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Monetizing your WordPress blog on mobile web using AdMob and Mippin

Posted by on June 24, 2011 13 comments

After one of my friend’s blog started creating considerable revenue through Google Adsense, he wanted to try his luck in Mobile Advertising. I had heard about Google Adsense for Mobile Content and also rumours that mobile ads were high paying compared to the usual web ads. So I thought why not help him. Browsing number of forums and posting my thread, none drew much response. I was actually searching for plugins for monetization with Google Adsense for Mobile Content. Unfortunately I couldn’t find any. But that was when I heard about AdMob which was yet another mobile advertising networks. Just like me for many, had a doubt if it was legit? Though I don’t have much experience with it personally,  I think it’s worth giving a try as Google has recently acquired AdMob for it’s expansion, with Adsense for Mobile Content. So it’s future is not going to be dull :)

The other advantage is that with mippin, you will have your webpages optimized for viewing in Mobile Browsers.

I will explain step by step about installing the plugin and Configuring with AdMob and Mippin.

1. Get your mobile version of the site registered at Mippin.

As the first step give your RSS feed URL/Website URL, Select the Layout and Customize it according to your likes.

Now for proceeding you will have to register at Mippin.com. Get it done.

2. Under the Publicize tab, give the URL  of your Mobile Webpage of your like. Give your tags. Also keep a note of the “code below”. Just Copy it into somewhere in your PC.

You will be needing the id in that code when configuring the plugin.

3. Now under the Monetize Tab, you will have to validate your website.

So copy “Mippin Feed Validation Key= XXXXXX” and publish as a post in your blog with the the copied statement as the title and content.

Then click Validate.

4. Now register for an account at AdMob. After confirming the account, login with your username and password at Admob. Click Add new Sites and App under the MARKETPLACE tab.

Now give your Mippin Site URL under the url coloumn.

Now you have to enter your admob id for getting it Click on “Here” and Click on the name of your website.

Now enter your Admob id at the coloumn at Mippin Webpage.

5.Things are almost done. Now get this Mippin plugin installed in your WordPress blog. After installation is complete go to the page of Mippin Plugin, there is a coloumn for entering Mippin id. Give the id found in the earlier code [Step2] found at the Mippin website.

6.Now just wait for a day for your ads to appear in Mippin website. Try accessing your website from the mobile.

You don’t need to manualy set the position of Mobile Ads in your website. Everything will be done by the plugin.

Best Wishes.

Just comment at the bottom if you have any trouble setting this up. I will try to help you.

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Download Youtube Videos in Ubuntu Linux the easiest way

Posted by on March 6, 2010 9 comments

If you are using a linux based operating system like Ubuntu, literally downloading the youtube videos is as easy as just watching it. I mean it when I said it. Anyway here I explain the best and the easiest options I found in downloading the youtube videos.

1.Just Watch the video.
One thing you would have rarely noticed is that when a video is buffered completely in Youtube, a copy of that video is saved in /tmp directory. So after watching the video make sure the you do not close or change the page in the browser. After the video is streamed fully in the browser just move to the /tmp directory and you can find a .flv file with name beginning with Flash*. Just copy that file into your desktop and it’s done. This is not the case with just youtube videos but any flash videos on net can be downloaded this way.

2.Command Line way.
If are comfortable with using command line, this way is for you. Youtube-dl is a Python script, which  can run under Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows platforms as long a latest version of python is installed. For installing the script in Ubuntu just type

sudo apt-get install youtube-dl

Now for downloading a youtube video, in the terminal type

youtube-dl **video page url***

There are also a number of options available for you with this python script. You can view this by typing

youtube-dl –help

Options:
-h, –help            print this help text and exit
-v, –version         print program version and exit
-u USERNAME, –username=USERNAME
account username
-p PASSWORD, –password=PASSWORD
account password
-o FILE, –output=FILE
output video file name
-q, –quiet           activates quiet mode
-s, –simulate        do not download video
-t, –title           use title in file name
-l, –literal         use literal title in file name
-n, –netrc           use .netrc authentication data
-g, –get-url         print final video URL only
-2, –title-too       used with -g, print title too
-f FORMAT, –format=FORMAT
append &fmt=FORMAT to the URL
-b, –best-quality    alias for -f 18

3. Grabber websites.
There are many websites like keepvid.com which allow users to download the youtube video by entering the url. But in many cases I have found this way do not work well.

4.Firefox plugins
If you are a Mozilla Firefox user there are a number of plugins which automatically detect any flash videos being played in the page. It need not be a ‘you’ tube page. This supports most of the other favourite websites. The below are just a few to name.

1-Click YouTube Video Download

Download Flash and Video

Flash Video Downloader

Fast YouTube Download

This is way I personally follow :)

Hello World !!

Posted by on March 4, 2010 No comments

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He likes to blog about Open Source and the anything technical that fascinates him . So just subscribe for keeping you updated with latest buzz on web. He is also a Ubuntu Linux user, so you can expect about that too.

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