WordPress - Best of Breed

It’s a simple as the title of this post…”Best of Breed”. When it comes to online blogging applications, WordPress is Best of Breed.

It’s free! But that does not make it great, just easily accessible.

It has a huge following! Have a WordPress question? It’s answered in a couple hours on their forum. Need some advanced help? You can find easily a WordPress pro online in minutes. Need some special feature? There’s a very good chance that someone else as already had that need too. You’ll likely find that there is a plugin already written for your feature.
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Inbound Links Help Websites

Search engines enjoy websites that have inbound links. And the best way to gather inbound links is to have a useful, informative website. However, you often need to kickstart that process by seeking out links to your site. This process is called link building. Be warned, it can be a tedious process. Many site owners turn to a link building company such as Vertical Measures.

It’s no secret, the algorithms used by search engines give some hefty weight to inbound links. The more relevent the referring website, the better the inbound link.

Say you have a site about toasters linking to a site selling golf clubs…it does not give much help to the golf club site. However, a link from a golf country club website to the golf club site would be nicer. They’re both in the same business…golf.
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SpyFu Discount Code

Want to see which keywords your competitors are buying on adwords? That’s exactly what SpyFu does.

As a participant in their beta testing program, I received some SpyFu Discount Codes that are good for the lifetime of your subscription. I have one left. So whomever gets it first can use it! It must be initially used before July 2nd 2007 though.

From the SpyFu Email…
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