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Sabtu, 02 Februari 2013

How Authorship can take your blog to the next level in 2013

If you haven’t heard of Google Plus, Google’s new social network, then perhaps you’ve been living under a stone for the last year. Whilst it’s certainly not yet a Facebook or Twitter, Google is doing everything it can to push and promote it. That’s something that as a blog owner you should give serious consideration to. Taking on the might of Facebook is a huge challenge for Google and having learned many lessons from their previous attempt with social networking called Orkut, this time they’re out to really push G+.
Of course I can hear you asking why should I care, I already share my content on Twitter and Facebook which has a far greater reach. The answer is quite simple. Google is giving out plenty of encouragement for you to be active with them. As a serious blogger, you should take advantage of it! So if you’ve gone through your SEO checklist and think you have everything covered, don’t forget to markup your blog with rel=author!
Everyone likes a great picture
The first and most obvious advantage is the ability to have a pretty picture of yourself in the SERPS (search results). You’ve probably seen quite a few sites that have this when you search Google. Do you think you’re more likely to click the result with the picture or the one without? The web is becoming more social because ultimately people are social animals. Your picture in the SERPS not only makes you stand out from your competition, but it can make you appear more trustworthy. As the vast majority of blogs aren’t yet using Google authorship, then you really should be! Here’s what it looks like when implemented correctly.
google-author

Not only this but click through rates within search results are often much higher with sites that have authorship enabled. Bottom line, this means more visitors to your blog. If you even got an easily achieved 10% increase in your CTR, this means an extra 10% of organic search visitors to your blog. Obviously that’s clear value to you, no matter if or how your blog is monetised. A 10% boost in new traffic for 20 minutes of work to set it up is a clear and easy win for you. However, it gets much better.
The big picture, if you’ll pardon the pun
The big picture goes far beyond the ability to have your picture in the search results. That’s just a nice little carrot that’s dangled in front of you. Google wants to stay at the top and to do that they continually need to find better ways to organise and understand the plethora of documents on the web. Pagerank and links which are the fabric of their understanding of the relatedness of the web are buckling under the pressure. To take things further they need to understand who is adding the content and how authoritative these people are within the realm of their topic areas.
Authorship is a great way to do this, and it really is a stroke of genius. If they can get webmasters like you to link their blogs and content written around the web to G+, then they can start to understand more about the context of who is building the great stuff on the web. If they can understand who the great authors are then they can use that to rank quality sites much more easily and give their users a much better experience. If you put out great content, then that means you!
What does this mean for you?
This means that you need to be giving the right signals to Google that your content is the kind of content that deserves to rank well and to be receiving the gift of the traffic Gods. Do you already get the kind of metrics and interactions that Google loves to see on your blog? Do you get great comments, links, and social shares because of the quality of your blog? Then you should be telling Google that you are the author of this great stuff!
Once they know that you are the author you can start to build your ‘author rank’ or agent rank as their patents describe it. Now I’ll be honest, nobody knows if Google is currently using this as a signal for ranking. You have to realise that they’ve put so much effort into it this and it’s likely to be so potent a ranking signal that it’s obvious that it’s coming soon. Delivering quality relevant results is at the heart of what Google wants to do, and you dear reader should see the opportunity to be at the very heart of it from the beginning. Of course we don’t yet know what the full effects of this are likely to be, and this post is not the place for a discussion on correlation versus causation, but hopefully you can see that the potential is huge.
What you need to do set it up
Firstly you need to create a personal profile with Google Plus, fill out all the information required, and add a picture of yourself. Note, you need to use an actual real picture of you (a headshot is best). Company logos are not what was intended here. Then you need to add your site (or any others that you post on) as a site that you contribute to in your profile.
Finally you need to add the link to your G+ profile page on your blog posts and you’re good to go. If you use WordPress as many are, you’re probably using Yoast’s SEO plugin (which I highly recommend). Yoast kindly has made it easy for you by providing fields to do this within the plugin. Alternatively many other SEO plugins provide this functionality. Once you’ve done this you can test the results with Google’s Rich Snippets testing tool and if it all works you need to wait a couple of weeks.
The implications of doing this
Google already understands more about your site than you think. It knows about interactions and social sharing as well as other important metrics. Make sure that this great stuff is linked to you, the real life human being. Why? The answer is because as a ‘known author’ you can take this authority around the web with you. Think of it as a suitcase full of topic authority. If you contribute to other sites as well as your own, then your articles there should get a boost based on your authorship. Also if those other sites do the right things then your posts should further increase your author rank.
Finally one of the other obvious connotations of this that you don’t often hear about is the impact of people guest authoring on your site. It clearly will benefit them but think about how it would impact you to have the highest quality authors on your site. Once you see that Google can understand who is authoring all this content you can see that attracting industry thought leaders and experts to post on your site (with verified G+ authorship) is going to massively help. Top experts aren’t going to work with low quality sites, so in effect you can leverage the authority of others to help your own ranking. You should positively encourage expert authors on your site! However you need to make sure that these are quality authors, so your vetting process needs to be even stricter.
A semi advanced tip
If you’ve already shared content on other people’s sites through the connections you have then you should contact those site owners. Not only is it likely to be good to get back in touch anyway, but you can explain the importance of authorship implementation. If you’ve contributed to sites all around the web in the past then you may be able to build up very quickly by implementing this on your past work. A head start is always a good thing, but just make sure that you only link quality work back to you.
A final word of caution
I’ll finally say that if you do any kind of black hat SEO promotion, then you should stay far away from this. Of course most don’t do that stuff, but I thought I’d mention it. By creating authorship and taking it around the web with you, you are linking all of your work. You need to be sure that you’re ‘whiter than white’, otherwise the past might come back to haunt you.
Why not tell me what you think in the comments. Have you used rel=author markup and have you noticed a CTR or other improvement on your blog?
Harvey Pearce is the owner of SEO Derby a digital marketing company focusing on Search, PPC, CRO, and Social, based in the UK. He has a passion for all things digital and a little boy who is the centre of his world.
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original post : http://www.dailyblogtips.com/how-authorship-can-take-your-blog-to-the-next-level-in-2013/

