I love saving money, and better yet, I love getting something great for free. Why pay for a dedicated FTP client when the Firefox add-on, FireFTP gives you the power of a built-in top-notch FTP client within your browser. This nifty extension turns Firefox into a full-fledged FTP tool, so you can transfer files back and forth without leaving your browser.

While FireFTP offers all the expected features you’d expect from an expensive FTP client, it gives you the looks and feel of a simply a dual-pane file manager. It can handle multiple accounts and remember the different login and passwords, and their separate connection settings for each account. The Firefox add-on works across different platforms letting users import and export FTP account settings, and supports directory comparisons for synchronization, time-stamp syncing, and auto-reconnect. And just in case if any of this makes sense to you…It supports authenticated TSL, authenticated SSL, and implicit SSL for secure transfers, drag and drop, and CHMOD changes.

Newbie Tips:

With your blog you will want to upload, documents, pictures, video and other files to your server for your posts. Also, you will want to backup and upgrade your blog software. To do this you will need to use a FTP program. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the simplest and most secure way to exchange files over the Internet. Whether you know it or not, you most likely use FTP all the time. For example FTP is the backbone of the MP3 music craze, and vital to most online auction and game enthusiasts.

Setting up the FireFTP program is as easy as using it. To get started, download and install FireFTP The installation is the same as any other Firefox add-on (plugin) and will require that you restart Firefox. It’s accessible either from Tools in the menu bar or you can add a FireFTP icon to the toolbar via customization options. You can also set the program to open in a new window or in a new tab, and it will run conflict-free with other major Firefox extensions such as FoxyTunes, Speed Dial, or AdBlock Plus.

FireFTP looks and acts a lot like a dual-pane file manager. Its left pane displays the contents of the local hard disk, while the right one shows the directories and files on the current FTP server. The address bar at the top of both panes allows you to jump to a particular directory without clicking through the directories. It also remembers visited locations, so you can quickly navigate to any previous directory by choosing it from the drop-down list. To transfer files between your local machine and an FTP server, you can drag and drop them between panes, or you can use the Arrow button.

FireFTP features a handy account manager, which allows you to set up multiple FTP accounts, or quickly connect to an FTP server without saving any account settings. To do the latter, press the Manage Accounts button and choose Quick Connect. In most cases, however, you probably want to create a permanent FTP account for often-visited servers. To add a new account, choose Manage Accounts -> New and fill out the required fields under the Main tab. Using the import/export feature in the account manager (Manage Accounts -> Import/Export), you can easily transfer your existing FTP accounts to another computer or store them safely as a backup.

Besides the standard features, FireFTP also offers a few more advanced tools. For example, the Directory Diff command allows you to compare the current local and remote directories. Although it doesn’t check the files for modifications, it can be useful for keeping the directories in sync. Other tabs allow you to tweak an account’s default settings. For example, you can specify the initial local and remote directories under the Options tab, so when you connect to the FTP server, FireFTP automatically opens the specified directories. Although the extension sports the Compare Directories feature, it can’t sync modified files (different files with the same name).

While FireFTP may not be as powerful as a dedicated FTP client, it does offer all the features you’ll need 99% of the time. With its ability to transfer files via FTP directly from within Firefox makes it a compelling choice for most users.

Most surprisingly, it didn’t cause any system sluggishness or freezes. There are, however, a few drawbacks. Windows Vista support has been spotty, and because of Firefox limitations, the app can’t transfer files larger than 4GB, nor can it access network folders. Proxy support works for some, but not others. Despite these problems, the plug-in is stable, easy to use, and provided enough with advanced features to make it worth using. Here is another great reason why Firefox is a Bloggers best friend.

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This free WordPress plug-in is the easiest way for an Internet Newbie to start making money online with a blog. The WordPress plug-in widget Shylock AdSense will automatically place your Google AdSense code into your blog posts for you. And for those experienced bloggers it becomes the must have companion tool used along with the book, The AdSense Code; published by Joel Comm. You will have the ability to use multiple Google AdSense ad campaigns, and control the ad placement locations within various blog posts with a click of the mouse. No need for HTML programing required, just a cut and paste and you are done. It truly is an Internet Newbie dream comes true.

I wish I had this plug-in widget when I first started to blog. I can still remember when I started my first blog and was so excited about adding the Google AdSense code into my blog. I went to Google and signed up, read the instruction and copied the code, and then I went to my blog and felt so lost. Where do I add this Google AdSense code to my blog? I tried and tried before somehow I got lucky and it started working for me. That experience, plain and simply, sucked. And I will never forget that feeling of not knowing what to do. Now a bit more experienced, I look at this widget with even greater enthusiasm knowing how incredibly powerful it also can be used to manage multiple AdSense campaigns. This plug-in is built for all levels of Bloggers. It’s one of the few must have WordPress plug-in widget and again, it’s a dream come true.

