All Entries Tagged With: "Tools & Tips"

WordPress Blog And Server Optimisation Masterclass: Introduction

I’ve been blogging for nearly 3 years now and this site has gone from a handful of page impressions and dollars per day to around 600k page impressions and $15k per month. In that time I’ve moved hosts a few times, moved from shared hosting to a dedicated server, changed blogging platforms, tried numerous plugins [...]

Show Me Your Desktop, Leo Babauta

If you missed last week’s interview with work-from-home-mom Wendy Piersall from eMomsathome.com, then here is your chance to read up on that.
This week it’s Leo Babauta from zenhabits.net turn. Zen Habits is about life hacks, GTD (Getting Things Done), being organised, motivation, eating healthy, productivity and a lot more.
I was so surprised by some [...]

How to Search For Faces On Google Image Search

Are there occasions when you’re searching for someone’s photo on Google Image Search, but something else shows up in the results?
In order to improve Google Image Search and Picasa, Google acquired Neven Vision last year for their image object recognition technology (old news, but may be new to someone).
To search faces on Google Image Search, [...]

How To Remove Ads From Google Search Results

Although in some occasions advertisement in Google search results might be helpful, some users prefer not to have them. There are various ways to remove ads not only from Google search result pages, but also from other websites. However, there is a really easy way to remove ads just from Google pages.

Test Your Broadband Speed For Free

I get a lot of visitors visiting my site looking for a BroadBand Speed test, so I’ve decided to add a Broadband Speed Test to the site.
You can use the test to check that you are getting what you are paying for, or whether you should start looking for a new Broadband ISP or maybe [...]

How to Disable or Enable Error Reporting in Windows

If you are using Windows XP or Windows 2003, you must have seen a pop-up message asking whether to send this error report to Microsoft whenever a program stops working abruptly. Microsoft has included Error Reporting so that they can make Windows better and stable but this can be bugging if you tend to have [...]

How To Retrieve Unsaved Data In Web Browsers When It Stops Working?

Before I start with the actual tip on ‘How to retrieve unsaved data in Web Browsers when it stops working?’ let me Thank Everton for asking to be a guest blogger at Connected Internet. I am Mr. Byte and from now on I will be bringing Tips and Tweaks on various subjects every week.
Day [...]

Pirated HD DVD Movies Already On BitTorrent

Despite AACS, the DRM shared by HD DVD and Blu-ray, being touted as being practically unbreakable the first pirated HD DVD movie has already been loaded onto BitTorrent.  Serenity (I thought the movie was a bit weak personally) has been uploaded in the EVO format,which should play on PowerDVD.  According to CyberNetNews the file is [...]

Added Chitika Related Product Units (RPU) To My Site

I’ve just added my final Chitika unit to my site.  In addition to my Shoplinc store and the manual product deeplinks I’ve created with the custom shoplinc alinks module I wrote, I have just added the Chitika Related Products Units (RPU) to my site. I think these units could work quite well. You [...]

10 Ways To Increase Google Adsense CTRs And CPMs

I’ve been limbering up for the start of the weekly ‘Pimp My Blog‘ series which starts on Monday (click here to submit your site), and trying to remember all the tricks and tweaks I’ve used over the last 18 months. Here are ten ways in which you can improve your adsense CPMs and CTRs.

Use [...]

Submit Your Site Now For Free SEO And Revenue Generation Advice!

I’ve been blogging for 18 months now, and my part of my day job is related to site and search optimisation, so I think I know a fair bit about optimising sites.
Starting on Monday, I will be selecting one site each week where advice will be given on increasing advertising revenue and traffic. All [...]

How To Create Your Own Hosted Blog Part II

gHacks have just posted the second part to their guide to creating Your Own Hosted Blog. Martin has some sage like advice in this installement:
Hosting is essential of course but you should not be to afraid to make errors. I switched hosts three times before I found the one that offered me everything that [...]

How To Add Related Posts To Your Feed

Whilst fixing my Wordpress installation, I lost a tweak I did, which I’ve just put back in, which added links from my favourite plugin, Related Posts, to my RSS feed. If you’re not using the Related Posts plugin yet, then hang your head in shame, as it’s one of the best plugin for driving more [...]

Guide To Starting Up A Blog – Part I

I’m glad that I was sitting down when I saw this guide on starting up a blog from gHacks, as although Martin knows a hell of a lot about blogging, SEO, hosting, revenue generation etc I’ve never seen him write a post about blogging. I have however managed to coax out some of his [...]

Make Web Pages Load Faster

I’ve started using Internet Explorer again as the majority of my readers use IE, so I need to make sure my pages look ok. I found an old page I’d bookmarked which gives clear instructions via video on how to make web pages load faster in both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
If you want to [...]

The Dos And Don’ts For Driving Traffic To A New Website

I’ve had a lot of conversations over the last couple of weeks mainly via email on how to increase website traffic, which is one of the reasons I started the Connected Internet Forum this week as I wanted to try and capture these conversations and include more people in the discussions.
In my view there are [...]

Visit The New Connected Internet Forum!

I decided on a whim last night to create the Connected Internet Forum! However, the more time I spent creating the forum (about 2 hours in total) the more and more I convinced myself that setting up a forum was a good idea.
Over the last month or so I’ve realised that the same readers [...]

How To View Subscriber Info For Your Blog

The Subscribe To Comments 2.0 plugin by Mark Jaquith of txfx.net must be one of the most popular WordPress plugins. One of the current drawbacks of the current version which Mark is trying to fix in his upcoming 2.1 release, is the fact that blog publishers can’t see who has subscribed to their posts.
Although [...]

Want To Do A MyBlogLog Community or Friend Exchange?

Since I re-discovered MyBlogLog last week, I’ve slowly started to get traffic from people checking out my new MyBlogLog profile and also Connected Internet’s profile. So far I’ve added 17 friends/contacts and 11 Connected Internet community members.
I’ve also noticed that I’ve already started to get traffic from friends of friends who are checking out [...]

Improve Windows Vista Memory Performance

Martin over at gHacks has managed to get his hands on a copy of Windows Vista through his day job, and he’s already setting about getting to grips with the new OS.
So far, he doesn’t appear to be very impressed with the new visual eye-candy that is wasting lots of RAM.  He has managed to [...]