Quick Wordpress Theme Tip

October 16th, 2009

This is just a quick Wordpress tip for you.

I’m fairly new to Wordpress, but have been working away on various blogs trying to learn everything I can.

You may already know this tip, but here it is anyway. I only learned this this week…

When I setup my first few Wordpress blogs, I manually edited the code of the standard blue Kubrick theme files to customise the look and feel of the blog. Last week, I updated one of the blogs to Wordpress 2.8.4. I backed up what I thought was everything first, but completely lost my customised theme!!

I was devastated. However, from every error there’s a lesson! So I looked into how to resolve this. This time, using my built-in file manager, I copied the whole theme folder into a new folder (calling it a name relevant to that blog). In the styles.css file within the new folder, I edited the first few lines to give this new theme a name different to the Kubrick one.

From within the admin area of the Wordpress blog, I activated this new theme, then customised it. After I’d finished, I downloaded it onto my PC (copying the whole folder). I actually wanted to have another identical looking blog to create a blog network, so just uploaded this new theme to a new Wordpress installation and activated it.

Voila! An instant customised theme.

Hope you find this tip useful. I’d be glad to hear from you if you do.

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3 Great Twitter Utilities – Auto Unfollow, Auto Tweet and TwitterFeed

October 16th, 2009

twitterIf you use Twitter to any great degree, you’ve probably already seen the potential it can create for you.

The problem, as with most blogging and microblogging platforms, is making time to write tweets and get involved. Here are some techniques I’ve been using to keep my followers occupied with regular tweets.

Twitter Utility #1 – TwitterFeed

I am going to have to assume that you run a blog (any platform, Blogger, Wordpress, self hosted etc.)(if you don’t why not??). Using the TwitterFeed system connected to your Twitter account, you can have every post that you write for your blog, added to your Twitter page as a tweet. This is perfect as you will be writing for your blog anyway. It keeps your Twitter account fresh and will inevitably mean you get more followers. You can setup multiple blog feeds into Twitter to gather even more momentum.

Go to www.twitterfeed.com to setup your account.

Twitter Utility #2 – TweetLater

This second Twitter tip is to do with keeping in touch with your new followers. If you’ve setup your TwitterFeed account, and your Twitter account is gathering followers, wouldn’t it be nice to send each new follower a message, maybe just saying hello, or offering them something for free by visiting your blog or web site. What about if you automatically followed them too?

Again, Twitter is about momentum. The more people you follow, the more people will see your profile on profiles that they follow, and you will gather more followers. You follow ;0)?

TweetLater is a service that you can setup to do exactly that (and more, but that’s for another post). Each time someone follows you, you can send them a welcome message, and autofollow them. This is fantastic to build up your twitter followers reasonably quickly.

Go to www.tweetlater.com and explore the other features the site has, such as schedule tweets.

Twitter Utility #3 – Auto Unfollow Twitter Followers

The one problem with autofollowing is that you are only allowed to follow more than 2,000 people if you have 2,000 or more people following you. When I first set this up on my Twitter account, I reached following 2,000 quite quickly, but only had around 1,700 followers. I couldn’t follow any more. After doing some searching, I found a few sites that offered the option of unfollowing people not following you. The best one I found was FriendorFollow. Enter your Twitter account details, and it will respond back with who’s following you and who’s not. You can select multiple people and bulk unfollow them (if you wish). My Twitter account is now back on track and I’m following an even amount of followers.

www.friendorfollow.com will help you sort out your followers list.

Obviously, your Twitter model may be different to mine. I have other Twitter accounts that are much more conservative and dedicated to niche topics, and I use different techniques for those. But my main account is to generate traffic to my sites, so this process works for me.

Do you have any Twitter tips to share?

By the way, how do you like my new bookmark icons below? Neat huh? Stay posted here and I’ll tell you where I got them.

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Wordpress Hosting Starting At Just $1

September 29th, 2009

Host unlimited Wordpress blogs and domains and start for just $1 with this special coupon code below.

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Ebook Web Site For Sale – Ends In 6 Hours From Now!

August 27th, 2009

I have decided to sell another one of my web sites so I can concentrate on my other projects. It’s up for auction on an internet marketing forum, and ends in just 6 hours. The price is low at the moment, so get in fast to own EbooksBusiness.com.

