Make Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates Revealed
Make Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates RevealedMake Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates RevealedMake Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates RevealedMake Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates RevealedMake Money From Wordpress Blog System, Tips, Strategies and Updates Revealed
Multiple Author Blogs - blogs were traditionally written by one author, but a new emerging trend is to have a number of authors producing content on one blog
Multi-Topic Blogs - means bloggers expanding on a wider number of cross niche on one blog space, rather than focusing only on a niche
Blogs Converging with Other Types of Sites - you may be able to see new blogs incorporating more videos, audio, social media, chat and forum all on one blog
Portal-Like Design - blogs looking more like a magazine and linking to social media like Twitter
Indirect Monetization - more and more bloggers are offering their own consulting services, producing e-books and courses, promoting their expertise to movie directors, rather than making money from online advertisers only
So what blogging trends have you been observing over the blogosphere? Please share your observations in the comment below.
This blog gets its 51.8% traffic from Google, 25% came from Referring sites and 23.2% came from Direct traffic, those who knew about this blog from my newspaper advertisement offline.
You can see this chart in detail here.
So have you been tracking your blog statistics? Use the free tracking tool from Google Analytics. Just go there to sign up with an email account and start tracking your blog traffic.
Do not forget to share your blog traffic statistics with me here by leaving your comments below.
One of the questions I received is How to install PayPal payment gateway on a WordPress blog to receive online payments into PayPal merchant account that one has.
Unless you are selling or promoting a product or service, you would not normally have PayPal installed on your Wordpress blog.
However, there were exceptional cases where a prominent blogger like Raja Petra of Malaysia-Today would use PayPal to collect Donations to fund Bloggers Defence. I heard so far they have collect over RM40,000+ in aid of this donation from all over the world.
Here is what Raja Petra’s PayPal logo and icon looked like on his news portal.
Bloggers Defence Fund Donate logo
And after you click on the above logo, the next page looks like this. This is the page where you will enter in the Amount you wish to donate to the fund.
So let me share with you how can you can install the PayPal payment gateway logo on to your Wordpress blog.
PayPal may request you to pay a small amount by charging into your valid credit card. This is to verify that the PayPal account is linked to a valid credit card holder. You may received your Verification Code from your credit card statement. Also all Malaysians can now withdraw from PayPal into your Malaysian bank account.
In PayPal, just go under Merchant Services and get a Buy Now button. You will be asked to create your own Buy Now button by filling in all the required information on the page. Thereafter, copy the encrypted HTML code for your websites.
You can add and insert the PayPal Buy Now button anywhere on your website or blog with the generated HTML code.
What is the capacity in terms of space and bandwidth that we should look at, for a regular blogger?
For HostGator, how frequent have they revised their subscription rates when such revisions had also been imposed on their existing subscribers?
For HostGator’s Baby Package, does the “unlimited Addon or Parked Domains” mean that we can put up several different blogs on different topics (so we don’t have to pay to subscribe to different hosting for each blog)
To answer the first question about the required bandwidth and space, Hostgator provides more than adequate bandwidth and space for a new blogger, to start with.
The basic package for a new Blogger would be Hatchling. They provide 350Gb of the disk space and 3,000Gb of bandwidth.
Now, for a new blogger, you would usually use text to write your blog posts and perhaps include image as well as videos. These would generally not take up alot of space nor bandwidth.
Bandwidth will affect you if you are expecting to launch a new product or service of your own, and expects a huge surge of online traffic within the new launch period.
Hostgator does not revise their Subscription rates annually, as far as I have observed. They revise their subscription rates only now and then. And usually the revision subscription rate would be about a dollar or two more, on the monthly subscription.
Lastly, to answer the last question here. Under the Baby package in Hostgator, what they meant by Unlimited Domains Allowed is you can Host as many number of your own Domains into one Account. These Domains can be in different types of niches.
You are the owner of your own registered Domains and they can be about any types of niches you choose. And you can Host all of your Domain names in one Hostgator account for the price of US$7.95 per month (RM25.00 monthly @ Exchange rate of 3.1), at 600Gb of disk space and 6,000Gb of bandwidth and UNLIMITED Domain names, with cPanel and Fantastico.
A plus point here is, this is a USA based web hosting provider. If you are a Malaysian, this is an added advantage if you are blogging about “sensitive” issues, I have been told.
Let me know if I am wrong on some of the facts here.
Do you have any of your own views here that you can add on?
Here is the first question posted by a blog reader to me. The question is What other essential or useful features should be included, apart from cPanel and Fantastico that was highlighted in Wordpress Blogging Seminar, last week. This is part of the series of Submit in your Questions about Wordpress or Blogging.
In my seminar talk last week, I recommended my seminar attendees to pick Hostgator, as their choice hosting provider. I did not have much time to elaborate on the finer details of what Hostgator have to offer due to limitation of time.
I will try to elaborate further in this blog post, as to why Hostgator is my preferred hosting provider for my Wordpress blogging needs and as a blogger.
