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Onlywire has grown up and olid; color: #0400b5;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" >blogging beginners need to take note to get their posts bookmarked and backlinks campaign off to a flying start.

Watch my video about Onlywire, the WordPress plugin and how to get set up and started.

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I recently created a video for blogging beginners that demonstrated the use of a Favicon plugin that I’ve been using for some time on a number of blogs. You know – make yourself stand out from the crowd by branding your RSS feed and the address bar etc.

One of the thoughts I had when filming the video was that many beginners just wouldn’t know how to go about creating an icon to use in the plugin or would have to fork out cash to get one made for them.

This morning I found another Favicon Plugin that resolves that problem as it comes pre-loaded with a wide range of icons that can be used until you are ready or able to create your own.

It follows the usual pattern – download, unzip, ftp to site and activate. At that point there is a slight deviation from the norm in that you have to register with an email address for the plugin to work.

Don’t worry, I’ve used other plugins from these guys and they aren’t too bad with the emails they send out. Once you’ve given your email address they’ll send you the usual “opt-in” confirmation at which stage you’ll be taken to a sales page. Frankly I don’t know what it was for – I just scrolled to the bottom and clicked No Thanks.

The plugin then works – all you need to do is go to it from your admin area – select the icon you want to use from those shown and the job’s done.

If you don’t like any of the icons provided there are links to obtain more or you could always create your own and upload it to the “icons” folder.

Just installed the Ozh Betterfeed Plugin and this post is just to demonstrate what happens to the RSS feed.

If you subscribe to the WizzerSays RSS feed you’ll see how I can easily add some text, links, social bookmarking buttons to every post that is distributed by RSS.

This can be changed as often as you want which gives you great control over your customer / visitor communications.

One of the MOST IMPORTANT uses of the Ozh Better Feed Plugin for marketers is the ability to add a download link in the footer of your feed. Normally it is very difficult to find a way of providing RSS subscribers with a download link. If you put it in your post any casual visitor gets access – if you have a standard email subscription may people just won’t sign up.

With RSS because it’s less obtrusive your sign up rates should be higher and you can reward those subscribers by adding a download link in the RSS feed. Obviously only those subscribed to the RSS feed will see it. Outstanding.

Members at blogging beginners have access to a video showing installation and use of this great plugin.