Hey buddies, some days ago I received an email from the team of OIOPublisher plugin notifying me the new percentage of commission for affiliates. Well, during January they will be giving 90% commission to any affiliates!.

You should know that this commission apply for everyone, no matter if you are or not an affiliate yet, you can enjoy of this offer by signing up and getting your copy of OIOPublisher now! It only costs $47, it means that you will earn $42.3 for every referrer during January!.

About OIOPublisher

I have made a couple of reviews about this product, but however I will talk about the basics:

OIOpublisher is an ad platform with a focus on performance, control and ease of use. Serve advertising on your blog or website and keep 100% of the revenue you bring in.

What bloggers say?

It’s worth every penny. You should make it all back and more with your first sale.

John Chow
JohnChow.com

OIOpublisher has proven to be a versatile plugin; even a necessity.

Ian Fernando
IanFernando.com

OIOpublisher consistently generates me about $2000 – $3000 a month.

Jon Waraas
JonWaraas.com

A must have WordPress plugin for any serious blogger.

Mattaw, USA
Moneybites.com

Buying OIO is the best investment I have ever made as a blogger.

Mark Fulton
DotSauce.com

What I say?

That plugin really worth the investment, the first month I got the inversion back and even more selling some ads and links… And certainly the best of it is the automatization, you don’t have to worry about anything.

Get your copy of OIOPublisher and start making money online!

Hey mates, some weeks ago I changed my hosting and I had to move all my websites from the old hosting to the new one. May be it’s seem like an easy task but it’s not when you are involved with databases.

The problem I got when I was moving this blog was related with its databases. I followed the steps recomended by almost every hosting but without reason, the procedure failed many times… So I decided to stop following those steps and do it my way.

Migrating a WordPress Blog

The following one is a list of steps, that you should follow to change your wordpress blog of hosting successfully:

1. Backup your data: First of all, you need to make a backup of your blog. You can do this by connecting via FTP and downloading everything in the root directory of your wordpress installation, i.e. download everything in /public_html/ or /public_html/blog, or wherever your installed wordpress. Save all those folders and files into a folder on your computer.
2. Backup your databases: This is where the recommendations of the hostings are wrong. First, log into your cpanel and go to phpMyAdmin and when it loads, click Export. After that, select the database you want to export – in this case the one which manages wordpress. By default there will be some options selected: export as SQL, Add IF NOT EXISTS, Add AUTO_INCREMENT value, Enclose table and field names with backquotes, Complete inserts, Extended inserts and Use hexadecimal for BLOB.
3. Save the database: You should not change any of the options mentioned in the step 2, it’s not necessary. I read in many websites that you should check “Add DROP TABLE / VIEW / PROCEDURE / FUNCTION” but that’s totally false! If you check that you won’t be able to import your database in the near future… So after verifying all those settings, check Save As File and press GO. Don’t check any related with compression.
4. Change wp-config.php: This file contains basic configurations of your wordpress blog. Open it in your computer and change the info related with your database name and password, user etc etc… Otherwise you will get an error of database once you upload it to the new server.
5. Upload your blog to the new hosting: Congratulations! You backed up your data from your old hosting with success, but this not ends here. Now, upload all those folders and files which you downloaded in the step 1 to the new hosting. Where to upload it? In the same directory it was in the old hosting!.
6. Create a new database: Log into the cpanel of the new hosting and go MySQL Databases. Create a new database (it will the one which will handle your blog in this new server… if you want, you can give it the same name of the old database). Add a new user to that new database with full privileges.
7. Import your old database: Go to phpMyAdmin. Then click import, selecting the database you want to fill in. In this case, select the database created in the step 5. Select the database from your computer and then change the Character from utf8 to latin1 and then press GO. Why to latin1? In order to verify this, open the backup of your database on your computer with a notepad or another text processor and search for the word “Character”. You will see the character type of your database, which is latin1 for default. Note: If your character type is another one different of latin1, you should select it in phpmyadmin or you will fail importing the database.
8. Change the nameservers: If everything is right, then you should go into your domain manager (godaddy or whatever…) and change the nameservers of your domain to point it to the new hosting. Once you do that, your domain will be bouncing between the old host and the new one, and that could take some days, it’s not instantaneously.

Recommendations

Due to the nameservers bouncing, I highly recommend you NOT to alter anything on your blog: add a new post, comment, plugin… Why? Because you won’t know if you edited the blog of the new hosting or of the new one.

When I did it some weeks ago, I had the wonderful idea of publishing a new post and the next day, many people sent me an email reporting a 404 error. They tried to visit the post through their RSS feed but they got and error because in the new server, that link didn’t exist!. For my luck, I copied/pasted the post from my Google Reader and I published it again ( yes, I’m subscribed to my own feed in order to see how things look lol ).

Also, remember that you can contact your hosting/domain manager if you have any problem – Good luck!

Yesterday WordPress 2.7 was oficially launched and today, after reading some articles about plugins and themes compatibilities, I upgraded my wordpress.

The first screen I saw made me say a wow! It’s completely different and it’s very well organized, I really like the new presentation…

Here is a screenshot of the Dashboard of WordPress 2.7:

New Features

• New Commenting system
• New Dashboard Features
• Sticky Posts
• QuickPress
• Dashboard and Write Rearrangements
• Batch Editing for Posts
• One-Click Plugin Installs
• Comment Replies From the Admin Section

That list contains just some of the new features of WordPress. If you still thinking about upgrading or not to this version, I invite you to check the following posts in order to learn in details more about the new features:

• WordPress 2.7 – 20 Must See Features

• 5 Amazing New WordPress 2.7 Features

• WordPress 2.7: Ten useful new features

Happy Blogging!

