Can I make money off my blog?
The short answer is yes!
The long one is – well, it’s long! You might have created a personal blog some time ago, have a lot of traffic but don’t know how to make money from it or you want to start something new and want to check if it’s possible making money off of it.
Generally speaking, you can make money on the Internet with any site. But that statement alone is very vague. It all comes down to: Read more…
What Codecademy Can Teach you About Startups
I just found out about Code Academy or Code Cademy as their domain states. It’s a site about learning how to program. At the moment, they have some classes on javascript. Apart from the fact that I was hooked from the first second I landed on their website, I really saw how many things they have implemented awesomely from the get-go. So what, you might say?
Numbers can speak for themselves: 200,000 Registered Users in just three days! Read more…
Selecting Multiple Categories Add-on for Gravity Forms
We recently bought the Gravity Forms Plugin for WordPress. We started out with the Personal package ($39) because we needed it for an in-house project, but within two days we updated to the Developer Edition ($199). It’s an amazing plugin for WordPress that will make your life much, much easier when it comes to forms. What this plugin does is that it transforms the tedious process of creating forms in WordPress into a breeze! With the plugin you can build Multi-page forms, Schedule forms, Pricing and Post fields. Read more…
Need help overcoming Writer’s Block? Get amazing article writing ideas from your own site statistics
Don’t you just hate it every time you are set to write an article and you end up spending 5 hours just looking at an empty screen without any outcome? Guess what! It happens to all of us! I can’t tell you how many hours I have wasted on just thinking about what to come up with next. It’s called writer’s block, and it happens to everybody.
Apart from the 1,000 different ways to deal with it, like running, cooking, sleeping, taking a shower, reading a book etc., I’ve found a simple and surefire way to help you not only come up with new article ideas instantly, but also help you at least double your site’s traffic.
Beat writer’s block by looking at your site’s stats!
You might think, “Won’t that make me procrastinate even more?” That’s why Read more…
How to make your WordPress Featured Image appear in your RSS Feed
After experiencing social media and how web sharing works, I understood that images are very important for the promotion of blog posts. Having been using WordPress for quite some time, I’ve seen that Featured Images are a great way to make an image appear differently on the main page and inside the post page and by using thumbnails you can have both worlds; beautiful and small thumbnails on the main page and a full image inside the post.
One problem that this has created though, is that WordPress by default does not show the Featured Post image inside your blog’s RSS feed. By adding Read more…
How to lower your AdWords Campaign Keywords’ average Cost Per Click rate
AdWords is such a sophisticated platform, that in order to fully understand it and be able to use it effectively, you’ll not only have to read up about it, but also have a good hands-on experience. It’s that complicated because there are numerous targeting options and because they have many system rules for pricing and ranking the ads.
Google takes many factors into consideration and combines them into one score, the Quality Score: each keyword we target gets one. We eventually want most of our main keywords to reach a Quality Score of 10 in order for us to have great exposure. At the same time, we will be able to get more quality visitors on our website at the least possible expense.
There are many things we can do to decrease the cost per click, so let’s get started! Read more…
The 10 Things you shouldn’t leave out on your “About Me” Blog Page
Creating, maintaining and tinkering with your blog is hard enough. Creating quality content for your readers is your new job; you’re excited, you have millions of things to give to your readers, offering value to their new ideas and prospects, and who knows? You may even help a lot of people in the process. The thing is, how are you going to get your readers to know you, without them ever seeing you in person or having a conversation with you? Surely you can’t partake in instant messaging with them all: you don’t have the time for that, and you wouldn’t want to look THAT available either. You’re going to have to sum yourself up in a clean, neat and precise page – your About Me page on your blog. Here are the things you should include in order to keep it short and sweet, while giving as much information about yourself as your readers need to get as close as they should! Read more…
So much to do, so little time
How would this be a business blog without some rambling from the author?
It’s this time of the year again. Seems everyone is getting crazy in February and October. It’s been a pattern for at least 4 years and now I am sure of its existence. Maybe it’s my niche, maybe it’s the norm. I can’t put my finger on it, but maybe it’s those two times of the year that people get anxious of what to do next to promote their businesses or create a new one.
And that period is the only one I am so overwhelmed with projects, I just say no to new clients. But that’s not my problem. The real problem is friends that need help with an application, with an installation, with their site, you name it! And those are the hardest to say no to. Read more…
How to use Long Tail Keywords to your advantage
When you create your web site, you’re faced with the following task: Choosing what keywords best describe your website and picking the best title and keywords for the main page, category pages and content pages.
This might seem a mundane task but in the long run, it’s really worth it. Being able to tell the search engines what each page on your website is about will help you a lot in your rankings.
You’re not going to use keywords only when you are trying to build a better ranking for your website, but also when you drive traffic with AdWords, and any other PayPerClick services.
Keyword selection is and should be Read more…
Solve the FeedBurner API Zero Subscriber Problem with Caching
Feedburner returns zero subscribers? This can’t be true!
Well, you ‘re right, this isn’t true; probably due to high load, the FeedBurner web service returning the current RSS circulation (subscribers) response is zero. This seems to happen every day for 4-5 hours.
I decided to deal with this while solving the caching problem at the same time; the idea is simple: cache the FeedBurner circulation response if it is not 0, and always show the cached result. Read more…
