Showing posts with label Blogging Guide and Tips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Blogging Guide and Tips. Show all posts

Monday, January 3, 2011

Wordpress Language Translator Plugin

Now iCalvyn.com can be read in 13 language, including English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Greek, Dutch, Norwegian, with using wordpress language translator.

wordpress language translator

This is a wordpress language translator plugin which can translate my website in to different language with using 4 big online translator, such as Google Translation Engine, Babelfish Translation Engine, FreeTranslations.com and Promt.

Help in SEO
This plugin also help in SEO, example, to access my website in Japanise language version, you need to access, http://blog.icalvyn.com/ja/, I may submit the particular URL to the Japanise seach engine and let the spider to crawl my website :)

wordpress japanise translator

Watashi wa Calvyn desu :P

wordpress korean translator


Plugin Name : Global Translator

URL : http://www.nothing2hide.net/wp-plugins/wordpress-global-translator-plugin/

After activate the plugin, just add the following code in your wordpress theme, any where you would like the widget to display, like mine, I put it on my header.php

if(function_exists("gltr_build_flags_bar")) {
gltr_build_flags_bar();
}

Other Type of Translator
I do saw some other blogger use the other type of trasnlator such as TechCzar,

But when visitor visit their blog in other language, the URL are not from their own website, instead, the website are translate with techczar.com, and the URL shows like below.

With using the Global Translator, wordpress language translator, the URL will shows as below.

Does this wordpress language translator really help in SEO? I can’t actually comfirm it, since I did not have much knowledge on SEO, and just take this advice from forumer. By right should help in SEO.

What does you think?

Personally, I think the flag is too small, I am looking for bigger flag and edited my self

Introduce To Tag Cloud Wordpress Plugin

Do you use tag in your blog post?As I saw a lot blogger like to use tag, and some putting fancy tag cloud on their side bar. So far I did not use much tags on my blog post, kinda confuse to differentiate what is tag and categories.

Categories Vs Tag
For example, categories is to separate each different topic, every topic we write, definitely will belong to one categories such as book, categories in financial, computer, gardening and so on. While tag, each topic, might have few tags, example a topic talking about computer, you may have few tags such as “software”, “graphic”, “business logo”, or “internet”, “paypal”, “make money online”

tag cloud

Introduce to WordPress Tag Cloud Plugin
If you looking to install a tag cloud in your blog, you might like this tag cloud wordpress plugin from empiritag.com, this widget is a Flash-based tag cloud design with using form of 3D drum. Easy to install, just require to upload the plugin into your plugin folder and activate it. Once you activate, just put this code [empiritag-insert-code] at any where in your content which you wish the tag cloud to be appear.

The benefit of Tag Cloud
Some said it will get easy for Google spider to crawl your keyword with using Tag, some said your reader easy to find those topic with the related tags. In my opinion, the most valuable from this flash tag cloud plugin will bring you traffic. As show at empiritag.com, this website will serve as a search engine for internet user, once the user search a particular keyword, your website will be listed in the search query, it will bring traffic to your website.

When talking about traffic, blogger most like will be traffic, because traffic is equal to money. Try out this tag cloud plugin and observer whether your earning has increase or not.

Tips to Get Approve Easily On Sponsoredreview

I write sponsored post for PayPerPost (PPP) and Sponsored Review (SR) quite some number already, this 2 website motivate me to continue providing my real LIVE experience for my reader.
Which one I prefer 
If you ask me which one I more prefer, I may vote for SR. Price may get higher, more challenging since it use BID method. Payment also more faster, 2 week maximum. If you submit the post a day before the payment date, you will get paid on the next day. Fast right?
Recently I went thought Weirdoux‘s Blog, talking about he like SR… making more buzz from SR… Tips to get approve easily … I did’n not see much tips there, but after read his SR description or so-callad BLOG PROFILE , found some really good tips, and I have follow. here my profile
iCalvyn.com = LIVE Tech blog. This blog has a bit extraordinary then other Tech blog, the blogger blog LIVE experience. Include his daily working IT task, problem he face and solution he found. All about Information Technology, Computing, Networking, Hardware and Software.
The reader earn valuable knowledge thought the daily interested content, Blogger blog new hardware he experience and useful software tools for Computer troubleshooting.
Here come the Tips:
I have compile some of his thought:
  1. List clearly what topic you are.
  2. List out how special your blog are, different from other.
  3. List out what you special content you provide for your reader.
  4. List out why your reader will benefit from you blog.
This is his latest profile (Modify again), better that the time I read few week ago
Post-Buzz: Personal blog that focus on blogging tips, how to earn money via online and tech news. Make money online is the main niche and the blog itself has managed to attract more visitors day by day.
We do seriously put the money is the main factor in life. That’s what encourage this blog to more aggressive in teach people how to make money online. We never publish the content that “problogger” mentioned because we want to be different.
With a different type of review style, the BUZZ always come with a good SEO skill and a good result.
Need an unique BUZZ?
Le us DO it for you!
You may use this method to attract the advertiser 1st impression with you. After I changes this way for my profile, It really works. I get few USD20 post easily and having a USD50 post in progress now. So far i never get 50USD bid before, the highest also 20USD only :) :) :) well, thank for Weirdoux for this valuable tips.
If you haven join Sponsored Review, let me Sponsored you… Join Now

Invitation Link for Stumble Exchange Website

As you all know, stumbleupon bring a lot traffic to our website. Traffic will come if the particular topic you discover get a lot Stumble Thumb up by a lot people. Possibility are higher for your topic to be appear when people click the stumbleupon button.
To make this possibility higher, we need more people to click “thumb up” at our particular topic. According to the algorithm, a new discover topic, you need around 10 stumble, within the few hour after you discover the topic, the posibility of appearing around the world are very high. Compare to a old discover topic, you will need 50 stumble to achieve same result.
What is Piqq.us ! How it works… 
Piqq.us previously are from diggboss.com, due to the member misuse the diggboss, this website have been sue by digg.com(so far this is what i know :) )
piqq.us is a stumble exchange website, meaning that you stumble the available oppurtunity(other people topic), earn stumble point. Once you collect enough stumble point, you may create a campaign for your own topic, other people will stumble for you.
Other then stumble, you may gain digg point or propeller point too
What is StumbleUdon ! How it works… 
StumbleUdon is also same owner from piqq.us, this website are much more easier, you just need to sign up, put in your stumbleupon username and password there, the StumbleUdon system will automatic help you to stumble other people topic.
For sure, it will simply use your account to stumble. Each days, just few click, minimum you will earn 5 credit, and you may use this 5 credit to exchange for topic to get stumble by 5 account. You may earn more credit by increasing the “Udon”
I just use 5 minute a days to complete this transaction and gain 5+ stumble for my website
**********Piqq.us Invitation Link :**********
http://piqqus.com/signup.php?r=14&c=27btxy9l9u49a6c57d93
http://piqqus.com/signup.php?r=14&c=b455n7cx2m49a6c57d98
http://piqqus.com/signup.php?r=14&c=94c4wa5wgo49c8daf90e
**********StumbleUdon Invitation Link :**********
http://stumbleudon.com/signup.php?r=648&c=86fe85isxp47f32ab54c
http://stumbleudon.com/signup.php?r=648&c=e79ijcwm0r48019c143f
If the link cannot use, kindly left me a comment, and subscribe to the comment,(tick Notify me of followup comments via e-mail) I will update you all after post the new link

Power of Stumbleupon

Below are the Google Analytic result that I obtain today, with the current result, it only shows 4th march as final, and for 5th march, the result are not yet final, possible will have more.
stumble result
I was too excited to show you all, the power of stumbleupon.com, and the power of the stumble exchange program.
2 days ago, I was writing about DreamHost web hosting, I have discover this topic, and submit to the Piqq.us for the stumble exchange… I make about 10 stumble exchange first, after saw all the stumble finish(within and hour), I submit another 10 stumble, all done it within 5 hours after discover.
As per stumbleUdon website mention
For maximum results, the URL must be new to StumbleUpon.
Which means: it was “discovered” within the last few hours and has not received any stumbles.
fresh URL with 20 stumbles will perform better than an old URL with 50 stumbles.
I have follow their algorithms, and gain the above traffic result. But this traffic does mean will be permanent, :( if your article are not good enough, and no other visitor stumble it, Possiblilty your article to be appear are less when million of user click stumble out there.

Increase Feed Count, Increase Readers Confident

How you judge a website? 
Just my 2 cent… when I visit some person’s blog or a website, I will see the Google Page Rank, and Alexa Rank, to ensure the particular website worth to spend time for reading.
For sure, content is King, is once of the important thing to attract more visitors. Other then PR and Alexa, feed count also play important role.
When you come to a blog/website, the feed count figure such as this 2 behind(left and right), will you feel confident with the content?
With the figure there, already stated the value of the website, and mean this amount of reader are actually reading what this website has publish.
Increase Feed Count, Increase Readers Confident
Do you agree? I am totally agree with this! I found that my feed count are keep on increasing when the figure there increase.
About last year November 07 , my feeds count around 49, and today, my feeds count are more then 100, I wish the figure can increase as time goes by.

