Archive for September, 2007
Wordpress Landing Sites Plugin With Google Adsense
Adding Adsense to the Landing Sites Wordpress plugin seems like a natural choice for anyone wishing to monetize their sites. The plugin offers the user related choices from your site, so why not use some related choices form Google Adsense as well. Here is how to do it. You may want to [...]
Landing Sites Problem and My Fix
The Landing Sites Wordpress plugin is very cool. It will show what people were searching for in their search engine on your site, and then bring up a set amount of related entries to the search. Here is an example of a search for Tainan Restaurant:
tainan restaurant
You came here from www.google.com searching for [...]
If You Liked That
If You Liked That is a super easy and useful Wordpress plugin that adds a predefined amount of related posts from your site to the end of each post. Download the plugin from the If You Liked That website, re-upload it to your plugin folder, and then activate it in your plugin panel. [...]
Page Views
Page views is a stat that all stat counters give you so you can see which posts or pages are the most popular. It is indexed, and all of your pages may be ranked or have different PageRank accordingly. So, what do you do to create more pageviews.
1) Create an aesthetically pleasing [...]
Wordpress Plugin Random Flickr Favorites 2 With Google Adsense
You can use your new Random Flickr Photo div to add some Adsense advertisements to. Here is the code for you to do that. Make sure to abide by Google’s Terms of Service and don’t put too many adverts into your site (more than 3 sets). Also, make sure to add your [...]
Random Flickr Favorites 2
The Random Flickr Favorites 2 plugin allows you to access photos you like without having to purchase them. How does this work? Well, you download the plugin, re-upload it to your plugins folder, and then activate it within your plugins tab in your Wordpress. Now, if you haven’t already, get an account [...]
About 2 Weeks
This is my about 2 week anniversary, and I have noticed 3 subscribers to my RSS Feed. My goal is to have about 100 readers in 3 months. So, if you like this site, then add it to your aggregator! Check the sidebar for all the different formats available. I also [...]
Alexa Ranking
Basically, Alexa is a tool to see how your website ranks compared with other sites. How do they get this data? People download the Alexa Toolbar. and then when they visit a site, it gets tracked and then all of the site and pagehits by users of the Alexa Toolbar are added up [...]
Showoff Rankings
I found a cool widget that displays rank for Alexa, Compete, Google PR (which you manually add) and Technorati from my hopefully new friend at Average Joe Blogger. Go to the Showoff Rankings Site, add your site, check the format you’d like, then copy some code into your header.php, and then copy some code [...]
Average Joe Blogger
There is a boom in pro blogging websites, so naturally, anyone walking this path will encounter many sites of interest, and hopefully, most of us can be friends rather than competing enemies. Clear Cut Blogging aims to be a valuable resource for the Wordpress community, so naturally I will be checking out many other [...]
The Spam Issue
I sent another email to the comment spammers of this site and my other site, and I sent them this email:
I just received another spam of yours on a different blog of mine. I’ll be saving them so it will be easy to make my case.
and they sent me this:
Ok… I don’t know how this [...]
Spammers!
I received an email back form the comment spamming site I referred to in the article spam her i dont even know her. I just received my fifth spam comment on this site, and it was from the same people spamming my other site! Here is the email they replied to me with:
Sorry, I [...]
Bounce Rate
Bounce rate from Google Analytics lets you know who has come to your site and left before viewing any other pages of your site. So they came, didn’t find what they were looking for (or maybe did so quickly) and took off. Maybe they left via your Adsense ads (ideally for those that [...]
First day of results
I installed the Google Analyticator plugin to my Wordpress yesterday and added this site to my Google Analytics account. The first days results are in, though not staggering by any means. Again, I think it is right where I need to be for what I have done. Here are the stats from [...]
Internet Explorer IE Tab
Internet Explorer (IE) Tab is an add on for Firefox that easily allows you to view your website in IE while never leaving or Firefox or opening IE. It should use the version of IE that you have installed on your computer. Here is some info from the download page:
IE Tab – an [...]
Pro Blogger Widget Ready Theme IE 6 Sidebar Problem
My very nice pro blogger widget ready theme has the dreaded IE 6 Sidebar Problem. So whenever anyone looks at it from IE6, the sidebar will shoot down to the bottom of the screen. In Firefox it looks great. IE7 should be ok too, so I always hope and support people moving [...]
The Flood Gates are Opening
I have started to get a little drip of search engine traffic. Now, this site has been up for nearly a year with a wordpress installation on it, but I have only been using it for basically 1.5 weeks. I had a hit from a person searching for Permalink Redirect, and I ranked [...]
Spam Her, I Don’t Even Know Her
Every once in a while I cruise through the comments that Aksimet has held back, just to check and see if it has held anything back that wasn’t a spam. My site, The Real Taiwan gets the most spam out of any site I have, so I was going through recently and wanted [...]
Google Analyticator
Google Analyticator is a sweet Wordpress plugin that will help you get your Wordpress website set up so it can have all of its pages monitored by Google Analytics. Google Analytics is one of the best (and free) stats programs you can use. Really, I believe this. I also believe if you [...]
Hidden Affiliate Links
My first commenter and new friend from Patchlog has developed a plugin that I have been testing out. It all started after my post about changing the way the URL looks for your referral and affiliate links (while maintaining the link). I used it and it accomplished the same end as my way, [...]
