WordPress 3.0 already have built in multi-site feature but somehow it is not enabled by default. To manually enable multi site feature, you have to edit some wp-config and htaccess file, and requires you to spend some time to configure it.

Luckily, there are a new plugin developed to enable multi site features in wordpress 3.0, in single click. No code editing, no hassle, just install and you are done.

WordPress Multi-Site Enabler Plugin

Features

• Easily upgrade your WordPress 3.0 blog into Multi-Site with the click of a single button.

Requirements

• WordPress 3.0
• Apache server

Installation

1. If you download the plugin manually with the link above, make sure it is uploaded to “/wp-content/plugins/”.
2. Activate in the “Plugins” admin panel using the “Activate” link.

Instructions

1. After activating the plugin, click “Enable Multi-Site” located in the “Settings” menu title in the administration panel.
2. Fill in the required information.
3. Click “Install”.
4. Login to WordPress again.

Links

• Release notes (author’s page)
• Download page (wordpress org)

Good luck!

If your hosting provide Softaculous, here is an easy tutorial on how to install WordPress using Softaculous.

1. In your hosting cPanel, navigate to Software/Services and click on Softaculous.

2. In the left sidebar, choose Blogs > WordPress and you will see the overview of WordPress.

3. Click install, and you will need to fill the setup form. First, choose domain for your new wordpress blog (eg; w0rdpr3ss.com), choose directory of installation (eg; blog, main, website) and database name (alphanumeric; such as wp123).

4. As for table prefix, you can leave it as is, then fill your site name, site description, admin username, admin password and email.

5. Softaculous can also send the installation details to your email adress.

6. After that, click Install to finish the installation.

7. Congratulations, you already finished installing WordPress using Softaculous in less than 5 minutes I bet.

8. You will be given the wordpress blog link and also wordpress admin link. Use the username and password you just created earlier to login WP Dashboard and you may start using your new wordpress blog.

Here is some very useful tips on how to increase the alexa rank, increase blog traffics and increase blog pageviews. I’ve tried this method on various blogs and it’s really worked. This tips is really simple and efficient, a must try especially for newbie bloggers.

Basic requirements

- Submit your blog to 3 main search engine, Google, Yahoo and Bing. Please submit sitemap to Google Webmaster tools, Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Central. Also, please copy Google Analytics tracking code into your blog’s theme.

I recommend using All in one webmaster wordpress plugins to ease the tasks.

- Facebook account or fan page linking to your blog. (example).

- Twitter account linking to your blog. (example)

- RSS feed, please burn your blog rss feed with feedburner. (example)

How to increase alexa rank

1. Register your blog with alexa. (link)

2. Get someone to rate your for blog at alexa website. (example).

3. Put alexa widgets and your blog, preferably at visible location. (link)

4. Install alexa toolbar for your browser. IE user please use the Alexa toolbar. Firefox user can use SearchStatus add-on and Chrome user can install SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar extension.This tools will dramatically increase the alexa rank of your blog.

How to increase blog traffics

5. When you published new posts, please submit the posts adress to social bookmarking sites such as Stumbleupon, Delicious and Digg. For SU, I recommend using the SU firefox add-on because it provide vast features and easy bookmarking.

6. Submit and verifed your blog at technorati, mybloglog and blogcatalog.

7. Do search engine optimization (seo)  for your blog. For starters please install this 8 must install wordpress plugins for better seo.

8. Use seo optimized wordpress theme. Premium wordpress themes are usually already optimized for seo. I recommend using Canvas by Woothemes.

9. Place an entrecard widget at your blog. (register entrecard here).

10. Update your blog with fresh contents regularly.

11. Give cool freebies to your blog visitors such as ebooks, premium wordpress themes, premium wordpress plugins, icons etc.

12. Organize contests and offer great prizes for winners. You may require the contestants to write entries and link back to your blog. Easy traffics.

How to increase pageviews of your blogs

13. Install related posts plugin with thumbnails such as linkwithin. (link)

14. Use featured posts gallery, random posts widgets etc.

15. Use either apture bar, wibiya toolbar or gigya toolbar.

I will add more tips in the future, if necessary. Hope that this tips will help a lot of people to increase the alexa rank, increase blog traffics and increase blog pageviews.

Good luck

Search engine optimization (seo) is a technique to manipulate keywords contained in your blog posts in order to rank higher in search engine result page (serp). In easy words, better seo technique means better rank in serp, and thus more traffics will come from search engine to your blog.

WordPress out-of-box installation is already optimized for search engine, but you can further optimize wordpress for better seo by using some plugins.  Here is a list of essential wordpress plugin that you need to install to optimize seo for your blog.

1. All in one seo pack (aiosp)

Optimizes your WordPress blog for Search Engines (Search Engine Optimization).Easy to configure even for starters. Features including advanced canonical urls, auto optimize title for search engine, set META description etc etc.

Download All in one seo pack plugin.

2. Google XML Sitemap

This plugin will generate xml sitemap of your blog contents and help search engine to index your blog faster and efficiently retrieved your blog contents.

Download Google XML sitemap plugin.

3. All in one webmaster

Manage blog submission to Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Central easily from wordpress dashboard. You can also see detailed Google Analytics statistics and also manage your google adsense.

Download All in one webmaster plugin.

4. Seo smart links

Automatically links your keywords inside your blog posts to corresponding categories, tags, posts or pages. You can also set keyword such as “money” to automatically links to certain affiliate or money making website.

