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Posted May 8, 2009 Comments(0) Best Wordpress Plugin for Adsense
Posted April 27, 2009 Comments(0) 
1. Download the plugin to your computer and upload it to your web host server under ”wp-content’ – ‘plugins’. The best way to upload the plugin is by using FTP. If you have not already found a free FTP service, try Core FTP. Once the plugin is uploaded, go to your Wordpress control panel and there are two quick things to do.
2. Click the ‘Plugins’ section and you should now see an entry for ‘Adsense Injection’. If you look at the ‘Action’ column you just need to click on ‘Activate’
3. You will now see a button called ‘Adsense’ in your ‘Options’ section. All you have to do is click on this and fill in your Adsense publisher ID number and check the colour codes for your ads.
The only thing lacking in this plugin is the ability to exclude Adsense image ads, because most Adsense publishers find that image ads do not get such a high clickthrough rate as text ads. If I find out how to exclude image ads using this plugin I will post an update.
The best features of the “Adsense Injection” plugin are that it will insert Adsense codes automatically into every blog post, including older posts. This is great if your blog already has a lot of existing content, and you don’t want to insert codes manually into all of them. As the name suggests, when you use Adsense Injection you “inject” your Adsense codes automatically and randomly into all previous and future blog posts.
Thus, you will not have to worry about what’s called “ad blindness” as your Adsense blocks will appear in different positions within your content. You can also randomize different ad formats and different alignments to make sure that no two pages have the exact Adsense codes on them.
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Sitemaps for your blog
Posted April 1, 2009 Comments(0) Every blog or website needs a sitemap so that the search engines can find your web pages. Navigation on your web pages is also important, of course but today I discovered a tactic used by a competitor of one of my SEO clients that reminded me of the role of sitemaps. My client was getting really upset because his site had fallen down in the SERPs results for his search term. His business is in the service sector so the search phrases are geographic. His web pages have nice search engine friendly titles, of course. This means they describe the page content – for example this page could be named website-sitemaps.html and that would indicate the subject matter. I had analysed his competitor’s site for keywords and phrases and there was nothing radical going on. The site navigation was on dropdown boxes – nothing special there, either. But when I looked at the sitemap I found that there was a separate page for each district and village where the company wanted to rank. They were not apparent on the navbar, but they were being fed to the search engines and the website was ranking high for all the districts where they operate.
So the sitemap is crucial. If you are using Wordpress, all you need to do is get the free Google Sitemaps plugin, install it and forget about it. It is almost as easy to get a free sitemap for regular (HTML) websites as well, thanks to Sitemap Builder. Just visit the site, enter your site URL, check the pages that Sitemap builder finds and click if you are happy. A Google-compliant sitemap will be generated. All you need to do is paste the content into a new sitemap.xml page on your cpanel and it will be there to tell the search engines about your website content. If you have registered your website with Google Webmaster Tools you can check that the status of your sitemap is OK.
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Trackbacks – how to show on Wordpress Posts
Posted June 15, 2008 Comments(1) 
I have been doing a lot of blogging this weekend to get a new domain established, I usually manage to get a new site indexed in Google within ten days. The new domain was registered on Thursday and I started uploading new posts on the same day. So if it appears in the index by next weekend I will be happy. Then I will start to get some good traffic from the search engines and I should be able to use the domain to start blogging for money very soon. I ’stumbled’ one of the posts at StumbleUpon! and that produced more than fifty visitors in an hour. But I find that most Stumblers do not stay on the site very long as they are not really targeted to the niche of every page that they stumble. So traffic from Stumbleupon is not always quality traffic. Read more »
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Wordpress Plugin Stops Scraping of Your Posts
Posted April 21, 2008 Comments(0) If you have fallen victim to web ’scrapers’ you will know how annoying and frustrating this can be. You spend time researching and writing blog posts, only to find that someone is systematically scraping them and publishing them to their own website or blog as if they had written the original article. This has happened to me more than once, so I was very pleased to find the ‘RSS Footer Plugin’ for Wordpress Blogs. The way it works – the people who want to scrape your posts use your RSS Feed to automate the process. This plugin allows you to add a line of content either at the beginning or the end of your RSS feed articles: you can also Include a link back to the post, with post title as anchor text too. That is an aspect of this plugin that will really frustrate the web scrapers and, hopefully, make it pointless for them to plagiarise your original blog posts.
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Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin Update
Posted April 16, 2008 Comments(0) If you are using Wordpress on your own server or your web host’s server, then you have probably upgraded recently to Wordpress Version 2.5. I am generally pleased with this upgrade so far, and it appears to work well with my existing plugins – except the Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin. When I reviewed this Plugin for Wordpress last Autumn I was happy with its performance but then there were several mini upgrades of Wordpress software that were incompatible with this plugin. The author of the Plugin offered some extra code on her website but when I tried to use this my sudebar content disappeared with a ‘parse error’ message. Unfortunately Lucia, the writer of the plugin, has not updated her blog for several months now and the Plugin no longer serves to Hide Sponsored Categories. So there appears to be no ongoing support for the plugin. For the moment I have deactivated it until I find another. When I searched for more plugins to serve this purpose, one of the top results was a link to my own blog post – I must be doing something right, then!
Just to remind you of the reason for using this plugin: many bloggers – like me – use lots of different categories for their blog posts, as a kind of filing system. Readers of the blog really want to see the most interesting categories and this plugin promised the facility of keeping outdated or less interesting categories out of the sidebar list.
