I’m sure you already know what a blog is, Blog is contraction from Weblog, it is a type of website that maintained usually by personal people with regular basis of content or post. People use blog for some reasons such as express their activities, sharing information or knowledge with others, or even for individual business like introducing a product.

For people that is not familiar with internet, may have a question how to make a blog?. When start learning, it is not so bad for making a blog freely using free domain and free hosting. What is domain? domain is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS). Hosting is internet service where you store data files of your blog, so that your blog can be accessed thru the World Wide Web.

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Dynamic URL vs. SEO Friendly URL

By default, Wordpress names its URL with a dynamically generated sequential number. The number is placed after the domain name and looks something like http://www.hasannudin.com/?p=158. To Google, this doesn’t mean anything. Google will have to spider my content to figure out what the article is about. Contrast this with http://www.hasannudin.com/tips-and-tricks/making-indonesian-fake-earning/. With this SEO friendly URL, Google can figure out immediately what the article is about. I have a much better chance of showing up in the search engine results page using a SEO friendly URL than a dynamic one.

Turning On SEO Friendly URL

To turn on SEO friendly URL, go to Options setting in your Wordpress control panel and choose Permalinks. From there you have four choices for displaying your URL: Default, Date and name based, Numeric, and Custom. You will want to use Date and name based or custom because they are the most search engine (continue reading…)

Adding YM Online Status to your blog is very useful, In this way you tell your blog visitors whether you are online or not, so your visitors can chat with you when they see your YM status is online. Also many people use this status for their business, they put this status to their website so everyone who want to use or buy their product or service can ask to customer service if they are in confusion.

There are steps that you must follow to add Your YM Online Status to your blog.

1. Download plugin YM status widget here.
2. Upload plugin you have downloaded to your plugin folder.
3. Activate your plugin from Admin Panel.
4. After YM status plugin actived, go to Appearance and choose Widgets.
5. New widget named YM Status is available now, add to your sidebar or footer.
6. Fill the Title and Your YM Username.
7. Choose style from option style.
8. Save your setting.
9. Congratulation you have made your YM online status now.

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