Tribal Fusion is the leading site representation company with a monthly reach of 19 billion impressions and 176 million users worldwide. Tribal Fusion’s payment is calculated based on Ad impressions. So the higher your website traffic is, the more revenue you will get.

I decided to try out Tribal Fusion as I did not want to depend entirely on Google AdSense. Tribal Fusion accepted JohnTP.com on January 15, and I earned $123.88 last month. [Note: I started earning only from the 15th of the month and in between I did some tests that made me earn only about $3 for 5 days and I could not check my earnings as I was not at home at the time]

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I have mentioned before the importance of a Top Posts page - it makes it easier for visitors to find the best content on your blog without having to dig through your archives and helps you to to get them to subscribe to your feed and convert them to regular readers easily.

Until yesterday I was manually listing out important posts on my Top Posts page. But it is no more needed to do it manually thanks to Marc Macalua who contacted me yesterday as soon as he finished his Top Posts by Category plugin.

Top Posts by Category is a plugin for WordPress that allows bloggers to display their best posts categorywise, as determined by the number of visits to the post or number of comments.

You can view my Top Posts page (by number of comments) in action here.

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With the recent PageRank update, I was happy to find JohnTP.com with a PR 6. Earlier this blog was stuck with a PR 3, and then with last times PageRank update it got PR 5 and now PageRank 6.

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Once while I was reading some posts on Problogger.net, I came across this interesting AdSense Ad by John Chow.

The Ad was so different that I was tempted to click it and visit John’s blog. A few weeks later I started seeing the same type of AdSense Ad on this blog too.

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A week after WordPress 2.0.7 has been released, the long awaited WordPress 2.1 “Ella” (named for jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald) has been finally released. Besides over 550 bug fixes, WordPress 2.1 includes the following new features:

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WordPress 2.0.7 has been released and is recommended that all users update as it contains fixes to the PHP security problem and the Feedburner issue that was in 2.0.6.

Users that have upgraded to WordPress 2.0.6 that was released a few days back, don’t have to update all of their WordPress’ files. Here is the list of files that have changed since 2.0.6:

• wp-admin/inline-uploading.php
• wp-admin/post.php
• wp-includes/classes.php
• wp-includes/functions.php
• wp-settings.php
• wp-includes/version.php

Also, the next major version of WordPress (2.1) is due out by the end of the month

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Those of you who use Digg might have noticed that it is harder for Blogs to get to the Digg frontpage (except for popular blogs like Problogger.net and TechCrunch) and bloggers also may get flamed by Diggers for submitting their own blogs. What’s worser is that Digg even started banning blogs like JohnChow.com and PaulStamatiou.com.

So for the past one month, Shivaranjan and I have been working on Blogg-Buzz which is a Digg like site for Bloggers to submit interesting blog posts and videos. When Shivaranjan was busy with his office work, I had help from other bloggers like Carol, Ashish and Sreedhar.

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WordPress 2.0.6 was released a few hours ago. This new version includes an important security fix and it’s recommended that everyone upgrade.

Here’s what’s new:

• The aforementioned security fixes.
• HTML quicktags now work in Safari browsers.
• Comments are filtered to prevent them from messing up your blog layout.
• Compatibility with PHP/FastCGI setups.

For developers, there’s a new anti-XSS function called attribute_escape(), and a new filter called “query” which allows you filter any SQL at runtime. WordPress 2.0.6 will be probably the last release before WordPress 2.1 comes out.

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I applied for Chitika 3 days back and got approved yesterday. As I was new to it, I did not have much idea on how to optimize it for better CTR. Thankfully Darren has shared good Chitika eMiniMalls Tips on Problogger.net

That post alone taught me many useful things that I needed to know about Chitika such as how to use the post title as the keyword, how to disable the search tab and how to make the ‘Best Deals’ as the default tab. The post also gives tips on positioning your Chitika eMiniMalls. Thank you Darren for the useful post!

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A Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been discovered in wp-admin/templates.php in WordPress which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the file parameter.

Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would execute in the context of the affected site, potentially allowing the attacker to steal cookie-based authentication credentials or to control how the site is rendered to the user; other attacks are also possible.

All versions of WordPress are affected. WordPress has fixed this for v2.0.6 and released a patch for v2.0.5. To patch, simply overwrite the original file after taking backup.

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