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Increase your Blog user registrations

December 28, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Makingmoney with your blog is not easy  and a fundamental thing  for making money on your blog is  readers or eyeballs to your blogs. Rss subscriptions , feed readers ,email subscriptions can certainly  portray the value  of your blog and its worth.

Look at any successful blogger and  he is sure to have  a good rss feed subscriber count or email count or then most importantly  a very high user count for his blog.  Many bloggers new to the scene fake the  user counts or then subscribers just to increase thier value of thier blog , but most of the time  these sort of tactics don’t work in the long run.

subscribe by email registrations users

Getting new subscribers like subscriptions on red bull

Recently  by accident  i realized how my  subscriber count to one of my blogs  started getting hit  with user registrations like it was on powerade or  red bull or something. This blog started to  get user registrations via the word press user registration button. All that it took to get my user registrations count from like 3 in a week to atleast  average 5 to 10 in  day regularly past the last 4 weeks now. Now i know that this is not  massive numbers  but considering the  not so massive hits that this blog gets its a very good conversion rate. Besides , what i am trying to focus on here is “ How you can increase your blog subscribers” .  I am sure  if you have a bigger blog  with bigger  number of hits  the ratio will do your blog   some good and come out with a nice registration ratio.

After analyzing the page  i realized it could be only one thing  “the post that i had posted as a featured post on the page”. I have not removed the featured post from the blog for the past 3 weeks due to my user subscriber count increasing. The post is an article on  the worlds fastest  car debuting on the Indian market and the post is in  a Indian stock market / Business blog ( blog not disclosed  due to obvious reasons). The post contained  high resolution photos of the bugatti veyron  and gave a good article on the car  as well as a very brief message to traders in  the market. Well the subscriber count has just been pouring in since then. As the content of the post regarding stock market was minimal  and the photos was the attraction of the post ,i would assume the  registration user count for the blog increased because of these photos  , as nothing else has changed in the blog.  The subscribe to button is placed right next to the first glossy photo ( on the left of it ) for people to subscribe to the blog by email.

This certainly goes to prove  that people can certainly  be attracted to register as a user to a blog  just based on good visuals and nice placement of  pics on the blog targeting the right audience with the right pics.

increase your email subscriber count

Image of the new subscribers  that have been pouring into my email account  since the change in the blog  post.

New subscribers  rss feed etc

Now also to keep in mind  that the  users that would frequent this blog would mostly be  stock traders or then people in the finance industry who are either quite well off or then  have some nice spending money and when you have a million dollar pics of the worlds fastest car , they  sure can be tempted  to hit the subscribe button  just to get informed of more nice eye candy like this just in case the blog has more similar stuff being posted soon.

Hope you learned something from this  and have a go at increasing your subscriber count. Would appreciate any feedback from experiences you have had doing this.  Good luck !!

Filed Under: Email, India, Subscribers, Tutorial, wordpress Tagged With: Email subscribers, Featured, Feed, RSS

wpmu WORDPRESS 3.0 AND BUDDY PRESS- PART 3

June 26, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Whats new with wordpress 3.00 , WPMU and buddy press

THE GAME HAS CHANGED.  WITH THE RELEASE OF wordpress  3.0 my plan to install and work with WMPU and buddy press has been taken to a entirely new level.

If you have been following my blog , my previous posts ( Part 1 Part 2 ( this one )  == Part 3 to come ) you would know that i was posting my journey to get  WordPress multi sites installed on my blogs and also a review of wordpress and installation procedures and tips and advice.

With the release of wordpress 3.0 , the game has changed and now  wpmu is shipped with your wordpress installation allowing you to make your wordpress blog into a multi user blog without having to go through a separate process to get  multi user wordpress blog installed.

I will be dumping my  previous multi user blogs  to go through the installation of the New wordpress 3  and  WPMU blogs with the new wordpress 3.00. so follow me as  i  go through this journey once again.Hopefully this time it will be quick and with less bugs and technical  obstructions and problems.

wordpress 3.00 WPMU and Buddy press

Here are  the new features in wordpress 3.00

  • WordPress and WordPress MU have merged, allowing the management of multiple sites (called Multisite) from one WordPress installation.
  • New default theme “Twenty Ten” takes full advantage of the current features of WordPress.
  • New custom menu management feature, allows creation of custom menus combining posts, pages, categories, tags, and links for use in theme menus or widgets.
  • Custom header and background APIs.
  • Contextual help text accessed under the Help tab of every screen in the WordPress administration.
  • Ability to set the admin username and password during installation.
  • Bulk updating of themes with an automatic maintenance mode during the process.
  • Support for shortlinks.
  • Improved Custom Post Types and Custom Taxonomies including hierarchical (category-style) support. (Try the Custom Post Type UI or GD Custom Posts And Taxonomies Tools plugins to see the possibilities.)
  • A lighter admin color scheme to increase accessibility and put the focus more squarely on your content.

