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The key to a good newsletter list is simple really and the biggest piece of this is you’ve got to have something useful to say. While your friends and family might enjoy hearing about your latest book signing, people who happened onto your site and subscribed to your ezine might become bored with this information and unsubscribe. If you have a list or are considering starting one, consider these tips to get you going and help you maximize your newsletter.
Spam is not the only threat to your WordPress blog. In fact, a hacker attack, for instance, targeted to add unwanted content to your blog, can be disastrous for your blog. Not only may you lose all your work that you accumulated over years; the impact on your credibility can be profound.
Upgrading to WordPress version 3.0 can have quite some downfalls. As soon as I installed it I lost my Twitter connection. So far I have been using the “WP to Twitter” plugin, and it actually still functions under the 3.0 version. Nevertheless, I am now unable to modify the plugin parameters, which hurts especially when I add new categories.
WordPress 3.0 Thelonious passed 3 million downloads yesterday, and today the plugin directory followed suit with a milestone of its own: 100 million downloads.
I have to admit that to this day I had underestimated the power of Sitemaps. I had in mind to install a Sitemap plugin, and yesterday I finally did it. So far I was very satisfied with an exponentially rising number of website hits on my personal blog (2000+ unique visitors so far in March 2010, resulting in 20,000+ website hits), but since installing the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress the increase is incredible! What I like most about the plugin is that it reports updates to Google, Yahoo, and Bing immediately after you have added a new page or post.
Today I was looking into automatic updates to my Twitter account whenever I update my WordPress blogs, and I found the “WP to Twitter” plugin. As I always emphasize, there are alternative plugins available, but this one did exactly what I needed it to do.
In my book A No-Nonsense Guide to a Professional Blog I had recommended the WP-SpamFree plugin, and I am still very satisfied with its performance. After 13 months of existence, the plugin had prevented a staggering number of 2,150 spam attempts on my personal blog! That translates into roughly five attempts per day with rapidly increasing
