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.

There’s lots of ways to enter and you can enter each day between now and December 15th 2011.

* The winner can activate the card for online shopping if they don’t want to wait for the card to arrive by mail.

Open to bloggers in North America, the UK, and European Union. You must have a valid blog. We will check ;)

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)

Over the next few months Blog Pr Wire’s Blog Tips blog will be reviewing and featuring a variety adserver plugins for WordPress.

I know we have many bloggers that use free hosting such as blogger, however if you are selling adspace, you should have by now updated to owning your own hosted platform ;) which is why we have decided to feature WordPress plugins for adserving in this series of  posts.

Our first featured Adserver WordPress Plugin is OIOpublisher

Cost $47 -      save $10 with this coupon code: MIST-PRWIRE
This is an ad severing technology that allows you to manage the ads for one WordPress Blog using the WordPress Plugin they provide.

You can manage all aspects of selling and running of ads onyour WordPress blog within your WordPress dashboard. They payment modules allow you to accept Paypal, Google Checkout , even Entrecard credits as a form of payment!

You can create as many zones as you need (a zone is an ad space) and even make custom sized banner placements.

This WordPress adserving technology really was created for bloggers. It isn’t as heavy or hard to manage as a traditionally ad server and it has ad options geared to bloggers such as the ability to sell and manage  paid posts.

We also love the very clear documentation within the dashboard and support areas. Tutorials, Videos, a support forum, for any blogger new to adserving with basic WordPress skills this premium WordPress adserving plugin will be a snap to use.

Visit their site for a full demo version and feature descriptions.

*if you want to manage the ads of multiple sites/blogs on one dashboard this is not the right adserving solution for you.

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)

Reader’s question:

“How can I get free blog visitors – traffic using traffic exchanges?”

Answer:

First let me say that they key to quality organic traffic is not traffic exchanges. It is creating a quality SEO optimized UNIQUE content. (Yes that is our disclaimer.) However, should you really want to obtain free traffic to your blog using traffic exchanges you will find that most in this list of free traffic exchanges will provide you with up to 1000 free visitors for signing up.

BEFORE you use any of these auto traffic exchange services MAKE SURE you have quality antivirus software on your computer like – AVG or Norton.

The following list of traffic exchange programs can provide you with free visitors to your blog.

