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Essential WordPress Plugins

July 23rd, 2010
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If you already have a blog, are using WordPress, then you need the essential WordPress plugins. The chances are that you are using WordPress as your platform. If you’re not, you should be. There are many reasons as to why WordPress is the most popular blogging platform on the Web today.

In terms of Internet marketing and getting rankings, WordPress offers the most search engine friendly blogging platform in addition to being very user-friendly. The other great thing about it is the number of plugins which you can add to your blog.

If you are not sure what a plugin is, it basically adds new functions to a WordPress blog. A plugin is essentially a program written in the PHP programming language that adds a specific set of features or services to the WordPress blog. All you have to do to add a new feature or service to your blog is find a relevant plugin, upload it to your plugin folder and then “activate” the plugin on the dashboard. It’s that simple.

That being said, there are literally thousands upon thousands of plugins out there (most of them are free) and if you are a newbie, you may get tempted to add as many plugins as you can to your blog. The bottom line is that you only need a couple of them to get your blog going. In order to help you with which plugins to choose, I’ve chosen the top 10 WordPress plugins that you must have.

Editorial Note: Most of the plugins mentioned below can be found by searching the WordPress Plugin Directory. The rest can be easily found by doing a Google search.

1. Akismet

Don’t you just hate people leaving spam comments on your blog? I certainly do, and if you dislike such comments appearing on your blog, the Akismet plugin automatically filters them for you. I don’t have time to deal with spam and I hope you don’t either.

2. All-In-One-SEO Pack

If you are looking for the ultimate plugin to transform your blog into an SEO optimized blog, then this is the one. It’s easy to use and before long you can be ranking for your keywords.

3. MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer

If there’s one thing you don’t want, it’s for the blog to be banned from ping services. When you update or edit your blog, you automatically send a ping to let them know that your blog has been updated and that the changes need to be indexed. However, you can get banned from ping services if you end up doing this too often. In order to avoid this from happening, you need to use the MaxBlogPress Ping Optimizer plugin.

4. Remote Database Backup

Whatever you do on the Web, you need to have backups. Backing up data is one of those things that people don’t take seriously until a site failure happens to them. This plugin helps you backup your WordPress blog at any time.

5. SEO Smart Links

This cool plugin allows you to automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog. Furthermore, you can set up your keywords along with their own matching URLs. A must have if you want the maximum SEO benefit for your blog.

6. Sexy Bookmarks

This allows your readers to submit your articles to numerous bookmarking sites on the Web. A must-have in the era of social media. Get your Sexy Bookmarks plugin today.

7. Frame Buster

This plugin will thwart any attempt to load your site in a frame. Optimal for getting images to rank on the search engines.

8. Google Sitemap Generator

If you want Google to index all the pages on your blog as quickly as possible, then you need this plugin. It allows you to create a sitemap with a clíck of your mouse.

9. CommentLuv

This plugin allows your visitors to comment while adding a link to their own blog post. This will encourage them to comment and in combination with the Akismet plugin can get you genuine and informative comments on your blog.

10. WP Backlinks

This plugin allows you to track the links going back to your blog. For SEO purposes, you want as many links back to your website as possible, but at the same time, you want them to come from reputable and legitimate sites. The WP Backlinks plugin gives you the ability to control and verify this.

If you go ahead and add the plugins featured on this blog, you can be ready to start dominating the Web with your blog. Keep in mind that it’s the quality and frequency of content that you add to your blog that will determine its success. My hope is that you have found this article about the top 10 wordpress plugins on the Web very useful.

About The Author
Martin Sejas is a top Internet business consultant in Sydney who helps people achieve their dream of having an online business. His goal is to see you use the essential wordpress plugins. Register for a freé consultation today at www.marketingadvice.com.au.

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List Building for More Business

July 17th, 2010

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Having your own website, or maybe an affiliate website is something you have probably read about or tried; list building becomes one of the most important tools of a successful internet marketing program.

