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Google AdSense: Coming To A Feedburner Feed Near Your Soon

Finally Google will start rolling AdSense into Feedburner feeds. I guess the integration process was not that easy, given the time it took them after the acquisition. Regardless, this is good news for all webmasters and bloggers alike. Here is what they said on their blog:

We’ve been hinting at this for awhile, but it’s finally time to spill the beans: Starting next week, we’ll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers “coming soon”. If you start seeing “Ads by Google” on an ad in a feed somewhere, that’d be us.

Publishers that are already part of the FAN (Feedburner Advertising Network) will keep serving CPM ads, while having AdSense ads to fill the remaining inventory. Definitely another source of income to be considered by most bloggers out there. What do you think? Read more

7 Things to Avoid While Leaving A Blog Comment

Many people already wrote about the rules of blog comments before. Most of them, however, focused on the so called blog comments etiquette. That is, they told you how you should always add value to the discussion, respect the other people, never feed the trolls, be genuine and yada yada yada. While that advice is solid, I feel that it lacks some practical sense. There are other points that I see people doing almost daily when leaving comments, and they can be equally annoying for the blog owner and for the other readers and commentators. Below you will find them: 7 things to avoid while leaving a blog comment. 1. Using the bold or italic attributes to highlight your whole comment Blog comments can send good traffic to your website, and if you manage to catch people’s attention with your comments, this traffic might increase. Now, attention should be grabbed with a funny or interesting comment, and not by making your comment text bold or italicized. Read more

PHP connectivity problems

Alert: We are currently experiencing intermittent connectivity and slowness issues to some PHP websites hosted on our cluster. Our system administrators are aware of the issue and they are working to get it resolved as quickly as possible. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Current Status: Fully Resolved.

Incident Timeline: Issue reported at 05:18. Issue resolved by 05:34.

What Happened: The PHP Engine in one of our hosting clusters failed resulting in temporary access problems for sites using PHP. Since all BrandForge sites use cached content this problem did not lead to any downtime, and the PHP Engine issues was resolved by out engineers in about 15 minutes.

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45 Free Wordpress Premium Themes

Just got back in my hometown and after a day on the road I didn’t get to read my emails. With the numerous email received I saw a very nice post from Julius Design regarding 45 premium wordpress themes that can be downloaded for free. Read more

Does YouTube Have it Bigger Than You?

YouTube wants to have it bigger than anyone else, and that is not cool. Now if you started reading this post with the wrong idea in mind, I am talking about the size of the video player. If you try to embed a YouTube video on your website, you will notice that the code that they provide both on their website and on the menu options of each video player is something like this: <object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bXWc-FKs9g&hl=en"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/4bXWc-FKs9g&hl=en" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object> Read more

5 Blogging Traps You Need to Avoid

This is a guest post by Alan Johnson. As a blogger, there are more than a few mistakes which can and will make you waste valuable time and resources, so that identifying them in order to be able to take action is simply a must. Let’s not waste another second and start with: 1. Neglecting the Comments Section Read more

DarkZen WordPress Theme Released

Most of our previous WordPress themes used light or vivid colors, so I thought that a darker design was needed on the portfolio. DarkZen comes with a dark header and a gray background, packed on a clean and minimalist design. Here is a complete list of the features of the theme:

• Advertising Ready: The theme comes with a 468×60 banner spot on the header, as well as six 125×125 ad blocks on the sidebar. The blogger should also be able to insert other AdSense units without problems.
• Widget Ready: The theme supports widgets. Just drop the ones you use and you are ready to go.
• Social Bookmarking Icons: Both the Homepage and single post pages already come with social bookmarking icons integrated. You can also remove or add new ones at will.
• Customizable Sidebar: The sidebar can hold full width and split sections, so that you can customize your fields easily.
• Search Engine Optimizated: As usual the title tags and internal pages are already optimized for search engines.

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WP Theme: TechnoHolic (Free and Premium)

Premium themes are popping up everywhere so I thought I will join in the party too. With a little twist. Along with the Premiium theme, I will release a “free trial” version. You can download and install the free trial version on your blog. If you like it, you can keep it. If you want more features, you can upgrade to the premium theme for USD18 only. So what’s the difference between the two versions?

Common Features

• 2 or 3 columns flexible layout
• 3 columns bottom bar
• SEO ready (Search Engine Optimized)
• Gravatar support
• Seperated comments/trackbacks
• Highlighted author comments
• Works on Wordpress v2.1 and above
• Tested on IE6/7, Firefox, Opera, Safari
• XHTML & CSS Validated

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Silk - An Advanced Free WordPress Theme

If you want an advanced free WordPress theme that is fully customizable without having to touch any code, you might like Silk from Head Set Options. Set up of Silk is so easy, you probably wonder why you haven’t found this before. All that is required of you is to create a category called “Featured”. Wow, that was hard. Just check out the cool functions of Silk WordPress theme: Read more

Is Your Blog Full Of Gaping Comment Holes?

It’s been another day of blogging for you. You studiously posted your latest entry, hoping to hit the jackpot this time. You go to bed feeling great. After all, you accomplished something haven’t you. The next morning you get up only to find that your blog is eerily quiet. No comments! You grab your head, tear your hair out and shout “What the f#$@ just happened? Why are people not storming my blog. What is it I’m doing wrong?” Read more

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