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		<title>Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Anyone who has been marketing online knows that the lifeblood of a business is the traffic of a site. More visitors equal more sales. However, here are some ways that you can tweak your sites with to improve sales without the need to get more visitors.</p>
<p>The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your salesletter, not to your whole audience.</p>
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<p>The second method is to publish testimonials and comments from your customers. A good idea would be to publish both good and bad comments; that way prospects will be really convinced that these testimonials are real. When prospects see testimonials on your website, they will have the confidence to buy from you because human beings follow the herd mentality; when others have bought and proven it authentic, they will jump on the bandwagon and buy too.</p>
<p>Use visual representations for the problems and solutions that your product offers. Not everyone will read your text copy from the head to the tail, but most people will pay attention to images on your website.</p>
<p>Offer quality bonuses to accompany the product. When you offer bonuses that complement your product, your prospects will feel it&#8217;s a very good deal and it would be stupid to miss it. Be sure to state the monetary value of your bonuses so that people will be even more compelled to grab your good bargain.</p>
<p>Lastly, ask for the sale! Many people entice their prospects with the benefits of their product, sell to them with stories of how it has solved many problems, even offered killer bonuses but forget to ask for the sale. Give a clear instruction on how to buy your product (e.g. &#8220;click the button to buy now!&#8221;).</p>
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		<title>Internet Web Page Promotion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2011 17:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Rasonable</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The initial steps at promotion of a new web siteHello dear buddies. These days, I&#8217;ve decided to tell to you about how it is actually required to begin promotion of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>The initial steps at <strong>promotion of a new web site</strong>Hello dear buddies. These days, I&#8217;ve decided to tell to you about how it is actually required to begin promotion of a brand new web site or a blog. Let’s present such scenario: “you have designed lately a internet web page and it really is high time to write some articles and you&#8217;re assured that it really is time to start <strong>web-site promotion </strong>but with what to begin???”. I think such circumstance is familiar practically to all <strong>internet designers and bloggers</strong> (following all, all of us sometime began the way).</p>
<p>To start with it let’s have an understanding of what we have. And we have young domain, a <strong>web-site</strong> with various pages (articles), couple of back references, but there&#8217;s a large desire and some cash.</p>
<p>First of all that we will need to create is to develop more content that is to write much more qualitative articles. It truly is needed to show to retrieval systems that regardless of young age of a site we&#8217;re adjusted seriously plus to all retrieval systems love updated web-sites.</p>
<p>Following step are going to be linking of pages. It means that in every following articles you must refer to the previous articles. All is really basic.</p>
<p>Further I advise to run your internet site under directories of sites. What for to register a web page in directories I wrote here. Now service cheaptop leads free of charge registration of sites in directories. So we go further. Layout of articles in appropriate directories is going to be the following step. It&#8217;ll help to lift a trust of your internet site.</p>
<p>Further we acquire links. Within the very first service we get links from sites. <strong>Don&#8217;t forget:</strong> For a brand new internet site it is actually not suggested to buy more than <strong>10-30 links</strong> in a week as it can cause referential turbulence.</p>
<p>Layout of articles through <strong>Miralinks</strong> will probably be the following step. This service is incredibly beneficial for promotion of web-sites as you obtain links from qualitative websites surrounded having a unique and qualitative content material. Should you occupied the person you&#8217;ll be able to use basically a rate Carefree &#8211; you&#8217;ll need to suppose only cash for the account and to write the wishes, all remaining operation will be created for you.</p>
<p>Here, that is it. In case you are considering it you know now the way to do everything precisely and you do not have to have any extra aid and advisers as you could do it all yourself. So just save this write-up and return to it whenever you need to refresh your memory about internet web page promotion. It can be really not tough and I am positive which you will do every little thing perfectly and quick. So take the full benefit of this post and bbe sure that you<strong> internet site</strong> will gain a genuine success within the online world.</p>
<p>Today the <strong>web technologies </strong>are quite common. The web network is not only a place to entertain but also a platform to earn revenue. In spite of the reason, to be presented in the Net 1 needs a web site. And it&#8217;s the time when the question tips on how to make a internet site arises. Those who are searching for particulars on ways to develop a site, are advised to refer to the Internet itself. It can be full of docs on how to make a site and respective topics.</p>
<p>In any way, it wouldn’t be smart not to make the most of this chance given to us by modern technologies. <strong>Google</strong> and other search engines, social networks and forums, blogs &#8211; all of them could help to uncover info on <strong>“make a new website”</strong> and similar topics.</p>
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		<title>Strategies for Purchasing Web sites</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 15:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Rasonable</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>If  you would like to be  successful on on-line company, you  need to have a  minimum of 1 well-established web  site which  has 1000&#8242;s of guests. Normally, it  requires many  years to  determine a  <strong>great web  site</strong> and create 1000&#8242;s of every  day visitors. Sadly, many  individuals generally wish  to make cash instantly plus  they don&#8217;t wish  to watch  for many  years. Within  the starting,  all <strong>webmasters </strong>should pass via many  years of struggle to lastly make big quantity  of revenue each  day.</div>
<p>Fortunately, now selling and buying websites is possible because there are many market places for website trading. If you are among people who have large amount of funds and you want to see immediate profit, buying a well-established website is the best solution.<br />
Place to Buy</p>
<p>There are many online market places for selling and buying websites but it is recommended to make a transaction at reputable market place such as <strong>Flippa.com</strong>. This market place is recommended because it has higher transaction security. Other market places usually have many scams and fake websites. Although <strong>Flippa.com </strong>is a reputable market place, you must also know all factors that you must consider when you want to buy a well-established website.<br />
<strong>Return on Investment (ROI)</strong></p>
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<p>A well-established website is like an investment. Therefore you must consider the return on investment when you buy the website. Fortunately, website is an investment that offers the shortest <strong>ROI</strong>. Other ordinary investments usually need at least 4 years to pay back your investment. Most webmasters who buy websites usually only need less than 1 year to pay back their investments. If you are a beginner on website trading, it is recommended for you to buy a website that offers less than a year of <strong>ROI</strong>. It is also important for beginners to start trading by buying inexpensive website to know how website trading works. Over the time, you will know how to choose profitable websites to buy and you can buy those websites at lowest prices.</p>
<p><strong>Check the Actual Condition of Website</strong></p>
<p>There are many scams and fake websites being sold at many market places. Some people even dare to sell fake websites at Flippa.com. In order to avoid fraud, you have to perform triple check (even more in some cases) the information accuracy provided by the seller. The first to do is go to the website. If the website is real, you can check the website through several page rank checkers and website popularity checkers such as <strong>Checkpagerank.net</strong> and <strong>Alexa.com</strong>. If the result of page-rank check is good, you still have to check the correctness of the number of visitors and monthly income data. To check the number of visitors, you can ask the seller to give you his <strong>Google Analytic</strong> account, so you can check the real visitors to the website. To check the monthly income, you can check by asking the seller to provide video-shot instead of screenshot. Several sellers try to manipulate screenshot but if you ask for video-shot, the sellers cannot cheat you. You must avoid sellers that do not give access to this information.<br />
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<p><strong>Are You Ready To Manage A Website?</strong></p>
<p>Managing a website is not easy, even when you buy an <strong>automated website</strong>. The benefit that people get when they establish websites from zero position is that they know how to manage the websites. They know every part of the website so whenever there is a problem, they can immediately fix the problem. If you want to buy well-established website, you must understand every part of a website such <strong>coding, content, </strong>etc, so you can get income as you have expected.<br />
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<p><strong>The Actual price of a Website</strong></p>
