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I just upgraded the blog to WordPress 2.6 and it has a lot of cool new features like photo captions, live theme previews and post revisions (similar to what you might be familiar with in Google docs). While reading the release post on the WordPress development blog I noticed this at the bottom of the [...]

I saw this video the other day called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) – pretty cool, it’s educational and fun :)

(via iJustine)
This is an excellent example of how to create a viral video. It was posted March 20, 2008 and it already has 84,071 views. He also has some more [...]

Just came across an interesting article: Who clicks on ads? (Revisited with data) about the majority of people that click on online ads. Some interesting points like:
..heavy clickers are:

More representative of lower income households than the average user.
Less educated than the average user (or from less-educated environments in the case of minors).
More likely to live [...]

Alright, time to give a little back to my loyal readers and commentators :) Here are a few interesting posts from the people that commented the most during the month of September…
Saman has an interesting post about how you can try Service Pack 3 for Windows XP before it’s officially released – but I would [...]

Checking in on my top commentators is kind of regular thing and I don’t want to stop it (not yet anyways…). So in the spirit of “better late than never” here are a few posts from August’s most expressive readers:
Etienne has an interesting list covering the recent Google PageRank shakeup. A few A-list bloggers saw [...]

Just as you should keep track of your affiliate commissions you should also check all your websites regularly – To make sure they’re up and running, everything looks like it should, no problems in the order process, etc. If you have several different websites you might forget one or two – especially if many parts [...]

You might remember that a few posts ago I picked the winner in the Technorati Top 100 contest. Well, one of the prizes was a review on this blog and I finally finished the review :)
The site I was asked to review is Royal Tours Africa dot Com. I’m going to go over some SEO, [...]

I like it when people comment on my blog. When people leave comments on blog posts I’m much more motivated to write more posts. It’s also great to get feedback from readers so you know if you’re doing something right. That’s why I think it’s important to give something back to those that keep this [...]

A few weeks ago this blog made it into the Technorati Top 100 and it has stayed there thanks to people continuing to add my blog as a favorite in Technorati. I’ve even climbed up a few places (but gone down again). Well, as always, I’ve been monitoring my web stats and I’ve noticed some [...]

As a blog owner one of your biggest assets is your readers – if you don’t have any readers there isn’t much point in blogging (unless you just got started). Having a lot of readers is great but what really adds life to a blog are comments – and you definitely want to encourage comments. [...]