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ContentRobot was excited to be included among the speakers at Affiliate Summit West in 2008, and always enjoyed our special relationship with affiliate marketers.

This morning we got treated to the announcement that the sixth issue of FeedFront, the official magazine of Affiliate Summit, is at the printer and it will be hitting mailboxes later in the month.

Our team wrote an article called “Five Ways to Keep WordPress Running Smoothly” that can be found on page 28. We also got featured on the cover - wow! Thanks, Shawn and Missy!

Can’t wait for the physical copy? Download a sneak peek of Issue [...]

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ContentRobot couldn’t wait to dive into our copy of WordPress for Business Bloggers by Paul Thewlis (published by Packt Publishing). While we have our own methodology, we were quite interested in his approach and the advice he has for the business blogger blogger-to-be.

Thewlis chose to navigate the reader through a sample case study, which involved installing and configuring WordPress (version 2.6 as of press time), plugins, and widgets. He also touched upon design, content, promotion, analytics, and monetization, which drove home that blogging isn’t something to jump into lightly.

It offered a great overview of all that goes into successful blogging. [...]

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Yesterday,  TechCrunch posted an obituary for RSS. Of course, many of the Twitterati nodded their heads vigorously in agreement.

While Twitter and its tools garner all the publicity as the technology du jour, it is not the savior or replacement to RSS. So don’t be so quick to toss that RSS reader!

Here are three reasons why we believe that RSS is not dead:

• Scanning through your subscribed content is infinitely more efficient than sifting through all the Twitter banter to find the gem or two of the day
• Newsreaders can display entire blog posts, images, audio, video, related links instead of the necessary, [...]

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Ah, we just scanned our blog and we see posts published in 2009 are (sigh) few and far between. Is ContentRobot adding to the trend of recent stories blaring that “Blogs Are Dead” and “A-listers Not Blogging?” Perhaps.

This quarter has been filled with many activities that have superseded blogging. Chief among them are:

• Client work has kept us way too busy, making us realize that we are extremely lucky in the face of the current economy.
• We’ve been busy experimenting with Twittering under a few profiles (contentrobot and wefixwp) and making new connections 140 characters at a time has been quite fun.
• We also [...]

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Affiliate Summit, the wildly successful affiliate marketing conference, wanted to re-brand their site with a new design.

ContentRobot took that challenge one step further. We then optimized the design to reside on top of a WordPress platform, starting with an original concept from TCP Global Solutions. The result was a dynamic blog-powered website.

The home page features were developed with a bunch of various coding techniques. Here’s how that was all done:

• The latest conference detail is shown from a particular a post
• The latest and/or upcoming conferences derived from the site description
• The past attendee testimonials pulled in from the blogroll feature
• The latest [...]

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