Really Awesome WordPress Review Site Plug-In

I recently had the pleasure of coming across a really cool WordPress plug-in called WP Review Site . It is a premium plug-in meaning you can’t download it free but to be honest with the money making potential from a plug-in like this is simply endless. Before you ask, the answer is Yes, I did purchase this product and currently using it! I love it…

WP Review Site enables you to your WordPress blog in to a full blown review site. Whether you want to have a review site for web hosting companies like AvekHost or review site for digital cames then opportunity is there and endless.

By using this plug-in you can create multiple categories for users/consumers to review a product or service on. Instead of the user seeing your standard comment section on an article post, they will see the comment section with a powerful review future included. You can see it in action on iHostCoupons.com.

Here is a few snap shots of this great plug-in…

1. Blog Post Article – Is transformed into an opportunity to post information about the product or service. It displays an overall rating based collectively on the reviews left in what used to be the comment section of your wordpress blog. Add Google Adsense for additional revenue making opportunities!

2. Abilty To Create Top 10 Ranking – This function enables you to allow your site visitors to see the top 10 rated products or services. For example, maybe you are maintaining a review site on digitial cameras you would see the top 10 cameras in this list based on the overall review.

3.  Comment Section Transformed – This section looks very similar with the exception that the individual providing a comment can rate the product/service based on a few various categories.

4. Ability To See Reviews By Others – No different than a blogs ability to display user comments; users can see the review written by other users including how many stars the provided for each category.

You can check out this powerfull wordpress plug-in by clicking here.

Shared Web Hosting Promotion For July

The July month is probably my favorite month of the year. Naturally it is summer time but most importantly we have the honor and opportunity to celebrate our Independence here in the United States on July 4th. While for some it is all about the fireworks, parties, and time with friends and family. For me it is about appreciating the opportunities we have been blessed with and thinking about the men and women who have gave the ultimate sacrifice to ensure our continued freedom.

In honor of the month we want to help you gain your independence by offering you 3 months free web hosting when you signup for any of our shared web hosting plans for 6 months, 12 months, or 24 months. To take advantage of this incredible web hosting promotion and opportunity to gain your independence from perhaps that underachieving web hosting provider you are currently with simply use the below coupon codes.

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WordPress 2.8 Just Released

If you haven’t already heard there has been a lot of buzz around about the upcoming release of WordPress 2.8 which has some major new improvements. Rather than listing each of the improvements I thought it would be best to refer you to the official announcement of the release and provide you with the short video below.

Currently web hosting clients of AvekHost.com can enjoy a quick and easy upgrade option as WordPress 2.8 is already configured for instant installation and upgrading. All you need to do is log in to your WP Admin panel and click the link that says upgrade to WordPress 2.8 and within a few seconds you’ll be upgraded to version 2.8. While I didn’t encounter any difficulties in upgrading you may want to ensure that you back up your blog prior to the upgrade just as a safety precaution. You can refer to our past article titled “How To Back Up Your WordPress Blog: Part 1 of 2” and “How To Back Up Your WordPress Blog: Part 2 of 2” for instructions on how to back up and restore your blog if necessary.

This Is Why Your Blog Sucks!

I used to have a boss when I worked in sales that cited a quote all the time which he heard while attending some alcoholic anonymous class.

“If you fail to plan; you plan to fail”.

While I don’t know who should be credited for the quote itself (and honestly I didn’t bother to look it up either); I do know that it couldn’t be closer to the truth. Then he immediately follows up with another quote: “a plan that is not on paper is really no plan at all”. Again, it couldn’t be closer to the truth.

So let’s get to the real reason why you’re reading this article which could be any of the below reasons:

·         Your blog already sucks

·         Your just starting a blog

·         You want to be a better blogger

·         You desire deeper reader engagement

·         You have a goal of gaining more readers

·         Your want to achieve higher levels creativity and energy across your blog

·         Or, for whatever other reason you might have

Regardless of the reason(s) you’re here because you care and because you want your blogger to be better, stronger, and more profitable. So I ask you this… Do you have plan for your blog?  Is your blog plan in writing?

