1. Upgrade to wordpress 2.02

2. Activate Akismet antispam plugin by signing up at wordpress.com to get your API number.

Full Instructions are here - (After install I was able to delete 350 spam comments with one click)

I love this three column wordpress layout. It’s K2 three column. Honestly my previous theme was giving me the willi wonkers.

Gerard Ly aka Magic has made a nice little mailing list plugin for wordpress which I have just installed here.

It has it’s own admin interface which allows you to manage several categories, add and remove members and accept automatic signups from your wordpress blog.

I am going to be running it here and will be having a little exclusive newsletter which will notify you of new posts, but also have some special stuff that does not get published on the blog.

You will be able subscribe to it shortly. I want to acknowledge Gerard for his great Mailing list plugin.

Ever wondered how much a link is worth? You may be selling a link or wanting to buy a link on a page. It’s sometimes a little gray.

Well, fret not because your trusty blogmeister will shortly reveal a little tool to give you a link pricing estimate. Using the following tool a link on my home page is worth $11 month. Wanna buy one? I wonder why I’m giving all these cats free link popularity. Well, I’ll tell you what. If you have a really really cool site, product or service I will give you a link for free for a month, but only if you explain in this post why your site is of value to mankind.

Otherwise, I suppose they are for sale in the side bar - now they are actually site wide there, most of my internal pages are PR3 as well. So at $10 month you have a bargain.

Two conditions - you are polite and I decide if it’s appropriate of not. I don’t recommend drugs, gambling porn just as a guide.

Now back to that tool that you may find useful. And if you don’t find it useful you should at least find it interesting. And if you don’t find it interesting well I wonder if you would move if I prodded you with a sharp stick.

Ok, back to the cool link value tool again http://www.webconfs.com/link-value.php