Jumat, 01 Februari 2013

9 Tricks To Triple AdSense Earnings In 30 Days

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I have been using Google AdSense to monetize my blogs and websites for as long as I remember. In fact it was the first method I ever tried (I made a whooping $15 on my first month… back in 2005). Over the years I migrated to other methods (e.g., direct sponsors and affiliate marketing), which made AdSense become merely an inventory filler. I was still making around $1,000 monthly from it, but whenever I could I would use other methods over it.
Then some months ago I started noticing an upward trend on the CPC of my sites, and I figured that I should give AdSense another try. I started applying some tricks here and there, and the next month I made over $3,000 with it (that is combining all my sites). I was pleasantly surprised, and I decided to keep using it actively on some sites.
In this article I want to share with you the tips and tricks I used to triple my AdSense earnings in one month.

1. I added units to my Big Websites

Daily Blog Tips and Daily Writing Tips are my largest websites in terms of traffic. They are getting close to one million monthly page views (combined). Despite that I was not using AdSense on them, mainly because the direct sponsorship model was working relatively well.
Some months ago I decided to load some AdSense units on the sites, however, and the results were very positive. Around 70% of the boost I generated to my earnings came from these two sites. At the same time I managed to keep the other monetization methods working fine, and no reader ever complained about the new ads (more on that later).
Even if your blog is already making money with direct sponsors and affiliate marketing, therefore, you could still manage to increment your earnings by strategically adding some AdSense units.

2. I added units to my Small Websites

As many webmasters do, I have a bunch of small websites scattered around the web. Some are on free hosted platforms like Blogger, and others are self hosted sites that I abandoned along the way. Most of these sites still get traffic, however. Not much, but combined the numbers get decent.
I figured that adding AdSense units to all these sites could yield some money, and I was right. The main reason is that, since these are abandoned sites and don’t have loyal visitors, I can place the units very aggressively. The result was a very high CTR (Click-through rate), which compensates the small traffic levels.
Don’t underestimate the earning potential of small websites, especially if you are willing to place AdSense units aggressively.

3. I used the Large Units

If you want to make money with AdSense you’ll inevitably need to use one of these units: the 336?280 large rectangle, the 300?250 rectangle, the 120?600 large skyscraper or the 728?90 leaderboard.
Whenever I tried to use smaller units the results were disappointing. Even if I positioned them aggressively the CTR was just too low.
All four units mentioned above can produce good results, but the best performing one is by far the 336?280 large rectangle, and that is the one I used to boost my earnings.

