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May 9, 2008
On Google AdSense Help Forum: URLs not found
Hello. I have been having this problem for several days now and have
read every help section and combed the forums looking for answers to
no avail. My site diagnostics says my URL is "not found". I created
the robots.txt file and put it where I think the root directory is, on
my GPC page where it has a file area there. The bots crawled again
last night and still say URL not found. I really need help with this,
have no clue what to do now. I appreciate any help you can give me.
Thanks.
Tags: 404, 404 checker, link, url
AdSense Video Unit is Only For USA
May 6, 2008
I checked the AdSense page about Vidieo Unit. It states: "Currently this feature is open only to publishers located in the United States with English-language websites." The full page is here: Inside AdSense: Introducing video units
I hope you understand what Google is trying to say. I myself can't find the Adsense's Video Unit link in my account page because I'm not American living in United State of America speaking American English.
Let's wait to see when Google open the door for us non-Americans. Let's promise to that we will forgive them for forgetting the fact that publisher locacation shouldn't be the concern, but the visitors where about is.
Tags: AdSense, AdSense Video Unit, American, help, publisher, United States
PunBB powers Facebook Developers Forum
March 1, 2008
This's a very accidental discovery. I found out that Facebook.com is using PunBB for their Developers Forum.
The strange thing that caught my attention is that PunBB is a very simple PHP-powered bulletin board. Why such a big company like Facebook didn't make their own forum CMS or use a commercial one such as vBulletin, or the free and famous one phpBB, or bbPress. Why PunBB?
I went ahead to PunBB and register for an account for their forum. I tested it and here are some findings.
PunBB features
PunBB claims to have the following features:
Tags: CMS, facebook, forum, Site, url
The Future of Binh dot Name
January 23, 2008
I've been busy these few days and haven't post as many useful posts as I should. My apologies for that. I would like to restate a few reasons here and I hope to receive your suggestions. The reasons are:
- This blog is being redesigned.
- New sub domains or domains are coming up.
- The URL structure is not finalized.
If you are kind-hearted, knowledgeable and give me suggestions, I will have rewards for you too. Don't worry, the minimum I could give you are some good keyword back links to your site from my PR3 blog. I'm not rich now so my pocket money is limited. I can make some nice award if what you give change my life.
Tags: Binh, binh.name, blogger, Blogging, decision, dog, google, keyword, photoshop, SEO, software, url, Web design, Work, WP, writing
How to Know Your Web Page is Overweight
January 13, 2008
Do you make this mistake as a blogger: leaving your blog grow as big as it can and become overweight? This article focus on teaching you how to check up the weight (size in KB) of your web page. You can find here:
- Manually check the size;
- Using calculation tools; and
- The negative effect on visitors
1. Manually check the size
Here is how you can manually check the weight of webpage:
1. Press Ctrl+S for short. Or on Firefox click File > Save Page As..., on Internet Explorer click File > Save As...
Tags: analysis, Blogging, tools, Web design
How to Delete (Show/Hide) AdSense Unit
December 22, 2007
This article will show you How to Show/Hide AdSense Unit from Manage Ads page the quick and easy way. It may sound lame to teach people what's already there, but I know there are many people out there who don't notice the differences. Previously I wrote How to Delete AdSense Ad unit when the system was still new and raw.
Recently Google AdSense has updated its Manage Ads page and published a post Manage Ads gives you more ad functionality. Click on the following image for the full version:
Tags: ad-unit, AdSense, how-to
AdSense Help for “Used Cars Under $1000″
December 4, 2007
Update: If you are buying cars, then here is a new website Used cars under 1000 dollars where you can really can buy a car for less than $1000.
Original post:
Russo is authoring Used Cars Under $1000 and is experiencing some problems with AdSense on his Website. Russo contacted me from the AdSense Help page to ask for basic helps on AdSense. I broke the message down into blocks and answer each of them accordingly:
- Deleting ad unit
- Removing Ad blocking software
- Using synonyms
- Getting indexed by Google
- Managing ad unit
Tags: AdSense, blogger, blogspot, cars, google, googlepages
How to Delete AdSense Ad unit
December 4, 2007
In this article you will find answers to 2 questions:
- How do I delete AdSense Ad Unit from the Manage Ads page?
- How do I remove AdSense unit from my web page?
How do I delete AdSense Ad Unit from the Manage Ads page?
It's written in this Official Google help page How do I delete an AdSense unit? that you can NOT delete the ad units from your Manage Ads page, but hide it. You can hide ad unit by following 2 steps:
- Remove the unwanted ad unit's code from all your web pages to stop it from gaining impressions.
Tags: ad-unit, AdSense, Google Adsense, help
Major Issues With common Blog Layout
November 21, 2007
Yesterday I checked my blog and was too surprise about something... the actual weight in term of Kilobytes. By saying that I mean, our blogs are not just heavy, they are too heavy.
Shocking Findings
I checked my own blog and here are some shocking results:
- Over 512KB for the home page and
- Over 380KB for single post.
Currently most blogs have too heavy home page, extra heavy category pages, and heavy single post page. A very good example is John Chow dot Com. His home page cost over 1MB of disk-space and bandwidth.
Tags: analysis, Blogging, mistake, Web design
WordPress Theme for Christmas
November 21, 2007
Finally I finish the 8 hour overnight work on modifying my blog layout using the Christmas Days theme. Last night I when I logged in to the WordPress control panel I did I quick check on the latest news about WordPress. Out of which was the 20 Nov releases of WordPress theme and plugins.
The New Themes
I found nothing special about the new plugins but found very interesting new themes.
After spending 1 hour testing the demo and on my own blog, I left a comment on that page like this:
