I have previously described how to easily add video to your blog in my post 2 Steps To Add Youtube Video to Wordpress but what if you simply don’t want to mess with code or not feeling very comfortable doing it?

This is where this short guide will be useful as all you need is 2 plugins that will help you add your videos with very little effort and knowledge on your part.

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Effective advertisement management on your blog is one of the more important aspects of earning as you only have limited space to sell. WordPress banner manager plugin I want to discuss today is actually quite a bit more…

• It is a complete Ad Server that gives you full Control and Banner Placement flexibility
• It is a solution that allows you to keep 100% of the income generated via sold ads
• It is a marketplace for your blog, where advertisers can purchase ads on your blog directly

OIO Publisher is a plugin I will talk about AND I will give you a discount coupon to grab all that goodness! Just read on…

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SezWho was a start up that was different from other reputation management systems in a way that it allowed you to rate comments and also build your consistent reputation across multiple platforms, all the while allowing you keep comments local to your blog.

This was one feature that made me an early adopter but looks like its gone. It appears SezWho was sold out and by March 31st it will be gone from my blog, after painful migration of all the features to native comments system…

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Since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 I have discovered that my home page was loading extremely slow. Doing the most obvious I have discovered that one of my more useful plugins decided to go bad and start throwing errors in numbers that were quickly filling the error log.

A Classic Case of Good Plugin Going Bad due to the lack of support and updates from original author. Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King was one of the must have plugins on my blog but author stopped supporting it since WordPress 2.5

So the question is – how would you address it?

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WordPress and Twitter integration is absolutely essential to your blogging efforts and unless you missed the last year – twitter is where it is happening now. Join and benefit or be left in the dust!

Goal of this article is to share how I integrate the WordPress and Twitter alone with other social media sites to get traffic, exposure and reach new readers and customers. While I have posted several times throughout the last year on the topic I didn’t engage it enough as I’m still learning and testing. What you will find here is a result of almost a year of constant usage, testing and designed to help you join the social revolution quickly and painlessly!

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Growing your blog beyond publishing can be done quite easily by using WordPress Forums Plugins. Community growth greatly depends on ongoing communication and forums integrated into your WordPress blog through plugin or as an add on should be an option to consider.

Good news is – you have several choices, as with anything related to WordPress plugins but you have to make evaluation and decide which forum model fits better for you. And  I simply want to assist you in this post to make that decision or at least explain your options..

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KeywordLuv is very useful plugin for your WordPress blog and for the longest time I have been using it to share link love to the commenters on my blog. I appreciate each and every one who took advantage of the feature and contributed to the content on my blog!

And yes, valid comments I consider a valuable content and love rewarding people for it! Link love is one of the easiest ways to reward.

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