Archive for December, 2006

Google AdSense Testing New Type of ‘Ads by Google’

Many publishers found AdSense testing a new type of “Ads by Google”. These are some of the screenshots taken by the members of DigitalPoint Forums:

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Want to do a Technorati Favorite Exchange?

Currently 22 people have favorited JohnTP.com to their Technorati Favorites. I am looking forward to increase this by offering an exchange, i.e, I am willing to favorite your blog if you favorite mine.
You may also favorite the blogs of other readers here if they are interested.

Start by favoriting JohnTP.com by clicking here and then put [...]

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Pierce Brosnan as Santa Claus

The image on the left is a picture of Pierce Brosnan that I edited via a new service called PikiPimp that I found via TechCrunch.
PikiPimp let’s you upload your picture and drag and drop objects such as glasses, hats, eyes, wigs, etc on to it. You can then perform actions like rotating and [...]

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WordPress Plugin: Readers Post

Readers Post is a plugin for WordPress that can list out the recent posts read by your blog visitors. It can also show the number of visits a post has had and the most viewed posts of your blog.
The plugin “Readers_Post” shows for each post how often it was visited. So it works as a [...]

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How To Prevent Comment Spam

You might have noticed that you get most of your comment spam on older posts, this is because spammers target older posts as they are indexed by search engines. So it might be a good idea to automatically disable comments on older posts (posts that are 21 or more days old). This tip will be [...]

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What is wrong with Akismet?

For the past half an hour I have been getting 2-5 Spam comments every minute. This same thing had happened a few months back when Akismet was down.
I was thinking of using CAPTCHAs to fight spam but this post by Mark which gives some good points about why they might not be the best solution [...]

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How Comments Can Make You Lose Readers

Comments in a blog can be very useful in converting first time visitors into regular readers. Why? Because when someone visits your blog for the first time, they may get a good impression when they see a lot of people commenting on your blog posts.
But what if your blog is new or has low traffic? [...]

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Google Sitemaps Generator WordPress Plugin Updated

The Google Sitemaps Generator Plugin for WordPress that automatically generates a sitemap and helps in better indexing of all pages of your blog has been updated.
Recently Yahoo, Google and Microsoft joined hands to support a single format for Sitemaps. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata [...]

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Get Your Blog Lurkers to Comment

Comments are something I enjoy having and will always want more of them, it encourages me to post more frequently and makes my blog more active. In the past I have done a lot of things to increase the number of comments I get here and I am going to share one of them now. [...]

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Most Popular in December, 2006


  1. WordPress Plugin: PHP Exec
  2. How To Prevent Comment Spam
  3. I am Superman, What About You?
  4. Do not place images next to AdSense Ads
  5. I bought a new PC
  6. Google Sitemaps Generator WordPress Plugin Updated
  7. WordPress Plugin: Readers Post
  8. 5 Questions Interview for Bloggers
  9. StumbleVideo: Video Referral Site Launched By StumbleUpon
  10. Pierce Brosnan as Santa Claus