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Win An iPod Touch From Next2Friends For Valentines Day

Remember Next2Friends? Well the service is now out of beta, although they are still giving away a FREE iPod Touch and a FREE Dell laptop every month to one lucky new user. They’ve also asked me to promote that in addition to the usual monthly giveaway, Next2Friends are also giving away an extra [...]

31Jan2008 | Everton | 3 comments | Continued
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Do You Pay Taxes On Your Blog Earnings?

I’ve just completed my first tax return and made my payment that includes the earnings from this site.  My personal return is usually quite simple, so this was the first time I’ve had to make a big tax payment to the taxman.
The majority of my payment was from money I’d made from this blog, and [...]

30Jan2008 | Everton | 18 comments | Continued
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Stuck In a Blogging Funk?

The white screen’s staring at you. Malevolently. “Come on, I dare you. Write!”, it seems to say. If you’re like most bloggers, you’ve been mired in a blogging funk on occasion. You may be raring to pound the keyboard but nothing comes out. So what’s a problogger like you to do? The longer you delay [...]

30Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 1 comment | Continued
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4 Exceptional Commercial Wordpress Themes

Wordpress has not enjoyed a large community of commercial theme designers. You can’t swing a dead cat on the internet without hitting a free Wordpress theme, and most of the successful bloggers who do use a commercial theme paid for a one-off design, or had one made for them gratis. More and more CMS style [...]

27Jan2008 | Michael Lankton | 11 comments | Continued
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OpenAds Launch Free Hosted Service For Managing Your Blogs Ads

Many bloggers run some form of ads on their site i.e. affiliate banners, banners from ad networks etc. However, most don’t have a way of tracking whether their ads are performing well, or a way of rotating ads easily.
Openads is a great free ad serving service that allows you to run your own adserver. [...]

27Jan2008 | Everton | 2 comments | Continued
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List of WordPress Plugins Used On This Site

As promised below is a list of the WordPress plugins used on this site. I find it’s useful to do a plugins post every few months or two to share what I’m using with readers, but also to get suggestions from readers for other WordPress plugins I should give a try.
This list was created [...]

27Jan2008 | Everton | 15 comments | Continued
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Use Any Font On Your Site With sIFR

Most blogs/websites whenever they want to have some fancy text for headlines/nav usually resort to using an image. This becomes a burden whenever you want to change things, and isn’t as good for SEO as plain old text. Enter sIFR, a javascript method for using *any* font on a webpage with little to [...]

27Jan2008 | Kline | 15 comments | Continued
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You Got Duplicate Content!

Google isn’t indexing your Wordpress blog!
And it could all be because of the duplicate content problem. Wait. But you know you have unique content… right? Write the best articles all you want, but the default Wordpress coding structure tends to be un-search engine-friendly- quite like the Joomla core. Observe how the archives, categories, [...]

25Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 6 comments | Continued
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Feedburner Feed Counts Playing Up Again?

My feedcount is down to 7 today - it hasn’t been that low since my first week back in May 2005!!!
I’m guessing that Feedburner’s stats are playing up again.  Has anybody else’s Feedburner count swung dramatically today?

24Jan2008 | Everton | 16 comments | Continued
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Get Famous - Be Published!

So you want want to be famous, but you can’t sing, can’t dance, and for the life of you, can’t even act more wooden than the tree in your backyard. So what’s an ego driven fella like you to do? Why- get published of course!
Getting a book out is no longer as tough as it [...]

23Jan2008 | Joseph Plazo | 10 comments | Continued
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