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How to Recognize Scam Sites

Posted on 17. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi lad!

Have you ever come across one lengthy page sites, with testimonials that are too good to be true, offering business opportunity, ebooks, or automatic moneymaker softwares?

My friend, many people seek the opportunity to earn money from the internet, some use quality services as a media, some use scam to swindle the innocence. Scam sites belongs to the second, trying to get money without providing genuine value. If you are new to the idea of making money online, you better read this in order to evade the fraud of the second type. [...]

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Head to Head: Blogger vs WordPress

Posted on 16. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Good day mate!

Which one do you prefer for your blog, Blogger or WordPress?

Those two blogging platforms are the leaders in the industry and widely used by most bloggers in the vast blogosphere.

If you want to start a blog, perhaps you wonder which one you should use for your blog. Blogger and WordPress both serve as a functional platform for both free domain and custom / own domain.

In my opinion, the question is not “which”, but “when”. [...]

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Monetized Blogging: Part-time or Full-time?

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Good day!

Money is always attracting a lot of interest from normal people, due to its importance in our life, no? When people is about to start a blog, some of them already have this idea of making money online from blogs, perhaps including you. It is perfectly fine and there is nothing wrong with it.

However, fact says that successful bloggers are usually the full-timers. As obtaining the ability to earn income from blogs takes time, would you starve for a few months first on full-time blogging before getting your first income? Otherwise, are you afraid if you blog as a part-timer you won’t reach success, because you are not devoted maximally? [...]

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What You Can Do Before You Can Make Money From Blogs

Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi there!

Some people are interested with the idea of blogging to generate income online, and of course there is nothing wrong with it. However, being able of earning money from blogging takes time, seriously. From my own experience, I needed three to four months to build my blog before being able of generating money in a decent amount out of it. However, the actual meaning of this “decent” is probably different for each person, therefore the required time may be different for you. [...]

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Is Facebook Fan Page Good for Your Brand?

Posted on 11. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi mate!

If you wonder what is the answer for the question above, imagine this. You come across a blog (on a free domain) owned by someone you never heard before (or simply “nobody”). Then you see his / her Facebook Profile link and you feel that it is nice to have a new friend there. However, after you visited the link, it turns out that it is not a profile page but a fan page. What will you think about its brand? May be you will say “Who the hell are you, asking me to be your fan instead of your friend??“. You see here, fan pages of artists and public figures is a common thing in Facebook, but this idea of nobody’s fan page is actually quite tickling and partially offending. [...]

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and How It Helps You Get Money

Posted on 08. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi folks!

Wondering what is this SEO stuff that people always talk about? Let’s get started then, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the attempt to make a website search engine friendly and improve the volume and quality of traffic from natural search results.

Friendly here means that the site is informative enough for search engines, so they can maintain their index of information accurately that involves the site. Representative indexing is very useful for search engine users, since it enables them to find what they need fast. It is not less beneficial for the friendly websites, because they will receive traffic from search results, their life source. [...]

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SEO on WordPress Permalink, Have You?

Posted on 07. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hi buddy!

Do you realize that when you start your WordPress site, the default settings of the famous platform automatically define your link paths as “http://your-site.com/?p=xx” in format? Where the “xx” refers to numbers from 1, 2, 3, and so on (depending on how many pages you have). You know something? That’s bad.

My friend, this type of permalink is not effective according to Search Engine Optimizations (SEO) rules, you know. Why? Because you should put keywords to your permalink to make your site search engine friendly and later on getting top-notch traffic and visitors. [...]

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How to Add an Icon to WordPress without Coding

Posted on 06. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hello mate!

Have you got an icon for your WordPress site? Because by default, WordPress does not provide you with any icon, just that blank paper icon. See? If you are to use a custom icon to replace that blank paper, check this out.

With this method, it is very simple to add an icon lad, no need of coding stuff at all. All you need to do is installing a plugin that will help you in setting up the icon. Let’s get it on, shall we? Here are the steps: [...]

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WordPress on Low Bandwidth Hosting? Be Careful

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Good day!

If you use WordPress and install it on a low bandwidth hosting account, you better be careful there. Why? Because your activity in running your website / blog, like writing posts, edit appearances, put widgets, coding stuff, etc, will use the bandwidth quote too.

You thought the bandwidth / transfer data quote is only for your visitors? Not really. Check this out, when you are in your WordPress dashboard, pay attention to the address bar of your browser. Where are you? That’s right lad, you are visiting your own site. Therefore you use the bandwidth as well. [...]

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Official WordPress Themes Directory

Posted on 05. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar.

Hello!

When you start your WordPress blog, you want it to look nicely, true?  So you browse the net here and there seeking for the perfect theme for you. You expect to find the one good enough for your need so you don’t need to change / edit it again in near future. And you can focus on building your sparkling content, am I right?

So you download some of the candidates and upload them to your themes directory, before trying them one by one. But after testing and testing, you realize that some of them do not work as good as your expectation. Some of them miss your requirements, lacking of elements, or even don’t work at all. [...]

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