Posts Tagged ‘Blogging Tips’
Do you have a website or business that you are interested in promoting or taking to a new level? I have dabbled around with many ways of getting exposure to my websites including blog commenting, creating back links and posting in internet forums. These are all well and good but can only take your business or onsite web presence to a certain level. At some point you have to take things and step further and take different routes to get your name or brand out there.
Depending on your website or brand making it could pay off to take your name or logo to the public and one great way to do this is by having shirts printed off. It’s a great way to get people to recognize your name or brand. Just think how many times you see a corporate symbol and you know exactly what it stands for. Wouldn’t that be great if you people saw your logo and knew what it stands for.
You have to be careful when taking on this task. You can print tshirts cheap but that may not equate to quality. Shop around for the best price and quality shirt you can find. If you cheap out you may pay for it down the road. Finding the right supplier is crucial.
There are many online websites that will work with you on putting your logo onto a tshirt and help you get it shipped in a timely manner. I would personally contact a website through phone or chat and tell them what I am after and build up a healthy relationship with them. Especially so if I was doing a large bulk order. You might even be able to negotiate a better price and save yourself even more money. Every penny counts when you are reinvesting your profits back into advertising.
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I forgot about the November Name Cheap Codes, sorry for the space. FIRSTSNOW seems to be it for the rest of this month. Use that code for the Discount Price: $8.81 domain name registration at Namecheap.
If you are going to registering any domains this month the namecheap coupons have changed. From what I am reading you can still use OCTNEWS and INDIANSUMMER. Any of the others are no longer valid. Those code will help you save a little bit of money on any new domains you are buying from Namecheap.
Okay so it's not earth shattering but the cost of domain names is set to go up at the end of the month. Today I received a newsletter from Name Cheap informing me that they are raising their costs by .40 cents a year for their domain names. Not a whole lot on my side, I only own a few but could be a bigger deal for those that own hundreds upon hundreds.
The bonus though is that they will remain at the same price until September 30th if you want to renew them early. I will probably renew a few for a year or more to save a little bit. A little here and there, right?
I haven't posted any blogging tips for awhile so I thought I would share a quick obvious one that is sometimes overlooked. At least I did. Akismet is a spam stopping plugin that comes with the standard version of WordPress. I have tried a pile of spam stopping plugins for my blogs and nothing has worked as well as this handy little plugin. Just activate it and go to wordpress. sign up and get your activation key and you are on your way to stopping blog spam comments.
The bonus is that it flags your comments based on their database of spam and then you have the option to delete it as spam or to approve it. Nothing seems to get by it like some of the others I have tried. Right now on this blog: "Akismet has caught 114 spam for you since you first installed it. You have no spam currently in the queue. Must be your lucky day." You also get ip's that you can ban through your htaccess which is nice.
If you are blogging do youself a huge favour and activate this plugin.
When you Google must have plugins you will find a million of different blog posts telling you which ones are important. There is no one answer on which plugins you should have installed but these are a few that have helped me develop my blog and make the task easier.
1. Google XML Sitemaps – This is a simple tool to use. It creates sitemaps to submit to Ask.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO. If you are going to blog submitting your sitemaps to each of these sites is very important.
2. Ultimate Tag Warrior – Tagging your posts is important, it allows your to organize your related posts, allows your readers to find other similiar articles on your blog. This is the "ultimate" tag plugin.
3. WYSI-Wordpress - This is the only text editor you will need for writing your blog posts, it has everything you need. The image uploading feature is second to none, you can upload your photos and make thumbnails or resize them anyway you want.
4. Spam Karma 2 - If your blog is new it won't be long before you under siege from spammers. This plugin stops it dead in its tracks. Everytime I log into my blogs I am amazed how many spammers it has stopped. A definite need.
5. Subscribe Me - I like Subscribe Me, it a quick and easy plugin to display your RSS Feeds. Takes two seconds to set up.
6. Social Bookmarks - Adds a list of XHTML compliant graphic links at the end of your posts that allow your visitors to easily submit them to a number of social bookmarking sites. There are lots of them out there. This one does the trick and is easy to use.
These are just six basic must have WordPress Plugins. They are nothing fancy but will save you alot of grief down the road and help you build your blog. Next time I will go over some of the more fancier plugins.
I promised to discuss a number of ways not only to help you save money but to also show you how to make extra money by blogging on the internet. My last post went over a couple of services that offer free blog web hosting. Now you have a place to host your blog you will need to find a way to make some extra money blogging.
I recently came across a great service called Pay Per Post. I found it on a webmaster board that seasoned bloggers use to discuss blog development. Pay Per Post gives bloggers the opportunity to make extra cash from their blog posts. Their service has a number for great benefits to bloggers. First, you can get paid to review items and services that you want to blog about. You give your honest opinion or review and you will get paid for writing. Next, you can also generate income when other bloggers choose to write about your posts and finally you can gain valuable page links back to your blog.
It is a great program for bloggers looking to expand their money making opportunities so please check out their program. It was easy to sign up for and my blog was approved quickly. Now is your chance to get paid to blog.
You have heard that you can make a little extra money each month by blogging but you have no idea how to get into it. Well don't worry there are a couple of ways that you can get your feet wet and it won't cost you anything but your time. That's right, you can get free wordpress blog hosting and try it out before you decided to buy your own domain name and web hosting package.
WordPress Free Hosting is a great way to start out with your own blog. It's free and has all of the bells and whistles that you would get with your own hosted blog. It's from the developers of Word Press so you know you are getting a quality product. Some of their free features include dozens of free templates, tagging and social bookmarking plugins, spell check, stats and privacy and spam protection. It's a great way to start your own plug and really get a feel for blogging.
Another great tool for free web blogging is from Blogger. Just sign up with your Google id and you are off to enjoying a great free blogging webhost. They make it fast and easy to get your free blog off of the ground and offer all of the tools you need. They also have extensive help files that will help you understand how to successfully promote you blog. You can even buy your own domain name and have it hosted through them.
Those are your two best places to have get a free blog. Sign up and start your blog empire with no cost to you. Come back for more informative blogging tips and articles on how to make money by blogging.
