Without a goal you never can achieve a goal. Hence as a Web publisher you need to set a goal - a target amount of $ that lets you live and work and success and progress peacefully and comfortably.

How much you need fo be comfortable in your life and work depends on your overhead expenses - on what exactly you do to publish about and where you do your work and living as well. Obviously all the cost of living and necessary logistics are the determining factor - your life style and dreams you want to fulfill is another determining factor for your total cost of living that sets the target amount you need to earn to be happy.

To be successful - start simple and small - stay free of debts at all times !

Start without additional equipment - use what you have - start with a free webspace project to see if you have anything at all to publish and if you get any decent traffic at all. May be you start and realize that there is far more work hidden behind a good looking web page than you are ready to perform.

Grow steadily by producing steadily new unique content - if possible on a daily basis

The easiest way to become a web publisher without any pressure to perform is to start your web project first as a side-line to your current full time job. A full-time job that pays for all the initial expenses, travel where needed, HW/SW and that also allows you to make valuable experiences worth to be published. Publishing your professional experiences and experiences in life to have a happier life and more successful life certainly helps others most and may be most attractive to the world.

The revenue from a web site depends on traffic and topic of web site

Traffic however depends largely on your SEO - Search Engine Optimization - in clear language SEO means that you use proper procedures, clean code, good page layout, nice colors, all meta-tags properly configured for each individual page. Search engine friendly folder-names and file-names resulting in search engine friendly URLs. The finally result is that all minor and major search engines can crawl, find and index every single page of your entire website4's public documents.

Hence fancy stuff like javascript links or java links, etc either need to be fully HTML-link compatible or replaced by clean HTML links to make the entire content of your web site accessible by all bots, browsers and mobile devices alike.

Pages need to have H1 and H2 titles and be properly structured and if available links to relevant previous articles on your site or on other reputable web sites are added for additional increase in surfing experience by your site visitors.

The more popular content you have - the greater your generic traffic will be

To expect hundreds or even thousands of site visitors to appear on your site with only a few dozen pages would be an illusion. so how many pages mixed topics you need for a given number of site-visitors or pageviews ?

I give you a real life example and you can set that as a goal to reach. whatever I reached YOU can reach as well - except that you should be able to reach that same goal faster, easier and more enjoyable than I did.

Why?

Because when I started there was no one to teach me, no one to help me, no one to ask anything. Hence I was all alone - God and me - learning web publisher to assist my work as a spiritual teacher to publish the teachings of love to all world.

Now we have thousands of tutorials, excellent howtos and people with years of real life experience willing to share absolutely all with you to ease your own success.

My blog for example has some 2000 pageviews per day and some 700 posts these days ( some have been deleted, hence the file number in the URL of my blog articles is larger than the actual existing number of blog files/blog articles.

The entire Cyberspace Ashram has many thousand pages and currently some 11'000+ unique visitors per day. each day visitors from some 130+ countries - each months from some 200+ countries.

Here again the ratio of number of unique pages to unique visitors is comparable with the blog ratio. Hence you can calculate that for every page you create in an attractive and fully search engine optimized way will attract some 3 visitors per day.

So to have a goal for your web publishing - you cold easily take above numbers from my blog as your goal that has been achieved by real person in real world - hence the very same also can be achieved by YOU!!

If your goal drifts off target during the course of your business year - work harder to get back on target again!

Early year is a good time to set goals -realistic but high goals - goals you really have to work or struggle to achieve. Only when you set high but realistic goals will you grow stronger. If your goals are too low, too easy - you will remain average and weak.

Usually I set high goals - sometimes I get distracted for a few weeks from my goals - or at least slowed down by events or visitors - just in time to realize that I have never in my life missed a single goal and I simply increase all my efforts, investments in time, resources, $ and love to reach the goal in time. all the previous year my annual goal usually was reached by November - and December was an added gift in increase of performance. Christmas time is a time of gifts !

You can set a goal of 30-60 pages or articles to be published each day in the average of each months - and that makes you 360-720 pages in one year resulting in 1000-2000 pageviews per day if your topics are exciting. some pages will result in many hundred pageviews each day - other articles may be valid for a few months only and then become history ... keep on producing useful and helpful content and forget about what keywords pay how much.

When setting goals - look what sportsmen do - they look at a number, a speed, a time, a height to exceed and then they train, work, live and sweat until they have reached their et goals.

