Category Archives: WordPress

Inforids.com is Page Rank 4 Now – 2010 New year gift from Google

Whether you think its a smashing beginning of year 2010 or its a new year gift from Google, we are very happy to inform that Inforids.com is a page rank 4 blog now, which was 2 earlier.

Google is known for its at random PR updates  & this time the update was just done at the end of the previous year. Before this, there was  an update in the month of September when Inforids.com got PR 2 from PR 1.

Using .htaccess to Prevent Images Hotlinking & Saving your Web Hosting Bandwidth

Did you ever noticed that your images are being hotlinked on someone else’s server and consuming your server bandwidth? This is actually is direct linking to a web site’s files (images, video, etc.).without your permission.

It is bad, as it not only stealing our images, it also take advantage of our bandwidths. Since web hosts charge based on the amount of data transferred, bandwidth is an issue.

Hotlinking should be stopped because others undesirable consequences like switcheroo can often occur.

Using control over.htaccess is one of the most efficient way to prevent image hotlinking. Go through the following steps:

Creating & Placing .htaccess in Root (main) directory

Simply open a notepad & save it as .htaccess without any extension behind. If already have the .htaccess uploaded to your server, simply edit it like in step 2.

Editing .htaccess File

Paste the following code in the .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule \.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$ http://yoursite.com/other_image.jpe[NC,R,L]

Note: In Last line of the above code the image other_image.jpg is not hotlink protected or your server can go into an endless loop.

In the above code yoursite2.com can used be stop hotlinking from specific outside domains only, such as myspace.com, blogger.com and livejournal.com

If you want to display 403 Forbidden error on hotlinking simply paste the following code instead of the code shown above.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http(s)?://(www\.)?yoursite2.com [NC]
RewriteRule .*\.(jpe?g|gif|bmp|png)$ - [F]

Remember, Hotlinked images can only be replaced by other images, not with an HTML page.

Using .htaccess to prevent hotlinking helps you block some legitimate traffic using these techniques.

What do you think about other ways to prevent images hotlinking on your blogs? Do you like this technique? Share with us your views.

How to Avail WordPress Ping Facility to get Max Exposure and Inbound Links

In my last post, We have just seen how to update all those popular & most used search engines in one click, about blog updates using Ping-o-Matic.

For WordPress user, updating & notifying different services & search engines becomes more easy as wordpress as integrated Update Services Feature.

Update Services are tools you can use to let other people know you’ve updated your blog. WordPress automatically notifies popular Update Services that you’ve updated your blog by sending a XML-RPC ping each time you create or update a post.

In turn, Update Services process the ping and updates their proprietary indices with your update. Now people browsing sites like Technorati or Sphere can find your most recent posts!

Ping Services That I Use

http://api.moreover.com/RPC2

http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com/


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping


http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2http://1470.net/api/ping


http://api.feedster.com/ping


http://api.moreover.com/RPC2


http://api.moreover.com/ping


http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2


http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping


http://bblog.com/ping.php


http://bitacoras.net/ping


http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC


http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc


http://blogmatcher.com/u.php


http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc


http://coreblog.org/ping/


http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt


http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/


http://ping.amagle.com/


http://ping.bitacoras.com


http://ping.blo.gs/


http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/


http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc


http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/


http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc


http://ping.feedburner.com


http://ping.myblog.jp


http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php


http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php


http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php


http://ping.weblogs.se/


http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2


http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/


http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2


http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/


http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/


http://rpc.newsgator.com/


http://rpc.pingomatic.com


http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping


http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2


http://topicexchange.com/RPC2


http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php


http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b


http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php


http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2


http://www.blogoole.com/ping/


http://www.blogoon.net/ping/


http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates


http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1


http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php


http://www.blogsnow.com/ping


http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi


http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php


http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud


http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php


http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php


http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2


http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/


http://xmlrpc.blogg.de


http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

This is the list of Pings that I use to notify & update different services. This is a recommended ping list for a WordPress blog.

If you want the update services to be pinged, just Copy & Paste all the above update service URIs listed under “Update Services” on the Setting -> Writing under the administration screen.

Every time you post these services will be notified of your blog post increasing your online exposure & inbound links.

Getting Ready to Convert your Blog into A Money Making Machine

Before you start, to take a journey of converting your blog into a money making machine, I am going to tell you the first requisite thing to focus on.