The Shylock AdSense widget is easy to install and activate. After installation, from your Administration Options menu, under the Shylock AdSense option, you just simply insert the AdSense code into a dialog box for your blog posts or pages without modifying any WordPress templates. Plug n Play all the way! Next you have the ability to manage up to 10 different ad campaigns in your blog posts, with 9 different location arrangements. You also have the ability to show different ads for posts older than 1 day or any amount of days older.

Let’s take a look:

Shylock Options Menu - Set code

Insert up to 10 different ads in each of the Set code sections. Here you can input separate types of Google created AdSense ads by changing the Google ad unit type, ad format and the different color schemes to match your desired ad appearance. Press Update, at the bottom of the page, before changing to another ad to prevent loosing your newly created ad. To setup or change another ad campaign, click a different ad code number above the dialog box to switch between Set code screens. Also note the actual ad preview is displayed below. DO NOT CLICK ON THIS PREVIEW AD, it is active similar to those on your blog. After your have entered your AdSense ad codes move down to the options section.

Shylock Options Menu - General and Page options

Here you begin with the option of showing ads to Administrator. You then may also choose to exclude any particular post or page from displaying ads. To use the Exclude option you will need to go back to your Manage page option, in your admin area, and get the ID number of the posts or pages that you want to block ads from appearing. This may be appropriate to use for pages on your blog such as About, Contact or Advertise Here.

The Page option begins with the ad setup for your Front Page. You decide which ad code settings are to be used, the ad alignment and which additional posts (1-10) your front page ad setup will be displayed upon. You are able to choose multiple ad locations with combinations of different ads to be placed in your posts and where the ads appear. For example, using a combination of Alignment options you can pick different ad formats such as a Leader board ad placed on top, then a Skyscraper ad placed on the right side and a Banner ad placed on the bottom. Note that different types of AdSense ads require the use of proper ad placements to be effective. Also the Middle option requires 2 or more paragraphs to work properly. Keep in mind that Google will only allow you to display up to three different AdSense ads per page. Always save and preview your blog for your desired configuration. After you have setup your Front page ad settings you will want to continue with the setup of other pages on your blog.

Shylock Options Menu - Page options

This is a continuation of the above Page options with the exception of the Post Number option is missing. An additional nifty feature is located here that helps you manage your ad campaign used for older posts. This may seem kid of strange, but it can come in handy if you choose not to display ads in your new posts, keeping your regular visitors happy. Then follow up with a more aggressive monetized ad campaign for those search engine visitors. Note that the Older than x days options will not be applied until the blog post age is achieved. And if this option is left blank all previous options will be used on all posts.

Tips and Tricks:

This is where this widget gets really cool! AdSense ads are not the only items that this widget helps you place in your blog posts. Come on, say what? Yes, this super kewl widget can place anything into your blog posts. You can also insert YPN and CPM ads, custom banners or buttons, your favorite post box or anything else you want to present to your viewer’s attention.

The Shylock widget is a very powerful time saving tool to be used with managing multiple ad campaigns. Test and track different ad locations and color arrangements for the most profitable ad placement. A Google AdSense expert Joel Comm has written an incredible book which shows you many techniques to use in getting the highest profits out of using Google AdSense campaigns in a book called, The AdSense Secrets 4: What Google Never Told You About Making Money with AdSense.

Hidden on the Internet, scattered among billions of Web pages, are the clues to an incredible secret. For those who know the secret, the result is untold wealth. An elite club has uncovered the mysteries of The AdSense Code- put their knowledge to use and receive checks from Google while you play, sleep and eat. The AdSense Code is focused and very concise on the objective of revealing the proven online strategies to creating passive income with Google AdSense. The AdSense Code reveals to you hands-on solutions of the concerns and challenges faced by many content publishers. Begin to attract targeted traffic, improve content relevance and increase responsiveness to AdSense ads using easy and legitimate techniques that have worked for those who know the secrets. Google AdSense expert, Joel Comm, provides you with the keys you need to “crack” The AdSense Code and unlock the secrets to making money online.

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What is the untold secret of the new Atomic Blogging V2.0?

Atomic Blogging V2.0 is at last here. Our friend Alvin as worked over six months to put together an impossible sequel. How could he present a better package than his début of Atomicblogging? Although his new release was delay a few weeks he has made up for the lost time. Alvin continues with his easy to follow, step by step approach of setting up a successful blog. And now goes into more advanced detail with the same easy step by step approach.

Alvin has put together a massive package to get you started blogging successfully. And for those of us how were so lucky to start with his original package there are some many additional insights to driving massive traffic our way, including new traffic case studies.

Alvin wastes no time in offering money making opportunities. The first step after you purchase his package is a money making opportunity. He has included three new additional bonus packages, Atomicblogging Theme 3.0, cool widgets and updated the new companion video tutorial guides.

