Tag:blogs, ideas, mental block, writers block

This is the most dreaded disease faced by most bloggers especially the newbies. There are times when we just seem to have

nothing to write about. Our mind are just blank. We struggle but nothing comes to mind. A lot of people give up blogging because of this and find that writing is just not their cup of tea. Some resorted to use copyright free articles for their blogs or use content generator software. But having these duplicate or automated contents may not do good to your blog in terms of page ranking among search engines. Search engines prefer original contents with regular updates.

There are a few things that you can do to avoid writer’s mental block.

1. Always have a pen and paper within reach. Whenever an idea strikes, jot it down on the paper in notes form. This can be a starting point of an article for you to write about later. If you don’t jot it down, it may slip your mind and you may not be able to recall the idea later on.

2. Visit other peoples blogs and see what they write about. You may be able to get some ideas of what to write.

3. Blog about something you are passionate about. If your favourite pass time is fishing, you can blog about anything that is related to fishing. You will definitely have a lot of ideas because writing about something you like comes very naturally.

4. Read books regarding a topic that you are currently doing research on and write about it.

5. When you have a mental block, just write the first sentence that comes to your mind. You will find that your mind will open up and words will flow more easily and build up the sentence that you have written. An article is built one sentence at a time.

6. Listen to some soft music to relax. A relax mind tends to be more creative.

7. Use simple language. Trying to figure out what fantastic words to use may just prevent your thought flow and you may get distracted trying to think of the word to use.

These are just some tips that works for me. You may want to try them out or you may have your own ways. Whichever ways, do continue to write and it will get easier as you go.

Tag:affiliates, blogs, Solobis, wordpress

So you have found out what a blog is and you wanted to join the blogosphere community but you have a problem. You are heading straight to a wall and not going anywhere. You can’t see the direction in front and the wall was preventing you from moving forward in your blogging dream. You banged hard against the wall but it was just to thick to give way and you ended up wounded and beaten. You wanted to give up because you can see any diversion from the blockage. You were hoping that if you can just see a small and narrow path that can lead you and shed some light, you would be too happy to follow.

If you have followed my blog, I have posted articles about Wordpress Adsense System. But if you still find that Wordpress Adsense System is not what you want because you do not want anything to do with the technicality of setting up your own blog, then maybe Solobis Blog Plan is the light at the end of your blogging tunnel.

The Solobis Blog Plan is a Wordpress Blog enhanced and made better using some of the most incredible business concepts and software which help to turn your blog into cash generating machine.

If you faced challenges as listed below:-

1. Do not know how to set up your own blog and do not like the technical part of it.

2. Spending  too much time maintining your blog and making little or no money

3. Can’t seem to get new visitors to your blog or they don’t come back again

4. You struggle to write your posts and wonder how other people are doing it

5. Your visitors just don’t click on your Google ads.

…… Solobis Blog Plan will take care of it. Solobis Fast Track Team consists of professionals who will take care of all your technical issues and help to set up your blog and to keep it running properly. So you can just focus on your content and marketing of your blog and more importantly – making money from you blog.

Tag:backlinks, blog directories, blogs, ping, RSS Feeds, trackbacks, traffic, visitors

If you are new to blogging, and you have your brand new blog published, I understand the great feeling of achievement. You may even visit your blog again and again to admire your masterpiece. But it does no good if you are the only visitor to your blog. Without traffic flowing to your blog, your masterpiece will just remain an ordinary blog and will not generate any income for you if money making is your main intention when you set up your blog. To monetize your blog, you have to spread the word around and make your presence felt in the blogosphere.

Here are a few things that you can do to generate traffic to your blog.

1. Blog directories

You can submit your blog to the many blog directories in the internet, Many readers or smaller publishers look for RSS feeds in these directories. If your blog contents have good quality articles, many will be led to your blog through these directories.

Different blog directories have their own requirements for submitting. Some need more details such as your name, email, blog URL, password, blog description and categories.

To save time, Wordpress Adsense System has listed 176 blog directories that you can submit to. So instead of looking around in the internet searching for blog directories, the Wordpress Adsense System list will save you a lot of your precious time.

2. RSS Announcer

This is a software that you can use to submit your RSS feeds to a list of  Feed Directories with just the click of a mouse. It is so simple to use. Once installed in your PC, you can easily submit you RSS feeds to make your blog presence felt. The benefit of submitting your RSS feeds is that other blog publisher will pick up your feed and use them as additional content on the website or blog. Since they will link back to you, you automatically get backlink to your site and this will drive traffic to your blog.

This software is included free of charge in the Wordpress Adsense System. Again this will save you a lot of your  precious time.

3. Ping

To “Ping” a site is to let them know that you have posted a new post.  When you “Ping” a site, a summary of your post will appear on the ping site. The search engine spiders will search the site and follow the links to your blog and starts to index them. There are many site that accept ping as part of their services to categorize blogging topics. This will help to drive traffic to your blog.

4. Backlinks

The advantage of blogging compared to a website is that it is easier to get a backlink from another blog due to the comment features in a blog. If you actively visit other blogs which is related or which has a blog topic similar to yours, you might want to leave a comment and it will create a backlink from that blog to yours. Backlinks are good for your blogs as more backlinks will help you in your page rank.

5. Trackbacks

Trackback is a mechanism for the communication between blogs. If a blogger writes or commenting or referring to a post on another blog, and both blogs support Trackback protocol, then the commenting blogger can notify the owner of the other blog with a Trackback Ping. The receiving blog will display a summary and links of the commenting entries below the original entry.  These links make it easier for the readers to follow. Most bloggers choose to manually approve their Trackback links. So make sure that your comment is relevant to their post.

6. Good contents

You can do all the above but if your blog has no good contents, readers may not come back again. To keep your readers coming back, you must ensure that your contents are up-to-date an interesting.

Tag:blogs, wordpress, wordpress adsense seminar

Recently I have attended the preview for the Wordpress Adsense Seminar held at Crystal Crown hotel in Petaling Jaya. The speaker for that function was Steven Wong. He gave a very thorough briefing on the potential of making money from blogging giving examples of how much people are making from their blogs and also the introduction to the flexible and powerful Wordpress blogging platform

He also gave an introduction to his two days blogging workshop which teaches those who would like to pursue money making possibilities by blogging. WPAdsenseMastery.com offers workshop that shows you on how to get started blogging. In this workshop, Steven Wong & May Ong will show you how to use powerful Wordpress Blogging as a platform to make money online.

For those who are interested to start making money by blogging, it is worth taking a look at this workshop. At least you get the idea on where to start.

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t earn any money for promoting this workshop.

Tag:adsense, blogs, wordpress

I was introduced to internet publishing business by a friend about two years back. The idea of having my own website and and having Google Adsense on my site got me so excited. I registered for a domain name and got myself a hosting company to host my site. (When selecting a hosting company, make sure you select one that has good background with minimum downtime and good customer service. My preferred hosting company is Hostgator. Should you face any problem, the customer service is available through online chat, real cool) Not too bad for a beginner, I managed to get my website up using a web builder tool provided by the hosting company. But what I had was just a shabby looking website and to maintain the website when there is any updates or changes drove me crazy. It was a tedious process to update all the pages and I spent many hours in doing so.

Later I was introduced to Blogger. I did not understand what a blog was back then. I thought that it was great to have my own diary online, so I signed up for a Blogger account and started recording my journals. To me it was just a great place to share my family pictures with friends and relatives. I also inserted Google ads on my blog hoping that friends and relatives may just click on the ads that attracted their attention and make some money out of that. But nothing happened. I did not know how to promote my blog.

I realised the great potential of blogging when I found this website Wordpress Adsense System by Gobala Krishnan while surfing the internet one day. It totally changed the way I looked at blogging. I realised that it was actually an excellent way to turn your blog into a cash generating machine if you know the way. I took up the offer to download two chapters of the ebook for free. After going through the two chapters, I knew I must have the whole book if I really wanted to make money from my blog. I bought the book and I have not regretted my decision. The book was written in simple terms that make it easy to understand even for a beginner who does not know what a blog is. It comes with step by step guide and screen shots so that readers can understand more easily. As the saying goes, a picture is worth more than a thousand words. There is a vast information provided in the book and the author knows that it will be too much for a new beginner to absorb. To help beginners, he even included a seven days guide plan that teaches you step by step to get your blog up and running, fully functioning with search engine optimization. The end result at the end of the seven days course is a great professionally looking blog that will start generating cash for you. The blog you are reading now is the result of the book. Compared to my first blog using Blogger, it makes a whole lots of different (for comparison purposes, you can take a look at my first blog here) If you like to have a blog like this one which you are reading now and start making money from it, get yourself the two free chapters here.

