SEO Wordpress Themes

Kyle Eslick has compiled a great collection of SEO friendly wordpress themes. Good for those bloggers who are not good in coding and clean up some coding mess themselves.

Divided into two and three columns themes, the review help the self-hosted wordpress bloggers to pick easily some of those free themes for maximum use.

Your Blog Hosted at Blogger.com Has Been Deleted

On February 15, 2010 I got an email from Google.com as the owner of blogger.com that one of my blog hosted at blogger.com has been deleted for, according to the email, violation of TOS (terms of services). The email said:

Email sender: Blogger
Hello,

Your blog at [website.com] has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: SPAM. In accordance to these terms, we’ve removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.

For more information, please review the following resources:

Blogger Terms of Service: http://blogger.com/terms.g
Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/content.g

-The Blogger Team

I then logged in to my blogger.com admin, and request for restoration of the blog (by clicking the “Restore” button).

Today (two days later), I got another email stating that the blog in question was NOT in violation of Blogger TOS. Meaning, the Blogger Team has WRONGLY deleted my blog. So, the blog is back. Here’s the second email:

Hello,

Your blog at has been reviewed and confirmed as in violation of our Terms of Service for: NONE. In accordance to these terms, we’ve removed the blog and the URL is no longer accessible.

For more information, please review the following resources:

Blogger Terms of Service: http://blogger.com/terms.g
Blogger Content Policy: http://blogger.com/content.g

-The Blogger Team

This is not the first time that blogger.com has wrongly disabled/ deleted some blogs I created for alleged spam which has NEVER been true. The most shocking was when it deleted my favorite afsyuhud.blogspot.com which had Google PR 6 back then and because of which I moved to fatihsyuhud.com untill now.

Blogger.com seems never want to improve its spam detection tools. So many victims of Blogger outdated anti-spam-machine which make them move forever to another free blogging platform like Wordpress.com or go to a paid hosted blog. If I may advise the Blogger team, they should turn off the anti-spam detection tools and check the suspicious blogs manually so that this kind of unnecessary case no longer happen in the future. This really create a very bad image to blogger.com.

I am sure, if blogger.com still stick to this kind of policy i.e. punishing a blog simply based on automatic anti-spam report, blogger.com will be left out by so many of its users.

Act before it comes too late, Blogger.com!

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Lessons learnt for newbie bloggers are these:

1. If you are interested in personal blogging / writing without any interest in making money online, create a blog in a free blog like wordpress.com.

2. If you want both expressing your free speech and making money online at the same time, create a blog in a self-hosted wordpress blog.

3. If you want to make a niche blog, ie a blog with specific content, for making money, run the blog in a self-hosted wordpress blog as well.

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There is a recent case in which a popular music blog has been mistakenly deleted too by Blogger.com team. This is from Blogger Team official blog (emphasis is mine):

We looked into this issue further and identified one case where a blogger did not receive notification of any DMCA complaints before their blog was removed. We’re sorry about this.

We’ve contacted the blog owner and restored their blog, effective immediately, and we fixed the bug that caused the termination without prior notification. We’re also looking into additional preventative protections. We know the DMCA process can be difficult to navigate, and we’re working on ways to make this process as smooth as possible.

Different Meta Tag Description Every Post for Better SEO

If you update your blog regularly with original quality content and finally you get tired because your blog performance in Google is not as you want it. What to do?

First, improve the meta tag description for the blog.
Second, create different meta tag description for each and every post.

More on this just listen to what the Google Webmaster Team has to say:
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byethost.com Free Hosting

byethost.com provides a free hosting services. It’s good for newbie to use it as a training ground before you feel prepared to launch your self-hosted blog with paid domain and paid hosting.

You may use byethost.com as the hosting, while CO.CC or CZ.CC as the domain. Register the free domain first, before you register for the free hosting.

