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Welcome to my "Blog Setup Mistakes"!
You can make a lot of mistakes when setting up a new blog! As a matter of fact, blog setup really goes on the entire time you are a blogger! It's a constant thing, moderating comments, hacking your theme, updating Wordpress, upgrading, intalling, and removing Wordpress plugins...sometimes it seems like you're doing more blog setup than writing actual content. That shouldn't be the case, but your blog and it's infrastructure are the "foundation" of your blog "house" and if it's not rock solid - none of the content matters!
You can easily create a custom theme template to have alternate sidebar layouts.
This post is part of 30 Wordpress hacks in 30 days.
Whether you’re installing a new Wordpress theme or creating one from scratch, changing the sidebar seems to be one of the first things you do. Like most things in Wordpress, you are only [...]
July 22nd, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | No Comments
Wordpress 2.6 has been out a couple days now - here’s a review of the new features and why you should upgrade now! I have to say, when I upgraded to 2.5 I thought it would be better than it was. I liked the UI improvements, and the ability to upgrade plugins from the dashboard [...]
July 17th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress, wordpress plugins | 4 Comments
Display RSS fees to a Wordpress page, or create posts or pages from RSS in Wordpress and profit by better monetization and addition user content
This is installment #16 of 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 days
I’m going to show you how to take an ordinary RSS feed today and turn it into cash. I’m not talking [...]
July 11th, 2008 | Posted in blog content, blog setup, blogging, ideas, monetization | 4 Comments
Ever wonder if you could integrate your BANS niche store into Wordpress? Yes you CAN! Watch me add a new BANS site into a Wordpress blog and show you how to do it too!
This is installment #10 in the Watch me build a BANS niche site from Scratch series!
I have many Wordpress blogs, and I [...]
July 1st, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, ideas, monetization, wordpress | 6 Comments
Try our free niche mashup script and create pages with YouTube, eBay, Amazon, and Adsense!
I posted my free niche site script page last night, and so far it’s been pretty well-received. I first found this script on 45n5.com last year, but that version doesn’t work anymore. I found a new working version on JustAskRan.com - [...]
June 26th, 2008 | Posted in blog promotion, blog setup, blogging, ideas, monetization | No Comments
Is a dot info (.info) domain good or bad for a BANS niche store? We’re going to do a little testing and find out!
This is installment #9 in the Watch me build a BANS niche site from Scratch series!
There’s been a lot of talk about whether or not a dot info domain is worth having [...]
June 17th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, monetization | 4 Comments
For a successful BANS site the importance of your store pages can’t be overlooked. Setting them up for ease of use and maximum monetization isn’t just to make more money, believe it or not it’s to build more traffic too!
This is installment #8 in the Watch me build a BANS niche site from Scratch series!
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June 13th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, monetization | 3 Comments
Join the forum discussion on this post - (3) PostsAdding a Forum to Wordpress increases SEO by adding indexed pages and improves community by giving your visitors the ability to “participate” far beyond what normal comments allow. It also gives you a place to write random bits of content without writing lots of short, [...]
May 27th, 2008 | Posted in blog content, blog setup, wordpress | 10 Comments
If you’re not getting any BANS traffic from Google - there is still hope of making money. Just make sure you’re BANS site is registered in all the right places!
When I first started this series “Watch Me Build a BANS Niche Site from Scratch” I had envisioned working on my BANS site nearly every day. [...]
May 19th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | 7 Comments
Today we’ll learn How to add Tag Support by hacking your Wordpress theme!
This is day #15 of 30 Wordpress Hacks in 30 Days.
If you’re using Wordpress 2.3x or 2.5 or higher you have the ability to use “tags”. If you use social media at all, you should already know what a tag is. Basically it’s [...]
May 14th, 2008 | Posted in blog setup, wordpress | 9 Comments