Jammed: Full into Capacity

Entrecard has been one of the good sources of traffic for most Entrecarders [users].  Some good tools are available to enhance the functionality of Entrecard and help the users boost their traffic through Entrecard.

WordPress Plugins:

1. Entrecard Popper.  “It’s a WordPress Plugin that pops your Entrecard up to the top middle of the page when a user comes from an Entrecard surfing site, otherwise it stays where you put it.” 

2. EntreDroppers. This plugin creates a list of the Entrecard droppers to your blog. This plugin uses the RSS feed of your Entrecard inbox. 

Other Widgets:

1. You Drop, I Link.  This widget works like a blogroll and displays 50 blogs that dropped on your Entrecard widget.

2.  CreateElf also has recent drops widget which works similarly with the EntreDroppers plugins.

You can also easily list your latest Entrecard droppers by using your widgetized theme.  AskOwen has a detailed steps on how to easily add this widget on your WordPress blog.

Browsers:

1. CreateElf’s Entrecard Browser lets you easily browse other users’ site.

2. SiteHoppin lets you browse the Entrecard network.

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For months now, this blog has been freed from comment spam I used to experience before because I found out the most effective ways to avoid WordPress spam.

1. Deactivating Akismet. Previously, I was getting at least 200 spam comments per day. I had to scan them one-by-one because some comments were filtered as spam by Akismet. Out of frustration, I deactivated the plugin with thoughts of completely avoiding these spam messages. True enough, I have not received spam comments since then.

Note: Do not delete Akismet from the plugins directory because you’re blog may experience another spam flood.

2. Install a spam blocking plugin. Currently I am using Matriphe Keycode, one of the best anti spam plugins I’ve ever used.
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Here is a list of plugins that have caused that server overload or resource abuse yesterday

1. Views Counter. This plugin helps you to easily track how many times your post page was viewed and by what quantity of visitors. I installed this plugin because it served as a “mini-stat counter” for my posts. It also served as a potential gauge for future related posts.

2. No Old Spam Links. This plugin add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist, applied in posts and comments. I installed this plugin in thinking that it will help me regain my page rank. My alternative to it is add the “rel=nofollow” attribute to the paid links, manually. Also, I uninstalled the TLA plugin.

3. MaxBlogPress Stripe Ad. It’s a non-obtrusive way of displaying a single line of advertising message, a special note or other information right at the top of your blog. I used it to promote my contest.

Uninstalling these plugins also helped in minimizing server load:

1. Quoter. This plugin lets you quote a particular comment or portion of the blog. Uninstalling it minimized the load of most-commented posts in this blog. This is recommended only to high-trafficked sites receiving a good number of visitor comments.

2. Commentluv. This plugin shows a link to the last post from the commenter’s blog in their comment. It’s one way of attracting comments. It reduced significant number of queries.

3. Dagon Design Sitemap Generator. This plugin generates a fully customizable sitemap. When this was installed, my post archives performs 75 queries, when uninstalled, it reduced significantly by 60%.

This post does not mean to discourage you from installing these plugins, instead it serves as a warning to avoid site suspension from your host, especially if you are using a shared hosting.

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The Google punishment in the form of Google PR drops, due to paid links created a buzz in the blogosphere. Many had been affected, and that includes me. And I want to get my PR back. Probloggers advised to add a rel=nofollow on all paid links but it maybe too cumbersome, especially if you have posted quite a number of paid reviews.

I found a WordPress plugin that will help me to easily put nofollow in all the paid links in this blog without manually adding rel=nofollow to the links. No Old Spam Links plugin will automatically do it for me.

What does the plugin do?

• It add “nofollow” to all links on any domain on a blacklist. The “nofollow” is applied in posts and comments.
• Specify one white list “all links dofollow” category which overrides the blacklist.
• Specify an “all no follow” category that adds no follow to all links after a specified number of days. It will be easier for you to add no=follow to all paid links especially if it’s under one category.

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Using magazine-style WordPress themes is the new trend in the blogging community. These themes enhances the CMS capability of WordPress.

Why is it better to choose a magazine- or newspaper-style theme?

1. It’s “pro-looking”. One of the ways to drive traffic and persuade readers is making your layout professional. Because these themes can be taking a lot of knowledge about coding, most of them are designed by professional designers.

2. You can maximize the space on your blog. You have a lot of space for advertising and other widgets.

3. It is best for multimedia. Magazine-style themes are best for video blogging and podcasting.

4. You can have featured posts highlighting a certain notable post.
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Mozilla has released the new and improved Firefox 3 on its beta version. How will Firefox 3 improve on things?

- Performance improvements, including over 300 memory leak fixes, perennial problems with Firefox since the beginning and an issue that plagues it badly today

- Firefox 3 does seem quite a bit speedier than version 2.

- With its intuitive search, users can auto-scour their surfing and browsing history and bookmarks for visited URLs and even page titles, making it easier to find “lost” pages as you type.

- Bookmarking is easier to do (just one click) and organization of bookmarks is also improved.

- Security improvements
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