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‘The ActiveBlogging Report’ is a Member’s-Only Monthly Guide to WordPress and blog-related topics. The following issues are available for download:

Platinum and Gold Members Only


August 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Proper Copyrights For Themes! Theme designers and writers using themes both need to be concerned about copyright. Yet the average theme does a poor job of displaying a legal copyright for either. Here’s how to fix the problem for everyone.
  • How To Hide Your Ads (Sometimes) On Your Theme. There’s times you want ads on your posts, and times you don’t. For those occasions, here’s a simple trick to turn off ads (or anything else) on a post by post basis.
  • How To An Add Admin Settings Page To Your Theme. Want your theme users to easily add or edit text strings in your theme? Give them more flexibility with this easy to implement solution.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


July 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Vital Plugins For WordPress. With thousands of plugins out there, how do you pick? In fact, for many sites, you only need a few – here’s a list of ‘must-have’ plugins for your blog.
  • HeadSpace2 And WordPress 3.0 – Making Them Play Nice Together. If you use the powerful HeadSpace2 plugin for SEO on your blogs, you may have noticed a bit of a misstep with WordPress 3.0 – here’s how to solve it quickly and easily.
  • Default Or Different? Paid Or Free? Old Or New? A Guide To WordPress Themes. Themes are the mainstay of WordPress blogs – but there’s room for a lot of problems if you choose the wrong one. Here’s why – and how to choose the best theme for your needs.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals
Platinum Members Only


June 2010 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • WordPress 3.0 Is Here. With WordPress 3.0 comes many new features, and the time has arrived to embrace them – or not?
  • Transferring Your WordPress Blog Safely And Successfully. A WordPress blog is an elegant program – until you need to move it! Then it becomes unwieldy and clunky – unless you know how to streamline a move to make it easy to transplant, using the tips here.
  • Fiddling With WordPress and MySQL. Some consider mySQL the ‘heart’ of a WordPress blog. Here’s how to understand what mySQL is, and how to do routine maintenance with your blog’s database files.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


May 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • WordPress 3.0 – A Sneak Peek Under The Hood. Coming Real Soon Now is WordPress 3.0, a big upgrade to the latest WordPress. This issue we take a peek at some of the new features – and the ones that will make the biggest difference in how you use WordPress in the months to come.
  • Twitter For Business – The Secrets Unfolded. Business use of Twitter is on the rise – but being used and being profitable are not the same thing. Here’s the tips and tricks on using Twitter in business – profitably.
  • Getting Personal With WordPress – How To Set Up Your Own Server For WordPress Work. Tired of uploading test files online? Want to create themes with less fuss? Plugins with less muss? Then consider setting up a web server for WordPress on your own computer – and get your design and development working faster and more secure than ever!
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


April 2010 Report

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Note: Also includes a copy of “Top 10 Tricks to TurboCharge Your PLR With WordPress Blogs”.

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Top 10 Tricks to TurboCharge Your PLR With WordPress Blogs. This month, members get a free copy of my latest WordPress ‘Top10Tricks’ report. Learn how PLR Can and Will improve a site, and what to watch out for!
  • Tweaking the WordPress Theme From the ‘Top10Tricks PLR’ Report. As included in the report ‘Top 10 Tricks to TurboCharge Your PLR With WordPress Blogs’, the SEO optimized theme should be a boon for anyone looking for an easy theming solution. I take members for a look inside it, and explain some of its features…
  • Testimonials Are Good For You!. Testimonials are great – sellers get feedback, but they can be useful for buyers as well. Here’s how to include testimonials as part of your promotion efforts.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


March 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Easy Text Tweaking With Regular Expressions! Continuing last month’s article on Regular Expressions, we look into using them to solve many common problems. If you’ve spent hours replacing line breaks, or grabbing every sixth item in a list, you’ll be glad to use these steps – and get the job done much faster.
  • How To Convert Your Website Over To a WordPress Blog. You’ve decided your old site needs to be converted into a WordPress blog – here’s how you can easily transfer it over fast. And as a bonus, you’ll preserve your search engine listings so you won’t miss any of that valuable traffic!
  • Scary! Plugin Security Leaks. We’ve talked about the security problems involved in Themes. Time now for plugins – and an overview of how hackers can split wide open your blog and website if you let them.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com” The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com site.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


