In the 3 months since WP Text Ads was launched, there are 5 issues that crop up repeatedly. In this post, I will try to clarify them.
The free version displays very few text link ads
The paid version of WP Text Ads allows you to display an unlimited number of text link ads.
The free […]
I came across this amazingly inspirational speech by Steve Jobs. It reminds me of a similar and very funny commencement speech given by Guy Kawasaki a few years back.
Both men have really lived their dreams, and we ought to wonder if we have been living our dreams, or other people’s dreams.
I shall not say anymore, […]
In the past 4 days, many nice folks had written up about WP Text Ads. Many have also contacted me by email.
Some of the questions and the problems encountered with the plugin were similar. So this post will try to explain:
What is WP Text Ads?
Why should you use WP Text Ads?
How do you use WP […]
It’s been less than 4 months since WP Text Ads was launched. With the launch of WP Text Ads 1.1, advertisers and bloggers now have the Marketplace to find each other, and a set of new features.
WP Text Ads will always stay true to its goal of saving advertisers money while making bloggers […]
The long overdue upgrade to WP Text Ads is finally here.
Besides numerous bug fixes, the most important improvements are the optional use of rel=”nofollow” in text links, and the Marketplace. Upgrading is a simple 1 step process for most users.
The Marketplace answers the “How do advertisers find me?” question. Your WP Text Ads […]
I came across a few articles about how John Chow has been struck off Google. Other bloggers have written in their thoughts too.
It’s pretty clear that Google is beginning to act on sites that buy and sell ads for the clear purpose of increasing their PageRank. They’ve warned before so we shouldn’t be too surprised.
Does […]
One of the nice things about using WP Text Ads to sell your ads is that you have total control.
Do you see the WP Text Ads logo at the top of the sidebar on your right? You can use graphics to draw your readers’ attention so that they’ll know you sell ads.
I know this […]
FeedBurner, which was recently acquired by Google, has announced that FeedBurner Stats Pro and FeedBurner MyBrand will be made free.
This is great news for everyone as the analytics package from FeedBurner has some great features. Being able to give your FeedBurner feeds a url that is similar to your site’s also helps to improve your […]
Last year, I embarked on a personal project to gather all my news sources into one page. At that time, I was unaware of those one-page news aggregators. In any case, I wanted to build something that would meet my needs.
I call it News Hawker.
It’s an AJAX-driven site that displays articles from my often-read […]