Get What You NEED NOT What You Want For Your Website

New webmasters get a lot of headache in getting a good grip of what they need for a web site. Primarily, the reason is , these people ask the wrong question. The building blocks of any very good website is not all about giving an answer to the issue “What will i desire for a web site?” instead, it ought to be “What should i need for an internet site.” This single question on it's own brings you to definitely numerous things that will not primarily improve your website, but will additionally make your online business.

The subsequent solutions was our structure in making online websites that can in turn be considered a excellent help to you if you are intending to possess your own.

You'll need a very good domain. The domain operates as your business name. It is the name brand of your respective online workplace. Similarly in the in the real world world, it needs to be something which will get one’s particular attention, an element that can be easily remembered. If you can, use a keyword which is most likely to be checked while using browser's search engine. Which is why keyword research is regarded as the basic factor you will must do if you would like your web site to be found. Try to remember, without having someone finding your internet site is completely unproductive and also your website will be regarded as useless.

You need a trustworthy host. If your domain name is your business office name all over the net, your host is like your office place which will operate 24/7. Your web host is very very important in the sense that it can affect your search engine standing and also the dependability and security and safety of your online business. Remember that you will really have to be extremely careful when choosing your host. There are actually lots and even thousands of website hosts that might be worldwide. Understand however that only a number of them happens to be reputable.

You will need the best theme. At this point why don't we head out towards the looks of your web based office. As we say; “First impression lasts.” Identical to your office in the real world, it must get the best feeling it could. Keep in mind that, website look and feel will surely be pretty addictive for your prospects. Visual appeal alone could provide them a feeling that your online company is dependable. For Wordpress, I strongly recommend Woothemes or Genesis. 

If you're really planning to have a good web based business, I solidly advise that you'll not resolve with the free styles. You can get handful of great free Wordpress themes, however you must search these and learn about them before you could be totally satisfied about what they are able to provide.

You may need a very good SEO strategy. Visitors are the life blood vessels of your web site. Without it, your internet site is useless and is also just simply waste of money. Not to mention that when you get men and women arriving at your internet site, you will also must make some conversion rates in which your targeted visitor turns into a customer. An outstanding Search engine optimization process won't just give you visitors, but will also supply you with a wanting to buy customers. Simply be aware though that a superior Search engine optimization structure could also be a little bit costly. The fact is, this occasionally can turn to become the costliest part of your internet site. But simply keep in mind, good SEO methods can also triple as well as provide a hundred times more income. Therefore i advise that you don’t get cheap with this one.

Visit Frisco Websites to learn more about how you can have a good start in having a website.

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How To Open Rar Files in Ubuntu

If you have installed Ubuntu as your operating system, your Archive Manager might not be able to open .rar files.

Your Archive Manager can open almost all kinds of Archiver such as zip, but not rar files. Funny isn't it?


But don't worry, here in Ubuntu, you can do almost all things. This is very simple to solve. All you have to do is to download and install "unrar". You can do this by following this very simple step-by-step instruction.



1. Open the your terminal.
2. Type this following command:

sudo apt-get install unrar

3. Wait until downloaded and installed.
4. After installation, be sure to close the terminal.

Then you can now open your .rar archived files.

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How To Put Adsense At the Bottom of Each Post

Putting Adsense at the bottom of each post in blogspot is easy. It's not that complicated. It is very similar to our post of putting Adsense within the post.

Here's how:

1.Login to your Blogger account.
2.Click Design> Edit HTML.
3.Tick the Expand Widget Templates
4.Find the following code:

<div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"> 

5.And post this code format right below the above format:

<b:if cond="data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;">

YOUR PARSED ADSENSE CODE

</b:if>

6.Click Save


Additional Notes:

What do I mean with “PARSED ADSENSE CODE”? Parsed Adsense code is your Adsense code that has been changed into xml code format. It has to be parsed to function in blogspot because blogspots are xml type of blogs and not php.

To parse your code, simply copy the Adsense code, paste it to this parser tool, and click parse.

Then copy again the new parsed code and that's the one that you are going to paste in your template as seen above.

The code:

<b:if cond="data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;">

</b:if> 

is being added so that your Adsense will only appear in every single post, but not in your index pages such category, searches, and main home page.

Remember that you are only allowed to use 3 Adsense ads at a time. And if the Adsense will be seen in your index pages in every post, you will be violating then the terms and conditions of Adsense.

Not to mention that it destroys the beauty of your blog.