Here are the features byethost.com offers:

Along with all this, we provide free FTP, PHP 5, MySQL and our very popular feature: The Automatic Script Installer (Like Fantastico) You can install many popular scripts such as PHPbb2 and PHPbb3, Wordpress, Zen-Cart, osCommerce, MyBB, UseBB, MyLittle Forum, 4images, Coppermine, SMF, Joomla, e107, XOOPS, PHP Wind, CuteNews, Mambo, WikiWig and many more! No need to wait a long time uploading files, Our Automatic Script Installer deploys your files in seconds! You can find our Automatic Script Installer in the Vistapanel.

Sign-up here if you are interested.

Good luck!

Top Commentators Widget Plugins

Name of plugins: Top Commentators Widget
Author: Lorna Timbah (WebGrrrl.net)
Functionality: The Top Commentators Widget a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WP site. This widget is easier to manage via the control form (no need to edit the PHP file); additional options are also available to make it more flexible.

The top commentators can also be set to change every month. Like the one in this blog sidebar (see, Top Ten Blogrolls for Being top commentators of the Month).
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Etology Advertising: PPC and Ads Netrworks

If you don’t feel like using AdBrite as an alternate to your AdSense ads, Etology could be your other choice to earn more money when Adsense ads is not available. Or you can even put Etology side by side with AdSense without worrying it would be against AdSense TOS (Term of Service). Since the system is different. While Adsense sells contextaul ads, Etology sells targeted ads which oftentimes uncontextual.  As far as I am concerned, Etology pays better than AdBrite. Better even, Etology pays you using Paypal, unlike Adbrite which still stick to pays you with check.

Here are some brief FAQs about Etology for publishers like you:

How do I get started?

The first thing you want to do as a seller/publisher is to register your website by first signing up for our free membership. After creating an account, you can register your website under the “Publisher Dashboard” after logging in the first time. Click on “Add A New Website.” Fill in the required information and our site review team will review your website to make sure it complies with our guidelines. *Note: For site description, it is recommended for sellers/publishers to write as detailed a description of their site as possible. This will provide a quick summary of what your site is about and will allow advertisers to see if your site would be a good fit for them.

How much will I get paid for my traffic?
This depends on the origin of the traffic. At Etology, we currently have a 3 Tiered pricing model, with Tier 1 traffic as the highest paying. The pricing varies per tier depending on demand for viewers from a particular region.

The traffic origin is what counts so if you have users originating from our Tier 1 / Tier 2 / Tier 3 network, publishers will be paid 70% of the price set for the region.The Tiered network pricing is a variable rate and changes as Etology continues to grow and new advertisers participate in our program.

Tier 1 Countries United States, North America, & United Kingdom

Tier 2 Countries European Countries: Germany, France, Italy

Tier 3 Countries Vietnam, Turkey, India

When do I get paid and what are my payment options?
Our minimum payout is set at USD$50 dollars. All publishers are eligible to be paid by check, PayPal, and Epassporte. We also offer Bank Wire as a payment option with a USD$500 dollar minimum payout and an additional service fee of $30. Etology payments are typically sent on the 25th of the month schedule; this means that payments are sent twenty-five (25) days after the last day of the month when you have reached the minimum payout amount.

For your initial payment, a confirmation email will be sent to you once you have exceeded your minimum payout regarding your upcoming payment. US publishers will receive payments by check unless they specify Etology Credit. International publishers are required to respond to that email informing us of their preferred method of payment before payment is sent out.

Once you have received your first payment, you will receive payment on the scheduled pay period according to the payment method listed in your “My Account” page.

We do not have the option to choose payment method using the Etology system at the moment.

What happens if my Banner Ad Space is unsold?
If banner ad spaces do not have a direct ad campaign running, network banner ads will be cycled through the banner space. Network ad clicks will be CPC based on legitimately registered clicks. CPC pricing varies depending on location of the user as well as the ad cycled through the banner space.

Interested? Register here!

000a.biz Free Hosting

If you have a domain in CO.CC, CZ.CC, or CO.TV and you want a free hosting to create a self-hosted wordpress-powered blog, you may try this free hosting.

Here’s the details the most important of which is the monthly bandwith which is huge (400GB/month).

Other Features:

Notes:

Using free domain and free hosting services are good for practicing purpose only. Once you get used to this technology, you should step into a paid domain / hosting. Especially, if you want to monetize your blog i.e. earn some money.

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