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  • 2007
    • September
      • Check out my new Blog
        09/18/07
        Hello everyone. It's been a few days since my last post. I've been busy setting up my new blog. It covers the weird, amazing, and fun stuff I run into on the web on a daily basis. Check it out at:
        Hey! It's Spanklin!

      • Put Your Web Browser On Cruise Control
        09/15/07
        Autoit3 is a great tool that is used to automate tasks in the Microsoft Windows environment. It can perform such functions as sending keystrokes, copying data to the clipboard, starting programs, and interacting with running programs.

        Autoit can provide a lot of benefit to a blogger, for

      • Yee-Haw! Riding the Blog Carnival
        09/13/07
        A Blog Carnival is a little different than other ways to promote your blog postings. A blog carnival links to various blogs, almost like a table of contents. Blog carnivals are often times published on a weekly basis, although some blog carnivals may release information on a different cycle. Usu

      • Automatically Integrating AdSense Into Simple PHP Blog Entries
        09/11/07
        Here is a neat little code tweak that will integrate AdSense into the posts you make with Simple PHP Blog for the Modern theme. In the themes/modern/themes.php file, look for the following:

        // Display BODY TEXT
        $blog_content .= $entry_array[ 'entry' ];
        $entry_

    • August
      • Writing a Good Blog Post
        08/30/07
        Writing a good blog post is a little bit of science and a little bit of art. Having a bit of creativity along with an approach to getting text on the screen can go a long way in getting interesting and informative information to your readers.

        Write about what you know If you're a l

      • Track Your AdSense Earnings In Real Time
        08/30/07
        The AdSense Notifier is a great tool that allows you to track your earnings right in your Firefox browser. Using this tool can show you your earnings to date, as well as Impressions, Clicks, Click Through Rate, Cost Per Impression, and Revenue Per Click.

        I love it. I used to have the ba

      • What Is Your PageRank?
        08/28/07
        You can see what your PageRank is with this tool. Normally, you need the Google Toolbar to see this information, but this tool allows you to view it without installing anything.


      • More Ideas For Increased Cash Flow
        08/27/07

        Content is a big deal.
        Google AdSense delivers ads to your site's viewers by analyzing the content of your site. In other words, it is contextual advertising. With that in mind, you will not get any advertisements related to your site unless you write specific content. For instanc

      • Oh, the Power of Fark
        08/23/07
        Fark is one great site. Some of the funniest headlines and the weirdest stories around, not to mention the Photoshop contests.

        It also a great site to submit articles to. Some of my highest traffic comes from Fark. Just set yourself up with an account, and get to work. Don't sp

      • Blog Keyword Density
        08/23/07

      • Other Than AdSense
        08/21/07


        'til next time
        Bill

      • Today's Activities
        08/20/07
        What a day! I traveled today, and am using a company laptop. I haven't browsed my site in a while using Internet Explorer, so I decided I'd take a look using the laptop. I was shocked to discover that I had no content, and only the menu bar was showing! After I close my mouth, I scroll

      • Awesome AdSense Calculator
        08/20/07
        Check out this awesome AdSense calculator:

      • Wrapping Text Around AdSense
        08/18/07
        If you notice on the front page of this Blog, the first entry will always have an AdSense box embedded with the entry. The ad floats, that is, the text starts immediately to one side of the add and continues underneath it; in other words, the text "floats" around the ad.

        This i

      • Search Engine Optimization
        08/18/07
        Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way to organize and edit your page so that the popular search engines, such as Google, Yahoo, MSN, etc. can find and display your own website with ease. The more optimized your site, the higher search engines will rank it, and the more popular your site will be

      • Free Hosting Providers
        08/17/07
        Free Hosting Providers come in may shapes and sizes. Some hosting providers will place advertisements on your page in exchange for letting you use space on their servers. The site owner is basically being used by the hosting provider as a way to force viewers to see the advertisements that provide

      • Adding A Custom FavIcon
        08/17/07
        If you are using a modern browser, you should notice the icon of the site has changed to a dollar sign. The icon can be found up in the address bar of your browser.

        This is a straightforward change that require no code change to work with Simple PHP Blog. I found a nice free image that

      • Adding Google Search
        08/16/07
        Adding Google Search to my page was a relatively painless process. The worst part is adding the necessary quotes and line feeds to the code that Google provides you.

        To add Google Search to the already existing Search box, I had to once again modify the Simple PHP Blog file, scripts/sb_t

      • Moving the Sidebar Menu to the Left Side
        08/15/07
        Did you know that users are more likely to click on advertisements on the left side of the page? Our brains are used to reading from left to right, so we naturally look towards the left side of a page without thinking.

        So, my objective today was to move the Sidebar menu from the right si

      • Adding AdSense to Simple PHP Blog
        08/15/07
        As you can see, AdSense is now available on my blog. See the ads on the upper-left corner of the site?

        Signing up for AdSense is easy. Just head on over to www.google.com/adsense and register as a new user. Once you are approved, which may take up to 48 hours (much sooner in my case),

      • Blogging $100 a Day
        08/14/07
        Welcome to the first post of my new blog, Blogging $100 a Day!

        The objective of this blog is, of course, to make some money. Not only that, but also I'm going to share some of my strategies and methods that will move me closer to my goal. Hopefully, you will be able to apply my meth