You may be wondering what this has to do with saving time when commenting,  and the answer to that is it has other useful features which I will get to shortly. As most of you know every time you reply to a comment your whole page loads which not only takes time it also uses a lot of bandwidth not to mention uses a fair bit of CPU on your server. One of the unique features of this plugin is that no longer happens, once you’ve replied to a comment it appears withing seconds without loading the whole page. If you get a lot of comments you can imagine how much time it will save you.

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Bloggers put on these two plugins to encourage commenting and reward their loyal readers and followers, but they are heavily abused by marketers and spam bots which are trying to find and scavenge a quick backlink.  They are also abused by individuals hired to scavenge backlinks for companies or people who just do it for themselves.

This is where DoFollow restriction plugins come into play.

One such plugin is the NoFollow Free  This plug-in allows you to provide DoFollow links to your loyal blog commenters but prevents you from providing that same benefit to spammers and everyone who comments (like the DoFollow WordPress plugin does).

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A Revolutionary Monetization System That Works Behind The Scene

When you are normally writing a blog post, often ties you will create outbound links to product, services or any other websites. Whenever you create such links, VigLink will automatically change those normal hyperlinks into affiliate links only when they are clicked, and you receive a commission for any purchases made. It works with Amazon, Google Affiliate Network, and most popular affiliate networks.

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Tagging is a method to ‘nudge’ someone, most commonly used when alerting someone who’s in a picture or video. When we tag someone or a facebook page in our status update, our message will be visible on their Wall if permitted.

Why Tag Someone or a Page in a Post?

Tagging can be a networking tool for acknowledgment and bonding. You can share extremely useful information while rewarding free publicity to the original contributor. Your fans can visit his/her profile and interact. At the same time, your profile or page would also gain some visibility out of tagging, probably a friendship from the page admin too – a win-win situation for all.

What Can You Tag in a Post and How to do it?

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Here are some examples:

• If you can stay calm, while all around you is chaos…then you probably haven’t completely understood the seriousness of the situation.
• Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity.
• Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups.

And many more…lol
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Be pre-warned this is a lengthy post. Go get yourself a cup of hot coffee and enjoy the ride (I do seriously need one now)!

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Headway is a WP premium theme that has been recently launched creating an awful lot of buzz lately and is a serious contender to its peers. You might be asking why I am recommending this product as iBlogZone is proudly powered by Thesis and I love it. Thesis is great and if I ever move to a different framework, Headway will most definitely be my choice. The reason why I am telling you about this is because I am convinced that, done properly, there is an excellent opportunity for you to earn money while Headway is gaining more attention. No doubt that the top contenders will be battling for positions and competition is good as it strives the developers to “perfection” and at the end of the day, it will benefit us users.

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This means that building recognition and reputation in social media takes time, and is most often a series of small actions, applied over time, rather than one grand push which suddenly makes all your business goals come true.

This is an important consideration, because it goes back to an earlier post on investing in social media and comparing the time vs money of doing so.

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