The Latest Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

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What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

Easy Ways to Set Up a Membership Site. Membership sites are popular – but expensive too. Here’s how you can get started on a budget, and build it as you (and your membership list) grow.

Simple Steps To Maximize Your Membership Site. Amember is a popular membership management program that makes it easy to run a paying membership site. Here’s a few tips and tricks to maximize it for optimum performance – and to reduce …

The Latest Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

WordPress 2.9 Now Ready. It’s arrived – WP 2.9 with a trashcan, image manipulation, and very easy video embedding – here’s the details on those (and other) new features.

SEO Optimizing Made Easy With Headspace! Although everyone it seems has heard about the Search Engine Optimized plugin ‘AllInOneSEO’, fewer have heard of Headspace. Yet it’s useful, powerful, and offers options to improve your SEO efforts dramatically with minimal effort – and the tricks from this …

The November 2009 Issue of ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is now ready.

Topics:

What’s New With ActiveBlogging.

Yet More WordPress Versions! WordPress 2.8.6 – and you probably already know what I’m going to say before you read this – but read it anyway, if you dare…

What Matt Has To Say About SEO. Not THAT Matt – Matt Cutts discussed Search Engine Optimization at WordCamp San Fransisco; and since he is the head spam fighter over at Google, what he recommends to get your blogs seen (and not removed) makes for …

For some time, Google has had a way to filter web pages, called Google Section Targeting – using it, pages can emphasize one part over another, and bloggers improve the focus of their site.

This can be important, especially for WordPress bloggers. For example, I once wrote on another blog about a dog ebook. For days afterwards, no matter what I wrote about, the Google ads remained for dog-related items!

On other occasions, I’ve received emails from people asking why they get ads for blogging items, although they never write …

Quick – how can there be two current versions of WordPress, 2.8.5 AND 2.8.5.2?

The answer – two quick releases, one for ‘regular’ WordPress, and the latter for WP MU.

The first, with several fixes, primarily focuses on security for trackbacks, which can be used for a denial of service attack. You can get it via their regular site.

For WP MU, the 2.8.5.2 version is a quick patchup to account for small bugs that crept into the 2.8.5 version – and that’s found on their MU site.

So while …