Month: August 2008

Code to redirect basic html page

redirectWe have seen many plugins and 301 redirection … bla bla bla in wordpress and many other blogging platforms, to redirect the users automatically from a webpage to another webpage or from one domain to another.

Ex:- You have shifted an article to different page and now you want your visitors to automatically get redirected to the new page, instead of showing the link “click here to Enter” etc and expecting your visitors to click that link and read the article.

But many people using basic html face problem using the redirection. They need to manually create a link to navigate to different pages..this can be avoided by using these simple codes

<meta http-equiv=”refresh” content=”0; URL=http://www.google.com/”>

This code should be placed between head tag. And replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Another method is to use this code…

<script language=”javascript” type=”text/javascript”>window.location=”http://www.google.com/”;</script>

Here also replace http://www.google.com/ to whatever URL you want your visitors to be redirected.

Using such redirection may not be SEO friendly, but use it when its very much needed.

But people using WordPress, blogger etc, please do not use this type of redirection. There are many SEO friendly redirection methods that you can incorporate and save your Search engine juice.

Traffic strategies: PART 1

There are many strategies to get traffic to our blog.
Today lets see some other hidden and effective technique to get the traffic, that we have experimented with and have been proven to be effective on this blog.
Using Ad Networks to get the traffic!

There are many strategies to get traffic to our blog, like

Today lets see some other hidden and effective technique to get the traffic, that we have experimented with and have been proven to be effective on this blog.

Here it goes:-

Using Ad Networks to get the traffic!

Yes, we have put Bidvertiser ads(an adnetwork which places the ads of highest bidders) on this blog, which have bought many visitors(who are advertisers) to Technotip.org.

traffic-blogging

We are also using “Project Wonderful”, which is a CPD(Cost Per Day) adverting program. And we have set 0.01$, per day for advertising on 125×125 ad spot. This has bought a lot of new readers, who keep coming to this blog to see for new contents and to bid on the adspot whenever there is a post getting more traffic.

Project Wonderful is also based on bidding system, so setting the minimum bid to 0.01$ is not at all a lose. Advertisers will bid more and more as the blog becomes famous. And there will be traffic flowing in, as advertisers will keep searching for the least amount to bid. They will endup to our site by searching for below any value and above 0$. By this technique our blog is shown in almost all search results.

Bidvertiser provoid 20$ for free when anybody signup as their advertiser for the first time. So our visitors get a chance to display their advertisement on this blog upto 20$ for FREE. This offer from Bidvertiser attracts many readers to stay around us to get such offers.

And as we all know, AdSense also has the option of targeted advertising. That is, targeting specific website/blog for advertisement. This also brings some more traffic.

But care should be taken not to dump the blog with just ads. People will be visiting our blog for reading the valuable content and not to see or click our ads!

More over, the advertisers, advertise on our blog, if they are interested in that niche and the advertisement is somewhat relevant to the niche.

So far Technotip.org has managed to get many readers from this technique. And more importantly these readers will be having the capacity to purchase things from your/our advertisers. “As advertisers are looking for good conversion and not for clicks”. So we can call these readers as potential readers of our blog.

Which strategies have proven to bring more traffic to your blog ? Please share your experience in the comment section.

Google AdManager is now open to all AdSense a/c holders

Previously Google AdManage was a BETA product and Technotip.org was lucky enough to get an opertunity to try it.
But now, its open to all, if you have an AdSense account, you can sign in to Ad Manager today.

Previously Google AdManage was a BETA product and Technotip.org was lucky enough to get an opportunity to try it.
But now, its open to all, if you have an AdSense account, you can sign in to Ad Manager today.

“A Google AdSense account is a technical requirement for creating an Ad Manager account.”

Its a very good service and you can manage all your advertisers in a well organized manner.

AdManager-Google-AdSense

Google AdManager is used to:

  • Manage your online ad sales and inventory.
  • Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.
    Simple, intuitive user interface: Decrease training time and trafficking steps with simplified tagging and inventory management.
    Google serving speed and reliability
    Ensure quicker ad delivery and fewer reporting discrepancies.
    Significant cost savings!
    Pay no I.T. infrastructure, maintenance, or bandwidth costs.

Google AdManager might look like a complex thing to use, but it will be OK once you get used to it. Its all easy. You need to know, the uses of each option and you will be an expert to use Google AdManager.