What you will need to Kick Start?

Yes, that’s important. To get the taste of the fruits you need to plant the tree first. So, to start with you need to establish the base onto which you are going to work.

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

(Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nlhank/3760913731/)

First you have to setup a blog & start blogging. What is a blog? This quick video helps you understand that.

I had already covered Starting a New Blog for Free using a free tools for setting up and publishing your own blog online. With its easy-to-use and customizable templates, you can create an account and start blogging right away.

You can also choose to go with hosted blog(with custom domain) & start with wordpress as the blogging platform.

Go for a Valid Payee name & Email address(For AdSense)

Sign up for a valid email address(I prefer Gmail, Why?) if you not have already & enter correct full information there. Make sure that you are using a strong password. For Google AdSense, this email & your valid present resident address, will the basic necessity.

Payments will be made out to the name on your account, so make sure to include your full and valid name.

Go for a new Paypal Account(Its Free)

For most of the online money transactions you need to Sign up for a Paypal Accout. You can Sign up here.

Sign up for PayPal and start accepting credit card payments instantly.

Paypal is a free, most secure, widely used online service for online money transactions. This will be helpful to you in future & making everything easy while joining the Affilates program.

Once you have done with that you ready to make money online.

I am going to cover Does your website meet all the necessary requirements? & most of everything that is required to convert your blog a Money Making Machine in my next articles.

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15 High Quality & Awesome Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes

Really the War of WordPress themes is already going on & many beautiful WordPress themes are available, many are good and only a little are just one of a kind. The choice is big enough, but the search is worth it. Today we present speacilly for or readers,  only 15 Free High Quality & successful Premium-like WordPress Themes that are truly impressive with great look & functionlity.

Neoclassical

[Demo & Download]

Blue Station

[Demo][Download]

Indomagz

[Demo][Download]

Magazeen

[Demo][Download]

Tech-Press

[Demo][Download]

Type Based

[Demo & Download]

Black Motion

[Demo][Download]

Deskspace

[Demo][Download]

Yoghourt

[Demo & Download]

Simple Balance

[Demo][Download]

Blues – Free WordPress Theme

[ Demo & Download]

Freemium

[Demo][Download]

MainStream

[Demo & Download]

DarkForest

[Demo & Download]

BlakMagik

[Demo][Download]

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The Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

If you maintain a Web site or blog, you need a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client to interact with the files stored on the host(Server). Mainly used for uploading and downloading files to and from a Web server, FTP clients can also download obscure files and documents from any number of servers around the world. The good ones make the process of uploading and downloading fast and painless with features that eliminate unnecessary steps and offer common security protocols. Instead files transfering, good FTP clients can give give you the power to mangae files at the both ends with the ability to perform more administrative actions on the files.

A number of different clients are available and found many that work quite nicely. But there are things in an FTP client, like drag-and-drop support and user friendly bookmark management might not be as high on your priority list. What’s most important is finding one that offers the best features for your specific needs.

There are plenty of FTP clients you can buy with all the features you need, but why pay if you don’t have to? Here are some free ones that make the process a little easier.

Best Free Powerful FTP clients for Website Administrators

FileZilla offers a paned, side-by-side interface in which you can drag-and-drop files to and from a specified server. It has all the advanced features you might need, like timeout detection and SSL secured connections. The site manager makes it easy to sift through your sites (if you have more than one) so updating specific pages is easy. You can also run multiple simultaneous transfers.

Core FTP LE is a feature-packed FTP client that’s free to home users and students. This one offers drag-and-drop transfers, a session manager, auto-transfers, and much more with an easy to understand interface. It’s a wonder this one costs nothing.

If you need a good FTP client or are looking to switch from your old one, check out one of these free programs. As always, let me know in the comments if you have a FTP client you like better (so I can use it!).

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

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

Download Harry Potter Theme

SmashinGeeks has released Harry Potter theme for Harry Potter fans which is quite good. Harry Potter Font, built-in harry potter prologue are also used in the theme. This theme is quite simple and elegant.

Download Harry Potter Theme from SmashinGeeks 

The 10 most important things bloggers need to know before writing a blog article

Article content decides it all. Your articles decide the audience, their responses & their credits. When you start a blog (Don’t have a blog yet,  See 10 Nice Reasons to Start a Blog | Blogging is Power, create an article there are ten ways you can approach your subject matter. Which approach you choose will have a big impact on how fast you grow awareness and audience, plus will be decisive in how easy you find the actual writing. What needs to be done before taking pen on the paper is really important to know because it answers how you can write an article more effectively.

