In the beginning you shouldn’t be looking for methods to monetize your blog but instead you should be aiming to try and target traffic. The most important part to running a successful blog is the traffic. Without the traffic you won’t be able to get very far in the industry. Millions of blogs are on the Internet. With so many being on the Internet it is difficult to make yours stand out from the others. This is why you should avoid adding ads in the beginning until you’ve established a good amount of steady traffic to your blog. After you’ve accomplished that then implement your ads.

When it comes times to begin implementing your advertisements to your blogging page, you will need to take a look at the many different options you have. First and probably the most popular one is cost per click (CPC) advertisements like Google AdSense, where you place a block of advertisements on your site. Every time someone clicks on it you will receive a certain amount of money. This can add up over time. The more traffic you have got – meaning more advertisements are being viewed, the higher your earnings will be; which is why I stress leaving advertisements off your blogging page until it is worth having them on it. Many people get turned off by advertisements, especially those badly placed advertisements. Attempt refraining from having Google AdSense in the content of your blogging page and attempt keeping it off to the side in one of the themes sidebars.

Another form of monetizing your blog page can be from CPA offers which is a cost per action. It is usually either an email submit or a sale of a product. There are many networks hosting many different CPA offers and some can pay very nice amounts of money depending on the niche that you have chosen. Some great networks to join are Commission Junction and MaxBounty. One is for product sale commissions and the other offers many trail and free cost per action offers.

There is a lot of money that can be made in the blogosphere. Depending on your skills you could have a head start to making money. But no matter what your experience is, you’ll have a chance of making money. It is rather simple to maintain and setup a blog so you shouldn’t have many problems with that. And the networks for ads all have great support and guides for you to follow. Make sure you take the time to read the guidelines and also the rules so that you don’t break them. And then start implementing the ads throughout your established blogs.

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The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.8k DAV/2 mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.mycoolonlinestores.com Port 80“.

I searched the Internet for a solution. Here is the way of how I’ve got it to work. I am sure someone may be interested in this. So why not writing down these steps of how I’ve solved this problem? By the way, the name of the folder I’ve tried to change is associated with a self-hosted WordPress site. And the cPanel is associated with Hostmonster‘s cPanel.

• First download all the files within that folder to your local computer. I use FTP to get the job done.

• Next create a new folder in your server with whatever name you’ve preferred and upload those files that you’ve downloaded earlier to this new folder.

• Next log in to your cPanel and click on phpMyadmin. A new window would pop up. It will allow you to export (backup) your database. See details here. Don’t close this window, you’ll need it later.

• Now go back to your cPanel. Click on MySQL ® Databases or MySQL ® Database Wizard to create a new database. See this tutorial here. Remember its user name and password.

• Then open your database you’ve backuped earlier with Notepad editor. Hit Ctrl and F at the same time to bring up a search box. Type in Database and replace old database name with the new one. Also type in public_html and replace old folder name with the new one. Make sure you save it in your new database name.

• Now go back to phpMyadmin window. The one I told you earlier not to close it. Click on Import to upload your amended database.

• Then open wp-config.php (should be in the root directory of your new folder). Edit and upload it back to the same place. See details below:
  

  define('DB_NAME', 'databasename'); // Change databasename to be your new database name define('DB_PASSWORD', 'mysqlpassword'); // Change mysqlpassword to be your new MYSQL password define('DB_USER', 'mysqlusername'); // Change mysqlusername to be your new MySQL username define('DB_HOST', 'localhost'); // Leave the way it is.

• Since the domain is assigned to the old folder, there is no way that you can assign it to the new folder. However, you need to click on Domain Manager in your cPanel. Once you are there,  tick that domain. On your right side, scroll down to un-assign that domain to your cPanel. Quickly, during this time your website will be down.

• Finally go back to cPanel and click on Addon Domains. A new page will open, assign that domain to your new folder and hit Add Domain button. See details below:
  

  Step 1 Tick next to “Use a domain that is already associated with your account”. Scroll down to find it. Step 2 Leave it alone. Step 3 Tick next to “Addon Domain”. Step 4 Tick next to “Use an existing directory”. And below “Sub-domain:” type in your new folder’s name.

Now type your website’s url in your browser. If everything works fine, you should be able to see your website up and running again. Some people might have different approach. Feel free to talk about yours here in comment section. Any other feedback is welcome too.

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Here I want to show you how to add a sitemap to your website using Google Webmaster Tool’s account. If you have a website self-hosted by a web server, then it is easy. Just create a sitemap using Google Sitemap Generator here. Then save it as sitemap.xml file. You can name it whatever name you want. After you’ve done that, upload it to your web server in the root directory using FTP, and finally submit it in Google Webmaster Tools‘ account like this http://www.yourdomainname.com/sitemap.xml. Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name. It did not give me any problem when I submitted mine.

However it took me pretty long time to figure out how to add a sitemap to my blog which is hosted by Google Blogger and my other blog which is a self-hosted WordPress blog. The self-hosted WordPress blog is in my website’s sub-directory. It gave me hard time when I tried to submit a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tool’s account. In order to make it work I found out from this feed validator web tool that I have to submit it like this http://www.yourdomainname.com/blog/?feed=atom for atom or http://www.yourdomainname.com/blog/feed for RSS. Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name.

The blog with Google Blogger also gave me hard time. I searched Google Webmaster Help Group and I was guided to add atom.xml to the end of my Blogger’s URL, but I just kept getting errors. At the end I found one error saying, “Paths don’t match. We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, http://example.com/myfile.htm).” So I just submitted it like this http://yourdomainname.blogspot.com/atom.xml without www and it works! Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name. Now all of my sitemaps in my three websites work fine!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comment section. Good luck to all of you!

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