February 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • New WordPress Version. Time now for WordPress 2.9.2 – here’s what’s in it, and how (or if) you should upgrade.
  • Maximized Membership Sites, Part 2. Last month we discussed the nuts and bolts of different membership sites – this month, we explore how to set them up ‘on the inside’ for maximum revenue – and minimum fuss.
  • Text Massaging With Regular Expressions! How many times have you found yourself with text that you know you’ll spend hours massaging to fit into a program or spreadsheet? You can either go through it line by line manually correcting things – or with a little knowledge of regular expressions let the computer do those edits for you…
  • Turbo Charge Your Business With These ‘Hacks’. Time is money (usually) – and yet, with no money at all, you can save time with these clever hacks and programs. Use them to improve your business and bottom line, and solve some of those thorny problems around the office.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


January 2010 Report

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Topics:

  • 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 your problems once the site is up and running.
  • Executive Summary: How to Make YOUR Ideas Sticky. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on the vital business topics of today – fast.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


December 2009 Report

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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 article, of course…
  • PHP ‘Widgeting’ Made Easy. WordPress does not allow you to include PHP in your widgets – however, there IS a solution in the form of a specialize plugin. Here’s how to make it work for you – quickly AND safely.
  • How to Get Market Research On The Cheap! How often have you put out a product or service, only to find that no one is interested – or that it’s “almost” but not quite what they want? Then check out this service where people weigh in on your product – and you’ll get a great source of very inexpensive market research.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


November 2009 Report

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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 good advice – and VERY interesting reading…
  • Promotion Tip: Cheat Sheets. How many times have you needed to check your bookmarks or do a web search to find out a fact about WordPress? Instead, have the information always at your fingertips with this handy cheat sheet.
  • How To Move Your Email Lists – And KEEP Your Signups! For whatever reason, sooner or later you may need to move your email lists to a new service. This typically means you’ll lose some people – so here’s how to minimize the damage and deal with the changeover with less fuss, muss, and stress.
  • Top 10 Tricks To Testing In WordPress. As they say, you can’t improve what you can’t track. And this month members get a free copy of my ‘Top10Tricks’ report on testing – including a plugin to make WordPress page testing easy!
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


October 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • A New WordPress – And A Time To Change? WordPress 2.8.5 – and my biweekly (it seems) review of the changes and what they mean – and how fast YOU need to switch to it!
  • Hacked Blog? Here’s What To Do Before Problems Strike. Security online is big these days – and WordPress users are constantly hearing about problems with that program. So take a deep breath, and find out how to make sure your blog is passed over when hackers come a-calling, and how to clean up the mess if they’ve already hit your site.
  • How To Check Out Your Site With A Security Plugin. Not knowing if your site is hacked or not is bad – so for peace of mind use this plugin that checks out your blog for common exploits.
  • A Drop-Dead Simple Sales Page. People are willing to take your hard-earned money to add a sales page to your WordPress blog – but that’s money you can keep for yourself with 5 minute’s effort and the tricks in this article…
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


September 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • The New Look of ActiveBlogging.com ActiveBlogging is undergoing some radical changes – and here’s how YOU benefit…
  • Using The OpenX Ad Sytem With WordPress. An powerful professional-level ad management system, OpenX gives you a way to monetize your sites by selling ads directly. Here’s how to use it without problems.
  • How To ‘Lock Out’ The World When Working On Your Site. When you want to work on your site, you sometimes need to keep it hidden away from the world – and the best way to do that is by locking it down. Here’s a few ways to get that protection.
  • How YOU Can Overhaul Your Website Easily. Considering a site makeover? Using ActiveBlogging this month as the example, I’ll explain how YOU can get your site retrofitted quickly and easily – and how to make the switchover with a minimum of fuss.
  • More Plugins – With Dave’s Auto Post Mixer Plugin! This plugin update allows you to rearrange dates and time on drafts posts, publishing them automatically. It’s invaluable for niche bloggers using article content – or anyone else working with large numbers of articles.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com” The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com site.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