How to put feed count and Email Subscriptions Form in your blog
If your blog did not have feeds count yet, why don’t make your self one. A lot people are blur with putting the feeds count, as well as me when I start blogging. To start this, logon in to www.feedburner.com
Feed Burner
Email Subscriptions Form
After sign in, click on your feed title, go to publicize tab, click on Email Subscriptionsif you wish to put an email subscription box. When you are in this section, scroll down to the bottom, click “active“, copy the HTML code and paste it in your theme (wordpress) or paste it in a widge(Blogspot).
Feed Count
For this, almost same as above, at puclicize tab, click on Feed Count, scroll down to activate it, choose your display color, copy the HTML code and paste it in your theme (wordpress) or paste it in a widge(Blogspot).
If you wish to receive more about my update, kindly sign up your email behind here“I Send You My Update” … :D

Submit Your Topic with Social Marker

Do you submit your website or the specific topic you write to the social bookmarking website? such as Digg, Reedit, Del.icio.us, Propeller and more…
There are few advantage to submit your website over this kind of bookmarking website, one will be increase your visitorexpose your topic to the world. Another indirect benefit is your URL are submit over the bookmarking website, and possibleget crawl by search engine are higher.

 
To start submit your topic now, you need to start it one by one, and it take time. by using socialmarket.com service, as the video show, you can save a lot of time :)

Malaysia Social Bookmarking Website

I always search for alternative way to explore my website to the world. To increase my website traffic, and popularity. Normally after I make a new blog post, I will submit my website to social bookmarking website such as digg.compropeller.comand stumbleupon.com. Few benefit from social bookmarking is,
1) Increase Traffic
If my article are interesting, and get vote from a lot of member/user at social bookmarking website, the article possible to appear at the 1st few page on social bookmarking website, my traffic will keep increase.
2) More easy appear in Search Engine
In my previous article regarding computer magazine, I submit to few social bookmarking website. On the next day, I try to search “Computer Magazine for November” I found my article at folkd.com, digg.com, yahoo buzz, digg.com.myappear on the 1st page at Google. Meaning that if some one search “Computer Magazine for November” in google, indirectly will found my website via those social bookmarking website.
3) Get Back Link, Increase Page Rank(PR)
All Social Bookmarking website provide back link, but a lot of people did not understand what type of back link relationship (rel) they obtain from those website. “Do Follow” or “No Follow“, and only Do Follow back link get benefit on increase PR
4) Any more? …
80% of my website traffic are from United State, and about 10% or less from Malaysia, to increase traffic from Malaysia, I have compile a Malaysia Social Bookmarking list.

MALAYSIA SOCIAL BOOKMARKING WEBSITE

Layann, Malaysia’s Digg.com
Page Rank: 3
Alexa: 692,545
Link Relationship: Do Follow

Rock Your Vote
Page Rank: 3
Alexa: 1,103,985
Link Relationship: Do Follow

NegaraKu
Page Rank: 3
Alexa: 403,932
Link Relationship: Redirect

Malaysia Story – Published News
Page Rank: 5
Alexa: 252,439
Link Relationship: No follow
Benefit: 50% Google Adsense Sharing
JomPop – Discover, Share, Chat
Page Rank: 0
Alexa: 2,774,369
Link Relationship: Do Follow
Project Petaling Street
Page Rank: 4
Alexa: 190,094
Link Relationship: No Follow
PingLog – Ping Your Blog & Get Voted
Page Rank: 2
Alexa: 417,141
Link Relationship: Redirect
So far all this are Malaysia Social Bookmarking Website that I have collect, if any one know any Malaysia Social Bookmarking Website, please drop me a comment here, I will update my Malaysia Social Bookmarking list above.
Updated: Some extra Malaysia Social Bookmarking website:
Vote.my - submit and get vote
Page Rank: 0
Alexa: 1,925,461
Link Relationship: Redirect
fark.my
Fark.my - Published Story
Page Rank: 1
Alexa: 484,929
Link Relationship: Redirect

Important of Sitemap, How to Create Sitemap For Wordpress?

