Let Paris Hilton teach as our lesson for today. ;)  I have written many times before that I am not a very technical person, and I would never profess to be one. I am learning all technical terms mostly from experiments and from reading tutorials and other blogs.  I am always looking for ways to optimize, maximize and monetize.   Hmm, I think that’s a great motto. I’ll claim that to be mine right this minute.

Pro Gobbler says: “Optimize, Maximize and Monetize!!! “

This brings me to my point about Permalinks and how to use it to your advantage. According to Wordpress,

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to refer to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. Especially when they are used to link to individual postings, once a story is posted, the URL to it should be permanent, and never change — hence permalink.

When I purchased this blog template, I was a bit annoyed that the permalinks weren’t set up to work using the title of the posts.   Other free WP themes out there have it included.   The option is already available for WP users, all you need to do is to activate and choose the format you wish to use.  Every time I activated it to use the post title, my entries produces a 404-Page Not Found error.   I really needed to make the Permalink feature work on this site and let me tell you why.

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I came across this article and I thought, “EXACTLY!”

How to Start Getting Credit

You’ll have to start small. You will need to open bank accounts, preferably both savings and checking. Wherever you apply for credit, the lender will want to know where you live, work and bank. The longer you have lived or worked in the same place, the better.

Your First Credit. Don’t apply for a major national credit card like Visa or MasterCard without first building up a good credit rating by getting “easier” forms of credit and paying off the bills on time for at least a year. Easier forms of credit for the beginner are accounts at local department stores and accounts at certain mail order companies. You will buy products at a particular store with a credit card good only at that store, then you will be sent a bill. You will have the option of paying the whole amount off within a few weeks and be charged no interest, or of paying a minimum payment for that particular month (a percentage of the balance). You will then be charged monthly interest on the balance you have not yet paid off.

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We didn’t know this until later in our blogging life. We heard about tags, we know that certain blogging tools advocate tags but what is it used for? Is it simply to put your post in a certain category or does it do much more?

A tag as it is used in blogging today is simply like a bookmark. When you’re reading a book and you pause, you would want to get back to the same spot you were reading when you pick up that book again. In blogging, it does the same thing but much better. It provides your readers (or prospective readers) a way to find your post. If you wrote an entry about Democrats and how their voting system work to arrive at a nominee for President and tag your post with DEMOCRATS, VOTING SYSTEM, PRESIDENT - your post will be indexed and should anyone search for the phrase, “How does the voting system work for Democrats?” - it will more than likely find your page.

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Sorry, I got carried away with Singing in the Rain” by Vincent Bueno. Listen, you’ve either started your blog on blogspot.com (blogger), wordpress.com or one of those free sites I provided you on my earlier post. I did that so as not to overwhelm you with all the opportunities you can have with your blog. I just wanted you to get started. Taking the first step is always the most difficult one. If you’ve come back, I am glad because that means that you started you blog and you are following the steps I’ve provided so far.

Don’t jump the gun. I will tell you more ways on how you can make money off your blog. We’ve talked about signing up for Google Adsense. We talked about signing up for Paypal. Those two things should have been good. Now it’s time to look beyond and into the future. We need to prepare your blog for the outpouring of opportunities that will come your way.

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When you first thought of traffic, did you think like this? “Make it and they will come!” I did too. It was a wrong assumption and I wish someone would have told me not to assume. It was disappointing.

The first blog I created was a personal blog, as inspired by a guy named Heath Dieckert . His blog was filled with passion and commitment that I thought, if he can do it; I can too! So, like how I have instructed my readers - I started a free blog on Blogspot.com and I had fun creating it. But I lacked the satisfaction because I didn’t know if anyone was reading it. I had no idea if people were visiting my site. I had to write posts blindly, hoping people would come someday and post a comment.

That day didn’t arrive for me and I lost interest. I had no visitors or a way to tell that people are viewing my blog. I didn’t know about Sitemeter.com , Robots, or any Plugins that could tell me what posts are popular and what aren’t. Those tools came to light later in my blogging days once I got to know other bloggers and reading other logs about Search Engine Optimization.

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