August 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • WordPress And My Own ‘Summer of Code’ Google may have thought they invented it – but I’ve had my own ‘Summer of Code’ for years – and this year, ActiveBlogging Members benefit from it BIG TIME!
  • ‘Safe Theming’ – How To Use WordPress Themes WITHOUT Inviting Hackers In! WordPress is a very flexible tool, with themes and plugins able to extend its abilities incredibly. Unfortunately, many are using that flexibility to hack YOUR website. Here’s how to make sure that pretty theme you downloaded isn’t handing a hacker a ‘free pass’ to your site!
  • Keeping Spammers At Bay With Easy Email Filtering Tired of using up email addresses because spammers soon find them – and fill them up? Here’s a simple no-code way to add multiple SAFE email addresses to any of your domains – and as a bonus, lets you easily track spammers!
  • AB Plugin For August: The Ad Fader Widget A new plugin for ActiveBlogging Members – and this one displays attractive text ads of your choice while slowly fading in and out. Mesmerizing – and attention getting. Here’s how to make it benefit YOUR site.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com” The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com site.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


July 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Easy CSS Tricks For Your WordPress Themes. You can save a bundle by editing your own themes and making changes yourself – but that means knowing CSS and PHP. Or does it? Here’s a simple guide on how to edit your theme without major programming knowledge!
  • Top 10 Tricks To Dominate Your WordPress Blog With CSS! WordPress is powerful – but WordPress AND CSS can do tricks that neither of them can do separately! Members get a copy this month of my ‘Top10Tricks’ report on the value of CSS – and how ‘no-PHP’ edits can do some incredible things on your blog!
  • Getting Your Brain In Gear – Improve Creativity With These Handy (Yet FREE) Tools. Designing, developing, brainstorming, organizing – these and many other words describe the creativity we need to call into play daily to get through our day. Here’s a trio of useful and free tools to make it easier to do just that – and possibly give you a unique perspective on design as well!
  • Can Sedo.com Make You Money? Sedo.com is a parking site that lets your domains make money without fuss. But does it work? And is it a viable option for your domain parking?
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


June 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • WordPress 2.8 is Live. New version of WordPress? Despite this incredibly rare event, I walk you through how best to manage the changes, and how/when to ‘make it so’.
  • User Input: What Do YOU Want From ActiveBlogging Through 2010? ActiveBlogging exists to serve its members – so naturally, here’s where YOU can weigh in…
  • How To Jazz Up WordPress With JavaScript. We all understand the power of PHP in WordPress – but JavaScript can add more ‘bang for the buck’ as well. Here’s how to use it effectively.
  • Stupid WordPress Tricks. Make YOUR blog a cut above the rest with this pack of simple code tricks. Show a clock, say ‘Good Morning’, block spambots, and have ‘timeout’ offers on your products – all with a smattering of Javascript and CSS!
  • Executive Summary: Getting the Millionaire Mind. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on the vital business topics of today – fast.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


May 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Anatomy of a Site Blowup. We often think of hackers as the biggest threat on the Internet – but sometimes it can be SUCCESS…
  • Save Money and Time – Steps To Keep Your Site Lean And Mean. There are many ‘gotchas’ on the Internet that can shut down your site, or slow it to the point you’ll need to spend big bucks for an upgrade. Here’s a list of common and not-so-common problems – and how to solve them.
  • A Quick Guide to Logs. Not an article on lumberjacks – these logs are the huge access files on your site, and the last resort to uncovering if someone is causing you grief. Here’s how to understand them – and use them to your advantage.
  • Free Cache – Or How To Cache Your Blog And Save! Caching a site can avoid a huge performance penalty – but not all caches are created equal. Here’s a review of some of the better plugins, why to use them, and how.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