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How To Install Offline Dictionary in Ubuntu

Ubuntu usually comes with pre-installed dictionary. However, the dictionary that comes is usually an online dictionary. We need to install offline dictionary so that the dictionary will still be usable even if you are offline.

Step By Step Guide in installing Offline Dictionary in Ubuntu

1.Check if you already have installed a dictionary application. Click Application> Office. If you already have a dictionary, proceed to step 2. If you don't open the terminal and type the following command:

sudo apt-get install dictd

2.Install the dictionary definitions:

sudo apt-get install dict-gcide

After download and installation:

1.Click Application>Office>Dictionary
2.Click Edit Tab>Preferences
3.Click Add
4.Input the following settings:

Description: Local Server
Hostname: 127.0.0.1
Port: 2628

5.Click Add
6.Restart the Dictionary

Optionally, you can also install WordWeb which is equally helpful dictionary. And it is good that it runs well in Ubuntu without any hastle. Kindly follow the following guide:

Install WINE

1.Click Application> Ubuntu Software Center>
2.In the search box, type in WINE and press enter
3.Highlight Wine Microsoft Compatibility> Click Install

Install WordWeb

1.Download WordWeb from this link: www.wordweb.info/free/
2.Locate your download which you will find most likely in the Folder “Download”
3.Right click the “.exe” file of the WordWeb download.
4.Click Open With WINE
5.Follow the instruction.
6.After installation, you can check if it was successfully installed.
Click Application> WINE> Programs> WordWeb.

There you have it, you can now enjoy your offline dictionary in Ubuntu.

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How To Add Comment Form in Blogspot

This is the updated version of adding a comment form in blogspot blog.

There are times that you are using a pre-made template in blogspot and you find out later that the comment form is not working well. Therefore, you might need to tweak your template a little bit.

First things first, you need to try this before tweaking your blogger template using the HTML editor.

1. Login to your blogger.com
2. Click Setting> Click Comments
3. In Comment form placement, tick “Embedded Below Post”
4. Click Save Settings.

Note: Notice the warning below Embedded Below Post? It says:

The embedded comment form can not be used if you have Post Pages disabled.

There are some premade templates that will not really work on this. In that case you need to tweak it in HTML editor. If it doesn't work, follow instructions below.

Tweaking it should not be so much pain though.

Step by Step Guide to Put a Comment Form Below the Post:

1.Login to your blogger.com

2.Design Tab> Click Edit HTML.

3.Tick Epand Widget Templates

4.On your keyboard, press Ctrl+F and type in the following line:

<b:include data='post' name='comments' />

This will enable to quickly search for this line.

5.Once you find it, immediately after this line, add this code:

<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>

6.Save the Template.

Your visitor can now see the comment form below your post that functions.

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Wordpress MySQL Gone Away Error Solved

My wordpress blog is having a MySQL Database Error like "MySQL  Gone Away" where I was compeled to look for some solution immediately. At first, I really thought that my blog was hacked especially that my other blog hosted in another hosting company was literally hacked where I end up canceling my account.

But this blog of mine is more than a year old and is doing well now in Google page rankings. Losing it is definitely not an option for me. So I tried to search for solution.

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How To Activate Smartbro in Ubuntu

Do you have a Smartbro Dongle and you are using Ubuntu? Many Ubuntu users find it hard to install Smartbro internet dongle. Today, not anymore. I listed here the detailed, easiest way to install it.

Ok first, I want you to know my system and my current Ubuntu OS. I am using an Acer Aspire 4330 model of laptop, and in it, is Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, known as the Lucid Lynx. I am using the Smartbro HSDPA Dongle Modem MF627 made by ZTE corporation.

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How To Make Money With Your Blog In the Philippines

There are lots of money making models that you can do on the net. However, if you live in the Philippines, online money making is a little bit limited. This is why we will only tackle money making models that are proven to be working even if you are living in the Philippines.

Some consider blogging as a hobby, while others consider it as a business. But why not consider it to be both? Your hobby can be a good start of business. And this is where blogging comes in.

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How To A Choose Blogger Template

Your world maybe turning upside-down for having hundreds of Blogger Templates to choose from. You know you need to choose the right template that will reflect your theme, your attitude and personality.

To make it easier for you to choose, you need to ask the right questions to yourself to arrive in a smaller number of options for a template.  But before that, let us review first what a template is and what a theme is.

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How To Post A Cut and Paste Code in Blogger

Have you ever tried posting a code in blogger like java code or something like a link code using plainly the code tags to be copied and paste by your readers? Have you seen anything happened? Most probably you didn’t see anything appeared on the post, and probably you are also getting error messages from blogger.

