OBM’s Blog Installation Service – FREE Till 11th April 2010

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If you’re subscribed to my newsletter, you would have recently received an email telling you about the new blog installation service we’ve recently added to online business Malaysia. And only for my newsletter subscribers, you’ll have been told that this service is FREE for a limited time only. Well I am extending that offer to my readers as well, but this offer is only valid until 11th April 2010. What Service Are We Offering? Taken [ Read More... ]

Looking At The Man In The Mirror – How To Start A Personal Blog

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Blogging, the new ‘it’ term of the 21st century. But how do you start a blog? And is it a difficult thing to do? This post will bring you through the general steps needed in starting up your own blog, and when I say general, I mean general. Because if I had to write down each and every step, from getting your own domain, to hosting to installing WordPress and installing a WordPress theme – [ Read More... ]

Choosing The Heading For Your Post, To SEO Or Not?

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When choosing the title of your post, it’s important to keep a few things in mind. These being a) are you approaching it from an SEO point of view or b) are you writing it as a title to ‘catch’ your audience? Of course a combination of both would be the best, although it will be alot harder to write one of these. For example, from an SEO point of view, you’d want to write: [ Read More... ]

Testing My SEO Skills

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Ok I’ve stopped by the blog of former Malaysian Prime Minister, Dr. Mahatir Mohamad and I’ve noticed that some of his pages have very high page rank. Also, if you do a simple trackback, a link to your blog will be displayed under the respective post. I will trackback to his post and see if it leaves a do-follow link right back here… A little sneaky, but that’s Internet Marketing right? If you came from [ Read More... ]

Pillar Articles – Good Content For Your Blog

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A pillar article is basically a really long, informative and content packed article that is chock full of keywords, is useful to your audience and helps drive traffic to your site. My first attempt at a pillar article came in the form of my ‘How To Register Online with SSM‘ post which was an informative how-to on registering your business online using the ssm.com.my site. To date, it brings in the most traffic, and ranks [ Read More... ]

How To Use The All In One SEO WordPress Plugin

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Here’s a short tutorial on how to use the All in One SEO wordpress plugin after you’ve written your posts. By default, just having the plugin installed is a good thing because it rewrites your web page titles and helps restructure your URLs to be more search engine friendly. 1) Login to WordPress 2) Add a New Post 3) Write Your Post 4) Copy and paste your post title and select roughly 160 characters of [ Read More... ]

Installing A New Plugin In WordPress 2.7

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Installing a new plugin is so easy now in WordPress 2.7. Things you’ll need to know before starting: Your username and password for your wordpress blog Your username and password for your web server That’s all you’ll need to install any wordpress plugin listed on the plugins directory of WordPress.org. Here are the steps: 1) Login to your WordPress blog at http://yourdomain.com/wp-admin. 2) Scroll down the page until you see the tab labelled ‘Plugins’ and [ Read More... ]

How To Add A Gravatar Image To Your Comments/ Blog

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Adding your picture to your comments with the Gravatar service is a great was to feel more ‘connected’ with your readers, or as a reader yourself. When you leave a comment, do you look like one of these icons? Do you wonder how come the other people have a little screen shot of their face, logo or some other cute picture next to their name? While you are a blank silhouette of a man or [ Read More... ]