Are you guys happy with your new Alexa update? I am! My humble blog is now 300k. Pretty soon i’ll be in the five digit ranks. I think it’ll be a tough climb from that point but coming this far hasn’t been that hard. It just goes to show that most bloggers don’t really work on their sites. Read More to Make Money Online »

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Blogs without pictures are like comics without drawings. Its like an essay. Back in the olden times, images were too big to be used on webpages. Dial up modems made it hard to have an interactive experience via the internet. Now, we have lightening speed internet access and there is not reason why you shouldn’t put up images on your blog. I know content is king and google only sees the words. But you cannot make your pages only for google. Readership is what makes you money. People are the ones who will continue to come to your site. They are the one who will click thru and get you paid. Put up some pictures on your blog. Read More to Make Money Online »

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If you have an account on youtube you may already know that vblogging has become quite popular the past couple of years. Not alot of bloggers are expoiting the possibilities of vblogging to make some extra cash. the benefits of vblogging is obvious, first off it is unique to blogging. I think only problogger uses vblogging so far. I know shoemoney has a show but its not quite vblogging. Second, it caters to the lazy reader. Let’s face it most people don’t like to read.

What is vblogging? Its basically a blog post done on video. Its a performance. If you have a great voice and a nice look, i think vblogging can definately make your blog most popular. If you are a female blogger, even better cause most bloggers are male.

When to avoid vblogging. If you are not very attractive or if you sound like bad episode of American Idol. This could hurt your brand of blogging.

If you are funny you can take advantage of that to make your blog that much more interesting. Humor is such a valuable asset especially when your selling clicks. If your blog has great content but its not very funny, then it becomes a hard read. Vblogging lets your reader experience 100 percent of your jokes. Humor is 10 percent content and 90% delivery. Its much easier to connect your readers to your blog if they can see your facial expressions and hear your tone of voice.

Is vblogging hard to do? Nope. even a noob can do it. Basically you record yourself with a camcorder or webcam and change the video file to a flash video file. Then you put it up on your post.

The technical past. Assuming that you already downloaded the flash video player, lets beging. You need a flash video encoder. You can download a free one here and follow the simple instructions to convert the file to flv.

Now see my past post on putting flash video into your post.

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Having a site map is helpful to get it property indexed by search engines like Google. Adding a sitemap is real easy to do. first, download the sitemap plugin. unzip it and install into your wordpress plugin directory. go to admin and plugins and activate. then create a page and title it sitemap or whatever you want. put into the page.Then download google sitemap plugin and upload it to plugins directory and activate.
you’re done.
now go to Google webmaster tools and add your website and sitemap.
Google webmaster tools
sitemap plugin by dagon design
Check out my sitemap

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I get surprised when i don’t see a favicon on a website. it looks cool and its so easy to do even a noob can do it.

What is a favicon? Its the little icon that appears to the left of the URL on a website. Its short for favorite icon.

first select an image for your website. make sure its a square size. example 200×200pixels. go to htmlkit and generate a favicon and download. now use ftp client to replace the favicon.ico file on your website. look for it in your root folder.

now refresh your browser and there you go. if it doesn’t show. try typing in http://www.bloggernoob.com/favicon.ico(ctrl+F5) that should do the trick.
note replace bloggernoob.com with your site. noob!

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Google Analytics plugin.
Unzip the plugin.
Upload the plugin to your /wp-content/plugins/ folder.
Go to your WordPress blog’s Dashboard > Plugins. A list of both active and inactive plugins displays.
Scroll to the plugin and Activate it. A success message displays.

In another browser window login to Google Analytics at google analytics.
Click on Add Website Profile. A form displays.
Select Add a Profile for a New Domain.
Enter the URL of your site or blog.
Select your country and time zone. Click Finish.
Analytics provides you with a code block - a swatch of HTML - to add to your site’s pages.

Back in your WordPress Dashboard, go to Options > Google Analytics.
The options screen displays with a text field. Paste your Google Analytics Code Block into that text field and click Update Options.

You are done!

To ensure that you have successfully added the Google Analytics Code Block to your Blogger blog, go back to http://google.com/analytics/.
Next to your blog’s URL it will say either Receiving Data

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you can always use the embed code from sites like youtube and just copy and paste it to your blog post. if you have original content and you want to house the flash video files too then you should consider adding flv-embed plugin to your wordpress blog. its uses the FLV player developed by Jeroen.

i’ve tried alot of other plugin and just couldn’t get it to work. i figure this is kinda hard for noob bloggers to figure out. first download the plug here. then use a ftp client such as leech Ftp to uploard the whole folder into your plugin folder. the address should be something like this on your file manager-wp-content/plugins. note-put the whole folder in there. there should be 4 files in that folder. now log into your wordpress admin. click on plugins and activate flv-embed.

that part is pretty cut and dry. i figured out how to that and most of you should to with ease. getting the player to work on the post is where i struggled with. its just a matter of directing the flash player to the location of your flv movie file. you should create a folder first called “videos” then you put the flash videos into that file. upload the folder “videos” to the wordpress root folder. the folder should be next to folder “wp-content” and “wp-includes” and “wp-admin” meaning it should be in the folder that houses these three other folders.

how you go into your wordpress admin to write a post. title and post and in the post box type in “flv:/videos/demo.flv 480 368″ replace the quotes with [ ]. note-leave out the quotes noob. replace “demo” on that piece of code with your flash video file name and viola you are done amigo. you can tweak the size in that code. 480 is the width and 368 is the height.

if you want include a screenshot of the video file to show then you have to put the jpeg image into the same “videos” folder as the flv clip. it has to be the same name is the flv file. so if your flv file is named “noob” then ur jpeg file should be named “noob” then change the code in plugin editor $flv_useposter = 0; to $flv_useposter = 1;

if you need more help comment me. link to my site and leave your site link. lets me see how you did it.

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im such a noob. it took me forever to add links to my wordpress posts. its so easy to do even a noob can do it without searching for a how-to on the web. well if i couldn’t figure it out in the beginning, maybe there are other like me.

first go into your wordpress admin control panel. click on write and select write post as you would normally to write a post. type “whatever” you want to label the link as. then highlight that word or phrase whatever then click on the blue link tab. then type in the link address. press ok and continue to write your post. when ur done press publish and viola you are done noob.

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