As a blogger, we need to know how Google search & understand our blog. Why Google?

This is because Google is the largest search engine in the world. A lot people in the world use Google as their primary search engine.

As such, as a blogger we need to know how our readers search and reach our blog. From this feedback we can improve our blog by writing relevant articles of what our readers are searching for and installing effective plugins that can increase traffic to our blog.

In this way  hopefully we can improve our blog  in the search engine ranking and bring in more traffic.

To know how Google search & rank our blog, we need to go to Google Webmaster Central.

http://www.google.com/webmasters/

The Google Webmaster Central is a one-stop center containing webmaster resources that will display information that have been gathered by Google. The information is keywords & crawling result from Googlebot. It also provides suggestions on how to improve your website.

Following is the screenshot.

Sign in using your Gmail account.

Click on +Add a Site. Key in your web / blog site name and click Continue.

It will generate a unique Meta tag for your web/ blog site. You are to copy & paste the code in your web/blog site as stated in the example below. Then click verify or verify later.

After Google has verified your website, you can go to the home page and click on your website name.

The dashboard will be displayed.

Basically it will keep track on the following information.

Search queries

Keywords

Links to your site

Sitemaps

Crawl Stats

It will display what keywords your visitors’ key in the Google search engine to reach your website & also Googlebot crawl information. This is helpful for your analysis.

See below for crawl stats

It will also display crawl errors, malware & provide suggestions on your website html.

Following is the video explanation.

I hope you like this article.

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Alwin Chuah

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There are many ways to get traffic to your blog. One of the ways I found it effective is to install a Facebook Plugin known as FbLikeButton.

It will display the Like symbol at your blog. You can configure to place it at the top and/or at the bottom of your posting. As for me, I configure for both locations.

If you click on the Like symbol, it will try to detect your Facebook name.

Once it detected it, it will display your Facebook name at the blog.

If you go to your own facebook’s wall(eg http://www.facebook.com/alwinchuah), it will display the blog title and the blog site link.

However I notice it will post the article link to your facebook wall only once. Even though you click a few times on Like symbol or a few days later you try to click the Like symbol on the same article. However if you click Like symbol on a new article from the same blog site, it will publish it on your Facebook’s wall.

Basically what is posted on the Facebook’s wall can be seen by your friends. If they are interested on the topic, they will click on the title. It will then lead them to the blog page.

Increase Traffic

So the best way is once you have posted your article on your blog, click on the Like symbol yourself. It will then display your blog title and link at your Facebook’s wall. Your Facebook’s friends will then be able to click on the link and visit your blog. If they like it, they will click on the Like button, your blog article title will then be displayed in your friends’ Facebook’s wall. If your friend’s friends.click on the title, it will lead them your blog. This is how you get traffic from Facebook.

Download Plugin

You can download the plugin at
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/fblikebutton/

Install Plugin

This plugin follows the standard WordPress installation method:

1. Unzip the fblikebutton.zip in your PC.

2. Upload the fblikebutton folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory using ftp.

3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Configure Plugin

At the dashboard, go to Settings->’FBLikeButton’

Modify the fields to your choice and save.

You might want to read my other article on twitter
http://www.globalblogincome.com/blog-plugin/use-twitter-follow-me-plugin-wordpress-blog/

I hope you like this article.

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In order to post the next post in a blog, a blogger needs to search the internet, browse for news, read other bloggers’ articles or write from experience. Difficult process, huh!

How about if I were to tell you there is an easier way to get information for your blog?
Instead of looking for information in the internet, you will get the information of your niche you are writing on right in your mail box!. Unbelievable?  Read on and find out.

Go to http://ezinearticles.com/subscribe/

Browse down and tick on the category(s) that meet your needs.
After you have tick what you needed, browse to the bottom and fill up your name & email address.

Related articles that fall under your selected category will then be email to you.
The email that you receive will look similar like this.

It will contain titles & a few starting lines of the articles.
The titles are live links. You just need to click on the titles and it will display the complete articles.
The articles are sent to you via email almost everyday.

My recommendation is do not copy the whole content of the article and paste it into your blog. I know it is the simplest & laziest way, but it will not raise your search engine (SEO) ranking in your blog.

If you want your blog to rank high in search engine, you need to write the article in your own words. You can use the points from the articles as your ideas.

Now you have ideas coming to you literally in the mailbox.

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That’s right.  Now you can upgrade your wordpress blog to version 3.0.

It has new features that I think will be beneficial to you.  Below is a video showing the features.

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Many people have heard that blogger can make money. But they have no specific idea how a blogger really make their money.

Here are the compilations:-
Online method
1)    Promote other people’s product on your blog and earn commission via banner display
2)    Promote other people’s product on your blog via blog post review.
3)    Displaying adsense banner
4)    Promote your own products via banner and post review
5)    Display clickbank banner
6)    Selling or renting out ads space on your blog to other people
7)    Conduct online training on blogging
8)    Get paid writing articles for other bloggers.
9)    Get paid writing articles for online newspaper, magazine
10)    Joint Venture in Internet business
11)   Create blog and sell it.  So anyone want to buy this blog?

Offline
Once your blog has high traffic, you can become a celebrity
1)    Get paid to write article for newspaper, magazine
2)    Get paid to attend functions( as you are a VIP now)
3)    Get paid to say nice thing about certain products( Like offline product review)
4)    Get paid for using you in advertisement
5)    Conduct blogging training
6)    Write books on blogging
7)    Become ambassador for certain companies ( especially internet companies)

As you can see by being a blogger, your income can be generated from unlimited sources.
It is not necessary that you can earn from your blog only. A lot of bloggers use it to open doors to offline and online income opportunities.

