Tutorial to add Google AdSense code in your wordpress blog

Tutorial to add Google AdSense code in your wordpress blog

1. Sign up for Google AdSense or any other ads provider sites.
2. login into your Google AdSense account.
3. Copy the Google AdSense code.
4. Log into wordpress.com.
5. Click "My Dashboard" in the top navigation bar.

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2. Click "Appearance" and then click "Widgets" in the left navigation bar.
   
   


3. In the "Available Widgets" section, add a "Text" widget.
   
   


4. A new "Text" option will now appear under the "Current Widgets" section of your wordpress dashboard - click the "Edit" link.
   
   


5. Paste your StatCounter code into the main body of the Text Widget.
   
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6. Click "Done".


7. Click "Save Changes" and that's it!

WordPress Installation

If you do not have the Fantastico auto installer on your account or just choose not to use it, you have the option to install WordPress manually. Please, follow the step-by-step guide below in order to activate Wordpress on your hosting account:

Manual installation of WordPress

Step 1: Download the installation file from the WordPress download section by clicking on "Download.zip" or "Download.tar.gz". This way you will get the latest stable release of the script.

Step 2: Upload it in public_html folder of your account. You can do that via FTP with a client like Filezilla or via cPanel -> File Manager -> Upload file(s). This way, after the installation is completed, the file script will appear once you visit your website.

Another option is to create a subfolder in your hosting account and upload the file in it. The WordPress installation will be accessible at:

http://www.yourdomainname.com/subfolder

Step 3: When you are in cPanel -> File Manager, navigate to the uploaded file and extract it by clicking on "Extract". The other option is to extract the file in your computer and then to upload the content in the desired folder via FTP.

Step 4: Once the files are extracted in the desired folder, you should create a MySQL database for WordPress. You can do that from cPanel -> MySQL Databases. Detailed instructions how to do so can be found in our MySQL tutorial.

Step 5: Rename wp-config-sample.php to wp-config.php and edit it. Fill in your database connection details in the following lines:

define('DB_NAME', ''); // The name of the database
define('DB_USER', ''); // Your MySQL username
define('DB_PASSWORD', ''); // ...and password

You can also change the default database prefix in order to secure your WordPress installation.

Step 6: Open in your browser:

www.yourdomainname.com/where_wordpress_is_extracted/wp-admin/install.php

This should set up the tables needed for your blog. If there is an error, double check your wp-config.php file, and try again.

Step 7: The installation procedure is finished. You can save the administrative username and the password. You will need them to access the WordPress installation admin backend in the future.

WordPress Installation Detailed Tutorial

WordPress Installation Detailed Tutorial

Please, follow the step-by-step guide below in order to activate Wordpress on your hosting account:

Step 1: Please, login to your CPanel and locate the Fantastico De Luxe icon:



Step 2: Find and click the WordPress link.



Step 3: Then choose New Installation:



Step 4: Decide upon the location of your blog - if you would like to have it as your site front page, leave the directory box blank, otherwise fill in the appropriate folder name. Next, fill in the administrator details and the e-mail account configuration then click the Install WordPress button.



Step 5: A new confirmation page will be loaded for the installation. Click the Finish Installation button if no errors are reported.



If else you will have to go back and rectify the specified issues.

Step 6: After completing the installation the final screen will load, providing you with the installation details. You will be able to e-mail the details to a specified address also in order to keep them for future reference.



Well done! You have successfully installed the Wordpress application!

make money from wordpress , all ways

How Does WordPress Make Money? the answer


How can a company like Automattic make money if they are giving away all their products (including WordPress) for free? Someone asked this question to WordPress founder Matt at WordCamp India and he surprised, at least some of us, by saying that Automattic is profitable.

Here’s how WordPress makes money according to the creator himself:

1. Blog Hosting – WordPress offers blog hosting services at $500 per month to big publishers like Om Malik, All Things D and CNN’s Political Ticker among others. They use WordPress.com’s server infrastructure to host your blog and therefore the performance will obviously be great but unlike other web hosting services, WordPress VIP Hosting doesn’t accept everyone who applies so good luck.

2. Google AdSense - Free blogs hosted on WordPress.com may sometimes carry Google ads but these ads may only appear if all the following three conditions are met:

1. The visitor is not using Firefox browser.
2. He has logged out of his WordPress account, if he has one.
3. The referring source is not a WordPress powered blog. So a person reaching abc.wordpress.com from xyz.wordpress.com won’t see any Google Ads.

Even with all these conditions, the revenue generated from serving Google AdSense ads on WordPress.com hosted blog may still be significant as do around a billion page views per month.

3. Automattic Kismet – You don’t see Viagra spam in your blog posts because it all gets filtered automatically by Automattic Kismet (Akismet for short), the excellent spam protection plug-in available for WordPress.

