My girlfriend and I are seriously looking into purchasing one of the hot tubs we’ve looked at. I mean it makes sense especially for those cold winter months and undeniably chilly spring months. She’s bent on me purchasing a brand new one but it seems that I’m the only one who is closely watching our finances. I saw a discounted store that sells one of the tubs that she liked and I’ll be spending my money on that one. She’ll think that I paid $5,000 instead of the discounted price of $2,000. Now here’s to hoping that she never finds my blog.

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Last night I came across a nice little Wordpress plugin on SmackFoo.com. It’s called RSS Signature (previously known as sig2feed). Basically what it does is allow you to include a “signature” at the end of your posts when viewed from an RSS reader.

Here’s an example of the plugin in action: FeedBurner - FromWhatIHeard.com

Obviously the “Source: FromWhatIHeard.com…” line is not included in my posts when you view them from my blog. The plugin allows you to specify what you want to appear at the end of your posts when viewed in RSS readers.

I have taken the liberty to add some new options to the plugin, allowing you to easily include links pointing to your blog home page and even to each invidividual blog post.

Here’s an example of the code I created and added to my RSS signature:

<strong>Source:</strong> <a href=”%BLOGHOME%” target=”_blank”>%BLOGNAME%</a> | <a href=”%POSTLINK%” target=”blank”>%TITLE%</a>

As you can see from the FeedBurner example I posted above, every post contains a link back to the home page of my blog as well as a link to the individual post on my blog. This comes in very handy for when someone feels the need to scrape or “syndicate” your posts via RSS. Alot of spam blogs (a.k.a. Splogs) will load their blogs full of other blogs’ posts just to make it seem like they have a real blog with real content so they can use ads and other money making services on them.

You can download my modified version of this plugin here: Wordpress Plugins

I will post updates if I make any further changes.

If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them.

Are you interested in winning a free iPhone? Who wouldn’t be! BuzzPatrol.com is holding a little contest that will give you the opportunity to win a free iPhone and it’s very easy to enter. All you have to do is go to BuzzPatrol.com/contests and they list a few different ways to enter.

One of the ways to enter the contest is to post a review on your blog about their website. The review has to be 250 words or more with one link to the main website (BuzzPatrol.com) and an additional link using a variety of different keywords that are listed in the contest information. Another way to enter is to post a comment on some of their blog posts. They will allow up to 10 comment entries, giving you an even better shot at winning the contest. An even easier way to enter is to simply subscribe to their RSS feed and tell them what it says at the bottom of the feed, to verify that you subscribed. You can also add them to your Technorati (Technorati.com) favorites to enter the contest.

Spend two minutes to enter the contest and get the chance to win an iPhone. However you choose to enter the contest, It’s worth it.

Aside from the contests, they also have alot of interesting Entertainment News and articles on their website.

Check them out at www.BuzzPatrol.com and enter the contest.

While browsing through a few webmaster and blogging forums, I noticed a link to a new Free PR3 Link Directory in someones signature. I took a few seconds to add my link to the directory and within a couple of days I was actually seeing 5 to 10 unique visits per day to my blog coming from the link directory. I talked to the owner of the directory and he said they are still working on it, trying to make it look nicer and add some different features to it, but it’s fully functional right now if you want to add your links. The address is www.SubmitYour.info (clever domain name). Check it out and add your link. It couldnt hurt and it’s free, so why not?

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