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One of the best things about having a website is actually being able to create an income from creating articles, sharing information, and giving your opinion about things. While ads, in the form of banners, text ads and pop ups, can create a good income, they can also be annoying if someone is actually trying…

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Tables are an old school way of displaying information on a web page. I’ve used tables since I started working with HTML back in 1994.  With the creation of CSS, tables quickly became an old way of displaying columnized data. However, it is still one of the most effective ways of displaying columns and tables…

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WordPress is an easy to use content management solution that can be installed on a domain in a matter of minutes. It makes creating a website easy and dare I say fun! However, if you have more than one wordpress site it can be a time consuming process to manage WordPress. For security reasons, you’ll…

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I have domains, and specifically WordPress sites, on several different servers. Most of the time when I update plugins, its a simple click and the plugin updates automatically. However, on some domains the update process halts to ask for FTP server information including the server name, login username, and password. I have to type this…

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One of the first things you’ll hear when you start trying to “make money on the Internet” is the term “set it and forget it”. In other words, setup a site, create content, build traffic to it and then let it set to make money passively. However, when you are dealing with WordPress sites, its…

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Almost every wordpress site has a search box somewhere on the page where you can type in what you are searching for and it will list the different posts and pages that relate to your keywords. The purpose for these search boxes is so visitors can easily find what they want on a site. But…

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As a Google Adsense publisher from the very beginning in 2003, I’ve learned a lot about Adsense and how to optimize it in my sites to produce the most income possible. One of the more common questions is which Adsense block is the best performing one and how to make it optimized for the best…

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One of the things you’ll want to do for your blog or website is to create a sitemap and submit it to the search engines. If you use WordPress, you can follow along with the steps below to download a plug-in and create a Google sitemap. To Manually install the plugin: Download the Google (XML)…

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The favicon.ico file is located in the root directory of a website and other subdirectories. When a visitor adds the page to their favorites, this file is used as a small icon in the address bar of the browser or in their favorites list. Favicons are 16 X 16 pixels square or 32 X 32…

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