Almost every writer likes to put the best content for the readers & a little pondering before putting their fingers on the keyboard can produce best results. Brainstorms, outlines, and research are all part of the planning and preparation steps that many writers work through before they sit down to actually string words together. But there are ten important questions that every writer must ask before creating that first draft & publishing it.

1. Knowing & attracting your Audience

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Rather than focusing your topic you can focus your audience. This is a tradeoff between these two. You identify a motivated audience, cater your blog articles specifically to them, and then can select anything that interests you that will interest that audience too.

2. Decide on an identified, focused subject

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Identifying the right key for the lock is the art of subject identification. Audiences love when you are ultra-specific in your goal and articulate it well. It works especially well when you identify a pressing need.

3. The Power of Titles

Any article is first identified by the title. The title should be appropriate & put the major idea of the content. The title has the ability make or break a blog post. It impacts how (and if) it’s found in search engines and social bookmarking sites, it influences whether people visit your blog in News Readers, it affects whether people leave a comment and is vital in whether people actually read what you have to say.

4. Good Images conveys it All

Image gives life to simple words on the paper & every image you use must say something related to the topic. This technique can be used for providing an additional point of interest in your posts. I do use images in every post on this blog but find that when I do that those clicking through on the post in my feed reader increases. Images have the power to communicate in ways that words cannot – use them.

5. Be Original & Creative

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Try to speak your own words. Come up with your own content. It helps giving readers an assurance that they reading a fresh & new content. They have got something new. You can think something unique to say and say it in a creative and fresh way. Say what everyone else is saying in the same way that everyone else is saying it and you’re almost guaranteed of being largely ignored. Stick away from any type of copyright infringement.

6. The Presentation stands for 50% of all your work

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Many times online readers tend to scan content & images on the website. As a result if you place visual cues in your posts that draw their eye to important points you’ll find people stick with you longer into your posts. Think like what you will like if you visit a website that is, think like the reader’s point of view & it will help you how to present the things more simply & beautifully.

See also: Top 8 Website Killer & Common Blog Design Mistakes | Dont Let them Go

7. Work on content organization & structure

A single well written list post can launch a blog to great heights in the blogosphere. While the prolific nature of lists in the blogosphere can also mean your lists get ignored, but listing the thing helps keep your article more organized. I find that when writing the same content as a list that you write as an essay like article the list will almost always get more attention. They easily caught the attention of eye & let readers to stick to the content until they catch the idea behind them.

8. Style of your writing

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There can be some difference in the tone of your writing that could not match with what readers want. A fiction piece will have an altogether different tone than a well-researched article. The language you choose, and the styles in which you write are largely directed by your target readership. Always pick a up a tone & style that is simple, clear & understandable.

9. Publishing & Socializing on a Right Platform

Few pieces of writing are publishable across different formats. You should at least have a general idea of the final format; especially be aware of whether your piece is headed for print versus electronic publication. For choosing the right socializing platform for your article after publishing it, you need to think on the need & effect of the article content on the set of readers & audience. Once you understand that, socialize it across suitable platforms.

10. Impact of the Article

Almost every writer wants to make readers feel something. It is important to think the impact of your article on the readers.

One of the positive impact can be Decrease in the Visitors Bounce rate on your website & can yield high traffic to you blog.

See Tim Ferriss View on Building A High Traffic Successful Blog [Video]

What do you want your readers to feel? Hope? Anger? Joy? Controversies? Is your article is imparting knowledge? Is it going to affect a specific set of people thinking? Writing informs, entertains, and sells. It intrigues, educates, and inspires. It’s imperative to know what impact your work will have on readers. Otherwise, it may end up having no impact at all. It is always to look up the results of what you are planning to do.

What do you think now? Share your views with us & comments below.

How to Optimize & Maximize Your AdSense Performance [VIDEO]

Mel Ann and Tim, putting their ideas on how to optimize & thus maximize AdSense earnings. This 12 min video focus on some of the most crucial aspects a beginner must look into.



With this video post I am going to take Everything on AdSense (Beginning from scratch to Optimization) & Making Money Online in the my next postsin the category which I call Money Making Engine.

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