If you are blogging on blogspot and wanted to use a custom domain, say myblog.com, Blogger has this feature allowing you to still host your blog but use a custom domain that you choose.
Assuming that you registered your domain to other registrars, in my case at namecheap.
How to Use A Custom Domain on Your Blogspot Blog (more…)
Adsense is one of many opportunities that are open for bloggers and website owners to earn money online. I started blogging mid last year and placed some adsense ads few days after its creation, hoping that I’ll earn just like the other bloggers whose stories are published on the internet (and now I am making my own story yay!).
Just like most of the bloggers who just started using adsense, I was disappointed that I barely earn 0.5 cents a month on my first two months. Succeeding months earned me more than 2 dollars a month but hey, that’s not enough to support even my blogs’ hosting and domain registration.
How to make money online Using Google Adsense (more…)
As I was checking my blog’s comments earlier, I noticed this message saying “A new version of Wordpress is available! Please update now“. I was kinda surprise since I haven’t heard any buzz about it, no wonder, the new update is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. So if you regularly do some scheduled posts, better upgrade with this version now to avoid leakage of your future posts 
WordPress 2.3.2 is an urgent security release that fixes a bug that can be used to expose your draft posts. 2.3.2 also suppresses some error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and limits and stops some information leaks in the XML-RPC and APP implementations. Get 2.3.2 now to protect your blog from these disclosures.
You can check the details of the new version here
How to Upgrade to Wordpress 2.3.2
That’s it!
I saw Marhgil Macuha’s post about Entrecard earlier, so I gave it a try.
What is Entrecard?
Entrecard is the first and only free exchange network for 125×125 ads. Through this revolutionary platform, you can advertise your own 125×125 Entrecard on any blog in the network, for free, for a number of days.
You pay for this advertising with Entrecard Credits, that you earn for free by networking (a.k.a. visiting blogs and dropping your card for other bloggers).
All you have to do is to place the Entrecard widget somewhere in your site, preferably on your sidebar. For you to earn Entrecard credits, you have to drop your card for someone else, done by visiting their site and clicking the ‘Drop Yours’ on their widget. Aside from that, you’ll earn credits from advertisers and every time someone drops a card for you. It’s that easy.
My entry is still new, so it takes only 6 credits to advertise on my blog.
It’s really another way to increase traffic and interact with other bloggers in the blogosphere, so come and give it a try
It’s totally free so no need to consult some San Diego tax attorneys
Are you new to blogging? Need tips and techniques on how to make it big in the blogging industry? well, Marhgil Macuha of www.macuha.com is one of the successful bloggers that I look up to, specially when searching for information about blogging, tips on SEO and blog monetization.
As a newbie in the bloggosphere, Marhgil Macuha really changed my views in terms of blog monetization, and I can say that some of his ideas are the one I am considering on my blogs.
Blog the Marhgil Macuha Way
So what does it take to be a successful blogger? for me there are two basic things:
.How to be a successful blogger? Here’s the key: Build Traffic + Optimize Ads = Success.
Marhgil Macuha is currently sponsoring a mini-SEO contest allowing bloggers to optimize a certain keyword and who ever made it to the top of the SERP will get the prize. And yes, this is my official entry on his $150 Anniversary Mini-SEO Contest .
As of 01/01/2008, I made it to the first page of GOOGLE SERP!!!! yahooo!!!. Still a few days before the contest ends and still, 8 more websites to beat! hahaha. Win or lose, I still feel a winner, since I learned a lot from this contest, specially with the SEO thing.
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There are several plug-ins available out there for this functionality, but if you are like me who is a bit lazy , here’s a simple way to add other blog’s feeds to your wordpress blog.
How To Display Other Blogs Feeds to Your WordPress Blog
On my previous post about customizing The Read More Link, we had learned how to make the link jump to the top of the page. If you don’t want that kind of behavior on your read more links, you may leave the code as is. Now if you want your excerpt to be more enticing and inviting to the readers to continue reading, you might want to customize how the read more link will be displayed.
By default, the read more tag displays more...
If you want to change the words from more…. to something else, just type in the new words into the tag.
Designing the Read More Link (more…)
If you are using Wordpress, maybe you are familiar with the ‘more’ (<!–more–>) tag. If this tag sounds unfamiliar, here’s a short description on its usage:
more – <!–more–> WordPress tag that breaks a post into “teaser” and content sections. Type a few paragraphs, insert this tag, then compose the rest of your post. On your blog’s home page you’ll see only those first paragraphs with a hyperlink ((more...)), which when followed displays the rest of the post’s content.
Source: Wordpress Codex
How to use
After you had submitted your Blog to Google, the next thing you want to know is if its already included in Google’s index.
As I had mentioned on my previous post, I had just submitted this blog to Google and now is the time to check if its already indexed.
For new blogs, you may do the checking two days after your submission. For older blogs, this can be useful if you want to check which of your blog’s pages are already indexed by Google.
I had just submitted this blog to Google so as a first guide, I’m writing here some information about how I submitted this blog to Google.
It is suggested that after you registered your domain or upon creation of your blog, submit it to different search engines. For simple reason that It takes time for new blogs / sites to get indexed by Google. The earliest inclusion time for my other blogs are 4 days. Not bad though but it could take longer. And hey, don’t waste your money paying others to submit your blog, it’s really easy and you can do it by yourself.
