AdRotator displays an advertisement (which is randomly selected from a group of advertisements specified in a text file) at your chosen location. Tested on WordPress 1.5 & 2.x. Should work with earlier and later versions (future and past proofed). It can also be used with other CMS systems or anywhere where PHP is supported. AdRotator was created with few simple requirements.

• It should allow rotating (randomly) between any number of advertisements (or other code or images etc.)
• It should be efficient.
• It should be simple to use.
• It should be simple to install.
• It should be simple to uninstall.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 1.5+
Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-plugin-adrotator…

Here is a list of the most important on-page ranking factors and how they are addressed by this All in One SEO plugin. You might want to visit Options – All in One SEO to tweak the default options.

Titles

The text that you see in your browser’s window bar is the most important thing *on* your page. Make sure your titles are getting rewritten and the important stuff (your post titles) always come before anything else. You can leave a few words from your blog title to do some branding but don’t overdo. If your post titles don’t contain your most precious phrases you want to rank for then tweak them. Leave the post titles as it is but change the meta title.

Descriptions

Once your pages rank in search engines your description (aside of course from your title) makes a potential visitor want to click through, or not. It’s mta descriptions, believed dead by many people, that decide over your site’s fate. If you don’t want to invest the time and write a description for every post at least let them be auto-generated. This vastly better than the usual “Share This … Posted on … under …” description that is often used. If a post has an excerpt it is used, but not if you specify an explicit description.

Keywords

All in One SEO Pack can generate them from your categories (this was the old way of tagging your posts in wordpress) or from Ultimate Tag Warrior or, starting with Wordpress 2.3, the built-in tagging system. Using your categories is optional, the rest is auto-detected and used if there.

Duplicate Content

You can have “noindex” and the like generated for archive-, category- and tag pages if you seem to have trouble with duplicate content.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://wp.uberdose.com/2007/03/24/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Democracy adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll. It didn’t have valid markup, it was clunky, and it required one heck of an installation process. So Andrew decided to create my own, using WP-poll as a reference. This plugin uses AJAX for quick sending and loading of poll data, although it doesn’t depend on javascript to function. It is fully functional in non-javascript environments, meaning it will work in ALL browsers. The AJAX part is tested to work in Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE6/Win.

It also has a full-featured admin panel, which allows one to manage their polls. You can activate, edit, delete, and add new polls from the admin panel. It is also harder to ballot-stuff than WP-poll. It uses cookies as well as IP logging to prevent users from working spamming the ballot box.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy/

Symphony is a web publishing system made for web developers. It gives you all the power and flexibility you’ll need, while keeping out of your way.

Symphony lets you organise everything the way you like, from your publishing environment to your website’s URL structure. Built to be versatile and customisable, Symphony really is what you make of it.

Symphony’s templating engine is pure XSLT goodness. XSLT is a standard recommended by the W3C, so learning Symphony means that you’re learning skills that you can also use outside of the system. If you already know the XML and CSS standards, then chances are you should be able to quickly pick up XSLT.

Symphony lets you to create small blocks of XSLT code called utilities, which you can use as building blocks to construct your site’s pages. Due to the nature of XSLT, these utilities are highly reusable, so the next time you’re developing a website you’ll probably find you’ve already done half the work.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://21degrees.com.au/products/symphony/

Blogging is the new national pastime–not just for Americans, but for Internet-connected people all over the world. It’s an activity that spans all age groups and occupations. There are personal blogs, social blogs, and professional blogs. Whatever the topic, someone has probably blogged it. Some of us get paid to blog and others pay for the privilege of blogging (on a particular site or with particular software).

The Internet made it possible for anyone to publish content to a worldwide audience. The Web log, or blog format, has made it easier and more convenient. But all blogs are not created equal. Some draw an eager following and others languish in obscurity. Regardless of your reason for blogging, you can make your blog better, more readable and–if it’s what you want–more popular.

View the full article on 10 ways to become a better blogger.

Source: http://articles.techrepublic.com.com…

Website Grader is a free seo tool that measures the marketing effectiveness of a website. It provides a score that incorporates things like webite traffic, SEO, social popularity and other technical factors. It also provides some basic advice on how the website can be improved from a marketing perspective.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.websitegrader.com/

Selling advertising space on your website allows you to generate additional revenue, but no one wants to annoy their visitors with obnoxious graphical ads that might send them clicking out and moving on. Ever surfed onto a site and had one of those animated graphics slide down over the content? You can’t click it off the screen fast enough!

LinkAds of LinkWorth are a perfect way to host advertisements on your page without hassling your visitors and losing their respect.LinkAds are text-based advertisements linked directly to an advertiser’s target landing page and hosted in a specific area of your homepage, sub-page or entire website. You control your earning potential by determining how many ads you want to host, which pages you want to host them on, and let LinkWorth do the rest.As a LinkAds partner site, you’ll enjoy some of the highest payouts in the market.

What do you get as a LinkWorth LinkAds Partner Site?

• HIGHEST PAYOUTS

  We offer the highest payouts on the market. Earn up to 70% of all text link advertisements on your page.

• MONETIZE

  Consistent earnings. With LinkWorth you have the ability to monetize your site with set monthly pricing. You’ll always know exactly what you’ll earn off of LinkAds each month, and you set your own prices!

• OPTIONS

  A variety of payout options. Receive payouts monthly by check, PayPal, direct deposit and Wire.

• CONVIENENT

  Through LinkWorth’s easy-to-use Control Center, we offer automated ad publishing and payment processing, taking the hassle out of hosting text link ads and making the process as convenient as possible.

Type: CPC and Selling Text Link
Source: http://www.linkworth.com

456 Berea Street is developed and authored by Roger Johansson. He is a Swedish web professional living in Göteborg (Gothenburg) on the west coast of Sweden. He has been working professionally with the web and other interactive media since 1994.

456 Berea Street in honour of an address he used to live on in the early 1980’s. It’s a place for him to post articles, tutorials, and comments on subjects that are interesting and useful to himself and hopefully to other web professionals, both developers and designers. Most articles on this site are related to web standards, accessibility, or usability in one way or another, with the occasional article on other subjects.

Web Standards is getting more and more important when running a blog. Learn more about web standards and usability can really drive more traffic to your blog. Join 456 Berea Street with over 20,000 readers now.

Source: http://www.456bereastreet.com

Wolfgang Bartelme’s dark theme has been tested on WordPress 2.1.3 with Firefox and Safari, may play well with IE6/7 too. It validates as XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2.0, and supports the following plugins:

• flickrRSS
• Gravatar
• Ultimate Tag Warrior
• WP-PageNavi

Pricing: Free
Requirements: Wordpress 2.1.3+
Source: http://www.ilemoned.com/archives/wptheme-dark

Digital Pop is a bright and colourful 3 column theme for Wordpress based on Fen’s NewFeel theme. It comes complete with editable header graphics and is Google Adsense ready.

It supports the following plugins:

• Brian’s Latest Comments
• Extended Live Archives

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.writerspace.net/index.php/2007/04/01/digital-pop…