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When I get pulled into discussions for ideas about how to deal with some blog issue I usually end up doing more research, and inevitably, find new products or sites that may provide a better solution to a problem. Such is the case with the multiple WordPress blog management options that are being discussed in a thread on GayWideWebmasters.

Blogs Organizer was, and still is, a great way to manage a large blog empire. It can handle new blogs built within the program as well as “remote blogs” ie:… your wordpress blogs.

But for many of us, the price tag is a tad out of reach, the program is too complex, or, like ponyboy, you just want to hang out with the WordPress dashboard because it’s familiar. You’d think that by now, someone would have put together a plugin that lets us manage a large volume of blogs from one admin panel. Plugins have been, and continue to be, one of the best things to come from the whole WordPress Open Source phenomenon. Well the wait is over! The folks at Kish Press actually heard all of those voices clamoring for a multiple blog management solution, and have developed a plugin called Kish Multi Pro.

Simply install the Kish Multi Pro Plugin on to any ONE of your WordPress blogs and then configure it to manage all of your blogs by entering the blog urls and the admin login details and you are in full control of all your blogs. Yes, you read that right … You can now manage multiple blogs that use WordPress or WordPress MU from one administration panel! The advantage of this plugin is that you can switch between your blogs with just one click on a single page without a page reload. It does not matter if your blogs are hosted on different servers or on different domains.

You can write new posts, edit existing posts, upload images for all posts, moderate comments and use feed and search features for reading and/or blogging with in realtime. Kish Multi Pro lets you concentrate on your post creations by allowing you to be more efficient and focused. Check out the video and all of the other features this plugin offers on the KishMultiPro website. For $49.95 it sure looks like it’ll make your multiple blog management a LOT easier.

Now you can easily cloak, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link Pro tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, operating system and host. Pretty Link Pro is a dynamite plugin, created by Blair Williams, for people who want to cloak their affiliate links, track clicks from emails, increase the reach of their website by spreading their links via Twitter, on forums or with comments on other blogs.

This is just a few of the features of Pretty Link Pro:

Great things you can do with Pretty Link
•Clean up / mask affiliate links or merchant shopping cart links
•Track the effectiveness of email campaigns by embedding Pretty Links in your emails
•See how many times an email is opened by creating a “Tracking Pixel” Pretty Link and embedding it in the email
•Kickstart and Fuel the SEO on your site by posting Pretty Links from your site on Digg, Twitter, Facebook, other blogs and everywhere else on the Internet.
•Create Pretty Links for private special offers (to your email list) using a randomized slug to prevent the URL from being “guessed”
•Write custom scripts in PHP, Ruby on Rails, ASP or anything else that accept parameters and use Pretty Link to make their URLs “pretty” and forward on the parameters
•Setup pretty links for your zip, pdf & binary files and track how many times they are downloaded
•Use to track results of your PPC campaigns by setting your ads to go to Pretty Links
•Track Everything!

I know I’ll be adding this to one of my affiliate blogs and testing it out asap!

Note from the developer, Blair Williams: If you have the free version of Pretty Link, please be aware that it can no longer cloak and track links, as WordPress has decided to disallow link cloaking in any plugin offered free via wordpress.org. I had to create a Pretty Link Lite that doesn’t include cloaking and a few other options. You can, however, regain all of the features outlined (in this post) with Pretty Link Pro.

For too long WordPress bloggers have not had access to a truly well rounded, fully functional, thumbnail gallery builder. Those days are over! UUGallery creates fully customizable photo and video galleries in just three easy steps. In no time at all you’ll be creating the most awesome looking galleries around with absolute ease, right from your WordPress dashboard! UUGallery auto-crops thumbs, resizes original images to fit your layout, and displays them in a fully customizable image viewer. 

There are no complex settings, gallery templates are easily customized in any html editor. Just upload your pics via FTP, click to insert your customized template, and publish! UUGallery generator does the rest! Save yourself hours of dirty work, this is as easy as 1-2-3! Don’t believe me?  Watch the video tutorial and see for yourself how easy this gallery plugin is!

New Video features:
1. New: Grabs videos from FHGs
Just specify an URL to movie FHG and the script will download all videos for you and create a gallery in your blog automatically. It can embed videos, convert them to FLV or any other format and you can get YouTube-style video clips on your blog.

2. New: Converts video to FLV automatically (or to AVI, MPG, WMV, etc).
Script can convert videos on-the-fly for you while you are grabbing them from galleries or uploading from your harddrive. You will get any video format you need. We recommend you to convert videos to FLV format to get embeded videos on your blog.

3. New: Builds Embedded/Non-embedded video galleries.
You can create video of different types:
1. YouTube-like FLV videos with flash player.
2. Classic videos. Thumbs linked to video files directly.