Posting a cut and paste code in Blogger though it’s not that easy to do, yet it’s not too complicated to work on. Let us go ahead and understand first what is happening why it is not appearing on the post.

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How to Add Meta Tags to Individual Posts in Blogger Blogspot Blog

Previously we added meta tags in the homepage of your Blogger blogspot blog. Today, we will add another set of meta tags.

Please, do not miss the note at the bottom of this instruction.
1. Login to Blogger account.

2. Click Design > Edit HTML

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How to Add SEO Meta Tags in Blogger Blogspot Blog

Today we will be learning how to add Meta Tags on your Blogger blogspot blog's home page. This will also be the first of our series in optimizing your blogger blogspot blog.

What In The World Are Meta Tags?

Meta tags are html tags that is being read by the search engines as they rank the pages of your blog. It is very important in the sense that they are the one that is telling the search engines to rank your this particular page higher in particular keywords.

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How Can SEO Kill Your Content

Undoubtedly, search engine optimization or what we call SEO is really helpful in making a huge amount of traffic.  There is no successful blog that was not search engine optimized. 

But what is the limitation of optimizing your post?

A post can become a turn off when a blogger starts applying all he knows about search engine optimization in one single post.

We all know that Search Engine Optimization is about putting meta tags, keywords, using the right title, repetitive keywords, etc. A Blogger kills his own blog when he is tempted to place all kinds of meta tags and reuse unnecessary keywords in just a single post. Doing this can definitely lose the voice of your writing.

Voice is one of the most important elements of a successful blog. Period.  - Joy Tanksley

To understand the voice of your writing, try to do this very simple activity.

Go to your room and get a recorder (maybe a MP3 recorder). Get someone to listen to you. It can be your younger brother or someone else.  Start talking to him as if you are teaching him while you are recording it. Don’t let him interrupt you as you try to become a teacher to him in as short as 10-15 minutes. Tell him to just listen to you. And just go on with the flow.

Did your younger brother listen to you? Are you getting his attention? After 10-15 minutes, stop and go back to your recorder. Listen to it. If your younger brother is listening to you, it is most probably because he understands what you are saying and he believes that it is important. Furthermore, he recognizes your voice and he know he needs to respect that. 

This is exactly what we want to do in blogging. Your voice needs to be heard. Though there is no literal voice that can be heard, your writing must be compelling enough for your visitors to stay.

Here are some tips in putting a voice in your blog.

1.    Try to talk normally. Use almost the same words just as you physically and literally talked to your younger brother.
2.    Use the lingua franca. Use words that are normally understood by most of your readers. While conventional writing is important, you have to remember that blogging is communicating to your readers. It is important that you use the same language, a language that is understandable.
3.    Just go on with the flow. Do it normally. Imagine yourself to be talking to literal people. Don’t be over-acting. Just let it flow.

But why SEO freaks loses the game?

They will lose the game simply because too much SEO’ing can affect the grammar, form and voice of your article. Those who are trying to fool search engines will never be successful in blogging. Blogging is not all about money making nor SEO’ing, it is about delivering a high-quality useful content.

Just come to think of this, why would someone stay in your blog when all he is reading are repetitive and unnecessary keywords that do not make any sense?

People use and search the net for information.

They did not arrive to your website by accident. They made the click believing that you have their information that they are looking. So what if they have found your blog? Was it useful to them?

Remember this, most of your blog-visitors arrive in your blog because they are looking for information, they want to learn something, they want to listen to you. Giving them bunch of useless information does not only destroy your integrity and credibility as a problogger, but also gives them the reason to unsubscribe and forget everything about your blog.

If you want them to stay, give them the reason to stay.

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How to Stop Spam Comments

I am running my religious blog The Disciplers on a self-hosted Wordpress. My blog has been gaining a good momentum of traffic for the past three months. Most of my visitors came from organic searches. But as it gain a good amount of traffic, it is also gaining a good amount of spams.

Before, I used to delete and monitor about 4-15 spams a day, but now, I used to review about 30 spams a day. I hate to see these spams flooding my spam comment section. I am tired and frustrated of deleting them, and reviewing them one by one.

Why do people spam and how they do it?

Some bloggers who spam wants to gain one way links from other blogs. One way links are very essential in gaining page rank from search engines. Most of these frustrated bloggers places a mediocre (sometimes it’s still related) comment containing the link going to their blogs.

