FirePow - Set Your Blogging On Fire

It was really interesting for me to see that Adsense recently released “Scrolling Ads”.

To be honest I didn’t even have time to check it out but I assume what it was is dynamic Adsense ads, where the ads are visibly moving on the page and scrolling through a number of ads rather than a static display.

It was really interesting because months earlier I’d created a plugin for Firepow that does very similarly.

This plugin lets you choose an element of your sidebar that is a list, for example your recent posts, or your categories…

It lets them be displayed not statically, but by physically scrolling down your sidebar. So when you look at your sidebar, you see your recent posts rolling through, one after another

What’s so good about this?

Well besides making your site look cooler…

1. It means you can expose your readers to a wider range of your blogs content meaning more chance of something appealing to them and them staying on your site for another post.

and 2. It can help increase the average time a user stays on your site - a factor many believe will become an important determinant of search engine ranking.

It’s hard to show a screenshot of this plugin because it wouldn’t catch the “dynamic-ness” of it - but let me assure you, it’s pretty darn cool

Launch is now less than a month away!

Popularity: 10% [?]

If you ever work with Camtasia and have wordpress blogs you might have come across the issue of it being pretty frickin hard to get camtasia video on to your wordpress blog…

Not anymore!

One of the plugins we developed was one to let you easily insert a camtasia video into a blog post…

Here are some screenshots…

So when you go to write a post you see a little camtasia button in the editor toolbar >>

Then when you click it, you can select your camtasia video file that you’ve uploaded somewhere (not the html, just the raw video file like an .swf for example…

Or you can upload a video if you haven’t already…

Then you can change the size of the video inside your post…

Then voila, you have a camtasia video, ready to go - in it’s very own Youtube style flash player…

And here’s it playing…

How cool is THAT!

Popularity: 7% [?]

Well after much delay, we’re ready to reveal an initial version of one of Firepow’s custom plugins called TESTIT.

TESTIT gives you the ability to split test different posts within wordpress. You can write two different variations for any post, and be able to see from within the WP Admin, which post generated more clicks.

And not just links from within the post either.

You can see which blog post causes the most people to click through to other pages on your blog, other categories, other recent posts, whatever else you have in your sidebar.

DOWNLOAD: Click Here to download the testit plugin and readme file.

INSTALL: See included Readme file

VIDEO: Also, please watch this video for a sample of how the plugin will work.

Finally, before you start using the plugin - as you’ll see in the video - there is a section called TROUBLESHOOTING…

(you’ll notice this troubleshooting section has more in it than it does on the video - plugin has been updated)

Go to this section and read all of the instructions carefully, and make sure you’ve followed them before you begin testing on your posts.

This plugin has taken us alot of hard work and testing, so if you like it, it’d be great if you could show some love by adding this post to your fav social network, or blogging about it for your own readers too.

Enjoy!

Oh P.S. If the video freezes, just drag the progress bar back to the start and let it start again and it should work.

Popularity: 18% [?]

As part of our prelaunch campaign, we’ll be giving away two of the original versions of some of the never before seen wordpress plugins that will comprise the Firepow software program.

The one I’m going to mention today isn’t one you will have seen before and it is AWESOME!

In short, it’s basically a split testing plugin for wordpress.

You can add two variations of any post you write, and have them rotated and tested to see which brings the most clicks on your affiliate links, most signups, most continued readership of other blog posts, and more!

Check back to this blog tomorrow and there should be a full post explaining the plugin and a link for you to download it!

REMEMBER - you’ll only get notified about this plugin if you’re on our prelaunch notification list, so if you haven’t yet, CLICK HERE to register now.

Popularity: 7% [?]