Generally, New post that just posted for around 3-5 days will not have enough power to show higher in the SERP. So it’s rarely to see your post listed in the first page of SERP (except if your posts get a lot of supports). Only those posts that have been aged for more than 1 week will get a good search engine traffic (at least, that’s what happened at my blog).

So, I will only show ads on posts that I posted 5 days ago and avoid showing ads on the newer posts. The steps are easy. Follow this tutorial and start time-basing your advertising!

Image Credit: Leo Reynolds

First, let’s say you want to time-based an adverts on your single post page below your headline. The steps are as follow (for Wordpress only):

1. Find the following code:

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<div class="entry">
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

2. Copy this codes:

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<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>

3. Paste it between the div entry and the_content:

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<div class="entry">
 
<?php $u_time = get_the_time('U');
$selector = 0;
if ( ( time() - 432000 ) >= $u_time ) { $selector = 1; } // 60*60*24*2 = 432000 = 5 days
?>
<?php if( $selector > 0 ) { ?>
//Paste your Adverts Code here - Banner, Adsense, YPN, Chitika, etc
<?php } ?>
 
<?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

4. Replace the text “//Paste your adverts code here - Adsense, etc” to your Ads Code and Change the time as you wish.

What we need is the time in “second”. So, to display ads on 5 days posts, you need to convert it to second.

60 seconds x 60 minutes x 24 hours x 5 days = 432.000 seconds

Look at my example at my blog about hardware and gadgets. I set it to display Google ads on post that have been aged for 2 days. It’s pretty useful for gaining new readership as reader hate ads and blind on it. But it’s useful for monetizing Search Engine traffic as the visitor is more clicky.

Hope this simple tips useful for you. Have a nice day!

I guess I need to give a short report about my condition and situation that made me unable to blog for 5 months (yeah, it’s a long and boring holiday for me). I’m not actually having a holiday for that long. A long white beard could have been grown healthily on my chin!

The truth is, on the early december I suffered from a serious illness that I can’t even explain it in English. I lost 10 pounds because of this illness (a virus exactly) and I have become a more sexy than before (all my ribs looks like a guitar strings. I can play guitar with it now! ).

It takes two months to cure this strange illness and 1 month to recovered. I got to stay in the bed laying there doing nothing but staring at the pale ceiling. It’s really a nightmare for me who love to do lots of activities and move around a lot.

Image Credit: Maneki Neko - Welcoming Cats

Well, it has passed and now it’s a whole new life for me to begin something great. As you can enjoy now, MySitesAdvisor have a new blog redesign again. I guess I need to have a new and fresher theme for welcoming myself to the blogosphere.

I code them myself, used up to 1 month to finalizing this theme (less free time to do things I like). I hope you would like this theme and visit more often. I have check for the server load time. You won’t have a trouble to load my blog even if you use dial-up internet connection.

I will update you more about the feature of this theme and I’m going to release my previous theme as a free download with a demo site.

Believe it or not, blogging on blogging is not the tao to make money online anymore. The reason is because the blogging subject has been covered by whole lots of expert like Darren and Lorelle. It’s never become easier to find topic that they haven’t covered to blog about.

As far as I learn, this niche isn’t where the Tao of Online Money Wealth located. You should seek for other niche or may be you can keep spinning your blog to another type of blogging niche that not discussing about blogging but have the relation with it.

For example, you may cover the coding and design if you have the interest and a set of skills in this subject. Or you may be can spin the subject to some other mentality development subject to empower a blogger’s soul.

Blogging on Blogging is dead because it’s saturated or jammed by blogger. You’ll just keep echoing the idea from experts (You know, there are so many of them out there and they might have covered most of the evergreen articles) and you can’t pull much attention from readers.

Although there is an advice about being a purple cow in your niche, blogging niche is certainly not a great niche kick some ass anymore. You will struggle sooo hard to be able to get some benefit out of it.

While you can actually get lots of benefits from other niches, why you should struggle your life-and-death in blogging niche?

Except you are a great blogger like Lorelle, you might be able to find some great idea to turn this around and keep exist in the strive competition. How about if you are a complete beginner?

One word - Avoid it.

Guru like Yaro also say the same sentence. Avoid to blog your subject about blogging. It won’t worth your time.

I tasted the experience and I’ve felt the result. To tell you frankly, I build this blog by focusing around 70% of my roam time and 30% for other project. Believe it or not, other blogs that stand on a different niches, is proved to be able to generate much more income than this blog!

I was surprised too. At first, I thought if I devoted more on a blog so I can get better result! But that principle seems to be wrong.

