New Blog Features
I’ve been slowly adding some new blog features that you may or may not have noticed over the last little bit. Here’s the lowdown…
Jumping On the MyBlogLog BandWagon
It seems like everyone has been jumping on the MyBlogLog bandwagon. I guess I can’t not jump on the wagon since most people have been reporting some reasonable traffic increases and new faces to their blog.
The first thing I installed was their sidebar widget. I set it to show a decent amount of people. I’ve been visiting the blogs of people I don’t recognize and I suspect that many others that have installed the plugin do the same. My community is all setup so go ahead and join it. I’ve already got 20 members, and I haven’t even told anyone about it.
The other cool plugin that installed in support of MyBlogLog is the MyAvatars plugin. This plugin pulls the avatar from your MyBlogLog account and displays it beside the comments in your posts. Though most people have been putting it to the right of the text, I decided to put it to the left because when I talk to people, I don’t look at them AFTER I’m done talking to them. I like to see their face first.
I Finally Figured Out That This Blog Had a LIVE ARCHIVE Built In
I don’t know if you were wondering why I didn’t have an archive page, but I do now. There are so many cool features built into this blog, and the one that I uncovered pretty much by accident was the Extended Live Archive.
The Extended Live Archive “enables fast and convenient digging through the archive, without the need to load large piles of complete pages over and over again”. You can check out the page right here. I initially tried to install the plugin manually, but gave up because it never worked. After digging around, I figured out that this plugin was already integrated into my template. All I needed to do was created a page and call the template. To think, I spent nearly 2 hrs on it in vain, and it was there the whole time 😛 Now I can remove the archives from the sidebar to make room for more stuff.
Selling My Soul to PayPerPost
Although PayPerPost (aff) Advertising Opportunities make me a little queazy at times, their new ReviewMyPost program that I talked about the other day seems to be a real winner.
The premise is simple. If you sign up and review one of my posts using the button, not only do I get paid $7.50 US, but you get paid the same amount. Plus, once you’re signed up, you can run the button on your blog too. The only downside is that you can’t review someones post if you’re already signed up, but you can continue to share some cash with others.
It looks like I’ve signed up two new users already, and I eagerly await their reviews. If you do a review of one of my posts, please send me the link. I’ll gladly post them up for everyone to see, good or bad, which means you get a free backlink from me too…and $7.50 US in your pocket.
ReviewMyPost…Hmm… Review one of your favourite posts on my blog and receive a chance to win something cool. That sounds like a great contest idea! What do you folks think?