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Wordze is doing yet another campaign: to celebrate Easter, this whole weekend you can register and get your first month with Wordze for just $15 instead of the regular $45 price.
To avail of this offer, just follow this link: Wordze – first month for just $15.
Many of you have probably notice the recent update of a Flickr Uploadr – a great tool for bulk uploads of your new photos to Flickr. I’ve been a fan of Flickr for quite some time, and plan to use it for photo streams on some of my blogs in the near future.
I absolutely love the new interface and yet simpler and more effective interface of the 3.0.x beta, but was, like most of you, startled to find out the proxy unfriendliness of Flickr Uploadr 3.0.x.
There’s no mentioning about proxy configuration in the Settings dialogue, and that’s why you will have to fix it yourself. Luckily for all, it’s not a complex process. [Read more…]
Finally, the 5$ themes club is up and running! Please have a look at the original announcement made on the WPdesigner blog for the full story, but just to get you interested enough I’ll tell you what this club is about: it’s a paid membership community where for just 5$ a year you’re guaranteed to have access to at least 12 unique WordPress themes. Sounds like a sweet deal!
In case you haven’t heard yet, Mark Joyner from Simpleology has compiled a brand new multi-media course on blogging, and you can snag it for free if you post about it on your blog.
I’ll let you know what I think once I’ve had a chance to check it out. Meanwhile, go grab yours while it’s still free.
Just got an email from Wordze, announcing their next round of free 30-day trials.
The following link should work for the next 7 days, good chance for all of you who wanted to try keyword research with Wordze: Wordze – Free 30-day trial
Now that we’re all in the new year of 2008, it is the perfect time for you to update the copyright year in footers of your blogs. This is something I used to neglect, but like any blogger, the more you write and the more you spend time maintaining and updating your posts, the better it is to have copyright years updated early into the new year.
I still remember the times when it took me almost half a year to notice that some of my blogs were still claiming the copyright period on them to cover everything up to the previous year, sometimes even the year before, but if you’re serious about protecting your intellectual property, better get into the habit of updating these copyright years early.
Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) has posted two great articles summarizing some of the best reasons to use or not to use Google AdSense:
I’ve been asked to have a look at the WebHostingChoice.com, and think it’s a website worth your visit.
This web hosting directory aims to make your search for the hosting a most complete venture. Most of the big hosting companies are represented, and each of them has a separate page with additional info.
The general feeling is that it’s a comprehensive website with users of all technical levels in mind. For beginners, there is an extensive Learning Center section with a great web hosting FAQ. There are explanations and definitions of hosting-related terminology, this will certainly help you ensure you understand everything about a particular hosting offer.
I also liked the section about most typical hosting scams you could come across. The general rule here is to double-check anything that looks too good to be true, like unlimited hosting, unlimited mailboxes, etc. While it is understood that the common assumption is that an average customer will never want to use the unlimited amount of any resource, it’s always good to verify the exact meaning of the “unlimited” word. In my time, I’ve seen too many examples of hosters which claim to provide unlimited bandwidth, but then cut you off after you go over 10Gb a month.
I wish there was some coverage on VPS hosting, but I guess it’s a pretty unique niche – and many people would simply jump from shared hosting to a dedicated server of their own. Apart from this, I found webhosting listings quite comprehensive – should definitely save your time when comparing different hosting plans or even different hosting companies.
I’ve just come across a great list of 75 websites you can submit your blog to, created by Kevin Muldoon at Blogging Tips.
If you were waiting for a super-easy and extra-useful list of resources – your wait is over, because Kevin did an impressive job by not only compiling the list but also providing direct links to submit pages where possible.
Aaron Wall has recently posted a great introduction to SEO for bloggers, which I think every blogger should check out. Beginners will find great steps to get started, and seasoned bloggers will make sure nothing in their SEO campaign had been accidentally left out.
Here’s a link: The Blogger’s Guide To SEO.
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