Finally, it’s here! Much later then planed, and not a moment too early, the first Cash Cook Book!
Thanks to everybody who suggested me how to convert the document to PDF, but eventually I somehow succeeded installing Adobe Acrobat on Vista!

This CookBook will teach you how to cook cash with automated blogs.
With the exact method described in the book, I’m making around 200$ with more then 500 automated blogs.
Blogs that are automatically updated with fresh content every day, without you moving a finger.

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The eBook is not for complete newbies. You’ll need some computer skills to understand what the eBook is talking about, but it’s written on a fairly low level, so that anybody who has at least some experience with computers and webmastering will understand.
I didn’t write it in the most basic level is for the reason that I believe that people who have no experience with computers should not seek income on the Internet anyway. Everybody should do what’s he’s good at, and if you are not good with computers, how can you expect to make money through your computer?

This eBook is the first in a series of eBooks I’m going to write, about unorthodox ways of making money online, and the next book will be written pretty soon, so don’t forget to subscribe to the RSS feed, so that you’ll know when the next book is out.

The book comes with free giveaway rights, and you are encouraged to give it to your friends, co-workers, clients, subscribers, anybody. Give it out on your blog, give it out on your site, give it out to your mailing list. The more people make money with it, the happier I am.

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Click Here To Download “Cash CookBook #1 - Cooking Cash With Automated Blogs, Using Free Tools Only!”
EDIT:
I heard from a few people that for some reason the link not always works. If the direct link doesn’t work for you, you can download the book from Rapidshare: http://rapidshare.com/files/50785415/Cooking_Cash_With_Automated_Blogs.pdf

P.S.
This is the first book I’ve ever written, and it’s definitely not perfect.
If there’s anything that requires clarification, please, reply here, or email me at svarog@cashcook.info, and I’ll do my best to correct the book.

Oh, and if you made money with the book, my beer fund is going dry… *hint hint*

A blog’s RSS feed is very important for it’s success.

Through the RSS feed, the blogger(you) can keep his readers with him, returning for more content every day, and through the RSS feed the readers can easily check for updates on the blog.

There’s only one problem with RSS feeds: They are much harder to monetize then ordinary web pages, mainly because you can’t place Javascritp in your feed, and since both Adsense, and most other Advertising networks work on Javascript, you can’t place any ads on your feed.
Also, tracking your RSS feed is pretty hard, yet again, because Javascript, and for that matter any other type of scripting, is disabled.

However, there is a solution for both problems.
For the tracking problem we have a well known solution - Feedburner. Feedburner tracks all your feed activity, including the number of subscribers, which RSS readers are used, number of clicks, which bots accessed your feeds, and much more.
For the monetization problem there’s a less known solution - pheedo. Pheedo let’s you ad PPC ads on your RSS feed, and get paid for every click on the ads, just like adsense.

There’s only one problem left. These two services don’t work well together. And for long time I was running Pheedo ads that gave me no revenue at all, no matter how much clicks I got on them.

A few days ago I’ve made a few changes, and Voilla! I’m making nearly 50% from my Adsense revenue through Pheedo, without the Adsense revenue hurt in any way, since those visitors who see the Pheedo ads, never see the Adsense ads.

Anyway, here’s what you have to do to make Pheedo work with Feedburner.
(note: this tutorial is written supposing you are using Wordpress)
a) Sign up to both Pheedo and Feedburner.
b) In you Pheedo account, set up a feed, and select the “purple” configuration.
c) In the feed URL, write http://your.domain.name/wp-feed.php (note: do not write http://your.domain.name/feed/ or any other permalink in the feedURL field).
d) Set up a feedburner feed, and put you pheedo feed URL(http://www.pheedo.com/f/yourfeed) as the Original Feed in Feedburner.
e) Set your blog to redirect requests for your feed to Feedburner. This can be easily done with The FeedSmith Plugin.

This will redirect all people clicking your feed buttons, and those going to http://your.domain.name/feed to your feed, that’s tracked with Feedburner, and monetized with Pheedo.

So, I’ve decided to write another Top 10 List. Those are always useful to many readers, and make a good results on the Digg, so don’t forget to Digg this post!

