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AdSense-Deluxe is an easy-to-use WordPress plugin for WordPress 1.5+ (including WP 2.0) for quickly inserting Google or Yahoo! ads into your blog posts, and managing when and where those ads are displayed.

If I installed your blog then Adsense-Deluxe should already be installed and would just need activated and configured. If it is not already installed you can follow these instructions watch the WordPress videos below or contact me to do it for you.

Installing the Adsense-Deluxe For WordPress plugin is very easy, just copy the adsense-deluxe.php file to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. So if your blog were installed in the root directory of your site login to your hosting accounts file manager, go to the “wp-contents” folder then the “plugins” folder and place the file in there.

Now login to your WordPress admin panel, go to “plugins” and activate the Adsense-Deluxe For WordPress plugin on the right. Clicking the main “Options” panel should now present you with a new “AdSenseDeluxe” subpanel click that and let’s get started.

In the options for AdSense-Deluxe plugin page on the right click “(Add New)”, under “New AdSense Block” put a name for your new block, if this is your first one it will revert to the default name so it really doesn’t matter what you call the first block. Now just paste your AdSense code in the “AdSense Code” box and click “Add AdSense Block”

Adding additional blocks will now add the name of each new block, for example if you create a new block called “new” will return a name that looks like this: <!–adsense–>

Placing the ad blocks into posts is as simple as pasting in the name of the block where you want the ads to appear, but you must paste them into the “code” box and not the “Visual” box in the “Write Post” screen. You could write your post in “Visual” mode and then switch it “Code” and paste the AdSense block wherever you want.

There is an Adsense-Deluxe drop-down box that can be used from the Write Post panel but only if you chose not to use the visual editor when writing. To turn this option off go to Users, then the Your Profile subpanel and uncheck the box next to “Use the visual editor when writing”. Now the AdSense Deluxe drop-down box will only appear after you click the “Save and Continue Editing” box when writing or editing a post. Simply place your curser where you want your AdSense ads to appear in the post and select what code you want from the drop-down box.

I suggest creating a post template filled with all your AdSense codes (and anything else you may want), just start a new post called “Post Template” and save it without publishing it. Then when you write a new post open the post template in “Code” copy the code and paste it into your new post. Now delete what you don’t want in your new post, add the new content and publish.

This WordPress plugin is very versatile and you can use it for more than ads, you can put anything you want into the “AdSense Code” block and display just about anything you wish. There are also some advanced options for using it in templates in the read me file.

A lot of people have contacted me regarding wrapping the post text around the AdSense. You can use some inline CSS styles to wrap the post text around the AdSense in your post. For an example on this visit the plugins page here and look for the code under the Usage heading on that page.

Grab the AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin over at the Acme Technologies Zeitgeist blog.

Discover The Magic Formula To Create “Set-it-and-Forget-it” Websites Using Wordpress & Make Your First Adsense Dollar in The Next 7 Days.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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Adding your WordPress Blog feed to FeedBurner is the next thing you need to do to make the most of your WordPress blog.

Why FeedBurner? Well it’s easier to use FeedBurner’s words than my own:

If you publish a blog, you publish a feed. A feed is the format that allows your content to be delivered (and subscribed to) on the Web.

Why a Burned Feed is Better than a Not-Burned Feed

You blog because [your reason here] and FeedBurner can help you do that better.

1. Publicize your content and make it easy for people to subscribe.
2. Optimize distribution so that your content is properly formatted for all of the major directories and can be consumed by subscribers wherever they are.
3. Analyze your traffic to learn how many subscribers you have, where they’re coming from and what they like best.
4. Make Moneyitize by participating in the FeedBurner Ad Network. Why not reward yourself for your effort?

After you setup your feed you will need to configure several other WordPress widgets and WordPress plugins with your new feed.

Watch the next in the WordPress videos series to learn how.

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Learn how to add an RSS Feed Email Notification on Your WordPress Blog

Update! Sidebar widgets are now part of WordPress and now just called Widgets under the Presentation menu. The sidebar widgets plugin is no longer needed.

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Discover The Magic Formula To Create “Set-it-and-Forget-it” Websites Using Wordpress & Make Your First Adsense Dollar in The Next 7 Days.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

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When you first login to your new blog these are the first things you will want to do.

1. Check and or change the name and tagline of your blog.
2. Change the theme or the default themes header color.
3. Download and install different themes.