Now Akismet spam catching technology is free for personal blogs but if you maintain a corporate blog or run a network of blogs, you are required to buy a commercial license of Akismet that starts at around $50 per month.

What may surprise you is that professional bloggers, or anyone who is making more than $500 per month in advertising revenue from a WordPress blog, also needs to pay a $5 per month fee for the Akismet license.

4. Premium Accounts – While anyone can host a blog on WordPress.com for free, they charge you a fee if you want to buy additional storage space for your multimedia files or want to use a custom web domain instead of the default wordpress.com sub-domain. These are premium features.

There’s also (unconfirmed) talk that WordPress may soon allow users to add AdSense in their free blogs for a subscription fee.

5. Web Host Referrals – WordPress.org suggests of list of third-party web hosting companies where you may self-host your WordPress blog(s) for a fee. Now all these are referral links so Automattic gets a commission per sale.

In fact, this hosting referral system may be extremely profitable for Automattic because if you search for "WordPress Hosting" on Google (a very competitive keyword phrase), the first sponsored link on the Google results page is paid by WordPress itself and it says – "Top 5 WordPress Web Hosts – Chosen by the developers of the WordPress blogging software".

6. WordPress Support – If you need help with WordPress (or WordPress MU) but the free support forums aren’t solving the purpose, consider subscribing to the Support Network of Automattic.  The WordPress development team will help you solve problems related to your WordPress system and the response time can be as low as 6 hours. This service is primarily for Enterprise users who are willing to shell out a $2.5-5k per year for support.

7. Poll Daddy – I am not sure if Matt discussed this but Automattic also provides a paid version of Poll Daddy where you can have unlimited number of questions per survey and there’s no Poll Daddy branding in your polls or surveys.

Wordpress Tips & Tricks

I thought it might be useful to list 7 of my best posts here so you don’t get lost while browsing my blog by jumping from a post to another.

Let’s start with the start:

1. How to install wordpress - Here I wrote a whole guide on how to install wordpress. To be honest, I didn’t like the famous “5 minutes installation guide” on wordpress.org so I wrote my own. The tutorial posted on this page explains how you can create a new blog from scratch using cpanel, ftp, etc. Of course, there are other ways, some of them even easier (maybe) like Fantastico. But your hosting company has to upgrade their software right after the release, so you depend on many factors. Anyway, it’s one of the many solutions, test it and rate it.


2. How To Display A Static Page On Your Home Page - by default, wordpress shows the latest 10 posts on your main page. This can be good or bad, depending on your preferences. The good news is that you can change this setting from the admin. To find out more about this, just click on the link in the title of this paragraph.


3. Top recommended Wordpress Plugins - A small personal wordpress plugins collection. I think you must have them (or at least some of them) installed on your blog to make your life easier. The post includes: All in one SEO pack, google xml sitemaps, social bookmarks and few more. Check them out.


4. How to recover your admin password (if the password recovery feature doesn’t work) - you may think this will never happen. But it does … it did happen few times for me so I thought it would be great to let others know how I did it before they quit trying and get a new fresh wordpress installation losing all their data.


5. Top 10 WordPress anti spam plugins - Another collection of mine, this time to help me get rid of spammers. Yep, they attack blogs too (and attacked mine as well). The best seems to be akismet but there are few other options from which you can chose your destiny, so read the whole post before you make a decision (and maybe test them one by one).


6. How to integrate Google Analytics with your blog - A common problem for bloggers is to have their google analytics code installed on their blog so they can track traffic. This post explains exactly what you need to do to have it working.


7. The best permalinks structure - If you don’t know what permalinks are, then search this blog and you will find a post explaining that for sure. In the 7th post listed here I explained what’s the best way to have your URLs listed and why is that.

Enjoy reading,

Add Google AdSense to Your WordPress Blog

Add Google AdSense to Your WordPress Blog

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If you want to use Google AdSense with your WordPress blog, there are two things you need to add - Google AdSense advertisement code, and a privacy policy link.

You can easily add both into your WordPress blog by using the text widgets that come with WordPress 2.2 or later. If you have an older WordPress release, you can enable widgets by installing the widgets plugin.

To use these widgets, you must install a WordPress theme that is widget-ready, i.e. a WordPress theme that has predefined widget areas. It is best to choose a WordPress theme that is easily customizable, and has several widget-ready areas where you can insert your Google AdSense advertisements, or other useful widget functions.

Visit the Shiba WordPress theme homepage to see an example of a widget-ready WordPress theme with Google AdSense advertisements, and a privacy policy.

Note - WordPress.com does not allow advertisements on the blogs that are hosted on their site. To monetize your WordPress blog, you must host it elsewhere.