It’s a Wordpress blog offering ebooks with resale rights. This is a fantastic opportunity if you’re new to internet marketing and want a head start. Great potential.

Ebook Web Site For Sale

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Credit and Debt Advice Site For Sale

July 21st, 2009

I’ve just listed a fantastic opportunity to buy a credit and debt advice web site on Flippa (SitePoint’s new site marketplace).

You can view the auction here

http://flippa.com/auctions/71400/Credit-and-Debt-Advice-Site

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Great Wordpress Plugins

July 3rd, 2009

I’ve been adding some great new Wordpress plugins to this site to help improve it’s performance and usability.

The first one shows related posts at the bottom of each post. This will hopefully help to keep you entertained and to help you find more great articles here on the site.

The second plugin helps by adding a Tweet This link at the end of each post.

I found these plugins from this site, and I hope you find it useful too.

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XSitePro Web Design Software – Review

May 1st, 2009

Web design software comes in many different forms. The most common web design software that most people use are Dreamweaver or Frontpage, with Dreamweaver being the choice of most professional web designers.

There are also some free ones, with NVU being one of the more popular ones.

The main problem with these design applications is that you need to know a reasonable amount of HTML (the language that most sites rely on). If you don’t know about HTML, or any of the technicalities of coding a web site for yourself, then these web design applications are not the choice for you. Also, the price tag may well put you off for Dreamweaver!

However, there is a choice that should be ideal, especially if you build content based web sites.

XSitePro Web Design Software makes building a content rich web site very easy. To start with, you choose a template that’s already built into the software (and there are some really great templates to choose from). Then you start adding your content, page by page. You can simply copy and paste your articles into a page, or you can type them straight in, using WYSIWYG format (What You See Is What You Get). You can use standard formatting controls (Bold, Italic etc) to make reading your text easier.

If you would prefer not to use the built-in templates, you can opt to start totally from scratch. If you do start from scratch XSitePro Web Design Software lets you do this too. You can configure the layout of your site exactly how you want it. You use panels to set the page, so you can have your navigation on the right, your Google Adsense down the left, and a nice header graphic at the top.

XsitePro builds your pages, and you have total control over your meta tags, keywords, and every other SEO factor that will help you get your pages listed on the search engines. You can also build sitemaps that are ideally suited to submitting to Google, Yahoo etc. This is one of the major benefits to XSitePro – you can check your pages using their analyser to see how your keywords fair compared to your content. You can build some very highly optimised pages, without really having to know how to. The reports you get will tell you EXACTLY what to do.

And, if that’s not enough, you don’t even need a separate application to publish your site. Just enter your hosting account details into XSitePro, and hit the Publish button!

With XSitePro Web Design Software, your job of making online income is so easy anyone can do it. Adding Adsense to your pages is as easy as clicking a couple of buttons. You can insert RSS feeds into your pages (to syndicate content from your or other blogs) and many more features too numerous to mention here. And the price tag is not so high that you can’t recoup your outlay quickly by publishing more sites.

Grab your copy of XSitePro Web Design Software today, you won’t be disappointed. Look on their site to see all the testimonials from satisfied customers, and the screenshots will show you what you’re getting.

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Free Ebook Listed on Ebooks Business

April 30th, 2009

Free ebook listed on Ebooks Business web site. How to gain extra traffic from social bookmarking.

Social Bookmark Traffic

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Internet Marketing with Squidoo, YouTube, Facebook and MySpace

April 16th, 2009

If you’re into Internet Marketing, you’ve obviously heard of Squidoo, YouTube, Facebook and MySpace.

You might also be aware that you can use each of these methods to market yourself, your products and your web sites.

But, if that’s as far as it’s gone for you, then help is at hand…

How would you like to get your hands on a brand new set of guides detailing how you can use these methods to your best advtantage.

You can get all 4 of these guides for just $17.00 if you act fast!Youtube RevolutionSquidoo BasicsMySpace Profit StrategiesFacebook Social Ads

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UK Affiliate Programs web site for sale

March 26th, 2009

UK Affiliate Marketing Site

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