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Feedburner Embeddable Headline Animator
Feedburner Embeddable Headline Animator creates an animated GIF for you that displays your 5 latest blog feeds. The link in the GIF is your Feedburner RSS feed link and I think this is a cool tool to put in your signature in forums and comments.
How do you do it, well, go to [...]
The Facts About Clear Cut Blogging
I am making this site as transparent as possible, in the attempt to show people how to make a strong blog, and also hopefully have people guide this site with their own insights and victories.
You can read the articles, and see the stats mechanisms in the sidebar of the site. Please don’t [...]
Target Adsense
Target Adsense is a Wordpress plugin that allows you to easily ad the and tags to your page. You don’t want Google targeting the wrong stuff, like parts of your blog that you’ve hacked together and have them display totally irrelevant adverts on your site. They don’t want that either, so [...]
Easy Online Advertising
I have finally installed Google Adsense to the site. How did I do it?
I signed into my Adsense account, and chose the Adsense setup tab. From there things are fairly straight forward. I took a screen shot of the website, and extracted the colors from it via Photoshop, and I used this [...]
DigitalPoint.com Forum
I have subscribed to this forum, and want to alert everyone that joining forums is a good way to start to drive traffic to your site and learn more about SEO, driving traffic, making money, and a variety of other niche issues..
This forum requires you to post a minimum amount of posts, and [...]
Text Link Ads
Text Link Ads are another way to monetize your website. If you site is doing ok, (it doesn’t have to be great) you can apply and have a good chance of being accepted into their program. After you are accepted, they will give you a plugin (now widget) that has your information, and [...]
Spread Firefox Community Member
I have joined the Spread Firefox Community so I can better help the cause of Firefoxifying the world. Here is the Spread Firefox link for you to join. If you notice it has an affiliate id in the tag. These earn you points.
From the Spread Firefox Website:
Every time someone clicks on your [...]
Google Adsense Referrals
Google Adsense Referals is another program I was selected to participate in. It seems ok, but again, I don’t want to whor my site to this type of advertising, so I will only use a little bit. When you log into Adsense, click on Adsense setup and click on the referrals button. [...]
Google Adsense
Google Adsense is an easy to use pay per click program that lets you earn some money for blogging. Obviously, the more clicks you get, the more your income. Also, the higher paying the ad, the higher your income will be as well. You can sign up for the program here. [...]
Jumping My Guns
I have to admit, this project has caused me to become enthusiastic. I have so much to do to this site and share that I am posting at record (for me) numbers. I have also been moving faster ahead than I am writing. SO please bear with me. You will be [...]
Native Son Wordpress Blog
I have decided to add a random website link to this poste to start the discussion of links and backlinks. When creating your site, you will want as many people to link to your site as you can. The links are basically a thumbs up about your site, and the search engines highly [...]
All in One SEO Pack
I am going to install the All in one SEO plugin to begin having descriptions and custom titles for the posts, as well as the custom Blog title and description post available. You can download it here. Once you are done, downloading, installing, and activating it, you will see a new field in [...]
Share this Social Bookmarking
Share this social bookmarking is a cool plugin from Alex King. It won’t be as useful for a small blog but you never know, and why not use something that is easy to use and potentially extremely helpful. Just downlad, install, and activate the plugiin and it automatically adds the share this button [...]
Feedburner Readers Chicklet
Once you have a Feedburner account, you can announce to the world how many readers you have to your blog. Log into your account and choose the website you wish to display. Click on publicize, and then click on the link for feed count. You’ll get some code there. I added [...]
Samsarin PHP Widget
Samsarin PHP Widget is also a must have for anyone with a widgetized theme that wants to be able to execute php functions from their widgets. You can download it here. Scroll to the bottom of your widget page after you install and activate the Samsarin PHP Widget and set yourself up with [...]
PHP Exec 3.3
PHP Exec is a must have plugin for any blogger that wants to add a lot of php functionality to their blogs. It allows php tags in your posts without bombing them. You can download it here.
Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress
I installed and activated the Feedburner Plugin 1.2 for WordPress after activating the permalink redirect plugin. It is an option to use it, so why not. First, download, install, and activate the plugin. Then go to www.feedburner.com and make an account, then “burn” the name of your feed. After that, download, [...]
New Video Card
I had an eventful day. After work, I went to the computer store twice to get my video card fixed. It was a pain, and it didn’t work again for about an hour. Then all of the sudden, it just works again. No problem. I wonder if I even needed [...]
Wordpress Auto Save
I found out about a cool new feature from WordPress that allowed me to not have to retype the previous post. My daughter came by to hang out for a bit, and as she is only 10 months old, she decided to pull on the power cord to the computer, thus foiling my last [...]
Permalink Redirect
Permalink redirect is a necessary plugin for you to use with WordPress. Download the plugin from the site, upload it to your plugin reppository, and then activate it. Under the option tab of the WordPress menu, select the permalinks tab. I changed my structure to /%category%/%postname%/%post_id%. Change your new link structure to [...]