123autohits.com
24-7autohits.com
24-7autosurf.com
addlinktraffic.com
adequatetraffic.com
adventurehits.com
aggressivehits.com
alexaclick.com
allautohits.com
americanautohits.com
americanautosurf.com
ampleautohits.com
authorityautosurf.com
autohit247.com
autohitbaron.com
autohitexpress.com
autohitfactory.com
autohithero.com
autohitrally.com
autohitsaddicts.com
autohitsamigo.com
autohitsextreme.com
autohitsjunction.com
autohitsmagic.com
autohitsmill.com
autohitsmonster.com
autohitspark.com
autohitspower.com
autohitworld.com
autohitzone.com
autosurffreetraffic.com
autosurfhelp.com
autosurfoasis.com
autosurfprogram.com
autosurfscript.com
autosurfx.com
bbqautosurf.com
bestautosurf.net
betterautohits.com
betterclicking.com
betterwayadvertising.com
bigautohits.com
blissautohits.com
bountifulhits.com
bulkwebtraffic.com
charminghits.com
cityautohits.com
classicautohits.com
clickfreetraffic.com
clixexchange.com
clixwar.com
clubautohits.com
coolautohits.com
dailyautohits.com
definitewealth.com
definitexchange.com
demontraffic.com
determinedhits.com
distincthits.com
easyclickers.com
ecommerce-web-traffic.com
eminenthits.com
endclicking.com
eternalautohits.com
etrafficusa.com
exchangesurfer.com
expertautohits.com
explodingtraffic.com
expressautohits.com
exuberanthits.com
ezautohits.com
fastfreehits.com
firstautosurf.com
fliphits.com
freedomautohits.com
funkytraffic.com
fusionautohits.com
geekhits.com
genuinetraffic.com
genxsurf.com
getclickshere.com
gethitsnow.com
glorioustraffic.com
goodautohits.com
grandtraffic.com
handsometraffic.com
heavyclicks.com
hitaddicts.com
hitgenius.com
hitincursion.com
hitmagician.com
hitpioneer.com
hitregime.com
hitznow.com
influxoftraffic.com
insidersurf.com
instantautohits.com
intenseautohits.com
jazzautohits.com
justautosurf.com
justhitz.com
justmorehits.com
justrealhits.com
keentraffic.com
kickasstraffic.com
kingpintraffic.com
liberalhits.com
lifetimehits.com
lighthousehits.com
lightningautohits.com
longhits.com
lotsmoretraffic.com
lowkeyhits.com
magnificenthits.com
majestictraffic.com
masterautohits.com
maxautohits.com
maxhitpro.com
monsterwebhits.com
morefreehits.com
mostwantedsurf.com
mtxsurf.com
muchmorehits.com
mustanghits.com
needforhits.com
needrealtraffic.com
nixclicks.com
numeroushits.com
palatialhits.com
persuitofhits.com
platinumautosurf.com
plentifulhits.com
poshautohits.com
poshhits.com
powerfulhits.com
powerplaystraffic.com
precisesurf.com
preferredhits.com
premierautohits.com
premiumautohits.com
pridehits.com
proautoxchange.com
proudhits.com
psychictraffic.com
qualityautohits.com
quickautohits.com
quitclicking.com
rapidclicking.com
realautohits.com
rebelhits.com
reveredtraffic.com
reviewautosurf.com
ritzyhits.com
rushourxchange.com
servehits.com
sharedautohits.com
sharperhits.com
slamhits.com
smoothclicking.com
spherexchange.com
splithits.com
starautohits.com
startautohits.com
successfulhits.com
successhits.com
superxchange.com
surfbash.com
surfinflux.com
surflightning.com
surfsurfari.com
swiftautohits.com
teraclix.com
thebestautosurf.com
thousandsofhits.com
tidalhits.com
timeforhits.com
togosurf.com
topautosurf.com
topnotchhits.com
topxchange.com
totalautohits.com
tradeautohits.com
traffic-blitz.com
traffic-kingdom.com
trafficabyss.com
trafficadventure.com
trafficarama.com
trafficaura.com
trafficbash.com
trafficbazaar.com
trafficdecree.com
trafficeverywhere.com
trafficfanatics.com
traffichangout.com
traffichideout.com
trafficjubilee.com
trafficliaison.com
trafficlodge.com
trafficmandate.com
trafficmantra.com
trafficmercenary.com
trafficnook.com
trafficonslaught.com
trafficpassion.com
trafficpinnacle.com
trafficraiders.com
trafficranch.com
trafficrapture.com
trafficreactor.com
trafficreaver.com
trafficrebels.com
trafficregime.com
trafficretreat.com
trafficrhapsody.com
trafficrogue.com
trafficsanctuary.com
trafficsovereign.com
trafficstarters.com
traffictouchdown.com
traffictrance.com
traffictrix.com
trafficturf.com
trafficvilla.com
trafficvoid.com
trafficzenith.com
trippyhits.com
trueautohits.com
trustautohits.com
turbotargetedtraffic.com
ugethits.com
unlimitedautohits.com
usautohits.com
valuewebtraffic.com
vaulthits.com
warpautohits.com
waveofhits.com
weautosurf.com
websiteautohits.com
webtrafficanswers.com
webtrafficformula.com
wickedautohits.com
wiseautohits.com
wonderfulhits.com
worldautohits.com
xtremeautohits.com
yestotraffic.com
yougottraffic.com
yourwaysurf.com
youseetraffic.com
zanyhits.com
SmileyTraffic.com
SLBigHits.com
HitBash.com
TrafficPlusHits.com

There are many other ways to get free blog visitors to your blog such as directories, blog carnivals, and top site listings.