These links are coming to you at the end of my first week of classes. Thus starts my senior year at Grove City College. Eeek!

Still have been reading some great things online and found these awesome links to share.

Study Shows Small Businesses That Blog Get 55% More Website Visitors – further proof that business need to be blogging. SEO value alone is worth the effort.

Five Minute Upgrade – Writing Blog Post Titles That Grab Attention

13 Vital Tips and Hacks to Protect Your WordPress Admin Area

OfficeTab – Adds Tabs to Microsoft Office – make Word, Excel, PowerPoint better.

Free and Commercial Stock Photography Sites

(New) 27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

Themes

Jungleland WordPress Theme

KeKo WordPress Theme

Bonus

Send a letter online :: Snailmailr.com – Cool way to send a “real” letter to someone.

30+ Fantastic HDR Photos by Grey Jones – if you don’t know what an HDR photo is, you must check this out. Gorgeous!

Thanks for reading. Shared Links – from Grove is a post from Blake Imeson

Latest helpful links I have come across since the last batch of shared links. Enjoy!

Twitter Tips for Beginners [VIDEO] from the amazing Darren Rowse (Problogger). This is actually more oriented for business use of Twitter. 

13 Tips For A Better E-Commerce Website

20 Nice Free Handwritten Fonts – it is amazing the fonts you can get for free!

SEOmoz | New Mozbar – I use SEObook’s toolbar but this may someday be a good alternative. Any opinions? (both are Firefox only)

WordPress Resources – 48 Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes | Think Design – has some great WordPress dev. blogs ( I am subscribed to most of them) and tutorials.

Themes

15+ High Quality Free WordPress Themes Released in June-July 2009

Brownie WordPress Theme 

FreeStyle WordPress Theme 

Plugins

45+ Essential WordPress Plugins for Pro Blogging | Blog Perfume

WordPress › Quick Search « WordPress Plugins – suggests search terms as you type.

WordPress › Dashboard Notepad « WordPress Plugins – leave notes in WP backend.

WordPress › WP Pubsubhubbub « WordPress Plugins – New Google technology.

WordPress Plugin Competition Blog » Section Widget for your section-specific needs

Best Commercial WordPress Plugins: Ultimate Review List – two of the best WordPress E-commerce plugins are in this post.

Bonus Tool

Spam-me-not – e-mail link obfuscator – I use this to build mailto: links that are not easily scrapable by spam bots.

Please send me a message or leave a comment if this type of post is useful to you. Or is this unwanted content?

Thanks for reading. Shared Links – new WP plugins & more is a post from Blake Imeson

I am going to try and save some cool links as I come across them and share them every week or two. No sense everyone reading so many feeds ;)

Gems from around the web.

If you can’t find an icon set for your blog here then you have problems.

72 Sets of Free Social Bookmarking Icons

Good point about corporate social media expectations: Social Media Doesn’t Work

Plugins

• Manage Your Post Templates Easily
• I have been trying to find a good WP plugin to showcase Google analytics in the WordPress dashboard. I like this one but it has been throwing harmless error messages which is annoying. Google Analytics Dashboard plugin It does show top keywords driving traffic to your site. This API is still fairly new so I am waiting to see what improvements come out.

Themes

• 40 Free Premium-Quality WordPress Themes – I especially like this new theme: Androida
• 21 Mindblowing Premium-Like Free WordPress Themes
• 23 WordPress Themes for your Website
• Another decent blog theme TweetSheep Magazine theme
• Nice grunge theme:  Free WordPress Theme: Paper Wall

Where this blog is at…

I have published 25 posts. And even better, there are now 57 comments! Thanks for sharing your wisdom and thoughts.

This site has evolved and changed just as I have, in the kind of things I am doing and interested in. Namely, as I have become more obsessed with WordPress, so it has been reflected here. I have helped many friends and clients start their own WordPress sites and these posts have been written chiefly to them.

Stats

1. Active over a year and a half.
2. 25 published posts
3. 57 published comments
4. Now a Page Rank of 4! (more than it deserves, thanks Google!)
5. 80+ RSS subscribers. (see counter below)  If you haven’t already, please subscribe to my feed!

The top 3 posts have been:

21 LinkedIn Hacks, Tricks and Ways to Make Your Profile Better

Ultimate Guide to Self-Hosting WordPress

Start a Personal Resume/Portfolio Site, Here’s how.

Thank you all so much for your support and for encouraging me to share stuff on here. I hope it has been of value and I look forward to writing more in the future.

-Blake

Thanks for reading. Shared links and State of the Blog is a post from Blake Imeson