4. I placed the Units above the Fold

My first trial was to place the 336?280 large rectangle between the post and the comments section of my blogs. The results were OK. I then decided to try placing them below the post titles for one week, and the CTR skyrocketed. In fact I still need to find a placement/unit combination that will beat placing a 336?280 unit below post titles.
I knew this rule, but I guess I needed to test and get confirmation. The rule is: if you want to make money with Google AdSense, you must place your units above the fold.

5. I Focused on Organic Traffic

My main concern with adding a large AdSense unit right below my post titles was that some of the loyal readers could get annoyed with it. At the same time I knew that loyal readers become ad blind quite fast, and that the bulk of my money would come from organic visitors (i.e., people coming via search engines to my posts).
To solve this problem I decided to display the large rectangle only on posts older than seven days (using the Why Do Work WordPress plugin). It worked like a charm, as loyal readers don’t even notice the ad units when they are browsing through my recent posts, and organic visitors almost always see the ads because they usually land on posts older than seven days.

6. I started using AdSense for Search

I was not sure how much money I would be able to make with AdSense for Search, but I was not happy with the search results provided by WordPress, so I decided to give it a shot anyway.
Currently I am making around $60 monthly with AdSense for Search. It is not much, but if you sum it over one year we are talking about $720. On top of that the search results are as relevant as you’ll get, so it is a win win situation.

7. I started using AdSense for Feeds

Another AdSense product I decided to try was the AdSense for Feeds one. I opted to display the ads below my feed items (you can also place them on top, but this would be too intrusive in my opinion). The results here were pretty good, both in terms of CTR and earnings.
You obviously need a large RSS subscriber base to make this work, but I am guessing that even with a couple thousand subscribers you could already make $100 monthly from feed ads.

8. I played around with section targeting

Section targeting is an AdSense feature that allows you to suggest specific sections of your site that should be used when matching ads. You can read more about it here.
I found that on niche and small websites section targeting can help a lot. Often times Google was displaying unrelated ads on these sites because there weren’t enough pages. After using section targeting I managed to increase the relevancy of the ads and consequently the CTRs.

9. I tested with Different Colors and Fonts

If you enabled both image and text ads on your units you should be able to customize the colors and fonts. I did some testing with both of these factors, and it helped to increase the numbers. Nothing dramatic, but it was definitely worth my time.
You just need to track your CTR for a couple of weeks. Then change the color or font and track it for another week, seeing if you can beat the original CTR. If you can, keep the new format. If you the performance decreased, try a new color or font and track the CTR for another week, until you find the optimal combination.
On my sites the best results came from making the ad units merge with the look of the site, but on some sites contrasting colors perform better, so testing is a must.

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original post : http://www.wmtips.com/adsense/tricks-triple-adsense-earnings-days.htm

5 Business Lessons I Learned in 2012

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The year is coming to an end, and I figured it would be useful to write a post with the most important and relevant things I learned over that period. Useful both for me, as writing things down is a very efficient way to absorb them and to structure the ideas on your mind, and for the readers as well, as they might pick up an insight or two. So here go:

1. Work hard, play hard

I believe I first heard this from my buddy Neil Patel. The logic is simple: if you want to achieve big goals you need to work very hard. However, if you don’t play and have fun with the same intensity, sooner or later you will burn out. So do put in your 16-hour days of work, but when it comes to having fun do it like mean it. Go sky-diving, kart racing, wind surfing at a caribbean beach. Travel to Vegas, Paris, Thailand. Rent a boat, a sports car. You get the idea. Sure, those things are not cheap, but they will help to keep you sane, which in turn will allow you to work harder and make more money.

2. Put your own ideas before client work

In 2012 I started focusing on mobile app development. The two options I had was to either create apps for clients or to work on my own apps. I opted for the former, mainly because the money would start rolling in faster. Big mistake. Launching your own successful idea/app is certainly harder and takes more time, but if you manage to do it the earning potential is much higher. Not only that, you’ll have much more fun working on your own stuff. If you are in a position where you can choose between doing your own stuff and working for other people/companies, put your own stuff first. If you are not in that position yet, well, work to get there.

