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If you are interested in this software, just go here http://bit.ly/9NESdX and enter your details to see the free video about it.

Have an outstanding day!

Erwin

1. Drive traffic to your blog. The first step to create money from your blog is to drive traffic to it. Thus, you must learn how to optimize your blog so search engines will index it. You can also use other traffic generating tools such as article marketing, forum posting, etc.

2. Optimize your blog name. Blog names, like any other domain names, must have these characteristics in order to drive traffic to your blog: Must contain relevant keywords, contains a maximum of 30 characters, easy to spell, easy to remember, and it must communicate what the whole blog is all about.

3. Advertise on your blog. This is the easiest way to convert your traffic to instant money. You can opt to use Google adsense and every time your visitors click these ads, you will earn instant cash.

4. Link building. Exchange links with other websites or blogs that share your blog topic. Remember, search engine will rank your blog based on the quantity and quality of links pointing to it.

5. Join paid blogging networks. You can also make money by writing your reviews and opinions on various products and services offered online.

6. Update your blog regularly. Give your readers something to look forward to every time they visit your blog. Post new articles, images, video or audio at least twice a week so you will not lose your readers interest.

7. Avoid grammar and spelling errors. Check your content to make sure that they are free from any error. Online users can get easily annoyed with grammar and spelling errors and take these as carelessness on your part.

8. Be different. Make sure that your blog standout. Offer unique content and unique blog design that showcase your personality.

With these 8 steps your surelly can have some ideas on how to make money with your blog. This article is just a guide, but a very powerful one if you know how to use it.

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Just a quick note. I have came across a website with free WP Themes. I know, that doesn’t sound out of the ordinary, but the themes that you will encounter are from great quality and very good in graphics.

Get your new WordPress Theme now: http://freewordpressthemeblog.info/

Have an oustanding day!

Coach Erwin

Smashing Mazagine has released the ‘WordPress Developer’s Toolbox’.

It is a quite large list of various tips, tricks, tutorials, documentation, resources, themes, design help and everything else in between for WordPress. As a matter of fact, I am surprised that it was not released as an “eBook”. I do wish that the data was organized better, with better linking within the article, better headings, smaller and fewer pictures and a better way to navigate. But the collection is quite large and there is lots of information there to browse through.

Check it out and become a experienced WordPress Developer.

I hope that you enjoy it.

Coach Erwin

Well, first of all, the process of upgrading your WordPress Software to the newest version is quite simple and easy. I will take you through the process step by step:

1. Go to http://wordpress.org/download and download the current WordPress version;
2. Once the download has completed, unzip the download;
3. Go the folder of the unzipped WordPress file and select the folder wp-content;
4. Under the folder ‘wp-content’, delete the themes folder;
5. Go back to the main WordPress folder, and delete the file config-sample.php;
6. Before uploading the new files to the server, it is recommended that you make a backup of your information. See post about backing up your files. (To be honest, I do not do a backup. Why, maybe being lazy and that until now that I have not encountered any problem. BUT if you are not sure, make a backup. I do not want to hear from anyone that I have told that you do not have to make a backup. WHEN YOU DECIDE NOT TO MAKE A BACKUP IS YOUR OWN DECISION AND RESPONSABILITY);
7. The last step that you MUST undertake before you upload the new files to the server, is disabling all your plugins. This is really important, as some plugins may not function correctly with the new WordPress version. SO DEACTIVATE ALL PLUGINS BEFORE UPLOADING THE FILES.
8. Now go to the FTP Manager and select on the server the folder where you have your WordPress installed;
9. Select on your local drive NOT the folder but the files and subfolders of the new version of WordPress, and upload them to the server;
10. Once the upload has been finished, open your webbrowser and type the following: yourdomainname/subfolder(if any)/wp-admin/upgrade.php/
11. And follow the instructions;
12. And that is it. Well done.

If you have any questions or doubts, let me know. Enjoy the new version of WordPress.

Coach Erwin

Coach Erwin uses phone/Skype to support you, and also uses, in need of, the Remote Assistance function with Windows Live Messenger.

A basic setup can be done in an one session of one hour, where you at the end:

• have WordPress installed and working;
• WordPress installed in your language, if needed;
• and have a blog ready to mold and use.

A more complete setup contains, next to the basic setup:

• support in uploading and installing your theme;
• installation and explanation of the most important plugins.

Want your WordPress Blog installed? Contact Coach Erwin at info@xxx-coach.com

Basic setup: €50 excl. VAT (to be paid before the session).

More Complete Setup: depending on your requirements.

To make the installation process as easy and quickly as possible, you will need to do the following steps before the session:

• have a webserver where you can have your blog. If you do not have one yet, Coach Erwin recommends Lonex. Coach Erwin already works more than 5 years with Lonex, and is really satisfied with their service and support.
• download the most current WordPress software version: Download .zip format or Download .tar.gz format
• have a FTP manager installed and functioning. Coach Erwin uses and recommends SmartFTP.

Your comments and feedbacks are more than welcome.

Enjoy the video and have a great and excellent day.

