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Make your website faster with CDN

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One of the best way to speed up the loading  time of your blog or website  is by using a Content Delivery Network or CDN. What a CDN does is distribute your blog content to hundreds of servers around the world instead of just one making it load in seconds. It works a bit like the bit torrent principle.

With most normal web hosting, your blog or website is housed in a single shared or dedicated server. Most web hosts try to locate their data centers tospeedy mirror CDN Fast loading website blog logo be as central to as much of the population as possible with most mainly being in the US.

For example, Bluehost has their headquarters in the US but their servers could be in INDIA. This provides good load time for the majority of readers from INDIA but not necessarily the  readers further away in the US or Australia on the other side of the world. A Content Delivery Network fixes this problem.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A content delivery network or content distribution network (CDN) is a system of computers containing copies of data, placed at various points in a network so as to maximize bandwidth for access to the data from clients throughout the network. A client accesses a copy of the data near to the client, as opposed to all clients accessing the same central server, so as to avoid bottlenecks near that server.

Make slow loading websites faster with CDN

By bringing all  your Blog content closer to your readers’ nearest connection point, your blog will have much quicker load  times and less wait time for your readers. A faster loading site not only makes your visitors happy, it will also help you rank better with Google.

A large part of good seo Now takes into consideration load time as well, specially noticed by search engines like google which can also affect your ranking if the load time is slow for your blog. A  fast loading blog will definitely help rank your blog higher than a slow loading blog.

How To Get a Speedy CDN Service for FREE

Until recently, only big sites used Content Delivery Networks because they were quite expensive. However, with advances in technology, it is now possible for even the smallest blog take advantage of the increased speed potential offered by a CDN. Thank to a service call Speedy Mirror, you can now get it for FREE!

Speedy Mirror is just that. The service takes the content of your blog and mirrors it across a network of servers around the world making it easy for a person in India  or Australia or Canada  to get quick acesss to your blog like it was just next door. This ensures that no matter where you readers are, they will be getting the quickest load time possible. The best thing about the service is you can try it for free.

With Speedy Mirror’s current offer  you can set up a CDN for your blog for free and use the service for up to 50GB of data transfer. Depending on how much data your blog consumes, this can last you from ten days  to over a year. Once the 50GB is used up, you can stop using it or you can purchase more data at only 3.5 cents per gig. This is the lowest CDN price I’ve found on the Net (MaxCDN starts at 9.9 cents per gig).

How To Set Up a Speedy Mirror CDN service

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Sign up for a free account at Speedy Mirror. You will get sent a confirmation Email, Once you confirm your email address, you’ll be able to log into the control panel and set up a new mirror. You can set up as many mirrors as you like for as many blogs as you like. Just click the Mirrors link and then click the Add New Mirror button.

Give a name for your new mirror and enter the URL of your blog then hit the Detect and Save button. Within a few seconds, your mirror will be ready to use. Further instructions are available at the website

Install W3 Total Cache for easy CDN USE

After setting up your mirror, the next thing you have to do is install a wordpress  free plugin called  W3 Total Cache. W3 Total Cache offers transparent Content Delivery Network integration.

Even if you don’t plan to use a CDN service, I recommend you install W3 Total Cache on your blog.It’s the best caching software for WordPress that I’ve ever used.

w3 cache setup for CDN

From the General Settings of the W3 Total Cache control panel, enable CDN and choose Mirror as the CDN Type. Save the changes then go to the CDN Settings page and scroll down until you get to Configuration. Enter the URL to your Speedy Mirror blog and click Add CNAME. Click the Test Mirror button to make sure it’s working then save the changes.

Your blog is now mirrored around the world!

Before and After Test Results

Using the Website Speed Test tool at iWeb Tool, you can measure  the before  and after speed tests on your blog which will show the huge difference in loading times.

Because Speed Mirror is free to start, there is absolutely no reason why you should not use it. Setting up an account is free, the first 50GB of data is free and W3 Total Cache is free. This is by far the best free way  to test it to see the benefit before you opt for a full paid account.

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Anyone who signs up for a Speedy Mirror is automatically eligible to be part of their affiliate program.

