There’s a great plugin for the WordPress platform, called SEO Super Comments, which creates a single “virtual” page for each comment on your site. It increases the number of pages you have on the site, and improves your SEO a lot. Read more on SEO Super Comments on the authors page: SEO Super Comments by Vladimir Prelovac .

“The concept relies around optimizing the target page using title and H1 tag using the context of the comment. So basically we will take the excerpt of the comment and use it to create the page title and H1 tag and in the body we will hold the content of the comment…” says Vladimir.

Download modded Google XML Sitemap Generator 3.2.3

I created a modded version of XML Sitemap Generator 3.2.3 to work with SEO Super Comments which puts all your comments pages in the sitemap, and once submitted to Google, you should see a huge raise in your traffic.

Installation

To install, you should replace the downloaded sitemap-ui.php and sitemap-core.php in your Google XML Sitemap Generator Plugin’s directory and overwrite the original files. I would recommend you back up your original files.

Once installed, Go to your administration panel, and to the XML Sitemap Generator settings, and check the ‘Include Comment Pages’ option, click ‘Update Options’ at the bottom, and “Rebuild Your Sitemap”

I personnaly recommend this plugin and would thank the developper for it.

Please send your comments and queries here if you have any issues regarding my modded version of Google XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress.

Donate

Please go to the Donations Page  and contribute to the developpment of more updated plugins if this modded version helped you increasing your traffic.

Due to some yet unknown issue, WordPress version 2.8.2 might be causing server errors.

Lunarpages, my “current” and might become “ex” webhosting company, shut down Gibni.com yesterday without any prior notice, saying they’ve taken an emergency action, as the “index.php” script in my wordpress root was using huge server resources, and could cause a server crash.

First problem is, not only they changed the “index.php” permissions to “000″  (no read permissions) but they took ownership of the file, so neither I could make any changes to the file, nor analyze it for troubleshooting.

Secondly, they made the domain return an “internal server error” to all visitors.

Third, they did not manage to put an “under maintenance” page at the root untill the issue is solved.

Anyway, thanks to my linux skills, I managed to put an “under maintenance” page for Gibni, and get the site back online very soon.

Until I figure out what caused wordpress to eat server resources, and was it really wordpress or Lunarpages’s poor servers and administration, was it the running theme which ran without any issue for months or even the plugins installed on wordpress a year ago; I’ve decided to switch back to wordpress default theme and upgrade to wordpress 2.8.4.

After all, I believe that you should now:

• Enjoy Gibni, Ad free!
• Always have a maintenance page and an emergency code, just in case!
• Be careful choosing your webhosting company!

Making money online is one of the most researched topics for many of web developpers, bloggers and website owners. It takes a lot of efforts to produce quality content and get enough traffic, to be able to rank better in search results and improve your different ranking factors. After a while of being online, website owners will get advertising offers from different companies, which might be interesting at first.

Well, this is a good sign, as it means that your site is getting some interest and attention; but it’s also an alert, warning you to be cautious.

There are lots of scams out there, which try to fool you by offering great business opportunities and make you run some ads or malicious scripts on your website. They (the scammers) will try to get detailed information about you, your website, personal details and even your bank account(s).

You Should be carefull…

You would get an email, from an unknown party, who shows interest in your website and usually represents himself as an advertising company who wants to buy some ad space, or publish some content on your website (or blog) for one of his clients.

First thing to do is : DO NOT reply with your personal information and  DO NOT show that you’re very interested!

Second, start to gather some information about the company who sent you the email. See its WHOIS record (you can use InterNIC WHOIS ) to find out more about the website owner, registrar, their address, and phone numbers if any.

Use your favorite search engine to find out more about the company, visit their website, check their “About us” page, check their portfolio, recent clients, latest works…

Look for user reviews on the company, search to find out if ” {the company name} + scam ” returns anything in your search engine? Search and investigate a little bit to keep your website (blog) safe from advertisement scams.

Use SiteAdvisor form McAffee to check if the website is a safe website or not.

If you come across any types of scams, just DO NOT reply to their emails and ignore them. You would help other website owners and bloggers if you write a post on how to identify scams and spams and how to avoid scams.

You can share this post and link back to it from your website (given that you mention the source).

Recently I’ve came across a scam from Production-Time.com . They’ve sent me an email in French, in which they shown interest in Gibni.com and asked me to reply if I wanted some more information.

I’ve done a WHOIS research and some investigation and found out that the email, even if it was well personalised, has been sent to thousands of people and some website owners have already announced Promotion-Time.com as a scam. I’ve found a detailed article about this scam in EPN.dk, which I translated to English to be able to understand it.

