Your affiliate advertisements from CJ and others will sometimes not read in a blog post if they are written in javascript. Similarly, if you are posting news stories from TheNewsRoom, the videos won’t read in your blog if javascript is disabled.

The problem isn’t the Wordpress software, it’s the template.

Most Wordpress templates these days will read javascript in their posts, but once in awhile, you’ll find one that doesn’t.

That just happened to me on another blog that I set up as a magazine format. I spent a lot of time on the basic site, adding graphics, policy pages, some opening articles, product feeds and so on — only to find that some special javascript material would not read in the posts.

The solution is simple. You don’t have to edit your theme or change to a new theme.

Here’s what you do.

Step One. Go to your user profile and disable the visual editor. It looks like this:

If you don’t disable the visual editor, it won’t work.

Step Two. Immediately below your javascript code, paste the following in:

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
updatepage();
//--></script>

Your script should work in your post after doing this. Note: This will work for only one javascript code per post.

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Affomatic makes it very easy to include current auctions into your Wordpress posts … and the Wordpress plugin is free.

One of our newbie sites that we’re developing is for a friend of mine who is very knowledgeable about antiques. Elaine’s been writing fantastic, keyword-focused articles. Although the site has not yet been promoted, Elaine is starting to get some nice search engine placements for some of her keywords in Google. For instance, as of today (February 27, 2009), her site is #5 in Google’s search results for the term, deco diva.

For the term diva wrapping paper, she is ranking #9 in Google’s search results.

For these terms, Google has 805,000 results for deco diva and 55,800 results for diva wrapping paper. Granted, these are not millions and millions of results, but Elaine’s placement so high within them is very good for a beginner. Her site is not quite two months old. We’ve been using Jeff Johnson’s free SEO blog software, which I think is what is creating decent results despite the fact that there is no promotion at this stage. I also think that these results are because Elaine is using good keywords and writing consistently. Her blog posts are top notch and definitely deliver value to the reader because she knows what she’s writing about.

The Problem and a Solution.

Elaine’s site, Antiquing with Deco Diva, is starting to see some traffic but the problem is that it has not been monetized other than Adsense. Adsense is great — don’t get me wrong, I use it — but there is no way that an antiquing site will make very much money if it is strictly monetized with Adsense.

So we found a super easy solution that requires no research and very little work other than pasting a line in a blog post and adding a keyword. The solution is Affomatic’s eBay plugin for Wordpress, which is free.

How to Install the Plugin.

Visit Affomatic and enter your email. A download page will be sent to you. Download as you would usually do.

Unzip your downloaded file. You will see that the plugin is simple and straightforward — it’s just one php file.

Using your favorite FTP program, upload the php file into your plugins directory.

Log into the dashboard of your Wordpress blog and activate the plugin.

This entire process should take about five minutes, depending on the speed that you receive your download page by email.

Setting Up Your Affomatic Plugin.

Affomatic makes inserting eBay auctions into your blog super easy. In the administrative dashboard, you will see a link under settings called “AffomaticEbay,” as shown in the screen shot below.

When you click the settings tab, you will see a page that looks like the screen shot below. The affiliate ID is the default ID that comes with the program.

Although the Affomatic eBay settings are straight forward, the eBay affiliate number might be a bit of a challenge. It should be a 10-digit code. To find it quickly, go to your eBay affiliate page and generate an ad creative from your tools. It doesn’t matter what kind of creative you are generating … What you need is the code.

In the screen shot below, I have copied the advertisement code for Elaine’s eBay account into notepad. As you can see in the screen shot, the code contains a “campid=” code. You want the 10-digit number that follows “campid=”.

I copied and then pasted Elaine’s campid into the Affomatic setup screen, and then changed some of the other options. For instance, her plugin will display four current auction items, based on the “antiques” category in eBay.

Inserting the Code Into Your Posts.

Once you have configured your Affomatic eBay plugin with your eBay ID and other information, the plugin will NOT generate ads on the fly in each post, like your Adsense code does. You need to insert a simple code in each post that you want auctions to appear. When doing so, make sure that you select the HTML option, as shown in the screen shot.

Simply add the line supplied by Affomatic in the spot that you want your ads to show. Be sure to leave the brackets in and be sure to enter the appropriate keywords that you want. In this example, Elaine’s article is about Bimini art glass, so I used a relevant keyword — glass art — in the Affomatic code.

This is very easy to do and should not take much effort on your part. You can find the code easily by clicking the settings tab discussed above. For people less comfortable with navigating Wordpress, I recommend that you store the basic line of code,

[AffomaticEbay]Keyword[/AffomaticEbay]

as a document where you can find it quickly. Whenever you want to insert eBay auction items into a blog post, you can quickly find the code, copy and paste it into your blog post, change the keyword and you’re done.

The code generates beautiful, topic-specific results that fit well into the blog post. Here’s the output of what we just added to Elaine’s blog.

You can see the complete blog post about Bimini art glass here. I added a few more of these auctions into her blog. While I still think that specific products need to be reviewed, with affiliate links, the eBay plugin will definitely help to create an additional source of potential income. Because the auction items are so relevant to the topic, Elaine should see some results.

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Wordpress has launched Wordpress.TV, which features a wealth of video tutorials that can be helpful for the beginner and the expert blogger.  The videos cover everything from adding an image to importing forum posts into your Wordpress blog. You can spend hours at this site, watching videos from the latest WordCamp to some cool tips and tricks. Check it out.

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The site might look sort of tacky, but there’s some good stuff in the “Be My Valentine” giveaway. For instance, there are:

• Blog software packages, including automatic blog builders that will create thousands of pages for you;
• Software to create membership sites;
• Tutorials explaining the control panel of your hosting account and basic html language;
• Graphics collections that include useful icons, images and web page templates; and, of course,
• PLR article and ebook collections that you can edit and publish/sell as your own product.

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but you can still take advantage of this event for the next couple of days. The doors close on the 28th. Since there’s a lot to look at, you might want to sign up right now so you have time to download what will be useful for you.

As the name implies, it’s a giveaway event. Sign-up is free, and so are the goodies.

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If your computer has crashed and you’ve lost some old software that you used to use regularly, check out OldVersion.com.

Sometimes, the older versions of software are just plain easier to use — and, like the movies, the originals are sometimes better than the remakes.

A software program that I bought years ago and got lost to the computer graveyard was an unzip utility called Power Archivor that I liked even better than my WinZip program. Because of its compression and unzip capabilities, I felt like a fish out of water when I lost the program (my backup disk wouldn’t read, either). I was thrilled to find it at OldVersion.com.

As far as licensing and copyright issues are concerned, you need to review the terms of each program. However, if you’ve lost valuable components of your original software or the entire program was destroyed, you definitely need to check the Older Version site out.

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For all of you who are submitting comments, thank you! I enjoy reading them and responding.

Since this is a “Do Follow” blog, the links that you provide in your comment should get some back link traction with the search engines. You can give this a bit more “oomph” by clicking on any of the social networking icons that appear on the article that you are commenting on.

These icons look like the image below.

The easiest tool to use is probably the “Stumble Upon” network, that’s pointed out on the toolbar example. When you click on it, the page containing your hyperlink should show up. Type something brief and submit. If you don’t have an account, you’ll see a registration link. It’s free.

The second easiest tool is the “De.li.cio.us” bookmarking service, that looks like a white, blue and black checkerboard. Again, you need a free account to use it. Bookmark the page with your link for some added search engine juice.

These things take only a minute or so, but can help boost the value of the link that you’re providing here. Obviously, it will probably help this site, too.

Keep the comments coming, and thanks again.

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Here in the States, we have more lawyers per capita than any other country, with an estimated 1 lawyer per every 265 Americans.

Topping the list is Washington D.C., with 276.7 lawyers per every 10,000 residents. Where are the least laywers? North Dakota. (See table to find out where your state compares.)

In this week’s “email funnies” that arrived in my inbox was this article about “Grandma Goes to Court.” I’m not sure if it’s true, but it is cute.

