Some of you must have noticed we’ve changed the look of ‘The Webmaster’s Blog’. Earlier I was using the ‘Premium News’ theme from WooThemes, and now I’ve changed to ‘On The Go’ theme from Elegant Themes.

Elegant Themes are one the best WordPress Designers in the market. All of their themes are just beautiful. And what makes them best is the price they ask. With Elegant Themes, you can get all their themes in just $20/year, while with others its hard to get even a single theme in $20. You can check their gallery here.

I chose this theme because I like the casual look and beautiful sketches when I saw the preview of this theme. Lets hope you also like the theme.

Inserting Ads in your blog’ RSS feed can be a good idea to boost up your earnings. You may have seen many peoples doing this.

If you publish your feeds with FeedBurner (now acquired by Google) then you can easily show Adsense ads there at by using Adsens for feeds.

And if you want to show other ads in your RSS feeds, then you can do this by modifying the functions.php file (if you dont have one create it).

<?php
function insertAds($content) {
$content = $content.’<hr /><a href=”http://webmasters-blog.com/”>Keep visiting webmasters-blog.com</a><hr />’;
return $content;
}
add_filter(‘the_excerpt_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
add_filter(‘the_content_rss’, ‘insertAds’);
?>

Here, we first create a function called insertAds(), which concatenate a code containing our advertisment to the $content variable, which contains the content of the post.
Then, we use the add_filter() function to overwrite the the_content_rss() function with our insertAds() function. We use another filter to overwrite the_excerpt_rss() function as well.
That’s all, your rss feeds now displays your ads!

This count was 231 Million in the earlier month survey.

But this count is not completely accurate, as it takes into account the responses from the users using Netcraft toolbar.

So its just like Alexa traffic rankings.

Website loading have a great impact on the reader base of any site. The more the time it takes for any site to load the more will be the chances that the visitor shifts to other site. This will harm your site’s readership.

The slower loading sites also have reduced the chances of getting Direct Ads deals, Advertisers are more interested in faster loading sites.

Now the question arises how to make your site load faster?

Developer’s Team at Yahoo have come up with a solution. They have explained in total 34 methods to boost your site’s speed. These 34 methods have been divided into 7 categories as follows -

• Content
• Server
• Cookies
• CSS
• Javascript
• Images
• Mobile

Most of these methods are really easy and can be implemented successfully without having deep knowledge of HTML. While other methods are quite advanced requireing higher programming skills.

Read the complete article here.