I picked up this little gem in the War Room the other day, and it turned out to be a meaty, resourceful list of what must be some of the best free WordPress plugins for Internet Marketing.

Being a WordPress addict myself, I already knew about the most popular plugins for the best blog  in the whole world, or at least I thought I was semi-updated in that department. Then Jason Keith of WP Internet Marketing drops this wonderful list in the War Room and everybody goes wow!

When someone new to blogging and Internet Marketing decide to launch their first WP blog, finding the right plugins to Read the rest of this entry

Update, Tuesday Dec. 29:
Either Google took action on the thieving splogger domain, or the owner came to his senses. Either way, the blogsopt domains in question have now seemingly turned into parked domains, which is good news for Blogspot owners. The issue of splogging remains, but evidently crime doesn’t (always) pay.

When you thought Blogspot a.k.a. Blogger was the perfect way to build your Adsense blog empire without initial expenses, along comes someone snatching your blog’s sub-domain with content and re-publishes it with a slight typo in the sub-domain suffix.

Your new blog was most likely cloned at birth, your Adsense ID replaced with that of the perpetrator’s and/or new ad code injected automatically. Copy your Blogspot URL and paste it into your web browser’s URL field, replace blogspot with blogsopt and see what you get. You have my sympathy in advance. And that’s only one of many scrapers. Read the rest of this entry

Phew! I must say… making my own custom template, one that does not depend on a particular WordPress theme, was far from as easy as I imagined it would be. But then again, I’m a rookie when it comes to WP coding, and I learn something new every day.

I must admit, I was oblivious to how much effort something like this requires of a newbie like yours truly. The best part was creating the graphics, then came the coding. I’ve had a few headaches with all the tags I had to look up to see what they did and how to prevent plug-ins from injecting lots of un-necessary code into the template. Read the rest of this entry