<p>The <strong>price of a website </strong>is tightly related to the <strong>quality</strong>. For beginners, it is better to buy website which is sold at 12x of its monthly income.<br />
Payment</p>
<p>Payment system is very important for both buyers and sellers. Both sides do not want to face fraud. Using middleman such as Escrow.com to secure all payment activities will guarantee that all transaction is safe for both buyers and sellers. Using <strong>Paypal</strong> is also recommended because this <strong>online payment system</strong> has <strong>freeze payment feature</strong> to help get your fund back when the seller try to cheat you.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>@font-face Generator: Embedding Any Font Face on your Web Page</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Rasonable</dc:creator>
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<p>Because a font is an <a href="http://www.ampsoft.net/webdesign-l/WindowsMacFonts.html" target="_blank"><strong>operating system</strong></a> resource, not a browser resource. If you have an unusual font installed on your <strong>PC</strong>, it&#8217;s easy to design a website and include that <strong>font</strong>. <strong>You</strong> can see it because the font is installed on your operating system. But if your visitors don&#8217;t have it installed too, their browsers will display their default font instead.</p>
<p>From a page designer&#8217;s perspective, this is a big weakness. You want pages to display like you intend, but can&#8217;t control an individual browser&#8217;s display . No matter how carefully you lay out your page with a particular font, you&#8217;re at the mercy of the user&#8217;s browser when the page is displayed.</p>
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		<title>Benefits of Using RSS Feeds</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Rasonable</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>RSS</strong> is  really a fantastic factor.  For those that do  not know, it stands for <strong>Really Simple</strong><strong> Syndication</strong>. Imagine the state of the web today.  Spam is everywhere, subscribing to a newsletter could potentially give your  email out to thousands of spammers. Viruses are everywhere, and you  will find still surfers trying  to find info. <strong> RSS</strong> eliminates the crap and focuses on the information. <strong>Really <strong>Simple</strong></strong><strong> Syndication</strong>.</p>
<p>Search engines love RSS. You  can submit your site&#8217;s <strong>RSS feed</strong> to many various <strong>RSS directories</strong>. As robots crawl the web and come upon your feeds on numerous various websites,  your website gets much  more hits, your rankings can increase, a  lot can happen.</p>
<p>Just  adding a link on your page that says RSS can do a  lot for your traffic.  If an  individual has an aggregator, they can easily view your <strong>RSS feed</strong> to find updated content. You could just provide a teaser within  the feed, requiring the viewer to really go to your site to view the whole article. Insta-hit!</p>
<p>There  are hundreds if not thousands of internet success stories. A growing number of them are offering different secrets, topics about how  you can add and use <strong>RSS feeds</strong> to improve your website&#8217;s traffic.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-800" src="http://www.rockyrasonable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/RSS_person_leaning2.jpg" alt="Benefits of Using RSS Feeds" width="347" height="346" />Additionally to all of these great traffic helps, there has been an growing number of ads being placed in <strong>RSS feeds</strong>. <strong>Google ads </strong>are a extremely well-liked affiliate program which pays for each click. Some individuals now integrate their <strong>Google ads</strong> into the RSS feeds. That&#8217;s much  more exposure, more chances to get money,  which is usually fantastic.</p>
<p>There  are many reasons to use<strong> RSS feeds</strong>, and just about all of them are great. In  the event you really need  to increase your visitors,  RSS is definitely the way  to go. Tutorials about RSS will  probably be popping up on this site soon.</p>
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		<title>10 Essential Elements For a Successful Web site</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rocky Rasonable</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you  would like to get your company online,  to take that large plunge to reach the world together  with your product or service. Congratulations! Hopefully you  have taken the time to go out and explore your competitors websites  and looked around for what you think  about to be a great looking and functioning web  site. If  you haven&#8217;t we extremely recommend you do, as a matter of fact we ask every new client to invest time on the internet do this. This helps your web  site designer get a view into a  number of things, including your business and just as important your tastes in design and functionality. This kind information is invaluable to both your and your <strong>website design company</strong>.</p>
<p><strong>Knowing Your Potential</strong><strong> Clientele</strong></p>
