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How to perfectly Integrate Google Custom Search in your Wordpress blog
I wanted to replace the default Wordpress search with Google Custom Search because replacing the WordPress’s default search feature with Google Search allows you to use the years of search experience and power of Google. Besides, it also lets you earn from the sponsored results.
I found this guide on Dosh Dosh but it is quite basic and doesn’t have all the details that are required to integrate Google Custom Search to your Wordpress blog properly, I will tell you the proper way to integrate Google Custom Search with your Wordpress Blog like I did mine (you can try it from top right search box)
First you need to create a WordPress page where your search results will show, to do that go to your Wordpress dashboard and then go to write–>Page
Exclude Your own visits from Google analytics on your WordPress Blog
Google Analytics is the most popular web analytics software and no doubt the best out there and many blogger’s use it for tracking thier visitors but many blogger’s complain that their own visits are counted in their Google Analytic’s report and that is annoying if your blog in new because sometimes you are going to be the only one visiting your blog, I will show you three ways to exclude your own visits from Google Analytic’s Reports:
First Method: Exclude your IP by creating a filter in Google analytics
to do that open Google analytics , click on access analytics button and sign in
Google Introduces Adsense For Feeds
Today when I opened my Adsense account to check my earnings, I saw a new tab in the earning sections for Adsense For Feeds and I was quite excited because I was looking for a way to monetize my feeds and what could be better than Adsense 
, actually one could see it coming earlier.
Once you login to your Adsense account you will see a new column in your earning’s report with a link to “Get Started”
click on it and you will be taken to the setup page for Adsense for feeds which looks like this:
Monitor Your Adsense earnings from your windows taskbar
The other day I found this nifty little program on softpedia named SysSense, basically it allows you to monitor your Adsense earnings from the windows taskbar, it places an icon in the taskbar and when you hover your mouse pointer over it, it shows a box with the details of your Adsense account.
It can show all the details of your Adsense account including Page Impressions, Clicks, CTR, eCPM, Earnings, Predicted Earnings, current month’s page impressions, current month’s clicks, current month’s CTR, current month’s eCPM and current month’s earnings, you can configure what to show and what not to show. You can also configure at how much time interval you want the statistics to be updated, it can also show details for multiple accounts and the feature I like the most is that one can configure it to show balloon popups when the amount of click changes, good for those who get excited on every single click. apart from that you can configure it to show the earnings in your native currency but the downside is that you yourself have to put the conversion rate so it means that it wont be accurate but its good for getting an idea.
WordPress 2.6 Final Released
Today when I opened my site’s dashboard I saw a notification about updating to WordPress 2.6 and I was surprised as it was released a whole month ahead of its release date, thumbs up to the developers! there have been some new features added to this version along with 194 bug fixes.
I upgraded to the latest version and immediately saw some changes like the dashboard now shows your comments count along with spam comments and unapproved comments, the theme section is now paginated and whenever you click a theme an Ajax based preview page opens up and you can then apply the theme from there, there is a “press this” bookmarklet so that you can start posting quickly, now every time you or someone edit your posts wordpress remembers the changes so that you can restore them later if there is a problem and the plugins page has been redesigned to add inactive plugins and recently active plugins section, WordPress expert has a detailed post about the changes in this release check it out here
here are some screenshots of the visible changes in this release:
