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I was asked by Mark:

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When is it best to use: DreamWeaver vs. WordPress Templates vs. Drupal or some other program to create websites?

Answer:

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You can learn any or all three and put out an effective website.

I would look at what the website will need:

Dreamweaver can be used to design all three types of sites – ie, you could build a Drupal site in Dreamweaver or a WordPress site in Dreamweaver. In fact, I’ve done all three – Drupal, WordPress, and straight HTML in Dreamweaver.

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Drupal is a CMS – so if you’re building a site that needs a lot of management or is going to have people managing the content who don’t know or don’t want to learn HTML, this might be a good choice. Drupal offers lots of plugins and extensions like a blog, calendar, and forum. So if you think the site is going to have all those things eventually this might be a good choice.

WordPress is first and foremost a blogging tool. Yes, lots of people are starting to use it to manage their entire site, but most of the time you can tell these sites because they look like blogs. They might have 1 or 2 static pages, but typically the blog is the most important part of a WordPress site. If that’s what your site is, then this is a good solution.

Finally, Dreamweaver alone. You can build any type of site you want using just Dreamweaver. You won’t have the built-in tools for blogging or CMS like you do with Drupal and WordPress, but you have the flexibility to build anything you like. And as I said before, you can use Dreamweaver to build and maintain the templates for your Drupal or WordPress sites.

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Blogs are usually aimed for the organic traffic from the SEOs. Search Engines like blogs because their information is constantly updating. You can also optimize the content of your blog for the specific keywords so that your articles would get more attention of the SEOs. Don’t forget that blogs have the informative aim. So if you promote some services there, don’t overstuff it, because the visitors will not like it. People will come to your blog to look for the information. Try to offer your visitors as much useful information as possible, so that they would like to visit your blog again and bookmark your page.

Unlike the websites, blogs are more personal place in the Internet. You can personalize your blog by offering some information about yourself, adding a picture of your dog. It will make your visitors be loyal to you and visit your blog more often. Be yourself and share your honest point of view when you write for your blog. You can also write from the first person there, it will make you closer to your readers.

Besides the SEO, the other way for generating more traffic to your blog is the links exchanging. You can exchange links with other blogs and as a result you will receive traffic from the other blogs as well as the other blogs will get visitors from your blog. Don’t be courteous that it may cause all your visitors go to the other blogs. Link exchanging strategy proved its effectiveness. It lets more traffic visit your blog. Even if some of them leave your page, those who are interested in your services will stay with you.

Don’t underestimate the blogging. This easy and not expensive method can play a main role in the promotion of your internet based business and help you make money from home.

In this blogger manual I’ll show you the basic off all SEO technique. I don’t like to chit-chat, so let’s straigth to the point. You must know that we have two kinds of optimization that can be done by ourselves. First, is On-page Optimization, and the second is Off-page optimization….
Do you know anything about On-page optimization? It’s everyting that you can do to your blog to make it suitable for the search engine. We have several things to do for our on-page optimization:
1. Choose the keywords of your new blog
Use Google External Keywords tool to choose your keywords. How to use this tool? It’s quite simple. Consider that you want to use “Blogspot tutorial” as your keyword. All you need to do is to type this keyword in to the keyword box. Fill the Captcha code and click on Keyword Suggestion. You will see a list of keywords that related to your first keyword. You will see that the competition of BLOGSPOT TUTORIAL keywords is to fierce for a new blog. Try to choose other keywords with the lowest competition but still have a good enough search volume. It’s better for you to start with the lowest competition level, then slowly but sure you climb up by the number of visitor. If you can take a lot of visitor to your blog, you’ll see that you can aim a new keyword with higher competition level. In this tutorial, let’s consider that the keyword you choose is “BLOGGER MANUAL”
2.Choose your URL address that suits with your keywords
For example…if it’s possible …why don’t you use this URL … http://blogger-manual.blogspot.com
3. Choose Blog Title that suitable for your blog
For example…use this title…”Blogger Manual for Blogspot”
4. Use title tag in your html
Use title tag that contain the combination of your keywords, if it’s posibble…use 7-10 words as your title. For example …. Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie
a title tag should seen like this
<title>Blogger manual | blogspot tutorial for newbie</title>
you can put this tag right under the <head> tag in your LAYOUT — EDIT HTML page

5. Use meta tag in your HTML
meta tag is a code that contain the summary of your blog data. There are meta description, meta keywords, & meta author that you should optimize….
<meta content=”blog, blogger, tutorial, manual, blog tutorial, blogger manual, blogger tutorial” name=”keywords”/>
<meta content=”blogger manual – blogger tutorial for a new blogger that contain the basic knowledge of blogging” name=”keywords”/>
<meta content=”Donni” name=”author”/>

6. Use your keyword in your posting title
7. Use your keywords in your articles and spread those keywords at the first sentences, and the last sentences. Don’t forget to add your keywords each 2-3 paragraphs.
8. It’s better for you, if your main column (the place where your article displayed) float at the left side. It’s because the spider will crawl your page from the top left to the botom right. If you put your main column at the right, then the spider will crawl your sidebar and each navigation links inside your sidebar, before it arrives to your article. Your competitor will left you behind. You may say like this “O yeah, than why there is a left float main column website defeated by the center or right float main column websites?” Simple,….It’s because the off-page factor that we should talk later.
If it’s possible…it will be better if you put your keywords at the end of your page or right in the footer of your webpage.

If you do this, then you can boost your position up to 400 positions. If you were in the 1200 , now you may hit to the 800th position….. Now, you may already bend your face and say “Yeah, and what does it use for?” I’ll say “Nothing,…it still can’t help you” you have to complete the OFF-PAGE optimization to be the king of the Search Engine Result Page….

Oh, and what is off-page optimization? Simple, it’s all about everything that you can do to promote your blog.
1. Increase the number of your visitors. You can do blogwalking to invite people. Or do some promotion in facebook, to invite people visit your blog
2. Build links to your blog. But before you do a link building process, you should know the type of links:
a. Link from shoutbox….it has no credit for you
b. Link from Comment box… it has credit if the blog has relevant content to your blog
c. Trackback link….It’s a link that appear if you review any webpage in your blog and leave your link at the comment column of the webpage. It has more credit than a common link from the comment box
d. Reciprocal link is a kind of links that appear if you do some link exchange. It has a very good credit if both of the oage has relevant content. But, has no credit at all if they don’t have any relevant content
e. One way link…. If you have one way link that is directed to your blog, then it will be the most perfect link you can have

So what is the criteria of a good link?
1. It connects the relevant pages
2. It comes from a higher Pagerank page
3. It’s a one way link

At this poin, is there any conclusion you get? Well, my blogger manual will continue with the biggest question mark….”HOW CAN I GET THOSE BACKLINKS?”
It’s quite simple, but I tell you that it won’t be easy at all. Your solution is to send a request message to every webmasters that you want to ask for a backlinks. The badnews is A high pagerank Webmaster will be very selective to accept any link exchange offer. It’s because…if they make a bad decision of which page should be connected to their website. It can kill their pagerank instantly. Let’s consider like this if you accept to link your blog to other website … and you don’t know that the website has been banned by google….than you will take a risk to be banned also by Google. Or at least Google will penalize your blog by reducing your pagerank 1 or 2 points.

Well, It’s still the basic knowledge, but I thinks it’s enough for you to develop your SEO skill by following this short blogger manual. If you have any question….feel free to visit blogger manual. And you can contact me at contact form that I have provide for you. —-THE END OF BLOGGER MANUAL – SEO SUMMARY —

Owners of a successful blog that has a large following may sometimes have the need to use guest bloggers. An example of when this practice may be a good idea is when the owner of a popular blog will be unavailable to post new blog entries for an extended period of time. In this case the lack of blog updates may cause the blog to lose traffic so it would be prudent for the blog owner to make arrangements for a guest blogger or a series of guest bloggers to post new items during his absence. The blogger may also wish to announce the intention to use guest bloggers during this period of time to ensure loyal blog visitors are aware of the situation and that it is only temporary. This article will discuss aspects of using guest bloggers such as advertising for guest bloggers, selecting guest bloggers and compensating guest bloggers.

