Generally, New post that just posted for around 3-5 days will not have enough power to show higher in the SERP. So it’s rarely to see your post listed in the first page of SERP (except if your posts get a lot of supports). Only those posts that have been aged for more than 1 week will get a good search engine traffic (at least, that’s what happened at my blog).

So, I will only show ads on posts that I posted 5 days ago and avoid showing ads on the newer posts. The steps are easy. Follow this tutorial and start time-basing your advertising!

Image Credit: Leo Reynolds

First, let’s say you want to time-based an adverts on your single post page below your headline. The steps are as follow (for Wordpress only):

1. Find the following code:

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<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

2. Copy this codes:

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<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>

3. Paste it between the div entry and the_content:

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<div class="entry">
 
<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Banner, Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>
 
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

4. Replace the text “//Paste your adverts code here - Adsense, etc” to your Ads Code and Change the time as you wish.

What we need is the time in “second”. So, to display ads on 5 days posts, you need to convert it to second.

60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 5 days = 432.000 seconds

Look at my example at my blog about hardware and gadgets. I set it to display Google ads on post that have been aged for 2 days. It’s pretty useful for gaining new readership as reader hate ads and blind on it. But it’s useful for monetizing Search Engine traffic as the visitor is more clicky.

Hope this simple tips useful for you. Have a nice day!

I remembered I’ve posted about ping list/update services in this blog. If you look into that post, you’ll find a small list of update services that I took from several reliable sources in 2007. Since the internet grow fastly, that list is also growing and become more crowded now:

http://1470.net/api/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://ping.fakapster.com/rpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://rpc.britblog.com
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://rpc.wpkeys.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com (double)
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping

See? It’s a whole new set of ping services that you can use to ping your blog. But what I’m going to tell you is not about how useful this ping service is. This service is actually ‘dangerous’ if you don’t use it carefully.

How dangerous? Your blog could be banned. Yes, B-A-N-N-E-D!

One of my friend (who have a decent skills in SEO) advised me to take a special care on this subject. He saw through my bad habit in writing (lots of correction after publishing a post) and warn me to take off the ping list from update service option and ping manually using pingomatic or use a plugin to solve this problem.

At first, I don’t see where is the problem located. But after he explain it to me, I finally realized how silly am I and how LUCKY I am! (Not being banned although I ping so many times!)

Editing a post after publishing will make the ping services to re-ping my blog to the exact big list of ping server which I’ve shown you above.

This trigger an “alert” at those ping server because of a ping spamming is most likely happening on my blog. I’m not sure how many times of pinging is indicated as spamming, but I’m sure that editing a post twice after you hit the publish button is extreme dangerous.

The easiest solution is to use plugin called Smart Update Pinger. It has the capability to disable update service to ping your post when you edit published posts. Smart Update Pinger also ping your future / timestamped post, which the current Wordpress is not capable of doing so.

Although it’s dangerous, using this service properly can give you a good result. What good result? There is a possibility that your post is indexed within 7 minutes!

Want to know how? Check out what’s Robert Lang tips to Get Published in Google in 7 minutes. Hope it’s useful for you.

Best luck for you!

Everybody know that Wordpress is a great blog platform. Beside having its own extend pages to add more plugins to your blog, It also have its own free theme directory.

Because it’s so easy, you tend to switch plugin and theme regularly. Well, it’s nothing wrong anyway in changing plugin. But it’s a critical problem if you switch your theme too often.

I recently stumbled on a post about reasons that make your search engine ranking dropped.

The first reason is about the changes of your blog (theme and permalinks) could effect on your search engine position.

It said that on every time you change your blog theme, search engines will re-calculate your placement on their SERP. Which mean, your current position on the keyword that you usually get inside the top 10 search results will drop, or even disappear from the result.

I’ve seen a lot of my blogger friends switching their theme often. Some even switch theme for more than 3 times in the first 3 months.

I don’t know how is the effect for them, but I felt it myself that my search engine ranking is dropping since I switch to this new theme.

But it’s not for long. Around 1-2 weeks, I started to see some better search term and result since the PR update a week ago. For example:

• I was in the 2nd and 3rd of “Transformation theme” keyword from 2.000.000 sites.
• I was in the top of “wordpress different sidebar” keyword from 1.000.000 sites. Disappear!
• No.12 out of 13.400.000 sites with the keyword - 10 questions 1 million dollars

Yup, it’s amazing stats for me!

