How To Add Facebook Fan Page to Blog In Less than 5 Minutes

Wondering how to add Facebook fan page to blog sidebar? This is a very simple task that many people have been paying me to do for them and guys (and ladies….), you should Not have to pay me or anyone else to do this for you! Read more

Blog Syndication Made Quick & Simple with OnlyWire

Blog syndication can be a time consuming process, or you can simplify it by taking some time initially to set up an OnlyWire account. Read more

Tribe Syndication – What is the #1 Ingredient That Will Make or Break Your Results?

Tribe Syndication is the latest trend to hit the online marketing world, and it’s creating rising stars in the blogging world faster than anything I’ve ever seen!

I’m not talking about paying some company huge sums of money to promote your content. This is totally free blog syndication and if done properly it will rock your world and your business. How so? Read more

Tribe Tuesday – the Greatest Thing to Hit Twitter Since Follow Friday

Tribe Tuesday? What is that, you may ask…well hold onto your hats because you’re about to learn about one of the most inventive ideas to come down the highway in quite some time. Way bigger than Follow Friday, because it will give you much greater exposure and benefits than the popular #FF. Read more

Search Engine Ranking Improvement Series Part 3 – HTML Anchor Tag Tutorial

Part 3 of my Search Engine Ranking Improvement Series is devoted to giving you an HTML anchor tag tutorial.

If you haven’t done so, you’ll want to be sure to check out my previous posts in this series: Read more

Search Engine Ranking Improvement Series Part 2 – Using Backlinks to Rank and Advertise Web Site

In part 2 of my search engine ranking improvement series we’re going to be discussing backlinks. If you haven’t read part 1 of the series I encourage you to click on this link to do so before jumping into this post. Read more

Why Creating a Blog is Mandatory for Success

Thinking about creating a blog to attract business? You’re definitely on the right track!

In fact I would go so far as to say that creating a blog is by far one of the most important things you can do to create the success of your dreams.

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How to Create a Killer Customized Opt In Box for your WordPress Blog – Mass Email List Series Part 3 of 3

In this last post of the series you’ll learn how to create an attractive, eye-catching opt in box that will draw your visitors attention to your offer and bring you opt in email leads for your business. In addition to the video I’ve provided step by step instructions below. Read more

5 Tips to Creating the Best Blogging Sites

So, you want to build one of the best blogging sites on the planet, right?

You want mass numbers of devoted readers gobbling up your blog posts like their morning Wheaties, begging for more. Read more

How to Change Your Blog Header Image

If you’d like to customize the header image on your blog I’ve figured it out. It’s not that difficult once you have an understanding of the basic principles, but you need to make sure that you back everything up before you start messing around with your blog files! I’ve included the steps below but first will start with an explanation of the basics:

Your blog files have all been uploaded to your blog directory and can be viewed, downloaded, and replaced via an FTP program (I use Filezilla….details below).

I used a process in which I found the files I wanted to change, renamed them on the blog directory (from filename to filenameORIG), downloaded them to my computer, made the edits, and uploaded them with the original name (filename). That way if there was a problem I could always revert back to the original file.

There are 2 files that will be helpful to you. The first is the source code of your blog. This will show you the location of the image files and the css (cascading style sheet) file that are being used in your blog. The source code can be found by going to your blog (www.yourblogname.com) and selecing the View tab, then Page Source

The css file determines the setup of your blog page, including font styles and colors, background colors, etc.

Your goal will be to identify the images that you want to replace, create new images with the exact same dimensions, rename the original images as imagenameORIG, and upload the new images as imagename.

The specific steps I used are listed below:

• Go to your blog page
• Under View tab, select Source
• After the Title tags find the tag that begins with <link rel=”stylesheet”………Keep this window open and copy the link into a new browser window, the css file should open (it may ask you for permission to open Notepad – click Yes). In Notepad, select the Format tab and turn on Word Wrap
• Find the Header information, and note the width and height of the header image. These are the dimensions you’ll want to use for your custom header.
• Return to the original source code. After the <body> tag, locate the logo.png file and make note of the url  – it will look like this: <img src=”http://your-blog-domain-name/wp-content/themes/your-name/images/logo.png” alt=”your-name.com” /></a>
• Create your new header image, using the dimensions that appear in your current header image. Save as a .png image, named exactly the same as the current header (I found a free utility that enabled me to convert from a jpeg to a png file, at http://www.go2convert.com/imageconverter.php)
• If you don’t have an FTP program you’ll need one to upload your new header. I used a free program that I downloaded from http://filezilla-project.org/
• Use your FTP application to log in to your blog using the FTP login information you received via email with your blog login information
• Open the wp-content folder, then navigate to your image
• Rename the existing logo png image to something like logoOriginal – that way it will be saved in case you need to revert to it for any reason
• Upload the new image, which should have the same filename that’s being used in your code.

I also created a new image for the background of my header area. This way the gradient from purple to light pink was spread across the whole page, rather than stopping at 960 pixels.

You can use the same strategy to edit your css file if you want to change your background color, font colors, etc. Just be sure to save the original files!!

Hope this helps…..please feel free to contact me if you have trouble!

Your Prosperity Partner,

Kathy Jodrey

info@kjodrey.com