Within about a week, my blog (Making the Web; MTW) lost its Google PageRank on every single page. Thinking about my previous actions, I done a quick search in Google and found about 5,000 results containing my static link-back text. (Aside, this figure is currently 329,000 but with no-follow no used). Obviously, my actions had tripped Google's "link spam filters" and so my site was blacklisted with search engine position being significantly reduced.

I quickly no-followed all links in the next version, hoping to reduce the impact. Recently (10 months later), one of my pages (now PR 5) was featured on Slashdot.org, and some key pages at Reddit and news.ycombinator.org. It is this, I believe, that brought MTW back from the "blacklisting-threshold" and resulted in Google kindly returning some PageRank. I have also noticed MTW increasing in Google's results.

If you are doing something to "cheat" Google, be careful! (Or, stop doing it)

Thanks Google!

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Developing a plugin as vast and feature-rich as Thank Me Later can be very demanding. Since not many people have been forthcoming with donations, I though I would try a new tactic (rather than selling the plugin). This idea, if I remember, was mentioned by somebody on wp-hackers digest.

Basically, I am looking for a single person, or a number of people, who will sponsor a single release of the Thank Me Later plugin.

Thank Me Later has so far been downloaded 5,187 times, with the concentration of downloads appearing after a release, and has received great feedback (read some here). Here's what I propose:

• Each sponsor gets a link on the plugin's options page (for the release), back to their website or organisation.
• They will also get a link on the plugin information page at Making the Web (for at least as long as the sponsored release is the latest stable version), and the same at Wordpress Plugins directory (although this is indeterminate, since it not being my page)
• On a separate page for the plugin's administration section, they will be able to display a negotiable advert or description of their services.

Ideally, I'm looking for either one individual sponsor, or up to 10 sponsors. Importantly, the above is my proposal. You are free to propose your own arrangement, particularly if wanting to sponsor the plugin on your own. If you are interested, please email me at thankmelater@making-the-web.com or leave a comment below.

Sponsor amounts do not have to be great. We can come to a suitable arrangement.

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The second result is the one I am concerned with. jammydodgetUK (Sam) is one of my friends. Here, his profile on "Steam Community" has appeared second-place for my related: search.

This would be fair enough… if he was actually related to the page somehow. In fact, I haven't mentioned him anywhere, on this site and all my other sites, I haven't mentioned anyone he is associated to, and I haven't mentioned anywhere which could associate us (ie, my town, the school, etc). Similarly, he hasn't done any of this on his profile.

The only thing I have (seldom) mentioned is my name. This is the only piece of information that Google could have made an association with, albeit a weak one.

The only way Google could have possibly made this association was to use information from my Facebook or Myspace profile, and then use information from Sam's profile to relate him to Steam. It is all a bit extreme, and ultimately irrelevant, don't you think?

What's the weirdest or most pervy result Google has thrown at you?

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However,  I have been more interested in finding all websites a user visits. Only then does it become unconstrained by its application. It can now be used to find out what types of websites a user visits and provide targeted advertisements or services, based on a less boolean-logical approach.

(You know the part about privacy…)

So, I set on a little investigation while I had five minutes to spare and came up with this:

It's a clever piece of Javascript (if I may say so myself) which will check lots of links to see if they have been visited. This is how my "checker" works:

1. It checks to see whether the user has visited the homepage of the most popular websites.
2. Then, if the user has visited a homepage, an AJAX request downloads a list of the most popular pages from that site. For each page, it checks if the user has visited it.
3. It then stores this information and does some analysis to see what types of websites users like to visit (profiling). In the demo, it will just output the pages into a list.

You can try it out for yourself: View the demo.

If implemented in the real world, it obviously wouldn't process everything at once. Random checking over weeks and months can lead to a long-term profile of a user's interests.

Here is the Javascript:

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var processingQueue = false;
 
var batchSize = 100;
var batchWait = 50;
 
var pagesToCheck = 0;
var pagesChecked = 0;
 
var clearEvery = 1000;
 
var basesites_toCheck = new Array();
var b_tC_Length = 0;
var b_tC_cur = 0;
var pages_toCheck     = new Array();
var p_tC_Length = 0;
var p_tC_cur = 0;
 
function start() {
	// start() is the first function called. It makes a AJAX request to download the basesites (homepages).
	// the response from the server is handled by queuePages().
	net.addToQueue("basesites.php", new Array(window, queuePages, []), null);
}
 
function queuePages(data) {
	// the response from the server (data) is in JSON form. It is parsed using eval()
	var info = eval("("+data+")");
 
	// if the list was partial, the server would give "more" to the next URL.
	// if there is a next list, it is downloaded using net in the same way the first list was downloaded in start().
	if(info["more"])
		net.addToQueue(info["more"], new Array(window, queuePages, []), null);
 
	// for each URL, add it to the appropriate list...
	if(info["basesites"])
		for(var cur in info["pages"]) {
			basesites_toCheck[b_tC_Length++] = info["pages"][cur];
			pagesToCheck++;
		}
	else
		for(var cur in info["pages"]) {
			pages_toCheck[p_tC_Length++] = info["pages"][cur];
			pagesToCheck++;
		}
 
	// process the lists
	processQueue();
}
 
function hasVisited(page) {
	// add link to page
	document.getElementById("checklink").href = page;
	document.getElementById("checkArea").innerHTML = document.getElementById("checkArea").innerHTML;
 
	var l = document.getElementById("checklink");
 
	// if has font size 60px (associated with a:visited)
	if(typeof(l.style)!= "undefined" && ((typeof(l.currentStyle) != "undefined" && l.currentStyle.fontSize == "60px") || (typeof(document.defaultView) != "undefined" && (document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(l,null)).fontSize == "60px")))
		// has visited
		return true;
 
	// has not visited
	return false;
}
 
function checkPage(page) {
	// check www. and no-www. version
	if(hasVisited("http://"+page) || hasVisited("http://www."+page))
		return true;
	return false;
}
 
var more = new Array();
 
function processQueue() {
	if(processingQueue) return; // only run one at a time...
	processingQueue = true;
 
	var a = 0;
 
	while(b_tC_cur < b_tC_Length) {
		if(a++ == batchSize) break; // process in batches
		// if in user history
		if(checkPage(basesites_toCheck[b_tC_cur][0])) {
			// output the site to the demo interface
			parent.addSite(basesites_toCheck[b_tC_cur][0]);
			// remember: we need to download pages for this site
			more[more.length] = basesites_toCheck[b_tC_cur][1];
		}
		pagesChecked++;
		b_tC_cur++; // move pointer
		if(clearEvery == b_tC_cur) { // remove some entries from array
			b_tC_cur -= clearEvery;
			b_tC_Length -= clearEvery;
			basesites_toCheck = basesites_toCheck.slice(clearEvery);
		}
	}
 
	while(p_tC_cur < p_tC_Length) {
		if(a++ == batchSize) break;
		if(checkPage(pages_toCheck[p_tC_cur][0])) {
			parent.addSite(pages_toCheck[p_tC_cur][0]);
		}
		pagesChecked++;
		p_tC_cur++;
		if(clearEvery == p_tC_cur) {
			p_tC_cur -= clearEvery;
			p_tC_Length -= clearEvery;
			pages_toCheck = pages_toCheck.slice(clearEvery);
		}
	}
 
 
 
	if(p_tC_cur < p_tC_Length || b_tC_cur < b_tC_Length) {
		parent.updateProgress(pagesChecked, pagesToCheck, isComplete());
		// still more to process, come back after [batchWait] seconds
		setTimeout("processingQueue = false; processQueue()", batchWait);
		return;
	}else{
		// request pages for sites....
		var m = more.length;
		for(var i = 0; i < m; i+=4) {
			var q = "";
			var _m = i + 4;
			for(var a = i; a < _m && a < m; a++) {
				q += "|"+more[a];
			}
			net.addToQueue("more.php?s=" + q, new Array(window, queuePages, []), null);
		}
		more = new Array();
		parent.updateProgress(pagesChecked, pagesToCheck, isComplete());
	}
 
	processingQueue = false;
}
 
function isComplete() {
	// make sure there are not queued items to be downloaded before reporting completion.
	if(net.waitingSize() == 0)
		return true;
	return false;
}

Note: Although I have posted this, do not copy and use it. Copyright still holds.

If you have any ideas, questions or response, you can leave a comment here…

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Stop being so serious: entertain me!

Games

By "game" I mean any form of entertaining, responsive interaction. It doesn't have to be complex. It doesn't have to be your own. It doesn't have to be everywhere — just throw it on a separate page and link to it from your sidebar. Check out Google Gadgets to find some games.

Somewhere to talk

Comments are a bit of a problem. Have you ever left an informal comment? No. To leave a comment, it has got to be relevant, fairly serious and written in good English. But, that's no fun.

Why not give your readers somewhere to talk — about anything, to anyone and without constraints of a topic. Geesee looks like a good plugin to try out.

I'm currently trying something similar on my blog. If you scroll down to the footer, you can see that users can shout whatever they want. (If this goes well, I plan to create a Wordpress plugin so you can have something similar.)

Did I win?

People love to win things — and they love trying to win things. If you have a web-development blog, why not give away some free hosting; shopping, some free vouchers or gift cards (cool, never knew this existed); films, a free DVD rental subscription; etc. Contests, competitions or simple give-aways are great ways to increase reader happiness-levels and blog interaction.

Giving prizes to the top commentators of the month is a great because it means readers have won and been thanked at the same time!

Share your life

No matter how many subscribers you have, some readers will see you as an authority figure — one of their blogging celebrities. People are nosy: they want to know you, not what you know*. Have you done something interesting recently? Tell your readers about it. It won't make front-page Digg, but your every-day readers are kept entertained.

It is the same reason people read celebrity magazines.

* to some extent

A Bonus: Do something funny / share something embarrassing

Find a video of you which is funny, stupid or embarrassing, upload it to YouTube and embed it. This kind of stuff is entertaining and can be viral.

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So far we have served 8,500 stumbles, linking similar-category blogs together. Thanks to the biggest 10 contributors:

• 1) Brad's Tiny World; 787 stumbles
• 2) Cool Biking Zone; 666
• 3) PC Tips Box; 520
• 4) WesternFront America; 500
• 5) Making the Web; 499
• 5) InfoMags.Org; 499
• 7) POEZIJASCG; 484
• 8) Rabbababb.no; 352
• 9) High Pay Keywords; 312
• 10) Adam Solomon; 288

Why not enable S!-for-WP Network to increase traffic from related sites to your blog!?

-Brendon.

UPDATE: I have just fixed a bug which prevented the most-contributing blogs from getting a larger number of stumbles back. It was intended that blogs which contribute more would get a greater share of the stumbles. However, an error in a MySQL query caused less-contributing blogs to get more traffic. This error has been fixed and the most-contributing blogs (such as above) will get a large proportion of traffic and be "paid back" for the past few months.

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Shout Something

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Like most bloggers, I will freely allow [more-or-less] everyone to copy, blog about and give to others any of my published content, provided a small gesture is made in return — a link back to the original post being a minimum. It is a great way to get people talking about your content and blog, and puts that essential social factor into blogging.

However, when you see your content published on somebody else's blog with no link-back or recognition of the original content — part of you dies. And when you realise that that article is more popular than the original, and that they are probably making more revenue than the original did for you — a greater part of you dies.*

*Okay, that is a slight exaggeration. My emotions are not that dark; I'm just annoyed!

Day 1, 20:30: Checking Google Analytics

Occasionally, I will check up on what has been happening with my blog — have a quick look at AdSense, FeedBurner and Analytics. Well, this is where it started…

It is always great to see a new referrer to your blog — it fills you with such happiness. So, I click through to have a look…

(View Entire Page - Large File)

…Yep, sure is my content. I am still happy at this moment — after all, there is traffic going to my site; there has got to be a link, right!?

I read past the article and still can not find the link, so I start reading the comments — and there:

Then I realise — my content has been plagiarised! Thanks to Trey Philips and jws at Hacker News, and that social factor of blogging, I was alerted to the issue, coincidentally, within just 2 days.

Within those 2 days, the post received about 9,500 views; 49% of what the originals at Making the Web ([1] and [2]) received — since 2 years ago!

Day 1, 20:40: The Email

At this point, I am quite annoyed. So, I sniff around for a contact form and send a message:

Hi,

I am contacting you with regard to a blog hosted within your control, http://blog.tuvinh.com/ and the post at http://blog.tuvinh.com/one-minute-with-php6/.

