If your blog is hosted by WordPress then have you noticed that your free disk space have increased from 50 MB to 3,000 MB (or 3 GB)?

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.

If you are using paid hosting by WordPress then now they have added additional 5 GB for the same.

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AdSense Deluxe

AdSense Deluxe is a WordPress Plugin that offers advanced options for managing your Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network account. Even you can use that for managing your other Affiliate Networks like Commission Junction. It allows you to insert ads directly into your WordPress posts or pages.

Akismet

Akismet checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. You need a WordPress.com API Key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

All In One SEO Pack

It’s a highly recommended Plugin for your WordPress Blog. All In One SEO Pack offers automatic Search Engine Optimization.

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Do you have a WordPress Blog? How many Ping Services are in your List? I had around 20 Ping Services. Today, I have come across this post it has around 50+ Ping Services so I merged that with mine. So now I have over 60+ Ping Services in my WordPress Update Services List.

Go to WordPress Dashboard > Options > Writing and paste the following URLs under Update Services field.

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First Setup Your Blog

The first step to Make Money Online Blogging is to setup your blog. Even if you already have an active blog, I recommend reading this section, as I’ll talk about specific options to setup for the best results. If you’ve never setup a blog, or a WordPress account, this will give you a good idea what’s involved.

First of all, if you don’t have a domain name and a web blog already, then you need to buy a domain name and web hosting. I don’t recommend using a free host, because they are not reliable web hosting services. I really recommend HostGator Baby Plan Web Hosting it allows you to host all your domains within one account. It costs $9.95/mo. and yes you can pay your hosting bills monthly, no annual contract or setup fees. Want to try HostGator? You can sign up for one month of HostGator Web Hosting for just 1 Cent, with no obligation using the coupon code “JURY” with no quotes.

You’ll need a domain as well. I really recommend GoDaddy as your domain name registrar, since they’re ICANN certified, and have great prices. Plus they’ve got a great interface to sell your domain in an auction format. This is a good strategy if you don’t have the energy to keep posting and growing your blog, since once we get monster traffic for a short period of time, the domain will be much more desirable to buy, and you should be able to make a good profit (in addition to all the affiliate commissions you’re going to make). Or you can go for a cheap $1.99 Domain Name from Yahoo! Domains or get a $4.95 Domain Name from Netfirms.

If you do sign up for HostGator, then you can use the feature called Fantastico that will automatically install a variety of different programs on your site. It enables you to setup your WordPress blog in few clicks. All you have to do is click install, fill out a few fields of info about your blog, and it do the rest for you.

Once you’ve got your site set up, there are a few things to do to make sure you’re ready for tons of traffic:

1. Install a good looking theme (Get a WordPress Theme)

2. Delete the default Blogroll links, post, and comments

3. Install the WordPress plugin Sociable

4. Setup your permalink structure as custom and enter this in the field: /%postname%/

Now your blog is ready to go, the next step is to sign up as an affiliate that I’ll discuss in the next part of this article.

The final version of WordPress 2.3 is now ready for download. WordPress released the first beta version of 2.3 on August 28, 2007. Today it’s out of beta and the stable version is available for download.

Features of WordPress 2.3

Native Tagging Support

Now you wont have to depend a third party plug in to add tags to your post. WordPress 2.3 is fully loaded with tagging support. It allows you to add tags to your post in addition to the regular categories.

Update Notification

It notifies you when a new version of WordPress is available for download and also it lets you know when any of the plugins you use is outdated.

Canonical URLs

It enforce your no-www preference and it redirect posts with changed slugs the new post so say goodbye to “page not found error”. And this makes your blog search engine friendly.

Pending Review

This feature is good for blogs which have more than one author. It allows your authors to submit an article or a post for review by an administrator. So if you are an administrator then the drafts saved by your authors are visible to you. You can review that post before it is published.

Advanced WYSIWYG

It allows you to access some features of TinyMCE that were previously hidden.

PageRank™ is an algorithm developed by Google to rank web pages according to its popularity. It is based on this algorithm that Google determines the importance of a website. Google sorts the search results according to its PageRank. The higher your PageRank, the higher is your position in Google. And a higher PageRank means your site is more visible to people and it increases your potential earnings.

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83 Beautiful WordPress Themes You (Probably) Haven’t Seen

Follow the link and you’ll find 83 free WordPress themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface.

10 Fresh, Elegant and Clean WordPress Themes

Take a look at 5 fresh and elegant and 5 simple WordPress themes you might be willing to use for your next project.

21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant WordPress Themes

These WordPress themes have been released over the last few months. They’re definitely worth a look.

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