Update – 15 June. The Hide Sponsored Categories Plugin is no longer being supported and is not compatible with the most recent Wordpress software updates so I have removed it from my Wordpress Dashboard.
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Why I left Blogger
Posted March 20, 2008 Comments(0) Here is just the latest reason why I prefer Wordpress. I have two blogs that have not been possible to migrate to Wordpress. Today I tried to write a new post and this is the response I got when I clicked the bookmark link.
“We’re sorry…
… but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can’t process your request right now.
We’ll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious software.
If you’re continually receiving this error, you may be able to resolve the problem by deleting your Google cookie and revisiting Google. For browser-specific instructions, please consult your browser’s online support center.
We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we’ll see you again on Google.”
What the h*** is that about?
I would be very upset if my search for help with Atlantic City hair loss treatment delivered the same results. Hair loss is a sensitive subject and its sufferers will be easily put off in case of any queries like that.
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Adsense Wordpress Plugin recommended
Posted February 21, 2008 Comments(1) Here is the best plugin I have found for putting Adsense contextual ads on Wordpress – this easy little plugin will integrate your Adsense ads in your Wordpress posts and pages and float the text round them seamlessly. This has to improve your clickthrough rates! I found this free plugin by searching on Google Code and I am sooo pleased with it. I had already tried some widgets and other plugins, and I was looking at some paid tools. They were all complicated to install and manage. I was starting to wonder if I would ever be able to place Adsense ads around my Wordpress blog posts. So what is the magic Wordpress plugin that I love so much? It is called ‘Adsense Injection’, and it will insert Adsense into your blog without a lot of ****ing about. That is just the type of thing I was looking for. And if I managed to install this plugin in less than five minutes, then you can probably do it in three! All you do is download the plugin and upload it to your server under ”wp-content’ – ‘plugins’. The best way to upload the plugin is by using FTP – my favourite is Core FTP, which is totally free and simple to use.
The “Adsense Injection” plugin will insert Adsense codes, for example, automatically into every blog post, including older posts.
This is great if your blog already has a lot of existing content, and you don’t want to insert codes manually into all of them. As the name suggests, when you use Adsense Injection you “inject” your Adsense codes automatically and randomly into all previous and future blog posts.
You will not have to worry about what is called “ad blindness” as your Adsense blocks will appear in different positions within your content. You can also randomise different ad formats and different alignments to make sure that no two pages have the exact Adsense codes on them.
Once the plugin is uploaded, go to your Wordpress control panel and there are two quick things to do.
1. Click the ‘Plugins’ section and you should now see an entry for ‘Adsense Injection’. If you look at the ‘Action’ column you just need to click on ‘Activate’
2. You will now see a button called ‘Adsense’ in your ‘Options’ section. All you have to do is click on this and fill in your Adsense publisher ID number and check the colour codes for your ads.
You can choose the “Do not show me my own ads” option – so if you need to view your own wordpress posts, there is no risk of clicking your Adsense ads in error. You can also block Adsense from appearing in individual posts by inserting the tag <!–noadsense–> at the start of the blog post.
The only thing lacking in this plugin is the ability to exclude Adsense image ads, because most Adsense publishers find that image ads do not get such a high clickthrough rate as text ads. If I find out how to exclude image ads using this plugin I will post an update.
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Wordpress Kontera Plugin
Posted December 13, 2007 Comments(0) I have been displaying Kontera ads on my websites and blogs for a few months but I was holding back on using Kontera on many of the blogs because some of them were also selling paid blog reviews and the sites that pay you to post do not want to see other people’s ads in their sponsored post. One of the main Paid Post companies requires that posts submitted to them should not contain any advertising that overlaps the text. I already have an excellent plugin that can easily stop Adsense ads showing in paid blog posts, and I wanted to find a similar tool to manage my Kontera ads efficiently.
So I decided to find out how I could start displaying Kontera on my Wordpress blogs: I thought there should a a Kontera Wordpress Plugin somewhere on the web, and I found one quite easily a Karol Krizka’s Blog. This is a great site for all sorts of technical help: I downloaded the plugin, uploaded it to my blogs using FTP and activated it then I inserted my Kontera Publisher number in the Options screen then, of course, I changed the link colour from orange to blue. Now the Kontera integration Plugin is managing all my Kontera ads and I am looking forward to making more money with higher Kontera earnings on all my blogs.
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Wordpress Plugin for eBay auctions
Posted December 7, 2007 Comments(2) I have two blogs that feature content where the readers are likely to want to buy items from eBay. One is a guide to Designer Handbags, and the other gives help for iPod users who have lost their iTunes. I have seen plenty of sites and blogs displaying live eBay auction listings so I decided to do the same: after all, it should be easy, I thought. I then spent hours going round in circles through Commission Junction and the eBay Developers’ site. Every options seemed to require programming knowledge that was way beyond my experience. I decided I had to ask for help. The developers’ forum was pretty good, and several people offered helpful ideas for installing eBay listings simply on my blogs. As a result I have now downloaded and installed the phpBayLite plugin which adds eBay Auction listings to any php enabled site – like a Wordpress Blog – with just a few lines of code.
Once the plugin is installed you get a new new button that shows on the button panel as “pBL”, and you need to click on that for each post then insert the relevant keywords. This is simpler than installing convoluted code: it is displaying well, although so far it is only showing one item at a time.
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