WordPress Installation Detailed Tutorial

WordPress Installation Detailed Tutorial

Please, follow the step-by-step guide below in order to activate Wordpress on your hosting account:

Step 1: Please, login to your CPanel and locate the Fantastico De Luxe icon:



Step 2: Find and click the WordPress link.



Step 3: Then choose New Installation:



Step 4: Decide upon the location of your blog - if you would like to have it as your site front page, leave the directory box blank, otherwise fill in the appropriate folder name. Next, fill in the administrator details and the e-mail account configuration then click the Install WordPress button.



Step 5: A new confirmation page will be loaded for the installation. Click the Finish Installation button if no errors are reported.



If else you will have to go back and rectify the specified issues.

Step 6: After completing the installation the final screen will load, providing you with the installation details. You will be able to e-mail the details to a specified address also in order to keep them for future reference.



Well done! You have successfully installed the Wordpress application!
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make money from wordpress , all ways

How Does WordPress Make Money? the answer


How can a company like Automattic make money if they are giving away all their products (including WordPress) for free? Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India and he surprised, at least some of us, by saying that Automattic is profitable.

Here’s how WordPress makes money according to the creator himself:

1. Blog Hosting – WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers like Om Malik, All Things D and CNN’s Political Ticker among others. They use WordPress.com’s server infrastructure to host your blog and therefore the performance will obviously be great but unlike other web hosting services, WordPress VIP Hosting doesn’t accept everyone who applies so good luck.

2. Google AdSense - Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google ads but these ads may only appear if all the following three conditions are met:

1. The visitor is not using Firefox browser.
2. He has logged out of his WordPress account, if he has one.
3. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So a person reaching abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com won’t see any Google Ads.

Even with all these conditions, the revenue generated from serving Google AdSense ads on WordPress.com hosted blog may still be significant as do around a billion page views per month.

3. Automattic Kismet – You don’t see Viagra spam in your blog posts because it all gets filtered automatically by Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short), the excellent spam protection plug-in available for WordPress.

Now Akismet spam catching technology is free for personal blogs but if you maintain a corporate blog or run a network of blogs, you are required to buy a commercial license of Akismet that starts at around $50 per month.

What may surprise you is that professional bloggers, or anyone who is making more than $500 per month in advertising revenue from a WordPress blog, also needs to pay a $5 per month fee for the Akismet license.

4. Premium Accounts – While anyone can host a blog on WordPress.com for free, they charge you a fee if you want to buy additional storage space for your multimedia files or want to use a custom web domain instead of the default wordpress.com sub-domain. These are premium features.

There’s also (unconfirmed) talk that WordPress may soon allow users to add AdSense in their free blogs for a subscription fee.

5. Web Host Referrals – WordPress.org suggests of list of third-party web hosting companies where you may self-host your WordPress blog(s) for a fee. Now all these are referral links so Automattic gets a commission per sale.

In fact, this hosting referral system may be extremely profitable for Automattic because if you search for "WordPress Hosting" on Google (a very competitive keyword phrase), the first sponsored link on the Google results page is paid by WordPress itself and it says – "Top 5 WordPress Web Hosts – Chosen by the developers of the WordPress blogging software".

6. WordPress Support – If you need help with WordPress (or WordPress MU) but the free support forums aren’t solving the purpose, consider subscribing to the Support Network of Automattic. The WordPress development team will help you solve problems related to your WordPress system and the response time can be as low as 6 hours. This service is primarily for Enterprise users who are willing to shell out a $2.5-5k per year for support.

7. Poll Daddy – I am not sure if Matt discussed this but Automattic also provides a paid version of Poll Daddy where you can have unlimited number of questions per survey and there’s no Poll Daddy branding in your polls or surveys.
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Make Money with Your Blog or Website through Google AdWords Advertising

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how to earn money from google adsense

Google’s AdSense is a fascinating revenue-sharing opportunity for small, medium and large web sites. Some webmasters are designing brand new sites specifically for serving AdSense text ads, however it’s against the AdSense rules to design a site purely for AdSense, so you’ll want to include a few Affiliate links or sell your own product, too.

Steps

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   Determine a goal for what you want to earn using AdSense. Of course, you want to earn a lot, but make sure it's realistic.


2. Consider whether these goals will be possible given your site. If it's too tough, create two sites, each attracting half the number.
   
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   Start building keyword-rich pages containing well researched, profitable keywords, and get lots of high quality links to your site. For example, if your site is about topics such as debt consolidation, web hosting or asbestos-related cancer, you’ll earn much more per click than if it’s about free things. On the other hand, if you concentrate only on top-paying keywords, you’ll face an awful lot of tough competition. What you want are keywords that are high in demand and low in supply, So do some careful keyword research before you build your pages.

Google is at least as interested as you are in having your ads perform well on your site and therefore provide the info you need to optimize your AdSense.

Tips

• Quality is the most important part of any web site. If your site does not contain the content of expected quality the visitor might not come back,

• A great resource for earning money is using traffic driving sites like Flixya^[1]. You can sign up for Google Adsense and Flixya, without the costs or time needed to build traffic or your own site.


• Avoid non-English characters on English pages. There is a bug which can cause these pages to show irrelevant French ads.


• Although Google doesn't release exact details as to how they determine the ads to serve on a given page, they do say that it's the text content of the page that matters, not the meta tags.

Warnings

• If you don't have any content, Google will have to guess what your page is about. It may guess wrong, and so the ads that it displays may not be relevant.


• Do not click your ads. If Google catches you, they have the right and will close your account and retain any earnings you might have.

Join Google AdSense or Google AdWords!
It´s Quick, Easy to Set Up, Prosperous and Free...!

Discover your site's full revenue potential.
Ad Google AdSense to Your Website and Earn Money with every Click!
Or join Google AdWords and have your own advertisements set up in the Google Network within minutes!

Google AdSense is a fast and easy way for website publishers of all sizes to display relevant Google ads on their website's content pages and earn money. Because the ads are related to what your visitors are looking for on your site — or matched to the characteristics and interests of the visitors your content attracts — you'll finally have a fast and easy way to both monetize and enhance the content pages of your website.

Google AdSense is also a way for website publishers to provide Google web search and Google site search to their visitors, and to earn money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages. Every time one of your site´s visitors click on one of the Google Ads displayed on your Webiste, Google Ad Sense generates money right into your pocket...!

Sign up as an Google AdSense / AdWords Affiliate right now. It´s fast, it´s easy, it´s prosperous and it is absolutely for free.
*AdSense and AdWords are Trademarks of Google Inc.

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how to add RSS to wordpress blog ? the answer is

So what is RSS and what is it used for?

It is a xml file that stores content of your web content (such as blog posts) and it’s used to share this content with people who subscribed it. You can subscribe and read these RSS feeds using RSS readers such as Google Reader.. I’ve been using it to track tech news updates and friend’s blog updates and I love it alot..

So back to the main point.. Upon receiving the email to enable RSS feeds on my blog, I decided to lookup on how to create links for pple to subscribe to these RSS feeds.. And I come across a site which teaches you how to do it.. Basically there’s only a few things u need to do..

1. Ensure that your site is RSS enabled.. If u want a custom RSS feed, you can use FeedBurner’s service..

2. To allow people to click and subscribe to your site, you just need to add this to your source..

[a type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/"] Subscribe now [/a]
replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..

For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.

3. To add the RSS link in the URL bar of Firefox.. Place the following codes in the [head] section..

[link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/" title="WiRuS Blog"]
again replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..

For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.

And that’s all.. Simple isn’t it?
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