EasySense Theme Features and Usage
EasySense is a robust and feature-rich theme designed with many detailed touches. The following are some of the great features that all WP bloggers appreciate.
Adsense Ready
Add your Adsense script code to text files, then your adsense will be placed in selected locations on all post pages.
Advertisement Flexibility
In addition to Adsense, you can place all kinds of ads and affiliate link on your blog. Five locations are pre-defined for max profitability. Ad contents are separated in individual files for WordPress to include at run-time. No need to hack WP theme code.
SEO Enhanced Meta Data
Page titles, descriptions, and keywords are set dynamically based on the blog and post titles.
Smart Use of Sidebar Space
Sections and contents on sidebar are carefully designed in order to avoid its size runs out of control. This ensures that the precious space on sidebar is tuned for advertising profitability.
Controlled Display of Recent Posts
The most 5 recent post tiles are displayed on all posts and pages except for the home page. Because the home page content always show the most recent posts, it is not necessary to have them on sidebar.
Dynamic Featured Links
This section randomly picks up 5 links from blogroll link entries in all categories. The Featured Links list changes every time the site is reloaded. That increases the content dynamics of the blog. Featured Links section only lists link name. Descriptions and images will not show. The whole link collection can be displayed in a new page (described later).
Restricted Archive List
The archive section only lists the last 6 months (so called Recent Archives). This ensures the archive section will not grow too big to take too much space. The full archive list and calendar can be displayed in Sitemap page (describe
EasySense Theme AdSense-Ready SEO-Enhanced for WordPress
EasySense is a 2-column fixed width (820px) WordPress theme with clean design and full functionality. This theme was crafted with minimalist’s mind for easy maintenance and optimum performance. The codes and function scripts are short and clear, and the page layout is simple and intuitive. However, you don’t get simplicity by sacrificing any blogging power. In fact, EasySense theme was designed specifically for maximizing blogging profitability in an instant auto-pilot mode.
EasySense theme is Adsense-Ready. Google Adsense ads are set at 5 proven spots for instant profit. The Adsense-Ready features will instantly embed your Adsense codes on all pages in the most strategic locations, all 100% compliant with Adsense policies.
In addition to Google Adsense, you can easily plug any other type of ads (banners, tests, buttons, links, etc.) into your blog pages by replacing the codes in the ads include files. Read the instruction for easy-setup details.
We have fully optimized EasySence and enhanced this theme with advanced SEO Titles. No need for plugins or insane theme hacking - EasySense comes with advanced SEO (Search Engine Optimized) titles that will get you better search engine rankings and tons of free traffic.
Simply speaking, EasySense can help you enhance profitability and achieve business goals by:
- Earn more from Google Adsense.
- Increase commissions you make from affiliate accounts such as Clickbank.
- Drive targeted traffic to your blog.
EasySense comes with build-in templates for you to create link (directory) page and sitemap page on the fly. Read the following articles to learn more about EasySense’s features and opportunities:
EasySense Customization Guidelines
Download EasySense Theme here:
Go ahead to give EasySense a try. No matter what kind of blogs or sites you are running, you’ll see the next Adsense paycheck getting fatter. We’d like to see you grow.
Instructions
download “easysense_10.zip” and unzip this file. You will see the unpacked files in thefollowing folder structure:
\easysense
\easysense\include
\easysense\images
Ads Code Management
Open folder \easysense\include, there are 5 files for ads placement:
ad-header.php
ad-content-1.php
ad-content-2.php
ad-sidebar-1.php
ad-sidebar-2.php
All you need to do is to place your preferred ads code texts in each of the files.
ad-header.php
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Blogging to the Bank
Blogging has been around for a few years now. Most people use blogs to record their thoughts and lives, while the select few use them as a free way to make a fortune.
One guy who uses this to his advantage is Rob Benwell. Last year he dished the dirt on the tips and tricks to making a fortune using blogging. But as time passes the old systems become obsolete and new techniques are required. This is where his brand new, fresh off the press blogging to the bank 2 system comes into play.
For those who know who Rob Benwell is like me, you’ve probably made a killing using blogs.
