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WordPress Free Storage At 3 GB (3,000 MB)

Mahesh Mohan — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:22 +0000

If your blog is hosted by WordPress then have you noticed that your free disk space have increased from 50 MB to 3,000 MB (or 3 GB)?

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.

If you are using paid hosting by WordPress then now they have added additional 5 GB for the same. Or check variety of quality services like web hosting and dedicated servers service with secure domain registration. Also you can avail seo services.

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13 Recommended WordPress Plugins You Must Use

Mahesh Mohan — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:38:58 +0000

AdSense Deluxe

AdSense Deluxe is a WordPress Plugin that offers advanced options for managing your Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network account. Even you can use that for managing your other Affiliate Networks like Commission Junction. It allows you to insert ads directly into your WordPress posts or pages.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API Key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

All In One SEO Pack

It’s a highly recommended Plugin for your WordPress Blog. All In One SEO Pack offers automatic Search Engine Optimization.

Dagon Design Form Mailer

Dagon Design Form Mailer is a contact us form for your WordPress blog. It is simple, easy to install Plugin for you blog. I have implemented this Plugin here Dagon Design Form Mailer Contact Form.

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator is yet another Plugin from Dagon Design. It creates a Sitemap for your WordPress powered blog. It’s not an XML Sitemap. It looks like a real Sitemap which we see on other websites. See it live here Dagon Design Sitemap Generator.

FeedBurner FeedSmith

FeedBurner FeedSmith is a WordPress Plugin that detects all traffic to your original WordPress Feeds and redirects them to your FeedBurner Feed so that you can track every possible subscriber.

Google XML Sitemaps

Google XML Sitemaps is a another WordPress Plugin that generates XML Sitemap compliant Sitemap for your blog. The format is supported by Google, Live Search, and Ask.com. See it live here Google XML Sitemaps.

Permalink Redirect

Permalink Redirect Plugin ensures that all your WordPress blog pages and posts are always accessed via the permalinks. Otherwise, it creates a 301 redirect. I’m using permalinks of the type /%postname%/ now try to access the post via /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/. It works! Try http://www.minterest.com/2007/10/17/yahoo-search-marketing-coupon-credit/ it automatically redirects to http://www.minterest.com/yahoo-search-marketing-coupon-credit/.

Search Meter

Discover what your visitors want! Search Meter keeps track of what your blog visitors are searching for. Activate the Plugin and check the Search Meter Statistics page (located in WordPress Dashboard) to see what your visitors are searching for on your blog.

Share This

Share This is a WordPress Plugin which allows your visitors to share your blog content via Social Networking and Social Bookmarking sites and/or e-mailing the post to a friend.

WordPress PageNavi

PageNavi is a Plugin that adds a more advanced navigation to your WordPress blog.

WordPress Stats

Display your WordPress blog statistics. It displays Top 10 Post Stats which includes 10 Recent Posts, 10 Recent Comments, 10 Most Commented Post, and also Categories including Post Categories, and Link Categories. See it live here Minterest Stats.

WordPress UserOnline

Enable you to display how many users are online on your WordPress blog with detailed statistics of where they are and who there are (Members/Guests/Search Bots). It also displays the IP address of your visitors.

List Of WordPress Ping Services

Mahesh Mohan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 05:55:16 +0000

Do you have a WordPress Blog? How many Ping Services are in your List? I had around 20 Ping Services. Today, I have come across this post it has around 50+ Ping Services so I merged that with mine. So now I have over 60+ Ping Services in my WordPress Update Services List.

Go to WordPress Dashboard > Options > Writing and paste the following URLs under Update Services field.

List of WordPress Ping Services

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
http://www.bloglot.com/rpc/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?idhttp://1
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

Did I missed some service(s)? If yes, feel free to add those URLs as a comment below and I will include those URLs to the list.

Source: Paradise Philippines Blog

How To Make Money Online Blogging (Part I)

Mahesh Mohan — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 19:01:59 +0000

First Setup Your Blog

The first step to Make Money Online Blogging is to setup your blog. Even if you already have an active blog, I recommend reading this section, as I’ll talk about specific options to setup for the best results. If you’ve never setup a blog, or a WordPress account, this will give you a good idea what’s involved.

First of all, if you don’t have a domain name and a web blog already, then you need to buy a domain name and web hosting. I don’t recommend using a free host, because they are not reliable web hosting services. I really recommend HostGator Baby Plan Web Hosting it allows you to host all your domains within one account. It costs $9.95/mo. and yes you can pay your hosting bills monthly, no annual contract or setup fees. Want to try HostGator? You can sign up for one month of HostGator Web Hosting for just 1 Cent, with no obligation using the coupon code “JURY” with no quotes.

You’ll need a domain as well. I really recommend GoDaddy as your domain name registrar, since they’re ICANN certified, and have great prices. Plus they’ve got a great interface to sell your domain in an auction format. This is a good strategy if you don’t have the energy to keep posting and growing your blog, since once we get monster traffic for a short period of time, the domain will be much more desirable to buy, and you should be able to make a good profit (in addition to all the affiliate commissions you’re going to make). Or you can go for a cheap $1.99 Domain Name from Yahoo! Domains or get a $4.95 Domain Name from Netfirms.

