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Today I stumbled upon an excellent WordPress plugin. It is called CommentLuv. This plugin rewards the visitors who leave comments on your posts with backlinks to their recent posts. This is an excellent way to encourage your visitors to leave comments on your post. It is a win-win situation for you and the visitors. You get a more engaged visitors and they get the chance to promote their latest posts and get a deep link to their posts.

The plugin is very easy to use. Just download the zip file, extract and upload the plugin file to your wp-content/plugins directory, and activate the plugin.
Once the plugin is activated , it adds a check box with following text beneath the comment text box on each post:

“Enable CommentLuv which will try and get your last blog post, please be patient while it finds it for you.”

The checkbox is selected by default. If the commentator enables the CommentLuv the plugin will visit the feed of the comment author and inserts a link to his/her last post under the comment. Really terrific!

Try it now by leaving a comment below.

 

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To become a successful blogger is not difficult but the success does not come overnight. You have to be patient and persistent. Remember the 3Ds for success. Desire, determination and dedication. If you have the desire, dedication and the determination to be a good and successful blogger then you have nothing to worry about. Infact, blogging is quite simple but it needs some discipline to be a successful blogger. Following are some simple tips that can make blogging stress-free and make you a better blogger.

• Set goals and work to acheive them:

  This is the most important tip of all. Set your short and long term goals. Write them down on a piece of paper and keep the paper where you can see it regularly. It is a well known fact that people with written goals achieve more in life than the people without any goal. Some examples, where you want to see your blog in next few months, what you want to accomplish today, how many subscribers would you like to have by next month? Make sure you do some activity daily that leads towards your goals. Plan regularly for both short and long term goals and monitor your progress towards your goals.
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Ever since I started placing AdSense units in my posts I have been getting emails from readers asking me how I position my ads in the right hand corner of my posts. So I decided to share this information in a post rather than explaining it over and over in individual emails.

To position the ads in my post I use CSS float property. I’ll show you how you can display the ads on either left or right side within in your post.

Steps to ‘float’ ad unit to right side in your post:

• In your post type
  <div style=”margin: 0 0 10px 10px; display: block; float: right”>
• Copy your AdSense script.
• Close the div with </div>

The float:right property will move the ad to the right side. To push the content away from the left and bottom sides of the ad I added 10px for bottom and left margins.
Example:
<div style=”margin: 0 0 10px 10px; display: block; float: right”>
Your Google AdSense Script
</div>

Place ads on the left side:

If you want to float your ad unit to the left side of your post change CSS style to this

<div style=”margin: 0 10px 10px 0; display: block; float: left” >

Again we are using margins to add white space . We still have bottom maring of 10px but now instead of left margin we are using right margin of 10px to push the content away from the ad.

Example:
<div style=”margin: 0 10px 0 0; display: block; float: left” >
Your Google Script
</div>
This approach of embedding CSS styles within posts has one serious drawback. More