Last Thursday Google team has announced release of the “Living Stories” to WordPress community as open source code. It contains several WordPress  plugins and a custom theme required to run properly. Good news is that code is portable to other themes and if you are willing to dig into code – instructions provided.

I think concept is extremely intriguing as it opens possibilities for bloggers to become the NICHE leader by providing most current updates on topic. Obviously I haven’t used this one yet and from everything I have read on it so far – you might be limited to stories within the Living Stories project, I would appreciate correction if I’m wrong here.

Love Blogging but need a vacation? Perhaps your blog hasn’t become the *HOTTEST* spot on the net with hundreds of bloggers begging to allow them submit content to it? Or perhaps you are just suffering from brain freeze and need a bit of time to re-evaluate your options all the while making sure you don’t lose your readers?

• What Do You Do?

• How Do You Find Quality Content For Your Blog?

Obviously you can use an option provided to you by WordPress to schedule a bunch of posts for the future publishing, you can get some PLR content and re-write it, you can hire someone to create content for you or…

Pinging or doing notification to Syndication Services is important part of promoting blogs and spreading the word about new content. It is also a source of traffic to some extent and one of the most controversial issues in blogosphere!

I have seen hundreds of posts including from very known bloggers and marketers that share their opinion on Blog Ping and size of the list of RPC services your blog should have. Interesting thing – these opinions are generally radically different, in fact I have seen one very known blogger/marketer sharing a ping list that required quite a bit of scrolling just to see it!

There Is a HUGE Problem With It!

Love blogging but perhaps feeling like your writing could use some improvement? I feel you, as I’m swimming in the same lake! Would you like to have a grammar / spelling / proofreading on autopilot for your WordPress blog?

Excellent!

Because I know you just answered “Yes” Ok, well maybe you didn’t – I still would LOVE TO SHARE WordPress  plugin I have discovered that acts as my private English Tutor! “After the Deadline” checks your writing and attempts to be smarter than you, when it comes to grammar, in my case it succeeds!

Links building software will always be in demand for as long as number of incoming links will continue to determine the ranking of your site and individual pages. While your blog permits you to build incoming links a more natural way – who wouldn’t like a little bit of automation? Huh?

Today I want to share a link building plugin I have learned about by reading Jack Humphrey’s post on WordPress Plugins for SEO and Link Building. I was wondering for a quite a bit what he was using to present Related Websites on his blog posts and now I got to experiment with that plugin myself. While the jury is still out on its usefulness – it seem to have a good promise…

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.