It’s a simple question if you ask me. From what I know there are over 100 million bloggers right now on the internet and almost 40% of them are using wordpress. Now, I don’t have time to look over all the blogs, but from what I have seen almost 70% of the bloggers use two columns themes. Now this is a problem, because all the tow columns themes don’t give you the opportunity to expand and add new things to it. For example me, I have three columns, the main one for content, one for categories and some ads and the third which is a bit larger, for banners, links and other stuff that doesn’t have the width over 310px. This theme has a lot of advantages because of the width, but here is an example of a well known entrepreneur, Zac Johnson Read the rest of this entry »
- Author:
admin
- Date:
Sep 11,2007
- In:
Wordpress
In this post I will tell you how to pimp your blog with the best wordpress plugins and as for themes, I posted a top 10 in a past article, which were chosen from my point of view. I am writing this post because I have a lot of friends that don’t have the necessary knowledge, info on some problems that make the blogging experience harder. Some have problems embedding video, mp3 files into posts, other can’t add meta keywords, description and also there are some problems in adding ads from amazon and even google. Before writing about the plugins that I am using, here is a list of websites that have the necessary resources you need for making your blogger live easier:
- First of all, the plugins section from wordpress .com, which is very easy to find under “EXTEND > Plugins“ or here is a the direct link
- A nicer website with more plugins is WP-PLUGINS.NET and on the .ORG version is a plugin repository
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- Author:
admin
- Date:
Sep 10,2007
- In:
Google
As you all know a new Google pagerank is expected since April , when the last update occurred and from some reasons I can say that the new update will have a major impact on some big sites and on web directories. Why do I think so? Because Google is working hard in changing the algorithm in a such way that paid links don’t count for PR and for some of us the tests that they are doing are a pain in the ass. For example, me, I have some niche websites on some good keywords that rank on the first page but in the last two – three weeks my traffic has dropped of 40% and of course the revenue as well. I hate this all system of being dependent of only one search engine, but that’s how things work. Read the rest of this entry »
As you all know widgets are free software programs that can be very easily embedded into your websites, blogs (for wordpress for ex). ComScore as announced that in May over 220 million persons have used widgets and the number is growing from month to month. So creating widgets has become a business, especialy for a person that you all know, the co-founder of the online pay-processing company Paypal, Max Levchin. He is already rich, from selling his company to eBay for 1.5 billion $ in 2002, but now Levchin has some new great ideas. He founded Slide.com , one of the biggest widgets maker on the web. Their widgets are used on almost every social networks, such as Hi5.com, Facebook.com, myspace.com and so on, that results in big traffic for slide, ranked on position 200 in alexa.com => a lot of money.
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