Freelance writing and blogging are two of the most preferred options for making money online by working from home. If you are planning to begin your career as an FW or a blogger, go through the below pros/cons of these two career options. Pros of Freelance Writing Better reputation: If authority sites like Huffington post, BGR, TechCrunch are publishing your articles, 1000s of people might know...
I own a laptop which has a dedicated graphics card. I am a developer who prefers using Linux OS. I’ve tried 3 distros of Linux, Mint, Ubuntu, OpenSuse. No matter what version of Linux I use, the OS fails to recognize the AMD graphics card in my laptop and the WiFi connection always drops. I fixed the WiFi issue by upgrading the driver but the GPU installation always fails. Hence, I...
Two of the most commonly used terms by bloggers and webmasters are backlinks and content. A site must have both else it will not rank in first seven pages of world’s busiest and largest search engine, Google. Backlinks aka inbound links are the most important criteria Google considers for ranking content of a website in their pages. One can easily prove this. Search for a product...
SH is a type of hosting in which your site will run along with several other websites on the same server. If you are planning to purchase a web hosting plan, you may be having a doubt whether shared hosting is bad for SEO and is it safe? I will try to clear the confusion for you but before that, you should know the below important points. Shared website hosting assigns: Same IP Address to 100s of...
StudioPress Genesis Framework powers 1000s of WordPress sites. It is better than Thesis and many other WP frameworks. It is SEO friendly, mobile optimized, lightweight, and fast. SGF includes several intuitive features. It includes special modules that save your money. Example, you won’t need a premium opt-in form aka newsletter plugin if you use SGF. Many top bloggers who earn six figure...
AdSense is a great platform for making money online. But getting approved for it or having a five or six figure AdSense revenue is a difficult task. People have a misunderstanding that GA is the only advertiser with which they can make them rich. They are wrong. Nothing is predictable in the world of internet. Hence, you should always try out different strategies for maximizing...
Minification is a process of stripping whitespaces and comments of a page. When you minify a web page, the visitors to your website will experience faster browsing experience on their desktop or mobile device. The page speed insights tool will not request you to minify HTML, JS, or CSS code. When you minify HTML, CSS or JS code on your website, the server will send a small page to the client. The...
Being a professional blogger is not easy. You will have to think about new blog post every day. Sometimes, you will struggle to get new ideas. You will be frustrated, depressed and think of quitting as a blogger. Before you take any major decision, go through the below top five places from which you can get new topics for your blog. How to get new blog post ideas? Use RSS reader: Feedly and...
People are often confused in choosing a hosting service for their sites. On the internet, you will find details on 100s of web hosting companies. Yesterday, one of our readers dropped me an email to know which is the best hosting among Bluehost, Justhost, and HostMonster. The reader was confused because the plans and features offered by the companies are almost the same. I have shared a...
Google makes sure that the site which the user is about to visit is clean. It displays a warning message for the websites which are not safe. One of the most common messages that a search engine user see is “This site may be hacked” The search engine will show this message in the search results in one of the below cases. Malicious code in web pages The hacker may have inserted a...
On a bad day, you may face difficulties in logging into the WP dashboard or opening the login page. These two problems can be easily fixed if you know the HTTP status code or error message shown by the browser when you access the twp pages. Today, we will help you out in fixing the 404 not found error message displayed by the web browser when you try to open wp-login or wp-admin PHP files...
Last week, I was thinking about registering a new domain name for my new project. My first choice was GoDaddy. I had shortlisted a few TLDs from GoDaddy, but I was not able to buy a domain name for less than 10$. GoDaddy runs a promotion wherein new customers can register a TLD for USD 0.99. I’ve been using GoDaddy for three years. Hence, I was not eligible for this offer. I...
Many people shortlist Hostgator and Justhost for their new WordPress blog or website. But they are unsure about the hosting company they should signup for. For such people, today we have shared a detailed comparison of Justhost and Hostgator. Endurance International Group owns Hostgator as well Justhost. The two shared hosting providers might be owned by the same company, but the infrastructure...
Featured image is a picture that appears in the post excerpt. When the visitor sees the image, he will find the topic interesting, relevant, and will not hesitate in exploring your website further. All the premium and free WordPress themes launched these days support FI. If your website has 100s of posts, it is difficult to set featured images manually unless you are ready to edit posts one by...
403 access forbidden error message is displayed on the browser when you try to open a file whose public access has been blocked by the webmaster or because of a permission problem. In other words, the web server is saying that you are not allowed to view the file. If you’re a webmaster (blogger) and if you’re facing this issue, then it ‘s obvious that you don’t have much...
If you are planning to launch a new WordPress blog or a website, you may have shortlisted BlueHost and GoDaddy to host your site. Isn’t it? The reason why you may have chosen the two companies is their immense popularity. GoDaddy uses TV channels as a promotion medium. BlueHost, being a decade old company is very popular among bloggers. Today, we have shared a detailed comparison of these...
Genesis Framework is a WordPress product from the owners of Copyblogger content marketing blog. It is so popular that every blogger using WP is aware of the Genesis Framework and its premium themes. If your site is using this framework, then you’ll not face any SEO issues unless you do something wrong Ex: changing code. Genesis Framework powers many top websites and blogs built with...
iPage and Hostgator are two of the most popular shared website hosting companies. They have a customer base of over a million users. iPage is operational since 1998 whereas HostGator brand started flourishing from 2002 onward. Both companies are reliable. Thus, many users who want to launch a new website or change the host are often confused in choosing a shared hosting service between the two...
Traceroute is an important and one of the most widely used commands. It is recognized in all the operating systems. In case you’re searching for standalone Windows program that simulates the traceroute command, try out Open Visual Traceroute. OVT is an open source program that can be used on Windows as well as Linux OS. It has been built with Java and available for download on sourceforge...
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