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If you are having your own domain with wordpress software installed, then this article will be relevant to you.

As a blogger, beside busy finding articles to write, we also need to take care of our blog site.
There are 2 areas that we need to take care. They are
•    Security
•    Traffic / SEO

I have also provided a link for each plugin that will bring to a review page & also where to download the plugin. All the plugins mentioned are free. However you are most welcome to donate to the plugins creators.
Following are the plugins that I personally used and found to be effective:-

Security

Security Scan

Wordpress Automatic Upgrade

Lockin Lockdown

WP-Spam Free

Traffic / SEO

All in One SEO Pack

Google XML sitemap

SEO Friendly Images

Statpress

Zemanta

Maxblogpress Ping Optimizer

After applying all the above plugins, I found my blog is getting better in terms of traffic & more secure.

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Alwin Chuah

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Wonder Wheel is a free tool from Google. You can use it to boost your Search Engine  ranking

Where to find it?
First you need to go to http://www.google.com. Key in any keywords (eg Fish)

On the left hand side you will see Wonder Wheel stated there

Click on the Wonder Wheel .Voila! Other keywords related to your main keywords are displayed.

If you click on the secondary keywords, other related keywords will appear. In this example I click on Aquarium Fish.

How to use this Wonder Wheel?

The important part in Search Engine Optimization is content relevance. Let’s say you have a blog on fish. By writing blog content using the secondary keywords recommended by Google, there is a high chance your blog ranking will be boosted. This is because you are posting relevant articles related to your blog’s theme.

How to get articles?

You can do a google search based on your keywords. From there your can read through the articles that are already posted there.

Do not copy wholesale from other people’s blog. That is known as plagiarism.
What you can do is to jot down the key points from other blogs. Then you can write it using your own words. This is known as research. Also your blog will have high ranking as you are posting a unique article.

Do you like what you read? Post a comment. I love feedback!

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When I saw how this plugin function, my mind goes wow! My eyes immediately become wide open. This is the first time that a wordpress plugin can capture my attention.I am really fascinated with this plugin known as Apture Plugin.

This plugin allows keywords in your articles to be connected to Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Maps, Royalty Free Pictures, music and more from 50+ sources of content with one click.

Apture allows 2 methods to connect to the above resources. One of the methods is hyperlink. When you click on the hyperlink word, it will pop up a small resizable window to the resource that I link it to ( eg wikipedia, YouTube, etc). I like this method best as reader can still continue to read my blog.

You can see how hyperlink works
Click on the word blog. It will display a small window containing information from Wikipedia.

You click on this word Wordpress plugin, a small YouTube video screen appears.

Actually I have link the words to the selected resources.

Another method is known as embedding. It will display a resource fully( eg Wikipedia, YouTube, etc)
I like the hyperlink best as it just create a small window displaying the Wikipedia or Youtube content and the reader can still continue to read your blog. You can resize the window to your liking.

Benefits
• Increased Time On Site. Your readers are going to be engaging with all of the content Apture adds to your blog right on your site.
• Easily create external links increasing your SEO rank in search engines.
• Add Wikipedia, YouTube, Google Maps, Royalty Free Pictures, music and more from 50+ sources of content with one click.
• Its free and easy to install and setup only takes a minute.

Download

You can download the plugin here

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/apture

Steps to install & configure
• Download the Plugin into your PC.
•    Unzip it and upload to your blog’s plugin folder.
•    Go to your blog’s plugin and activate it.

You will see the following after you have activated your plugin

You need to fill up all the requirements as stated below and click on Sign Up.

You can review the settings and click on Continue.

Click on Install Apture Script and you can start to use by clicking Start Using Apture

To learn how to use the Apture better. You can see the Video below:-

If you like this post, please add your comment below. You get a backlink too.

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If you are wondering how a blogger makes money fro a blog, now you can wonder no more.

Below you can view a short video providing how you can earn multiple incomes from a blog.

Hopefully this video is helpful to you.  Cheers

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Beside pasting Adsense code in your blog  and earn Adsense income, you can
also earn money from different sources. One of the sources is to earn
affiliate income from Clickbank.

When people click on Adsense advertisement on your blog, you get paid.
You can also insert Clickbank banner on your blog. However you only get
paid commission from Clickbank if your reader buys the product as
advertised. The commission payout ranges from 50 to 75 percent.

You may put both types of advertisements on your blog as you wish.

Following is a sample banner. Clickbank has many different types of
banners for your selection.

Guide
•    First you need to go to www.clickbank.com to sign up as an Affiliate.
•    Then you need to login to your ID & password.
•    At Account Home click on Clickbank Hop Ad Builder
•    You need to login to your ID & password again
•    It will ask you to select Text Ads Builder or Tabbed Ad Box Builder.
•    For simplicity sake, I will guide you only on Text Ads Builder.
•    Click on Get Started in Text Ads Builder.

You will see the following

At Keywords, you can key the keywords related to your blog.
At Affiliate Nickname, key in your Clickbank Affiliate Nickname
At Tracking ID, key in a alphanumeric
Click Next

You will see the following

At the Popular Ad layout, you can select different banners. Also what you
select will be displayed at Ad Preview on the right.

The rest of the fields you can change it accordingly. If you are unfamiliar
with those fields items, it is best to leave at default.

Click Next

Following is displayed

Copy the whole codes and paste it at your blog’s Header, Footer or Widget.
The banner will appear at where you have indicated

I hope this is beneficial to you.

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Alwin Chuah

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