Almost 90% of my income is not from this blog. At first, this blog is genuinely blogging on blogging tips, tricks and tweaks. My old readers will know what I’m talking about. At the time, I got no serious traffic from search engines, only from some famous social media like digg.com and StumbleUpon (with the helps from my buddies).

I decided to take a different action to spin my presentation. The result are, since I spin my subject slowly away from blogging (getting away from blogging but still related to it) , I’ve seen some nice improvement in search engine traffic, referral, and more subscribers to my feed.

Those action give me an understanding about:

Targeting a popular niches with a different approach and perspectives is better than meddling inside those niches.

This is my understanding as far as my experience growth. Blogging on Blogging is a hardcore road to blogging success. As an advise, try to switch your attention to what you love to do, instead of putting your perspective on what other peoples love.

Follow where your passion is, and the money will follow you.

It’s wise not to follow the same mistake as I did. Don’t play with fire and be a little obedience to what those experts teach us. For sure, we’ll get what we want!

You may have notice some downgrade on this blog. Actually, I was testing some method that Yaro Starak teach on his blogmastermind blueprint.

He said that the “Communication Channel” is very important for a blog. I read his Blogmastermind blueprint and kind of curious what is the effect if I let it go instead of building it..

Read his blueprint on page 25-26 and you will know what I’m talking about.

That’s where I decided to take a 1 week testing directly on this blog. The result is truly amazing. Although I’ve got an upgrade of PageRank (currently 4 now), It still unable to make any change to the stats.

Total of 3 downgrades happening on this blog during the testing:

• Alexa from 70.000+ down grade to 83.000+
• Comment counts decrease significantly
• Traffic decrease by 30%! :O

Seriously, it’s a great experience for me. What I’ve done is just staying normal on my own posting frequency and become passive on any blogs that I happened to visit often.

It’s amazing to see how everything is dropping continuously during the test. I realized something that pretty important for improving my blog visibility, though..

You may think I’m silly enough to allow my stats drop intentionally. It’s strange, right? Well, I love to test something to prove and taste the failure itself. I believe failure is the mother of knowledge. No failure no serious gain.

Of course, I have gained a serious self-enlightenment on what Yaro so called “Communication Channel”. It’s not simply by reading and understands his statement (Blueprint - p25-26), I actually “feel” the painful experience of losing the communication channel in my blog.

In this test, I’ve proved 6 things:

1. Regular Updating is useless if you just ‘Update’ alone
2. Content is not the true King. I create pillar contents regularly, but the stats keep falling
3. PageRank means nothing but a green bar on your browser
4. Alexa actually useful - Alexa represent the big picture of your blog
5. Number of comment that you will get on your blog is depend on your activities within your niche.
6. Social Media Mass Submitter like Onlywire is useless in bringing traffic. It’s all about incoming links only.

The more you active and take part in conversations, the more people will value your visit and they pay you with an attention on your blog. It’s about Give first and take later.

You need to consistently work out the schedule (set some if you don’t have). It’s useless if you active for 1 month and stop for the next one month. You will back to your start point again.

Except you have reach the Bigger communication channel, and have a bunch of loyal readers that could help you promoting your blog without your private request to them, your blog won’t have a bright future.

It’s very important to reach that point (reaching a bigger CC) before you can try to relax yourself or try to entering to your comfort zone by not commenting or building relationship regularly.

I risk my own stats to do this research, but I’m happy about it because it’s a great experience for me to see exactly how the things working around. Now, I understand ‘deeply’ that Blogging is about communication with the surrounding. It’s not about make a post everyday and get it stumbled or dugg by other and then go missing into the wood of blogs, It’s all about building relationship.

It’s time for me to get up and running again. I’m going to do a round 2 testing directly on this blog. But now, I will try to build the communication channel instead of regular daily update. Let’s see what will happen on next week.

Cheer!

Note: I’m not playing around with my blog future. Instead, I want to taste exactly how is the ‘feeling’ of each theory (I’m a kinesthetic type of human - feeling better than observing and listening) . I’ve done enough reading and observing on other achievement and theory. It’s time to ‘feel’ instead of ‘understand’.

Any comment, opinions, objections? Please do it below.

Finally, it’s the launching day!

Yes, this theme is called “Transformation”. It’s my first theme and I’m really happy to be able to release it for public use.

This theme is the combination of several popular theme like problogger, copyblogger, John Chow, etc.

I combine their element together and BUZZ!… the theme’s born!

I’m must admitted that I have slacking from my posting schedule to develop this theme. I used up almost 10 days to settle things down.

I hope you will love this theme!

