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Here is a great plugin that we have been using since 2009. Best of all the developer of this admin dashboard wordpress plugin stays on top of wordpress updates and keeps the plugin up to date. As of today the latest update was just nine days ago!

Admin Management Xtended

Before installing the admin management plugin – you have to open every post edit page to make any changes. Take a look at the view all posts admin panel:

After installing  the Admin Management Xtended wordpress plugin you will seethe edit options right there on the post admin page:

Some of the key features include a quick means to:

• change the author
• view the number of comments (and open them)
• edit the categories
• add tags
• adjust the post order
• turn comments on or off
• change the publications date

An example of when this is really handy- when you are cleaning up your posts categories.

Most of the reviews I give don’t include an endorsement but this time – I actually can say I have used this plugin on EVERY WordPress blog I have created or managed since 2012 so I give it two thumbs up!

Of course – ALWAYS back up before you install any new plugin and remember that plugins can conflict with each other.

 

 

When you mention PPC advertising,  most of us immediately think AdWords by Google. There are however a variety of PPC advertising options that may provide greater targeting (i.e. reaching business owners on Linked In) for your PPC campaigns. For this reason Blog Pr Wire has created a list of PPC networks and advertising providers you may not have considered or tried.

Of course, if you want to run PPC ads as a publisher then this very same list of PPC networks is worth checking out as well!

The big list of PPC networks (or the big list of PPC advertising providers)

http://www.wer-kennt-wen.de

http://adcenter.microsoft.com

http://adtoll.com

http://advertising.microsoft.com/ad-network

http://advertising.yandex.ru/english

http://marketingsolutions.yahoo.com

http://www.7search.com

http://www.ad.ly

http://www.ad4game.com

http://www.adblade.com

http://www.adclickmedia.com

http://www.adconion.com

http://www.adengage.com

http://www.adknowledge.com

http://www.adready.com

http://www.adroll.com

http://www.adside.com

http://www.adtegrity.com

http://www.appvert.com

http://www.bidvertiser.com

http://www.burstmedia.com

http://www.chitika.com

http://www.cpmstar.com

http://www.cubics.com

http://www.etarget.eu

http://www.etology.com

http://www.finditquick.com

http://www.gutefrage.net/

http://www.harrenmedia.com

http://www.interclick.com

http://www.isocket.com

http://www.kontera.com/pay-per-click-advertising

http://www.leadback.com

http://www.linkedin.com/directads

http://www.marchex.com/advertisers

http://www.mochimedia.com/advertisers

http://www.nixxie.com

http://www.orkut.com

http://www.plentyoffish.com

http://www.premiumaccess.com

http://www.pubmatic.com

http://www.pulse360.com

http://www.reseauselect.com

http://www.revenuepilot.com

http://www.rockyouads.com

http://www.rubiconproject.com

http://www.searchfeed.com

http://www.sponsoredtweets.com

http://www.statusplug.com

http://www.studivz.net/

http://www.technoratimedia.com

http://www.traffiq.com

http://www.trianads.com

http://www.userplane.com/advertising

http://www.widgetbucks.com

http://www.ybnmedia.com

http://www.zohark.com

 

Blog Traffic. It’s one of the secrets to a successful blog. Blog Visitors, Blog readers.  Today’s blog tip for bloggers is: PING YOUR BLOG!

Why do you NEED to ping your blog? Well it’s that field of dreams thing. If you build it – they WON’T come until you tell the search engines how to find you. That id what pining your blog all about. It makes yoru blog jump up and down and get noticed by search engines.

So here is a handy little list of places (free ping submission services) to ping your blog.

FeedShark

Pingler

ping o matic

Auto Pinger

Ping That Blog

Blog buzzer

I suggest staying away from any ping submission site that does not provide you with a list of places they will ping.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could import the rss feed of your other blogs into any blog sidebar even a blogger blog widget?

You can with this handy Google Gadget. This Rss reader+ allows you to generate a simple javascript that can be inserted into any page or javascript enabled widget.

Sample:

We used this gadget to add our blog rss feed to the mobile version of BlogPrWire and it worked like a dream.

Check it out and let us know how you used it.

Most of the bloggers at BlogPrWire consider themselves a professional blogger.

However, being a professional blogger is more then just writing on a blog platform. It’s knowing your industry (Internet Publishing) and meeting industry standards. So if you find yourself answering yes to any of the following , it is time to make some changes;

1. You don’t own your own domain name. You can get your own domain name at Go Daddy for just $7.49 using a coupon. Every large brand, PR rep, and business knows this, so if you are using a sub domain like .blogspot.com you are missing out on opportunities and havn’t made the professional blogger cut yet ;)

2. Your blog is not branded. It’s not hard to make a logo. Select a font to provide consistency and a VECTOR image (which can be purchase at Dreamstime.com for less than five dollars). Start with a HIGH RESOLUTION (300 dpi) that can be sized down. Don’t know what we are talking about – consider getting help from Fivverr.com

3. Your blog design (CSS STYLES) stinks. i.e. highlighted every where – dark backgrounds light text. There are design standards for a reason ;) Not sure if yours stinks? Create a poll for free and ask all your tweeples and Facebook friends to anonymously provide their real opinions.

4. Your images are blurry or look like 1989 clip art. Stock art is not that expensive for blog usage and your caera phone probably takes half decent images, that when sized down properly to an average 200 by 200 pixels will look crisp on a browser so there’s no excuse for blurry bad images on your blog.

5. Speaking of images… Your blog either doesn’t have a professional looking profile headshot or it is more then one year old. Easy to solve – snap some on your cell phone and head over to fivverr.com to get someone to ‘airbrush’ you for just $5.00.

Don’t believe me? Head over to Mom Crunch and read Five ways you look digitally unprofessional

 

We at Blog PR Wire spent allot of time visiting blogs over the last two days looking for 2 types of niche bloggers for a paid ad campaign. Over and over we found two upsetting occurrences on about 15% of the blogs we visited.

1) An incomplete ABOUT page…

2) Lack of a quality CONTACT page. Especially true of bloggers using the blogger platform who rely on their ‘profile page’.  Why? Well you are depending on a third party server to have no glitches. Blogger has had glitches where profile pages could not be viewed in the past.

Today’s blogger tip:

If you intend to earn advertising revenue on your blog, ensure you have a full contact page that should include;

1) a contact persons name

2) either an email or working contact form

3) links to all of your social media profiles (including LinkedIn)

 

 

Google Adsense is usually the Pay per click ad network that comes to mind when a blogger is considering PPC ad networks to run on their blog. But wait! There are other established and trustworthy PPC ad networks out there, so why not give them a try.

AdBrite will often accept blogs or websites that AdSense overlooks. They run ads on over 100,000 websites. It’s free to join and they will target ads on their end for you.

Here are a few more PPC Ad networks that often accept bloggers as publishers:

BidVertiser

7search

Chitika

Ad Dynamo (contextual ads)