Shoto Azikuri

Daily Blog Tips launched Blogging Idol 2, which is bloggers competition, so you can see what is it:

After tweaking the rules a bit and discussing the competition with the readers, we are finally ready to launch Blogging Idol 2.

You can participate with your existing blog or website, and I am sure it will be a good opportunity to improve your blog and to get motivated to increase your RSS subscriber count. On top of that, there are also $4,500 in prizes.

You can send the application from today until the midnight of next Thursday (October 30) via the contact form. That is only 4 days, so read the rules and send yours right now!

The competition will start on November 1st.
Win Over $4500

First of all I would like to thank the sponsors that we have aboard.
A lifetime subscription to Keyword Country (worth $2,000)
An annual subscription to the Trackur corporate edition (worth $1,000)
$300 courtesy of Sponsored Reviews
$300 courtesy of BidVertiser
$300 courtesy of TNX
$100 from Daily Blog Tips
$300 in text links from Text-Link-Ads
A 3-month subscription to the SEO Book Training Program (worth $300)

This time we will also have prizes for the 3 competitors with more points. The first prize will be the lifetime subscription to Keyword Country and $1,000 in cash. The second prize will be the annual subscription to Trackur and $300 in text links. And the third prize will be the 3-month subscription to the SEO Book Trainning program.

Read full story on Daily Blog Tips.

In this post I’ll show you how to add favicon to your blog, what is favicon and why we must use it. Let’s start:

What is Favicon?

Favicon is Favourite Icon, which you can see in your browser’s address bar, before url. It is 16×16 or 32×32 icon. First is very small so it is better to use 32×32 icon. Mostly favicon depicts symbo or first letters of your site. On my blog you can see that favicon depicts “S” and “A”, it means “S”hoto “A”zikuri.

Why Must We Use Favicon?

Favicon is something what give your blog means to become more famous and well-known. Do you interest how can favicon becomes your well-known? So I’ll show you little example of this, here is list of favourite blogs from my opera bookmarks, now look at this picture below and you can understand that it is more easy to notice blog with favicon and if you have ever seen blog’s favicon second time you will easy know what is this, and favicons aren’t used only in browser’s bookmarks, there are a lot of other resources which are using favicons.

How To Add a Favicon?

At last, how we can add favicon:

1. First you must have a favicon, you can do this in Photoshop,Fireworks and e.t.c, then save picture(32×32) in .gif format and with this site http://www.html-kit.com/favicon/ you must edit format to .ico
2. Download favicon.ico and upload it to your ftp.
3. Then go to wordpress admin panel>Design>Theme Editor>Header Template(header.php). Now find <title>…</title> tags and write this code below title tags:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”favicon.ico/or any other location of favicon.ico” >

That was all, if you like this post please Stumble this and leave comments.

You know that make wordpress theme isn’t a easy work and to do theme you must know html/css and php, but there is a great tool for making wordpress theme without knowledge of html/css/php.

Wordpress Theme Generator

This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge.

Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click “save” and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file. Extract, upload, set, and you are done! If you have any questions or need additions visit the forum.

Based on WordPress 2.1 to 2.6.2 with Yahoo! UI (grids, tabs & fonts) to support all A-Grade browsers and valid XHTML 1.0 Transitional. Theme supports Widgets & Tags. Themes examples: read more…

I can’t promise you that you’ll make cool theme, but your theme will be unique and simple, here is link: http://www.yvoschaap.com/wpthemegen/.

And end of the post i want to ask you: Will you use theme created by Wordpress Theme Generator?

Today I’ll review two keyword suggestion tools, these tools are importent for every SEO marketer. Before you choose main keywords of your site or your blog, you must know how much people search for this keyword and these tools give you chance to choose right keyword and get good traffic from Search Engines.

• Seo Book Keyword Suggestion Tool - with this Seo Book’s tool you can get info about search counts about your keyword and it give you info about releated keywords. There is count by Google search, by Yahoo and by MSN.

• Free Keyword Suggestion Tool From Wordtracker - this is one of the best keyword suggestion tool, there are 100 related keywords and you can choose one which hasn’t a big competition in Search Engines.
  

So find the best version for your new blog post’s title or your new web site and enjoy with organic traffic

I wrote on my blog about Top Commentators Widget. You know that commenting on popular blogs and not only on popular blogs is a very good marketing tip, but there are blogs wich give you chance to promote your blog better with commenting. These blogs have top commentators widget and if you comment a lot you will get link from their home page. You will agree with me that it is a great promotion for your blog, it is good for your Link Building and it is good for popularization your blog.

