Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 November 2015

Host your Website on DropBox for Free

Things you Need

  • DropBox Account
  • Pancake Account
First of all create your DropBox account which is free of cost with 5GB storage. If you want more than you can easily get extra 2GB storage for each referral.

Create Pancake Account

Now create Pancake Account with your working email and sign in into your account.Now first thing you have to do here is to connect your DropBox account with Pancake account. Just click on DropBox link located at the top of that page and than select “Reconnect to entire DropBox” link.
reconnect to dropbox
After connecting click on create New Project button and you will see a form like mention in below picture. Film the form with your details and choose the folder from your DropBox account where you want to upload your files.
pan cake new project

How to Upload Files

Now you need to upload the HTML files and images of your website to your DropBox account. Login into your account and click on Apps > PanCake.io folder. If the folder doesn’t exist than you need to synchronize your account again with DropBox. Upload all your files here including images.
dropbox files upload

Attach Custom Domain

After creating your PanCake project your domain will look like this Askmohsin.pancakeapps.com so if you want to redirect it to top level domain than you have to add it in settings page. Click on your project link and than settings tab. Here enter the full domain name which you want to attach with your PanCake sub-domain.
final step

Add cName Record

Final step is to add the cName record in your domain control panel. Login into your domain control panel and select your domain.
add cname recordHere select the DNS Zone File Editor and add the cName record like the one mention below.
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Sunday, 8 November 2015

BEST TOOLS I USE TO CREATE WONDERFUL BLOGS

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT BEST BLOGGING TOOLS
I have been in the field of Web Development and developed several projects/blogs over the years. Out of the box, there are tons of tools available in the market but I decided to share what I use and what works best for me. So, I created this page to let you know about the things that are useful as well easy to go
DOMAIN NAME REGISTRATION:
Godaddy - Blogging CEOGodaddy: I have used Godaddy for more than a year. Once I got an issue about a domain name and called their staff, the response I got was really awesome. Not only my problem got resolved in just 20 minutes but the man (support person) completely co-operated with me. So, I prefer to use Godaddy as it is the best Domain seller in the world and hosts millions domains.
Namecheap - Blogging CEONamecheap: Another Domain seller I use and recommend to use is Namecheap. It is my favorite one, I have hosted some of my domain and never got any issue.
So, for me both of the work best.
WEB HOSTING:
Bluehost - Blogging CEOBluehost: The one and only superb and WordPress Officially recommended Web Hosting Company in the world having more than 2 million websites in the world. Bluehost is my favorite and most of my sites are hosted with them. They always solve my problem on “Online Chat”. They support multiple domains to be used for the same account you purchase with them. 1-click automatic installation, Reliable, Powerful and Excellent Customer service. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND to go with Bluehost if you are starting out first time.
Hostgator - Blogging CEOHostgator: Another is also my favorite hosting provider I use and host my blogs and websites. They provide 24//7/365 Support and 45 days Money Back Guarantee. A powerful company with 99.9% uptime. Host any site you want and you will feel comfortable as I do :)
Hostgator 25% Discount Coupon Code: Use “Bloggingceo25” as coupon to get 25% discount.
THEMES AND PLUGINS:
Themeforest - Blogging CEOThemeforest: One of the biggest platform for superb, fantastic and clean design look of wordpress themes you will love to use on your blog or website. I always use Themeforest for my all blogs and clients websites. Tons of Fully customizable and optmized themes are available on Evanto Marketplace (Themeforest). Some of which I prefer to use are:
Avada – Envision – Jarida – Sahifa – Saladmag
WordPress Plugins: I always love to use the most important and necessary plugins that work best as well as are easy to customize and do not overload my website. Here are some of the plugins I use.
WordPress SEO –> For my Blog SEO Purpose
Bulletproof –> For blog security
Mailchimp for WP –> To collect Email Subscription
Lockdown WP –> To Hide WordPress Admin URL
Pretty Link Lite –> To make clean and beautiful affiliate links
Jetpack –> WordPress most powerful Plugin
Wp Smush.it –> For Image Optimization
SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION (SEO)
For seo, I have some paid tools as well as free tools. However as a Newbie, I strongly recommend to useLongtail Pro as it helps a lot to find most profitable keywords that we can target for our blog. However here are some necessary tools that I sue for my seo purpose which you can use too to get maximum results.
Longtail Pro - Blogging CEOLongtail Pro: As I told, the one and only tool I prefer newbies as well as experts to go with and find good keywords. Most important functions of LTP is, it tells the Keyword Competition, Competitors Information for particular keywords, helps to find long tail keywords, also finds available Domain TLDs. Hence it is the superb tool which I always trust and use. Link
ahrefs - Blogging CEOAhrefs: The most important tool which helps to find and track your links. It completely shows anchor text distribution charts which can be useful to track percentage of any anchor text used for creating links.
TRACKING AND ANALYTIC:
Google Analytics - Blogging CEOGoogle Analytics: One of the best, most recommended, and helpful tool to track each and every visitor to your site. Google Analytics is free and wonderful tool that I always use in all of my blogs and websites. It shows, Real Time Visitors data, geographical, country wise, city wise, organic traffic results, and much more.
Statcounter - Blogging CEOStatcounter: Another free tool which I use. I love this tool as it is very easy to use. The best thing I love about it, by simple click navigation I get an overview of my daily, monthly and yearly stats of my sites.
EMAIL MARKETING:
Mailchimp - Blogging CEOMailChimp: An easy to use, wonderful Email Marketing system that allows you to collect 2000 subscription for free. I always recommend newbies to start with MailChimp. They are easy and superb.
BLOG SECURITY:
Bulletproof Security Plugin: My most favorite that I have been using for more than 3 years. I feel comfort with it, it shows the recommended setting through which you can protect your blog easily.
Lockdown WP: Another plugin I use for security purpose of my blog is by hiding its wordpress admin url page that is by-default “/wp-admin” (after your domain name). So, this plugins helps to lock it and creates a URL of your choice.
All the above are the best blogging tools I suggest everyone to try and use. Don’t forget to share if you like this page for your friends.
Disclaimer: It’s all about the tools I use and what has worked for me. I don’t guarantee them to work for you as well, however if you utilize them in the right way, you are going to enjoy them. Most of the them have a affiliate link and I will make some commissions when you make any purchases using these links. But it doesn’t mean to share them for making some money at all but to let you know what exactly has worked for me. So, do a proper research before you purchase anything.

