Free Tool to track your traffic (Visitors):

Every blogger wants to see his or her blog traffic statistics. It is a kind of pleasure to see how our blog receives traffic from worldwide. In Web, there are hundreds of tools and web services offer this tracking technology. But they are all paid services. Search engine giant Google offers this service for completely free in the name of ‘Google analytics’. Remember signing up to Google Analytics doesn’t meant that you are submitting your blog into Google search engine for showing in search engine results page. If you are looking for submitting your site into Google, go ahead here to read how to submit your blog into Google.

Ok. Now we will see how to sign up for Google Analytics in simple steps.

1. Go to www.google.com/analytics

2. If you have any gmail id, you can use it to sign in. If you don’t have, you can use your blog domain email id to sign up. Click sign up.

3. Fill out the details to create a Google account using your email id and click ‘I accept terms and conditions’.

4. You will be asked to sign up now using your newly created Google account.

5. In next step fill the general information and click ‘Continue’.

6. Then fill the contact information and click ‘Continue’.

7. Then check terms and conditions option and click ‘Create New Account’.

8. Then you will be asked to provide analytics instructions. See the below screen shot. If you want to track single domain select the first option. If you want to track including sub domains of your blog, select the second option. Copy the Java script.

9. Now you have to login in your wordpress admin dashboard. Click ‘editor’ under ‘Appearance’ tab.

10. Click ‘Footer’ in right side of the page.

11. Paste the code before the closing body tag and don’t forget to click ‘Update file’. Now come back to Google analytics page. Click ‘Save and Finish’.

That’s all. You have finished. Google analytics will start to track your site with in 24 hours. After that you can see the analytics.

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Your new blog should be submitted into Google webmasters. Because after submitting your blog into Google webmasters, Google crawls your site fast and index store your pages. So that your blog will soon come in search engine result pages.

How to submit your website or blog into Google?

1. Before submit your blog to Google, you have to set the privacy settings in your wordpress admin dashboard. Login to your wordpress admin dashboard.

2. Click ‘Privacy settings’ under ‘Settings’ tab in left navigation menu bar.

3. In privacy settings page, select the appropriate option and click ‘Save Changes’.

4. Now go to www.google.com/webmasters

5. To create an account, click ‘Create a new Google Account’ and fill the details. For help see the screen shot below.

6. You will receive an email with confirmation link. Click the link and confirm. You will be shown successful confirmation message.

7. Now go to www.google.com/webmasters and login using the email and password you given when create a new Google Account.

8. Click ‘Add a site’ and fill your blog URL.

9. Then you will be asked to verify the blog ownership.

10. Select the ‘Meta tag’ option. Copy the meta tag.

11. Now go to wordpress admin dashboard.

12. Click ‘Editor’ under ‘Appearance’ tab in left navigation bar.

13. Click ‘Header.php’

14. Paste the meta tag next to head tag.

15. Now come back to Google webmasters and click ‘verify’.

That’s all. You have submitted successfully. Google will take up to 3 weeks to crawl all your pages. So be patience to see statistics.

If you have any doubt, write it in comment section.

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Have you ever wished to own your domain email id? Yes. I wished. I wanted to own pascal@onlineideas.info. I have one own blog www.onlineideas.info. I will explain how to create a free email id (pascal@onlineideas.info) in this post.

Is it really possible to create own email id for free?

Yes. Google offers this service in it Google Apps. If you own a domain, you can create email for free using Google Application.

How to create email using Google Apps?

1. Go to www.google.com/a

2. Click ‘Standard’ under ‘Other Google Apps Editions’.

3. In next page, click ‘Get Started’.



4. In next page, select ‘Administrator’ option and enter your domain name. For reference, see the below picture.



5. In next page, fill your personal & organization details and then click ‘Continue’.

See the picture below.

6. Now we can create administrator email account. I am creating pascal@onlineideas.info as administrator. Click ‘Accept Terms and Continue’.

7. In next step, Google asks you to verify domain ownership. There are two ways to verify your ownership. Select first method ‘Upload an Html File…’ and click ‘Continue’.

