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Why WordPress as Website or Blogging Platform? The 6 Heavy Reasons you can’t Ignore

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WordPress, first appeared in 2003, is a free and open source blog publishing application. WordPress is the official successor of b2cafelog which was developed by Michel Valdrighi. The latest release of WordPress is version 2.8, released on 11 June 2009. When you think of WordPress you probably think of blogging. That’s how most people use it. They sign up for a free blog and start posting about a variety of things. Some blogs are very specific and targeted while others are just general every day kind of blogs. You might not be aware of it, but some excellent looking websites are also using WordPress without using it as a blog at all.

Those 6 heavy reasons that insist you to use WordPress as your first website or first blog are:

Its Free & Open Source

WordPress is an Open Source software which allows it to be used free of cost. You can use it on any kind of personal or commercial website without have to pay a single dime for it. It is built on PHP/MySQL (which is again Open Source) and licensed under GPL.

Ease of Use

WordPress is designed for the masses. That means there’s really no specialized knowledge necessary to sign up for a blog and get started. If you want to go beyond the free blog and take advantage of their premium features, they’re thrilled. So they lead you through it step-by-step to make it easy.

It assumes that you have Zero knowledge of web designing. Deciding to go from a free blog to hosting a domain with your blog as your site is fast, inexpensive and easy. At that point, your .com address contains the blog, which you can arrange pretty much any way you want.

Built-in Tools

Using the blogging and content tools provided by WordPress, it’s easier for many to create a great looking website than it is to use a more complicated piece of software. To create a WordPress site you don’t need an HTML editor or some “what you see is what you get” (WYSIWYG) software to help you build the site. You can still use these, for the most part, but you can also do the same things right through the WordPress interface, including using CSS.

You also won’t need a tool for uploading like an FTP client, and you won’t need to learn a complicated file manager or control panel. If you’ve chosen a theme and made a few blog posts, you already understand how making changes in WordPress works. There’s really no learning curve in going from free blog to website.

Search Engine Friendliness

WordPress blogs, if they’re using keywords and contain relevant content, can rank high in searches on those keywords. Google tends to favor some sites over others, while completely ignoring some domains. Content on WordPress tends to be favored. So your website, as long as you actually do concentrate on keywords and content a bit, will probably have a better chance at showing up in search engines than if it were hosted somewhere else.

Popularity and Community

If you’re not paying WordPress and website experts to do your website for you, then the idea of setting up a website anywhere, let alone on WordPress, is probably daunting. But because WordPress is so popular and used by so many people, it’s easy to get help with a problem.

If you have your website set up with Host X and you’re having problems with the PHP, you can wait to hear back from them or do an online search and try to find the exact problem in the exact server configuration in detail. But the WordPress community has active forums where you can ask questions. And chances are your blogging question has already been asked and answered, so your problem could be solved with a quick search.

Support & Forums

If you got stuck somewhere, then its a NO problem. This is because there are so many people using WordPress, so many websites on support which are always there to take you out from the trouble easily. Also,  many Intellient Minds are working in WordPress support forums, where you will be listened & answered.

See what is new in WordPress 2.8

SEO Guide for Creating XML Sitemaps for your website

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After understanding what are sitemaps & importance of sitemaps for SEO of your site it is now required to go for the first step, creating sitemaps for your website. What are Sitemaps & how important they are in SEO?

There are so many methods to create XML sitemaps. XML sitemaps can be create using online tools or by softwares.

Create XML Sitemaps Online

Somtimes it is needed to create sitemaps online which is a much easier option when your site is having page size less than 500 MB. This option is excellent for you if you own blogs on Blogger, Typepad or other free blogging platforms.  To build your website XML sitemap online you can use the excellent free service provided by xml-sitemaps.org which helps to create sitmaps in different formats like XML, ROR, Text & HTML.

Just enter the website URL & other details just what I have done in the following screenshot below & Click Start.

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This process will take some time depending upon the pages in the website.

Result will allow you to save the sitemaps in all the different format. Just Downlaod them & its done.

Create XML Sitemaps using Plugin

Thanks for the Google Sitmap plugin allows to create sitemaps for once & leave the rest of the job to this plugin.

This option is most suitable & easy to implement if you own a website hosted on servers & use WordPress platform. Simply download the plugin & upload it to the server using FireFTP or FileZilla software. Activate it from the plugins page & configure the options you want. All Done.

Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones.

So, Once you have an latest sitemap in hand you can submit it to different search engines, which will be covered in the nest post under  Complete SEO Success Guide for Bloggers section.

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How to submit your web site to Bing search engine? Obtain Bing’s Traffic

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Microsoft new search engine, Bing.com ready to apply decision approach to its searches, & with its arrival bloggers need to mark the presence of their website & blogs in this newly search engine. It is important to submit your websites/ blogs to Bing.com to direct queries & searches into your websites, thus increase traffic ultimately. Here are the 3 easy steps to do that.

Step One

To Submit your website URL to Bing.com, go here :  It requires you must login using any of your Live / Hotmail ID. Just Sign in to your live or Hotmail account & you will be redirected to URL submission Page.

