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Adding an image in a post not only makes it more attractive but users tend to read posts with images as well. To me image is as important as a good title because both can lead to visitors reading the rest of the blog. Problem with Images is that they can reduce the load time of your blog making it less appealing to people with slow connections and people browsing through mobile devices. With new technologies introduced everyday more and more people are browsing the web through mobile devices so its always a good idea to keep your blogs load time at an acceptable level.

How to Maximize ?

• Try to save your images in a low file size format , for example saving as JPG is much better than saving as a bmp.
• Use online tools to optimize the image , This free tool might come in handy.
• You can also insert the image as a thumbnail, but this should be done according to the situation and always add a note saying click to enlarge with it , not all your visitors are internet savvy people.

Things to avoid

• When saving the image in another format be mindful about the quality of the image , your fast loading image is worthless if readers cant view it properly.
• Adding irrelevant images for the sake of adding images

Conclusion

Adding images can improve the quality and the attractiveness of your post , but you should be mindful of the load time of your blog because researches have shown that 1/3 of visitors leave a blog if it takes around 6-8 seconds to load. If you know of any other method or internet tool that can optimize your images feel free to share them in the comments.

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One way backlinks to the pages of a domain give it authority in Google over time. One strategy to gain these backlinks is to bookmark your content in social marking sites that do not use the ‘nofollow’ tag. Generally speaking, the higher the PageRank (PR) of the site, the better.
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In this tutorial I will assume you have been installed Wordpress to your host’s root directory either by manual install or by Fantastico installer provided by your hosting company.I hope this will help my comrades who are (hopefully) willing to follow my steps by having self-hosted blog. Of course this tutorial is originally written by myself based on my experience, so if you want to copy it to your please give me some credits by writing linkback to this article and please don’t modify the author name.

Errr… If you don’t have any Wordpress blog installed on your host and you want to start blogging, you should get it now. Most of hosting companies nowaday provides a fantastic "Fantastico Installer" that will guide you through installation process without even touching the source code and that damn-complicated-for-beginner mySQL database.

One more assumption is that the wordpress you have is at least version 2.5.1 because there’s some difference in the administration menu with the old version. Currently I am using the 2.6 version (the latest one when I’m writing this post). Try to always upgrade your WP installation, because there will be always nifty changes and feature in it.

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I found this when surfing on some hacking sites. But the step was a little complicated, so I’ll simplify it for you. Come on, we often have some secret files that must not revealed to anyone else. We will make a RAR (type of archive similar to that famous ZIP) files that look and act as image file (JPG in this case). No, we won’t talk about steganography or encryption or something. All we need is an access to command prompt and you should get a RAR file concealed in JPG file.

Okay, let’s go straight to the first step.

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I found this trick when searching through tutorial archives in my 80Gigs crowded hardisk. Haha, it’s worth to try. I dunno can it be applied in shared connection, because in Indonesia most common user use warnet (cyber café) to access internet.

Here we go…

A nice little tweak for XP. Microsoft reserve 20% of your available bandwidth for their own purposes (maybe for updates and interrogating your machine etc..)

Here’s how to get it back:

1. Click Start > Run…

2. Type gpedit.msc

3. Point to this location :

Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Network > QOS Packet Scheduler > Limit Reservable Bandwidth

4. Double click on Limit Reservable bandwidth. It will say it is not configured, but the truth is under the ‘Explain’ tab

5. "By default, the Packet Scheduler limits the system to 20 percent of the bandwidth of a connection, but you can use this setting to override the default."

6. So the trick is to ENABLE reservable bandwidth, then set it to ZERO.

7. This will allow the system to reserve nothing, rather than the default 20%.

8. Tested on XP Pro and 2000

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Most hosting companies offer a variety of bandwidth options in their plans. So exactly what is bandwidth as it relates to web hosting? Put simply, bandwidth is the amount of traffic that is allowed to occur between your web site and the rest of the internet. The amount of bandwidth a hosting company can provide is determined by their network connections, both internal to their data center and external to the public internet.

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Here I would like to talk about different types of blogs and the purposes of those blogs. Basically, there are three main types of blogs, and I will describe them below.

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Even wondered how to cut your post to two section? The first is located on the index page, and the rest needs you to click the permalink or the readmore link to read and comment. This trick will give you more pageviews rather than not using it. It’s even encourage the reader to give you a comment because on the default (without readmore) there’s a big chance they will leave the page as soon as they finished reading.. It’s very simple, here’s the way for some of you who don’t know how.

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Hey, don’t think it’s a sponsored review I write for Friendster (from now on, I will abbreviate it FS). It’s based on my personal experience as their client (or whatever they called it) for three years from my first year at High School.

Friendster Features :

Friendship  Social Networking

Profile commenting

Photo upload (up to 1 MB each)

Photo commenting

Private message

Bulletin board

Classified ads

Blogging

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Look at my URL, you get it? www.strifeblog.com ~  I merely put the easy-to-remember aspect to the domain naming. But in the business and SEO world, there are some more important things to keep in minds when choosing a domain name.

Choosing a domain name… hmm, is it sounds easy? I spent some days to think for a domain name for this blog, it delayed me in hosting purchase :). Not so SEO friendly anyway, but i love this domain name

Something important is  wherever you host your blog at, try to use dot com TLD (Top Level Domain) at all cost. Because a dot com TLD give you more benefit than any other. First, it’s a typical and most popular top level domain name in the world. Second, it gives impression that you do blogging seriously. Third, think it yourself

Register a domain name is easy, but choosing a good name is painful !

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