Hostgator web hosting provides cPanel, which is a control panel that is Linux based server. In other words, cPanel is the administrative area where you log in with your Username and Password.
On cPanel, you can create your own:
* personalized Email address attached to your Domain name
* create your own MySQL Database
* create SubDomains
* install Bulletin Boards
* install Blog platforms like Wordpress
* install Content Management like Joomla, Drupal, phpWebsite
* install Customer Relationship like PHP Support Tickets or Help Center Live
* install Discussion Boards like phpBB or SMF
* install E-Commerce like OS Commerce, Zen Cart
* install Image Galleries
* install Wikis
Now, I am not a web programmer nor have I studied PHp programming, but I have learned to use the functions in cPanel effectively to install my Wordpress blogs. If you learn to use cPanel effectively, you are in effectively called a Webmaster, because you controls your own cPanel.
On Monday this week, I sent out an email to all my Wordpress Blogging Seminar attendees from July 2007 till now, to inform them to submit in their Wordpress or Blogging questions to this blog.
I have only received a handful of replies from some of the seminar attendees. I have mentioned in my email that I would require their permission to publish out their questions and answer these questions in my blog posts, so anyone can read and benefit from the answers.
I also mentioned that I would protect the Identity of anyone who submits in their Wordpress or Blogging questions to me.
From my experience with Malaysian who attends seminars, whenever I send out an email, most of them would not have opened up their emails to check for updates. I even have emails that have been returned saying their Inbox has been full.
How often do you check in to your email box and delete all those Spam messages?
How often have you ever check into your own Personal email box to read any of your own emails?
How may people actually make use of their personal Email account, come to think of it?
Anyway, since I have only received very few questions, I will still write about those submitted questions and answer them in my next blog posts.
Thank you to those who had the ‘guts’ to submit in their questions to be answered.
If you haven’t submit in your questions, you can still do so.
I am organizing another Wordpress Blogging Seminar this May again in Petaling Jaya, Selangor upon popular request. I though of taking a long break from this, but it seemed that I will not be able to.
Here is a newspaper ads clip in The Star Metro section published on 5 May 2008.
If you keen to attend this Wordpress Blogging Seminar, please follow the instructions given to register your seats, as it is usually quickly taken up.
Clickbank has finally arrived in Malaysia. Why is this an issue? Previously, Malaysians amongst many other Asian countries are not permitted to register at Clickbank with our residence address.
Now, your opportunity to make more money online being an affiliate is finally in Malaysia.
Just go to Clickbank and sign up for a Clickbank account now.
You can also become a Clickbank Affiliate at no cost to you.
“While I was busy modifying my website design, in which I have already spent weeks doing that, May Ong has shown me how easy it is to change blogs theme in seconds and all the content and items in the pages can be re-arrange easily. Without any doubt, May Ong has proven her expertise and knowledge in Blogging and this workshop is really an eye-opener for me.
I believe the new knowledge I acquired will definitely be very useful for me to further enhance my company’s business and I would like to thank them very much for the knowledge shared.”
Thank you and best regards.
Lee Te Hua
Managing Director
TH IT Resources Centre Sdn Bhd
Subang, Malaysia
I was enjoying my well-earned holiday in KL when I came across this ad about
how to learn to blog. After I attended the (3-hours seminar) preview, I was
impressed enough to be one of the first to sign up!
Owing to the fact, my return flight was only about a week away, May Ong was most helpful and kind enough to make special arrangement for me to take part.
The Blogging Workshop was conducted to my satisfaction. When I got to know more about May Ong, I found her to be very hardworking, knowledgeable and caring teacher. There was enough time for practical hands on sessions in the classroom.
The instructor was able to answer all questions to my satisfaction. I found the blogging tips and strategies useful and not too difficult to implement. I would say that the blogging training content was adequate to start an average learner off in Wordpress Blogging.
Regardless, I would personally give this Blogging Workshop a high satisfaction rating, and would certainly recommend it to my friends.
Eddy Cheong
www.JustFancyThis.com
Sydney, Australia
We would like to thank May Ong who has guided us in her blogging seminar which is very comprehensive, giving usstep by step instructions,
it is so complete and simplethat even a newbie can pick up the skill in a very short timeand start doing a real business online.
May Ong only speaks of what she has personally used and tested without mincing any words and she tells it just as it is.
One thing we found missing in most seminars is the support given before and after the training. But May’s seminar comes with undivided pre and post-support to ensure that you put into practice what you have learnt. She even gave us personal one to one coaching. May Ong even gives her mobile number for us to call her if we encounter any problem along the way.
Who has heard of this kind of support?
She also cares enough to work toward our success. Not just in word, but a person who walk the talk. What really impressed us is her sincerity and commitment towards your online business success. This seminar has given us value for every cent we have invested.
We will definitely recommend this seminar to everyone regardless of whether you have blogging knowledge or not as it is suitable for all.
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