If you do sign up for HostGator, then you can use the feature called Fantastico that will automatically install a variety of different programs on your site. It enables you to setup your WordPress blog in few clicks. All you have to do is click install, fill out a few fields of info about your blog, and it do the rest for you.

Once you’ve got your site set up, there are a few things to do to make sure you’re ready for tons of traffic:

Install a good looking theme (Get a WordPress Theme)
Delete the default Blogroll links, post, and comments
Install the WordPress plugin Sociable
Setup your permalink structure as custom and enter this in the field: /%postname%/

Now your blog is ready to go, the next step is to sign up as an affiliate that I’ll discuss in the next part of this article.

Finally WordPress 2.3 Is Out Of Beta

Mahesh Mohan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:53:09 +0000

The final version of WordPress 2.3 is now ready for download. WordPress released the first beta version of 2.3 on August 28, 2007. Today it’s out of beta and the stable version is available for download.

Features of WordPress 2.3

Native Tagging Support

Now you wont have to depend a third party plug in to add tags to your post. WordPress 2.3 is fully loaded with tagging support. It allows you to add tags to your post in addition to the regular categories.

Update Notification

It notifies you when a new version of WordPress is available for download and also it lets you know when any of the plugins you use is outdated.

Canonical URLs

It enforce your no-www preference and it redirect posts with changed slugs the new post so say goodbye to “page not found error”. And this makes your blog search engine friendly.

Pending Review

This feature is good for blogs which have more than one author. It allows your authors to submit an article or a post for review by an administrator. So if you are an administrator then the drafts saved by your authors are visible to you. You can review that post before it is published.

Advanced WYSIWYG

It allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

How To Get a PageRank For A New Blog

Mahesh Mohan — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:03:30 +0000

PageRank™ is an algorithm developed by Google to rank web pages according to its popularity. It is based on this algorithm that Google determines the importance of a website. Google sorts the search results according to its PageRank. The higher your PageRank, the higher is your position in Google. And a higher PageRank means your site is more visible to people and it increases your potential earnings.

Google Explains PageRank

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at considerably more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; for example, it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important.” Using these and other factors, Google provides its views on pages’ relative importance.

Google updates the PageRank system only once in a while. Google used to update the PageRank of all indexed web sites roughly every three months. Google don’t give a PageRank to a new web site unless it have to.

You have to work hard to get a PageRank of more than just “1″ for your new blog. The best way is to start the blog right after a PageRank update so that you get some three months to start, promote and market your blog. If you did you job very well then you will get a good ranking in the next PageRank update.

As you all know “Content is the King” so the first step is of course to add unique useful content to your blog. Start by adding say some twenty five articles before you start promoting. So that it doesn’t looks like a new blog. Then blog daily by adding at least one post a day. Yes, daily. You must blog at least one article per day to get a higher rank.

Make sure that your first 25 posts are informative articles which are descriptive with at least 500 words each. They must be useful and must be unique and of course search engine friendly. For example if you are blogging about “Make Money Online” then write some informative articles about Affiliate Marketing, and your own reviews of various money making programs like Google AdSense, Commission Junction, Text Link Ads, ClickBank e.t.c. It’s because those articles alone will keep visitors coming back.

Once you setup your blog, claim it in Technorati. It’s because Technorati alone can drive quality good traffic to your blog. It keeps track of how fast your blog is growing.

The next step to promoting your blog is link building. It is the most time consuming part but without that you are not going to get a good PageRank.

You can get instant link backs by commenting other blogs in your niche. It gains you a lot of visitors but make sure that you are in the first 10 or even 20 to comment a post. It’s because visitors usually read only the first 10 to 20 comments.

Also make sure you join ezines, blog networks and social networks like Delicious, Digg, EzineArticles, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, Orkut, Reddit, and StumbleUpon.

Join these blog networks and social networking sites and adding your blog URL in your profile is important as people who visit your profile will visit your blog too if they are interested enough. Also register in some of the popular forums like DigitalPoint, Webmaster World and add your URL in the signature field of your profile so that it acts as a back link as well as a source of traffic.

So, if you go ahead and work hard to apply these tips and tricks then your blog will receive a PageRank in the next update.

Access to over 1000+ Free WordPress Themes /Templates/Layouts Download

Mahesh Mohan — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:05:19 +0000

83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen

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Take a look at 5 fresh and elegant and 5 simple WordPress themes you might be willing to use for your next project.

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These WordPress themes have been released over the last few months. They’re definitely worth a look.

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2 WordPress Themes from N.Design Studio

Here there are two layouts one is the iTheme and the other is the GlossyBlue theme. iTheme have a Mac OS interface design, drag & drop sidebar, beautiful mini icons, and it supports sidebar widgets. GlossyBlue is a High-tech glossy Mac style with Web 2 Mini icons. This theme is perfect Web 2.0 or technology related blog.

4 Free WordPress themes from Design Disease

Design Disease provides professional, cost-effective Web design services focused on usability, accessibility and Web standards. They have some excellent free themes too which are worth a look.

30 Weblogs with Grid Based Design

Grid based designs is more popular and hot in the Internet. A basic well designed grid systems layout can make your designs not only more beautiful and legible, but more usable. A grid is made up of vertical and horizontal lines and is the foundation of nearly every type of visual media. The structure is there to shape the content into proportions that are pleasing to the eye.