Imminent Launch of WordPress 2.1?

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I saw a post in my WordPress dashboard from Matt (one of the WordPress development team).

His intriguing title “Is Your Plugin Naughty or Nice?” features a guest article by Aaron Brazell informing developers to ensure plugin compliance with WordPress 2.1 which is ‘almost here’.

It’s hard to realize that it’s almost been a year since WordPress 2.0 “Duke” was released on December 26, 2005.

I was looking for more info on WordPress 2.1 but there’s scant info available now.

You should be using some variant of WP 2.0 and if you haven’t patched it to 2.0.5 already, this is a good time to do so. There were a number of security-related patches in the last update.

I really like WordPress and a quote on the WordPress site captures my feelings:

“WordPress: free, yet priceless”

If you aren’t already optimizing your WordPress blog, you won’t be able to traffic generate and monetize as effectively as you could, you might want to check out Secret Blog Weapon.

I really love hearing from those who’ve started using Secret Blog Weapon and are getting great results!

$4,850 Elite Retreat Ticket Up For Grabs

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Talk about a compelling offer.

I was checking out Shoemoney’s post “Elite Retreat Ticket For One Lucky Winner” .

Elite Retreat contest

Blogging Guru Dave Taylor, SEO Specialist Aaron Wall, Forum and Communities Specialist Lee Dodd, Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker, Dave Taylor again!

Forum Guru Lee Dodd has posted at his ForumTrends blog that the 4 gurus: Shoemoney, Dave Taylor, Aaron Wall and Lee have decided to put up one ticket for the event (valued at $4,850 by the way).

Just head over to Lee’s blog, read the instructions and best of luck!

The deadline’s Dec 11th, noon CST. There’s a couple of hours to go.

I’d have loved to try for the contest, though the event clashes with a family holiday.

Ah, well, maybe next time.

If you do enter the contest, and win, post a comment!

The Silent Affiliate Marketing Menace: Spybot

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If you’re an affiliate marketer, take note, Spybot Search And Destroy, a spyware detection software has now identified several affiliate network tracker cookies as ‘spyware’.

If a user to your landing page runs spybot and deletes your cookie, it means you will not get credit for the affiliate sale.

Spybot

Spybot already identifies Alexa as spyware, although Alexa tracks the sites you visit and depending on your perspective, it could be viewed as either a web metrics tool, or ‘spyware’.

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The End of One Internet Marketing Forum, Continues with Another

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Forums are a great way of getting information, especially on an active forum where you might get an answer to a question within minutes after posting a question.

I’ve been managing two forums for the past 4 months and we’ve come to a decision point.

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What Do Bloggers Look Like And What Do They Represent?

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Tino Buntic’s What Do Bloggers Look Like is an interesting post.

Although we blog in isolation, we’re part of a larger blogging community.

Even if you choose to be a ‘deviant’ or ‘social outcast’, you have a ‘social outcast’ cliche too.

Which is why the montage is interesting. It bring together different bloggers from different segments together.

What Do Bloggers Look Like

You get to see a whole cast of different people, all churning out their thoughts on a frequency ranging from daily to weekly, to be archived by the search engines, as our entries get indexed.

A sort of virtual immortality if you will.

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