by mreed on April 23, 2009
A lot of people have Word Press blogs, but whether you have a personal blog or a business blog can definitely affect which plug ins will be the most helpful to you. If you have a business blog, you’ll want to look into the following plug ins:
- Message for new readers – Greetbox
- Sociable – social networking
- Category Cloud – different font sizes based on number of posts, instead of a list
- Google Sitemap
- Feedburner Smith – shows information about subscribers and popular posts
- Simple Tags
- Related Posts
- Adsense Deluxe
- Subscribe to Comments
Some of these are very self explanatory and others are not, but with a little bit of research and practice you can see which ones will be the best for you and which ones aren’t that useful.
Depending on what you’re trying to accomplish with your business blog you’ll need to streamline it and use only what works. It’ll save you both time and money. However, the plug ins above are the most commonly used by most business blogs and a lot of people feel that they’re very beneficial, so they’re worth checking out. You don’t want to miss some great money making opportunity if it’s just a simple download.
by mreed on April 19, 2009
If you want to have great SEO and therefore a chance at monetizing your blog and having it perform really well one of the best things that you can do is get some SEO plug ins up and running.
The best of these include the All in One SEO Pack, Internal Link Building, Twitter Tools, and Simple Captcha. Google XML Sitemaps, tools that provide related post information to readers, and WP Auto Tagger are also good choices.
If you use these plug ins together with writing good SEO content, it’s hard for you to fail when trying to monetize your blog. It will take some time, though, so don’t just assume that you can get these plug ins and start making money right away.
However, if you don’t have any of the plugs ins you definitely can’t make any money off of them, so it’s time to get them and get started.
They are simple to use, most Word Press plugs ins are free or very cheap, and anyone serious about SEO knows that you have to put some effort in if you want to see good returns. It’s no different with a blog. If you want people to read it, come back, and give you some revenue, you have to give them what they want and they have to be able to find it.
by mreed on April 18, 2009
If you’re using Word Press for your blog – and a lot of people are – you know about plug ins. However, are you using them to your advantage and their full potential? If you’re not, it’s time that you utilized their power, because they can really do a lot for you.
One of the things that Word Press does with its plug ins, and that other blogging platforms generally don’t do, is provide ways to work with social networking sites. These plug ins can automatically put a tweet on Twitter when you post something new, and can help make it a lot easier for people to follow your blog and bookmark things. When they do that, you get more traffic, because the bookmark is a ‘vote’ for your site that says it has some great content on it.
People see these things on the social networking sites of others and they go and see what the content is. Then, they might bookmark it, too. When that happens, more and more people start to see it, and the search engines see that you’re getting good links back to your content, so your ranking rises higher and higher. It’s a great way to get attention to your blog and keep your power as a blogger growing.
by mreed on April 17, 2009
There are three basic things that most people try to do with Word Press, and those are monetize, optimize, and navigate. With that in mind, there are five plug ins that you’ll definitely want to have:
All in one SEO pack. You can format titles, meta descriptions, keywords, and more, and you’ll be sure to get the most bang for your buck from this kind of optimization, especially since the SEO pack is free.
OIO publisher. This lets people put ads on your page in selected areas that they pay for through PayPal. Their ads appear right away and you don’t have to do anything. You get money from the ads, and you only pay a onetime thirty-seven dollar fee for this one.
Akismet. The spam assassin that comes with Word Press. Use it. It catches a lot.
Related Posts. This plug in can definitely help people visit more of your blog once they’ve read something you’ve written and are looking for more.
Subscribe Remind. It’s a gentle encouragement to subscribe to the RSS feed of the blog if you like what you read, and a lot of people will do just that.
Using these plug ins doesn’t guarantee you more money, a better ranking or more traffic, but it would be hard not to get these things once you’ve plugged the above-named options into Word Press and started using them.
