Download the latest RPM here. Search by name and you should find something like php-5.2.3-2.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm. Pay attention to the distro the RPM is build for.

Once you have your RPM, install it.

rpm -ivh php-5.2.3-2.fc6.remi.x86_64.rpm

If it says that you are missing some dependencies, download those, install them (with rpm -ivh), and try again.

Some dependencies might error out saying that some files are conflicting. If this occurs you can remove the already installed dependency. To do so use something like this:

rpm -e php-common-5.1.6

Also, you can use RPM to install addons such as GD libraries or MySQL.
I believe thats it. It is much simpler than expected. I can say that now, after I spent hours trying to make it work with source code.

AdSense Money Generating Tips:

You have to find a niche will have a fairly decent payout. If, for example, you have a funny video site and a credit card related site, you have to ask yourself, which site will have higher paying ads? Credit card subject is very competitive and companies are ready to dish out some serious money on their AdWord campaigns. In addition to that, affiliate marketers get paid well for credit card sign ups, and only a fraction of that for singles site sign0-up or a survey site registration. They will pay more per click on their campaigns for credit cards, because their ROI can be very rewarding.

The second thing is your content. If you will copy and paste articles that you found or bought and they are not original, most likely you will not get any organic traffic. I simply read up on a subject and write about it. If you do not have time, pay someone to write for you. The return will be great with some good original content.

Then comes the most important part – traffic. Some will argue that the content is more important than the traffic, but with AdSense, the traffic will be your revenue generator. Do not use any kind of traffic exchanges as Google doesn’t like them. Look for the alternatives to AdWords and get your ad out there for a lot less money. This way you will get the traffic to your site(s) that is targeted but not as expensive.

Tweak your ads by changing their placements, colors, and size until you find the formula that works. Make sure to set up your ad channels so you can track which ads get the most clicks.

I think this is it. If I missed something feel free to comment. I hope that these tips help will help you in improving your AdSense revenue

In the comment one person was asking for tips or tricks for this. Here are a few, without giving too much away.

1. You have to find a niche that you believe will produce high paying ads. If an ad is paying you $.02 you will not get anywhere. If you get $.10, then you are doing well. Of course there are ads that could pay a lot more.

2. The content on your site has to be updated frequently. I usually try to add something every day.

3. This is the hardest part. Traffic. I get traffic to my sites with ads. Of course the price per click that I pay is much much less than price per click that I get paid with adsense ads. One thing I will say is that I do not use Adwords to get traffic to my sites.

You are seeing this message because the theme you are currently using isn’t widget-aware, meaning that it has no sidebars that you are able to change. For information on making your theme widget-aware, please follow these instructions.

The instructions were pretty easy to follow and now my theme is widget ready.

If you use Akon theme for WordPress this is all you need to do. The source of info is here, but I just wanted to give simpler instructions for the users of this particular theme.

• Open functions.php in the ‘Akon’ theme folder and paste the following at the very top outside the <?php> tag:
  

  <?php
  if ( function_exists(’register_sidebar’) )
  register_sidebar(array(
  ‘before_widget’ => ”,
  ‘after_widget’ => ”,
  ‘before_title’ => ‘<div class=”title”>’,
  ‘after_title’ => ‘</div>’,
  ));
  ?>

• Open sidebar.php in the same folder and paste this to where you want your widgets to show.
  

  <div class=”column”>
  <?php if ( !function_exists(’dynamic_sidebar’)
  || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
  <?php endif; ?>
  </div>

  Notice that this is using ‘column’ class. If you changed your style sheet then edit the tag accordingly.

Now you can go and test this out. Note that you will need to mess around with CSS to get the widgets to match the look of your site.

After setting it up I started loading it with articles. Everything was gravy until maybe an hour after the initial setup. The blog started to crawl. I mean it was completely unusable. The counter on the bottom clocked the page loads at around 75 seconds. What could be the problem? I started looking for a solution.

There were bunch of pages discussing the slowness in WordPress. Most of them were because of certain plug-ins. I didn’t install any plug-ins so that eliminated most of my searches. After another 10 minutes of searching around, I decided to play around with the new blog to see if I can come up with a solution.

Here are some things I went through:

• Restarted httpd service – didn’t work
• Restarted mysql service – didn’t work
• Changed the theme to default – didn’t work
• Slam my head on the desk – didn’t work

Having no success was frustrating me and I was seriously ready to just trash the whole thing and reinstall it.

Then, out of nowhere, I had a light bulb go on in my head. If I had no plug-ins installed on this blog, I have missed something very crucial. I didn’t install Akismet. In addition to Akismet blocking spam comments, the trackback spam gets eliminated as well, hence less connections to your blog…hence a more responsive blog. I went ahead and activated Akismet (it took about 5 minutes to navigate to the activation page!!!). Right when I pressed the activate button the blog started acting like any WordPress blog should, fast as hell! Thank you Akismet!

So, if you have never installed WordPress, or if you have installed some; always remember…ACTIVATE AKISMET!!!

This happened after I rebooted my PC so I thought it was some setting issue. I checked everywhere but could not find the solution. I even googled “all text is italicized” and other similar searches and could not find the solution.

I gave up on looking for that time and went on to work on one of my sites. Thats where I stumbled upon the cause of the issue. The page I was working on had the default font set to Times New Roman and everything looked fine. Once I changed the font to Arial everything became italicized. Turns out the Arial font got deleted from my system. How that happened, I am not sure, but since Arial Italic font was still on my system, it was being displayed instead of Arial.

I found a free download for Arial font online and installed on my system. Now everything is fine.