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Best free WordPress 3.0 themes

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WordPress 3.00 has just been released , but there are still not a lot of “wordpress 3.00 theme” makers catching up with the new release  and we are yet  to see most of the  theme makerd upgrade their existing  themes to make use of the new features.

 

 

Download wordpress 3.0 theme

Getting free wordpress 3.o themes or even normal  wordpress themes are not hard , if you just type “wordpress 3.0 theme  download” in Google UK or torent sites  you would get some sites  hosting some free and free premium  themes , but  word press 3  themes have not been released in the market and it is not advisable  to get themes from these places because sometimes they have some  malicious code inserted by  malicious people.

The new flexibility in the  menu links , picture  background for the top bar  and multi – user functionality of the new wordpress 3.0 are good features released in this new version. catch more on this here , and here and here.

Free wordpress 3.0 themes

1. Morning After – WordPress magazine-styled theme, with more than 100,000 downloads to date it is also by far the most popular. It is now fully WP 3.0 compatible.
The Morning After Home


Live Demo

2. Structure is a WP 3.0 theme available in four variants, all based on an attractive and effective minimalist style. This theme will integrate seamlessly with any established blog.
Structure Home
Live Demo

3. Default WordPress 3.0 theme.
Twenty Ten
Live Demo

4. The premium quality Magazeen theme is a two column magazine layout and style, its been designed with the main focus being on typography, grids and its overall magazine-feel.
Magazeen Home
Live Demo

Wordpress Theme

Download & Details |  Demo

5. Gadget is one of the Best and nice finish  theme available for WordPress 3.0 right now and good for a gadget or personal blog.
Gadget Home
Live Demo

Word Press 3.02 Themes – Links found on net

Please check to see if some of them are truly  wordpress 3.0 enabled as some  have been reported to not be fully compliant word press 3.0 enabled themes. The good ones will be definitely  saying they are fully word press 3,0 enabled on their respective websites.

Increase your Blog user registrations

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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.

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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 !!

Buddy press and wordpress Multi user – Part 2

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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

Get Multi user blogs on wordpress

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I wanted to create something like this for a long time and i was looking in all the wrong places. I searched for  “wordpress cms themes” on google I searched for “forum blogs” and “multi user blogs” etc but got nowhere. The suddenly while browsing one of my favorite  forums i chanced upon a thread  “wpmu Blogs” and ended up doing more research.

Buddypress & WPMU for multi user blogs

Turns out , its just what  i was looking for so long. With “WPMU” or “wordpress Multi blogs” you can install it have have thousand of wordpress blogs from that one install and give permission to their people to run blogs of their own under your domain or hosting.

in my quest for this new  multi user blog i also  came across the “buddy press plugin” , for which i did not know much about and got it added to  my wordpress install. Turns out it give nice added functionality  like unique user profiles can be set up, and  you can  have your own activity rss feed  and connect to other users of the blog. So buddy press is certainly a good plugin for a more interactive blog.

Buddy press sample Wpmu demo

If you install buddy press on a WPMU which is a multi user blog , you get many more added benefits liek a very large  blogging community that can speak  and interact with each other.

So follow me  as i experiment more with Buddypress and WPMU “wordpress Multi User blogs”. in the meantime check out some blogs that are online that use buddy press and WPMU

Blogs on Buddy press and WPMU

1. Harvey Norman Gadget blog

2. Tosh O

3. H mag

4. New York Times

5. Crikey.com.au

wpmu blogs crikey australian ebsite

Here is what wordpress MU does !!
Features
  • Everything WordPress does.
  • Scaling to tens of millions of pageviews per day.
  • Unlimited users and blogs.
  • Different permissions on different blogs.
  • Ambiguity about how to pronounce its name
    • A campus wide social network for your university, school or college.
    • An internal communication tool for your company.
    • A niche social network for your interest topic.
    • A focused social network for your new product.
    • What can I use BuddyPress for?

    BuddyPress is built to bring people together. It works well to enable people with similar interests to connect and communicate. Some of the fantastic uses might be:

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

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