April 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Twitter Part 2- How to ‘Twittify’ Your Blog. If you’re using Twitter, and you have a WordPress blog, chances are you want synergy between them. So here’s a few ways to connect one to the other – and get the best of both worlds.
  • Top 10 Tricks To Picking The PERFECT Domain Name! Domain names – GOOD domain names – are getting harder than ever to come by. This month’s guide for AB members takes you through the steps of getting a perfect domain name for your next site or project.
  • Twitter And SEO? Twitter is huge – but does huge translate into SEO benefits? Can links on Twitter REALLY help your sites with quick indexing or PageRank? We’ll explore the latest data here.
  • Executive Summary: How Would YOU Like a 4-Hour Workweek? Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


March 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Exactly HOW Do You Make Money With Twitter? It’s popular, it’s fun (for some) – but how can you make Twitter a valuable addition to your business? Here’s a list of useful tips and techniques to make for profitable ‘Tweeting’.
  • New AB Plugin: Easy Social Ratings for Posts. Encourage reviewers and comments with this simple WordPress plugin – NO theme editing required!
  • Executive Summary: What Is The “Long Tail”? Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com blog.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


February 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Jazz Up Your Blogs With an Extra 1,000 Words – Adding Images to Your Posts Easily. Images add to blog posts – here’s a summary of easy (and legally safe) ways to improve your blog posts with artwork.
  • Free (And SAFE) Art You Can Use. Not all artwork online is safe – and a mistake can cost a blogger a great deal! Here’s a list of sites with images that can spice up a post – quality art, yet FREE.
  • Database Disasters – And How To Prevent Them. A lost or trashed database can be a nightmare – especially for a blogger with weeks or months of carefully-crafted posts. Protect your site easily with these tips (and code).
  • Executive Summary: How to Get Rich. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


January 2009 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • What’s The BEST Way To Translate Your Blog? Blog translation has the potential to vastly increase the reach of your blog pages, by making them available to foreign visitors. But is it ‘pie in the sky’, or a practical way to increase readership?
  • Using The All-In-One Seo Plugin For WordPress. Can a single plugin REALLY make a difference in your Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategy? See with this popular free plugin for WordPress.
  • All In One SEO Versus ABTheme – Which Is Best? Are all Search Engine Optimizing tools created equal? Compare two of the more popular ones – All In One and my own ABTheme – and see when you’d use each.
  • How To Master Your WordPress Blog Empire! Many people build not just one, but several (or even dozens or hundreds) of WordPress blogs to make money. Get a handle on how to do them quickly, efficiently, and correctly – with this month’s free report.
  • Internet Entrepreneurs: Oren Fisher of MasteringMatters.com. This issue marks a series of interviews with people who are using the Internet to succeed in business – on their own terms, and in their own unique way.
  • For The Love Of Opera! Using more than one browser is invaluable when you are testing your sites, or designing themes or plugins. Here’s how to use the popular Opera browser to maximize your work flow.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


December 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • WordPress 2.7 – A Brand New WordPress? This month marks the release of WP 2.7, a major change in how WordPress works. The changes, what they mean for you, and what you should do about upgrading all all discussed.
  • Manage Comments Automatically With Dave’s Easy Comment Killer Plugin For WordPress. Comment spam is the bane of bloggers everywhere. Here’s a plugin that lets you trim it down to size, silently and automatically – and quit wasting time deleting them by hand!
  • Executive Summary: The Answer To Success. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com blog.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


November 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • Are You Getting ALL The Traffic You CAN to Your Blog? There are many ways to drive traffic to your site – so many in fact that it’s hard to keep track of them all! But fear no more, with this bonus download report and handy action guide.
  • Is “Wealthy Affiliate” Worth YOUR $40? There are many membership sites that are willing to take your money and promise you the sun, moon and stars. But do they deliver? One popular three year old site, Wealthy Affiliate, offers to get you started in the lucrative world of affiliate marketing. But is it the ideal place for everyone? Read this review and decide for yourself…
  • Executive Summary: Guide to Google Adwords. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • Money-Making Affiliate Links Made Easy With Dave’s Link Plugin For WordPress. Adding (and changing) affiliate links in your blog is MUCH easier when you can do it automatically. Use this month’s plugin to do an automatic (and dynamic) ’search and replace’ of keywords for affiliate links – and instantly add money-making links to your blog posts, both old and new.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