Download Seo smart links plugin.

5. Seo friendly images

Update all images in your blog posts with proper title and alt text for better seo.

Download seo friendly images plugin.

6. iRobots.txt SEO

iRobots.txt SEO provide easy interface to configure your robots.txt file. Robots.txt is essential to tell which pages search engines should index what which pages the search engines should ignore.

Download iRobots.txt SEO plugin.

7. Lucia’s Linky Love

Make the links of comment author’s become “dofollow” instead of “nofollow”.

Download Lucia’s Linky Love wordpress plugin.

8. Seo tag cloud

Seo tag cloud displays tag cloud in a seo-friendly way. Should be better than built-in tag cloud widget for wordpress.

Download seo tag cloud wordpress plugin.

Optional: Seo super comments

This plugin will generate a new dynamic page on the blog from each user comment. The page will hold the actual comment information. According to the creator, the plugin will increase your blog traffics drammatically, but some users disagree on the concept. You may try it yourself.

Download seo super comments plugins.

Hopefully this article will help you to learn more about seo and get higher traffics for your blogs. If you find this article is useful, do not forget to say thanks and share with your friends too

In WordPress dashboard, you can select whether to show full text or summary for your blog rss feed. Now, we are going to see what are the differences between full text and summary feed and which one gives more advantages.

1. Full text feed

If you select full text feed, your rss subscribers can read the whole blog entries using any types of rss reader. Your blog readers don’t necessarily need to open your blog just to check out whether there are new entries posted. They can read it on desktops, web, iPhones etc and it is far more convenient than reading in browser.

However, there are high chances that the page views of your blog will be decreased and it’s really bad for blog monetization. People will only read your blog using rss reader and not visiting the main blog, causing less traffics and less chance for your blog ads to get clicked.

2. Summary feed

Summary feed will only show the text summaries of your blog entries. No media will be shown, such as videos, audios and even images.

The advantage of summary feed is that when you posts new blog entries, your feed subscriber will need to click on the link in order to read the full entries in your main blog. It means more page views will be generated from the feed links.

But, the bad things is summary feed will discourage people from subscribing your feed at the first place. Reading a summary feed is not interesting at all and clicking on the link just to read the full blog entries are pain for some people.

You have a chance of getting higher page views and more clicks, but in the same time you may lose some potential rss subscribers.

3. Conclusions?

I prefer to use full text feed rather than using summary feed. It is very important for you to make your blog readers feel convenient to read your blog entries. Also, to become a successful blog, you need a strong numbers of rss subscribers too.

Got anything to say? Drop some comments please..and thanks for reading this article anyway

Related posts with thumbnail is an effective way to show older posts that are relevant or related with your entries and can significantly increase blog page views. Here are few methods how you can implement the widgets in your blog.

1. Linkwithin

Linkwithin is a simple widget to show related stories from your archive with thumbnails. Installation is a very easy and quick. Linkwithin is available as wordpress plugin and as blogger widget or you can just copy the html code and insert it manually in your blog template.

To use linkwithin, just go to linkwithin,com and fill the form with correct information of your blog. Click on get widget, then get the wordpress plugin and upload to your blog. Activate it and you can start using linkwtihin.

2. Yet Another Related Post (YARP)

BuildInternet has posted an excellent tutorial on how to show related posts with thumbnail using Yet Another Related Posts (YARP) plugin for wordpress.

Click here to read: Display Thumbnails For Related Posts in WordPress

3. Wp-Thumbie

Wp-Thumbie is a wordpress plugin released by Blogsdna that can show related post with thumbnails in your wordpress blog.

Download Wp-Thumbie at Blogsdna.

4. Outbrain recommendations widget

Outbrain widgets can be used for blog content ratings and recommendations. Recently, outbrain widget users can select thumbnails instead of plain text links to show recommendation.

To use outbrain’s widget, you need to register and claim your blog first, then change the settings; set recommendations to limited recommendations and widget style to thumbnail images.

Outbrain widget’s link.

5. Rich Related Posts WordPress Plugin

Powerful CMS solution to quickly and easily create multiple groups of rich related content with images using tools such as combination search/entry fields and element units consisting of custom headline + permalink + image url. Code is ready to be inserted into posts, and can be used in sidebar text widgets after adding this filter to functions.php:

add_filter(‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’);

Download Rich Related Posts wordpress plugin at wordpress.org.

Have any words to say? Just leave a comment, thanks!

The folks over at android.wordpress.org has just released WordPress app ver 1.0.0 for android phone.

Features are;

• Configure and manage multiple blogs
• Comment moderation including the ability to reply to comments
• Create and Edit Posts including categories, tags and photos
• Create and Edit Pages
• Get notified of new comments in the Android notification bar

Here’s how the wordpress app for android looks in Google Nexus One phone: photo credit: downloadsquad

And now here is a short video explaining the features of wordpress for android apps;

Download WordPress for Android.

First click the New button on the file menu, and click on the blog post.

Then, you need to create new blog account before start writing to your blog. I am now choosing wordpress as my blog provider.

You may start writing to your blog after adding a blog account in Word 2010.

Ready to publish to your blog? Hit the Publish button on the menu.

Now the post will appear in your blog. Although it is super easy and Word 2010 picture editor is robust i still recommending you to use Windows Live Writer to write blog post.