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Step Two

Enter your web address & Sitemap URL. Click Submit.

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Step Three

Now you need to Authenticate your ownership. For that either go for uploading the file into the ROOT directory which they provide with the provided content or go for the Meta tag authentication.

Adding Meta Tag to blogger Account

It will give you a meta tag code, you need to add that code in your blog’s head section.

Please do the following steps to add meta tag to your blog.

Please open Blogger.com -> Layout -> Edit HTML – > Expand Widget Templates

Please search for

Just paste the meta info given by Bing.com under the head tag.

All Done. Enjoy search results traffic from Bing.com now.

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Top 10 BackLinking Strategies helping Websites earn Traffic Boost

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Back Linking, One of the most important aspects of increasing your Google Page Rank is still a traffic generator. Back Links are not only good food for search engines but search engines still believe that back-links are an important factor in assessing your site, so until that changes, we still have to work at generating valuable back-links. Although website directory submissions as the only alternative.

So, Back Linking provides you with that extra traffic that you may not think to get normally. It also helps gaining persistent readers who just jump onto your website while surfing & finding useful things online. The methods shown underneath are becoming popular as alternatives to plain directory submissions. Allow the steps below to inspire you to think of other ways to generate back-links.

Keep these in mind always because they are real traffic booster.

URL directories

Old method but most effective is to submit your sites to  search engines. As there are thousands of these directories on the internet, you really need to use  directory submission software to save yourself some time.

Organic back-links (Natural)

Its all that you don’t have to worry about because its a time taking normal process. As your site’s stature grows, you will automatically receive organic back-links from other web masters. This will take time as your site grows and the content becomes more valuable.

Forums, guest books and comment boxes

One technique that brings you most of the readers is joining forums, writing guest books &  feeling free to comment  on websites.  By leaving comments in forums, guest books or blog comment fields, you can generate back-links in an instant. Remember to put your URL in your signature.

You can join Inforids forums here.

Article Marketing

Show them that You have Some

These have become intensely popular recently and are widely touted as the most efficient way to build back-links to your site.

Blogging

Blogging, yes its the thing letting readers know what you know about. By creating a free account with one of the blog hosting providers, you can set up your own blog in 5 minutes. By creating related content in your blog, you can sprinkle in links back to your main site as often as you wish. Try to put the best content in your articles.

You can see the 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article.

Creating something free

An exciting idea is to create interesting things like softwares, websites templates for blogger, themes for wordpress & then providing them free to the readers.  You do not even need to be a programmer, you can achieve this using software tools available on the internet. Once you have made the software & themes available for download on your site, you can submit to hundreds of software directories who will then link back to your download page.

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Free softwares & themes spread like Fire.

Social bookmarks

Shared bookmarks, the most popular one allow other users to see which links are valuable. Create accounts on the most popular Bookmarking sites and share your site’s URL together with other bookmarks.

Google knol

You own the knol and no-one else can edit your entry, so this is a great opportunity for creating your own back-links legitimately.

RSS marketing

Create an RSS feed for your site or blog and use Feedburner to publish it to hundreds of RSS aggregators.

Video marketing back-links

Creating video channels including your own informative videos, you have opened up another method of generating back-links: Submit to YouTube and post your hot URL in the description box.

These strategies make up a killer back-link arsenal, now you need to spend some time investigating each topic.

Make sure your back-links are relevant to your site and you will succeed.

The search engines will show your more love and you will watch your traffic grow tremendously onto your website like never before.

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Web Designers Need Testing | How to Test your web page in multiple Browsers simultaneously?

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What if your webpages are not properly visible in Safari Browser 3.8 or in IE 5.0, but you find them working nice in  Mozilla FireFox 3.0, it can certainly give the wrong impression to the non-mozilla users who are first time visitors to your website. While working on the design of your website theme or on webpages, it is necessory to check their compatibility accross different browsers.

Checking the website’s compatibility on different browsers one by one is really a time consuming job. So, Adobe is going to do that service for web professionals.

Adobe® BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on demand. BrowserLab is a powerful solution for cross-browser compatibility testing, featuring multiple viewing and comparison tools, as well as customizable preferences. Since BrowserLab is an online service, it can be accessed from virtually any computer connected to the web.

BrowserLab is ideal for professional web designers and web developers of all sizes, to help simplify and expedite browser compatibility testing.

Adobe BrowserLab How to Test your web page in multiple Browsers simultaneously?

Difference between BrowserLab and other browser compatibility testing products

BrowserLab offers a unique combination of speed, ease of use, and powerful diagnostic tools, with customizable testing preferences. When used with Dreamweaver CS4® software, web professionals can also test local content and different states of interactive content.

Limited Free Preview

The BrowserLab free preview is available to a limited number of users, while they monitor its performance. The BrowserLab online service is available now as a limited free preview.

Currently BrowserLab service status is available.

Features

Supported Browsers and Operating Systems

  • Firefox 2.X and 3.X (Windows XP and Mac OS X)
  • Internet Explorer 6.X and 7.X (Windows XP)
  • Safari 3.X (Mac OS X)

Viewing and Diagnostics Tools

Screenshots can be viewed in a single view, side by side view, or as an overlay view with variable transparency. Each viewing option features a zoom function.

