RockinLetterhead is a two-column, clean blue, green, orange and white theme designed for blog content and sharp simplicity. Brajeshward WP Theme is a three column, fixed width theme which highlights the excerpt of the latest article on the homepage. Soccer is a widget ready two column, dark theme based on the game. Sleek 2C is a smooth and sleek, neat and clean, black and white, 2-column widget ready WordPress template with a professional look. Coffee Chick is a two column, widget ready in a 1950’s style with a plaid background. Angel is a widget ready, two column theme with a brown and cream color scheme and the picture of a little girl in the header. AqueousWP is a three column, fluid, widget ready theme with support for Gravatar2. Sunflower Gold is a three column, fixed width, widget ready theme with a sunflower header. BlueBreak is a single column, fixed width, […]

After reading MacManus’ post on BlogRovr I had to try it. I am a HUGE fan of Techmeme and any service that promises similar information with a personalized slant is something that I cannot wait to try. I signed up, downloaded the Firefox Plugin and exported/imported my feeds into the product. To sum up, BlogRovr is a vertical search engine, personalized from your favorite feeds that sits on top of your browser (FF in my case) and displays relevant posts about the page you are visiting from your feeds. The information is obtained real time and the display is fairly unobtrusive. For example: When I visit Photomatt.net, I get a series of 14 recent articles from my feeds, including tags from those items for links created to Photomatt for various reasons. For now, the plugin is not very processor intensive and MacManus has a detailed post on how it works […]

Spam Karma 2 v2.3 has just been released with several bug fixes, better plugin support. SK2 is an anti-spam plugin for the WordPress blogging platform. It is meant to stop all forms of automated Blog spam effortlessly, while remaining as unobtrusive as possible to regular commenters. XSPF Player Plugin embeds XSPF mp3 flash player on your blog and allows you to play local and remote mp3s.

Great Firewall of China : Use this tool to find out if your site or blog is banned in China. WeblogToolsCollection is not. It is interesting to notice that the disclaimer states that some sites might simply not be available for techincal reasons which might have nothing to do with censorship. Some of the obvious culprits that I tried came back with mixed results. Source: Various WordPress.com blogs that seem to be blocked. This is also a good time to mention that I am going to be visiting various cities in China and Japan at the beginning of December including Shanghai, Beijing and Tokyo and would love to meetup and exchange ideas and contacts with my readers and other WordPress users and bloggers while I am there. I will be posting dates soon.

RockinBizRed3 is a 3 column, widget ready, business friendly theme with a red an white color scheme and replaceable header image. RedBlue is a three column widget ready WordPress theme with right-hand sidebars and red and blue shamrocks in the header. XPress is a blue and green, XP Style two column theme. Pink Flowers is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme with a right sidebar, ideal for floral and gift sites. Redline is a red and white, widget ready theme with support for several plugins. Orange Juice is a two column, widget ready, fixed width theme with an orange in the header. Moony is a fixed width black theme with a big moon in the background. Lavrentis is a two column, fixed width, widget ready theme. Brownish is a brown and black, three column, fixed width theme for WordPress.

Blogstamp plugin makes a request of timestamp (the number of seconds elapsed since the 0 hour of the 1st of January of 1970 GMT), certified by third parts, and adds a signature, which comprised of contents SHA-1 hash, returned timestamp and a digital signature. The WP Link Directory is a link directory plugin on the Internet for WordPress admin to store and maintain a set of links in classified categories. AdSenseBot-Stats counts the visits of Google AdSense Bot (Mediapartners) and writes them into a database. The WordPress Updated Plugin echoes the last modification date instead of the standard the_time() and the_date(). Routes allows you to add geographical route information to articles and pages in a WordPress blog, and map the routes using Google Maps. Subscription Icons allows you to put a set of icons for RSS subscriptions on your WordPress blog page.

Blue Quarter is a two column, blue, widget ready theme with inbuilt support for JQuery and Simple Tagging Plugin. Artic is a two column widget ready theme cold colours and a leafless tree header. Blue Real is a two column black, blue and orange theme. DarkNet is a two column, w3c validated, 2 column, black, blue, white and gray theme. Sunset Manor is a two column theme inspired by the movie Little Miss Sunshine. OrangeView is Fixed width WordPress theme with sidebar on the right side. JetSTAR is a two column theme with rounded corners and a blue color scheme. Eliba is a bright and colorful 2 column theme. Basketball is a two column, widget ready theme meant for basketball sites. And, Milo has released Flush, Superfly and Rion.

This is part II of the Link Building series. (view Part I) Outbound Linking This article is going to briefly overview outbound linking and why it can be both good and bad. Don’t fret though, the third and last part of this series will conclude with how to actually manufacturer links to your site — the first two parts are preliminary background articles for those that are new to the industry of link building. Outbound linking is something some, even very good and amazing, SEOs overlook. When a search engine looks at your site, it looks at what sites are linking to you. But in that process of evaluating where to rank you, it also looks at what sites you are linking to. To throw out an example, let’s use Google Inside. It’s a site that talks about Google and touches on search engine news and other industry related news. […]