Anyone with basic SEO knowledge will know that incoming links are important to getting higher ranking in search engine results and PageRank(PR). And blog makes it easy for you to get incoming links.

You have a higher change of getting higher PR when you blog. The reason is quite simple, more web pages will link to your pages because blog is designed with that feature from the start. In fact, trackback was invented because of blog. And RSS becomes popular because of blog.

(more…) Power of Blogging: Incoming Links

If you have other ways to make money with your blog, don’t use Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network or any other PPC programs. The most obvious reason is that you are giving away your traffic for that few cents. If your readers are aware of this Ads by Google program, you can hardly get clicks from them. Also, many tech-savvy visitors are just blind to such ads.

However, if you still want use Adsense, here’s what you can do to increase your revenue.
(more…) Make Money with Your Blog using Adsense

As you can see, this blog has a new look. I have finally ported all my blog posts from Blogger to Wordpress.

For my new readers, here’s how the old layout look like.

(more…) Migrated to Wordpress 2.1 Ella

This is probably the last post for 2006. Also, the last time I use Blogger to publish to this blog.

(more…) Time to Move On to Wordpress

I finally got one of my blog on Wordpress - I installed the software and imported my existing Blogger blog.

This is what I did.

The Blogger blog was originally published to my server. Wordpress did not have a function to import Blogger blogs published own server. So to work around the restriction, I had to re-publish all the pages to Blogspot.com**. Then imported them to my new Wordpress blog.

(more…) On Wordpress Finally

There are many reasons for me wanting to migrate to Wordpress - 2 important reasons being the enhanced SEO friendliness and Trackback function.

Also, Wordpress is more powerful. There are many plugins available to extend the functionalities. I could also save some time whenever I tweak the template because there is no need to regenerate all the pages and upload to my server again and again.

However, the move is not easy. I have been losing sleep for the past 2 nights trying to customize Wordpress theme or template for TIMMGuru.com. I want to use the existing design and layout. And it was not easy to convert the template. The Wordpress theme is far more complicated than Blogger’s template. I have to search the documentation and learn the right commands and tags. I find the Conditional Tags necessary to customize the sidebar. As you can see, the display of this sidebar is different on the main page, individual post page and archive page. So I’ll need to do some progaming logic to control what appears on which page.

The basic type of pages for Wordpress are the

• Main Index Page (MainPage in Blogger.com)
• Single Page (ItemPage in Blogger.com)
• Category Page
• Archive Page
• Search Page
• and others

You can control what to appear in each of these pages! Now, flexibility comes with complexity!

The complete subject line should be…

Why Google didn’t like this blog As Much As Yahoo Does?

I suspect that I’ve added a thing in this blog that Google didn’t like. That is the Archive List.

(more…) Why Google Didn’t Like This Blog