October 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • RSS – An Introduction RSS Feeds are everywhere – but what are they really, and why should I care? Here’s the lowdown on these vital blog features.
  • Freshen Up Your Blog With RSS Feeds! Many sites add a feed or two from elsewhere to their sites – here’s a handy plugin that makes it easy for you to do the same.
  • Grab People The Way YOU Want With Popup Picker This month Popup Picker Lite debuts on ActiveBlogging. Add (and easily switch) multiple popups on your blog – and get the EXACT look you need for high response.
  • Posting Feeds to Your Blog For Instant Content! Can a feed become a post on your WordPress blog? Yes, with this handy plugin.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


September 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • ActiveBlogging’s Easy Bulk Article Poster For WordPress. Members have been benefiting from a tool that easily posts multiple articles to a blog of their choosing – here’s how to make the best use of it.
  • How To Succeed Using Duplicate Content! ‘Duplicate Content Penalty’. Rather than be afraid of it, understand what it REALLY is, and understand how you CAN use duplicate content – safely and simply – to build up your website.
  • PLR For ActiveBlogging? A New Feature. For the past few weeks ActiveBlogging members have a special bonus – free PLR articles to enhance their sites. Here’s how to get them – and use them.
  • Mix Up Your WordPress Posts With Dave’s Easy Article Mixer! This month’s Member Plugin easily rearranges and publish articles, making it simple to automatically ’spread’ a large group of articles across a week, a month – or even longer! Here’s some special tips on how to use it effectively.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com blog.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


August 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging.
  • How To Make PDF Reports For Free – With Open Office. Acrobat PDF is a portable document format that lets you publish at low cost – and with the free word processor Open Office, making money with a report is only a few clicks away with this easy guide and video series!
  • What Exactly To Write To Make Money. No matter what tool you use, putting together a PDF (Portable Document Format) report is a great way to get out there and get noticed.
  • Pay Per Post And The “Insider’s Guide” To REALLY Making Money With It. It’s become the premier place to make money by writing on your blog. However, navigating the service so you make money WITHOUT killing your website is tricky! Here’s the details and insider knowledge to maximize money, yet minimize problems.
  • Words Count – Count Yours With This Easy To Use Word Counter Plugin For WordPress. Whether you are Niche marketing or writing to meet a specific word count, paying attention to your writing can benefit you and help you write more (and better) with less effort. This plugin can give you the statistics you need while you type.
  • Are You Writing For Your TARGET AUDIENCE? Writing to the level of your target audience is key to getting your point across – and informing rather than confusing your readers. This plugin lets you track your writing style and reader ‘level’.
  • Executive Summary: Writing Book Proposals. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com blog.
  • Internet Offers And Current Deals


July 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • WordPress 2.6 Now Available. A new upgrade, with many new features. Is it time to move up a version – or wait? You be the judge…
  • How To Sell Websites For Maximized Profit. People ARE making money flipping domains and websites – is it a ’secret art’, or can YOU easily make more money from that spare domain you have lying around?
  • Niche Marketing Comes To ActiveBlogging! Niche marketing is a popular (and lucrative) way to make money. This month starts a focus on niche marketing for ActiveBlogging members with a new private forum dedicated to the topic.
  • Test Your Way To More Profits With the SplitTester Plugin. Testing is a vital way to profit – but setting up tests is HARD. Not any more with this month’s free WordPress plugin for members.
  • Executive Summary: Secrets of Power Negotiating. Get the highlights of valuable business books when you don’t have the time to sit down and read them from cover to cover. An excellent way to get up to speed on vital business topics of today – fast.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging.com”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com blog.
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


