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How to Schedule Posts in WordPress Blog

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:53:12 +0000

I've been blogging in WordPress since few years ago started from free WordPress at the first time before i moved to self hosted WordPress until now. However, to be honest i've never used the scheduled post feature. But yesterday, finally i tested the scheduled post feature and so far i like this feature and probably will use it a lot in the future.

Although this is not a new feature in WordPress, i'm pretty sure many of you over there have the same experience like me who never use this feature before. Where as, you can make use of this feature to help you manage your time and blog at the same time.

Smowtion Media Testing Result, Not Really Recommended

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 06:52:23 +0000

Few weeks ago i registered to Smowtion Media that i thought could be an alternative to Google AdSense when there was a problem with the AdSense channel. I tested the Smowtion Media on two of my blogs for about three weeks and finally i decided to abandon the advertising network. The main reason for that is the poor eCPM rate. Currently my account is still active but i no longer put the banner ads on my blogs. I don't know how long will i keep this account, or maybe the Smowtion people will remove it when reading this post.

Personally i like the Smowtion Media. Unlike other eCPM networks which require high traffic, the Smowtion Media doesn't require specific page impression so it's relatively easy to join. Besides it also has a very simple and nice system inside to create the banner ads, easy to implement the code, and also good reporting system.

Recommended Free WordPress Themes Collection Part 2

admin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 05:53:07 +0000

My last post about the Recommended Free WordPress Themes Collection Part 1 has became one of the most popular post in this blog. I know that this is one of the most popular topics blogger are looking for. And this time after couple of weeks i come again with the part 2 and hopefully you will like it too like the previous one. And also i guess, this is the good way to start again after no post for more than two weeks. You may try these themes on your blog during the weekend using the Theme tester WordPress plugin. Next time i'll try to post about the topics regularly. Enjoy the themes!

New Premium WordPress Themes: eNews

admin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:12:45 +0000

ElegantThemes recently released a new theme: eNews, a magazine-style wordpress themes with a clean design and structured layout which will enable you to put more contents on the front-page including the slider featured articles section. An optional blog-style post layout is also available. It comes with 5 color schemes which you can choose from including Blue, Turquoise, Purple, Green and Red. It also features an automated thumbnail resizing and for this thumbnail, there's an option to let you enable automatic thumbnail detection which will grab the first image in your post and use it to generate your thumbnails. In addition, eNews theme also comes with more options to have a better control of the themes features and functions.

Smowtion Media: eCPM Ads as an Alternative to Google AdSense

admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 07:32:07 +0000

It's been weeks now since the first time i noticed the problem with my Google AdSense and until today it's not solved yet. From the AdSense forum i found that this problem now has been put into the known issues section. With this situation i have to find an alternative to the Google AdSense. And the last one that i've been trying in the last few days is the Smowtion Media. I have registered since few days ago and now i'm using it on both my blogs.

Basically Smowtion Media is a eCPM based advertising. It means that you will be paid based for every 1 thousands impressions of the ads. The good thing about this is no matter the ads get clicked or not you will still get paid to show the ads on your blog. And unlike other eCPM advertising that require your blog to have huge impressions, Smowtion Media doesn't put any specific requirement for this. So it's good event for a small blog. However the Smowtion Media still need to review whenever you submit a new blog on your account. Based on my experience on my two blogs, it only needs two days to get my blogs approved.

10 Things I Learned From my Mobilespeedia Blog

admin — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:43:48 +0000

Lately i've been busy working on another blog of mine Mobilespeedia. It made me not so focus on this blog as some of you might notice that. I started Mobilespeedia blog in May 2009 and just in less than two months the blog got PR1. And in the last two weeks i managed to double the traffic from previous weeks. That's why i'm so exciting to see the blog is growing. In this post i would like to share few things i learned from working with this blog especially in the last two weeks.

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Google AdSense Experiencing Problems and Not Solved Yet

admin — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 05:46:11 +0000

Some of you who are Google AdSense publishers may notice the issues currently occurred. I don't know whether this is happened to all AdSense publishers or not but from what i read over the internet there are many people are complaining about the same issues. Basically there are two major problems at the moment that's the AdSense Custom Channel and the Color Palettes. I noticed this issues few days ago and i remember few days before Google conducted Site Maintenance. I'm not sure there's any relation between those two events.

If you're not sure how the symptoms of the problems, below are the summary based on what i found on my account:

Unable to create new channel - when you create a new custom channel there's an error message saying "
We apologize for the inconvenience, but we are unable to process your request at this time. Our engineers have been notified of this problem and will work to resolve it." However sometimes you could create it so i assume there's a bug with that.
Unable to associate ads unit with channel - when edit an ad unit and want to associate a channel with it, the process is completed but the channel is not associated with the ad unit.
Color Palettes doesn't show preview - when you edit an ad unit and assign a color palettes, it doesn't show the preview as usual.

Google Recommends EFT as the Form of Payment in North America

admin — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:26:52 +0000

The Google AdSense team recently reported that Google recommends the Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) for publishers in North America. So fart there are 28 countries supported by this form of payment. However if you don’t want to use EFT, Google also still offers payment via check and Western Union. The reason behind this recommendation is [...]

UK Markets: Online Shoppers Browsing at Home, Buying at Work

admin — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 06:06:31 +0000

Recently comScore released a report about Home vs. Work Online Buying Activity in UK. The report was made based on a five month average ending May 2009 excluding traffic from public computers and mobile phones or PDAs. And according to the data, 35% of money spending at online retail sites in UK occurred from work [...]

10 Tips for Stress Free Blogging

admin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:13:42 +0000

I know this topics has been written by many blogger out there but i would like to share from my own experience. Since May 2009 i retired from my work and moved to Japan to start a new life with my family. Currently i spend most of my time in blogging while waiting for something [...]