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As I have a tendency to post on SEO and related matters I've decided to create a separate blog. … [Read more...] about SEO tips and tricks – new blog/site

Making your blog more search engine "friendly" should not be too hard. By default Wordpress includes an option to turn on permalinks with more "friendly" URLs. Although this won't work on IIS it will work on any server using Apache with mod_rewrite enabled. Another handy little trick is to get your page titles to display as something a bit more meaningful. … [Read more...] about SEO tips for WordPress – page titles

Like a lot of bloggers I use adsense. Up until recently I was using a standard banner at the top of all pages, which was done by using an include in the template files. Other people seemed to have gone to some trouble to incorporate adsense in their posts, so I thought I'd investigate further. … [Read more...] about Adsense for WordPress – my version!

I posted recently about the dangers of blogs in relation to job prospects. One young blogger is now out of job due to his blogging about working in Google. Whether his blogging breached his contract terms with Google or not is probably of little interest to bloggers, who are probably more than a little shocked at how an "innocent" blog could cause so much trouble. … [Read more...] about Google gets corporate – blogger fired

More and more bloggers seem to be using Adsense, though I doubt if that many of them are making "big bucks". Google has made even more improvements to the interface recently. You can now see at a glance exactly how much money you've earned in a given period. The interface is much simpler to navigate as well, so you should be able to see which sites are performing better than … [Read more...] about Adsense enhanced