Stuart McHenry - My Internet World

We did a bit of traveling all last week. We checked out real estate in Nevada and Utah but had some fun at the end of the trip.

The last couple days we chilled out in Las Vegas ate buffet food, gambled and took in a show. My daughter and wife love to shop at the forum shops… so thank god Caesars finally put in a poker room. For the five people in the world (you know who you are) that haven’t been to the forum shops in Las Vegas it is attached to Caesars… so it is very convenient to cruise over there and play some poker while the shoppers… shop.

I have to say Caesars has it going on. The poker room was one of the best I have seen… and I’ve seen a few. Huge room with very comfortable chairs and lots of staff to assist the players. There is nothing worse then sitting in a poker room waiting for service.

The other nice thing this trip was the show we took in. The three of us went to see Hairspray and what a great show. The best part of the trip was watching my daughter dance in her seat along with the music from the show.. well worth the $85 per ticket.

We have a handful of wordpress blogs and yesterday was the first time I used the adsense plugin from Wayne Walrath of Acme Technologies. I don’t know why it took me so long to use it and I’m a bit embarrassed since Wayne is a good friend. *sorry it took so long* but it could not have be easier.

Here are some of the advantages:

-Switching all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site
-Trying out image ads instead of textual ads
-Testing alternate AdSense formats
-Disabling a class of AdSense ads, or even all ads
-Including common formatting for AdSense ad blocks (less typing)
-Testing alternate ad placements for higher click-thru rates
-Controlling ads within your WP template files.

My favorite feature is the ability to switch different formats out quick and easy. I do tons of testing on a lot of our sites and I always look for a quick way to change out colors, sizes and styles.

One of the hidden features is the support Wayne offers with his plugin. I had some questions about it so I fired off an email and I got a response from him the next day. If you run adsense on your wordpress blog… you cannot go wrong with AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin.