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Archive for the ‘Ask Carl’ Category

The Resurrection Of…

By Carl On September 6, 2009 24 COMMENTs

Today I’ll be reviving something that has been long forgotten. And long as in 2 years ago!

It’s the “Ask Carl” sessions.

I did it before for a couple of weeks when I first started my blog. You can check out the “old times” here.

BTW, the picture on the left – sooooooooooo 2 years ago too so please bear with it :-)

(but hey, I think I can still pull that pose!)

The idea is dead simple.

1. You ask me a question related to internet marketing via email or by commenting on this post.

2. I answer it.

3. Enjoy? (I think they add that for OCD purposes, so it would “look right” 1, 2, 3… not just 1, 2)

Well at least, that was the idea *before*. Now, let’s make it more… interactive.

The New Idea.

Since I’m not a Jedi master of everything – we’ll answer the questions. For every Ask Carl post, I’ll answer one

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Trackbacks for SEO, Subdomains for Websites All Answered in AskCarl

By Carl On September 18, 2007 10 COMMENTs

AskCarl Feature

The following questions have been submitted by Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business for the AskCarl feature

Assuming that you’ve checked that trackbacks appearing in your comments aren’t spam, is there any SEO or link advantage to leaving them or deleting them?

Trackbacks for me is just a way of thanking bloggers who have linked to your blog, and help your readers find more stories talking about the topic of a specific blog post.

Although trackbacks are being badly abused these days, they still have some SEO benefit. Because take note, they still count as a link. The “nofollow” attribute is just used to stop PR bleeding and not to stop search engines from crawling the link.

So, I guess there’s no change in your search engine ranking if and only if you use the nofollow attribute in the trackbacks.

If I want to have sub domains e.g. for a multi author site, which is

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How Do I Get .edu and .gov Backlinks Easily?

By Carl On June 7, 2007 24 COMMENTs

AskCarl to Make Money OnlineThis post is for the AskCarl feature. Question submitted by Mark. If you want to submit a question, Just drop me a mail and I’ll try my best to answer it!

Most search engines value .gov and .edu backlinks. These links are so called “authority links” to search engines. That’s the reason why most SEO’s hunt for these kind of backlinks.

Even thought it’s quite hard to get these backlinks. Here are some tips for you to start with:

First, go to Google and try to do the following search:

For .edu domains

“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.edu

This search will help you find blogs that uses WordPress with a .edu domain.

“Your desired keyword “ “powered by vBulletin” site:.edu

This search will help you find forums that use vBulletin. Alternatively, you can replace the word “vBulletin” with your desired forum management program (Like Xoops, Phpbb, etc.)

For .gov domains

“Your desired keyword” “powered by wordpress” site:.gov

This search

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AskCarl: How to Add AdSense to a WordPress blog? In Various Situations

By Carl On May 28, 2007 12 COMMENTs

John e-mailed me a while ago asking me on how did I place AdSense to my WordPress blog. Too bad John didn’t have a site to show me. Anyway I’ll post here my tutorial on how to add Adsense into a WP blog.

Adding AdSense After Post Titles

Let’s go on the basics first. For example: You want to add a 336 x 280 AdSense block below you post title. Open your index.php then look for the part that looks like this:

Adsense
And if you want to wrap that block, like most blogs do. Add a div into the Adsense code that may look like the one below:

How to Add AdSense to A WordPress Blog

Just adjust the margin that suits your blog design best and of course you could also change the float to “left” or “right”.

Some have situations adding an AdSense unit on their first post but not on the second (I used to do this before ) to

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Ask Carl: How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons – Photoshop Tutorial

By Carl On May 21, 2007 3 COMMENTs

Last week I launched the AskCarl feature thinking that it would be a great success. But I was surprised seeing nothing but dirt on my mail box this past week that wants to ask a question and participate to this new feature. Special thanks to Techzillo who dropped me a comment asking how did I make those 3d crystal buttons.

I didn’t waste any time and made a tutorial (To keep the new feature alive! :D ). So, here it is, enjoy!

How to Make 3d Crystal Buttons – Photoshop Tutorial

3d crystal icons -Photoshop tutorial

1. Start, by creating a 125 x 125 image (Like the C Image right) and put it in an empty 142 x 142 square.

2. Then add drop shadow (Layer > Layer Style > Drop Shadow) to your 125 x 125 square image (NOTE: The 125 x 125 must have a transparent background for the drop shadow to take effect). You can copy what I did below (Click to enlarge)

Drop Shadow - Photoshop Tutorial

3.

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Ask Carl: Permalinks, The Best and how to Redirect

By Carl On May 12, 2007 1 COMMENT

Ask Carl - That's me!Today, I’ll be launching a new feature of this blog. Thanks to Yvonne Russell of Grow Your Writing Business for suggesting it. She reviewed my blog 3 weeks ago on a different manner. It wasn’t that ordinary review that I get everyday, she gave some suggestions and criticisms. Believe it or not, I love hearing to those ;-) It’s just like a way of letting me know the things that you want me to improve.

But what I really like is her last suggestion about a new feature called “Ask Carl�? where you can submit a question and I can answer it on a post. Even though I’m not that good and all, I’ll try my best to answer every question you ask me. We will be doing this post on a weekly basis about every Saturday (+8 Philippine time). I really loved the idea and for suggesting it, she gets the chance to

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