It’s great to use your blogroll inside of Wordpress. They have a great system setup where you can use categories, XFN attributes and so much more. The only problem is when you actually want to use the dumb thing. If you want to utilize your links, you are usually restricted to a sidebar widget. And if you have large amounts of links, it quickly becomes quite the cumbersome task.
Sure you can utilize a theme that has a linking structure set up. But now you are limited to only a few links. Sure, you could go in and create your own theme file, but if you don’t know how to do that, you are screwed. Enter Blogroll In Posts.
Blogroll in Posts is my new Wordpress plugin that easily allows you to add your blogroll into any post or page you want. You can separate by categories, customize the style, header, and much more.
Head on over and give it a shot. Thanks!
http://www.coolryan.com/plugins/blogroll-in-posts/
Now available on Wordpress.org!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/blogroll-in-posts/
Why aren’t there any plugins for them? It seems that everyone loves asides. For those of you who don’t know, asides are little side comments on your site that don’t necessarily deserve it’s own post. It is usually referred to as microblogging, made famous by twitter of course.
I wanted to create asides for my site. Result? Disastrous. First, there are no real plugins that allow you to utilize asides properly. It is mostly done through hacking your theme. That is terrible. Next, I don’t want my asides clogging up my front page, especially if I have single line asides. A sidebar widget is so much better for this.
So what is the result? Time to make a plugin. Yup. We need a good asides plugin people! So it’s time to make one.
My next plugin project will be called easy Asides. It will be a widget where you can drop a widget, select the category and it will do the rest. It will remove the categories from the loop on the front page. It will enable you to use a drop and go widget. It will also utilize the featured image from 2.9.
Enough rant. Time to get to work. Talk soon.
I have taken down the downloads section and replacing it with reports. I am also creating a massive resource section , and that will also house the special downloads for users to take advantage of. There is no need for over-complicating when I can just put it all together. As long as it’s organized of course 
I am currently in development of a massive resources list for my site. After enough time of always saying I am going to , starting and not finishing, and so on, I am finally compiling my list for the world online.
Everyone does it. Collecting bookmarks, saving stumbles, diggs, etc. They eventually get a little too massive. You really like sharing your resources, so you do it socially. Now I am doing it more than socially. I am providing it here.
I will be updating it and everyone is welcome to comment with their own personal ones as well.
Thanks all, I will keep you all updated.
Talk soon.
Ahhh, one of the biggest dead horses kicked on the entire Internet. Duplicate content rules pertain to penalties to having the same content or largely same content on the web and being penalized or blocked as a result. You are going to hear many different things from many different sources about duplicate content rules and penalties. Entire forum topics have exploded about this subject. Quite frankly, it’s time to put this to rest.
Lets go! Lets go!
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I have finally transferred over the functionality of my Easy Headlines to my blog. This is all in an effort to simplify my life into one easy to manage , well, life.
It is free and easy to use. Simply fill out the form and click on the “Get Headlines!” button. All of your headlines are easily created and formatted for easy use.
Any and all feedback is welcome. I want to know what it will take to make this tool better. Thanks and enjoy!
Click the link to view:
http://www.coolryan.com/tools/easy-headlines/
You hear it everywhere. It’s all about the niche they say. They talk about niches and the goldmines they have just waiting to be tapped. Many people have made a lot of money on niches, and that’s great. But there is a major underlying problem with niches. It isn’t that they aren’t profitable, or supposedly profitable for that matter. It is in the expansion factor. What is the expansion factor? Journey with me…
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Its why we make websites isn’t it? The almighty dollar, (yen, ruble, pound, blah blah blah) is what motivates us to do just about anything. It is why you post those blog updates about that damn Acai Berry Diet, isn’t it? In order to make maximum money with your website, you need to know first what your website is promoting. Then, you need to find out what kind of user your site is attracting/targeting. Once you know these basics, you will be able to really maximize your income potential.
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I’m sure after your one-thousandth ebook you’ve read, you’ve got it all figured out. You’ve heard phrases like “people aren’t looking for YOUR content, they’re looking for THEIR content,” and so on. All of that is true, but what are actually searching for and how can you leverage that info?
If you look through the hoards of keywords, niches, markets, and search stats, you will eventually see that people go online looking for three things:
- Information
- Products/Services
- Entertainment
Every search, every query, every keyword, site, bookmark, EVERYTHING on the web can be placed into these three categories. Sometimes these categories can cross over, and sometimes there is even an exception to the rule, but that’s why its called an exception.
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So you want to be a blog writer, huh? Good for you. Get in line. Take a number. What’s that? Your number is 12456778921895454987264654687? (there aren’t even that many people in the world, so even Aliens want to be blog writers!) There are a lot of things you need to know before you dive into this wonderful world of blog writing. Without further ado,… Continue reading →
