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 I went about doing it? (comment)

However, a few other regular readers like Kim, Lax and Mitch had altogether different views on this topic. Out of their conversation in my last post it was obvious that the regulars who read your blogs on a daily basis (fresh posts that is) should not be presented with the ad block in between though it’s okay for the older posts (seen mostly by search & referral visitors). Now, the following code sample(s) explains how this was achieved.
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Last few days have been pretty hectic for me mainly because of the coding and testing efforts towards our first WordPress Plugin. It’s only mid-week yet and I am already exhausted. And today, instead of writing yet another long post, I thought of doing some shameless self-promotion which is rather easily and effortlessly achieved at any time of the day and any day of the year.

Earlier this week DollarShower hit a triple hundred in its ranks. The Alexa and Technorati ranks are now below 100K and the blog also entered the 45n5 top 100 MMO blogs list. And I thought it is the right time to start selling private ads here which will be definitely a major motivation factor to keep going. After all, there is a lot of quality time spend on this blog on top of the eight hours on regular work.
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Major financial and investment institutions declaring bankruptcy, Honda’s plan to exit Formula 1 racing and General Motors withdrawing Tiger Woods’ sponsorship are some of the sensational news about the ongoing global recession. It is not any smart guess that the recession has to affect the Make Money Online business as well and if you look around there are already several visible signs of the same.

In one of earlier posts I talked about a few tips to weather through the current situation. Some of the things that we predicted then are already happening.

Visible Impacts so far…

The following are some of the signs of slow-down that you can notice if you look around in the MMO world!
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Okay! Enough is enough!! Here is my first WP plugin - the Contact Commenters Wordpress Plugin - which has been just approved by WordPress extend team and available for download now. I have been exploring the WordPress platform and its extensibility aspects lately and this little baby is the first visible outcome of my experiments.

How can Contact Commenters plugin help you?

Well, it is a very small plugin that provides you a simple interface from your WordPress Admin Panel Manage tab through which you can:

• Search and filter for your top commenters, new commenters, those who have been inactive for the past few days, commenters of a particular post, commenters during a date range etc
• Send personalized emails (no auto responders) to selected commenters either in BCC mode or as individual mails
• Send quick mails to your contacts not just commenters (e.g. send greetings, inform them about your new services, blog contests etc)
• Reminds you of your last 10 commenters’ blog URLs, which probably you should be visiting and commenting as well

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