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How To Crop And Resize Images In WordPress

I just noticed lots of people visit this blog for wordpress related keywords, so I really thought I would do some couple of wordpress tutorials today which most people would want to know at some point after using wordpress for a while.

One of the things which people might want to know is how to crop and resize images in WordPress.

How To Crop and Resize
Images in WordPress?

Many people like me feel lazy to get the pics up in photoshop or any image editing software to do the job, because it takes your time away in achieving something as simple as resizing and cropping images, I don’t like to waste my 5 or 10 mins on a simple task such as that. So here is how you can crop and re-size images right from your blog admin panel.

Step 1

Click on the little square media button at the top of your toolbar to insert image.

Step 2

Then you can select and upload the picture you want from your computer. Once the uploading is finished you will see a edit image button by the side of the image.

Step 3

Once you click on edit image, you will be taken to a place where you can scale and crop your image.

Step 4

To scale the Image click on scale image option.

Step 5

Then you can enter the pixels value to suit your content area and your needs, aspect ratio will be maintained automatically meaning, when you enter then height aspect, width aspect will be automatically changed to give you the best result. However if you increase the size of the image from its original, it will however give you a fuzzy result.

Step 6

To crop Image just click on the spot from where you want to crop the image and drag it, also you can adjust the cropping area accordingly using your mouse.


Once you have cropped the image click save and you can embed it where you want to in the post using insert option.

How Search Engines Work Understanding The Goals Of Search Engines

Before we actually dive in to several aspects of SEO its necessary that we must understand how search engines work and what is the main goals of search engines, what really search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing trying to accomplish with having a search engine.

There are two primary goals which almost all the search engines in the world are trying to accomplish.

1. To provide the user with best results for their queries and enrich their user experience. Its quite obvious if you are not getting what you are searching for then you will eventually won’t like using that search engine anymore and you may try to shift to other search sources available, so like you are developing your site or blog to get more visitors search engines are also evolving to give its users the best search experience which will in turn get them more users for their search engines.

2. To get more advertisers as possible: Now search engines are not operating like they are doing some social service for you for free No! If it operates like then there is no sense in Microsoft spending millions if not billions of dollars in to rolling out their latest search engine Bing to compete against Google or their move to operate with Yahoo, search engines look to sell more advertising space that way they get more revenue and that’s the whole point in Google researching so much in how to give its users best results as possible and periodically updating their algorithm and in fact one the major income for Google comes from their Google adwords feature where webmasters can get an account with adwords and advertise their site on cost per click basis and when you do a search for in yahoo the first prominent results you get are for the sponsored sites and these site owners pay to yahoo to get their sites up in search results, same goes with Bing or any other search engines, one of the main goal is to convert the traffic they get in to money.

10 Tips to keep in mind while Selecting Web Hosting provider

Hosting is changing in recent years. Gone are the days when you pay $ 100 per month, had just a host for your website on the Internet. Today there are hundreds of options when it comes to web hosting. How to choose the right one for you? Some of them may depend on what type of site, designed. I would like to host a single Web page brochure, or need a lot of bandwidth all the photos and videos.

Some key features

Knowing the answers for these questions is the first task. However, there are some key features that are any good host and we should discuss now.

1. A reasonable price. - 

If you have the special needs, you should not reimburse more than $ ten – $ 15 for a reliable hosting with all features. You can often save money by paying cheap for a whole year in advance, but in a few case, there are many webs hosting solutions.

2. An interface cPanel -

CPanel hosts the best deals online, a group on the web-based; you can manage your domain through a web interface. Is a standard configuration and management of websites, including the possible establishment of e-mail, database management, file management, FTP, and installation script? CPanel with Fantastic is usually a very simple configuration of the platform, Word Press Blog, forums and more.

3. Reliability to 100%. – 

The guarantee must be in the apartment, availability of 99.9 to 100%. This means you can count on your site in almost all the time, and you have access to cPanel, and you have your e-mail. Be able to ensure reliability in general, require that the host has a capacity for backup server. If you are unsure, ask before.

