If you're a blogger and would like to make some income from it, you can count on Google Adsense, an advertising program by Google Inc. There might be many tutorial out there, but most are rather complicated for newbies. One way to begin is to look through a list of useful video tutorials to provide you a general understanding of Adsense and how to start earning from your blog.   So,... more.

Owning a blog and wanting to earn from it requires time and effort to ensure that the blog earns enough exposure to be visited by many readers. While there are a lot of methods to lure visitors, the primary aim is to make sure the blog contains quality content. Some would depend on marketing automation software (which can be rather effective), but there are actually several free tips to market you... more.

If you want to host your WordPress blog or website, there are a number of things you should consider when choosing a web hosting company. These include: 1) Disk Space Find the amount of disk space offered by the web hosting company. The amount of space you require ultimately depends on your website. If you are hosting large files like videos and audio files, you will need a bigger space. ... more.

While the Blogging service offered at wordpress.com are user-friendly and improving daily, there are distinct advantages to hosting your blog on dedicated servers. In addition to being able to upload custom themes and plugins, you also have complete control of behind-the-scenes code and the support of a strong community of bloggers and programmers. 1. Find cheap hosting The first step to ... more.

Wordpress team has just released the 3.1 version, packed with more user-friendly features. This time around, the Wordpress team did some subtle but very useful changes to the admin interface and tools. This is in fact the 14-th version of one of the top blogging platform in the world. Well, this is a quick overview on some of the new features. 1. The Visible Front-End Admin Bar This is the same ... more.

The popular blog tool and publishing platform, Wordpress is now available in version 3.0. The Wordpress team named it as WordPress 3.0 “Thelonious” and it is in fact "the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors".  Indeed, version 3.0 has introduced several major changes/additions to the platform and here are 5 important ones that y... more.

It is often a problem for bloggers to get their blog posts shared across the web, mainly due to the lack of knowledge on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Some bloggers spent hours creating quality posts only to realise the post could not read the global readers via search engines or blog directories. Well, fear not, there are a lot of online tools to help you solve this problem, and one of those ... more.

A more mobile friendly website not only allows you to reach a larger range of mobile phone users, it also allows your readers to load your pages much faster and of course save some bucks on telco charges for data usage. While there are several ways to make your web pages more mobile friendly, I have compiled 5 top ways to do so. WPtouch More than just a plugin, WPtouchTM  is a mobile them... more.

Let's face it, handling Google AdSense placement on your Wordpress-powered blogs can be a hassle at times especially when your theme is not AdSense-friendly. I have searched the Wordpress plugin repository and compiled 7 plugins that could make your life easier. These plugins would help you manage your ads better, put them in better places and of course make more money. :) 1. WP Simple AdSense... more.

Just received email from WordCamp Malaysia team that the registration for the 1st ever WordCamp in Malaysia is now open. The details on this can be obtained from the official website later today. The event will be held at Cititel Mid Valley, Kuala Lumpur on 22nd of May 2010, 9am – 5PM. And to those registering for BarCamp KL 2010, you'll be given special registration rate as well.   ... more.

Having too many widgets on the sidebar can affect the loading speed of your Wordpress blog. And sometimes, a certain widget is only needed for a specific page or post, especially for advertisements. To solve that, you can use this very useful plugin by Kaspars Dambis, called "Widget Context". As the name suggest, it allows you to set when show or hide a widget. It allows a very good cust... more.

A friend of mine, who is also a blogger, gave me a panic call last week. Why? He screamed out loud: "My blog is gone! All gone!!". Well, he's not alone. Many bloggers enjoy the fun and art of blogging that they rarely pay attention to the technical  aspect of it. In my friend's case, it was his own fault because he accidentally deleted his blog folder (the case of mistaken identity ... more.