SezWho Is Gone, Do You Care?

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/hFijM)
SezWho was a start up that was different from other reputation management systems in a way that it allowed you to rate comments and also build your consistent reputation across multiple platforms, all the while allowing you keep comments local to your blog.

This was one feature that made me an early adopter but looks like its gone. It appears SezWho was sold out and by March 31st it will be gone from my blog, after painful migration of all the features to native comments system…

Niche Profits Classroom – Free Videos You Must See

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/TpzMa)
Last week I have emailed people who chose to read my eZine with information on how to access the 5 free videos provided by Adam from Niche Profits Classroom. Quite frankly I don’t really care if you buy the product they offer or not (which is a steal in my opinion) even though I’m an affiliate – I just want you to see the 5 videos they provide.

Adam does a superb explanation on how to chose your market (niche) in a way nobody else have described, at least not for free and gives you detailed directions on how to find EXACT keywords that will bring you traffic and convert into sales. But there is even more..

2 WordPress Plugins To Get More From Your Blog

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/uhIxv)
Beauty of WordPress is its infinite extendability through adding new functionality without knowing any coding or html. Simply find plugin that delivers the options you need, install it, configure as advised – and Voila! Your Blog Extended!

Today I want to discuss 2 plugins that will help you Get More From Your WordPress Blog:

• More Subscribers
• More Sales

And all of it will be done without you needing to dig too much into code! Got to love it!

2 Places To Get Your Freebies

(My Original Blog Post: http://ping.fm/N3Uqs)
I used to be an avid participant in Giveaway and even an organizer to one (Super JV Giveaway) a couple years back. But I think the entire concept is been diluted and abused way too often that I nearly never participate in them..

EXCEPT when I think event will provide value!

Today I want to share links to 2 events that meet that criteria and in one I’m actually a contributor but both will give you great value for the time and effort:

• IM Training Giveaway by my friend Mike Mazella and his partner and
• Free PLR Giveaway organized by PLR Master Doug Champigny

And here is why…

Do You Make At Least $100 A Day Online?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/money-making/blog-income/do-you-make-at-least-100-a-day-online)
Lat Friday I have posted a quick TweetPoll with a single purpose – I was interested to learn how many of the people who might follow me or someone I know actually make online.

Results are both expected and SURPRISING! I hope you will take a minute to vote and add to the conversation and check out the results!

Major Distruction To Our Business

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/blogging-web-20/major-distruction-to-our-business)
If you are a frequent reader of my blog or one of my customers perhaps you have noticed that since Monday afternoon till about 4 PM yesterday most of my “known” and business associated sites we not accessible.

Reason for this is simple – my DNS registrar screwed up big time by misunderstanding my request and making changes on my account, which due to other technical issues they experience I was unable to undo. This one mistake resulted in over 12 hours outage to my business sites! And as result of this one I have a lessons learned I want to share…

Niche Blogging – How Do You Build Traffic?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/money-making/blog-income/niche-blogging-how-do-you-build-traffic)
In my previous post “Niche Blogging – Where Do You Find Unique Content?” I have talked about locating quality content for your Niche Blogs that begin to produce income. And it is very important to reinvest in what already produces income for you but here comes a second problem…

How Do You Increase Return From That Content?

We only have so many hours in each day to dedicate to developing our Niche Blog Empire and using them effectively can lead to increase of profits but nothing will work as effectively as automated help!

Tweeter Getter – Interesting Concept. Your Thoughts?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/social-networking/tweeter-getter-interesting-concept-your-thoughts)

Reading a blog of one of my favorite bloggers and marketers Jack Humphrey I found interesting post on new Twitter Strategy – Twitter Getter.

Needless to say that promise behind the idea got my attention and action and I just wonder – What Do You Think About It?

Looks like its using the new variation of the script I have implemented to allow people download my “Quit Tweet Your Blog” report and appears to be effective.

I would love to hear your personal opinion on usage of these scripts!

What Do You Do When Good Plugin Behaves Badly?

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/blogging-web-20/what-do-you-do-when-good-plugin-behaves-badly)

Since upgrading to WordPress 2.7.1 I have discovered that my home page was loading extremely slow. Doing the most obvious I have discovered that one of my more useful plugins decided to go bad and start throwing errors in numbers that were quickly filling the error log.

A Classic Case of Good Plugin Going Bad due to the lack of support and updates from original author. Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King was one of the must have plugins on my blog but author stopped supporting it since WordPress 2.5

So the question is – how would you address it?

In my case I made every attempt to address the issue but my rather basic understanding of the PHP didn’t help here. I could hire someone to address the issue or search for a solution on the web.

Last time community came up with work around of the issue of Popularity Contest been incompatible with WordPress 2.5. Perhaps this time issue can be addressed in similar matter but I have seen it as opportunity to reevaluate how my blog uses its functionality.

I have decided to get rid of the plugin that is already proven to be unreliable and since not supported – will continue to contribute to issues.

A Decision To Drop it like a Rock!

Work arounds are fine and dandy but when peice of code on your blog has potetnial to be incompatible or even worse – already shows issues and it is no longer developed by author – it is the mostsensible action.

Because WordPress and majority of the plugins and themes are released under GPL, it is an issue we can expect to come up time and time again. Luckily we have seen how some other widely used plugins, such as “All In One SEO Pack” were taken over by different developers, when original author decided he couldn’t support it any longer.

But when it didn’t happen – your best option is to drop it from usage. Avoid any future possible issues!

Side effect of this action for me was evaluation of all the places that functionality of the plugin was used. Mainly the Tabs in sidebar. I have used it to pull the information on most read posts on my blog and with functionality been gone – I actually had to reevaluate it.

I was able to replace the “All Time Popular Posts” presentation by using comment counts but still in search of the function to be able to display “Most read Posts In Previous Month”. Also I have discovered some duplication in manual links provided by me and will be working on addresing it in next few days.

A Broken Popularity Contest Plugin in my case created a domino effect that forced me examine more closely some of the most clicked on links on my blog and opportunity to present even more relevant content! A Win-Win situation that goes to show that in every bad situation there is a good outcome!

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Tweet Your Blog Report Release

(My Original Blog Post: http://www.howtospoter.com/web-20/blogging-web-20/tweet-your-blog-report-release)
Seeing how popular and well received was my last post on Twitter and WordPress Integration I have decided to expand on the idea and make it even simpler to follow, easier to digest and implement.

Even If You Are Not A Technical Person!

Quietly I have released a new report that details each step of combining the power of WordPress and Twitter. I called report “Quit Tweet Your Blog”…

Initially I was planing to sell it for $27 but then…