What are WordPress Plugins?

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What are WordPress Plugins?

What are wordpress plugins? That is such a great question, and one I get constantly so I have answered it for you in this video below. A Word Press Plugin is a peice of software that is written to give WordPress more functionality.

As you will see in the video a wordpress site once built is pretty boring, and the other thing is unless we change it all the people who use wordpress would have a website looking exactly the same.. how boring :-)

There are literally 1000′s of plugins out there. You can find a wordpress plugin for almost anything. I have my list of favourites as most wordpress users do. One thing to remember is though, the more you have that have slower  your website will load up. So don’t go loading everything up and then not using it. For instance, if you are not going to use a twitter account with your niche or maybe don’t even have one then there is no point in loading up the Twitter plugin.

Free WordPress Plugins

There are many Free WordPress Plugins out there. Too many to mention here infact I have done many a Blog post on Plugins and my favourite ones. There are at least 16 plugins that I load onto most sites and I got abit tired of loading them one by one so I got my outsources on the job and he put all 16 Plugins into one handy little plugin for me. That is now available to you as well and it’s free so go ahead and download it. FastSEOPlugin is the name of that amazing WordPress Plugin. There is also a video on the page as well so make sure you watch it so you get to load it on the right way.

There are some components you need to have on your Website and so this is where WordPress plugins come in. Google wants them there so we must put them there. I mention them on the video but here are a few of them. You need a Site map both for google and your visitors to your site. I use Daegon Site Map plugin, and for Google I use Google XML plugin, you will find them on the FastSEOPlugin. You also need a Contact Me page. Privacy Terms and Conditons is a paid plugin, the rest just mentioned are free. Check the video for more info.

If you just used all the 16 plugins in The Fast SEO Plugin you will have enough.

2 WordPress Plugins I Use for editing

If you like your page to look pretty smart with different Fonts and colours then you may not be happy with the editing side of the WordPress as it is pretty limiting. So I use  either of these 2 WordPress Plugins, Tiny MCE Advanced or FCK Editor. They are fun to use. So go make your sites look fantastic. You have to be a little careful when using the two mentioned plugins, oh also remember you can’t use both at once so just choose one. Then when bringing in content yourself from say PLR products there will be alot of formatting  in the HTML that can get a little confusing. However they do make the site look great and more like a traditional Sales letter if that’s the look you want.

As I show in the video there are plugins to do almost anything you want, if you want to check out my WordPress Plugins that I have and use daily you will find some of them listed on the FastSEOPlugin website. There are lots there, not all of them but a great selection.

Hope this has helped you with uncovering what is a WordPress Plugin.


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Get Traffic Tools

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Get Traffic Tools

This was my last webinar for the year. The most questions I have had this year have been around Traffic and how to get Traffic to your site.

So I decided to call this webinar Get Traffic Tools there are many tools out there and also many people ready to take your hard earned cash and say they wil do submissions etc for you and it’s very tempting to let that happen. I have outsourcers that I use now and again to do my submissions etc of my sites but really and truely it is easier and better for me to do it myself then I know it’s done and how I did it. If you submit your site too quickly and it does not look human then google does not look upon that very well, if you submit to social bookmarking too fast or more than once some will ban you, and same applies for a few other places as well. So where do we Get Traffic Tools from that will work and get us real traffic.

Where to Get Traffic Tools

  • First thing you have to decide is what kind of traffic do you want?
  • Where are you going to get it from?
  • How much time do you have to spend getting traffic?
  • How much money do you have to spend on tools?

Once you have got all that sorted in your head you can begin the process. I have many posts on traffic and the amazing tools you can use both FREE and Paid. You need to check them out. You will find links in the posts there to Get Traffic Tools. I cover quite abit in the webinar about traffic and also places you can get Traffic like Facebook and Twitter, from RSS Feeds. But one should not forget about articles and Youtube Videos as well, all those things combined bring me amazing amounts of traffic to all my different sites.

Get Traffic Tools Website

I have started a website which I hope to be able to post things to relating to traffic, so posts and software and plugins I will do my best to post there and rave there about traffic relating tools.

We all know that traffic and getting traffic to your site starts right at begining with Keywords, and Keyword rich domain names, SEO on your wordpress site, then SEO within the posts. Then doing the work of sending out via pinging, website submissions, RSS submissions, Video submissions and also Article submissions all leading back to your main site, all these things will bring you traffic. Facebook and Twitter bring me lots of traffic, so keep the info coming into your blogs and run as much automation software as you can and it will happen for you.

One of my Get Traffic Tools is the Fast SEO Plugin which I refer to and show working on the webinar if you want to head on over there you will see the rest of the plugins I mentioned.

If you want a list of the Get Traffic Tools plugins I suggest then here they are again:

WordPress Article Writer

WordPress YouTube Plugin

WP Profit Maker

FastSEO Plugin

Take some time to watch the webinar, I am aware that some may not be able to see it as it is in WMV but hopefully the download will work for you and you can download convert and watch. If I alter it at all and change to another format you lose quality so sorry.