3. If you are not working on your best idea you are wasting time

I can’t remember where I heard this, but it stuck with me ever since. Most of us have one or more ideas that we believe have a lot of potential. Very often, however, we post-pone working on them. Either we don’t have the funds, the technical expertise, or we have too much on our plate right now to be able to tackle yet another project. You know what? Those are all excuses, and if you fall for them you’ll be wasting some precious time. Do what it takes to free your time and get what you need to start working on your best idea right now.

4. Aim to build a business (not a website, an app, etc.)

If you are or want to be an entrepreneur your goal should always be to create a business. A mere website, web or mobile app won’t cut it. You need to think about what problem you are going to solve, how are are going to deliver your product/service, who is going to pay for it, and so on. If you are not thinking along those lines you are wasting your time on projects that won’t fly very high.

5. Start now and learn as you go

People don’t start working on their best ideas right away because they fear they don’t have the necessary know-how yet. They figure that if they take a couple of courses, read a couple of books and work a couple of smaller projects first the odds of succeeding will be higher. The problem is that by taking this approach you will lose a couple of years. A better strategy is to start working on your idea right away and to learn things as you go. Not only you’ll get a head start, but you will also learn things more effectively because you’ll be using them right away.
Here’s to a very successful 2013 for all of us!

Original Post: 5 Business Lessons I Learned in 2012

The Do’s and Don’ts of Guest Posting for Major Blogs

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What do Mashable.com, BusinessInsider.com and Huffington Post all have in common? For one, each blog captures thousands of unique visitors and tens of thousands of page views in a single day. Second, they all accept contributions from guest authors, creating the potential to drive massive amounts of traffic to your website with just a single guest post.
But there’s got to be a catch. You’ve probably got to be a big name blogger with a huge audience like ProBlogger.com’s Darren Rowse to be eligible for publication on major blogs like that… Right?

No Name? No Audience? No Problem.

Believe it or not, you need neither name nor audience to get published. I used to think you did until I began to look more critically at the bylines of the writers listed on authority websites like BusinessInsider.com, currently listed in the top 500 most popular websites on the internet according to Alexa.
What did I discover upon closer examination? BusinessInsider.com publishes a lot of content from guest authors, most of which is from unkown writers you would not know, don’t have audience or fancy qualifications like an advanced degree from a prestigious school.
Best of all, these websites need a lot of regular outside contributions from guest writers. How much? Enough to dedicate a category
of the website just to content exclusively provided by writers/bloggers referred to as “Contributors”. None of the writer’s listed here are on the BusinessInsider.com payroll.
So if you don’t need a big name or any specific qualifications to contribute to these major blogs, what’s preventing you or me from getting our content published on behemoth blogs like this? That’s the question I posed to three regular contributors of BusinessInsider.com–Frank Gullo of RavenWeb.net, Hillel Fuld of TechnMarketing.com, and Sudy Bharadwaj of JackalopeJobs.com–to get a sense of what the average blogger/marketer should do to be considered for publication on a major blog.
While you’re probably not familiar with the writing or names of the writers I interviewed for this piece, collectively these three have been published on the biggest blogs with names you do know including the Huffington Post, Mashable and Gigom in addition to BusinessInsider.com.

What separates these guys from the rest of us?

