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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. 
 
If you like this, share it with your friends in Facebook  or Twitter.
 
Enjoy Blogging!
 
 
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Twitter Marketing Strategy

February 16th, 2010

Social Network – Twitter Marketing Strategy

Twitter MarketingTwitter is one of the fast growing online social networking portal since its inception a few years ago. Since then, Twitter has started to be one of the top online marketing platform among business owners and online marketers to market their products and services via this targeted social media.

Twitter is slightly different from other social media. It has a very limited tweet space of 140 characters, and that is all you can send your message in 2-3 lines. How Twitter works is that it allows people to follow others and in turn, one can follow back. The more people following you, your chances of marketing your products to a wider audiences increases. However, there are drawback as well and needs to take precaution when tweeting.

* You are not allow to follow a huge number of people agreesively a day, it will be regards as spam
* Beware of 2,000 following limits, if the amount of people you follow and your follower has a huge gap.
* Do not tweet your offer too offen with a similar tweet message, as it will regards as spam.
* Be careful in using a third party tweeting tools to accelerate your followers count, as this may potential cause issues later.

Marketing on twitter can be effective, and can potentially generate good quality leads and sales.
Here are some  tips which you could adopt to make your marketing effort payoff in Twitter.

  1. Tweet at the right time on a daily basis. Do not tweet about your products and services too often, as a guide, 1 product promo tweet out of every 7 tweet.
  2. ReTweet: Use retweet function (RT) to share interesting tweet from the people that you are following or follower. This increases credibility and trust and helps to build relationship with people following you.
  3. Tweet somethings that provide values or offer a Free downloadable eBook or software.
  4. Use online tweeting tool such as to send a direct message (DM) to new followers automatically. In this Direct Message,  introduce yourself and send your follower to your website or blog. Learn how to send auto DM using this tool.
  5. Create an attractive personal bio with your Photo. Your bio will give you a personal branding.
  6. Use a nice background. Learn how to create a nice twitter background here.
  7. Send Direct Message (DM) to your follower to build a closer relationship. As in other social media, its all about social networking, relationship is key to ensure your followers continue to follow you and likes what you have to offer.

Hope this 7 key secrets to Twitter marketing success helps to bring you more leads and sales to your online business.

Helpful Resources:
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Twitter Guidebook

To Your Social Network Marketing Success!
Allen Tan
Home Business Consultant
twitter.com/bestallentan

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Social Network Marketing Strategy

January 29th, 2010

Is Social Network Marketing the way to go to build an Online Business…..?

Social network portal like facebook, twitter, myspace, linkedIn. Digg.. have been gaining traction recently, and more and more business owners or internet marketers and network marketers are ultilising this high touch social media to advertise their business. Facebook alone has more than 300 Million registered members. And to many Internet Marketers , it a gold-mine..

No doubt, it has been one of the best way for business owners to get their business across to the large groups of population and also one of the best methods of advertising, simply because its Free.

However, there are drawback in social media marketing. If you are not careful, you may get banned or
people will get annoyed by your continuous pitching.. Social media marketing takes time, you will not be able to see results overnight, with consistency and advanced marketing tactic used, you can make great success as well in the long run…

Before you jump into social network portal as a marketing platform,  these are what you need to know:

  1. You need to know why people join social networking? What is their purpose and why?
  2. You need to know how to position yourself, before adding friends with this group of people.
  3. You need to know the background of your friends or New friends before you start to talk about your business…

There are many useful social media Techniques which you could adopt, the most basic is to offer some great information on a specific topics of interest. Some people have alots of friends in their social network portal, but they do not know how to connect with this people even they are added into their list. Connect with people whom you are comfortable or you feel you want to know him/her better, go through their profile before adding them. You might not want to add someone who do not even show a picture of herself/ himeself. That shows they are not an active member of that social media.

The basic and most important step is to chat with your newly added friends, send a ‘Hello’ message or email to break the ice. Chat with them if they are online… Do not offer your business on your first encounter, i got many of this, and i simply get annoyed!

Social media is also a good way to add friends who are interested in your business. If visitors visited your website online, you could have a link to your social network profile and invite your visitors to add you as friends, this create another level of trust, and for the visitors to know you better, before they purchase or join your business…

Hope these tips helps you in your social network marketing…

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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

Blogging

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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FREE Website Advertising

November 16th, 2009

Do You Want FREE Website Promotion…Why Not?

Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?
Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

1. Enlist your website.
Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.
Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

2. Make a Post in Forums.
One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

3. Write a press release.
Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

4. Be friendly online with Webmaster
Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

5. Submit an article
Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6. Online Classified
What is free website promotion on classified ads which usually pull in huge traffic? Write an Ad and Insert your website, its URL and features in Free Online Classified and let the offer and good news spread!

7. Make a banner ad.
Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

8. Social Networking and Bookmarking
This is a fantastic way to reach out to millions of visitors to your site for Free… How?  Just add friends to your social networking profiles with your website link on it…  Is that wonderful to have hundred of thousands pair of eyes on your website… Free?

9. Use Video to promote your website
Yes, this can be viral, if you allow your video to be posted on other peoples website. Creating video is not difficult, and there are multiple sites which you could post your video into…

When you setup a website, you don’t need to pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there are ways that you can promote your website absolutely Free..!

Let’s get started to get your website promotion for free… If you do not know how to get started with above methods?  Here are some recommended steps to get your website promoted free while making money at the same time:

Step 1:
=> FREE Traffic to Any of Your Website

Step 2:
=> Join Social Media for FREE

Step 3:
=> Email to 30,000 Inboxes

Author: Allen Tan
Creator of Internet Entrepreneur Club

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