1 Bit Audio Player is a very simple and lightweight Adobe Flash MP3 player with automatic JavaScript insertion. It’s main purpose is to act as a quick in-page preview for audio files you link to from your website or blog.

Pagebar adds a nice page bar for selecting individual pages instead of just the previous or next page.

wpSEO plugin rewrites your blog title, META description and META keywords so these are more user and search engine friendly. (Page in German)

Amazon Book Picture allows you to include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from Amazon.

Fancy Pullquotes is a simple plugin for WordPress that allows you to effortlessly obtain a nice pull-quote of a specified text. The pull-quote will be formatted with a fancy nice style, exactly like one of those you can read on a regular magazine.

Alt to Legend is a plugin for WordPress 2.0 that allows you to display the ALT text of an image as its caption.

Updated Today displays a banner in the upper left corner of your blog when the date of the last post matches todays date, therefore telling the visitor that your blog has been updated today.

Inline Ajax Page (INAP) is an extremely powerful plugin that allows you to harness the power of AJAX to improve your user’s experience. INAP is not only able to load posts, comments and the add comment box inline, but can also submit comments, paginate posts, paginate your homepage, thread comments or display a live comment preview.

Stocks Watchlist allows you to publish a Stocks Watchlist on your blog. Each stock symbol links to the Yahoo page for that stock and a “live” (20 second delay) price is shown next to the stock.

Classic Posts will allow you to select posts to be stickied and then randomly displayed.

The Wp-PlugIM plugin puts the votebox from PlugIM.com on your blog posts.

NextGen Gallery is a full fledged image gallery plugin for WordPress with support for albums, watermark functions, slideshow and zip upload support.

Jaiku allows you to display your latest Jaiku presence as well as update it.

PlugInstaller allows automatic downloading and installation of WP plugins directly from the admin interface without having to upload/unpack anything via FTP.

Admin SSL secures WordPress login and admin pages for that extra bit of security.

Mass Post Manager allows you to move or delete all posts and/or comments in selected category.

WP-BOFH randomly displays BOFH postings in your template.

Leetspeak replaces text between the [1337] container with leetspeak.

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Just in case you’ve forgotten, an outbound link is a url that you have on your site that points to another website.

In today’s Google PR obsessed Internet world, everyone is completely focusing on getting in bound links to your site. While you should always be on a mission to get more sites to link to yours, you must not forget their polar opposites.

Remember, by having outbound links from your site, you are in essence “voting” for the site you link to. This is part of the entire ranking algorithm process for all the search engines. The idea is, that if two sites are similar in content and design, a site with more links pointing to it would be considered more important by the search engine.

So then, why should you help out any other site? Actually, by carefully linking to other relevant sites, you are increasing the relevancy of your own site.

Pretend I have a pizza shop, and I am located in Anywhere, USA. It’s a typical site that displays types of pizza, store location, hours, and coupons. I also know the power of outbound linking. For this case, I am going to link to 10 sites: Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns. Next, I link to 6 sites that are physically located in Anywhere, USA. (And their physical addresses are listed on their sites.)

Now, I will switch roles and view the site as a search engine spider. I navigate through the site, and determine that this site is about pizza. Then I find a resource page and discover some well-known links (Domino’s, Pizza Hut, Little Ceaser’s & Papa Johns – and as the spider I know that these are major players in the realm of pizza). Next, I find 6 links to sites located in Anywhere, USA.

So, as a happy spider leaving the site, I now know that the site I just visited is about pizza (site content and links to the major players of the pizza industry), and that it is located in Anywhere, USA.

Next, I visit one of the 6 sites listed as a resource in Anywhere, USA. I find the local address, and it has the same zip code as the pizza site I was just at. Now I know how these two sites are related to each other.

Taking into account the fact that this local pizza shop has also linked to the major pizza chains, as the spider, I am lead to believe that this shop has relevancy to the zip code of Anywhere, USA.

So, as the spider returns the information to the database to be processed in the algorithm, it has pre-sorted some search results based on the links your site points to.

Another benefit of outbound linking is Geo Targeting, or Local search. There is a lot of speculation that local search is the next big trend in Search Marketing. While only time will tell, it won’t hurt to have your physical address listed on your website for those who will be embracing local search.

As an experiment, I created a site with a very unique url (to avoid the possibility of people finding it by accident), and I made it only 1 page long. The only thing the page consisted of were 80+ outbound links to relevant sites in the SEO industry, tools, forums and some tutorials. When the PageRank was first updated for the site, it came out of the box with a PR of 3. It has since fallen to a PR of 2 (now that I’ve pointed a few sites to it!).

The whole point of this experiment was to see how outbound links affect your own rankings of your site. I was able to generate a PR of 2 based entirely on linking to authority sites in the SEO industry. So, take the time to link to some relevant sites, the big names (if any), and enjoy the power of the easy, outbound link.

-To your online success!

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