Posts Tagged ‘wordpress’

As many of you regular readers will know, I’m a very big fan of WordPress. It’s an excellent system with a myriad of applications. In fact, I run all my sites on WordPress, ever since David Cavanagh first showed me how easy it is.

The plugins – elements that can be added to increase the functionality of the site – are part of what makes WordPress so good.

Anyway, I thought I’d share with you the 10 top plugins that I believe every blog site needs to run effectively. There are other plugins out there that do similar things but from my own testing and plenty of trial and error, these are the best ones. To get them installed on your blog, simply go into WordPress, click ‘Plugins’ on the left hand menu and click ‘Add New’. From there, just type their names into the search bar (one at a time) and then click ‘Install’ next to the one you want.

So, here’s the list for your blogging/site-building pleasure…
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I’ve discovered a little gem for you all, thanks to my marketing mate Wayne Lambert.

Wayne was checking out my blog and noticed that I was using bit.ly in order to cloak my links. Cloaking links is a good way of making links more attractive to the reader. For example, it’s always a good idea to cloak links to affiliate products in order to make them look better. ClickBank has started using particularly ugly affiliate links for products that look like this:

http://12f41y-2wcm47zalo2lz78gcor.hop.clickbank.net/

Using bit.ly, you can shorten the link to make it look like this instead:

http://bit.ly/ExampleLink

Now this looks much better already, but it isn’t associated with your own site. This is where Wayne stepped in and suggested a little work of plugin genius.

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I was looking over my other websites (mainly the one for the London magician business that I’m giving up this year) and stumbled across a plugin that I’d forgotten about.

As you know, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) is largely based on getting good links both within your site and from good, high-ranking sites.

This plugin mainly helps you to sort out the internal links, leaving you time to manage the external links. If you have multiple sites on WordPress, you can use it to create mutual links between them.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

It works by automatically linking your site up, by finding keywords and phrases that will link from your posts and pages to other parts of the site. As you post new stuff, the plugin sets up more links.

You can also program it to find specific instances of your own keywords and always have them link to the same place every time. As I said, this is awesome if you have other WordPress sites as you can use this to create mutual backlinks between them all, bringing them all up to the same levels of links and Google juice!

Every time that word comes up, you get a new link, either internal or external.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

This is good stuff and once you set it up, you can forget about it until you change or add to your keywords.

And as you may have worked out, set-and-forget is my favourite.

Get this, it’s invaluable.

http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links

I’m sure you guys have noticed that more and more companies are bringing out mobile phones that can surf the internet at greater speed.

That means that they can search Google and find blogs they want to read whenever they like.

I was recently at Mark Anastasi’s Listbuilding Masterclass and during lunch, I decided to have a look at some of my favourite internet marketing blogs. The result was pretty astounding…

They were totally illegible. Couldn’t read a thing on them. Nothing. Nada. Rien.

Now, as all my sites are built using WordPress, I wondered if there was a way to make my sites compatible with this new wave of technology.

Turns out there is and you can get it here: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobile-pack/

Alternatively, go to the Plugins section of your WordPress site, click ‘Add New’ and then in the search bar type ‘WordPress Mobile Pack’. It’ll be the top search result. Click ‘Install’ and then ‘Activate Plugin’ and you’re good to go.

Mobile browsers around the globe (all 34 million of them) can now read your blog.

Sorted!