First-Class Blogging: 12 Perfect Upgrades to Power Your Wordpress Site

There were a few posts here and there about different Wordpress plugins last week. I thought I'd post a quick list of some of the more useful ones I use here on my site. Each of the links takes you right to the plugin's page if you're interested in any of them. Read more

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Check Out These Awesome New Features From AWeber

I just happened across a blog post over on the AWeber blog announcing some cool new additions to AWeber's Blog Broadcast feature. 

It looks like now you'll be able to schedule when those broadcasts are sent out (as opposed to them going out whenever AWeber detects a new addition to your feed). 

You can also have them only go out once there are a certain number of posts, on certain days, certain times of day, and so on. 

They do a better job of explaining it than I could so why not just check out they're 1-minute video explaining the new options?  (Just follow the link above)

Enjoy!

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The Most Popular Posts in the Last 90 Days

I always find it interesting to know what others find interesting. 

So here's a look at some of the most popular posts available here in my little neck of the woods.  I excluded stuff like the "Weekly Roundup" posts and others that were just good info, but not articles per se.  Anyway, here's the list in case you missed one of these:

1. Just amazing…and another reason to have a blog
2. Can You Really Make Money Showing People "How To"?
3. Another Way to Stop Wasting Time on Mundane Tasks
4. The Most Bang for Your Buck Tasks
5. Another Great Reason to Have Your Own Products

I'm using the Popularity Contest Plugin by Alex King which allows you to set how posts are ranked in terms of popularity.  Then it gives you a ton of stats in the backend about the posts on your site. 

You can pull similar data from your log files (like AWStats) or from Google Analytics but those methods don"t allow you to assign weights to different types of posts.  For example, it might carry more weight if a post was reached via a direct link specifically to that post versus it just being one of the 10 posts on your homepage.  Interesting stuff…check it out.

P.S. - A quick tip of the hat to Terry Dean for posting a similar tip on his blog awhile back…prompted me to grab that plugin and take a look at my own stats.  Should be even more interesting once it's been running for awhile.  Thanks Terry.

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