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FREE Promotions For Book Blogs (Ning Site) Authors and Bloggers

FREE Promotions For Book Blogs (Ning Site) Authors and Bloggers




Are you looking for more exposure? Want some free publicity? BookBlogs.ning.com Members are invited to take advantage of this offer. I will: host an interview, guest post or press release for any of you post the article and a link to your book or site to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn (once), and other Social Media sites [...]

Embedding A Ning.com Badge On WordPress.com – getting around the “no embeds” rule

Embedding A Ning.com Badge On WordPress.com – getting around the “no embeds” rule




For security reasons, and because they want to influence you to sign up for their paid services, WordPress.com’s free Blog hosting service doesn’t allow you to embed media from random sites into Widgets or Pages. This makes sense from a security standpoint, but it’s very frustrating to Ning.com users who want to advertise their presence [...]

WP Autoresponder – FREE Mailing List Management – Why Pay A Monthly Fee?

WP Autoresponder – FREE Mailing List Management – Why Pay A Monthly Fee?




This is an amazingly full-featured multiple newsletter and email subscription/follow-up/autoresponder. I wrote about it before in a post called Some Useful Plugins, but there have been vast improvements since so I think it deserves its own post. Unless you’re afraid to use the WordPress Dashboard or like spending money for no reason, forget autoresponders like [...]

“Moving Your Blog” Dominates Amazon In My Chosen Keywords

“Moving Your Blog” Dominates Amazon In My Chosen Keywords




My ebook, “Moving Your Blog” is currently ranked at the top of a few relevant keywords, which I will admit came as a bit of a surprise. I had expected that it would take thousands of downloads to achieve these results, instead, with barely more than 300 I’ve managed to “dominate the category”, to use [...]

Moving Your Blog Is Number 1 On Goodreads Today!

Moving Your Blog Is Number 1 On Goodreads Today!




I’m Number 1! Well, in the “Geeky/Techy Books” category anyhow. Take a look for yourself! Not sure how much it will help the number of downloads I get, but it definitely can’t hurt. My book is number 7 on the list of Free Bestsellers in Web Marketing from Amazon. It’s definitely worth taking a look [...]

Moving Your Blog

Moving Your Blog




It’s ON! I just hit “Save and Publish” on Kindle and my book will be live in around 12 hours. My eBook is LIVE! Click the image in this post to go to it! The FREE DOWNLOAD starts at 12am PST, but you can get it through Kindle Prime until then! I’ll keep you all [...]

Moving Your Blog by Darryl Erentzen – Coming Soon!

Moving Your Blog by Darryl Erentzen – Coming Soon!




That’s right! You read correctly! I’ve written a book and I’m just putting the finishing touches on it now. It’ll be released on Kindle Direct as soon as it’s ready! Why Move Your Blog? Branding: having your blog hosted by someone else will dilute your personal brand and lessen its power Credibility: people take you [...]

Steal My Configurable Amazon Search Widget For Your Own Self-Hosted Blog

Steal My Configurable Amazon Search Widget For Your Own Self-Hosted Blog




That's the widget on the top right of my blog. It pre-populates Amazon's search tool with results based on either your article's name, or a term you choose if the user is on your blog's homepage.

Adding NetworkedBlogs.com “Followers” widget to your blog.

Adding NetworkedBlogs.com “Followers” widget to your blog.




For best results, view the video full-screen. This video explains how to use NetworkedBlogs.com’s “Followers” widget in a WordPress blog. Although the explanation focuses on WordPress, it should give a clear idea of how to use it for just about any self-hosted blog platform.

10 Great WordPress Image Gallery Plugins

10 Great WordPress Image Gallery Plugins




Image galleries or photo galleries are the best way to showcase your images and photos. With WordPress gallery plugins you can easily add some impressive features to your site. Unfortunately, many free WordPress image gallery plugins aren’t up to snuff, and can be difficult to use. That’s where Premium WordPress Image Gallery Plugins can help. [...]

16 Premium WordPress Theme Download Sites

16 Premium WordPress Theme Download Sites




If you’re not a WordPress hacker and not interested in becoming one, you’ll probably use one of the pre-made themes from WordPress.org that are accessible from the “Appearance” => “Themes” => “Install Themes” page in the WordPress Dashboard. While many of those themes are great, the best of them are probably over-used, which can make [...]

Web Ninja Auto Tagging System for WordPress

Web Ninja Auto Tagging System for WordPress




If you’re like me, even though you realize SEO is necessary, and that post tags can help, tagging posts is a chore that gets short shrift. After all, if your content is rich, relevant, and organically laced with keywords then post tags are just garnish, right? Maybe, maybe not. Depends on your content and audience. [...]

Discovered a great (easy) SEO setup

Discovered a great (easy) SEO setup




This site has been up since October 31 and it’s getting 1st-page rankings in Google already. I created a site: www.gamedemosonline.com intended to drive traffic to an affiliate program. The site is backed by WordPress, and uses a few SEO plugins to achieve its results: All in One SEO Pack Web Ninja Auto Tagging System [...]