Archive for Blogging

How to Submit Your Blog Sitemap to Yahoo

In blogging, it is important to know how to create your XML sitemap for your blog and submit this sitemap into the search engine to make sure that search engines like Google and Yahoo will knows more of your blog and index your blogpost quickly.

Here is is the steps on How to Submit Your Blog Sitemap to Yahoo.

1. You must create a sitemap first. If you dont have a WordPress sitemap on your blog, you can create it, here is the tutorial: http://www.dilsonblog.com/how-to-setup-google-xml-sitemap-automatically-for-wordpress/ Read the rest of this entry »

Pros and Cons of Free Blogs

When I am a beginner in blogging, the problems that I encountered is I don’t know how to start a blog, I don’t know how to register a domain name, I don’t have credit card or a paypal. But if there is a problem then there is a solution. Because I don’t have knowledge on blogging during that time and I don’t have a budget and I cannot afford to buy a domain name and webhosting. As an alternative, I also registered and started my first blog using free blog like Blogger and WordPress Read the rest of this entry »

How to Register and buy your own Domain Name

Last week at the event of Blogworld Philippines 2010, some students asked some questions like how they can start their own blog?, how to register a domain name? and many more. I also received some emails which asking question “how can i make my own website for blogging???”.

If you want to start your own blog, then it is very important to consider having and register your own domain name like my own domain name (www.dilsonblog.com).  Registering your own domain name is an important step that you must do if you want to start blogging.

Registering your domain name is very easy, all you have to do is visit some domain name registrar websites which you can buy and register your domain name. The two examples domain name registrar websites are the Dynadot.com and Godaddy.com Read the rest of this entry »

Avoid “Free” on the internet

The word “free” is the favorite word of mostly people on the internet and also in real life. When I hear that word, it sounds so cool. Many internet users are like to type that magic word (“free”) on Google, if they want something to get or to download. Internet users wants it digital products like mp3 and software for free. Some Newbie bloggers and Internet Marketers wants their websites, blog domain and web hosting for free because they don’t want spend money. Yes,  free is good thing in this world but also there is always a catch if you want something to get it for free. Now,  here are some of the free on the internet that you can get but you should also you should avoid if you want to be free. Always think wise.

Avoid free web hosting

If you have a blog domain name that is top level domain like (.com/.net/.org etc), hosting it into online free web hosting is a very bad idea and it is not wise. I know some many newbie bloggers are opted to host their domain name into online free web hosting. Yes it is very cheap and you will not spending money on web hosting, but also, there is a catch. Hosting your blog into free web hosting providers can create you headache and trouble, because free web hosting is very unreliable. Read the rest of this entry »

Blogging as a tool: Use it wisely

Blogging is a very powerful tool on the internet. A year ago, blogging or called web blog is use as an Online Diary which you can share on the internet. It is all up to you if you blog publicly or personally. If you blog publicly, your readers can write a comment to your blog post articles. Anybody can blog, anyone can use it to share information and knowledge. As a simple person, you can use blogging to share your stories and journey in life. Internet Marketer can use blogging as one of promotion of their company websites. You can choose blogging as a professional career, where you can earn money online even at your home. Did you hear blogging for money? Yes, you can earn money online using blogging as a tool. That is my work job right now.

There are many use of blogging, you can use it whatever you want, just think outside of the box. Here are the two example of use of blog.

Blogging as a tool for making money online

Professional bloggers are enjoying the money that they are earning online using blogs. I heard many times that you can earn money online using only the blogging as a tool. When I first time to hear it, I believe it for only 50%, but now, I really believe 100% that you can use blogging to earn money. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Detect Fake Google PR of a Blog

googleprfakeIf you are in SEO and blogging world, another simple thing you should learn is to detect if the Google PR of one blog is fake or real. I know that you know about Google PR from PR1-PR10, you are always encountering and amazed with blogs that high PR like PR3 or even PR5. The truth, not all blogs with high Google PR is real; some of them have purely fake Google PR. I started practicing SEO since 2007, but I started to learn how to detect if one have fake Google PR on 2009. It is almost 2 years before I learn the idea that not all Google PR of is real.

Some bloggers are doing the technique of 301 redirect to make their PR0 blog looks like PR5 if you try to check into Google PR Checker’s website or in to your Firefox browser with Google PR checker toolbar plugin. They can easily fool the newbie that have higher Google PR in doing link exchange. So, if you have a blog that have a high Google PR of PR1-PR5, just be careful in doing link exchange. Before you make a deal of link exchange, always check the blog of your potential link exchange partners if their Google PR blogs is not fake. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Increase the Link Popularity of Your Blog

You are reading this blogpost because you want to know tips and techniques on how to increase the backlinks or link popularity of your blog. Link popularity is the number of links or backlinks you have to your blog. Backlinks of your blog is one of the important criteria of Search Engine like Google and Yahoo to rank your blog highly on SERP(Search Engine Result Page).

It means, if your blog is rank highly on Search Engines for a keyword that is highly search on the internet, then you have the more opportunity to increase the visitor and readers of your blog. So, if you want more visitors then you really need to increase your backlinks. In a nutshell, The more backlinks or link popularity, the more visitors and readers. Read the rest of this entry »

Make Money Online With Google Adsense

What is Google Adsense?

googleadsenseGoogle is making money by allowing the owner of the websites to advertise on Google and display their text ads on Google’s Search Engine Result Pages. Advertisers are joining and using the Google Program called Google Adwords, they are using that program to create their own Text Advertising and advertise to Google.

googleadwordNow, Google created a program called Google Adsense on 2003, where you can also make money and commission by displaying the text ads of Google’s advertisers to your blog. If you have a blog and not making money on it, then it is now time to earn money on your blog using Google Adsense. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Schedule your Blog Post at WordPress

scheduled-postOne of the solution to never run out of the blogpost is by setting up and using Schedule Post. It is means that you will write a blogpost today but that blogpost to automatically publish depends on the schedule that you set up. If you set a blogpost to be publish for tomorrow, then that blogpost will be automatically publish tomorrow without doing anything.

You can use the feature of Schedule Post on WordPress. I am not using this schedule post in the past, because I have no idea that it is one of the cool feature of WordPress, but when I discovered it, I am always using it right now in blogging in my Webthesurfi Rugs Webdesign blog. Read the rest of this entry »

How to Add Links on Homepage Only at WordPress

A friend want to add links of Webthesurfi Rugs Webdesign into my blogs on the Homepage Only (not sidewide) of the WordPress blog, which mean, his links will be on Homepage Only, not on other subpage of my blogs. I inserted the link code on theme editor and using widget of my blog, but the problem is, the link is displaying sitewide or on every pages of my blogs.

Even that I have a years of experience in WordPress and blogging, it is my first time add link on Homepage Only at WordPress. So, what is did is I ask a question to Google on how to add links on Homepage Only and spend a minutes to researc. Thank to God, I already figured it out on how to do it. If you ask a question on how to do it. Here is the simple solution to that. Just insert this code on the sidebar.php of your blog. Read the rest of this entry »