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Internet has presented a huge opportunity to people for making money online. Everyday millions of online transactions are taking place. People are buying all kinds of stuff online. This has resulted in an enormous online market for almost everything imaginable. Apart from big online stores like Amazon & Ebay which sell thousands and thousands of items in hundreds of categories, there is an emergence of relatively small websites that caters to only one particular niche. These specific websites are build around a particular niches and sells items related to the niche. For example, the site FamilyPet.com caters only to topics related to Pets and sell products related to pets.

Finding profitable niches and building websites around them has become one of the most trustworthy models for making money from Internet. The reason for calling it trustworthy is that by using right promotional strategies and developing a search engine friendly website, a niche related website can become a huge money-spinner. Read the rest of this entry »

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After I wrote my full RSS feed post where I explain why & how you can ensure a full RSS feed for your blog, one of my friend told me that despite installing the full text feed plugin, his blog is still getting truncated at the point where he used <!––more––> tag. I got confused as to why it was happening. One reason that I found that it may be due to a cache issue and probably it’ll take some time to be full reflected in the RSS reader. However, on checking with another RSS reader, I still found his feed truncated.

So I searched Google for an answer..and found it

It’s very simple.

Just go to the Reading Option of your wordpress blog and in the Syndication feed option, choose ‘full text’. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you are blogging, you must be aware of RSS. (If not read this). I have a list of my favorite blogs in my RSS reader and I read them regularly. However, it is a little annoying to see that many bloggers (probably unknowingly) allow only partial feed of their blog post in RSS reader. Though their main intention is to prompt the reader to actually visit their blogs (for seeing advertisement or whatever reason), it acts as a big turn off.

Take my case itself. Owing to lack of time, it is not possible for me to visit each of my favorite blogs separately in my browser. I prefer to read them in my reader so that I can go through them quickly and grasp all the relevant posts.

Man do I read them? No. I don’t read any post from start to finish unless of course it has some exceptionally unique content. I just scan most of the posts quickly to have a general idea of what is being written in these blogs. Read the rest of this entry »

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If you have spent some time on Internet you must have heard about this three letters word : RSS. If you already don’t know about this useful tool for efficiently browsing the web, here is a simple introductory article which will explain everything you need to know about RSS .

OK let’s start !

What is RSS anyway ?

RSS is an acronym for : Really Simple Syndication

It is also known as : Rich Site Summary

Some people also called it : Really Simple Subscribing.

In simplest terms,

“RSS is a simple and efficient way to keep in touch with a website without actually visiting it “

Yes. To keep in touch without actually visiting !

Now what does that mean ?

Let us understand it by an example. Read the rest of this entry »

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For all of you who want to use the power of video marketing to promote your blog/website here is an excellent free ebook written by a Youtube expert.

This ebook is written by Kevin Nalts who is one of the most-viewed YouTube comedians with nearly 600 online videos seen more than 25 million times. This is a 30 page pdf ebook which gives you some excellent tip on Youtube marketing.

Download the ebook here :

How to become popular on Youtube without any talent

I hope you’ll like the ebook. Send me your comments.

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One of the most annoying disadvantage of blogging is that as you keep posting new posts some of the most useful and popular posts get buried in the archive . Except regular readers, it is almost impossible for new visitors to know about your best blog post. Since not many people are keen to search for the best content of a blog, unless we don’t make some effort to showcase our best blog posts on the front page itself , it would be almost impossible to let new visitors know about those post. This, in my opinion, is a very bad usability aspect of a blog style site.

One of the alternative to overcome this is to use the plugin ‘Popularity Contest’ which display a list of most popular posts of our blog in the sidebar. This, though helps a bit, is not the best possible solution as the popularity of a blog post is dependent upon many factors beyond our control. From my own experience, I can say that this is not the best choice to showcase our best posts.

Second alternative is to use another plugin ‘Recommend It’ which allows your blog’s veteran readers to recommend posts to first time visitors through a simple voting system. It is being used very successfully on it’s main site here

However, the best alternative in my opinion is to build your blog like a static site where all the best popular posts find a permanent place in the sidebar. I recently came across a blogger (Caroline Middlebrook) who has written a wonderful free ebook on this subject. The name of this ebook is How to Develop Money-Making Niche Sites with WordPress.

I read this ebook and I must admit it is a very easy to understand & effective book that explains the process of building niche sites using wordpress. Using the simple tutorial given in this ebook anybody can increase the usability aspect of his blog. If you want to make your blog easily accessible to new readers, you must read this ebook.

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By Titus Hoskins (c) 2007

If you’re like most webmasters, you have probably spent years building your site. You have spent years adding content, building links and cultivating traffíc - but how well do you really know your website?

How well do you know the intricate details of your website’s traffíc? Where do your site’s visitors come from? How long do they stay on your site? Just where do they go to on your site and how well do they convert into buyers or subscribers?

Do you know your site’s rankings in the major search engines? What are your site’s top keywords? What’s your site’s Google PageRank? Who are your IP neighbors? What your site looks like in other browsers? How much is your site worth?

These are just some of the questions you should know, mainly because the more knowledge you possess about your site, the better equipped you will be at improving it. So here’s a simple líst of free site checking tools/sites that will let you “Big Brother” (monitor and watch) your site.

1. Google Analytics

Perhaps one of the most helpful analytical tools you can use on your site. Google Analytics will give you a wealth of information about your site’s traffíc. Where it comes from, how long it stays on your site, where it goes on your site, how well your content converts… invaluable information every webmaster should have in their possession. Read the rest of this entry »

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Related post plugin has been one of the most useful and highly recommended plugin which helps increase the visibility of your posts by showing a list of posts related to the current post. It’s a very helpful way to showcase your earlier work in a blogging environment where the older posts get buried deeply easily.

However, many people face difficulty in installing this plugin. The normal method of installing a plugin in Wordpress (WP) is to upload the plugin in the Plugin directory and then activate it through Dashboard. However, apart from this procedure, the ‘Related Post’ plugin also require you to first run a script so that it can index all the posts in your blog. And here lies the problem.

Many people have faced this problem that when they click on run the script (in the Related post option), they got an error message that says:

“Sorry, you must be at least a level 8 users.”

Actually this message is an indication that you need to manually run a SQL query in your Wordpress database. The ‘Read Me’ file of this plugin also says :

“If automatic creation of a full text index fails. You will have to set it up manually. Don’t worry it’s not hard. Just open your database in phpMySQLadmin and run the following command (cut & paste):

ALTER TABLE `wp_posts` ADD FULLTEXT `post_related` (
`post_name` ,
`post_content`
)”

The problem is that most users (included me  ) who are not familiar with SQL or programming etc find it difficult to do this on their own. So here is my tutorial to guide you step-by-step how to run this command. Read the rest of this entry »

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