• download a plugin here.
• Once you downloaded the file; unzipped it.
• I use FireFTP to upload the unzipped file to this folder /wp-content/plugins/. But you can use whatever FTP you want.

One more thing you need to do before you can use this plugin. That is you need to edit adsense.php otherwise you can’t earn money because those codes are not yours.

Open adsense.php file, search down to the middle, and find the lines of <!– Begin Google Adsense code –> and <!– End Google Adsense code –>. You need to put your Google Ads between these two lines. Make sure you use the following codes to wrap around them. What I mean is your codes should look like the one below:

 
You can change to float right, left or center; adjust 5px to meet your needs. By the way margin: 5px 5px 5px 5px represents for top, right, bottom, and left margin spacing respectively. After you made your changes, make sure you save it and upload it back to this folder: /wp-content/plugins/adsense/.

Now login to your WordPress Dashboard, click on Plugins on the Menu Bar, and make sure you activate Adsense. You should see a new button, Adsense, on your editor’s Code Button. Now go ahead and try to click on Adsense button and place the ads wherever you want it to be. See mine on this post. Hope you enjoy it like I do!

If you are using Google Blogger, you’ll find How to Wrap Your Blogger Post Around Google Ads? and How to Wrap AdSense Ads Around and Inline Beside Blogger Post Content very useful.

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Here I want to show you how to add a sitemap to your website using Google Webmaster Tool’s account. If you have a website self-hosted by a web server, then it is easy. Just create a sitemap using Google Sitemap Generator here. Then save it as sitemap.xml file. You can name it whatever name you want. After you’ve done that, upload it to your web server in the root directory using FTP, and finally submit it in Google Webmaster Tools‘ account like this http://www.yourdomainname.com/sitemap.xml. Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name. It did not give me any problem when I submitted mine.

However it took me pretty long time to figure out how to add a sitemap to my blog which is hosted by Google Blogger and my other blog which is a self-hosted WordPress blog. The self-hosted WordPress blog is in my website’s sub-directory. It gave me hard time when I tried to submit a sitemap through Google Webmaster Tool’s account. In order to make it work I found out from this feed validator web tool that I have to submit it like this http://www.yourdomainname.com/blog/?feed=atom for atom or http://www.yourdomainname.com/blog/feed for RSS. Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name.

The blog with Google Blogger also gave me hard time. I searched Google Webmaster Help Group and I was guided to add atom.xml to the end of my Blogger’s URL, but I just kept getting errors. At the end I found one error saying, “Paths don’t match. We’ve detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don’t use the www prefix (for instance, http://example.com/myfile.htm).” So I just submitted it like this http://yourdomainname.blogspot.com/atom.xml without www and it works! Make sure you change yourdomainname to be your own domain name. Now all of my sitemaps in my three websites work fine!

If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comment section. Good luck to all of you!

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If you are usinge a full version of WordPress blog, then learn how to implement it from Posting your videos with WordPress here. If you are using Google Blogger, then this article will show you how to implement it in your blog: How Can You Post YouTube Video in New Blogger? For the WordPress.com bloggers, check this website out: How Can You Post YouTube Video in WordPress.com Blog? Hope you enjoy your YouTube videos!

By the way both WordPres.com and Google Blogger are Free service that offers a free blog site. If you are thinking to have one, these two are good choices for you to start. Check out Comparison of Google Blogger and WordPress.com Blog to make a wise decision before you choose one.

Update 7/15/2008: I learned how to change the title now which I talked about it here in this post: Learning How to Blog With WordPress – Part 2. If you are using a full version of WordPress blog (WordPress.org blog), by default your blog’s permalink (permanent link) looks like this http://sitename.com/?p=123 which is ugly and Google will penalize for this kind of urls (web addresses). Therefore it is very important that you optimize your permalinks first before you want to continue to do anything else with your WordPress blog. You don’t need to learn the hard way like me:

• Login to your WordPress Dashboard; click on Options/Permalinks (for WordPress 2.3.x) or Settings/Permalinks (for WordPress 2.5.x). See the screenshot below; it is taken from WordPress 2.5.1:

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• Look for Common Settings under Customize Permalink Structure section. There are a couple of choices offered by WordPress. See the screenshot below:

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• In the Custom Structure, type or copy and paste /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ in the text field. Your permalink will turn out to be: http://www.sitename.com/2008/7/15/postname/. According to Using Permalinks<<WordPress Codex, set up your permalink like this is always a good start.

• Alternatively in the Custom Structure, type or copy and paste /%category%/%postname%/ in the text field. Your permalink will turn out to be: http://www.sitename.com/category/postname/.

• Make sure you scroll all the way down and click on Save Changes to save it.

Hope the above information helps you if you are a newbie at WordPress like me.