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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes If you are serious about getting exposure and making some extra adsense cash this is a contest for you. - Out of My Mouth – http://www.outofmymouth.com - Entrecard Contest Posted By Brad On June 15, 2008 @ 10:27 pm (7 minutes ago) In Admin | No Comments The [1] Hart Blog Network and [2] Out of My Mouth are proud to announce our 10,000+ Entrecard giveaway. Partnering with out new Free Article Directory, [2] Out of My Mouth, will give away prizes to the top contributors of original material between June 15th and July 15th 2008. The top contributor will receive 5000 Entrecards, second place will receive 3000, and third place will receive 1000, with 4th and 5th receiving 500 Entrecards each. An additional 100 Entrecards will be given to the top contributor of every top category. convey_source = "English"; Read More →

Reading time: 3 – 4 minutes I am in no way an expert in Blogger or BlogSpot, but I am passing along to your a nice free article on how to write a theme there since I know some of you blog there. How To Create A Blogger/Blogspot Theme by Brad This tutorial will cover the steps needed to create your own blogger template. Many people have used blogger to run blogs and have wondered how they can make their own theme to use with it. There are a very few hard to find guides on how to do this, so I’ve decided to take up the task to help as many people as I can, create one. Incase you are skimming over the content, this article is teaching you “How to create a blogger / blogspot theme“ To create a blogger template, you will need a graphic editor (Such as Photoshop, GIMP, or even Paint will do) to create images for backgrounds, post headers, sidebars, etc.. We will get to that later. You will also need an idea or vision about what you want to create. Without that, you are... 

Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes I hit the jackpot on good plugin finds today for all you junkines. This morning I found myself sitting face to face with a site called Coffee 2 Code and a long list of WordPress 2.5 compatible plugins. I won’t go through the whole list but here are the ones you can bet will find their way into my blogs very soon. · Auto Hyprelink URLs. It does just what it says by coding any plaint URL from your post or comment into a clickable link. While this has the potential for abuse with spam, it does mean you can remove the linking feature from the comments that might redirect someone elsewhere. · HTML Special Character Helper. I don’t this very often, but when I do I really hate looking it up in an external program. · Post to Post Link. While this is easily done with some preplanning normally, the description makes it look even simpler. I haven’t gone through the full trial on it, but it looked too good not to mention. · Extra Sentence Space. As a novelist,... 

Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes Everyone needs to go have a look at their Technorati accounts today and make sure that their posts are getting indexed properly.  Because of some flaws and coding errors, and down right hacking by theme designers your Blog may be at risk.  Not only is Technorati not indexing, it can very well lead to your sight as being mark for spam on Yahoo and Google. To see if you possibly aren’t being indexed or the spiders are just taking their sweet ass time getting to you try manually pinging  your account by entering a post specific url into the form at http://www.technorati.com/ping/  Give it an hour or so to get around to you and see if you get your pages added in, before bitching at tech support.  Also remember if you are using FireFox as a browser you should hit control f5 to reload the page and bypass the cache file when you are checking these accounts. Check out Vulnerable WordPress Blogs Not Being Indexed for further reading.  If you have WP... 

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