We covered so much in this webinar, WP Cloner, Easy Niche Finder, Google Keyword Tool, and maybe other things I have forgotten, oh thats right I also gave you a number of niches that you can look into building sites around as well.

Go have some fun and make some money.

Here is the list of the winners of the 5 websites I gave away… actually I gave a few more than 5 away, I like to over deliver..

Vicki Langcaster, BalaBalasubramaniam, Darryl Jensen, Sally Dutton, Rex Hadfield, Ashley Fraser, Gina McPherson
Romeo Caporaso, Stuart Walter

Here is the webinar….

Right Click here to download It is a very large file could take a while

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More WordPress Plugins You Have to Have

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WordPress Plugins You Have to Have

Last week we looked at 5 WordPress Plugins that you have to have on your WordPress site, so this week I want to carry that theme on and look at another 5 that you will also need to use.

WordPress as a Website platform is quite amazing and if you do keyword research and also get the right product you will have a winner of a site. The biggest mistake I see people make is just putting in heaps of tags and or keywords and they are not that relevant to the article. So if you use the SEO correctly then you are on the road to having an unstoppable website.

The 5 WordPress Plugins we will look at this week are …

6. 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. This could be more for the geeky people among us, so if you still have no idea what it’s all about then leave it off or just go with it and add it onto your site. Go visit the site of this WordPress plugin and am sure you will learn more on how to use it.

7. Sexy Bookmarks

I love this plugin -  it makes me smile when I see it being used on people’s blogs. I have to say I only have it on a couple of blogs as it is only recently that I found it, but go download it and use it. I love the handwritten messages it does for you. Make sure thought that you get the correct one and that it’s  By Shareaholic.  This wordpress plugin 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 WordPress plugin today.

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 achieve this with a clíck of your mouse. It is just so easy to use so it’s worth downloading it. If you are not sure what to click on and what to change then leave the defaults as they are. Create a sitemap for it will please our Friend Google.

More WordPress Plugins…

9. CommentLuv

This is another of my favourite plugins and I will show you in the video what exactly it does when you use it. CommentLuv WordPress 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. It’s very cool and it leaves a trace of where you have been and whose site you have commented on… take a look at it.

Last of the WordPress Plugins

10. WP Backlinks

This of all the WordPress Plugins is brilliant as it 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. Also we want sites that have a good Google Page Rank, which is different from just being on the front page of google. The WP Backlinks plugin WordPress Plugins gives you the ability to control and verify this. So put this on your list of to help you with all your back linking. It is not actually called WP Backlinks it is infact just Backlinks so please get that one right.

I suggest you go ahead and use the 10 WordPress Plugins that I have written to you about over the last 2 weeks. They will help you rank well and will help you to start dominating the Web with your blog. Also you will need to 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 these two articles about the top 10 wordpress plugins on the Web very useful. Of course there are so many more, but use these and begin to see a marked difference in your blog rankings.

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5 Most Needed WordPress Plugins

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Wordpress Plugin5  Most Needed WordPress Plugins

If you already have a blog, 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. Many people don’t use WordPress as they think the Word “Blog” which means to them they have to blog all day everyday about stuff they are not really interested in. Or maybe they are interested but just don’t have the time to blog about it everyday. Well in todays world that does not have to be, there are so many wordpress plugins that you can use to automate your content.

Well first off I would like you to know that wordpress does more than just provide you with a blog, it also is able to provide you with the most amazing Sales Pages as well, which are the same as a bog in that you can still add the WordPress plugins as well.

What make WordPress such an amazing platform to produce your style of website is the ability to add the WordPress Plugins...

If you are not sure what a plugin is, it basically adds new functions to a WordPress blog. A WordPress 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.

WordPress 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 WordPress plugins which you can add to your blog and I have many of these loaded up into my site all doing their own thing.

I am constantly asked …what WordPress plugins do you use… there are so many, how do I choose?

WordPress Plugins

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. It truely does do the most amazing job, yes it does require a little setup after activation, but thats easy enough to do. So this little WordPress plugin to your must have WordPress Plugins

2. All-In-One-SEO Pack

Got to love this WordPress plugin, 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. Grab all your keywords and description and you are set to go.

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. If you don’t have this then you can get it off me. This is another one of the amazing set of wordpress plugins that you need to get hold of.

4. Remote Database Backup

As one who has over-riden her blog with another, I cannot stress enough the importance of backup. Just as backup of your computer is important so is your website. 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 is one of those WordPress PLugins you have to have. 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.

Next post I will take another look at the Subject of WordPress Plugins as there are many more that we will add to our site. If you would like to watch a video of me putting together a WordPress Site and adding some wordpress plugins then you should take a look at Build  Website In 20 Minutes. You will see there how easy it is to install WordPress Plugins.

Free WordPress Plugins

All of the above WordPress Plugins are free, they are amazing and on the next blog post we will look at the next 5 I believe you need to have. So Watch this space…. I’ll be back, there is a start to your list… now go add those ones, don’t forget to check out the video on just how to build your website in 20 minutes and learn also how to add those WordPress plugins both Free and bought ones as well.

Gail… signing off, Your WordPress Plugins guru :-)

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