If you answered no to either one of these questions or no to both you just discovered the real reason why your blog sucks! Sorry to be so blunt but as the quote says “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail.”

Now what are you going to do about it? Since I am not really an arrogant person who goes out and hurts peoples feeling by telling them that there blog sucks; I’m going to provide you with one possible solution to get things turned around.

I recently discovered an eBook workbook titled “31 Days To Build A Better Blog” by Darren Rowse. Typically, I’m not one a guy that purchases a bunch of eBooks claiming to provide you with all this great information as I learned several years back that 99% of them are full of information you already know or just plan worthless material. Since this eBook workbook was just $19.95 I decided to go ahead and purchase it since it wasn’t a large investment and quite honestly I was impressed with it.

31 Days To Build A Better Blog might have been better titled as “31 Tasks Towards A Better Blog” but either way it lives up to its intended purpose of helping you create a better blog site. The concept was simple: bloggers set aside 31 days to be intentional about improving their blogs.

 

Each day for 31 days your presented with a daily task and teaching to give you concrete ways to take your blog to the next level – the goal being more readers, higher quality content, deeper reader engagement and higher levels of creativity and energy for the blogger.

Challenges included writing tasks, promotion techniques, methods to deepen reader engagement, creating thinking exercises, ideas for breaking through bloggers block and much more.

Once you get this workbook and follow the 31 daily challenges that you can pretty much repeat the tasks every thirty one days or with each separate blog and you’ll have a plan in writing and you’ll be planning for success. Best of all it is only $19.95 in which a money back guarantee is offered. Are you ready to join with 14,000 other bloggers and Kick-Start Your Blog with this 31 Day Challenge?

Download Your Copy of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog for an Investment of $19.95

This 94 page resource (actually it’s 188 pages as there are two pages on each page really) is ready for your download right now. You can order it here.

At 64 cents per daily task this is a resource that is designed to bring life and revitalization to your blog again and again as you continue to use it over coming months and years.

Join over 14,000 other bloggers in the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge today.

E-Commerce Website In Under 5 Minutes

In this short video, Adam Purcell of Hungry Dog Media takes you through a 5-minute challenge. The challenge is to get an e-commerce web site up and running within 5 minutes.

When you really sit back and think about it isn’t amazing how quickly you can get a web site up and running these days? All features and options mentioned through this video is available for you to use right here with AvekHost.com. Our quality web hosting service includes the ability to instantly install WordPress and instantly install the WordPress Plug-in that you desire to utilize on your new website.

I hope you enjoy watching this 5-minute challenge and would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Quality Web Hosting Means Quality Up-Time

We are pleased to announce that we have achieved another great and successfull month when it comes to deliver solid up-time. For the May 2009 calendar month we delivered a 100% hosting up-time.

Over the past 484 days we have been monitored by a 3rd party organization on our uptime and have achieved 99.99% up-time for this entire period. See the chart below to see how we have done over the past 484 days.

New Education WordPress Theme

 The folks over at StudioPress have just recently released a brand new WordPress theme and it is geared towards the educators segment. It is definately a nice crisp and clean theme with quite a bit of benefits attached.

If you haven’t got the chance to check out StudioPress’s other great wordpress themes you can check out them here.

Latest version: 1.0

Release date: 6/1/09

Tags: two-columns, fixed-width, sidebar-widgets, threaded-comments

Widget-ready: Yes

Compatible up to: WP 2.7.1

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Lean Magazine Theme For WordPress

Free Lean Magazine Theme For WordPress

 

+ Featured Article Slideshow
+ Image on Articles (Automatic Resize)
+ Advertisement/Banner Ready
+ Gravatar on Comments
+ SEO Optimized
+ Works with the Latest Version of WordPress 2.7 (and below)
+ Threaded Comments
+ Featured Video
+ Flickr RSS
+ Animated Tag Cloud
+ Multiple Color Schemes Available

 

This particular theme is also available in the following additional color schemes: Blue, Brown, Orange, Green, Grey, Pink, and Violet.

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Free Import/Export Website Templates

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