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Here is a simple and easy trick to add an advertisements on the first post only. All you have to do is to add the following code:-

1. Go to Admin Panel > Presentation
2. Theme Editor
3. Click on “Main Index Template”
4. Add the code between line of code with <?php the_content  & <?php endwhile; ?>

<?php if ($count == 0) : ?>
[your ads here]

<?php endif; $count++; ?>

This is quite useful for your to add another advertisements if you are using shylock or mightyadsense plugin as they only allow a maximum of 3 block of advertisements on the front page.

If you have DeluxeAdsense, you will use the following code in your templates. Replace “ads name” to the exact Adsense Block Name.

<?php if ($count == 0) :

adsense_deluxe_ads(‘ads name’);

endif; $count++; ?>

I attended the Malaysia Youth Exhibition on Friday and it is sad to say that it wasn’t what I expected it to be. My purpose is to meet more bloggers and webmaster at this Malaysia Dot com Youth Search but instead I only manage to meet a hand full of people and the event was quite a mess.

If you are not there, I would say that there isn’t much that you have missed. The prize giving was very fast maybe it takes less than 10 minutes. Then it was like a press conference session to have Q & A with the winner. Anyway congrats to the winner of RM20,000 for shoutmix, a chatbox widget for blogs and website. It is a great idea and if effort is put into coding this great piece of software.

Here are those whom I manage to chat with

I met two Kongs (AhKong and SimatKong) , LiewCF and Poh, was a pleasure meeting some people.

It seems that there will be a lot of bloggers meeting at PWTC (Putra World Trade Center) tomorrow at 11.00am. I believe this will be the largest Malaysian Bloggers Gathering and will be expecting to meet some big time bloggers / webmaster.

Although Youth Malaysia have made a mess exposing all contestant emails, no doubt they made a great effort to get most Malaysian Bloggers participate in this events with their strong sponsors. There is more to this Youth Malaysia, as it is a three day event, but I will only be there on Friday to check the stuff out and maybe participate in events which they are organizing.

Youth Malaysia still had much to learn as most of the people in the committee are mainly young business people and have not much experience in the online community. If you check out the rules and regulation, you will find out that it may be the shortest condition you ever see. There is no explanation of how the prizes is given out and how many prizes there is for first place, runner up, or even consulation prizes?

Anyhow, tomorrow is not about winning prizes, but to win some contacts and friends in the blogging community. Will you be there?

Since Overture service is no longer available, as it has not been working for more than 6 months and the search database is on January 2007 which is way out of date. There is a need for other service, but this information could only be provided by the big time search engine itself and Google have Google Trend and Keyword Selector Tool.

Google Trend provides limited information other than the graph of searches base on events happening across the time phrase. It is not really practical to use because there is no numbers and no comparison to base the chart upon. The only good indication is the Hot Trend Searches for the day (only USD). You will be supprise that weird words and names are on the top.

Google Keyword Selector Tool is much more useful but again, there is no numbers. You will not know how many thousand, hundred or ten a search has been made. But there is comparison with other similar word phrase.

There is not much hope for a real alternative because only Google, Yahoo or maybe Live (MSN) could provide them as they are the major search engine. It will always be best that the Big G will provide them but I highly doubt them.

After the last round of PageRank demoted, another downfall then PageRank updates, I believe a lot of webmaster have already removed their text links and payperpost and just left those who are already succesful are not bothered with any pagerank they are having on their homepage.

There is some movement currently, you shall see some ups and down right now. Currently I had a website which dropped from PR 4 to PR 3 which is a little lost but I am fine with it because it is my personal blog, while I am more concentrated in this blog about gaining PagaRank.

All the best all webmaster and bloggers out there.