RealRank Won’t Work With Google PR
In the latest way to fight back against Google Pagerank, Payperpost has launched their RealRank system. Many bloggers have been weary about adopting this new way to rank blogs. Change is always hard to accept, but will it work?
PayPerPost Forums
There has been a lot of talk about Realrank on the payperpost forums. First off let me say that the forums are great for bloggers even if you aren’t into PPP. The members of the forums seem to be a little worried about the effect the new system will have on their blogs as well as money making opportunities.
Courtney Tuttle Says No
Courtney wrote a great article that RealRank Doesn’t Solve Anything for Bloggers. By accepting this new form of ranking, he states that google won’t like it. This may even cause some bloggers to get penalized, or further penalized. The only way this model will work is to cut out PR completely.
RealRank Won’t Work with PR
Currently there are several ways advertising can make PayPerPost opps. You can segment them by PR, Alexa, Tack score (quality rating), domains, and RealRank.
Advertisers aren’t forced to enter a RealRank, but can include a minimum Google Pagerank. RealRank Will Not Work if they don’t get rid of pagerank within opps. PPP seems to be backed into a little corner, opposers give them 12 months to live. PayPerPost has learned to adapt and change as the market does, which many sponsored services have not done. This isn’t the end of PPP (or IZEA).
If they don’t force their advertisers to use Realrank, it might be the short lived end of that. Where will you be when RealRank dies?
Find Your Next Download At Download3000
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Download3000 is an archive of Windows programs, both for free and for pay software. The site loads fast showing you software by categories and alphabetically. It’s also a warehouse for scripts.
Looking for a new text editor? Find it here. Need an MP3 search tool? Yeah, gotcha covered.
If you want to share your finds on your blog, each program has a link provided at the bottom of each post, complete with the title of the program. Writing a review of the programs you’ve tried is sure to help others make a decision before downloading or buying the program.
Another Fountain Of Fonts
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Fawnt is not a repository of fonts. Instead, it’s a collections of links to fonts. So you could end up on another site repository or the font owner’s site.
What I like about this site is that it displays the typeface in a readable and fast interface. You view sample fonts 12 at a time. Click on one will take you to the source for downloading. But if you’re not happy with the selection display in that 12, just click the down arrow and you’ll get another set of 12.
Not Getting Notified When Someone Leaves You A Comment?
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If you’ve upgraded to WordPress version 2.3.1, you may have noticed that you haven’t been receiving notifications when someone leaves a comment on your blog. For some reason, this doesn’t happen to everyone, but if you insist on getting notified the moment someone leaves a comment on one of your posts, then read on.
Now, I can’t explain the why’s and what’s, but the solution is really very simple. All I had to do was modify my pluggable.php file. This is located in every WP install at: root > wp-includes > pluggable.php.
You’ll want to comment out line 228:
$phpmailer->Sender = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from', $from_email );
So it should look like this:
//$phpmailer->Sender = apply_filters( 'wp_mail_from', $from_email );
Once I uploaded the file, I made a quick test comment. Seconds later I received the glorious sound of Gmail notifying me I had a gift arrive in my inbox. 🙂
CSS Made Easy With CSS Mate
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If you’re someone who doesn’t have time to learn cascading style sheets (CSS), then you may be interested in something called CSS Mate.
CSS Mate is a free online CSS editor that I just discovered. I was working on creating a new contact page on another blog of mine, Darn Good Reviews. I didn’t want to fiddle with the CSS, so that’s when I searched and found this editor.
Upon entering the properties in the forms, I could continuously see the results. When I was satisfied with what I had, I copied the code and pasted it into the page. Done!
P.S. I was creating that contact page to let everyone know I was accepting requests to be reviewed on that blog. Hint, hint.
Arrival and Departure Traffic in Realtime with FEEDJIT
Are you tired of logging in to your Google Analytics or your blog hosts CPanel interface to look at where your visitors came from? Those methods are absolutely great for analyzing data once in a while. How would you like to see who is visiting, from where they are visiting from and where they left to? All in real time.
FEEDJIT
FEEDJIT brings real time traffic monitoring to your blog right in your sidebar in the form of a widget. Some quick facts about this excellent service:
- No Registration required
- Shows you which location your visitor is from
- Shows you which site referred them
- Shows you what they clicked to leave your site
- Easy to customize options
- Customize the widget, colors of the widget
- Easy click access to add the widget to Blogger & Typepad blogs
- For other blogs, just simply copy and paste the script to your blog
- You could also get a live traffic map and it offers similar customization options.
- Its completely FREE!
Real time monitoring can be fun as well as informative about the behavior of your readers. Instead of trying to come up with ideas of how this can be useful, I am going to open up the comment thread to you to tell me how you would use this information.
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3 Reasons Why You Should Use WordPress
A while back I was featured on Weblog Tools Collection for my post on Ten Reasons to Choose WordPress. Well, I don’t want to beat a dead horse and copy over ten reasons, but here are three great reasons that make WordPress the best.
3. WordPress is FREE!
That’s right you can get one of the most versatile blogging platforms for FREE. Why on Earth would you not use something that could let you express yourself, let you earn some extra cash, and that is FREE. WordPress has far less problems than any other blog software that I have used and has a great support community that is also FREE.
2. WordPress is SIMPLE!
Whenever you want to do anything, you want it to be as simple as possible. This is why WordPress makes it easy to install with help available if you need it. They provide detailed instructions and even videos to show how to install it. Plus, when it comes time to upgrade/maintain it, all you have to do is delete the old files and add in the new ones, no messing with your data, it stays safe in the database!
1. WordPress is all around YOU!
Wordpress is everyone on the internet today, according to Weblog Tools Collection, it is used on 0.8% on the internet. Who knows how much further that could go. Everyone from famous baseball players to Harvard students use WordPress.
Hope you enjoyed my shortened list. To check out more of my WordPress and Blogging related ramblings visit me at Krispy Blogs and Blogging 4 Everyone. Take care everyone.
A Slightly Abridged Version of the Contest Roundup
Sorry about being a bit late with the Contest Roundup this week, I just got back from the Full Moon Party held on Koh Phangan in Thailand and didn’t think to schedule this post before I left… oh well. Taking that into account, here’s a slightly shortened version of what I would normally post – streamlined for contest entering efficiency :). Oh, and don’t forget to check out my site – Contest Beat – for plenty more opportunities to win free stuff!
A Slightly Used Canon Camera
Neil Duckett is holding a draw for his slightly used Canon IXY Digital 1000 camera. You can enter in a number of ways including RSS subscription, posting about the contest, and by purchasing reviews on this site. Read all about it here.
Win an iPod Nano
There isn’t much to the contest page for this contest so I will make my summary equally brief – to be in to win an iPod Nano all you need to do is subscribe to The Tech Brief RSS feed via email, and you can do that right here.
A 2nd Gen Microsoft Zune
The contest above is for an iPod Nano, so how about one for a Microsoft Zune, just to balance things out? Stupid Celebrities are giving away second generation Microsoft Zune to one of their readers and you can enter the draw in a number of ways including commenting, blogging and technorati favoriting. So if you want to see if Microsoft might be able to oust Apple out of their iPod domination then take a look at the details.
A Ring Finger Optical Mouse
Another contest blog, My Blog Contests, are holding a draw for a pretty cool type of mouse that I have never seen before – a “Ring-Type Finger Tip USB Powered Optical Mouse”. The animation they have on the contest post explains it better than I ever could so just head over there to check out the details.