How to Add Google AdSense Advertisements

Log into your Google AdSense account. If you do not have a Google AdSense account

1. Once you are logged in, click on the AdSense Setup tab on top of your screen. Then select Get Ads to create new advertisements, or Manage Ads to access previous advertisements you have created.


2. After you finish creating an advertisement, Google AdSense will provide you with the code for displaying that advertisement on your blog or web-page. You can also access that code at a later date by going into AdSense Setup >> Manage Ads, and clicking on the Code link to the right of your advertisement unit.


3. Open another browser window and log into your WordPress blog.


4. Click on the Appearance menu on the left of your WordPress dashboard, and then select the Widgets option.

Screen-shot of the Widgets menu in your WordPress dashboard.

The middle column of the screen shows all the available widgets, and the right column of the screen shows all the available widget areas for your current WordPress theme. If your current theme does not support widgets, then WordPress will show the following message when you access the Widgets menu option.

The theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions. ~~ [From WordPress Dashboard]

Screen shown when the WordPress theme you are using is not widget-ready.

If there is no Widget option in your WordPress dashboard then the WordPress release you are using does not come with widget plugin support, and you will need to install the WordPress widgets plugin manually.

Add Google AdSense Code into a WordPress Text Widget

Now you are ready to add your Google AdSense code into your WordPress blog.

6. Click on the widget area in the right column where you want to insert your Google AdSense advertisement to open it up.

7. Drag a Text Widget box from the middle column and drop it in the widget area on the right column.

8. Click on the right corner of the Text widget to open it.

9. Copy your Google AdSense code and paste it into the Text widget area.

10. Click on the Save button at the bottom right of the Text widget to save your Google AdSense code.

11. Refresh your WordPress blog and your Google AdSense advertisement should now be displayed in the widget area that you just edited.

12. You can add as many Text widgets as you want to your WordPress blog but remember that Google AdSense only allows 3 advertisement units per web-page.

How to Add a Privacy Policy to Your WordPress Blog

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Google AdSense now requires that you add a privacy policy to all your pages that display Google AdSense advertisements. This privacy policy must include a cookie disclosure notice.

AdSense publishers must have and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users' browsers, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on your website. ~~ [Excerpt from Google AdSense Program Policies]

1. Create a privacy policy page in your WordPress blog. For more information on what needs to be included in your privacy policy, refer to the Google Advertising Cookie and Privacy Policies page.


2. Drag and drop a new Text widget into the area where you want your privacy policy link to appear.


3. Add your privacy policy link to your Text widget. Your privacy policy link code may look something like this -

<a href="[Your Privacy Policy HTML link]">Privacy Policy</a>

Failure to add a privacy policy may lead to rejection of your Google AdSense account application or to the disruption of your current Google AdSense account.

How to Add Google AdSense Between Posts in Wordpress? the answer is:

Add Google AdSense Between Posts in Wordpress? the answer is:

Add Google AdSense to Your WordPress Blog

Step 1 - Enter HTML Code to Identify Where the Google AdSense Ads Should Appear

If you're using Wordpress.org and hosting your blog through a third party blog host, you can add Google AdSense ads to your blog and earn money.

To display Google AdSense ads (image ads or text ads) between your posts, log into your Wordpress dashboard, go into your theme editor screen (see the red circle on the left in the image above to find your editor screen), open the index.php file (see the red circle on the right in the image above to find your index.php file), and enter the code in the red circle in the center of the image above, which is:

<?php $count = 1; ?>

into your own editor screen directly above the code that says:

<php if (have _posts ()) : ?>.

You can change the number in the code from "1" (meaning the ad will appear beneath the first post on your blog) to any number you want in order to place the ad under the specific post on your blog where you want it to appear.

Warning: It's a good idea to copy the original code and paste it into Notepad or a similar text-editor program. That way, if something goes wrong, you can simply delete all of the code from Wordpress and replace it with your original code.

Step 2 - Enter Your Google AdSense Code

Open another browser window and log into your Google AdSense account. Create the ad unit you want to appear between your posts on your blog, and then copy that AdSense code.

Return to your Wordpress dashboard window and paste your code in the same position as it is shown in the red circle in the above image. Note that it appears immediately before the line of HTML Code that includes the --end .entry-- code.

Click the "Update File" button to save your changes.

Step 3 - View Your Blog

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View your blog to ensure the changes you made display the way you want them to. Note that a live ad might not appear immediately, but the position holder should be there right away. It can take Google a day or so to start displaying contextually relevant ads in a new ad unit.

how to add RSS to wordpress blog ? the answer is

So what is RSS and what is it used for?

It is a xml file that stores content of your web content (such as blog posts) and it’s used to share this content with people who subscribed it. You can subscribe and read these RSS feeds using RSS readers such as Google Reader.. I’ve been using it to track tech news updates and friend’s blog updates and I love it alot..

