Day 6 – Your Question with answers
These are some questions related to blogging with answers. If I haven’t answered your question, feel free to ask more questions.
Taking The Right Type of Action will have better result. So make sure you check out these tips and advice provided below and then make sure you act on them.
Design and User Optimization
1. have existing URL’s that I want to move over to wordpress, how do I keep the same URL’s as my none WordPress Blog?
Under the Page Title form is your website URL, click EDIT and you are able to change what the URL is.
2. I want to make my blog look like its been around for a lot longer then it has been by changing the date of my posts, how do I do this?
If you go to edit or add a new post, in the top right corner there is a box where you publish your post, above that button is an option to predate your blog posts. I did this recently on an old blog where I switched it over to WordPress. We wanted to show readers that it was in fact 4 years old and not created yesterday.
3. How to customize the site in order for it to look a way which is relative to my particular blog?
Choose Woothemes because they give you so many options to customize your blog, its amazing! If you go ahead and purchase a Wootheme, login to your wordpress admin and scroll to the bottom, on the left side you will see a button with the name of your theme. Click that and you will see a lot of options to customize your blog, different colour schemes, different image sizes, different homepage features, different sidebar options and the list goes on. Another great thing about WordPress is widgets, it lets you easily with no HTML knowledge, edit your sidebar and move different features around. You can see a link to widgets on the sidebar as well.
4. How do I change the header image from the wordpress theme into a image of my choice and have it resized accordingly?
I recommend you check the WordPress help files for this….
5. Can I use a FREE blog hosting site such as WordPress.com or Blogger.com?
This will be your biggest blogging mistake if you go ahead and do that. Definitely go and use a good hosting company and buy your own domain. It will make you look more professional and give you so much more control. Also, so many people get really far and then find they need their own domain and hosting and lose a lot of followers and search engine love because they have to move over to their own domain. Another thing to mention is, no one will buy a FREE hosted blog!
6. All the top blog’s use great images for their blog posts, can I use Google Images, if not, where do I find images?
You are not allowed to use Google Images or any other images, however everyone does it. you can use a company called iStockPhoto which has millions of professional images you can use for your website at a cost of between $1 and $3 for images.
Making Money With Your Blog Questions
7. My blog is about a million and one things, how do I monetize my website if every page is about a different niche?
The best thing to do is run a CPC advertising network on your website such as Google Adsense. They will display different adverts on your blog depending on what the post is about.
Is it possible I venture into the niche that is profitable but which I lack the knowledge on?
Like I mentioned earlier, if you blog about your passion and provide value then the money will come. You won’t be able to do this in a niche you know nothing about. Stick to what you know!
8. I would like to know where I could find advertisers for my blog?
This is so true with finding advertisers, they will find you if you have a valuable website so you would concentrate on content first. If you are still struggling to find advertisers, recommend you go to webmaster forums and marketplaces such as Digital Point and Sitepoint where you can offer your advertising to sale to other webmasters, this has always worked for me.
9. How do you know which affiliates to go with and which make the most money per conversion?
A lot of the time its down to testing. Try something for a month and find it either works or it doesn’t. Depending on which affiliate network you work with, most will have a top converting affiliate program section to show you how well they convert. Something that is important to remember is pick things that are good products and not because they make you the most money. There is nothing worse then a great website, promoting a rubbish products because it makes them look bad and their readers lose trust.
Hope it clear some doubts. Look out for more Q&A. Or you can mail me any questions.
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