WordPress blogs have continued to be my focus.
I have a number of niche blogs that I use to display eBay auctions and I have been updating these. I really, really like how they’re turning out. I guess you could say I’m synthesizing much of the information I have collected over the past months about optimizing WordPress.
These are some really fun plugins that I’ve started using on my blogs:
Adman - allows you to automatically input some text or code at the beginning, middle, or end of all your posts. I’m using it to insert an optin form at the end of each post.
Counterize - basically counts visitors and hits on your blog and give all sort of other tracking information. There’s a quick snapshot of recent and current day activity on the dash board. It’s much easier than running to Google Analytics to get an idea of where your traffic is at.
Excerpt Editor - automates the process of dividing all posts on the front page into excerpts without messing with the code in the templates.
Tomorrow is the day that the new eBay affiliate program is unveiled. For those who haven’t heard, eBay is creating their own affiliate program and will no longer be associated with Commission Junction. It really doesn’t make any difference to me either way. What does make a difference is that I’ve been sort of on hold for a couple weeks waiting for the transition to happen. I didn’t want to create a whole bunch more links that I would have to go in and update. I’ll need to get very busy updating links and then putting finishing touches on the sites.
And this blog got another facelift. The Cleaker theme just didn’t do it for me. I really, really like this one. Very clean looking. I have lots of plans for this blog. Maybe it will be next in line for some serious renovation.
That’s it for now. Thanks for visiting.
Tags: ebay affiliate program, Plugins, wordpress blogs
