The transition to WordPress & self hosting: 1million1year.net/blog

These days the trends in blogging are:
1. get a domain name for your blog (well, I have a few...I recommend GoDaddy.com);
2. get a self hosting solution.

The 2 features allows you to have better control over your work....If you want to monetize your blog, then you have to do it seriously. You can't afford that your work for a few months or years to be on other people's hands!

Also, by having a domain name, you increase your search engine ranking.

As far as I've seen, the greatest majority of professional bloggers & Internet Marketers, choose WordPress - state-of-the-art publishing platform...When I've started my "1 Million in 1 Year Challenge", my previous amateur-blogging experience was with Blogspot and small with Wordpress, so I thought I can choose the same. But as daily I try to learn more & improve, I've reached the conclusion that WordPress is the best choice, so from now on, you can follow me on my new blog (I've imported the posts from here):

www.1million1year.net/blog

Soon enough I promise you to come with a more professional looking theme, like "big guys of blog": John Chow, Problogger, Yaro Starak, etc.

I wish you all funny & profitable blogging, see you at my new blog address:
www.1million1year.net/blog

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Vote me if you need The Change!

Motto:
"Express yourself, don't repress yourself!"
( Dj vj Luca feat Madonna / Human nature)

As some of you have noticed on the right side of my blog, there is a poll, where you can express very fast what you think about what I do:



And it's fills me with positive energy to see that so many people think that I will succeed:P



Hurry up and VOTE! You still have only...307 days left!!! :D

PS...I have many reasons to think that one of those who rated me positively is John Reese. You remember my Youtube video with him and Twitter.com? Next time I show you what was the impact upon my online business.

Make money blogging with John Chow!

One very easy way to start your online business is with a blog. You can do it in 3 steps:

1.Choose a market, a domain, a niche

When choosing a market, watch 3 aspects:
-It has to be about a domain that people are interested. Make some google (re)searches and see how many products are offered on that market.
-Are people buying on Internet those products?
-How passionate you are about that market?

Example:
If you love cars, you can blog about it and join the affiliate program of Ebay (before runned by CJ.com):
http://www.motors.ebay.com/
https://www.ebaypartnernetwork.com/files/hub/en-US/index.html

Internet Marketing (what I do) it's also a huge market which grows exponentially, and do it well, can be profitable!

2. Choose a blog platform

For starting a blog you have a lot of options. The most used are Wordpress, Blogspot, LiveJournal & TypePad. I would personally recommend 2:

- Blogger of Google http://www.blogger.com/home
I like it very much because it seems easy to use and it gets very well indexed by Google, the no 1 search engine.

- Wordpress http://wordpress.org/
It is considered the most complex platform for blogging. For some adjustments, you will probably need a specialist help if you don't know too much about programming.

3. Join some Affiliate Programs
Some companies have their own affiliate programs (like the above of Ebay.com). Others, they manage affiliate through a third party known as Affiliate Networks:
http://www.clickbank.com/
http://www.commissionjunction.com/
http://www.linkshare.com/

4. "Have A Consistent Posting Frequency" & learn from “moguls” like John Chow:
http://www.johnchow.com/

I recommend John Chow because this is how I recommend myself: Not a "get-rich-quick" schemer! Listen to John, and then you'll understand why I have "1 year" in my domain name:

"Very few normal businesses can be started for $8.95 (cost of a domain name) and glow into a $400,000 operation in three years. But that is the power of blogging if you take this seriously and continue to work at it on a consistent basis."

http://www.johnchow.com/how-to-make-2009-your-best-blogging-year

Anyway, if you still search for a "get-rich-quick-scheme", try Mr Rich Jerk!

If he disappoints you, you can't accused him he didn't warned you about his ...jerkness!

Happy blogging!

PS...and if you consider yourself a "too experienced Internet marketer" for my advices, then go to.............John Chow's blog, share your expertise & drive some "damn" traffic :P

John Reese ("The 1 million in 1 day man") follows me! (on Twitter.com)

Who is John Reese?

415,000 results on Google Search...mmmm, not bad!

http://www.income.com/

http://www.marketingsecrets.com/index.html

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/

Want to know more about John Reese, his products and other gurus of Internet Marketing? Subscribe to http://www.1million1year.net/ with your First name & Email address to get a big list (PDF document) with "The Names of Internet Marketing".

I follow John Reese on Twitter for a few weeks, and these days he started to follow me, too. If you are into his lists, you received the email "Life-Changing. Yes, I said it." where he informs also about Twitter: "DON'T DROP THE "TWITTER" BALL - ACT NOW!". It's enough said, I will also add one of his statements: "[Twitter] It's very POWERFUL stuff."

PS...John Reese - "The 1 million in 1 day man"??? I want, 2! (millions) http://www.1million1day.net/