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Out from the depths
Being a WordPress SEO student has been the cause of much joy in my life. I also find that it consumes a lot of my life as well. I have had so many projects the last year, including an international move. Things were nutty. They still are, as I have added [...]
Fire Fox and Youtube Mulitiple Video Uploader Problem
Since the upgrade to Firefox 3 a few weeks ago, I haven’t been able to add videos to Youtube anymore. It kept asking for a title and description even though I had entered one. I was stuck with no way out. I did find a solution though. as Internet Explorer had no [...]
sex.asia domain name
I’ll admit it, I am a bit sad today. My golden goose failed to drop even a nugget of love my way. I was informaed today by the domain registrar I applied through that I was rejected in my bid for the www.sex.asia domain name. I was hoping i could hold on to [...]
Starting a few new projects
Things have been rolling along now. I have had 2 requests for new websites recently so I will be making them as soon as my clients get me the information for the pages. One site is for a new restaurant, and the other is for a yoga center. Links to those pages [...]
Disco Kidz
Unfortunately, the disco kidz website needs to be shelved for a while because of a conflict between the founders of the program in Taiwan. I hope it can get back on its feet. If you visit it now it will show a maintenance page meaning you can’t get inside the site without the [...]
Disco Kidz Taiwan
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Out of site, out of mind
This site hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves lately,Baixar http://www.toquesperfeito.com/mais-populares-wap-toques-celular-gratis.html polifonicos – erro ?? – F?rum hardMOB. as I have started another project that uses Drupal as its CMS. I will be starting another Wordpress blog though soon for a friend, and will be writing about my experiences with that soon. Until then, [...]
Increase Your Blogs Pageviews
A friend of mine linked to a slide show in my photo gallery and it became semi popular. The topic was a bit spicy too which didn’t hurt its popularity. I picked up many hits from his site, and many of the redirected visitors were viewing the slide show option on gallery which [...]
Not posting
I have been in a lull, checking in on the site occasionally to see what the bare minimum I could do to it is. I have lost a little steam as I reapply myself to photography so this site as well as my sports blog have fallen off the radar a little. It [...]
Maximize Your Widget Bucks CTR: Lingerie Advertisements
With a little push from my friend at Filination, I have decided to elaborate a little more on my choice for lingerie ads on my therealtaiwan.com site. I felt the original ads that were coming up were a bit off the mark (coffee maker ads), perhaps a bit to do with the age of [...]
Widget Bucks Complaints
I have been using widget bucks for a little while now, and I have a few complaints that I hope they will address.
Here is a Widget Bucks sample ad:
WidgetBucks – Trend Watch – WidgetBucks.com
writeWBStyles(“images.widgetbucks.com”);setTimeout(function(){var day = “” + new Date().getMonth() + new Date().getDate() + new Date().getYear();var widget = new mpireWidget(“http://images.widgetbucks.com/widgets/bar_wbtw250×250.swf?uid=q2jUWdSHFA27lM5A&apiURL=http://www.widgetbucks.com&day=”+day,”q2jUWdSHFA27lM5A”);widget.write(“container_q2jUWdSHFA27lM5A”);},Math.floor((Math.random() * 150) – [...]
PR Update: Google penalizes sites for text link ads
Google has officially taken Page Rank away from sites selling Text Link Ads on their site. This site, however, to the astonishment of myself, has jumped from a PR 0 to a PR 3 after only 2 months of blogging.
My main site, which has 1 Text Link Ad on it was [...]
Shopping Ads For Wordpress
I was sent an email today for a new ad program from Patrick Gavin at Text Link Ads for a new ad server called Shopping Ads . It’s easy to set it up for WordPress (you can see it at live on The Real Taiwan website) Just like the growing myriad of Cost [...]
Godaddy custom .com names and hosting for WordPress
Go Daddy.com is the company I have used for all of my domain names purchased to date. I decided early on that I wanted full control of my website and that buying my own site name(s) was the way to go for me. You may want buy your own .com name for your [...]
Text Link Ads for Wordpress
Text Link Ads are an easy way to monetize your Wordpress site. If you want to make some money online with your WordPress blog, this is an avenue to take. Of course, you don’t need to be using WordPress to work with them. They support many different platforms. They only accept [...]
The Great Firewall of China
I recently came across a site called The Great Firewall of China. They claim to be able to tell you if your website is blocked in China by the Chinese government. We’ve all heard stories regarding how all forms of media are monitored and how certain web sites have been banned for this [...]
Widget Bucks
As you know we are always looking for ways to better monetize blogs and websites, and we have learned about a new program. Widgetbucks is a new affiliate service that allows you to make some money by placing ads on your site. You can use it along with Google Adsense so why not [...]
Ultimate Gallery2 Slideshow
The Ultimate Gallery 2 Slideshow Plugin is a nice WordPress plugin to use if you want a random picture from your gallery 2 embedded in your WordPress sidebar. I have been using this plugin at The Real Taiwan (check it out if you’d like) for some time and it is a popular feature of [...]
Gallery 2
I have been using the free photo hosting application Gallery 2 to use alongside my WordPress. I spent some time using a different free program called Coppermine because I wasn’t happy with Gallery 2 a year ago. Then, I wasn’t very happy with Coppermine so I switched back and they have made some [...]
Clear Cut Blogging’s First Month Birthday
Clear Cut Blogging is set up as a transparent way for people to learn how to set up a WordPress site of their own and watch it grow up into a successful professional blog. We have successfully blogged here for a full month. Now, that isn’t much time but we have made some [...]
