Recommend Google Pack WordPress Plugin

UPDATE: somehow I managed to get the Zip file name wrong - sorry folks! It should now be working.

Current version: 1.2 - Download Recommend Google Pack WordPress Plugin

Change log

1.2: Fixed URL in status page, updated version number.

1.1: Cookie handling was broken badly! Now fixed.

1.0: Initial release.

Following a discussion on ProBlogger about 5 Tips for Improving AdSense Referrals Earnings, I wondered if there wasn’t a sixth tip. As I’d recently installed the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin, I thought I could extend it to cover adding AdSense referrals. However, my blog is not about SEO, so I thought I’d take the idea a bit further and try it with Google Pack recommendations, so one quick hacking session later, the Recommend Google Pack WordPress Plugin was born! Darren, if you’re reading, I could sell you the naming rights for a small sum. :-) How does “What Would Darren Rowse Do?” sound? :-)

What this plugin does is (a) duplicate the What Would Seth Godin Do plugin functionality, but then (b) if the user is using Internet Explorer on Windows, also recommends the Google Pack and Firefox downloads.

Download my plugin, and install it in the usual fashion. Please use at your own risk! The configuration options can be found in the Options/RGP sub-menu.

Note that a pre-requisite to this plugin is WordPress Browser Detection Plugin by Priyadi Iman Nurcahyo - if that is not installed, the plugin behaviour will default to duplicating What Would Seth Godin Do, so you may want to disable WWSGD before installing this, or read the next paragrahp for further tips..

I did consider writing this as a complementary plugin to What Would Seth Godin Do, but then there would be a lot of duplicated behaviour. If you set the Message to All New Visitors to null in the options page, both can run side-by-side

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12 Comments »

  1. New Recommend Google Pack plugin » 世論 What Japan Thinks said,

    March 18, 2007 @ 00:12

    […] functionality from the WordPress Browser Detection plugin, I came up with a small plugin called Recommend Google Pack that recommends Google Pack to new visitors running Explorer on Windows (in addition to the […]

  2. James said,

    March 18, 2007 @ 09:13

    A damn fine idea. I’m adding it to my site as I post this comment!

  3. Zatetic said,

    April 13, 2007 @ 23:00

    Hi,

    I really like this plugin.

    But, my rss feed in firfox is messed up. It works fine in IE.

    Why would this be?

    this is the message that i get returned:

    This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below.

    it seems to work fine for you though, and i signed up.

    thanks for your time.

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    April 21, 2007 @ 23:29

    […] Recommend Google Pack Following on from (and duplicating the functionality of) What Would Seth Godin Do, this plugin, on detection of a new user browsing with Internet Explorer on Windows, adds a message that can be hooked up to Google Pack to recommend the user download FireFox. […]

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    May 3, 2007 @ 23:20

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  8. andy said,

    September 3, 2007 @ 03:28

    I like it, and spooky about Wikidpedia and the ad scare. This plugin isa good start. Might be neat to add a field in options to create other auto no-follow links so when you want to bash something like CUFI or the GOP and use links you don’t end up raising their stature on the search engines.

  9. manele said,

    December 2, 2007 @ 20:34

    this plugin is pretty cool, very easy to use! thx

  10. Ian said,

    February 25, 2008 @ 03:22

    Google really seems to be floundering without any strategic focus. Too many diversified agendas in a period of extreme growth with ready access to lots of cash seems like a recipe for debilitating “strategic drift.” I mean, come on, instead of rebranding freeware, use some resources to take gmail out of beta.

  11. Jimmy said,

    June 21, 2008 @ 13:19

    great plugin…thanks a lot seron

  12. Budi said,

    August 22, 2008 @ 09:46

    Thanks a lot for the plugins :)

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