But some keyword seems not related to my post at all. It’s a funny how Google decide the relevancy of its search result.

I’m not sure how the Search Engine look at my blog, may be it’s the inbound links that I received that decide everything.

Well, that’s not the focus that you should seek. Instead, I think we must focus on using a permanent theme for more a long term (like 6 month or more) to avoid re-calculation of your blog.

If you have download my latest Wordpress theme, you may notice that there is a little different from the orginal. There are some features that I eliminated to decrease file size.

One of the feature that is not available on the theme is my invention of “Advance Reading Options” section.

It’s my new method to increase my blog pageview and conversion rate for my older posts. Inside of ARO, you would get the following list of Posts:

• Related Posts
• Top Posts
• Recent Posts
• Random Posts

It’s pretty useful when peoples arrive at my blog via search engine. When the finish reading the current posts, they will be offered automatically a lists of related posts to read more.

Actually, the arrangement of ARO (where Related posts at the front and Random posts at the end) is using the psychologic call to make reader taking their actions.

ARO is using a AJAX animation called Script.aculo.us. Visit the link to get some point about what it is.

To setup ARO for your blog, no matter what your theme is, you can use the following 1-2-3 steps to apply ARO:

1. First of all, visit Script.aculo.us and download the latest version of the Js script.
2. Extract it the follow files into one folder labeled ‘js’ (or ‘javascripts’):
   1. prototype.js
   2. scriptaculous.js
   3. builder.js
   4. effects.js
   5. dragdrop.js
   6. slider.js
   7. controls.js
3. Upload the folder ‘js’ to your current theme folder in your web server (if you are using Transformation, upload inside the transformation folder)
4. Add the following code to your header.php file:

   1 2	<script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/prototype.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="<?php bloginfo('template_url'); ?>/js/scriptaculous.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

5. Update the file.

Now, you’ve activated the script function to allow AJAX animation. You will not see any change, yet. The next step is to create the following element for your page:

• Set a section of your page that you want to animate
• 2 button - Hide and Show button

There are a lot of transition effect and animation available for you to use via Script.aculo.us. Primarily, I use these following effects only:

• BlindUp - Effect to hide the chosen section
• BlindDown - Effect to drop down a section of animation

Use this following code as your template and change the content to suit your blog CSS:

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<h2><strong>Advance Reading Option</strong></h2>
<h3><a onclick="Effect.BlindDown('advance')" style="cursor: pointer"><strong>[show]</strong></a></h3>
<!-- begin - animation section --> 
    <div id="advance" style="display:none"> 
       <h2>Related Posts</h2> 
            <ul> 
                <!--Related post script goes here--> 
            </ul> 
        <h2>Top Posts</h2> 
            <ul> 
                <!--Top Posts script goes here--> 
            </ul> 
        <h2>Random Posts</h2> 
            <ul> 
                <!--Random posts script goes here--> 
            </ul> 
    </div>
 
<!-- end - animation section -->
 
<h3><a onclick="Effect.BlindUp('advance')" style="cursor: pointer"><strong>[hide]</strong></a></h3>

Update your page and try it with your favorite browser. It should be compatible with most of the nowadays browser.

The animation comes hidden by default. There are an arguments around the web about the laziness of reader will result in no clickthrough if I hide the list at first and ask them to click to open.

So, if you choose to show everything at first, remove the style="display:none;" inside the div tag.

You may also want to switch the location of Hide and Show button, too. It’s weird to place the show button up front when all content is shown at first!

You could change the content to almost any kind of online content that you could imagine.

It’s depend on you now.

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I’ve been released from the Jungle of Code yesterday. Although I’m still making some finishing code for my own blog, I could really feel that I’m free from them now!

Actually, coding is fun. But if I do it for a long time, I will feel dizzy looking at them.

I spent almost 10 days creating, adjusting and modifying the CSS and XHTML codes like a nuts. Well, since I’m an amateur coder and designer, I work slower then anybody else.

