If you are a newbie then you might be using some traffic exchange programs to get initial traffic. But remember not to use Adsense in your site then. It is against Google Adsense TOS:
Clicks on Google ads must result from genuine user interest. Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions on your Google ads is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to repeated manual clicks or impressions, using robots, automated click and impression generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, and click-exchange programs, or any deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited. Failure to comply with this policy may lead to your account being disabled.
Doesn’t it say all? Traffic exchange programs can easily be used to increase impressions artificially. Obviously Adsense will try to block this. If they find anything unusual like too much traffic or too many clicks from the same ip, they manually check the stats & sites in your account. They are very strict in it. Remember this if you don’t want to get the termination email.
You can easily display HTML code in Wordpress blog Posts using Preserve Code Formatting plugin. Install & activate it. Now write the post in HTML mode. Enter the code that you want to display within <code> or <pre> tags. After publishing the code will be shown exactly as you have entered.
Remember to use HTML mode, not the Visual mode to write the post. The plugin may not support fully in Visual mode resulting in partial or unwanted code display.
Blog thumbnail images in Technorati are managed by snap.com. They do not update site images automatically. So if you need to update your blog image, you have to request explicitly. Go to the snap.com’s faq page. Search the page with “update”. Click on the question & you will see the form where you can submit your blog url to refresh your blog image. Screenshots generally get updated immediately.
Free domain! That really can attract you as a newbie. But read before you use one. Most of the free domains are nothing but url redirection services. They will give you a nice little url instead of your long one.
But url redirection creates framed webpage. That’s where the trouble comes from. Search engines like Google or Yahoo cannot crawl through the content of a framed webpage. They will just index the title, meta keywords & description.
If you run a blog, just think what will happen. You write dynamic content. But not a single post will get indexed. People will search keywords of your post but they cannot find your blog in search results. No matter how good your PR is, you won’t get value for that.
.TK is no exception. It’s a free TLD but only with url redirection. If you want real free domain, you can use .uni.cc or .co.cc. They are not TLDs but second level domains. They come with dns service. If you can be happy with .co.in or .co.uk, then .co.cc for free won’t be that bad.
Yes, you don’t have to login to your hosting account again to install new plugins & themes. Just download One Click Plugin Updater & install it. Now you can install any plugin or theme just by mentioning the url of the zip file from the net. Even you can upload zip file for a theme or a plugin from your computer & install it directly from Dashboard.
If you like to experiment with your Wordpress blog, this is just the right kind of plugin that you want.
Wordpress 2.7 lets you add plugins from Dashboard. But there is no such option for themes. Besides, even if you know the zip url, you have to first search the plugin from Wordpress Plugin Directory. So, this plugin may become very handy.
Twitterfeed & Feedlr are two third party services that can automatically update your Twitter with your new blog posts. They support both RSS & Atom feeds. So whether you use Wordpress or Blogger or whatever, you would have no problem with that.
You just have to give your Twitter username & password to validate your account. They will synchronize your blog feed with Twitter account. You can choose to show only the post title or can add an excerpt of the post to it. You don’t have to do anything anymore.
You can login to both the services with OpenId. But Feedlr lets you register your own account on that site if you want.
Choose anyone. If you are using Wordpress, the best part is that you don’t have use another plugin to update Twitter with your posts.
Here is a quick tip to make your pages load faster. Just remeber that .PNG format loads faster than any other image format like .JPG or .BMP. So before you upload any image to your website or blog just convert it to .PNG if it is not already. This will help you to reduce the page loading time.
Have you got this error while importing posts from Blogger to Wordpress? It says:
There was a problem opening a secure connection to Google. This is what went wrong:
Connection timed out (110)
It is simply because you don’t have SSL support in your server. To import posts, your Wordpress hosting server needs to create a HTTPS session with your Google account. So if you are looking to transfer from Blogger to Wordpress & buy a paid hosting for that, then you should check whether your hosting package supports SSL or not.
If you are using free hosting, still you can import it. Create a wordpress.com blog. Then import from Blogger to that blog. You would have no problem as wordpress.com admin is on secure server. Then create an export file from it. Now import that file in your own Wordpress blog. Remember to delete the wordpress.com blog then. Otherwise, you may get penalized for duplicate content.
Here are a few ways to find whether a blog is dofollow or not. First, I would like to tell you a more technical way that you can implement in any computer, whether home or away.
Go to a particular post in a blog with comments. Copy a commentator’s name. Now right click on the page & then click “View Page Source”. Search the source with the copied the name. Now see the right side of it that contains the site link. If you find anything like rel='nofollow' or rel='external nofollow' then it is nofollow. Otherwise, it is dofollow.
Now another easier way to find it out if you are a Firefox user. Just install NoDoFollow addon in Firedox. Now right click on any page & select “NoDoFollow”. Nofollow links will get highlighted with red & dofollow links as blue.
I found this working method in Google groups. What you need to do is to go to Google apps & disable the webpage service. You can follow the simple but full-proof steps below to make sure everything goes all right:
- Go to domain dns management & change the CNAME record to www. & point to ghs.google.com.
- Then log in to Google Apps for your domain & disable the webpage service.
- Enable it & publish a page. Check it to see if it is working or not & then again disable it.
- Now point your custom domain to your Blogger blog.
You won’t have any problem again. Enjoy the solution.
