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Feedburner installation:http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/help/wordpress_quickstart

The Feedburner plugin has been adopted by Feedburner and has been renamed to FeedSmith. To see the article, you can go here: http://blogs.feedburner.com/feedburner/archives/2007/05/feedburner_adopts_twoyearold_r.php For the installation, see the link above. Note, it’s different from the one in John Chows document.

I have to admit, I’m pretty excited about using it. This will allow me to track my entire feed-reading audience. Granted, I’m really in the start up phases, this is exciting. By the way, I am now seeing at least 1 new visitor a day. It’s not the best, but, it’s one more than last week!

I started the installation and things went very well until….I submitted my domain name to Feedburner. the exact message is “The URL you entered does not appear to be a valid feed. We encountered the following problem: Error on line 2: The processing instruction target matching “[xX][mM][lL]” is not allowed.” After some research, i’ve found that with free hosting, through JoesWebshack.com or GoDaddy.com, you can’t have feeds. something doesn’t sound right here.

I ended up calling tech support. From what I can tell, the automatic installation which you can do through the back end, did not install the appropriate files. So, I didn’t even have a feed directory. After an actually very informative call, I found out the only difference between free hosting and regular hosting is you can’t have feeds. So, my question now is, what to do. It appears that if I’m serious, this is the first step, figuring out how to switch this site back over to regular hosting. they also suggested I reinstall WordPress. This means, I may have to reinstall everything. I’m not too excited about that.

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Installation site: http://www.acmetech.com/blog/2005/07/26/adsense-deluxe-wordpress-plugin/

Things needed:
1. Google AdSense Account

Things to Avoid
I was using a WYSIWYG editor for my articles. It works great. But, when you ad this Adsense code into your blog, the editor was automatically erasing it. So, I spent a lot of time trying to figure out why this wasn’t working, when all along it was my editor.

This one was a little tricky, but I finally figured it out. The installation goes very smooth. You copy the files over as normal and activate the plugin.

Once the application is installed, you must configure it. Before we get started, here’s the overview of what you would do on a daily basis.

1. When writing a blog, you can insert an ad anywhere in the article. Very neat, excellent for seamless placement. So, keep that in mind when writing the blog.
2. I would write the blog first, then perform the “Save and Continue Editing”
3. Go to the Adsense Deluxe area and choose the adsense you would like to use and copy it, this will prevent spelling errors.
4. Go back and edit your article to include the appropriate ad

If you follow that main format, you will be able to produce a blog pretty quickly. Otherwise, you may end up jumping around a lot. I haven’t tried it yet, but I would suggest creating an ad for each type. You may need them later on. A little time spent now creating several ads may save you some time later on.

To edit the plugin, you have to go to the Options | Adsense Deluxe area. In the Plugin area, you can create ads at the top of the page, and will find instructions on the bottom of the screen. You can pretty much feel your way through it without any issues. Once you create your ads, you can place the ad directly into your blog. It’s a pretty neat tool. But, I can easily see where becoming a pro blogger does take a lot of work.

It also appears as though you need to manage multiple things at once. For example, just to write this blog, (I’m using Internet Explorer 7) I have a tab open to write this article, one with the Adsense Plugins, and another for Google. Yikes, that’s a lot of shifting around.

But, it works and that’s what counts. Below is an example of what it looks like. Later on I’ll write an article on setting the adsense options. It seems to me that the best idea would be to create a couple of sample pages to use as references.

Installation link referenced: http://www.nosq.com/blog/2006/01/runphp-plugin-for-wordpress/

I visited the installation link, but the page stated, “The Webpage cannot be found” Because of this, I skipped this step. I may come back later. Chances that I do are slim, unless I see a need for it. There is a site that references it, but all links produce the same results. Here’s the other page I used to find some more links: http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/RunPHP

Time to complete: 1 hour ( I had some knowledge issues)

Installing the Digg this plugin sounds like an awesome way to advertise the blog. Little did I know, I had to learn just a little bit more. The installation here also gets a little technical. So, if you’re not used to what FTP does, it will take some time.

This option seemed to take longer than any other option. I think it was due to not reading and understanding everything thoroughly. Also, I wanted immediate results to show what I had done worked correctly.

Here’s a run down. I followed the instructions on how to install it. I went back to my site to see something. Guess what? nothing was there. So, as a programmer, I played a little with the code, added some debugging text and still nothing. So, I had to find another solution. I soon discovered there is a more in depth description of how to install the “digg this” plugin. My main issue… this link does not display unless someone has already “dugg” an article! That was my big mistake. So, I went to digg.com, registered, and submitted a digg for my article. So far, I haven’t seen anything yet. Hopefully, I will see something soon.

Next step… Find the code or a plugin to allow someeone to Digg my article. Once I find it, I’ll post it.

Best.

Main Installation link: http://www.aviransplace.com/digg-this-wordpress-plugin/

In Depth instructions link (Recommended): http://blog.patyuen.com/lessons/howto_install_diggthis_plugin/