So, let’s check out Top the 10 Wordpress Plugins the dude from CashCook.Info is using:

1. Complete RSS - This one is a must to any blog, and I never understood why it’s not the default in Worpress. Seriously, how many times have you encountered an unreadable RSS feed, and decided that this feed is not worth reading? This plugin will turn your RSS feed into an alternative form of your blog. Yes, less people will see your Adsense, since Adsense is not viewable in RSS, but the number of people who read your blog every day will grow, and eventually - those people will enter your site from time to time, and they will click your ads in the end of it.
2. Related Posts - A couple of months ago. In my post “How to Increase Your Blog Traffic Quality” I’ve explained that you can increase your revenue without increasing traffic, if you make your visitor read as much posts as possible. One way to do that, is to present him a few related posts after every post. That’s exactly what this plugin does.
   At the time of writing this post, the homepage for this plugin wasn’t working. Therefore, I’ve uploaded it to CashCook.Info, and you can download it from here.
3. Brian’s Threaded Comments - This one is another plugin I believe should be introduced as the Wordpress default. This plugin makes the interaction between your readers and you, and among the readers themselves much, much easier. With this plugin, beside being able to reply to your posts, readers will be able to reply to other reader’s comments, creating a discussion, rather then a monolog with one sided replies. This also makes it easier for me to reply you if you ask me any questions.
4. Subscribe to Comments - This plugin is also very useful to create discussion. A problem I’ve encountered many times are readers who ask something in comment their comment, and then never come back to see if anybody actually cared to answer his question. This plugin ads a box which the user can tick, and then he’ll receive e-mail if anybody replies to his comment.
   This will also remind your readers that your blog exists, and maybe it’s time to check whether you made any new posts.
5. Better Comments Manager - This one is very useful if you have a huge reader base. On big blogs you’ll see new comments added on very old posts quite often, and it’s humanly impossible to go over all your posts, and reply to all new comments.
   This plugin ads a new tab in your Wordpress admin panel, which lists all comments in chronological order, and will let you easily reply those comments through your admin panel without going to the post.
6. RunPHP - Yet another plugin that should have been a default, but for some reason escaped the Wordpress creator’s mind. The name is self-explanatory, the plugin enables PHP code inside your posts. The installation of the plugin might be quite annoying, and you’ll have to tick a box each time you want to run PHP code in a post, but I haven’t found a better alternative yet, and my Adsense ads rely on this plugins, as explained in this post, so this plugin is a must.
7. WP Tiger Administration - Now this one is a life saver. I’ve discovered this plugin after installing yet another plugin, increasing, yet again, the number of tabs in the “Options” panel. The thing has became so crowded that I spent hours searching for the options of a certain plugin. Beside, who will not agree with me if I say, that the default Wordpress control panel looks terribly ugly?
   So what this plugin does is turn your Wordpress control panel from an ugly crone into a real beauty. If your eyes are important for you, check this one out!
   The only concern I had is that this plugin will mess up with the stuff my other plugins that affect my control panel. But since “WP Tiger Administration” doesn’t change anything beside the CSS sheet, everything works perfectly. It even worked with a Hebrew Wordpress blog I helped a friend of mine set up, and as you might know, since Hebrew is written from right to left, it creates lots of problems with any software.
8. Google Sitemaps - This one is a must for anybody who wants to achieve high Search Engine saturation. It create an XML sitemap of your blog, that you can submit to Google Sitemaps. Believe it or not, but I can get whole blogs indexed within a week with this plugin only.
9. Sociable - This one adds links to any Social Bookmarking network on earth at the bottom of each posts. Some prefer other plugins that has links to only the biggest Social Bookmarking networks, and those are better for those blogs which have the chance to get to the front page. But for such blogs as CashCook.Info, that don’t stand a chance to get 50+ digs for a single post, it’s better to make it easy to find a spot on as many Social Bookmarking networks as possible, instead of striving for a front page spot on a specific Social bookmarking network.
10. And last but not least: Buy Me A Beer - About this plugin I’ve been receiving e-mails from the day I activated it. As I have found, people don’t like donating their money, but they would buy you a beer, if you ask for one. So this plugin inserts a plead for beer at the end of every post you write, plus ads a big picture of a mug in the sidebar.
    For those who have more family-friendly blogs, you can turn the beer into coffee.

I’ve been talking allot today, time to rest, but my throat is soar, maybe a beer will make me less thirsty? Oh bummer, I have hardly any cash left!
Maybe somebody would like to buy me a beer? Of course you would! And you can even do it easily through the link on the bottom of this post.

When blogging, one of the best spots to place your Adsense Ad is in the body of your post.
CashCook.Info receives 75%+ of it’s clicks from the ads that I integrate in the post.

