WordPress 2.5 Has Arrived…
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The day has come and WordPress 2.5 has been rolled out. With the effort of the WordPress community for the last 6 months the improvements are numerous, with the likes of multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library, a WYSIWYG that doesn’t mess with your code, concurrent post editing protection, full-screen writing, and search that covers posts and pages.
Here is three excellent links for more details:
Visit our sneak peek announcement for RC1
a 4-minute screencast of the new interface in action
here’s where you can find 2.5 upgrade and download information
For more details visit the post from Matt at WordPress.org.
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Simple tweaks while on your coffee break
Was going though Sphinn yesterday when I stumbled into a post by Jennifer called 52 easy ways to optimize your blog in your coffee break, and as most of us are part time bloggers I can see the value in this post, as much of my blogging is done in my lunch time and the odd hour though the day (sorry boss if your reading my post).
Source: beconfused
Here is a few of my favorites:
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6 Golden must do’s for Social Media Websites
We all know that social media sites can create huge amounts of traffic and that there worth the time and effort to build you your social media network, here are 6 golden rules to abide too when using these websites.
Always Read The websites Rules
Every site will have it’s own guidelines too follow by, and it is the most obvious rule to follow. But I can guarantee we are all guilty of making these mistakes. One simple mistake can get your profile banned and Jeopardize weeks even months of networking instantly. So please spend that extra time to read and understand them.
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Do People Really Stumble your Posts? Now you can Find out
We all have all heard of stumble exchanges sites and off course this is where people can trade stumbles. Some times people don’t actually stumble back but say otherwise and before it was hard to know if they really did stumble you, until now….
Adam has solved this problem and created a neat programme called Stumbleupon Alerter.
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Building Backlinks to your Site
Previously I spoke about backlinks and submitting to directories, and explained that backlinks are incoming links to your site from other sites and how having more backlinks will benefit your traffic as well as your Google PageRank.
Remember your Anchor Text
Try using anchor text that will be used by others when they use search engines, a relevant anchor text for which I like to use for my site would be Blogging tips. Search engines pick up links and the more they find the anchor text with blogging the higher the ranking on the search engines. This will apply to any other anchor text too.
Tips to obtain more Backlinks?
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Submitting your Blog to Baidu.com
China has the worlds largest population with over 1.3 billion people and according to a several studies China has more internet users than the USA with over 160 million internet users and spends 2 billion hours online per week.
So thats why Baidu.com is the 5th largest internet website in the world and is bigger than Ebay and Amazon, so you can see instantly why it is worth having your blog ranked in their search engine and the potential increase in traffic its worth the effort.
The first question which comes to mind is, the site is a Chinese search engine for Chinese people and you write in English.
Now they are hosting the Beijing Olympics this year, the government has had a huge campaign to speak English and they will soon have the largest population of English speaking people. Believe me, I live in Asia and work with many China people and they all speak English.
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100 Sites With Free Stock Images
Inserting an image into your post is a excellent idea, it works in it will draw attention and improve the readability of the post, but one of the biggest issues bloggers have is finding the magic image for that special post.
One of the issues bloggers do have when the find that image is it owned by others and can’t be just copied, thats why the guys at arcagility came up with this list of 100 sites with free stock pictures.
So happy searching….
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