Recently Google made AdSense-Analytics integration available for my account.  I only have a few days worth of data, but I am very impressed with the information so far. As I analyze the data, I am beginning to see some potential uses. If you have no idea what I am talking about, you should start [...]

If you’re like me, you probably have FeedBurner feed all set up for your blog, but want to add AdSense for Feeds for some extra revenue.  And if you have done some research, you probably heard nightmare stories from people who switched entirely from FeedBurner feed to Google feed.  Lucky for you, I have a [...]

The ethical nature of paid reviews is a debatable one.  There are some bloggers that embrace paid reviews as a strategy to monetize their blogs.  There are some that steer clear of paid reviews citing that it would diminish their reputation and damage readers’ trust.  If you asked me a year ago, I would tell [...]

In How To Fight WordPress Comment and Trackback Spams, I shared several techniques that you could use to reduce the amount of comment and trackback spams that hit your blog.  Spams are not getting through on my blogs, but it’s still a pain to review for false positives among spams caught by Akismet. Fortunately, there’s [...]

Okay, you have launched your blog, and you have been pouring your heart and soul into it.  You are gaining readers, made new friends, and enjoying the overall experience.  Since nobody can blog forever, have you ever thought about what you’ll do down the road?  I haven’t thought about this until a friend (DebtKid) asked [...]

I occasionally come across new bloggers who are eager to generate traffic to their blog.  They become focused on blog promotion and SEO before their blog is ready. I applaud their efforts, but I think it’s a mistake to promote your blog to prematurely.

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Ever since my host upgraded my admin control panel to Plesk 8.3.0, I have been running into problem backing up large MySQL databases using PhpMyAdmin. For whatever reason, the export function will only generate 0 byte SQL backup file. Moreover, it’s becoming quite a chore to backup 9 databases spread across 7 domains [...]