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OK, admit this. You have a nice-looking website. The color and the graphics look pleasing
to visiting eyes. But you do not get a lot of loyal visitors. The problem may not be your design,
it may be the static content that is turning the visitors off. If you do not update your website regularly, you may not attract enough repeat visitors. One way to juice up your website is to display RSS feeds from other relevant and reputable websites. Don’t know how to incorporate the RSS feeds into your website? Here is what you need: More

Your blog or personal website can be a source of revenue. Some people are more successful than others in generating revenue off their websites. The reason is they know how to market their websites and attract more visitors and advertisers to their websites.

Sure you can search the Internet and find zillions of tutorials and articles on SEO and internet marketing. But that much information will overwhelm most of us. This is where Online Profits comes into picture.

This is a comprehensive Internet Marketing and Online business training program will teach you how to create or improve your online business.

The program is developed by experts in Internet Marketing and Search engine optimization techniques. Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips fame is managing
the program. Some other well know contributors are

• Michael Gray
• Neil Patel
• Yaro Starak
• Tamar Weinberg
• Hamlet Batista
• Zac Johnson
• Courtney Tuttle
• Nathan Rice
• Skellie Wag

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Yesterday the WordPress team released WordPress version 2.6 ahead of schedule.
While you will not notice any major visual changes in this release from WordPress 2.5 but there are some significant security enhancements and bug fixes. Other features that many bloggers will like include

• Press This!: Post from wherever you are on the web
• Post Revisions: Wiki-like tracking of edits
• Shift Gears: Turbo-speed your blogging
• Theme Previews: See it before your audience does
• Image captions, so you can add sweet captions like Political Ticker does under your images.
• Stronger better faster versions of TinyMCE, jQuery, and jQuery UI.
• Bulk management of plugins.
• A completely revamped image control to allow for easier inserting, floating, and resizing. It’s now fully integrated with the WYSIWYG.
• and more.

You can visit WordPress blog for additional information. Or you can see the official tour video right here.

There are many cool features and bug fixes so I recommend that you upgrade to WordPress 2.6.

Today Entrecard announced a partnership with SezWho.

SezWho is a universal profile service for the social web that improves community engagement and enables content discovery to be added to blogs, forums, message boards and other social sites.

By partnering with SezWho, Entrecard team is providing yet another incentive for bloggers to leave meaningful comments on other blogs. Not just “nice post” or “I agree” but real insightful comments that add to the discussion. They will get from 1 to 10 Entrecard credits for each comment based on the quality of the comment. By providing valuable comments the visitor will not only get the Entrecard credits but they will be promoting their ideas that in turn generate traffic on their own blogs.

It is definitely a win-win situation for bloggers and their visitors. For bloggers more comments on their posts will indicate an active community and may attract more visitors. The commentators will get the Entrecard credits along with the opportunity to send more visitors to their own blogs.

So what are you waiting for? If you are a blogger sign up for Entrecard today.

Daniel at Daily Blog Tips floated an interesting idea to create a blogger’s union or association. His logic is that by creating a union bloggers can help each other to face-off legal challenges, content scraping, spams and other similar issues. I think this is a great idea. Although I am little skeptical about the implementation and feasibility of such union. I agree that bloggers need a platform to protect themselves but the devil is in details. How will we manage the membership from bloggers from all over the globe? Who will run the union and how will the rules and regulations be imposed?
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Should we declare the traditional book as an endangered specie? Current trends show that e-book popularity is growing and it may become the format of choice for most people in the near future. Publishers and books sellers are reporting that the e-book sales are up by as much as four or five times over last year.

Industry analysts and other are predicting this trend to continue. Steve Ballmer even thinks that electronic format will completely replace paper publications in about 10 years. More

If you are looking for ways to improve your blogging you can start by using some of tools mentioned at Lifehacker.
Mosts of the tools on this list are Firefox extensions, but the list also have few stand alone applications that may help you in your blogging. My favorite tool on that list is Foxmarks that helps you keep your post ideas synchronized.
Do you any of these tools or have your own favorite tools? Share them with your fellow bloggers in the comment section below.

Twitter provides an excellent platform to bloggers to promote their blogs. Because of its popularity several third-party tools and services were created to help Twitter users. Following is a list of the tools and services that I think make Twitter lot more easier and fun to use. More

To me the key to productivity lies in simplicity and avoiding distraction.
I am glad that last month I found out about Dark Room at DoshDosh.com.
Dark Room is a no-frill, minimalistic full-screen text editor. Its main purpose is to let you focus on your writing and kill all distractions that come with other full-featured editors. More

Yesterday I was pleasantly surprised to see my Alexa rank became145,792. The night before it was some where in 233,00 range. My first thought was something is not right. So I went to Alexa.com and found out that they have changed their ranking system. And that new system is the cause of this new rating. Instead of ranking a website based only on the visits by the visitors who have Alexa toolbar installed, Alexa is now using “other sources” to determine website rank.

Alexa won’t provide any details on those other sources but this new ranking system will certainly helpnon-tech websites and I think the new ranking system will give a more accurate rank. Honestly, the older ranking system was skewed towards tech-heavy websites where most visitors would have the alexa toolbar installed.

So how did this new ranking system affect your Alexa rank? Do you even care about Alexa ranking at all?