Regular Wordpress users should know by now that Wordpress 2.3.1 was released 4 days ago. The news is listed on your Wordpress Dashboard as well as a short announcement (see below) bugging you on every page of your admin panel:

A new version of WordPress is available! Please update now.

This upgrade fixes over twenty bugs. Some of the notable fixes are:

• Tagging support for Windows Live Writer
• Fixes for a login bug that affected those with a Blog Address different than
  their WordPress Address
• Faster taxonomy database queries, especially tag intersection queries
• Link importer fixes

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I was a bit skeptical when WidgetBucks claimed:

You reap the rewards of PPC ad widgets that earn better than $2 CPM. We’re seeing $3-$6 CPM on our widgets, about three times that of traditional ad networks.

and I decided to try it out to see if it lives up to my expectations. So I hit the main page and found out that WidgetBucks is giving a free bonus of $25 if you sign up now. Tempting.

The sign up process is simple which require your email address and preferred password. You will receive an email to verify and activate your account. Then customize your widget and paste the code into your blog/widget. Here is a sample ad:- (more…)

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Now you can unzip your compressed files online with Wobzip - a newly developed online tool. All you need to do is to browse and upload the file from your computer and click “Uncompress“.

Can’t be easier, rite?

It supports the following formats with maximum file size of 100MB:-

7z, ZIP, GZIP, TAR, BZIP2, RAR, CAB, ARJ, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, LZH, SPLIT, CHM, ISO

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Google sets to improve user experience by allowing publishers to easily manage the ad units from within their AdSense account. This new feature will be released within the next few weeks.

According to Inside Adsense:

This new ad management feature means that your ad unit settings (such as colors and channels) for new AdSense for content ad units will be saved in your AdSense account every time you generate ad code. Then, if you’d like to change any of these settings in the future, all you do is make the update within your account — you’ll no longer need to manually replace the ad code on all of your pages. For instance, you can quickly change the borders of all your 300×250 medium rectangles from red to blue with just a few mouse clicks. Fancy! We hope that this new feature will help you save time and will simplify the process of optimizing your ad units.

Read more here.

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I recalled the time when the Google Adsense ads on my site were irrelevant, it affected my earning badly (yes, it drops 66%). So, reacting what a normal person will, I went online to find a ‘cure’ to this common ‘disease’. It was a fruitful one as I found ways to could help to increase the relevancy of the ads.

Section Targeting

Section targeting allows you to define the important area of your HTML content that you would like Adsense to look into before displaying their ads on your website. You can implement it simply by using the following tags into your HTML code:-

Tag that mark the beginning of the section
<!– google_ad_section_start –>

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