June 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • Pings, TrackBacks And Comments: The REAL Story. Although they seem similar, this trio of attention-grabbing techniques have different uses – and provide different opportunities to advertise your blog.
  • The AdBlock Widget – Setup And Options. The AdBlock Widget lets you rotate ads on your WordPress blog – but it can do so much more…
  • Using The AdBlocks Widget To Make Money. The AdBlock Widget not only makes it easy to insert ads into your WordPress blog – it also makes it easy to Make Money from your blog! Here’s how.
  • Executive Summary: The E-Myth Revisited, by Michael Gerber. No time to read a book? This executive summary gives you the meat without you taking the time to read the whole book – great for getting up to speed on vital business topics.
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging”. The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the ActiveBlogging.com website.
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


May 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • Painfree WordPress Upgrading Tired of updating your WordPress blog frequently – but worried about security? Then you need these tricks and ‘gotchas’ to make upgrading a one-minute breeze!
  • How To Blog By Email RIGHT Using WordPress! It sounds like a dream: write an email, hit send, and have it magically appear on your blog from anywhere. But if you’ve tried to set up WordPress ‘blog by email’ then you know the dream can easily turn into a nightmare. Until now, with not one but TWO ways to successfully blog by email!
  • Bandwidth And Your Website – Part 2 Bandwidth, bandwidth, bandwidth. There’s so much of it, but what you don’t know could be costing you and limiting your blog’s performance. Get a handle on what your website requires in this continuation of the March article.
  • Resale Rights Report For May – “How DO I Make Money With Blogs” A great beginner’s guide to blogging. And with resale rights, you can read it yourself AND sell it to others!
  • This Month’s “Best of ActiveBlogging” The past month in writing: a summary of some of the best posts from the blog on ActiveBlogging.com
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


April 2008 Report

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Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • What’s New With WordPress – WordPress 2.5 Is WP 2.5 worth the wait – or should you wait a little longer? Here’s the scoop on upgrading to (or starting with) the latest version of WordPress.
  • What Is Adwords ‘Smart Pricing’ And How Can I Fix It? Smart Pricing is great for Adwords – but can kill an Adsense site. What is it, and is it the problem everyone seems to think it is?
  • What To Do If Your WordPress Blog Is Hijacked By Spam Links Your site is offering links to credit cards and worse – how can you get rid of them and get your blog back to mint-new condition?
  • ActiveBlogging’s New Credit System Started last month, members now get credits instead of ABTheme ‘rentals’ – here’s the scoop on the new plan.
  • Fun WordPress Tricks: How To Shuffle Posts (Or Reverse Post Order) On The WordPress Home Page Posts DON’T have to be in order – and with a few lines of code you can do many WordPress tricks, like multiple columns of posts, or randomize them.
  • The AB Affiliate Program AB Members can get ‘free’ membership (or better) simply by encouraging others to join, with the ActiveBlogging affiliate program.
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


March 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • Video On Your Blog – A Good Idea? Just add a link and put video on your WordPress blog – but there’s more than that to consider if you want to add to your blog, instead of subtracting from it.
  • Blogs, Bandwidth And Bad Video Performance Think you know all about videos and WordPress? You’d be surprised how easy it is to hurt your blog (and website) if you don’t plan ahead.
  • How To Put Video On Your Blog – Safely AND Simply Video on your blog can enhance it and get you more attention – but only IF you do it right. Avoid common mistakes with these tips.
  • ABTheme 4.05 Is Ready! THE simple yet flexible solution for WordPress theme design is ready with a new version incorporating fixes, features and enhancements in security.
  • How To Get Camtasia Videos Working On Your WordPress Blog Camtasia videos are a great way to teach techniques. But putting them on a WordPress blog can be a real chore – unless you follow these steps.
  • Emergency WordPress Recovery Tricks – What To Do When ALL Is Lost! No backup? No existing copy of that vital blog article? No problem – with these neat tricks to recover just about ANY blog post!
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