I am the original author of the published content which you have plagiarised in this post. I would ask that you:

(a) Given credit and link back to http://www.making-the-web.com/2007/12/09/unofficial-php-6-changelog/ with the title "From Unofficial PHP 6 Changelog" BEFORE the article appears on your website.
-OR-
(b) Remove the content with immediate effect.

-AND-

(c) Commit any revenue made from visitor interaction or otherwise, directly or indirectly resulting from the publication of this material from the point it is published to the point at which conditions (a) and [this should have be"or"] (b) are met in entirety.
The page has received 9,771 hits at time of checking [02 March 2009; 20:38]. Assuming a click-through rate of 0.75% and revenue of $0.20 per click, a payment of $14.65 will be expected, unless you are able to provide proof that revenue resulting from publication is less than this value.

Please update your blog according to match conditions (a) and [or] (b) and send payment, constrained by request (c), as soon as possible. You are able to make payment to my PayPal account: [myemail@host.com]. To arrange an alternative payment method, please email me.

Thank you,
Brendon.

Quite a good email I thought — let us hope he doesn't plagiarise that. To be honest, I did consider out leaving part (c) — but from seeing the number of hits the post received, he has obviously made some revenue from it; I may as well try…

Day 2, 07:15:

By the next morning, Trey Philips' comment had magically disappeared from the post. However, the author still has not put up a link to the original content and there is no response to my email. By this time, the article has received 10,000 hits.

Day 2, 21:30:

So, over a day since asking the blog author to remove my comment, he has not done anything. I think it is time to leave a more public comment:

Now from here, I suspect one of three things will happen:

1. He will delete my comment and forget about it (most likely); or,
2. He will finally link-back to the original content (or deletes the content); or,
3. Same as 2, and pays me any revenue he has made due to plagiarising the content (least likely).

Day 3, 17:30: Email to Host

As you can imagine, I am quite annoyed at this point — it only takes a few minutes to delete a post; much less time than it took to source, merge and publish my content. I decide my next move will be to send an email to his host, to request that they ask him to remove or they forcibly remove the content:

Hi,

A website, which I believe to be hosted within your control, has infringed copyright.

The website, available via http://blog.tuvinh.com/, hosts the content available at: http://blog.tuvinh.com/one-minute-with-php6/.

This is a copy of original, copyright-protected content available for access, but not licensed redistribution or publishing, at http://www.making-the-web.com/2007/12/09/unofficial-php-6-changelog/ and http://www.making-the-web.com/2007/09/21/becoming-php-6-compatible/.

I have already contacted the author, but he has neither responded nor acted upon my requests. As the copyright holder, I would ask that you contact you client asking them to remove this content or remove this content forcibly otherwise.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide,

Brendon.

Day 4, 17:15: Still Nothing…

So, we are on the 4th day and nothing has happened. It is crazy that people can think that they can do this — they somehow think that the Internet isn't governed by any laws, or that they are in someway above the law.

If I wanted somebody to copy my content without referencing the source, I would have licensed it as such. There is a copyright notice in my footer, although it isn't even required; it means "you can not copy my content unless I let you!". You can not do on the Internet what you can not do offline!

I hope this article will go someway to raise awareness of this issue. Have you ever had your content plagiarised? It would be great to hear about it, particularly the methods you used to (or try to) resolve the issue.

-Brendon.

Updates:

Day 5, 17:15: As predicted, my comment on his post was deleted, and he took has still taken no action.

Day 6, 10:45: I have just had a reply from tuvinh.com's host. The email has been forwarded to the abuse admin so hopefully (hope is the only thing I have left!) some action will soon be taken.

Day 6, 12:50: Hosting Suspended

It looks like my email to the host worked. Just as I went to check the content, I was redirected to a suspended account page:

Hopefully, this will be a wake-up call for the author. Just so long as he doesn't get his hosting back and re-publishes my content, I am happy. Cancel all of that. I just checked again (17:15), and the website is back up :(.

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UPDATE (15:29 GMT): It appears that Google have now fixed the issue. From what I've heard, the problems started at 14:39 GMT and only affected logged-in users (this is unconfirmed, and most likely false).

UPDATE (16:39 GMT): Google has told BBC News: "There was a fault. We don't know the nature of it yet. Everything has been solved. We are still making initial enquiries." They are expected to make an official statement later.

UPDATE (17:10 GMT): Google just posted a new blog entry. According to the post, any URL containing a forward slash was marked as badware. Google says it was caused by human error, but it sounds as if they blame somebody at StopBadware.org for the forward slash ban.

