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WordPress...My Latest Discovery

Please excuse my abscence...I got wrapped up learning this whole WordPress thing.

A couple of ebooks have gotten me real curious about starting a blog with WordPress so I decided to give it a try. Although the authors of those above mentioned ebooks strogly suggest you download the WordPress software and uopload it to your own c-panel hosting,I went for the "out of the box" free hosted blog...like I said this was just to test it out.

Right off the bat,the available templates are very professional looking. I can see why some more experienced marketers diss Blogger blogs(the one you're on now is a Blogger blog). The templates include more up to date designs like the three-layered style with two sidebars off to the right I've been seeing lately.

The best thing about using WprdPress so far are the widgets. Widgets are all those different gadgets you usually see in the sidebars of many blogs and web2.0 sites that basically allow visitors to interact directly with your site. Widgets also make controlling your site design,rotating your ads, and keeping in touch with your readers a cinch.

There seems to be hundreds of widgets available that perform all types of functions,many of which are necessary in order to compete with other sites in this web2.0 era. The only thing is you have to download most of the widgets into a zip file and then upload to your site -which means it's definitely better to have your own hosting account to upload it to. I haven't come across a way to get the other cool widgets on the site in my free hosted WordPress account.

WordPress even allows you to import everything from our other blogs on other blogging systems to your WordPress blog so of course I had to give it a try. I uploaded all the losts from this site and within less than a minute it was done. Take a look at the results and comment what you think:

New Netrepreneurs Blog...perhaps?

I'm even thinking about changing the URL name from NetrepreneursBlog.com to maybe MarketSecrets.biz or MarketSecrets.net
I'm still learning this WordPress thing so don't crucify me for my child-like approach to this. This is my normal way of doing things...to implememnt as I learn instead of immense weeks of studying leading all the way up to NO action!

Leave a comment and tell me what you think of the possible new domain http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=11144459
Blogger: Easy Online Money Making - Create Postname and design of this site. Whoever has any knowledge on using WordPress please share it in the comments sections.

Writing Solutions For Netrepreneurs Part II

Finding Your Writing Voice

An interesting thing happens whenever I read something that catapults my thought processes. As I read I can clearly hear the voice of the author in my head even though I've never physically heard their voice before. It has happened many times and has been verified when I finally do actually hear their voice..they sound the same as they did in my head.

What is this phenomenon and even more important how do I get you -who's reading this right now- to mentally hear my voice?

Is it simply the words I choose along with the way I put them together or is there more to it?

Many advisors in this field have already said you must write about something you're passionate about. For instance:

• If you're not into that particular subject...
• If you don't get excited just thinking about it...
• If it's not something you frequently keep up to date with...
• If it's not something you can't wait to tell someone about...

Then where will you the words along with the way you'll put them come from?

• Will it come from advanced Google searching...
• Will it come from PLR articles...
• Will it come from advanced plageurism...
• Or will it come from your mother...

None of these will do if doesn't come totally from YOU...how can a reader hear your voice if the words aren't yours?

So here's what you need to do:

1. Choose a subject you're really into -everyone has something they're really into...
2. Write it down using the words and phrases you would use to tell your best friend about it and...
3. Edit it just enough to where it's readable and acceptible to the guidelines of the service you're publishing it to -DON'T EDIT IT AS THOUGH AN ENGLISH PROFESSOR WILL BE READING IT or youmay come across as boring and stuck-up.

Did you hear my voice just then? Good...now stay tuned for Part III of this post by subscribing to the Netrepreneurs feed and if you missed Part I here's a recap of Writing Solutions For Netrepreneurs.

Images are the Natural Evolution of Search

Over the past couple years it has been impossible to avoid the buzz about images and their increasing role in search; such as universal search which is becoming commonplace among the major search engines. But universal search is only the most prevalent news and only the baby-steps of a new format of search that is about to take over the Internet. Do I have your interest piqued? I will now lay the foundation of my statement to hopefully get you as excited as I am about this unstoppable search evolution.

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Pinging For Traffic

I noticed spikes in traffic from implementing a very simple technique called pinging.

A ping is basically a notification to all the major blog networks that you have just updated your site with new content -usually a new blog post. Since the major networks are being viewed by thousands of eyeballs everyday there's a high likelihood that you'll get a few unique visitors to check out your new content. The most popular services are at Pingomatic.com or Pingoat.com where you enter a URL along with its title and then select the particular networks you want to be notified.

Most bloggers will just enter their website address,select all of the networks,then call it a day. However,I decided to a few extra miles:

1. Submit the URL of the actual new post along with the exact title of that new post instead of merely the main website address
2. Gain some knowledge on the various networks availablein order to know the right ones to select because some may not fit the category of your particular content
3. Then submit your main website address along with the title of your entire site
4. Next repeat the above three steps except this time you would submit the URLs to search engines like Google's free site submission and Yahoo's free link submission. Addme.com will submit your URLs to 14 search engines at a time also for free.

Within a few days to a few weeks you'll see an increase in traffic...sometimes you see it an a matter of hours. Of course,to maximize the potential of thisyou can always use paid submission services.

If you would like to learn more about pinging then you really should read the My Blog And Ping Tutorial and remember: "The one who pings all things is on his way to being a traffic king!"