There’s only one problem with those ads. Google Adsense allows no more then 3 Ads on a single page, and with the standard tools Wordpress supplies, on all pages that have more then one post(front page, search results, archives, etc.), all posts that contain Adsense ads will display those ads. Needless to say, eventually you will get banned.

After searching around the internet, I haven’t found any plugin that deals with the problem, and decided to create a solution myself.

I can say for sure that this solution is not the most elegant solution there is, and maybe creating a plugin would have been the best idea, but I’m the lazy type of a person, never coded a plugin before, and for now did not know all the syntax one needs to learn so that he can write Wordpress plugins.

Enough ranting, let’s see how is it done:
First of all, you’ll need some plugin that will enable you to run PHP code within posts.
I personally use runPHP. It’s very easy to install and use, only annoying part about it, is that you have to tick the option to run PHP code each and every time you write a new post, and I tend to forget that.

Next, create a file in your blog’s home directory called adsense.php, which will include your Google Adsense code.
Now, go to your theme editor, and add the next line in your header, anywhere after the <body> tag:
<?php $GLOBALS[”x”]=1; ?>

That’s it, you are done with preparations, and are ready to insert Adsense code within your posts.

Now wherever you want to ad Adsense in your post, ad one of the next codes, according to the number of such ads you want to display per page.

If you display one ad per page, use this code:
<?php
if($GLOBALS[”x”]==1){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 2;
}
?>

If you display two ads per page, use this code:
<?php
if($GLOBALS[”x”]==1){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 2;
}
else if($GLOBALS[”x”]==2){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 3;
}
?>

If you display three ads per page, use this code:
<?php
if($GLOBALS[”x”]==1){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 2;
}
else if($GLOBALS[”x”]==2){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 3;
}
else if($GLOBALS[”x”]==3){
include “adsense.php”;
$GLOBALS[”x”] = 4;
}
?>
I suggest you write down the appropriate code in a text file, so you can quickly cut and paste it into your code.

P.S.
Just don’t forget to tick “run PHP code?” each time you write a new post.

A few days ago, while checking my daily traffic report, I’ve noticed a new traffic source.
When I checked out the site, I found out the dude is actually scraping all my content to his own blog.

For those who don’t know what scraping is, I’ll explain.
Since the era of RSS feeds, there’s no problem to write a script that will read a blog’s feed, and repost all the content on another blog. This way, each time I post anything new, the scraper sees it, and posts the exact same post on his own blog.

In the beginning I was annoyed, was afraid that now his readers will be stealing my bandwidth, downloading my freebies, and will not get to see my intriguing Adsense Ads.
However, after some research, I realized I can use this for my own advantage.

First thing I’ve done, is going to my cPanel, and setting up “HotLink Protection”. Now each time anybody tries to download anything from my site from a domain that is not CashCook.Info, he’ll be redirected to my homepage(http://cashcook.info/). So if any of the scraper’s readers want to download anything, they’ll be redirected to my homepage, will have to use the search option to find the product, and meanwhile, check out my precious Adsense.

But things don’t stop here. From now on I’m going to make more and more references to my old posts, so that when the new posts are scraped, the scraper will also link to my old posts, giving me some deep links, which will in turn improve my off-site SEO.

And finally, I am going to post affiliate links on CashCook.Info from time to time, and guess who will be distributing them all over the net? Yup the same scrapers whose only intention is to steal my content.

However, if your content was scraped, and you still dislike the idea despite what I said earlier, there’s a very good way to fight the scrapers.
Just drop a quick mail to their host, saying the guy is stealing your intellectual property. Mention phrases like “copyright infringement”, and all those other words lawyers love, and I doubt any body will continue scraping your content for long after their host threatens to close their account.

Many bloggers are seeking ways to bring traffic. This technique will not give you any new traffic, it will do something much better.
All it will do is keep a visitor on your blog for much longer, making him read not one, but many posts.
Eventually - this will increase the quality of your blog traffic, which might be even more important then quantity of traffic - after all, a visitor that stays for half an hour is much more likely to click an ad then a visitor that stays a few minutes.

The method is quite simple, and many bloggers use it. It’s called the domino effect.
What you do is make sure each post has a link to a previous post, this way you build a chain of posts leading to the first posts of your blog. The reader will read more and more, since he wants to fully understand the issue your articles deals with, and the only way to do that, is to read the next article in the chain.
Together with the Techniques I gave you to increase Adsense CTR, You might eventually convert each and every visitor into a click. Just make sure he stays on for enough time to click something, and you are sorted!