Advertising for Guest Bloggers

There are a number of locations where a blog owner can advertise for guest bloggers. Job boards specifically for bloggers or freelance writers are an excellent option for finding guest bloggers. Job boards for bloggers are frequently visited by experienced bloggers who are looking for new opportunities to blog for compensation. These bloggers may have specific experience with the subject matter of the blog or may simply be adept at creating interesting blogs on a variety of subjects. Job boards for freelance writers are another great option. These writers may not necessarily have experience blogging but they may have other writing experience that is useful. Blog owners should consider posting a detailed messaged specifying the type of work required and duration of the project and asking for clips from the writers which can be used to verify the writer’s skill level.

Blog owners may also wish to advertise for guest bloggers on message boards related to the subject of the blog. Visitors of this blog may not necessarily have writing experience but will likely be quite knowledgeable about the subject of the blog and therefore be capable of producing interesting and insightful blogs.

Selecting Guest Bloggers

Selecting a guest blogger should be done carefully to ensure the guest blogger is reliable and capable of producing articulate, informative and interesting blog posts. Blog owners who advertise for a guest blogger on job boards for bloggers and freelance writers should ask for clips demonstrating the writer’s ability to write blogs which are interesting and informative. When advertising on a message board for a guest blogger, the blog owner might want to consider using the applicant’s previous posts to evaluate his writing ability and knowledge of the subject matter. He should also consider the type of response the applicant’s message board postings typically elicit. This is important because it is a good indication of the type of response the blogs will elicit. Blog owners should also ask the applicants for references and should contact these references to obtain information about the bloggers work ethic and ability to complete projects.

Compensating Guest Bloggers

Blog owners should also carefully consider how they intend to compensate guest bloggers. This can be done in the form of financial compensation or through allowing the guest blogger to post a brief biography with a link to his personal website or blog at the conclusion of the blog post. The latter form of compensation is essentially free advertisement space for the guest blogger. The blog owner may also wish to compensate the guest blogger with a combination of money and free advertising space. Regardless of the method of compensation chosen the blog owner should discuss this with the guest blogger before work commences and should enter a written contract with the guest blogger which explicitly states the terms of the compensation to avoid disputes.

Nowadays, there are many companies specialized in slicing the designs into elegant and high quality codes. Thus, professionals will convert the design in everything you imagined and even more, the modern technology enabling them to exceed your expectations. PSD slicing represents a professional css slicing service, being a frequent choice in web development.

The main goal of web designers throughout the world is to get their sites on top pages for search results and they achieve that by making their site search engine friendly. Web designers who use tables claim that they make the design process easier and faster, asserting that tables are more compatible with different web browsers. Still, there are designers in favor of tableless formats who believe that tables do not adhere to web accessibility and this is where PSD slicing and PSD to HTML  play an important part.

PSD slicing converts design templates into readable, easy to use codes. Every design made by means of PSD slicing will make a difference when it comes to your web development needs. Due to the fact the most time-consuming aspects of a project are the css or the cms integration phase, experts need slicers and coders who do quality work in a short period of time.

PSD to HTML offers web designers the efficacy they were looking for, the HTML conversion services enabling them to enhance their website performance and also to maintain the originality of their layout. Furthermore, the coding done through css ensures a complete separation of content from presentation. HTML codes were optimized in order to help you maintain satisfying rankings for all the popular search engines.

More than that, due to PSD to HTML you will have better cross-browser compatibility, your website being accessible via Firefox, Opera and others. PSD to HTML puts at your disposal a clean, international conversion service, allowing you to maintain the original design of your website while improving its performance. Furthermore, will enable your website maintain good rankings on the most important search engines.

