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The Blogroll Page Plugin plugin for your Wordpress Blog is used to publish your blogroll to an individual post or page.You can see how it works by visiting my Links page. The links that you see would be maintained in my blogroll with the Description field being output after the link.

I can see 2 main reasons that you may like to use the Blogroll Page Plugin: [More]

Impress your visitors in 2 minutes.

Show your visitors that your WP blog is bigtime. Show a realtime display of sites linking to you from all over the Web. You can choose the blogs that you want to show on your link pages. You can choose your preffered language as well. You can implement this plugin in as fast as two minutes. [More]

Its true, this locally admired Project Manila photo blog  of Ricky Manzano was hacked by “shit eater 007“.  Site security seems to be the main concern of webmasters and bloggers around the world.  Back up / Back up / Back up…..

 Michael Wolf’s popular SEO blog has been hacked, and it appears that the hacker may have some issues with the SEO community:

I’m going to crack all the SEO related sites/blogs/forums that I can… Maybe once in a while a non-SEO site will slip into the list but what the hell! Who cares anyways? - hackers note

Choosing a good web host is the next best thing to do after purchasing your desired Domain Name. The web host plays a vital role for your websites online visibility.

1. Uptime = Reliability: Do not be fooled by large disk space and bandwidth promos. If you are just a new blogger, you need not to have a large space and bandwidth. Bandwidth and Space is not relevant if your blog is not available most of the time.

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WeblogToolsCollection.com recently announced the second WordPress Plugin Competition. I really like the idea of this competition, it creates buzz and bloggers will discover who’s original and who’s the copycat and best of all great plugins are released with full support for free. [More]

spotback wordpress plugin

Description - The Spotback Wordpress plugin enables simple integration of rating component into your blog. By using this tool, all your users can rate your posts.

This plugin allows you to choose the rating components you like, or even design your own, exactly the way you like them. The custom design can be done by using the Spotback widget designer.

Create your own: slider, stars and more [More]

If you are one of the many people around the world wondering exactly what a “Blog” is and why everyone is so hyped up about, then jump on board and take a look around. Blogging has quite literally opened the windows to the world via technology.

People around the world and from all walks of life are blogging. It’s one word that young, old, rich, poor, and almost anyone somewhere in the middle has in common. So what is it?

Originally, weblogs, which is a term that has been shortened to ‘blog’, were essentially online journals that were kept in a log type format. These journals generally contained the most recent entry at the top and worked backwards from the newest to the oldest. They were originally personal pages only and not intended for commercial use. Over time that has changed but their origins were not monetarily driven. [More]

WordPress 2.2 Released

WordPress 2.2 “Getz” is now official. According to Dougal Campbel, here are the changes and enhancements you will get if you download WordPress 2.2 Getz :

• Atom feeds updated to Atom 1.0
• Preliminary support for Atom Publishing Protocol
• Widgets are now supported in core
• Protection against activating broken plugins
• “Deactivate All Plugins” button. Sadly, my “Reactivate All Plugins” patch didn’t make it into this release. Hopefully you’ll see it in WP 2.3.
• Improvements to comment management
• Code optimizations and speedups
• Future WYSIWYG support for the Safari browser
• Post Preview moved into a popup window, rather than an iframe on the Write page
• WordPress-specific XML-RPC API
• JQuery support

You can find a list of changes for version 2.2 on the WordPress Trac site. Ready to sample the new hotness? Start downloading!

Driving Traffic to your Blog is probably the most important thing that you need to consider. Remember that content is “King”, your content will give you more readership and more income in the long run.

Here are the Tips on How to Drive Traffic to your Blog

• Create a Brand and make sure it will be interesting and trustable.
• Download SEO related plugins to ensure each page will have a different title and keywords. Search engines look for certain things - titles, headings, meta tags - so it is crucial to make sure your site is “search engine friendly”.
• Search engines do not find your site unless you submit your site’s information to them. Below are four ways to submit your Web site to search engines and Directories like Yahoo.com, DMOZ, GOOGLE etc.
• Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine http://www.my.yahoo.com
• Update your blog everyday to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts
• Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don’t write things like “nice blog” or “great post.” Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.
• Offer reviews and tips how to gain traffic and income to readers.
• Add a “favorites or bookmark this site” script to your homepage.
• Add a “Recommend This Site” or “Share This” on your site. Once they find your content helpful, readers will recommend your blog to a friend
• Provide a subscription box, Use FeedBurner.
• Claim your Blog, Join Technorati.
• Conduct periodic contests and announce the winners on your site.
• Provide Poll section, Statistics show that visitors love quizzes and assessment tools.
• Brag it! print your Blog URL in your business cards, brochures, newsletters, letterhead, e-mail signature, ads - everything!!
• Shout it out in Friendster, Myspace and other social networking sites.
• Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.