Dear folks,

It’s time to upgrade your wordpress to 3.1.1, I have just updated a few minutes ago and I must said the upgrade went smoothly.

So, without further ado, just update automatically from your wordpress admin control panel or download directly from WordPress site.

Have a great one.

Nowadays, keeping up to date with scripts is pretty much a mundane thing in today’s world. Especially with scripts such as Drupal, WordPress and others that are widely used by million users, we ought to be extra careful with updated scripts. Unlike windows applications, WordPress applications are not updated for bigger file size and bigger CPU consumptions, it is updated to have better security and usability.

Just today, I have updated my WordPress to 3.0.2 from 3.0.1.

It is good to stay up to date because you never know what will happen as websites are out in the open unsupervised most of the time. Well, stay up to date and keep your websites safe by updating your scripts. Moreover, I hope 2010 was a good year for you as it’s been a great year for me so far.

Have a great day!!!

I have recently updated all my websites to WordPress 3.0 version, the initial update is not much different from WordPress 2.xx, however, I find it very fascinating with the frequent updates with WordPress 3.0 version.

I have been blogging for quite sometimes and using WordPress since version 1.xx.xx so this is actually a big improvement for me.  I am definitely loving version 3.0 and I feel this version has been very less buggy when we upgraded into version 2.0, because within a week or two, we had to upgrade, I still remember.

However, this new version has been out for a couple of weeks and it looks fine. So, what do you feel about WP3.0 for your site? I am definitely enjoying new look, so far.

These days, I am a regular reader rather than a blogger. It is because writing a blog can be sometimes time consuming. Besides, I have been relocating countries and it took about 6 months of my regular blogging habits. So, Yes, I will have to practice to blog again.

To be honest, nowadays, I like to read and review other sites because I find that facinating for other bloggers who have been brilliant with their blogs. I would not rather get an idea or copy/paste other people work, but I actually like to share with what I read, because some of the blogs may not be in your reach while I have done my SEO/SEM works, So, at least, this will reach out to my readers as well.. As you know reviewing is one of my interests while I am blogging.

Today, I read about the title 10 Things Your Blog Doesn’t Need. And It is simple but yet fantastic read, so that you will enjoy like I did.

Reference: Jill Smokler blogs about parenting; the good, the bad and the scary at Scary Mommy. She can be found at on Twitter as @scarymommy.

Now, we need to consider what is the link popularity for your website(s). It’s imperative to know what are these, so that you will not get confused and the meaning do not become misconceptions.

Link popularity is basically the links pointing to your webpage/websites/domains. So, it is basically called backlinks (the links you received back). For example, I would recommend CNN.com on my website and when search engine bots/spiders crawl my page, they will also note that CNN.com will get one more backlinks from my site, confirming I trust this particular URL to be linked with. Link popularity also determines Page Rank for Google as well.

Like in mid 90s search engine world, it was pretty simple, the total backlinks will give you basically higher search results, but nowadays, all big three (Google, Yahoo!, MSN Live) are well-aware and well-constructed  conditions and variables to determine the link popularity in proper manners so that people who take advantages of buying links and submitting to directories compared to those who did not will be adjusted.

Speaking of  Link Popularity, you need to think about your link relevancy, because spiders will also calculate the relevancy of your website and the backlinks to certain level, for example, In this website, I talk about SEO, wordpress, search engines, blogging. Therefore, if I link to websites about SEO, wordpress, etc, those people who received backlinks from my website will get better Page Rank as well as high relevancy. (which is why I allow do-follow commenting on my site, which is massive advantages to those who leave comments on my site especially in same topics/niches.)

Nowadays, search engines do not rely on link popularity alone, however still play a huge role. So, if you have higher link popularity, you have to build quality backlinks which is what many people are seriously building for Google PR. The easiest way to build is to make people known about your website and do not worry so much about search engines’ spiders. Like I have mentioned before, you need to build for massive traffic and let search engine love you.

Recently, I have installed do-follow enabled comment plugin on my sites and It works like a charm. As you may all have known wordpress and most of the blogs have disabled in default, however, if you can control your spam, there’s actually better way you can take control of do-follow links.

So, i installed this fantastic do-follow plugin for my wordpress and I have actually received more comments than before just in a few couple of days. That is awesome, isn’t it?

do-follow

What are the advantages of do-follow?

Of course, there are bunch of advantages for do-follow sites, I will summarize for both myself and the rest of my visitors.

