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Blogging Wars - Wordpress Vs Blogger
Wednesday, July 23, 2008


Blogging Wars - Wordpress Vs Blogger

There's a war going on in the blogosphere, and it has nothing to do with bloggers dissing each other on their respective websites. The war is about control of the blogosphere by several great, many good, and tons of terrible blogging platforms. The average newbie now has "too many" options to choose from, and the battle for blogging supremacy is hotter than ever.

At my website and blogs, I'm always asked the question "Is Wordpress better than Blogger?". The answer, of course, is "Yes". But to really understand why, it's important to look at both blogging platforms side-by-side and see which one you really need.
Here's the comparison scale:

1) Ease of Set-up And Use

Yes, it’s much easier to set-up a blog with Blogspot.com and get your own Bloggger account. You can be done in 10 minutes flat. Once you're set-up you can start posting immediately. If you want to add a designer's touch to your blog, there are also tons of blogger templates available for free.
Installing Wordpress however can be a major headache if you don't know what you're doing. Since you're going to host it on your own account, you'll need to download the installation files, upload them to your server, set-up a database, and run the configuration script.

However, if you know which hosting account to get, you can choose one with Cpanel included. With Cpanel, you can do a one-click installation, upgrade and removal of your Wordpress platform.

2) Customization & Advanced Use

Blogger doesn’t allow categories. You can’t sort your articles into different focuses, unless you know how to hack the platform. With Wordpress, not only can you add categories, you can also display each category differently on your main page. In fact with the correct plugins you can even turn your Wordpress into a magazine-like portal.

Publishing with Blogger can be a pain in the ass. It can take forever to post articles, especially if you’re making changes to the entire website. With Wordpress, publishing is much faster, although if you load your system with all kinds of bells and whistles it can be just as frustrating. With a Blogger account, you can get additional features like "Shout Boxes" that improve interaction on your site. You can also get pretty themes and nifty little tools that you can add to the core template files. However, that's as far as you can go with Blogger.

With Wordpress however, the sky is the limit. As cliche as that may sound, not only can you get themes, additional "plugins" and advanced tools, you can also extend Wordpress to far beyond just a blogging platform.
The talk today is about using Wordpress as a complete, user-friendly Content Management System or CMS.

4) Copyrights and Ownership of Content

I started with Blogger and I won’t say that it’s bad. But after a while I started to get frustrated with Blogger, and here’s why: Google Owns Your Content
Google has the authority to shut down your account without warning if they don’t like what you’re blogging about. You don't have absolute control over your own blog. With Wordpress, you own the domain name and the blog is hosted on your own account. You have full control over your content.

With the self-hosted version of Wordpress (not Wordpress.com), you're free to write about anything you want, and use the software in any way you want. Yes, Blogger allows you to publish to your own domain, but they still own the database that holds your content! Don't forget that!

5) Search Engine Optimization and Traffic

There's this propaganda that since Google owns Blogger, they tend to favor Blogger accounts. I won't say that this is illogical, but from my experience, there's no such favoritism.

I've heard as many stories of getting indexed fast and ranking high in search engines from both Wordpress and Blogger users. As long as the content is good, the spiders will come.

When you post in Blogger, you can only “ping” a limited amount of sites, whereas with Wordpress on your own domain you can ping as many blog directories as you want, and start getting more traffic.
As a conclusion, I would say that Wordpress is only slightly ahead in terms of optimization for search engines, and building large amounts of traffic.

6) Money-Making Potential

There's no doubt that it's easier to get started with Google Adsense if you have a Blogger account. In fact you can now apply for Adsense from within a Blogger account. Not entirely surprising considering the fact that both are owned by the same company.

With Wordpress, it can get tricky. The default installation is not enough. You'll need a couple of plugins and even a better theme to really maximize the Adsense potential. However, this seems to be getting easier and there's even "Adsense revenue sharing" plugins around that allow you to share ad revenue with other contributors and writers for your blog.

When you start using Wordpress to build your Adsense websites, you’ll soon discover what I mean. It’s something you need to experience for yourself. I can tell you one thing though – when you go Wordpress, you don’t go back.

About the Author
Gobala Krishnan is the author of Wordpress Adsense System, the unique beginner's guide to building content-rich Adsense websites with Wordpress. You can download two free chapters of his book at http://www.easywordpress.com/

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How much prices for your ads link worth


If someone ask you on how much if you want to sell ads link on your web site. How much should you charge?

Basically it will depend on your site quality and your market place niche. Well if you notice that TexlinkAds has one ads pricing calculator to make your life easier.

Check out the tool - Text Link Ads Calculator Tool.

You can play around with this tool to see how much price to sell the text link ads on your site and you can also put any website to see how much they can get if they place the text ads in their site. Interesting right?

Apparently finance and real estate web site category can get highest price value if they sell the text link ads at their website at this moment.

The factors include to calculate the price(Base on TLA blog):

Traffic of your website “ Alexa: the lower the Alexa ranking, the higher the price.
Link popularity of your website “ Page Rank: the more incoming links, the higher the price.
Theme/Topic of your website - there is more demand for some themes than others.
Number of links to be sold the fewer the number of links on a page, the higher the price.
Sitewide or single page placement – “sitewide” vs. on a single page of your website
Location on the page - more value when place in the best place being click
So how to sell your text link ads instead of use the advertiser broker such as textlinkads.com Yes you can go to any webmaster forum like digitalpoint and advertise to the forumer that you want to sell text ads at your website.

Happy earning.!

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Easy way to protect your download link


The profitable way to make money online is by selling downloadable products such as information products, program, scripts and etc. This is because the products can easily be duplicate without any extra cost and the most important thing is you no need to pay the delivery cost.

So you have your first web site up and running. A well-written sales letter, which offers a great digital product and then one day you notice that your sales have dropped close to null. And after looking at your web site stats you notice that your insecure “Thank You” page is one of the most visited pages!

Do you know that using black hat technique, your download link will easily discovered by somebody else ? . How much we’ll lost if your thank you page is the most visited page but you get no sales. For sure you’ll lost a lot of profit you suppose to gain there.

Now the big question is “How do I secure my downloadable products“? Well the answer is already discovered now and you can just use it without no need to make your head get headache or pain with the programming to secure your download link. You can get the answer here.

Personally, there’s the great products for every digital seller should have. A few great features are fix download link sharing by limiting download time, stop your thank you page from being listed on Google, track sales etc. It’s also built-in shopping cart supports Clickbank, PayPal, PayDotCom and more! So what are you waiting for, stop losing money today! All can be done with dlguard.

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Yahoo! Search Marketing - Get highly targeted visitors by search engine marketing


Yahoo! Search Marketing is nothing new if you’re from US. What I’m talking here is about Yahoo! South East Asia. Aside from Google Adwords, Yahoo Search Marketing is another effective way to get targeted traffic through search engine marketing. As we know search engine marketing is one of the way to get fast and very targetted traffic to make money online.

Yahoo! has recently introduced Sponsored Search to Southeast Asia. Sponsored Search delivers highly targeted customer leads to large and small businesses by showing their ads within paid search results across Yahoo! and the Web.

The new search advertising product allows businesses to target their search ads to the entire Southeast Asia market (which includes Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam) or narrow their audience to specific countries.

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