Bits 'N' Bytes

How PPC Tricks Naïve Website Developers into Thinking SEO is its Own Industry

Aziz — Sun, 23 Jan 2011 17:44:56 +0000

About PPC from the website owner’s perspective by Jeffrey Gross.

Unless you are an SEO expert who helps others get their site higher on searches, SEO is not a way to make money in and of itself. Unless you have a real product that you are selling, simply making a site on a popular subject or specific niche is not going to pull in ad dollars. That just is not how the internet works. (more…)

How to start promoting your Website

Aziz — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 14:29:10 +0000

Don’t get in a rush to start listing your site. Some of the information you will be placing into databases throughout the world will live a long time, and errors you make now will haunt you for a long time (seems like forever.) Go out and learn about the web. Learn about the search engines. Learn about your competition. Set your policies about cross-linking. More than anything, practice begging, groveling and going without sleep. (more…)

‘You have 3,465 friends!’ Really?

Aziz — Fri, 16 May 2008 15:42:17 +0000

There could be one in a million chance you haven’t heard of MySpace, Facebook and Orkut. You probably have your own profile on one or more of these and other social networking sites. As though it weren’t enough, more such sites spring up every day promising a different dimension to social networking. However, have you ever thought about the risk of identity theft and stalking. You ought to take these basic precautions (more…)

Upcoming features in Google AdSense

Aziz — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 03:28:56 +0000

Based on a survey form that I have recently received, you might soon see some of the following features in the AdSense program. (more…)

Advanced WordPress Page-List Widget Plugin

Aziz — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:31:42 +0000

Just a quick note to let you know about this plugin if you had missed out on it earlier.

I developed this widget plugin to power the Downloads widget that you see on the sidebar. (more…)

How to include WordPress Pages in your main RSS feed

Aziz — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:49:21 +0000

For some good logic of the WordPress developers (thanks to them in the first place for authoring such a wonderful piece of work) the poor little thing called “Pages”, which fall out of the chronological order, have been left out of the blog’s main posts feed. However, on this blog I felt that there was a need to include certain pages (or subpages of a particular page) on the main feed. For example, I wanted to feature all my WordPress Plugins downloads on the RSS feed. (more…)

Advanced Page List Widget Plugin

Aziz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:58:42 +0000

The default WordPress widget will only let you set the values for sort_column and exclude parameters. Sometimes you need more control over the pages widget as it is not possible to edit the theme template files or use the wp_list_pages template tag in certain circumstances. For example, you might be running a blog on WordPress MU and sharing the same theme with multiple blogs. In such a case, even though you can add the wp_list_pages template tag to the theme files you can’t hard code the child_of parameter or page ids to be included.

This widget plugin lets you set all the parameters that are available in WordPress - child_of, include, exclude, authors, meta_key, meta_value, depth, sort_column, sort_order, show_date, date_format, and hierarchical.

Apart from that this widget automatically fetches a list of all the columns in your blog’s wp_posts table and lets you sort your list using any of these columns.

You can add upto 9 Advanced Page List Widgets.

WordPress Plugin to integrate Chitika RPU

Aziz — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:35:50 +0000

If you have subscribed to the RSS feed, you would have already noticed the Plugin download page in the feed. If you are wondering how I got that download page on the feed, just wait, I’ll tell you about it later in another post. (more…)

Chitika RPU for WordPress Plugin

Aziz — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:50:04 +0000

This simple WordPress Plugin lets you insert the Chitika RPU (Related Product Unit) into your WordPress blog instantly without any hassles. It can also give you the flexibility to position your RPU in the desired location.

Kontera Ads with Single-Underline

Aziz — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 05:56:08 +0000

You might already be familiar with Kontera, a popular in-text advertising service showing ads, similar to the one above, when the mouse is moved over text links marked with double-underlines. However, recently many sites have been displaying these links with a single-underline. If you are a blogger or website owner seeking to know how they do it, here is the secret. (more…)