Theme Overview:

Theme Information:

Theme: Transformation
Author: Ken Xu
Description: Widget Ready, Adsense Ready, SEO Ready theme. Compatible with Wordpress 2.3 and lower. Please uncomment the tag(); inside single.php to enable tagging on Wordpress 2.3
License: GPL

Required Plugins:

• Brian’s Threaded Comments 1.5.1.2

Download Link:

• Transformation.zip (Reach the download limit - 100 downloads! Will be available soon! Fixing some bugs now. )

My Comment:

This theme is ‘actually’ Adsense ready. There is a special spot for the 250 x 250 ads format at the homepage. I have provide you the code and adsense template. You only need to do some small works to display the ads above the featured post.

This spot is the best spot according to Joel Comm, the Adsense Doctor.

The steps to display Adsense Ads on Homepage:

1. Find the index.php file
2. Uncomment the code after <div id=”midcontent”> and save it
3. find adsense-home-template.php file
4. replace the “xxxxxxxxxxxxx” with your Adsense PUB id.
5. Done!

For Adsense in single post view, I suggest you to use Adsense Deluxe for a better control and display. Try to enclose it with <div> tag and the float and margin style to make a variation to your ads display.

Transformation also is a premium sponsor ads ready theme. You can replace the image with an affiliate banners if you still don’t have any sponsored ads to display, though.

I’ve also provided MyBlogLog widget on the footer, all you need to do is to replace the “xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx” into your MyBlogLog ID.

You will notice a blank Top, Recent, and Random post section in the left sidebar. I suggest you to use Customizable Comment Listings (recommended by Lorelle). It could bring you more exposure for your posts inside your archives and and unpopular posts.

Need Help:

Since this is my first theme creation, I’m sure there is a bug that I haven’t found yet. I need your help to contact me if you found something’s wrong with the code.

Disclosure Policy:

Transformation Theme has a backlink to this blog at the footer section. Please consider leaving the link in tact to credit my hard work

Well, it’s up to you, anyway. Feel free to remove it. Just make sure you feel comfortable about it.

• After the upgrade process complete, the database table is error. I will need to point to this URL: [yourURL]/wp-admin/upgrade.php to fix the problem.
• The first time trying to make a new post (this post, actually ) , And error occurred below the publish button. The culprit is Google Sitemap Plugin. Disable it and you will not facing any problem again. But you will need to find another plugin for sitemap.

I’m not using any sitemap generator right now, if you have any good recommendation, please comment below

• The incoming link is using Google BlogSearch instead of Technorati. It’s quite annoying because we couldn’t see who actually linking to us. It’s better to change back to technorati.

Steps to Replace the Google BlogSearch with Technorati Blog Reaction:

• Go to your server folder and find your wordpress installation folder.
• Find and click the wp-admin folder.
• You will see this file inside wp-admin folder: index-extra.php. Open it and you will get this line of code:

$rss_feed = apply_filters( ‘dashboard_incoming_links_feed’, ‘http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch_feeds?hl=en&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&num=10&output=rss&partner=wordpress&q=link:’ . trailingslashit( get_option(‘home’) ) );

$more_link = apply_filters( ‘dashboard_incoming_links_link’, ‘http://blogsearch.google.com/blogsearch?hl=en&scoring=d&partner=wordpress&q=link:’ . trailingslashit( get_option(‘home’) ) );

• Change it with the following code and save it:

$rss_feed = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_feed', 'http://feeds.technorati.com/cosmos/rss/?url=' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );

$more_link = apply_filters( 'dashboard_incoming_links_link', 'http://www.technorati.com/search/' . trailingslashit( get_option('home') ) );

Other than that problems, I’m really have nothing to complain anymore.

I love the ‘advance toolbar’ and the integrated tagging services. I’m also love the integrated plugin which could notify me on the newer plugin (plugin that I’m using at) is available for download.

I ‘m sure, with this new version and my new theme, I will do a lot more of pillar post to build my blog. Hope this post is useful for you who haven’t upgrade your wp.

Finally I’m able to make my own theme for my blog.

It’s a 4 days hard works and the result is as you can see now. Although there are several bugs that I haven’t fixed, I could wait to see it up and running!

This post is to test the featured post section as you can see in the left sidebar. There is so many feature that I still want to add but haven’t add it. Will do a little change again after a several days.

Please be kind and let me know if you’ve found buggies part of this theme. I will really appreciate your help!

The full description & launching with the downloadable theme files (yeah, if you like this theme, then you are lucky! ) , around this weekend. So, Please help me spotting some bugs which I cannot witness it myself with my eyes to faster the launching time.

Thanks for visiting. No special post for today. Will update you the process using the featured section.

See ya again!