WordPress Global Translator Plugin

I often wished that I could translate my own blog to a wider audience. I find that it would help to reach farther than just in the English speaking countries and all though we can translate our blog through Google or Babel fish, we have to play around with code and it becomes more of an annoyance.

But help is here now to do exactly this without the code mess in the form of the WordPress Global Translator Plugin.

If your blog is written in English, then this Plugin will translate your blog into 13 additional languages. What is really great about this is that the Plugin is:

  • optimized for search engines by adding the language code at the beginning of all the URL’s
  • has a built in fast cache system that minimizes connection to the translation engines
  • the layout is fully configurable
  • uses translation of both Google or Babel Fish

The following languages are supported by the WordPress Global Translator Plugin:

  1. English
  2. French
  3. Italian
  4. German
  5. Portuguese
  6. Spanish
  7. Japanese
  8. Korean
  9. Chinese
  10. Arabic
  11. Russian
  12. Greek
  13. Dutch.
    Download the Plugin
    After you uploaded the Plugin there isn’t much to do but add some code into your sidebar.php ort header.php file. You can see the instructions here.
    I will definitely install this Plugin on my own blog which hopefully helps some readers to understand better.

About Me Widget for WordPress

The About Me Widget for WordPress is a great Plugin that lets you personalize your home page. The widget puts a neat box in your sidebar where you give your readers some information about yourself. You can add:

  • images
  • text
  • description
  • highlight text
  • choose appearance
  • incorporate links
  • configure the whole thing to your preferences
  • place anywhere you like in the sidebar

As you can see on the image below, the author of the widget has created a nice welcome box in the top right, containing a picture and some description.

about me widget for wordpress

The About Me Widget for WordPress is ideal for business bloggers, freelance professionals and others who simply want to display some important information about the owner of the blog, or the blog itself.

To use the About Me Widget for WordPress you need to:

  1. download
  2. upload it to your wp-content/plugins folder
  3. activate the widget
  4. configure

Download the About Me Widget for WordPress.

Clean Blog Advertising With Stripe Ads

Everyone wants to make money from their efforts in blogging, but not everyone want to make it look like they are. That’s why most bloggers are adverse to sales pages, optin-forms, pop-ups and other form of common “Web 1.0″ marketing methods which are seen as obtrusive and annoying.

I can’t say the same for the Stripe Ads plugin by Pawan Agarwal. All it does is put a clean, lean bar at the top of your blog with a single text link advertisement.

stripe-demo

Besides using it to display an affiliate link or a link to your current promotion, you can also use it to:

  1. Draw attention to a certain post or page on your blog for example a contest page, your services or a poll.
  2. Show your disclaimers or Terms of Service (TOS)
  3. Display an announcement or important news
  4. Welcome new users and ask them to subscribe to your RSS feed (by displaying the ad for the first 3 visits or a particular user)
  5. Much, much more (use your imagination folks)

This is a free WordPress plugin, and I was actually the person who helped Pawan create the documentation for it. The installation process is simple and I’ve encountered no problems whatsoever using it. I can’t think if a reason NOT to be using this plugin, unless you think having a single line of text on a highlighted bar at the top of your blog as “uncool” marketing.

More Info: Stripe Ads Plugin by Pawan Agarwal

Counterize Plugin to Track Stats

Counterize is a WordPress Plugin that will give you the option of tracking important visitor data to your blog.

counterize

The Counterize Plugin will give you stats that can help you track your performance. For example you’ll see the following:

  1. IP adddress
  2. Timestamp
  3. Visited URL
  4. Referring URL
  5. Browser info
  6. Total hits
  7. Unique hits
  8. Other stats

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Counterize is fully adaptable to your needs and looks ideal for bloggers who are obsessed with stats. The stats are similar to Awstats, but the advantage would be to not having to login to c-panel to see them.

What I like is the IP address feature and the unique hits feature which is important for niche bloggers.

Download the Counterize Plugin.

Display Google Adsense in Feedburner RSS Feeds

If you’re using Feedburner for your blog’s RSS subscription, you should know by now that since Google bought over Feedburner, you can have your Adsense ads display within your Feedburner RSS feeds.

To do this, simple login to your Feedburner account and select your feed. Then click on “Monetize” and you should see a page that requires your Google Adsense account information, such as:

  • Your email address for the Adsense account
  • Your postal code (additional verification)

Once you’ve entered the details, you’ll be sent a verification email from Google Adsense, and you need to verify by clicking on a link. Then you’re taken to a page where you have to grant access to Feedburner, that allows Feedburner to retrieve and send information to and from your Adsense account.

