30 Day Blogging Challenge

Are you up to a great challenge? I mean a blogging challenge. When you succeed, your blog will rank better in search engines, you will gain hundreds of backlinks and a dramatic increase in quality traffic. Are you interested?

What am I talking about? I’m talking about 30 days full of hard work. However it will pay off greatly after your initial one month time investment and the results will last much longer after that. Where did I get this idea? I’ve came across a very interesting article and it really captured my attention.

The core of this challenge is to make at least one post each day for a month. But that’s not all. You must also leave at least one quality comment at other blogs with similar niche every day (no spam comments of course). It’s a brilliant way how to get your blog more popular. There are few reasons why it will work. Firstly, it will get you noticed by search engines and readers as an active blogger. Secondly, you will gather up bunch of a great content and many quality backlinks from well respected blogs within your niche. Finally, you will train your writing skills and become used to periodical posting.

If you don’t give up, you’ll see wonders. There’s a nice graph at Affiliate Confession – that blog used this method and the number of daily visits came from 5 to 180 in just 24 days!

So, are you up to this? It won’t be easy but it will pay off. I’ve already decided to take this challenge in a near future. Not from this day but soon. I will make a post with official announcement once I start it off. Meanwhile, I hope you will consider giving it a try and joining me in my ambitious effort.

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New Look

Hello everybody. If you have already visited this blog before you must have noticed some big changes going on around. I have created absolutely new design. I have kept the previous color scheme though I’ve smoothed the colors to be easier on eyes. In addition, I have tried to make the content more organized – reduced number of categories and more comprendious sidebar. Hope you like it. You can download my previous theme for free here. Enjoy!

Secondly, I have started to use the Entrecard in order to exchnage relevant traffic with other bloggers. You can see it in the “Featured ad” box. I’m also planning to make better comments template. Something similar like at this blog. There are more upcoming changes and few really great ideas in my head so be prepared.

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How to Make Own WordPress Theme Part III

By the time you read this, you should already have archive.php, header.php, index.php and page.php completed. Now we will move to a single post and a comments template. Continue reading

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Speed Up Your Website With HTTP Compression

What would you say if I told you that a very simple trick can save up to 75% of your bandwidth, visibly make your website load up to four times faster and make your visitors more satisfied? The data on the web is forecasted to grow exponentially over the next few years. In addition, even today the number one complaint among web users is lack of speed. The answer to this challenge is HTTP compression.

HTTP Compression?

The basic idea is to compress data being sent out from the server and have the browser decompress this data on the fly, thus reducing the amount of data sent and increasing the page display speed. The data is being compressed dynamically on the fly so you don’t need to upload any pre-compressed files. Continue reading

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John Chow And Google Story

Many of you are already probably familiar with the story of John Chow but for those who aren’t I’m writing this article. Long story short, he is one of the most successful bloggers out there. John Chow is the owner of the famous site John Chow dot Com with his miscellaneous ramblings of a dot com mogul. He makes money online by telling other people how much money he makes online. Despite his struggle with Google, he’s making tens of thousands dollars each month just with his blog.

John Chow dot Com

Back in December 2006 John Chow started a very aggressive backlink campaign, in which he would give a link back for every review of his blog when the text anchor ‘make money online’ was used. He managed to get 870 links from various sites as a direct result of the campaign. This turned out to be very successful for him as in just two months from the beginning of the campaign his revenue has almost trippled. His blog income has grown very fast from $352.94 in September 2006 to $7,011.05 in February 2007 (increase in revenue is amazing -> $6,658.11). Continue reading

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Unexpected Jump to WordPress 2.5

First of all, the last week was deadly for me. I was struggling in college, trying to get enough credits to pass the exams plus I had to take care of about a thousand other troubles. There are still few problems ahead (driving license exam on Wednesday…) but at least the college stuff is all gone for few weeks.

Secondly, I have suddenly (I was planning to wait for few more months but somehow couldn’t wait) switched to WordPress 2.5. That’s right folks, this blog is running on completely new engine now and so far I like it. I haven’t encountered any problems while switching to version 2.5. Just copied all WordPress files into my blog directory (without wp-config-sample.php and wp-content directory of course) and upgraded the database (one click process) and that’s it.

Honestly, the whole “switching process” took me about 2 minutes. I’d like to thank all WordPress developers for their hard work and especially for making the jump from 2.3 to 2.5 so smooth and fast. Thank you!

Oh and one more thing. Check out my new logo and give me some feedback. Personally, I think it’s awesome but my opinion is very subjective and maybe biased…

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Net Covered Theme For Free

Hello. I’m offering the Net Covered theme for free download. Click here to download this elegant theme with emphasis on the content. Feel free to check out my blog to see how it looks. Of course you will need to make your own logo and banners.

April 18 – uploaded the latest version…

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How to Make Own WordPress Theme Part II

Make sure you have read the first chapter and have done everything I’ve been explaining there. In this part, I will show you how to create the wordpress loop. The loop is the most important portion of your theme. It takes care of displaying posts and articles. Continue reading

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How to Make Own WordPress Theme Part I

Does your wordpress blog look too dusty? Need a new refreshing theme? You’ve probably already spent hours browsing the web in order to find an ideal one but most of the free themes you’ll find just won’t be good enough. Well, what about making your own theme? Yeah. It’s not that hard. All you need is some experience with HTML and CSS plus maybe a little knowledge of PHP syntax (though this isn’t necessary – it’s enough to copy and paste all PHP codes). Continue reading

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Free CSS Templates

I’m giving away for free download few ready to use css templates. All are created with an emphasis on easy modification. Featuring valid XHTML and CSS markup.

Preview Download
One Column CSS Layout Click to download
Two Column CSS Layout Click to download
Three Column CSS Layout Click to download

If you need any help with them, drop a line in the comments. I’ll gladly help.

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