8. You will be shown how to verify using ‘Upload an Html file option’.

1. The verification process is simple.

A) First go to your blog wordpress admin dashboard. Click ‘Add new’ under ‘Pages’ Tab in left navigation.

B)Type ‘googlehostedservice.html’ in heading.

C) Paste the characters shown in Google Apps verify page.

D)Then Click ‘Publish’ button.

Now come back to Google apps page and click ‘I’ve completed the steps above’. That’s all.

9. Now go to ‘Dashboard’ in Google Apps. Click ‘Activate it’ button.

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2. 10. You will be asked to change MX records page. There will be a guide to let you know how to change MX records in your domain management settings.
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4. If you don’t know how to change your MX records, contact your hosting company and ask him to set up MX records for Google Apps. In most of the cases, he will do. If  he can’t do that, you can contact us at info@redisred.com

If you find any difficulties, you can contact us or leave a comment below. We are ready to assist you for free.

After finishing all the above steps, I can create further email ids for your employees in Google Apps dashboard by logging into www.google.com/a/onlineideas.info. Google Apps will take upto 48 hours to find MX records change and html verification success. So upto that your new email wont’ receive emails in inbox.

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Important Plugins for Your New WordPress Blog

1. WordPress Stats

After installation of this plugin, it needs API key to be activated. You can get free API key by logging into your wordpress.com account. If you don’t have account in wordpress.com, sign up first, then get your API key and use in your plugin.

Note: Your blog wordpress admin area login details are not same for wordpress.com. You need a separate account in wordpress.com

2. Wp Touch Iphone

In normal, your blog is not looking good for viewable in Iphones, Androids and such devices. But most of the people using these devices to view websites. So you should compulsorily use this plugin. It optimizes your site in best manner automatically to view in Iphones.

3. Wp DB BackUp

Your hosting company may be gone away suddenly or your blog may be hacked. So on that day if you have full back up you can get back your site within hour. So this plugin must be in your blog. You can change daily, weekly, monthly back up settings under settings area.

4. Related Posts

This plugin offers more page views for your blog while this plugin offers good relevant content to your visitors.

5 Google XML sitemap

Google XML sitemap is not for humans. It is for Search engines. Yes. This plugin lets inform search engines about your blog updates. Search engines easily look your all contents and index them.

6. Broken link checker

If any of your outgoing links not working in your blog, search engines reducing the importance of your blog. So your all outgoing links should be live. This plugin detects broken links automatically and informs you.

7. Subscribe to comments

This plugin offers a check box to subscribe for following up comments. Blog readers want to know further information through comments. So offering this facility will bring your readers back to your blog often.

8. All in One SEO

Thousand of sites recommend this plugin. Hundreds of thousand blogs using this plugin. You can set up your home page title, post title and page title formats through this plugin.

9. SEO slugs

Removes unnecessary words from your post URLs. It removes the words ‘a’, ‘the’ etc from your links and showing only words relevant to your posts.

10. CommentLuv plugin

Current popular plugin. It encourages your readers to comment in your posts. This plug in shows below the comment a link to the comment writer’s latest blog post.

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How to add more features to your blog?

Today in modern world, especially in internet, everyone looking for more features in all products and services. The companies which offer more features and updates are getting much popular among people. For example, have you ever wondered about the remarkable growth of Firefox browser? Main reason for its growth is add-ons.

You can offer cool features and extra functionality to your blog through plug-ins. For example if you want to add retweet button in your blog posts, you can simply install a plug-in for that purpose. If you want to show recent posts or popular posts in your side bar, you no need to write any coding. Simply install a relevant plug-in and activate it.

Now I show you how to find good plug-ins and install them in your blog.

1. Go to your blog admin dashboard.

2. Click ‘Add new’ under ‘Plug ins’ tab.

1. 3. In next page, you can search for plugins available in wordpress plug-in library.

WordPress almost has plug-ins for all needs. For example if you want to add retweet button, type ‘retweet button’ in search box and click ‘search plugins’.

You will be provided relevant plugins. See the screenshot below I got for retweet button plugin search.

