Site credits
Thanks first to all you Fungible Convictions readers. The stats show you’re very loyal, with about a quarter of all visitors returning regularly.
The last couple months saw some significant improvements to the technological guts of Fungible Convictions, none of which I can take credit for. If you are a lit blogger and/or WordPress user, I’m pleased to recommend the following goodies that are each recent additions.
WordPress plugins:
- Jerome’s Keywords: Generates a list of keywords for each post, for the page heads, and, thus, for search engines. It’s a set-it-and-forget-it kind of thing, unlike WordPress’s category functions, which take a lot of management.
- Jerome’s Keywords: Related Posts: Any time two or more posts share a keyword, those posts are linked on one another’s single-post page. So that when I write about an overweight mobster, it’s linked to a post on Dunkin Donuts (because they’re both tagged with Boston).
- AJAX Comments: A stylish way to add comments without reloading the page
Income and networking:
- Metaxu Cafe Litblog Network: Fungible Convictions is now a member. Many thanks for their profiling Fungible Convictions when FC became their 400th member blog—and for pointing me and others towards so many excellent writers.
- Amazon.com Associates Program: Foolproof, money-making linking to books that interest Fungible Convictions readers. They also provide a spiffy linking feature that generates an information window alongside a link upon a user’s mousing over it. For example: WordPress 2 (Visual QuickStart Guide)
- Brainiads: A recently launched Metaxu Cafe ad service featuring better ad targeting.
This site is the best thing that’s happened to my reading and writing life. I’ve received countless recommendations for great books, learned a lot of PHP coding, gotten the chance to interview editors and writers I admire, and discovered hours and hours of great blog-reading via links in your comments and e-mails. For all of that, my sincere thanks.
