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Is this blog loading faster?

Graham — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 00:50:03 +0000

Does this blog appear to be loading faster to you?

It should be, because I moved it from a hosted webspace onto a virtual server this week.

I was practising for my main blogs, which will be moving shortly. These were originally setup on hosted webspace and have now outgrown it, making them slower.

Whilst I will probably leave the smaller blogs there for the moment along with any static pages, I obviously want my main projects to load as quickly as possible, and having had the server running now for several months for newer things, the time has come to move the older ones across.

How to add a lightbox form to WordPress

Graham — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:21:10 +0000

Here are the steps that I took to create the lightbox subscription form used on this site:

1. Download “Lightbox gone Wild” from this page.

2. Unpack the following files and save them to the “lightbox” directory on your site:

scripts\lightbox.js
scripts\prototype.js
css\lightbox.css

3. Save the HTML code for the lightbox as a file in the lightbox directory, eg. as form.html

4. To make the lightbox load automatically, make the changes listed on this page, but don’t add the last line of HTML to anything just yet.

5. Return to the Lightbox gone Wild site and search for a comment from “preaxz”. Make the changes listed, so that the lightbox disappears when you press Escape or click in the shadowed area.

6. Create the following files within your WordPress theme directory:

– lightbox-cookies.php –

– lightbox-header.php –


<link rel="stylesheet" href="/lightbox/css/lightbox.css" media="screen,projection"
type="text/css" />

– lightbox-activate.php –

";
};
?>

7. Within the WordPress theme file header.php, add the following lines:

On the very first line (yes, before the DocType!) add:

Before the tag add:

After the tag add:

8. Now upload the 4 files in the theme directory and the lightbox directory to your site!

Blog Masters Club

Graham — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:15:18 +0000

I took a brave step in my blogging career yesterday: I joined David Risley’s Blog Masters Club.

Why did I do it? Well, after blogging for 3 years I am definitely more than covering my costs, but I would like to increase the amount that our main blogs earn.

I do not want to start new blogs and definitely don’t want to start blogging about making money. This post should really be the exception!

So after deliberating for quite some time, I decided that I wanted to see what David had to offer. Since I can theoretically cancel my subscription within 60 days, I guessed it was worth taking a look at just how much the members really do help each other and how good the quality of the learning materials are.

It is going to cost me $97 per month for the next 6 months, but a real incentive is being able to use the resources after that as well. That’s about 69EUR for me each month. I hope it is money well spent.

Social Bookmarking Strategy And Nine Additional Ways To Get Traffic

Guest Blogger — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:04:55 +0000

Blogs are popular ways to make an online presence for both personal and even business purposes. You can easily create a free personal or business blog and begin placing your content on it right away. But, you will have done this in vain if no one is reading it. This is a list of ten steps you can take to start to bring in the website visitors your blog needs in order to survive online.

Of all the successful blogs Online, many more have kicked the bucket. Running a blog should be treated as if managing a business Site. Unless you are more that willing to put in your share of work and take it seriously, you can’t plan to be blogging for any long period of time.

This is not to say that all of the past failed bloggers were not serious about their blogging. Most of the time, people who are new at blogging aren’t aware or properly prepared for the work demand that is required for them to see their blog become a success. Just making the blog doesn’t mean that people will necessary come to you. You must pursue the audience and give them a reason to want to listen to you. So here is “Social Bookmarking Strategy and 9 other ways to boost your Traffic”.

1. Give Them Fresh Content – nobody wants to visit a blog everyday and see the same posts. Create and post new blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write a handful of posts ahead of time for uploading on a future date.

2. Market Some Article Content – the niche you’ve decided on for your site is one that interests you. Write content you can post to both you blog, and that can also be sent to article directories (An Article Marketing Strategy Software will greatly speed up this process). Place a link in the resource box of the Article so people will find your blog.

3. Social Network – these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections.

4. Viral Marketing – viral marketing is spreading the word about your blog. Talk to friends, family and even people you just met. Giving out business cards with your URL on them is another great option.

5. Use Your RSS Feeds – RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” visitors can subscribe to your RSS feed and get notified by email when new content is posted. This is an easy way for visitors to keep in tune with your blog.

6. Submit Your Site to Search Engines – submitting your Website tells Search Engines to rank your blog.. Submitting your blog doesn’t guarantee top ranking, though. You have to do more work for that. Regardless, be sure you Submit Website to Google.

7. Joining Forums – right now you are a budding entrepreneur. You must start off by marketing yourself to find traffic before you can make any profit. Join in on business forums, work at home forums and others to meet new people and share ideas. Be sure to add a link to your site in the signature line so others can find your Website.

8. Visit Similar Blogs – you can show appreciation to those who visit your blog by posting comments on their blogs. Be sure to add a link to your blog in your comment.

9. SEO Marketing – no matter what you are writing, be sure to use relevant keywords. A Keyword density between 3 and 10 % will help with rankings. Base your site Keywords on whatever the most popular words used in search engines for your niche are.

10. Social Bookmark – make a Social Bookmarking Strategy and submit your blog and blog posts to Social Bookmarking sites. This is a great way for people to discover you.

Putting to use these things will start traffic heading in your direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want.

Using Autoresponders Effectively In A Home Established Job

Guest Blogger — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:01:52 +0000

Many people start out in their online business and do not give much thought to how they are going to promote their business in an ongoing manner. An autoresponder is a vital tool to accomplish a relationship with your site visitors, and to continue that relationship beyond the initial contact. A good autoresponder allows you to build a list of prospects that extends beyond the one time visit they may have made to your sales site.This enables you to grow your list and send each prospect a personalized email. You will also be able to folow up with them on an ongoing basis. By utilizing a good and planned follow up approach, you will be able to contact your list again and again with repeated offers, and new and fresh content – thereby offering you a chance to make repeated sales over and over again to your own private list!

Most excellent autoresponder helps propose an opt in shape, which you could custom tailor to prepared your propose and your list requires. This serves to concentrate your advertising to narrow your list to extra and extra qualified candidates. Irrespective what another process of promotion you may be using, none are as qualified as your personal in-house list of candidates and customers.In the routine of compiling email addresses, it is besides advantageous to you to learn as you run, because you would develop extra and extra knowledge, and a serious look for Internet Selling finished good. With a list of your personal prospects, regardless how little, you yet have THE MOST QUALIFED LEADS YOU COULD POSSIBLY HAVE. I mean after everyone , they did signal up to receive extra information exclusively from you!

It shall be readily apparent by today to you, that your autoresponder could be one of the nearly all impressive devices in your Internet Selling arsenal. As you cultivate and develop your list, you wil need to publish a series of pursue up letters and provides, that entice your candidates and customers to carry on to buy and receive provides from you.

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Numerous of the article directories where they position their passages barely advance their directories.If they perform not, then the passages are not exposed to the research engines in organize to be saw when candidates research for information on the productions and helps making use of the research engines. When individuals want to shop on-line, nearly all perform not run to article directories. Instead, they use the research engines to auto profit launcher bonus research for what they desire. If your article when it comes to a merchandise or service, which you are advancing, causes not appear among the lead 20 research engine effects, you may not gain any traffics at the entire.

It is probable that about no one is reading your articles.If that is so, how could you gain any website traffics from them?Most possible, the merely individuals who run to article directories are another cyberspaces marketers who run there to position their personal articles.
And they essential be newbies.The old timers use article notice softwares to position their passages automatically.