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Google Adsense With WordPress
By Karthik Viswanathan on Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | Tags: tutorial, wordpress | 4 Comments »
Throughout my website career, I’ve found google adsense to be a very effective method to earn income. Even though it may not be the best for every site, it certainly has an ingenious method of displaying ads.
Unfortunately, WordPress users may have a tough time implementing google adsense without a plugin. For those of you who love to do it yourself, here is a simple way to place adsense on your own WordPress blog.
Flipping your text in WordPress
By Patrick Lin on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | Tags: php, wordpress | 2 Comments »
Youtube’s April Fool’s 2009 prank was to flip everything on their featured videos upside-down. In this post I will show you how to flip the contents of your posts in WordPress. While not nearly as cool as flipping the entire page, it’s still something you can keep ready for next year’s April Fool’s.
5 WordPress Installation Tips
By Karthik Viswanathan on Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | Tags: wordpress | No Comments »
After downloading and installing WordPress on any one of my blogs, I always follow a set pattern of events. These ensure that the website is search engine and user-friendly.
To help all of those who are beginning their own blog, here are 5 WordPress Installation Tips that I always use.
- Set your blog title and tagline
This is one of the most important things to do straight off the bat. Without giving your blog a fitting title and description, users will be unable to understand your site’s content. For example, Lateral Code uses:
Blog Title: Lateral Code
Tagline: A Blog Focused on Code and Technology
Free WordPress Theme: Easy View
By Karthik Viswanathan on Sunday, February 15th, 2009 | Tags: theme, wordpress | 5 Comments »
Lateral Code would like to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day! As a gift to you, we are releasing a free wordpress theme. It’s called Easy View. Here is a quick screenshot:
5 Great WordPress Plugins
By Karthik Viswanathan on Sunday, January 18th, 2009 | Tags: wordpress | 3 Comments »
A simple and easy way to start blogging is by using WordPress. Many themes and plugins are available to meet most every need. In this post, we will present 5 unique plugins that are great additions to any site.
- Google XML Sitemaps
Search Engines play a large role in the amount of traffic your site obtains. Google, one of the main search engines, enables the use of Sitemaps, or a list of links that pertain to a site. There are many benefits for using Sitemaps:
- Faster crawling/indexing of your site in Google
- Ability to index pages that are never linked to internally/externally. Google can only find pages on your site by following links. If you provide a Sitemap, their crawler is able to find pages that are not linked to, but are listed in your sitemap.
- Prioritizing content becomes possible. If some of your pages are very important to your site, it would be preferable for Google to visit/update them more often. This is where priority becomes important.
Google XML Sitemaps automates this whole process for you. All you need to do is provide some information about your prioritizing needs and other options. We personally love this plugin and use it on our site.