Here is my Working Hierarchy when creating Transformation Theme:

• Day 1: Researching for tutorials suitable theme layout
• Day 2: Creating basic layout and choosing suitable colors
• Day 3: Blending Wordpress template code together with the design
• Day 4 - 6: Coding CSS
• Day 7 - 8: Adding whistles & bells
• Day 9: Performing beta testing
• Day 10: Bugs hunting & fixing

Well, apart of my full time job, I only have around 5 hours left for blogging. I use all of them for developing the Transformation theme.

I used up to 10 days or 50 hours to develop that theme. I think if you are a professional Wordpress theme designer, you could’ve done all above tasks in a matter of 20-30 hours only!

I am an amateur, and that my record. I wouldn’t want to develop another theme anymore for certain of time. The reason is pretty common: My Blog Stats is Dropping Seriously!

Really, from the daily 400 - 500 visitors into 100 - 200 visitors is not what I’m searching for. But I’m quite happy to witness on my feed subscribers count is not dropping at all. It’s increasing significantly although I’m not posting regularly for the last 10 days.

Thanks for your support, readers. You are my biggest source of motivation!

I’m really motivated within the passed 10 days. I used up all my motivation to learn more on how to improve design and optimization. I’ve learned about how to tweaks my theme in a better ways and optimize it for the engine with a better methods.

It’s fun. But, I have one warning for you. If your target is to earn serious money with your blog, you should never meddle with designing and tweaking too much.

To tell you the truth, designing a theme is solely for building incoming links from the user. I cannot find more benefits for it if you design and let people download it for free.

Except your design is for sell like UniqueBlogDesigns or RevolutionTheme, you could get a nice income online if your design is love by the mass.

But always remember that selling theme files is like selling a code. It’s high risk or error and you need to provide an extra service if your user is going through a hard time with your code, which mean extra time is needed to help your user.

The hardest part for me is the CSS + PHP coding. It’s hell lot more harder then coding a HTML page. I code them based on a CSS + PHP for dummies book, just like Evan Almighty building an Ark using God’s Dummies Guide!

Ok, Joke aside. Building a theme is sure not a hard task if you know what is the important element. I made a lucky search with Google and arrive at Small’s Potato (wpdesigner.com) Blog.

He have a series of guide that is pretty good to help me begin my design project. Since he is a pro wordpress theme designer, I’d learned a lot of tips and tricks within his theme files.

I think it’s time to make a conclusion. I suggest you to avoid making your own theme if you don’t have much time like me.

It’s simply time eater. Better spend your time in building your blog posts and relationship with other. Leave the design matter for your designer. With a little pay out of hundred dollars could save lot of time for you to do a better project.

More projects on this blog in the future. But I promise no more ‘time hungry’ project that force me to sacrifice my posting schedule anymore.

I think it’s time to say goodbye and thanks for reading this post.

Feel free to download my Transformation theme and make sure to leave a comment to let me know your thought about it.

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It’s pretty easy to enhance your sidebar to appear differently on the homepage and single post. A different sidebar in single post is useful when you want to switch what reader see in homepage (a widget may be) into an ads to monetize your blog.

The steps are simple and I will share you the tutorial in a 1-2-3 steps.

To make this tutorial simple, I will use my current theme that I’m using now to make the modification (Super Adsense Theme by Gobala Krishnan)

Starting from Preparation:

• Open up your FTP Client Application and Login to your Web Server.
• Point to your Wordpress Theme Folder to download the following files:
  • single post
  • Sidebar
  • l_sidebar (there are 2 files, l_sidebar and r_sidebar. It’s up to you to choose which one you are going to modify)
    (located in: wp-content/themes/[theme_file_name]/)
• After downloading, save it in a folder and name it properly to avoid confusion. Create a back-up files if you don’t want to mess things up. Now you will edit everything offline.

Start Editing the Single Post File:

• In the folder window, start by right clicking on the single post file (single.php) and select [open with...]. Choose Wordpad or Notepad to edit the file.
• Scroll through the end of the code, you will see a line of code like this:
  

  </div>
<?php get_sidebar(); ?>
<?php get_foote(); ?>

• Make a change to the code to:
  

  </div>
<?php includ 'singlesidebar.php'; ?>
<?php get_footer(); ?>

• Save as single.php (no file name change because you are going to overwrite the existing file in your server) and close it.

