Blogging For Beginner

Feed and Feedburner

Feed and Feedburner are friends.
If you try to separate them, then your blogging life will be miserable.

Feed Infographic

Feed and Feedburner are blogging tools.
Without them, you will not have loyal readers or returning visitors.

Feed being published and then being “burned” by Feedburner. (Obviously the name.)

Feed is original no extra interactivity.
Feedburner add many extra interactivity into your original feed and even offer email subscription.

This is not comparison.
No feed, then no feedburner.
But no feedburner, there will always feed.

Some people are too afraid to give away their emails, they subscribe to feed using feed reader.

Some people hates feed reader and prefer reading emails, we have email subscription by feedburner. It’s like we’re having an email list without the need to subscribe to paid services like aweber

We can put Google Adsense ads into the feed burner.

To view your blog feed, the url format is like this… http://pangeran.org/feed/
To go to feedburner, go here https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=feedburner&continue=http://feedburner.google.com/fb/a/myfeeds

Login to your Google Account before doing so. ;-)

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Submit Your Blog To MSN

We’ve been submitting our blog to Google Webmaster’s Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer and now we want to submit our blog to MSN.

The step is identical to both two, in fact much more simpler.

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Submit Your Blog To Yahoo! Site Explorer

Yahoo! Site Explorer is the same with Google Webmaster Tools, the only different is that it is owned by Yahoo search engine.

In this article I will show you how to submit your blog, your blog sitemap to Yahoo!

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Submit Your Blog To Google Webmaster Tools

Hello there, at this stage you should have a good looking stable blog.  The next level is you want to pull as much organic traffic as you can.  To get organic traffic, obviously your blog should be crawled by spiders from search engines such as Google, Yahoo! and Bing.

To wait for your blog to be discovered naturally might take a long time.  A month, if you are lucky.  A year is the most natural period.  But of course you don’t want to wait that long if you could make your blog discovered within the matter of a minute or two. Am I right?

So, we need to show up, registering ourself to Google, introduce our blog and invite their bots to crawl into our blog.

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Change Theme

Some people call it style, some layout, and some skins.  But when it comes to WordPress, we call it theme.  WordPress have incredibly flexible theming system and I bet that’s why people use WordPress by the way.

At this stage, you have get yourself a good domain name, web hosting, and you have install WordPress on it, optimize all the settings and etc. But your blog still have the default looking theme like below.

WordPRess Default Theme

WordPRess Default Theme

It’s not that bad actually.  But you should have your own unique identity.

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Installing MUST HAVE Plugins

Plug-in is add on.  WordPress plug-in obviously bring the meaning it is add on for WordPress script.  It is undeniable that WordPress blog management system script have a great features and are the most user friendly and most popular and widely used nowadays.  But, there’s always custom functions that the users wants that do not exist in the original WordPress script.  This is where other developers create a new separate programs to work a long with WordPress and it was officially encouraged by WordPress.  Some of the feature was to optimize the blog for optimum level for search engine, some for interaction between the author(s) and the readers or commentators, and some of the feature are to  tightened the security feature of existing script while some are just for internal administrative task.

This article will represent the MUST HAVE WORDPRESS PLUGINS in my point of view.

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Optimizing Settings For Your New Blog

Okay, now you have been installing WordPress on your web hosting.  What next?

Today, we will learn how to optimize your WordPress blog to its optimum settings.

Please remember, we don’t have any plugins yet. and the theme also not yet changed.

Optimize Settings

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Installing WordPress On Your Webhosting

Installing WordPress in your own webhost should never be harder.

It only consist of 5 steps which is creating a mySQL database, downloading the WordPress script, editing the wp-config.php file, upload the script, and finishing the web wizard installation.

In my opinion, we should install the our WordPress Manually so that you know what happen and make your webhosting spaces “cleaner”.

This also give you total control and more security feature to your blog installation from hackers attack such as sql injection.

This is one of the episode in series of Blogging For Beginner

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Most Powerful Blogging Platform : WordPress

There are too many content management system(cms) that we can use to build a blog, but there’s none like wordpress.

WordPress is a free open source blogging script and it have been evolved so fast that, yes we can call it cms.

Do not confuse with wordpress.com free blogging service.  This is not what we are talking about.  We are talking about wordpress script that wordpress.com use.  To get this script and learn more about it, you can go to wordpress.org.

These are simple reason why I like wordpress and why I highly recommends it to you.

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Get Yourself a Webhosting

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This is one of episode in Blogging for Beginner.

Now you have a domain name, next we will need a hosting.
A webhosting for our domain where we will put the files for the domain to create a website.
A blog.

In this chapter, we will shop for webhosting, so get ready your money! :-D

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