4. Access to wealthy clients. -

You have 24 hours support, whether on the Web, telephone, or both.

5. Multiple Domain Hosting -.

If you wish for to run more than one website, you do not pay separately for each site. Now that you pay separately for the domain, but not its host multiple domains host costs. Some even offer unlimited domains.

6. The vast amounts of storage space and bandwidth based -

you need to plan the future growth of your site, both in terms of size and traffic and traces, and not a page that will punishes the growth, at least not for long.

7. Maximum number of POP3 e-mail accounts –

Unlimited email accounts is the best. This gives you the flexibility, unique e-mail for different functions on your site.

8. Access to records and statistics - 

you want to evaluate your site’s performance over time, once it starts.

9. The ability to manage FTP files or online help -

You can download many files quickly.

10. A kind of backup plan 

for their housing needs, so the backup files, database server configuration. I hope it all.

Be prepared to pay for quality

We must therefore wait at a summary of the above-mentioned features of the best hosting companies. And using a web-hosting is free, but the old adage “you get what you pay for” has never been adapted for the accommodation, especially if you want to host a business website. Be prepared to pay for quality, reliability and several functions.

How to Make Money Blogging

I do not see the whole concept of blogging was discovered by accident, though some people might feel so. I believe the whole concept of blogging emerged because people had the need to share the knowledge and information they had to the world through some means. In fact that should be the primary aim of starting a blog, to share your knowledge, to share your expertise or opinion about something to your readers or to people who might accidentally come across your blog through their venture for knowledge.

Unfortunately or fortunately we live in an world today where the very life of the society we interact with has became dependent on money. I do not say money is a bad thing to venture for while blogging, because you need money to start a blog, may be not directly for few as there are free blogging services available today, where you can start a blog instantly in no time, but you still invest your valuable time in it and its not a bad thing to expect some money out of it which might make your life better.


I am not going to sell anything to you through this tutorial. My only purpose in writing down this article is just to show you the way through which you can monetize your blog, where you can spent your valuable time and energy in to making it awesome. I hope you get the point now, my main aim in creating this article is not making money but just to help people who need money. I believe that should be the primary aim of any of the blogs you create. Just know the your visitors are real people who are spending a part of their lifetime visiting your web space. Lets do something which will not only help you monetarily but also make your reader’s life better.


I know you had enough of the philospical lecture of mine. Without any further delay lets get in to the whole idea of “how can you make money through your blogs”?


You should know that just because you hold a blog with you right now doesn’t mean you can make thousands of dollars a month. That’s not going to happen. You need a blog that is popular that has a fair amount of people visiting you on a daily basis. So the pre-requirements will be to have a blog that has at least few hundred visitors a day.

Adsense

Adsense can be an excellent way to make money from your blog, perhaps on the popular and well known way to make money online is through adsense. Backed up by one of the giants in the internet Google. It is believe adsense pays better cut of the money to its publishers over other ad networks online. I believe it to be true. You also need to make sure what topic your blog talks about. There are niches where adsense pays really well like $3 to even $12 a click and also niches where you hardly make couple of cents a click.


People who have chosen their niche rightly and managed to make their blog well known and popular do make thousands of dollars a month through this program and its not a myth, there are also people who go with easy niches like entertainment, celebs gossips etc where they hardly manage to make $100 a month even with good amount of traffic. If you want to know what niches are paid well and what are not go through google adwords keyword tool which should give you an idea on how much money advertisers are willing to spend on keywords related to your niche.

Alternatives to
Google's Adsense

I can list hundreds of alternatives to Adsense at present, but I must say those are just alternatives, real deal definitely lies with adsense in my humble opinion. Reason? advertisers feel Adwords which can be said as the front end of the adsense program converts them better, meaning majority feel it gives them with better return of investment (ROI).


