Informations should be free! I love freebies and I know many of you are also like something that is free. Especially girls… (Want to say something, girls?) 
Well today, I want to talk about free Wordpress SEO tips. Every bloggers who want to get huge traffics from search engines must know how to optimize their website to be search engines friendly. By doing so, your website will get rank better in the search engine results and you will get more traffics to your website.
Guys, I don’t want to say too much and don’t want to take your time to read my boring words. Lets get straight to the point. Carrie Hill and Mary Bowling have taken their time to write an ebook which covers about Wordpress SEO. I recommend you to get a free copy of this ebook now and implement the tips to your Wordpress blog.
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Have you checked your website’s PR prediction? Yesterday while I was surfing around the Internet, Google PR slipped into my mind. And quickly I went to iWebtool PageRank Prediction to find out what is my PR on the next PR update.
After I entered my website URL, I click on the check button. The result is, iWebtool predicts that I will get PR6 (6.2) on the next PR update. The accuracy is 83.2% with 65 345 backlinks.
So far, iWebtool predictions are always correct. I have been using it since I got my first PR and until now I always got what it predicts. But who knows, maybe this time it has some errors in calculating the PR and give the wrong prediction. I hope it is not.
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Is it true lack of posting will decrease our website traffics? Some people say that they need to update their website everyday so the traffics will steady. Well, I can say it is 50% right and 50% it is wrong. Why?
It is true that your traffics will decrease if you don’t update your website. But this only applies to a new website. New website does not has many contents and only some of the contents win the top rank in Search Engine Result Page (SERP). Or maybe completely lost from the competition. If your website is new and you are so lazy to update your website, you need to focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You need to do a lot of research, implement what you found, and see how it is perform.
And it is wrong if your website is popular and well known by all people around the World (or at least people who looking for something in search engines). Some popular websites does not has new update for about a week or so but the traffics they got are stable. And even sometimes they get higher traffics. This is because many of the traffics coming from the search engines and from referral links. They have many contents and the website gets popular because of they win the keyword competition. Let say if someone search for “the grabber” a tool to download Rapidshare files (Rapidshare has changed the code so it does not work anymore), what do you expect from the result? See and find out yourself.
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I know many of you have registered with Stumbleupon. I also already have the account. You can see my Stumbleupon page at http://cypherhackz.stumbleupon.com. I am not a good stumbler but I use Stumbleupon just to find interesting websites which have been stumbled by other Stumbleupon members.
But do you know how many traffic you will get if your post got stumbled by someone? One of my post was once stumbled and the traffics I got was very extremely high. Over 5000 hits I received on that day. It was the first time I got 5000 traffics just in one day.
How to get stumbled?
Good content. Yes, that is the answer for that simple question. Write a good content and your post might get stumbled by someone who likes your post.
But how good is a good content is? It is depend on the way the reader see your writing. Some might look your writing is dull and not interesting but some might think that your post is very helpful. Very informative and energetic. Therefore, you need to write something that is far way better and unique than the others.
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One of my friend asked me how do I manage all blogs I have. The answer is simple. Just update when you have time. Lol…
Right now I have 6 blogs and 1 directory. Sometimes I update all the blogs in a day but sometimes I only update the blog when I have ideas on what to write.
As a blogger, you need to have your own ideas. With the ideas, you can craft your words to make it interesting. There are many ways that you can get the ideas. For an example by visiting other peoples blog.
Let say when you found my website and browse through my posts. Then, a post had catched your eyes and it is very interesting. So what you need to do next? Write the same article topic but with your own opinion. Take yout time to write the article. Don’t rush. There is nothing chasing you behind. So sit down, open up your favourite blog editor (I use Blogdesk btw) and write your ideas.
When you done, just click Publish when you are ready. Simple isn’t? That is how I manage all my blogs. Update them when I have time or you can make it like this. Update each blog for each day. It is more easier.
Ok, here is the deal. Which one you will choose for your domain name if you want to buy one? .com or .net?
Personally, I will choose .com if the domain will be used for a commercial or official-like website. For an example, like my Tentang Cinta (or About Love in English translation) website. This website is focus on compiling articles about love, love tips, love poems, love songs, love stories and so on. It is not a personal website. It is more for sharing resources with others.
For .net domain, like Blog Aku (or My Blog in English translation) is more about my personal life. It is not a formal website. So I can say and write whatever I want. For me, .net should be use for blogs or personal website.
Maybe some of you wondering why I am using .net for this website. CypherHackz.Com was available but I bought CypherHackz.Net because I want to use it for my personal website. A website that I want to write about my self. A writing about my journey in real life. I never thought that CypherHackz.Net which was started as a personal website becomes a technology website like what you see today.
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When building a website or blog, you need to decide how people will link to you. Either with www prefix or without www. Some peoples love to have www in front of their domain name but some are don’t.
Both of the them does not have pro or con. But it is better for you to choose one and stick to it. This is because we don’t want to get penalised by Google for content duplicates.
no-WWW to WWW
As for myself, I am using with www prefix for my domain. I feel it is more professional to have www in front of my domain but some don’t think like that. To redirect your website from non www to www prefix, you need to put these lines in your .htaccess file.
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^cypherhackz.net$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.cypherhackz.net/$1 [R=301,L]
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This domain will expire on 19th December 2007. So I decided to renew this domain for longer periods. Instead of renewing it to one year, I have extended it to 2 years (want to extend it to 5 years but don’t have enough money 
).
Why you should renew your domain? Of course the main reason is you don’t want to lose your domain. If you lose the domain, you need to pay thousands or even millions just to get back the domain. So you choose, which one is better? Pay $35 renewal fee (nowadays the price is cheaper) or $372 million to get back the mp3.com domain.
And if you want to renew your domain, I suggest you to renew it for more than one year. Like what I did, I extended this domain for two years. It is true that you need to pay more but it is worth. Because your website will be ranked greater in search engines because search engine like Google will check when your domain will expire.
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If you have many ads or affiliate banners and you want to rotate them on your website, here is the way on how to do it. But make sure your server supports PHP because we are using PHP script here.
First, you need to create a blank PHP file and name it as rotateads.php. Then copy this code and paste it in.
<?php
$bannerCounter = 1;
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
$bannerAdTotals = $bannerCounter - 1;
if($bannerAdTotals>1)
{
mt_srand((double)microtime() * 1234567);
$bannerPicked = mt_rand(1, $bannerAdTotals);
}
else
{
$bannerPicked = 1;
}
$bannerAd = $bannerCode[$bannerPicked];
echo $bannerAd;
?>
As you can see at the above code, you need to replace “replace with your ad code ” with your own ad or banner code. If you want to put more ad in the rotation, just add these two more lines
$bannerCode[$bannerCounter] = ‘replace with your ad code‘;
$bannerCounter++;
below the previous one.
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BlogDesk (read my review) is my primary desktop blogging client that I use to write articles for my websites. Besides it has simple interface, has many features, it is also free. But there is another desktop blogging client which is free and I think I must try it out.
Post2Blog is previously a shareware (that is why not many people use it ) but for the latest version — Post2Blog 3, the developer has make it as a freeware. There are 12 reasons as stated on the website why you should use Post2Blog.
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