Squeeze More Income from your Blog with Slayer’s Custom Widget Plugin

The introduction of sidebar widgets in WordPress have resulted in a huge time savings. Gone are the days of pasting code into sidebar.php just see your layout go wacky. The capabilities of widgets in the basic WordPress installation are, however, very limited. By default, all widgets appear wherever the sidebar is loaded within your theme. [...]

Replace Askimet with Defensio

What’s up with Askimet these days? This well-known WordPress plugin has been letting foul comment spam through on two of my blogs including RL-Digital. To solve the problem, I ditched Askimet and replaced it with the Defensio plugin.
Unlike Askimet, Defensio at least has some adjustments. And, it is an adaptive filter, which will improve [...]

Google Chrome Theme by Ericulous.com

Genkisan, the webmaster at Ericulous.com, has just released a free lightweight WordPress theme based on Google’s popular Chrome browser. There have been several Chrome themes released by other developers. However, this is the best one that I have seen so far. The combination of a full width header and fixed width body looks great without [...]

New Amazon Movie & TV Show Preview Widget

Amazon has added it’s new movie & TV streaming service to it’s Associates Program. Associates will earn a 10% referral fee on all movies, TV seasons, and TV episodes such as The Office, House and Law & Order. The widget shown below allows Associates to add movie trailers to their websites.
The first two [...]

Google launches AdSense for Feeds

After several years in beta test, Google has just launched the much anticipated ‘AdSense for Feeds’. When you next visit the Setup tab in your AdSense account, you’ll notice a new ‘AdSense for Feeds’ option.
Features

Optimized CPC and CPM ads
Ads specifically design for RSS feeds
Wide range of customization options
Detailed stats on your feed audience and [...]

WidgetBucks launches Pre-Designed and Custom Ad Widget Skins

WidgetBucks has introduced pre-designed and custom ad skins for their well-known WidgetBucks widgets. Publishers have two choices – choose from a gallery of over 125 pre-designed skins to apply to new and existing ad widgets or use the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) tools to add their own unique look-and-feel to ad widgets
The gallery of off-the-shelf skins map [...]

WidgetBucks launches CPC Ads in Europe

WidgetBucks has just announced that is expanding its CPC (cost-per-click) network for Western European traffic. Starting July 15th, when publishers serve WidgetBucks ad widgets on their sites, visitors based in the UK will see a short-duration CPM display ad followed by a CPC shopping widget featuring UK-based merchants and products listed in British pounds.
The [...]