Have you ever noticed how some posts generate more traffic than others on your blog? Have you then noticed how once those high traffic posts move down or off the page, your traffic goes down as well? Give the people what they want and rotate your high traffic posts back to the top of your blog.

I have a restaurant review blog and I’ve been getting a ton of traffic from my review of Taboo Fine Dining and Lounge. So what do I do?
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I reported some time ago about my incredible free e-book moneymaking experiment. The experiment consisted of making one of my ebooks free to the public through a website, ohiorentersrights.com. So far sales have remained about the same which is good. That means that offering the product for free hasn’t hurt sales at all. We are only a couple months into the experiment so it’s too early to tell whether it was a success or not. Traffic is growing to the site each month. If I can get 2-3 thousand unique visitors per month by the end of the year and double sales, I would say that the site is well on its way to finding success.
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I noticed my 1.0.2 version of Photo Dropper went kablooey. It appears you have to update to beyond 1.0.2 for Wordpress 2.5 compatibility. I updated to what is right now the latest Photo Dropper 1.0.5.

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photo credit: cbanck

Want to build regular traffic to your blog? Then you need to post on a regular basis. My last post was April 6. This is not good. I try to post 4-5 times a week on my main blogs. Yes, you read that right, “blogs.” And therein lies the problem. I have too many blogs. If you followed my post on semiproblogging.com, you’ll see that my advice is to focus on a few blogs to turn the internet buck. Apparently, I’m focused or unfocused on too many blogs.

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I have two Wordpress 2.5 tips today.

1 - When working with images, go ahead and upload all your images at once and then add them one by one to your post. This seems to be the easiest way to work with images in Wordpress 2.5 that I’ve found. Also, if you follow an image naming scheme like - wordpressdashboard01.jpg, wordpressdashboard02.jpg, etc., you can insert the first image and from there just copy the code and change the image number for future images

2 - Wordpress 2.5 now searches pages and posts when you do a search in the Wordpress search box. I didn’t realize that prior Wordpress versions only searched the posts. I often add my own google search box in the side bar to go with google searches of my sites instead.

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Wow this is cool! You can insert a whole gallery of photos into your post. You can also upload the images all at once. I did these all in one upload then just selected gallery and then just hit “Add Gallery to Post.”

This is a nice way to handle a bunch of photos quickly and easily.

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Wordpress 2.5 has stats right on the dashboard. If you have trouble finding the dashboard look to the upper left of the screen and you’ll see a tab for it.

Wordpress Stats in Dashboard

Wordpress also gives you some cool data on posts and pages.
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Here’s further lack of protection from Paypal for sellers of digital products.

On March 31, 2008, someone purchased an online legal form (lease) from me for $3.99. Today, I receive the following:
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Check out the bottom right corner of this picture. You can grab the edge with your mouse pointer and just stretch or compress the text box to any size you want. Now I can see the whole post or most of the post without scrolling up and down all day! Good job, Wordpress!

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The Wordpress 2.5 Dashboard has switched things up a bit and I was a little confused on how to add a photo to my blog. After some searching, I found it staring me right in the face.

You’ll see it here where the “Add Image” balloon has popped up. Click on that and you get the following pop up screen:
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