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WordPress

• WordPress Leaps Into Social Networking With BuddyPress 1.0
  Automattic, the company behind WordPress, is moving into social networking, with the 1.0 launch of BuddyPress, an installable, open source software platform that runs on your own website.
  -By Adam Ostrow Mashable

WordPress SEO

• The Definitive Guide To Higher Rankings For Your Blog
  I started writing my beginner’s guide to WordPress SEO a while back, and have since done a load of posts on the subject, an article in the Search Marketing Standard, newsletters, and presentations. It’s time to let all the info of all these different articles fall into one big piece: the final guide to WordPress SEO.
  - By Joost de Valk

WordPress Tutorials/Tips/How to’s

• Using your own url shortener
  I’ve seen a few posts recently giving some basic ideas for rolling your own URL shortener. I guess these are all the rage. So I decided to have a go myself. I figured that WordPress had some behind-the-scenes stuff that could be used to good effect.
  - By WP Fun
• How To Display The Number of Comments On Your Blog
  If you have a popular WordPress blog with lots of comments, you should promote how popular it is by displaying the total number of comments you have since you started blogging on your header or sidebar.
  - By Pimp My WordPress
• Create Post Only For Your RSS Subscribers in WordPress
  To benefit their regular readers, blog owners some times need to create posts only for those who subscribe to their RSS Feed. The benefit might be some promotional scheme, freebies or discount announcement that you only want to provide to your regular RSS subscribers. Here’s how to do it if you have a WordPress powered blog.
  - By Web Developer Plus

Pro Blogging & SEO

• Put Time Into Your Blog Posts
  There are mixed opinions about whether a blogger should focus on spewing out lots of posts or whether sparse but quality posts are better. Should you post often regardless of quality, or less often but content rich posts? Spend 30 minutes on a daily post or 3 hours on a quality weekly post?
  - By Roman Jelinek on DavidRisley.com
• 30+ Places To Find Creative Commons Media
  In this day and age, it seems everything online has a price associated with it. Whether you’re subscribing to a pay site for full articles or clicking on ads in a blog, everything online seems to have money associated with it. Luckily there is still a large, and very healthy, movement online for media files listed under the Creative Commons licenses.
  - By Sean Aune on SitePoint
• How Bands Can Avoid Making 7 Big SEO Mistakes
  SEO rules tend to apply universally, but specialty sites require some additional thought. When assessing a music artist’s site in regards to optimization, one has to consider that artistic expression is often more important than search visibility.
  - By Jason Feinberg on MediaShift
• Build How-To Material to Grow Relationships
  People want “how-to” information, and they want it to be entertaining.
  - By Chris Brogan

Blog Development/Design

• How To Use Icons On Your Web Site
  Icons have been used in design since, well, since design began. From the hieroglyphics on the pyramids of ancient Egypt to the orange RSS icon now gracing so many web sites, icons have been used in both print and in web design for the same purpose — to draw the eye quickly to important parts of the document or web page.
  - By SitePoint
• 20 More Explosive Web Development Screencasts
  Months ago, we posted a popular resource for 30 eye-opening screencasts. As a result of the success of that particular article, we’re back with twenty more web development video tutorials that should prove to be as equally helpful in your quest to become a web development ninja.
  - By Jeffrey Way on Nettuts