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FTP For Noobs

I’ve decided a create a category on Vital Pixel that will be for guides made specifically For Noobs! On the off chance that someone is searching the internet for guides on how to use things like FTP, or other things us pros have plenty of experience with.  I’ll get more pageviews, and the noobs will become a little less nubby :).

FTP For Noobs:

FTP is used to upload files to your webspace, so it’s vital(lulz) to know how to use it.

First of all, you’ll need an FTP client.  I prefer Filezilla for all of my file uploading processes.

Logging in - to log in to your server using FTP, you will simply use the information your webhost has given you.

Under host you usually use the website domain that you signed up for hosting with.  For example, mine is wowcommute.com because that is the first site I registered when i got hosting at lunarpages.  For your username, this is usually some variation of the domain you created, and your webhost will usually send it to you via email.  Then, finally… for your password, you should’ve registered that for yourself when you first signed up.

You can usually leave the port - space blank, because it autofinds that.

So anyways, you quick quickconnect, and your in.  You will navigate inside of your public_html folder, because that’s where all your website files will be located.  Then you simple double click on files, and right click on folders to upload them to different directories on your server.

This wasn’t the most comprehensive guide you’ll ever find on FTP, but I’d like to think it’s simple and straight to the point.  Hopefully it helps some people out

Tags: for, For Noobs, FTP, guide, noobs, resource, tip

Make, Take (some), Invest, Repeat

I’ve recently learned/confirmed the golden rule of making money, and maybe getting rich. The method of make,take, invest, and repeat is a surefire way to get/gain wealth. From the online webmaster to the average-everyday-entrepreneur, this method holds true. I’ll elaborate a bit more on the idea;

• Make:
  You make your base amount of money by working at an average job. For the internet guru, this would mean forum pay-per-post, blog reviews, link sales. (Of course the second two things must be built up to). You get the idea though, you have to make some money the old fashioned way, with hard work.
• Take:
  Next, you take 90% of your earnings, and use them to support yourself. Make sure you’re never living worse than you can bear just because you’re trying to save up for something. With the 10% you’ve saved from the money you made at work, you’re going to…
• Invest:
  You invest that 10% that you saved in something that can start bringing in an income. This could mean stocks, promoting a website. What you want to make sure to do is invest in someone who knows what they’re doing. Don’t pay the icecream man, to give you some of the diamonds that he traded to a starving kid for an icecream. (First of all, because this would never happen, Second… wtf did a starving kid have diamonds). Anyways, the point is… you invest in someone who knows exactly what they’re doing, and someone who will definitely help you earn a profit.
• Repeat:
  You must constantly repeat this method. You will have different streams of money coming in, and with other people doing the work. If you help to sponsor someone with their ventures, (someone who knows what they’re doing) then you will end up earning a greater income. Your income will always continue to grow as long as you take 10% of your earnings, and spend it on a new investment.

I actually got the jst of that from some money-making CD my stepdad owns. It’s common-knowledge though, the only problem is the fact that it’s somewhat hard to follow. You have to have some strength to hold back on spending extra, or trying to save to much.

Hopefully this helps some people out?

Tags: article., help, invest, make, online, repeat, resource, take, webmaster

Useful Forums

Alright, I’m going to list some great forums, and what they’re useful for. (Usually pertaining to webmaster’s unless it’s one of my forums). I’ll try to list the forums in order of PR, and help you to determine which ones are good for signature links.

Signature Links are a great way to build up backlinks, and add pagerank to your websites. The higher the pr of the forum you have signature links on, and the more posts you make, the better the boost your sig link will give you. Hence you will become higher ranked in search engines, and ultimatize your SEO awesomeness.

DigitalPoint Forums: PR7
Digital point has been the most useful forum for me in my webmaster-ing career. Atleast so far that is. They have a huge member base, and all the better for receiving help. You can find tons of guides on there, searching the forums will usually give you better results than google. I definitely recommend you sign up for digitalpoint forums if you are an aspiring webmaster.

V7N: The forums are ranked at PR5
V7N is somewhat of a dying forum, but it used to be equal to digitalpoint’s greatness. It has a lot of members, but few are very active now. You are allowed to have signature links once you get 50 posts… which is somewhat of a crappy deal. Despite V7N being a dying forum, there is still quite a bit of useful information on there.

SitePoint: PR 4 (forums)
Many people use sitepoint to auction off their sites, and seek advise. Sitepoint is also a webhosting company (which i advise against).

Direct Advertisement: PR 0
Direct Advertisement is a forum built to help owners of websites, and forums (more specifically). It includes many free services for advertising websites. The more members direct advertisement has, the more potential members you get when you advertise your site there. Anyways, despite being PR0, the forum is more active than all the other sites I have listed here, other than Digitalpoint.

SEOChat: PR 4
A great forum for finding information on SEO (Search Engine Optimization), although there isn’t many people to talk to any more. Again, a good place for putting links in your signature.

I’ll probably update this list of useful forums later, if you have one that is either high PR, or high on traffic and users, or contains lots and lots of useful information. Feel free to comment on this post and I can add you to the list.

Tags: awesomeness, backlinks, forum, google, list, page, pagerank, PR, rank, resource, seo