<p>As with any business venture you should have some insight into exactly who your customers are is vital.  Not only do you  need to gear your products and marketing to  these customers but the design, navigation and functionality of the website should  be tailored to that market&#8217;s tastes. Most website owners don&#8217;t understand it at first but your web  site may just become the most important advertising tool you  will ever invest in. It&#8217;s presentation, color, flow and content are as important as any TV, Print or Radio ad you&#8217;ll ever invest in. In today&#8217;s world your web  site is your customers view into your business along  with a poorly laid out web  site may result in a lack of confidence by them. This is particularly true in any e-commerce web  site. With all  the stories the general public hears about on-line rip offs they need to really  feel <strong>100%</strong> confident they can type their credit<br />
card numbers into your order form and not have  to worry about it.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-796" src="http://www.rockyrasonable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Top-10-by-samchurchill.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="239" />Ten </strong><strong>Important</strong><strong> Elements</strong></p>
<p>Any web  site these  days requirements particular features to permit their customers the  very best experience possible.  Over the years we have added to the list to bring it up to what we now consider the ten important elements every website ought  to have:</p>
<p><strong>1. A </strong><strong>web  site</strong><strong> search tool</strong> &#8211; if they want it NOW they&#8217;ll search, not browse.</p>
<p><strong>2. A </strong><strong>website</strong><strong> map</strong> &#8211; once  more if they get lost this is the initial place they  will go.</p>
<p><strong>3. Simple</strong><strong> to read content</strong> &#8211; Do  not use color combination which  are rough on the eyes. If your information is lengthy provide a easy access printer friendly version.</p>
<p><strong>4. </strong><strong>Fast</strong><strong> loading pages</strong> &#8211; NO customer will wait around for 5 minutes to see your website. Keep  in mind over 50% of the world is still on a 56k modem, in  2004!</p>
<p><strong>5. A Privacy Statement</strong> &#8211; Any website that collects info (even email addresses) requirements this.</p>
<p><strong>6. </strong><strong>Simple</strong><strong> Navigation</strong> &#8211; surfers do  not have the time to try  to figure out your neat navigation system. Keep it easy!</p>
<p><strong>7.  Accessibility Statement</strong> &#8211; Let those  who are disabled know that you care about them as customers too.</p>
<p><strong>8. </strong><strong>Easy to Access contact info</strong> &#8211; If they&#8217;ve a issue with the website or an order make it easy for them to have  the ability to contact you.</p>
<p><strong>9. Flow of design throughout the </strong><strong>site</strong> &#8211; Do  not change the page design from page to page. One intro page design and then a consistent inner page design is fine but once inside  your website make  sure everything stays within  the exact  same place.</p>
<p><strong>10. NO, I REPEAT, NO pop ups!</strong> &#8211; These have turn  out to be synonymous with ads, spy ware, viruses and porn websites.  Do anything you  are able to to avoid them.</p>
<p>OK, so #10 is  not a do, it&#8217;s a do  not but we truly felt it had to be on the list. Numerous of the items on this list won&#8217;t only create a much  better experience for your clients but they  will also improve your accessibility to any disabled customer and will assist get your website ranked higher within  the search engines. All in all it just makes good business sense.</p>
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		<title>Promoting your website for free</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?</p>
<p>Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.</p>
<p>How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?</p>
<p><strong>1. Enlist your website.</strong></p>
<p>Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.</p>
<p>Just don&#8217;t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.</p>
<p><strong><img class="alignleft" style="margin: 5px;" title="Google Yahoo MSN" src="../wp-content/uploads/2010/07/4330178394_0bf70f434f_o.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" /></strong><strong>2. Know your forums.</strong></p>
<p>One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.</p>
<p><strong>3. Write a press release.</strong></p>
<p>Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!</p>
<p><strong>4. Be friendly online.</strong></p>
<p>Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.</p>
<p><strong>5. Write an article.</strong></p>
<p>Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.</p>
<p><strong>6. Just let the whole world know about your site.</strong></p>
<p>What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!</p>
<p><strong>7. Make a banner ad.</strong></p>
<p>Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!</p>
<p><strong>8. Take up a free website promotion course online.</strong></p>
