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10 Essential Plugins For WordPress Blog

July 16th, 2010
10 Must-Have Free Plugins For Your WordPress Blog
 
Many people create a personal blog to socialise, some for business, some use blog for news announcement, free tips and informations to create visitors awareness and branding online. Creating an effective blog is important, no matter what is your purpose behind building a blog, for personal or For any online business…  
 
Most people have the basic essential features that comes along with the wordpress blog, some blogging service don't and only comes with the basics widgets and we have to add in other widgets or plugins to enhance the overall blog features and user experience. if you are using a self-hosted wordpress blog, you will have much more flexibility in terms of adding plugins than if you are creating a free hosted blog where some features are limited.
 
Here are 10 essential plugins which you could download free and installed to create a much more effective blog with good user experience and increases more traffic to your blog.
 
Social bookmarking is a way to have your blog link posted on social bookmark sites like delicious, reddit, stumbleupon, Digg, Technorati..and many more. Usually these bookmarking sites have high page rank. More links below..
 
Add a Social Media Widget to allow people to connect to your on social network site like Facebook, Twitter, Myspace or Youtube. These enable people to add and follow you in social network where you could socialise and add value to your friends..
 
Add a retweet button to allow people to retweet your blog post on Twitter. Retweet your post enable more blog exposure to social media in Twitter. 
 
Add a Facebook share button to allow others to share your blog to friends in facebook. This maximise your blog exposure and view.
 
Add a SEO plugin to increase your blog visbility to search engine for all blog post. It enable you to add a description, title and keywords search for every blog post.
 
Add this plugin to generate a sitemap for all your wordpress post, pages and categories to increase searchability from search engine such as Google, Yahoo, Ask.com and MSN. 
 
Add this plugin to show posts which are relevant to your current post. You could customise it to show the number of posts which are related to the same Tags. Related post helps to increase more page views on a blog post within the same tag.  
 
Add a Ping optimiser. Ping services is available in wordpress, its important to optimise your pinging of blog post to all ping servers and not to over ping which may harm your blog. 
 
Add a WYSIWYG text editor that brings in much powerful editing capabilities than what is currently in your wordpress blog. You will like this plugin.
 
Add a Optin form adder to manage and customise and outlook of your optin capture form. This will give you must more flexibility in where you want to place your optin form to maximise your leads and list building.
 
That's it.. 
Hope these plugins can helps to enhance your blog user experience and maximizing your traffic to your post. 
 
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Enjoy Blogging!
 
 
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Allen Tan
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Top 10 Powerful Tips To Create Your Branding

June 2nd, 2010

B randHow to Create Your Own Online Branding ?

No matter what business your are in. Branding is the key to create customer awareness and your image of the services and products that you are offering. If i will to ask you, who is your favourite celebrities or what is your favourite sport shoes, you can tell me the names or brand of the product immediately…  
 
A "Brand" is an identity of a specific products, person or services.  To achieve success in any online or networking marketing program, Brand Yourself is important to gain the trust, confident from your online visitors in buying products and services from you..
 
I'm going to share 10 powerful branding tips on How to Brand Yourself to gain maximum exposure for your online MLM or Internet marketing business.
 
1. What To Brand?
Decide what You want to brand.  Your Name or Your Website Name, etc… Build a logo or image around it. If you are promoting a Network marketing program, Your NAME should be your brand.
 
2. Build Your Blog
A Blog is the simplest way to create your branding. Build a Blog or website using YOURNAME.com.
 
3. Social Media site
Social media like Facebook or Twitter is an ideal place to advertise Your Branding. To learn more about how to build Your Brand In Social Media.
 
4. Your profiles
This apply to social media where you can Create Profiles like Your Real Name, Age, Likes/Interest, Hobbies, Education… But you could also do it on your own blog.  Your Profiles tell visitors who you really are… 
 
5. Tell Your Stories
People like to hear stories. Tell people about you. What do you do… Here is how you can start…
"…I started working on internet marketing 5 years ago when i stumble upon an amazing website that change my life…since then…."
 
6. Your Signature
How you want people to recognise who you are. A good signature will tell people your professionalism. Here is how it should looks like:
 
"To Your Unlimited Success:
Allen Tan
Personal Development Success Coach

7. Your video
Shoot a video to introduce yourself. Post them into Youtube or your Blog. A Video will create alot of different in building your brand and image. People likes to see who you are and how you looks like. Sometimes, body language or physical appearance play a part in branding. Use a good camera to shoot a High resolution video and post them on your blog.
 