What a week! With all the changes of the new theme I have had a very shaken week. Some minors bugs were reported by many of you and I want to thank you for every comment you sent me through the new contact form.

This week I found excellent post everywhere, I have added like 20 posts to my spreading love series of this week but we know that is hard to read 20 posts at once. So, I reduced that list, and now I will give you the most useful:

• The Visual Design of 2.7 by Jane on WordPress Blog.
• Who Will Control Your Data in the Web 3.0 World? by Lidija on ReadWriteWeb.
• Too Much Effort and No Progress? Something Is Wrong There by Daniel on DailyBlogTips.
• How To Get Sponsors: Leveraging Current Sponsors To Get Even More Sponsors by Mattaw on MoneyBites.
• The 3 Strategies of Link Building – Why & How You Build Links by Gyutae on WinningTheWeb.
• Do You Have the Balls to Make Money Doing What You Love? by Paul on InspiredMoneyMaker.com.
• Introduction To Offline Affiliate Marketing by Josh on Affiliate Famous.

Other Interesting things:

• Reader Challenge #1 by Dot Com Dud on DotComDud.
• Flip A Site Contest – Part 1 by Bryan on Site Flip U.
• My Firefox Addons by Stephan on StephanMiller.com.

As you may know, WordPress 2.7 is almost ready for public beta, so in the first article you could see how it will look. And talking about wordpress and blogging, I recommend you to check the post of Stephan, who talks about his interest firefox addons which help him in his blogging work… I hope you liked this round of posts!

Yesterday I had updated my twitter profile! I have upgraded the background image to give it a touch of coolness . Also, I added a poll on the sidebar of the blog, asking if you like the new theme or not… I invite you to give me your vote!.

Now I want to take advantage of this post to remind you to participate in my 2.0 give away! Now it has almost $2500 in prizes and daily I continue receiving emails from more and more sponsors!

PS: Did you noticed that all these posts have long titles? What a weird thing…

Hey everyone! Finally, after a month of hard work I have finished and set up the new version of Mr Javo dot Com. Many interesting changes have been made and I would like to talk about it in order to let you know what I have improved for you.

First of all, let’s review the original version of my blog, Mr Javo 1.0:

The header was a total waste of space. The logo occupied all the header and the navigation was not the best, having in mind that if I created many pages the menu would be over the logo, something which could be seen as anti-aesthetic.

About the body, the articles showed a banner 300×250, which didn’t let me to put any imagine in the top of any post.

The footer had nothing, it just displayed a copyright and nothing else.

In general, that theme was a little slow, everything was made with big images and few CSS. The next theme is much faster, I have optimized it with less images and more CSS codes.

What’s New on Mr Javo 2.0

Basically, I made up a new theme . I have changed several things, starting with the CSS styles with which I five to this new theme a cooler look.

New logo! When I was redesigning the old theme, I wanted to improve the logo because it didn’t look like me (not at all). The thing was when I wanted to do it, I couldn’t find the .psd (photoshop file) of my logo! So I had to create a new one, which in my opinion looks more like me and as I said, it is more fresh!

No more waste of space in the header! I have reordered the header, and now you could see a 468x60px banner besides the logo, which will have the better exposure on my blog because of its position.

Better navigation! I moved the navigation menu below the header, this way it won’t be difficult for you to find it and surf through my blog.

Subheader added! I have created 3 sections below the menu. At the left, you can find the form of sign up for my newsletter, which you could receive exclusive promotions, special reports, secret tips and more! Sign up now and receive a free copy of my eBook The Affiliate’s Start Guide, with which you can learn the basics about how to create a website and start making money online!

At the center, you will find a section with the most popular posts! This way you will always have something interesting for reading.

And finally at the right, you will find the RSS subscription area, which you can subscribe to this blog through a rss reader or by email. If you want to know what should you subscribe to this blog, I invite you to take a look on the page Why Subscribe?.

The sidebar is quite similar than the old one, with some little differences on the widgets.

New sections on the footer! Now you will see 4 sections in the footer. I don’t have decided yet what will I put there, probably the categories, a little info about me, the recommended money makers or something like…

New look on comments! I updated the comments form and now you can reply to other people’s comments, something very useful which help to avoid using @user… in the comments. Also, I have changed the mybloglog avatar plugin for the Gravatar one. This avatars are widely recognized by many services, so I prefered to implement them here. If you don’t have a Gravatar, create one now!

Final Thoughts

I feel very well looking the new theme working well, but probably I missed something. If you find any error, bug or anything else don’t hesitate to contact me and notify me about the issue. By the way, I have changed my contact form too .

SPECIAL NEWS: I am preparing a contest which I will be launching tomorrow! There are more than $1800 in prizes and counting! So stay tuned and don’t forget to participate, there will be many great sponsored prizes here…

The wordpress’ developers are constantly working to improve this awesome platform. This time, they have an issue related to the new WordPress 2.7 Navigation, and the WordPress team have decided to include us as part of the design of the new platform.

WordPress 2.7 Navigation Options Survey: As design decisions are being made for the new WordPress 2.7 admin interface, the WordPress team would like your input in deciding how the navigation options should be grouped and labeled. Please take the survey.

Survey Completed

Thank you for completing this survey. WordPress 2.7 is expected to be released in November 2008.

The survey has 20 simple questions and they are very easy to fill in. So I suggest you to take the survey to be part of this new version!