Editing the Sidebar File:

• Right Clicking on the Sidebar file (sidebar.php) and open it with your favorite text editor.
• You will see the following code:
  

  <div id="sidebar">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/l_sidebar.php‘); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/r_sidebar.php’); ?>
</div>

• Change the code into the following code:
  

  <div id="sidebar">
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . '/single_l_sidebar.php‘); ?>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/r_sidebar.php’); ?>
</div>

• Save as singlesidebar.php and close it.

Editing the last file - l_sidebar.php:

• Right Clicking on the file l_sidebar.php inside the folder and open it again with your favorite text editor.
• You will see the code of the current display of the sidebar in superadsense theme. Change it to something you like, add and remove as you wish. It’s your sidebar for your single post view, so please consider well what you want to put and remove.
• Finally, Save the file as single_l_sidebar.php and close all the windows (except your FTP client window).

Uploading steps:

• Go to your FTP Application. Re-open if you have close it.
• Point to the folder that containing the modified .php files:
  1. single.php
  2. singlesidebar.php
  3. single_l_sidebar.php
• Upload 3 of them to your web server in this location:
  • wp-content/themes/[theme_file_name]/
• overwrite the single.php file
• Well Done!

Yup, now you will have a different sidebar in your single post view. Have Fun!

Attention: You many not be able to use this tips if you are a sidebar_widget user. It may crash because the sidebar is different now.

Update:
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Let reader staying longer at our blog is the wish that every webmaster and blogger had in their mind. Staying longer also have the meaning that the reader love your blog. They will forget the time when reading your interesting posts or influenced by your style of presentation.

How to know about how long your reader stay at your blog instead of a 10 seconds visitor?

I guess we can use Google Analytics to research this data. Google analytics have the “bounce rate” analysis, which is very important to explain how ’sticky’ your post is. The lower the percentage, the longer your reader spend their time on your blog.

See the stats below:

I got 56.83% bounce rate according to Google Analytics. Comparing to my past statistic, my effort to let reader stay longer on my blog is increased by 15.57% from last month. See this picture:

How do I do that?

Well, actually I found an advise from Small Potato at WpDesigner.com in this post about reducing bounce rate of your blog.

That post is my biggest inspiration to let people stay longer at my blog. You should check it out too!

Another option is to use “Related Posts” and “Where did they go from here” plugin to seize reader attention after they have reach the end of your post. Increasing pageview and decreasing bounce rate is not a matter that could be happen overnight. You will need to have a sum of time to tune your upcoming post to get the maximum result.

Of course, the ultimate secret is just like what small potato said in his post:

“The main factor is targeted traffic. If you’re not getting targeted traffic then people are leaving your blog because it isn’t relevant to what they’ve searched for.”

Untargeted traffic will become the 10 seconds visitors. They come and go like wind’s blowing. Oh, It’s just so frustrating~!

But don’t blame them. They are just an information seeker. It’s about how focus or presentation is. As long as you focus enough on each of your post, I can make sure you could increase your post “stickiness” to higher level than before.

The benefits of Low Bounce Rate

• More Impression or pageview
• More Subscription to feed or e-mail
• Checking the your endorsement
• Click on the ads or affiliate links
• etc.

So, what are you waiting for? Optimize your current blog and follow small potato’s advises. I believe if you do it right, you will have the same leap ahead and become a ‘glue’ for your reader!

This is the most dangerous moment every time you have nothing to post about. We will tempt to staying ‘lazy’ and create a lot of excuses to not doing any activities to strengthen our blog visibility.

In the past time, I’d usually think like this: “Oh, I have nothing to post today. I think I should let my last (yesterday) post up for one day and I will not do new post for today.”

Sounds logic for me the time. But soon I find out that this habit is totally wrong! If you share the same thought as mine, then may be this post would help you solve your lazy bone problem and increase our blog visibility in the blogosphere.

When I “really” have nothing to post about, I will evoke my FireFox and start wondering around the web to:

Comment Marketing

This is very-very comment things to do when you have nothing to do.

I usually wondering around the Blogs of my interesting and Blogs whose topic is the same as mine. Making a comment is the simplest marketing action for blogging. What important is this marketing is actually WORK!

You just need some regular schedule to comment at blogs of your choice and the minor traffic will flow in to your blog. If you are lucky, you may find a good idea to post about in the same day!

