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I got tagged! Me! Who has studiously avoided all contact with the civilised world, who has carefully skated around viral link campaigns, and skipped over get-linked-quick schemes. What do I do … what do I do?? I guess the time of reckoning has arrived. Forest Parks was brave enough to tag me with the What’s on your desktop? meme. So, it would seem the game is up, and now I shall have to share with the world the shameful reason why I have been so anti-social and so removed from the buzz of the blogosphere (this is besides writing some of the longest posts, which no one could be bothered to read ). The fact is:

I have the MOST boring desktop™ in the Known Universe!!!

There! The truth is now known and it cannot be taken back. It’s quite a relief really … living all these years in isolation, and hiding in the shadows for fear of ridicule and social persecution have been tiring. Now I can breath the free air and walk amongst the trees and the birds. I can finally live a normal life, get a job, buy a car, eat junk food, and make fun of people with funny accents, because a huge burden has now been lifted from my heart, and I am the happier for it.

I am free.

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My Desktop Free View Instruction:

A. Upon receiving this tag, immediately perform a screen capture of your desktop. It is best that no icons be deleted before the screen capture so as to add to the element of fun.

You can do a screen capture by: [1] Going to your desktop and pressing the Print Scrn key (located on the right side of the F12 key). [2] Open a graphics program (like Picture Manager, Paint, or Photoshop) and do a Paste (CTRL + V). [3] If you wish, you can “edit” the image, before saving it.

For MAC users: Press [ Apple] [ Ctrl ] [ Shift ] and [ 3 ]

B. Post the picture in your blog. You can also give a short explanation on the look of your desktop just below it if you want. You can explain why you preferred such look or why is it full of icons. Things like that.

C. Tag five of your friends and ask them to give you a Free View of their desktop as well.

D. Add your name to this list of Free Viewers with a link pointing directly to your Desktop Free View post to promote it to succeeding participants.

add yours here after doing this tag.

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I pass on the tagedelic coolness to:
Vishal — because nepotism is a good thing.
Jon Anderson — because he owns a cool toaster.
Jimbo — because he paid me.
Julie Anne Bonner — because she can’t possible be too busy for this .
Rebecca Dean — because I came across her interesting blog yesterday and thought, “Why not?”

Samir

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Cynicism, disbelief, and ignorance plague the progress of the environmental movement, but surely there are a good number of people who do know and do realise that the impending crisis is real. There have been enough advertising dollars spent on the awareness campaigns, and enough beautiful famous people on red carpets have showed their support for the cause — that’s enough for most to accept as the sign of truth. So how can there be this large and visible imbalance between the awareness level and the level of consistent action in the direction of conservation and eco-friendliness amongst the general population? The simplest conclusion we can come to is that in spite of understanding the issues and recognising the dangers, most people are in denial.

“The first stage is denial,” has become something of a cliché. No one quite remembers what it refers to, or in what context that statement was originally framed. To put things back into perspective, the idea of denial being the “first stage” came from Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who described the five stages a person goes through when facing impending death, in her book On Death and Dying. These stages of grief, as they came to be know, were in order: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. While it might be nice and optimistic to think that all is well because we are still in the earliest stage of this process, please remind yourself where this process is meant to lead — a final acceptance of death. I’m not sure that’s very helpful when it comes to the fate of the human race. While we might in some strange way have already skipped a step and jumped into the “bargaining” stage in the environmental movement (that’s for a future article in the series), this state of denial is something to be very worried about.

1. A Fear of Change
2. A Sense of Impotence
3. A Guaranteed Exit Strategy

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10,000 BRAVE NEW WORLDS
One million years have passed since ancient man first launched his frail metal crafts into the great darkness named “outer space”. Now distant galactic clusters are home to the myriad descendants of the inhabitants of Earth. Now, each world, light years separate from the others, forms part of an island universe called ‘Starswarm.’ …

Thus begins the blurb on the back cover of Starswarm by Brian Aldiss. It is an old edition of the book which was first printed in January, 1964. Like many others in my collection, I picked it up on the streets of Bombay, off Flora Fountain, in the shadows of the large tropical trees that line the pavement beside the stone walls of Mumbai University. I decided to buy it the moment I laid eyes on the cover and the name of the author, but the cover blurb simply cemented my resolve and set my pulse quickening with that yearning to devour that only a hardened bibliophile will relate to. And so on that sunny afternoon, which is when I end up doing most of my book buying in Bombay, the money was paid, the old book was placed into a cloth shoulder bag along with our other finds for the day, and we caught a bus that would take us homeward.

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Our modern existence revolves around technology. It’s not like technology is a new thing. In some form or another, tools and implements of various kinds have helped us in our development from the beginning of time. But sometime in our history, on the way to industrialisation, this technological progress came at the expense of older instincts and memories. In a pre-technological world human beings lived in a state of complete awareness of nature — they had little choice because they were very much a part of the greater ecology and were at the mercy of its vagaries. It might have started as fear of the natural elements, but at some point it had certainly reached a stage of respect. Human beings respected nature and learnt of its intricacies and nuances so that they might survive and thrive in this system. We have now come to the stage over the millennia, when our technology allows us the luxury of ignoring nature and natural forces in our daily lives. We don’t think about it because we don’t consider ourselves to be part of it anymore. In this state of imagined independence, it is little wonder that the environmental movement doesn’t have a wide spread, grass-roots acceptance. How do we think of the greater scheme of things when our only thoughts of nature is a sense of disconnection?

1. Branding & Packaging
2. Added Value
3. Isolationism
4. Delusions of Grandeur

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I recently stumbled upon the Blog Writing Project over at DailyBlogTips when there was less than a day to go for the deadline to submit a post on the theme of “Tips & Tricks”. The final list of entries was put up and my entry on taking sharp photos without a tripod was included.

It now falls on me, as part of the prescribed process, to select my favourites from the pack. I tried looking through these and selecting a “top 5″, a “top 10″, or something similar, but being the diverse articles that these are I find that impossible, and a bit unfair. So I have simply browsed through the entire 122 articles in the list, and selected those that stood out and displayed some excellence that attracted my attention:

• 5 Ways to Increase Internet Traffic to Your Blog by Aseem
  A nice and short selection of tips to increase blog traffic by Aseem. I like the layout of this blog — very clean and functional.
• 10 Tips for Writing Bookmarkable Content by Skellie
  Excellent tips from Skellie, many of which will give you some new content ideas immediately.
• Are Your Blog Posts Actually Useful? by Matt
  Short, simple, and Matt makes a valid point.
• Tips on Gaining Page Views and Returning Visitors Using Post Series by Sarah
  Sarah presents a good, well-organised article with a strong chunk of practical information for bloggers.
• 10 Simple Ways to Show Reader Appreciation by Ronald
  Ronald takes a rarely taken route when it comes to blogging tips, and covers the social aspects of blogging and readership. Some real gems here.
• How To Build Lasting Relationships With Your Readers by Vivien
  Another article about the social side of blogging, by Vivien. Very cleanly laid out and easy to read.
• 10 tips for successful presentations by Computhomas
  Simple, practical, useful.
• 6 Tips to Generate Outstanding Ideas by Luciano
  A well presented and multi-layered post from Luciano about the process of ideation.
• How to Keep Your Marriage, Despite you Heavy Metal Addiction by Alexandre
  Hilarious! Enough said.
• Quick Meals, Not Fast Food by Geoff
  Good practical advice on “quick” cooking. Geoff manages to pack a lot of tasty material into one post.
• 4 Easy Ways to Make More Money with Adsense by Egon
  Excellent and truly useful tips for anyone using Google Adsense. Egon’s tip on implementing A/B Testing on its own is well worth the entry fee.
• 5 Ways to Become an Expert Online… and Make Money! by Chad
  Simple, straight-forward and solid advice on becoming a recognised expert online. And Chad’s well written article appears in a blog with a very pleasing layout.
• 101 Tips and Tricks for Better Photos by Ciaran
  Comprehensive! I think trying to pack in 101 actual tips into a single article might be a bit of overkill, BUT, I can’t argue with any of the actual content here. It is all good and simple A-Grade advice, so dig in.
• 10 Forums to Make You a Better Blogger by Fred
  Fred creates a valuable resource by covering a slightly different angle (forums) of a well covered topic (blogging). Many links here I wasn’t aware of, so good job Fred!
• 5 Tips for Saving Money on a Colorado Ski Vacation by Stacy
  I have never been sking in Colorado, nor do I plan to in the near future, but Stacy still gets my vote for writing some good solid useful content.
• How I Got Aerobed to Number One in Google by Julian
  Julian present a step-by-step case study of the actions taken during the Search Engine Optimisation phase for a particular site. Enlightening.
• Optimize Your Webpage by Edward
  I loved the bold layout of this blog, and Edward’s tips.
• How To Style Author Comments Differently by Michael
  Good old fashioned code hacking instructions from Michael, which serve a useful purpose. Excellent.
• 9 Tips to be More Creative by CSS
  CSS gives good advice in a well organised format.
• How to Setup a Domino Effect of Traffic by Steven
  Steven provides tips and an excellent personal case study on how to use social media sites to generate traffic. Very interesting reading.
• Tips to Optimize Your Blog and Get Maximum Visits by Bikram
  Various CSS friendly tricks to optimise your blog layout from Bikram.
• Forgotten Someone’s Name? Use These Tricks by Dee
  Good honest tips from Dee on how to deal with a situation many of us face often. Some of these while perfectly practical are also quite humourous.

