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Adsense Tips: Don’t always use all allowed ad units, that will affect CPC

Do not always use all allowed ad units (3 link units and 3 normal ad units), especially you haven’t enough content in your web page.

If you used all units while not enough content, that will affect your CPC (Cost Per Click) value. Because Adsense will always serve the high valued (Highest Paying Ads or High CPC) ads first and follow on.

For example, if you placed 3 normal ad units in your page which haven’t enough content. The first ad unit will have High CPC ads, and the user clicks an ad in 3rd adunit, the CPC will be very low.

In that case, find the most clicked place in your page and place only one ad unit, that will give you high CPC.

So try to limit the number of ad units while there are not enough content.

Link Units:

Always utilize all 3 Adsense link units as possible. Because most clicked ad units are link units, because of it’s menu link style.

So don’t waste the link units, use all 3 units, which Adsense allows to place in a page.

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Facebook Chat Sidebar

Facebook introduced new feature for chat and messaging, the Chat Sidebar. The chat sidebar will list your online friends and recent active friends. So you can easily chat with your friends just click on your friend name on the chat sidebar.

Also facebook added a Mini-Newsfeed for the chat sidebar, which will show live feed in chat sidebar along with your friend names. If you move your mouse over any of the feed, it will show the history in a pop-up window.

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5 Short Notes on SEO (Search Engine Optimization)


Here is few short notes to consider while Search Engine Optimization:

1. Don’t use Flash to design a complete website. Some HTML and Text are must. I don’t mean, don’t use Flash.

2. Limite th Meta Keywords and Description. Longer and irrelevant keywords will destroy your site ranks in search engines. Also Meta Keywords are no longer used by Google.

3. Consider SEO in mind on first step in the web design work.

4. Use Permalinks (Fancy URLs) effectively. Mostly try to avoid numbering system. See this post’s URL for example. Many blog systems such as WordPress and Blogger uses permalinks.

5. Avoid client-side java scripts as possible. Dynamically created contents (by client side scripts) are no longer considered by search engines. (search couldn’t see that content) .

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How to run IIS and Apache in same server and same port, but different IP

This post is the result of my day long search for running both webservers in my server. Because I need to run wordpress on Apache for better mod-rewrite and FastCGI and other ASP websites on IIS. But there is no good resource on internet for this, there are million questions with no answer. So I tried myself to find a solution, here is it…

Understand few things before start,

1. You can’t run (or listen) two instance (or webserver) in same ip and same port on same server.
2. But you can listen on different IP in same port.
3. So you should have more than one IP to run two websers listening on same port, atleast 2 IP is required.

OK, now I assume that your have 2 IP address named IP1 and IP2, where IP1 and IP2 are two different IP address. And you are running under Windows 2003 and IIS6.

We are going to bind IP1 to IIS and IP2 to Apache and configure both server to listen on only the particular IP(s).

First Install Server Support Tools for Windows 2003, you can download from Microsoft. Here is the link to download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6EC50B78-8BE1-4E81-B3BE-4E7AC4F0912D&displaylang=en.

Step 1:

1) Open Command Prompt, change the path to C:\Program Files\Support Tools.
2) Type the command “httpcfg set iplisten -i IP1?, this command will add IP1 to the IIS listening IP list. You can add any number of IPs.
3) You can check the listening IPs by giving the command “httpcfg query iplisten”.
4) Now exit the command prompt and restart the system.

Step 2:
Edit your all IIS websites to listen only on IP1. Help available on Microsoft website if you need.

Step 3:
Now edit Apache configuration file (httpd.conf) to listen on IP2.
It’s simple, just open httpd.conf and edit the line “listen “, replace the to IP2, where IP2 is your another IP.

If you are using Virtual Hosts, change all hosts to listen on IP2.

I assumed that you correctly installed Apache.

Now you are running IIS and Apache in same server on same port SUCCESSFULLY!

If you need more help, mail me to theone@senthil.name, I am happy to help.

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Distorted image display in WordPress (with Apache and PHP with FCGI): Fix/Solution

Are you running WordPress with Apache 2.x+ and PHP, with Fast CGI installed in your Apache server? You may experienced/experincing distorted display of your uploaded image in your blog.

Actually this problem is not only for your image uploads, also for any file uploads. Because your file uploads are terminated before completion and partially uploaded. A communication issue with Apache and PHP causes this error on FastCGI activated webservers.

When you upload a file (image/any) to the server which is size more than the default size (2K or 10K) will broken by FCGI Apache module.

More detailed error info available at WordPress Forum. see the following link for the error and my solution,
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/350699?replies=4

Solution:
Download and replace the updated fcgi(2.3.5) module from http://www.takeyellow.com/apachemirror/httpd/binaries/win32/

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Tencent vs Sina: Microblogging war in China

Twitter blocked in China in 2009, so the local microblogging services are emerged rapidly, the most two are Tencent and Sina. The war between Tencent and Sina is going on. Because the high rise in internet users in China, it’s the real war to get the number one spot in the Microblogging world. As per the recent statistics China is in #1 spot, with some 420 million people connecting to the Web.

According to iChinaStock, the rise in popularity of Sina Weibo in 2009 and 2010; today, Sina has nearly 140 million users. Yet, since Tencent launched Tencent Weibo in 2010, its service, too, has been growing at a breakneck pace, today claiming over 200 million registered users.

It’s race for “Twitter of the China”.

The infographic of the war:

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Second IE10 platform preview available for developers

IE10 Platform Preview 2, the same HTML5 engine seen in the recent public “Windows 8” demos, is now available for download. With this update, IE10 continues to deliver support for site-ready HTML5 technologies as well as improving performance. IE10 continues IE9’s precedent of enabling Web applications to do more in the browser without plug-ins. It also continues the pattern of offloading work to the parts of a PC that are best suited for them, like the GPU for graphics, and different processor cores for background compilation of JavaScript.

Download the IE10 second preview at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9739661

More details:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/06/29/site-ready-html5-second-ie10-platform-preview-available-for-developers.aspx

http://windowsteamblog.com/ie/b/ie/archive/2011/06/29/ie-10-pp2-now-available-for-download-html5-nears-tipping-point.aspx

Source: Microsoft TechNet

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Amazon.com set to join Indian E-Commerce Club

Indian E-Commerce market is heating-up and Amazon.com is set to join Indian E-Commerce market to make fresh competition. According to a TOI report, Amazon.com is holding talks with various major Indian e-commerce players such as LetsBuy.com, Exclusively.in and Flipkart.com. But talks with these players for acquisitions are failed and Amazon.com is ready to start on it’s own.

Indian E-Commerce sector currently dominated by Ebay.in and Flipkart.com and few other brands. E-Commerce in India has huge potential and no existing players would willing to sell to major players such Amazon. Amazon is already setting up a warehouse in Mumbai, formed some 200+ peoples team and bought some 80,000 sq ft land in Chennai.

It’s good to see more competitors to bring down the prices…

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