Forum Etiquette: These days I see lots of new people entering the forums. New both to Entrecard and forum posting in general they make the same mistakes. Without a sticky function to post rules, anything goes.  So here are 10 rules to consider. Judging by what I’ve seen of my readers, none of you would violate these [...]

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It’s a rare day indeed when I do something that benefits the entire WordPress community.   After reading various posts all promoting the No Follow cause, I decided to change my blog to No Follow and removed the no follow link from comments.  What that means is that after you leave 5 comments on my blog, [...]

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Did you know each Entrecard dashboard has it’s own unique Alexa rank?    For example turnipofpower.com’s dashboard has an Alexa rank of 1,701,380.  Tech.turnipofpower.com’s dashboard has a rank of 2,136,482, and another site I own has a rank of 8,994,372.    Entrecard itself has an Alexa rank of 2,672.  Why does this interest me?  I log into each [...]

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I ran a tricky ad to see how effective it was, and apparently it was too effective.   Everyone should make sure they click on the Cleveland Ohio Real Estate Blog.  So far I received 8 clicks from the link.  Of course, it opens in a new tab, but some of you may forget to click [...]

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Even wonder why blogs fail?   Even more interesting, why they succeed? Competition:   According to Technorati, the blogosphere is doubling about once every 6 and a half months, with about 175,000 new weblogs created each day, that’s  more than 2 blogs created each second of each day.  There are over 70 million blogs out there.  Who are you [...]

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What the hell does that mean?   Googling “speeding up WordPress”, I see people saying things like “Well, if you’ve already optimized your tables, then try this…”  After a bit more searching I finally figured it out.   Here is a step by step procedure to optimize your WordPress installation through your website control panel.  If your [...]

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I see this all the time in the Entrecard forums.  “My ad only received 10 clicks”.  Then I look at the website and I don’t see an ad!  Oh sure, they’ve got something displayed in an Entrecard 125×125 box, but it’s not an ad, it’s an unrecognized brand.  Yes, marketing majors can debate and correct me, [...]

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    Which design do you like the best, which one the least, and why? The design is for Boscardin.org Post below and I’ll randomly pick one of the commentors tomorrow night and add your site to my blogroll for a month. Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping This Post Reddit [...]

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I couldn’t take the look of the Talian Theme any longer.  It’s still there lurking, but I changed it enough to kill any feel of it.  The orange tabs, the black widget headers, all gone.  Right now I’m happy with the new look.  However, all suggestions are welcome.   Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious [...]

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Todays’ post revisits the issue of fast clicking in Entrecard.  Let’s face it, dropping 300+ cards can be a chore.  Even if you enjoy reading the sites, maximizing your efficiency just leaves more time for commenting.  Currently, there are four main systems fast clickers use.  Let’s examine all four in no particular order. The Turnip Method: [...]

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