As an internet marketer, you are probably familiar with a variety of methods to make money online and list building most certainly has a high priority for you.

Another popular strategy you may know about is marketing your online business offline. E-mail marketing is probably the most well known tactic of all to sell your services, products or affiliate offers. The best, and only legitimate way to use this method is to send your offers to people who have given you permission to e-mail them. This leaves you with the issue of how to actually get people to sign up for your e-mail list.

List Building: a Highly Effective Marketing Strategy

If you want to create a profitable online business, list building is one of the most essential techniques you need to learn. You can start to build your list today by following these suggestions.

First, you will have to put a an opt-in form on your site that visitors can see. Many people prefer to use a widget to do this. If your site is not blog based then you can look for another type of program or software for your opt-in form.

If your website has interesting content then building your subscription list will be almost effortless. As long as the form is visible people will give you their email addresses. After a while you will become known in your niche and your list will start to build itself as it spreads by word-of-mouth. You need to consider the latest trends in web marketing like what is seen on this Halloween Super Affiliate website

Do some article marketing. Build your optin list by sending people who read your articles to your landing page. By offering people information for free, they will be more likely to click through to your site to see what else you have to say. You’ll see success with optins if your landing page copy does its job. Properly written articles will do the job of driving traffic to any place you want.

Ask people who are in your contacts list in your personal e-mails. Seeing these first subscribers will boost your self-confidence. If you are an experienced internet marketer then you have most likely received requests for help from least experienced marketers who were seeking guidance: this is a good example of people from your personal contacts who you could add to your list. Send an e-mail out to these people letting them know that you are building a marketing list for promotions and newsletters and ask for their permission to add them to the list. Now you have a list to sell to.

A list building program is one of the surest ways to be able to sell something to a large group of people quickly. With a list, you know that you are sending your offers to people who are likely to respond and buy from you. These are people who want to buy products from you and hire you for your services. One of the simple facts about any kind of selling is that you will have more success if you focus on the people who are looking to spend money. That, essentially, is what your e-mail list consists of: people who want to buy what you have to sell! The latest in online marketing can be found at this Halloween Super Affiliate site

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Suicidal Blogs

July 8th, 2010
The way out of a Suicidal blog

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Every Three Seconds Somewhere in America a Blog Commits Suicide.


Okay, maybe my math is a little off, but look around us, blogs are crawling off, into forgotten corners of the web and just blinking out of existence at a sickening pace.

(Suicidal Blogs)

Why?

Because blog writers are fickle and selfish, all they care about is becoming popular and rich.

If the blog they write does not perform the way they want it too, they neglect it, to the point it can no longer take it, then it dies.

This is the sad state of things but it is true.

Can we really blame the author of the blog?

No, because, no one can expect, to throw love at a blog, day after day and never get anything in return.

To show bloggers how to get more in return from the blogs they write, a great new PDF has been made available, called “Talking Down A Suicidal Blogger”. It is all about the “secret” methods that all the “guru” bloggers have been using right under your nose.

Look, I don’t want to spoil the surprise and be like the jerk at the movie theater who tells you the ending before the show, so I’ll let the report speak for itself. After all, it is free so why not grab it yourself, here http://bit.ly/cKsTam now.

I can blurt out the “secrets” here and now, it sounds so simple! However, you really need to see the whole report to get the maximum affect. When you open the PDF and get a chance to see the examples of suicidal blogs and the mind maps you will get so much more than I can explain here, without plagiarizing this well written publication. It really works I am seeing more readers and profits already!

I enjoy writing this style of blog post because someone already did the work of explaining the “secrets” for me, while I get to receive credit for passing along valuable information on suicidal blogs on to you.

Don’t let your writing become a suicidal blog. Show it the love you once gave it the day you wrote your very first post. Only this time around, you will have the knowledge of the “secrets” and they will unlock the hidden pleasures only a writer and a successful blog can share.

Here is the link http://bit.ly/cKsTam again to download your own free copy while they last.

Saving the life of a suicidal blog will never be easier.

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