Advancing Blogging

To further my career in blogging, I am now venturing in coding. I am studying how to make websites using Php and MySql. This is important, so that I would not be restricted by the limitations of what I can do within blogspot.

I already know basic HTML and CSS. With the help of JQUERY and Bootstrap, I can easily design webpage. I know I am not yet an expert in web design and my artistic talent is crappy, but if I am sticking with the basic designs, my knowledge with HTML and CSS is enough.

I am now taking this a little further by doing Php and MySQL.

My first step in accomplishing this is to make a diligent research using the trustworthy search engine, Google. It made my life a lot easier. Mix up a few keywords and they brought me to where I wanted to be. I learned that I needed to install WAMP on my PC so I can start to develop with PHP. It is a package of Apache Server, MySQL and Php for Windows. You can learn more about it at www.wampserver.com .

I also found e-books on tutorials about PHP which I am going to read during the weekends. My weekend will be spent on reading, learning and coding. Too much work is still needed to be done. I will be busy so until next time. Do visit again for the update on my progress.

Plan For Your Keywords

Hey, I'm back! I just came from a long walk. Do you have new ideas now? Well, I have mine and if you have your's, it is time to write those articles. But wait one last tip before we start typing.

Here is a tip to give our blog a fighting chance in the search engines. It is about improving the keywords we are using in the blog article we will write. I am sure along with the ideas you have in mind are the keywords you want to insert along those paragraphs. But here is a tip to choose the right words you want to place in there.

First, you must have access to Keyword Planner of Google Adwords. Just go to https://adwords.google.com/KeywordPlanner and log into your google account. Then click on "Search for new keyword and ad group ideas". Enter the keyword you have in your mind and click Get Ideas. On the result page, click "Keyword ideas" tab.

Image from Google Adwords: Keyword Planner

Here you will be presented information about relevant keywords with its average monthly searches and competition. If you are like me, you would choose those keywords having high monthly searches with low or medium competition. There we have a better fighting chance our page will show up on the first page of the searches.

There you are guys. I hope you find this article helpful. Do visit again, sometimes for more tips and ideas.

A Tip to Have New Blogging Ideas

Now that I started to reboot my blog and redesigned it, the next basic thing to do is to have new articles. Basically, I need new blog ideas. To tell you the truth, it is the first thing that hinders my blog to improve and soar in the first place. I do not have enough ideas to write into an article and post in here. I am always facing what others call writer's block.

But now that I am doing this again, I have and I must get pass through that hindrance in whatever way possible. But just sitting here and staring at a blinking cursor at my computer will not help me do the job. I have to do something for this situation to improve.

Somebody suggested to me before that I should walk around whenever I hit this block. Not just walking back in forth your sala but actually go out of the road and walk. To some this must be a crazy idea. But actually it is good. Walking around the neighborhood will give you something to see and experience. You have to be open to everything. Absorb every detail in it, even the smoke belching jeepney that passed you. And as a writer, you need to have a lot of experience for you to have something to write about.

I will be following this advice from now on. I hope this will return positive results.

Are you also lacking new blog ideas? Come with me, I am going out for a walk.

Time to reboot my blog

What does Spiderman, Superman and My Blog have in common? They all deserved a reboot.

It's over a year since I last posted something here in my blog. Why would I? This blog does not have a decent viewer, nor I have something worthwhile to post. It is boring and unlikable.

But the last few weeks made me realize I am tired of being an employee. There seems to be no financial improvement in it, only workload overload. I need to have something that will earn me some money passively. And what best way to do that than to blog. Or maybe I am misguided again? Anyway, there is no harm in trying.

So to start on reviving this page, I have done some amazing things to it (not so amazing really!)

First, I tried to tweak its aesthetics. I changed the template, the background, the fonts, colors, etc. I tweak it for some time before I am contented. It may not be perfect yet but this will do for now. I will just have to research and read more about how to improve the look of my site.

I also removed the crap articles I posted before. I may still post some crappy articles from time to time, but I will do my very best to keep it to a minimum.

That's it for now. There is still a lot of work to be done. I will be patient this time and hope this will take off soon.

Have a good day everyone!