Tag: blogging

You are probably aiming to get noticed in the online world or to stand out as a blogger. However, you have no idea how to start. Or, you may have started already but has not made any significant milestone yet. You may ask yourself; what have you done wrong. This year, some of the industry’s expert will go on stage to share the best practices to every aspiring online influencer via the Cebu Blogging Summit. This is a great venue for you to evaluate your options, learn from the masters, and connect with the other players of the community. The summit would ... Read more

You have your own website but still would like to use Blogger for publishing your blog or, you just don’t want to point your domain to Blogger as your primary host but would still like to use Blogger, then this post is for you. Blogger will assign you a conventional URL, yourblogname.blogspot.com, but you can customize it with your chosen subdomain, for instance, yourblog.yourdomain.com. If you would like to register a domain now, I recommend Go Daddy. To start, login to your Blogger and to your domain registrar. 1. Go to the DNS Manager section of your domain. Contact your ... Read more

Bloggers and Software Professionals spend a lot of time working starting at the monitor screen and lying stationary for a countless hours. Health is the last thing they’re usually concerned about because they are most probably immersed in their work. As a professional blogger myself, I face a lot of health issues with blogging. Here are remedies and tips from a health care professional working  for my Health blog. Weight Gain Well, I personally gained over 10 pounds when I started online entrepreneurship. It is  one of the major problems most of the geeks are concerned of.  Make sure you workout ... Read more

Uploading WordPress files such as images in subfolders or root directory will increase your site loading performance. Well that is the observation of many web developers. Which is true because browsers need not to dig deep directories such as yourdomain.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads or if you install it in root directory you have yourdomain.com/wp-content/upload as container of your images or files. Now here’s a way to simplify the media files directory. I will present two ways and make sure to read through before you’ll start the changes or setup. Method 1. Uploading Images in root directory or sub-folder You can upload all images ... Read more

FeedBurner is one of the best way to make your readers return to your blog. This is a service that notifies your readers (once they subscribed) about your new blog entries. This is fast, easy to use and of course free. One way to publicize your feeds using in FeedBurner is to use subscription form however the html code of this form that they provide is too simple and style-free. The code below is the generic html code provided by FeedBurner. <form style=”border:1px solid #ccc;padding:3px;text-align:center;” action=”http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify” method=”post” target=”popupwindow” onsubmit=”window.open(‘http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/mailverify?uri=freedomwall/hJpT’, ‘popupwindow’, ‘scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520’);return true”><p>Enter your email address:</p><p><input type=”text” style=”width:140px” name=”email”/></p><input type=”hidden” value=”freedomwall/hJpT” name=”uri”/><input type=”hidden” ... Read more

Photography is one of the new niches that I got interested recently and I would like to share some of my photos using this blog. Unfortunately, my post column width is too small to show large images. The tendency is to re-size the image and fit it into the narrow post column, and link the images to its direct URL which shows its original sizes. By doing this, your blog visitor will have to leave the site just to see the original image size or if you use target=”_blank” html code, images are shown in new window once clicked – ... Read more

Moving my blog from blogger to wordpress was a piece of cake. I use Blogger’s export option to migrate my blog. I save the XML file and converted it to a WordPress readable XML file using an online app. I then uploaded the converted file to WordPress import page and then everything is working well. I am too lucky that Blogger hosted my images at picasa and so, I do not need to upload such images to WordPress. However, I do need a lot of work with my video files. Blogger controls the number of characters of your slug while ... Read more

Google is the most powerful search engine today. It is where most internet savvies around the world type and click and is ranked no. 1 by Alexa web ranking. If you have a blog and wanted to create significant visitors to your blog, you must allow Google to crawl and index your blog posts and articles and be searchable. To be able to do this, try using Google Webmaster, a great tool that will automatically inform Google about your blog updates. By this, your articles will be indexed to Google search, making it available to all internet browsers worldwide. Sign ... Read more

One way to maximize your earnings is to show you must have a good location of all your ads. You may use your sidebars for your ad space but your readers may just negate it specially those who only after the contents of your post or articles. With that, there will be lesser clicks and slower income returns. The best location for your ads is to paste it inside your content block…(See the ad space just above the first paragraph of this article and below the post title). In that location, I am sure that my readers will first noticed ... Read more