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Here’s another content spinner that you can download. What’s nice about this one, compared with the Jetspinner program we talked about yesterday, is that you don’t have to be online to spin your articles. However, you do need Microsoft Excel. I haven’t tested this yet, but it looks pretty straightforward. I also have not tried it with Open Office, the free alternative to Microsoft Office products. The download link follows the video, which you might want to watch first to make sure that this is for you.

You can get the spinner program from “Profit with Chris,” a generous entrepreneur who is giving it away.

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A couple of days ago, I posted an article about blog maintenance for newbies.  The article showed how to update plugins within the Wordpress administration area.

Most of my blogs — as well as the blogs for the brand new sites we’ve talking about here — are running on Jeff Johnson’s SEO blog software and have the Wordpress automatic plugin update installed.

There was a conflict between the new Wordpress “automatic upgrade”  and the plugin.  That’s been fixed as of this as of this morning.

When you log into your administrative area of your blog, you should see a plugin update alert in the left column of your dashboard.

After clicking the alert, you’ll see that there is an upgrade available for the “Wordpress Automatic Upgrade” plugin that has been released.  This will resolve the conflict between the plugin and Wordpress.  Just like we talked about in the blog maintenance for newbies article a couple of days ago, upgrade the plugin by clicking the automatic upgrade feature.

Once you have upgraded the plugin, you should see at the top of your screen a notice that gives you the option to automatically upgrade to version 2.7.1.  Select the top line, as shown in the screen shot.

Follow the prompts, be sure to download the database backups, and you’re set to go!  This process will take about 5 minutes.

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Do you have a hard time coming up with content?

You need to take a look at Jetspinner, which is one heck of service that I just tested out … and you can even get in for free.

Jetspinner Is One of the Best Services I’ve Ever Seen.

The program delivers two powerful punches:  First, the Jetspinner aspect will allow you to easily create hundreds and hundreds of grammatically correct articles that read well.  Second, the JetSubmitter component will submit unique articles to the directories, giving you hundreds if not thousands of back links.   As a free member, you can test out the submission portion for one project.  The upgrade … which looks like it’s cheaper than most of the submission services out there … will submit your article to over 600 directories.  If you’ve been on the fence about joining a content spinning/article submission service, you really need to check this out.  Here’s why:

• Create hundreds of grammatically correct versions of an unlimited number of articles.
• Export to zip, txt, html, and more.
• Simple Spinning Syntax.
• Full Version 100% Free.
• AJAX Thesaurus for word replacements.
• Directly Import into Jetsubmitter for submission of unique articles to hundreds of article directories (Upgrade).
• Get all your article submissions indexed by Google!

One Article Turns Into 50 (or whatever you choose).

As usual, I’ve checked out the software before blogging about it.  The screen shot below is a picture of the page you will see when you log in to your free account.  If you want to submit your article to 20 article directories, you can create a project.  In the example I’m writing about today, I’m just going to spin an article for use on my own blogs and sites.

Paste your base article in, and then add alternative language using the simple syntax that you see on the right hand side of the screen.  It took me around 45 minutes to go through and add the synonyms and alternative sentences, which are shown in the screen shot.

Once I added in the alternative versions, I went ahead and used the default of 50 spins.

Jetspinner quickly created 50 different and totally unique versions of my article … so in 45 minutes, I “wrote” 50 different articles.  You can see one of the randomly spun articles below.

Unlike other content spinning software out there, Jetspinner lets you download a zip file containing all of your different articles.  So if you are hand-posting to blogs or article directories, you’ll have 50 different articles to easily copy and paste.

Conclusion:  This Is One Fantastic Program.

This is one of the best content spinning programs I’ve seen.  Whether you need to create a bunch of content for your websites or need totally unique articles submitted to the article directories for backlinks, Jetspinner will do the job for you.  I’m really amazed that  this is free … and the full upgrade is dirt cheap compared with many other services.  You owe it to yourself to check it out.

Click here to get Jetspinner

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