<p>Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don&#8217;t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.</p>
<p>When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it &#8212; there is such a thing as free website promotion!</p>
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		<title>Search Engine Friendly Pages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-657" style="margin: 5px;" title="SEO" src="http://www.rockyrasonable.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/4741909434_f23e0b9def-150x150.jpg" alt="" width="150" height="150" />There is no point in building a website unless there are visitors coming in. A major source of traffic for most sites on the Internet is search engines like <strong>Google</strong>, <strong>Yahoo</strong>!, <strong>MSN</strong>, <strong>Altavista </strong>and so on. Hence, by designing a search engine friendly site, you will be able to rank easily in search engines and obtain more visitors.</p>
<p>Major search engines use programs called crawlers or robots to index websites to list on their search result pages. They follow links to a page, reads the content of the page and record it in their own database, pulling up the listing as people search for it.</p>
<p>If you want to make your site indexed easily, you should avoid using frames on your website. Frames will only confuse search engine robots and they might even abandon your site because of that. Moreover, frames make it difficult for users to bookmark a specific page on your site without using long, complicated scripts.</p>
<p>Do not present important information in Flash movies or in images. Search engine robots can only read text on your source code so if you present important words in Flash movies and images rather than textual form, your search engine ranking will be affected dramatically.</p>
<p>Use meta tags accordingly on each and every page of your site so that search engine robots know at first glance what that particular page is about and whether or not to index it. By using meta tags, you are making the search engine robot’s job easier so they will crawl and index your site more frequently.</p>
<p>Stop using wrong <strong>HTML </strong>tags like <span> to style your page. Use <strong>CSS </strong>(<strong>Cascading Style Sheets</strong>) instead because they are more effective and efficient. By using <strong>CSS</strong>, you can eliminate redundant HTML tags and make your pages much lighter and faster to load</span></p>
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		<title>WordPress 3.0 Launched: wpdb::get_blog_prefix() error</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Automatic  – the creators of WordPress released their thirteenth major release code named as “Thelonious” and otherwise called as <strong>WordPress 3.0</strong>.</p>
<p>It is indeed worth the upgrade and the options of upgrading should already be available in your blog admin pages. So what is new in <strong><em>WordPress 3.0</em>.</strong> Let’s take a quick look at it -</p>
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<li><strong>New Default Theme (Twenty Ten):</strong> One of the most refreshing changes is that Kubrick is      gone and there is a new default theme called as the Twenty Ten theme. This      is to go with the new theme APIs. Twenty Ten is a more modern and flexible      theme that takes advantage of a lot of the new features.</li>
<li><strong>A Newer and Lighter Admin Interface:</strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">WordPress 3.0</span> comes with a new administration      interface. The new interface has contextual help on every page and has a      light feel to it.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress MU Merger:</strong> WordPress MU has now been designed into the wordpress administration in      WordPress 3.0. This will let users create multiple blogs from a single      installation.</li>
<li><strong>WordPress URL shortener:</strong> URL shortening can now be done from within your blog      as WordPress 3.0 has integrated support for URL shorteners including their      own wp.me.</li>
<li><strong>Choice of Admin name:</strong> You can now choose an admin name when you install a new blog and will not      have to rely on the default “admin” username any more.</li>
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<p>One of the major bugs that I found after upgrading to the new version was with the plugin “DB Cache Reloaded”. WordPress now has integrated a few new plugins which are probably conflicting with DB cache and producing the below error -</p>
<p>“<em>Call to undefined method wpdb::get_blog_prefix() in /home/xxxx/xxxx/xxxxx.com/public_html/wp-includes/user.php on line XXX</em>“</p>
<p>The easiest resolution to this error is to deactivate the “DB Cache Reloaded” plugin.</p>
<p>In conclusion I should say that WordPress 3.0 will change the way people blog. It is a welcome change – the admin interface and the contextual help and everything else. Upgrade and enjoy.</p>
<p><strong>Thanks to dkspeaks for the article</strong></p>
<p><strong>Check this video for more information about the wordpress 3.0</strong></p>
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