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There were some problems with the blog but I’m happy to tell you that everything is fixed now. Four new posts I’d made weren’t showing up, so that’s why you hadn’t seen any new content. But they’re up now and it’s better. If you ever see anything else wrong with this blog, please leave a comment letting me know. I will also get a contact form up soon which you can use.

Now that everything is fixed, I will get back into the normal posting drill! Thank you for your patience.

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I’m getting absolutely sick and tired of people thinking it’s just fine to take my content. This happened just a few days ago, and I wasn’t happen about it. Now I don’t even know what to say. Don’t people know that plagiarism is illegal? Taking other people’s words and claiming them for your own is illegal - even if it is online!

Over at Rediffiland, a place to have your own special web space and such (I think it’s for Indian bloggers), on one person’s page they copied and pasted, word for word, my article about blog top lists. And you know what? They didn’t even give me a link back. Their page was full of “their information” about getting traffic and such. But they stole my article without giving any credit. Nothing.

I wouldn’t have even found out about it unless I’d received the pingback from the the ViralTags they did on the same page. Hah. Clever.

Basically, I’m tired of it. What’s wrong with giving a little credit where credit is due? I feel ripped off and there’s never anything I can do about it. It’s NOT right. I work very hard on all of my articles and content. I’ve spent countless hours on this blog.

Why, in the article they stole, there was a section that listed my thoughts and recommendations. It was misleading even more because that makes a person think they wrote it, and that’s what they think… But no, it was my article they stole and put up on their special web space post. Write your own content, people! Stealing and plagiarism are illegal!

What can I do? I’m surprised this is happening to me - I’m not even a big blogger, so why is my content getting stolen left and right? “Famous” bloggers must have their content stolen constantly! But I ask, what can I do about this?

Actually, click here to check out where my post was ripped off of me. I don’t care about being anonymous this time. Scroll down, my article is at the very bottom. How hideous. That person isn’t even smart enough to write something decent on their own.

I’m very sorry for my bad mood. I apologize, I am so so grouchy. I didn’t go to sleep at all last night. All-nighter. I have huge bags under my eyes and my veins are popping out of my hands. I’m supposed to be cleaning the entire house and I can’t deal with this and think about it without getting upset. I just want to know what I can do!

Over and out… Gotta go clean some more…

QUICK EDIT: The community site’s rules for what people are allowed to post: “However, by posting the content you represent and warrant that you either own or otherwise control all the rights in the content including but not limited to the intellectual property rights, right to post, upload, input or submit the content. By posting/ uploading the content you are granting Rediff.com, its subsidiaries, affiliates a non-exclusive, royalty free, perpetual, worldwide license to use the content posted by you including without limitation the right to adapt, copy, create derivative works based on, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, alter, edit, format, translate, store, view, sublicense and/or delete your content, without compensation to you or any other provider of the content. You also permit any user/anyone to access, display, view, store and reproduce your content for personal use.” Basically, you have to own the content. That specific person stole it.

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This is my second round-up of awesome posts and blogs. If you don’t check these out, you’re missing out! The posts featured here are ones I’ve come across while online and liked. I think they would benefit visitors of this blog or be of interest to you if you read them. I personally select posts for my round-ups, but if you have a good post you think should be shown on this blog (that is relevant to my content), consider entering my upcoming blog carnival. You also have a better chance of your articles being noticed for my round-ups if you comment on this blog, because I will most likely check out your website if you comment. So I hope you enjoy this round-up of the best of the blogosphere!

INCREDIBLE POSTS

10 Simple Ways To Get Banned By Google - Court has written this fantastic posts about what you should do if you want to get banned by Google. Or, if you don’t want to get banned, you should not do these things. Check it out!

Sell Your Background - Kumiko from Cash Quests is always coming up with and discovering greats ways to make money online. Here she talks about selling your website’s background to rake in the big bucks. It’s a great article!

Surefire Ways To Get A Truck Load Of Comments - A great article by Jonathon over at Smart Wealthy Rich. He discusses what you can do to acquire a lot of comments on your blog, and how. This is a must-read!

The Key To Successful and Longterm Websites - Over at Cash Bulge is this incredible post about how to keep your motivation flowing. Sometimes it can be hard to keep going, but by reading this article you’ll get some great tips. I really recommend reading it.

How To Make Your Own Font - This interested me very much even though it’s not about building a website or making money online. Making my own font is something I’ve always wanted to do, and when I make some extra cash I might consider it. This is pretty neat, check it out!