Click on the video below to watch how it’s done.

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Discover The Magic Formula To Create “Set-it-and-Forget-it” Websites Using Wordpress & Make Your First Adsense Dollar in The Next 7 Days.

About the Author:
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Jeff Houdyschell provides proven income opportunities, ideas and information for the best work at home jobs, visit: http://www.eSmartJob.com

Optimal Title by Aaron Schaefer is a WordPress plugin that changes the title of your Wordpress blog posts to show the title of the post or page first. By default, a WordPress blog will show the blog title before the post title, Optimal Title switches that around for better search engine optimization.

The post or page title appearing first will return more relevant information for the search engines and display results from a search, in turn giving your page a higher probability of targeted traffic.

Installing the Optimal Title plugin is a little different than most plugins and requires a few extra steps. Aaron Schaefer wrote the instructions on his site and can be found at: http://elasticdog.com/2004/09/optimal-title/. However for those who are not familiar with, or comfortable working with WordPress template code, this will walk you through the few extra steps of configuring this excellent WordPress plugin.

Installation

1. Download here Optimal Title

3. Unzip, and upload the file called optimal-title.php to your wp-content/plugins/ directory.

3. Activate the plugin on your WP Admin » Plugin Management page by clicking the corresponding “Activate” link under the Action column.

*Update Note* The additional instructions below will explain how to change or download a text file as a php file, these are based on Aaron’s original instructions and are only applicable if you download the Optimal Title plugin as a text (.txt) file. These steps are outlined in the video but are not necessary if you download the zip file that should already have the correct .php file extension.

Change the extension of the downloaded file from .txt to .php (if you can’t change the extension before you upload it simply upload the .txt file and then login to your web host’s file manager and change the extension there).

Another, and easier option is to right click the download link and chose “Save link as”, or “Save as”, then in the “Save as type” drop down box choose “All Files”. Then in the “file name” box add the .php extension and save the file as a .php file.

Changing your WordPress blog templates file permissions

After you upload the Optimal Title WordPress Plugin you will need to add some code to your header.php template. In order to do this you must change the file permissions (CHMOD) of the header.php file in your web hosting accounts file manager.

In your web hosting accounts file manager browse to the location where your main Wordpress files are installed, then go to /wp-content /themes and open the folder of the current theme you are using. Find the header.php file and change the file permission to 777.

Now you are ready to add the code to make the Optimal Title WordPress Plugin work its magic.

Usage

Warning! Before making any changes to your Wordpress templates, copy the entire contents of the file to notepad or another text editor and save an unedited copy of the file on your computers hard drive. If things go bad simply paste the unedited code back. Don’t say I didn’t warn you!

In your header.php file replace the function call wp_title() with a call to optimal_title(). You’ll also want to position your blog name after your usage of Optimal Title in order for this to work as intended. You should end up with a line that looks something like this:

New code to place in header.php file

<title><?php optimal_title(); ?> <?php bloginfo('name'); ?></title>

I suggest as Aaron does, to use the more complicated version below all you need to do is look for the code in your header.php template that looks something like this:

Sample of original title code in header.php file

<title><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?> <?php if ( is_single() ) { ?> » Blog Archive <?php } ?> <?php wp_title(); ?></title>

And replace it with either line of code. All you are doing is replacing the code between the title tags <title> new code here </title>

For a more complicated version that checks to make sure the plugin is installed and also includes support for a tagline on the home page, this is actual code I use on this site:

Suggested code to place in header.php file

<title><?php if ( function_exists('optimal_title') ) { optimal_title('|'); bloginfo('name'); } else { bloginfo('name'); wp_title('|'); } ?><?php if ( is_home() ) { ?> | <?php bloginfo('description'); } ?></title>

*Special Note – Since the header.php file is specific to each theme, you will need to replace the code in each themes header.php file if you change themes.

Parameters

Optimal Title uses the same syntax as wp_title, from the default WP installation, and thus functions in the exact same way…

<?php optimal_title(’separator’, display); ?>

* ’separator’ – string – The text to place between portions of the page title, such as the blog name and the category. Defaults to ‘»’.

* display – boolean – Should the title be displayed (TRUE) or returned for use in PHP (FALSE). Defaults to TRUE.

Special thaks to Aaron Schaefer for this great Wordpress plugin, Visit his blog the ElasticDog

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