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Here are the winners from the previous $600+ Give Away Contest.

First Place Winner

• Frederick Ding wins a custom banner design from buytemplates.net.

Second Place Winners

• BFG 9000 wins a 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
• Ajay wins a 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.

Third Place Winners

• Kathy wins a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.
• Mek wins a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days.

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I think Twitter goes hand in hand with professional blogging. There are many creative ways to harness the power of Twitter. Personally, I use Twitter to keep in touch with all of my readers (P.S. if I’m not following you yet, please tweet @madeinthayaland and tell me that you are one of my readers!). That said, I spend a lot of time on Twitter.com and there are many things that I wish it had.

Recently my good friend Artem Russakovskii wrote an awesomely massive post introducing me to some very slick Twitter hacks.
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WP Greet Box version 4.8 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has a few minor enhancements.

1. Added support for non-cache-compatible mode for people who do not use this plugin with any caching plugins. If you do not use any cache plugins, I recommend disabling cache compatibility so you do not get that load “bump” when jQuery dynamically loads the greeting banner above your post text.
2. Added option to disable JS references for manual JS management.

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WP Greet Box version 4.7 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has a few minor enhancements.

1. Added friendfeed.com, linkedin.com, and plurk.com along with corresponding icons.
2. Made related posts not show up if no related results are found.

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Prizes

• One 1st place winner will get one custom banner design from buytemplates.net ($149 value)
• Two 2nd place winners will each get one 125×125 do-follow ad spot on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days ($30 total value)
• Two 3rd place winners will each get a do-follow blogroll link on OMNINOGGIN for 30 days ($20 total value)
• Every contestant will get a 185 icons pack at the end of the contest from icongalore.com ($134 value)
  
• Every contestant will get 10 premium exclusive templates immediate after subscribing to the buytemplates.net newsletter ($290 value)
  

How to enter

Here are the things you need to do to participate in this contest:

1. Subscribe to the buytemplates.net newsletter.
2. Subscribe to the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed.
3. Open the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed it in your feed reader, scroll down to the footer section of this post, and write down the special code for this contest (it should be highlighted in burgundy)
4. Comment on this post saying that you have subscribed to the buytemplates.net newsletter, subscribed to the OMNINOGGIN RSS feed, and make sure to include the special code for this contest.

This will earn you 1 entry into this contest!

Increase your chance of winning

After performing the above required steps to enter, you can increase your chance of winning by doing any of the following.

• Stumble this post (+1 entry): Make sure you include your StumbleUpon user name along with the entry comment above.
• Digg this post (+1 entry): Make sure you include your Digg user name along with the entry comment.
• Vote this post up on Reddit (+1 entry): Make sure you include your Reddit user name along with entry comment.
• Twitter about the contest (+2 entries): Make sure you include @madeinthayaland into your tweet and include your Twitter user name with the entry comment.
• Blog about the contest (+3 entries): Make sure include the URL of your blog post in the entry comment.

When does the contest end?

Sponsor

This contest is sponsored by Website Templates from buytemplates.net. Buytemplates.net is a one stop shop for all your website requirements. They offer the following products and services:

• Professional pre-designed website templates
• Template customization
• Custom template creation (custom web design)
• SEO/SEM services
• Website Maintenance Services

You can download hundreds of templates with a small membership fee. Their membership fee starts as low as $49 for budget, $69 for standard, and $99 for premium plans. You don’t have to hire a web designer or external web design studio and pay enormously to design a single web template.

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photo credit: David Locke1

Ajay D’Souza has done it again and brought fellow WordPress users another much needed plugin called Top 10. This plugin counts daily/total visits per post and displays the most popular posts based on the number of views. Now you might just smirk and say that this is just another popular post plugin, but if you continue reading, I will go over how this plugin is different from many other popular posts plugins.

What’s special about Top 10?

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This might be old news to you, but you should know that the Googlebot now follow links created by Javascript. I have seen evidence of this myself and was starting to get frustrated that I would have to reevaluate my site and patch any leaking link juice from Javascript links. Before I got to the point of full frustration, I realized that I can use this Googlebot “feature” to my advantage and use Javascript itself to easily correct this leaking link juice problem.
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WP Greet Box version 4.6 is here!

What’s new this release?

This version of WP Greet Box has a few minor enhancements.

1. Added ability to import and export all WP Greet Box options (including greeting messages).
2. Added option to disable CSS for manual CSS management.
3. Enhance upgrade procedure. Now all you have to do is visit any admin page after every upgrade.

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