How To Tell Google You Don’t Like Their Search Results - As you might or might not know, John Chow has recently been punished by Google for his link schemes, but now he’s fighting back! Hehe, if I were you I’d give this one a look.

Buy Blog Comments - A Sick New Comment Spam Service Launches - Owner of Problogger, Darren Rowse, has expressed his thoughts on the new system which involves buying blog comments to get yourself new linkbacks. It’s an interesting idea but I have to agree with Darren, it’s not a good one.

Ten Quick Tips To Improve Your Self Esteem - This is not in my niche, but it’s a great article and one that applies to everyone. I’m a pretty self conscious person so I really liked this. The post is wonderful and so are the tips it offers.

AMAZING BLOGS

It’s a lot easier to find posts than point out blogs, because there are just too many cool blogs out there. So today I’m going to point you in the direction of my blogroll. It’s found in the sidebar, labeled as ‘Links’. The blogroll is right above the archives and currently below the recent comments list. All of the blogs in my blogroll I recommend and are very worthwhile to check out, so give them a peek when you get the time, please.

Well, that’s a wrap! I’ll try to get in another round-up soon, but if you’ve gone through all these posts and blogs and still need more, see the Best of the Blogosphere Round-Up #1. It’s also full of some great content gathered up for you. Remember to enter my blog carnival for links and exposure. Thank you, and I hope you enjoyed the second round-up!

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I’ve been meaning to do this for some time now and I finally put off the procrastination. Super Blogging is now a dofollow blog! I have another thing to mark off my list of to-dos after installing this plugin.

What is dofollow?

Basically it is the opposite of nofollow. If links have “rel=nofollow” in them, the link will not be counted by Technorati or Google. Links that are follow and nofollow both look the same, but they are treated differently. The nofollow one doesn’t count, you might say. It won’t improve your rankings and you won’t get PageRank juice from it.

Automatically this blog sets a nofollow command to all the links in the comments. If you’ve left a comment on this blog, and put in your website address, it was automatically set as a nofollow. But not anymore! Read on…

What does installing this plugin have to do with anything?

Now that I have installed the dofollow plugin, the links to your website on the comments you leave will count! The dofollow plugin removes the nofollow command from the links in the comments. Now if you comment on this blog, you will receive a link that is scored with Technorati and Google and improves your rankings.

Why did you install the dofollow plugin?

It is a great way to reward my commentators. Part of running a good blog is having comments. For everyone who comments on this blog, I want to give a little something back. Of course, I want to reward people who leave thoughtful comments valuable to the discussion, not spam. If your comment is not relevant to anything or is just plain spam I promise you it will be deleted.

So if nothing else encourages you to get active in the community, I hope this does! Now if you comment and leave your thoughts on a post or a discussion, you will receive a link back for it. Thank you to all of my commentators!

If you want to take a look at the plugin or get it for your own blog, it can be found here.

Thoughts Aside

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Yesterday I installed a plugin on this blog which allows me to create a poll (or polls). It’s very easy to use, offers a lot of options, and looks great! The WP-Polls plugin is great for any type of blogger. No matter what your niche, if you have something quick to ask your readers or need some information to improve your blog, this gets it done.

When creating a poll you enter your question and the answers voters can select between. You can also set it so multiple answers can be selected, and up to how many. You can set a start and end date for the poll, or make it so it never expires. You can fully customize how your polls look, between their colors, size, fonts, and how answers and results are sorted. You get to decide who votes and how the voters are logged so they can’t vote over and over and ruin your statistics.

If your Wordpress blog allows the use of widgets, then this will be extra easy. You just activate the plugin and then put the widget in your blog where you want it. If your theme isn’t widget ready, then there’s a simple explanation for putting the polls up yourself here.

If you want to have one poll running at a time, that’s fantastic. If you want to have numerous polls that show up randomly, then that’s possible too! All you’ve got to do is select one easy setting and you’re ready to go.

You can also create a poll archive on its own page, where you can list all of your running polls, or the results of all your closed polls. That’s not hard to do at all and you get to choose practically every setting along the way. This plugin let’s YOU be the boss of your blog, and nearly every choice is yours so the poll is exactly the way you want it to be.

Everything you need to know how to do can be explained on the poll plugin page. I like listing pros AND cons, but I don’t really see much of anything wrong with this plugin at all. I believe that this will definitely come in handy for any blogger sooner or later. I will be running multiple polls so I can learn more about my readers and how to please them and make this blog better for everyone. Who doesn’t like voting in a good poll anyway? I think they’re fun.

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