Once a week I reward regular readers here by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• Apple iTunes is now Vista compatible – Ashish Mohta
• Evolution… A Blog’s way of Life – lyndonmaxewell
• Why taking a backup copy is necessary for your blog – Mr.Byte
• WordPress Plugin: Show Unread Comments – Ryan
• A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon – Maki
• Maximizing Text Link Ad Revenues – Everton
• Make Auction Ads Contextual – Ajay
• Bloggers Face-Off: John Chow vs. Matt Coddington – Daily Blog Tips

To get your blog post featured here…

1. Join my MyBlogLog Community
2. Comment regularly (try to get in the Top Commenter’s list)
3. Make comments of good quality and not comments like “Nice post, John!”
4. Make good posts on your blog

I will be checking out the recent comments and will visit the blogs of those who left good comments and if I find a good post on your blog, I will feature that post. And remember, if a post of a Top Commenter is selected, it will be placed on the top of the list according to their position on the Top Commenter’s list.

It would be good if you are highlighting your Top Posts on your blog so that I can easily find the best content on your blog.

A text link ad on this blog costs $160 a month, but I decided to give you a FREE site wide link here for a month if you sign up for Text Link Ads using my affiliate link.

How do you benefit? JohnTP.com is a PageRank 6 site with about 3000 unique visitors per day with an Alexa rank of 22833 and Technorati rank of 1,865.

How do I benefit? Text Link Ads affiliate program will pay me $25 if you signup using my affiliate link and is accepted into their program.

Note: Let me know your name before you signup using my affiliate link. After signing up, you will have to wait till Text Link Ads shows your name to me in the Referrals list, to get your free link. This may not happen until the end of the month. But I assure you that you will get your link as soon as I see your name.

Signup using my affiliate link and get 1 month FREE site wide link

As many of you already know, majority of your visitors land on your blog through single post pages and not through the homepage. It is usually your regular readers who enter through the homepage and hence CPC (cost per click) Ads on homepage won’t perform well as regular readers are Ad blind and will mostly not click the Ads.

Therefore I replaced my AdSense Ads (CPC) with Tribal Fusion Ads (CPM) on my homepage. I am not sure how well my Tribal Fusion Ads will perform there either as I don’t get much page views on homepage as I get for single post pages, but I believe it will perform better than CPC Ads.

What is your opinion? Will CPC (cost per click) or CPM (cost per 1,000 impressions) Ads perform well on the homepage?

Making money from a blog is an interesting topic for me and among my favorite money making bloggers, I find John Chow as one of the most interesting money makers in the blogosphere, particularly because he posts his revenue details that he makes from his blog – John Chow Dot Com.

John has been posting his revenue details ever since he first monetized his blog back in September 2006 and every month I find him beating his own record. Starting with just Google AdSense, John Chow dot Com made $352.94 in its first month as a monetized blog.

John kept adding more revenue sources and on October his revenue jumped to $1,361.64! Even after that John’s earnings continued to grow – $2,139.93 in November, $2,790.05 in December, and $3,440.66 in January.

And even though February is the shortest month of the year, it did not stop John Chow’s revenue from increasing. Guess what, he earned $7,011.05 on February !

Continue reading ‘Making Money from A Blog’

If you upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1 in the past 3-4 days, download the new version (2.1.2) and update your blog again because your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker!

Only WordPress 2.1.1 seems to have been affected, so if you have not upgraded to WordPress 2.1.1 you should be fine. If your blog is running 2.1.1, please upgrade immediately and do a full overwrite of your old files.

For further details check out the WordPress blog.

Last friday I had decided to reward regular readers by featuring good posts from the best commenters blogs once in every week! If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

• 5 Responsibilites one holds being a Problogger – Ashish Mohta
• Two Books Every Blogger Should Read – Ryan
• How to Backup Data in Windows XP and Vista – Mr.Byte
• How To Be A Successful Affiliate – Garry
• How Reddit beat the Digg Mafia – Ajay
• 12 Quick Ways to Maximize your ReviewMe Affiliate Commission Earnings – Maki
• Tabs in Yahoo Messenger – Lovedeep
• Cross Analysis Of Agloco & SlashMySearch – Alex
• The Complete Guide To Optimising Windows XP- Everton
• Bloggers Face-Off: Darren Rowse vs. Jeremy Shoemoney – Daily Blog Tips
• 13 Computer keyboards you’ve never seen before – Hongkiat

Continue reading ‘Rewarding Regular Readers – 3 March 2007′

Text Link Ads (TLA) are the text links that you can find on my sidebar under ‘Sponsored Links’, that link to the Advertiser’s site.

Advertisers will find Text Link Ads useful as these are static links without a nofollow and will therefore help them improve their search engine rankings and get them some traffic.

Text Link Ads makes it easy for Advertisers to choose which sites to advertise on by displaying all their publishers by category and ordering them by Alexa ranking and monthly price. Once you select the sites you want to advertise on, just tick the ‘Buy’ checkbox and click ‘Add to cart’.

As a new Advertiser on Text Link Ads you are eligible for $100 in FREE Links.

Publishers will find Text Link Ads useful as unlike other Ads they are just text links and won’t be irritating for their visitors. As a publisher you can choose how many ads you would like to display, and whether they will appear on a single page or sitewide. Be careful on what you choose because this will affect on how much each link on your site will cost. The more Ads you choose to appear, the lesser will be the price per link.

You can choose where to place the links on your site, but remember that certain places can get you more money. You can use the Text Link Ads calculator to see how much a link is worth on your site depending on where you put it and whether you chose to offer a single page or a site wide link. The left side of your page can earn you the most and the link worth decreases as you move to the right side.

Continue reading ‘Text Link Ads Review’

MyAvatars is a plugin for WordPress that displays the readers MyBlogLog avatars besides their comments. In my opinion MyAvatars is much better than Gravatars as I think most of my commenters use MyBlogLog rather than Gravatars.

To test this, I activated Gravatars for some time on this blog and found that very few commenters were using Gravatars. When I activated MyAvatars, I was happy to see most of my readers faces

MyAvatars is easy to install, just download the file myavatars.zip, extract and copy it in your plugin directory preserving the folder name and then activate the plugin.

You will then have to edit your comments.php file and add the following code inside the comment’s loop

<?php if(function_exists("MyAvatars")) MyAvatars(); ?>

The disadvantage of using this plugin is that it can increase your page loading time by loading all those MyBlogLog Avatars

Permalinks Migration is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website and even without affecting your search engine rankings.

It does this by generating a “301 Redirect” or a Permanent Redirect when a user or spider visits your site through old permalinks and redirects them to the new permalinks of the same post.

I found this plugin via Everton’s blog who recently changed his permalinks using the Permalinks Migration plugin from something like this

www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/05/652/

to a better Permalink Structure like this

http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2005/12/05/post-title/

A good permalinks structure will help you improve your search engine rankings, so if you currently use a bad permalink structure like

http://www.example.com/?p=57

you can safely change your permalink structure to a better one using Permalinks Migration without fear of losing your traffic and pagerank

I have put up a poll to my earlier question – “Do you consider Related Posts in RSS Feeds as clutter?“. After reading the comments on that post it looks as if most people do not consider Related Posts in RSS Feeds as clutter but still just to get a better picture I put up a poll (on sidebar).

I have closed the comments on this post, you can comment here.

Note: This Poll will automatically close on March 7th. Vote now!