Placing videos from YouTube, Google Video, Metacafe, etc on a blog post can be hard at times. I have been asked a few times on how to add YouTube Videos on WordPress Blogs by some readers, so I would like to mention some WordPress plugins that will make it easier for you to add videos to your blog post.

Viper’s Video Quicktags is a plugin for WordPress that allows you to easily insert videos from YouTube, , IFILM, Metacafe, and by just clicking one of the buttons that the plugin adds to the write screen and then paste the video URL into the prompt box. You can also fully configure how the videos are displayed (width, height, alignment on the page) and much more.

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I reward regular readers by featuring good posts from the best commenter’s blogs. If you would like to see your blog posts featured here, join my MyBlogLog Community and start commenting regularly on this blog.

I hope you enjoy reading these blog posts

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• Turning visitors into regulars - Grace
• Top 5 tips to get on Digg’s frontpage - The Thinking Blog
• How to convert word documents to pdf format in office 2007 - subhash

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AuctionAds is a Cost Per Action (CPA) based ad program that allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions that match the content of your website and you make money online when your visitor buys products they are interested in. The great part about AuctionAds is that it can be run along with other ad programs like Adsense.

Like Chitika eMiniMalls, AuctionAds works best on product related sites. So you won’t be earning much by placing AuctionAds on non-product sites, also remember that you won’t make money unless your visitor buys the product.

To make more money with AuctionAds you can try blending the ads by changing its colors to match your site’s colors and using the right keywords that match your site. AuctionAds has also explained on how to specify the keywords.

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By now most of the WordPress users must be aware of the new version that is available for download. I was having fever so I could not blog about it earlier (I am getting better now).

The new version (WordPress 2.2) includes over two hundred bug fixes and new features like Widgets integration and infinite comment stream that brings in another comment in the background when you delete or spam a comment on your Edit Comments page.

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The below video shows a fat woman being made thin and good looking using Photoshop. I never doubted the power of Photoshop

This is why you should never trust the profile images you find in online dating sites

Sorry for the lack of updates these days, I have been working on a project.

RSS readers: If you can’t view the video, click here.

Few days back I had mentioned the Top 5 WordPress plugins that help increase comments on a blog. Here are some more plugins that can help.

• WP Ajax Edit Comments: This plugin (for WP 2.1+) allows users and admins alike to edit comments on a post. Users can edit their own comments for a period specified by the Admin, and Admins can edit all post comments. This plugin can help reduce typos on reader comments and at same time encourage more comments from them.
• Get Recent Comments: This highly configurable plugin displays the most recent comments in the sidebar. You can make the plugin to link the recent commenter’s site along with an excerpt of their comment. Linking to the commenter’s site can encourage them to comment even more.
• Live Comment Preview: This plugin will display a live preview of your readers comments as they type. To install the plugin, just activate it!
• Comment Quicktags: This plugin inserts a quicktag toolbar on the blog comment form that will help your commenter’s to easily make thier comment in bold or italics, or to insert links.
• MyAvatars: This plugin displays the reader’s MyBlogLog avatars besides their comments. This may not help in increasing comments much, but readers may like seeing their avatars on your blog

Do you know any more plugins that can help increase comments?

Spider-Man fans who were not able to watch the awesome Spider-Man 3 movie so far can watch it online from here for free. If you have a low speed internet connection, you can press the pause button and wait till the whole movie part downloads so that you can watch it smoothly.

The video is not of good quality and to really enjoy the movie I recommend you watch it from a theater, besides it’s worth paying to watch this movie!

Services like ReviewMe and PayPerPost helps you find advertisers that pays you to review services and web sites, but the problem of using such services is that they take a cut. With the help of WordPress BankRoll Plugin, advertisers can buy reviews directly from your WordPress blog and thus you get all the money.

WP Bankroll is a wordpress plugin that will transform your current or new blog into a paid or free blogging site. You can use this to get free content from your readers, use to write paid reviews on websites, or just generally sell blog posts written by you or the sponsor.

Installation of the plugin is easy, you just have to upload the plugin folder, activate the plugin and insert one line of code into your sidebar. After installation, WordPress BankRoll Plugin puts up a ‘Buy A Blog Post’ link on your sidebar which advertisers can use to order a review from you. Clicking the link opens up a submission form where advertisers can choose who writes the post - you or them.

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Most blog readers are lurkers, inorder to encourage them to comment and make your blog more active try installing the WordPress Plugins listed below:

1. Show Top Commentators: This Plugin encourages discussion from your readers by displaying their name (linked to their site without a nofollow tag if desired) and number of comments on the sidebar. The Plugin also gives you the option to reset the list every hour, day, week, month or year.
2. Brian’s Threaded Comments: This plugin adds a ‘Reply to this comment’ link to every comment. When you use the reply link, your comment is placed directly under the comment you replied to. This plugin helps increase comments, makes it easy for people to reply to comments and prevents readers from scrolling down to look for answers to their questions.
3. Subscribe to Comments: This plugin allows commenters on your blog to check a box before commenting and get e-mail notification of further comments. This encourages readers to come back and take part in the conversation.
4. Comment relish: This plugin sends a thank-you email to your blog’s first time commentators. This encourages them to come back again and comment regularly.
5. Link Love: This plugin turns off nofollow for all commenters who have made at least 10 comments. The number of comments is configurable by changing a variable in the plugin.

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Recently I wrote on how bloggers make money online where I listed out the commonly used ad programs to help bloggers realize that they have to add more revenue sources to make more money online.

But if you are running a new blog, you should not slap your blog with ads from all these ad programs. Before monetizing a new blog, you must first focus on feeding your blog with quality content and on increasing your blog’s traffic.

When your blog reaches around 500 unique traffic per day, you can start monetizing it with either Google AdSense or Chitika eMiniMalls if you have a product related blog.

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