Good job everyone! And best of luck with the competition.

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In spite of all the seemingly irrefutable evidence and the never ceasing campaign to increase awareness, I am sure any comprehensive survey of the views of every last human being on Earth about the environmental problem would result in the following majority response: “What environmental problem?”. This is not simply me trying to be cynical about the issue. In fact, what I’m trying to point out is that one of the major stumbling blocks preventing the true acceptance of our planet’s environmental degradation by the population at large is cynicism.

Like all complex human issues, when we talk of the environmental movement one answer often leads to more questions. The question here is that if cynicism is one of the main reasons why the environmental movement is not working, what causes this mass state of disbelief? I would attribute it to these:

1. A Lack of Knowledge
2. A Lack of Understanding
3. A Lack of Observation
4. A Lack of Trust

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It is blog carnival time again and the celebrations have now officially begun. Sit down with your favourite soothing drink and browse through these at leisure. There’s a lot of good people here with plenty of great content to showcase. So, without further ado, I hand over the stage to our stars:

• Jon Anderson of SuccessPart2.Com linked to How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins in the 1st Sept 2007 edition of the Carnival of Struggling Bumbling Newbies.
• Open Innovators included Tyrannis Populi: Who are “the people” anyway and who says they’re always right? in the 2nd Edition of the Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Carnival.
• Pat Santy of Dr. Sanity linked to How to Start a Conversation with an Urban Indian in the 2nd Sept. 2007 edition of the Carnival of Insanities. The link brought that post some much needed attention, so thanks Pat.
• JM over at Fiction Scribe included Lessons in learning, language and literature in the Sept. 3 2007 edition of the Scribes Carnival. That’s a post from the begining of my current blogging spree. It was written during my last trip to Bombay and I’m still very fond of it and the memories. So glad to see more people reading it.
• Gary Grant of The Garage linked to Porsche 911: Best Pickup Truck of All Time in the Edition #36 of the Carnival of Wheels. He seemed very amused by my observation that living in Dubai makes you take super cars for granted. I’m glad my seemingly hum-drum experiences here can make someone smile.
• Phil Benichou of Phil for Humanity included 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the Carnival of Small Business Issues #18.
• Elizabeth Thompson over at This Full House of Product Reviews linked to Bits of Paper and Other Calendaring Software in the 2nd Edition of the Review Bloggers Carnival.
• Suzie Cheel of Abundance Highway linked to 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the Abundance Thinking Blog Carnival #4. A big thank you goes to Suzie for hosting a very active and inspirational blog carnival. She also mentioned liking the illustrations, and I’m glad the effort I put into finding the appropriate ones paid off.
• James Wong of Online-ebiz included How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins in the 2nd Sept 2007 edition of the Online-ebiz Carnival.
• Sagar over at Life Insuarance Lowdown included Lessons in learning, language and literature in the Carnival of Life, Happiness & Meaning #16. Again, happy to see that old post getting some attention.
• Sandra of Free Cash Quest linked to How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins in the 1st edition of the Free Cash & Making Money Online Carnival. Wishing her the best of luck with further editions of this new carnival.
• Gustav over at succes-is-in-you.com included 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the Blog Carnival for Success #3.
• MabelandHarry included 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the 07 Sept. 2007 edition of the Carnival of Leadership Development.
• Blue Skelton of the Blue Skelton Production Blog included The BEST Action Movie Ever in the 08 Sept 2007 Edition of the Film Junkie Carnival. He also puts in a good word for his own nominee for best action movie ever which is Big Trouble in Little China. Which means I now need to track it down and watch it. I’ve only ever caughts disjointed bits of it on TV.
• Leorita Seneres-Velasquez over at Digital Battlegrounds linked to How to assemble a Feedburner alternative using Wordpress plugins in the 2nd edition of Creating Income With Your Blog.