Tag:adsense, blogger, blogs, wordpress

There’s a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has “too many” options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I’m always asked the question “Is Wordpress better than Blogger?”. The answer, of course, is “Yes”. But to really understand why, it’s important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
Here’s the comparison scale:

1) Ease of Set-up And Use

Yes, it’s much easier to set-up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own Bloggger account. You can be done in 10 minutes flat. Once you’re set-up you can start posting immediately. If you want to add a designer’s touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free.
Installing Wordpress however can be a major headache if you don’t know what you’re doing. Since you’re going to host it on your own account, you’ll need to download the installation files, upload them to your server, set-up a database, and run the configuration script.

However, if you know which hosting account to get, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform.

2) Customization & Advanced Use

Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort your articles into different focuses, unless you know how to hack the platform. With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category differently on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a magazine-like portal.

Publishing with Blogger can be a pain in the ass. It can take forever to post articles, especially if you’re making changes to the entire website. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, although if you load your system with all kinds of bells and whistles it can be just as frustrating. With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like “Shout Boxes” that improve interaction on your site. You can also get pretty themes and nifty little tools that you can add to the core template files. However, that’s as far as you can go with Blogger.

With Wordpress however, the sky is the limit. As cliche as that may sound, not only can you get themes, additional “plugins” and advanced tools, you can also extend Wordpress to far beyond just a blogging platform.
The talk today is about using Wordpress as a complete, user-friendly Content Management System or CMS.

4) Copyrights and Ownership of Content

I started with Blogger and I won’t say that it’s bad. But after a while I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here’s why: Google Owns Your Content
Google has the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don’t like what you’re blogging about. You don’t have absolute control over your own blog. With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own account. You have full control over your content.

With the self-hosted version of Wordpress (not Wordpress.com), you’re free to write about anything you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to publish to your own domain, but they still own the database that holds your content! Don’t forget that!

5) Search Engine Optimization and Traffic

There’s this propaganda that since Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I won’t say that this is illogical, but from my experience, there’s no such favoritism.

I’ve heard as many stories of getting indexed fast and ranking high in search engines from both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come.

When you post in Blogger, you can only “ping” a limited amount of sites, whereas with Wordpress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic.
As a conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is only slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and building large amounts of traffic.

6) Money-Making Potential

There’s no doubt that it’s easier to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. In fact you can now apply for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising considering the fact that both are owned by the same company.

With Wordpress, it can get tricky. The default installation is not enough. You’ll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there’s even “Adsense revenue sharing” plugins around that allow you to share ad revenue with other contributors and writers for your blog.

When you start using Wordpress to build your Adsense websites, you’ll soon discover what I mean. It’s something you need to experience for yourself. I can tell you one thing though – when you go Wordpress, you don’t go back.

About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of Wordpress Adsense System, the unique beginner’s guide to building content-rich Adsense websites with Wordpress. You can download two free chapters of his book here.

Tag:adsense, affiliate, blog, cash

Blogs have changed over time and new developments have made it so powerful that its usage as a personal diary is not the reason why people blog.  Many young people have resorted to use it as an outlet for their emotional feelings. For entrepreneurs, blogging is  one of the best internet marketing strategies available for them to make money online. Blogging for your online business is a proven way to enhance the visibility of your business products and services..

There are a many ways of using your blog to generate income for you.

There are many advertisers waiting for you to approach them, these are programs such as Google’s Adsense where you allow companies to place their ads which are related to your topics on your blog. Each time one of your readers clicks on an ad on your blog, you earn a small amount of money. The figure may be small but when the volume builds up, the figure may be awesome. Good contents on your blog will attract visitors and constantly updating them with interesting articles will create loyal readers. The readers are the one who will make you money by clicking on the ads that are of interest to them. So do what ever you can to keep them coming back.

An affiliate program is one where the seller offers a part of the money generated by a sale to those who refer customers to them. You need to sign up with companies that offer such programs. You will, in most cases, be given a unique ID from that affiliate. That ID is for identifying you as the one who has referred the customer to the site and made the sale. If, then, you are successful in helping to sell the product, you receive payment that is generally stated in whatever your affiliate agreement includes. The amount you might get paid ranges greatly. You may make as little as one cent in US dollars or as much as one hundred US dollars depending on the product, the company, and sometimes the amount you help to sell. Once you have made the decision to use an affiliate program and have figured out which one you want to use, then you are ready to get started. Sign up and register for the affiliate program and start adding your affiliate’s codes to your blog. Some of the big ones are like Amazon, Clickbank and Commission Junction.

