A plugin to present different messaging to visitors from different sites, such as Stumbleupon and Digg. With this plugin you can ask that visitors recommend your content if they like it.
March 29th, 2010
18 great free themes for Wordpress which are ready made and optimized for Adsense. Even if you don’t need a theme it’s still very useful just to see what some Adsense optimized pages look like:
18 Adsense Optimized Wordpress Themes to Maximize your Contextual Ad Earnings.
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March 26th, 2010
Here’s some tips and resources if you’re having trouble trying to export from one wordpress blog and import into another wordpress blog (using the XML export feature built into wordpress). You only time you really need to do this is if you are migrating from wordpress.com to wordpress.org, otherwise you should use a SQL export to export the full database directly.
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March 25th, 2010
Awesome case study on ad placement within blogs. Tests include floating ads to the right or left within content, and using images versus text only in various places. All the juicy numbers are included as well:
Split Testing: How To Increase Your Adsense Earnings 94% Overnight.
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Adsense, Pro Blogger
November 30th, 2009
Google Analytics is a very popular tool for tracking visits, pageviews, and lots of other metrics for your website. Here’s a handy little trick which allows you to track any event you want on your site, a click on a specific link for example, and have it integrated into your analytics data.
1) First, make sure you are already using Google Analytics on your site (or the page that you want to track events).
2) Second, add this snippet just below the Google Analytics code:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
function trackEvent(category,url,description) {
try {
pageTracker._trackEvent(category, description, document.location.pathname);
setTimeout(’document.location = “‘ + url + ‘”‘, 100);
} catch(err){}
}
</script>
4) Whenever you want to track something, you need to add a call to trackEvent, for example:
<a onclick=”trackEvent(’Outbound Links’,'http://google.com’,'Google’);return false;” href=”http://google.com”> Google </a>
5) Now log into Google Analytics, click on ‘Content’ -> ‘Event Tracking’ you will be able to see clicks on the above link to Google (you might not see it right away!)
Happy tracking!
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Analytics, Event Tracking, Google, Metrics
November 10th, 2009
Assuming you write posts in the HTML view (as opposed to Visual), a quick trick for displaying code in your Wordpress posts is to switch to Visual view, enter the code, and then switch back to HTML view. This will automatically translate the code into non-executable code which will be displayed in your post. Try it out by creating a new post, then switching to Visual view and copy/paste this code:
<link rel=”pingback” href=”<?php bloginfo(’pingback_url’); ?>” />
Then switch back to HTML and you will see all the characters are properly escaped, that’s how I wrote this post.
Happy escaping!
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