They do this with the hope of gaining popularity believing that those websites and blogs where they comment were set in “dofollow”. While in reality, many of professional bloggers and web masters nowadays apply the “nofollow” code on their blog and website.

Frustrated Internet Marketers spam to market their products. Many of them were really bad spammers. They use software bots to automatically detect blogs and automatically leave spam comments. Most of these spams were about Viagra, sex products, dating sites, etc. There are hundreds of them. And this is what I hated the most, my blog is a religious blog and they post comments all about sex.

How to Stop Spam?

There is no 100% solution of stopping these spam comments especially if spammers enter the comments manually. However, there is a good way of minimizing it for more than 90%. As I try this method, I almost get rid of spam especially those nasty spams from auto bots.

The solution that I am talking about is using a “Captcha” plugin or script or whatever you call it. What I installed in my blog is “reCaptcha”. A Captcha is a small program that identifies to whether the commentator is a real human or a computer (bots). Captcha uses (most of the time) a distorted images of characters where bots cannot read while humans can.

I personally used reCaptcha on my blog. It is owned by Google and is completely free just like all other Captcha plugins that you can see in Wordpress.

I know that this process of protecting your blog and website is not new. In fact, Blogger.com has been using this as a built in feature on their blog platform. And as you can see, most blogspot rarely get spam. But let us accept it, most bloggers don’t use Captcha so that they won’t hinder people to put comments on their blogs which love interactivity.

The only downside that I am seeing from Captcha is the interactivity of blog commentators. Most commentators don’t like to have any difficulty in commenting. They want to have a smooth way of commenting.

However as a blog owner, you will have to choose between securing your site from unwanted and unrelated spams and links which can definitely drag you to the bottom of page rankings or getting some real commentators who really value what they read? The choice is definitely yours.

But as for my personal opinion, placing a Captcha plugin is one of the best ways to protect and value your blog and website. Furthermore, it can also help you get real valuable links that can really help your blog. From about 30 spam comments a day, I rarely get 1 spam comment now.

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How To Increase Your Readership

The readership of your blog is one of the measures your blog on how important and meaningful it is. Marketing aside, you will see the importance of a blog literally on the number of comments that is being generated.

Statistically, you will see how long your visitor stays through Google Analytics. The bounce rate is the statistical data that tells how long your visitors stayed. The higher it is, the shorter your visitors stay on your blog. This means that you will have to decrease that high rate.

How?

Here are some ways to do it:

1.    High Quality Content – High quality content does not only increase traffic, but also encourages your visitors to read more. The more information you provide the more reason for them to stay.

2.    Plugins That Promotes Commenting – There are several plugins that you may want to install which are very effective in encouraging your readers to leave a comment.

• Yet Another Related Post (YARPP) – This displays the most relevant posts in your blog based on your post tags.
• Subscribe To Comments – Enables the one who commented to simply follow the comment thread in a certain post via email.
• CommentLuv – My favorite. You can read the whole article that I have made for this great plugin here: Why Install a CommentLuv Plugin

3.    Internal Linking – This is done by simply quoting and linking to some of your previously written posts. This is very effective especially if your content is highly relevant.

4.    Comment to Other Blogs – Commenting to other blogs is also exposing yourself to the whole blogging world. Try to leave comments to blogs that has CommentLuv plugins and those blogs with high commenting rate. In this way, more fellow bloggers will be able to see you with a link going to your blog. This will be a win-Win situation for you and to the blog where you commented.

These are just simple ways that you can do to increase the readership of your blog. Remember, the more repeat visitors you have, the more encouraging it is to write and blog.

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The Technical Thought Of You: How To Customize Your Blogger CommentLuv's Skin

CommentLuv was originally created for Wordpress users. When this is still new, I think I'm probably one of the first 2,000 users of this plugin. I installed it in my blog The Disciplers. This one might not be too important for those who really do not know the main use of this plugin. So here's the four main reasons why you need to install CommentLuv plugin to your blogger.

1. Encourage your readers to comment more. Why not? This plugin automatically place a link to the latest post on your visitor's blog. He just need to be sure that he filled up the website form for him to take advantage of this one.

2. It gives more discussion among the commentators. CommentLuv encourages to comment more. More comments, more discussion.

3. It widens your network as a blogger. As you see the links in the comments of your visitors, you will  probably be inclined to follow that blog. And there is nothing wrong in contacting the owner of the blog that you followed if you like his posts too especially if it is directly related to your site.

4. Increases Your Blog's Page Rank. If the blog being commented to is a "dofollow" blogs, then this will take out all the hustles in typing your link in this blog.

