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My dear fellow, have you ever met such problem when you’re using wordpress: After you enter the username and password, you are brought to the logging page when you click the “Log In” button on the right at the bottom of the page. And you’re sure you have entered the right username and password, so you tried it again and again. Unfortunately, the same thing came up time after time.

Some hostease users reflected this phenomenon to us when they met such problem in the course of using wordpress. Taking a user who is using wordpress 3.1.1 for example, he told us that he was a newbie and met this serious problem when he is using wordpress to build his personal blog. And he has tried to click the “Lost Your Password?” on the logging in page, but it still didn’t work. Finally, he decided to install wordpress again. To his sadness, the same problem still came up after it was installed. And then he came to us.
Now I will share the tips with you all:

This problem was caused by the unique thing called cookie. That is, we should change the directory which is under the control of cookie. You can do it as the following tips:

First, log into your cPanel and find the file named “/wp-includes/pluggable.php”; then please modify the function called “wp_set_auth_cookie” in this file. You can use Ctrl+F to search this function if you’re using windows personal operating system such as XP and etc…

Find the former code:
setcookie($auth_cookie_name, $auth_cookie, $expire, ADMIN_COOKIE_PATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN, $secure, true);
And then change it to:
setcookie($auth_cookie_name, $auth_cookie, $expire, SITECOOKIEPATH, COOKIE_DOMAIN, $secure, true);
Click “Save” button and you’ll find you have solved this problem successfully.

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I have notice some of hostease’s customers build a blog or a website and only in a few days they could expect hundreds of thousands of visit, hence a lot of money come into their pockets. Unfortunately, what happens to these people not occurs to you. It is really heart-breaking for you when you try and try then fail to find any revenue from your blog. As we all know, most of us, bloggers, start blogging with the sole intention of earning money. Therefore, when you find it hard to make money from your blog, you need to find the reasons and try your best to solve these problems. Well, I am going to share you with 7 most probable reasons.

The first possible reason that I could reveal to you is you overlook the importance of server reliability:

No1. Blogging on Free or too Cheap Web Host
Web hosting services are paramount to any online business website or blogs. Every blog needs a web host in order to be presented on the internet. All blogger has a budget concern. To most of us, money is tight. Then you may as well go for a free web host or an extremely cheap hosting. I am very sorry to tell you that you will lose the game at the starting line because these free web hosts will simply means poor quality and too much downtime. You will not able to receive support, uptime guarantee, reasonable amount of resource. Choosing this kind of service can only wreck your blog. As a result, to prevent outages and downtime in the future, you should sign up with decent and affordable hosting companies. If you are like the above mentioned bloggers who hosted their blogs with hostease, then you probably have unlimited resources, a variety of other features and most importantly uptime guarantee.

No.2. Extreme Desire of MONEY
I very agree with someone who said: one serious and constant defect in human character is desire. Most of us have the great desire to make money than we need to live comfortably on. Due to this instinct, so many people start blogging with only money on their mind, which prevent them from writing high quality content and become ineffective bloggers. Always remember that keeping your readers happy and building a large group of loyal readers is the best and the only way to make your blogging success in the long run. Believe me in this point, or you will never success.

No.3. Your Blog Traffic is Not Large Enough
If content is the most important thing in blogging, then traffic is the most crucial thing on your way to make money from blogging. Just image if only a few people come and visit your blog every month how could you expect to make money from your blog? As a general rule, it is impossible for a blogger to make money when he only has a very small audience. Therefore, it is extremely important to increase your exposure on the web. You need to promote every one of your great post to the web users, not just your blog’s homepage and maximum your blog exposure. Popular ways are:
a.Keep active in some of the most popular social media websites (Twitter or Facebook).
b.Engage yourself in online communities of the same niche. You are of high likely to receive more traffic when you make friends and build professional relationships in these communities.
c.Likewise, you can post guest post to other popular blogs regularly. Even though it can be somewhat time consuming process, but if you submit really great post to relevant blog, it can bring not only some good back-links to your articles, but often a spike in traffic.

No.4. You Do not Put Your Adsense Ads in the Best Place
The position of Adsense is one of the most important factors when talking about earning money with blogging. Are you often feeling very annoying when you first visit a blog website with Ads all over the blog? The answer is definitely yes. Too many advertisements will push your readers away from your blog. Therefore, if you are able to find the right position to place your ads, what I say is a place where your ads will be seen but where it won’t be a nuisance for people reading your content, then your chance of getting money from your blog will be increased.

No.5. You Do Not Hide Referral links in Your Website
Affiliate program is one of the most popular ways to make money these days. You are paid with commission when you make a sale for your partner. Even though it is not a secret anymore to earn money in this way, visitors will somehow show their unwillingness to click Affiliate links. If you simply copy and paste the affiliate links without removing or hiding your referral number, you will result in great revenue loss. Actually, do some research you will find out there are ways to hide or unmask the links to your affiliate programs, such as URL shorteners or different WordPress plugins.

