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Top 10 US Social-Network and Blog Site Rankings

MySpace.com still tops the rankings of top US social networking sites, with nearly 57.4 million unique visitors in November, down from October’s 58.8 million.

Google’s Blogger remains atop blog site rankings with 33.6 million visitors, down from October’s 34.1 million.

Ranked second among social-networking sites, Facebook increased the number of visitors to nearly 22.0 million, up from October’s 19.5 million - and up 89% vs. Nov. 2006, whereas MySpace visitors increased just 7% year over year.

For the blog sites, top-ranked Blogger and second worpress.com. Wordpress Grows 310% this Year I think wordpress will ranking on top. We see about it.

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XML Sitemap increase your spider serp

This blog now on new hosting host by hostmonster.com. When update this blog to wordpress 2.3.1 there many error because wordpress 2.3.1 not support certain plugin I used. One of the plugin is XML Sitemap.

I now update XML Sitemap to new one that support wordpress 2.3.1 and all running smooth. You can get this great plugin at arnebrachhold.de .
Installation Step
1. Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory
2. Make your blog directory writable OR create two files named sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and make them writable via CHMOD. In most cases, your blog directory is already writable so you don’t need to do anything.
3. Double make sure that your blog directory is writable or two writable files named sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz exist!
4. Activate it in the Plugin options
5. Edit or publish a post or click on Rebuild Sitemap on the Sitemap Administration Interface in the menu under Options -> XML Sitemap

This plugin format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search. Thank you Arne Brachhold

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Copyblogger theme for WordPress

Need theme like copyblogger? Chris Pearson created a Copyblogger theme for WordPress (demo).

This theme is highly customizable with custom stylesheet solution. you can download the add-on style package “Organic” (demo) to change the theme design without applying a new theme.

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How to increase your blog traffic

Getting traffic for blog is important, but how to make our blog getting a lot of traffic? Every people have their own way to do. There many tips on internet write about how to generate traffic to blog.

All tips that writing maybe just for who write it, but not for other person, so here we must find what kind method that works for you.

I found one blog post from copyblogger.com, where you can get a lot of tips to generate traffic,

here the link http://www.copyblogger.com/increase-web-traffic/

Hope you can learn something and increase you blog visitor.

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Wordpress Upgred And New Themes

Now my blog upgrade to 2.2.1 from 2.1.3. I use Fantastico to upgrade my blog. It fast and easy upgrade. No need to upload wordpress script manually using ftp.

You just need login to your hosting cpanel where your blog host. Find Fantastico icon. Click wordpress and you will see you using the latest wordpress or not.

Before your upgrade to new wordpress make sure backup your database and switch back wordpress default themes.

Using Fantastico to upgrade just work if your blog first install using Fantastico.

Reason I upgrade wordpress to latest version.

• Atom feed validation fixes
• XML-RPC fixes
• Widget backward compatibility fixes
• Widget layout fixes for IE7Page and Text Widget improvements

And the important one because I upgrade to wordpress version 2.2.1 there got some security issues about:-

• Remote shell injection in PHPMailer
• Remote SQL injection in XML-RPC Discovered by Alexander Concha.
• Unescaped attribute in default theme

You can refer here for more information Here

I chose SK2 3 Column for my new theme. I like 3 Column themes. How about you? You can download this theme from 3 Column K2 V 0.9.5.2

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23 Social Bookmarking Sites

Are looking for how to generate traffics to your blog. Maybe this 23 social bookmarking site can help increases your blog traffic.

www.myweb2.search.yahoo.com/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 1
www.digg.com/ PageRank: 8/10 | Alexa: 80
www.del.icio.us/ PageRank: 8/10 | Alexa: 159
www.netscape.com/ PageRank: 9/10 | Alexa: 504
www.reddit.com/ PageRank: 8/10 | Alexa: 882
www.fark.com/ PageRank: 8/10 Alexa: 1,223
www.43things.com PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 1,706
www.mister-wong.de/ PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 2,141
www.furl.net/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 3,166
www.blinklist.com/ PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 3,516
www.newsvine.com/ PageRank: 7/10 Alexa: 3,681
www.blogmarks.net/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 6,016
www.ma.gnolia.com/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 7,117
www.simpy.com/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 10,262
www.shoutwire.com PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 10,105
www.spurl.net/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 11,531
www.bluedot.us/ PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 12,259
www.blinkbits.com/ PageRank: 6/10 Alexa: 15,104
www.netvouz.com/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 18,760
www.trailfire.com/ PageRank: 5/10 | Alexa: 22,278
www.wink.com/ PageRank: 3/10 | Alexa: 22,231
www.backflip.com/ PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 26,605
www.linkagogo.com/ PageRank: 7/10 | Alexa: 45,299
www.de.lirio.us/ PageRank: 6/10 | Alexa: 52,009
www.blogmemes.net/ PageRank: 5/10 | Alexa: 56,592

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