In above screenshot,

1. I. Click the plugin name link to see information about the plugin.
2. II. You can see the number of stars in rating section. Ratings are given by users who used or using the plugins.
3. III. If you decided to try that plugin in your blog, click ‘install’.
4. 4. In next page, click ‘Install now’.



5. 5. You can see successful plugin installation message. Click ‘Activate plugin’. You can see plugin activated message in ‘Manage plugins’ section.

Important instruction:

Most of the plugins are working well after completion of above steps. But some plugins need initial inputs or give you more control over that plugins. For more control, look for your installed plugin under ‘Settings Tab’. Click the available menus and customize your plugin.

For example you can see the below option for retweet meme plugin.

Now I am clicking ‘Settings’ under ‘Tweet MeMe’. I can change some options like position of the retweet button, to show button only in pages etc. Go to your blog and see the functionality of plugin.

Note: You can install plugins available only from wordpress plugin library using search option. You can download some plugins from other websites in online and upload them to activate by clicking ‘Upload’ option in ‘search plugins’ page.

In next post, we will see important plugins should be installed in your new blog.

If you need any help or find any cool plugins, write about it in comment section.

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WordPress is a Content Management Software (CMS) and also called as publishing platform. Don’t get confused. In simple words, WordPress is an easy way to post your content & put advertisements in your blog. If you have already purchased domain, hosting and finished Name servers change, then you can easily install WordPress.

Install WordPress Using Fantastico:

What is Fantastico?

Fantastico is a software used in hosting cpanel. Fantastico helps us to install many open source softwares like wordpress, joomla, drupal, phpbb etc  in simple clicks. If you have purchased any other hosting which doesn’t have fantastico, then you can not set up your wordpress blog as easily as following.

1. Go to yourblog.com/cPanel. For example, I have purchased onlineideas.info and already edited name servers details. So now i am  going to www.onlineideas.info/cpanel and enter  username & password details i have used when sign up for hosting.

2. Search for ‘Fantastico’ in software section in your cPanel. Click on ‘Fantastico’ Icon.

3. Click ‘Wordpress’ in left navigation.

4. Then, Click ‘New Installation’.

5. Then, Select the domain in which you want to install WordPress. Leave the ‘Install in directory’ box as empty. Give new username & password for WordPress admin set up. After wordpress installation, we have login & posting contents in your site using this username & password.

6. Fill Admin Nickname, current email (gmail, yahoo etc), site name & description. Then click ‘Install WordPress’.

7. That’s all. Installation completed. Give your email id & click “send email”. You will receive an email with installation details.

8. Now you can see your blog in yourblog.com. Here www.onlineideas.info screenshot.

Now your blog ready. You can start posting contents in www.yourblog.com/wp-admin. In this example, for my blog, www.onlineideas.info/wp-admin. Login using admin username and password given when you install wordpress.

If you have any problem in wordpress installation, you can contact us at info@redisred.com. We ready to assist you for free. In our next post, we let you know how to upload a different theme and change the look of your blog.

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Contest Starts from November 1st.

1. Daily One person will be announced as winner at the end of the day (After 10 P.M IST)

2. Winner will receive one free domain as per his/her wish for a year & hosting for first month. If he follows our posts & develop the blog in best way, we will continue to pay hosting in upcoming months also up to one year.

3. Only one entry per person per day. If he doesn’t win the contest in particular day, he can participate in the contest on next day also.

What is the contest?

1. You should retweet this post using the retweet button in top right corner of this post. If you don’t have account in twitter, first signup for it. Twitter will be very useful for you to drive traffic to your blog.

2. You should digg this post using digg button at left bottom in corner of this post. If you don’t have account in Digg, first sign up for it. Digg will be very useful for you to drive traffic to your blog.

3. Send your blog link. If you have a good blog, more chances you win.  If you don’t have blog, no problem.

4. Post 10 Yahoo answers about RedisRed.com with link to RedisRed.com.

5. After posting answers, Send us the links for 10 answers to info@redisred.com

Guidelines to post Yahoo answers:

1. To post yahoo answers, you need a yahoo email account.

2. Use the search box to find relevant questions to Redisred.com content.

3. Type the keywords earn money online, part time jobs, online jobs, how to blog, blogging etc in search box and click the advanced tab.

