Darren Rowse, sharing his expert tips on AdSense optimisation

If you are into searching for new advices in how to improve your Google AdSense earnings, you may want to listen Darren Rowse, pro-blogger at Digital Photography School (external link) and ProBlogger.net.

Some of you are already knowing almost everything you may know about AdSense but I think that sometimes it worth spending 3 minutes and listen things you already know. Darren is not reinventing the wheel but it putting some of the most important AdSense advices together.

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Is WordPress 2.7 actually separating pings from comments?

At least on Archive 2.0 it doesn’t do it at all.

I have noticed that my blog didn’t liked track-backs in terms of share some love and actually show them on page and I had to search the entire Google to find why the following code is not working:

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Google Analytics hack - Reduce the bounce rate of your blog

Google Analytics, like any other online service that you might use to measure your website’s traffic and demographics, is not free of bugs.

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Removing “www”

So you have heard a lot of stories about duplicate content, about the fact that Google may index your content twice, once with www and once without.

As far as I seen it, Google did indexed downloadwin.com twice and I have updated about 2 minutes ago the .htaccess file with this lines:

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Simple password generator

Because BoingBoing started this year publishing the worst 500 passwords ever, I give you this little password generator.

It’s not rocket science but at least it will not generate 123456 like passwords :-)

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Update on building a nice Rich Text Editor using Yahoo! UI Library

There is a 3rd step and I forgot to tell you about it. It’s about

handleSubmit: true,

line, that you must write it also.

You must insert in into this:
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The only 2 steps to build a nice Rich Text Editor using Yahoo! UI Library

Usually I work only with my own scripts. I know, I’m not perfect and I’m not supposed to do this but I have an issues trusting other coders.

One of my big problems is choosing the right colors so that’s why my css (or the entire design) is borrowed but that’s it. In all my former projects I have done all my php scripts by myself, from scratch, using no framework at all. Also, I have tried to avoid complicated javascript code.

Until tonight! That’s it!

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View PDF files directly in your browser

I have taught you (hehe) how to create a PDF file using a free Office-like application named Open Office. Now I will tell you how to read one directly in your browser.

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Copy/paste php code in Wordpress articles

When I wrote about the fastest way to create a rss feed using php and a mysql database in 30 minutes, I have told you that I’ll find a plugin to paste the code directly into wordpress and I did find one. Actually there are 2 plugins. Just read and you will see why.

The first one, Syntax Highlighting WordPress Plugin it’s good choice if you will not paste html code. As you may see in this post, SH WP Plugin worked for me just fine, although it had a little error when I used the title tag. This being told, please remove the space in the title tag :-p.

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Is there a roadmap to become a successful blogger?

I don’t know yet, seems to me that I must read a book to find out! If you ask me, I’ll say that for a good start there are 5 tips only. But let’s rewind to the beginning.

About 2 weeks ago I have subscribed to this list of bloggers. Most of them are not fresh meat for my Google RSS Reader but in the last year I didn’t have the time to read their posts so “unsubscribe” was the best solution at that time.

About 1 month ago, before starting this new blog, I have unsubscribed to a lot of blogs (covering other languages than english) that were worthless and in this way I have found new spots for adding the top 10 Internet Marketing Blogs.

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