Here’s the a part of the email they’ve sent me:

Bonjour,
J’aimerais vous faire part d’une proposition commerciale à propos de votre site Web, qui pourrait très fort vous intéresser.
En effet, ma société Promotion-Time, souhaiterait vous rémunérer pour la publication d’une petite publication textuelle sur votre site pour un de nos clients.
Il s’agit d’une annonce francophone ciblée qui convient à certaines pages de votre site.
N’hésitez pas à me contacter si vous avez besoin de plus amples informations.

Sincèrement,
Francq Petit
francqp@promotion-time.com

Si vous ne souhaitez plus recevoir d’emails de Promotion-Time, répondez à cet email avec comme sujet : STOP.
It is possible to continue this correspondence in English, if you prefer to do so.

Here in this post, you can help the community by letting other know about the scams you faced and also know about scams already running on the internet. Type in the information you have in the comments section (Be carefull not to spam the comments section) .

Making money online, avoiding the scams, aims to help you avoid scams, help spread the word and show your support.

Many people have visited Gibni.com since its first day and the number grows everyday. Do you want to mark the history of this site by bringing some help to it?

• Articles like TOP N95 Applications, Symbian S60 Applications – Part 1 , 2 , 3 brought a lot of people to this site, and gave them useful information on mobile phones applications.
• Articles on the Delayed Write Failed error message or the second version, helped a lot of people solve their hard drive issue and get their data back with no data loss!
• About 20 000 people read the article on MSN Messenger and its conflict with NOD32 and got connected back again with friends and familly.
• The Conficker removal article, is getting a lot of attention as it helped many people to delete the virus and protect themselves from conficker’s infection.

Currently I am writing the 3rd article on the Delayed Write Failed error message which will hopefully help people with this issue to get their hardware work properly as expected.

The 4th part of TOP Symbian Applications is on the way too.

I expect an increase in my unique visitors by 7 000/month. Which will lead to about 30 000 unique visitors per month.

My first goal is to provide information for free, and make it accessible to everyone. All of this takes time, a lot of time.

Many visitors wanted to say “Thanks” for the information I provided here and that helped them in some way, so I recently started a new section, which you might have already seen, it’s the Donations page. Here you can donate any amount of money to help me continue the developpement of Gibni and if you donate more than 10 USD, you can show a name and a link of your choice on the Donators list.

Go ahead and Buy me a drink (Coffee: 3.5 USD, Beer: 4.5 USD or Fresh soda: 2.5 USD) at least if you can’t donate a larger amount.

Thanks for your great support.

Ever heard of the word RSS? I bet you’ve been invited many times by website owners and bloggers to “Subscribe” to their “feeds”! And you asked yourself “What is (s)he talking about!?”

So I’ve decided to put up a video which explains RSS and subscribtion in pictures! This is a very easy to understand and friendly movie clip.

The movie is created by CommonCraft . Checking up their website, I was amazed that only two people are working in this company and they do such a great work! They work from home it seems, and they worked for big companies like Microsoft and Google. There are lots of interesting videos and the website looking very friendly! Just watch this movie on RSS and you’ll love it!

(Small tip for webmaster, bloggers and “make money online” people! : The more your website looks friendlier to a user, the more clicks and increased pageviews you will get!)

I was in the process of optimizing my site that this pagerank drop happened. Once I finished my work, I went on checking all those links and decided to put a NOFOLLOW rel tag to almost all outgoing links on my site. Some of you may not approve this, but I believe that NoFollow is a good thing when it comes to improving the Internet content quality, mostly from search engines point of view.

Once I solved the rel tag issue for my links, I asked Google for ‘reconsideration’, explaining them that I was still learning and now I am aware of their quality guidelines, and I fixed the issues on my site. This was one month after the PageRank Drop!

Two or three days later, my PageRank went back to 2 again! I was surprised that this happened so fast!

Anyway, if you experience a PageRank drop, fix issues that might be in your pages by following Google’s Quality Guidelines from the “Webmaster Tools” service in Google, and then, submit your website for reconsidertion.

It’s a 3D Sphere tag cloud! it’s based on a flash file but the real knowledge behind makes it completely search engine friendly.  This is basically a plugin called WP-CUMULUS made by Roy Tanck. The Plugin is hosted now on WordPress.org -> Plugin’s page.

I found this very exciting and as it does not interfere with search engine friendliness factors, I decided to add it to my new theme. I would recommend it as a good plugin as you can really customize it.

The theme that Roy has got on his blog is really well designed and is easy to navigate too! Good job Roy, Keep up the good work!

[WP-CUMULUS]

It’s good to know that CUMULUS is being ported to Typepad and Blogger too! So it’s good news for everyone!

Install this on your blog and to support the good work, spread the word!

Well, now the question is that what is really going on and why should you continue to read on? Let me tell you that many HUGE banks around the world are going bankrupt, and governments are trying to help them out. This might sound OK to you, but it shouldn’t because that means everything gonna change very shortly, like a lot of small companies and also big ones might disappear in the months to come, many poor countries will become extremely poor and in trouble, and that might start civil wars, and also governments will start to tax you like they’ve never had!