And that brings us to the end of another boisterous carnival listing. I hope you stumbled upon some interesting sites through these links. Thank you all for the attention and the links.
Until next time, viva carnivale!

Samir

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One of the most common problems faced by photographers of all levels of expertise is shaky, blurry, fuzzy pictures caused by your hand shaking the camera at the wrong moment. This becomes worse when you’re taking photos in a dark setting and the camera needs to use a longer exposure. The longer the exposure, the more likely you are to have an unsteady hand. “Use a Tripod!”, is the easy answer, but what do you do when a tripod is not at hand or simply not an option? That’s where these tips come in.

The language associated with cameras is the language of guns: “shooting”, “reloading”, you get the picture. But if you really want to get the best out of your camera in a shaky situation you are going to have to learn to treat it right. In my book, photography is nothing as violent and barbaric as a hunt, it would be better served by the caring, sensual, and sometimes colourful language of love and romance. Keeping that in mind here are some tips you can use to take crisp and sharp photographs without a tripod:

If that has wet your appetite enough for some hot photography tips, let’s move on to the details …

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Yet another blogging widget thingie to experiment with. BlogRush promises to increase traffic to your blog by syndicating your post links across a network of other sites that also display the same widget. This way, blogs of similar subject matter exchange links of the latest content and exchage traffic. Sounds like a good idea, and it is free, so I thought I’d give it a try. I figure It’s all in the name of science, and also the deeper reason: why not?

Once you sign up your blog you will be given some javascript code to use on your site, just like Adsense, Kontera and many others. The best way to include this into your WordPress blog is to use a text widget. Add a new Text Widget into your sidebar and insert the BlogRush code into the box provided as shown below. Save the changes and you should be in business.

If everything worked out ok, your blog sidebar should now have a new widget that looks like the one here. Since this is new and “hot” at the moment, I forsee it spreading like wildfire at least for the immediate future. Many of the big names in blogging have been talking about this already with varying degrees of scepticism and/or hype, but at the end of the day, no one really knows how effective this thing will be BlogRush is a solid and viable idea for a above-board traffic exhange system. How it pans out over the coming months remains to be seen.

As far as I’m concerned, its a good enough concept to try out, so here it is on my blog. All in the name of science, of course. Try it out yourself see if the whole free website traffic claims work out for you. And, feel free to exchange notes about your results in the comments below.

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Ever since I signed up for Blog Action Day, 2007, I have been pondering over what I can do about it. There are now over 4000 blogs and sites signed up for this event. With all that attention I’ve been thinking it is my responsibility to put out some significant content on the topic. In spite of the possible broad interpretations of the topic of Environment which I mentioned in my initial post about the event, you and I both know what most of the entries will be like. They will either be essays warning we will all suffer for our environmental sins, or they will be cute little lists of things we can all do to save the world from destruction in “7 easy steps”. While I do not discount the importance or the validity of these approaches, I just don’t feel like I would do justice to this task if I chose that route. After all, the organizers of this event have given it the very dramatic and forceful name of Blog Action Day. It’s not “Group Blogging Day”, or “We Can Make a Difference Online Day”, or “Can’t we all Just Blog Along? Day”, it’s Blog Action Day, a title that deserves to have an exclamation mark punctuating it at the end. Writing one perfunctionary post on the designated date just doesn’t seem very action oriented to me.

Then there is the issue of what my “angle” is on the topic. Being a designer, I have always been interested in the communication aspect of the environmental movement. Not only as an academic interest, but also on a practical level. Like most designers I’ve looked forward to the challenge of one day taking on the communication of an environmental message. This seems to be an ideal occasion to take action in that direction, but first I must define the problem.

All design ultimately involves the solving of some human problem. The core problem here is that of the various environmental issues, but the communication problem is to convey to the larger population that these issues exist, and then convince them to change their behaviour to bring about a solution. Easier said than done, obviously, because the Environmental Movement is not exactly a new pup, yet all that communication doesn’t seem to have changed much of the damaging human behaviour. “Why?”, is the question I ask myself, with a month to go for Blog Action Day. But to answer that question I first need to accept the fact that …

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Once upon a time, at the height of the Soviet era, Russia and India were good friends. And not just the kind of casual acquaintances who exchange pleasantries across high-level conference tables; We were friendly enough that the two peoples were interested in how the other lived and thought and dreamed. During this era of cultural exchange, it was quite common to come across Russian literature and Russian published technical books on the bookshelves of academia and the street corners of Bombay. Mir Publishers was a well recognised name in Indian geek circles and I still have some of their books on quantum physics and other miscellanea in my collection.

But that is now. At the time I was one of the millions of kids growing up in metropolitan India whose staple for entertainment was Star Trek (The Original Series) on the single terrestrial television channel on Sunday mornings, and comics that included a healthy dose of The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician and the entire cast of swash buckling Indian Gods and Goddesses from the talented people at Amar Chitra Katha. But if you were really lucky, like me, and you had parents and family members who were book nuts, you were also treated to the weird and magical world of illustrated Russian story books.

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If your first reaction to reading the title of this piece was, “Since when are dictionaries brainstorming tools?!”, you obviously haven’t heard the news. Dictionaries are in fact excellent brainstorming tools, and I’ve been using them in that capacity for years; They are an essential part of my creative ideas arsenal. To find out more about the specifics I suggest you go over and read my article describing some techniques for brainstorming with a dictionary.

Once you recognize the fact that dictionaries are an excellent resource for coming up with new ideas, I would like to go further and convince you of the fact that the good-old traditional dead-tree paper dictionary is a more effective tool in idea generation than all its modern digital counterparts. I can see some of you clutching on to your CD drives and broadband modems protectively, but stick around and let me tell you why the printed paper dictionary can be more fruitfully employed in the creative ideation process.

What it comes down to is the three Ss, and for all you fellow graphics nuts out there, no, it has nothing to do with Sub Surface Scattering. Old-fashioned paper dictionaries have three important properties, or features if you like, that make them more effective brainstorming tools. They work better because they are:

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Another month has gone by. Some progress was made, some articles were published and some fun was had.

New Traffic

Articles in the Best of SamirBharadawaj.com list in the sidebar really started to pickup this month, and I have started to see about a half-a-dozen articles here become the major traffic magnets. That is a good thing and exactly as planned. In fact this month I even did a planned assault on creating some new major articles to add to the arsenal (see below).

The other improvement is the increase in search engine traffic. Articles here are being found for more and more search terms which is resulting in search engine traffic to this site growing from negligible to almost 15%. I am sure that figure will steadily increase in time, as it should. Now that this blog is a few months old and the search engines are aging it a bit, they seem to take it more seriously for relevant results. The hot favourite search terms that are bringing people here at the moment are how to crash a wedding, pop up card, best action movie, feedburner alternative and taking professional photos. There are actually hundreds more, but these are the star atheletes of the group for now.