Alvin has put together a140 page e-book that is simply put as awesome. He has 10 complete chapters starting with the “do’s and don’ts” of blogging. As he progresses from building a new blog, he hit on all the major aspects of successful blogging. Alvin includes marketing research, generating online cash, SEO optimizing, power tips, Monetizing your blog, traffic generation and his signature of Web 2.0 & Social Networking. Did I mention traffic and online cash? Yes I did, this is the major theme of his package. And he shows us just how easy it really is to do. He goes on and then presents his in-depth and easy to follow, Advanced Traffic Tips & Bonus Chapters that goes above and beyond the ever day e-book out there sold today. In short Alvin has packed an enormous amount of targeted detailed information with in 140 pages. Thanks Alvin.

But the real untold secret of Atomicblogging is delivered after you buy his product. You are joining the Atomicblogging community. This is something that no e-book or one time offer can ever match. It is invaluable. The support and latest news, tools, trends, internet expert interviews and all the insights involved with the blogging community are all shared openly. His news letters, blog sites, affiliate programs, and emails are always current and filled with money making insights. As his community grows so to will you. So join us in the exciting world of Atomic blogging.

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I purchased Atomicblogging and it is an excellent product accompanied with an awesome step by step setup guide. I highly recommend it to anyone. Additionally you need to create a comprehensive Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List in WordPress. This is a necessary update to drastically increase traffic to your blog. This will also increase the amount of spider links to track who is linked to your blog and who you are link to with RPC2 services or other websites, all done for you automatically.

With this in mind, it’s now time to add an additional feature to make your Atomicblogging experience even more enjoyable. Here we will boost a Wordpress feature and option that will improve your blog traffic and save your time in posting your blog across the web.

First off we need to create your Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List. Say what? Ping what?

An Atomicblogging Plugin Ping Lists allow you to automatically notify many blog posting update services and search engines that your blog has been posted or updated. Sounds easy and like a lot of fun to be able to increase traffic. I read “The bigger your ping list is the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources”. I’ve even found guys out there bragging about how big their ping list is. So being a guy I decided to go look at my own ping list. I was a bit embarrassed when I found my default ping list was 1. What’s with that? And some of these guys were talking over 56 sites. Okay, so their list is bigger than mine, what gives? And what is a good number to have, and should I increase it, or just leave it alone?

So how big is your ping list? It’s OK, go ahead and take a peek yours. You can find your ping list by doing the following:

1. Log into your blog address with /wp-admin extension.
2. Click OPTIONS and under it that, click WRITE.
3. Scroll down to the bottom this page to view.

A good number to start with your ping list is one. Less than one would mean that you don’t want to broadcast your blog to the web. Ping-O-Matic is the default blog posting update service that WordPress has setup. Ping-O-Matic will broadcast to multiple services notifying them that you’ve updated or posted a new blog.

When building your ping list keep these considerations in mind:

A) Prevent multiple pings from the same post to a single blog post service to avoid the SPAM flag, 3 seems to be the limit most blog post services excepted before spam becomes an issue.

B) Validate your ping list to ensure that none of them time-out and that you have a valid URL address. Each additional ping will increase the amount of time required to post or update your blog. There are freeware programs available to ping sites to get a response, I used Utility ping.

C) Verify - Certain web hosts - particularly free ones - disable the PHP functions used to alert update services. If your web host prevents pings, you should stop WordPress from attempting to ping and consider using other blog post update services such as Feedburner Pingshot.

D) Add - There are WordPress widgets available that help you control when you send out pings. They help with scheduling posts updates and or whether to post only for a new post and not when updating existing posts. Look at these plug-in widgets very carefully while you choose and install them. If not setup up properly they may cause inadvertent pings, threaten your blog site status.

I combined a manual ping list from information posted on various blogs by WordPress, Elliott Black, SEO Blog, SEO Black Hat, RPC and RPC2 services lists and Dicontas Blog. I then went to each listed ping site a requested a ping, all the listed URL’s below returned a valid response.

My Manual A+ Qualified English speaking Ping List starts with http://rpc.pingomatic.com/,

And then includes the following:

http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping
http://ping.bitacoras.com
http://rpc.pingomatic.com
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc
http://ping.myblog.jp
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://1470.net/api/ping
http://bblog.com/ping.php
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de

The following pings are not included in my list as they either timed out or I received an invalid access message:

(NOTE: Some key featured update services didn’t respond to my ping inquiry)

http://api.feedster.com/ping
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://bitacoras.net/ping
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc
http://ping.weblogs.se/

Ping-O-Matic duplicate pings removed as mentioned above from my manual list:

http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2
http://pingoat.com/goat/RPC2
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/
http://api.moreover.com/ping
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi
http://ping.feedburner.com
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2

If you are not comfortable with a manual list, I suggest this short list of automated blog update service sites:

http://www.pingomatic.com
http://www.pingoat.com
http://www.kping.com/

This list doesn’t include all blog post update services. So please feel free to post any of your new or additional verified English URLs’ or services so other bloggers can enjoy the fun. Enjoy your new Atomicblogging Plugin Ping List.

Remember,

Life is short, keep it EZ.