Heard before sitemap? Did you understand the important of sitemap? and what therole of sitemap?
Long time ago, when I visit some cooperate website, I always see a “sitemap” link, in that page, it show all the website link, that time I was thinking does the webmaster create sitemap for visitor to view the summary of the website? I also thinking how come webmaster do double job, since the index (main page) already can found all the link such as “Product”, “Service”, “Company info” bla bla bla, and how come sitemap show it again…
I get this theory over some SEO consultant, they said Search Engine’s (SE) Spider or bot visit a website, can not crawl the website more then 3 level/ 3 page deep. Meaning that those content that I post week ago, or month ago or even year ago are unable to crawl from the spider, but sitemap show all the link, the spider can crawl all the page.
Seriously after I create a sitemap for iCalvyn.com, and submit my sitemap to google, the traffic increase time to time.
I found that google spider come to my website 3 time a month (March08 statistic) and my google traffic raise from 50/days to 100/days on that month.
Now, google come to crawl my website when I make a new post. Traffic raise to 600-800/days (November08 statistic)
If you are using wordpress, you require to use plugin to create sitemap, I will talk about how to create sitemap at joomla and other system soon, lets start with wordpress 1st.
How to create a Sitemap for WordPress?
  1. Download Google XML Sitemap Generator,
  2. After upload the plugin, and activate it
  3. go to “Setting”, on “XML-Sitemap”
  4. Select the basic setting, or use the default setting, and update the option.
Once u setup this plugin, you will see this red massage:
There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable
There was a problem writing your zipped sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable
When you come to this section, some of the blogger will found difficulties to create the sitemap, you require to create a “sitemap.xml” file and “sitemap.xml.gz” file and upload it into the public_html directory.
How to create sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz ?
If you do not know how to create “sitemap.xml” file and “sitemap.xml.gz”, simply open a notepad, save file as “sitemap.xml” and another one save file as “sitemap.xml.gz
Upload it to ur webhosting public_html directory, you definitely found the same issue,
There was a problem writing your sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and iswritable
There was a problem writing your zipped sitemap file. Make sure the file exists and is writable
The sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz are not writable yet, to change the ftp file permission to become writable, click on the file, and edit the CHMOD
it require to be writable on this 2 file. You need to change the this the FTP file permission to become writable, or “777″
Once done, both file are writable. You can update the option or rebuild sitemap manually
Finish every thing, check your sitemap at :
Yeah :D above address are my blog sitemap, you can have a look on how it is.
Extra Tips: 
Well, after finish create the sitemap, to optimize your sitemap address, it is advice to put this link at your index page. The reason putting the sitemap over your website is to let the search engine crawler access the sitemap when it come to visit your website.
Creating a sitemap does not mean you will get crawl by search engine if your website does not get any back link from other website. Other then this, you can also submit your sitemap to major search engine in the world. I will explain more on how to submit sitemap to GoogleYahoo and also MSN in the near future, stay tune :D

Step By Step to Create a Blog at Wordpress.Com

On demand by my student, who is not computer literate mostly feel difficulties to create a blog’s account no matter is wordpress.com or blogger.com, to create a blog at wordpress.com, you will entitle to get a free blog with a sub domain, such ashttp://yourname.wordpress.com
wordpress.com
Since it is free, sure there are some cons over here, let me share my opinion on what is the pros and cons with using wordpress.com:
prons:
At free blog platform service, u will  get a unlimited bandwidth, for self hosted blog, usually bandwidth will be a problem when your website have huge traffic of visitor. Other then this, if you are lucky enough, your website will be hosted at a stable server, fast and without much downtime. So far never heard before there aredowntime for wordpress.com and blogger.com server because they do have a strong server redundancy system. Also, you not require to worry on your data, due to the the redundancy system, data center also will do daily backup, but recommended to do backup on your self too.
Cons:
Due to a lot of sub domain hosted in the same server, if you unlucky, hosted with a lot of high traffic user, your server might have slow loading problem. Secondly, the URL you own is just a sub domain, which consider the 2nd level domain name.Ownership of the URL are not belong to you. If you against the rules, wordpress.com have the right to take ways from you. Lastly, a lot of advertiser not accept free blogging platform’s blog to write review for them, if you are a blogger who plan to make money online, this will be a huge disadvantage for you!
After get know the prons and cons for wordpress.com, if you are a serious user who plan to get your own domain and hosted your own blog sooner in the future, I willrecommended you using wordpress.com 1st. Here come Step by Step to create a blog at WordPress.com:
step by step on wordpress.com
Step 1: Access wordpress.com and click on “sign up now
wordpress
Step 2: Fill up your username, password and email address.
wordpress
Step 3: If the username already exist or taken by other people, you have to find another username (one of the disadvantage too)
wordpress
Step 4: Once you choose a unique user name, proceed to enter your “blog title” and hit “sign up
wordpress
Step 5: Over here, you require to check your email for activation link.
email verification
Step 6: Login to your email, the sender will be “wordpress.com” and the topic are ” activate username.wordpress.com
wordpress
Step 7: Click on the link  in the email for activation.
Step 8: Once you click the link, it will show your account is now activate!
wp
Step 9: At the moment, you can access the URL you register “http://username.wordpress.com”, for example, mine, I put http://bloggerworkshop.wordpress.com”, you will see your blog is already created.
wp-login
Step 10: Now you require to access the back end, just put “wp-admin” at the end of the URL, such as http://bloggerworkshop.wordpress.com/wp-admin the login page will coming out
wp login page
Step 11: Key in the username and password, and hit “login in
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