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New Posts: How Often?

Posted on 03. Sep, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

I am sure you agree that posting frequently is something important in blogging.

Why it’s important? Posting frequently adds more content to your blog on a steady rate and keeping it fresh. It also shows that your blog is alive, not dead yet. Once understanding your posting frequency, your visitors will also know when to visit your blog checking for new posts to read or comment.

So, how often should we publish new posts? I remember some good advices from successful bloggers which I adapt, check them out: [...]

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Doug’s Great Advice on Affiliate Marketing

Posted on 01. Sep, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Interested in using affiliate marketing to monetize your blog?

Affiliate marketing is known as a good and popular way for bloggers to make money from their blogs.

Speaking of affiliate marketing, Doug Dillard left a great advice on my post linked above, based on his experience on making money online. Doug runs a site of www.MakingMoneyOnline.com (along with Mark Smith), an impressively growing site that has got more than 1000 comments on its two month age.

Here is what he said: [...]

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Bloggers’ Arms: Basic Blogging Equipments

Posted on 31. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hello there!

If you want to blog comfortably, you will need a few equipments to support your activity, true?

Having one or two of them will help you enjoy blogging better. However, if you are serious about blogging and the popular idea of generating money from it, you must get all of them, no bargain. Why? Because the vast blogosphere is a war zone of competitions, without your shiny armor, shield, and sword you will certainly go nowhere.

Here are some basic blogger equipments you will obviously need in your journey (excluding your blog ): [...]

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Twitter Time Machine

Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Using Twitter?

I recently experienced something strange while tweeting: I tweeted to the past like using a time machine.

At that time, my newest tweet went straight to the past, more specifically: a year ago. I knew it when I saw my Recent Tweets widget on the footer of my blog. I don’t really know what the cause was but it was quite weird and funny since a year ago I haven’t started using Twitter.

Check out this image: [...]

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What You Can Do When Your Blog is Down

Posted on 29. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Have you suffered from server downtime?

I just experienced my first one. I could not access my website, nor my WordPress Dashboard. When I asked my hosting support, they explained that my shared hosting server was attacked by a hacker. I guess it was some kind of DOS (denial of service) attack.

If you read this, then my server is up again. Update: not just up, it is relocated to a new server now because the old one still has issues, which messes with some of WP functionality.

Anyway, from this experience I learned a few positive things to do when our hosting server goes down: [...]

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My Five Earliest Posts Here

Posted on 23. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Learning to improve my content is one of my priorities in blogging. How about you?

I started this site on July 4, 2009. Since then I keep writing new posts and this is my 38th post. In the process, I constantly try to improve the posts in various aspects, including grammar, language, tone, format, framework, opening, closing, titles, etc. Experiments is a daily routine.

These five earliest posts mark my starting point here on this blog. They are like my warm up posts, talking mostly about my experience in starting out this site. Sometimes I laugh at myself or feel embarrassed when reading them. But such thing is a part of our growth, right? Check them out: [...]

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Why I Like WordPress Forum

Posted on 21. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

I love WordPress Forum, I really do.

I joined the famous forum about three weeks ago, as I followed my program of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog. I started by asking a few technical question there. I also broke the forum rules once because I was so newb

Afterward, I realized that there were so many people asking help there, and only a handful part-timer and volunteer helping. As WordPress is a free publishing platform that I enjoy much, I felt like returning the favor back to WP society. That’s why I am active there now. [...]

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What Google ‘Suggests’ About Obama

Posted on 17. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

By default, Google offers you some suggestions as you type popular words in its search box.

I recently tried to find some information about Barrack Obama, the phenomenal president of USA. And what Google suggested when I was writing “Obama is” on the search query was quite extra-ordinary.

Check out this image to see what Google suggested about Obama: [...]

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What Makes Blog Promotions Work

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

“How to promote my blog?” a friend of mine asked me on Facebook a while ago.

Are you wondering for the same question?

I gave my friend a few common promotion methods in my answer but I doubted that it would be any good for him. See, hundreds of promotion methods are useless, unless they work for you. Knowing fifty methods counts to nothing if you can’t make them work.

How to make them work? There are a few factors that make a blog promotion method works: [...]

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Why Blogging Buddies are Good for You

Posted on 15. Aug, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Having a new blog to grow?

Every blogger had a brand new blog once, when the content and traffic are still few. It is always a difficult time for a blogger.

Those with new blogs often feel discouraged seeing big and successful blogs out there. Their traffic is great, their designs are visually stunning, and they make money real good. New blogs seem small and unworthy in front of them, like having no ability and chance to compete.

This feeling is not positive to keep because it can tackle your constructive blogging progress. It has to stop one way or another. [...]

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