WordPress Web 2.0 Spot-Er

I was pinged a few days ago by my friend Thaya Kareeson about a plugin he has released a while back and he was wondering if I would be interested to check it out. And I did - quite impressive as it allows you to increase The Social Impact of your blog. See below

It allows you to Greet Visitors to Your Blog based on what url they come from. I do have a small issue with the plugin but you’ll just have to read the post to learn about it…

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In this post I’ll be addressing WordPress banner management plugin options as monetizing your blog via paid sponsor ads or via affiliate banners is one of the major income streams for many bloggers. Even though I have previously wrote couple posts about the subject in question - new options were made available that allow you better choice for WordPress banner plugin.

I want to take a closer look at 2 different plugins you can use on your WordPress blog that in my personal opinion address all the major needs and provide the simplicity combined with functionality most bloggers will need.

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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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I have been using SezWho universal profile service on my WordPress blog for a while now and I love the options they provide. Well, as everything else develops - these guys just came out with KILLER enhancements. I know that with announcement of Automattic acquiring Intense Debate it might be a choice you need to make yourself later but I love the options SezWho provides!

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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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Fighting Comment Spam on a WordPress blog is a never ending battle. Since I provide DoFollow options and use 2 plugins that reward commenters even more: CommentLuv and KeywrodLuv - I get a LOT of comment spam. Ever since I have switched from Spam Karma 2 to Akismet I’ve been testing multiple plugins that will assist me with this work and minimize the load.

Well, looks like I have just found a wining combination!

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This post is written to address multiple questions I have received from my existing customers and readers of my blog - how to build WordPress blog with minimal number of plugins for speed and still profit from it. While the choices will greatly depend on what niche you are addressing and your goals, I’ll provide some of my personal choices that I think should be part of ANY WordPress blog, no matter how minimalistic it is.

But first, lets define minimalist:

min·i·mal·ist (mn-m-lst) n.

1. One who advocates a moderate or conservative approach, action, or policy, as in a political or governmental organization.
2. A practitioner of minimalism.

And now lets discuss how we can make our WordPress blog to follow the standart above…

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