8. Testimonial
People likes to follow others comment. A testimonial will help to market your brand. Have a testimonial from friends or customers whom have used your products or services. Request for a testimonial will helps in your brand marketing…
 
9. Give Away 
Create Freebies that can be given away. Your Free giveaway should have your Brand on it… One of the simplest form of Give away is an eBook or How-To Tips.
 
10. Invest on your brand
If there is money to spend on building your brand. Spend it! The investment will pay off eventually…  Investment includes Design and Build your logo, your own marketing flyers or online banners, just go ahead to do it!
 
If you are offering any services or products online, try these branding tips and share with me your success…
 
I Love to Hear Your Comment and Do Share this with your facebook or twitter friends…
 
 
 
To Your Branding Success,
Allen Tan
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How to blog and make money?

January 9th, 2010


7 Ways to Make Money with Blog!

Today, there are many bloggers who maintains their blog website as a business. They make money out of blogging. This is a trend widely accepted by online businesses. Capitalizing on blogs to gain popularity and use this as an opportunity to get closer to their clients and potential customers.

There are many bloggers in the internet that makes a decent living by just blogging. If you want to make money out of blogging, it is important to remember that not every blog is right for making money.

First of all, you should ask yourself why you blog.

Many people have different reasons on why they blog. Here are some of them:

  • For recreational purposes
  • For promoting business
  • As a personal diary
  • To help others
  • To make friends
  • To date
  • For fun
  • To be known
  • To make a living

You can blog for many reasons; you can blog for fun and at the same time, to make a living out of it if it is possible.

To make money out of blogging, you should first understand the two types of earning methods in blogging: The Direct Income Method and; the Indirect Income Method.

In direct income method, you can earn money directly from blogs. In indirect income method, you can earn money because of your blog.

One great way to earn income from your blog is through affiliate programs. This program works by getting a commission for referring a visitor or reader from your blog website to buy a product or service from the company you signed up as an affiliate. To succeed in this type of method, you should choose an affiliate that is related to the topics discussed in your blog website. This is because visitors in your blog are targeted internet traffic; you don’t want to affiliate with a pet store if your site and blog is about golfing.

Another great way to make money out of your blogs is to sell stuff, like t-shirts, mugs and other small things or accessories that you can personalize. Create your own logo and post the designs on your blogs. This is great if your readers are loyal to your blog, they may want to buy something that would make them part of the group.

You can create a subscription based blog. Asking for payment to view your blog and participate in it would generate income. However, there are many blogs out there that may offer the same topic as yours for free. Since free is preferred more than fee, this type of method can rarely succeed. To make this work you may need to be a real expert on a specific topic.

Selling blogs is another way to make money out of blogs. For this, you may need to create a great website in order for it to sell. It should also have a large readership to make this work. You can successfully sell blogs in an auction sites, many buyers will take a look at your blog first and determine if there are a large number of readers and also take a look at the quality of the website.

Some readers will be someone who seeks writers to employ. If you write a good article about a specific topic in your blog, these people may probably hire you to write for them, either for their website or offline as a freelance writer for a newspaper or magazine. You and your skills are discovered through your blog. Your reputation is also important for this to work. Your blog should be able to attract large amount of readers and also remain loyal to you.

Another way to make money is through speaking opportunities. For this, you need to impress readers on what you write about in your blog. Readers can sometimes be a scout looking for someone to speak for their seminars or workshops. Some request might ask you to speak for a seminar for free and some might pay you. Do not reject requests on speaking for free; this is because it will be beneficial for your reputation. Be patient, more offers will come that will be offering payment for your speaking services.

Finally, one of the most use method to make money is using content advertising such as Adsense. Post advertisement from advertisers can allow you to make money when your readers click on that ads. There are ways on how to place those ads on your blog to get maximum results. But you must be careful Not to click on those ads Yourself as the content provider will track it and banned you forever.

Hope you get some ideas how to monetize Your blog….So what are You waiting For!!!

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Top 7 Tips to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

December 12th, 2009

Top 7 Secrets For Driving Traffic To Your Blog

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Blogging is one of the most effective in attracting large volumes of traffic. However, if you really want to drive huge volumes of traffic to your blog, you will need to do more than just blogging.

