WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

Yep, here I go again … Using the tech stuff to infect the blogosphere . But I promise to be gentle and try to use more generic info that will be helpful to any blogger, regardless of your technical experience.

If you read my blog regularly you will notice that I put big emphasis on using tracking my stats and analyzing results for any change I make to my blog and usually I get rewarded for my scrutiny. If my work helps your own efforts and saves you time – your comments will be greatly appreciated. Information I share in this article is directly related to my own efforts and tracked for close to 3 month but since every blog can be targeting a different group of people (niche) – you results can be quite different.

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Keywords within your content turned into affiliate links, most commonly known as Context Ads are some of the best converting ads you can use to monetize your blog and since they are a lot more relevant - they produce higher earnings for publishers. I personally use aLink plugin with ClickBank module activated to create context ads on this blog but there are many other options.

Kontera is perhaps one of the more known context ads networks but not every blog will be accepted into their publishers network. They have a required minimum of 500,000 page views a month for your blog prior to been accepted. So what do you do if you are “slightly” smaller?

How about using brand name recognition of Amazon and [tag-tec]monetize your blog[/tag-tec] using a trust they have already created with consumers? And get paid affiliate commissions not just some small peanuts for the click! Interested? Well, here is your step-by-step guide.

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Some might say that it is a rather unusual headline coming from someone who builds entire blog around benefits of WordPress and making it into a true Web 2.0 platform. But as everything else in this world [tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] is far from perfect and dealing with my recent issues I have discovered 2 things that I had no clue about.

What is even worth – presence of these 2 problems severely impacts your WordPress blog performance and slows down your blog. But as always I will not just stop on describing the problem but also provide you with a guide to turn this problem to your advantage and get ahead of 99% of other bloggers using WordPress.

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Being a technical person I always try to find some good deals whenever I decide to go on my next shopping spree … if you can call it that. I love to save and this is exactly what this post will cover.

I have run into Couponchief.com site, that supplies huge selection of online shopping coupons. I’m currently on the market for a new laptop and managed to locate some nice dell coupons with one of the options being Dell Vostro 1500 notebook for only $599. Over $200 savings when using a link from couponchief.com.

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The following article is my own speculation based on personal research and rejections, so before you decide to take anything for granted – please be advised: I’m only human. I’ll site the sources for some of the info I have used and you make up your own mind … I’ll start with a statement and then attempt to prove it.

Google Sandbox has direct impact on your blog monetization efforts.

Have YOUR blog been rejected from some of the major monetization sites, such as PayPerPost.com, RevewMe.com, Text-Link-Ads.com? Then read on, perhaps I will shed some light on as to why …

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Earlier this afternoon my host had some issues and after that my blog nearly dropped to it its knees. My apologies go to anyone attempting to visit the site during the period of problems.

After research I was able to find the issue with one of the tables and fix it. But it did require a rather intrusive editing of tables to address the problem. I checked most of the pages that I thought might be affected but would appreciate if you let me know about any issues I have missed.

I’m one of the supporters of providing ONLY full feed RSS to my readers and feel it is extremely important as I don’t consider myself to be specially captivating writer. Full feed provides YOU (my subscriber) with an option to follow my posts from your favorite RSS reader or podcast Player (read more here on my RSS subscription options). And in my personal experience it didn’t decrease number of comments on my blog or the external interaction, people who liked my posts managed to find a time to actually visit the blog and share their thoughts.

But by providing a FULL RSS feed each blogger, including myself, intentionally decreases our chances to monetize our work and get some small reward for the work done. Well, here is good news for all of us – new plugin for monetizing our WordPress RSS feed.

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