WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

In this article I want to discuss one simple and yet, extremely important aspect of WordPress blog - page load speed and how to improve it enough to be able to Survive The Digg. God forbid your blog post becomes popular and makes it to front page of digg when it is not ready for it! Not only do you face the wrath from pissed off visitors but also possible issues with your host.

WordPress in its current state faces one of the biggest issues - loading speed and according to Ryan this will be one of the most important part of 2.4 release - optimizing performance. But what do you do in mean time?

Design Your WordPress Blog To Survive The Digg

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I have to admit… the swarm of non-stop Giveaways is getting old. Lately I have been participating ONLY in private events to ensure that only high quality gifts are offered to subscribers and true value provided to people subscribing to receive them. One of the examples is Mike Mazella’s Lightning Giveaway that provides a load of great products but will be closing its doors on November 19 (grab your gifts if you missed it before).

But this is not what this post is about … I want to talk about the man who defined and pioneered this form of marketing and once again taking the stage to Re-Define what Giveaways should be!

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[tag-tec]WordPress[/tag-tec] is awesome blog platform but as with any script there are many opportunities for things to go wrong. Now add to the mix multitude of plugins that extend functionality and enhance our blogging experience and we are looking at a real issue.

And let’s not forget about the themes available for free download… Can you see what I’m getting to?

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BloggingZoom is a hot new comer to social networking scene that allows bloggers exchange traffic by presenting their content in relevant location. While it doesn’t perform same function like BlogRush does its promise is similar and end result expected by many is also one and only - more traffic.

And now I’m making an official declaration after a few days of using it:

• BloggingZoom Sucks More Than BlogRush …
  

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I have just signed up this morning for a QuickWebCreations service and was amazed at the service is provides at an extremely low price. Being a fairly decent with Photoshop I still spend considerable amount of time when I need to work with images, especially anything related to Web 2.0.

Time it takes to figure out latest trends and how to get image to correspond to it is one of the most consuming tasks for me and if you are like me I suggest you look at what I was able to create in a spam of 2 minutes using this tool:

Like what you see? Then watch the video where I show exactly how I did it …

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Get $25 Bonus From Kontera With Your First Payment!

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What I love about blogs the most is ability of people behind the writing to produce content that beats anything you can locate in your local news and information found in Blogosphere in many cases more accurate and to the point, without trying to soften the blow.

In this post I simply want to share some great finds from this past weekend that captured my attention and forced me to take some action to either benefit from it directly or by simply storing the knowledge away for later use …

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