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How To: Conditional Display of AdSense in WordPress

My initial requirement was to be able to display Google Ads in the content and in the sidebar too. I installed AdSense-Deluxe thinking that it will take care of both of my requirements. The plugin does a very good job of displaying ads but it displays ads inside content only. I wanted to be able to display ads in sidebar too! Instead of searching for another plugin which can do that, I wrote a small script in my theme’s ‘functions.php‘

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Google Blog Search Pinging Service

Did you know that you can now ping Google blogsearch from your WordPress and many other blogging softwares to keep Google updated about changes that you make in your blogs? For blogs with XML-RPC ping support If your blogging software (WordPress does! ) supports XML-RPC based pinging, then use the following URL in your software for automatic pinging to Google blogsearch. RPC endpoint: http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2 (Copy paste this URL in appropriate location inside your blogging admin section) For blogs without ping

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How To: Measure the Success of Your Website

Many of us, developers or be an end user having a professional, corporate or personal website, do not really measure the success of hosting our websites online. I asked couple of my friends and few acquaintances who work for corporates about their mechanism and tools they use, if any, for measuring the success of their online presence. Many of them were clueless about existence and need of such a mechanism. For those of you, who are new to this side

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Your Custom Search Engine: Google co-op

Google has unveiled yet another interesting tool from their labs, its called Google co-op (also known as custom search engine or CSE). The tool finally caters to the needs of those who waited long enough to offer search facility on their websites. I gave it a try on my website PHPCatalyst, and it works like charm. Very easy to setup and full of features. I haven’t fully explored it yet but I loved the ease with which I could build

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