In both cases you just need to select a format and UUGallery will create and convert videos for you in no time. Note: ffmpeg is required.

4. New: Creates classic galleries (thumbs linked to videos)
You can create a non-embedded video gallery from FHGs. Script will grab the videos, create thumbs, and arranges them within your template and produce a published gallery in a few clicks.

5. New: Manual frame cropper (pic)
We have created an ultimate tool for you. Why do you always have to use predifined thumbs for video galleries? Now you can select a frame you want using our Manual Frame Cropping. Just drag a slider and you will see another frame. Nothing difficult! Moreover, you can easily crop it in your browser.
Note: ffmpeg is required for frame selection, if you don’t have it, you can create video gallery with predefined preview thumb only.

6. New: Flash player for embedded videos
Flash player can be embedded on blog pages or on full-sized viewer. You can easily select this by checking an apropriate option.

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Are your site users needing a way to interact with one another — privately? Then an inexpensive way to add that functionality to your blog would be with an Adult Classified Ads Section, (Adult Personals) using a FREE WordPress plugin of course!

I would set it up so that they have to register to get access, just to keep the kids out. You could even charge a few bucks to list an ad, and a couple bucks more to include photos. A dating site plugin would also work, but good ones aren’t free, and they probably have more functions available than you really need. Using a classified plugin lets you ad social interaction quickly (and cheaply) to your blog.

Another WordPress Classifieds Plugin (AWCP) is feature rich in, and of, itself. Check out just some of what’s possible:

Ad Features

A. Search ads by city, state, country, username, or keyword
B. Allow AdSense ads to be displayed
C. Control over HTML use in ads
D. Limit the text size of ad postings
E. Standard form fields can be enabled or disabled, depending on your needs (title, website, name, country, etc)
F. Allow or disallow image posting with ads
G. Automatic expiration of ads (free or paid)
H. Configurable ad display for AdSense placement

Image Features

1. Allow image posting or shut it off completely
2. Control the number, filesize, height and width of images posted
3. Allow for different numbers of images to be posted with paid ads vs. free ads
4. Allow for image approval prior to posting

There’s a lot more features that you can look over at the AWCP website. The AWCP plugin is a free download and can also be downloaded from WordPress.org. If you want to add on some other more advanced function they have some inexpensive modules for sale ($19-$30). The plugin is compatible with all WordPress themes, and you can translate it into whatever language you prefer.  Click here to get an idea of how it could look on your blog.

So maybe make this a weekend project and I’m sure you will be coming up with all sorts of other ideas on how to use this Classified Ads Wordpress plugin!

If you’ve been holding back on picking up the Maxblogpress Ninja Affiliate Plugin …. here’s a great chance to grab the plugin at a 30 dollar discount!

Ninja Affiliate is a WordPress plugin developed to imbue powerful marketing powers into your WordPress blog and could instantly double or triple your affiliate marketing commissions with almost no effort on your part. Using Ninja Affiliate, you can automatically convert any keyword in your blog to an affiliate link instantly. You can also cloak your affiliate links, track them and manage them right from your WordPress text editor.

But you’ll need to hurry! This 30 dollar discount ends at midnight, Friday, Feb. 05, 2010! Grab your copy of the Ninja Affiliate Plugin now!

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Why would you want to convert old keywords into affiliate links? Just think about this for a moment – let’s say you’ve found a brand new affiliate program and you can’t wait to promote it to your blog. You don’t have to wait until you write your next post, just use Ninja Affiliate plugin and it’ll convert the keywords of your choice into affiliate links on auto-pilot. You work once, and all the keywords you input will be turned into links that make money, without you having to edit any post whatsoever.

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Affiliate Identity theft;  affiliate link theft;  affiliate commission theft;  – whatever term you use, it means without link cloaking abilities, you, as an affiliate marketer, are being ripped off.  You’re being robbed of your affiliate commissions.

Is affiliate commission theft a serious problem? I really don’t know with absolute certainty. Searching for an answer on the internet has coughed up conflicting information. However, the way I see it, whether you’re losing 5% or 40% of your commissions, a loss by any percentage is still a loss.

Can you prevent affiliate commission theft?

Yes, you can, but not by using any of the free scripts.

There are several methods available, some with free redirect scripts and with some using commercial software. While free methods may reduce the incidence of affiliate link theft or affiliate commission theft, they are unreliable and do not cloak your link, making bypass of  your links really easy. To get full link cloaking you will need to spend some money. The bright side is that the very first affiliate commission theft you prevent will probably pay for the software a couple of times over.