So back to the main point.. Upon receiving the email to enable RSS feeds on my blog, I decided to lookup on how to create links for pple to subscribe to these RSS feeds.. And I come across a site which teaches you how to do it.. Basically there’s only a few things u need to do..

1. Ensure that your site is RSS enabled.. If u want a custom RSS feed, you can use FeedBurner’s service..

2. To allow people to click and subscribe to your site, you just need to add this to your source..

[a type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/"] Subscribe now [/a]
replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..

For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.

3. To add the RSS link in the URL bar of Firefox.. Place the following codes in the [head] section..

[link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="http://wirused.wordpress.com/feed/" title="WiRuS Blog"]
again replacing the [] with <> and the link with your RSS feed..

For feeds in Atom format use the “application/atom+xml” value instead.

And that’s all.. Simple isn’t it?

How to Add an RSS Feed on wordpress.com

How to Add an RSS Feed on Blogger

For the Full Version of WordPress Only

There is a lot you can do with feeds on WordPress blogs, and I’ll be talking about that more over the next few months, but here is an interesting new WordPress Plugin and technique for creating feeds on a Page on your blog.

Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site” describes a simple step-by-step technique for creating a Page to host incoming RSS feeds using the WordPress Feedlist Plugin.

Follow the instructions, replacing “http://www.spymy.com/” with whatever feed link URL you would like and with little effort or complex programming, you can showcase feeds on your blog.

This technique is not limited to Pages on your WordPress blog. You can also use the same technique in your template files such as in your sidebar, header, or footer.

Stay tuned for more information on handling feeds in WordPress.

How to add RSS buttons to your blog

SS buttons are an easy way to let your readers add your blog to Netvibes, iGoogle, Yahoo, Wikio or any other online RSS reader.

Many of those services even have created tools for creating those RSS buttons within a few seconds. All you will have to do is paste the generated html code where you want on your blog.

Here are links to some of those RSS button tools:

Netvibes button tool

iGoogle button tool

My Yahoo button tool

Pageflakes button tool

Webwag button tool

Wikio.com button tool

RSS button maker

The last one comes from the TopRank Online Marketing Blog and might be one of the best RSS button tools, since it gives you the possibility of creating several buttons with one single operation. You can even chose if you want to get simple html code, a dropdown menu or blog specific code.

Important notice:
You need to know the exact URL of your RSS feed for all of those tools except for the Netvibes tool. Netvibes will normally identify your feed or make several propositions (at least one of them should work).

If you use Feedburner, you might not be able to use some of these tools. This applies apparently for the Wikio tool.

If you are unable to identify your feed, you might want to check out the FAQ pages concerning your blog. Some blogs might not have any RSS capabilities, so none of these tools will work.

How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site

Shaolin Tiger’s “How to Use RSS Feeds on Your WordPress Site” describes a simple step-by-step technique for creating a Page to host incoming RSS feeds using the WordPress Feedlist Plugin.

How to Add an RSS Feed on Blogger

Blogger.com is a popular blogging site that provides not only the storage space and bandwidth for a blog, but also a number of tools that can make a blog more effective. One important blog capability is the ability to automatically display new entries from other blogs. Also called "Really Simple Syndication," or RSS. You can add this capability easily to a Blogger.com blog.

1. Log into your Blogger.com account. This will take you to your Blogger Dashboard, which is a list of all of your blogs on the site along with controls for customizing them.


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   Select "Layout" for your desired blog. The "Layout" tab will be displayed, providing a graphical representation of your blog, including the area where blog posts appear and areas where you can add customized elements.


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   Click on "Add a Page Element." Another window will open with a list of elements that you can add to your blog. Select "Add to Blog" underneath the "Feed" element, which opens a "Configure Feed" dialog box.


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   Copy the RSS link URL from the external blog. Most blogs place their RSS link as either text or an RSS icon somewhere on their blog. Clicking on this link will open a Web browser page with the feed URL, often a Feedburner.com address. Select this link and copy it to the clipboard.


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   Paste the RSS link URL into the "Feed URL" box of the Blogger "Configure Feed" dialog. Select "Continue." If you make a mistake, click "Cancel" and start again.


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   Save your changes. After clicking on "Continue," a dialog box will open showing the title of the blog feed you are publishing, an option to select how many items you wish to display, and check boxes to show "Item dates" and "Item sources/authors." Make your selections, review how the feed will look on your blog, and select "Save Changes" when satisfied.


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   Place your new feed. The feed you just added will show up as the top item in your list of side page elements. Left-click, hold, and drag the feed element to move it to a different slot on the side, or to the top or bottom section of your blog. When satisfied, click on "Save." Then click "Preview" to see how your new feed appears. Use "Clear Edits" to undo the changes and start over.