Software Setup For this class you will require three main applications, a text editor, an SSH client and an FTP client. A text editor will be used to write your HTML documents. SSH (Secure SHell) is a text based application which will enable you to setup your Nova web server account, which we will be using to host your web pages online. Finally an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client will be...
Blogging and Vlogging are two sides of the same coin. Many people employ these two methods to earn money online. In blogging, you start a new website and publish reviews and details of your favorite products, tips, etc. In Vlogging, you ask someone to record your video or if you’re publishing a video tutorial, you use a screen recorder tool to capture the desktop. Below, I have shared a...
A theme is responsible for the success of a blogger. Many bloggers end up buying a theme which looks attractive but scores 0 when it comes to SEO. Despite publishing high-quality content on their sites, these bloggers don’t enjoy success and they quit blogging As a newbie blogger, I had committed a huge mistake of trusting a third class theme developer. The developer rolled out an update...
Site deindexed from Google is the worst nightmare for any blogger or business owner. When Google removes your site from its index, your AdSense earnings are down by 70 to 90%. If traffic from social networks to your site is high, you can recover the earnings by becoming an affiliate marketer. If your site doesn’t get good traffic from Facebook, Twitter or any other social site, your website...
You may have recently learned that blogging is one of the best ways to earn money online. Hence, you might be planning to quit your regular job and pursue a career in blogging or you have just completed your education and want to become a full-time blogger. Blogging is no doubt a great career option. If you become a successful blogger, you’ll make more money than a manager, team leader...
Once your website starts ranking in search engines, you should check its Google keyword rankings often. If you don’t do so, competitors may steal your keywords and use them on their portals. A website with high domain authority won’t be affected by this. But if a site is new, competitor stealing your major keywords may have a negative impact on your website traffic. Today...
Google penalizes spammy EMD sites, but do you know that Exact match domain names can outrank an authority site for a specific keyword? If you don’t know this, you are probably a newbie or an immature SEO professional. Here are the three important things that you should know as a Sear Engine Optimization professional. EMD domains rank I can give 10 good examples that exact match domain names...
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...
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...
This is post 8 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...
This is post 7 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...
This is post 6 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...
This is post 2 of 14 in the series “Drupal 8 Activity Cards” This is the series for Drupal 8 Activity Cards Drupal 8 Configuration Management Paragraphs Module Building Configuration Forms Drupal 8 Migration The New Block System in Drupal 8 Services and Dependency Injection Cron Queuing in Drupal 8 Drupal 8 Plugin System Attaching JS and CSS Assets in Drupal 8 Configuring your Local...
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...
Blogging is the best way to express thoughts, share knowledge and reviews. Starting a blog is easy, but making money through it is difficult. Many people abandon/delete their websites or fail to succeed online because of the below blogging mistakes: Not using self hosted blogging platform A self hosted platform is one which allows you to install a blog software of your choice on a shared, cloud...
There was a time when bloggers used the guest blogging technique to create backlinks. For those who are not aware, in Guest blogging, SEO agencies or companies pay website owners or writers to publish a guest blog post with one or two backlinks to another site. Companies use this technique to rank their sites high in search engines. They are constantly in search of high domain authority websites...
People disable comments from their website thinking that spammers or hackers will not target their sites. Well, it’s true that this form is always responsible for spam, but you should never think of removing it. Spam can be easily avoided with Akismet or its alternatives. Comments are an important section of a website. Without it, your blog would look hostile and naked. No one would...
Social bookmarking websites are important as they can bring tons of visitors to your blog. They will also increase your post’s ranking and visibility in search engines. There are two categories of bookmarking sites, i.e., nofollow and dofollow. Most do follow sites that allow you to share links are considered as spam by Google. Sites that link to such bookmarking portals are penalized, and...
Many self-proclaimed SEO experts believe that hiding WordPress date helps in improving search engine rankings. I supported their strategy until I started thinking more about user experience and rich snippets. If you’ve come across a post that claims to improve SERP position after removing dates from the blog, you’re being misled. Google knows when you’ve published a blog post...
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