Emad Ibrahim

How to get 50x or more traffic?

My web site KB Shortcuts was featured on Microsoft’s AJAX web site and my traffic sky rocketed. I went from 1 or so hits a day to averaging around 50 and as high as 135 hits a day. It’s not too much traffic but relatively speaking it’s a 50x to 135x the traffic. Another example [...]

Calling the WordPress XMLRPC API from VB.net

As an example, I will call the getCategories API method. Add a reference to the XML-RPC.net library. Create a struct for the return result Public Structure category Public categoryId As Object Public parentId As Object Public description As Object Public categoryName As Object Public htmlUrl As Object Public rssUrl As Object End Structure Create the [...]

Make money from my blog

Well, I have been reading a few articles about how to monetize my blog which got me all excited about becoming a more dedicated blogger. There are tons of advice out there – I am already following most of them but will try new ones. My guess is that not every advice will work for [...]

Sitemeter and wordpress

I just added sitemeter to BlogsToGo (WordPres Mu). I have a plugins file in my mu-plugins directory where I add site wide code like amazon context links, google analytics, etc… I basically added a function to emit the javascript: function sitemeter(){ echo ‘ <!– Site Meter XHTML Strict 1.0 –> <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://s41.sitemeter.com/js/counter.js?site=s41blogstogo”> </script> <!– [...]

Updates to my blog

After reading Andrew’s post (http://www.anchorite.org/blog/2007/07/11/updates-to-anchoriteorg/) I decided to update my blog too. I copied most of his updates and did some of my own as well. Add Meta Tags – Adds the Description and Keywords XHTML META tags to your blog’s front page and to each one of the posts, static pages and category archives. [...]