I’ve been using Wordpress for blogging for sometime and the great thing about Wordpress is the community of developers that come up with great plugins. One of the plugins that is worth a mention is the Maintenance Mode plugin which allows you to upgrade your wordpress blog to the latest version without your site visitors getting ugly code errors during the upgrade process.

Now upgrading is less stressful knowing that your site visitors get a much friendlier and customisable message saying that your site is currently under maintenance.

The plugin is developed by Michael Woehrer who has developed the plugin for free so if you like it feel free to send him a donation as he currently doesn’t support it due to lack to time most likely trying to earn a living like the rest of us.

Example of the default maintenance screen.

There are always little quirky things that you find along the way in getting things up and running on any system for development or production. One of my development boxes is a Linux 64bit Centos 5 distrobution that I haven’t had much of a chance to play with.

Well today I needed to setup apache 2.2 which I had already installed however when I tried to start apache with httpd start, all I would get is an error related to some error of no such file or directory for some modules that required loading in the http.conf file.

Well after sometime Googling for answers, I found out that in the /etc/ httpd/conf directory there is a file httpd.conf.bak that works right out of the box. Just cp this to httpd.conf and then run /etc/init.d/httpd start and you should find your web server is now up and running.

Check it by opening a browser and going to http://localhost

Time and time again I see Adwords accounts wasting money paying far higher bids than they need to simply because they lack the understanding of how Google Adwords ties into their web sites on page information.

Many Adwords users simply get into the Adwords keyword tool and start adding all sorts of related keywords to their campaign trying to drive traffic and conversions to their site often overlooking the fact that in many cases their web site doesn’t support their keyword list.

Google is predominatly about relevancy and just adding keywords to your Adwords campaign is only part of creating an effective campaign.  Create adgroups that target similar keywords and then push those targeted keywords to most relevant page on your site.  If your landing pages don’t contain information related to keywords in your adgroup keyword list then you can bet that your keywords will become inactive or you’ll have to bid alot more to target those keywords.

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