WordPress: How to install a WordPress theme

December 15th, 2009 by ytechcity

Okay, you already know how to install the latest version of WordPress and want to switch away from the default WordPress theme look, but have no idea how to do it? Here’s the tutorial for you, complete with screenshots so even a beginner can easily follow along. With this three-step tutorial you’ll have a new blog theme ready in no time.

There are a few automated ways to do this, but like our previous tutorial, we will be focusing on manual WordPress theme installation only. This tutorial assumes you already have WordPress installed on your host. It also assumes you are installing a “normal” theme, i.e. no advanced functionality that would require additional plugins or configuration.

Step 1: Download your theme of choice
Unfortunately WordPress can’t read minds, so you’ll have to pick out the theme you want to use. Call me biased, but some of the templates on our free WordPress themes page are quite nice. For this tutorial we’ll choose the Blue Green theme. Click the download link, and save the .zip file to your hard drive.

Extract the /blue-green/ folder only. All you have to do with Readme.txt is read it (which is why it’s called a readme file) and isn’t needed for the next step – uploading the theme to WordPress.

Step 2: Upload the theme directory to WordPress
Seems simple enough, right? It really is, if you know where to upload it. Use an FTP client such as FileZilla to connect to your hosting account. Navigate to where WordPress is installed and locate the /wp-content/themes/ directory. Upload the /blue-green/ directory it. After you’re done, it should look something like this.

The hard part is now out of the way. The next and final step is to activate the theme within your WordPress admin panel.

Step 3: Activate the theme within your WordPress admin panel
Login to your WordPress admin panel, and navigate to the Presentation tab. You should now be at a screen that looks like this.

Wow, look, you can already see the Blue Green screenshot below! WordPress reads the directory and searches for the screenshot image and stylesheet within it. Simply click on it, and your theme is activated.

That wasn’t so bad was it? WordPress makes it simple like that. If you still need help, feel free to ask in our general support forum for assistance. Feel free to leave a comment or subscribe to our feed if you liked this tutorial.

Blogging Tips : How to submit your blog to Search Engines

December 7th, 2009 by ytechcity

How to submit to Search Engines
Your site is setup and you are ready to advertise your website. So what happens now? The next step is to submit your website to Search Engines.

This is were most people are making mistakes. They submit their website every day or every week to Search Engines. I have read posts where people complain about not making any money, although they have submitted their website every day to the Search Engines.

If you don’t want your website considered as spam you should submit your website no more than once a Month, otherwise your site could be flagged as spam, and will not receive a lot of visitors. This can seriously harm your business.

If you want to use a free Search Engine submitter you can use Directory Submitter. Directory Submitter can increase your Google rankings quickly. With 1 mouseclick you can submit your website to different Website Directories. You can download the software for free.

Blogging Tips : Google Adsense for RSS Feed

November 29th, 2009 by ytechcity

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RSS means Rich Site Summary. It gives readers information about Updated changes of a website or blog. Website owners subscribe in the RSS FEEDS and visitors subscribe in those sites by their email & visitors get updated news of the Blogs.

We see most of websites owner provide rss feed to the reader. If you have not activated rss feed you can open it by feedburner. Google adsense allow blogger to earn money from adsense by showing ads in our blog or website. But do you know we can earn in rss feed also by showing adsense ads. Therefore, rss feed is important for blogger to earn money online.

Rss feed has several advantages. If any new post is published in that blog or website you will get that post’s summary by rss feed. So you will get all the recent posts in the same page. It will also save your time.

Blogging Tips : Another 10 Advertising Programs for your blog

November 10th, 2009 by ytechcity

Have you still remember my post regarding “Blogging Tips : Start earn money via 10 Advertising Programs“, it was talking about list of advertising programs or ad publisher network which allow us make money via our blog.

The majority of blog owners obtain most of their passive income through advertisements on their blogs. These ads can be placed anywhere on the blog, in the footer, beneath the header, or on the sidebars. Most blog owners want the ads to be as visible as possible since the advertisers are not going to pay to advertise on a blog site that buries their ad on an unseen page of the site. Also, with some programs, the blog owner only gets revenue if the advertisement is clicked by a viewer.

This post, i would like to extend this list up to 20, and give you more opportunity to make money online.

11. DoubleClick.com
Provides you with high quality advertisers which help you squeeze more revenue.

12. Bidvertiser
It gives you the option of blocking any ad you don’t want displayed on your website.

13. Valueclick
You will get quality advertisers here plus some very good support.

14. Indeed
Post job listings on your website. Look of the ads can be customized.

15. Blogads
Offers really high quality ads for your blog. Used by an exclusive network of bloggers.

16. Infolinks
Infolinks leads the In Text Advertising market with premium contextual ads.

17. Adify
Allows you to edit the content of the ads. You can even set your own prices!

18. PerformancingAds
PerformancingAds is a state of the art ad network, built from the ground up, by experienced publishers and advertisers

19. Direct Link Ads
Standard text link ads embedded links directly within the text content of web pages.

20. TNX.net
Sell links on every page of your website, instead of just the main page to thousands of advertisers.

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November 5th, 2009 by ytechcity

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