Archive for February, 2009

6 Tips On Attracting Readers To Your Blog

February 26th, 2009

After you have created a blog it is important to attract readers to it in order for your blog to gain good audience base. Here are some tips on promoting your blog through the web.

1. Post tutorials. Articles which imply a kind of how-to or tutorial are of great value as they may be useful for many web masters, especially when they deal with the issue you mention in your article. Providing tips and pieces of advice will definitely be appreciated by most of the readers so think about some constructive information to share.

2. Everyday writing. If you want your blog to be arresting you must show that it is updated frequently and thus readers may expect some new information to appear soon. Just make your blog look fresh by adding interesting news, some creative articles and so on. Updating daily would be the best as it may even make your blog viewers bookmark your source. After some time you may add new posts to your blog rarely but if you have just launched a blog it is important to renew it every day.

3. Domain name. Make sure your blog has some serious name as it will make the viewers sure your source is really worth visiting and contains deserving information. Be attentive to make it rememberable as well for the users to remember it easily and then spread it among others telling how interesting your source is.

4. Leave comments. If you want to draw more attention to your blog you can start posting comments on other web masters’ blogs. It is better to comment on blogs related thematically to your own one as common topic will make other users get interested in your content, and also try to write something really useful and smart within your comment.. When you leave a comment you are often allowed to have your name linked to your blog. So every user can click on it and be redirected automatically to the source you represent.

5. Submit articles. From time to time you can submit your most impressive and constructive articles to the websites allowing publishing your content within their base. This will let other web masters familiarize with your best writings and allow your content spread through the web.

6. Submit the blog. You can go the blogtopsites.com and submit your blog here which willnot bring you a huge number of new readers but nevertheless will bring traffic. The procedure is very easy and fast and implies only finding the necessary category for your blog and submitting it there. With the lapse of time it will attract more and more new viewers to your source so the thing is really worth the effort.

Of course, this list is not exhaustive and there can be more modes of promoting your blog and more ways to receive traffic but these 6 tips are the most simple basic pieces of advice every web master can make use of easily. What is your secret weapon in gaining readers?

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Wordpress Installation

February 12th, 2009

Installing Wordpress is rather fast and easy process and it won’t require you extra programming knowledge and energies. Besides a lot of web hosts offer you to install Wordpress automatically nowadays so you won’t be involved in a process at all. But if you want to acomplish this task yourself here are the main aspects you should be aware of when instlling Wordpress.

1. Pre-Installation

Before you install Wordpress you should access your website and necessary software to go on with installation process. These include shell or FTP access, a text editor and a web browser you’d like to use. After that you should check carefuly whether your web host parameters correspond the minimum requirements for running Wordpress properly.

2. Installation Begins.

The next step you should take is to download the most recent Worpdress release and unzip the received files. After that invent a password for your Secret Key and proceed with furher installation.

3. 5-Minute Install

After you have downloaded and unpacked Wordpress folder follow the next steps:
- create a database within the web server. Sometimes your hosting provider already has a Wordpress database installed or provides you with automated set up option. That’s why you should check provider’s features or your control panel to figure out whether you need to create a database manually or not.
- change the file name “the wp-config-sample.php” to “wp-config.php”
- open “wp-config.php” file in the text editor you want to work with and fill in each of the database details to receive and apply the secret password
- upload the Wordpress files to your web server choosing the place you’d like them to be stored in, e.g. domain root or your website’s subdirectory etc.
If you have acomplished all the tasks listed above properly your Wordpress should be installed successfuly.

Here are some detailed instructions how to create your Wordpress database using of Control Panel.


1. Log in first to the CP
2. Browse MySQL Databases
3. If you need to create new Wordpress user do the following:
- choose a username and enter it in the Username line
- invent a password that is hard to guess and type it into the Password field.
- click Add User
4. If there is no Wordpress database complete the next steps:
- choose a database name and type it into the Database field
- click Ad Database
5. Within Databases choose your Wordpress username and database from User dropdown and Database dropdown correspondingly. After that click Add User to the Database.
6. See your database information when you return to the MySQL Account Maintenance screen.

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Top 5 Must Have Wordpress Plugins

February 12th, 2009
There is a number of Wordpress plugins which make it easier for every web master to operate a blog due to the convenient and useful options each tool implies. So let’s identify some of the plugins every programmer dealing with Wordpress must have.
1. SEO Title Tag 1.0.
This tool helps you to create search engine optimized tags for your blog and manage them easier than you could ever imagine. It touches upon every tag containing within your site - in every post and every page.
SEO Title Tag 1.0 is characteried by the following features:
- title tag input box in Write Post and Edit Post pages
- defining 404 eror pages title tag
- title tags editing for any URL
- defining custom title tag for your posts page
- search result pages
- setting category pages title tags to category description
2. Ad Sense Deluxe.
This plugin displays AdSense ads of the blog posts pages. This tool provides you with multiple AdSese ad styles for your Wordpress blog you can use even in one post. It also allows you to add or remove ad blocks with simple mouse clicks and decide where to show or hide ads within your blog. With Ad Sense Deluxe you can change ad styles and preview them from your control panel quickly. And what is also not less pleasant is that the installation of the plugin is very simple and won’t require code or PHP understanding.
3. WP - Contact Form.
This is a very useful tool for keeping in touch with your Wordpress blog viewers. The contact form is simple and includes the following fields:
- subject
- name
- website/phone number
- comment option
WP-Contact Form tends to ve bery convenient as it allows to reply your blog viewers fast and easy. Besides the form contains a special question/answer field to prevent you from getting spam from the Net.
4. WP - Notable.
This plugin provides you with icons which are placed alongside your blog posts for the viewer to submit any of your articles to one of the popular bookmark websites.
5. WP Stats.
The tool is created specially for the bloggers touching upon the very statistic metrics they need to track and not oversaturating with surplus information. Among the data this tool collects is pages and posts popularity according to the number of views and the spot you get traffic from. You can have all the stats information viewed within a single page by clicking the special link on your dashboard.

Of course there are far more Wordpress Plugins you can install and make use of. We have only showed you several useful programming tools for simplifying your Wordpress blog management.

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What is Wordpress?

February 12th, 2009

Wordpress stands for web blogging application which took its first breath in 2003 as a result of the concerted efforts of Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. It’s an open source that implies the possibility of using and distributing it freely. This powerful blogging software is also known to be very easy to work with - no matter whether you are a beginner or an experienced web master you won’t find it difficult to manage Wordpress.

Nowadays Wordpress became very popular and is greatly appreciated by all kinds of web masters due to the number of advantages it provides. Among its amazing features are the following:

1. Templates system

It is known to have templating system which simplifies the process of your blog operating as you don’t have to edit HTML or PHP codes to customize your blog.

2. WP Themes

Wordpress provides you with a number of different themes suitable for various blog topics which you can easily install and change whenever you need. Every theme is supplemented with necessary tutorials so it will be fast and easy to cope with its management.

3. Links and pinging

All web masters are offered search engine friendly link structure. Besides Wordpress provides pinging alerts which informs search engines and blog libraries every time you update your blog content which in its turn helps you to get traffic to your source.

4. Article management

You have the possibility to divide your articles into different categories and support it with tags. Also there are special filters which help you to format the text within your posts and work with quotes easily.

5. Multimedia support

Make your blog vivid and dynamic by addind some multimedia to it as Wordpress provides you with all needed multimedia options.

Besides all the features listed above Wordpress supports multi-blogging facility. It means that you can run one blog copied in different directories simultaneously using only one installation. With this function you are provided with several database tables abd can own a blogging community and operate all the blogs from an individual instrumental panel.

Using Wordpress you will get a qualitative and professinally looking blog with minimum effort and saving your time. So get involved and enjoy all the beneficial facilities Wordpress grants you with.

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