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Wordpress’s Pings can Hurt your Blog & the Plugin that Saves the Day

If Pinging to you is just one of those geek terms that you’ve come across but just brushed it off as more techno-speak. Then it’s important that you read this post..

Pinging is why blogs are more powerful than ordinary websites and why blogs are easily indexed in search engines while websites struggle to get indexed, Pinging is also why blogs attract more traffic than ordinary websites..this is all because Blogs have the ability to PING! and you can’t afford to overlook the ping process, no matter how geeky it sounds.
Ok, so What is Pinging and what does it do for my blog?

8 Beautiful Wordpress Themes for Your Photo-Blog + 3 Nifty Plugins

It’s not easy finding nice themes for photoblogs..believe me, I’ve been on the search and so here are the 8 themes that pass the my stringent geek test. All are 100% geek approved. Plus I’ve added 3 Wordpress plugins that have been developed specifically made for photo-blogs.

2 “Hand Drawn” Social Networking Icon Sets…Super Digg Nifty!

Here are two really cool hand drawn social networking icon sets that I think would really help your blog stand out in the crowd. Add some chic to your geek and Visit the artists websites to download these sets

How to Add Social Networking Icons to your Blog

If you want to add social bookmarking icons or links to the bottom of your posts here are a few different ways you can do it with out a plugin. You can of course use one of the many Wordpress plugins like Sharethis or Social Bookmarking RELOADED.

However, if you want to add something a little more unique to your posts to get people’s attention you can use the examples from Catwhocode.com and Hongkiat.com by creating an image map banner at the bottom of your posts using CSS and PHP. You can find out how by reading the tutorial by wphacks.com or one of the other tutorials listed below..whichever one works for you. I tested out the last one and it worked great for me and was easy as pie.

It’s a lot easier then you might think…examples below..

Read: How To: Add Social Bookmark Links to your Theme

There’s a couple other hacks I found based on the same concept..

Using Videos to sell stuff online – Jason Moffatt and Frank Kern

I found this random video on a random website..well actually the random website was richjerk.com and Richjerk.com is a website that uses video parodies to sell a crap load of “get rich online” internet tips and was successful at it.
So, anyway these two guys in this video below kept my interest and gave me some really good ideas and I thought maybe some of you might also find it interesting so check it out..and leave a comment and let me know what you think.

http://www.easyvideosales.com Jason Moffatt and Frank Kern answer a variety of questions about marketing and sales via online videos

Free Wordpress theme: Introducing NYC Theme

Introducing Free NYC Wordpress Theme..

I really liked this theme once I downloaded it and took a closer look at what was included. The screenshot does not do it justice. Take a closer look. Catswhocode.com designed the theme and I highly recommend their website as well.

Features

• Widgetized sidebar
• Widgetized footer
• Custom field to display a thumbnail on homepage
• Optimized for SEO
• Easy to customize
• Classy design

Fancy Drupal, Mambo and Joomla Themes

Here are a few Drupal, Joomla and Mambo themes that I think are really nice from thewebdesignstudio.com….

Are you up for the Thirty Day Challenge? Make your first dollar online.

I’m gonna try this out, it looks interesting and I’m always up for a challenege and learning more then I think I know..it’s called the 30 day challenge and it’s an program video blog/website that guides you through the process of learning how you can create your business online, or optimize your current business and [...]

Get Dirty – Grunge Templates 4 WordPress

Modern Oak Theme – Beautiful, dark Wood background, 2 column, widget ready and ad ready. Originally in dutch with English version available.
Preview & Download

Blue Jeans: Kind of a cute idea, a theme that uses a blue jean look and feel. This theme is available in both two-column and three-column style.
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Grunge by Ithemes Grunge [...]

PepperjamNETWORK’s Blogger Incentive Program

Pepperjamnetwork’s Blogger Incentive Program
Free $10 Sign Up bonus to all new affiliates!
PepperjamNETWORK recently introduced a Blogger Incentive Program that not only offers free $10 Sign Up bonus to new affiliates, it also pays bloggers to blog about the Pepperjamnetwork.
That’s right, blog about PepperjamNETWORK and get paid $10 for doing so. A blogger is allowed [...]