Part 1 of this post concerned the WordPress plugins that take care of the ‘behind the scenes’ work, such as anti-spam and stats etc. This post is about those plugins that I use on my blogs to improve reader experience and interaction.
As before, if you’ve got any further suggestions for cool plugins, I’d love to [...]

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Supportuniverse.com is preparing for re-launch and is looking for Freelance Programmers.
It’s a site designed to put programmers in touch with Project Owners, to the benefit of both parties. Project owners can register with the site, and post details of the coding work they need, anything from simple logo or template design, right the way up [...]

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Plugins add another level of functionality to the already impressive Wordpress blogging system. They are small pieces of code, often a single file that you upload to your Wordpress blog, and they will then add some new functions, such as anti-spam, stats, SEO, reader interaction etc. This list is of the plugins I have used, [...]

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I might make this a regular thing if I can think of some sensible questions, as it’ll help me gauge if my opinions are in tune with everyone else’s , or whether I’m just swimming against the tide…
My last poll on full feed RSS versus partial came down as 86% in favour of full feeds, [...]

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Ashish Mohta has written an excellent article on how to better integrate your adsense ads, and so improve your clickthrough rates and earnings. One of the problems with Adsense has been successfully integrating the ads with your theme, to avoid ‘ad blindness’ where your visitors just don’t see them anymore. Most people (myself included) put [...]

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Although they’re sitting in my blogroll, I like to highlight my favourite links occasionally, so here’s five blogs I like and have learnt a lot from. Do visit, have a read, and if you like them don’t forget to subscribe to their feed. Or come back here…

Dosh-Dosh. Maki’s blog is one of the best out [...]

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I’m glad to see my readers increasing, with new people leaving comments and emailing me. It’s nice to meet you all, and I hope Blog-Op is useful to you. It seems like a good a time as any to have a re-introduction to the blog, and how you can use it.
There are two parts to [...]

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This is a paid post to help finance the costs of this website.
If your are interested in making money online, there are a whole variety of ways to go about it. One of those is an online retail site, either through Ebay or similar, or by creating your own site. Obviously you will need stock [...]

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Apparently, for reasons as yet unknown, some Blogger users are finding that they are no longer indexed by Google.
Due to the generic nature of the code behind Blogger’s set templates, it appears that the ROBOTS NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW tag used if you’ve set your blog to private, is being inserted randomly into blogs that are most definitely [...]

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Let the SEOmoz page strength tool tell you.
Page strength is NOT Page Rank, it’s SEOmoz’s own invention, but you may find it interesting to get a quick report on your domain. It includes Google Page Rank, Technorati links, DMOZ listing (good luck!), Google position for your domain, age of domain,Alexa and a few more. A [...]

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