So? What are you waiting for? The link below will direct you to the instructions on how can your integrate CommentLuv with Blogger.

The Technical Thought Of You: How To Customize Your Blogger CommentLuv's Skin

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How To Install Sexy Bookmark Plugin On Blogger

Sexy Bookmark plugin was originally created for Wordpress. And many Blogger users find this as a better social bookmark plugin than Sociable plugin. So, as a reslt, Blogger users made a way to install this. But it requires little technical skill.


 It is challenging to install this in Blogger since you will be dealing with codes… AGAIN… But you don’t have to worry because it is doable.

But just a note, not all themes are compatible with this process. Especially that some themes does not use the code:  

Here's the link for the detailed instruction: CLICK HERE

Hoping that you will be successful in installing this great Social Bookmarking plugin.

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How to Make Blogger Template

Blogger is probably one of the most popular blog platforms out there. For so long, I was puzzled how do Blogger users customize it or make a new theme. I find it more difficult to work on the codes of Blogger compared to that of the Wordpress. However, with the help of some good tools online,  I finally able to customize and make a whole new template out of it.  

For quite some time, I really envy some real good blogger templates. Unfortunately, before I find it hard to customize my blog the way I wanted because codes are not for everybody.

If you really desire to monetize your blog and make a whole new template where you seem best for your blog, I strongly recommend that you use Draft Blogger (www.draft.blogger.com).

What’s new with this tool?

Instead of working with the codes, you will now be working with WYSIWYG platform. All you have to do is to login in www.draft.blogger.com with your Blogger login details that you use in accessing your Google account. Then click “Design”, then click “Template Designer”.

The next thing you do is to customize everything from the main theme of your blog, to the arrangement of your Page Elements. You can also choose the how many columns and its arrangement on your blog. Now to give you an overview, here’s the list of the things that you can do with draft blogger:

•    Choose from 15 main designs.
•    Customize how many columns should your blog be.
•    Delete and add Page Element sections on the columns.
•    Choose backgrounds.
•    Customize the look and feel of your blog.
•    Do exactly what you can do with Blogger platform like posting posts, customizing page elements, monetizing etc. plus more.



Literally speaking, what was added from the Blogger platform was the ability to customize and even change the template to something that you really want. And I believe this is one of the most exciting things that have been developed for years. Now, you really don’t have to worry anymore if you want to customize your Blogger blog the way you want it.

With this new tool, you will definitely have new heights of your blogging experience.

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Getting More Traffic From Submitting Content

There are several ways to gain more traffic. Today, I will be teaching you about submitting articles. I strongly suggest that you need to be familiar with these free features on the net. This can be a high way for your traffic.

Let us say that you have a long article about a particular topic. Divide into sub topics in order to create more articles. Add some more words. Make it about 500-600 words per sub articles. It is not much to add for this highly profitable strategy for a beginner like you. Then visit some of best article directories on the net. I suggest that you begin with Ezine Articles where you found this article.

Article directories like “Ezine Articles” gather content from thousands of people around the world. They will not pay you anything but they will leave your article intact including your resource box where your email address, blog site url, and web site url is written.

And this is where you get your traffic. When there is someone who will republish your article in their blog or in their websites, they have to include your resource box. Once they do this, it also gives your articles more exposures to the net. And more exposures means high probability of getting clicks, and more clicks means more traffic, and more traffic means higher conversion rate for income.

Not only that, you will also gain the benefit of one way traffic links. One way incoming links are very important for any blog or website. It is included in your page rankings. 

Again, income is what you get if your visitors turned out to be customers. To make more customers, you will have to present your product in a way that is compelling and trust building. Making great content and truths about your products and exposing it to the whole world will do that for you. This is where article submission enters. Article submission will make you more credible and reliable.

In addition to exposure, you will also gain friends in submitting articles. If people will love your articles, some will write you back or ask you something about it. And correspondence can build friendship. The more friends you have, the higher your credibility will be. And because you have credibility, the more your chances to be recommended to others. 

For first timers, Ezine Articles only allow 10 submissions for a time. But don’t worry, if they will like your writing skills, they will give you more than you can ever imagine. For now, try to explore the net. Here are some more Article directories where you can submit your articles:

• http://sitepronews.com
• http://articlecity.com
• http://ezau.com
• http://articlesfactory.com
• http://goarticles.com
• http://newfreearticles.com

Submitting content to article directories are very profitable. It gives a lot of advantage. You just have to be patient. 

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