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Free Guide To Your First WordPress Blog

CJ — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:59:38 +0000

This guide will teach you:

Buying Your First Domain Name
Your First Hosting Account
Pointing Your Domain
Installing Your First WordPress Blog
Configuring Your WordPress Blog
Titles and Descriptions
Making Permalinks Pretty
Reading Settings
Wordpress Plugins
Contact Form plugin

Tracking
Adding A Theme
How to FTP
Uploading Your Theme
Configuring widgets
Text Widget Magic
Configuring Categories
Posting Content
Hyper link
Link Management

Best of all
It’s FREE!
Just click on the image to download

Virtual Flipping Pimp’d Out

CJ — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:24:14 +0000

This is an excellent resource for the fast and dirty method to throwing websites up. Fast and dirty, but EFFECTIVE! No blackhat here.

Ever wanted to make some quick cash? If you can build a WordPress blog, you can make fast money. Check this review!

You can create a website in a couple of hours with a minimum investment of money, and you can make a profit of $50 – $300 or more in a few days!

Now, it’s true that a lot of people are out there flipping sites. It’s also true that the sites selling for big bucks have established traffic and are, in general, already making an income. But there’s another way to do this. There’s a special way to optimize your website so that it becomes ultra-attractive to the potential buyer. Just because your site is new and is not generating an income right now does not mean it has no potential. If you structure it right, people will be buying your sites left and right and you’ll be generating a nice, tidy–but more importantly–QUICK side income. In other words, you need a Pimped Out Site.

Click on the image above to go to the sales page and read what the owner, Kitwana Akil, has to say. He made so much sense to me, I picked this eBook up without a second thought. I like the organization of the contents and the clear way he explains the procedure.

This is a MUST-READ!

Topics covered in the eBook:
1. How to Pimp Your ****** ****
2. How to Customize Your **** *********
3. Pimpin’ *******
4. How to Create Attractive Custom Content
(As a reader of my blog, you already know how to do this, but Kitwana’s advice is timely and spot on, too.)
5. How to Add Custom Pages and Other Content

Even the folks who are website-flipping veterans are oohing and awing over Kitwana’s book. And I see why!

So, click on the image above to check it out. Kitwana offers a full 30-day money back guarantee, so what’s to lose?

Google Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide

CJ — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:59:33 +0000

HOT OFF THE PRESSES!!

Google has written a very nice little starter guide for anyone interested in the subject of search engine optimization. I found it while doing some research.

It has images and a “follow-along” example as they optimize a fictitious website, Brandon’s baseball cards. The URL they use, brandonsbaseballcards.com redirects to the Google search page. Cute.

Originally, this document was meant to be an internal document for Google’s developers, but someone had the great idea to offer it under the Creative Commons license as a primer for anyone interested in search engine optimization. Bravo, Google! It is a very helpful document.

From the guide itself:

Although this guide won’t tell you any secrets that’ll automatically rank your site first for queries in Google (sorry!), following the best practices outlined below will make it easier for search engines to both crawl and index your content.

So, for your benefit, I have uploaded a copy here and you can download it at your convenience. If you’re new to this SEO business, this is a good place to start!

Download the pdf search-engine-optimization-starter-guide

The Only Reason Not To Write Every Day

CJ — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 03:56:49 +0000

No excuses! Well, maybe this one…

There is one simple rule to becoming a prolific writer: WRITE. Write frequently, at least every day. If you must start out with only a few minutes a day, that’s fine, as long as you strive to increase your keyboard time. Every day, write.

Getting into a regular habit of writing will make it easier for you, in the long run. Soon enough, you will feel the need to write. From that desire, ideas flow.

It’s as simple as that.

The 4 Choices of Discursive Writing

CJ — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:52:05 +0000

When beginning a writing project, one of the steps in your process might be to decide just what “voice” to use in your next post/article/missive. And in this case, by “voice” I mean in terms of what the article is meant to do. Is it an explanation? Is it a definition piece? Do you have a strong case for, or against, something and want to convince your reader?

While it is not critical to know which voice you want to write from, sometimes–when you are “stuck”–it is helpful to go back to basics. Start your writing process from a simpler level by asking yourself what kind of article am I writing? What am I trying to say and how do I want to say it?

There are 4 choices of direction from which your article can be written:

Argument: An attempt to convince someone about a subject. Answers “why”
Explanation: Gives the reason of subject. Answers “what happened”
Definition: Gives the nature of the subject. Answers “what”
Description: Gives the nature/qualities of subject. Answers “what is”

Argument: This type of writing is meant to convince the reader FOR the case being stated. It is about convincing someone that a stated proposition is correct. You are attempting to persuade someone to believe that your conclusion is the correct one and to take the further action you suggest, whether to make a decision about a subject, make a purchase or believing a certain way about something. In order to succeed, you should present more than one reason for asking your readers to believe what you are saying.

Explanation: What this is should be fairly obvious. An explanation tells why something you are writing about is what you are saying it is. By giving examples, or the sequence of events leading up to your proposition, or, why “this” instead of “that,” you are leading your reader to come to an informed decision.

There are 3 parts to an explanation:
1. Identify the subject you are explaining.
2. Tell what could have happened leading up to your conclusion.
3. Describe how the outcome came to be, and not some other outcome.

Definition: identifies meaning.
There are 2 parts to a definition: the concept being defined and propositions you are setting forth that do the defining.
Writing a definition article can be done in a couple of different ways.
1. Using words and concepts.
2. By giving a name to something you can point to or describe.
3. Define something indirectly, by giving examples.

Description: A description gives information about the subject of your article. Sentences in your description will describe events, state of being or other some such propostions about your subject and then ascribe a property, or element, to that subject.

The shape of the subject in question, or the current standards of the subject, even down to its unary properties—color, taste, etcetera. (pertaining to a function whose domain is a given set and whose range is contained in that set – http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unary) are all ways of describing your subject.

This is just a rough outline, but, when you are beginning a writing project, sometimes “back to the basics” is the best first step. HOW do you want to say whatever it is you want to say? Choose one from the list above and move to the next step in your process.

You might also want to read this post >> About Discursive Writing.