
After you install this addon to your Firefox, then click on Webdeveloper/FireFTP for open the new tab FTP. You must creat the new account FTP tab then press OK:
When you login successfully your account, you will see the folder which same the name of your domain. Open this folder you will see the subfolder is htdocs. Because this is the Root Directory, so you do not delete it. You will upload all of folders and files which you edited above on this folder htdocs. Picture below is after you upload all of the folders and files on folder htdocs:
After you upload finished, you should check all of folders and files, may be in upload process some files were not uploaded.
Now you can install your wordpress.
Open your browser, type on address bar: http://www.yourdomain.net.ms/wp-admin/install.php then enter.
After that, the welcome screen of Wordpress will appears:
Congratulations! Now you have the new wordpress site with your own domain and host total free!! Write something and sharing with your friends!!
Note: the free host good for the blog. If you want create the bigger website which has many visitors/day, and need more bandwith, I think you should choose the paid hosting. Now there are many trusted hosting providers. I have a recommendation for you. This is the 1# hosting provider now!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
6 Things Freelance Writers and Bloggers Can Learn From Rappers!
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This is a guest post by Jennifer Brown Banks. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines here.
Say what you will about their less than wholesome lifestyles, or their aversion to the King‘s English. But the smart writer recognizes that there are many valuable lessons to be learned from today’s successful rap artist. Whether it’s how to earn more “cheddar“, market words, handle “haters,” or capitalize on adversity.
Truth be told, behind the baggy pants, bulging biceps, and bigger than life egos, there is some genius going on there, folks. Don’t believe the hype.
Sure there are those that are one hit wonders, (like Vanilla Ice), but for the most part, many have “stayed true to the game” and garnered cult like followings, lucrative contracts, and careers that most of us would envy.
Take for instance Queen Latifah. Though audiences may know her now as the face behind Cover Girl Cosmetics, or an award-winning actress, she actually emerged on the scene back in the 1980’s as a fierce female rapper. She went from singing lyrics of empowerment and social issues, to movie roles and mass appeal. And she is indeed the “queen” when it comes to branding.
Then there’s the clever rapper simply known as “Common”. Hailing from Chicago, Common’s career debuted in 1992 with the album, “Can I Borrow a Dollar?” Needless to say now he has millions of dollars, and a successful acting career to boot. Not to mention, a pretty impressive speaking career and important political connections.
Even Donald Trump has recognized that rappers can be astute players in the business arena, evidenced by his inclusion of rapper Little Jon in the line-up of Celebrity Apprentice cast members in a recent season.
Based upon my “case studies” and analysis over the years, I have concluded that Rappers impart important lessons when it comes to career management, marketing, branding and making a living as a creative artist.
Here are a few that serious freelancers would do well to master and incorporate in their success strategies.
1. Rappers reign supreme in cultivating multiple income streams. As artists and entrepreneurs, it’s important that we diversify our efforts and our projects. Editors leave. Clients can pay late. And industry changes can impact our bottom lines. Rappers recognize this and act accordingly. Which is why Sean “Puff Daddy” Combs also has a successful clothing line, and Bad boy rapper 50 Cent also puts his name on sports drinks, and fly gear for today’s youth. Make no mistake about it; many are shrewd business men.
2. Rappers aren’t afraid of courting controversy if the situation dictates. Whether it’s lyrics that speak to “their own personal truths” or spending a ridiculous amount of money on guilty indulgences, they offer no apologies. In writing, there can sometimes be a tendency to worry that we will offend from our words of choice, or invite criticism from bucking conventional wisdom. In the words of Soprano actor, “Fuggetaboutit.” Feel the fear and do it anyway! Throw caution to the wind and pen a blog post on a Sunday, if you‘re so inclined. Or break those rules your English instructor considered cardinal.
3. Rappers know how to turn pain into profit. They’re savvy about turning life’s lemons into lemonade. Behind the bumping music, if you listen closely, you’ll hear stories of love and loss. Of humble beginnings, and dealing with personal demons. It’s something we all can relate to on some levels; no one is immune to these universal experiences. Though they may not translate into the next billboard hit chart song, as writers, they can become fodder for personal essays, poems, or meaningful memoirs. Take your heartbreak to the bank.
4. Rappers are passionate people! Even if you don’t morally share their perspective, you should definitely emulate their sense of conviction. Watch their videos or read their tell-all books, and their intensity and commitment is truly evident. Passion moves people. In other words, if you’re not geeked about your subject matter, chances are your readers won’t be either.
5. Rappers really have a way with words. And they treat them as a commodity. It’s a common misconception that all rap is bad and simplistic in nature. That it promotes violence, immoral behavior, or fast-lane living. Not true. Rappers like Heavy D, Will Smith, and L.L. Cool J not only compose songs that get folks to get up on the dance floor, they are hugely creative, insightful and clever. From using literary devices like hyperbole, imagery, alliteration, parallels and metaphors, take notice. No matter what genre you dabble in, these techniques can make your writing more interesting, colorful and engaging.
6. Rappers have swagger. They exude confidence. Their lyrics are large and so is their bling. Whether on stage or the studio, they convey a sense of “authority” on street life, having “hustle savvy”, and being loved by the ladies. Conversely, one of the things that many writers feel uneasy about is marketing and tooting their own horn. Pump up the volume! Let the world know how awesome you are through your marketing materials, blog posts, or testimonials. To quote an expression, “It’s a sad dog that won’t wag his own tail.”
Follow these six tips and rest assured, you’ll find yourself singing all the way to the bank!
About the Author: Jennifer Brown Banks is a veteran freelance writer, pro blogger and relationship columnist. She recently became a contributing writer for the ever-popular site Technorati.com. Visit her blog atPenAndProsper.blogspot.com.
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