I am sad for one thing here..i.e., OpenX. OpenX is also a script based software, which almost performs all the functions like Google AdManager, but it will be hosted in our own server and thus it will consume our bandwidth whenever a request is sent to it. On the other hand Google AdManager is hosted in Google’s fast servers.

Just follow the link and signin using your AdSense account…click here.

And for more information about Google AdManager, please visit AdSense blog.

Get 20$ FREE Advertising credit of Bidvertiser, using paypal a/c

We could see that, many people use their paypal account for the internet transaction, than their Credit Cards. And many people contacted us about this issue, after reading this “Best Pay Per Click Network- Bidding System” article.
So we thought of writing about it, for more clarification….

We could see that, many people use their PayPal account for the internet transaction, than their Credit Cards. And many people contacted us about this issue, after reading this “Best Pay Per Click Network- Bidding System” article.

So we thought of writing about it, for more clarification….

There is an option to use PayPal. (In case you use PayPal, there is a minimum deposit of 20 USD in order to claim the 20 USD free bonus).
bidvertiser-add-fund
To fund your account, signup as Bidvertiser Advertiser. Goto “Advertisers Center” tab and hit the “Manage funds”—>”Add funds” tabs. Then select the amount that you want to transfer from your PayPal account. You can fund 20$ or 50$ or 100$ or 150$ or 200$ or 300$, the choice is left on your budget.

Select the amount and then click on “Add Fund” button. Then you will be taken to secure payment server of Bidvertiser, there you click on the ” prefer PayPal” link in the top of that page. Then you will be taken to PayPal billing page or you can login to your paypal account(see below screen shots) to fund your Bidvertiser account.
bidvertiser-paypal-funding

Once you start advertising and your 20$ + 20$(Free) gets finished, then you can just pause all your ads.
bidvertiser-paypal-login
Do not miss this opportunity to advertiser with Bidvertiser, with FREE 20$. You can actually get lot of benefit from Bidvertiser Advertising, as you only pay when somebody clicks on your ad. No CPM costs will affect your money and you can display your ads on thousands of websites. Signup as Bidvertiser Advertiser and get one of the best Adverting deals.


Small Problem with Yahoo Buzz! and its Quick Solution



After Yahoo Buzz! was officially launched, we were eager to start using it on our blog, and experience the buzz. But from the first day itself we could find that, we could not submit our stories to Yahoo Buzz!
yahoo-buzz-error-message

wrong-method-of-submission-yahoo-buzzAnd the same error message is being shown now also. So what is the use of Yahoo Buzz! releasing to public? They could have solved the problem before the official launch.

Anyway, we could luckily and unknowingly found the simple way to submit the story to Yahoo Buzz!
The above error message comes only when you try to submit any story by right clicking on Yahoo Buzz! button and opening it in new window….!

Do not submit any story by right clicking on buzz! button and opening it in new window, it will show you the error message. So just directly click(Mouse – right click) on the “Buzz!” button and it will open in new window and you will be taken to the proper page to submit your story.
yahoo-buzz-working-properly

Many of you might be knowing this, but still I thought to share it with you, because I saw in many blogs and they were writing that Yahoo Buzz! is not at all working from the day they are open to all. But now you also know that(atleast after reading this post), its not true. Yahoo Buzz! is working fine, but Yahoo! surly need to make some improvements to it.
And as I have observed, both way of submission works fine for those who had got the opportunity to test Yahoo Buzz! before it was released to the general public. And as I just investigated it a bit, I found that the source code that they are using to display the Yahoo Buzz! button is different then that used by the general public!
Hope Yahoo! will soon consider the interests of the general public also, as the population of general public in much much much more than its selective members!
That was just my thoughts flowing while writing this article…..
Please share your experience so far with Yahoo Buzz!. Its difficult to tell about any service so early, but still you can share your early experience with it in the comment section, and lets all learn something out of everybodies experience.
Also (Vote)Buzz! this story to Yahoo Buzz!, if you find it useful.

Plugin to show “tags” and “edit comments”

came across these two nice plugins somedays before, and thought of sharing it with you people….
1. wp-cumulus:- This is an attractive plugin, which displays “tags” clouds using flash.
We can customize it according to the look and feel of our blog.