If you have a blog that is dedicated to a particular topic, e.g., mobile phones and is published on a regular basis, that has a good readership and is recognized as an authoritative source for mobile phones information, your blog may draw the interest of a corporate sponsor and you may be approached to run their advertisements for new products on a long-term basis. When you are being approached in such way, you know that you have made it big in the blogging scene.

You can also buy some digital products like e-books that come with a reseller rights and brand it to make it your own products. By writing a review of it on your blog, you can attract your readers and when they buy from you, the profit is yours to keep. In most cases, the author of the e-book would recommend a price range for you to sell the product.

They are many more ways for you to turn your blog into a profit generating machine. Do explore and read up more and choose the ones that you are comfortable with and start making money online.

Tag:blogs, websites

Online journals, better known as blogs, are becoming more and more popular. When the Internet was first getting started, users rushed to build personal web sites. Web sites are still very popular among web users, but many are now turning to blogs. What’s the difference? This article will examine the main similarities and differences between a Weblog and a website.

While blogs and website are intended to be different, there are a couple of similarities in blogs and sites. Mainly, they are both found on the Internet using a URL or a web address. Both also must have some sort of host to keep the information online. Another similarity of the two is that they both can be maintained by virtually anyone from individuals to companies. Both Weblog and websites can also contain information, pictures, link and keywords, as well. These two types of sites will target readers.

With a blog, information that is entered on the site is generally updated very frequently depending on the writer. Sometimes blog writers even update several times a day. Usually with a website, information is not updated regularly. Websites generally contain information about something that does not change often. When a website is updated, usually the entire page is altered. With a blog, just one entry at a time is updated. After a website has been changed, that information is gone and cannot be seen again by the reader. On a blog, new entries are added, but the old ones are not deleted from the site. Instead, they are stamped with the date and time that they were created, given a title and indexed on that blog page. It makes it easy for a blog reader to go to a certain blog page and read past entries without having to search.

Another main difference between and blog and a website is that a website is generally a little harder to maintain and oftentimes requires a solid understanding of the way the Internet works. With a blog, almost anyone can easily and quickly update a blog. It does not require any special working knowledge of the Internet. In addition, there are many sites that offer blog features and most of the time these can be used for free.

Blogs also encourage people to communicate with each other much more so than with a website. A websites primary function is to provide some sort of information to a reader. While there may be a place to leave a comment or an email address for writing that is not why that site was created. Blogs are used for communication. Writers may choose to make their site private, but most choose to publish their blogs making them public to any one who wishes to read. Most blog hosting sites offer options to add to the site so readers and the writer can leave comments to each other on the site. In addition, there are entire web communities built just for blogs. Blogs encourage those who have similar thoughts, interests or even businesses to share their blog site so readers can find them easily. Blogs offer guest tracking, keyword tracking, hit counters, comment areas, and even tag boards for both the reader and the writer to use.

Blogging is extremely popular right now. As more people begin sharing their thoughts with others, there are more blogs created each day. Blogging gives writers, journalists, professionals, moms, dads and even teenagers an instant way to publish their thoughts on a regular basis. For those who enjoy writing, blogs give a unique opportunity to practice writing skills and experiment with what others want to read. Businesses use blogs to show off their expertise and knowledge in their fields, whereas websites do not always get this type of message out to the readers.

Blogging and websites do have some similarities. They are both found on the Internet and contain information. However, blogs give a writer the unique opportunity to communicate with their reader and update their entries on a frequent basis. Anyone who tries blogging will love the instant gratification of getting their opinions and thoughts out on the Internet right away and getting instant feedback from readers that visit their site.

Article Source: http://www.idea.thebusinessresources.com

About Author:

Gregg Hall is a business consultant and author for many online and offline businesses and lives in Navarre Florida. See more articles on blogging and internet marketing at www.theinternetmarketingsecrets.com

Tag:blogger, blogs, wordpress

Blogging is very popular today. The two main blogging platforms are blogger.com and Wordpress. The platform that will work best for you depends on many factors. Learning the advantages and disadvantages of each will help you make that decision.

Blogger allows you to put up a blog quickly and easily. There is no need for you to have a website or a domain name. Blogger hosts the blog for you.

Registration is free and takes only minutes. Once you are registered, you can immediately begin to set up your blog. Templates are provided for you to use and can be easily changed at any time to give your blog a new look.

When you add a post, you simply name it and, if you have a website, link it to your site so visitors can easily visit your site by clicking on the title.

Type in your text and preview it to be certain it looks good. Then publish it. Your blog is now live.