February 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • Microsoft Live Writer – Worth The Trouble?
  • Securing Your Site With “Top 10 Tricks To Protect Your WordPress Blog Online!”
  • Quick And Easy Backups Of Your WordPress Site – With XML
  • Smart Quotes And Dumb WordPress – How to Stop Unwanted Article Formatting
  • WordPress MU – Is It For You?
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals

January 2008 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • The Perils of Permalinks
  • Membership Sites Part 2 – Membership Levels
  • How To Add PHP Easily To Your WordPress Posts
  • ActiveBlogging Changes For 2008
  • Play ‘Tag’ With Your Articles – For More Traffic!
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


December 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • Speak And Write – Easy Blog Posts With Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5?
  • Easy WordPress Forms With Dagon Form Filler
  • The New Business Section in ActiveBlogging
  • Creating Videos With Camtasia For Free
  • Easy ABTheme tweaks
  • ABTheme – the Future
  • Business 101: Membership Sites
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


November 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • ABTheme 4 Is Ready!
  • Transfer Your WordPress Blog To Another Site – Without Pain!
  • How To Customize The WordPress Admin Easily
  • A Warning About Subscriptions And PayPal
  • When EXACTLY Does WordPress Ping?
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


October 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New With ActiveBlogging
  • WordPress 2.3 Arrives
  • Setting Up a Help Desk
  • Integrating Your Help Desk With WordPress
  • Off-line Promoting, Part 2
  • WordPress Linking For Rankings, Part 2
  • Pages Or Posts – Which is Better?
  • Add A ‘TinyURL’ To WordPress
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


September 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New In The ActiveBlogging Report (and On The Site)
  • ActiveBlogging And YOUR Input
  • Are You Planning NOW For December?
  • Two More WordPress Versions This Month
  • How To Hide Your Pages
  • Off-line Promoting, Part 1
  • WordPress Linking For Rankings!
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


August 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Code clips with the FlashFader demo files (zipped)

Topics:

  • What’s New
  • Easy Ad Rotator For WordPress – Or Anything Else
  • WordPress Again!
  • RSS – Should We ‘Feed’ Them Everything?
  • Great Plugins: Fancy Flash Effects on WordPress
  • Does Your Site Have a Favicon?
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


July 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • What’s New
  • WordPress 2.2.1 – REALLY Worth An Upgrade?
  • Is Your WordPress Theme Exposing Your Site To Hackers?
  • More Videos!
  • WordPress And Static Websites
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


June 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Code clips and the WordPress admin password change script wp-fixlogin.php (zipped)

Topics:

  • What’s New
  • Are You Losing HALF Your Search Engine Rankings?
  • ABTheme Now At ActiveBlogging!
  • How To Deal With A Forgotten WordPress Login
  • ABTheme Designs
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


May 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
Joomla Introductory Reports (zipped)

Topics:

  • What’s New
  • WordPress 2.2 – And Widgets!
  • Welcome Platinum Members!
  • Is Joomla Right For You?
  • Easy (Bulk) Article Posting
  • Internet Offers
  • Current Deals


April 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Items mentioned:
CamStudio Screen Recorder (zipped)
Cascading style Sheets Beginner’s Guide (PDF; zipped)

Topics:

  • Make 404s Count!
  • Videos, Videos, Videos
  • PLR Is DEAD! Or, Why SnowFlake Articles?
  • Beginner’s Guide to CSS
  • Screen Capture: Should You Use Camtasia Or A Free Solution?
  • Current Deals


March 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • WordPress Security Update – And Do You REALLY Need To Upgrade?
  • Tell A Friend (TAF) Scripts And Why They ARE Bad
  • Is Email Safe For Your Blog Anymore?
  • Adding SAFE ‘Post Notify’ Emails to Your Blog
  • ActiveBlogging Reworking
  • Which WordPress Version is Which?