In order to enhance the performance of your web site, you definitely need PSD slicing services and PSD to HTML, thus having a number of options which allow clients to implement their designs. With these modern programs, you will have low cost high-quality design and development services and this is exactly what you need for your web site.

Many people find it easy to create a design concept in Photoshop and than do the coding that is involved to turn the respective design into a HTML web page. PSD to HTML order will have to include a concise order, where you need to specify the number of pages required and other additional requirements if any. Once you specify your design, you will be able to receive the services you need.

Before you place an order for PSD slicing, you need to decide whether you want a fixed width layout or a fluid width layout where each column can stretch. PSD will allow experts to design and at the same time to write down the hex codes for different areas of the design. PSD slicing enables you to split your web page images into smaller pictures, but at the same time keeping their proportions intact.

New techniques and methods standards will always emerge with time and they are meant to ease your work. Today, table less web design achieves layout control without using HTML tables. The text and other elements that can be seen on a page are arranged by using css, thus improving web accessibility and being able to use HTML for semantic purposes and not for presentational ones.

It is very easy to use with a lot of code built in to the template making the more user friendly, especially for those of us not overladen with technical skills.

But this advantage could be a draw back with regards to some aspects of SEO. The problem being that when you publish a new post, the title page reads ‘name of blog then title of post’.

We all know that for the purposes of search engine optimization, the keywords should appear early in your title.

So how do you stop the blog name appearing in the title of every post.

How do you change the search engine listing of your blogger posts from the format indicated by the red arrow to the format indicated by the green arrow ?

It’s surprising how easy this is

• Log in to your blogger account and go to your layout page
• Click on edit HTML
• Back up your current template [there is a prompt to do this on your edit HTML page]
• Click on ‘expand widget templates’
• Look near the top of the html page and find this code

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/>

• Replace it with the code below

<b:if cond= ‘data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;’><title><data:blog.title/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/></title></b:if>

• Make sure that before editing the code you MUST back up your template
• Once you have finished save

It takes a few days for your changes to show in your blogs title in the search engine listings. The changes occur when the search engine bots have crawled and re-cached your posts

Here’s the code for those of you who want to copy and paste

<b:if cond= ‘data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;’><title><data:blog.title/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageName/></title></b:if>

Hope this helps.

Making money blogging requires a particular level of sincerity. Many ‘opportunities’ discovered on the internet assure a simple way of establishing a respectable income. Making money blogging is excluded. The objective of this article is to give you a fundamental understanding – not a full tutorial – on how to make money blogging. Please keep that in mind as you continue on.

Making it easy to gain money from your blog by adding automated income streams to it is the first step in how to make money blogging. That means adding things to it (mainly ads) that readers of your blog may click on thereby creating an income for you. Many blog services help you with this by making it easy to place Google Adsense on your blog. The great thing about Adsense is that the ads match the keywords of your blog. Therefore if your blog is about roses the adsense ads will not be about toy trucks. Another great strategy is to utilize Paypal and ask for contributions from your compassionate readers to help you sustain your blog.

Establishing a nice flow of visitors is a vital step. The only way you’ll ever make money blogging is if you have a constant flow of traffic consisting of ad-clicking readers. So how do you get traffic to your blog? Use ‘blog carnivals’ as a place to submit your greatest blog posts. Blog carnivals are collections of quality posts on a special topic collected together on one site. Another great way to generate traffic (and to improve your ranking on Google-leading to even more traffic) is to submit articles to article directories such as Ezine Articles. Your article should be a lengthier variation of your blog post (assuming your blog post is short) and contain a link to your blog. Just so you won’t look like a spammer or a self-promotor, refuse talking about your blog as much as possible. You also want to make regular contributions of original content to you blog in order to remain well-known by the major search engines. Remember: content is king.

Do a quick search on this topic and you will discover a plethora of resources that will provide guidance in your quest to make money blogging. You will find that many take you further in-depth however it’s very crucial that you do not forget the fundamentals that you’ve learned here.