AdSense Deluxe

AdSense Deluxe is a WordPress Plugin that offers advanced options for managing your Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network account. Even you can use that for managing your other Affiliate Networks like Commission Junction. It allows you to insert ads directly into your WordPress posts or pages.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API Key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

All In One SEO Pack

It’s a highly recommended Plugin for your WordPress Blog. All In One SEO Pack offers automatic Search Engine Optimization.

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Do you have a WordPress Blog? How many Ping Services are in your List? I had around 20 Ping Services. Today, I have come across this post it has around 50+ Ping Services so I merged that with mine. So now I have over 60+ Ping Services in my WordPress Update Services List.

Go to WordPress Dashboard > Options > Writing and paste the following URLs under Update Services field.

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Today Google announced at the eMetrics Summit in Washington several Google Analytics features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. The new Google Analytics features a site search reporting service, event tracking and more. Google also announced about the release of Urchin Software limited beta.

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Exciting Announcements at eMetrics Today

First, you’ll be able to use Google Analytics to track site search activity. Simply edit any of your Google Analytics profiles to enable “Site Search” and you can find out what people search for on your site and where these searches lead. Located in the Content section of your Google Analytics reporting interface, Site Search reports show you the keywords and search refinement keywords people use, the pages from which people begin and end their searches. You can also see how search on your site affects site usage, conversion rates, and e-commerce activity.

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Google Analytics Adds Site Search Reporting & Event Tracking, Urchin Software Also Updated

The site feature will be available worldwide soon, and will enable you to track internal searches on your site and apply those site searches to other metrics on your site. The site search reporting feature also works with Google Custom Search, GSA, Google Mini and many other non-Google site search products.

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Google Urchin v.6 Rumored To Launch Today

Rumors, rumors. Google is preparing to launch version 6 of Urchin this morning at the emetrics conference in Washington DC, according to multiple sources. This is the server side analytics product, not Urchin as a service, which is now called Google Analytics.

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Google updates Analytics service, unveils Urchin beta

Google Inc. is set to roll out new features to its Google Analytics service and a beta release of Version 5 of the Web analytics server software gained with its acquisition of Urchin Software two and half years ago.

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Google hears our pleas: Urchin Software resurrected

Google announced a closed beta of what it is calling “Urchin Software,” which for all intents and purposes is the long-awaited Urchin 6.0. In a phone call, Brett Crosby, senior manager of Google Analytics, told me that the release will be very familiar to existing users of Urchin, and it will largely sport the same interface.

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Google: Urchin analytics software lives

After an almost three-year delay, the next major version of Google Inc.’s Urchin Web analytics server software is entering a beta testing period, at a time when some customers have been openly wondering if the product would be discontinued.

First Setup Your Blog

The first step to Make Money Online Blogging is to setup your blog. Even if you already have an active blog, I recommend reading this section, as I’ll talk about specific options to setup for the best results. If you’ve never setup a blog, or a WordPress account, this will give you a good idea what’s involved.

First of all, if you don’t have a domain name and a web blog already, then you need to buy a domain name and web hosting. I don’t recommend using a free host, because they are not reliable web hosting services. I really recommend HostGator Baby Plan Web Hosting it allows you to host all your domains within one account. It costs $9.95/mo. and yes you can pay your hosting bills monthly, no annual contract or setup fees. Want to try HostGator? You can sign up for one month of HostGator Web Hosting for just 1 Cent, with no obligation using the coupon code “JURY” with no quotes.

You’ll need a domain as well. I really recommend GoDaddy as your domain name registrar, since they’re ICANN certified, and have great prices. Plus they’ve got a great interface to sell your domain in an auction format. This is a good strategy if you don’t have the energy to keep posting and growing your blog, since once we get monster traffic for a short period of time, the domain will be much more desirable to buy, and you should be able to make a good profit (in addition to all the affiliate commissions you’re going to make). Or you can go for a cheap $1.99 Domain Name from Yahoo! Domains or get a $4.95 Domain Name from Netfirms.

If you do sign up for HostGator, then you can use the feature called Fantastico that will automatically install a variety of different programs on your site. It enables you to setup your WordPress blog in few clicks. All you have to do is click install, fill out a few fields of info about your blog, and it do the rest for you.

Once you’ve got your site set up, there are a few things to do to make sure you’re ready for tons of traffic:

1. Install a good looking theme (Get a WordPress Theme)

2. Delete the default Blogroll links, post, and comments

3. Install the WordPress plugin Sociable

4. Setup your permalink structure as custom and enter this in the field: /%postname%/

Now your blog is ready to go, the next step is to sign up as an affiliate that I’ll discuss in the next part of this article.

What makes a good web page What makes a bad web page? Here are some guidelines to design a better web page:

You Should Have A Theme

Define your theme clearly and make sure that your web pages, graphics and text all focus on that theme. So that the web page looks useful for the visitor or customer.

Don’t Add Images Unnecessarily

Make sure that the graphics used in your web page are small in size so that it loads quickly. Reduce the size of each file as much possible as you can. Use GIF format for your images as it loads faster than JPEG files.

Your Web Page Should Load Fast

Make sure that all your web pages are less than 50 KB in size including all animations, images, navigation and text.

Use HTML To Build Your Web Pages

Use HTML as far as possible and never use java, DHTML or similar codes which require your visitor’s browser setup correctly to show your page.

Respect Search Engines

You must respect search engines if you want traffic from search engines like Google, Live Search, and Yahoo. So read the webmaster guide lines of popular search engines before you design your website. Use the following link to read the guidelines of major search engines.

Google Webmaster Guidelines

Live Search Site Owner Help

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines

Love Your Surfers and Visitors

Design your web site so that surfers using a slow internet connection can also download and use your website easily.

No Horizontal Scrolling For Your Web Pages

Design your web pages so that you never force your surfers to scroll left or right regardless of their screen resolution.

Know Your Traffic

Use a good traffic analysis program which gives detailed information about the visitors to your web site. This information helps you to analyze the nature of your visitors. Use the traffic analysis programs Google Analytics & AWStats.

The final version of WordPress 2.3 is now ready for download. WordPress released the first beta version of 2.3 on August 28, 2007. Today it’s out of beta and the stable version is available for download.

Features of WordPress 2.3

Native Tagging Support

Now you wont have to depend a third party plug in to add tags to your post. WordPress 2.3 is fully loaded with tagging support. It allows you to add tags to your post in addition to the regular categories.

Update Notification

It notifies you when a new version of WordPress is available for download and also it lets you know when any of the plugins you use is outdated.

Canonical URLs

It enforce your no-www preference and it redirect posts with changed slugs the new post so say goodbye to “page not found error”. And this makes your blog search engine friendly.

Pending Review

This feature is good for blogs which have more than one author. It allows your authors to submit an article or a post for review by an administrator. So if you are an administrator then the drafts saved by your authors are visible to you. You can review that post before it is published.

Advanced WYSIWYG

It allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

PageRank™ is an algorithm developed by Google to rank web pages according to its popularity. It is based on this algorithm that Google determines the importance of a website. Google sorts the search results according to its PageRank. The higher your PageRank, the higher is your position in Google. And a higher PageRank means your site is more visible to people and it increases your potential earnings.

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