February 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • WordPress Revisions Galore!
  • How To Add Non-WordPress Pages to Your Blog
  • Top 10 Tricks for 2007 Now Available
  • Add a Sitemap To Your Blog
  • Fixing The Internet Explorer 7 Affiliate Bug


January 2007 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • 2007 – My Predictions For The Year Ahead
  • ActiveBlogging for 2007
  • ‘Easy’ WordPress Farms with WordPress MU
  • Alternate ‘Simple’ Install For Multiple WordPress Blogs
  • Bonus Guide – 118 WordPress Plugins


December 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Dec 2006 Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • The WordPress Forum – bbPress
  • Easy Edits to Your WordPress Template
  • Blog Popups – The Final Word
  • WordPress Makeover Results
  • Title/MetaTag Plugin For Older WordPress Templates


November 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

It also references a new section on ActiveBlogging for beginner video tutorials.

Topics:

  • New Version – WordPress 2.05
  • A Busy Week For Viral Marketing Techniques
  • Do YOU Need a WordPress Makeover?
  • Do It Yourself WordPress Makeover
  • Easy Web Techniques Videos


October 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

It also references the free download of the ‘Unlimited Profits and Traffic‘ Report

Topics:

  • GoogEdit and Adwords
  • Download: Unlimited Profits and Traffic
  • A Mini Guide to Adwords
  • The WordPress MySQL Database Made Easy
  • Easy WordPress Database Fixes
  • Incredible Resource is Now Free


September 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • Increase Your Profits With One Time Offers!
  • Using The Schizophrenic Blog Page Plugin
  • PowerTool: PSPad
  • How To Use Impact Popup on a Blog


August 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • ActiveBlogging Changes
  • Manual Updates
  • Emails, AutoResponders, Sign up Forms, and Your Blog
  • MySpace = MyProfits – New Videos
  • How to ‘Tell a Friend’ and Become a Spam Gateway!
  • Popups – Using Them on Your WordPress Blog


July 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • Should You Use Google Sitemaps on Your Blogs?
  • Is ‘Smart Pricing’ Killing Your Adsense Income?
  • How to Set Up a Site Map in WordPress
  • The WordPress Easy Install On Existing Sites
  • The AB Member’s Plugin – Setting It Up For Maximum Search Engine Rankings
  • Blog Headers The Easy Way!


June 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • The Latest and Greatest – WordPress 2.0.3 is Here!
  • What is Tag & Ping?
  • Quick and Easy Forums for Your WordPress Blog
  • Simple WordPress Installer
  • The ActiveBlogging Member’s Code and Plugins
  • Using The ActiveBlogging Members Plugin
  • The ‘Top10Tricks’ SEO Friendly Template


May 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • Auto Randomize Your Posts – and Look Human!
  • How to Get Noticed – Testimonials!
  • Cheap Hosting – Or, Would YOU Pay 1 Cent for a Month of Unlimited Domain Hosting?
  • The Power of Online Video
  • ActiveBlogging.com Videos Tutorials for WordPress
  • Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 5: footer.php


April 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • Grab Attention and Interest – With WordPress Polls
  • Using the WordPress Survey Plugin
  • Placing PHP Directly Into Your Posts
  • The ActiveBlogging Member’s Bulk Posting Program
  • Bulk WordPress Article Posting – Tricks and Techniques
  • Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 4: style.css


March 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • Are Your Blog Pages ‘Section Targeted’ by Google?
  • Open Source and WordPress – A Problem?
  • Can YOU Profit from Plugins?
  • Basics: The Care & Keeping of Your htaccess File
  • Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 3: header.php
  • Blog Code: Blog Lockout Plugin


February 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Addon Files – Files to accompany ‘The ActiveBlogging Report’.

Topics:

  • Should You Upgrade to WordPress 2?
  • Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 2: index.php
  • Basics: Editing Your WordPress Template
  • Blog Code: A Simple Contact Form


January 2006 Report

(PDF Format)

Topics:

  • Why Use WordPress?
  • Exploring the WordPress Template, Part 1
  • Basics: What is Pinging?
  • Plugin How-To: ‘Coffee’ Plugin
  • Blog Code: A Simple Counter