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Thursday, May 8th, 2008 | 411 views
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As a blogger that came from a free hosted blog, the transition of transferring from a blogger.com blog to my own self hosted wordpress blog was a very terrible experience. It was really frightening at first because of the unfamiliarity that the transition brings, what makes it very frustrating during those times is that I can’t find any help, oh, I found one, but guess what he told me. “I only offer blog setup for people who have signed up for hosting through my links”, wow, that’s really sweet. So what happened is I kept the struggles by myself, and learn things the hard way..
Anyways, it took almost three days for me to finally get the grasp of installing wordpress in my own domain. It wasn’t that hard actually, but for first timers, it’s not that easy also. Because of that experience, I thought of sharing a simple guide before you host your own domain and take that uncertain transition.
- Before making a purchase of your own domain and web host, utilize the services of free web hosting companies to get a preview of what you are about to face. I recommend using the one that I’m currently using, visit this free web host. Register for a subdomain account, don’t worry, it’s free. From there, you can have a first glance of how a control panel of a web host company will look like.
- On your free web host account page, navigate and click the control panel link of your registered subdomain account, it will further lead you to the control panel page. Then look for the Fantastico Deluxe icon and click on it. On the Fantatico Deluxe page, choose wordpress and follow the succeeding instructions, and presto! You have your wordpress account setup.. I told you it was very easy.
Okay, just in case you are using a different free web host and it have no Fantastico Deluxe function, please follow the procedures below.
- What you need to do first is to download the latest version of wordpress. Download it here.
- In your webhosts control panel, select MySQL database ( the one with the blue dolphin logo). From there, create a database, then create a database user. After that, proceed to “Add Users to Your Databases” and find the privileges checkbox and put a check in the “ALL” selection (I believe it is located at the left side of that column), then click “Add user to database” to confirm.
- Back to your downloaded wordpress files. After you have unzipped the file, open the file wp-config-sample.php, open it in your text editor (notepad or worpad will do), fill in your database details (now use the database username and password that you have created earlier), and save it as wp-config.php. Don’t forget this last part.
- Now open your FTP client and open your domain’s FTP account (if you don’t have one, download it for free here). **Remember that you still have to create an FTP account in your webhost’s control panel. You can do that by accessing the FTP manager**
- Upload all the files from your wordpress folder (only the files inside it, not the single wordpress folder itself) to the public_html directory.
- Off you go. Just open your domain’s url, http://yoursite.com, then follow the necessary steps to finish the installation.
What’s important here is you know where you will upload your files, in this case, the public_html directory. From that directory also, you can upload your wp themes and your wp plugins…
I hope this helps. Don’t hesitate to ask me questions by using the comment form below.. Good Luck!!
Posted in Internet, Make Money Online | 6 Comments »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 | 1,045 views
This is a quick tip to increase your blog’s link rankings, oh well, as far as technorati is concern. All you have to do is to be an entrecard member, then drop on the Entredroppers plugin users that I have provided below. Please take note that you will feel the link boost when your link is still in the entredroppers list at the time that particular blog is updated. If your in a hurry, use Ping-o-Matic to update the directories. One warning though, slow down in pinging cowboy! So what’s the moral of this? Keep on dropping on them. But don’t forget to apply the entrecard dropping etiquette huh! Read the latest post of the blog, and if possible, comment on them..
The plugin creator:
Entredroppers Users (with no particular order)
- Pinoy Biz Blogger
- First Door on the Left
- Simply Stating the Obvious
- Table for Five
- Blogging Over Coffee
- PlotDog Press
- Whooah.biz
- Fabulously Jinxed
- The (Other) End of the Internet
- Money Maker Times
- Foolsville 2.0
- My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings
- Colloquium
- Mummified Times Five
- On the Horizon
- The Original Mx5
- Blogging Over Coffee
- Multifarious Mushrooms
- Not Just Mama
- Mixed Metaphor
- Dream-Act-Plan-Believe
- PinoySkull Dot Com
Posted in Blogging Tools, Internet | 13 Comments »
Thursday, April 17th, 2008 | 1,214 views
I have told everyone that I’m conducting a blogrush experiment for my personal skill development, so here’s a brief update on what happened and what’s going on.
As of today, the experiment has gone in a long path of nowhere. Out of an almost 3,000 page impressions (aggregate), I got an enormous Click Through Rate (CTR) of 0.067% or two massive clicks. Is this time to conclude that the Blogrush widget is 99% near to being useless in bringing some traffic? Don’t get me wrong, I’m not yet concluding this experiment, as I have said, this is just an update. The technique that I used in my previous blog post titles is in between being cautious and aggressive, although much nearer to being cautious. I tried making strong titles such as “Gaming StumbleUpon: Exploiting the Traffic” which gave me 152 unfiltered views, excluding my own page views, and two clicks from the blogrush widget, which represents 100% of my blogrush clicks. The results are not enough to conclude anything, so I’ll still continue conducting these experiment.
There are few constraints that may lead to unsuccessful results of this experiment. The most limiting factor is my blogrush credits. Due to the very little traffic that I’m getting from this blog, I was unable to gain sufficient credits to syndicate all of my posts. An average of 600 page impressions is very small. My target is to give my posts 2,000-3,000 page impressions each, which is still far out of my league. Anyways, I’m trying to work on that.
On the other hand, there are few things that keeps me from using the blogrush widget. Although blogrush failed in bringing a considerable amount of traffic, it is somehow successful in introducing to me quality posts. There are few articles here in Pinoy Biz Blogger which are inspired from articles syndicated through the blogrush widget. For that particular reason, even though my experiments goes out to nowhere, I’ll still be using blogrush for discovery purposes.
I’m not done yet with this “Title Making” experiment on blogrush, so expect a few updates regarding this one.
Posted in Blogging Tools, Internet | 2 Comments »
Friday, April 11th, 2008 | 409 views
During my previous post, I featured a widget called “You Drop, I Link” widget that acts like a blogroll that ticks the latest 50 droppers of your entrecard widget. Ok, I must admit that I liked the idea of giving links as an incentive to my regular droppers, but I didn’t install that widget because I didn’t feel it appropriate in my blog’s theme, and it seemed that it will just clutter in my sidebar. Also, another thing that I pointed out there, is that the free-of-any-nofollow-attribute feature is useless because it just points out to entrecard’s page, and not to the dropper’s blogs. That won’t contribute anything to your rankings.
Earlier today, I saw a similar plugin that has the same idea, the same function but a little better (I would like to thank myself for not giving up with blogrush ). First things first, yes, this is a wordpress plugin. Sorry for other blogging platform users because you may not enjoy the functionality of this great tool. 
As a fan of simple designs, the first thing that indulged me in using this plugin is it’s simplicity. It really doesn’t look like any special widget in your sidebar, unlike the first widget that I have introduced. If you will look at the bottom of my sidebar, just before the Meta and Akismet widgets, you will notice that it is just like your ordinary blogroll links, aside from the “EntreDroppers” label, you can’t really differentiate the this plugin from your ordinary blogroll, which is really great in keeping your sidebars neat. Another thing that you will love with this plugin is it’s ability to link directly through the dropper’s blog and not to the dropper’s entrecard page, in which, if this plugin is free from any nofollow attribute, will help in increasing your blog’s inbound links.
Try this one! It’s really a great way to give your droppers more reasons to keeping dropping on you. I’ll be using this one until a better plugin arise, if there would be any.
Visit Owen’s page to take advantage of the functionality of this plugin.
Update: I’ve found a similar plugin in the Entrecard Blog, visit them here.
