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
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.
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.
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.
Since March 2008, Wordpress upgraded their version of 2.3 to 2.5. I was caught by surprised when I logged in to my cPanel to find that I need to upgrade to Wordpress WP version 2.5. The next surprise I found was many versions of the older Wordpress templates 2.0+ does NOT work well with upgraded Wordpress version 2.5. So if you have upgraded your Wordpress to 2.5, please go and download compatible Wordpress 2.5 Themes.
The following are Wordpress Themes that are compatible to upgraded WP version 2.5.
Today I am going to show you severalmethods that can help you find ideas for your posts on your blogs, that are relevant to what your readers are looking for.
All it takes is a few minutes to come up with your own 10 or more ideas for your posts, by reviewing search terms.
The first tool we go and look into is 103bees. It is an search traffic analysis online service forbloggers, webmasters and internet marketers who focuses on natural search engine traffic analytics. Real-time statistics and in-depth information on search terms that targeted traffic to your websites are provided. This is not a 100% free site. You get a 30 day trial period upon sign up. They offer low traffic sites a one time fee of $19 and for higher traffic sites (more than 100,000 hits per month), the fee is $9 monthly.
The second tool you can use is Sitemeter. Their real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. Sign up for Site Meter Basic which is free, or got for the Premium starting at $6.95.These statistics here can show you some great ideas for blog posts. Go under Referral section and look for those that has Google.
The third tool is HitTail.com. HitTail Basic is free for lower traffic sites. It shows you the keyword search results as well as longtail keywords or phrases that people used to find your site and gives you suggestions on what you should post about for new content in blog posts or Pay Per Click campaigns. They have a “Plus” service for $9.95 per month with more statistics.
* Shoot photos of ordinary things, and ask yourself what have these got to do with your blog. You may get a number of ideas generated from this trick.
* Comments from your own readers are actually the best signal of potential topics. Look for comments that get several replies.
* Subscribe to newsletters. You can usually come up with a few good topics from these.
* Frequented search terms are a great starting point for building a new article, as well.
* Bounce off topical issues, stories and events around original content “stale” topics creates fresh ideas which is interesting and easy to read.
*Search for articles about topics relevant to your blog categories. Look for any of those article small tips of stuff that you can write a full post about.
* Read books and printed newspapers and blog about it if it is interesting. Also check out the table of contents in books. If you have a special niche you want to write about, just get a book on the subject and look at the contents listings.
* Try out http://wiki.chainofthoughts.com/dt/en/. This is another source of brainstorming ideas. Just type in any word and it comes up with a long list of popular related topics.
John Chow has been making money by blogging about making money blogging for more than a year. This 42-year-old Richmond, British Columbia entrepreneur has been reportedly making his income from John Chow Dot com which has increased more than 50 fold since he began blogging. From a mere $353 a month to an annual income of $300,000. Chow makes an average of $25,000 a month for sitting at home doing what Chow describes as “rambling.”
And he is not the only blogger who makes money by blogging. Over the past year the blogosphere has changed significantly. With already-huge community doubling to more than 114 million blogs worldwide and as many as 175,000 new sites springing up daily, according to Technorati.
Many like Chow, Perez Hilton and Arianna Huffington whom all explored this new moneymaking service by exploring the territory beyond Google AdSense. Chow uses more than 100 ad networks, like AuctionAds and Kontera ContentLink to earn money online. He said people keep coming up with new services that can help bloggers make money.
A recent study by the Society for New Communications Research suggested that in the next five years, conversational marketing will attract as many ad bucks as traditional channels.
Chow’s traffic-generating success is not clouded by product sales, avant-garde content or attractive page design. He was not even selling “himself” like some personal expertise financial blogs. His blog content is a combination of his money count and what he had for lunch - blogging “about nothing”.
With the free blog platform WordPress and an accounting degree, Chow has monetized “nothing” into a No. 39 ranking on Technorati’s Top 100 List of most-linked blogs. His reported overhead is about $550 a month and the remaining of that monthly $25,000 goes to the bottom line.
Chow’s other success was with his reviews-oriented blog site, TheTechZone. Chow used what he has learned at John Chow dot Com to help him monetize The TechZone and his new TZZ Media advertising network. Altogether, Chow’s revenue income came close to a $1 million annually, making him a web marketing expert by any sort of measure.
If you want to make blogging your career, Chow has a 59-page downloadable ebook at johnchow.com to help you monetize your business blog.
Blogging isn’t just a pastime or marketing gambit anymore; it’s a living.
If you are looking for another way to drive more traffic to your blog, then try out BlogCatalog.
Blog Catalog is one of the premiere social blog directory on the internet. This is a good site place for you if you are looking to promote your own blog or just find blogs on various topics.
They work similarly like MyBloglog. They regularly feature blogs, blog directories in major tag categories like Arts and Entertainment, Business, Blogging, Computer, Health, Food and Drink, Humor, Internet, Music, Political, Technology, Travel and Writing.
It is rather easy to join in. Just open a Free account with your Username and Password at Sign In and submit your blog in the various categories.
You may also add in a Recent Viewers BlogCatalog widget and Link Back buttons or plugins, that you can join for free.
This is the time of the year when the Chinese celebrates their Chinese New Year in 2008.
So I wish all my Wordpress blogging students, attendees, visitors and subscribers a very Happy Chinese New Year 2008 or GONG XI FA CAI, to you and all your family members in all your undertaking this year.
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