So here is list of blogs wich are using top commentators widget:

Page Rank 7

• http://onemansblog.com/

Page Rank 6

• http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/
• http://www.shoemoney.com/

Page Rank 5

• http://www.entrepreneurs-journey.com/
• http://www.blueverse.com/
• http://elitebydesign.com/
• http://techie-buzz.com/
• http://www.quicksprout.com/

Page Rank 4

• http://www.balkhis.com/
• http://theuniversitykid.com/
• http://www.sueblimely.com/
• http://zacjohnson.com/
• http://bluehatseo.com/
• http://www.pureblogging.com/
• http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/

Page Rank 3

• http://linkersblog.com/
• http://otooo.com/
• http://www.johnchow.com/
• http://thoushallblog.com/

Page Rank 2

• http://slyvisions.com/
• http://www.enkayblog.com/
• http://dablogger.com/
• http://www.mastersofseo.com
• http://www.gathersuccess.com

Using this list you can build a lot links.

if you know another blogs with top commentators widget please comment and i will add it.

Google Adsense is the best way to make money online. There is a lot of adsense plugins, but i want to write a little post about the most easily and comfortable way of adsense setup.

1. Log in wordpress admin panel, Design>Theme Editor>Single Post.

2. Now you must edit single.php. Find something like this:

<?php the_content(’Read More…’); ?>

and add after this code add code of google adsense.

<div style=”float: left; margin-right: 10px;”>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
google_ad_client = “pub-6327714593254577″;
/* 336×280, created 10/1/08 */
google_ad_slot = “5871925300″;
google_ad_width = 336;
google_ad_height = 280;
//–>
</script>
<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js”>
</script>
</div>

3. Enjoy, everything is now right, end of the every post there will be adsense code, but only when reader show full post, don’t on main page only in single.php.

Every blogger wants to have a lot hits on their blog, you can increase hits with most ways but i want show you pagination plugin, with this plugin you can to get people view your blog’s pages. This plugin looks something like this:

You will agree with me that this is more comfortable then “old posts” and “previous posts”.

So here is Lester Chan’s plugin WP-PageNavi, go to url and download plugin, then you must extract archive and upload it in plugin’s folder, activate plugin and then edit theme’s file where is code of pagination and write this code:

<?php if(function_exists(’wp_pagenavi’)) { wp_pagenavi(); } ?>

insted older pagination code.

If you want different css styles open pagenavi-css.css and edit it.

more information about WP-PageNavi:

http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html

To do right marketing, you must know who is your blog’s readers, where are they from, what are they browsing on your blog and from where they go to your blog. Those information give your information what you can do for right marketing, what about write posts and where to promote you blog.

1. Google Analytics is one of the best web analytic tool, it gives you all information about your site’s traffic and this information is exact. There are very nice diagrams, graphs and map, which are giving you means to easily value your traffic. It don’t want to add any counter on your site only little java script code without any image on your site.
   
2. Site Meter is also very cool analytic, it isn’t as improved as google analytics but it is very simple and easily to find any information. It has good side that you can get from it any information simply, but it needs to add on your site little banner, you can see it on my blog’s sidebar.
    
3. FEEDJIT and at last i want to say about this blog tool. FEEDJIT is blogger tool, wich show you recent visitors of your blog, where are they from and from wich site they go to your site. So add code to your blog’s side bar and watch to your last visitors.
   

There is a lot of blog post about directories and posts where you get advice about submitting to hundred directories and e.t.c , but i want to say you that this isn’t worth to spend your time for directory submission. I want to show you top 13 directories, which is worthy to submit your blog from where you can get visitors and rank in SE.

So these are top 13 blog directories which help you for link building and SEO:

1. Technorati - it is the most popular blog directories with PageRank 8.  It is not only directory it is something like Google BlogSearch.
2. Best Of Web Blog Directory -  with PageRank 6.
3. EatonWeb The Blog Directory - is old directory and it is very good for increase your rank.
4. blogarama - another nice blog directory.
5. Globe Of Blogs - large blog directory with more then 60,000 blogs and with high Page Rank 7.
6. Blog Search Engine - nice blog directory with Page Rank 4.
7. Blog Catalog - this is my favourite blog directory, i have get from this site good traffic, in next posts i’ll tell you more about this bloggers community.
8. Blog Flux - it is very nice dir with 131,000 blogs in this time and with nice tag cloud.
9. Get Blogs - blog directory with 190+ categories and 11,000 blogs.
10. Blog Pulse - nice blog directory, Page Rank 7.
11. Blogs On Blogged - another nice blog  with Page Rank 7 too.
12. Blog Shop - Page Rank 6.
13. Bloggeries - Page Rank 5.

So these are list of blog directories which will help you for increase ranking and getting traffic if you know any other worthy directory please comment it and i will add it in list.

I am searching top commentators plugin, widget for a long time and at last i found it, the best variant of the top commentator plugin, i think so.

Why i want to use this plugin? It is one way of marketing, with this plugin you can give stimulus to your readers to read your post and leave comment, because they can get from this one way link from home page where is this top commentator widget.

You can see this widget on my blog, so here is this: Top Commentators Widget.

Download plugin upload in plugin’s folder and activate it, then go to widgets and add Top Commentators widget you can edit this widget and set as you want. If you don’t want to be your username or any other username you can write it in Exclude These Users.

Top Commentators

So lets enjoy with this.