As I was congratulating Cely for her first Google Adsense Check on her blog, my housemate came into my room and handed me a letter from New York. Yippie! It’s my first Google Adsense Check! Finally, it arrived after waiting for months for it!
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As I mentioned in the previous post, I found a plugin which can let you change your permalinks without losing the traffic you’re already getting to your blog. This plugin actually redirect the old permalinks to the new permalinks of the same post.
Many people want to change their permalink structure,for example, from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/
But doing so will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you.
There is a way to tell the search engines (and browsers) that the page has permenantly moved, and that the old address should be replaced by the new one . It’s called a “301 Redirect”, also known as a Permanent Redirect.
I’ve tested the plugin and it actually works! Just key in the old permalink structure in the plugin’s option page and you are ready to go~! You can get more info from the author’s site.
In WordPress, we can actually create a custom URL structure for our posts’ permalinks. There are actually many types of permalink structures that you can use for your blog such as something like this:
http://www.m3nghua.com/?p=123
http://www.m3nghua.com/index.php/2007/03/16/sample-post/
And recently I found that a few blogs using permalinks like this.
http://www.m3nghua.com/sample-post/
What is this all about? It started back when I checked my site for the value of my domain. Dnscoop actually shows the result of my blog’s indexed pages in search engines. This is the result:
Google: 1,420
MSN Search: 84
Yahoo!: 792
It appears that my blog does not indexed well in MSN search with only 84 pages compared to Google which is 1420 pages. I searched over the internet for solutions but it appears that this actually related to the permalink structures. Why? It is said that MSN Search does not index well for pages with long URLs. Consider that MSN Search is the 2nd highest traffic site in Alexa rankings, this could reduce a lot of traffic to my blog.
Solutions?
I’ve changed my permalink structure to a shorter one with only /%postname%/ after the main URL. From what I’ve searched through the net, a permalink with dates on it is useless and only makes the link to be complicated for search engines. The downside of changing the permalink is that you will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid,moreover, losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that links to you. Other than that, by doing so will hurt your google pagerank as well.
I did the changes just to test out whether my theory is true or not. There are still no proof that changing this permalink would help search engine indexing. Come to think of it, is it worth it to change the permalink just because of something that I’m not really sure of? What is your opinion then?
I actually found a plugin that can help migrating the permalink structure without losing any traffic to your site~ So stay tune!
Are you tired of upgrading your WordPress versions just to keep up? WordPress has been releasing new versions more frequently lately and it would be troublesome for some of us to upgrade it. Luckily, there is a plugin where you can upgrade your WordPress versions just by one click! (Err.. Maybe a few clicks.. )
How does it work?
The InstantUpgrade plugin downloads the latest WordPress version from the WordPress server and unpacks it at your server. In the next step, it deletes all of your old WordPress files (except wp-content/ and wp-config.php, language packs are preserved, too) and puts the new files into your WordPress directory. At last, it runs the upgrade script contained it the new WordPress version.
Further instructions of how to install and use the plugins can be found here. It is said that you need to apple chmod 777 to the named directories and files. Will this cause some security issues? I’m not really sure. Maybe you can just set it when you want to upgrade your WordPress.
I’ll try this plugin to upgrade my WordPress from 2.1 to 2.1.2 later. Make sure you back up all your files before making this upgrade ya!
I would love to know where does everyone who comes to this blog comes from. So please mark your location on my frappr map! If you have one, please let me know so I can add myself in your map as well! 
Thanks a lot if you just added yourself on the map. Hopefully the map will be full with people! Haha!~ 
Have you been seeing a lot of this I’m icon in your MSN Messenger contacts lately? Do you know what do these icons really mean? There is a big story behind this icon as Microsoft will donate to those International Charity Organizations whenever you use the icon to chat with your friends.
i’m is a new initiative from Windows Live™ Messenger. Every time you start a conversation using i’m, Microsoft shares a portion of the program’s advertising revenue with some of the world’s most effective organizations dedicated to social causes. We’ve set no cap on the amount we’ll donate to each organization. The sky’s the limit.
So any time you have an i’m™ conversation using Windows Live Messenger, you help address the issues you feel most passionate about, including poverty, child protection, disease, and environmental degradation. It’s simple. All you have to do is join and start an instant messaging conversation. We’ll handle the donation.
While there is no set cap on the amount each cause can receive, Microsoft will make a minimum $100,000 guaranteed donation to each of the nine organizations during the first year of the program. The more i’m™ conversations that happen, the more donations that happen. Whenever you are chatting using MSN Messenger, you are actually helping those in needs!
How to add i’m™ ?
Just follow the text codes above. Mind you that this only work in MSN Messenger 8.1 so get the latest version if you can’t see it. Just put the icon as your display name and it will show in every line of your chats. So what are you waiting for? Start using the icon now!
When we talked about making money online with monetizing your blog, the first thing that comes in your mind is Google Adsense. But that’s not it! Google Adsense is not the only program that you can make money from! If you have been reading my posts on my blog, you will notice that I’ve added a few other ads programs into my blog which are AuctionAds(aff), Vizu Answers and Advertlets.
Continue reading ‘Making Money Online With Adsense Alternatives~’
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