I emailed each of these gentlemen to pick their brains and get advice on how they were each able to be featured on these blogs. Fortunately, for me (and you) they were generous with their expertise and provided a simple outline of do’s and don’ts that if followed greatly increases your odds of getting published on these sites.
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, each of the blogger’s I interviewed shared creepily similar recommendations for getting content published. There do’s and don’ts have been summarized below and edited slightly for readability purposes:
When submitting guest content to major blogs, do the following:
- Read and Follow Submission Guidelines to the Letter: Big blogs have much stricter requirements for what they can and can’t publish. Make sure the content you submit to these blogs aligns with posts that are regularly published by the blog both in content and style. Many of these blogs provide information about how to submit guest posts or contributions on a contact or contributor page.
In the case of becoming a contributor to BusinessInsider.com, all you need to do is to submit an email (contributor@businessinsider.com)
stating that you’re interested in writing for them.
- Respect the Editor’s Time: When you submit guest posts to major blogs, they’ll need to be reviewed by an editor or writer before they can be published. Again, make sure you have formatted your posts correctly, do not have any spelling errors, and provided a high-quality piece of content that can be published. The more time an editor must spend rewriting your post, the less likely it is to be published.
- Keep Communication Short: This related to the previous point. Don’t write long emails explaining your story ideas to editors or your career highlights. Keep pitches concise and to the point.
- Be Persistent: The folks that work at these blogs are extremely busy and being emailed, Tweeted, and instant messaged by people just like you all day, every day. As a result, it’s typical that at some point your message could be forgotten about or looked over. If an editor doesn’t respond to your request after 5 – 7 days feel free to send them a reminder. If you still don’t get a response, move on and try contacting a different blog or editor.
When submitting content to major blogs, don’t do the following:
- Don’t miss a Deadline: This is a deal breaker for most editors. If you say you’re going to get an article out
to them by January, 17th, stick to it. Miss one deadline and you won’t get a second chance with many editors.
- Don’t complain if you’re article is rejected: Believe it or not, even strong writers have their content rejected from time to time. If you’re article is rejected, simply ask how you can improve it or suggest writing a new article on a different topic. If you believe the rejected article is valuable, you can always submit it somewhere else later.
- Don’t Pester Editors: While you need to be consistent and occasionally send followup emails regarding the status of a post, don’t be a pain. Do not contact editors via social media daily much less hourly. A good rule of thumb is to provide at least 5 – 7 business days of breathing room between messages to an editor.
While you may not need a big name to contribute to today’s most popular websites, you will need to closely follow the editorial guidelines of each particular website and stick to the do’s and don’ts outlined in this article to get published on the biggest blogs.
Brett Lindenberg does a lot of guest writing in his own right. Read more of his stuff at 500aMonth.com and be sure to download his routine for building an email list when you sign up for his email list.

Original Post: The Do’s and Don’ts of Guest Posting for Major Blogs

Services vs. Products: Are You Focusing on the Wrong Side?

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As an entrepreneur you have basically two routes to follow: you can either provide services or products (providing both at the same time is also an option, but very few people manage to do it effectively, so let’s not consider this option for the sake of simplicity).
By “services” I mean work you’ll do on behalf of your clients. They give you some money, and in exchange you perform a certain task for them. Examples include web design, SEO consulting, hair cuts, car washing, software development, electronics repairing, house painting and so on.
By “products” I mean selling something the clients will use themselves. They give you some money in exchange for something tangible they can use to perform a certain task. Examples include ebooks, shoes, computers, courses, bread, mobile apps and so on.
Both models can be profitable, and there are millions of companies around the world on each of those camps. However, the money you can make using a product-based business model is orders of magnitude larger than with a service-based model.
Why? For a simple reason: the potential revenue of a service-based model is limited on the supply side. That is, your earnings will be limited to how many hours you (or your staff) can work, and there are only so many of them in a day/month/year. The potential revenue of a product-based model, on the other hand, is limited on the demand side. That is, the earnings will be limited to the amount of people who are willing to buy the product.
Let’s compare two companies. Company A offers house painting services, while company B produces and sells paint. The revenues of company A will be limited to the number of painters the company has on staff, and to how many hours each painter can work in a day/month/year. The revenues of company B, on the other hand, are limited to how many people are willing to buy its paint, which is potentially everyone in the world.
One could argue that company A can keep hiring/firing painters to match the demand, limiting its revenues exactly to the demand as well. But that is not viable in the real world. Hiring and managing people is far more complex and expensive than managing the process of creating products.
Obviously money is not everything, and some entrepreneurs will prefer to run a service-based company. That’s fine. On many cases, however, both models will be equally rewarding to the owner, and switching to a product-based one will increase the profits and give you more flexibility at the same time. I find this to be the case especially with small businesses.
Suppose you are a web designer, and you charge $100 per hour of design work. You work 30 effective hours per week, so 120 hours per month, with revenues of $12,000 per month or $144,000 per year. Not too shabby. Now suppose you switch to a product-based model, and you spend your next two months creating a WordPress theme. You price it at $49 per license, and during the first month you sell 100 copies, so $4,900 during that month. Over the next 10 months, however, sales grow 30% per month. By the end of the year you will have sold over 4,000 licenses, pulling a total of $208,602. Not only that, you’ll be able to keep profiting from that product for years to come.
Bottom line: you can have a viable business model either offering services or products, but the latter tends to be much more profitable, so evaluate your current strategy to make sure you are not leaving money on the table.

