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With blogs becoming more and more user-friendly everyday, the need for a “Featured Post” display became a necessity. Say, for example, you begin a free giveaway on your blog on Monday. By Friday, if you had posted everyday during the week, that giveaway post from Monday may be on page 2, never to be seen again. This is where a “Featured Post” display comes in most handy. It appears that the use of jQuery to implement a very eye-appealing animated “Featured Post” display is becoming more and more in demand in the world of Wordpress themes. Here are some of the most popular javascript plugins to get the job done:

1. s3Slider – One of the most common types of “Featured Post” displays (and the one I use).
2. JSGallery – Maybe you want no words and only the post thumbnail images to display.
3. Agile Carousel – Another powerful jQuery slideshow-like plugin.
4. jCarousel Lite – Very lightweight javascript carousel plugin.

Sometimes, (if not most of the time) you want to know exactly what your competitors are doing and how do they excel in doing it right. Today Noupe wanted to share with us a comprehensive list of more than 13 online tools that can help you figure out why some of your competitors are ranking better than you.

You can use these services to benchmark your site performance versus your competitors, where You can analyze your competitor’s in-links, and assess your goals before starting any campaign. Statistics include Alexa Taffic Rank, Age of the domains, Yahoo WebRank, Dmoz listings, Feed Count, count of backlinks and number of pages indexed in Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc.

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I post quite a few things on my blog every day. I also submit all my links using del.icio.us and through some dark magic, have my links automatically posted on different blogs every night. Once you learn this tip, you’ll appear to blog frequently.

Because I use Wordpress I wanted a way to publish my del.icio.us links to my Blogger account everyday.

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