and here is a nice breakdown of the new features that  wordpress 3.00 has at this blog here >> Nettutsplus blog and for the official wordpress 3.0 features and highlights page go here: http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.0

Installing multi sites (network ) Like WPMU on wordpress 3.00

In wordpress 3.00  the WPMU feature is called creating network

Create a Network

In WordPress 3.0, you now have the ability to create a network of sites. To enable the Network menu item, you must first define multisite in the wp-config.php file.

Open up wp-config.php and add this line above where it says /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */:

define('WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE', true);

Notes

  • Giving WordPress Its Own Directory will not work in WordPress 3.0 with multisite enabled. It interferes with the member blog lookup.
  • You cannot create a network in the following cases:
    • “WordPress address (URL)” is different from “Site address (URL)”
    • “WordPress address (URL)” is used IP address such as 127.0.0.1 or port number other than ‘:80’, ‘:443’.
      • Use ‘localhost’ instead of ‘127.0.0.1’, if on local computer.

(See wp-admin/network.php network_step1() for more detail)

check for more detqails here : http://codex.wordpress.org/Create_A_Network

Google sitemaps and wordpress 3.00 Multiuser blogs problem

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Goggle sitemaps plugins does not seem to work with the multisite  installed as of now .. check this space for further news. I got this message when i activated wordpress 3.00  network ( or wpmu)

Google XML Sitemaps is not multisite compatible.

Unfortunately the Google XML Sitemaps plugin was not tested with the multisite feature of WordPress 3.0 yet. The plugin will not be active until you disable the multisite mode. Otherwise go to active plugins and deactivate the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to make this message disappear

Incidentally i did have a problem with the wp-config not saving in its original format after applying the multi user code . and tried another fix  i  copied the code into wp-config and just closed notepad and it asked me to save and i clicked yes ..instead of saving first ( it getting changed )and  then closing.. you will understand this better only if you also run into this problem

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Filed Under: 2010, Software, Solution, Tutorial, Wordpress 3.0, WPMU Tagged With: 2010, Software, Websites, wordpress 3.0

Buddy press and wordpress Multi user – Part 2

June 19, 2010 by admin Leave a Comment

Well if you are looking for part 1 its here  – Part 1 Buddypress and WPMU

Getting to know WordPress multi user and Buddy press

Part 1 talked about  the basics  features and differences between these  two blogging softwares  ( WORDPRESS MULTI USER AND BUDDY PRESS )as i  try and get more familiar with them. i  installed the wpmu and did everything  right  thanks to hese 2 links on You tube .

WPMU AND  BUDDY PRESS

Installing WPMU or wordpress multi User  tutorials  on you tube

 

Installing WordPress MU (WPMU) Part 1

Installing WordPress MU (WPMU) Part 2 ( the guy plugs hostgator  , but the tutorials arte pretty good  and actually works ..pls do everything in sequence as mentioned for it to work in the first go )

So everything was installed beautifully , then  i created my first blog  from within the admin panel of wpmu  and “SHUCKS”  . it just  kept giving some internal eror.

At this stage i was starting to lean towards the simple  buddy press plugin that  does a nice job of encouraging people to register with your site with its nice features like creating your  profiles, interacting  with each other on the blog ,  and  able to post to the blog as well ( though members cant start thier own blogs on the server like you can do with WPMU )

WPMU INTERNAL EROR FIX – Solution

So with the internal eror problem appearing  i did a bit of google searching  and found out this file fix. Apparently  if you change the .htaccess file  to this it will work . Here is the link to the fix i got http://www.thepowerofk.com/blog/help/wpmu/wordpress-mu-htaccess-file-change/

This definitely fixed it and my blog was  appearing now . I think it was probably something to do with my wpmu being installed in  a sub directory other than the main blog  and the change in the htacess file 1st line as mentioned in the link above fixed it up.

The blog is working now  but it takes and awful lott of time for the subdomain blog to load up now ,,i have to figure out if its the server problem ( dre3amhost ) or then  a configuration problem that is lowing it down ..more in part 3.. 🙂

Part 1   Part 2 ( this one )  == Part 3 to come

Filed Under: Blogger Tools, BloggerTools, BuddyPress, Guide, Software, Solution, Tutorial, wordpress, wordpress themes, WPMU Tagged With: 2010, Guide, Software

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