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How to Exclude WordPress Logged in User Page Views from Google Analytics?

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:08:16 +0000

Active bloggers keep publishing several blog posts a month. During the process of drafting, editing, publishing, previewing and even modifying it later, a number of page views are recorded by Google Analytics as if an actual blog visitor is browsing your site. For a small time blog with only a few hundred visits per month, [...]

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WordPress chmod Settings

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 17:40:16 +0000

Having the right chmod settings for your WordPress files and folders not only makes your WordPress blog secure but also allows smooth functioning of its features. This includes the right permission for search engine bots, proper generation and updation of sitemaps etc. One of my blogs suddenly stopped working following a couple FTP uploads day [...]

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How to increase your Google Adwords Landing page Quality?

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 04:30:28 +0000

I have been using Google Adwords for driving my online marketing campaigns for a while now. Being the best possible option to send relevant search users to your landing pages (and get conversions), a lot of Internet marketers depend a great deal on Google. However, your Google Adwords campaigns can turn out to be really [...]

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Google Reconsideration Request: How and When?

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 18:12:17 +0000

As I had mentioned in a post a month and half ago, I had lost my page rank on the homepage of this blog. Though losing PR is not a big disaster, it can have certain impacts on your blogging life. For example, you might have noticed two empty ad slots on the sidebar. Since [...]

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How to contact a blogger or website owner?

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:30:09 +0000

One of the blog readers asked me this question via email a couple of days back. In your post about feed scraping you talked about contacting anonymous scrapers. How can I really do this? Well, while using a contact form is the right way to do it, most scrapers will not maintain a contact page [...]

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How to use Google Alerts effectively to improve your blogging and Online business?

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:18:11 +0000

Google has got a wonderful collection of free tools. I have talked about some of these tools in the past and today I would like to focus on Google alerts which is one of my personal favorites that really helps me a great deal with respect to my online life. What is Google alerts? Just [...]

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How to remove Date stamp from Google SERP description?

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 02 May 2010 17:24:33 +0000

Some of you may have noticed that when your blog (or individual post) is listed on Google search results (SERPs), a date stamp gets prepended to the meta description of the indexed page (see the image below). There are are various theories regarding how and from where Google picks this date stamp. Some believe that [...]

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Facebook fan page: Create one for your brand or business today

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:22:35 +0000

Exactly two years ago, I had maintained that facebook is going to witness explosive growth over its competition. Today it has actually done so and well beyond expectations at that. It’s no more a mere social networking platform but also a place where people market their products and promote their brands. Facebook fan pages have [...]

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Category Feeds in WordPress

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 17:02:34 +0000

The WordPress platform provides a number of feed subscription mechanisms for the blog readers. It exposes RSS, RDF and Atom feed formats – for both blog posts and comments. For most practical purposes, it is good enough if your readers are able to find your default feed URL for posts that is permalinked like http://www.YourBlogDomain.com/feed. [...]

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Make Money from Referrals: How to sell more?

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:22:56 +0000

The month of October has been exceptionally good for me in terms of blog earnings – thanks to the special offers on OIO Publisher, HostGator and Thesis Theme. Overall, it was a perfect month from other income channels as well which included Google AdSense, private ad sales and paid reviews. I even received a check [...]

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Custom 404 pages for WordPress theme

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:25:37 +0000

Recently I customized the 404 page of this blog (Read my post titled ‘dealing with page not found errors‘ to understand what a 404 page is all about). It is neither the best nor final version yet but I thought of writing this little post about the process of setting up a custom 404 page [...]

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Move your WordPress Blog to another host or server in 10 easy steps

Ajith Prasad — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:44:11 +0000

Last week I moved this WordPress based blog to HostGator. Moving the blog to a new host service is usually a delayed decision for most people. This is mainly because of the fear of loosing data, potential downtime, lack of technical knowledge and even worries about the new service’ quality. Many times, people pay a [...]

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Build your own (well, almost) WordPress theme!

Ajith Prasad — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:57:49 +0000

It is exactly a week since I introduced my new WordPress theme here. At that time, I had promised that I will write on how I went about designing this theme. In this post, let me try to explain how you can build your own WordPress theme using some free sources and tools (I will [...]

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Migration of FeedBurner to Google account

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:52:22 +0000

A FeedBurner account and its proudly displayed feed count chicklet has been primary promotional requirements for any blog for a few years now. Since Google’s take over of Feedburner last year, they have been working on integrating the FeedBurner services completely into Google and it seems they are ready with it now. What does this [...]

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Alexa Rank Update Problem and Workaround

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 20:10:37 +0000

Most of you must have noticed that your Alexa rank widgets and toolbar data are not getting updated for the past three weeks or so. Even the Alexa website’s traffic details query is showing data that was frozen three weeks ago. As it seems, Alexa is doing another upgrade to their ranking algorithm, just like [...]

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How To Blend your AdSense Block within the WordPress Post Content?

Ajith Prasad — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 22:15:14 +0000

A few weeks ago, when I (neatly) blended my Google AdSense 336×280 block a couple of paragraphs down the post content I thought I did a smart job! As a matter of fact, this was really resulting in an increased CTR (Click-Through-Rate) as well and a few readers like Hussein were interested in knowing how [...]

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Right Time to Start Your New Self-Hosted Professional Blog

Ajith Prasad — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:02:42 +0000

In the last post I did a comparative study on WordPress.com and Blogger.com (blogspot) free blogging platforms. Many experienced readers and bloggers shared their thoughts there in and felt that it is always better to go for a self-hosted professional blog keeping your long term blogging plans (or even career) in mind. And there is [...]

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10 tips to get the passive reader do something by being positive yourself!

Ajith Prasad — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:51:11 +0000

One of the key issues with any upcoming blog is the low level of participation from the readers. A few posts ago I had talked about some of the possible reasons why your readers are passive. In this post I shall put together a few tips that could be of help for some of you [...]

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How to reduce the bounce rate of your blog?

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 18:10:58 +0000

This is the 100th post on Dollar$hower.com. It took us a little more than six months – but 5 months since launch date – to achieve this feat and we hope to maintain the current post frequency and momentum for the days to come. Thank you all for your support – Ajith & Vidya Bounce [...]

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Get other blogs’ feed count and statistics

Ajith Prasad — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:04:35 +0000

Whenever I see a new comment or a MyBlogLog visitor on my blog, the very first thing I do is to check out his/her blog. After quickly scanning through a couple of posts there, I head for some nosey activities like checking this blog’s popularity in terms of traffic ranks, feed subscriber count etc. Further [...]

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