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I must have gotten about half a dozen emails from the various newsletters that I subscribe to last month about the launch of BlogRush.

It seemed like a good enough concept for getting more traffic to your blog, but of course it’s at the expense of having some your own blog readers click away from your blog to go visit someone else’s. So, I wasn’t willing at the time to jump on that bandwagon.

However, I’ve discovered a really cool Wordpress plugin — BlogRush Click Maximizer — that allows you to drive much more targeted traffic to your blog from BlogRush. So I figured I’d give it a whirl and see how it does.

If anyone else has been using BlogRush, I’d love to hear what you think of it.

Happy trails,
Paula.

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As I had mentioned previously, I had installed the fabulous Planet Ozh Who Sees Ads plugin and I wanted to set up a demo that you could see for yourself. So I tried using the built-in ‘if ad viewed <= number of views then display’ condition. But that tracks total number of views ever — not per reader.

So I modified the plugin to add a built-in ‘if ad viewed by visitor <= number of views then display’, which uses cookies to track each reader’s number of views. Just check out this demo…

I've installed it on this site for the following 336x280 block of Adsense Ads which you can only see 2 times. So go ahead and refresh your browser twice. After the second refresh, you'll no longer see the Adsense Ads...

Did you try it? Did you refresh the page 2 times? How cool was that!

Now I also wanted to use it for the 160×600 Adsense skyscraper in my sidebar, so that you’d only see the ad if you were not a regular reader (someone who has viewed at least 2 pages over the last 10 days, but I can change this definition too), or if you arrived at this site from a search engine. The only problem was, my sidebar content is set up using widgets, and this otherwise awesome plugin didn’t come with a built-in widget.

So I wrote my own! Yup. So if you want the widgetized version of this plugin then…

1. Either get the original plugin and my widget to use with it:
   • Go get the Who Sees Ads plugin.
   • Right-click and save as to download the Who Sees Ads Widget.
2. Or right-click and save as to download my widgetized EZ Expert Who Sees Ads version of the plugin.
3. Unzip and upload them both to the wp-content/plugins directory of your blog.
4. Go to your blog’s Admin -> Plugins and activate both plugins.
5. Go to Admin -> Options -> Who Sees Ads and configure your ad blocks.
6. Go to Admin -> Presentation -> Widgets and add & configure your Who Sees Ads Widget.

Let me know what you think with a comment below,
Paula.

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I went over to the Planet Ozh blog to get the really neat Who Sees Ads WordPress plugin, and while I was there I came across his Random Words plugin. So I decided to give that one a whirl as well.

So I’ve just installed and enabled it and set up a demo list, which is being displayed just below…

Sentence 1: This is a demo of the Random Words plugin by Ozh.

Now to see it in action, just refresh your browser.

If all is working well, the Random Words plugin should produce a random sentence from a list of 3 possible sentences to display just above.

So what’s the big deal you ask?

Think “Frequently Updating Content” — you know how much the search engines like that.

Let me know what you think with a comment below,
Paula.

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Today I paid a visit to Planet Ozh to get the Who Sees Ads? WordPress plugin, and I have to say it works like a charm!

What this plugin does is to control which of your website visitors get to see your Adsense or Yahoo ads (or any piece of HTML code actually — imagine the possibilities!).

You set the conditions for who sees each block of Ad Code independently, so you have quite a lot of control. I’m going to set up a demo in another post, so you can see it in action for yourself.

Paula.

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