We came across these two nice plugins somedays before, and thought of sharing it with you people….

1. wp-cumulus:-  This is an attractive plugin, which displays “tags” clouds using flash.

We can customize it according to the look and feel of our blog.
wp-cumulus-widget-options
Here’s what you should know about “WP Cumulus”:(From the authors blog)

Installation

1. Make sure you’re running WordPress version 2.3 or better. It really won’t work with older versions. Really.
2. Download the zip file and extract the contents.
3. Upload the “wp-cumulus” folder to your plugins directory (wp-content/plugins/)
4. Activate the plugin through the ‘plugins’ page in WP.
5. See “Options->WP Cumulus” to adjust things like display size, etc…

Using WP Cumulus

In order to actually display the tag cloud, you have three options.

1. Create a page or post and type [WP-CUMULUS ] anywhere in the content, but without the space before the last bracket. This ‘tag’ will be replaced by the flash movie when viewing the page.
2. Add the following code anywhere in your theme to display the cloud <?php wp_cumulus_insert(); ?>. This can be used to add WP Cumulus to your sidebar, although it may not actually be wide enough in many cases to keep the tags readable.
3. The plugin adds a widget, so you can place it on your sidebar through ‘Design’->’Widgets’. The widget uses a separate set of settings, so it’s possible to have different background colors, sizes, etc.

2. WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin: This plugin allows your commentators, to edit their comments for a period of time after they leave them.This helps the blog comment moderation easy, as comments left are far sure, what your commentators actually wanted to say. You can see that, this blog does not use this plugin, as it used to make the blog slow while editing. I am very much serious about the speed of this blog.

There are yet many useful and very good plugins, like the above two. We will be sharing all those things as and when we come across and test it a bit. Till then, please share your knowledge and your favourite plugin, in the comment section.

Have you pre-registered Apple iPhone 3G with Airtel/Vodafone?

Apple iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008. It will be available in 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively.Remember 1$ is approximately equal to 40 – 41 Rs. That means 8GB & 16GB will cost 775$ and 903$ respectively in India.

I think that this is not a good pricing for the 2nd largest cell phone market(India). Actual price of iPhone is 199$ and 299$ for 8GB & 16GB respectively.

Hope Airtel and Vodafone want to grab the money of those who can afford this price tag. And I am very much sure that, the prices will come down to earth soon.

Where can you make this advance payment?
The iPhone 3G will be available at select Vodafone Stores. All you need to do is drop in at any select Vodafone Store between August 20 and 21 and make the advance payment by cash or credit card. Don´t forget to show the iPhone booking SMS, which you would have received from Vodafone, when you visit the Vodafone Store to pay the advance. To find a Vodafone Store near you, click here

Till now only Vodafone has announced the cost of iPhone that they are selling, and I am sure that Airtel will also have almost the same price. Because they will be having several meeting to fix a price for iPhone from the day iPhone was released.

Its a very good phone to buy, but I am not so rich to go and buy it now. I will have to wait until the price comes down or until I get rich. Hope the prices will fall soon.

What I like about iPhone is its large applications available, large screen, “3G”(which is yet to come, shortly, in India), touch screen, music and …….what not! It has almost everything that I expected a phone to have.

iphone-5up-small

Its almost a Mac machine(computer), as it has 400Mhz processor with 64 or 128MB of Random Access Memory(RAM), and 8 to 16 GB of hard drive.

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Update:- From Airtel

  1. 8 GB (Black) for Rs 31000
  2. 16GB (White & Black) for Rs. 36100

Get your iPhone on priority

We have received large number of registrations for the iPhone 3G. As there are limited stocks, make sure you get yours on priority. Just visit one of the select Airtel stores & confirm your booking by paying Rs 5000 on August 20 or 21. You’ll get an appointment to collect your iPhone after paying the balance amount.

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And I feel that its a very good competitor to Black Berry. And its a good phone and highly recommended(if you can afford!). Though there are many people complaining about its 3G quality and One of Apple’s own message boards, incidentally, filled up with hundreds of negative comments — but Apple has since shut the thread down, saying it was “too long” and was causing browsers to “time out.”

Do you want to buy Apple iPhone now or will you have to wait for some reason. Please share your thoughts and reasons(to buy or not to buy) this amazing intelligent phone…Apple iphone.