Free Google AdWords Credits to ALL DreamHost Hosting

Most Hosting companies offer Free Google Adwords credits to new customers. Dreamhost now offers free Google AdWords credits to new and existing DreamHost customers!

Google Adwords is the remarkable Google advertising platform which lets you place advertisements across millions of websites via Google Adsense ads. These ads are mostly contextually targeted and you pay per click, though you could change options and target specific sites on a CPM basis also.

Buy Hosting, Get Free Google Adwords Credits

So here is the deal they offer -

1. Sign up today and get $25 Adwords credits
2. Spend over $50 and get $50 Adwords credits
3. Spend over $75 and get $75 Free Google Adwords credit.

Free Adwords Credit Terms

Its the terms and conditions that you need to look out for

• Promotional credit must be applied to a new AdWords account within 15 days of creating the account
• Valid for new Google AdWords customers with self-managed signup accounts.
• Advertisers are charged for advertising that exceeds promotional credit.
• Advertisers will need to suspend their ads if they do not wish to receive additional charges beyond the free credit amount.
• The promotional credit is non-transferable and may not be sold or bartered.
• One promotional credit per customer.
• Advertisers with self-managed signup accounts are subject to a $5 activation fee.
• Offer valid only for sign ups through the URL provided for the promotion by customers with billing address in the US or Canada.
• Credits expires 31 December 2009.

Of course this deal will enable Google Adwords to get more accounts and let Dreamhost get more customers by offering free Google Advertising. While most web hosting companies offer new accounts with free Google Adwords, this offer is a win-win deal for all older Dreamhost customers too.

Wordpress Plugins for Google Adsense

Wordpress allows bloggers to easily integrate Google Adsense inside wordpress using plugins. Google Adsense has become the most popular online contextual advertising program and proper custom integration with Wordpress can help to increase Adsense earnings.

Google Adsense Wordpress Plugins

Listed below are 10 best Adsense plugins which help you work smarter with wordpress.

• Adsense Deluxe – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
• Adsense Injection – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let�s you pick how many to show on single post pages.
• Adsense Inline – inserts Google adsense in blog posts.
• Shylock Adsense WordPress plugin – allows you to insert Adsense ads on your blog without modifying the template. Set it up to show different Adsense ads for articles older then ‘n’ days. E.g. insert a 468�60 ad at the bottom of a new article for regular readers, and replace with higher paying 336�280 ad after 7 days for the search engine visitors.
• Adsense Beautifier – makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)
• AdSense Widget for WordPress Sidebar – Google AdSense widget designed for the new WordPress Sidebar Widgets plug-in.
• AdRotator Wordpress Plugin – rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
• Adsense Earnings Wordpress Plugin – displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
• AdSense Manager – is a Wordpress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Author Adsense Wordpress Plugin – allows blog authors to enter their Google Adsense Publisher ID and have ads displayed on their own posts generating revenue. Admin can set the ratio of author�s ads to admin ads.
• Author Adsense MU Plugin – Webmasters of Wordpress MU sites can generate adsense revenue from hosted blogs as this script allows you to set an admin ID and the ratio of admin ad�s to blogger�s ads.
• Google Ad Wrap – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

Support and upgrades are provided by the respective authors of these wordpress plugins. Use at your own risk. If you know of more Adsense wordpress plugins you like, let me know in comments and I can add them to the list.

Webmaster And SEO Firefox Extensions

Firefox is a web browser, But surely you must know this..

One of things that has made firefox the success it is, apart from its functionality and security, Is the amount of Firefox extensions there are. The extensions for Firefox are so vast that there are even extensions aimed at webmasters and extensions designed to help with your SEO. What we are going to do in this post is list some of the most useful SEO and webmaster Firefox extensions.

• IE Tab - The IE tab Firefox extension allows you to embed Internet Explorer in Firefox at the click of a button.. This is very handy if you are testing the cross browser compatibility of your website.
• Search Status - The search status extension displays google pagerank and Alexa rank in your Firefox status for you to easily view a sites popularity.
• ColorZilla - The ColorZilla extension allows you to easily find out the color of any element on a webpage. Saves having to look through the source.
• Live HTTP Header - Live HTTP headers lets you see the headers that are sent to and from your browser in real time. Great extension for Web developers.
• switch User Agents - This extension allows you to change the identity of your Firefox browser. Want to know what your website does if you are in opera or IE? You do? Great, then use this Firefox developer extension.
• URLparams - Shows you the GET and POST parameters of the current website in the sidebar.
• DNSStuff Toolbar - With the DNSStuff toolbar you can easily do a domain lookup directly from Firefox.
• HTML Validator - The HTML validator Firefox extension allows you to easily validate your HTML markup, It does require the HTML validator for windows.
• Fire FTP - Fire FTP is an FTP client that runs straight from Firefox.
• Blog This - Adds a blogger's "blog this" function to right mouse click.
• Link Checker - This extension allows you to check the validity of every link on the page.
• X-Ray View - Let's you view how a page was constructed without having to go back and forth between the page and source code.
• CSS Edit - edit the pages CSS from the sidebar of Firefox.
• Customize Google - This handy extension allows you to customize Google. It will remove adverts and provide you with links to other search engines so you can compare results.
• Adsense Notifier - Keep track of your adsense earnings with this Firefox adsense extension by showing earning in the status bar and have it update every 15 minutes.
• SEO Links - This handy Firefox extension will display link popularity on mouseover.
• Niche Watch - This Firefox SEO extension provides you the technical information required to beat your competitor websites in serps.It gives you backlinks number, indexed pages, keyword occurrences on the page and page rank.
• JSView - The JSView Firefox extention allows you to view the source code of JavaScript and external CSS.
• View Source Chart - View source chart Firefox extention allows you to view even the most unorganized html script in a nicely laid out chart. (Thanks Jumpenjuhosaphat)
• Server Spy - The server spy webmaster firefox extension will reveal the server type in your Firefox status.
• Screen Grab - The screen grab Firefox extension will allow you to easily take a screen shot via firefox and save it as an image.
• Codetch - web page editor that has the feel of Dreamweaver. An amazing webmaster Firefox extension for anyone doing web design that doesn't want to fork out a few hundred dollars for Dreamweaver.
• FireBug - an advanced debugger console that lets you monitor your JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Ajax scripts in firefox.
• PDF Downloader - Isn't it annoying when you click a link and it turns out to be a PDF file? You have to wait about 3 weeks for acrobat to fire up. With this extension it does not automatically open, It will ask you what you want to do with that file. Either open in acrobat, Save it or view as HTML.
• Linkification - Linkification is a extension for firefox that will convert all text URL's into clickable ones, Saves you having to copy and paste the url into the address bar
• TinyURL Creator - Sometimes long URL's are a pain if you are posting on a forum, In IRC or in an email. With this firefox extension you can easily convert those long URL's into shorter URL's.

This list of Webmaster and SEO Firefox extensions will be updated as time goes by and i find more. If you know of more SEO and webmaster Firefox extensions post them in a reply, Especially if you have written your own SEO, Webmaster or Developer Firefox extension.