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Google Maps Wordpress Plugin

Sita — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:27:42 +0000

Your blog can look really cool with some interactive google maps. Embedding google maps into wordpress blog has become really easy with Google Maps Wordpress Plugin. However you need wordpress version 2.5.1 and php5 for this plugin to work properly.

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Control who sees your adsense advertisement

Sita — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:20:47 +0000

Every blog has two types of visitors : returning readers and first time visitors. Returning readers already know what to expect on your blog and come to your site for its content and for what you write. First time visitors, (mostly search engine visitors), come because they are looking for something particular, look at the page, and leave.

The returning visitors should be treated as premium members because they spread word about your blog and link to you. Anyways they are least likely to click on your advertisements. So no point in showing a lot of adsense advertisements to them and put them off. I shall rather show them CPA advertisements to them as they trust my blog.

Whereas one time visitors are most likely to click on the adsense advertisement as they are looking for something. If I have to monetize my blog with adsense then I shall show the adsense advertisements to these one time visitors. However the compexity of the code required to determine if the visitor is a regular user or onetime user deterred me from using this strategy.

However now you can control the display of the advertisements using who sees ad plugin for wordpress

While inserting the adsense code you just mention what type of user can see the ad. The plugin takes care of everything else.

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$10,000 College Scholarship for student bloggers

Sita — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:50:31 +0000

If you are a student and you have a blog, then you may consider applying for a $10,000 scholarship at College Scholarships.

You need to submit a 300 word essay answering the following questions
* If you nominated a friend, what makes them and their blog so special?
* What is the most interesting or inspiring blog post you have ever read? Why did you find it inspiring?
* How have you used blogging to help yourself or others?
* What is the most powerful social change you have seen come out of blogging?
* Why did you start blogging? What does blogging mean to you? Why is blogging important to you?

This looks like a really good opportunity for student bloggers.

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Speed up wordpress blog by using WP Super Cache

Sita — Wed, 07 May 2008 11:25:50 +0000

A really successful wordpress blog can consume a lot of server power as each page needs to be dynamically created for each user. Now you can remove the need for doing so by using WP Super Cache plugin.

This plugin generates static html files from the dynamic WordPress blog. Once the file is generated your webserver will serve the static html file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.

Advantages of WP Super Cache

It saves server power. If your blog has become popular and you are yet to move to a dedicated server, then you should use this plugin.
It will speed up your wordpress blog. That in turn makes the user experience of the blog readers much better. Also a faster blog/website is liked by most search engines, including Google.
Static html pages are better than dynamic ones from SEO point of view

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wordpress version 2.5.1 is released

Sita — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:55:15 +0000

Version 2.5.1 of wordpress has been released. I shall check with Tarun to see if he has upgraded to 2.5.1. This version contains one serious security fix.

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Yahoo is down 15%

Sita — Tue, 06 May 2008 00:06:25 +0000

In the first trading session after microsoft withdrawing its offer, yahoo stock is down more than 15%. At 24.3$ it is significantly higher than the price before microsoft made the offer though. Most of the leading bloggers are predicting a number of shareholder lawsuits against yahoo board.

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Google hacker

Sita — Mon, 05 May 2008 21:39:38 +0000

check http://www.google.com/intl/xx-hacker/

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airtel.com redirects to vodafone

Sita — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:37:53 +0000

I had made a post about ie7.com advertising for firefox. In the comments to the post rajeev pointed out that airtel.com redirects to vodafone. Someone please let me know if this is legal.

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Speed up gmail

Sita — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:41:22 +0000

I never thought that I will ever worry about speeding up gmail. It has always been faster than I ever needed. However past few days I am at my native place. I have been accessing the internet through a reliance netconnect card. And unfortunately this has been painstakingly slow at the best and plain dead at the worst

The frustration of waiting forever to read my emails led me to search for ways to speed up my gmail. Here are a few steps that I have been using to speed up gmail.

Avoid automatic browser check by using this url http://mail.google.com/mail/?nocheckbrowser

You can use the mobile version of gmail at http://mail.google.com/mail/x/cm6v0×0kvrf5-/?f=1 Since it is designed for mobiles, it is really fast

or you can use the html version of gmail at http://mail.google.com/mail/h/5rfigl1ekf0l/?zy=f&f=1

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On my way to beat techcrunch !!

Sita — Mon, 05 May 2008 03:38:20 +0000

Being as popular as techcrunch is perhaps the most ambitious objective of any tech blogger including me. Just found out the january traffic number for techcrunch. So techcrunch has 2,647,027 unique visitors. Well with 6,800 unique visitors binaryday needs to grow only 400 times to beat techcrunch. Not that tuff….watch out for me mike.

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