But its not easy to get approved from Adsense, I remember myself failing for over half a dozen times before I got approved by them. Read their guidelines properly before applying in to the program and get your site ready you should be able to make it fairly easily if you do. If you are still looking for some alternatives follow this link

Direct
Ad Space Sales

Many blogs which has good level of traffic and do not have enough conversion with adsense, opt for moving with direct sales method. You can give out a space on your sidebar, before or after the post to sell to advertisers directly on a monthly, quarterly, half yearly or on an annual basis. You can do this directly by yourself or make use of sites like buysellads.com or advertisespace.com who can do a very good job of selling the adspace for you for a very less commission.


There is also another way to sell the ad space that is through advertising them on webmaster forums like digitalpointwarrior forums, v7n etc.. where you can directly deal with the webmasters themselves. Many find it very straight forward and easy to sell ad space through forums. I will leave the choice to you for which one to choose.

Offering Services

I find many bloggers who are really good at something, very much ready to offer their services to others for a price. For example if you are good at designing themes for wordpress and you want to lend your expertise to someone for a cost, you can openly do so by advertising it on your site. So that interested people can contact you and do business with you directly. I find this method being implemented quite often in this way.


You can choose a very competitive term like “blog money” or “blog for money” whatever the keyword which people look for in search engines very often and try to create a page on it, just like the one you are seeing now, a detailed tutorial article or makeup something that will culture for people’s desire on the particular topic and your service. I have no interest in offering any service through this article but if I want to do so I can put a note at the very bottom like “If you feel lazy to monetize your blog I can do it for just $50 a blog”.


Provided thousands of visitors view my page for a particular month there is a very good probability that I might get hold of at least three to four people a month who might want to hire me. so that should easily make me like $200 a month very easily. But its not easy to rank for really converting terms but with some sensible you should be able to reach it on the long run and its totally worth it when you do.

Affiliate Programs

I can say that people started earning through affiliate programs before cost per click programs like adwords and its back end adsense came in to being. Affiliate programs works like this. You strategically place an affiliate link in to your blog for example a blog post or blog page where people will click through those links to buy a product. If they do happen to buy the product you will get a cut or earn a commission through the sales you make through your affiliate links, if you do not make any sales you do not earn anything. Again there are hundreds of affiliate programs perhaps thousands of it. You need to choose it depending on the topic of your blog.


Some of the popular affiliate programs are listed below. Know that just because these are popular doesn’t mean you need to go with them. If you are holding a gadget blog its a good idea to find a reliable e commerce site and sign up as an affiliate with them, rather than going with clickbank program which will not do you any good.


  1. Clickbank
  2. Amazon
  3. Ebay
  4. Google Affiliates

Inline
Text Ads

Inline text ads or in content ads are something that grabbed the attention of many bloggers at present. You can sign up with any of the advertising company which offers this service and insert a simple javascript code in to your blog page. This code will automatically place links on selected keywords which will be redirected to advertiser’s page. As a publisher you will earn some considerable money through each click through. This has gained so much popularity that even Google has considered this option to be included in to their adsense program in future. Some of the popular and well known ad networks which offer this kind of advertising is listed below.


  1. infolinks
  2. kontera
  3. linkworth
  4. clicksor

Sponsored Reviews

Its natural that you start to gather attention from advertisers who want to sell their products or promote their business related to your blog’s niche. There are occasions where these people might contact you directly to review their website for a price and on some many occasions they will find you through sites where you can register yourself as a blogger offering paid reviews on your blog. So the interested company will deal with you through these sites and get the reviews about their site and services written well. Some of the popular sites on this category is listed below for your reference.


  1. Sponsored Reviews
  2. Buyblogreviews
  3. Blogvertise
  4. Reviewme


Selling
Your Own Products

If you have gathered enough number of readers and followers to your blog and became popular enough, you do not really need to sell someone else products or services, you can make up your own products and  sell them through your blog. Like an ebook, or a blog theme or even physical goods why not? I have came across many popular blogs where author of the blog used to sell ebook containing a course material or theme his blog uses or PSD files if he has a design blog. You sell your product and you take all the money you sell for as simple as that.

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