Category Archives: The Site

Rotating Headers and Video for my WordPress

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7milesdown - Making Magic happen on a little Island Paradise_1216043600483While surfing the net today, I noticed a few simple features that I’ve been wanting to add to my site but never had the time to do.

The first feature I’ve always wanted was rotating headers. I’ve never been a fan of Flash headers because of long loading times on slower internet connections so I wanted something as simplistic as possible. This nifty script from Ma.tt was the perfect solution and was actually quite simple to use. Currently I have around ten random banners on rotation and plan on working on a few more as soon as I find time to do so.


The second feature I wanted to add was a bit harder to find. I love movie trailers and wanted hi-res ones for all my current film reviews. I had thought about using a Youtube plugin for the site, but none of them did exactly what i wanted and the trailers on Youtube were not very clean streams. After looking at several Youtube specific plugins, I decided to search for an independent script using google. After several hours of searching, I ran across the perfect solution for my needs. The Minds Chew Toy had a great script to pull hi-quality movie trailers from IFILM (SPIKE.COM). Through the use of custom fields allowing all my reviews to have their own unique trailer on the sidebar. It was the perfect solution.

If you have any suggestions to improve the site be sure to share. I’m always looking for ways to make my blog more enjoyable for all my readers.

Privacy Policy required for Adsense Publishers

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272645834_106f2d0d82Today I added a privacy policy to comply with the new Terms and Conditions for running Google Adsense on this site.

You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.

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Social Networking using Entrecard

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I finally had the opportunity to install my Entrecard widget on this site and so far I’ve had nothing but a positive experience with the system. With high profile blogs such as ProBlogger and John Chow using the widgets, I figured I should give it a shot. I was pleasantly rewarded in less than 24 hours with some increased traffic and exposure.

The Entrecard site itself is very user friendly. Once you familiarize yourself with the dashboard it takes just a few clicks to purchase ad space (using credits earned off the site) and/or sell an exclusive spot on your site. Your banner will run for a period of 24 hours and with enough credits its actually possible to land a advertising spot free of charge on several reputable sites.

I highly recommend Entrecard to anyone interested in increasing traffic and exposure of their sites. Its only takes a few minutes to sign up and set up your personal widget and ads. I know it was definitely worth my time.

Problogger actually has a really good write up on Entrecard effectiveness in increasing comments on your site, boosting your Alexa rank, and attracting more RSS subscribers.