Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on May 29, 2008

BlogRolledThe other day I talked about a new place to sell banner ads called BuySellAds. Today I want to talk about BlogRolled, a new text advertising marketplace which is aimed at bloggers.

What is BlogRolled?

BlogRolled is a text link marketplace where bloggers can buy and sell text links. The difference between BlogRolled and other text link services is that links have to be specifically placed in the BlogRoll of your blog. Text links do not have the nofollow tag attached to them so PageRank juice will be passed.

The thinking behind BlogRolled is that Google…

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Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell Editorial on May 28, 2008

In the post, Getting Something for Nothing: Is it Time to Give Up on Free Article Marketing?, I basically questioned if this was still a viable marketing method. I’ve since fallen in love with it again. Here’s how I made a bit of a sharper U-turn.

A recently acquired client of mine has a multi-dimensional firm. She does web design, document management and computer repair. Her advertising budget is limited, and as her SEO writer (I’m rewriting her entire site), she asked if I had any ideas on how she could…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on May 28, 2008

Over the last few days I have been looking into the user roles you can assign people to in Wordpress. WordPress currently has 5 different user levels : Subscriber, Contributor, Author, Editor and Administrator. I have always believed that this user system was sufficient for what most blog owners needed however the more I looked into it the more I realised how limited this user system actually is because by default, you are not able to increase or decrease the capabilities certain user roles have.

If you are the only one…

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Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on May 27, 2008

Keith Dsouza from Techie Buzz emailed me today to let me know about a new wordpress plugin he has released called Better Tag Manager. Keith decided to completely remove categories from his blog and and instead uses tags. Visitors can then search for posts using his Tag Cloud.

Better Tags Manager WordPress Plugin

Basically, this plugin lets you edit the tags of your posts more easily. More specifically, it allows you to edit the tags of posts from the main post area ie. you don’t have to go into each post indvidually to…

Written by Kevin Muldoon from System0 on May 27, 2008

TwitterTwitter is a fantastic service and really makes meeting new friends and contacts easy. More importantly, it makes keeping in contact with them a breeze. You can keep the Twitter website open on your browser all day however a Twitter Client is a much better way method of using the service. Desktop Twitter clients operate the same as other messaging systems and they will give you real time updates via pop up windows, the same way msn messenger or skype pops a window up when you have a message. There are…

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