Jul 19
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Pimp Your Blog - Using Wordpress Plugins to Enhance your Blog

Plugins are useful - and easy to install in Wordpress. I’m sure that many bloggers have several plugins installed - and I do too. I’ll give a short and concise list of what plugins I have and why they are useful.
Akismet
Definitely the staple plugin for all Wordpress bloggers - this anti-spam plugin just stops spam [...]

Author: Edward
Jul 11
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Does NoFollow=NoSpam?

A few years back, comment spam became a bigger and bigger problem for blogs - and Google needed to figure out a solution. Comment spam allowed spammers to unfairly game Google and get ranked for terms that they shouldn’t have ranked. Comment spam definitely started to become a problem. Enter rel=nofollow.
What is rel=nofollow?
Rel=nofollow tells search [...]

Author: Edward
May 28
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Domain Names for Affiliates

This is a guest post by AffiliateTips.com - a great resource for anyone looking to find affiliate programs.
Domain Names for Affiliates
If you’re not going to work through a blog you have to register a domain name when setting up your affiliate site. As the domain name will be of high importance for [...]

Author: Edward
May 17
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Acquired Anime-Store.com

I’ve acquired Anime-Store.com last weekend.
I’ve figured that it’s about time for me to try to enter the Affiliate Marketing market. I haven’t tried it before, but it sounds like a lucrative opportunity - too many websites are monetized by Adsense and other CPC ads right now.
What do you guys think? Should I try to enter [...]

Author: Edward
May 12
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Teen Business Forum Redesign

Teen Business Forum is undergoing a redesign! Lewis, of ShockMedia, finally contacted me with the design that he promised me. I’ve contacted Gary Rae of PSD to VB to code it.
Why change the skin of Teen Business Forum? I just changed the skin a few weeks ago after I acquired it. Well, the free skin has [...]

Author: Edward
Jun 23
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Be careful with those upgrades!

One of the most important things when upgrading forum software is to consider how it will affect the mods installed.
A few months ago, when I actually had a personal site, I had various mods installed, one of which included a point mod. However, when I upgraded to the new version of SMF, it wreaked [...]

Author: Spaceman3750
May 17
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SMF forum software

I don’t really have much to say about SMF, but if you don’t want to mod PHPBB too much to get what you want, SMF is a good free forum that has many out-of-box features that PHPBB does not have.
SMF may also be a good choice for starters.
However, I do not like the default layout [...]

Author: Edward
Apr 15
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PHPBB

Sorry, I had a vacation and then I totally forgot about this site.
Anyways, my opinion on PHPBB is very breif: It’s a very simple forum. It’s almost feature less. That’s why PHPBB is good if you are only looking for a lightweight board.
You could mod it, and modding is easier because it has this thing [...]

Author: Edward
Mar 26
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vBulletin

vBulletin has become my favorite (paid) bulletin board software as late. Why? It’s use of Javascript is much better than IPB’s, and it’s become more user-friendly to use than IPB because of that. Big-Board’s Statistics show that by far, vBulletin has more boards that are “big”, than IPB. Big-Boards define “big” to be a [...]

Author: Edward
Mar 23
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Invision Power Board

My (used to be) favorite bulletin board software, Invision Power Board is pretty powerful. The framework of Invision Power Board is fairly stable, and easy to mod.
However, recent releases of IPB (2.1.x) have been so buggy that 2.1.0 was virturally unusable, and they have since then (september) gotten to release 2.1.5, in 1/2 of a [...]

Author: Edward