For those who don’t, here’s the story: Read more
Blog Easy by Advanced Wordpress Site Generation Tool
No doubt blogging is one of the easiest business models today, and many of you have proved that it profitable. But the challenge is to keep profitability going. The significant drawback of blog business is that you must post fresh contents continuously to keep the blog live and generate money. By nature it is not a residue income business. Writing blogs could be quite a big burden if you are not a passionate writer. The good news is, with some of automation tools like BlogSlammer, you can free yourself from many heavy tasks and just d focus on profits and fun.
We all know that we must post a lot of unique, relevant contents consistently to attract search engine, rss feed subscription, and human traffic in order to make money from product sales and advertising. My challenge is always that I don’t have enough time to craft articles, and I am not a great writer anyways. That’s why I picked up BlogSlammer. Read more
How to Clone Multiple Profit-Making Subdomain Blogs Quick and Easy
It is a simple math, - if your single blog makes $100 per day, you could put $1,000 into your pocket by clone 9 more blogs. If you host your blog on some of the popular web hosting services such as HostMonsters, Dream Host, 1 And 1, etc, you can literally add unlimited blog sites on subdomains without additional cost. That’s really a sweet deal in today’s economy meltdown. The only question left is, how much time and effort you have to take to clone 1, 2, 10, or even more profitable blog sites.
With this question in mind, I searched and discovered this great tool called “WordPress Cloner“. As the maker of this tool, Mike Filsaime stated, it is the “New, Easy to Use Software Lets You Clone Your Totally Configured WordPress Blog, and Install It In a Brand New Subdomain Without Touching Cpanel - in just 60 seconds!” Well, as I tested and used this tools, it took me more than 60 seconds (about 5 minutes) to clone a new blog site, but I’d say Mike did keep his promise and made the true claim. It indeed saves me a lot of time, eliminates details of concerns, and avoid mistakes. Read more
5 Traditional Ways to Promote Your Blog Free
Everyday new internet marketing ideals, methods, and tools emerge promising more traffic and sales bigger, easier, and quicker. Some of them do work and worth trying, some make no sense at all. While bloggers chase new ways to blog site promotion, we should no forgot these traditional marketing approaches proven to work for over 10 years. Here are some of the best free traffic strategies:
1. Submit Your Site to Top Directories
You can do this free on many directories, some may charge a fee. Putting your site on these directories will get more visitors from these directory sites. You’ll also get great inbound links that will boost your ranking with the search engines. The following list shows some of the top rank directories:
- DMOZ Open Directory Project (www.dmoz.org)
- Yahoo Directory (http://directory.yahoo.com)
- Gimpsy ( http://www.gimpsy.com)
- Best of the Web: http://botw.org
- Jayde: www.jayde.com
- Iozoo: www.iozoo.com
- The Virtual Library: www.vlib.org
- Dmegs (Dmoz Alternative Directory) (http://www.dmegs.com/)
The following links can help you get more directories:
- Top Web Directory List - Ranked by Inbound Link Quality (useful info)
- Strongest Links Directory List - With PR, Alexa, and fee info.
- Web-Directories.ws - List of 10,000 web directories.
- Best-Web-Directories.com - Free & paid directory rankings and submission lists.
- Paid Directory List - Grouped by Google page rank.
2. Article Marketing
Write a series of articles on your blog’s topic with useful information and tips, then submit them to online article directories and other free content sites. Not only will you get some great inbound links pointing to your site, which will help you with the search engines — other people can republish your articles on their own sites, which will help spread the word about your business and build your credibility as an industry expert. The following article sites are good places to start:
- Article City - http://www.articlecity.com/ PR 6
- Go Articles - http://www.goarticles.com/ PR 6
- Ezine Articles - http://www.ezinearticles.com/ PR 6
- Article Alley - http://www.articlealley.com/ PR 5
- Content Articles - http://www.content-articles.com/ PR 5
- Free Sticky - http://www.freesticky.com/ PR 4
- Article Nexus - http://www.articlenexus.com/ PR 4
- iSnare - http://www.isnare.com/ PR 4
- Idea Marketers - http://www.ideamarketers.com/ PR 4
- Free Articles Zone - http://www.free-articles-zone.com/ PR 4
3. Online Press Releases
Online press releases are a great way to announce a new product or report on exciting developments in your industry. And, like the strategies listed above, they will help you get quality inbound links as well as new streams of direct traffic to your site. Some good press release sites to check out are:
- www.prweb.com
- www.eworldwire.com
- www.sbwire.com
- www.webwire.com
- www.ereleases.com
- www.24-7pressrelease.com
- www.prleap.com
4. Free Advertise classified sites
Submit your business to these free advertise classified sites. They’ll bring visitors who are already in the “buying mood.” Plus, they’ll give you even MORE of those all-important inbound links!