Tweak Your Blog

This is the most interesting part. I love to tweak my blog and do some change here and there. If you have a basic skills in HTML, CSS and Photoshop, you will addicted to his activities.

But don’t addicted to it. Tweaking blog, especially the appearance (theme) is a never-ending process. Don’t waste too much of your time on this activities as Design is only about the first appearance.

Tweaking a blog is just about to find a new environment for your inspiration. We tend to have a new fresh idea when looking at a new appearance of our blog.

I will change this blog appearance next month, 9th September. Hope to bring more luck and pillar posts to this post!

Stumbling and Digging and Sphinning

Stumble and digg is my favorite visit when I have nothing to do. From Last week until today, I have stumbled and digg many posts. But not limited to stumbling and digging. I’m also Sphinning around. You know Sphinn right? It’s another BETA version of popular social media site specially made of SEO & SEM blogger.

You will find that I’m supporting both Stumble and Sphinn below every post of this blog.

I spend almost 2 hours every times I enter to these site. Fortunately, this activities give me a bunch of benefits. For example:

• You could make more friends across the niche
• You could find a never-ending list of ideas for my upcoming post
• You could make a record and ready to go to the top Stumbling and Sphinning Freaks!
• You could enjoy the addicting of wasting time in social media site!
• You could help blogger boosting their stats
• Many more

Googling your blog and yourself!

This is the most enjoying activity. lol.

I usually will Google my Blog URL and my own name to see something interesting. Well, the main purpose is to find out if our blog get banned or not. Just to make sure that my blog name and my own name is not dislike by google because of my SEO efforts.

Adding Pillar Post to a Carnival

After published a pillar post for a several days, I will submit it to a blog carnival to share my post to the world. Well, even though you have create the best ever article in the planet, if nobody see and read your post, it’s useless!

One of many ways to promote your article is to submit your blog post to a carnival to receive some minor traffic and inbound-link to strengthen Technorati rank. Although nothing as good as a stumble effect, carnival is better in link-popularity building then a traffic booster.

You will find no serious traffic flow in to your blog. So, don’t hope to see some some in your google analytics stats!

Oh well, there is so many things to do actually! Make sure don’t lazy around and create excuses to not doing anything and laying on the bed. Kick your engine start and begin to do some beneficial action for your blog.

Make a post every single day. promote it. Boost it. and buzz it!

Headline have become the most important element in blogging since the birth of it and until the die of blogging trend. Whether it’s about SEO or eyes-puller, Headline decide the live and dead of a post in your blog.

I can tell that 90% of blog reader is a good skimmer. They love to skim through a content and only will stop and reading carefully when they meet with a promising contents.

Headline is one of the part that will interest reader before they touch the skin of the content. It’s important to make sure your headline consist of influential words to encourage your niche reader to read the rest of your copy.

To create an influential and powerful headline to pull attention, below tips need to be taken seriously:

1. Know your reader’s interest before tempering your headline

This is the most important things to do before you land your finger on your keyboard. You will need to know your audience interest before anything.

Find out the personas and write them clearly and stick to your monitor with a sticky note.

We write blog posts for three audience:

1. Reader
2. Search Engine
3. Yourself!

Write for reader to make sure your blog post is readable and interesting. Write for SE to make sure your post will score high in the result page. Finally, we write the post for ourselves! If we are not writing for ourselves too, you will not enjoy the writing progress.

2. Your headline must highlight the WHOLE idea in the post

Don’t waste your reader time to guess what is your content telling about. The will likely to hit the back button and went back to the Search Engine (if they found you via Search Engine) or back to the site that refer to your blog.

Try to use the template that I provided below (end of post) to make your own copy of Powerful headline.

3. Use Powerful Words

Never underestimate the power of a words. Use Best instead of Good, Use Huge instead of Big. It could influence your reader mind as long as your content worth the Power. The 10 most Powerful words that claimed to be the best marketing words are:

• You
• Free
• Secret
• Money
• Save
• New
• Discover
• Guaranteed
• Proven
• Love

More Powerful words is provided in this text file. I arrange it Alphabetically so you can easily find out words for your headline and content.

4. Use Powerful Phrase

There are some phrase around the writing worlds that could evoke genuine interest from your readers. Powerful Phrase scored double then powerful word.