Browser Sets

Browser Sets allow designers to customize, edit, and save a combination of browsers to test.

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30 Must have WordPress Plugins for Admin to Enhance their Website Control

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WordPress is the most eminent & competent platform for website owners & bloggers today. It’s also the most accepted one in platforms niche.  WordPress support for using plugins makes it more robust, easy & reliable platform for administrators, providing them full control over their websites & blogs. Here you can find the most requistic Plugins for WordPress Administrators.

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Experience the Digg Effect: Adding the “digg it” button to each blogger(blogspot) blog posts

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Today, Digg is a most eminent place for we people to get linked with the notions, contents & information from anywhere on the web. Digg, the biggest online destinations is powered by the richness of great stuffs, information & contents from multiple sources(experts, bloggers, websites, news etc). Digg button can provide a real source of traffic to blogs & websites (increased number of readers) and for that adding the “digg-it” button to each blogger post is necessary to experience the Digg Effect.

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Increase Blog Traffic: Submit your websites & blogs to 100+ search engines & directories for Free

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Search engine results makes all the differenceThe Primary Step in Search Engine Optimization(SEO) is submitting(or more specifically registering) your websites and blogs to the search engines which are the real source of traffic on any websit and blog. To increase search engine friendliness & traffic to your websites, you need to add your website/blog URL to different search engines & website directories so that your blog URLs get indexed in search engine’s databases.

Here you can can submit your website to about 100+ search engines & directories.

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WordPress 2.8 Baker Released | A First Look on its Key features

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Finally the “Baker” version of WordPress arrived yesterday, with so many cool & more enhanced features. Named for noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, this WordPress had got a lot with it for the people who love it. Major improvement were done in the themes, widgets, taxonomies, and overall speedwith about over 790 bugs fixes. This video explains  more than the words.

Highlights of what’s new in WordPress 2.8:

  • New drag-and-drop widgets admin interface and new widgets API
  • Syntax highlighting and function lookup built into plugin and theme editors
  • Browse the theme directory and install themes from the admin
  • Allow the dashboard widgets to be arranged in up to four columns
  • Allow configuring the number of items to show on management pages with an option in Screen Options
  • Support timezones and automatic daylight savings time adjustment
  • Support IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite Module
  • Faster loading of admin pages via script compression and concatenation

How to Remove Win32 Sality completely

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Win32 Sality virus mainly spreads though removable medias like the USB flash drives and external HD’s. This virus are is known as the variant of “new folder” virus and are capable of replicating itself into every folder inside the hard disk.

Common problems with Win32 Sality includes:

1. Able to install any antivirus or any software.

2. System functionality like Task Manager, Reg-edit , MS-config etc. can stop working & in some cases control panel as well as your folder options.

The Sality Removal Tool is mainly designed to scan and kill win32.sality virus and does not offer removal of any other variants. Viruses like khatra.exe and ghost.exe virus which is also comes under the same Sality variant.

So, I am coming up with the 3 methods to remove Win32 Sality completely.

Method 1

Download the following three files (rmsality.exe, rmsality.nt, rmsality.dos) from here and run the rmsality.exe file.

You can also specify the disks (or partitions) to heal as a command parameters, e.g.: “rmsality C: D:”. Run the rmsality.exe file as an administrator (in windows vista and windows 7) to start the tool for scanning.

Method 2

Download the latest Avast Home edition from here and install the anti virus and scheduled a boot up scan. During boot scan when the virus is detected just press 1 to delete the files.

Note: Do not select Delete all infected files as it can delete some system files resulting in system crash. Delete any .EXE or .COM apps that you think may be infected.

Method 3

This method I came across through Sastrowijoyo’s blog article. I am just posting it here for easy reference.

1. Take your infected hard drive out of your PC.

2. Go to someone who have the latest updated Kaspersky antivirus (AVG won’t work)

3. Put your hard drive to his/her PC

4. Run his/her windows.

5. Scan your hard drive using his/her Kaspersky antivirus. You’ll find out that most of your .exe files have been infected.

6. Disinfect all of them

7. You will find that some files in your system32 couldn’t be disinfected. This is the core of the virus. get rid of them.

8. You will find that a file couldn’t be deleted. This is the main problem. i haven’t find out how to delete this. Just leave it alone

9. Copy the installer of the kaspersky from his/her computer.

10. Run your windows, install the kaspersky and update it to the latest version.

11. Your PC is safe now.

To have your Reg-edit and Task managers

To have your Regedit and Task managers working back as normal you’ll need to restrict anything tweaking it, try this:

Enable Task Manager

Start->Run and type gpedit.msc Navigate to User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> System -> Ctrl+Alt+Del Options on your right ensure that Remove Task Manager option is set to “Disable”

Repeat for regedit and ensure that Prevent Access to Registry Editing Tools is set to “Disable” under Systems close the window after making the changes restart your PC and you are free again. Just watch out for the virus though.

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