Here are a few good classified ad sites to start with:
5. Link Exchange with Relevant Websites
Contact relevant blogs for link exchanges, ask for including your blog to their blogrolls. Get links from as many relevant websites as possible. Find relevant sites that have content that appeals to your customers and relates to your business or product in some way.
Surprising Journey to Upgrading WordPress 2.6
I had couple of websites running WordPress 2.5. As soon as the new release WP 2.6 came out, I decided to upgrade. There are many great enhancements in WordPress 2.6 worth the move. The process ran very smoothly. Just follow the Three Step Upgrade Guide and it was done in minutes.
In addition, I also had couple of sites including this site that were still on WordPress 2.2.1. Since they were so behind, I thought I should also upgrade them to 2.6 as well. By reading the Extended Upgrade Guide, I found it was not too hard. Thus I following the steps to make the move. It was very quick. But when viewing the site, I immediately noticed that all categories were missing. That was a big surprise.
When searching this issue, I saw that was a common issue many users encountered. What happened was, when the upgrade script converted data from old table wp_categories to the new table wp_term_taxonomy, it transferred only the ID but left category name and description blank, which made categories could not be displayed and edited.
In this case, a quick solution is to go directly to wp_term_taxonomy table and fill up the category names that match the ID as seen in the old table. After that, all categories were back to normal and function correctly.
Although an issue like this is not expected considering WP guys usually do great job to avoid obvious bugs like this one, the WP team have acted quickly to deal with this issue. As seen in the WP Trac, a code fix had been provided. following this instruction, I added the following 4 lines to /wp-admin/includes/upgrade.php:
$name = $category->cat_name;
$description = $category->category_description;
$slug = $category->category_nicename;
$parent = $category->category_parent;
Then I did upgrade for this site. Everything is working greatly. The category is showing. After all, WordPress is EASY.
WordPress Database Structure Updates Since Version 2.2
WordPress 2.2 supports all basic blogging features, — posts, pages, links, categories, and comments. However, It was behind the trend by missing one important thing, — the tag function. Read more
Core Technologies Behind WordPress
WordPress implements industry standard web technologies that make the most popular blog platform easy to develop, manage, and extend. The core technologies behind WordPress include Php as the scripting language, MySQL as the backend database, and apache as the web server.
PHP
WordPress, along with many other blogware platforms, have chosen PHP to code the system. PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.
It’s interesting to know that PHP stands for “PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor”. This confuses many people because the first word of the acronym is the acronym. This type of acronym is called a recursive acronym.
Starting with the version of PHP 4, PHP uses the Zend engine under the hood. Zend Technologies Ltd. based in Cupertino, CA is the driven force of PHP development. That’s why Zend calls itself “The PHP Company”.
URL: PHP - http://www.php.net/ Zend - http://www.zend.com/
MySQL
WordPress runs on MySQL database which is the most popular open source database widely used for web-based applications. In additional to WP, many other blogware and content management systems (CMS) also implement MySQL. Some of the systems are Drupal, b2evolution, Nucleus CMS, etc.
Originally MySQL was owned by MySQL AB, a Swedish company. On 16 January 2008, Sun Microsystems announced the definitive agreement to acquire MySQL AB. Now MySQL is officially part of Sun. MySQL will remain as open source database and expend to enterprise level.
Apache Web Server
Apache web server is the most popular web server provided by The Apache Software Foundation, an open source organization that implements several web software projects. Apache web server is free, and it has been embedded in many web systems. Almost all web hosting services support apache web server.
AdSense and Blogging
One of the easiest, if not the easiest way to make money with AdSense is by posting to blogs. AdSense and blogs go together like peas and carrots, or peanut butter and jelly, and the results tend to show this fact. Read more