Once you’ve done that, you should now see a page like the one below in your Feedburner account under “Monetize”:

adsense-feedburner

Click “Activate” to activate the service, and build your Adsense ad format and colors as you would normally do when putting Adsense into your site or blog. If you have multiple RSS feeds you’ll need to activate it for each feed, and you can use the same account settings.

Note: For some reason your Custom Channels and Custom Palettes don’t show up in Feedburner. You have to sign-out and sign-in again for these to work properly.

Once you’ve build your ad, you’ll be given a specific code to paste into your WordPress theme files, and the instructions given on how to this are pretty clear. If you’re already using Feddburner FeedFlares on your site, Adsense will show up automatically and you don’t really need to do anything.

There are some limitations with this service however:

  • You can only display ads in the 468×60 and 300×250 format
  • You cannot choose to show only text ads, so I’m guessing it will default to the configuration you’ve set in your Adsense account itself
  • Once you’ve inserted the codes, Adsense ads who up on both your blog and your RSS feed, you cannot choose to display in your RSS feed only

Super Cool Video I Got From Monika

A super cool video made by Monika Mundell, starring me and her. Happy holidays everyone!

(Tried putting the video here but it didn’t work)

Send Physical Greeting Cards for Free in Malaysia

enveluv

My friends at Enveluv.com have a special message for you – now you can send a physical greeting card (not e-card) anywhere within Malaysia for free. Get more information in this post on my new blog.

In future, all information regarding making money online from a Malaysian point of view, and review or news about outstanding Malaysian companies and projects will be centralized in the new Internet Millionaires Blog.

My GobalaKrishnan.com blog will focus more on the principles, ideas, and ramblings of online marketing, and some snapshots from my life as well.

Send Physical Greeting Cards for Free Anywhere in Malaysia

My friends at Enveluv.com have a special message for you – now you can send a physical greeting card (not e-card) anywhere within Malaysia for free. That’s right, FREE aka PERCUMA

We Malaysians love free stuff right :)

All you need to do is to register as a user, choose your card, enter the recipient’s address, and send it.

This is a great project by a group of young entrepreneurs in Malaysia. I’ve previously chatted with Avijit and I also met Rasel (or is it Russel?)in the Starbucks gathering in KL Central.

These guys are recipients of the MDEC Pre-Seed funding program, and I’ve been following their progress with great interest. I’m always thinking “How do these guys make money from something like this”. Well, I guess that’s the secret that makes them get this far and looking even better for the future.

They recently held a design competition and got massive feedback from a lot of aspiring designers. The contest is closed no however but you can still send cards as a normal user.

One of the good things about these guys is they participate and communicate with their users via their blog, and as we all know in today’s Web 2.0 world social networking is everything.

These guys have it down to an art – congratulations!

New Make Money Online Website For Malaysians

I’ve decided to shift all my blogging specific to Malaysians to a new site, at InternetMillionaires.com.my

In short, right now this is what you can do after you register for the site:

  • Participate in our online community forum
  • Be a guest blogger and write posts on making money online, technology or gadgets, and general Internet stuff related to Malaysia
  • Join our monthly teleseminar sessions and learn more about making money online

This site is a reincarnation of the old “Malaysian Revolution” website and in the following weeks you’ll also be able to get access to:

  • Interview with Malaysian bloggers, Internet marketers and Web 2.0 company CEOs
  • Members only teleseminar intensive coaching My seminars and workshops (coming real soon)
  • Networking sessions and events for Malaysians

This site is focused for Malaysians only, if you’re a Malaysian you can register for free here:

http://www.internetmillionaires.com.my/join/free/

Malaysia Dot Com Entrepreneur Search

I first read about it on Steven Wong’s blogYouthMalaysia.com, together with Nuffnang and MIRC Incubator will organize “Malaysian Dot Com Youth Search” in conjunction with the 1st Malaysia Youth Entrepreneur Convention 2008 in PWTC, KL.

According to the MIRC website:

The incubation program will cover services such as office facilities, business centre, technology/engineering, market development, business development, human resources, Legal and IP and strategy development. Good and commercially viable projects can seek funding from the i2 Project or any other strategic angel investors linked to MIRC. Projects are then incubated in our incubation centre. We seek to maximum success rate by minimising business risk and accelerating the commercialization process.

More Info: http://www.youthmalaysia.com/youthsearch/