Making a Niche out of your Blog!
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We all have our special area in life whether it be Life support, computer support, and many other specialties in life. I thought we talk about how do you decide what your will talk about on your blog or website. We all have our own experiences and our own education. No single person can know everything and we all have our flaws and we call all learn from that in one way or another.
How Can I figure out what my blog/website niche is?
You could use keywords to see what the search engines suggest. I say that because if the blog or Website talk about “Making money” or “Computer Repair” or even “Cellular Modems” then you know what you could become even better at your niche. You can find that out by what using Google Analytics to find out what people are searching for to find your blog. This is how your audience finds you by putting in the search in keywords.
Now if you haven’t started a blog or website and you would like to come up with your niche before hand. This is even easier to do. You would need to figure out what you want your blog or website to talk about and then you will want to add them in your posts.
Picking The Hosting Provider & Setting your Domain
Comments OffIn my Previous Post we talk about the process I am going to use to guide you through it. So we already see what we need to do. In this Post we need to talk about Hosting and Domains.
When it comes to hosting a website it all depends on who you want to go through. Here are a few Hosting Providers that I recommend:
- Hostgator ($4.95 a Month)
- FatCow (Yes that is a Hosting Provider. Starting as Low as $5.50 a month)
- IxWebhosting (Starting as Low as $3.95 a month)
These three hosting providers have programs to help you install Wordpress. For those who want to understand what a Hosting provider does, these are basically servers who host your blog content. They all have their own way of helping the customers.
They each will have a different way of setting up Wordpress so you may have to look around their site for the specific details, but that is coming up in a future blog post. I will be walking you through using Godaddy.
Photo By: Terry Mun
Dark Side of Adsense
Comments OffAs many of you know, I’ve wrote a blog postabout Adsense for Begginers. I wrote this to try to make people see that Adsense isn’t all that bad. I wanted to expand on this and talk about the Dark Side of Adsense.
AdSense is an advertisement application run by Google. Website owners can enroll in this program to enable text, image, and more recently, video advertisements on their websites. These advertisements are administered by Google and generate revenue on either a per-click or per-impression basis. Google beta tested a cost-per-action service, but discontinued it in October 2008 in favor of a DoubleClick offering (also owned by Google)
[Via Wikipedia]
Now we know that Google uses what we like to call a Per Click payment plan, that is to say on occasion you get paid for ratio of page views. It can be 0.05$ or more, I don’t know how they figure it out but I do know there is more to this than what you see behind the Adsense.
Understanding Adsense for the Beginner
Comments OffSo you have a website and you’d like the site to pay for itself. That can be arranged it however depends on your website performance. You see you won’t make a lot of money if you don’t have several things going for you. I thought I share with you my experience with making money through Adsense. As you saw, I made enough money to pay for the website for 5 years. It isn’t hard to make money it is however very difficult to keep getting the money. Most people don’t know the tricks to making money with Google’s Adsense.
I’m here to help you out a little with understanding it and getting even more money from your adsense. So here we are 3 months into to putting Adsense seriously on my site and let’s take a look shall we:
AVG Detected a False Positive
According to Security and The Net:An update for the AVG virus scanner released yesterday contained an incorrect virus signature, which led it to think user32.dll contained the Trojan Horses PSW.Banker4.APSA or Generic9TBN. AVG then recommended deleting this file; this causes the affected systems to either stop booting or go into a continuous reboot cycle. So far, the problem only appears to affect Windows XP, but there is no guarantee that other versions of Windows don’t have the same issue.
[Via Security and The Net]
If you’ve not been affected by this yet, you probably won’t be. It is yet unknown how many people have been affected. I’m blogging about this to tell people about this and to warn people that not all of warnings from AVG are true and that is why you should always ask before you delete or do anything to your system. I always USE google when it comes to these types of questions
Fake Wordpress update 2.6.4 steals data!
The hacked version of the file pluggable appears to be stealing the content of cookies on larger installations of WordPress. Sophos are now detecting this file as Troj/WPHack-A.
[Via Sopho's]
Apparently this little update is a rogue update. According to Sopho’s and Craig Murphy’s blog, it is said to steal your data and send it to another site. This hacked version of Wordpress is coming from wordpresz.org so if you happen to stumble onto this fake update, just delete it and go on with your blogging. Craig talked about how when he logged it this fake update popped up. So sometimes it is safer to do some digging before you apply an update especially to your Operating system. Thanks to Sopho’s for telling people about this fake and dangerous problem.
Mahalo Lay’s off around 10% of it’s workforce!!
Comments OffWe’ve laid off a just under 10% of our full-time staff, cut our overhead by doing smart things like renting desks (we have six desks/offices available fyi), and reorganized our editorial department to focus on freelance positions over in-house editors. The net result
of the effort is we are giving Mahalo another year of “dry powder” (or runway) to complete our mission.
This is not to be unexpected after all the talk about the recession coming our way. It does however emphasizes the need for companies to consider there profit margins and accounting strategy.
Mahalo was launched in May 2007 as an Alpha test. That is to say only a select number of people were able to access the site and create feedback to the development of the site. As of January of 2008 it is in what we call the Beta test phase. Which means more people are testing it out and find out it’s flaws to report back about where they need to improve. Mahalo’s directory employs human editors to review websites and search engine results.
Living the Life of a Blogger 101
Comments OffHaving been blogging for the last few months and years. I’ve learned so much from blogger the platform. I thought I would talk about that in this post. To give those who want to use Googles Blogger platform to there fullest. It is inconsequential to the grand scheme of blogging. It is not enough to just blog it has to be some kind of meaning in it. You have to think of how best can I help people out. It is legal to use fair use. That is why congress has put it into congress.
