Archive for April 2009
5 Wordpress Plugins to Increase the Performance of your Blog
Wordpress has about 20 plugins which you can use to increase the performance of your blog, make it load faster, fine tune the database for faster retrieval of information etc. Here are the 5 best wordpress plugins which you can use to increase your site performance -
1. Wp Super Cache - Its a must have plugin for any site which gets spikes in traffic, say sites which often get dugg or fark or links through similar high traffic sources. WP Super Cache plugin generate static html files instead of typical wordpress posts, under heavy load, the static files gets served which reduces the load on apache and mysql database preventing the site going down.
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How to use Adsense again if get banned
I have read posts made my people in various webmaster forum asking for how to get into adsense again once you get banned. Most of the time (actually all the time) people get banned because of violating Google Adsense terms of services.
Remove Diggbar !!!
There is already been lot of talk about diggbar since its launch and how it can be used for various purposes as well as how webmasters are not happy with Digg taking their page views and making money on their content. Now you can change the diggbar settings through your digg user settings but there are some other way too through which you can remove diggbar.
Greasemonkey is a firefox plugin which allows firefox to run various JavaScript code and people have already wrote scripts to remove diggbar.
Diggbar, Webmasters and SEO
Diggbar is creating lot of ruckus among webmaster community as its eating away their page views and people accusing digg of using its power and making money on their content, which to an extent right and to an extent wrong.
Google Adwords Keyword tool captcha not working
I am noticing this for the past 5 days now that Google Adwords Keyword tool is having some captcha problem and almost all the time, you get error that the captcha is wrong and “Enter the letters as they are shown in the image above. ” even though the captcha is filled correct
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Microsoft will keep Supporting Windows XP
With all the buzz around Windows 7, Microsoft has said that they will keep on supporting their 8 year old operating system Windows XP and will give option for downgrade from Windows 7 to Windows XP to consumers. 
Not only this, the new version of Microsoft Office will also support Windows XP. It seems that Microsoft do not want to take any chances for windows 7 in case the earlier response is not that favorable, like in Vistas case. The problem is, Windows XP still has a huge user base and making non techie people to move to new operating system is never that easy, specially when they are very much comfortable with their older operating system. The last dates of this extended support to windows XP are still not clear but most likely it will be till summer of 2010.
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Latest Windows 7 Pictures
Latest pictures of Windows 7, Microsoft’s new Operating system has hit the internet. Though the operating system is still under beta testing and will take some time to release, Windows 7 pictures are already released. Here are some of the pictures of windows 7 -
Airtel Data Transfer Bandwidth Limits
it seems I have been hit by Airtel Download Limit data transfer problem. I am on 1 Mbps connection and though the bandwidth usage for it is 100 GB before your account gets download graded to 512 kbps, I am already getting speed of 400 kbps since couple of days.
Build a Wordpress Review Site
If you are looking to build a review site on wordpress and wondering how to do it, you may like to give a try to wpreview plugin for wordpress. Unfortunately wordpress has no free plugin which can be used to review products, specially with multiple rating options.
wpreview plugin is not free and costs hefty $97, probably for the reason that there is no other similar plugin available which can be used to convert a wordpress blog into a review site.
Alternatives to Google Adsense
Google is the foremost choice of all the webmasters for its ease of use and more importantly because of its highest payment and CPM rates. But many times adsense accounts also get banned and the website owners have to look for other adsense alternatives.
Now market is full of all kind of CPC (cost per click), CPM (cost per thousand impressions), CPA (cost per action), PPP (pay per play), pop ups, Incontent links programs but there are very few which comes close to the returns which adsense gives. The reason being, these programs don’t have that many advertisers and they also lack precision targeting of ads, resulting less number of clicks.