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Very High Unsubscribe Rate with Pop-Over Form

Raghu — Tue, 25 May 2010 03:59:03 +0000

Once in a few days, I erase unsubscribed users from email list. Every time, I have noticed majority of the unsubscribed leads have signed up for mailing list through Pop-Over form.

I don’t have the exact percentage or other numbers, but right before writing this post, I erased 367 unsubscribed leads. Over 340 leads have signed-up through Pop-Over form.

It will be interesting to track the exact numbers and if there is high unsubscribe rate, I may decide to remove the pop-over option and use inline sign-up form to collect email leads.

Google Adsense Pays out 68% to Publishers

Raghu — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:25:53 +0000

Finally google is sharing the information that was kept secret so so many years – Adsense Publisher Revenue Share.

AdSense for content publishers, who make up the vast majority of our AdSense publishers, earn a 68% revenue share worldwide. This means we pay 68% of the revenue that we collect from advertisers for AdSense for content ads that appear on your sites. The remaining portion that we keep reflects Google’s costs for our continued investment in AdSense — including the development of new technologies, products and features that help maximize the earnings you generate from these ads. It also reflects the costs we incur in building products and features that enable our AdWords advertisers to serve ads on our AdSense partner sites. Since launching AdSense for content in 2003, this revenue share has never changed.

We pay our AdSense for search partners a 51% revenue share, worldwide, for the search ads that appear through their implementations. As with AdSense for content, the proportion of revenue that we keep reflects our costs, including the significant expense, research and development involved in building and enhancing our core search and AdWords technologies. The AdSense for search revenue share has remained the same since 2005, when we increased it.

Convert MS Word Table into HTML Table in 4 Steps

Raghu — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:51:45 +0000

Converting Tables in Microsoft Word document to HTML table will create this nasty HTML Code. But, it’s very easy to convert Word Table to HTML table without any junk codes by 4 step process

Word Table to HTML Table

Copy the Table in Word Document to Excel Document.
Copy the Rows from Excel
Open Spreadsheet to HTML Converter Tool
Paste the Data and and Click Tabelize it

Do you know any other way to convert Word to HTML Tables?

Dreamhost VPS – Double RAM for Same Price

Raghu — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:40:29 +0000

I noticed Dreamhost VPS pricing change. They have changed the pricing sturucture for VPS RAM Usage and removed Burstable RAM.

Dreamhost VPS – Before

Montly pricing was based on RAM usage.

300 MB RAM would cost $30.00 per month
300 MB is Guaranteed and upto 600 MB is Burstable ( Swap Space)

Dreamhost VPS – Now

With new pricing model, RAM amount is doubled for the same price.

600 MB RAM will cost $30.00 per month
Burstable RAM is not available anymore.

For smaller sites where there is a steady traffic, this would reduce hosting expense by 50%. Adjusting the RAM for traffic increase would get the job done. Also, this move will encourage sites in Shared Hosting to move to VPS.

Tool to Find Other Websites Hosted on Your Server

How to Create Tabbed Conents in Wordpress Sidebar

Raghu — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:30:53 +0000

There are many scripts available to create Tabbed Contents in wordpress. Some of them are DomTab, Tabifier and idTabs,

Usually, tabbed contents are used in the sidebar to display popular posts, recent comments, tags, categories or archives. I recently came across another tool to create tabbed contents in Wordpress using Yahoo Developers Network Tabview.

After reviewing the API and examples, it looks promising and powerful way to to create tabbed contents. I will post an update after giving it a shot.

How to Insert Adsense in bbPress Forum

Raghu — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:55:41 +0000

BBpress is light weight forum created by makers of Wordpress. It’s easy to install and has the same interface as Wordpress. Displaying Adsense ad within bbpress takes about 2 minutes.

Follow the steps to display adsense ad just above and below the Page Navigation

Sample Adsense in bbPress

Steps to Insert Adsense Code in bbPress

Instructions below is for the default theme kakumei.

FTP into directory where bbpress forum is installed.
Navigate to /example.com/bb-templates/kakumei
Open the File topic.php
Find the following line of code that contains php_topic_pages (array…… )
Insert the Adsense code just below that line
This will display the ad above the forum topic, before posts starts
To insert the ad after the posts (before navigation page)
Insert the adsense coede below the line that contains “class=rss line…..php topic_rss_link”
Refresh the Topic in the fourm and you should see the ads.

There are 2 plugins that will allow to insert adsense code in bbpress. If you want to insert the code between posts then use adsense for bbpress plugin.

How to Change Wordpress Theme Editing MySql Tables

Raghu — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 13:27:22 +0000

Follow the simple steps to change the Wordpress Theme ny editing MySql Tables(Wordpress database). You might run into situations when you have access to only backend.

Change Wordpress Theme

Logn into MySQL Database for your site (Example : msql.example.com)
Open the Database for your site ( DB_example)
Open the Table wp_options
Open Browse Tab
Find the option’s template and stylesheet
Edit the value to theme name you want to change (Example : default)
Save the table

If some plugin have corrupted the theme files, using above change, you can set the default theme.

How to Change Default Wordpress Excerpt Length

Raghu — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:16:36 +0000

Default wordpress excerpt length is 55 words. It’s easy to change the default excerpt length in wordpress in less than 2 minutes to desired length. I made changes to wordpress 2.9.2 code.

Login into Directory where wordpress is installed
Open the file Directory > wp-includes > formatting,php
Search for 55 or $excerpt_length = apply_filters(‘excerpt_length’, 55);
Change the value 55 to desired number of words and save the file.
Refresh the page and see the results ( you may have to clear the cache)

How to Get Organic Google Traffic using Google Buzz

Raghu — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:33:29 +0000

How to use Google Buzz to get Organic Google Search Traffic? Just follow the steps below.

Organic Traffic from Google Buzz

Combining Google’s 3 powerful features

Results from people in your social circle for “search phrase”
Cookies that remembers your search preferences
Google Buzz Network (Followers)

So, you have a blog and you want to drive more traffic to your blog.

Building Buzz Followers Network
Link Buzz status updates to blogs post updates through Twitter ( Blog to Twitter to Buzz).
Post Buzz to as Public.
Status updates will be will be indexed by Google.
If your followers searches for similar phrase, it will be displayed in organic search results under “Results from people in your social circle”
Results will be displayed in Twitter Real Time Search (very likely)

If you already have huge list of contacts, it’s easy to get followers, else start building your followers.

Send Tweets via Email Using TweetyMail

Raghu — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:30:59 +0000

Anil Chawla – friend of mine has created this cool Twitter App called TweetyMail, eMail to Twitter Posting App. It allows you to tweet straight from your email inbox, without switching to new window or Twitter App.

How it Works

To get started, click the “Sign in with Twitter” button below. After signing in, tweetymail simply needs to know your email address. You can then tweet and use Twitter by sending emails to tweetymail. You can also set up tweetymail to automatically forward tweets, mentions, and Twitter search results to your email.

Features

Very fast and easy to tweet from a mobile phone. You can attach pictures and include links, and it will automatically shorten URLs.
Automatically receive email alerts when someone mentions you on Twitter. You can create email alerts for other tweets and searches too.
Send and reply to direct messages on Twitter using email.
Follow/unfollow users by sending or forwarding emails.
Full support for all languages (as long as emails are sent using UTF-8 character encoding)
It’s really like a full-featured Twitter client that works through email.

So, what do you think of TweetyMail? Ready to give it a try?