I’m always an optimist person but this time, after all i saw and all that specialists say, there will be a lot of problems. Some say that China’s plan in this financial crisis is that it will wait until everything gets collapsed and then it will inject huge amounts of money in the market and ask for many things, that is China will become the owner of the world. That doesn’t look scary at all to you; I suppose; but it should!
Well, now let’s talk about what does it have to do with bloggers and internet people? The question is “Will the international financial crisis affect your website or blog income?”

Basically the income of many blogs and websites depend on the advertisers and sponsors, and some of it on the products they sell, if any.

Now if small companies and markets start to go astray, who will pay the website owner and blogger?

To Be Continued…

Comment on this Post to let others know about what you think!

I’m making this technique available to the public so that you can “Drop cap” any text you wish.

You can drop cap in WordPress or on any other platform where you can run PHP functions.

I’ll explain on how to Drop cap in WordPress without installing any plugin.

I’ll keep it simple; just open the “functions.php” file in your theme directory, and add this function to it:

—Code—Functions.php—

function dropcap_first($content) {
$pos = strpos($content, ‘<a>’);
/* stripos is only available in new PHP versions we’ll  */
/* live with using the case sensitive version so it won’t match <A> */
/*     $pos = stripos($content, ‘<a>’); */
if (($pos !== 0) || ($pos === false)) {
echo ‘<p class=”dropcap-first”><a href=”‘.get_permalink().’” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to ‘.the_title_attribute(‘echo=0′).’”‘. $content .’</a></p>’;
} else {
echo ‘<p class=”dropcap-first”><a href=”‘.get_permalink().’” rel=”bookmark” title=”Permanent Link to ‘.the_title_attribute(‘echo=0′).’”‘ . stristr($content, ‘>’).’</p>’;
}
}

—END—Code—

Now that you have added the function, you should supply the text you want to drop cap to this function

Here’s a briefing about internal items of the function:

_____

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string. Unlike the strrpos()

before PHP 5, this function can take a full string as the needle parameter and the entire string will be used.

_____

Returns the numeric position of the first occurrence of needle in the haystack string.

Unlike strpos(), stripos() is case-insensitive.

_____

Returns all of haystack from the first occurrence of needle to the end.

_____

Now proceed to formatting the drop cap letter by CSS. Here I’ve defined a new class, named “dropcap-first” and here’s the CSS I’ve written for it:

—Code—Style.css—

.dropcap-first:first-letter {
color:#900;
float: left;
font-size:50px;
padding-right:2px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
}
.dropcap-first {
font-size:26px;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
color:#036;
font-weight:bold;
text-decoration:none;
margin:20px 0 0px 0;
}

—END—Code—

After having added the CSS to your main style sheet, you should provide the text you want to Drop cap to the function, for example, here’s what I did for the articles’ titles:

—Code—Index.php—

<div class=”post_title_wrap”><?php $get_title_todropcap=the_title(‘<a>’,'</a>’,FALSE);
dropcap_first($get_title_todropcap); ?>
<small><?php the_time(‘j,M, y’) ?>
<span class=”comments”> | <?php comments_popup_link(‘Be the first to comment’, ’1 Comment’, ‘% Comments’ , ‘Comments Disabled’); ?></span>
<span> | written by: <?php the_author() ?></span>
</small>
</div>

—END—Code—

Once you apply the above procedure, you can get the first letter of the supplied text, dropcapped.

If you have trouble understanding the function, do leave a comment and I’ll explain you what is going on in the function.

I finally recieved my first Google Adsense Payout! It’s my first payout on the internet! This encouages me to do better and try to write more useful articles and build better websites and blogs.

Now I can confirm you that “IT WORKS”! This is to let all new bloggers and website owners know that THEY CAN MAKE MONEY ONLINE! You have just to build good content and monetize your pages to the best, and the most important is to be patient and try until you get to it!

It took me a long time to get the first payout because I am very busy with my studies at the university and I don’t get enough time to work on the internet, but now that my websites started to produce income, I know that the process will continue; this motivates me to pay more attention to this work.

Well, what I learn is that the best and the more content you make, the best results you’ll get!

I’m also excited to let you know that a new theme will be installed very soon on Gibni, I recommend advertisers to get in touch to know more about the available ad spots, and I promise users that they will have a better and more enjoyable experience with the new upcoming theme.

The upcoming theme is in beta version now and might get online in the next few days.

If you wanna start making money with your website or blog, just subscribe to my RSS feeds and you’ll get updates on how I did and what I’ll do to make more money and attract more traffic.

So far, I’ve written few articles about Web Optimizing, and also page monetizing, just surf on Gibni to see these articles, I hope they’ll be useful to you, and more articles are to come shortly as the real work just got started!

Do not forget that Gibni started from ZERO, with NO BUDGET! and now IS MAKING MONEY! so you can too!