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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 26 KB, 1234 words
Google recently released some useful tips on how to optimize the use of Google Adsense on one's web pages. No surprise - the hottest "hot spot" for the best click-through returns lies right in the middle of your content.
How does one place a Google Adsense ad (or any other ad, bit of text, or image for that matter) between entries on the main index page of your MT weblog? By using a simple trick of the "lastn" and "offset" attributes outlined in the MT manual here.
Normally on your Main Index template, you would have your MTEntries section laid out like so:
for MT 3.2:
<MTEntries> <$MTEntryTrackbackData$> <MTDateHeader><h2 class="date-header"><$MTEntryDate format="%x"$></h2></MTDateHeader>...
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Eat Drink Sleep MT, Tutorials, 17 KB, 462 words
If you're part of Google's AdSense program you can set up Channels to help track where Clicks are coming from on your web site. The obvious (and easy) thing to do is assign a different Channel to your front page from the rest of your pages, for example. Using Movable Type and different categories (and even archive types) you can further target who's clicking where. PHP use is required.
First, you'll need to create several Channels in your AdSense account. I created Channels for the most popular categories and a "generic" channel to encompass the other less-popular categories.
Add the AdSense code to your Individual Entry Archive template....
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 35 KB, 2619 words
If you are putting hours into writing content for your blog, you may want to make a few bucks (or more) to help pay for hosting charges and other costs associated with running it. Some bloggers find that they can make more than just small change, but most not enough to quit their day job. In any case, here are a few of the more popular methods.
Several ways by which you can make money with your weblog include Google Adsense, Amazon Associates, various other affiliate programs, advertising, and donations. Keep in mind that the success of these programs is highly dependent upon your content and the level of traffic you get to your site.
Google Adsense
Since its launch in the spring...
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 28 KB, 1691 words
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With MT you can have multiple authors on the same weblog, making it easy to have a friend contribute to your blog as a "guest author" or to create a group weblog to which many people contribute. You can even customize to a small degree, aspects of the author-specific Individual Entry pages.
Adding an Author
To add an author in MT 3.2...
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MezzoBlue, Tutorials, 16 KB, 1492 words
I'm happy to report the Zen Garden archives have (finally) undergone a major re-tooling.
The css Zen Garden has been desperate for some TLC for a while now. Submissions have been increasing steadily (sometimes 6 or 7 per day), but management and archiving has been a frustrating problem for quite some time. So I fixed some of the major problems.
Categorization
Since its launch on this domain over two years ago, the css Zen Garden archives have undergone numerous changes to cope with the growing volume of designs.
It seems hard to believe now, but at one point in time all designs I had received fit on one page. When that page grew too weighty, I chopped it into a handful of...
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Six Apart Pronet Plugin Directory, Plugins, 10 KB, 9 words
Grab your AdSense statistics from Google.
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Learning Movable Type, Tutorials, 29 KB, 585 words
The Amazon Associates program allows you to receive a sales commission from the sale of Amazon products that you promote on your website. The easiest way to take advantage of the Amazon Associates program is to use Amazon's Build Links feature to build some simple links to specific products or groups of products. If you don't want to use the graphical ads that Amazon provides, you can customize the link and select a basic display to get the specific URL for the product you want.
Amazon.com also allows developers to tap directly into its product database through Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition to simple product links, as an Amazon Associate, you can use a number of scripts,...
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mgs | September 27th 2005