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Jul 30 2010

Increase Your Newsletter Sign Up Rate With Pop Up Domination

I was browsing the web the other day when I came across an intriguing WordPress plugin called Pop Up Domination- a plugin which claimed to increase newsletter opt in rates by up to 304%. I contacted the owner James Deer and he was kind enough to send me a review copy of the plugin so that I could give you all a preview :) As most of you know, email marketing is one of the best ways of making money on the web. Unlike an RSS feed, which has to be read through a newsreader, newsletters can be delivered right to someones inbox. Which is why it's such a powerful marketing tool. Pop Up Domination helps you greatly increase your newsletter sign up rate by placing a pop up message over...

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Jul 29 2010

WordPress 3.0.1 Released

News

Andrew Nacin today announced the release of WordPress 3.0.1, the long awaited update to the highly successful WordPress 3.0 (which was downloaded close to 11 million times!). In total 55 fixes were addressed including:

Incompatibilities with the export process on some servers.
A problem where editing the content area of a post in the new Apple iPad doesn't work.
Several typos.
An inconsistency between the number of posts which are displayed in the admin area between different sections.

As usual, I encourage you all to temporarily disable your plugins and backup your database and files before you upgrade (particularly large websites). You can download 3.0.1 automatically in your WordPress admin area or manually via the link below. Download Link: WordPress...

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Jul 29 2010

Make Your Blogroll Links DoFollow With Best Blogroll

Plugins

Chris Guthrie from Make Money On The Internet emailed me about a new plugin he developed called Best Blogroll. The plugin is very straight forward. By default, all Blogroll links in WordPress have a nofollow tag attached to them so that Google Page Rank juice is not passed to them. This plugin allows you to remove the nofollow tag for all links or all links excluding the home page. Best Blogroll is a good plugin though I would only recommend it to those who have a large Blogroll and a requirement that each link passes PR juice to their link partners. For everyone else, I would keep the nofollow tag in their Blogroll links so that your outgoing PR juice is not greatly reduced. More information about the plugin can be found at the link...

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Jul 28 2010

500 Creative 404 Error Pages

Resources

A few months ago I wrote a short article showing how you can create a 404 error page in WordPress. The 404 error message is given by servers when a page is not found. There are many reasons why a visitor would visit an incorrect page:

The page may have been there before but has since been deleted (but is still linked from search engines and other websites)
Another person on the web may have linked to the wrong URL
The visitor may have entered an incorrect URL

Unfortunately, it is inevitable that people will visit pages on your which no longer exist (or never did). The quickest way to check this yourself is through a service such as Google Webmaster Tools (via 'Diagnostics' and then 'Crawl Errors'). Due to this, it is very...

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Jul 26 2010

Plugin Installer Tool

News

WordPress developer Mark Jaquith is developing an incredibly useful plugin installer tool. As it stands, plugin developers advise users to download their plugin from either their website or the WordPress.org plugin directory. Many also take advantage of WordPress's fantastic in built installation feature and tell users to search for their plugin from their own WordPress admin area. However, as you know, when you search for a plugin within your website admin area it brings up dozens of plugins, therefore there is always a chance of you downloading the wrong plugin. Mark is improving this process by making it easier for users to download plugins directly from the developers website. So instead of being referred to the plugin page on WordPress.org, they are referred to a page where they can enter their website address. After you enter your...

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Jul 24 2010

Thesis Theme Now Has A Split GPL license

News

I have covered the recent debate on the Thesis theme not being GPL in my recent posts Chris Pearson VS Matt Mullenweg and Another Post About Thesis And The GPL License. I'm happy to say that Chris Pearson announced yesterday that Thesis now has a split GPL license. The code behind Thesis will now be under a GPL license whilst the images and CSS styling will not. Jeff Chandler announced the news yesterday on WP Tavern (which I encourage you all to subscribe to if you aren't already doing so). There are dozens of comments from WordPress users about the split underneath the post. The general reaction is mixed with some people wishing that Thesis went 100% GPL. Though most people seem to agree that Chris and Matt both acted...

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Jul 23 2010

Link To Your Own Articles The Easy Way

Plugins

I am a big advocate of linking to your own posts and pages within your articles. Not only does it encourage visitors to spend more time on your site and view related content, it also helps your search engine presence by passing PageRank juice internally (using your chosen anchor text). Blog scraping is inevitable once your site reaches a certain level so it's good to link to older articles within your posts. This will increase incoming links to your site and make it more obvious to readers of the spam site that the content was stolen from your site. When I link to one of my articles I usually search for it through the search box on my site and then get the absolute URL. However, there are two WordPress plugins which allow you to link to older posts via the post editor.