Content Building

One major task I took on this past month was my try at the ProBlogger group writing project again. This time, I decided to write a series of posts rather than a single one and that resulted in the Be Yourself in Blog Land series. I came up with a clean new layout element for series articles, a spiffy drop-cap (as you can see at the beginning of this post), and managed to finish the four parts I initially planned.

All four were linked by ProBlogger throughout the month of August and some of these are already getting a whole load of traffic as a result. If you are a blogger, these articles should be of interest, so I highly recomend you go over to this article on the importance of a unique blog design and start reading.

Blog Carnivals

August was actually a slow month for Blog Carnivals on this site, because I didn’t submit to any for the first three weeks of the month. Then in the last week I got back into the mood and those submission came through as you can see below:

• The good people at Open Innovators included How entertaining is your 3D software in the 1st Edition of the Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Carnival. Their’s is a very interesting site and the carnival listing itself is very educational and fascinating if you are into the subject of open source and distributed development. The host has taken the trouble to introduce each of the articles they link to and that makes the carnival post almost as interesting as the content it links to. Great site and definitely worth you time.
• Raj Dash over at Performancing included How to Assemble a Feedburner Alternative using Wordpress Plugins in the 2nd Edition of the Carnival of Internet Pros. He went to the trouble of selecting some of the entries (including mine) to comment on individually. The attention is much appreciated and welcomed.
• Blue Skelton over at the Blue Skelton Production Blog included The Village - a review in the 2nd Edition of the Film Junkie Carnival. It’s nice to see more carnivals on the subject of movies and cinema sprouting up. It is a subject a lot of people write about, so the more ways to find these writings the better.
• Steven Fisher over at Startup Spark included 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the Carnival of Entrepreneurs #36.
• Mark A. Rayner over at the skwib included How to Start a Conversation with an Urban Indian in the Carnival of Satire #82. That is the kind of material I wish I was writing more of, so I’m interested in seeing what sort of response it gets as more people read it.
• Once again Raj Dash, this time over at his blog Bootstrapper, included 5+1 Simple Ideas For Brainstorming With A Dictionary in the Carnival of Bootstrapping Entrepreneurs #7. Not just that but he went a step further and selected the article as the Editor’s Choice. A big thank you to Raj for that honour. For everyone else out there, this post was always meant to be just the beginning of an entire thread of brainstorming related content on this blog. So subcribe and watch out for more.

ToDo

“More great content”, is really my only aim for the near future. Hopefully the content will find its readership and its search engine traffic. Above all else, I would just like more people to read this stuff, and judging by the increase in commenting here, I think I am on the right track. Make sure you don’t miss any of the upcoming new content by subscribing to my full text RSS feed.

Another month lies ahead and there is plenty to do. See you around the comment threads.

Samir

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I applied for a Kontera ContentLink account for this blog about a week ago, and I was finally accepted. The whole idea with this site is for it to be a repository of my ideas about creative ideas, and also a test-bed and exploration of my various experiments into online enterprise. Like many other bloggers, I signed up for Google AdSense quite early in the game because it is the simplest advertising system to get into. Now that that has been running for a few months, I thought it was time to try out some other avenues of monetization, and so Kontera came into the picture. In case you don’t know what Kontera is, find a link in this post which has a double underline, and hover your mouse pointer over it.

Kontera has been around for a while, but it really started to increase in popularity when Google finally got rid of a restriction on using other contextual advertising systems with AdSense. Kontera was always an attractive option because it converts existing text into ad links without adding any more elements to the page. Now that you can use Kontera on the same page as AdSense, it’s a great additional ad network for diversifing your advertising space.

Since a lot of you wanting to implement Kontera ContentLink on your own sites are using WordPress, I though an article on the methods of setting up Kontera in a WordPress blog was required. Like AdSense, Kontera provides you with some unique Javascript code to insert into your pages. Unlike AdSense, you don’t need to insert the code multiple times. Kontera studies the entire page (or at least the selected parts of the page - see section targeting below) and automatically inserts the in-content links. The code for Kontera can be implemented into WordPress in two different ways:

1. Install the Plugin
2. Hack the Template

Both the methods work fine and each has its advantages, so you need to decide which method best suits your needs. Now on to the details of how to implement Kontera in your WordPress site.
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