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Blog Tips
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05.08.07Google Adsense Referrals Beta launchesGoogle has now launched Adsense Referrals which means webmasters can now refer products and services for various companies. How you get paid is not per click but based on a sale or sign up. This is in beta, and you need to request access “With referrals, you'll be paid when your visitors click through to an advertiser's site and complete an action defined by your advertisers, such as a sale or sign up. Because these actions are often more involved than a simple click or impression, advertisers pay more for these referrals, which can translate into higher earnings for your site. ...
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04.27.07SEO Plugins for WordpressI don’t claim to know a whole lot about SEO – Search Engine Optimisation – however, in my travels I have come across some interesting add-ons or 'plugins' which help with the SEO task. Feedburner Replacement Plugin – Not exactly SEO – but it does help you get more information on your feed suscribers, by using feedburner. “Using some WordPress plugin magic, and user agent detection, this plugin simply forwards all your feed traffic to FeedBurner.†SiteMaps – A WordPress plugin that creates an XML-sitemap of your WordPress blog. – Remember to rebuild it, if you change URLS, or if you have ...
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04.03.07WordPress 2.1.3 & 2.0.10Wordpress recommends that you now upgrade to this version - 2.1.3 These releases include fixes for several publicly known minor XSS issues, one major XML-RPC issue, and a proactive full sweep of the WordPress codebase to protect against future problems. Many thanks to Sumit Siddharth and Alex Concha for their help with reporting issues in this release. More information on this wordpress postSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "WordPress 2.1.3 & 2.0.10", url: "http://johnmryan.com/technology/wordpress-213-2010/" });
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03.16.07Wordpress Plugins Directory Wordpress, the wonderful people behind millions of blogs, have launched a wordpress plugins directory. This directory features a selection of GLP compatible plugins. The joy here, is it will save people a lot of time searching Google for their plugins Check it out here No longer! Our ever-expanding “extend†section now has a brand-spanking new plugins directory where you can browse, download, rate, and comment on all your favorite plugins. I highly encourage you to go check it out. For developers, you now have: Exposure to the millions of people who visit WordPress.org every month. Free SVN hosting for GPL plugin development at wp-plugins.org. ...
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03.03.07Wordpress 2.1.2If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. There is more information and an explanation on this on the wordpress blogSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wordpress 2.1.2", url: "http://johnmryan.com/blog-tips/wordpress-212/" });
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11.17.06‘I hate your blog’- What to do if someone hates your blog!What I love about other bloggers is they can be very good at providing feedback. I find this a great tool for improving myself as a blogger and making tweaks to my sites to improve their quality and also correcting errors that I missed previously. However it is important to remember that these should only be used as a filter and a guideline and not as a control.For example, one of my blogs which has a very loyal readership, is getting a, what I would call decent amount of traffic, and also has a nice feed subscriber rate. One person ...