1. Default settings are always on a safe side. Once you enabled do-follow link there’s imminent threat of spamming. LOL, all you need to have a a couple of top rated spam filters such as Akismet and so on. On the bright side, it’s massive traffic. There’s always an opportunity cost for higher traffic, that comes with higher spams.

2. Repeating comments, there are two ways to follow up repeating comments, one to reply each visitor comment, and another one from visitor’s reply. Confused? Bottom line, your blog post may earn more than 2 comments from each entry because many people will comment you genuinely, on the other hand, if your visitors are clever enough, they make sure they write more than 1 comment at your blog, or reply to the same comment so that the search engine bots will read them more than once.

3. Don’t worry about PR/Alexa, they are alternative ways to benchmark your site, especially I don’t believe in Alexa ranking. I would trade more traffic than getting better PR/Alexa ranking. That’s the truth. Do-follow blogs are actually giving legit backlinks to your commentors, but don’t worry, you get heaps of traffic and your ranking will grow because It just does it.

4. Encouraging your readers to comment is best thing for bloggers. You allow backlinks, you encourage your readers that you are giving something back , rather than expecting something, that builds a great relationship to your readers as well.

5. By sharing about do-follow to those who do not know, you take control of knowledge that your visitors/readers do not know yet. It is a good opportunity your readers are bloggers and this will also help them to get backlinks which bloggers indeed love.  The more you can help a hand, the smarter you sound, don’t you?

6. Since I have carefully built my site around big search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and MSN , ask.com , etc etc. I have very confident that every single page of mine is properly pinged and quickly indexed. Make sure you use sitemap xml and site verifications with Google, Yahoo! and MSN to get faster search engine updates. Easy Breezy method for organic search.

7. It creates a larger community. Why? Because you have no-follow blog before, now you enabled do-follow site, that’s where you have massive members and visitors to make a geniune comments and in return they get backlinks for their PR or more traffic, it’s a win-win situation and you also get to know your readers. Spam filters will actually differentiate your readers and just those people who want backlinks and etc.

8. The quality backlinks are important and half the time, many people do not understand what they mean. It depends on the place where you put your comments as well as your niche. If you are car-sales category and make a comment on this infomm.com website, you are not getting quality backlinks, that’s for 100% sure. Maybe, a legit backlinks. You need to find similar niche for your site, so that you leave comment accordingly.

9. Okay, #9 is NONE , just start doing what I have mentioned above. You will see the difference. Now, start getting quality backlinks by leaving comment on this post.

Thanks for reading

Previously, I have posted about viral marketing for online advertising. Now, I want to share a little bit further more about viral marketing and why should we use it in order to drive massive traffic to our websites.

So, cut to the chase, WHY do we use viral marketing techniques?

1. quick to drive traffic (once it’s starting to spread, there’s basically no limit, the message will pick up the speed faster and to the bigger audience)
2. cost effective (once again, no limit, easy to start and cheap to expect the traffic, make sure your site has some to offer for your visitors to become regular)
3. niche gathering (you will eventually find where your niche is headed and your target audience in no time as long as you offer unique content that are original, photographer offers photoblog whereas geek-blog offers all technology news)

Bottom Line, traffic means money, relevant niche means more money, cost effective mean more money. So, what else shall I say?

viral marketing

So, this comes the question, WHAT are the techniques?

1. I am going to repeat this again, provide quality content, products or services. (provide something which is unique for your visitors)
2. Give something away (I would recommend gmail service to my friends because they basically gave away free service for e-mail, don’t they? you gotta offer something so that will create buzz).
3. Recommendation or referral on your site. (something like share this post, email to a friend, etc etc, that will create more buzz because I would really recommend to my friend if a particular website offer something nice)
4. Have some video clips, or free e-book to give away or have a personal blog about your interest on the site (that will also give some kind of expose to your visitors and yes it does really attract traffic)
5. Social bookmarking icons and links (They are basically helping you to bookmark or submit to the sites, either way, they are good for traffic, easy for search engine to index, my personal favorites regarding SEO are reddit, technorati and digg)
6. Use RSS feed or any sort of Feed (Some of my audience like RSS feed because they are firefox fans, some of them love email feed as well, so feedburner or similar service sites can offer, I use feedburner of course, you can set up either RSS feed or email subscription)
7. Do what others do not generally offer (It’s very simple but sometimes it is easily overlooked in many cases, for example, I enabled “do-follow” plugin in my wordpress, which default is “no-follow” for commenters, so I would get more visitors who will want to have do-follow link on my site and will write more comments as well.
8. Run on-site competitions (Many internet gurus are still using this method, and that’s how they get massive traffic and regular visitors)
9. Build a community and relationship with your visitors (Communication is the key to success, if you interact with your visitors, you will build the better relationship between you and your visitors that is very good for long term)

Ok, There are main 9 methods I have tested and experimented in the past and they have created impressive traffic for me.