Example of Powerful Phrase:

• How to [what]
• Easy Steps for [what]
• 10 Tips to [what]
• 1-2-3 Steps to [what]
• The Lazy Guide of [what]

5. Try to Raise Curiosity within Headline

Human’s love about something mysterious. If your headline could generate an immediate curiosity, or even a challenge, youre reader will likely stay longer and read what you are writing at.

6. Using Verbs

Verbs is like a command. It could make somebody to move according to the verbs you are using at because it content force and magnetism. Begin your Headline’s first word with a verb is more promising then a noun. For example:

1. Discover a good idea easily
2. Subscribe to my newsletter, or
3. Focus on What you are doing Now

This is the template of verbs headlining. But this is not a rough protocol. You could make a variation and not to always using Verbs as your starts.

7. Using Headline Template

Brian from CopyBlogger write a great post about 7 Surefire Headline Template in his blog. Template is important when you have totally run out of idea to create a “surefire” headline.Template also act as a idea finder to make your post your post content, See Perfomancing post for more detail about:

• If You’re Stuck for Blogging Ideas, Write the (Killer) Headline first

8. Find out what kind of headline is doing well

Make a good use of Social Media Site to dig more popular template of headline. Digg, StumbleUpon, Sphinn, Reddit and other niche social media site is good as your source of inspiration.

Find the one with a lot of vote and make a note of how he form the headline to receive such a huge vote from users.

I guess it is the end of this post. I hope this post would give you an idea of headlining your post.

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Understanding CSS is important if you plan to modified your blog. Especially if your blog is a Wordpress platform, there will be a Stylesheet file attached on each Wordpress theme.

Modifying CSS could be a daunting task if you don’t know the basic of the CSS rules. Below is another collection of mine beside my Photoshop sources.

Hope this reference would be helpful for you:

CSS Basic

It’s important to lay a strong basic before anything. My ultimate Beginner Basic to swim in the CSS pool is on this book(pdf). If you choose to not downloading any ebook, try to visit the site instead at CSSBasics.com.

This book cover all basic rules of CSS in 18 Chapter spreading from Syntax, Classes, IDs, Div, Text, Font, Border, and many more.

CSS Basic Example

After learning the Basic, you will need to practice from what you have learned. I get myself a help from an example of the CSS coding. Learning from an example is the fastest way to master CSS basic.

• This CSS Examples My help you a lot!

CSS Property

During the learning in CSS, you may notice about the property of each CSS code. You will need to know what is the function of each property.

• Use this CSS 2.1 Reference to learn more about each property (with example)

Another good source of reference:

• W3Schools
• HTMLDog

Styling with CSS

After understanding the true nature of CSS, it’s time for you to make your own. But, wait! Learning basic skills is important, but it can only produce a amateurish-design. You will need to learn more about how to make things better and looks professional.

First, let’s heading to the very first CSS element in your blog, the navigation and Menu.

• Use this 13 Styles CSS Menu to make a professional Looking of your navigation bar and sidebar.

Second, Choose your Layout Style. Whether it’s 3 column horizontally or vertically, or fluid or fixed, side fixed or fluid.

• Layout Gala give you the idea within the example. Up to 40 layout examples available for you to choose.
• Page Layout Sample at Maxdesign.com.au

Third, Learn the advance tutorial to build a good looking CSS page.

• 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn’t Live Without
• 70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding
• CSS Technique Round Up - 20 CSS Tips and Tricks
• HTMLDog’s Advance CSS Tutorials

CSS Search Engine

Looking for more Source for learning CSS to tweak your blog appearances? Try the CSS Search Engine at SKUER.com.

It’s a dedicated, google-powered search engine to find CSS materials.

Tools Of CSS

Not everything need to code by yourself from scratch. Some tools around the web have done the job for you. For example, below is some of the useful tools to create CSS style for you page/blog:

• CSS Creator
  • CSS Creator will help you automatically generate a layout, Multi Level Menu, Float container, etc
• CSS List-O-Matic
  • Create a nice looking Sidebar list or top navigation bar without touching the CSS code.
• CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
  • Enable you to live-preview the effect of each property implementation.
• Software: CSS Tab Designer
  • Design your List and top/footer navigation easily and xhtml compliant.