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How To Get Yourself Free Domain

May 5th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Blogging, wordpress

Nowadays, it is very common for everyone to create their own blogs. The users are not from a particular group, but almost all kinds of people have it, whether they are students, employees, old, young, professionals, newbies, etc. Their blog topics are also varies, such as politics, music, communities, hobbies, also gossip about artists.

It is easy to make a blog. You don’t even have to pay to make one. There are several sites that offer free blogs, such as blogger.com, or wordpress.com. Or, if you have some pennies to spare, you can buy your own domain.

Now, there are several sites that also offer free domain, such as co.cc and unonic, they support forwarding domain, so you can forward your blog from wordpress or blogger to your own domain at co.cc or unonic.

Next time I will write how to get a free host with a free domain. The best things in life come free… :)

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Review: Paid To Write Programs

May 3rd, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Blogging, making money

Monetizing your blog is not only via Google Adsense. If you are considering to build an online business from your blog, it is better to know things about what other monetizing programs you can join. One of the programs is Paid-to- Write.

If you like and good at writings (in English), one of the alternatives to do online business is paid-to-write program. As it’s called, you will be paid to write reviews, opinions or just by giving a link to a product on your posting or articles.

Here is some review of the paid-to-write programs that you can join. If you are interested, you can join them. Don’t worry, there are no referral links from me in this review.

Blogvertise
This company will pay you to create BUZZ. Your job is to mention about a product, a service, or a particular site in your blog so that your reader will know about that product or service. If you don’t have a Paypal account yet, you should sign up first, because Blogvertise pays each post that you make via Paypal account.

BloggerWave
Bloggerwave is one of the popular choice to earn money by creating your free blog and write your opinion about particular topic.

Blogitive
Blogitive gives you chance to write your own opinion about new products released by some company. You will be paid via Paypal on weekly basis for each article you made.

BlogToProfit
BlogtoProfit connects you and the advertisers who want to use your blog. In BlogToProfit, your job is to show off the ads in your articles. Because it blends with your writings, there are no limit for profit with this program

PayPerPost
PayPerPost will pay you everytime you write a review or opinion about a product.

Smorty
This program will pay you to write about a product, service, or particular site in your blog. Smorty pays its member weekly. You are free to write about the topic that you like. You can also post in some of your own blogs.

SponsoredReviews
SponsoredReviews is the advertising review service that gives you chance to become publisher and earn money by writing site reviews or SponsoredReviews client’s product. The advantage of SponsoredReviews from others is that you can choose your own bidding of you review commission. Moreover, SponsoredReviews also gives affiliate program so the more referral you get the more commission you earn.

These are the ones that I know, maybe you have other good programs that makes money please tell me so we can share.

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4 Common Mistakes In Optimizing and Blog Submission

April 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Blogging, seo

When we blog, we often do mistakes while optimizing our seo blog, especially new bloggers (like me) entering blog and internet world. SEO is like two-eyed knife, if we use it correctly can have excellent effect for our blog. But if we do it wrongly, the result will be horrid for our blog’s page rank, blog’s rank in search engine, or may even be considered as spam blog. So, to avoid these mistakes, I will tell you about these 4 common mistakes in submission techniques and blog optimization.

1. Using wrong keywords
The worst result if we use wrong keywords is that search engine and visitor will not find our blog. I believe that no one wants to have this situation ever happen on his blog, don’t you too? To avoid this mistke, we should do some keyword research about our blog first. When looking for keyword density, we can use several tools on the internet, which are:

- SEO Tools (Freeware)
Not only showing keyword comparison, SEO Tools also shows the combination of keywords phrases that are relating to find “Niche Market”

- Wordtracker
An excellent tool, however, the free version only shows MSN search result

- Google Adwords Keyword Tool
Of course, there are a lot more of free tools that we can use by googling

2. Too many Keyword in Meta Tag Keyword
Many of us bloggers have wrong a wrong idea about Meta Tag Keyword. They tend to put hundreds of keyword in meta tag keyword, by hoping of getting high pagerank for that keyword in search engines.

