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No-blog-y’s perfect

I’ve a friend who had an accident six years ago, while he was carried by his friend on a motorcycle. Suddenly, a truck hit them hard from behind and dragged my friend for 20 meters and the truck’s tire ended up crushing his thighs. Not just that, some ribs got pushed upward and needed to be operated.

The accident paralyzed his legs. He cannot move them, and of course, walk. A couple of weeks ago, he discovered that one of his hip bones (I don’t know what doctors name them) strucked out of his skin (in a slowly manner, of course. Not like those alien movies ) and once again he needed a surgery. This time, it caused him barely sit at all. If he used to use a wheel chair, now all he can do is lying since he is not allowed to sit for a long time. In addition, due to broken veins and nerve systems, his legs shrink, darken and easily bleed if bumped to even a soft surface like car leather seats.

Having his life changed drastically only in days, losing parts of the body people can see, caused him a sudden unconfident where he became sensitive to people he doesn’t know. He is 27 years old and meeting new people including girls and women seems to be one of the situations he must face with his current situation. Often he refuse to meet up new friends because he thinks they make fun of him or feel disgust in their thoughts.

What does it have to do with Make Money Online?

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Let Readers Discover Your Content – Lead Them With Proper Categories and Tags

For every post you made, I’m sure you want them visible to your readers for years to come. But with new articles every day, how to make older posts keep getting readers?

On a Make Money Online blog like this one, hundreds of posts related to the topic could be written. With a bi-daily posting frequency (for example ) and 20 excerpts being displayed on the main page, a post makes its appearance for only 40 days before it goes to the monthly or category archive.

Unless the post is featured, commented mostly, or you’re using the Similar Posts plug-in, it’ll remain hidden inside the archive link. Unless the post is armed with a top-notch on-page SEO, it’ll be discovered on the 50th page of SERP.

So, is there anything else to do in order to make your precious articles at least, a lot easier to be found?

The answer is maximizing the use of your category names and tags. Since older posts can be reached through category links, they need to be as appealing as possible to your readers.

Keep it relevant

The first thing leads to a better category management is to focus on your blog’s topic. Before thinking of posting an article, you should decide whether it’s related or not. If it isn’t, don’t do it. Posting articles not related to your blog’s theme will likely lead to excessive categorizing that will ruin your blog and confuse your readers.

Category names are teasers for what’s inside.

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How to Display Only Posts from Certain Categories on Your Mainpage and Feeds

The hack will enable you to select which categories will have their posts displayed on the homepage and through feeds.

On my previous post about irrelevant posts, I mentioned the technique I use to give my readers an authority over off topic posts. Using the technique, they won’t have to counter any posts fall outside their concern.

Enough jabbering, here are the hacks I use:

• excluding posts from certain categories, they’ll be invisible on the main page and feed updates: put this code inside your functions.php.

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Should We Stop Reading Blogs to Blog?

Should we?

Tina Su from Think Simple Now and Henrik Edberg of Positivity Blog was interviewed by Daniel Scocco. The result was a very interesting review, where they both have things in common lead them to reach a large number of audience.

These are the practical lessons that have been said repeatedly, yet proven useful:

• provide valuable content, and do it consistently.
• use a unique design or idea or concept to help you differentiate from the others.
• don’t be over obsessed with ranks like PR and Alexa. Allocate your energy more towards providing priceless content.
• be persistent and commit to quality.

Those are the points most bloggers need to put their best effort in to. However, there is something unusual both Tina and Henrik don’t do on their journey blogging.

Question: How many RSS feeds do you track daily?

Tina: Zero. I occasionally will visit Zenhabits.net, but that’s about it. I don’t really read blogs.

Henrik: None. I visit a few blogs maybe once a week.

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Blogging – Blog Hijacks

I received an email telling me that my blog hadn’t been up as it should always do. I admit that I seldom take care of this blog. I only post new articles via Windows Live Writer’s scheduled post, but rarely visit the site. So I went on a check up and the front page had been all gone and replaced with

“Site under…hijacked by h***…”

I was a little bit panic, knowing that if somebody managed to access my blog from the back doors, then he/she could have been able to do the same with my other blogs! I went googling the hijacker’s name and found out several blogs was broken an entry. On one of those blogs, I red a message

“Where’s the security, Admin? Don’t worry, I only changed your index”

Then I rushed to my file manager and restored the index.php file with the back-up copy I did 2 weeks ago. Problem solved and the world is spinning again .

Morale of the story is, respect your parents, love your neighbors and clean up your room.. hahaha…

Maybe you’ve heard of bloggers reminding you to make a back-up of your asset, well, today I’m stressing that the problem I faced could have been worse. And if I didn’t periodically download my own site’s content and database, I’d spending a couple of months ahead rebuilding what I’ve started back then. That, and another thing to learn is, always look for security holes and patch’em!!

Technorati Tags: blog hijack,blogging

Blogging – HomeBiz Resource Auto Theme Change Solution

After my recent post on how I thought the problem was solved, I found out that I was wrong. The theme changed back to WordPress’ default theme in a few days. In desperation, I overwrote my default theme with my custom theme and changed the identifying remark in the stylesheet to “WordPress default”. So everytime it reverts to the default theme, it will display the exact theme as before. The theme still changes automatically, but it looks the same like nothing happened. Case closed!

Blogging – Unwanted Theme Change Resolved?

It has been a couple of days since the last auto theme change on this blog and it hasn’t changing anymore since. What did I do? First I tried to erase the default theme which this blog reverted back automatically to, but it didn’t work. Then I sent emails to a couple of webmasters and Andrew Rickmann from WP-Fun said that he had the same problem some time ago. The solution he suggested was to re-copy the core files like he had done.

Firstly I chose to do it if I can’t find any other solutions that don’t have the risk crashing my blog or making the plugins don’t work. But once again when the theme reverted back, I decided to do as Andrew did because this caused uncomfortable browsing and navigation to my readers. I also found it as a good chance to upgrade my blog to the latest WordPress version. Of course, I made a backup to my database and blog system.

Thankfully, now after two days, nothing occured. The theme has been consistent and plug ins work as usual. I didn’t know whether the older version of WordPress causes this or something else. But re-copying the files solved the problem.

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