5 BEST WORDPRESS SEO PLUGINS FOR BETTER RANKING OF YOUR BLOG

Everybody wants better ranking, results and a long lasting position in search engines. But most of the people don’t follow even the basic SEO Techniques such as Quality Articles, Internal linking, page speed, proper navigation, keyword density and many other things that need to be focused.
However there are more than 50+ SEO Plugins available and almost more than 60% people use them everyday but most still do not know which one are the Best WordPress SEO Plugins they should use at their blog.
People Install WordPress and think its enough for better results as it is said (and obvious) that this CMS is the best, popular and Optimized but this does not mean at all you will not take care of further elements.
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MOST IMPORTANT FACTORS TO CONSIDER:
Title and Metas are properly setup
XML Sitemap is managed and linked to Webmaster
Fresh, Easy, High Quality, Human and SEO Friendly Content
Make sure content is Socialized (More and More Social Shares)
Now why am I writing this article as there are many available you can search? But to let you know exactly which Plugins I have been using over the years and have provided me the best results for my sites and for my clients too. As I said above, there are many, but the important and most amazing, I mean the Best Plugins are these which I have listed below. The reason to let you know about these is only mean to exactly show you how can you adopt a better ranking and position in search engine by just using them.
I am sure by simply setting up these plugins and making changes today, you are going to enjoy a boast in your ranking. So, stick to the post and see how exactly I am doing.
Note: The list below is based on my personal experience which I have tested over the years and I use with all of my WordPress sites.
#1: WORDPRESS SEO PLUGIN BY YOAST:
Wordpress SEO by YoastI have been using this since I started using WordPress and believe me, it is the one which I have found complete solution for my Blog.
Now I am not going to tell you more info about this plugin but you can read about it here. I am going to show you how exactly this helps me.
The very first reason for which I am using it, because it easily lets me setup my title and metas of either home page, inner post or pages. What you are really going to do is to set your own custom title and metas for every single thing you want. Otherwise leaving this point will let every search engine to use and show any title or meta on their own choice. So, how you can set them?
Setting up Title and Meta for Home Page:
Simply, by going to the option available in Yoast’s Plugin which you can find by simply moving your mouse over SEO available in your dashboard after when you have installed it.
Setting up Title and Meta for Home Page in WordPress SEO Plugin by YoastNow you will see a page where you can simple write your own. Just simply click on “Home” and write as I have done below.
Writing area for Title and Meta in Yoast PluginNow when you have setup your own custom title and meta, the search engine will exactly show what you have setup and the reason behind this is actually you are going to tell them what your site is all about.
Blogging ceo Appearance in Search EngineSetting up Title and Meta for Post and Pages:
Now for the home page we are done, what about the pages and post we create how can we set our own for them as well? Simply when you are creating, you will see a snippet preview at the end on editing page like below. In this image I have exactly shown how you can write your own and how this will appear in search engine.
Snippet Preview for Blogging CEO PostThis is how you are going to setup custom title, meta and meta keywords for your blog post. Now if you just observe above image, you can see an amazing feature “Focus Keyword”. Here you can see when I just put my focus keyword in which I want search engines to rank me at first page, then it starts telling where this keyword I have used and by highlighting them with green color, I can see I have used in all the places where it suggests. Now lets move to another option to learn more how you can improve more your content to get better ranking.
Page Analysis (Content Analysis):
If you observe the above image again, you will see 4 options are there. Lets move to “Page Analysis” to see what suggestion you can get more.
Paga Analysis with Yoast Plugin for Blogging CEOThis is the beauty of this plugin due to which I like it most. You see how many suggestions you got to make more better content. In the above image you can see, green, yellow and a little red color button. The green one are telling that I have done that and its better for me. The one with yellow marks and little red, need to be considered more.
Setting Up XML Sitemap:
XML Sitemap helps search engines to crawl your website easily. By doing so, you are going to help your own site to get better position and ranking is search results. You can read more about sitemap over Wikipedia page here and why it is necessary.
What my point is, this plugin also creates a beautiful structure of your blog sitemap which you can easily submit to webmaster tool of Google, Bing and others. Simply go “XML Sitemaps” option via options.
xml sitemap with yoast seo pluginAt this page, check the box and click on save setting and you will get your sitemap ready. Simply submit the URL in your webmaster and you are done.
xml sitemap link to submit in webmaster toolHere I will stop telling about its more features ðŸ˜€ because if I do so, the article will go so long and I will not be able to cover other seo plugins. But for the basic and or better optimization, this is what you can do with this. I will create another post regarding complete setup guidance about it. Now lets move to another one and see what you can do more and more to better optimize your content.
#2: SEO BY SQUIRRLY:
SEO by SquirrlyWhen it comes to content writing, SEO by SQUIRRLY is the only one which will help you to optimize your content for both Humans and Search bots with its live assistance while writing article. It is such a wonderful creation for both experts or non experts. Neil Patel and Brian Dean (internet marketers) also recommend to use this (including me ðŸ˜‰ ). Again you can read more about it here. Lets dig into it how it helps.
In sidebar while creating a post, you will see Squirrly Options where you can amazing things such as you can add focus keyword so this will check how well you are going to write your content and time by time when you keep on writing, it gives you live suggestion.
OK! Now lets add a focus keyword.
optimize for keyword with squirrly pluginWhen you have added, it will then analyze and starts giving your suggestion and information about how well you have optimized like below.
Just check what you have missed and simply fill that.
live assistance for content to optimize moreAs I said, the more you write and follow its instruction it will tell you what you have done by giving live alerts as below.
bold one keyword with squirrlyhuman friendly articleAmazing right? So, by this plugin you are going to super optimize your article.
#3: SEO CONTENT HELPER PLUGIN:
SEO Content HelperKeyword Density Optimization with SEO Content Helper made super easy. What if you are writing a super content but its actually not superb but a spam copy which will penalize or even de-index your blog? To be safe from this situation, you are here to go with this. Read more about how it works and lets take examples how it can help you.
Add Your Focus Keyword:
add focus keyword in seo content helperNow observe the red highlights and fill the gap.
Check Keyword Density and Optimize it:
keyword density of contentFor a better content and if you are really want to know secret ðŸ˜‰ I always try to maintain my density for every single word (as much possible as I can) lower than 1% because repetition of a single word again and again make no sense and search bots think you are spamming by doing so. So, analyze your content and observe which word you have used most and simply remove that by using synonyms or changing sentence.
#4: SEO PERMALINKS MODIFIER:
SEO Permalinks ModifierMost of newbies do not consider this much but believe, this is another factor that helps to rank better in search results. Short URL are always better. What WordPress does, it simply create a URL containing all common words what you use while making a title.
For Example:
5 Best WordPress SEO Plugin for Better Ranking of Your Blog:
So, wordpress will make a long URL like this.
bloggingceo.com/5-best-wordpress-seo-plugin-for-better-ranking-of-your-blog
As you can see in below image.
permalink before hitting save draftWhich is not only long but also look horrible to remember and write.
After hitting first time “Save Draft“, this will automatically remove stop and common words from URL and make it short and SEO Friendly (you can also edit yourself and force your own)
It became like this.
So, this is not only easy, short and easy to remember but also makes a sense to the point what this post is discussing about.
#5: SIMPLIFIED SOCIAL SHARING:
simplified social sharingNow what? You have superb and optimized content. Will you not let the people share it across maximum social platforms? The one I am using is Simplified Social Sharing (read more). This is simple and free plugin which adds beautiful plugins on your live post or pages.
social sharing button on blogging ceoThe more social signals (sharing) you get, the more are the chances to get better ranking in search results. Simply popularity makes your spot at first place easily :)
I hope you enjoyed reading out this article in which I have tried to discuss in detail what WordPress Plugins are best for your Blog SEO. Share it with your friends and wait for the next article :)