BlogRush is John Reese’s new viral marketing widget that generates traffic to your blog by cross-promoting your blog content with other BlogRush.com members blogs. Imagine your blog being displayed on hundreds or perhaps thousands of other blogs in your niche and related sites in the BlogRush network. That’s awesome linking power!

BlogRush is a great idea and it’s been designed from the ground up especially for bloggers. Blog Rush is completely free service and it only takes 30 seconds to signup.

What does BlogRush do?

Well, basically it’s a blog syndication network. It’s is a new twist on the old idea of Traffic Exchanges which are used to generate traffic to websites. The idea is to display a widget on your blog which will display headlines from other similar blogs. Likewise, as you display these headlines, your blog will feature on other users blogs. BlogRush will give you full control over which blogs will link to your content. These incoming links are what it is all about. More incoming links means more traffic!

Widget Installation

It is very easy to install this widget on your blog. Once you have signed up with BlogRush, simply go to the Get Code section and copy the supplied JavaScript code to a text document or just highlight & copy the code and then login to your WordPress blog. Go to Presentation, then widgets ( or Sidebar Widgets if using an earlier version of wordpress). Next, drag & drop a text widget onto the sidebar and then click on it to add the code. When the popup window opens, paste in the code, close the popup and then click Save. And that’s it! You should now have the BlogRush widget installed and visible on your blog. It’s that easy!

Conclusion

BlogRush is brand new, it just went online today but it’s already creating quite a buzz. It might be a good time to get in early and benefit from the possible explosive growth that this widget is likely to generate. The possibility of having hundreds or thousands of incoming links is just too good to miss!

Signup To BlogRush Today

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I just came across a really cool widget for monetizing your blog using the new AuctionAds.com service.

The Auction Ads Widget allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions in your blog sidebar. If you are familar with the way Google Adsense operates (which uses javascript to display ads), you will be right at home with this new Auction Ads Widget. All configuration can be done in the Widgets section of your  WordPress installation.

Requirements

The only requirement to use this Widget is that you should have an AuctionAds.com account. It easy and free to sign-up and just takes a minute to do. After sign-up you will now have a Publisher ID which you can enter into the widget configuration area.

Widget Installation

Simply extract the file to your wp-content/widget/ directory. Go to Presentation tab and select Widgets (WP 2.2) or Sidebar Widgets (WP 2.0+). You can drag and drop the AuctionAds widget onto the sidebar. Configure it with your AuctionAds.com ID (which you will have received after signup) and Campaign ID if you have one. Select the appropriate layout and change the color according to your own theme color. You can enter a keyword or multiple keywords so that you can trigger appropriate Ads for your blog. Click save… and thats it!

Auction Ads Sample

Download

Soon, you can be on your way to maximizing your blog’s revenue potential using AuctionAds. You can download the new AuctionAds Widget here.

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The PayPal Donate Plugin is a nice WordPress plugin which can be used to insert a PayPal Donate Button in your WordPress sidebar without you needing to mess with any HTML code. It allows visitors of your site to make a donation or contribution via PayPal, the most popular and largest online payment processing service.

PayPal Donate Plugin

The PayPal Donate Plugin adds a small PayPal Donation form on your sidebar. In order to use this plugin with Widget-Ready WordPress Themes, you will need to download the PayPal Donate Widget also. The settings for this plugin can be changed via your blog options page.

How To Install The PayPal Donate Plugin & Widget

• Download PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.
• Download PayPal Donate Widget
• Extract the Plugin zip file into your wp-content/plugins/ folder
• Extract The Widget zip and upload paypalwidget.php to your /wp-content/plugins/widget/ directory
• Activate the plugin from inside WordPress (Plugins tab).
• Enter your details in the Options page (make sure you do this)
• Drag the PayPal Donate Support widget to your sidebar from inside Themes/Sidebar Widgets
• Click the Widget configuration icon and enter a title and backlink option.

Options Page Settings

• PayPal Email Address (Required)
• Currency
• Donation Reference
• Return URL
• Cancelled URL
• Choice of buttons (the ones in use by PayPal)

Plugin Requirements

• PayPal account.
• WordPress 2.0+
• WordPress Sidebar Widgets Plugin.
• PayPal Donate Plugin for WordPress.

Download

• PayPal Donate Plugin
• PayPal Donate Widget

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There are many ways to add Google Adsense to your blog – either hard-coding it into the theme itself, using special plugins and now you can use Widgets. This tutorial will focus on using Widgets as it a great way to quickly add Adsense to your blog as fast and easily as possible.

Many of the best WordPress themes now support the Sidebar Widgets plugin and it is simply a matter of downloading the plugin, uploading to your plugins folder and activating in your blog plugin admin area. Widgets are great as you can completely re-arrange your sidebar to the way you want it!

The Google AdSense widget is designed to work with Widget Ready themes and it is very easy to install. Although it is possible to add AdSense (or any other kind of JavaScript) directly into the standard Text Widgets that comes built-in with Automattic’s Sidebar Widgets plugin, using the AdSense widget has several advantages. For example, the color, size and h2 title tag of the AdSense unit are fully customizable from within the sidebar widget tab in your theme admin area.

Requirements:

• Sidebar Widgets Plugin
• Widget Ready WordPress theme

Widget Download:

• wp-widgets-adsense.zip

Installation:

1. Unzip and upload to your /wp-content/plugins/widgets directory
2. Activate the plugin from Plugins tab
3. Drag AdSense widget to your sidebar from Presentation tab > Sidebar Widgets
4. Click the configuration icon and enter your Google Adsense Client ID
5. Optional: Customize the color, size, and sidebar h2 title tag.

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A great new plugin has been released over on Jeremys Brain Dump which gives you the ability to easily add a ‘Subscribe To Feedburner’ widget into your WordPress blogs and arrange it just like the rest of your widgets. You can select which Feed icons, or ‘chicklets’ as they are called, you want to display from the widget options.

This plugin is configurable through the normal widget configuration under the presentation tab in your WordPress installation. The default title of ‘Subscribe To Feedburner’ can be changed to whatever you like in this new 1.1 version of the widget.

To install the widget just download the plugin from here, uncompress it and place it in your wordpress/wp-content/plugins/widgets directory. Then go to your admin page of your blog and activate it under Plugins. Then go to your Presentation->Sidebar Widgets page and drag it over to the sidebar wherever you want it to be displayed.

To configure the widget, click on the configure icon. You will see a Title: and a Feed URL: option. Don’t forget to change the Feed URL option as it defaults to BLOGNAME! The feed url is the one provided by Feedburner so it is wise to setup the Feedburner side first to make sure everything will work first time.

An example of the widget in action can be seen on the Go2Clickbank.info website. So the two bits of info the widget needs are;

• Title: Subscribe To Feed
• Feed URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Go2Clickbank

This is a really nice widget and makes adding Feed icons and functionally to your blog very easy. Highly recommended!

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