Here's what the search for "Google" looked like:

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In the previous, beta versions of S! for WP, there was support for stumbling through random and related posts. Version 1.0 takes the plug-in a step further, by offering the ability to stumble through other blogs as well!

The opt-in S! for WP Network will send a portion of your reader's stumbles to external blogs, which have also opted in. Similarly, those blogs will send a portion of their stumbles to your articles!

This network will allow you to reach interested visitors, who may become some of your readers.

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But, in the time since, I've been working on creating an automated system which works 10 times as hard as I ever could, and publishes the lists daily — without fail. MTW:ED (2.0) launched today, at the start of 2009. Please give it a go and tell me what you think…

Go to MTW:ED.

Read the launch announcement at MTW:ED.

-Brendon.

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If you are signed into a Google account, you should be able to use these new features.

"SearchWiki also is a great way to share your insights with other searchers. You can see how the community has collectively edited the search results by clicking on the 'See all notes for this SearchWiki' link" said Google,

"This new feature is an example of how search is becoming increasingly dynamic, giving people tools that make search even more useful to them in their daily lives. We have been testing bits and pieces of SearchWiki for some time through live experiments, and we incorporated much of our learnings into this release. We are constantly striving to improve our users' search experience, and this is yet another step along the way."

At the bottom of results pages, there is a link where you can view all comments for the results:

Here's a video from Google:

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An extremely small percentage of expiring domains will have PR, which makes those difficult to find. Well, luckily, I have done the hard work and listed these expiring domains on my new blog…

Making the Web: Expired Domains, updated daily, lists domains which are expiring within the coming days. Instantly, you can see which domains are expiring, their PR and the status of that PR (valid/false).

If you are interested in buying expired domains with PR, please give the blog a go and see what you think…

Before you start, you may want to read this article which talks about buying domains with PR.

* Usually when the domain has multiple PR pages.

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It seems Google has decided to start placing the number of posts and last update, with other information, alongside forum thread results. (Or, at least for a selection of threads).

This information may be useful to some people, and it may represent a thread's popularity and freshness - leading to more "informed" clicks.

However, I think this meta information just breaks the "flow" and rhythm of the result's page, and is more a distraction than a useful assistant. If they placed this information in line with the title (as they do for blog post times/dates), it would be much nicer.

Here are some articles and pages I found which you may be interested in:

• Google include forum information in mainstream SERPS
• Google Enhancing Search Results for Forums?

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What is a personal brand?  Well, it's you!  It's your portfolio, blog and twitter account, as well as your Flickr, YouTube, FriendFeed, del.icio.us, Facebook and other accounts.

Learn From the Experts

Take a look at Gary Vaynerchuk, who runs a multi-million dollar wine business, as well as a popular podcast. He is an expert at personal branding and has established himself as real guru when it comes to all things wine. Browsing through his website, you can't help but notice his name plastered everywhere, as well as links to all his social profiles. You could say that Gary is everywhere! Check out this video from Gary explaining some goods about personal brands.

You and Yourself

It's important to be yourself online. No one likes a phony and people seem to have a real knack at spotting the fake a mile off.  It's also important to know your talents, and shape your brand based on your skills. So if you're a graphic designer - be the best graphic designer you can be. Not a designer/podcaster/blogger/developer.  Although Gary has a podcast, he isn't known podcaster - he's a wine guru.

Get Profiled

I have been approached through Twitter to do the odd bit of development work, and I have also found some very talented freelancers there as well. So the value in having a "profile" is obvious. Having profiles on major social networks like Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Digg, etc, will not only expose your brand to potential clients but will help you keep track of the intertubes and stay connected….

Get Connected

This is the most important point: no one cares about you!  However, if you show genuine interest in other peoples work, I guarantee that you will start getting noticed. Comment on blogs, reply to Tweets on Twitter, share other peoples posts on Digg. You might not believe me when I say this is way more important then any work you do.

So get out and grab a brand!

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I just wanted to quickly tell you about a recent article from Seth's blog, which I think you would be interested in.

Do you have 16 boxes? explains why having a pessimistic attitude when something goes wrong doesn't make things any better. It shows that you should work with what you have, rather than focusing on what you don't have. Personally, I think this is one of the best articles Seth has ever written. Here's an extract:

Your career is not a boat. Neither is your business.

