This is a part one (1) of "57 Methods To Get More Traffic To Your Blog". This series of posts is in the efforts to reveal easy ways to drive more traffic to your blogs. Continue reading the tips below:
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57 Methods To Get More Traffic To Your Blog – Part 1
Google Indexed My Blog Post In Just 2 Hours
Today I have done a little bit different in the blog posting style for the new blog post "3 Compelling Reasons Why You Should Join Me At The Malaysian Youth Entrepreneur Convention 2008" and I realised that Google indexed my blog post in just 2 hours.
One Simple Trick To Instantly Make Your Blog Search Engine Friendier
There are many people knew the fact that Google Search Engine love WordPress powered blog. However, they still don’t know how to do it in their WordPress blog. In this tutorials, I will demonstrate to you one simple trick can even make your blog more search engine friendlier – change your blog permalink structure.
How To Solved Windows Live Writer Posting Problem
I have been using Windows Live Writer to write most of my blog post since 3 weeks ago. I realised that sometimes I have the problem of publish the post live. It gave me either 500 server error or xmlrpc.php problem .
Error attempting to connect to weblog at:
http://stevenwongblog.com/xmlrpc.php
The underlying connection was closed: The connection was closed unexpectedly.
17 reasons to choose wordpress
Recently I read about Krispyblogs about his blog post on “Ten Reasons To Choose WordPress”. I totally agreed with his opinion and want to share this with you. To enhance the reasons, I come out with additional 7 reasons to tell you why I choose and promote wordpress as my preferred blog platform. Here are my additional reasons why I choose wordpress.
1. SEO Ready.
A lot of people overlook to the wordpress blog platform and thought it is just another blog software available. But I can tell you, if you think like this, you are definitely miss out the advantage of using wordpress. There is an build-in features that you can make your blog post url easily indexed by Google. You are no longer to hire SEO expert and able to optimise your blog on DIY method.
2. Web2.0 platform.
Web2.0 is about sharing and easy to write content and publish online. Today, a lot of people who can just creating their online present without learning HTML, PHP or other programming languages to create webpage.
3. Good documentation and support forums.
The WordPress.org has lay down has the most complete guide on using wordpress. Being the fact that there are a lot more websites out (you are reading one of these sites 
) there to create more tutorials, how-to, tips about wordpress blog platform.
4. Easy monetization
With the ease of using widgets and plugins, you can easily insert your affiliate banner, adsense code, and many other monetization program.
5. Easy and Fast Installation
Forget about doing the manual installation from now, all you need to do is to invest into a hosting plan that provide you cpanel features, and you can just install your blog in less than 5 minutes. Check out the blog post on “How To Install WordPress Blog in less than 5 minutes“.
6. Greater flexibility – either free hosted or self-hosted
For those who has budget on hosting, you can buy a domain and good hosting plan, install the wordpress onto the domain and blog from there. If you aren’t, you can try on free-hosted wordpress.
7. … (you fill in your reason here)
Plus go here to read the other 10 reasons.
FREE Windows Live Writer – Alternative to wordpress editor
Lately, I was asked to look into the issue of the wordpress editor and some of my students’ request to get a better tool for writing. I mentioned about using Semiologic WYSISYG Editor recently, but this is not a free tool.
I came across this window live writer and tested myself. It is really impress me a lot and I really like this new editor compare to wordpress default one.
How To Change Payee Name And Payment Method in Google Adsense Account
Last month, I was reading on the announcement from Google Adsense Blog on new payment method via Western Union. It’s a quick cash payment option allows you receive your payment immediate the day after the payment date. I was very excited to read this after received good news about PayPal allowed withdrawal via Visa cards for 26 Asia Pacific countries in end of September 07.
If you are used to receive check payment and want to change to Western Union Quick Cash, you need to do the following 2 steps in order to make it works for you:
- Make sure your payee name is correct according to your IC/Photo ID name,
- Change payment option to “Western Union Quick Cash”.
