New WordPress 2.1 Theme Compatibility List
January 28, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
The WordPress Codex has put up a new page called WordPress 2.1 Theme Compatibility List featuring a list of WordPress Theme compatible with WordPress 2.1
You can add your theme into the list if it’s compatible with WordPress 2.1. Any theme that requires massive editing in order to work with WordPress 2.1 should be added to the non-compatible WordPress Theme list.
[via Lorelle On WordPress]
Google TV Coming To A Computer Screen Near You Soon!
In the video Mark Erickson of Infinite Solutions shows us how to get a free GoogleTV invite. This service allows you to watch archived shows from FOX, NBC, CBS, and more with ads embedded into each video.
It involves several hoops which you’ll have to go through including having to log in and out of Gmail until a “random number generator” gives you and invite based on the number of times you’ve logged in.
Actually this is just a well made prank on an alleged secret test invite for an upcoming “Google TV”.
Would you be willing to give it a try? Too bad I don’t have time to waste LOL
If you got bored, check out another video from this guy on how to increase your WiFi signals.
You can do that by wrapping your cell phone in an Ethernet cable and taping it to a salad bowl. How fancy! LOL
New Alogrithm Defused Googlebombs
January 27, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
The Official Google Webmaster has a post up about Googlebombs and that Google has begun minimizing the impact of many of those Googlebombs.
If you don’t know what’s a Googlebomb, it refers to a prank where a group of people work together to link a site with an obscure or meaningless phrase in an attempt to cause the site to rank highly under that phrase.
As usual Google didn’t explain how they were able to detect Googlebombs and how they differentiate a bomb from normal SEO.
But one thing that separate normal SEO from Googlebomb is that with SEO, you’re promoting your own site while Googlebomb lets you cause someone else’s site to rank high.
Philip Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has written about whether the new algorithm is successful at reducing Googlebomb impact
Some of the popular Googlebomb phrase
Quick Links to Blogging Tips Articles
January 26, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
Here’s several interesting links I found today.
10 Things to Do When You Set Up Your Blogger Blog
Are you creating a new Blogger blog? If you are, you might want to check out this post. It’ll be a write up on 10 things you should do when setting a Blogger blog.
3 Ways To Use Your Competition To Build Links & Targeted Traffic
You could have already been doing it without even realizing it. It’s a good way of gaining highly targeted traffic and creating a natural reason for people to link to you often.
Problem with this technique is that it does not always work especially if somebody else is already doing a good job of it in your niche. Unless you can churn out quality and original articles day in day out, this could offer an alternative and perhaps easier ways to gain traffic for your blog.
Google AdSense Introduces Enhanced Ad Placements
January 26, 2007 by Gaman · 6 Comments
Yesterday AdSense introduced a new feature allowing you to create premium inventory on your site with the use of the new “ad placements’.
The ad placement feature allows you to define you ad slots to advertisers so they can bid on specific placements on your site.
Think of ad placements as ‘enhanced’ custom channels. To create an ad placement, you create and implement a custom channel just as you normally would. The only change is the additional step of providing attributes and an accurate description for your ad placement.
On the ‘Channels’ page in your account, click the appropriate ‘edit settings’ link on the right. As you can see below, there will be a box labeled ‘Targeting’ on the next page which, once checked, will show this channel to advertisers as an ad placement. From there, you’ll just need to provide some details on where the ad unit appears on your site:
Malaysian Blog Defamation Suit Impossible To Defend
January 26, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
Rocky’s Bru lawyers told reporters that the defamation suit is impossible to defend.
Ahirudin, who writes the “Rocky’s Bru” blog (rockybru.blogspot.com) is being sued along with another well-known blogger, Jeff Ooi of “Screenshots,” (JeffOoi.com) for a series of items published on their blogs last year that were deemed defamatory.
“What Rocky is contending is that with the claim the way it is, it is impossible to know how to adequately defend himself,” his lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar told reporters at the Civil Court.
“What we are arguing is that the claim must specifically set out which phrase relates to which meaning so that we can know how to defend it,” he said.Ahirudin, a former executive editor of the Malay Mail, a newspaper within the NSTP stable, until he left in 2006, said the blog was set up to share his views, with no “negative agenda.”
Why New Google AdWords Advertisers Always Fail
January 25, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
We know that an advertiser’s AdWords history is important when it comes to ranking new AdWords ads. What we don’t know is that it so important, it can make or break your business.
MindValleyLabs had conducted an experiment where they paused several very successful campaigns which had been running for over one year and created a new Google AdWords account.
Then they launched identical campaigns on the new Google AdWords account. What they found were shocking. Their average daily click count basically dropped to zero and they got hardly any impressions.
Nothing had changed except moving the campaigns from an existing Google AdWords account to a new Google Adwords account.
So how can this be explained?
The only difference is History.
In this experiment, everything was kept constant except moving campaigns from an existing Google AdWords Account to a new Google AdWords account. And, when you move accounts, the only thing that you lose is history.
Sergey Brin’s Homepage – NOT
January 25, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
If you don’t know who Sergey Brin’s is, he is one of the Google co-founder. Someone came up with a nice fake “new” homepage for him but we know it’s fake because the relative newer frame technology didn’t exist back then.
Sergey’s pictures shown are those of recent ones. And how it is possible to use the latest phpBB forum software in 1997?
Compare this to the real old homepage.
How to Create an Archives Page For Your WordPress Blog
January 24, 2007 by Gaman · 2 Comments
You may have noticed that my sidebar is now shorter and less cluttered then it was previously. I’ve removed the Categories and Monthly Archives sections and moved them into a new page which I called Archives.
There are several ways to do this and once of which is explained at WordPress.org.
Their suggestion involves creating a new template page called archives.php, customizing the archive template and setting up redirects with your .htaccess file.
Perhaps it’s a more complete way of doing this but some people especially newbies may find it a little complicated or it involved too much work.
So I came up with a more straight forward solution. I must warn you though that I am not a PHP programmer, my solution is not perfect but at least it gets the job done.
Google AdWords Removes Limits On Site Exclusion
January 24, 2007 by Gaman · Leave a Comment
AdWords’ Site Exclusion tool allows you to exclude your ads from showing up on particular sites or sections of a site.
Previously there is a limit on the number of sites you can add into the tool. Bur recently this limit was lifted and now you can exclude an unlimited number of sites.
Today, we’d like to let you know about a recent change: you can now exclude an unlimited number of sites. We hope you’ll use the Site Exclusion tool to improve your ROI and refine your targeting across the network. And, as always, we’d like to remind you that excluding a site (or a section of a site) from one of your campaigns will prevent your ad from showing on all of the pages of that site (or section). Therefore, to ensure you don’t miss out on any potential customers, we suggest that you review a site carefully before deciding to exclude it from your campaign.