So, start right now because what I have suggested will cost next to nothing. You can basically start with no-investment methods such as adding referal scripts, RSS setup, email subscriptions and some fabulous content first.

Thanks for reading. Now, I will go back to build my viral marketing for another site

I am so impressed with wordpress 2.7, because it changes a lot of things. The design is very nice and easy to browse.

You may be amazed to know that wordpress has changed interface and its functions. The best thing I like about is to be able to update everything easily and one click install for plug-ins. Isn’t that cool?

Now it will take less than 1 minute to install usual plugins that would take about 10 minutes and now no hurdles at all.

All the drop down menu on the right has given users to browse and make changes easier than ever.

This wordpress 2.7 will save you time and efforts to set up and upgrade in the future. That’s the best thing I like about. The version upgrade will be now like plugin upgrade and you do not have to worry about database backup and etc.

Another fantastic thing is Ajax interface for comment management that administrator can now easily manage the comments that are being waited for moderation.

Of course, it will not be enough if I don’t mention easy breezy Admin control panel’s new look that will give you maximum satisfaction of being a wordpress blogger.

So, don’t wait and upgrade your wordpress to 2.7. Thanks for reading

This is actually not for existing bloggers, rather this book will guide people who want to be a blogger. This book is created from ATMleb webhosting for helping new members to join as a blogger. I think this book is awesome and helpful. Actually, I am supposed to sell for $20 as a reseller, but I am now giving it to you FREE, because I don’t like selling but to give out useful information FREE on my site.

The e-book covers everything from the start. You will be able to learn how to setup free blogs, self-hosed blogs and many information on all sort of blogging. To give you some introduction, they are as follows;

1. details in setting up your blog
2. blog content
3. blog content brainstorming
4. onpage search engine optimization
5. offpage search engine optimization
6. traffic sources &
7. many monetization sources from your blog.

It actually gives you simple and excellent suggestions and information, rather than selling something in the e-book, as you may have noticed, my e-books are not selling affiliate links or signups all the time, but mostly information related how to create wealth without using tricks or scams. And that’s the most important thing which is relevant to my site.

So, get yourself a copy of this fantastic e-book, blog for dollar. Enjoy and hope you will comment after you read. Thanks for reading.

Okay, this is what many of the bloggers have been looking for. WordPress 2.7 is finally available to download. I think it is fantastic for my fans and I am very psyched to get ready for the new update. I will have to update to 2.7 as well.so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required. Because they always come in handy for me whenever I have some issues with installation. But normally, I just use my webhosting auto update function and all I have to do is just disable all my plugins and do the auto upgrade.

Thanks for reading.

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Well, wordpress 2.6.5 is available to download now. I have just updated to 2.6.5 today as well.
so, all wordpress lovers, it’s time to download and upgrade here.

Don’t forget to view installation guides or upgrading guides on wordpress.com if required.. 

Thanks for reading.

Lately, I have seen many people are using wordpress as their mainstream media to connect to their visitors and readers because wordpress is actually very good tool in blogging. Perhaps, the best, to be biased.

As blogging is very popular past a couple of years, people have been using wordpress and blogger as their main platforms. Now, people are more experienced and trying to get good web hosting, sometimes, many of them ended up getting a bad web hosting and wanted to change for new one. I have recently posted how to solve web hosting dilemma and you can read it here. 

Then again, wordpress blog owners have to worry how to migrate successfully from old host to a new web host. Lela Iskandar Suhaimi wrote an e-book about “how to migrate your wordpress to another web hosting“ is pretty simple and useful to all the wordpress blog owners all over the world. So, here, I am sharing this fabulous e-book for FREE. 

It’s basically photo-based e-book, so it’s absolutely easy to read and follow up, you can either print out or refer the book while you are migrating your entire wordpress. I will be happy if this helps you and all the credit goes to the original author.

Any comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for reading.

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