The first of 12 (let us pray) monthly article roundups for this blog is here! I already discussed bringing this feature back yesterday. I may or may not include ALL the posts for the month, so you are free to check the blog archives.

1. UPDATE: Changes Made To The Permanent BackLink Page (29) - A reminder to those subscribed via email, be sure to contact me. If you’re not, make it so!

2. Do You Have Blank Blog Advertisement Slots? (92) - Do you? An important message within.

3. Threaded Comments Have Arrived! Edit Comments Is Coming… (87) - After all, a blogs main focus is inter-activity right? A Wordpress plugin every community should have. Does yours?

4. Do You Have An Advertising Page? (61) - An important followup to #2 regarding blank blog advertisements. Still accepting your responses and link if you haven’t already. Do you have one?

Some may feel a bit slighted, but I believe the majority will be OK…or even better. I’ll get straight to the point with explanation to follow. Unfortunately sole Twitter followers (those not subscribed to the blog) will NOT have their Twitter link permanently in place, as originally planned.

This is something I have been thinking about since before I even put up the original post. Among other things, my one worst fear has come to life even quicker then I thought it would…..those attempting to cheat the system by un-following as if I wouldn’t know. Such silly people.

My reasons in full are as follows…

1. Email Subscribers show A LOT more trust and faith in a particular blogger then anyone else, and should be rewarded for it accordingly.

Update - Please see this post for final changes to the page.

As I’m sure most of you remember, I announced back in mid-December that I was installing a permanent backlink page for anyone that subscribed via email, and/or follows me on Twitter. (The possibility of two links.)

I also said it would be ready to display by the following Monday…well, it WAS but I ran into the really annoying issue of too much on my Nav. bar.

FIXED! Thanks to the awesomeness that is Jarret Cade, and his amazingly simple tutorial on how to hide navigation pages, I have done it!

Notice the Comment Policy is gone from the top…now hidden and solely linked to from within the comments (where it belongs, duh).

Latest Update - Please see this post for final changes to the page.

Our $100 Best Blog Review contest is in full effect! Will you be going for the gold?

Update to post below: The page itself is completed (excluding links) but I need help with the Title before publishing. Right now it’s “Meet Our Subscribers”. Ideally it should imply both subscribers and Twitter followers, however “Meet Our Subscribers & Twitter Followers” is far too long.

Any thoughts? Please use the contact form only.

For all those new to this post, read on and comment with your links!

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I was going to wait until the New Year to announce this coolness, but why wait to make my people happy!

As you all should know by now, I am all about sharing the luv link style with those that luv me (and those that don’t yet, but will). Y’all know who I mean; those that read, subscribe, comment, and generally share their generous knowledge with us all.

The following is a guest post by Donna Fontenot, better know as DazzlinDonna from seo-scoop. Pay attention boys and girls; if you’ve ever had a thousand ideas, but don’t know where to start (who hasn’t?), this is a good one .

Those who know me well, know that I have new site ideas nearly every day. Although I don’t act upon every idea that floats through my head, I do act upon quite a few of them. Occasionally, I’ll start a new site just on a whim, but I at least “try” to be sensible about it before starting one. Essentially, the smart thing to do before I waste time starting a new site is to determine several things:

1. Can the site make money - either while I own it or from selling the site later?

A favicon (short for favorites icon), also known as a website icon, shortcut icon, url icon, or bookmark icon is an icon associated with a particular website or webpage. Source.

That’s right! A very fast post today. I need a Favicon for this URL and personally I have no clue.

The one that comments below with the best idea for a Favicon wins a quick and easy $5 bucks via Paypal (including fees )

On top of that, EVERYONE that participates honestly (an individual idea) gets a courtesy link-back in the follow-up winners post!

(Come to think of it, if you know how to make and install one, that’s good too.)

So, what’s your idea?

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

Hello everyone,

By now some of you have begun to notice that my CommentLuv plugin is out of action. I’m sorry, I was really hoping to have it working before too long.

This is also why I haven’t responded to comments in the past day or so, which I’m going to get to right after this post; here’s what I think happened…

I installed one plugin that was meant to clearly show backlinks of what blogs were linking to what post within this blog.

Very cool I thought as it is much clearer then looking at trackbacks. I also installed a 2nd companion plugin who’s sole purpose is to help the first plugin work.

As far as I can tell, one or both of these did a serious screw job on my inner workings and took out CommentLuv…..so far I don’t see any other problems, which I suppose is a really good thing.