If it’s this easy, why would you not simply choose Blogger and be done with it?

When you get done posting, you need to ping your blog. Let blogging networks know you have just updated your blog. You can do so by going to Pingomatic.com and entering the name of your blog and the url address of your blog. Click on the websites you want to ping and you’re done.

If you don’t take time to ping, there’s a good chance no one will find your blog. This pinging is not hard, but it is an extra step you need to take when you post, unless you are posting for just family and/or friends.

The fact that Blogger is hosted at Blogger also means they can delete your blog at any time. You don’t have total control over your blog. Chances are this will not happen, but it does tend to make many marketers worry a bit.

Wordpress, on the other hand, is hosted on your hosting service. You use your domain name and the Wordpress blog is in it’s own folder. You have total control over your blog.

Once setup, it is very easy for you to post to it. You go into the administration area and write a post. When you are finished, you click to publish it. If you have setup Wordpress properly and have listed auto posting at Pingomatic, your post will automatically be pinged to the blogging networks. You do not have an additional step.

There are also many templates for you to use and it is possible to configure these templates to fit your needs. Once again, you have more control.

However, Wordpress can be a little complicated to install and, to take full advantage of it, there are many different plugins you will need to install as well. This can be a bit of a daunting task and something you might not want to be bothered with.

You do have to have a domain name and you have to have web hosting set up. These costs may limit the number of different blogs you might want to publish, whereas Blogger allows you to make as many blogs as you want on different subjects and you never pay anything.

Some people have blogs using both platforms. You need to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of each and make your decision accordingly, The best way is to dive in and give it your best shot.

Article Source: http://www.idea.thebusinessresources.com

About Author:

Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of besuccessfulnews.com, a site that provides information and articles on how to succeed in your own home or small business.

Tag:blog, blogging, free blog, website, wordpress

I am sure many people are familiar with website but what about a blog?

Blogging still sounds alien to some. So what is this funny term called blog?

Blog is an abbreviation of the term “Web log” and coined to become the word “blog”. The idea of blogging is not new, infact it has been around since the nineties. Back then, The term blog refers to weblog and it is in every fashion not a commercial or professional site. It is more of the personal nature, for comment or web site material. Blogging was not well known back then and there were merely a handful of blogs in existence. By the year 1998, this term blog was starting to pick up pace, and as a result became a phenomenon. Once it became free to the public, it really took off and was a pastime that was enjoyed by many.The moment blogger was released in 1999 it became a huge success with the public. Now people are not restricted on what kind of weblog they make, fast-forward to the year 2000 and people are making as many as 300-350 new blogs daily.

There are many blogging platforms you can use. Most of them are free and some require a small amount of charges.

Here are some of the platforms that are available for you to use.

1. Blogger
Owned by Google and it is free to use. You can open an account with them for free at www.blogger.com. Setting up is quite easy and you should be able to get it done within few minutes.

2. Movable Type.
This is a business blogging platform by SixApart meant for large corporations with multiple users. Available at www.sixapart.com/moveabletype

3. LiveJournal
This is a personal blogging platform also by SixApart. You can get the LiveJournal account for free at www.sixapart.com/livejournal

4. TypePad
Entry level business blogging solution available from SixApart for $4.95 a month at www.sixapart.com/typepad

5. Wordpress
This is free for all to use. It comes with either free hosting or self-hosted. For free hosting, you can open an account at www.wordpress.com and your blog will be hosted free of charge. On the other hand, if you would like to explore and have more flexibility, you might want to host your own Wordpress blog on your preferred hosting company. For this, you can download your Wordpress from www.wordpress.org and good news, it is also free.

For myself, I prefer to use Wordpress. Although other platforms like Moveable type has it advantages, I believe Wordpress is still superior compared to others. There are a few reasons for these:

1. Wordpress is open-source and it is free. Don’t be mislead by the phrase, “Anything free is not good.” This is the exception.
2. It is constantly being developed and improved by hundreds of amazing programmers around the world.
3. The basic Wordpress software can be easily and greatly enhanced in terms of appeareance and functionality with third party add-ons which is also known as “Plugins”. And the good news is, most of these plugins are available for free too.

Gobala Krishnan, the Wordpress expert has written a guide called Wordpress Adsense System, which I strongly recommend to those who want to use Wordpress as a platform for their blogs.  He explained the way to go about setting up your own blog using Wordpress in simple non-technical terms. A must read for those who are seriously looking into mastering blogging.