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Choosing a good domain name is possibly the hardest part of setting up your blog and gets more difficult when you throw in other criteria for choosing the most effective domain name.

There are a few things to take into consideration when choosing your new domain name which mainly revolve around the browsing habits of the average person on the web and those of your target market. Read More >>

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I really don’t like this at all. The Entrecard wall is a method that some bloggers have decided to use as link baiting. Simply put, it’s a rip off from the Entrecards All Cards page.

The reason I don’t like this is that it could potentially harm a blogs rankings. Google could easily pick up these Entrecard Wall pages as link farms and anyone who is seen to be participating in them (in this case anyone who is linked to) could find themselves being penalized by Google. Read More >>

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This is less of a post and more of an opportunity to try and carry out a little research.

I was thinking to myself earlier today about other methods for building traffic rather than the usual article submissions, SEO, Entrecard, forum signatures, etc and I started to think about peer to peer networks such as Bittorrent. I know P2P networks can be classed as the dark side of the Internet but they are insanely popular and I was thinking about the possibilities for pulling some of that traffic to another website.

I was thinking something along the lines of creating a small, free software application or ebook and distributing it through a number of P2P networks.

The main purpose of this post is to find out if any of you out there have ever tried something similar and if so what kind of results did you receive?

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OK, I know I have been a little slow on the update front. This is the first post I have written since the 21st December. The reason for this is that I’ve been busy with several other things, the last couple of days being taken up by giving my blogs design a bit of a face lift. Hopefully I will be deploying the new design some time tomorrow but for now I will conclude the post Entrecard Pre-review which I wrote on the 20th December. Read More >>

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After flicking briefly through the articles I have already written here at Mrmunro I have realised that I’m not exactly being friendly to new bloggers.

The more you become experienced in a field then the more difficult it actually is to write an article which can be aimed at new bloggers as well as experienced bloggers - but I’m going to break that habit right now and write my fair share of articles for the new kids on the blogosphere.

This is the first of my articles that will be aimed to help out inexperienced bloggers and it is concentrated around ways in which a blogger can create a cash flow from their blog. Read More >>

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Well, what can I say about Entrecard other than the fact that it is quite an original concept, at least from an advertisers point of view. I have seen many similar systems before but I don’t recall seeing anything quite like this available to advertisers. Read More >>

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These things often sound so simple, that you could easily take it in a patronizing tone but the simple things are often the most effective tools that a person can have. Well my topic today is very simple and straightforward, its all based around one single word, organisation. Read More >>

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What is quality content?

The first and foremost thing which defines quality content is originality. The more original your content is then the greater the chance of it being seen as quality by your readers. However, do not make the mistake of seeing originality as quality as anyone can be original but it is in how you put across your original content that will ultimately define its quality. Read More >>

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One of the most important things in generating an online income is repeat visitors. If you ask any successful blogger about the strategies he or she uses in order to make money from their blog in most cases they will stress how important is it to build lists. Building lists will help to create many additional revenue streams as well as keeping your traffic numbers as high as possible. Building lists is a very simple way of marketing your blog to existing or previous visitors. For example, if you provide a weekly or even monthly newsletter when one of your visitors signs up they are giving you their email address and permission to email them. Read More >>

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Aside from the obvious which is to perfect your ad placements, formats and colours in order to generate more clicks to raise your CTR there are other not so obvious methods that wont necessarily mean more actual clicks on your ads but will raise your CTR all the same. Read More >>

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What is AdSense?

I am assuming that you already have a basic idea of what AdSense is but from this part onwards i will explain what AdSense is and how it works.

I will give you some basic knowledge on what to expect in terms of how much you can earn, although these are simply what can be achieved with the appropriate knowledge, hard work and smart planning they are by no means a reflection on what you will personally achieve. I will pass to you my knowledge on formatting and placement of AdSense blocks within your web pages, give you tips on the best integration techniques and give a few comparisons on good and bad utilisation of AdSense Google AdSense is for people who run their own content based websites that wish to pull in revenue from their efforts. Some people use it sparingly as a means of paying their web hosting and bandwidth fees while others build complete online business empires revolving around AdSense and use it to generate income streams of phenomenal amounts. Of course these are the 2 opposite ends of the spectrum and there are many webmasters in between who generate comfortable livings from AdSense. Read More >>

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Answering Some Questions

How do i know if i’m capable of making money from AdSense?

Anyone is capable of making money from AdSense. What some people may be incapable of is the dedication required in order to see long term results.

Is it difficult?

Making money from AdSense is as simple or as difficult as you perceive it to be. A lot of people fail in their endeavors due to the fact that they lead themselves to believe that making money from AdSense is harder than it actually is and if they don’t see the results they want in a short amount of time they tend to give up before they’ve even started. Read More >>

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We now have a finished Wordpress theme but there are some odds and ends that you may want to clean up. These are not required but they will add that extra little bit of polish to your theme to make it look more professional. Read More >>

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Just as the archives are displayed on its own page so are the search results so we need to copy the index.php file again and save it as search.php. If we do not have search.php then Wordpress will use index.php to display our search results so having search.php will allow us to make changes to the page that our search results are displayed on. Read More >>

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Another thing that you may expect to be overly complicated is allowing our readers to search our blog. This again is very simple. If you look in header.php you will see a regular HTML form. Using the very first template tag that I introduced you to in the introduction as the form action will arm your blog with the power of search. The template tag i’m talking about is <?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>. Add this to the search form code in header.php as below… Read More >>

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To remove the right sidebar we first need to remove the PHP code that includes it into our archive page. Just locate the following line of code and delete it….. Read More >>

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Once again copy and paste all the code from index.php and paste it into a new document saving it as archive.php.

Just for the sake of making changes to specific pages lets alter the archives page by removing the right sidebar and only displaying post titles and the post info so we have a nice clean list for our readers as they browse our archives. We will start by removing the content so we only see a list of titles for the selected month as we browse the archives. In archive.php locate The Loop and remove the content template tag so the code looks like the following…. Read More >>

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Lets start by giving our readers the ability to post a comment from our single post page using a comment form at the bottom of the page. This is much easier than it sounds. You might expect to have to write your own PHP script to allow people to comment on your blog but in reality it is just as simple as including your sidebar, header or footer. Read More >>

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First of all lets duplicate index.php. Copy the whole of the content from index.php and paste it over to a new document and save it as single.php. Now when you click on your post title or read more link Wordpress will use single.php to display the selected post. It wont look any different just yet as single.php contains the exact same code as index.php. Read More >>

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I mentioned earlier in the overview before we got started that I duplicate index.php to several other files. When you click a post title or read more, if you only have index.php in your template files then Wordpress will use index.php to display your post on a single page. The same goes for when you click on a cateogory in your categories list. Wordpress will reuse index.php to display the posts in the category you clicked on. Read More >>

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