This article outlines the top 7secrets for driving traffic to your blog.

1. Create high quality content that is rich with your keywords and phrases. This brings two main benefits. First, high quality and useful content will keep your website’s visitors interested and they will visit your blog on a regular basis and will buy the products you sell on your website. Second, fresh content with your key words will improve your search engine ranking which brings traffic to your blog and website.

2. Optimizing your titles for search engines is also an effective way of driving traffic to your blog. You will need to optimize your blogs titles and use all the keywords or phrases which people use while looking for information on the internet. This will make your blog visible on search engines, and your blog will also rank high for all your keywords, driving traffic to your website.

3. Submit your blog to Blog directories. This will increase the visitors to your blogs and increases your blog visibilities to a community of bloggers.  Some of the popular blog directories are blogcatalog.com ; Mybloglog.com.  Simple google “Blog Directory”… to search for a list of Blog Directories.

4. Ping Your blog.  Pinging your blog is a way to notify Blog Servers that you have new updated blog contents. Each time you post a new blog, Ping your blog page to notify blog directories that new contents are available on your blog. This will help to boost traffic.  Some Ping services you could use  such as Pingomatic.com ; Pingoat.com and many more…

5. Social book marking is yet another powerful way to drive traffic to your blog. If you rank high on some of the most popular social book marking sites, you can drive large volumes of traffic to your blog.

6. RSS feed for blog traffic. RSS feed is another way you can use to keep people coming back to your blog because after people subscribe to read your RSS feed, they will get updates continuously. This means that you will be bringing readers back to your blog every time you make a new blog post.

7. You can use some of your blog posts and covert them into articles. All you have to do is to add more content to your blog posts if necessary, add a catchy article heading and convert it into an article. Writing and submitting articles is one of the most excellent strategies for traffic generation.

These 7 strategies can significantly increase the volume of traffic to your blog.

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Top 5 Benefits Of Hosting Your Blog On Your Domain Name

November 30th, 2009

“Discover Why You Need to Host Your Blog On Your Own Domain Name”

Internet markets today understand the immense benefits of hosting their blogs on their own domain.

If you are serious about wanting to earn money on the internet, then you will need to set up a blog and host it on your domain. Outlined below are some of the main benefits which you can enjoy from hosting your own blog on your domain.

  1. If you have a blog hosted on your domain, you have control over everything about your blog. You can have your own layout and design for your blog, which means you can have a blog that matches your website logo. You can make your blog as unique as you want. This gives you an edge against other competing blogs in the same niche which may have similar layouts. You also have complete freedom to do anything you want with your blog. By hosting your blog on your domain, you can control your blog in many ways you want and you can add any features you want.
  2. By hosting your blog on your domain name, you make it easier for people to remember your blog.
  3. Hosting your blog on your domain means that you can develop and promote your own brand using your blog. You can make your blog headings similar to your website. In terms of search engine optimization (SEO) and advertising, this is very important because you will be advertising and optimizing your own domain and your own brand. SEO is also effective to do with your own domain name that includes your keywords. This will increase your blog’s visibility on search engines.
  4. By hosting your blog on your website, you have added security. This means that you don’t have to worry about losing your information or getting locked out of your account.
  5. You present a professional image by having your online business logo on your blog. This gives you ad edge against other competing website or blogs.

Based on the advantages outlined above, if you are serious about your online business, you must consider hosting your blog on your own domain.

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>> Global Web Host – To Host Your Blog

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Top 10 Ideas to Drive Traffic for Your Blog

June 28th, 2009

Top 10 Traffic Ideas for your Blog

Blogs are popular ways to create an online presence for personal and business reasons. You can build a blog for free and begin posting content right away. But, what good is that content if no one is reading it. Here are ten ideas to bring in the traffic your blog needs to survive.

Of all the successful blogs on the Internet, hundreds more have failed. Running a blog is like running a business website. Unless you are willing to put the time in and treat it seriously, you won’t be blogging long.

That is not to say that the failed bloggers weren’t serious about blogging. Mostly, new bloggers aren’t prepared for the work that goes into creating a successful blog. Just building the blog doesn’t mean that people will necessary come to you. You pursue the audience and give them a reason to see what you have to say.