A boat with even a small leak is going to sink. You, on the other hand, don't need to be perfect to succeed. Imagine that you have a 4 x 4 grid to fill with assets. If it's a business, it might be location, reputation, staff, offerings that are in high demand and a sector that's robust… if you're doing it for yourself, it might include your resume, your network, your skill set, etc.

Do you have 16 boxes - Seth Godin.

Enjoy!

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“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.”

-Perry Paxton

Blogging is an extremely difficult habit to get into, and once you do, your blog will not be very popular for a long time. However, there is hope! If you follow these 9 easy habits (Alright, fine, some are characteristics,) your blogs popularity will boost up much quicker, and your readers will be way more loyal to you.

1. Frequency
Frequently posting in your blog will not only help boost up your blogs popularity– it will make your writing skill much better. This is the toughest part of blogging, as well. If you want your blog to succeed, you need to make a posting schedule, and almost religiously keep it. If you miss a day, be sure to make up for it by putting up a special feature, or something along that line.

2. Patience
Blogging requires a helluva lot of patience, which is never easy. Blogs can take months, if not years, to establish a solid online presence and a solid readership base. Because of that, at the beginning your blog will feel lonely; almost as if you are writing for nobody to read.

3. Usefulness
If you plan on gaining any readers at all, you need to write valuable and useful posts. If your posts are completely useless, and have no point at all, then not only will your blogs popularity will be hurt, so will your online presence. A good rule of thumb to use here is that if you didn't learn anything writing your post, then it isn't very important.

4. Proofreading
The best way to look extremely unprofessional is to write a blog post with typographical and grammar errors everywhere. Due to that fact, it is extremely important that you always use a spellchecker on your post, and read through it at least once, checking for missing periods, commas, capitals, etc.

5. Honesty
I'm not even going to bother going into details about this, but I will say that whenever I read "I made $60k today just by writing this post!" it doesn't actually get me to read the rest of the post.

6. Aesthetics
It's been said many times before that content is just as important as design. That said, don't be afraid to use stuff like italics, headings, bolds, and new paragraphs. If you have your posts looking half-decent, you will be amazed how much your readership loyalty will boost.

7. Linking
It's impossible to fit all the information related to one subject in a single blog post, series of blog posts, or blog. You can try if you really want to, but it isn't going to work. Because of that, you don't need to be afraid of linking to other peoples blogs! You won't lose any traffic for it, and if you give the other blog enough visitors, the owner may just be kind enough to fire a link back.

8. Commenting
Visitors love it when the blogger communicates with them, especially in the comments section. Nothing quite beats the feeling of your comment not being a one-way conversation, going in one ear and out the other. It is a hard habit to get into of responding to comments, but it is a great habit. A great technique is to put a question into your responses, to encourage further communication.

9. Reading Other Blogs
Like any writing tutor you will ever get says, you need to read other peoples writing to be a good writing yourself. Not only will it help you learn more techniques, but it will inspire. There is plenty of blogs out there, related to just about every good (and bad,) subject you can think of. Don't be afraid of straying into their territory.
If you enjoy the other blogs you read, you can also get into communication with the blog owners, and start up link exchanges and the works.

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Today, I have released "Stumble! for WordPress", a plugin which automates the process, in BETA. The plugin allows you to insert a button or link which will bring you to a random article, optionally giving preference to articles with more comments.

The plugin also pairs up with YARPP to enable the user to click "Show me a similar article" and be taken to a post produced by YARPP, selected at random.

Stumble! for WordPress also keeps track of visited ("stumbled") pages so users are never shown the same page more than once.

Please give it a go, and tell me what you think. Download Now.

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Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a "random article" feature, similar to StumbleUpon's StumbleThru and Wikipedia's (Mediawiki's) random article feature.

The plugin supports basic "go to any random page" functionality, but can also integrate with Yet Another Related Posts Plugin to stumble similar articles. Stumble! for WordPress will automatically give priority to articles with more comments, so users will be brought to your most popular posts.

Version 0.1.4 Changes:

• Support for alternative URLs, to allow users to stumble to other pages of your site (non-post pages).

Version 0.2 Changes:

• New statistics feature shows total number of stumbles, and hits to the top 10 stumbled posts/URLs.

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