Urban Giraffe’s Redirection Plugin Saves My Bacon
As you can see, the transformation from blojsom to WordPress is well under way. I’ve even got the basic color scheme redone. I’ll be tweaking this for the next few weeks, of course.
One thing that’s been really helpful during this transformation is the Urban Giraffe Redirection plugin. After I imported my old content into WordPress I was able to use Redirection to redirect the old feed URL to the standard WordPress /feed/ path without having to play tricks with my .htaccess file. Very cool plugin, very easy to use, very recommended.
If you’re reading this blog through an RSS reader, note that for some reason a full feed isn’t being sent out, even though I have that option enabled. I’ll investigate and fix this, but probably not for a few days until I get other things fixed. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime.
Technorati Tags: AdSense, Google, WordPress, Urban Giraffe, redirection
Eric Giguere’s AdSense Blog Is Two Years Old!
The Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense blog is officially two years old today. It also marks a big change — I’ve moved the blog over to WordPress! I know many of you have been waiting impatiently for me to fix the server problems I was having, and this is my solution. Bear with me for a few days, though, as things need to be rejigged to work with the new system. All the permalinks have changed, for example, so I need to get some redirections in pronto. And there are many broken images and links to fix. But the bulk of the content is there, and as you can see from the archive list it’s pretty extensive!
Keep coming back… in a week or two things should be back to normal. And yes, the old color scheme is coming back, I just have to find an appropriate WordPress theme to modify.
AdSensePHP: Easy AdSense Code Generation
It's funny how doing one thing leads you down a certain path. When I started my website to blog series one of the things I needed to do was find an AdSense-friendly WordPress template for the site I was transforming into a blog. Only I didn't really like the ones I saw, so I had to take a non-AdSense template and transform it. Which led me to rework some PHP scripts I had for generating AdSense code. Which led directly to this post.
Today I'm announcing the availability of a new script I call AdSensePHP. AdSensePHP lets you easily insert valid AdSense code into your pages without having to cut-and-paste the code from the AdSense console. The Lite version of the script is completely free and is now available for download. The Pro version of the script is initially only going to be available to purchasers of my book Uncommon AdSense.
If you're a PHP user, feel free to download AdSensePHP (no registration is required) and take it for a spin. There are fairly extensive comments in the source code, though I hope to have some more formal documentation available soon.
Also, to encourage linking to the site, if you have a ClickBank ID then you can simply add “?cb=yourid” to the link to any page and this will store your ClickBank ID in a cookie that lasts for 60 days. All links to the Uncommon AdSense site will be generated as a ClickBank hoplink, which means that if anyone buys Uncommon AdSense site because of your referral to the AdSensePHP site, you'll be credited as the affiliate. For example, I'd link to the site like so:
http://www.adsensephp.com?cb=egiguere
Just replace “egiguere” with your own hoplink. And you can link directly to any page on the site using this system.
Give AdSensePHP a try and let me know what you think. The Introducing AdSensePHP post on the AdSensePHP.com site has more details.
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Eric Giguere is the author of Uncommon AdSense and the award-nominated (that just means it lost!) blog Make Easy Money with Google and AdSense.