1. Fresh Content – no one wants to visit a blog day after day and see the same posts. Update your blog content at least twice a week. This will be easier if you write several posts ahead of time and upload them at the appropriate times.

2.    Article Marketing – the niche you’ve chosen for your blog is one that interests you. If it is interesting you will spend more time doing it. Create content not only for your blog but also to be submitted to article directories. Use the resource box to advertise your blog so people can find you.

3.    Social Networking – these sites are everywhere. Join Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, Twitter or a dozen others and make connections. You can join groups of likeminded people who are also bloggers or entrepreneurs.

4.    Viral Marketing – this is where you spread the word about your blog. Talk to friends, family and even strangers. Give out business cards that have your blog address on them.

5.    Use RSS Feeds – RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” Readers can subscribe to your feed and get email updates when new content is posted. It is an easy way for them to keep up with your blog without spending all day online.

6.    Submit Blog to Search Engines – doing this allows your blog to be ranked. Google and Yahoo! are two of the most popular search engines you want to crawl your blog pages. It doesn’t guarantee top ranking, though. You’ll have to do a little more work for that.

7.    Joining Forums – as a blogger you are a budding entrepreneur. Right now you are marketing yourself to find traffic and then profit. Become a member of business forums, work at home forums and others to meet new people and share ideas. You can add a link to your blog in the signature line so others can find you.

8.    Visit other blogs – show your appreciation to those who visit you by also posting comments on their blogs. It is a kindness that shows others you are not just out to advertise your blog alone. Add links to your blog in your comments.

9.    SEO Marketing – whatever you write, use relevant keywords. Keyword density between three and ten percent is good for getting higher page rankings in search engines. Base your keywords on a research you do to find the most popular words used in search engines for your niche.

10.    Social Bookmarking – submitting posts to social bookmarking sites allows others who are members of those sites to track you back to your blog.

Using any of these ideas will start the traffic moving in your direction. It takes time but you will build the readership you want.

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Blogging for Profit

May 30th, 2009

How to Start a Blog for Profit

An online presence is important these days for whatever enterprise you engage in. to connect with a wide variety of people there is no bigger forum than the Internet. If you are looking for a way to show off your expertise and also make a little money while doing it, consider starting a blog.

What is a Blog?

A blog is actually an online journal of sorts. With a blog you can upload daily posts about anything that you want. Some people create personal blogs as a way to keep in touch with family members. Pictures, videos and other information are uploaded so your loved ones are current with what is going on with you.

Here we are going to talk about business blogs. This is a blog that you begin to attract traffic in order to sell products or services. To be interesting to others, your blog will need to:

•    Have updated content for visitors
•    Be marketed to draw traffic
•    Register with search engines so it can be found in the rankings

How to Start

If you are new to blogging, use a free blogging platform to get your feet wet. Sites like Blogger.com, WordPress.org, Blogspot.com and others offer free blogs to users. Depending on the site you choose, the themes and plug-ins (added features) will vary. Most will walk you through the process step by step so that you can be up and running in no time.

Before you start posting, decide what will be the theme, or niche of your blog. A jack-of-all-trades type of blog doesn’t do as well as one that is geared towards a certain niche. If you like crafts, that can be your niche. Create posts that talk about how to craft, what to craft, how to make crafting profitable and so on. Once you have decided on a path, it is time to create that great content.

How to Make Money

In order to make money with your blog, you need to have people visiting it. That is where marketing comes in. to draw traffic you have to get the word out about your blog. Tell all of your friends and family members that you are online with your blog for a start.

Any money-making venture will take place once you have built your readership with interesting posts. Then you can put into play a number of profitable additions:

•    Google AdSense
•    Selling Advertising
•    Affiliate Marketing
•    EBook Marketing

The simplest one to pursue is Google AdSense. You are using targeted advertisements to create revenue for your blog. You are paid per clicks on the ads.

There are other options where you can get paid when someone makes a sale on that website. That is more likely to happen when you join an affiliate program. Join affiliate program that work well with your website niche.

EBooks are short downloadable electronic books that you can create yourself and sell on your website. They can be on a variety of subjects but in order for them to sell, you must be able to offer new information to your customers.

Blogs can be used to build revenue. Start with your chosen niche and market your blog to find the traffic you need. Then, utilize these ideas to turn a profit.

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