Money Makers
Will the Current Global Economic Crisis Affect Making Money Blogging?
With the present worldwide financial and economic turmoil still unrelenting, most of us can only rely on President Obama’s strategies while we come up with our own to cope. Thousands have already either lost their jobs or lost a chunk of their income due to salary cuts. More and more households’ budgets get stricter and stricter as people struggle to find new jobs or sources of extra income. Undoubtedly, many harbor fears and apprehensions for their current line of work, thinking how their trade or industry is holding up against the global tempest of recession. Some industries would of course suffer more than others, while some industries dependent on the continuation of other industries perhaps have twofold the apprehension.
It’s quite obvious how and why the current fracas would affect banking and similar industries, but what about industries run on the Internet – like blogging, for instance? Blogging has become not only the outlet of choice on the Internet for writers and non-writers alike, but also a good source of income. Some writers have even taken up blogging full time, securing a revenue stream from their writings. Can we still continue making money blogging? Or should we continue making money blogging online at this time of economic boom? How does the current unsettling economic climate affect this industry dependent on the World Wide Web, its users, and its trends?
20+ Beautiful Social Bookmarking Buttons for Your Blog
Social bookmarking sites allow saving and sharing interesting pages online. A social bookmarking button, appending links of most social bookmarking sites to your posts, makes it easy for your readers to bookmark and share your content with others. Adding the social bookmarking button helps promote your blog and increase your potential audience and link popularity.
There is a plethora of such social bookmarking buttons available online that you can use for free, and here’s a list of some of the most beautiful social bookmarking buttons that you should consider putting up on your blog.
How to Change or Redirect Wordpress Permalinks Safely
There are times when you decide to change your link structure for the sake of SEO optimization or you simply need a change. For example:
Old permalinks:
http://www.yourdomain.com/2009/01/10/your-post-title/ (too long, irrelevant)
New permalinks:
http://www.yourdomain.com/category/your-post-title/ (short, highly relevant)
However, changing your link structure is going to affect your site traffic as the old links are already indexed by search engines and bookmarked or linked by your readers. You can’t afford to bear the loss as the links were built up over times. The only solution to the problem is redirect them permanently to new links, which is known as 301 Redirect or Permanent Redirect. There are many ways to perform the redirection, however, Deanlee creates a wordpress plugin that makes permalinks redirection a breeze.
FIX: Can’t Login To Wordpress After Upgrade?
I recently upgraded one of my new blogs to Wordpress version 2.6.3. As usual, I used the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin to do the upgrading work as it’s the easiest and time-saving way to perform a Wordpress upgrade in just few clicks. Now, one problem occured. I couldn’t login to the blog after the upgrade. It kept saying my user/password was incorrect. I reset the password and tried logging in using the new password, this time it just redirected me to the same login screen without flashing any error message. Nothing seemed to work after few attempts. I thought it was due to some confusion between the new and old cookie, so I cleared the cookie, and tried logging in again, but still it didn’t work. It kept redirecting me to the same login page although I knew the user credentials were correct.
I thought everything was screwed up and I might need to install the whole thing all over again. Installation is easy, but uploading files is going to eat up a hell lot of time. I googled and I tried all suggestions to no avail. It wasn’t a pleasant moment googling for the fixes and trying them all like a chump, until I came across bookchiq’s fix. This is the only fix that seems to work, so those of you who are facing the same login issue, look nowhere, use the fix below:
