Adding RSS to your website
December 12th, 2005 by Sarah KingThis is the main page of a series (yet to be written) of How-To guides for adding RSS feeds to your website.
It’ll cover HTML and PHP scripted sites and all the tools will be free to use.
Why HTML? Well, some blogging systems and the Blogger sites don’t allow the user to add serverside scripts. Poop to them, but until they relax or allow some controlled way around it then those sites need to be treated as pure HTML.
| Method | Type | Cache | 3rd Party? | SEF | Score | Demo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magpie RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
| DOMIT! RSS | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 5 | here |
| CaRP | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 4 | here |
| SimplePie | PHP | Yes | No | Yes | 10 | here |
Making Adsense Ads relevant on a blog
December 7th, 2005 by Sarah KingI received this email today from a blogspot user
Sarah, I’m hoping you have advice for me about my Blog. On my “homepage” Business & Technology Reinvention the adsense ads have low relevance to the content on the page. But when I open an individual post the adsense relevance is excellent (for example Winning Against Big R&D Spenders)
Given that most of my traffic comes to my home page I’m concerned that the low relevance ads dilute the focus of my Blog. Do you have any advice or suggestions to improve?
David
Google, via it’s MediaPartners bot and Googlebot, are very effective at reading a page, nutting out the essence of it and returning the correct ads.
They seem to have a blindspot, though, when it comes to blogs which use Blogger or Blogspot blogs – as these seem to attract more than their fair share of ads for other blogging systems. Read the rest of this entry »
Syntax Highlighter for WordPress
September 17th, 2005 by Sarah KingWhen I was editing my Essential change to Blogger Templates and using the output of php’s sytax highlighter I was getting unreliable presentation via WordPress. What had worked well in the old part of my site was falling over now. I needed something that made posting simple and worked for readers!
I looked through various libraries of WordPress plugins and decided on iG:Syntax Hiliter and it’s fantastic. The layout is cleaner than I had before and the code doesn’t have to be manipulated before I post!
Thank you Amit!