I’m sure you’re aware that simply cloaking or hiding your links isn’t going to bring you ‘rivers of cash’ flowing into your ‘bank vault.’ Link cloaking may merely lessen the frequency of affiliate commission theft, and could reduce the amount of commissions you would have lost.

Now back to those long, ugly and in-your-face affiliate links,  just how do you go about shortening and cloaking them, and how can you prevent commission theft?

1. Some people recommend using free services by websites that shorten your link.  I disagree totally with this method.  These are actually for links to be included in emails, and are not for online website linking purposes.  But, if you insist on trying them, use these services with extreme caution.  They are just re-directing services, and store your information on their servers.  If they go out of business, or remove your link for whatever reason, your links are kaput, gone, ground to dust.  If you’ve used those links in article marketing, blogs or any other media that has been syndicated, you’ll have your links on perhaps thousands of sites all leading nowhere. What a colossal waste of your marketing efforts!

2. Use a re-directing script yourself and upload it to your own domain. This means you’ll need your own website and know how to use ftp, and know how to create a link. Your host server must also allow php. The re-directing script is simplicity itself.

However, note that while this shortens your link into something more attractive, and gives you full control over it, it does NOT cloak your link.  When your visitor lands on the redirected site, your full affiliate link is visible, allowing your visitor to bypass your affiliate ID to deny you your commission.  Why?  I really don’t know either.  But it happens.  Some people simply don’t want anyone earning a commission from their purchase even though they pay the same price with or without using your link.  Go figure.

You need to remember that you cannot cloak or re-direct links for every application. Some affiliate networks and Google Adwords do not allow re-directing or cloaking.  Carefully study the terms and conditions of affiliate publishers before signing up with them or you could be expending a lot of effort for nothing.

3. You can also choose to buy your own cloaking software which gives you more options and complete control not only over link cloaking but commission theft from parasite software as well.  This is the recommended method for serious affiliate marketers – those who actually plan on earning real income from affiliate marketing.

Effective cloaking software not only hides your affiliate links but also protects you from parasite software.  Simple redirects do not offer this protection.

Parasite Software [which apparently is covertly installed on 80% of PCs,] activates after your visitor has landed on the merchant’s web site.  Since the parasite software strikes only after the visitor has arrived at the merchant’s site, redirects are totally ineffective as a protective measure.

It is well worth the cost and effort to keep your affiliate commissions out of other people’s pockets and put it in your own.  After all, you’re the one who spent so much time marketing the product.

To protect your affiliate commissions against link hijackers, link bypassers and parasite software with a comprehensive affiliate link cloaking system, I suggest you check the advanced features and complete cloaking function of Ninja Affiliate, a WordPress plugin that will hand you full control and management of all of your affiliate marketing links.

Besides link cloaking you’ll find that Ninja Affiliate provides you with a terrific combination of link management tools:

1. Easy Affiliate Link Management – You can easily give each affiliate link an easy-to-remember name.
2. Flexible Link Management - Accepts every affiliate link format out there, so you don’t have to waste time with various affiliate marketing tools.
3. Create Professional Redirect Links – Use professional looking redirect links that let your prospects know you’re a pro marketer.
4. Manage Links by Groups – Too many affiliate links? Ninja Affiliate allows you to easily create different groups to manage your links..
5. Prevent “Affiliate Theft” – Cloak your affiliate links to prevent link theft and affiliate sabotage. No one will ever steal your hard-earned commissions again..
6. Insert Affiliate Links Directly – Add your affiliate links directly for your WordPress blog editor – you’ll never have to hunt for links again.
7. Transform Keywords to Links – Automatically turn keywords in your blog to affiliate links. You can set a limit too, so your posts don’t look like a spam blog!
8. Advanced Display Options – Ninja Affiliate allows you to display any text you want in your web browser’s status bar.
9. Use “No-Follow” Links – Control your link juice and escape punishment from Big Daddy Google with ninja precision. In fact, you can control your links any way you want to.

Co-Author: Ashutosh

With the rapid advancements and new versions of  WordPress that keep coming out, it’s inevitable that some of our favorite plugins aren’t going to be compatible with the newer versions. Either the author has abandoned the plugin or the upgrade just isn’t coming out fast enough, and hiring a coder to fix it is terribly expensive.  So, I was really surprised and delighted to get an email from Max Blog Press offering to upgrade wordpress plugins for FREE! Yes, you read that right … For Free! Now we have a way to rescue our favorite wordpress plugins!

Max Blog Press has launched a new project called “MaxBlogPress Revived” where he’ll be fixing the plugin for you at no cost. Just let him know what plugin you are having a problem with and he’ll tackle fixing it so you can use it again for your blog, with NO cost on your part.

To learn more about this project and to submit the plugin problem you are having go to http://www.maxblogpress.com/blog/219/maxblogpress-revived/