I just finished setting up two new blogs for GuitarTutee, and yes, only in a matter of minutes. The first sub-blog, GuitarTutee Unplugged, will accept video submissions coming from users and will feature other tutorials found on Youtube. The second one is GuitarTutee Tabs, will be the repository for copied, modified, or original tabs that [...]

For some people, blogging can be a calling. Here is my foolproof formula for sustaining and even increasing the financial returns from your blog. 1. Participate in the discussion of online communities. 2. constantly challenge yourself to improve your blog’s appearance and usability. 3. Look at your statistic reports and figure out what you are [...]

As with customization, this post will be a journey which I will invite you to take with me. I’ll be sharing all monetizing techniques I know and will chance upon in blogging. Of course you need not consider this a step-by-step guide anymore, considering some money-making schemes are not suitable for some blogs. Before I [...]

This step will be a work in progress. You don’t need to do all customizations that I will be sharing here, only those that will fit your specific blog. These setups take at least 1 week of interval each, and I suggest you do one at a time so that you yourself will understand what [...]

Truth is, you may skip Steps 5-6 of this guide and still come up with the best blog the world has ever seen.  How, you ask?  With the articles that you will be writing of course.  To write a post log-in to your website and go to the Write tab.  The following are just basic reminders in [...]

What are plugins?  Basically, a plugin is a .php file or a set of it which you install in your wordpress engine for additional perks.   Visit your most favorite blog and compare it with your newly set-up blog.  See the differences?  Some popular blogs will have No. of Page Views, Poll Sections, Photo Sections, and the like.  These are [...]

After installing WordPress, you will have the famous Default WordPress theme for the look of your website.  What you would want is to customize the look of your theme to suit your topic or your personal preference, and there are quite a number of free WordPress Theme Templates in the Internet.  Although this is the case, you can find all your [...]

All of my websites use the WordPress engine, and I suggest everyone else to use it.  How do you set it up?  Just follow the steps below. Download the latest version of the WordPress engine from the WordPress website. Save it on your local hard disk(i.e. your Desktop). It comes in a zip file so unzip it [...]

After successfully choosing your topic and your domain name, you should now register your website.  This seems like the most daunting task for the beginner web publisher, especially the Filipino, but believe me, it’s the easiest task so far.  You only need to have one thing: a little amount of money. Since you are reading this, [...]

The next step after choosing your topic is to pick the domain name for your new website.  In a shallow level, we can understand the need for this step in the same sense that Shakespeare’s Juliet asked that famous question: “What’s in a domain name?”  There are a lot of articles that can help you choose [...]

After figuring out why you are here, it is important to realize that the most important aspect, which can be equally the easiest and hardest thing to do, in blogging is choosing on which to blog on.  Why is it the most important?  Because your topic will determine everything that your blog should be concerned about: the number of [...]