The fact, search engine will assume our blog a spam if the keywords are too many in meta tag keyword. Once we are hoping that it will go as top ten search result on google, can become our site not even showed in search engine.
Tips: make only adequate and relevant keywords with our blog, like 25 keyword

3. Too Many of Same Keyword Being Repeated
Search engines can detect a blog with too many repeated same keywords and they will not indexed that blog in their database.
So, we should avoid using too many keywords in each page, even if we have to, that keyword should have a meaning in the sentence.

Tips: don’t put a particular keyword more than once in meta tag keyword.

4. Using Text Color that Similar With Background Color
This technique often used by webmasters to trick search engines and make their pages rich of keywords. It is hard to repeat the same keywords in the same page without making them sounds odd for our visitors. That is why, this technique is used so repeated keywords can’t be seen by visitors.

However, now search engines can sniff this technique, resulting they will not do indexing our blog. Search engines consider these blogs as fraud. Therefore, never use this trick again because it will never work

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10 Wordpress Plugins Yang Wajib Dipakai

April 26th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in wordpress

Seperti yang kita ketahui bersama, Wordpress adalah platform yang hebat untuk mempublikasikan high quality content, Wordpress membuat seseorang bisa dengan mudah membuat sebuah blog dan mengatur blognya sedemikian rupa menurut kehendaknya. Hal yang penting dari Wordpress adalah elemen yang disebut plug-ins. Plugins membuat kita bisa lebih leluasa dalam melakukan apa saja dengan blog kita. Berikut adalah 10 plugins yang menurut saya paling berguna untuk blog kita. Cuman yang harus diingat, menginstal plugins terlalu banyak pada wordpress kita dapat mempengaruhi loading time dan performance dari blog kita.

1. Akismet

Akismet adalah sebuah plugin yang berguna untuk mengatasi comment2 berupa spam pada blog anda. Kenapa saya bilang setiap blog wajib menginstal Akismet? Karena jaman sekarang banyak sekali spammer liar yang tiap hari mengunjungi comment box anda. That’s why we all need one.

2. Broken Link Checker

Sebuah plugin yang tak kalah hebat, berguna untuk mengecek blog kita kalau2 ada broken links, dan bila ada akan diperlihatkan di dashboard kita.

3. Feedburner Feedsmith
Plugin yang satu ini dapat membuat kita melacak semua pendaftar feed pada blog kita yang dulu2 dan mengembalikan mereka ke feed dari FeedBurner kita yang sekarang. Plugin ini bagus untuk blogger2 yang mencari pendaftar2 feed mereka yang hilang.

4. Wordpress.com Statistics
Wordpress.com Statistics plugin berguna untuk melacak pengunjung2 blog kita, disana diinformasikan tentang pageviews, jumlah post yang diklik, referrers yang menunjuk ke blog kita dan masih banyak lagi. Berguna sekali untuk mengidentifikasi apa yang orang2 sukai dari blog kita.

5 Subscribe To Comments
Plugin ini dapat membuat pembaca blog kita untuk mendaftar ke komentar (subscribe to comments) di blog kita pada post tertentu yang mereka telah komentari. Hal ini penting karena mereka bisa mengetahui kalau seseorang merespon komentar atau menanyakan sesuatu yang berkaitan dengan post tersebut.

6. Top Commentators Widget
Plugin kecil untuk menampilkan komentator terbanyak pada  blog kita.

7. Share This
Plugin ini juga sangat recommended buat semua, karena terbukti dapat mengurangi load time dari homepage blog kita, tidak seperti Sociable plugin yang punya terlalu banyak gambar untuk diload.

8. Get Recent Comments
Apabila anda mencari sesuatu untuk memenuhi sidebar anda, plugin ini dapat digunakan.

9. Google Analytics
Plugin sederhana yang satu ini bertugas untuk menambahkan Google Analytics tracking script pada blog kita supaya kita tidak perlu repot2 membetulkan atau mencampuri file2 pada theme blog kita. Benar2 berguna bila anda adalah seseorang yang senang semua serba otomatis.

10. Peter’s Custom Anti Spam
Plugin buatan si Peter ini gunanya hampir sama dengan Akismet, yakni untuk menangkal spam comments yang masuk. Bedanya, kalau pakai plugin ini, pengunjung blog kita yang ingin meninggalkan commentnya harus terlebih dulu mengetik huruf2 yang ada di anti spam image display, semacam rapidshare gitu lah.

So, plugins wordpress apa yang anda pakai untuk blog anda? Bisa anda share disini

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