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.
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.
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.
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.
Most of you may have read about the latest news on the release of WordPress 2.3.2 that claimed its a more secured and stable version than the previous 2.3.1 because it has fixed a few bugs that can expose your draft posts and suppressed certain error messages that can give away information about your database table structure and so on.
I was in the midst of transferring this domain to a different host when I was prompted by WordPress to upgrade to the new version 2.3.2 whilst trying to log-in to the administrative panel.
I tried a number of attempts and failed, until I went back to WordPress.org to re-read their upgrading instructions before I finally got it.
I used the following steps to upgrade to WordPress 2.3.2 from 2.3.1, after I have transferred my domain from host A to host B and re-installed WordPress in the root directory.
Step 1: Prior to upgrading your WordPress exercise, you should backup your data. Just follow the instructions to backup your wordPress data per your needs.
Step 2: I started at cPanel with a fresh empty WordPress platform. Then login to your WordPress admin panel and deactivate all plugins first. P/S: In my first few attempts, I skipped this crucial step and the upgrading exercise did not work, so go and deactivate all plugins.
Step 3: Search Google to get WordPress 2.3.2 and download the zip file onto your desktop, and unzip it.
Step 4: Open up your FTP program, like Filezilla, to connect to your server. Upload each individual folder and files from WordPress 2.3.2 to your local host or server.
Example: Upload “wp-admin” folder from your local PC to “wp-admin” at your server. Do the same for “wp-content” and “wp-includes” folders and the rest of the files.
Step 5: Login back to your Wordpress admin panel and on Dashboard, you should be able to view the latest WordPress 2.3.2 version at the bottom of the page.
Step 6: Next, you need to import your previously saved backup WordPress database back to your domain.
Step 7: Check that all your data are in order, before you reactivate your plugins, widgets and themes.
If you have a better methodology of upgrading WordPress 2.3.2 than mine, please feel free to send me some comments.
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