Be useful to others and help others by your articles to get their lives more happy and better organized and you always will receive whatever reward you need to continue your fine work.

God bless

hans

Today's topic is how to install your love_blog - the most successful blog SW I ever have seen is the one I use since years. Long time abandoned project - partially revived by a small group. Years ago I once installed its early version and then started to optimize all parts as needed realizing that if I wait until someone else from the project group does the optimization - I may have all gray hair and my life over.

Never wait for others to assist you - never depend on others in your life or work - do yourself whatever is needed for the success of your own project in life. Learn and acquire all knowledge and skills needed to be successful on your own - then you never have anyone to blame for your own failure in life or business.

My own version - my love_blog - is a pretty heavily modified or better optimized version that soon might become available to the public for far more successful blogging.

Last night I got the first special blog release soon to be public ( just visit that blog or the love_blog's homepage in a few days from now to secure your own free copy of this fine blog with built in success features - gg without any experience in real web server administration or web site management - started to have problems by the tons. Hence basic steps are needed. Thus we better publish all - for your own later reference - because most likely some of you too want to be successful web-publishers and hence may have to learn all the basic steps toward that goal. from nothing comes nothing - an old and powerful Swiss saying / truth. you get as much satisfaction our of your job as you invest efforts into your job! you get as much satisfaction our of your relationship as you invest loving efforts into your relationship. it's all about quality and quality requires readiness and willingness to learn and acquire skills and knowledge by practicing what you study.

Before complaining to your hosting company about something wrong or malfunctioning or NOT working - be sure you have the right tools, be sure you apply correct procedures - be sure you have everything tested and running on your localhost - hence the reason and need to have locally the very exact same OS as your site runs on. Happy life needs a teacher - happy life blog apparently also. The software engineer is challenged - may be a setup service at around 50$/install or a setup/install script ... ?

Meanwhile we do local testing. If ever you have a mysql dbase problem on your webserver - test the very same situation and application offline on your local Linux machine first to make sure everything works perfectly local. then and only after all works fine - complain to your hosting support for help.

love_blog needs like so many modern CMS and gallery software a mysql dbase and we need to make sure we can connect properly with the data we enter in love_blog into our mysql db server.

Below are a few self-explanatory lines - replace the proper names by the real ones on your local or remote machine depending on whether you test your local mysql db or your remote db.

download below file - change all values for the first db - then upload into the server folder - local or remote - rename the same file with file extension .php and open same file in your browser !! browser !! NO file browser. open the file with your http-URL - then you either get connected or failed. if connected fine - else YOU have a problem and YOU need to learn to solve that problem before you continue.

Properly used and configured - the mysql db connection test-script output in your browser will be:

Connected successfully to your_db_name1
Database your_db_name1 selected successfully

and if YOU made any error - the output will look something like:

Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Access denied for user: 'your username @ host you try to connect' (Using password: YES) in /server_path/to_your/db_connection_test_script/test.php on line 29
Could not connect post

before you have your own web site - you need to be webmaster

webmaster is a two-part word - webmaster = web master:

• web = you need to know the web - you need to know how to use the web efficiently, hence you need to know proper procedure to search and find solutions to any problems by means of most efficient use of major SE to find the howto or manual you need to solve your problem.
• master - means you need to master all the basic configuration and maintenance and security problems and work on the web server you use. we use apache2 - because that is the modern way of web server SW in a modern Linux server environment. Hence a web-master

No one is born webmaster - everybody can become webmaster by learning and practicing!

no one is born professor or engineer - but all can learn, study, practice and work toward that position or qualification. webmaster starts in most cases with very basic skills and knowledge that I have published or linked to since many years in my webmaster resource section. anything beyond that is what you search and find by proper use of major search engines. by saying major SE - most people usually refer to as Google - me too I use Google and in 99+ of all cases get the best possible results out fo G - as Google is known in professional circles.

Now you test your mysql db and get it working - if problems exist then usually basic permission problems, wrong spelling in password or usernames or db-names. check the basics before frustration kills your day. most of the time it is a VERY basic mistake that leads to a connection error.

Enjoy your way UP to a successful webmaster - webmaster - that sounds very much like man's job - but girls to can be master of the web and I prefer to call such girls rather something more pleasant - may be web diva or web angel ??

Love and bliss

hans