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An Experiment: No More Guest Posts and a Focus on Quality

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As some of you guys will remember, a couple of years ago I changed the direction of my business activities. Until 2010 all my income was coming from my blogs and websites, mostly from advertising, affiliate marketing and from selling my own products online.
That year I decided I wanted to move to software development. First of all because I was having a blast programming, which I started as a hobby. Second because I figured I would be able to tackle larger problems/projects writing software.
I spent most of 2011 and 2012 learning more about programming and working on the development of web and mobile apps. 2013 will follow along the same lines, as I have a couple of large/ambitious mobile projects to execute.
In other words, it was getting tough to keep updating this blog daily as I was spending most of my day coding and working on other areas of the business.
My initial solution was to reduce the frequency of updates slightly to four posts per week, and bring guest authors to fill the days I wasn’t able to write. It worked relatively well, as 2012 was a record year in terms of traffic, but I wasn’t happy with it.
Pretty much every week I would receive a couple of emails from readers who thought the guest posts had a different style and voice, arguing that they came to the site to read my stuff.
I thought about it and decided to run an experiment in 2013: I won’t be publishing guest posts anymore and will write all the posts myself (so be warned: you are stuck with my ramblings now!).
On top of that I will also focus on the quality of the posts and not on the quantity. In other words, I will only write when I have something to say. I won’t be running filler posts anymore.
Obviously the frequency of updates will fall (I am planning to write 1-2 posts per week), but at least you can be assured that whenever you come here you’ll find something worth while to read.
I am not sure if the traffic will increase or decrease with this change, but at least I’ll be proud of the content on the site. And despite spending most of my time coding these days, about 60% of my income still comes from my blogs and websites, so I am still in touch with Internet marketing and website promotion/monetization. In other words, stay tuned for some cool stuff in 2013!

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Building an “Archives” Page with Simple PHP

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In my opinion most websites should have an HTML sitemap (also called “Archive” or “Archives”). That is basically a page that will contain a link to all other pages of the site. In case of a blog it will contain a link to all blog posts.
Such HTML sitemap is beneficial both for search engines and human visitors. Search engines benefit from it because it becomes easy to crawl all the content of the website. Human visitors, similarly, become able to quickly look for a post that was published on a particular month/day/year. On top of that there’s an SEO benefit, as your link juice will spread evenly across all pages.
In order to build such an “Archives” page I used to use and recommend a plugin called SGR Clean Archives. That plugin is quite old, however, and it stopped being updated a while ago.
Then a couple of days ago I received an email from a reader who took my recommendation and was using the plugin. He said that his server was becoming really slow lately, and upon further investigation they discovered that the plugin was hammering the server and causing the slowness.
He also pointed out that my own “Archives” page was not working anymore. Damn! My guess is that the latest versions of WordPress rendered the plugin’s code slow and ineffective.
Anyway I needed to find an alternative. Since performance was a crucial aspect here I decided to implement my own “Archives” page using raw PHP and WordPress functions. It turned out to be an easy task:
1. Create A Template
The first step was to create the page template I would use for the “Archives Page”. Basically I copied the structure of a normal page (usually page.php), and added the following piece of code on top:

<?php

/*

Template Name: Archives

*/

?>

2. Add the PHP code
After that I removed the piece of code that outputs the normal content:

<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

 <h1><?php the_title(); ?></h1>

 <?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>

 <?php endwhile; else: ?>

 <?php endif; ?>

And substituted it with my own PHP code to output the links of all published posts:

<h1>Archives</h1>

<ul>

<?php

$args = array( 'numberposts' => 1000 );

$lastposts = get_posts( $args );

foreach($lastposts as $post) : setup_postdata($post); ?>

 <li><a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></li>

<?php endforeach; ?>

</ul>

3. Create the Page
After that all you have to do is to create a page inside WordPress and make it use the “Archives” template. That’s it.
I am using that code on my archives page right now. The only thing I am not happy with is the fact that all links are mixed together. I would like to separate them month by month, to make it easier for humans to find what they are looking for.
As soon as I solve that problem I’ll post an update, so stay tuned.
Update: Somehow the code above was not working with 2000+ posts. With 1000 or fewer it works fine though. Since I have more than 2000 posts published I opted for a simpler archive with links to the monthly pages, with the following code:

<ul>

   <?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>

</ul>

You can see this live already.

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