No.6. You Do not Have the Right Planning and Strategy
If you expect success in blogging, simply writing articles will not possible to bring you money. There is a very crucial step you need to do is good planning. There is an unlimited amount of blogs out there in multiple niches everywhere in the internet. As a result of this, without good planning and strategy, it can be very hard to make your blog stand out from the crowd. In this aspect, I think there is no 100% correct strategy for every blog. You need to create your own strategy according to your blog development, your niche development and many other factors. It is not advised to copy the strategies of famous bloggers rather than making your money making tactics.

No.7. You Do not Listen to the Churchill
You may wonder is there anything to do with the great man, Churchill? Yes, Certainly. Do you know what did the man who led England through World War II said? He said this: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.” This is a never give up spirit. However, many of bloggers give up blogging in the first few months of blogging simply because they don’t seem to make any money. To earn money from blog you should also never give up and keep consistent in blogging and promoting.

Final words
As a general rule, whether you are dedicated enough is another very important fact that will decide your ability to earn money from a blog. Besides that, if you hope to take the project forward you should always carry things seriously, such as going with a reliable blogging hosting.

Tags: Blog, facebook, make money, twitter

With the recent rise online business, blog marketing becomes a trend that has been implemented by many online internet businessmen. There are basically two types of blogs over the internet, one is the personal blog and the other is corporate blog. The personal blog are mostly about the author’s activities, thoughts, inspiration, ideas and everything that happen around him. A corporate blog as known as business blog usually used for the benefits of a company, for instance as a method to marketing, advertising or enhancing communication. No matter what kind of blog, bloggers simply need to try their best to drive readers to their blog and will be able to make money with them.

Best solution to create your blog

In this day and age, it is rather easy to create a blog thanks to the development of web technology. There are simply a couple of basic elements you need to prepare for your blog, profession hosting as well as blogging software. Both of them have free and paid offers over the internet. Which type would you choose? If you hope to create a professional-looking blog with a lot of features, the best solution is to use free blog software, like WordPress and host it on your own blogging server. WordPress is a great platform since it provides you with powerful features, hundreds of templates and great flexibility to customize the blog yourself. A paid blog hosting allows you to apply FTP to integrate your blog on your own domain so that visitors will see it as being a part of your own site.

Tips to marketing your blog

Just write content for your blog and expect people to come is not enough. To market your blog successfully, there are some aspects you should take care of to make your blog well-known among your target audience.
1.As mention above, it is meaningful to have a standalone domain name for your blog, looks like, www.yourblog.com or a sub domain under your own domain name, looks like www.yourdomainname.com/blog.

2.Customize the blog look and optimize the template. After you have installed the core WordPress software, there a number of things you can do to customize your blog. Logo and design modification to match your branding, RSS subscription options, social bookmark links, unique title tags as well as sitemap.

3.Post unique content regularly. Try to figure out a best post frequency, maybe 3-5 times per day or per week and maintain your readership. Keep your post original and valuable. Fresh content is welcomed by both search engine and your readers.

4.Trace inbounds links, traffic, comments. If anyone leaves you a comment on your blog, you should always be responsive to give a reply. Of course, you can also keep contact with other related blogs via comment, exchanging links, social networking services or forums, which will bring visitors to your blog.

5.Posting as a guest blogger is another way for you to market your blog. Do not post any article within your own realm. If possible, it is a great practice to submit your article to the more honored blogs, which have a large number of followers. This is the best and easy way to gain more visitors for your blog.

Most common strategies to make money from blog

With the detail tips above, you are now can start blogging without too much difficulty. Then there is one question remain unanswered. That is how to use the blog to make dollars for you? If you are business-minded folks and expecting to bring in a little or even a big amount of extra incomes, followings are some methods that you could turn your blog into a moneymaker.

1.Apply affiliate program. Affiliate program is very popular practice among blogosphere. Under such system, you place other’s products or service on your blog for generating a sale and you get the commission. For instance, if you are running an affiliate program about the movie niche, it may be a great idea to write some movie review with links to that movie. When a reader click through that link or banner and break out the checkbook, you will receive pay as well.

2.Sell advertisements space. Once you have received a fair amount of traffic, then selling advertisements space can be your choice for leveraging blog to generate incomes. It is very important for you keep a record of your website traffic to convince the advertiser. And you should also make sure that your design of your blog allows space for future advertisements. The major downside of direct banner advertising is that you need to spend time managing the sales process, the banners and the payments.

3.Monetization Widgets. Besides placing advertisers’ ads on your blog, you can also make money by monetizing your website widgets, which is becoming more and more popular these days. For example, free ad service WidgetBucks allows you to make money from blog. The major difference lies in the fact that they work as web widgets, making it easier for the user to plug and play the service on its website.

Search the internet, you will find many other strategies to make money from blogging. As your time and energy is limited, it would be wise to choose only a few that provide the greatest income generation. Whatever path you choose, it is important to know that success will not come without putting your time and effort as a constantly learning blogger.
Hostease offers blog hosting services start from $3.96 per month, which is very affordable and reliable. They also offer features rich blog hosting package include one-click install scripts for your blog. With hostease, you get unlimited hosting space, unlimited bandwidth, free set-up, free domain name for life and 24/7 email and phone support, along with live chat support round the clock.

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