Fair Use comes from the idea of using something that is ‘Copyrighted’ and use some portion of it to talk about or as a demonstration. Most people don’t understand that, you can use anything on the web as long as you don’t publish there material fully. I like to us hulu for example. I’ve embedded there videos on my site, and talked about Hulu from time. This last few weeks they had clues out on there site. I started trying to solve the clues they Published to better help figuring out there clues. Although they might consider there promotion as being copyrighted. I used there clues to publish what I considered was fair use. They couldn’t do much other than smile that some one started blogging about there clues weekly because once they published there clues. I had the right to try to figure the clues out. I actually loved doing it.
A Blogger Has Dreams
Comments OffThose who knows someone who has a blog, also knows what the dream of a blogger is. On this case I will go into 5 areas where most bloggers should improve on. Although these aren’t going to be major, you to can create a good blog and encourage users to come back to you all the time. Having dreams isn’t a bad thought or a bad wish. Sometimes having been blogging the way I have been. I see the challenges of coming up with content for the blog. I’ve figured out some important points in making content and full filling the dreams that you have.
Sometimes, I think, bloggers get the bad wrap. They are considered undesirables to the big magazines and the popular medias. You see, in the mind of the big companies, they don’t understand the small guy and how they impact the big companies. A bloggers dream is to impact there inspiration to write something with content.
How to Get advertisers to come to you!!
Comments OffLately in the past few weeks, I’ve had several Advertisers come to me wanting to advertise for there clients. I’d thought I share you some of my experiences, in the hopes, that you too can get advertisers to come to you so I’d come up with some steps to better help you;
- Don’t use Blogger.com — Yep that’s right, after recently moving from blogger to WordPress. I’ve found that after the move, I’d start getting more people coming to my site. I don’t know if it was something I did or if it was the platform that got me more business. I think most advertisers think blogger is for amatuers or people who aren’t interested in revenues.
- Content is the Key — Having spent the last few months thinking how I can get people to come to my blog. I’ve found this out. If you make content that is specific to your area and not try to repeat what everyone else is saying you can get a high volume of people to come to you site. I’ve also learned that Google is your friend and you need to use it to you fullest abilities.
Understanding a Bloggers Heart
I’ve had so many people talk about why blog? I’ve seen articles about blogging being dead. I say that’s not going to happen, it is the heart of a blogger to talk about what they want to talk about. It comes from the idea that they have the understanding of the what a blogger is!
What’s a blogger?
It’s in the wikapedia as this : “A blog (a contraction of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.” So what does that say about me? Well let us talk about this in terms we can understand. Having been blogging for the last few months or I should say year(s). I’ve got some things to say about this. Not all bloggers are bad and not all bloggers are professional. I hate to say this but it is the truth some bloggers have never went to school for writing class or other such education. We saw this as a way to talk about what we are passionate about and want to educate others. It comes from a desire to socialize with people who have the same interest and to be part of a greater plan.
3 Reason why Friendfeed is dying!!
Comments OffSo I been watching Friend Feed the last few days, I’ve seen Mark Trapp talking about trolling. I also seen Robert Scoble saying he finds this interesting, and I’ll quote Mark Trapps Post about it:
First Reason — So as you can see this is what people call page trolling! They try to get people to visit there page and get a page count. I say this is a FOUL, and you need to take a time out in the booth for doing this. I don’t want to see this getting on friend feed. I hope FF comes up with a way to let you put in keywords to ignore and such that would be so nice.
Second Reason — They have to make comments about blogger and Twitter. I don’t want to hear stuff about twitter and how they can blog this stuff up all day long!! It’s like the Gilmore Gang talking about getting a Hair Cut. This really needs to change and become a better feed then it has in the past. I will get flame comments or even flame mail but it’s the truth!!
Geek News Central – Todd talks about the back Channel!!
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GNC-2008-01-05 #332 CES Back Channel #1
GNC-2008-01-05_2 #333 CES Back Channel #2
HD DVD Promo Group Cancels CES Press Conference
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It was among the most highly anticipated press events of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, but following today’s announcement from Warner Home Video, this Sunday’s press conference from the HD DVD Promotions Group has been cancelled.
Organizers sent out a note to members of the media and invited guests late Friday, attributing the cancellation to the timing of Warner’s announcement. A rep for the group told us this evening that the press conference will not be rescheduled, but that the group will still have a presence at the show from its booth on the convention floor.
The full text of the HD DVD Promo Group’s email follows below:
Based on the timing of the Warner Home Video announcement today, we have decided to postpone our CES 2008 press conference scheduled for Sunday, January 6th at 8:30 p.m. in the Wynn Hotel. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
We are currently discussing the potential impact of this announcement with the other HD DVD partner companies and evaluating next steps. We believe the consumer continues to benefit from HD DVD’s commitment to quality and affordability – a bar that is critical for the mainstream success of any format.
You can do more with Steam and Half-Life 2 now!!
So I’ve been Playing Half-Life 2 and Enjoying it so much. I’ve had a problem with Vista popping up and saying “The igfx video driver has stopped responding and has recovered!”. Which means this, that the game goes black and stops being played. It’s an annoying Vista flaw, I am thinking that if it wasn’t Vista it wouldn’t of happened. I’ve got the Minimum system specs for the game. DirectX 7.0 Compatible, 512 Megabytes of Ram, 128 megabytes Video Ram Card(some supported cards here but I don’t have one of those cards!), and Windows NT/XP/2000/98.
I did a little research and found out that the game was only using 256 megabytes of ram. How do I know? I went into the Taskmanager Manager and looked at hl2.exe (it was around 254 megs of memory!). So that got me thinking, I have 1024 megabytes(1 gigabyte memory) and I was using 256 megabytes of that for video. Well I still had over 700 megabytes of memory to use.
