Effectively Using Overture/Yahoo To Get Website Visitors

September 13th, 2009 by ytechcity

overture-yahoo

Overture or now known as Yahoo because of Yahoo’s takeover, was the original inventor of the use of the P4P or Pay for Performance. Overture saw that the internet was fast becoming the easiest and most convenient way to shop, and advertising was going to hit at an all time high because of the many businesses in the arena.

To get a person to go to a site than others, it needs to be very visible. Providing ads that could direct potential consumers and costumers to their site would allow them to have an increase in traffic as well as sales. Yahoo provides a service that can put a site or company’s ad in their sites that can be shown when certain keywords are inputted.

Yahoo offers a chance for any company to increase their traffic by using their services. With more people being aware of your site, there would be more traffic and visitors to your site given the chance to view your pages as well as your products. With even a small percentage of successful sales, with a high traffic volume this could still be a substantial figure for your company.
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Blogging Tips-What is Ping-O-Matic?

September 13th, 2009 by ytechcity

Ping-O-Matic is a service to update different search engines that your blog has updated.
Ping-O-Matic isn’t an Automattic project, but it shares some of the same folks and is highly relevant to the blog ecosystem, so it’s worth including here anyway.
pingomatic_ping

Once completly ping,
pingomatic_ping_complete

Now, when ever you add a new post, remember to ping it to allows more websites, services, and potential viewers to be alerted of your new post.Goto Ping-O-Matic and ping your website now .

Happy blogging!

WordPress Tips – How To Insert Adsense Into Wordpress Post

September 12th, 2009 by ytechcity

Have you ever wanted to insert your adsense code inside your post but wasn’t sure how to do it?

1. Log in to your wordpress admin.

2. Navigate to your theme editor. Goto “Appearance >> Editor”

Once there, click on “Single Post (single.php) on the right hand column of the editor page.

Copy and paste

<table border=”0″ width=”302″ id=”table1″ cellspacing=”3″ cellpadding=”3″ height=”252″ align=”left”>
<tr>
<td>
YOUR ADSENSE CODE GOES HERE
</td>
</tr>
</table>

right above

<?php the_content(’Read the rest of this entry »’); ?>

Your themes code may vary but it will be directly above the “the_content” call, you may have category exclusions or different text for reading the rest of the post but regardless, that’s where it goes.

Now your posts will look like…

Insert Adsense Into Wordpress Post

Above code is base on 300×250 square adsense ad, if you adsense ad is different size, you can changing the dimensions on the table.

WordPress Plugin-Blog Counter or Blog Statistic

September 6th, 2009 by ytechcity

Blog Counter or sometimes called as Blog Statistic are very useful to detect the traffic of your blog. In order to create a successful blog, it’s important to understand your blog traffic, where traffic to your blog is coming from? Luckily, there are a number of tools available to bloggers to help analyze the metrics of your blog. It can be either free of charge or paying, depends on the services they provide. Many sites on the Internet provides various blog counter which can be found for free, but there is also the pay. Certainly the facilities provided for the free counter is not as complete as compared to paying.

blog_counter_statistic

Blog counter usually placed in the sidebar and and install the blog counter is also very easy, you just need copy and paste the script into your wordpress or blogspot gadgets or sidebar area.

The following 10 sites counter blog can be found for free. Just choose what fits and you like the most.

1. BlogCounter
2. 24counter
3. Free Hit Counter
4. Totally Free Counter
5. StatCounter
6. Blogpatrol
7. eFreeCounter
8. Branica
9. Blogs Counter
10. ExpertCounter

Create your own counter now, happy blogging!

WordPress Plugin-Damn Sexy Bookmarks

September 6th, 2009 by ytechcity

This Social Bookmarking plugin allow your blog reader to bookmark your pages with a simply click. All the bookmarks menu are hiden and appear when your mouse move over above the button.

damn_sexy_bookmarks

It includes all the features of SexyBookmarks v.2.1.2 with the following additions:

  • Customizable display order of bookmarks.
  • Uses WP Custom Fields to store the short URL for each post/page.
    This minimizes the need to make a remote request for a short URL each time the post or page is processed.
  • Fix to remove inline CSS when DamnSexyBookmarks is displayed in the feed.
  • Added an option to hide or display DamnSexyBookmarks in feeds.
  • Added an option to hide “Sharing is Caring” or “Sharing is Sexy”.
  • Streamlined code for easier maintenance.

I think the advantage of this plugin is it include all the social pages like Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, Reddit, Digg, Stumble, Technorati, MySpace, BlinkList, Furl, Yahoo, Mixx, DesignFloat, eMail, RSS, NewsVine, Devmarks, Script & Style, LinkedIn, and Google Bookmarks.

Read more on Official Wordpress Plugin Directory. Try it out today – Download here!