Archive for October, 2007
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 [...]
New Blog
I have been busy starting a new blog, Yes! Islanders for my favorite hockey team. I’ll be back soon here with a post regarding this sites first month in existence! It will be loaded with current stats from different providers and goals for the next month.
Social Bookmarking
I have been amazed recently by the amount of traffic that can be brought in by submitting your pages to Social Networks and bookmarking sites. Here is a list of all of the sites I have begun to submit to:
Digg.com, Propeller.com, Reddit.com, Del.icio.us, Stumbleupon.com, Socialogs.com, Indianpad.com, Google.com/Bookmarks, Technorati.com, Furl.net, Diigo.com
Of course, some [...]
Showoff Rankings Problem
I added the widget showoff rankings before because it seemed like a nice way to be transparent to all of my readers. I have found however that it doesn’t always work properly. I will look into changing it or getting rid of it altogether and finding a different way of presenting my Google [...]
Email Subscriptions
If you look in the sidebar of this site, you’ll see an email subscriptions option for this site. You can get this through your feedburner account. If people sign up, and you make posts on a day, at the end of that day, they will be sent an email with the content of [...]
New Spam Comment Technique
I have been occasionally dropping funny or strange or good comment spams for all to see. Here is a spam technique that is quite amusing, but potentially dangerous for people that trust others. If you were to give them your email, they will undoubtedly take it and add it to a list that [...]
Language Translator Plugin
I am experimenting with the Wordpress Widget Language Translator now. I had used a different language translator before that worked well, but it wasn’t happy after I changed my permalink structure so I had to drop it. There were a few plugin choices, but to be honest, I always choose the free ones. [...]
Do Follow
The Do Follow Wordpress plugin is a nice way to reward your visitors for commenting on your blog. Most people don’t know or care what “no follow” or “do follow” means, so this is for the small percentage of computer geek web heads out there that are trying to get their website/blog to [...]