Coach Erwin

1. Go to http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_in_Your_Language and select your language from the list, and download the file to your hard disk.
2. Once it is unzipped, open your FTP Manager and select on the server where you installed the WordPress files, the folder ‘wp-content’.
3. Under the folder ‘wp-content’ create a subfolder named ‘languages’.
4. In your FTP Manager, on the harddisk browser, go to the place where you have unzipped the language file.
5. Select the file with extension ‘.mo’ and upload it to the folder wp-content/languages/
6. Finally, open the wp-config.php file, and go to line 17 (define (‘WPLANG’, ”);), and enter between the ‘ ‘ your language code. For Spanish from Spain that would be es_ES.
7. Save the wp-config.php file and upload it to the server.
8. And that is it. Well done. You have just installed WordPress in the language of your choice.

If you have any question, comment or feedback, feel free to use this post’s comment form.

Have a great and excellent day.

Coach Erwin

1. Download the latest WordPress:
   • Download .zip format
   • Download .tar.gz format
2. Uncompress the dowloaded WordPress file. I would suggest that you make a specific WordPress folder, as later on you will also download themes and plugins, and that way you will keep an easy overview.
3. Once uncompressed, login into the administration panel of your webhosting service, and create a MySQL database. (Please consult your webhosting service for support if needed, as creating a MySQL database differs from hosting service to hosting service). In one of the videos, I explain how you can do this if you have Lonex as hosting service.
4. Once you have created the MySQL database, you will need to configure the wp-config-sample.php file, which you find directly under the folder ‘wordpress’. When you have found the file, open it and you will have to change the following parts:
   define(‘DB_NAME’, ‘putyourdbnamehere‘);    // The name of the database
   define(‘DB_USER’, ‘usernamehere‘);     // Your MySQL username
   define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, ‘yourpasswordhere‘); // …and password
   define(‘DB_HOST’, ‘localhost‘);    // 99% chance you won’t need to change this value
   The fields that I have highlighted in yellow are those that you need to change. When done, just close the file and save it. !!!MAKE SURE THAT YOU SAVE IT AS IT IS, I.E. UNDER A .PHP EXTENTION!!!
5. Before you continue, you need to ask yourself the following question: how have you foreseen the structure of your domain name and blog. Basically, this question asks you if you are going to use this domain name solely for this blog, or if you are going to use in combination with other tools. If you are going to use it soley for the blog, than you can upload the wordpress files (next step) directly under the domain name. If not, than I would suggest to create a folder under your domain name and upload WordPress under that folder, as I have done with the XXX-Coach Blogexpert.
6. Open now your FTP manager, like SmartFTP (I really do recommend this one to Windows users as it is free), select all the folders (wp-admin,wp-content,wp-includes) and all the files, and upload it to your hosting server.
7. When the upload is completed, change the file name ’wp-config-sample.php’ to ‘wp-config.php’.
8. Open now your internet program (Internet Explorer, Firefox, …) and type the following url in the address path: yourdomainname/nameof folder(if any/wp-admin/install.php (example using this blog’s url: www.xxx-coach.com/blogexpert/wp-admin/install.php)
9. If you have done all steps correctly as mentioned herefore, you will be at the first page of installation, where you will have to type in your Blog Title, and your email address. !!!!MAKE SURE THAT YOU TYPE AN EXISTING EMAIL ADDRESS HERE AS YOU WILL RECEIVE AN EMAIL WITH YOUR ADMIN PASSWORD!!!
10. Click on the bottom ‘Install’.
11. Congratulations. Well done. Now click on the wp-login link and enter to your admin panel.
12. Last but not least, open your FTP manager and on the server, click on the folder wp-admin, and delete the file ‘install.php’. !!!!THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT AS THIS WILL PREVENT OTHERS TO REINSTALL WORDPRESS AND TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR BLOG!!!

I hope that this is an useful step-by-step install guide for WordPress. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave theme here in the comments’ form.

Have a great and excellent day, and enjoy your blogging.

Coach Erwin

First of all, what are plugins? A plugin is small piece of software that you upload and activate in WordPress, and that will give you extra features to WordPress. This is actually one of the main reasons why I suggest people to install the wordpress software on a hosted server. It allows you to install and activate all kinds of plugins, which you cannot do when you set up your account under WordPress.com.

The procedure for uploading and activating the plugins is quite simple, but I do recommend one thing: PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS OR README FILE BEFORE UPLOADING. I do speak out of own experience. I have uploaded one day a plugin without looking at the readme file, and was standing in front of a nightmare. So, read the readme file or installation first and carefully.

On top of this blog, you find the page ‘Used Plugins’. This is the place where you can see which plugins I use and recommend. If you want one or more of them, just click on the name, and you can download the plugin.

The sites that I recommend to look for plugins are the following:

• WordPress Plugin Database
• WordPress Plugins Offical Page
• WordPress Plugins Database
• WordPress Plugin Sort by Function at softplug.net

If you know of another interesting and good website that has a selection of plugins, please let me know by using the comment form with this post, and if the evaluation is good, I will add it to list and put your name in brackets to thank you.

I hope that this is helpful to you and happy blogging.

Coach Erwin