Archive for October, 2007

Gallery2 problem fix : Nice URLs mod-rewrite breaking with PHP-INFO

By Fili • Oct 29th, 2007 • Category: Gallery2

Yep, this title is a bit technical, but just might help those looking for a solution to this extremely annoying problem. Recently, two of my fellow niche bloggers have been having problems with their long running Gallery2 installations. Contacting support and searching the web usually does little to help find a fix to an undefined problem. [...]



International probloggers Blog Herald and Lorelle write about Wordcamp Israel 2007

By Fili • Oct 16th, 2007 • Category: Wordpress

As Wordcamp Israel 2007 approaches, a few international problogger have written some reviews of the Israeli blogosphere. The nicest one I’ve read so far is by BlogHerald with a comprehensive overview with some of the best Israeli blogs in both Hebrew and English:
Thus it was that I asked two new Israeli friends of mine to [...]



Something’s wrong with Widgetbucks

By Fili • Oct 15th, 2007 • Category: Making Money

Widgetbucks is the latest trend in making money online. Techcrunch reported, and other bloggers like Problogger, Quickonlinetips, Mashable and John Chow followed.
Bloggers have already complained about the fact that Widgetbucks includes an outoing link to their site with their widget, E.G.

<a href="http://www.widgetbucks.com" target="_blank">WidgetBucks - Trend Watch - WidgetBucks.com</a>

… and that they don’t reveal how much actually [...]



Wordpress SEO : Jump-starting a new blog - from zero to 600 unique visitors/day in one month

By Fili • Oct 12th, 2007 • Category: SEO, Wordpress

In the past two months an online colleague of mine and myself have been trying out a new experiment. This colleague is a long time ProBlogger in the China niche that one of my blogs is part of, but does so as part of a blogging network. I suggested we both try and play around [...]



Doing Adsense right : Increase Adsense income by placing less Adsense ads

By Fili • Oct 11th, 2007 • Category: Making Money

For small to medium size bloggers and website builders Adsense is a wonderful source of revenue. All it takes is a few simple steps -  

Select the ad type you want to display, Place the code given on your website, and Optimize things a little to get better targeted ads. 
But, somehow, most [...]