Archive for January, 2007
Adsense relevancy will easily increase your CTR, and can give you a huge boost in earnings. I’m relatively new to blogging, and websites in general. I don’t know a lot of the fancy terms, and I don’t know all of the best SEO/money making strategies. However, I’ve been with Adsense for a few months now, and just learned a neat trick. You can tell Adsense which words to spider while it’s looking for words to use in the advertisements. By using some HTML comments tags, you can tell their bots which words to emphasize:
<!– google_ad_section_start –>
Your text here.
<!– google_ad_section_end –>
You might have already guessed you can do the same thing for words you don’t want them to spider.
<!– google_ad_section_start(weight=ignore) –>
However, this is not my whole post. I found a cool Wordpress plugin that helps make this task a whole lot easier.
It adds a button to your editor so you can automatically tell Adsense which words to downplay, or emphasize on. Installation is extremely easy. Just upload the file, and choose your configuration options. You can choose to wrap every word you post in the blog, or you can do it manually. According to the owners website the plugin will even phone home to check for updates.
Easy installation and set-up (just drop in, activate, and set your options)
Option to wrap all posts and pages with ad section targeting tags
Button ImageOption to add button to the post and page editor which allows easy ad section targeting within the post [button shown to right]
Upgrade notification: this plugin will let you know (in the plugin options screen) if a new version is available
Say hasta la Vista to control alt delete in Windows Vista. If you’re familiar with those legendary keys bringing up the Task Manager, get ready for a change. Vista’s control alt delete now brings up a full screen menu. Your options?
Lock this computer
Switch User
Log off
Change a password
Open Task Manager
So far I’ve not come accross any hacks to directly fix the issue, but there are still three solutions.
Solution #1
The new keyboard short cut is CTRL+SHIFT+ESC. Seems a little bit harder to remember if you ask me ;).
Solution #2
Right clicking on the task bar opens a context menu, which happens to have Task Manager as an option.
Solution #3
Open your start menu, and type “taskmgr” (no quotes) in the search bar, and click enter. Doing so should automatically run it.
News Source: Tech-Recipes
Back in December I blogged about divShare, and how it has the potential to be a strong rapid share competitor. Today they’ve introduced a feature to embed audio in your website, making it a very unique file sharing website. A week ago or so, they announced you could upload MP3 files and stream them from their server. In that post they announced the ability to embed the songs is in the near future, but today it’s a reality.
The player is very sleek, and uses Macromedia’s flash to play the audio file. An example of the player can be found below.
Careful when uploading copyrighted files (like the one above ;) ;) ), it seems they’re trying to keep their service as legit as possible. This is an excerpt from one of their previous blog posts.
You are responsible for all the files you upload, and it is illegal to share any music to which you don’t own the rights. So please enjoy DivShare responsibly and don’t upload pirated music (even as a private file).
Are you sick of Google’s boring blue on white search results? Well so am I. Luckily it’s very easy to customize websites with your own CSS cheats with the Stylish plugin for Firefox. Once you’ve installed that plugin, you can easily customize any website you’d like. Valacar offers some customized pages for Google search, news, videos, and YouTube. All you have to do is click the install button.
Removing them is very simple. Just go to Tools > Addons, and select Stylish. In the options menu it shows which style sheets you have. Just highlight the one you want to delete. Here are some of your choices for Google/YouTube.
I’ve been an Adsense publisher for a few months now, and overall it’s been an enjoyable experience. I’ve had little problems using it, and there are a lot of nice features. However this month while working on my theme, I accidentally clicked my own ad. That’s obviously against Google’s ToS, and could get you banned. I quickly emailed Adsense, and all was well. This got me thinking. How can I make it so I can’t click my own ads? Well Greasemonkey to the rescue!
To implement this on your own website, you’ll first need to be using the Firefox web browser. If you’re using that, then download and install Greasemonkey. This allows you to run JavaScript files, to change the way you browse websites. Next download and install this script (Mirror). After it’s installed, visit your website which presumably has Adsense ads installed on it already. Enter your publisher in to the pop up box that will come up, and you’re all set. To find your publisher ID, look through the source code of your site, or make a new ad block in the Adsense control panel. If you’re not sure if it’s working, test it out. Click the “Ads by Google” part of your ad block. If it doesn’t go anywhere, then it’s working, and you can click your ads at will.