4. Select the ‘open questions’ option. And then click ‘search’.

5. You will find more questions. Choose and answer 10 relevant questions. You should write answer atleast 5 lines & put our Redisred.com link in appropriate place. Then only your answer won’t get banned by yahoo answers team.

6. After answering, copy the URL link of that page from your browser and send email.

7. Why Yahoo answers contest?

We will verify your yahoo answers. From your answers, we can see how much good you are writing content for your blog.

Everyday at night 10 P.M IST, we will announce winner of that day.

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What is domain name?

In simple words, Domain name is your website address. For example www.redisred.com is a domain name. Here redisred.com points to server ip address. Whenever we access www.redisred.com in browser, it reaches the particular server (where site datas stored) address & pulls the data to our computer.

If you go for free hosting sites like blogger.com or wordpress.com, you will get domains like yourwishname.blogspot.com or yourwishname.wordpress.com. Those names look unprofessional. Your blog readers can’t remember the name easily & they will know you are using free version. So getting a high level domain name is essential to your blog growth.

Get your desired Domain name for free worth of 10 US$ from us.

Best part of our free blogging course is, we offer free domain for one person daily.

Participate in our daily contest & win a domain for your blog!

How to register a domain name?

1. Go to best domain name seller www.name.com

2. Click “Create an account”.

3. Fill username, password and captcha text and click “continue” button.

4. In next page, Fill all details accurately and then click “continue” button.

5. Next page is payment profiles and automatic billing. If you have credit card, then fill this page. Otherwise leave all boxes empty.

6. In that page, enter your desired domain name in the box and click “search” to check its availability.

7. In next page available options will be shown. Select the one you wish and click “Checkout” button.

8. In next page, if you have credit card, fill the credit card details, accept terms & conditions and then click ‘Purchase now’ button. If you don’t have credit card, then select “Paypal” as payment option, agree to the terms & conditions and click “Purchase now” button.

9. You will see paypal login page. If you have paypal balance then login & pay. If you don’t have paypal balance, you can contact & pay us with a flexible payment option and we will send that money to your paypal. [Note: We won’t charge any fees. Just we help you to get paypal balance for paying domain name]

10. If you have any problem in purchasing domain name in this process, you can contact us at info@redisred.com

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Ok. We have already known that blogging is the best & fast way to make passive income in online. Before proceed further, we will analyze the things needed to start a blog.

Essential things

1. One high level domain name
2. Web hosting
3. Content – Choose your favorite thing & start writing about that.

How much cost to start & drive traffic to your successful blog?

Blogging is very famous for its low investment & high earnings. Yes. To start a blog, you need to buy one domain name (Website name). It costs not more than 10 dollars per year. To host your site in internet, you need to buy web hosting space. It costs not more than 10 dollars per month.

Ok. What about traffic (visitors) to your website? You can use paid advertisements. But it is completely optional. You can drive tons of visitors for free using different techniques. We will help you via posts, email and chat in driving traffic for free. Is it possible to build a successful blog through free traffic methods? Yes. We will help you in this process.

Domain & Hosting

In our next upcoming posts, we let you know how to get domain & hosting. To encourage our blog visitors, we are launching a free domain & free hosting contest here.

We run a daily contest. Participate in this contest. Every day one of the contestant will receive free domain & hosting. So in a month 30 visitors can receive free domain & hosting from us. So rush to participate in this easy contest.

We will provide full support all visitors not only winners to develop a successful blog. So even if you are not winning the contest, you can purchase domain & hosting and start following our blogging course. We assure that no more investments needed to build a successful blog other than domain & hosting purchase.

Content

Is it easy to write blog posts? Yes. We let you know how easy it is. We will make posts here about how to write posts about your topic.

Talking is enough. We will go in to action.

Note: The longer you’re not taking action, the more money you’re losing.

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